LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7965, 16 February 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Imperial Tobaooo Company's profit for the year is £1,705,647, stated a Loudon cablegram yesterday. . • A cablegram from London, yesterday, announced the death of the Right Hon. A. T. Jeffrey, M.P. for Basingstoke. An endeavour is being made to establish fruit orchards on a large , scale at Greytown, on similar lines ( to the Frimley orchard at Hastings. The 'Matron of the Masterton Hospital d3sirea to acknowledge with thanks gifts of plums frcm Mrs Hugh Williams and Mr B. Dixou fjr the patients. , The Amalgamated Copper Company has purchased Heinze's and the United Copper Company's mines, at Silverbow, in Montana, for, five millions sterling, one-half to be paid in cash. A heavy storm, yesterday, at Longreach, 424 miles West of Kookhampton, Queensland, did great damage to the hospital and other buildings. Ju some cases houses were completely razed.. A man named Frank Boyes was seriously out with an axe accidentally by a fellow workman at Karaugarua, South Westland, yesterday. A doctor happened to be in the vicinity, and promptly attended to the injury. Mr Feist was the only Councillor to put in an appearance, yesterday afteraoon, when the members of the Council were to have visited the bridge over the Makora Stream, in Colombo Road. The Mayor had intimated previously that he could not attend. EUFFEKED THREE JIONTHK. "My little girl suffered for threemonth3 ; from Whooping Cough," says A. ICilborn, Carlton, Fie, "and during tbat time I had the best medical advice' for her, but she ob- ' tained no benefit.' One dav.l was looking i over a little newspaper issued by the Chamberlain Medicine Co., and, seeing what they claimed Chamberlain's Cough Boraedy ( would do, decided to give it a trial. lam glad I did, for a perfect cure resulted, and I cannot speak too highly of Chamberlain's ' Co ugh Remedy. For sale by T. Q. Mason, < Maaterton.—adyt, 1i

\ H Mr G. loogood. of Featheraton, ; has passed bis final LL.B. examina- , tion. Mr R. Cooper, of Gladstone, who has been seriously ill, ia to be re--1 moved to a private hospital in Wellington. In oonneotion with the cheque forgeries at Gr c ytown it is pretty well known that valueless cheques have been uttered in Carterton since the late show and races, says the Carferton Leader. In face the whole of the unnegotiable paper afloat here seems to date from that period. Mr A. M'Kay, of the Colonial Museum, Wellington, received information yesterday that the authorities at tbe .British Museum , had named a sea-worm after him. .'' It is a fossil, and was obtained oa Mount Torlesse, Canterbury, by Mr Ferrar, geologist of the Discovery Antarctic Expedition. It has been placed in a new species and. a new genus, and bears the name "Torlessa fli'Kayi." The pea-rifle nuisance is becoming prevalent in Greytown of late. Oa Wednesday Mr J. C. Cutter-laid a complaiot against a boy named Morris. Mr Cotter explained that he had, on a previous oocasioi, paid the fine inflated upon a boy for firing a similar rifle, thinking the caution would be enough, but as the nuisance still existed, he had laid the present uharge. A fine of 5s and 7s costs was imposed. At Eltham, yesterday morning, the body o'f an old man, named Matthew Waters, aged 70 years, was . found beside a tub of water, with J the head partially immersed. He had been in bad health lately, complaining of pains in the head, and, being; very feeble, had,been closely watched by a daughter sleeping in the same room; but he ro«e very early without being heard, and on being missed and search made, h;s body was found as descrined. Mr R. Brown is iu receipt of a very interesting communication. from the Rev. A. York, formerly Vicar of St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, in which the writer expresses his wish to be remembered to all hia friends in Masterton. Enclosed id a very novel document—a notice of the holding of a general Court Baron and Customary Court for the Manor of the Rectory of Foulmire, otherwise Fowlmere, in, the County of Cambridge, England. The document is dated September 9th, 1898. The Wairarapa Amateur Athletic* Clbu held another of their evening sports meetings last night on the Park' Oval. Great interest is being taken in these gatherings by the competitors and the public generally. It is certainly good £>tep on the club's part in order to popularise athletics in the discriot. Last evening two events were run off,, and resulted as follow:•—75 Yards Handicap: A. Williams, 2yds, 1; 4. Coradine, 2yds, 2; G. W. Sellar, 2yds, 3. There were ten starters. 440 Yards Handicap: W. Muir, 45 yds, 1; J. Bradbury, scr, 2; E. Tooby, 20yds, 3. The funeral of the late Mr Humphrey O'Leary, jockey, which was 'ro have taken place yeserday, baa been postponed until 10 o'clock, this morning. ' The father of the deceased, who resides in Blenheim, arrived in Wellington,) yesterday, acoompanied by his sons, their intention being to have the body forwarded to Blenheim for interment there. Seeing, however, that the many Masterton friends of his late son had made arrangements to hold the funeral here, Mr O'Leary, at their request, decided to alter hia plans. He telegraphed the facts to his sons, who had remained behind in Wellington, and they arrived in Masterton last evening. Members of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers are reminded that the last two parades of the volunteer year, ending 28th February, 1906, will be held on the 16th and 23rd February. As several members need these parades to capitate, it has been decided to make these two parades compulsory parades, at which every member must be present. A number of members have also not yet completed their class-firing and volley-firing, aud if they do not do this before the end of the month they will fail to capitate, in which case they will incur the usual penalty for non-earning of oapitation. Staff Sergeant-Major MoNair will be present at the parade thia evening. Captain S. V. Trask, secretary of the Nelson Band Contest Committee, has received the following letter from Mr b\ W. G. MoLeod, oon- > duotor of the Masterton Muniaigal Band: "Allow me (now that we are ' Daok borne again and settled down to the ordinary routine of worK) to tender the thanks of the members of the Masterton Municipal Brass Band to yourself and the Contest Committee for the very pleasant holiday spent in your town on the occasion of the recent contest. We very much appreciated the raauy kindnesses extended to us by your Committee, and take this opportuniy of expressing our best i banks for same; also for the kindly feeling exhibited by the residents of Nelson towards the members of the Baud. We would like specially to thank Mr and Mrs J. M. Calder for their kindness to one of our bandsmen who was taken ill while in Nelson, the members feeling deeply grateful to this lady and gentleman. The Railways Department advertise holiday excursion tiukets to Palmerston North ,in connection with the cricket match, Melbourne Cricket Club v. Manawatu. At the forthcoming Masterton Show the Masterton Cement Pipe Company intend making a varied display of their manufactures, which should prove of special interest to local bodies, contractors, farmers ana plumbers. Attention is drawn to their ohange of advertising matter in another column. , Cyolists and motorists in the Wairarapa and tourists will be interested to note that, further extensive additions will shortly be made by Messrs Jenkinson and Co., Ltd., to their already extensive bicyole • automobile supplies and repairing depot in Lower Queen Street. This depot is one of'the most complete of its kind in the North Island, and the extra accommodation will add considerably to the convenience of patrons of the enterprising Company,

Winton (Southland) is discussing the advisability of establishing a .municipal electric lighting plant. The Secretary of the Masterton Band wishes to acknowledge the reoeipt of a donation of one guinea from their President, His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. A. Rouall). Intending subscribers to the'Masterton Hospital Building fund are requested to forward their contributions to the Treasuror (Mr J. O. Boddington). The Wellington Education Board is appointing a "master of a model •oouutry school," at a salary of £3OO, in counootion with its new traiuiug college. It is reported that during the ourTent season a Nelaon tomato grqwer made £7OO by the sale of the product of four acres. Practically all his sales were made iu Wellington. Viotoria has baan spending about £7,000 a year on its agricultural •college riy way,of endowments, and this year the govornman t has given an additional £3,000. The friends of Mr T. Braggins, of Masterton, will regret, to hear that be is seriously ill, and his condition is causing his rel-itives mmh anxiety. Mr Bragg'ms is suffering from an affection of the tbro.it. The Federated Malay States nre endeavouring to secure New Zealand licensed surveyors. The salary mentioned is £375 per annum and allowances. Unmarried men between 25 and 30 years of age are preferred. It is stated that the Government ■will reorganise the Survey Department to some little extent, conse-. quent on the retirement of Mr Merchant, the otfloeof Surveyor-General being put under that of the UnderSecretary for Lands. Owing to the prolonged drought in Fiji, there is a shortage in the output of sugar of somewhere about 11,000 tons, and the exportation of bananas, in consequence of gales in the early part of the past year, ha s fallen to a very low point. A memorial to troopers who fell in the South African war will shortly be plaoed in the Southern Eeoreation Ground in Dunedin. The memorial takes the form in marble of a trooper standing upon a marbl9 shaft. The height of the monument will be 40ft. There is no danger of the Supreme Court losing its dignity in the eyes of thie people, judging by two little incidents which occurred at Auckland, says the Star. A orisoner respectfully asked if ho might be allowed to read some notes which he had in his pooket, while a deaf mm asked if hla Honour would excuse him for being deaf. The stamp system of giving discount does not seem to bn gaining in popularity with the tradespeople of this colony. A return in the Gazette shows that Wellington business people practically monopolised the use of the stamps during the last quarter, £825 worth baing sold at the post offloes and £859 worth redeemed. The only other places dealing in the discount stamps were Auckland (only £l2 worth bought), Dunedin (15s worth bought), Napier and Thpmes. FACTS ESTABLISHED AT COUET. In an action, the cause of which was flagrant misuse of our firm name and other gross misrepresentation by an imitating company, which was tried before his Honor, Ch'ef Justice J. Madden, K.C.M.G., L.L.D., in the Supreme Court, at Melbourne, the proseoution showed:— 1. That Sander and Soub' Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract cm tains all medical constituents of the eucalypti, in a highly refined and pure form. 2. That it is much more powerfully healing (antiseptio) than ordinary eucalyptus preparations. 3. That it does not depress the haart like ordinary eucalyptus preparations. 4. That it contains no harmful ingredients, and 5. That it is highly commended by many authorities for the last 30 years as a safe, reliable and effective remedy. Some imitators have tried to deceive the public by simnlating our get-up; others have relied on the *'ju9t as good" game. Therefore take care and obtain the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTttACT.