LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8150, 28 May 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Stewards of the Masterton Racing Club will be held on Jane 2nd. The Prince of Wales' Birthday, June 4th, will be observed aa a Customs holiday throughout New Zealand. Mies Florence Smith, a missionary from India, will give an address at the meeting of the Gleaners' Union on Thursday next, at 3.15 p.m. Captain Wm. Short, a retired master mariner, 75 years of age, residing in Abel Smith Street, WelIngton, was found dead in his bedroom with his throat out, about 5 o'olook on .Saturday morning. The funeral of the late Mrs John Savage took place on Saturday, leaving St. Patrick's Church for the Masterton cemetery at 2 p.m. The cortege was a large one. The Rer. Dean MoKenna officiated at the graveside. Pretty Pictures want Pretty Frames. Yeu can get the Finest Selection and the Best Workmanship at R. J. Lyttle's, Gil' lespie's Buildings.—Advt. For Colds in tfoe Head and Influenza, Woods' Great] Peppermint Cure, 1/G and 2/6' per bottle.

The Eangiwhia Hotel, ououpied by Mr 0. Miles, was totally destroyed by Are early on Saturday morning. Everything saa destroyed, and several narrow escapes are re» ported. The building, whioh was a laige two-storeyed one, was owned by Mrs Ryan, of Feilding. A telegram from New Plymouth states that a party of Wellington shareholders in the Petroleum Company visited the bore on Saturday morning, when a quantity of oil was run off. Proposals for the sale to the new company will be considered at a meeting to-day. At the conclusion of a charge of robbery at the Auckland Supreme Couit, in which the jury, without retiring, returned a verdict of not. guilty, Mr Justice Edwards said:— "If the grand jury had taken my advice and thrown out the bill, it would have saved the court a good deal of time, and the country a considerable amount of expense." Mr Tolo, Qrown proseoutor: "I think it is time the grand jury was abolished." An amendment of the Defence Regulations is gazetted, providing that when any horse is used by an offioer or volunteer, while on duty or in a oamp of exercise, is.' maimed or injured, a board of enquiry shall be assembled as soon as possbile after the occurrence'to investigate the circumstances, and, if. the board so recommend, the Minister may grant such compensation as may seem fit. Mr A. 0. Walker, manager for the Union Steamship Company at Nelson, died on Saturday morning. The deceased, who was in the prime of life, had been in the service of the company for many years. He was purser of the Mararoa and other boats engaged in the intercolonial trade for a considerable period. Subsequently he was the company's travelling representative in the South Pacific for some time. Later on he became manager of the New Plymouth branoh, and was then transferred to Nelson. He has left a widow and family. A case for nullification of marriage came before the Supreme Court at Timaru on Friday, the wife being the applicant. The ground of aotion was that she was a half-blood niece of her husband. The defence olaimed a literal reading of the table of prohibitions, whioh mentions nieces, not half-nieces. Judge Cooper ruled the law of Eoolesiastioal Courts applied, and this prohibited marriages of half-blood relations in that degree. A decree nisi was granted. A peculiarity of the case was that both parties desired the application to fail, but wished to test the legality of the marriage.

At a meeting of the Ladies' Committee of the Cariton Cricket Olab, on Saturday, matters in connection with the annual social and dance of the Club were dealt with. The Ladies' Committee will meat again, on Wednesday evening, at 7.30 o'clock, in the Drill Hall, to make final arrangements. The stage of the Town Hall is to be fitted up with card tables. Members of the Club have arranged to meet at the Drill Hall, on Tuesday and Wednesday, to prepare the floor for danoing. A speoial preparation is to be used for the purpose. There is every prospect of \the sooial and dance being a decided suooess. Mr A. B. Mao Don aid, who has been for the pf»st two years a member of the clerioal staff of Messrs Dalgety and Co.'a (Ltd.) Masterton Branch and who is leaving to commenoe business en his own aooord in the Manawatu district was on Saturday afternoon presented by Mr J. B. Moodie, manager of the firm's MasSerton branch, on behalf of the staff, with a handsome gold watchchain. In masing the presentation, Mr Moodie referred in eulogistic thrmß to Mr Mac Donald's many qualities, also the valuable services rendered by him to the firm since the branoh was opened in Masterton. MrMacDonald suitably acknowledged the gift. , A young lady residing at Ddntroon (North Otago), met with a remarkable mishap a few days ago. She had been seen walking along the road reading a book, and was subsequently missed. A search party was formed. After searching every likely place in [the neighbourhood, the party directed their attention to what are known as "earthquakes"— deep fissures in limestone near Duntroon—and eventually the lady waa found at the bottom of a fissura 60 feet deep. In some places the fissures are overgrown with vegetation, and evidently the lady, deeply absorbed in her book, had walked into a fissure unawares. Her fall was partialJy broken by the narrowness of the cavity, and the ledges on the sides, and it is not thought that she has been seriously injured. The sfloretary of the Wellington Plasterers' Union states with reference to the trade difficulty in Wellington in connection with the plastering work at the new building of the Bank of Australasia, that the lilastorers were asked to stop the joints of fibrous plaster which had been fixed by the carpenters. The work which the carpenters did, is, he says, reoognised in England and the colonies as work and three out of the seven plasterers employed by the contractors (Messrs J. and A. Wilson) left the job rather than break the rule of the uriion forbidding members to stop fibrous plaster which has not been fixed by bona-flde plasterers. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT QP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success ol SANDER & SONS' EUOA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Viotoria, before his Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G, etc. His Honour, when giving udqment, 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 thepublie an opportunity of protecting 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.

A good duck-shooting record tb*s season is reported from Waikaia. /Messrs H. Hatdman, F. Christie land Graham MoKeobnie, went to the Mataura River, near Ardlussa Station, and in less than two hours bagged 136 ducks. A Chriatohuroh paper makes the following remarkable statement about the Waimarino and Murimutu country:—The mails are already being conveyed by pack-horse to Obakune, and all the settlements lying in the circle of Taihape, Moawhanga, Tokaano, Taumarunui, Fipixiki and Karioi, a great stretch of country, including thousands uf settlers, is sealed and isolated by the failure of its roads." Colao apparently has suffered a rapid deoline during the past three years, the value of property having gone down considerably. It was Stated in a bankruptcy case last I week (says the Southland Times)that p house and section which oost £l4O three years ago would not now bring £SO if put under the hammer. The evidence on that point was oorJ xoborated by an experienced land broker. It appears that the oheap freights now ruling for Home uhipments are having some effect on the prices of oatmeal. A few days ago, it ia stated, 15,000 sacks of oats were ! anipoed from Timaru, and this drain, combined with the fact that j the oat crops in the South are very poor this season—particularly in Southland, where large quantities of grain were destroyed owing to the continued bad weather—seems to indicate that supplies of milling oats -will not be too plentiful. A meeting of the North Island Horse-owners' Association was held at Wanganui on Thursday. Mr O. E. Major was elected President. Additions to the committee were made as follows:—Messrs Murdoch MoLean, Auckland; Norman Banks, Waikato; D. Buick, Palmerston North; J. H. Abbott, Wellington; J. R. Maodonald, Wellington; J. Maoara, Master ton; Dr. Graham, j 'Wanganui. It was resolved that j bookmakers be ineligible for membership. ' The Japanese mail steamer Kumano Mara has had a rather unique experience of May .Day celebrations. She arrived at Thursday Island on the Ist inst., and found the residents there were celebrating eight, hour day", consequently the vesse had to pay the Sunday rate, 3s per hour, to the labourers who discharged her cargo there. On arrival at Brisbane, six days later, it j was found that the residents of Brisbane were celebrating eighthour day, and consequently the Sunday rate for unloading bad again to be paid. Mr John MoKenzie, the New Zealand representative of Messrs Qui - . bell Bros., sent through Mr A. L. Joseph a carcase o* prime Canterbury lamb to hia relatives in the West Highlands of Scotland where mountain black-faced sheep, which are claimed to produce the finest mutton in the world, are kept. Mr McKenzie asked for a candid opinion as to the quality of New Zealand lamb and, as it happened, a number of sheep farmers were visiting at the house whea a joint of the lamb was put upon the table. The opinion they gave was unanimous, brief, and'expressive: "it is too good for oar business." MrsE. M. Barker, of Featherston, has just taken out a patent for a milk-cooler, consisting of a milk-can packed in ice, which has a swing pendulum hooked on to the lid. The pendulum is kept in motion by the movements of the milkbrake and the train while the milk is on its way to the city, thus per- i feotly cooling and aerating the milk, and rendering it more fit for con- J sumption than it is by the present methods Another patent, taken qat by Mr B. J. B. Barker, of Feather, ston, consists of a cream can with a cream disturber, which is easily removed for cleansing purposes. The cream, by the motion of the milk brake or train, is dashed up against the cream disturber, thus forcing all gases to escape and perfectly aerating the cream. How particular' a British landowner can be when his game is concerned was shown recently in a case in which Mr Fielden, of Huntingdonshire, asked for an injunction against four young men, who were foand collecting moths by night in his coverts. Mr Fielden asked for an injunction to prevent the young men from disturbing his pheasants, and for damages for having disturbed them last year. It was alleged that the young men went down to Mr Fielden'a coverts at night armed with lanterns, and smeared his trees with treacle. Then they waved the lanterns about with the object, presumably, of attracting the moths. Mr Justice Buckley, however, said that he nid not think there was any sporting rights in moths, and that tie considered the action an oppressive one. He refused to grant the injunction. WHEN EABY BUBNS HIS HAND. When sister cuts her finger. When brother gets a bruise. In 'short, wtjen ' anything happens to the children which causes them pain, it is mother's delight to comfort arid relieve the little sufferers She can always do this when she baa JJr Sheldon's Magnetio Liniment in the house. Bubbing a little of it over a sore or wound immediately takes away all pain, and vastly hastens recovery. Keep a bottle in the house always, and you will agree with a thousand other mothers who have said that they could not keep house without it. For sale by H. E. Eton, Maßterton, and J Baillie, Carterton.—Advt. TBEAT IT fBOPEBLS. Colds weaken the lungs, lower the vitally, and pave the way for consumption. ' Pneumonia always results from a cold, or from an attack of influenza. Give every cold the attention it deserves; treat it promptly and properly. What should yoa do? There is but one answer. Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. .It always «ures. For eale by T. G. Mason, Master ton. MOTHEB NATURE, M.D, When suffering from a cough or oold, you want to take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It acts on Nature's plan by loosening the cold, relieving the lungs, and making expectoration easy. Pleasant to take; safe, and always cures. For sa l by T. 6; Mason, Masterton.

The first reconnaissance survey of the route of the Opunake rail way is almost oompleted. The Minister of Publio Works hopes to have the detail work and e&timatea completed to place before Parliament this session. It is the intention of the Native Minister to try to induce about j 100 of the followers of Rua, the Maori prophet in the Rotorua dis trict, to aooept work at railway construction in some part of the North Island. Additional homes, to cost a large sum of money, are beiug erected in Adelaide in connection with the scheme of workmen's cottages provided for under the will of Sir Thomas Elder, who left £25,000 for this purpose. The Soutland Frozen Meat Company has just put through a line of six-months-old calves for a Mataura firm, who intend exporting veal to the .London market. The calves were shorthorn and polled Angus—Hereford cross, and % were in first-class condition. The firm in question has not exported any veal for some years, but tney intend to go more extensively into the trade. The Council of the New Zealand Boxing Association has issued a circular to all the Associations injthe colony asking for an expression of opinion upon the Australasian championship agreement. The circular says:— "The existing* agreement, which terminates this year, was entered into in 1903, and while the competitions have been of undoubted value from the point of view of the amateur side of the sport, the financial side is distinctly unfavourable to New Zealand, which has to send men long journeys twice in three years. For various reasons New South Wales has an immense advantage over other subscribing parties to the agreement, partiou larly in the matter of financing its teams, oooupying as it does the intermediate geographical position. The Queensland Association is of opinion that th<» profits arising from the championships should be pooled and equally divided and in this the New Zealand Council concurs, As all the affiliated bodieß are interested in the financing of the New Zealand teams, the council is desirous of hearing, as early as possible, their views, on the suujeot of the agreement." The council also asks the Associations to state whether they are in favour of the adoption of a uniform class of glove. A five-roomed cottage, situated on the Upper Plain Road, is advertised to let. An agent is wanted to represent a leading English fire, accident, and live stook insurance company in Masterton and district. The drawing in conn°ction with Mrs Kendall's art union will take place in Mr Dupre's shop on Wednesday next, May 30th,