LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8116, 10 April 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The new destructor in Wellington will be the largest in Australasia. A Sydney cablegram, yesterday, stated that indications point to a further increase in the price of coal to ten shillings a ton. , The Herald says business is improving in New Plymouth. Satur? day was one of tbe busiest days experienced for months. Peroy Cleary, sou of Mr David Oleary, was killed at Waipu, yesterday, by a gun shot. It is not known how the fatality oocurred. J

A cablegram, received last evening, stated that the Hungarian political crisis had ended. The Fairview Rifle Olub will continue their tropby shooting competitions on Thursday next. Tbe nett overdraft of the Masterton * Borough Ooanoil at the present date is £1,407 8s lid, and the raftes outstanding amount to £652 7s lOd. A cablegram from Roakhamptqn last evening, stated that two additional cases of plague had been reported. The shortage of railway trucks at Lyttelton is resulting is? serious delays to the steamers loading at the port. The monthly meeting of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Trustees will be held In Messrs Abraham and Williams' room, to-morrow afternoon, at 3.30 o'clook. In the Wanganui Education district 442 schools are in operation, 15 more tnan last year. The total roll number is 31,613; present at ' annual visit of inspection. 30,019^ The citizens' testimonial to tbe Rev D. J. Murray will be presented in the Town Hall, this evening, and to-morrow evening he will be banquetted by the Masonic Lodge. Rev J. N. Buttle is expeoted to arrive in Masterton on Thursday evening, and wili conduct his first service in the Masterton Methodist Church on Good Friday evening. At tbe end of 1905 there were over 11,000 dwellings in Wellington, and 752 permits for new buildings and additions to existing structures were granted during the year ended 31st March.

It has been decided to hold a picnic among the suppliers to the Mbrtertoa Co-operative )">airy Company, Ltd., at Solway, on Good Friday, and invitations to be present are being issued to the suppliers of other ( creameries in the district. A telegram from Wellington, laat . evening, stated that Mr Seddon loft for the South last night. He will deliver a political speech at Rangiora on Wednesday, and will probably be back in Wellington on Thursday morning. Several InverCargill propertyowners, says a southern contemporary, are surprised at the substantial increases in valuations made by the Department. Wooden residences have jumped up £IOO and more in value.. Great slaughter is going on just now amougst the rabbits of Southland and Otago,says a contemporary. Over 12,000 were paoked at the Mataura freezing works last Tuesday nignt for one exporter alone, and thirty men ware working early and late in order to be ready for tho next day's consignment. Messrs W. Cooper, JR.. Buiok, W. D. Watson and W. B. L. Galwey nave returned to Masterion, after a week's deer stalking on the East Coast. The party secured sixteen heads, and repott that stags £are plentiful on the Coast around Martinborougb. Mr JR. G. Khowles concluded his Masterton season in the Town Hall, last evening. The programme was entitled, "Trifles that Trouble the Traveller," and as on Saturday evening, Mr Knowles' funny anecdotes, humourous songs and eccentric dances were much, appreciated and loudly applauded.

A'telegram from Wellington, last evening, stated that owing to the illness of the Auditor-General and the Deputy Auditor-General, the Government has been compelled to make a temporary appointment, and Mr J. W. Poynton, Public Trustee, has been appointed Deputy Auditor-General.

Charles Jury, the two-year-old soa of a settler at Higholiffe, was sitting at the table, on Saturday, with the rest of the family, when he pat the spout of a tea-pot in his mouth unnoticed by the others, and the hot liquid which poured down so severely scalded his stomauh that he died from the effects. At the jnquest the jurjl" returned a verdict of auoidental death.

The statement for the 49th week of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's Egg - laying OompetitioL showß that we*e laid during the week, making a total to date of 29,782. The best totals to date are: —H. Hawke'e Silver Wyaudotes, 1,230; J. H. Shaw's Brown Leghorns 1,002; J. Mann's Wyandottes, 974.

The flnano s al position of the Masterton Borough Council, at the present date, is as follows:—General Aooount,' dr, £2,555 8s 7d; Gas Account, or, £702 5a 7d; Library Account, dr, £97 18s 2d; Waterworks Account, or, £217 3s 2d; Deposit Account, or, £143; Interest Aooount, drainage, nr, £59; Interest A coount, Bannister Stieet, or, £124 9s Id; Loan Account, drainage, or, £7B 19s sd; Interest Account, abattoir, or, £590 17s sd.

At the meeting of the Masterton Collie Club, on Saturday night, various alterations were made to tbe rules and regulations governing trials. Tbe programme for tbe 1906 trials was drafted and adopted. It was decided that tbe trials bo held ou June 6th and 7th, and continued if necessary, and also to ask Mr W. O. Rutherford 'to again act as judge. The following new members were elected :-r-G. W. Pulley, D. JB. Oarriok '.Flat Point). T. P. Ke'nble, F. E. Dorset. MEEIT KEWAEDED BY COUET OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success oC SANDER & SONS' EUCA ( LYPTI EXTEACT hive brought out many \ imitations', and one ease was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis. Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G, etc. His Honour, when giving udement, said with regard to the GENUINE SANDEE & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTEACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not peraissable 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 tbe 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' PUEE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. For Children's Hacking Cough at night' Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle.

No tratnoars are to b© run in Wellington on Good Friday. Jkboat 250 Maoris attended the re«eot Mormon conference at Nubaka. Oat of 401 applicants for Flaxbourne sections, 187 bailed from Marlborough, 146 from Canterbury, 30 from Wellington, and 11 from Otago. The Pahiatua Borough Council as the result of a vißit from a deputation has appointed a committee toco-operate iu a project to establish technical olasses in Pahiatua. The sacred cantata, "The Oruoi'.flxiou " will bo rendered by the Choir at St. Matthew's Church, at Sjo'clook, this evening. The offertory will be for the Choir Fande. It was stated In the Appeal Court, recently, that an unregistered person'had acted for some time as doctor "of an Oddfellows' Lodge at Mataura. It is expeoted that fully 1,100 Freemaoons will be present to witness the installation of Lord blanket as Worshipful Grand Master of New Zealand Freemasons, at Christ oborcb, on May 9tb. Owing to the frequency of obscene language oases of late, Mr Graham, S.M., threatened at the Dunedin Police Court recently, to return to the old praotioe -of imprisonment without the option of a fine. A notification in the Gazette prohibits the introduction into the colony of any fruit infected with apple scab ot black-spot, or any tomatoes or potatoes infected with the Irish blight or late blight. It is computed that the death rate of the world is 67' and the birthrate 70 amloate, and thlß seemingly light percentage of gain is sufficient to give a net increase in population eaoh year of almost 1,200,000 souls. Replying to a deputation at Cbristcburoh. recently, the Hon. T. Y, Duncan, Minister for Agriculture, said that the proposal to perm! t the importation of grapes at one penny per pound duty would likely be adopted. The secretary of the Victorian Furniture-makers' Association told the TariS Commission, which recently sat at Melbourne, that "more duty aild fewer Chinamen" are essential to give Australian manufacturers tbe show they deserve. An English judge has ruled that tame pigeon shooting like ooursing rabbits from a trap or bag is a /breaob of the Cruelty to Animals Act and has upheld the decision of the iturlingham Club to prevent the "sport" taking place on its grounds. The engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board says there is 6ft of difference between the highest tide and tbe lowest tide recorded in Wellington over a term of years. In the ordinary rise and fall of the tide there Is only a difference of about 4ft.

In. a case against a Maori who was ohargei with drunkenness at New Plymouth, the other day, the Magistrate remarked that the matner in which natives were served with liquor might be ibe subject of an inquiry before long, if the praotioe continued and publicans were not alive to their responsibilities.

Last week, Mr Kinsella, Dairy Commissioner, paid an official inspection to portions of South Westland with reference to its suitability for the extension of the dairying in - dustry. As a result of his risit it is probable that a creamery will be ereoted a*. Rosa and a factory at Waitaha.

One reason of the poularity of teohnioal education in Wanganui, said Mr Varneya at a reoent publio meeting at Palmerston North, was due to the central position of the school. When the classes were held three-quarters of a mile up Victoria Avenue they were a failure. When they were held right in the town they began to boom.

With reference to the reported discovery of gold near Galatea, several Gishorne residents who have travelled through that district have always maintained that there werefftood indications of gold there. Should permission to go on native land be obtained, several prospecting parties will, it is understood, go from the Poverty Bay distriot.

"The tourist traffic in New Zealand during this season is the heaviest on record," says Mr T. E. Donne, Superintendent, "although the season was much later than usual, due, no doubt, to the late, summer." Tnis is the result in a large measure of the more extensive advertising of the colony's attractions.

The Ohristohuroh tramway employees have prepared a petition praying Parliament to extend to them and their families the privileges now enjoyed by the general publio during holiday seasons in respect to the reduced rates of travelling. Owing to their employment, they are prevented from taking advantage of the privileges granted to the general publio during the holiday season. The Japanese Official Year Book shows the daily wages paid in Japan for skilled labour to be:—-Carpen-ters Is o%d, plasterers Is 2d, coopers 11 %d, shoemakers Is o%d, harnessmakers Is o}£d, dyers 7d, blaoksmiths Is paperhangera 7d, confectioners 7%d, typesetters printers farm lafcourers 6>£d for men and 4d for women, male weavers 7d, women weavers id. Pretty Pictures want Pretty Frames. You can get the Finest Selection and the BEST Workmanship at R. J. LITTLE'S, Gil- ' lespie's Buildings.—Advt. JUST WHAT EVERYONE SHOOIiD DO. Mr S. G Mather, proprietor "Chronicle" Normanton (Q.), always keeps a bottle of Chamberlain's Colio, Cholera, and Diarrhcea Bemedy at hand, ready for emergency, for there is no telling when it may be needed. He says :~"It completely cured me of chrome dysentery, from which I had suffered for yearp. IfeelconfidentthatChamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved the life of' my infant' daughter, who, when teething was severely attacked ■ with diarrhoea, und was given up by the doctors." For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton.—advt. For Colds in the Head and Influenza, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle.

During the New Zealand Internationl Exhibition it ia iatended to bold a gathering of Yorksbiretnea from all parts of the colony. British imports during March increased by £4,287,000 and the exports £3,580,000, as compared with the same month last year. A London cablegram states that Mr Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, has appointed a committee to enquire into the bankruptcy laws. At the Dannevhke Polioe Court, yesterday, 13 sbeap-i'armers were charged with exposing sheep infected with lice iu 3dle ; yards. They were fined £2 and costs in eaoh case. Of the 1,851 subscribers on the Dunedin telephone list, 300 have already had tbnir instruments connected wib the exchange by the new system of complete metallic circuit. A Dunedin correspondent states that the Hon. George MoLean, M.L.0., will probably retire from the chairmanship of the Union Steamship Company at the ead of the year. The New Zealand Presbyterian Bible Class Union, embracing 76 classes, will bold itsj annual oamp and conference at Dunedin at Easter. It is anticipated that about 400 will attend. Over three hundred and three thousand persons viewed Holman Hunt's great picture, "The Light of the World," in Sydney. It will be despatched to New Zealand this week. At the instance of the Minister for War, the Freuoh Government is instituting a committee or defence fcr unifying the action of the Foreign, War, Marine, and Colonial Ministeries. Mr JR. Knox has just bad a large stable for his racehorses erected at Opafei. The stable, which includes seven large loose boxes and a granary, is one of the finest in the Wairarara. At the wood-chopping competition at the Charity Fete, ou Saturday, the logs being 15 inches diameter, upright, the following was the result :—E. Pretty, 30sec, 1; G. R. Vincent, 25soc, 2; D. Pretty, s'jr, 3. A young man named Wiley, employed at Booth and Co.'s tramline at Manngatarere, met with a painful accident on Saturday moruiug. He was trimming a log when the axe slipped and cut the toes of his left foot very badly.

A man named Isaac Day, was found in a state of collapse at tbe Occidental Hotel, Palmerston North, where be was staying, on Sunday. Medical examination revealed poisoning by spirits of salts. He is now in a oritioal state.

King Edward and Queen Alexandra, who were detained at Marseilles by a gale, bave sailed for Corfu, where they will meet tbe Prinoe aud Princess of Wales on their return from India. The King of Greece will join them.

So far £2,300 has been subscribed for the public art gallery at Dunedin, and the Government has granted £SOO. A piece of ground adjoining the present railway station, has been given for the site by the Government.

A Press Association telegram from Napier reports that- Mr G. T. Fannin yesterday resigned the position of Secretary of the Hawke's Bay County Oounoil, after thirty years' serviae. Mr A. H. Ferguson, his assistant, has been appointed to the vacancy.

An old man named William Gilpin met with a painful accident at Carterton on Friday. He was worn • log in a gravelpit for Messrs Booth and Co., when a dead tree oame down and one of the limbs struck Gilpin, on the shoulder and broke It, besides causing other injuries.

Oswald Robert Elbey, aged 16 years, was drowned at Lyttelton, yesterday, by falling off the cattle wharf into twenty feet of water. Two companions, who were fishing with him, could not swim, and no one "else was in the vicinity. The body was recovered an hour later. —Association.

The opinion is expressed in political circles in New South Wales that the retirement of the Chief Railway Commissioner is inevitable, in view of the report of the Commission of Enquiry, and that the continuation in office of the Junior Commissioners is at least undesirable.

An advertiser has for sale two dairy cows in full milk.

Goloshes, gumboots, gent's leggings, are to be bad in great variety at the W.F.C.A. boot department. Mr J. L. Murray is making a display of new autumn blousings, which are in endless variety of colour and pattern. The New Zealand Railways Denartment advertise special train arrangements in connection with the Easter holidays. A smart boy, for driving delivery cart, is advertised for by Mr J. Whittaker, grooer and provision merchant, Queen Street. The Mastorton Farmers' Itnole ment Company, will clost their promises from Thursday evening till Tuesday, on account of the Ea9ter holidays. Mr A. HonderaoD, watohmakor, jeweller and optician, is mailing a fine display of goods, suitablo for wedding presents, and Easter gifts, at his shop iu Queen Street, at present. Mr A. H. Atkinson, of Feilding, advertises particulars of two farm properties, which have been placed in his hands for sale. The properties consist of 530 and 160 cores, respectively, and are highly improved. What would any room be without a nice «p-to-date wall paper? B. J. LYTTLE has a seleotion of Wall Papers that will open your eyes and your pockets, too ! Call at the shop, Gilkspie's Buildings.—Adyt. Perhaps you wish to senu a parcel to another town either in New Zealand sr aoross the sea. If so, you will find it be, to forward it through J. J. Curtis and Co. Ltd., Forwarding, Shipping, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Not only will it be the cheapest way, but you will be saved time and trouble— Advt.

The presentation of a testimonial to Mr T. E. Taylor will be made at Cdristchuroh on May 3rd. ' Sheepskin stealing from slaughter bouses and the destruction and illusage of sheep by dogs, are rife in tbe Milton district. At Motutipi, Golden Bay, the deputy returning officer apparently forgot all about the Motiieka Licensing Committee election, and never openoa his booth at all! A Beekeepers' Association has been formed at Southland. Bees were first introduced into Southland in the early sixtios by Miss Tannook, who brought them to Murihiku. from Dunedin. It would seem that Wanganui, at the present time, must be experiencing a period of prosperity, as during tbe whole of the last quarter there was only one bankruptcy in the Wanganui district. In addition to counterfeit gold coins there is a large amouot of spurious silver in circulation in Newcastle, Australia, at the present time, some specimens of which were suooessfuliy passed off on business people recently. The fact that tbe Orient steamers are unable to find accommodation for all the butter ready for shipment in Brisbane is exoiting anxiety on the part of the Queensland producers. It is held, however, that if the new monthly service to London, via Capotown'.is established the difficulty will be overcome. A recent development of the frozen meat trade is "boneless beef." It was started in tbe United States, and a New Zealand shipper has landed 1.700 cases of 901b each (70 tons) at Glasgow. When thawed out it suits the butcher's board, and the descriptive title is an attraction to the economical housewife. A meetiDg of tbe Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Association was held in the Secretary's offiou, last evening.* Mr Hyde occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance of members. A large amount of correspondence and other business was dealt with. Mr Price, of Napier, was appointed judge of ooultry, and Mr Fitzgerald, of Wellington, judge of pigeons and canaries, at the annual show, which is to bo held iu the Drill Hall on July 18tb and 19tb. Members expressed the opinion that the show this year would be the largest yet held by the Society. The meeting of the Y.M.G.A; Literary and Debating Society was held last evening. Mr Boagey presided. The election of officers resuited as follows:-—President, Mr A. Parlon; Vice-Presidents, Messrs A. Donald, G. Boagey and D. Parton; Hon. Sec, Mr H. Sutton: General Committee, Messrs W. Chamberlain, A. Rigg and Biassell. An opening "debate" will take plaoe on Monday, 23rd instant. A progamme for tbe ensuing session was drawn up. It was decided that membership should be entirely free. A successful season is anticipated by members.