LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7970, 22 February 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nearly all the potato crops in the Levin district v are affiecbed with blight. To Aroha is to be lighted ,by electricity. The apnual conference of the Farmers' Union, in the Wellington province, will be held at Pahiatua at the end of May. The ■first consignment of 30,000 bricks from the Eketahnoa Brick and Tlie Company's works wore trucked to Masterton on Tuesday. The jurors whose summonses are marked "common juror" are notified ttat they not be required to attend the next sittings of the District Couit. Mr T. Walsh, formerly of Messrs Lowob and lorns, will take Mr Boyd's place as manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company's agency in Eketahuna. The takings at th« gates for the two days of the Masterton Show amounted to £2OO. The amount taken nt the grandstands was £3B 5b 6d, The takings last year were:Gates £193 16s 6d and grandstand £47 13s. Mr J. R. Nicol reports the sale of a section in Fine Street; eightroomed house and quarter-acre, Lansdowne; six-roomed fao'ase and qua*ter acre, Victoria Street; fiveroomed house, Victoria Street; one acre section, Manaia, and a building site at Carterton.

A severe drought prevails on Lord Howe Island. News has been received of tha death of Mr H. Inn'es, a prominent resident of Lord Howe Island. The Right Rev. j. A. Stretch,. Dean of Newcastle, has been elected Bishop of Newcastle. A quantity of wreckage, supposed to belong to a steamer, has been, found at Cloudy Bay (Tasmania). Several cases of plague have been discovered at Geraldton (Western. Australia), one of which proved fatal. Owing to the prevalence of cholera, the Princp of Wales has abandoned his proposed tiger shooting expedition in Nepaul (India). A cablegram from Sydney, yesterday, stated thut a man has tieeiLsentenced at Wagga to two years' hardi labour for setting fire to grass. A Brisbane cablegram, received yesterday, stated that splendid rains have fallen over the western distriot, , and the drought has completely broken. The rivers are flooding. ' Britain's output of steel ingots last year aggregated 3,889,000 tons, an increase of 634,000 tons over the previous year. The chief improvement was in .Scotland, the Cleveland district coming next and then Wales. The Victorian population return show that the arrivals from New Zealand last year numbered 20,317, and the 1 departures for New Zealand 18,046. The total Chinese arrivals ,numbered 1,710. and the 2,523. The Poverty Bay Herald leatns, "on the best authority, that it has been definitely settled that there will be no reconstruction of the Cabinet." The Premier, it adds, "haa firmly decided tb meet the new Parliament with his old colleagues.'* It is said that Mr Fisher, M.H.R., has taken a seat right in the front row of the Opposition benches, where Mr W. U. Buohanan used to sit. This, says an exchange, indicates that Mr Fisher has joined the ranks of the straight-out Opposi. tionists. The fat bullock guessing competition, which has been open during r the Masterton Show, will be kept open to-day, and will close tonight. The bullook will be killed to-morrow, and weighed by tho Stewards of the Association on Saturday. *

A meeting of the Wairarapa Coursing Club was held in the Central Hotel, at 8 o'clock, last even- | ing. Mr M. C. O'Conn ell presided over a good attendance of members, I when a fair amount of business was gone through. Mr Howling was anpointed judge, and Mr Miles slipper for the season. The first match' will be held on May'l6th. Among the visitors at the Masterton Show, yesterday, there were no less than five secretaries of kindred societies, viz., Mr J. fl. Lane, Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Associaton; Mr Selby Morton, Wauganui A. and P. Association; Mr G. C. Munro, Hawke's JBay A. and P. Association; Mt\H. S. Moss, Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society; and Mr Rows Pen n ell, - Wooiville Central A. and P. Asso- * qjation. A telegram was received from the Premier, at Ashburton, regretting his inability to attend, bat wishing the. Show every success. A black collie dog has been found on Te Parae Station. Owner oaa claim same on application to Mr E. Harrington, Te Parae. Miss Gillespie, dressmaker, Chapel Street, is making arrangements to have an interesting display of needle painting work in the window at Messrs Gillespie and Co.'s Buildings, Queen Street, on Friday and Saturday next. In another opiumn Mr R. Ashton, watchmaker and jeweller, notifies that he has a large and well selected stock of jewellery, watches, and solid silver electro-plated goods. Mr Ashton pays special attention to the 1 repairs department. Mr W. B. Chennells advertises particulars of a new liat of properties which have been placed in his hands for sale. These include a number of town sections, with and without dwellings, and several desirable properties in various parts of the North Island. A special feature in connection with the Dresden Piano Go.'s ex- h hi bit of pianos and organs, at the Showgrounds, was the Metrostyle Pianola. The recitals interested large numbers during the day. Four pianolas were sold—two to resi- , dents in Masterton; the other two to'residents in the country. In fact, the great demand for these wonderful piano, players of late has taxed the Company far beyond their usual supplies, and the manager has found it necessary to cable for additional consignments.

The London Warehouse Company have decided to bold a large sale of general drapery, olothing an 3 ueroery, at their business premises ia Lower Queen Street. The sale, which will commence to-tnorrow (Friday), is being held in order to make (room for new shipments coming to band shortly. Praotically, the whole of the stock has been remarked at cost price, and those wishing to participate in the bargains offered should make a point of calling early and inspecting the stock. Special offers are made ia ladies' and fancy stocks, Manohester goods, olothing, mercery and tailoring. Country orders will receive the Arm's best attention. An inset, giving particulars, is circulated with this issue. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. . The acknowledged pood qualities and spceew of SANDER & SONS' EUOA LYPTI EXTRACT hive brought out many imitations, and one caso was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before his 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, eto., it is not permissable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish thisto afford the public an opportunity of protecting themselves, and of securing what ia proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities duiing the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE BANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE ' EUGALYFTI EXTRACT.

At Carterton, on Tuesday, Mr M. 'Qilveray, of Wellington, was married to Miss Nellie Smith, daughter uf Mr C. J. Smith, of Carterton. The movement to establish a dairy factory, at Wosfc Taratahi, haa been postponed for the present, in order to see if the Government intend acquiring a blook in tLe neighbburiiood for small farms. During the nresent selling season about £13,000,000 worth of wool has beeu sold in the auction rooms of Australia. More than half the amount was realised in the Sydney market. An exchange says that the expenses $f Mr H. Cowan, who contested the Westland seat at the late Parliamentary eleotion,amounted to 23 lOd, which probably constitutes a record of its kind for the oolony. ~A neglected industry of New Zealand is the gathering of animal hair. The export figures for 1904 show that the total exports of hair of all kinds from this uountry during that period totalled only 908 cwt. Admiral Sir W.' Fawkes is to officially visit the coal mines at Westport and Greymouth, and report on them to the Lords of the Admiralty. He and his principal officers will be token there in the steamer Tutanekai. j Three New Zealand Parliamen-tarians—-Sir Joseph Ward, Mr R. McNab, and Mr G. Fowlds— will be In the Old Country within the next month or so, and will foregather at " the celebration by Mr Fowlds' father of the hundredth anniversary of his (birth. The frequency of outbreaks of tire, at Hokit'ka, in unoccupied places of late, in the middle of the night is causing some alarm. It is Relieved the fires are caused by an incendiarist. Nearly all Che flres have been in inferior dwellings or sheds. According to the Manawatu Times there is likely to bo a good contest •at. the Palmerstou North Licensing 'Committee eleotion next month., A team of Prohibitionists are to be rnominated; the present committee ia likely to stand; and there is mention of several "independents" ■who propose to go to the poll. English newspapers to hand by last week's San Francisco mail record the death of Mr Henry Harland, author of threa well-known novels —"My Friend Prospero," "The Lady Paramount," and "The •Cardinal's Snuff-box." .Mr Harland -was 44 years of age. He died at Sari Remo.