LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8151, 29 May 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mastertoii Keohabite Tent will meet to-night when a visit will be made by the Carterton Tent. The Motupiko-Tadmor flection of the Midland railway, whiob it was hoped could be opened on Empire Day, was not ready for the ceremony. The opening will probably take place on November 9th. Mails for the of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlement* also South Africa, Contiuent of Europe and United Kiqgdom, per Wimmera, will close at Masterton, on Saturday, Juae 2nd, at 6.15 a.m. A Capetown cablegram states that Sir Walter P. Hely-Hutohinson, Governor, in opening the Cape Parliament, announced, in continuance of tho policy of mutual trust and good will, the introduction of a bill remitting all sentences of disfranchisement.

For pigs reoelved in one month during the present season the El* tham Bacon Company has paid oat over £I,OOO. The use of white pine timber in the construction of buildings has beeu prohibited by the Hamilton Borough Oounoil. Ihe rabbbit pest has recently become more troublesome than usual in the high country of Hawkes Bay -—particularly in the neighbourhood • of Kuripapauga and inland Patea. A Chinese fruiterer in Wellington was ordered to pay £lO 16s in fine and oosts last week on charges of selling and exposing for sale fruit that was unfit for human consumption. it is authoritatively stated that the three Free Churches in Canada -—Congregational, Presbyterian, and Methodist—are willing to surrender their respective names, and amalgamate under one body. It is stated that Mr Morrison, one of the new settlers on the Edendale Estate, received no leas than £960 for his crop of potatoes grown on an area of nine acres. A return of £IOO an acre should pay a rent of 15s without any trouble. The plumbers' examination (practical), at Masterton, in connection with the City and Guild of London Institute was concluded on Saturday. Three candidates sat for examination. Mr R. E. .Tones was the examiner. The Anderson Dramatio Company concluded their Masterton season in the Town Hail last evening, when the Australian ousbranging play, "Thunderbolt," was staged. The pieoe, which abounds with startling situations, was splendidly staged. The various characters were creditably sustained. The men enuaeed in breaking up the old coal bulk Menschikoff, at Lyttelton found in the timbers of her stern a rusty cannon ball and a boarding pike, memenotos of the time when she was an armed vessel under the Russian flag, before she became a British prize and a peaceful merchantman. Mr Selfe, the New Ze&land manager of the Eastern Extension Com* pany, states that the steamer Recorder completed the repairs to the cable at 2.50 p.m. yesterday. Communication with Australia is now completely restored. . The Recorder now proceeds to piok up and repair the second cable. The Napier Telegraph is dissatisfied with the census returns for that town, whioh show an increase of population in five years of only 710, and states there must have been a mistake made in the oount. The natural increase alone should be * 1,170. The return shows there are more females than males, 4,772 against 4,712. We are authorised to say that the report that has been published to the effect that Mr D. Ouddie, Assistant Dairy Commissioner, had been appointed Dairy Commissioner for Victoria, is quite untrue, as is also the statement that a position had also been offered to ■ Mr Thornton, Government grader atjAuokland, in the Victorian dairying service.— N.Z. Dairyman. Speaking at a large meeting in the Town Hall, in Wellington, recently, Mr D. A. Badge stated that there are throughout the world to-day, 8,753 Y.M.O.A.'s. with a total membership of 800,000 and with properly worth £8,000,000. In Amerioa alone last year 60 new Y.M.C.A. buildings were opened, and this year 100 more are on the way. Mr D. H. Lindsay, the Chief Govenment mail agent, who oame from Vancouver in charge of the "earthquake" mail, states that the despatch o£ the last mail from Vancouver raised hope amongst the commercial oommunity of that city that a direot service might later on be established with New Zealand. Merchants seemed to be of opinion that there was an excellent mutual trade to be done between New Zealand and Western Oanada. The fear expressed by many Europeans that the Maoris are dying cut does not appear to be borne oat by this year's census. The returns received up to the present show an ibcreaso in the native population in nearly every district, and there is reason, to believe that when all the figures are to hand it will be found that the Maori raoe is numerically stronger than it was when the census of 1901 was taken. The sanitary , conditions at the majority of the native villages "are avast improvement on those whioh prevailed a few years ago, and mainly owing to that fact no doubt there have been no serious epidemics since 1901. Apropos of the deer-stalking accidents during the past season, a Wanganui sportsman, who had been shooting in the Wairarapa, told a friend how easily serious accidentsmay happen, and narrated a case in pointy says the Wanganui Herald. A sport had been out in the morning, and located a stag just entering a sorub break. Believing that the animal would probably come out again in the course of half an hour, he deoided to lay in waiting. After some time had elapsed the sportsman notioed a -movement' in the sorub and then detected a pair of antlers. He was about to shoot when a peculiar movement of the antlers caused him to hesitate and scrutinise more closely. Just then, instead of the expected stag, a man emerged from the scrub Carrying a stag's bead, with long antlers, strapped to his back. The horns reaohed higher than the man's head, and consequently were visible over the sorob, whilst the man himself was hidden. New Lease For Weak Lungs. Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery fo r Coughs, Colds and Consumption cure 8 Influenza and all Lung troubles. For sale H. E. Eton, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and Maurioeville Store, Co., Ltd., Maurioeville West.—Advx. constipation. For constipation there is nothing quite so niee aa Chamberlain's Stomaoh and Liver Tablets. They always produce a pleasant movement of the bowels, witnout any disagreeable effect. For sale by T. G Mason, Masterton.

A device is now being patented in Hew York to enable railway engine ■drivers to communicate by telephone with each other for a distauoe of twelve miles. A bell on the engine rings automatically when trains are three miles apart, thus making collisions practically impossible.

Mr E. Kiley, one of tne antisweating committee of the Sydney Labour Council, says that some astounding information is being obtained by the committee. He states that :■( when ; the report of the oom mittee is presented to Parliament it will] be of a startling character.

It is commonly reported (says the* Hastings correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald) that the Government and Messrs Smith Bros., the owners of Olrig Station, have oome to an amicable arrangement whereby the Government will acquire for closer settlement 13,000 acres of the estate.

In ordering a boy a birching at the sitting of the Dunedin Juvenile Court for stealing a bicycle, Mr Graham, S.M., said:—"These oaHes of juvenile stealing are becoming so common that they must be put down. If a fine is inflioted, and it is paid by somebody for the aaoused, he does not feel the penalty at all. As a ounishment for the offence and also a deterrent to others, 1 order this boy to receive twelve strokes with a biroh, co be administered by the police."

A shooking mistake wan oonfessed at an inquest in Sydney recently, concerning the death of a child from scalds. At the Salvation Army Rescue Home, the child, 2}£ years old, was plaoed in a basin of oold water. A woman went to the boilers to obtain warm water, but by boiling water, which she poured 'over the child. She said nothing of the occurrence, but three hours later was crying, and when asked the reason told what had happened. Medical aid waß then procured, but the child did not live long after.

An admirable work is being done by sobool savings banks in encouraging the rising generation to take oare of the pence. These institutions are ran on a copper basis, bat substantial sums are accumulated, nevertheless. At the meeting of the Canterbury School Association last week, for instance, it was stated that the : tank at the Opawa school had eighty depositors, and a total saved of £322. after about eight years. At Woolßton a bank was started a year ago, and there are now eighty depositors and £47 13s 3d accumulated. It was deoided to urge the Education Board to afford all possible facilities for the etablishment of snob banks.—Exohange.

The value of reputation for commercial morality in a business community was exemplified at a creditors' meeting at Auckland last week. Although the deficiency approximated £2.000, and the assignee conoeived it to be his duty to refer the bankruptcy to the Crown soli oitor, with a view to proceedings, unless a more detailed statement was supplied to him than he had been able to get so far, the meeting of twenty-three creditors expressed every sympathy with the bankrupt, attributed the bankruptcy to misfortune, and desired that no proceedings should be taken, but rather that the discharge from bankruptcy should be facilitated.

A surprising fact in connection with the trade between New Zealand and Australia is to band. For about three years the export of goods by the boats whioh leave Dunedin for Melbourne every week has barely averatjed 50 tons per ateamer. Inquiries made regarding the matter show that this state of things is general all over New Zea land. The cargo trade from the colony to the Commonwealth has dwindled to a fraction of its former self, the cause being chiefly the Federal tariff. Since the breaking up of the great Australian drought a year or two ago things have been worse than ever. Good seasons in Australia mean a diminished Australian demand for New Zealand •commodities.—Dunedin Star.

The boys who promoted a "strike" at a New Plymouth school on Empire Day "fell in," Bays the Taranaki Herald. The boyß, 92 in number, after interviewing the Secretary of the BoHrd and the Chairman of the Sohool Committee, returned to the school, all except four little ohaps, arriving about 10.30 and were told by the headmaster that they would be admitted at 11 o'olock. From that time till 2 o'clook, the work of the sohool went on as usual, as if nothing unusual had happened. At 2.15 all those who bad turned up at the proper time in the morning were assembled in the gymnasium, and after a short address by the headmaster as a mark of appreciation, were allowed to go. The others, representing pupils from all the standards from I. to VI., remained, the younger ones being allowed off at 3 o'olook, but those from standards IV., V., and VI., remaining till 4.30. Mr Dempsey massed those in one room and had a long, interesting, and profitable conversation with them, occasionally interrupted by cheers from the Recreation Grounds, where a football match, Star v. Tukapa, was in progress. The master and the boys were in complete sympathy, and the latter seemed to fully realise ths their conduct was foolish and unconstitutional. The "strike" is hardly likely to be repeated. Mothers. Do you know that Dr Sheldon's New «.„ Discovery will relieve Croup instantly? As " '*" it contains no harmful drugs of any kind, it is perfectly safe for your ohlldren. Small Dose. Pleasant to take. Price Is Gd, large size 3s. For sale by H. E. Eton. Masterton, and J. Baillie, Carterton, and Mauriceville Co-operative, Store Co., Ltd., Mauriceville West.—Advt., Plate Glass 1 Plate Glass! Plate Glass ! A stock of plate glass held in readiness for your order. E. J. Lyttle, Queen Street.—Advt. Pretty Pictures want Pretty Frames. Yau t can get the Finest Selection and the Eest { "Workmanship at B. J. Lyttle's, Gil' • lespie's Buildings.—Advt.

From the year 1843 until Wednesday last ten thousand probates hare been Hied in the Wellington Supreme Court Registry. These estates of deceased persons have been in the Wellington district only.

A feature of the census returns in the Hawera district is the evidence they give of the large proportion of Australians who during the past few years have found employment in the milking industry.

The allotment of space in the New Zealand International Exhibition is now proceeding, and the special committee set up for that purpose is meeting daily. It is anticipated that by the end of the present week the applications for apace will be allocated.

At Gore on Saturday, Mr McCarthy, S.M., fined Malachi flanley, £SO and coats for keepiug liquor for sale in a no-lioense district. The charge is the result of a recent police raid on defendant's private hotel in East Gore. Notice of appeal was given.

The question of establishing a Government coal depot at Nelsou owing to the alleged high price of ooal was brought before Colonel Pitt during his visit by the looal Trades and Labour Oouncil. The Minister promised to give the mutter bis consideration. The ooal firms are now writing to tne newspapers declaring that the prices quoted by the Trades and Labour Council are inaccurate.

Colonel Collins, executive officer of the New Zealand Rifle -association, has received a letter from the Victorian Rifle Association in reference to the proposal made at the last meeting for inviting the Australian States to send teams ol eight men each over to New Zealand to compete in the Exhibition rifle meeting. The writer has been instructed by his council to aay that every measure will be taken to forward the object in view.

A cablegram from Capetown states that under a compromise agreed upon by the South African Customs Convention, the Transvaal and Orangia Colonies consent to raise an additioual £150,000 a year through the Customs to satisfy the coast colonies, which agree to a simultaneous increase in the railway rates. The rebate on British goods is also slightly modified.

Inquiries made by a New Zealand Herald representative with referenoe to a telegram from Wellington stating that an arrangement had been arrived at by a conference of sawmillera to reduce the ruling price of building rimu fro-n 12s 6d to lis 2d per 100ft f went to show that this arrangement does not apply to Auckland district, and the prioe for building rimu locally is 13a per 100 ft, and 10s 6d per 100 ft for second-olass, while heart rimu stands at 15s per 100 ft. A dental ward, has been established in connection with the Christchurch Hospital. The Ohristohuroh Press, referring to the matter, says: "The expense will be inconsiderable, since the most valuable item, the services of qualified dentists is to be provided free by the members of the Odontologioal Society, who are to be congratulated upon the public-spirited manner in which they propose to fill an undoubted deficiency in the work of the Hospital. There is no doubt that for the poorer classes the ordinary fees oharged by dentists are practically prohibitive, and considering the importance now rightly attached to the oare of the teeth, the Hospital Board ;s only doing its du*y in helping to provide efficient dentistry for those who cannot afford the heavy cost.of private attendance. The residence of a gaoler is (says the New Zealand Herald) an unlikely haunt for a burglar, but the dwelling of Mr Severre, governor of Mount Eden gaol, was recently entered by a thief. The gaoler and his family were at dinner at the time, and Mr Severue heard footsteps upon the stairs, and on investigation discovered traces of a burglar. A uoise outsideundipated that the thief was not far away, and an effort waß made to find him, but without success. On examining the house, it was found that a gol<l watch and a gold brooch were missing. The thief evidently could not have been long in the house, aa he overlooked some jewellery and some money in the bedroom from which the waton and brooch were stolen. The object of the burglary is believed to have been the securing of a bag containing the gaol officers' salaries, which are paid every month. This supposition is based upon the fact that the bag waR found outside the house, but the thief got nothing, as the wages bad been paid a few days befure. It {has been Mr Severue's cjusfcom to keep the gaol officers' salaries in this bag overnight. The reading taste of Ponsonby is not of a particularly high class, according to Mr C. J. Parr, who, speaking at the annual meeting of the Leys Institute, Auckland, deplored the fact that the demand for fition at the institute library was enormously in excess of the demand for works of f«n intellectual and instructive character, For instance, said Mr Parr, Marie Corelli's "God's Good Man," had had 48 readers, while Lord Roseberry's "Last Phase of Napoleon'" had only six. While the "Rise of the World," by Agnes Egerton Castle, bad 62 readers, only four readers wanted Morley's magnificent "Life of Gladstone"; and the "Marriage of William Ashe," by Mrs Humphrey Ward, had 54 maders, while only four readers asked for the Crevey papers, and Carlyle's monumental work. "Cromwell's Life and Letters," was entirely neglected. Mr Parr thought Ponsonby's appetite for fiction was appalling, and indicated the need of the formation of a reading olub in connection with the institute. The Pebil of Our Timk Is lung disease. Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, Colds and Consumption cures lung trouble. Small dose. Pleasant to take. livery bottle guaranteed For sale by H. JB. Eton, Masterton, J Baillie, Carterton, and Mauriceville Cooperative Store Co., Ltd., Mauriceville West.—Advt. Just landed, per s.s. Tongariro, 4 bales of the newest and latest designs in wall papers. The best stook of papers ,in the district now on view at the premises of R. J. Lyttle, Queen Street.—Advt.

The public school cadets of the colony are now 14,000 strong. There are 280 corps and 27 battalions. In connection with the floating of the Antonio Plat Dredging Com" pany, 4,100 shares have been applied for looally. Taibape, the youngest township on the southern end of the Main Trunk Line,' is to be formed into a borough. Mr H. A. Lamb, uovernmeut Auditor, is at present engaged in auditing the books of the Masterton Borough Council. The colonial mails despatched from Melbourne on April 18th arrived in London on the morning of the 19th inst. At a meeting in Opunake last week it was decided to take steps to promote a bill for the formation of a harbour district. A Gazotte published yesterday summons Parliament to meet for the despatoh of business on Wednesday, Juno 27th.—Association. Mr Carnegie has given £l5O towards an organ at the St. Alban's (Christchurob) Church, provided half the cost (£300) is collected first. A Wellington telegiam staeH that the Conciliation Board yesterday gave further consideration to the unsettled points in the ooaohworkers' dispute. After hearing the addresses on behalf of the respective sides, the Board retired to consider its recommendations. At a meeting of the Borough By-laws Committee, held last evening, there were present—Crs MoEwen (in the chair), Ewington, Temple, Pauling, and Morris. The building by-laws, whioh are to be submitted to a special meeting of the Council, were completed. A co-operative ohee&e factory is about tu be established at Mangaramarama, near Pahiatua. Mr W. M. Singleton, of the dairy instruction staff, has inspected the locality, and approved a suitable site olose to a stream. There are three butter factories within a radius of a few miles. About 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, a goods shed at Ealing flag station was totally destroyed by fire. The shed contained about forty bags of oats and seed, and a number of permanent} way tools and material, which were all destroyed with the exception of a few bags of oats. The police are making enquiries. There is no clue to the origin. —Association.

At the Masterton S.M. Court, yesterday, before Mr W. P. James, S.M, John Cross and A. Geange were each fined 40s and oosts for exposing sheep infected with lice. Inspeotor Jenkinson prosecuted. William E. Humphries was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour, for having been drunk, it being his fourth offence within six months.

Inquests were held at Wellington yesterday concerning the deaths of Frederick Perara, who was killed on the steamer Aparima, on Saturday, and Daniel Duggan, the victim of the tram accident on Saturday night. In each case a verdiot of accidental death was returned. In Duggan's case a rider was added urging added, precautions in respeot to allowing passengers to open gates of the caru.—Association.

Mr Ayson, officer in charge of the tiakataramea hatchery, reports that he himself has taken three true quinnet salmon in the Hakataramea River. Two were coming down after spawning, and the third was on its way up the stream to shed egga. One of the fish is described as "a beauty, weighing i6lb," and is penned up alive. The department has been communicated with as to the disposition of the fish. Mr Ayson suggests that they should be shown in the New Zealand Exhibition.

An Auckland telegram states that at the Arbitration Court the New Zealand Manufacturers' Association and the New Zealand Federated Tailoresses applied for an extension of the arbitration award of 1903 binding the trade in the South to Auckland. The Auckland manufacturers opposed the application. Mr Scott, secretary of the Employers' Association, 1 in the South, states that the objeot of the application was to do away with a divergence between the cost of manufacturing clothing iu Auckland and in the South. If Auckland manufacturers were allowed to continue under the present log they would, he stated, monopolise the trousers and vest manufacture.

At a meeting of the Dunedin Advisory Committee in connection with the International Exhibition, it was reported that only one local body had responded to the request for funds. The Taieri County Council voted £25. The chairman said the general feeling was that the cost of exhibiting and the deterioration of exhibits would be too great. It was resolved that Otago should not exhibit as a province, but show in the New Zealand court, and that the £25 be returned to the Taieri County Council. If the 4,000 ft applied for is continuous it was suggested that it might be marked "Otago Exhibit."

The boot department of the W.F.O.A. make a speciality of Cana-dian-made boots suitable for the winter season. A reward is offered for the recovery of a niokei-plated lamp sooket, lost on the Opaki Road between Woodmere Farm and Boyd's corner. Mr T. G. Mason is now offering epeaial value in hot-water artioles, whioh are indispensable in the winter season. Restful sleep follows the use of Dr Sheldon's New Discovery. The best lung remedy in the world. Small dose. Plea sant to take. Every bottle guaranteed. For sale by H. E. Eton, Masterton, and J. Baillie, Carterton, and Mauriceville Co-operative Store Co., Ltd., Mauriceville West. -Advt. 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 \gents, Customhoube Quay, Wellington. Not only is it the cheapest and quickest way, but you will be saved time and trouble. Write for further particulars.—Advt.