LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7962, 13 February 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

2be destruction of small birds has cost the TemuKa Road Bokrd about £2OO for the present season. A number of the potato crops in tho Kopuaranga district are badly*affeofced with Irish blight. Blenheim will shortly be in possession of a new railway station, the building being in course of erection. There are 33 civil oases set down for beariDg at the Masterton Magistrate's Oourfc, oa Thursday. Several of these will be defended. A meeting of tbe Bxeontive Committee of the St. Patriok's Day Sports Association ..will be held in the Technical School buildings, on Saturday next, at 8 p.m. The milk supply, at the Kopuaranga Dairy Factory, has considerably deoreased during the past week, writes our correspondent. A very gratifying aommunication has been reoeived by Mr Massey, the Leader of the Opposition, from a large branch in the South laland of the Amalgamated Sooiety of Kailway Servants of New Zealand. The writer says: "The object desired by this branoh is to mark thoir appreciation of your untiring efforts to improve their conditions as toilers in the State's employ, and tbe-members desire me to express their grateful thanks for all that you have endeavoured to 3o on their behalf." The Rangitumaa settlers are agitating for a road from Rangitumau to Kopuaranua, through the properties of Messrs Wrigleyaud Donovan. More than half or tbe route is already surveyed, and in use. The formation of the road would facilitate the driving of stock to Kopuaranga. As it is at present stock are taken to Masterton which is nearer, and sold, whereas, with the proposed road to Kopuarangn, a lot of unnecessary driving would he saved, as the stock would be taken to the Kopuaranea saleyards. HIS EXPEIUKNCE. Mr A. T. Beale, of Beale Bros-. Oakey, (Q ), says: ''-I can recommend Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera a.Ed Diarrhoea Remedy to all troubled with diarrhoaa or bowel complaints, for I have used it for these complaints myself and was cured. Have persuaded my friends to give it a trial, and in every instance a cure was effected." For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton—advt.

Several of the men employed on the work of refloating the Addenda, at Palliser Bay, returned to Wellington, on Saturday, owing to tbe rough weather interfering with the work. "In my opinion, all criminals are fools. You may think yourselves clever, but you are criminals and fools!" The Chief Justice addressing two prisoners at -• the Wellington Supreme Court. By means of a hospital fete, "hospital Sundays," at Palmerston North, Feilding and Foxtou, and from other resources, £4,500 has been collected during the past few wfeeka for the Palmerston North Hospital. The Marlborough Sounds are in many ways receiving increased attention. Tue Marlborough Express states that quite 200 oil lauuehes are in use in the Sounds, their united value being i quarter of a million pounds. Nelson, which has a great name as a fruit-growing district is not maintaining its reputation this year. Fruit is scarce, and apricots in particular are commanding high prices. Grapes were selling at 2s per pound in Nelson last week. The bad weather has seriouslyaffected the grain crops in tbe Kopu«*raqga district. Those that are out are' growing in the stook. One settler estimates his loss at £IOO. The moist weather is benefitting the rape. crops, which are looking exceedingly well. Serious allegations have been made concerning the conduct of certain private lunatio asylums m Melbourne. It Is stated that manacles and tethering ropes have been hideous foroea right up to the present, and some sensational cases have been disclosed. Dealing with the recent Nelson. Band Contest, the Manawatu Even- • ing Standard says:—"The Masterton bandsmen were popular at the contest and their conductor (Mir McLeod) and drill instructor (Mr F. Hunti) received many congratulations upon the win the band scored." A Waipawa telegram, yesterday, stated that a large gang of men were busily employed, on Sunday, removing the trucks damaged in the railway aocident. Considerable difficulty was experienced in restoring the engine to the line, temporary rails having to be laid. The damaged locomotive was chained to a stationary engine, but the wheels constantly slipped off the rails. It was 12.20, yesterday morning, before it was hauled on to the permanent line. , s. Mr W. P, James, S.M., had before him, yesterday morning, at the Masterton Magistrate's Court, several applications for the old age pension, and for renewals of the same. Two new applications were granted, one was adjourned for proof of age, and three applicants failed to appear, one having died in the Wellington Hospital. Twelve' applications for renewal at £26, and one at £22, were granted. The Secretary;of the Royal Humane Society, of New Zealand (Cap-. tain Linn), has received application for recognition of the conduct of George A. Ellis and Louis Hansen, who attempted to rescue Ernest P. Lake from drowning at Lyell Bay, Wellington, on December 3rd. Another Wellington application ia on behalf of William Haydon, a seaman on the Opawa, who on December 11th, rescued frdm drowning a man named Jaa. Curtis. The quarterly sessions of the Dis- ! triot Court will commence at Masterton, on February 23rd. So far there is oo criminal business to be dealt with, but there are three civil oases to be heard. These are claims for damages, the first being for assault, and breach of agreement (jury case), the second for breach of agreement to take delivery of a flock of lambs, and the third for wrongful dismissal and a claim for wages. At thespeoial meeting of members of the Y.M.C.A, last evening, the sub committees set up oy the Board to make recommendations in connection with the introduction of additional amusements suggested that enthusiasts in the different branches, particularly the chess and draughts club, and literary and debating society, who were not at present members of. the institution should be given an opportunity to take ad- v vantage of the Aesodation's Rooms. , ' A Canterbury member of Parliament, who is also prominently neoted with Exhibition matters, had a large salmon consigned to him one day reoently, with a request that it should be stuffed for the international Exhibition. The fish duly arrived at his establishment, and he had it forwarded to his residence. Unfortunately the note regarding the stuffling did not arrive until next day, and (reports the Lyttelton Times) when the legislator reaohed home be found an appetising luncheon of salmon trout awaiting him. "Baden-Powell" is that now make <jf boot that is becoming very popular on account of its strength, comfort and waterproof qualities. The American Boot Company, of Buckle and Tory Sreets, Wellington, who are the manufacturers of tbe new brand, have an advertisement in the "Wanted" column of this issue, to whioh speoial attention is directed. For the moderate price of 6s 9d they are prepared to forward a pair of "Badeu-Powoll" boots to any a'ddress, whioh they guarantee wilJ give every satisfaction,. Prompt atention is paid to postal orders. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and /success of SANDER & SONS' EUCA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Viotoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., eto. His Honour, when giving udement, said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article ys commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not parmissable to imitate any of its features, i He restrained tbe 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 the Supreme Court of Viotoria 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.

f A Bowling Club has been tormed In Picton. * A band contest Vvill be held at Hokitika, on May Btb and 9tb. The Premier will attend a banquet to Mr C. Hall, at Dannevirke, tbia evening. Nearly 3,000 sheep were taken fcy one train from the Wairarapa to Wellington, yesterday. A Press Association telegram received from, the Thames, last evening, stated that Mr John Grigg, of that place, re-diacovered Giacobini's comet on the 10th and lllb instants. A first offender, on a charge of drunkenness, was ■ convicted and discharged by Mr W. P. James, S.M., at the Masterton Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning. The manager of a drapery firm, in Wellington, stated in a theft case, last week, that the annual loss to his lirm through pilfering was between £2,000 and £3,000. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward andt Mr W. Gray, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, left for Sydney, en route for Rome, by the Monowai, yesterday morning. Owing to th 3 bad weather, the v fruit season is about a fortuight late at Kopuaranga. Fruit will be soarce this season, on account of the weather aud the depredations of birds. - At the layiug of the foundation stone of the Green Island Presby" terian Sunday School, Dunedin, yes terday, it was stated that one donor, Mia Kirklnnd, had given £I,OOO to- [ ward the building. t— As a result of the Y.M.C.A. having decided to restrict the ago limit to ~ 18 years, the membership of those tinder age, whose terms have jußt expired, or are about to expire, has been cancelled from date. Th<i racoons, wb icb esoaped from the Rotorua San itorium grounds some time fligo, and of which very little has been heard lately, have again made an appearance, having been seen in the vioinity of a poultry yard at Rotorua, Mr ReaKes, Assistant Veterinary Snrgeon, aod Mr T. Reakes, Manager of the New Plymouth Abattoir? m company with Or Eton and the Bofoagh Engineer, paid a visit to the Masterton Borough Abattoir yesterday. Mr Jastice Denniston is reported by the Herald to have remarked in the Timaru Court on Tuesday, that "if we measure people's voices by thd way they use theirs in this coart, New Zealanders are the most soft-spoken people in the world." / The residence of Mr John Shannon, farmer, of Kaiterangi, twelve miles from Hokitika, was burned down, yesterday morning. Mr Shannon lost a considerable sum of money, a quantity of jewellery, and the whole of his furniture, (Slothing and harness. A leaflet issued from the office of the New South Wales Government Statistician shows that in the twelve months ended 31st December last "2,293 persons arrived from New Zealand, and 3,434 departed for this country. At Makara, on Wednesday last, Mr Harold Ren&jl, second son pf Mr •and Mrs R. Benall, of Kokotau, was married to Miss Luxtcn, eldest daughter -ot Mr and MrsW. Luxton, of Makara,* Wellington. Mr J. Luxton was best mad, and Misses Myrtle Luxton and Myrtle and Voilet Renall were the bridesmaids. A telegram from, Dunedin, yesterday, stated tbat a detective who r was sent to Waiwera to enquire'into the the oironmstanoes conneoted with the attempt to wreck Wednesday night's express train for the South, reports that Thomas Townley, seven years of age, admits that he placed both obstrnctins on the line about 7.30 p.m. It is well known that there-is no risk to which mortals are subject, of however fantastic a character, that •cannot be insured against at Lloyd's —at a prioe. The London Daily Mail records tbat four eepeoifled race meetings, which were to take place between October Ist and February *2Btb, were guaranteed against abandonment on account of fog or frost, •at a premium of 25 guineas per cent. An applicant for an old age pension at Timaru put down the value of furniture in his possession at '£4o, and this was also the valuation of the police officer who inspected it for the department. It was elicited, however, tbat the samefurniture was insured for £IOO, a fact j which suggests free and easy methods * on the part of some insurance agent. Several rivers in the Pabiatua district were flooded by the recent rains. The Manawatu river was, on Sunday, in high flooa, and considerable damage was done to land in the Kohinui district. TheMangaramarama River was running bank and bank, on Sunday, and it is never known to have been so high before. The floods have now abated. The incoming steamer from San Francisco is bringing to the order of the New Zealand Government 1,000,000 ova of the Cisco herring, which is said to be the natural food of the rainbow trout. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society has been asked by the Tourist Department to batch out the ova at its Waimakariri hatchery, near Okoroire. and to distribute the fry iu £the Rotorua and Rotoiti Lakes. 1 After an illness extending over •several months, Mr Louis Rebay, brother of Mr A. Rebay, of Masterton, died in the Wellington Hospital on Thursday last, at the age of 28 -years. The deceased was in Masterton some time ago, bat for the last "ft/ five months he had been confined to " the Wellington Hospital, and death was due to an internal complaint. The funeral took place at the Karori cemetery on Saturday. ONE BOTTLE CUBED HIM. "Last stimmer," says Arthur Bolton, o£ Bolton Bros.. Bendigo, Vie., f" I had a serara attack of summer complaint or bowel trouble. For a time I paid no attention, simply lot things ran along, but finding it wsta becomming a very serious matter I con • eluded to try Chamberlain's Colio, Cholera, and Diirrhcea Remedy, which l had seen so highly recommaniied in the papers. Our local chemist sent me a small bottle, and before it was all uses I was entirely well, - TKepaln was stoppd by the first dose." Pot sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton.

Three bankruptcies occurred in Dannevirke on one day last week. Irish blight is playing havoo with the potato crops Hastings district.—-Press Association. v A boy named Heroert Thomas, aged 15 years, was drowned, on Sunday, at a fishing excursion uoßr Motutapu (Auok- | land). Ln a billiard match, at London, on Saturday, between Weiss and Dawson 9,000 up, Weiss, who received 2,250, won when Dawson's score was 7,834. Ihe Nelson Harbour Board will not borrow further for improvement works till it has utilised the £9,000 of its own saving, says a Press Association message. At the Auckland Supreme Court, yesterday, Andrew Blnolier was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for breaking and entering a stare and stealing kauri gum. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the St. Patrick's Day Sports Association will be hold in the Technical School, on Saturday, evening, at 8 p.m. A meeting of the members of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Souiety and others interested to discuss the auestion of holding a poultry and winter show, -will-bo held in the Society's aericul lural hall, Carterton, at 2 o'clock, on Saturday next. A representative deputation waited on the Hon. C. C. Louisson, M.L.C., yesterday, and asked him to contest the Obristohurch Mayoralty, Mr Louisson agreed to do so, and it is probable, in view of the coming Exhibition, that he will be returned unopposed. ( Though one must always admire the purppse-like conduot of Master ton's business pooole and the watchfulness of nihe-tentbs of the residents (where the "main chanoe" is concerned), yet one is compelled to smile at such an ebullition of temper as that whioh has made itself evidept over the decision of the Government to establish an Agricultural School at Greytown. —Carterton Leader. The following figures show the export of agricultural products from New Zealand passed through the Customs during January last, ( tbe records for the same month in 1905 being given in parentheses:— Butter, £258,248 (£243,755); cheese, £39,843 (£33.031); frozen beef, £3,838 (£7,846); mutton (caroase), £40,870 (£73,283); mutton (legs and pieces), £274 (£2,765); lam b, £52,165 (£47,339); wheat, £2,643 (£11); oats, £3,780 (£4, 13y) ; potatoes, £49 (£301). The fact is tbat in considering "Wairarapa" matters it is time Masterton was left. out. Masterton interests and Wairarapa interests are frequently totally opposite, as for instance in railway matters. Masterton belongs to the North and its energies should be directed to making the North belong to Masterton. It cannot annex the Wairaraca, and though ut some future date Carterton hopes to inolude Masterton as one,of .its suburbs, in the meantime Wairarapa people cannot be compelled to go to Masterton for their education, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts that have been put forth tu make them do so.—CartprT ton Observe^. A special meeting of members of the Masterton Y.M.C.A. was held laot evening. Mr P. L. Hollings presided, and there was a large attendance of meuibers. It was debided to raise the age at which persons are eligible for membership from 14 years to 18 years. A subcommittee recently appointed to go into the question of providing more amusements, recommended the following:—Ambulance corps, literary and debating society, chess and draughts alub, camera club, musical evenings and library. Committees were appointed to arrange matters in connection with each of the recommendations. Mr H. T. Wood was eleoted a member of the Board of Management. The Board of Management will arrange for monthly socials during the winter months. The employees of the Cement Pipe Company, Masterton,. are very busily engaged at present. Good progress is being made with the contract for the supply of pipes for the Dannevirke Borough Council's drainage soheme, which it is hoped to complete in about two months' time. The demand for pipes for culvert purposes is fairly keen, and the company have lately been supplying the Wairoa' County Council with pipes for that purpose. The Engineer for the Wairoa County,?who was in Masterton a few week ago, was greatly impressed with the pipes at the local works. He informed the manager of the company that the wooden culverts in his county would all require renewing, and he was of opinion that it would be cheaper and more effective to replace them with cement on account of the latter's durability and strength. It is pleasing to note that outside counties are patronising the Masterton industry, and. especially in the case of the Wairoa County supply, where the pipes have to be railed from Mastertou to Port Ahuriri, and then forwarded by steamer up the coast to Wairoa. Farmers and public bodies throughout this district recognise the usefulness of cement pipes, which is evidenced by the increasing orders that being received by the company. Consignments wore also sent away last week to the Patea County Council and to Wellington. Messrs Gilmour and Pattie, land agents, New Plymouth, advertise particulars of three convenient sized dairy farms, for whioh they are prepared to offer special terms to buyers. Those about to furnish, and visitors to the Masterton Show, are elsewhere invited to call at the W.F.C.A.'s drapery deoartment, where a very large and wellassorted stock is open for inspection. The stock is replete with the best lines in house linen, etc. The gentlemen's out-fitting department also offers special inducements to purchasers. We are prepared to assist any rrspeotable energetic man or woman in poultry farmj ing. Best chance ever offered to begin . ners. Particulars from Model Incubator Agency, Christchurch. —Advt