LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8145, 23 May 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The late potato crops in the Kopuaranga district have been destroyed by the Irish blight. The funeral of the infant son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Jackson, will take place to-day, leaving Lansdowne at 2 o'clock. A football matoh will be played at Kopuaranga on Saturday, says our Kopuaranga correspondent, between the Rangitumau and Kopuaranga teams. On account of the hall being otherwise engaged the weekly dances in connection with the Masterton Band, Volunteer and Fire Brigade have been postponed for three weeks. Mr Will Laurence, advance agent for Mr William Anderson's Dramatio Company, is in Masterton making arrangements in connection with the Company's appearance at tne Town Hall on Saturday and Monday next. _ _ Three tenders were received at the meeting of the Works Committee of the Masterton Borough Council, last evening, for the supply of 24 copper lanterns for street lamps. The tender of Beale anci Parton, at £1 7s each, was accepted. A Napier telegram states that the Te 1 Aute Trust Commission was continued yesterday. The witnesses, including 'a Government valuer, agreed that the present rental of Te Ante was a fair one. The Commission adjourned until Thursday. / The following team will represent the Masterton Mounted Rifles in the shooting match at Pahiatua, to-morrow, for Major Boltpn's oup: •—Captain Cameron, Lieutenants McKillop and Whittaker, Sergeants Daniell and Hood, Corporal Wall, Troopers MoLaohlan (2), Field land Stewart. The team will leave by the G. 30 a.m. train for Pahiatua. The weekly meeting of St. Matthew's Club was held, last evening, in tbe Vestry of St. Matthew's Church. There was a fair attendance of members. The Chairman delivered a short address on "King Lear," for which he was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. The rest of the evening was devoted to a "Question Box." *

A meeting of the Social Committee of the Masterton Fire Police was held last evening, when final arrangements were made in connection with the annual social and danoe to be held in the Foresters' Hall on Thursday evening. A ladies' committee, cpnßfsting of Mesdames Hogg, Butcher, J. Campbell, and Russell, and Misses Hogg Reardon (2), was appointed to take charge of the supper room.

William Parker, aged 54 years, died at Carterton, on Monday night, after a lingering illness. He was at one time a resident of Kahautara. Deceased was a native of Kent, England, and was born in 1854. He came to the colony with his parents when he was two years of age. The family settled at the Hutt and at the age of 20 the late Mr Wra. Parker tookupjand with his brother, Mr J. Parker, at] Kahautara. Deceased continued farming until about two years agoi when be purchased a bakery business in Carterton. Deceased leaves a wife and a grown-up family of four girls and two boys.

Aooording to advices recently to hand two British cruisers, which until lately were attached .to the Australian Station, and w«re for some years familiar objeots in Farm Cove, ijave been disposed of by auction at Chatham Dockyard as obsolete vessels. H.M.S. Mildura, a third-class cruiser of 2,575 tono displacement, built of steel in 1889, at a cost of £116,062, was knocked down to Mr J. B. Uarnham for £7,200, while H.M.S. Pylades, a third-class cruiser of 1,420 tons displacement, built of timber, metal fastened, and copper sheathed, in the year 1884, at a cost of £62,000, was purchased for the sum of £5,900 by the Shipbreaking Co., I.td,

A useful innovation of wide interest taken up by the Winter Show Committee at Falmerston North is a milk-testing competition. The oontest is described as follows: —Milk-testing competition*.Baboook method), open to farmers' sons and daughters, publio and high school students. No competitor allowed to take part who is engaged in dairy factory or creamery or in the teaching of dairy work. The competition will be on the following basis:— Sampling, temperatures, strength of acid, acidmeter, adding acid, and mixing, whirling machine, reading test, washing up glassware, etc. The utensils are provided for competitors. Already interest has stimulated the formation of classes i.n two dairy districts near Palmerston North to assist competitors in gaining efficiency. CONSTIPATION. For constipation there is nothing quite so nice as Chamberlain's Stomach, and Liver Tablets. They always produce a pleasant movement of the bowels, witnout any disagreeable effect. For sale by T. G Mason, Masterton. Are you going away for a holiday? Then give your luggage into the charge of J. J. Curtis and Co., Ltd, Forwarding, Shipping, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Not only is it the cheapest and quiokest way. but you will be saved time and trouble. Write for jurther particulars.—Advt. Pretty Pictures want Pretty Frames. Ysu can get the Finest Seleotion and the Best Workmanship at B. J. Lyttle's, Gil? lespie's Buildings.—Advt.

The nett overdraft of the Masterton Borough Oounoil at the present date amounts to £1,597 13s 7d, and the rates outstanding to £522 15s Bd. |3 During the past five years the Napier Borough Council's overdraft has more than doubled, and now stands at about £10,411. No fewer than 187 motor-cars and motor-cycles have been registered in Christchuroh in terms of the Act of last session. This is far in excess of any other centre in New Zealand. ® A cablegram from Sydney states that the cable steamer Recorder has picked up tbe Australian end of the broken cable. The weather is unfavourable, but it is honed to secure the New Zealand end of the oable to-day. A telegram from Dunedin states tliat Elizabeth Roy, wife of Alfred Henry Roy, of Ravensboume, was knocked down on the Anderson's Bay Road by an eleotric car on Monday night, and died in the hospital at 1 o'olock yesterday morning. Seals have lately been seen in the vicinity of Port Ahuriri. A Napier resident captured one of them a fev? days ago, but released it on learning frou the Collector of Customs that he was rendering himself liable to a fine of £2O. A Dunedin telegram states that during tbe week ended yesterday returns have been , reported from thirty-three dredges, the total yield being 9580z sdwt, or an average of 290z per dredge. Additional return: —-Loch Lomond, 31oz sdwt. It was reported at the meeting of the Borough Oounoil. last evening, that the recent Court case, in which G. G. Eddie claimed £BO damages from the Council, had cost the Council £24, although the oase bad been decided in favour of the Council. The Masterton Orchestral Sooiety will give a concert in tb& Masterton Town Hall, to-morrow njght. The programme, which is published elsewhere, contains a varied seleotion of instrumental items. The . tympani, which have been reoehtly imported by the Sooiety, will be used for the first time. The ordinary meeting of the St. Patrick's Club was held last evening in Messrs Abraham and Williams' rooms. Mr B. J. Dolan occupied the chair. Owing to the absence of some of the principal speakers the debate on Socialism was adjourned. During tbe evening impromptu speeobes were delivered by themembers on subjects of interest.

Mr Charles Warner Is still playing Ooupeau in "Drink," and was announced for a performance the other day at the London Coliseum. It is twenty-seven years since "Drink" was originally produced at the Princess' Theatre, London. Mr Warner is able to boast that he has played the same part 5,000 times—a record whioh is distinctly unique.

The only application received at ( the meeting of the Works Committee of the Masterton Borough (Jo an oil last evening for a paddock adjoining the abattoir was from Or Moiris. The application was granted. The rent of the paddocks,is £1 per annum, and Or McEwen mentioned that the reason why the butchers did not apply, for paddocks was because they considered the rent too much. The Conciliation Board has returned to Wellington from the country distriois, where sittings in connection with the ooachworkers* dispute have been lately held at Masterton, Dannevirkei Wanganai, Napier, and Falmerston North. Settlement has been reached in respect of eight out of twelve issues, the matters unsettled being rates of wages, hours of labour, piecework, and preference to Unionists. Consideration of the dispute will be resumed in Wellington on Monday. . The financial, position of the Mas* terton Borough Oonnoil &t the present date is as follows:—General Acoount, dr, £3,002 Pa 3d; Gas Account, or, £936 16s 9d; Library Aocount, dr, £ll7 16s 8d; Waterworks Aocount, or, £226 0s lid; Deposit Acoount, or, £164; Interest Account, drainage, or, £6B 6s lOd; Interest Acoount, Bannister Street, or, £127 7s lOd; Loan Acoount, drainage, or, £53 8s lOd; Loan Aocount, abattoir, or, £490 15a lid.

A Waihi prospector, who in company with others, has been engaged by a syndicate to protpeot the North Island for copper, is said v to have located a well-defined lode in the Ruahine ranges, whioh run north and south, between Wellington and Napier. The lode is reported to be over 4ft wide at the surfaoe, and 9ft wide in the low level. The ore contains from 10 to 33 percent, of copper, and it is thought that it will prove payable.

According to the Hawera paper, there is still a keen demand for good dairying land in that distriot. Recently a Matapu farmer placed his land on ' the market, and a sale was effected within th ee days, 100 acres bringing £2B and another 100 acres £3O per aore. In both instances the terms were cash. As showing the great ad.vanoe in values whioh has reoently taken plaoe, it may be mentioned that eiisht years ago the present vendor bought this land at £l4 per aore. In s addition to eight years' profitable occupation, this handsome increase in prioe is now realised. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT O P JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and si-coess of SANDER & SONS' EUCA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Viotoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.G.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udt-ment, 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 peruussable 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 Viotoria 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. Business Men ot Masterton, you see the Name everywhere "R. J. Lyttle, Signwriter and Decorator.", His address , Gillespie's Buildings, Queen Street.—Ad'vU

Mr J. D. Anderson having resigned the position of manager of the North Island Bacon Company's Works, Mr W. Nicholson, of Woodville, has been appointed to fill the vacanuy. Seventeen thousand aores of Yarrum Estate, near Penola, have been purchased by the South Australian Government for closer settlement, and 268 applicants have applied for 83 holdings. At the Benalla Circuit Court (Viotoria) on the JOfch inst., a man Darned George Philbey was convicted of setting fire tj grass by means of phosphorus last January. fie was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. Otira experienced the greatest rainfall in the colony during last month. The total fall was 33.21 Inches, of whiuh near J[y eight inches came down on. April 27th. At Riverton (Otago) there were only five flue days in the month. Mr J. D. Ritchie, Secretary for Agriculture, has written to the Secretary of the Auckland Provincial Butter and Cheese Makers and Managers' Association intimating that the whole matter of dairy Inspection is naw under consideration. The Raglan correspondent of the New Zealand Herald says that it Is stated that Mr W. Courtney, of Taranaki, has offered inducements to Messrs Darby and Esau Pretty' the celebrated Raglan axemen, to go on a tour through England and America, to give exhibitions of their powers at wood-chopping. The Postal Department has now agreed to allow post cards enclosed in transparent covers, with a part oat out to expose the postage stamp, to pass within New Zealand and to the United Kingdom. The arrangement, however, do"»s not extend to other countries, to which transmission of suoh cards is still prohibited. It is probable that a substantial portion of the total expenditure on the New Zealand Exhibition buildings will be met by charges for space in the main buildings reoently authorised. The extensions and maohinery hall are estimated to cost about £60,000. In them 800,000 feet of space will fce available. Jt will be let at 2s per foot, yielding (£30,000.

Nowb has been received of the death at Madagascar, of Mr Georee Cobley, brother of Mr W. H. Cobley, of Auckland. He served with the Fourth New Zealand Contingent in South Afrioa, and then proceeded to Madagascar, where he was engaged prospeoting. He was returning to New Zealand, and had embarked on a steamer, but, falling on deck, sustained injuries which necessitated his removal to the hospital, and he clieci there. The' plant fcbich the Government has obtained from Home to manufacture briquettes . from the small coal turned out of the State mine at Seddonville will be erected next tp the coal staiths at Westport. Tenders for its installation wil close next jweek, and it is hoped to have the factory at work in four or five months. The plant will be able ta make 200 tons.of briquette* a day. The output from the State colliery at Port Elizabeth is steadily increasing. The second term of Wellington 'Girls College will begin on Tuesday, May 29th. The Principal will receive new pupils on Monduy morning, May 28th, between 10 o'clock and 12 o'clock. Sportsmen will And all the aieoessary requisites for the shooting heason in the W.F.C.A. ironmongery department, guns by the best makers, and all the favourite brands of ammunition. The second term of the Wellington College will begin on Wednesday, May 30th. The headmaster will be at tbe Uollege to receive parents and guardians on Tuesday, JMay 29th, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Costumes made to order ia the subject of a new advertisemunt inserted by the Drapery Department of the W.F.C.A. Ladies will find a visit to the show rooms particularly interesting at the present season. The grocery department of the W.F.C.A. stock the best class of bams. and bacon and the latest novelty in British, colonial, and Continental table delioacies. Farmers invited to inspect tbe •firm's samples of seeds for the coming grain sowing season.