LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7984, 13 March 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Voluntary offerings of the Anglican Church in England during 1905 exceed £8,000,000. • An advertisement in the Timaru Herald applies for bullock drivers and shepherds for South Amerioa.

The death is announced of Herr Eugen Richter, the German writer and politician. The Uanks throughout the colony will be closed on Saturday, the 17th iast.,(St. Patrick's Day). A Marton butcher is advertising beef from to and mutton from 3>od to 5d cash,, with Id per lb extra for booking. A movement is on foot for tbe formation of a school of naval science in connection with the Melbourne University. The Sydney Oity Council has already expended a quarter of a million sterling on its electric light scheme. Commerce and trade in Manchuria are approaching tbeir normal state. The Japanese troops will withdrawin a few days. . The monthly meeting of the Masternon School Committee will be held on Thursday next, at 8 p.m., in the Technical School building. As soon as she is available the Tutanekai will make a marine sarvey of the proposed harbour at Point Elizabeth. Tbe Lord Mayor of Melbourne's fund for the relief of those who suffered through the bush fires has reached' £2,732.

The monthly meeting of the Masterton Uoopital Trustees will be held, to-mnrrow morning, in Messrs Abraham and Williams Farmers' Room, at 10.30 o'clook.

A cablegram, yesterday, stated that Germany will propose at the Postal Union to increase the weight of letters bearing a minimum postage rate to twenty grammes. Nearly 25.000 tons of frozen rabbits' were imported into England from Australia last year, the trade having trebled during the past five years. The country round Patersan (N.S.W.) is terribly parohed, and settlers have been compelled to move their cattle owing to scarcity of water, and supplies for household use are now running out. The South Australian Government is issuing certificates of the quality of wheat shipDed from that State, and the ship Marie is now loading for London under the new system. Out of 11.000 bags shipped only 70 were rejected. The Sydney Daily Telegraph states that the Australian Commissioners of the New Zealand International Exhibition are very well satisfied with the prospects of Australia's representation at the coming Exhibition. The unsatisfactory state of "the northern approaoh" to the town of Masterton has caused a local uofc merely to "rush into print," but to indite quite a lengthy poepj, entitled, VThe Lay of the-Bridges." The verses referred to are published ork page seven of this issue. The Westland County Council has decided, says the Times, to support a proposal to establish an experimental agricultural farm in Westland, with necessary out stations in the district, and to urge the Minister for Agriculture to undertake the matter as soon as possible. A man named Edmunds, employed as a sampler on the Golden Ridge mine, Kalgoorlie, (W.A.), met his death last week through , being overcome by cyanide fumes.' When discovered he wa# in a state of oollapse, and beyond reoovery. He expired shortly after the doctor's arrival.. The deoeased hailed from Sydpey. The Dreadnought, with her 18,000 tons, will be the most colossal battleship afloat. England shows once more her industrial and creative power in everything that concerns the navy. While a country possesses such means nobody would dare to dispute her supremacy on the seas.'—Le Petit Parisien, Paris.

Pandemonium (says the Feilding Star) broke loose on the Manawatu railway station last evening on the occasion of the arrival of the Wellington and Southern contingent of the New Zealand footballers. As the train drew up, the large orowd immediately pioked the right carriage, and cheered, and roared, and fcave the voyageurs a reception worthy of a Roman general.

Bishop Frodsham, of Queensland, has submitted a scheme to the Government to provide that deported. Kanakas should be sent to a speoial island, and formed into an agrioultural'oolony. He states (shut the Bishop of Melanesia had informed him that such a oolony could easily be formed at Fiu, in the Solomons, where, already, a hundred Christian natives have settled, including many returned labourers from Fiji.

A new element has been introduced into the lamb export trade (says the Christohurch Press). Mr MoCulloch, representing Mr John Cooke, the well-known exporter of Australian and Argentine frozen meat, operating at the Addington saleyards on Wednesday last, purohased 441 lambs, for which he paid 14s 8d to 15s lid, and his competition caused prices to be "bumpud up" considerably. It is reported that Mr MoCulloch intends to continue purchasing through the fat lamb season.

Acuording to gossip in Londoo theatrical circles, Mrs Brown Potter received, the other day, through her solicitor, a request that she would use some other name in future, this being {[desired by Mrs James Brown Potter, a New York society woman, who is the wife of the actress's former husband. • The matter was disnussed in London between the legal representatives of both parties. The actress's solicitor.is said to have pointed out that the name had acquired the value of a trade mark, and as such must be paid for. Ilia olient had no objection to change it for some other, but oould not be induced to do so for less than £5,000 cash. CKOUPT CHILDREN. II your children are subject to croup, watoh for the first symptoms of the disease —hoarseness. If Chamberlain's Cough 1 Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, the attack can be averted. Even after the croupy cough has appeared the attack oan always be prevented by giving this remedy. It is also invaluable jor colds and whooping coughs. It alway cures and cares quickly. For sale by T. (J 1 Mason, Masterton.—advt.

The Order of Foresters in England v is providing a million dollars to form | a aettlemeut in the north-west of i Canada with immigrants selected by "the Salvation Army. The Premier, during his visit to Australia next month, will uonfer with Mr Deakin, the Federal Premier;, in regard to reciprocity, the New Hebrides, and defence matteis. Mr O. Renner, who has retired from the editorship of the Era, left Pahiatua, for Ka'koura, on Saturday. Before his departure there was a large gathering of friends at tbe Era Office, when a silver inkstand and an address were presentwd to faim. Mr T. Edison, the i nventor, in a forecast of the future of electricity, Bays tbe steam engine will be driven out of use, and it will, he believe 3, be possible to have reliable airships that will safely carry passengers. If a way to get the electric energy oat of coal by a direct process can be discovered, it will, he says, make it possible to drive ships aoross the sea by electricity at the rate of fifty miles an hour—three days across the Atlantic from shore to shore. Mr T. Johnston, who died at Otepopo, North Otago, recently, aged 93, had the distinction of having received the freedom of the City of London. Mr Johnston, in his early days, had given tbe soldiers In a barracks near hiß shop facilities for self-improvement and education, and in 1841 was honoured as mentioned, the Lord Mayor at the time, curiously enough, being another Thomas Johnston. Mr G. G. Stead, of Christchurob, has reoeived a letter from Lieutenant Evans, formerly of the relief ship Morning, which says:-—"An expedition to the Antarotio is leaving next September to explore the land south of Cape Horn within the Antarotic Circle. The objeot is to survey and connect that land witta that dis covered by Captain, Soott, of the Discovery. To carry out the plan £12,000 ia wanted by private subscriotions." The writer appeals to. New Zealanders to help financially. A London shareholder, speaking at the annual meeting of the National Bank, said, "You cannot buy a foot . of land at Palmerston North under; £IOO. It is one of the largest centres in New Zealand, aud there is no National Bank there. I was there in 1865, when there was only two or three houses. There is now a large town. The whole of tbe ocean steamers go there to take the whole Of the mutton and wool away, and there is no National Bank there." And he "was there in 1866!" Ob, memory, sweet memory!—-"Govern-ment Insurance Recorder." The discontent in the ranks of the Sydney boot trade workers ha? been accentuated by the employers' retasal to meet the men in conference re better working arrangements. tJnion officials statejthat if they can • not get something like a fair'deoipion from the Arbitration Court in the oaae to be submitted the Unionists intend to start a 00-operative factory. This will improve tbe position altogether, they contend, and as the employers have decided to ignore tbe union label the unionists must do something for their own protection. They will rely upon -educating the working people up to buying label goods. The Mayor of Wellington, with a view to bringing to a conclusion the negotiations between the City -Council and the Electric Light and Power Company, which supplies public and private lighting in that •city, reoently wrote to the company pointing out that the Counoil could not entertain any offer of the works and privileges at a sum greater than £IOO,OOO. The Counoil proposed to supply lissht to private individuals. The London board of the company had declined the Council's offer* This will probably result in litigation, as part of the 'Council's pogramme is to take over the company's works.

The Premier ef Victoria (Mr Bent) ( xeoently stated that, judging by a •cablegram with regard to th 6 New ; Zealand loan, the London flnanoiera do not appear to understand what has been done by Viotoria. London financiers adviee that when the local loans are issued, interest and principal ought to be made payable in the colonies. That is exactly what Viotoria has done with regard to the loan just floated, and Victoria ha<» gone farther, for one of the Financial Acta passed last session provides that stook may be transferred from London to Melbourne, and made payable, whereas it cannot be transferred from Melbourne to I^ondon. For selling "magic boots," and •guaranteeing them to cute paralysis, locomotor ataxia, neurasthenia, "heart disease, sciatica, tic doloureux, neuralgia, St. Vitus's danoe aDd throat and polmonary affections, a man named Matthew Hilgert was prosecuted reoently by a medilao society in New' York for practising as a doctor without license. Hilgert professed that his magic boots effected cures by shifting the ■circulation of the blood. Physicians said the "magio" consisted in put i ting white pepper in the boots,* Mr " Charles W. Suhwabb is reported *o bave paid £I,OOO for a pair, and Bisfrop Potter £3OO. Mr T. P. O'Connor has the authority of his dearest friend, a Taxing Master, for the following bill of costs charged by a Dubliin solicitor to a client who resided out of Ireland: "Attending at Temple Street, when I observed a broken pane of glass on your premises, 6s Bd. Letter to you informing you hereof and postage thereon, 3a sd. To receiving letter from you directing me to employ a glazier, perusing same as instructions, 2s 6d. Attending glazier and instructing him to insert a pane of glass, 6s Bd. At- ' tending at tte premises, inspecting the work, and instructing the glazier, subsequently paying him the amount of bis acoount, 13s 4d. Paid him as per receipt, Is 2}£d. Letter to you enolosing glazier's reoeipt and postage thereof, 3h 5d." In all ' £1 16s, re the payment of a bill for la 2%d. * Children when teething Have more or less diarrhoea, which cannot be checked, effectually, as the oause cannot be removed, but the diarrhoea can and should be controlled by giving Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy, and, an occasional dose of oast°r oil to cleanse the system. For sale by T. 0. Mason, Masterton —advt.

Roberts, conceding 2,000 points, beat Weiss iu a billiard match by 9,0C0 to 7,886, in London, on Saturday. At "Willowbank," Kaiwaiwai, on Friday last, Mr aud Mrs Smith oele brated the 65th anniversary of their wedding day. The Appeal Court sittings for tbe year have been fixed to commence iu Wellington on March 28th, June 27th and October Bth. It ia expected" that the export trade of New South Wale 3 in frozen mutton this year will be larger than foi any previous year.

Viscount Hayashi, Japanese Ambassador in London, has been admitted as Past General Warden of the English Freemasons. Lord Roberts declared at Liverpool, recently, that an army of 1.000,000 men was necessary to safeguard England from invasion. At a meeting of cane-growers, held at Mossman, Queensland, the maximum wages for white labourers were fixed at 7s a day, or 30a a weok aud found. M«- E. Polling has purchased the lunaheon booth, and Mr T. Smith, the fruit stall, in connection with the St. Patriok's Day Sports, on Saturday next. Inadvertently, in yesterday's issue, Mr D. McClea was credited with a list of subscriptions to the Masterton Hospital, which was really a seoond list arranged by Mrs A. W. Hogg.

Mr J. Dorrell, son of Mr and Mrs John Dorrell, of GYeyto<vn, died on Sunday morning, at the age of 22 years. 1 Deceased was well-known in cricket and football ciroles. ; The forthcoming tour in the colonies of several English Labour M.P.'s is undertaken with a view to studying oolonial experiments in social reform, and labour conditions generally. Harry Carter, who is walking round tbe world, arrived in Leicester, on January 28th. He started from New Zealand exactly three years ago, and be had walked 20,200 miles. The following classes in connection wi-h the Masterton Technical Sohool will commence the first term of the present year, this/evening:—Dressmaking (Miss Gillespie); Gregg's Shorthand and Typewriting (Mr S. E Wright).

Sydney Customs officers stfized 52 tins of opium, and a dozen* 1 bottles of whiskey on tbe steamer Empire reoently. The contraband goods were concealed ;n a tiled partition in the bathroom, and several tiles had to be removed before the goods were discovered. "1 once tried to live in one of your schools on £6O a year," remarked Mr Westall at the Hawke's Bay Education Board meeting last week, when a letter was read stating that the teacher at Porangahau only reoeived £3 10s a month, the writer adding: "Haiit not been a good pigeon ueason 1 should certainly have been starved.'— Napier Telegraph.

Last week Mr J. Guinness, repreeentative for Messrs Maine Bros., of Christohurob, had his portmanteau, containing a number of .articles, stolen from his room at the hotel at which he was staying in Masterton, notwithstanding that the door of the room was looked. No trace of the stolen article wa9 found until yesterday morning. A well-known j business man had occasion to visit another business plaoe at the south end of Queen Street, and in conversation "with the proprietor the latter remarked that two or three days before he bad found a portmanteau lying in his back yard. There were a number ot articles in the portmanteau. The police were communicated with, and the portmanteau was ascertained to be the property of Mr Guinness. Nothing waa missing from it. It is surmised that the thief, en discovering that all the articles in the portmanteau were marked in a way that would lead to recognition, had thrown the stolen property in the back yard of the premises referred to, in Queen Street.

The annual meeting of the Raupo Hookey Club (Masterton Methodist Young Women's Bible Class) was held last evening in the Class room. Mr J. A. Donald, President, was in the ohair, and the meeting was well attended. The report and balance sheet (the letter showing a good credit balance) were adopted. Officers were elected as follows:—Patron, Rev. J. N Buttle; President, Mr J. A. Donald; Vioe-Preaidents, Messrs Ralph, Dauiell, O. Pragnell, Alex. Donald, Rue, J. Elliott, Whitton, Temple; Captain, Miss E. F. Berriman; Vice-Captain, Miss E. M. Carpenter; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Easthope; Management Committee, Captain, Vice-Captain, Secretary, Misses Hey hoe, White, M. Moore, A. Judd, V. Carpenter. E. (Church K Judd, Dean, Carbill, Wiutringham and Early. Selection Committee. Captain, vice Captain, and Secretary. Mr P. Richards was appointed coach. Several new members were elected. Votes of thanks were passed to Messrs Rue, Parton, Richards, King and Toy. It was decided thai: the colours of the Club be the same as last year (blue and white). Votes of thanks were, also, oass'ed to the retiring Secretary (Miss Berriman) and to the chair. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and sncoes<3 of SANDER & SONS' EUOA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis i Honour Chief Justice Sir. J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, wheft giving udcment, 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 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 seouring what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities duriniz the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYrTI EXTR&CT.

Over sixty new estates were placed under the management of che Public Trustee during the month of February. Preliminary arrangements in connection with the duplication of the railway line between Dunedin and Moagiel are being pushed on. Some of the tomato crops in the Feildins district are rather seriously aflieo'ed with a disease which seems to be akin to the. potato blight. The' Melbourne Trades Hall Council has adopted a resolution similar to that passed by the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, protesting against the proposed experiments for the destruction of rabbits by disease. Tbo Jewish Aid Society of Sydney is making special efforts to encourage its members to apprentice their children to learn tradeß, and with this objeot in view is prepared to make loans for the payments of premiums. One hundred and fifty thousand Lancashire weavers and winders, and operatives in kindred trades, have obtained an advanoe in wages. Thny are now receiving tbe full standard waee for the first time since 1878. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Sbeepbreeders' Association, a resolution was carried .that the name "Corriedale" shall apply to Bbeep derived from merino and any long-woolled breed, and to the name shall be prefixed tbe name of the long-woolled breed from which tbe Corriedale is bred. The French Government has cabled through M. Boeufve, ConsulGeneral, at Auckland, warmly thanking New Zealand for the offer of the Tutanekai to take assistance to tbe Tahiti sufferers from the recent hurricane. The French authorities consider, however, that the proportions of the disaster do not necessitate the acceptance of tbe generous offer of aid. "How much are the manufacturers willing to give to Socialism for the additional protection they want?" the Sydney Daily Telegraph significantly asks. "We know what the Socialist price is. Nationalisation of all the Commonwealth industries, not paid at once, but by instalments. Whose industry will the manufacturers give up as a first payment on account?"

It is a singular fact, says the Daily Express, tbat moat fishermen are unable to swim. The Loeatoft Collector of Customs, who held an enquiry, recently, concerning tbe drowning at sea of a fisherman who had never learned to swim, said that this was the case in nearly every investigation he had held. As a matter of fact, a strong prejudice against swimming exists among fishermen. It is based on the belief that if able to swim they would, on falling overboard, or getting wrecked, keep themselves afloat, and so prolung the agonies of drowning.

Thus the Wellington correspondent of a contemporary:—"The servant difficulty is still rampant, and one Bees nc solution of the question. It is not low wages, for they have steadily r'sen for some years, and even a pound a week is offered by despairing housekeepers in order to get help. As a rule high wages do not attract efficient maids,- for it is too often those very places that are the dumping ground of inexperienced and irresponsible domestics. Everything that can tempt a servant Is offered in the advertisement columns, every night out, afternoons free, no washing and no family. All these inducements are by turn pathetically displayed—often without avail."

The tardy construction of the North Island Main TrunK line fay the Government was discussed by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last week. No resolution on the subject was passed, but there was a general expression of opinion that the Government was not making that measure of progress which the importance of the great undertaking demanded. Some members went further, and declared their adherence to the principle that the two great trunk lines uow in course of construction—the Midland and the North Island Main Trunkshould be completed at the earliest possible date, and that work on the subsidiary lines should be abandoned for the time being. Mr W. Wise, Victoria Street, requires a woman to do washing. A reward is offered for the recovery of the starting handle of a motor oar. A notice with reference to accounts in the estate of the late W. 0. Pinhey appears in this issue. The Masterton County Council give notice of a speoial order declaring broom to be a noxious weed. One pound reward is offered for the recovery of a white setter dog lost from Kaituna. Messrs Abraham' and Williams, Ltd.. will hold a clearing sale, today, at The Grange, Taratahi, on account of Mr L. H. Rayner. The newest lines to arrive at the W.F.C.A. boot department are ladies' dainty evening shoes, and gentlemen's danoing pumps. Inspection is invited. Dr van Slyke, specialist in diseases of the eye, ear and throat, wil 1 visit Masterton to-morrow, and may be consulted at the Club tlotel.

Messrs Krahagen and Chapman announce that the first shipment of autumn and winter goods are to hand. These are of exceptional quality, and worthy of inspection. The reputation of the Challen Piano has been maintained for over a century, on account of the invariable excellence and purity of tone of the instruments. Meabrs McLeod and Young are the local agents for the Wellington Piano Company. Mr A. H. Atkinson advertises particulars of a first class genera 1 storekeeplng business, with 12 acres of land, in the Rangitikei district, whioh he has for sale. In addition co a large ordinary atore-keeping business there is a mail and telegraph bringing a return of £IBO a year. Full particulars can be had on application.