LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8223, 29 August 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are at present 117 rifle clubs in the oolny. The services of nineteen clubs wore accpeted during last year. Tbe Masterton Borough Works Committee last evening decided that all asphalting of streets shall be done by the Borough staff. Mails for Tonga, Samca and tfiji, , per Naviu, will close at Masterton, on Saturday, September 15th, at 5.30 a.m. Mr 0. J. Dew, of Carterton, has been appointed to succeed Mr J. Adamson as manager of the Roogokokako cheese factory. At ChriHtcburcb, yesterday, S. iL. Dfinnis was fined 40s and oosta fgor having swans in his possession for a greater period than seven days after the close of the same season. —As-sooiation. Before Messrs W. H. Beetham and Eli Smith J's.P., at the Masterton Polioe Court, yesterday morning, three first offenders, on charges of having been drunk, were convicted an? discharged. The members of tbe Masterton Fruitgrowerfc' Association who are canvassing the town for subscriptions in oonneotion with tbe destruction of small birds, are meeting with considerable euooess. Up to the present about £l6 has been collected. The District Health Offloer, Dr Makgill, has issued instructions for proceedings to be taken against several residents of Masterton for having failed to notify tbe Department of outbreaks of soarlet fever coming under their notice in the borough. A telegram from New Plymouth, last evening, stated that Mary Hilda Humphries, wife of the schoolmaster at Pungarehu, and an infant Jtwo weeks old, were missed from their home on Monday, and were found dead in a oreek, yesterday, under circumstances which pointed to the woman having ■ committed suicide. She had been despondent.

A cablegram states that President .Roosevelt has directed the Public Printer to print Presidential messages, other than White House documents, in accordance with the scheme of phonetio spelling recommended by the' Brander-Matthewa Committee, whioh Mr Carnegie is financing. The American newspapers are resisting tbe innovation, and in sarcastically commenting upon it they express amazemeut.

The annual sale of work in aid of the Melanesian Mission will be opened in S. Soboolroom this afternoon, and will be continued until to-morrow evening. A number of stalls and side-shows have been arranged, and on each afternoon there will te a musical programme. Mrs Rawson and ,- ( Mr S. Earee have consented to sing this afternoon, and during the evening Mr Hugo will give delineations of character from faces and handwriting. To-morrow fanning the Lady Coons will give an entertainment similar to that re cenHy given by them in the Town Kali.'

A Christohurch telegram stales that Sorensen, an auctioneer a<" Cbristohurcb, was charged at the Police Court, yesterday, with failing to grant his assistant a halfunder the Shop Act. Defendant closed his premises regularly on the weekly half-holiday, but on this oocasion, though the shop wos closed, be held a sale elsewhere, using an assistant who was his own sou—a clerk. Ths Magistrate dismissed the information, saying that an auctioneer's clerk was not a shop assistant, and auctioneers' offices were not compelled to close. The plaoe where the sale took place was not a shop. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and sucoess of SANDER & SONS' EUC&2 LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many nutations, and one casn was just tried in he Supreme Court ot Victoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.0.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udoment, said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whonever an articlo .is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not permissablo 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 prbved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme. Court of Victoria and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EITCAIYPTI EXTRACT

Tbe net overdraft of the Master ton Borough Council amounts to £3,186 lis sd, and the rates outstanding amount to £l4l Is 7d.

Mr Walter G. Smyfchson, an old resident of Masterton, died suddenly yesterdy afternoon. Death was oaused through the baruting of a blood vessel.

The Borough Library Committee met last evening, and aooepted tbe tender of Messrs Hartmann, Hoar aid Permain for the supply of two dozen chairs and the W.F.C.A. for a reading desk for the reading room.

Two tenders were reoeved al the meeting of tbe Mnsterton Borqugb Works Committee, last evening, for the lease of a borough reserve at tbe waterworks containing about 140 aores. It was decided not to accept either of the tenders, but to fenoe the reserve and call for fresh tenders.

The Engineer stated, at the meeting of the Masterton Borough Works Committee, last evening, that in every manhole in the borough where wooden tops were used the tops were a failure. He added that he proposed to submit a report on the whole matter shortly, and he would recommend oast-iron tops fco be used on every manhole.

The quarterly meeting of the Stonebenge Lodge U.A.O.D. was neld last evening. Bro. A. 0. Levien, A.D., presided over a large attendance, including several visitors from other Druid Lodges, it was deoided to bold a social for members and their wives on September 25tb. Two new members were duly initiated, and one frieni was proposed for membership. It was deoided to open the Royal Arch Chapter and uoofer Past Arch degrees at next meeting.

The financial position of the Masterton Borough OoanoiJ, at the present date, ia as follows:—General Aooount, dr., £4,436 15s 4d; Gas Account, or., £1,351 15a Id; Lihrar.v Account, dr., £l5O 10s 2d; Waterworks Account, dr., £124, 3s sd; Deposit Account, or., £IBO lOa; Abattoir Accouut, fcr., £2l 11a 8d; Interest Account, drainage, dr., £159 3s lOd; Interest Account, Bannister Street, or., £l3O 4s 7d; Loan Account, drainage, cr., £ll4 14s 4d; Loan Account, abattoir, or., £343 2s lid; Loan Account, speoial, dr., £1,997 10s.

When in Masterton, reoently, Dr Makgill, District Health Officer, conferred with the VHrious applicants for the position of Sanitary Inspector ofjthe Borough. Last evening Dr Makgill, in a letter, reoomi mended to the Council the appointment of Mr ti, Cairns for the position. Mr Cairns' salary woiild b© subsidised by the Department conditionally upon his undergoing a coars> of tuition in technical plumbing, and if at the end of the course he aould show satisfactorily that he had benefited by it. The Counol decided to appoint Mr Cairns to the position at a salary of £125 per annum, which will ba inoreased by a Government subsidy if the applicant fulfils Dr Makgill's conditions.

A large search party was out again yesterday seuiching for Mr Ken. Dagg, who disappeared from bia home at Upper Plain on Suoday, but up to the present be has not been found. He w«s supposed to have been seen on Monday afternoon coming out of Judd's Bush, by a oarter, whom be asked the way to Carterton. Another person alleges that he saw him on the Kuripnui railway station about 7 o'clock on Monday night. VFhen spoken to the missing man would not answer. A party of butchers, returning lrum the Masterton Abattoir last evening, state that they saw a person strongly answering the description of the mißsing person in a clump of tawhine bush close to and on the pastern side of the Waingawa Bridge. The missing man is 31 years®of age, sft sin in height stooped in the shoulders, has a reddish complexion, dark brown hair and beard, and has a soar under the right eye. He was dressed in saddle tweed trousers, a brown striped coat, blue soft shirt, and new lace-up boots.

Mr P. P. Welch has a vacany for a good shepherd with dogs. Three first-class oabinet-makirs are advertised for by Mr G. Hyde. A ploughman is advertised for by jftr W. E. Bid will, Rototawai, Featherston. Messrs McKay and Sons, bakers and confectioners, insert a uew advertisement in this issue. At the Y.M.C. A. Literßry and Debating Society's meeting, this pvenins, the subject will be "(Jharles Dickens," by Mr A. Rigg. The Misses Whitcombe, of the Central Registry Office, Raufurly Clab, have a vucanoy for a luuudress at the Mastertou Hospital. 'lhe frienda of Mrs Sniythson are elsewhere invited to attend the funeral of her late husband, Walter SydueyfSmythsoa, which will leave her residence, Villa Street, tomorrow, at 2.30 p.m. j

The lease of a farm of 131 acres, together with 25 cows, for five years, with 5-roomed house and cowshed, reht £BO per annum, and £SO foi 1 goodwill, is advertised by Mr J. E. Blade, laud agent, Carterton, iu the wanted column of tbi9 issue.

' In a new advertisement, Mr A. Henderson quotes prices of now silver and plated goods direofc frota the manufacturers. Mr Henderson's stock is replete with an assortment of goods equal to the best city houses. Rotherarn's celebrated watches (ire quoted at bedrock prices. NEVEU KNOWN* TO I'AIIj. Mr. G. 8. Fitzwalter, Charleville 1 (Q.), writes:—" I have much pleasure in testifying to the excellent qualities of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy, having on several occasions experienced mnsc beneficial results, t Have also recommended it to many people suffering from bowel complaints, dianuoea and dypentery, and have never known it to fail. For Sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton Mr Thrifty : " How can wo Have this dull room with this torn paper look nice without spending too much money upon 'it?" Mrs Thrifty: '-l don't think we could do better than get Eobt. J. Lyttle to do it." lit Thrifty: "Good idea! I will look into his shop on my way to the oflice."