LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8177, 9 July 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Stuttgart, which arrived at Melbourne on Friday, has 15 Syrians aboard for New Zealand, The funeral of tne late Mr Heotor Monro took place on Saturday. The cortege was a large one. The Rev. J. Patterson officiated at the graveside. A meeting of the Trustees of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society will be held in> Messrs Abraham and Williams' Rooms, on Wednesday, at 3.30 p.m. The total amount of batter-fat received by the Masterton Go-operative Dairy Company fur the month of June was 1,690.71 be. Tb>Oompany paid out 9>£d per lb for Gutter fat. The following are the tests of the creameries supplying the Masterton Dairy Factory for the month oE June:— Mangamaire, hiahest 5.8, lowest 3, average 4.7;,Nikau, .highest 6.2, lowest 4, average 5. The funeral of the late Mrs Mandel took place at the Masterton yesterday. The cortege comprised a large number of the deceased's rela tivei and friends. The Rev. A. M. Johnson otfloiated at the graveside. Buroher, Roabest«»r, White, and Oato, were acquitted at Sydney of the charge of fraudulent oonspirhcy in connection with the will of a sea captain named Lindfors, formerly belonging to New Zealand; The steamer! Paparoa landed, at Wellington, 107 immigrants from London. The new-oomers were met by an officer of the labour Department, who says that be considers that the men are a very satisfactory contingent.—Association. The Railway Hotel at Weston (Oamarn) was burnt tn the ground on Friday night. No one was living in the bouse at the time, but a clearing out bad taken place during the day in connection with nolicense. A fire bad been left burning in a grate.—Association. It has been definitely decided by the Government, says a Wellington telegram, to appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into the shipping of wet wool and Jflax and the causes of the recent fires on board steamers. The Premier's recommendations in; this direction were discussed by Cabinet, and approved. It has not yet been decided when the Commission will commence its labours. A meeting of the Direitors of the Masterton Co operative Dairy Company was held ou Saturday. There were present—Messrs J. 0. Ewington (in the H. C. Bertelson, K. Wilton, R. Kibblewhite, and J. Barron. The resignation of Mr tf. Thompson, representing Nikau on the directorate, was accepted. The resignation of Mr H. J. Hall, as manager of the Nikau creamery, was also accepted. It was resolved to invite applications for the position readered vacant by the resignation of Mr Hall. The annual meeti«a whs fixed for aaturday, August Hall. Mr P. S. Garvey, governor of the Terrace Prison, Wellington, died on Saturday morning. Death was due to heart failure. The deceased was born in Ireland, in 1850. He began life as clerk in a county inspector's ottioe, and had experience in the Royal Irish Constabulary Force before coming tc New Zealand in his early manhood. At the ace of 22 he was appointed by the Prisons Department to a post in Lyt tolton Gael. From 1875 to 1881 he was clerk in the prison. In 1882 he was transferred to Wellington as chief warder in charge of Mount Cook Goal: in 1884 he was made gaoler at the Terrace Prison, and a year later—on the retirement of Mr Micaiah Reid from the governorship of the gaol—Mr Garvey suoceeded him. Not Inhbripbd. Oflly a small percentage of the millions ' that have consumption inherited it. In nearly every instance it was a neglected cough or cold that developed weak lungs; and Consumption followed- If Chamberlain's Cough Eemsdy is taken right at the beginning, it ohecks the cough.soothesand heals the lunga, and assists Nature to throw off the disease. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy always For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton.

The Legislature of California haa passed an Act making it a crime for a nurseryman or other person to sell or dispose of any fruit tree which has not been pmperly labelled as to the variety. In aid of the Hungarian Opposition officials who have been dismissed, Hungarian ladies have organised a fund, and over £B,OOO was collected during a musioal soiree given by Countess Ludwig Bathyany. Eight or nine months ago there was applied as a top dressing to a hill on the Ruakura Experimental Farm, Wakato, 6 owt of basic slag. At i,the j? present time it is the greenest spot on the farm, the clovers coming up well among the rich growth of grass. The company which has been formed to supply coal gas at Waipawa expects to have the works in operation in twelve months' time. Gas for lighting is to be supplied at 10s per thorsand fear,. The charge for gas for cooking and power purposes will be somewhat less. A Perth inventor hopes to revolutionise traction and locomotion vith an improved compressed air engine on the tu/'bine orinoiple that he has designed. It combines the use of the kinetic energy and the expansion energy of the air, and oan be built and worked cbpaply.i He declares that it doubles the power at present obtainable from compressed air. Commenting on a letter from its correspondent in Morocco, the London Times says—The famine, which appears to hpve now crushed suoh measures of energy as the inhabi- ''> tants possessed three years ago, our correspondent attributes in no small dergee to the greed of the viziers and officials who took advantage of the poor havest of last year to "ooruer" the wheat crop before it entered the town and sell it at suoh a price as they thought fit. Six United States deputy marshals, says a correspondent of the Telegraph, have been ambUßhed in Indian territory by a band of Indian outlaws. A desperate conflict ensued, in which three mars balls were killed. Two others are missing; they h<jve rrobahly beea murdered. Tbe remaining marshal! escaped. The outlaw band was headed by, three sous of the judge of the Cherokee Indiana' Supreme Court. ' An "Anti-Puritan League'Ma announced in tus is signed, among others by G. K. Chesterton, Walter Crane, Miss E. Nesbir, and tbe Rev. Stewart D. Headlam. It is organised "for the defence of the people's pleasures," and declares war against Sunday closing of liquor bars, the local veto, and the prohibition of sports' meetings on Sundays in 'the parks —in faot, what it describes as "iuiitan tyranny in all its manifestations." Great care is exercised to prevent members of the Recorder's Asiatic crew from losing themselves ashore. For everyone'that esoapes the owners have to forfeit £IOO, and therefore none are allowed to land lest the temptation to fail to find tbe way back should prove too strung to be resisted. When the Recorder was at Wellington flee years ago a couple of Asiatics escaped, and a sum of £2OO had to b? transferred to the Now Zealand Government, but the foreigners were subsequantly recovered and the money was refunded. B'resh evidence of Congo horrors has been brought to f England by the Rev. H. M. Wniteside. With Mr Stannard, tbe missionary who is not permitted by the Congo authorities to leave tha country, he went through the Abir territory, on the upper regions"of the Maringa, where no missionary had been before. The state of the country was worse than anything he had known. • Armed sentries, placed over the natives to compel the maximum collection of rubber, tortured and murdered them. An English farmer who had ha d thirty-six months experience in this country, has written to the Auckland Weekly Newsjthat he is""ROing home again. In tbe first place, he says, be had to pay as much for land SB if had been -wjthip an hour of London; then, he spent , £250 in putting twenty-five aores into potatoes, and only got a crop worth £100; out of a dairy herd of fiftyseven, twenty aborted; be gathered 1,000 oases of first-class plums and sent them to auction, and got enough to buy himself a new hat. Caterpillars n9xt came along and ate all his maize, and the sparrows and larks pulled out his Cape bailey by the roots. A case of some interest to stoof owners was deoided fey Mr Cruiokshauk, S. M., at Kaitangata (says the Dunstan Times) the other day, when judgment was given for plaintiff for £3O damages, with coats £1 15s. Plaintiff's dog had been shot by defendant. In this oase the dog, a greyhound, had been shot while standing outside defendant's fence. It had been in a paddock containing a few rams, but had not molested them in any way. The dog had been registered the previous month, and the brass registration label was on the oollar at the time. The Magistrate held that the killing was not justifiable, as the dug was not running at large among the sheep. The chasing of the sheep and the killing must be all one and tbe same transaction. As [tbe dog had left tbe paddook there was no immediate danger to the sheep and there was no occasion to take this drastic measure for their protection. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabui.es. Taken after meals, digest the food. This is the natural cure for indigestion. Food half digeßted is poison, as it creates gas, acidity, palpitation of the heart, headaches, and many other troubles. When you take Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabulesyou can feel certain you are not taking into your system any strong medicine or powerful . drug, but Bimple the natural digestive elements which every weak stomach lacks. One or two taken after each meal Will positively oure indigestion, dyspepsia, and all stomach troubles. For sale byH. E. Eton. Masterton, and J.Baillie, Carterton, and Mauriceville Co-operative Store Co., , Ltd., Mauriceville West.—Advt. Daughter: "Is this not a nice picture that Cousin Clara has Bent me; where shall I get it framed ?"' Mother (with experience): "Take to that shop in Gillespie's Buildings, where Robt. J. Lyttle will do it promptly and i well." Daughter: "Oh yes, mother! I heard it was a good place to get mirrors, too."

In a London saleroom i letter by Robert Burns in metre aud prose, extending to nine quarto pages, | realised £39o—a record iprioe for a flatter. Thirty one years ago it was bought for £6O. Only on | three occasions in the period from 1881 to 1898 did the gold export of New Zealand for a complete yoar exceed that of the first six months of the present .year. The export has been steadily increasing since 1898. A cablegram from Sydney this ) morning states that the Indraghiri has arrived from Dunedin. The vessel experienced terrific weather throughout the voyage. Tremendous seas caused the vessel to knock about in an alarming manner. The number, of men directly engaged in mining work in the six States of the Oomtronwealtb is stated to be 114,400, Queensland being credited with 17,000. On an average of £2 10s, the weekly wages ;are estimated at £285,000, or about £15,000,000 per annum. The following have been elected officers of the Bawk«'s Bay Agricul-, tural and Pastoral Society for the ■current year:—President, Mr N. Kettle; Vice-President, Mr A. 11. Russell: Hon.|Treasurer, Mr fi. S. V. Wenley; A-iditors, Messrs O. B. JHoadley, and Oiaud Uato. "When last in Sijpithfleld market, five years ago, (said the Chief Veterinarian,lin tbe course of a lecture at Dunediu), I saw hundreds of oases of chickens branded New Zealand.' 1 was informed by the salesman that they were New Zealand chickens, i actually purchased a box of a dozen, and received a receipt to the effect that they were New Zea-, land chickens, albougb 1 was well aware that no poultry from New Zealand had reaobed London for six months previously. I ascertained that these chickens actually came from New York, so the people there appreciate the value of the brand 'New Zealand,' apparently to a somewhat greater extent than the -only people who have a right to it."3 Although the fate of J)r Andree is •one of those questions which probably are destined never to be Hilly or accurately answered, some ingenious surmises recently put foitb by the eminent Swedish explorer rand scientist, Professor A. [G. Nathorst, rtesoive consideration. Pro fesso«" Natboist, on the basis* of additional information and careful calculations as to the drifting of the buoys, has come to the conclusion that Andree probably went down in the .southern portion ' rif the JBarento Sea, between Novya Zemlya -and tbe Siberian peninsula of Kela. Professor Natborat further holds that "the "dead whale" which Captain Lebmann, of the steamer Dortreoht, •observed on July ,17th, 1897, six days after Andree's ascent, at 68deg "38min N lat. and 35deg 31 min E long, •was probably the wrecked balloon. We talk about "only an iDOh" as If an inoh of rain (says tbe Sydney •Stock and Station Journal) were a trifling matter. An inch of rain ■weighs a hundred tons to the ao?e. "When yon think of the pefople upon the Johnson River in Qaeenfiland getting 14 feet in a season, and then reckon up the weight, you gasyl It ought to ornsh the earth flat. When Nyngan got 6in in one fall, it seems wonderful to think of 600 tons to tbe acre of water! Mr Hani, the acting-Government Meteorologist, baß been figuring things out, and he estimates that during the period of a fortnight the quantity of rain which fell in New South Walds amounted to H,663,644,500,000 gallons, the total weight of this vast volume of water being approximately 65,462,700,000 tons. An advertiser has for sale a walnut -overmantle, easy chair, and sewing machine. The. Maaterton School Committee invite tenders, to close at i p.m. on Wednesday next, for school-clean ing. The New Zealand Railways Department advertise speoial train arrangements and fares in connection yith the Wellington race meeting. On Thursday next, at the property of Mr P. J. Dillon, near the Matarawa siding, Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., will sell by auction a large quantity of totara posts, strainers, batons and house blocks. Particulars of the various lots are published elsewhere. In another column the American Ladies' Tailoring Establishment, of Wellington, announce that they are prepared to take orders for all kinds of ladies costumes. The firm, whose premises are situated at 51 Manners Street, have a full staff al"ways at work, and tbey are in a position to execute orders acoording to the latest styles, and at reasonable prices. A specialty is made of country work, and the firm will be pleased to forward patterns and selfmeasurement forms on application. A full stock of the test New Zealand and imported material is kept and the fit and style of every costume is guaranteed. Attention is drawn to a new advertisement on page *&. MEBIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualifies end ■grcces"? of SANDER & SONS' EUCA IiYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before hia • Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Maddeo, K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udoment, said with regard to tbe 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 the public an opportunity of protecting themselves «nd of securing what is proved beyond all • doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme ■Court of Victoria and by many authorities ■during the last SO years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT Mr Thrifty : " How can we have this dull room with this torn paper look nice without spending too muoh money upon it?" Mrs Thrifty: " I don't think we could • flo better than to get Robt. J. Lyttle to do 4." Mr Thrifty; "Good idea! I will look nto hia shop on my way to the office. For Coldßin: the Head and Influenza, Woods' GreatJ Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 p«r battle.

The annual New Zealand Trotting Conference will open in Wellington to-day. Owing to timber-wagons cutting up the roads and insufficiency of funds, the Waimea County Council has determined to pass a by Jaw under the Pubic Works Act, 1905, prohibiting heavy traffic during the months of July, August, and September. Goodwin's Travellers' Rest Hotel, Riwaka, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday. Some clothes in front of an open wood fire caught fire, and when the door of the room was opened it was a mass of flames. Owing to the strong gde blowing, the house, consisting of thirteen rooms, was dbstroyed in less than an hour, only the outbuildngs and stables being saved. [n Melbourne, last week, the Hon. A. Deakin, Prime Miniscer of the Australian Commonwealth, was nharged with cycling on the footpath. He pleaded that he did not know he was breaking the law. "'We are satisfied," said the Magis tra'e, "that Mr Deakin did not know he was breaking the law. However, there is the by-law, and there is the footpath." And he fined the Prime Minister 2s6d, with 2s 6d ccsts. The birth-rate in Scotland last j-ear was the lowest on record, following the decline that has continued for some years. The deathrate was also lower than in any previous year. The number of marriages was smaller tbnn in any other year since 1897. The excess of births over deaths was 56,885. Thirty years ago the deaths in Scotland were little more than half the birthp, and the same proportion holds good to-clay. in spite of the vastly diminished death-rate. The Bavarian oour's have bad a oomplioated question of law to deoide. A cat, chased by a dog, ran into a stable where b row was being milked. The oat jumped on the baok of the cow, who kicked the milkmaid off her stool. Whom should the maid sue fur damages, the owner of the dog, the owner of the oat, or the owner of the cow? The oourts have decided that all three are equally resronsible, and each will have to/ pay- one-third of the damages. During hie oomine visit to New Zealand, says tb6 Melbourne Argus, the Superintendent of Vegetable Exports for the Agricultural Department, Mr Knight, will make exhaustive inquiries into the methods of inspecting and grading general produce Jor export whioh are carried out by, the New Zealand Government. At present, inspection in Mr Knight'a branch .is carried out only at the request 'of the exporter*; whereas it is applied by the New Zealand Government to all articles. The result of the ninth week, of the Egg-laying Competition, at Blenheim, shows the total for tbn week to have been 1,612 eggs, makipg afgrand total of 7,274 eggs. The leading peos were:—Middleton's White Leghorns 32, A. and P. Association 29, Leger 28, Mowbray 28, Brookes 2t, all White Leghorns, The highest aggregates to date are:—A. and P. Association 191, Sturrook's Black Orpingtons 178, Ching's White Leghorns 177, Brookes' White Leghorns 169, Boyes* Silver Wyandottes 165. Association. • The recent, census showed that Dunedin has remained practically utationary for five years. The other centres have radiated further and further, but Qtago's capital has stood B'ill, comparatively. This fact did not escape the keen eyes of Mr Frank Bullen when he reached the oity a few days ago. "Tell me," he said, to a Daily Times reporter, "why is not Dunedin twice tne size by now? With your rich baok country, your abundanoe of water, your accessible mineral wealth, why do you not grow? It seema to me that yoar manufacturing and industrial possibilities are still not developed as they should be." The original of Diokens' famous character, Little Dorrit; is still in thejland of the living. This is Mrs Cooper, who, as Mary Ann Mitton, played with the future novelist, attended St. Panoras Church with him, and was beguiled after service to go and see "the beadle in his gorgeous dress." Diokens,'she says, when be Binning his,literary career, used to bring his manusoript and read it to her and her brother, who freely criticised anything which they considered to be imperfect or below the writer's standard. At present Mrs Cooper, who is ninety years of age, lives at Southgate^ Great as is the loss to New Zealand fruitgrowers by the ravages of tht codlin moth, in America the loss is probably greater. The United States Department of Agrioulture estimates the loss to be between twenty and forty per cent, of the fruit, which would otherwise be sound and merchantable. On the lowest or twenty per cent, basis the annual loss to the States amounts to £2,500,000, and' [this Jjdoes not include the expenditure for spraying trees with arseuiuals, which amounts to more than £1,G00,000 additional, indicating a total loss ohargeable to the codlin moth of over four millions sterling. Football Champions. "We use nothing but Chamberlain's Pa'u Balm as a rub down liniment while traning or after a game." writes the Secretary of the Eaglehawk Football Club, Eag'ehawk (Vie.) - ! We have found it to possess the power to promptly relieve strains and sprains, and to quickly heal, all abrasions. We partly attribute our success to Chamberlain's Pain Balm, for by using it freely we are alwßys in condition ; no soreness or &fciffnesp," For sale by T. G. Mason, Ma<=terton. —Advt. Db Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment Cures Rheumatism. It will penetrate to your very bones, sooth and subdue the pain. Bub it in freely. It will not blister or burn the skin. Eub it in, and the pain will stop. It oan't help but do you good. For sale by H. E. Eton, Masteiton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and Mauriceville Co-op erative Store Co., Ltd., Mauriceville West. —Advt. Stcbbobn Cot;oh Cured, There is no daDjger of pneumonia or consumption or other serio&s lung, trouble, if Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy is taken, as it will cure the most stubborn coughs the dangerous kind that settle on the lunj-s and may develop into pneumonia overnight. For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton.