LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8165, 23 June 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Pettigrew, the drqdgemasterof the Hessey Dredge, intends to pay a visit to Masterton next week.

A cablegram from Sydney states that the sheep by the steamer Zealandia was landed in good oundition.

The latest dredging returns are:— Masterton Dredge, 10oz"2dwt; Hessey Dredge,. 12oz 9dwt. The Masterton Drede has been dredging on the eastern boundary of the claim.

Trie morning and evening services at the Masterton Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted lay the Rev. Jas. Patterson. There will be services at Dreyerton at 3 p.m., and at Wangaehu at 2.30 p.m.

The Star Cricket Club's -annual social will be held in the Foresters' Hall on Thursday evening next. During the evening the trophies won last season will be presented. The Booial gives every promise of being a decided success, "

In our issue of yesterday it was stated that the Salvation Army Band which attended the Memorial Service on Thursday consisted of eight players. Mr H. G. Kemp writes to say; that this is incorreot, as the players numbered thirteen—"only one short of our full band," be adds. 1

At the Divoroe Court at New Plymouth, yesterday, Mr Justioe Edwards granted a deoree nisi in the case of Randell v. Randell (husband's petition), and Bspiner v. Bsoiner cbusband's petition). The oase of Miller v. Miller, husband's application for the restoration of conjugal rights, was adjourned to Wellington for the production of the marriage certificate, when an order will be made.

The Crown lands ballot for sections offered in the Opotiki County (Auokland), yesterday, resulted as follows:—-780 acres at Waioba, Colin Lambert; 2,000 acres at Waioha, Charlotte Wheeler; 1,235 acres at Waioba, George Redpathl,4Bs acres at Waioha, J. W, Higgs; 1,750 aores at Waioha, A. Graham; and 1,570 acres at Uruhaura, F. J. Foster.

Several householders in the Masterton Borough have recently been visited by persons purporting to be the appointed Borough inspectors of nuisanoes. Householders are warned against these persons, and Bhould take the precaution to aßk thern to produce their warrant of appointment. The appointed insDectors are Messrs A. O. Lerien and W. E. Cullen.

1 Tbere was beautiful weather for the third annual oombined, Agricultural and Pastoral and Poultry Show at ABhburton yesterday. In poultry there were over 500 entries, being fifty more than last year. There was a fine display of fat sheep, cattle, and pigs. The home industries brought a large number of entries. J. B. Wilson, of Ranaiora, with hi& hen, carried off the South Island New Zealand Poultry Assooiation's Championship for Buff Orpingtons. BLOWN TO ATOMS. > The old idea that the body soraetimag needs a powerful, drastic purgative pill has been exploded; for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to expel poisonous matter, oleanse the system, and absolutely cure constipation and siok headache. For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton.—Advt. <5 Mr Thrifty: "How can we have this dull room with this tore paper look nice without spending too much money upon it?" Mrs Thrifty: " I don't think would do better than to get Bobt. J. Lyttle to do t." Mr Thrifty; "Good ideal I will look into his shop on my way to the office. Per Children's Hacking Cough at Night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 add 2/6 per bottle

Mr J. A. Millar, M.H.R., told the Otago Central Railway League that he intended to support a big vote for the North Island Main Trunk line till it was finished. A prisoner, sentenced to seven years penal servitude, in Syndey, for breaking and entering, was said to be insane from, a medical point of view, but criminally, quite clear. ' The medical officer of the Oulton (Suffolk) Workhouse says *.hat ch® reason the old people in the workhouse live so long is that they are so well fed. They enter the house when 75 years old to die, he says, and then live another tea years. A wild pig waa shot in the Orari country the other day that measured: 9ft lOin from the snout tq the tail, , and was 3ft din in height. This ia said to have been the biggest pig yet shot in the Orari Ranges. Clerka, in would appear (says the Timaru Post), are not in such short supply as pick-and-shovel men, for the Board of Education received 73; applications for the position of clerk in their offlcei at a salary of £IBO a year. ■ > It is estimated that the total catch of mutton-birds for the season by the nativea (says a southern exchange) is 120,000, which, at fourpenoe apiece, represents £2,000. The birds were never known to be in better condition, due to the* superabundance of the small fish which constitute their food. In connection with the outbreak of typhoid fever at Blenheim, where there are now nine cases, Dr Bennett noted the significant faut (nays the Marlborough Press) that all the oases date from the time of the last race meeting at Riverlands, and all the patients went to the taoes. The water supply is suspected, and is being carefully examined and analysed. The Melbourne Municipal Association recommends that the present antiquated method of supporting verandahs by means of upright pillars or supports, fixed on the outer line or kerb of the footway be prevented, and in future that only the erection of verandahs supported* by cantilevers, i.e., a sort of powerful braoket support, be oermitted. Three of the recently arrived : navvies from the Old Country applied to the Hamilton borough engineer for a job, and he has put them on to clear furze from borough allotments. They have only been about a fortnight in the colony. They were sent by the Labour Department to the works on the Main Trunk Line, but oomplained that the conditions of life were unfit for a dog, and threw the work up.

The Statistical Register for 1905 dealing with population and, vital statistics furnished by the Government statistician, shows that during last year-10,970 marriages were solemnised in New South Wales, compared with 10,122 solemnised daring 1904. The marriage-rate per 1,000 of mean population in was 7.14, as.agaiiait 6.06 for the preceding year. |Thei total number of deaths within thej State last year was 14,978, as against 15,360 during 1904, representing 10.13 per 1,000 of the population for 1905, as oompared with 10.62 for 1904.

A Chicago juiy has awarded Rubth Bostrum, a ten-year-old blind girl, the sum of £5,000 as damages for injuries she sustained through receiving an electric shock. She'was paralysed while walking near an eleotrio wire owned by the Union Traction Company. The jury aoceptel the theory advanced in support of the girl's case that it is not necessary to touch a highly charged wii;e in order to receive a shook. It' was stated by some of the experts that a shook might be received by a person who was fully four feet distant from a "live" wire.

The new Pacific cable, recently completed by Germany, extending from Shanghai in China to Yap in the Caroline Islands, a distance of 2,000 miles, closes the gap and gives Germany a cable encircling the globe. It is the first continuous non-English line round the world. The new cable is laid at the greatest ocean'depth on record—24,24=7 feet at the lowest point, in the vicinity of the Linkin Islands. The American cable jn thu Pacific did not reach a greater depth than 20,469 feet. Up to a few year ago there was no cable in the ocean at a depth below 16,404 feet. The sand drift trouble is becoming more accentuated every day at Muritai, Wellington, and more than one property-owner is concerned at the very rapid manner in whioh the enemy is approaching his boundary. Some sections on thß western aide /of the road have already been covered to a depth of several feet by the sand, and the only relics of what were once pleasant and well-kept gardens are a few inches of fencing-post sticking out of the sand. Further along the road towards the extreme end of Maritai, the drift has almost covered the road, so that for some considerable time the ooaoh has been unable to run there, and at the prosent time it would be a pretty hard task to get even a child's go-cart past the obstruction. DON'T DIET. It needs all kinds of food to uspply the numerous demands of the body. That's why nature gives us suoh a generous variety. Eat all your appetite calls for. That's what appetite is for, to let you know what elements of nutrition you really need. Eat all you want. Dr, Sheldon's Digestive Tabules will digest it and make a new person of you. They will give you strength, new life, new ambition and enable you to enjoy living as you never have enjoyed it before. . For sale by H. E. Eton? MastertGn, J. Baillie, Carterton, and Mauriceville Co-operative Store Co., Ltd., Mauriceville West.—Advt. / Abb You Soaa 1 Does your back ache? Have you neuralgia? Do you knew that Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment will cure you? It is only external remedy that will sweat out all the inflammation. It can't help but do yoa good. For sale by H. E. Eton! Masterton, and J. Baillie, Carterton, and Maurioeville Co-operative Store Co., Ltd. Mauriceville West.—Advt. No ohemist, who sought in vast ages The phantom Philosopher's Stone, Has handed down that whioh assuages The throat-trouble always so'prone. Till Woods, after thirty years' trial, . In tests both exhaustive and sure, Discovered a charm to defy all— Woods' Great Peppermint Cwre.

Green peas a foot'higb are coming into bloom and new potatoes are being dag in tbe Kaikoura township.

A Nelson paper's opinion is ttmat a State coal depot would not answer in Nelson; that is, if it had to pay, its owu way.

Last week the Ashburton polioe raided a hairdresser's saloon, and seized, it is said, a ten-gallon keg of beer.

The Sate Cabinet has agreed to a a Victorian court being established at the Dublin International Exhibition next year.

Indications of paraffin shale have been discovered at Kerikeri, Bay of Islands. A shipmon'; of lOcwt has been sent to Aicklund to be tested.

A Sydney cablegram states that the sugar production of Queensland and New South Wa'es during the past year his been over 172,000 ton?.

it is stated that a firm of commission agents at Waipawa have issued a writ against the Chrisfcoburcb Press Company claiming £lo,*ooo damage* for aliedged libel.

Mr H. W. Godfrey Li i completed bia contract for tht shifting of the MaDgamaire Sohool, the whole of the work of removal and re-erection being aooomplißhed in three weeks.

According to the Manawatu Standard Ihe shutting down of finxrcills had thrown many men out of work, and In the opinion of onr contemporary it is a farce to import navvies from England when there are numbers of men in the colony ready and willing to jump at an offer of work.

Signor Dovara, an expert, after carefully examining the condition of Vesuvius, is of opinion that the mountain baa diminished in height by about 600 feet. The portion fallen would have a volume of about 120 million cubio feet. Formerly the diameter of the oentral crater was about 900 feet, and its height 3,900 feet above sea level. The diameter is now about 2,000 f^et.

At the Ashburton Magistrate's Court, yesterday, Mr Wray, S.M., fined two men 40s each for being on premises when the'polioe made a slygrog raid, and E. P. March, licensee of the Chertsey Hotel, was fined £5 and costs for Sunday trading. The license was not endorsed, the Magistrate oonsidering'defendant bad been persuaded against his better judgment. A charge of exposing liquor for sale was dismissed.

Daring the disonssion at a meeting of creditors at Christchurch it transpired that a traction engine and Chaffoutting plant, which twelve months ago cost £2OO, was'valued at £6O. "It is extraordinary tbe way machinery depreciates in value," remarked tbe Official Assignee, "you pay £2O for a new bicycle, and a week afterwards you could not get £lO for it. With agricultural machinery the depreciation is even greater."

A cablegram from Sydney, this morning, states that there is a more hopeful outlook in oonneoton with the cricket trouble. Tbe governing bodies of all the States including the Melbourne Club, express themselves as desirous of arriving at a settlement in time to secure a visit from tbe English cricket team. One of the obstaolesln the way of united aotion has been the refusal of South Australia to ■ join the Board of Control over the question of financial negotiations.

Speaking at n banquet at the Mansion House, on Wednesday, the Hon. H. 0. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared that Britain's foreign and Home trade were Ihoroughhly sound and progressive. To those asking if Britain's cash reserve was on a sufficiently broad and stable basis, Mr Asquith suggested that joint stock and private banks should issue returns weekly, whfeh would probably show their deposits to aggregate about a thousand millions sterling.

A Dunedin telegram states that at the adjourned meeting of the Taieri Licensing Committee the expressed will of the people at the local option poll was given effect to by the redaction of three of the licenses. The houses closed were the Kaiborai Junotion, at the Burniide Saleyards; Coach and Horses, at Saddle Hill*(one of the houses at which the ooaohes drew up in the olden days); and O'Donnell's Hotel, at Allanton.

Does anybody ever walk in Auckland? The question is suggested by some figures in the annual report of the Auckland Eleotrio Tramways, Ltd. The population of the city and suburbs is about 70,000, and during twelve months the trams carried 20,000,000 passengers. That is to say, they oarried the whole population 'more than 280 times, and in doing so they received in fares an amount equal approximately to £1 14a per fhead of the men, women, and children in the oommunity. ; —Exchange.

A telegram fiom Ohristchurch, laat evening, stated that as the outcome of a recent meeting of Labour leaders of different centres in Ohristchurch, a body has been formed, called the New Zealand Workers Political Association, "to advanoe the social, economic, and political Interests of the workers of New Zealand." The platform includes constitutional andtland law reforms, including an eleotive executive and the more vigorous application of the {lands for settlement policy, State management of numerous enterprises, including a State ferry service between the North and South Islands, and between Onehunga and New Plymouth, and the extension of old-age pensions. Mr J. Barr, of Obristuburch, was elected president. Abe You a Nuisance ? You disturb everybody in the house Why not stop coughing ? You make a terrible noise. As for sleeping, no one can get a bit of rest. If-you do not care for yourself, then for t%ir sake of others take Chambailaia» Cbught Remedy. You can make everybody happy, and that in Jude» yotxrself for the first thine you know [you will not have any cough For sale a* 7. G. Mason Mastertori.—Advt. For Bronchial Coughs and Colds, Wood's Great Peppermint Care, 1/6 and '2/6 pei Jbottlej

The first of the season's fat lambs were offered at Addington saleyarde, on Wednesday, and were sold at 15s 3d to 18s.

A fire on the steamer Orewa, at Auckland, yesterday, caused considerable damage in the engineroom, and the cabin fittings were destroyed.

The first appropriation by ballot of the Workmen's Friend Building Society will be held in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms, at 8 o'clook, on Tuesday night.

The adjourned monthly meeting of the Trustees of the Masterton Hospital will be held on Wednesday, June 27th, at 10.30 a.m., in Messrs Abraham and Williams' Farmers' Room.

The Masterton District High School re opened yesterday after being olosed for several days owing to the death of the late Premier, about 85 per cent, ot the ohildren on the roll being present. An Auckland telegram states that a small oil launoh was wrecked oe,low D'Argaville. It is feared that three men were drowned. Tbe engineer is a son of Mr Robb, of Auckland. .

In the absence v of the Coroner (Mr W. P. James), Mr W. H. Beetbam, J.P., has decided that it is not necessary to hold an inquest in connection with the death of the late Mr E. Dixon. The funeral will leave jtbe deceased's late residence at 2 to-day.

Constable Heffernan, who has for some years past beeo stationed at Masterton, left yesterday to take up his duties at the Tinakori Road Police Station, Wellington. Constable Townsend, of Wellington, suaoeeds Constable Heffernan, at Masterton.

A handsome enlarged photograph of the late Mr Seddon and the officials of the Masterton District High Sohool, taken on the ocoaslon of the opening of the new portion of the Sohool by the late Premier, has been presented to the Sohool by the Chairman of the Sohool Committee (Mr R. Brown).

Another attempt is being made to capture Mare Matenga, who has been hiding in the Waipiro district for several years evading arrest and making raids on sheep and cattle, and robbing camps for food. He is an expert marksman, and threatens to shoot anyone who attempts to capture him. The natives are afraid to disclose bis whereabouts. Recently he went boldly to a Maori camp to get his hair cut.

The geysers at Whakarewarewa have been very active lately. Waikorohihi geyser oommenoed to play on the 6th instant, and played continuously until 25 minutes past .11 on the morning of the 12th, when it oeased. Pohutu's cauldroa had been aotire for some days, and the Prince of Wales' Feathers commenced to play on Tuesday at a quarter to 11, with a beauitfol shot* Ten minutes later Pohutu geyser aotive, and continued to play very well until 10 miinutes past 12 o'clock.

Mr Candy announces a supply of the popular song "Won't You Come Back to Bom Bom Bay," to hanl.

The W.F.O.A. make a special display of crockery ware in their windows, and the public are invited to note the prices.

■MrH. T. Wood, chemist, inserts a new advertisement which will be of interest to those who suffer from chapped hands in the winter season.

Messrs MoLeod and Young have to hand a full supply of the "Seddon MemorialV illustrated weeklies, including "Tbe Press" and "New Zealand Mail."

The publican's booth in connection with the Coursing Club's July meeting, will be sold at auotion at 3 p.m., to-day, by Mr R. E. Howell, at the Wairarap* auotion mart.

. On the Masterton Showgrounds at 3 o'clock to-day, the football matches—Masterton v. Carterton, and Red Stars v. Greyfcown, will be played. Admission to the grounds will be la. Ladies will be admitted free.

Two postcard portraits of the late Premier are to hand from Messrs MoLeod and Young, of tbe Academy, Masterton. One of the photos shows the Premier at his writing table, and the other is a splendid life-like picture of the late Premier with the Australian farewell message at the bottom of the card.

At the Wairarapa Auction Rooms, at 1.30 p.m., to-day, under instructions from the Public Trustee, Mr R. E. Howell will sell the effects in the estate of A. E. M. Jones, professional oricketer, which inolude bats, pads, gloves, eto. Mr Howell will also submit, on aocount of a lady leaving the district, tbe whole of her household furniture and effects, a list of which is enumerated in the advertisement.

Farmers in the Wairarapa who contemplate grpwing wheat during the coming season will be interested to know that the W.F.O.A. have to hand from the South Island a very superior line of pearl seed wheat. The firm have been particularly fortunate in obtaining this particular line of seed, whiob they pronounce as of exceptional quality and superior to any that has been placed on this market. Farmers are invited to inspect the seed. FACTS ESTABLISHED AT COURT. In an action, the cause of which was flagrant mißuse of our firm name and other gross misrepresentation by an imij tating company, which was tried before his Honor, Ch'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 eucalyptus preparations. 4. That it oontaiea no harmful ingredients, and That it is highly commended by many authorities for the' last SO years as a safe, reliable and effective remedy. Some imitators have tried to deceive the public by simulating our get-up; others have relied on the "just as good" game. Therefore take care and obtain the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.