LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7938, 11 January 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the ordinary pay-night of the Workers' Mutual Benefit Building Society last evening the eum of £BO was received. The monthly meeting of the Masterton School Committee will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Technical Soohool. The Martinborough police returns show for the year 1905:—Civil summons' served 118, prohibition orders 10, criminal cases 69. A Timaru telegram states that the Hon. W. Hall-Jones spent Tuesday inspecting the holdings comprising the Rosewill settlement. Six hundred acres of the Waimatenia Run, Hawke's Bay, were sold at auction on Monday, and realised £7 7s per acre. It is rumoured that Madame Sarah .Bernhardt early next year will play a short Australian season on her way to France from South Africa. On Saturday last, Mr W. McLaren, of Bush Gully, had the misfortune to lose eight cattle through the animals falling over a cliff near Kaikuri. Mr J. C Cawsey, manager of the Ashburtou gasworks, was on a visit to Masterton yesterday. Mr Cawsey is paying a flying visit to the various gasworks in the North Island. j r An Association telegram from Wellington last evening read:—"At | a mass meeting of bowlers held tonight it was decided that the next j Tournament should be held at Masterton." I Says the Standard:-—At the Greytown Court yesterday morning claimant in a debt ease said that debtor gave as a reason for not being able to pay, that she .was buying a motorcar and a baby. The latter was purchased at a oost of £so—an adoption. Intending competitors at the Walrarapa Amateur Athletic Association's Sports on Anniversary Day are notified that they must be registered before they can compete at the sports. The registration fee is two shillings, payable to Mr J. Bradbury, secretary of the local Association. Entries for the Wairarapa Amateur Athletio Association's sports on Anniversary Day closed last evening, and the number received must be considered statisfaotory. About ninety nominations oame to band exolusive of a large number from Wellington and other places. The handicaps should appear about Monday. The Carterton correspondent of the Greytown Standard says that a son of Mr JR. Renall, of Kokotau, aged 15, had the misfortune to fall from a milk-cart while proceeding to the Parkvale Factory. He fell under the wheel and bad his right instep crushed and his big toe almost severed. He drove on to a neighbour's, and had his foot bandaged, then proceeded to the factory and home again as usual. The Professorial Board of the Otago University have nominated Mr Robert Farquharson as a candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship this year. Mr Farquharson, who is twenty-two years of age, was dux of the Mornington Public Sohool, where he obtained the senior Education Board's scholarship. He was dux of the Boys' High Sohool in 1900, and had an excellent University career subsequently. He is a active cricketer ad footballer.—Post Correspondent. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF. JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and sr?cces<? of SANDER & SONS' EUCA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations,, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before bia Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udoment, said with regard to the ; GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not perraissable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish this to afford the public an opportunity of protecting themselves, and of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at too Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The following are the Martinborough statistics for the quarter ended December 31, 1905:—Births 4, deaths 1, marriages 3. Messrs Turner and Turner, of the Tip-Top Tea Rooms, have donated a chest of their well-known tea to the Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Association. The Opaki Rifle Club will recommence their trophy shooting at the butts to day, while the Masterton Rifle Volunteers will indulge in class firing. The adjourned meeting of creditors in the estate of Joseph Creelman, adjudicated bankrupt will be held in the Courthouse at 12 o'clock to-day. Hastings fruitgrowers forwarded by rail to i Wellngton and Wanganui 12}4 tons of fruit yesterday morning—the largest quantity yet sent oa any one day. The Oreytown Borough Council on the cashing vote of the Mayor have decided to raise the dog tax to 10s, except in the oase of those used solely for rabbit and stock purposes. The annual statutory meeting of tne voluntary contributors to the Masterton Hospital will be held in the Borough Council Chambers this morning at 11 o'clock for the purpose of electing two Trustees. •A Dunodin message reads:—The Camp at Portobello, formerly the residence of the Hon. Mr Larnaon, has been purchased by tbe Government for £3OOO for asylum purposes. The price is admitted on all hands to be low. In the Oamaru Magistrate's Court on Tuesday morning, Thomas Williams and William Meay, old-age pensioners, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness. Both had a previous conviction, and the Court ordered accused to forfeit three instalments' of their pensions. Mr James Bye met with a painful accident at Greytown on Tuesday morning. He was unloading hay by machinery when he was struck by a beam on tbe forehead, as artery being severed. By the time the sufferer had been conveyed to Dv Deamer he was very weak from the loss of blood, but he is now progressing as well as can be expected. The Masterton representatives at tbe Bowling Tournament in Wellington, who have played eight or nine matches so far, telegraphed to the President for the Masterton Club (Mr F. J. Dignan) yesterday:— "Have won everything except seven games. Off to California!" When a pressman called on the President last evening the latter was seriously debating whether he would send an urgent reply: "For Heaven's sake, go I" Speoial prizes for the Masterton A. and P. Association's approaching Show still continue to come in. The latest is a prize o' £5 5s donated by the Masterton Branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company, Ltd., for driving competitions, separate for ladies and gentlemen. The prize money in each oase is first £1 12s 6d, and second £l. The course is over such as tbe Committee may decide, with a flying start. The width of the vehicle is to be not less than sft 6in or more than 6ft. The number of building permits issued by the Borough Engineer during tbe year ended December 31 show that the building trade has been decidedly brisk during that period, and that tie town has generally expanded. During the year eight permits were issued for public buildings, tbe value being £6525, and 22 permits for additions and extensions to existing public buildings valued at £4411. There , were permits issued for6o new dwellings, the value being £20,165; and for alterations to old buildings 22 permits were issued, the value of the work being £2564. The total valuations estimated by the owners is £34,145. The monthly meeting of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society was held yesterday afternoon. Present —Messrs E. T. Holmes (chair), E. Feist, J. Morris, jnr., W. Morris and Mrs NicholJs. The County Clerk notified that the Oouuoil, aoting upon the suggestion of Mrs Nioholls to act od the Trust alone, had refrained from appointing another lady vice Mrs Graham resigned. An application for help from a woman with three children, v and whose husband had been committed to the Mount View Asylum was left in the hands of the chairman, pending enquiries being made of the Pahiatua Benevolent Sooiety from which place the applicant had originally come. The pay-sheet amounting to £127 5s lid was passed for payment. The annual meeting of the Fire Police was held last night when Captain Dixon presided over a good attendance. Seasonable greetings were reoeived from 41 Brigades. Accounts amounting to £1 lis 6d were passed for payment. Captain Jenkins and Lieutenant Ewingtou, of the Municipal Fire Brigade, waited on the Corps and asked them to assist in the sports in aid of the Band funds. The Seoretary and Constable Campbell were appointed delegates to meet the Sports Committee, and it was decided to enter two teams for the Fire Brigade events. The Secretary's annual report, which was adopted as read, showed the total musters for the year to be 51, of which Seoretary Lewis topped the list with the possible 51, Captain Dixon being second with 44 aud Lieutenant Budd third with 42. The sum of £5 was granted to the custodian for past services. The election of officers resulted as follows: Captain, J.Dixon; Lieutenant, A. E. Wilton; Second Lieutenant, O. A. Fielding; Third Lieutenant, J. Budd; Sooretary and Treasrer, L. H. Lewis; Custodian, L. H. Lewis; Auditor, A. E. Wilton (all reelected). Other routine business was transaoted and the meeting closed. In a new advertisement which appears elsewhere Mr T. G. Mason particularises tbe attention given to the preparation of medical men's prescriptions. / We are prepared to assist any respectable energetic man or woman in poultry farming. Best chance ever offered to begin} ners. Particulars from Model Inoubator Agency, Christchuroh.—Adtt,