LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7983, 10 March 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A representative deputation; at Christchurch, yesterday, waited upon Sir John Hall and asked him to contest the Mayoralty. Sir John Hall requested time to consider the matter. Or T. G. Hoar has given notice to move, at the next meeting of the idorough Council, that "ihe services of the Borough Engineer (Mr D. Dobson) be dispensed with in three months from date. The holder of the winning number (689) in connection with the "Carpenter's Bench" Cdmpetition at the Druids' siae-show at the Floral Pete, oan obtain the bench by applying to Mr R. Wallace, of the firm of Messrs Osilvy and Sons, Queen Street. In the list or stallholders at the Hospital Floral Fete, published in yesterday's issue, omission was inadvertently made of the name of Miss Petremout, Matron of the Hospital, who was in cnarge of the Hospital Stall. "I get an average of fully fifty applications a month, outside of my own district, from persons wanting, positions in the pablio service; and out 'of thope fifty, thirty are from those engaged m the indqstries of the colony—.industries that they should not Be encuuraged tb leave."—Thus Mr T. Mackenzie, speaking at Mo8«iel jeoeutly.

The Canadian tariff legislation proposals have been delayed owing to the illness of Mr Fielding, Minister of Finance. The Masterton Municipal tsand will play a seleot programme, on the Park Oval, to-morrow, afternoon commencing at 3 o'clock. Owing to the employment of nonunionists, a foundry belonging to Ravitoh Bros., in New York, was partly destroyed by dynamite, on Ihursday. Before Mr E. G. Eton, J.P., at the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, a first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk. The United State? House of Representatives, in. Committee, inserted in an Appropriation Bill a olaose reducing the salary of every Government olerk over 65 years ot age to £2OO sterling. Mr F. Moore has signified his intention of giving a riding saddle to the rider of the winner of the Ladies' Bracelet, to be run on the first day of the forthcoming meeting of the Masterton Racing Club. At the Presbyterian Church, tomorrow, services will be conducted b7 the Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott. Mr Ashton will conduct the services at the Dreyerton Churoh at 3 p.m., and the Rev. J. Kennedy Elliott at Wangaehu at 2.30 p.m. A young eon of Mr H. Crisp, of Bideford, who reoently underwent an operation in Wellington, in connection with his eyesight, wbioh was failing, has now returned home, and it is expeoted that bis eyesight will be completely restored. The French Consul-General, stated a Sydney cablegram, yesterday, bad been officially advised that the acoounts received of the damage by the hurricane at ( the Tahiti Island were greatly exaggerated, and that there is no need to despatob the Catinat with relief. At the Foral Fete, on Thursday, 420 passengers • were oarriod in Mr O. Pragnell's Kover motor car. A sum of £5, 5$ was realised, which, with the Government subsidy, represents a sum amounting to £ll lis, being added to the Masterton Hospital Building jFurid. At a r Conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, in London, ou Thursday, a resolution was passed to the effect that the preference accorded by the British steamship, companies. to foreign freights, particularly South Africa, Australia, "and New Zealand, is injurious .to the United Kingdom's commercial interests. ■ Messrs Krahagen' and Chapman's guessing competition, in connection with the JdOßpital Floral Fete, was drawn, yesterday, in the Borough Council Chambers by Messrs R. Brown, A. Chapman, B. J. Dolan and W. M. Eastliijpe. The nam ber of buttons in the bottle was and Miss Elsie Richards, who guessed 1,015, was the winner. Who dare say that England is not a progressive country? The answer is given by the action of the Liberal candidate for South Buoks; who adopted a plan by whioh be reached the "free and independent" without the trouble of meeting them face to face. He uttered three speeches to a large phonograph, and the instrument was taken the round of the villages, dropping pearls of eloquence in eaoh. The elector B, when tired of the candidate's oratory, had songs and band selections "turned on" for their edifioation. The Holidays Committee of the Wairarapa Employers' Association met, yesterday morning, consider a letter received from the Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce, through the Masterton Chamber, asking ihat a half-holiday be proclaimed in Masterton on Easter Saturday. jThe Committee, after carefully considering the matter, cane to the conclusion that the holding of a half-holiday on Easter Saturday would oause a great deal of inconvenience to both town and oountry residents, and deoidel not to recommend that a half-holiday be deolared on that day. With our issue of this morning we publish an illustrated supplement, whioh, in view of the reoent General Election in the Old Country, should prove of general interest. The great win achieved by tb« leaders of the Liberal party in England, under the guidance of Sir Henry CampbellBannermac, was largely unanticipated, and there is, no dnubt, that for many years to oome, the political affairs of Great Britain will be controlled by the Liberal party. The bonds of union between the different parts of the British Empire are being steadily more closely woven as the years go by, and, consequently, Home politics must become of greater interest as the destiny of the Empire is developed. The following is a copy of the annual report of the Wairarapa Hunt Club, to be submitted to, the annual meeting:—On handing to you the' balance-sheet for the season 1905, 1 bug to plaoe on record the thanks of the Club for the kindness extended to its members by the different property owners over whose land they have hunted. On taking over the office of Master, we were confronted with [the difficulty of financing the season. We were guaranteed certain amounts, and £ beg to thank those gentlemen who were kind enough to give those guarantees. lam happy to say i that by special and< unremitting efforts, and the assistance of the Tinui and Martinborough members, we have been able to finance the Club, pay all back debts, and put the Club upon the sound basis it now is, without calliug upon one of them for a single shilling. The thanks of the Club are due to Mr W. B. Chennells for his gratuitous audit of the balance sheet." CKOTJPX CHILDREN. . If your children ar* subject to croup, watch for the first symptoms of the disease —hoarseness. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, the attack can be averted. Even after the croupy cough has appeared, theattaokcan always be prevented by giving this remedy* It is also invaluable jor colds and whooping coughs. It alway .cures and cares quickly, , Fors&le by T. Q Mason, Masterton. —wt. 1

A London cablegram states that the Anglo-American Horse Show will be held in London The Japanese famine affeots three rice-growing districts with a population of nearly three millions. Recent London advices fpoint to the fact that the Pierpont Morgan Shipping Combine has acquired an interest in the Aberdeen Line. The Mastertdn County Council has deoided to raise the wages uf the eleven county surfacemen by sixpence per day, from April Ist. To enable Wellington to filch the Island trade Auckland and the rest of the colony are to be taxed, says an Auckland contemporary. The Feilding Chamber of Commerce is urging the Government to erect a new Courthouse in that town and also appoiut a Coroner. It is stated on good authority that Douglas Bros, have deoided to out up a portion of the Te Maha□ga estate, for olose settlement. The War Department intend to rearm Ishe whole of the coast defenoe forts, from the Thames to Plymouth, says the London Times, with 6in and 9in guns. At Napier a public meeting will shortly be held to petition the Government to remove the duty on potatoes with a view to allow importations from America and Tasmania. The son of Senor John Bozuffl, ai Italian banker in New York, was kidnapf-ed, but he subsequently escaped and returned home. Four thousand sterling was demanded as raneom The imports into the United Kingdom in February show an inorease of £4,684,000, and its exports £3,512,000, compared with previous Feoruary. , The Feilding Star says there are very general complaints among stock-owners and drovers of an insufficiency of sheep and cattle trucks on the Feilding section of railway. ~ > A Sydney cablegram, yesterday, stated that at the Homebush sales, owing to the short supply, there was a strong advance in thd price of eheep. Best wethers . touched 21s (sd, ewes 175.4 d. Benoit, a Krenchman, has been sentenoed to eighteen months 1 imprisonment at the Old Bailey (England) for forging spirit and liquor trademarks and for "faking" bottles in Loudon for sale in Holland. The Dannevirke Raoing Club, at its late meeting, paid out sixpenoes on dividends and donated the balance of the fractions to .-the Hospital. These amounted to £53 12s 6d, which, with the subsidy,, will yield £llß for the institution. A Ohristchurch. telegram, received yesterday, stated that one of the large Exhibition towers collapsed during a southerly gale. The estimated amount of damage is not available. Fortunately .there were no fatalities. . We understand, says the Southland News, that several bakery firms in Inveroargill have amalgamated their businesses, with .a view.to.outting down expenses and enabling them to make increased profits, whioh are stated to have been cut ; very ftae lately. The .Wellington Acclimatisation Sooiety had been very successful in the rearing of the birds at its game farm during the past season. In all 300 pheasants and other birds were reared, and the society will be able to dispose of some to other Acclimatisation Societies. The birds are a fine healthy lot. The recent eclipse of thb revolutionary movement in Russia is due to the faot that the extremists rashly tried to accomplish a task which was only possible for the people at large. Common sorrow for the innocent viotims of "Red Sunday" may prove the first step towards such a union. —Molva, St Petersburg. MrKinsella, the Dairy Commissioner, has expressed the opinion that a good deal of exaggeration is indulged in by people who sit down in Wellington and write articles about child labour in Taranaki. "If they went to Denmark and Canada." he said, "and saw how milking is oarried on in those countries, in bitterly cold weather, they would oome to the conclusion that the children here have a pioiiio." A petition is in circulation in Ashburton asking the Government to grant the town two licensed houses under State control. The principal ground for asking for Government interference is that the licensing laws have been considerably altered since the electorate went "dry"; and the Ministry are invited to believe that had the amendments been in force in December, 1902, there would have been no serious thought of carrying prohibition.—Exchange. Another scandal in connection with war stores in South Africa has just come to light. It appears that during 1901 and 1902 in the Harrismith district two fraudulent overpayments were made to contractors, the sum being considerable in both oases. Two persons are implicated, but both for the time being are missing, and the authorities, at the instance of the Treasury, are searching for them with a view to their prosecution. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and snccess of SANDER & SONS' EUCA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, KC.M.Gi, etc. His Honour, when giving udement, said witb 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 permissable 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 the 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.

During February the Talisman Consolidated Company, at Auckland, crushed and treated 3835 tons of ore fur bullion, valued at £11,150. During four weeks Komata Reefs treated 1,350 tons ore for aullion valued at £2,896. At the last meeting of the Woodville A. and P. Association a member suggested that the meetings should te held alternately at Wood vitle and Pabiatua. The chairman, Mi Bolton, spoke strougly againHt the proposal, characterizing the movement to form an A. and P. Association at Pahiatua as "an attempt to oruoify Woodville." The following clause was included in the report of the Committee of Temperance and Morals, whioh was submitted to the Methodist Conference at Dunedin:—"There is much disregard of Sunday as a day of rest and devotion. The volunteer authorities are frequent Offenders in this respect. We must zealously preserve the day, and resist anything that would lead to its secularisation.'" Of preventives of potato blight there is no end. The latest idea is that of a Taranaki settler, who has just dug a splendid crop of potatoes, and he attributes his suocess to planting early, so that the plants had flowered and were engaged in tuber formation before they were attacked by blight. Then, when the blight beoame bad, he mowed the sbaws and left the development of the tuber to underground operations. The result is a heavy crop of large tubers. The value of technical training is shown by the experience of one of the largest contract shearers in Australia, who some time ago induced a number of smart youths to Jearn wool classing at the Sydney Technical College, and then employed them as rollers at the sheds. The skirting was so clean and the general handling of the fleeoes so good that the woul brought from to J£d per lb more than similar wool treated at other sheds by the ordinary men. Writing on January 26th the London correspondent of the Lyttelton Times, says: Lieutenant Barne, who was a member of the recent National Antarctic Expedition, is planning another voyage of discovery in South. Polar regions. If bis expedition is sent out it will be on a much smaller scale than that which Captain Soott conducted. The latter cost £90,000, whereas Lieutenant Barne only proposes a party of 15 men, at a cost of about £15,000. Admiral Si* Clements Markham believe 3 that the sum required will be obtained by subscription. Admiral Markham, Captain Scott and Mr L Bernauchi have also been discussing Antarctic exploration during ihe past few days with Dr. Charoot, the French extilorer, who Is desirious of taking out another expedition to the Antarctic. The usual euooess whioh has for fifteen years past characterised the anuual national conoert, organised by Dean MoKenna, for St. Patvick's Night, may safely ' be predioted for that to bu held in the Town Hall, on the 17th instant. A programme, comprising the gems of Irish music, will be submitted to patrons of the entertainment. Mrs Kemble and the Misses Von Staveren, Segrief and Farrell, ell of Wellington, have kindly consented to ,assist. In addition, the Misses Elkins, O'Malley, and Edwards, will oontrihute items. Messrs Jago, Iggulden, Hall, Dolan and Kelliher, will, also, take part ir the musical portion of the entertainment. The vooal items will be supplemented by an Irish dance by the Misses O'Leary, Collins, Collier and Savage, and an exhibition of Irish step-danoing will be given by Mr Rod. Moßae. The W.F.C.A. are at present making a speoial display of dried and tin fish, including all the best Britiah, American and Continental brands. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., make additions to their Taratahi and Masterton sale entries for Monday and Wednesday next. . The Masterton County Council invite tenders, to clolse at noon, on Thursday, 15th inatapt, for forming and culverting 27 chains of roading on the Mangarai Road. Messrs Low and Pearce, shopfront builders of Hopper Srteet, Wellington, announce elsewhere that they are prepared to execute orders for any class of snop-front building at reasonable cost. Two shop-fronts, and two cast-iron columns, are elsewhere advertised for sale. Full particulars can be obtained on application to Messrs Low and Pearoe (care of C. Smith), Queen Street. Mr J. Carpenter, of the Central boot depot, has been busy for the last few days opening up new footwear for the winter season, including speoial lines in gum boots and school boots, all from the best makers. Bargains are, still obtainable in China ware at Turner and Turner's Tip Top ten shop. Those who are looking for dainty presents of various kinds should call at once, as it is not likely that the sale will last much longer. From 25 to 50 per cent, reductions are being made. Messrs Mackay and Son, of the Nonpariel Bakery,. Queen Street South, have opened a branch shop in the new premises next the Prince of Wales Hotel, in Queen Street, for the sale of umall goods and confeotonery. The firm intend to run the new shop on the most up-to-date lines, and to-day a speoial show of fancy goods, and English and colonial confectionery will be made. A speoialty will be made of applo pies and Scotch pies.

At. a meeting of the Dunedin Charitable Aid Board, on Thursday, it waa resolved to take proceedings to establish a Maternity Home in premises used for some time as a female refuge and to apply to the Government for £SOO voted for the purpose. As the institution will be free it was resolved to approach the Government to grant free railway passes to women in poor circumstances who desire to avail themselves of the benefits of the' Home. Dr. Valentine, Aoting Chief Health Officer, states that the oase of leprosy at Quail Island hag only been reiroved there temporarily, pending a decision being arrived at by the Department as to what is to be done with the case. It appears that the patient came to this colony from Queensland ten years ago. He has been five years in Ohristchurch, and it is only in the past two years that the disease has become aggia vated. Up till six weeks ago, when be was received at the Hospital, he was following his trade as a tailor in this city. Rewi, the oldest Maori in Parihaka, with his bent-up figure, has gone the way of his forefathers, having died on Friday. His age is put down at from 100 to 127> years, but a person well versed in Maori esti. mates his age at 124 years. He was buried on Sunday last in the oemeetry at Paribaka. Rewi was the leader of the massacre at "Vairau (Oakura), in the days of the native disturbance, being held solely responsible for it. He had lived at Parihaka for the past twelve years, and used to tell many interesting tales of the fight with the pakehas. He was a Te Whitiite.--Opunake Times. During bis reoenfc visit to the South Island the Minister for Lands made speoial enquiries in reference to the spread of ragwort and ascertained that in every oase where sheep were placed upon the land soon after the weed made its appearance no trouble was experiencd in in keeping the ragwort within bounds. Sheep are fond of the young ragwort, and do not suffer through eating it, but when the weed becomes very rank its juice is more or less poisonous. This is borne out by experience ii* Taranaki (says an exchange), where it is not anexolusive diet. A correspondent of the Taihape Po9t complains bitterly of the class of men going up to the North Island trunk railway worus, whom he terms "wasters." They are all sorts and conditions — from doctors to rabbiters. These are put on with good men, and the pay comes down, with the result that the experienced bands leave. He says the newcomers ,are the scraDings of all the gaols in the colony, and are nut to be compared with the class of men. employed two years ago. 'JLhey are undesirables and simply goon to pla? "two-up," and contribute towards a "nap" school, and do not hesitate to take the more gullable navvies down with a double-beaded penny, and "let in" stores and .boarding houses, whenever they have a chance. In bis opinion the matter of getting the line through within the prescribed time rests entirely on the class of labourers employed. The works are being conducted in the right way, and if the proper class uf men are sent up work will go on uninterruptedly.