LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8107, 30 March 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An avalanche of rock buried twenty-six persons at Bozen, in the Austria-Hungary. Three of them were killed, and the rest were rescued. It is semi-offioially announoed in tbe German press that all future warships for the German navy will be engined with turbines. The National Sbeepbreeders' Association is strongly urging the reduction of inspection fees of live stook which is shipped to Australia. Peter Sloan, aged 23, a son of an old Thames resident, has succumbed, at Kalgoorlie, to injuries reoeived while mining. Last week a Horielville farmer | had the misfortune to lose three flue draught horses, of a total value of £125, through the animals breaking into a field of wheat and over-eating of it. There are eighty men employed on the Lawrence-Roxburgh railway line, and tbe bulk of them are making from 7s lOd to 8s 2d per day of eight hours. At tbe annual meeting of the Otago Distriot Manchester Unity on Wednesday, it was decided, by a large majority, not to send delegates to the Friendly Societies' Conference, to be held, in Wellington. W. Johnstone (Otago) and 0. Seeling (Wanganui), who were members of the New Zealand football team, will return to England at tbe ens of the present season, and will play for Gloucester. The Volunteer oamps to be held at Pahiatua, at Easter, will be as follow.—No. 2 Battalion Wellington Mounted Rifles and No. b Battalion Rifle Volunteers, including the Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Wairarapa and Heretaunga Mounted Rifles and the Pahiatua Rifles. Lieut.-Golonel Orummond will be in command.

la tte raoe- f oar the 220 Yards Provincial Swimming Championship of Wellington, B. 0. Freyburg covered the dietanoe in 2min 43sec, which is seven seconds better than any previous record made in this colony. v Picton is new on the up grade. Several q ; uartor-aore building sites have lately been sold at £3OO per section. One property-holder, who recently cut up a property in that borough, is reported io have made over £l,ooo'clear profit. Mr George K. Hutchinson, the Auckland poultry fancier, has imported the first strain of White Orpingtons ever brought into the Northern part of the colony. Four birds were imported at an average oost of nearly £lO each, Germany's imposition of a duty of £1 per thousand on British-made oigarettes is likely to throw idle thousands of British workers and destroy a large trade with Germany. —Cablegram'. The exodos of sheep from Soothland to Canterbury continues. On Monday seventeen trucks, all containing sheep,, some for breeding purposes and others for "prime Canterbury,." went forward to Timarut consigned by the Southland Farmers'Oo-uperative. A Blenheim merchant, whose operations have been a large factor, in' practically clearing the Marlborough district of all lines of barley, has been on a visit to Nelson, and has bought every available line there; amounting to some thousand sacks. The Otago Acclimatisation Society has telegraphed to the Government urging that there should not be an open season for duck shooting shis year. It has also recommended that a portion of the country m the vicinity of Lake Wanaka should be preserved as a sanctuary for native game. Apropos of vagrancy cases and the evidence offered on behalf of tbe prosecution as to the defendant's consorting with reputed thieves. Mr Widdoweon, S. M., told the JDunedin police, recently, that ( they were inclined to prove too much. All that he had to be satisfled about was that the acoused bad or had not sufficient lawful means of ( support. Dr F. G. Ogston, Public Health ; Offloer for Dunndin, who has rei turned from an official visit to Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound, says that although he has been ' over the greater part of Norway i and Switzerland, he saw nothing in either of the9e two countries to i compare with the beauty and the variety of the foliage at Milford. 1 Sound. / 1 Tbe Wellington City Council has received notice from the New/ Zealand Eleotrlcal Syndicate that all the wires in connection with the lire alarm system are to be removed frcm the Syndicate's street poles. • Mr G. S. Mabin, manager of the Syndicate, says the reason for this is that the Syndicate is extending its operations, and that there are places where it will need all the pole strength it has got. Mr J. W. A. Merchant, f the present Surveyor-General, whp is, to sever his connection with the Civil Service, on June 30th next, has been granted leave of absence from Saturday next. He is to receive a pension of £SOO per annum. Mr T. Humphries, Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands in Canterbury, will aot as SurveyorGeneral until June 30th, and will then be permanently, appointed to the position. A twelve-roomed dwelling, at Marton, owned by Mr Thomas Ward, and occupied by Mr A. Moore and Miss Tennant as a private girls' school, was totally destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Mr Moore's insurance was £350 in the Sun Office. The building was insured for £3OO in the Standard Office. Miss Tennant had no insurance on the school books and requisites. The origin of the Are is unknown. Two ladies—Mrs Lylian, of Staveley and Miss Van Asch, of Christchuch—left Staveley, on Wednesday, at 8 a.m., to climb Mount Somers, which is about 6,090 feet high. As they did not return in the evening, search parties went out, but returned without finding the ladies. A search party of ten went out early yesterday morning, and found the ladies, who had lost their way in a fog, and camped out all night. They are none the worse for their adventure. The Wellington City Council proposes to raise a loan of £264,352, including £20,000 for recreation grounds, £IO,OOO for compensation claims for road dedication, £9,000 for new central library, £20,000 for new tramway oars, £30,000 for power supply scheme, £21,000 for eleotrio tramway requirements, £IO,OOO fc»r additions to publio lighting, £IOO,OOO for new electrical lighting works, and £IO,OOO for repairs to streets recently taken over. An old man in his eighty-fourth year was the defendant in a judgment summons oase at the Magistrate's Court, Wanganui. on Monday morning. Fxom his evidence it appeared that he earned the munificent sum of 15s per week, besides whioh he bad a weekly Decision of la 6d. Out of this he had to keep a wife and "two daughters, onp of whom was an invalid. He stated that be had no property of any kind, and could not make any offer to his creditor. The Magistrate decided that under the circumstances he would make no order. FACTS ESTABLISHED AT COURT. In ,an action, the cause of whioh was flagrant misuse of oar firm name and other gross misrepresentation by an imi- - tating company, which was tried before his Honor, Clr'ef Justice J. Madden, K.C.M.G., L.L.D., in the Supreme Court, at Melbourne, the prosecution showed 1. That Sander and Sons' Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract contains all medical constituents of the eucalypti', in a highly refined and pure form. 2. That it is much more powerfully healing (antiseptic) than ordinary eucalyptus preparations. 3. That it does not depress the heart like ordinary euoalyptus 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 deoeive the publio by simulating ourjget-up; others have relied on the "just as good" game. Therefore take care and obtain the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Premior of Tasmania is en- | deavouring to secure exhibits for the New Zealand Exhibition.— Cablegram. The sea off Westport on Friday and Saturday w;i9 fclto heaviest that has been experienced there for several years, ami did considerable damage to the eastern breakwater. r . According to the Parmer "there are now half a dozen Chinese market gardeners in Levin, also two fruiterers. There is a probability that another celestial will start there in the laundry line." At the meetiug of the Manawatu Coursing Club, ou Tuesday, the j members oousidered themselves for- | tunnte in securing the capable se~- < vices of Mr Dowling, of Opaki. as judge at the forthcoming meeting. Mr J. Pra3or, Government Valuer, i is now encaged in the valuation of ] about 6,000 acres of the Longbuih and Tablelands estates, which have been purohased by the Government for the purpose of closer settlement. It is not genorally known that one of the soenic reservations made *by the Scenery Preservation Commission is Cascade Point, in Westland, the greatest breeding-ground in the Southern Hemisphere for the fur seal. Mi P- Bourke's newly erected flax soutohing works at Port Ahuriri took tire on Wednesday damage to the extent of £l5O being done be- ) lore the flames were suppressed. The outbreak is attributed to over, heated bearings. The loss is covered by insurance in the New Zealand, Manchester, and Guardian Offices. On Tuesday evening, Mr Robert J. Pope, wlio has boen in oharge of the Kaiwaiwai School for Borne years, and has jnst been promoted to the position of headmaster of the Kaiwarra School, was entertained by the residents of the former district, and presented with a purße of sovereigns. The committee appointed to preDare the report and balance-sheet to be presented to the annual meeting of the Masterton Branch of the Y.M.C.A., to be hold on Monday evening next, met last night, and , made full arrangements for the meeting, and also for a social ' which is to be held in conjunction with the meeting. Mr W. C. Davies, instructor of the Elementary Agricultural classes, , under the Wellington Eduoatlon Board, conferred yesterday with Mr R. Brown, Chairman of the Masterton School Committee, and Mr J. D. Cruiokshahk, regarding the or--ganisation of the Agricultural Classes. In refereuce to the proposed plan of the section, Mr Davies asked whe'.her it was not possible to lengthen the plot. Mr Cruickshank undertook to supply the necessary tools for the proposed work. A meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton Gymnasium and Physical Training School, was held last evening. Mr A. Henderson occupied the chair. The report and balance-sheet was road and adopted. It was deoided to hold the annual ireeting on April 10th, and the opening night on the ldth April. A subcommittee was appointed to meet the Ladies' Class to discuss the prospects of the coming season. A letter was read from Mr Van Stavern, offering a gold medal for competition. * At the closing of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention, held at Greymoutb recently, a resolution was passed unanimously:—"This twenty-first annual convention of the New Zealand W.C.T.U., representing nearly 1,500 women, gratefully remembers the splendid service rendered by Sir John Hall ia the women's franchise movement. The convention is glad to find that Sir John's zeal for the public welfare is still unabated, and congratulates the oity of Christohuroh on the fact that he has consented to occupy the Mayoral ohair during the Exhibition year. At th« Magistrate's Court, Masterton, yesterday morning, in connection with the proseoution of Frank Reeve, on a oharge of horsestealing. Mr B. J. Dolan, who appeared for the defence, stated that the punishment of fourteen years meted out to the offence by the criminal code, was something of an' anaohronism, especially in view of the fact that the punishment invariably only meant eighteen months at the most. It was also an expensive process to bring all the witnesses in buch a case to the Supreme Court instead of trying the case in the District Court, which had jurisdiction in muoh more serious charges such aa those of offences against the person. His Worship concurred aa to the expense of the procedure. Mr E. Hare advertises particulars of two good dairy farms which have been plaoed in his hands fur sale. In a new advertisement, appearing elstwhera, Mr T. G. Mason particularises snveral proprietary artioles whioh are invaluable as speciflo. The annual meeting and smoke concert of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers is advertised to take place in the Drill Hall, at 8 p.m. this evening. Mr J. Hoyboe, draper and mercer, has just had completed some extensive alterations to his shop in Queen Street. The shop itself has been considerably enlarged and renovated, aud provision has been made for better lighting by means of patent roof lights. On either side of the main entrance two new and capaoious show windows have been built, which add greatly to the general appearance of the shop, besides providing inoreased facilities for the display of goods. Mr Hevboe haa just opened up his new winter goods, whioh he invites the public to inspect. COMPLETELY CUBED AFTER NINETEEN YEAKS.