LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are 328 sheep-owners in the Masterton County. In the Wairarapn there are in all 1,076 owners of sheep.

The s.s. Tongariro, from Loudon, called at Hubart on Friday, and should reaoh Wellington on Wednesday next. Ihere has been a decrease of 10,515 sheep in the South Wairaiapa County since April 30th, 1905. Ihere are now 158,170 sheep in the Uounty. Mr Albert A. Stiohbury, of Wellington, has been appointed sole New Zealand representative of the well-known firm of Harry Peck and Co., London. Major-General Babington, who has been in command of the New Zealand forces for nearly fire years, left Wellington, on Saturday, en ioate to England.

Before Mr E. MoEwen, J.P., at the Masterton Poltoe Court, oa Saturday morning, two firit offenders were lined five shilliugs each for having b*en drunk.

A general meeting of the ipembers of the Masterton Gymnasium Club will be held in the Gymnasium, at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 26th.

Mr Temple, who has been on the staff of the Isew Zealand Clothing Factory, at Masterton, for over five years, has been promoted to the firm's Christchurcn branch. He will leave for Ohristchurch on Thursday next.

The annual general meeting of the membera of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce will be held on Friday, September 28th, at 4 p.m., in Messrs Abraham and Williams 1 (Ltd.) Farmers' Room, Queen Street.

Malls for the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, ladia, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, perMonowai, will close at Masterton, on Saturday, at 6.15 a.m.

Mr F. Coyle has severed his connection with the staff of the Masterton Borough Couuoil. C>n Saturday he was prepented by thei Mayor, on behalf of the Borough officials and foremen, with a handsome leather wallet. The recipient suitably acknowledged the presentation.

Mails for Fiji, Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, and continent of Europa (connecting with Vancouver steamer (earing Fiji), per Moura, will oloso at Masterton on Tuesday, Octoter2ud, at 5.30 a.m. (no special address required).

Ia the Castlepoint County there are 162,279 sheep, in the Foatherston County 427,091 (a decrease of 5,420 since April 30th, 1905), Akitio Couuty 167,038 (an increase of 14,101 since April 30th, 1905), Eketahuna County 64,508 (increase 7,872), and MaurioeviJle County 67,9C4 (increase 5,880).

The funeral of the late Mrs R. Maxted took place yesterday afternoon. The cortege comprised very a large number ot relatives and friends of ttie deoeased. Messrs W. Winslade, C. S. Ball, E. G, Sayer, A. laplin, J. Robinson, and Hunter, were the pallbeaiers. The Rev. A. M. Johnson conducted the services at the graveside. / The box plan for Miss Tittell Bruno's Masterton season opened at Mv A. Boilings' on Saturday morning, and in a very short time all the seats in the dress oirale for the first night were booked A great many of the seats in the orchestral stalls were also booked. A large number of the dress circle seats for the second night have also been taken.

Half the unpleasantness of travelling is caused by the trouble aud annoyance of lookiDg after the luggage. The cheapest and best way to ensure prompt delivery of the luggage without trouble or annoyance is to give it into the charge of J. J. Curtis and Co., Ltd., Forwarding, Shipping, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Write for further particulars.—Advt.

Mr Heke, M.H.R., says that thedog tax is about the only financial;, means some Maori Ooaaoils possess. At Hokitika, on Saturday, Mlss<* M. J. Monteith, of Reetton, was admitted as a solioitor of the Supreme • Oourt. The uamber of freehold and lease* hold holdings and areas in the colony is asked for by Mr Alison, M.H.R. Mr W. senr., chemist, of Featherston, was seized with an epileptic fit, on Friday, and died early on Saturday morning. William Haigb, whose disappearance was reported from Auckland last Monday, is still missing. For sending a false return to the • Stock Department John S. Kerr, a. Tapanui sheepfarmer, was fined £lO. Mr Alison, M.H.R., is asfcingfora retura showing the amount of revenue derived by way of land* taxr from freehold and leasehold lands. Mr J. M. Shera, formerly a mem--ber of Parliament, died at Auckland on Wednesday. Mr bhera was> an unsuccessful candidate for the Parnell seat at last eleotion. People in Wellington are paying' 3d for two potatoes, 'and think they are getting a great luxury, said MrFisher in the House of Representatives on Friday. The natives have proflteS upon every occasion when they have had the assistance of scientific adviceon agriculture, said the Hon. Mr Carroll, M.H.R., in the House. The Riverton Star understands that a well-known oompany at Invercargill has entered into a contraofc With a.Melbourne firm'to supply 40 bullocks weekly at 30s per 1001b. Eleven proprietors nf newspapers in the South Island have followed the, lead of a number of Northern publishers in asking for an enquiry into the methods of the Press Association. A back blocks teacher, in writing to the Wanganui Education JBoaid,. describes ber lodgings in the bash as "altogether horrible." fShe has applied for a i change which theBoard will endeavour to effect. Io nine weeks the Waimate OountyOouncil paid one man £52 ss ,Ba bonus for killing small birds, chiefly larks, goldfinobes and linnets. This beats the record of the two businesslike Tiniaru schoolboys who invested in an incubator. According to the Chief Veterinarian, the cause of the death uf a oow recently at Inglewood was eating ragwort. Mr Girluth says that sheep can safely be placed on ragwort lands when fattening, but theymust first be put on for only an hoar or two daily.

In connection with making the road from Tekapua Block to Taihape, recently commenced by thu contractor, the Government grant of £505 being insufficient, the settlers of Tekapaa, at a meeting deoided to give their aoorued thirds towards che work; the balance to be made up by a separate rate.

At a meeting ac Chri9tchuroh of delegates of looal bodies and organisations, on Friday night, it was decided that the Seddon memorial should take the form of 'technical colleges, to be established in Auckland, Wellington, Ohrietohuroh and Dunedin, and other centres that made the necessary application.

A Gishorne telegram states that a. reserved judgment was given, on Prlday, in a case in which the defendant was charged with being found in n hotel on Sunday. Pe claimed that he was entitled to be there, as he< made up the books cn Sunday and had to oonHult the licensee on con. templated improvements. Defendant was fined £2.

The boys of the Opunake puhlioschool have started a poultry company tohich is run on very busi-ness-like lines. The head-master at the last Sohool Committee meeting reported:—"The Poultry Commit-' tee is doing good busjness. Tho results of the first month's trading showed a profit of over 100 percent, on the feed."

The peel is almdst as dangerous in the street as on the pavement. In one London institution, the Royal Free Hospital, banana accidents average six a week. The injuries vary from a broken arm to outs on the faoe and bruises, although occasionally they are moreserious. At the London Hospital a womuj was 'admitted recently who' bad a broken thigh as the result of slipping on a banana skin.

One of the boys of Oundle Sohool accomplished a daring feat on July 31st (says the Daily Esxpress). Without tho aid of mechanical ap« pliannes of anygkind he climbed to the top of the 'spire of Oundle Churoh, 250 ft high. The boy climbed by the aid of the stone crotchets, or projections, on the steeple, and to prove he had aoomplished the feat he tied bis handkerchief to the weather vane. Twenty years ago another pupil of the sohool named Bailey—now a well-known doctor—climbed the steeple, and tied his bootlace to the vane. When he came dowu he received a sound thrashing &nd a sovereign from Mr Keade, the headmaster. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SONS' EUCA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in " he Supreme Court of Victoria, before hip Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udement, 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 the public an opportunity of protecting themselves 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. For Colds in the Head and Influenza,. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure,Jl/6 and 2/6 per bottle.

A boy of 15, at White Cliffs, A Broken Hill, has found a "pocket" IV of opals worth £1,500. Probably the highest advance yet recorded for dairy produce (says the Farmers' Advocate) has been received by Mr Blake, of Waverley, who is consigning his butter at an advance of between 10% d and lid, without recourse. Splendid lambing weather is reported iu Hawke's Bay. One sheepfarmer says that his lambing will be a "reoord," as fully three-fifths of his ewes have lambed already, and the losses of lambs have been lower than he has ever known. So far (says the Farmers' Advocate) £BSO per annum has been guaranteed by the dairy companies towards tbe salary of a representative in England. Another £l5O will be required before the soheme can be carried into effect. sThe Opunake Farmers' Union, at its last meeting, resolved: "That the Government be asked to place all Farmers' Union delegates on the same footing as Trade and Labour •* delegates, by granting them free y passes on the railway to any con- * * ferenoe meeting of the Farmers' Union." Mt W. H. Nelson lost a valuable bull at Woodville a few days ago. There were a number of these animals in a paddock behind the vicarage, and they onmmenoad fighting. During the battle one fell, and the whole of the others pounced on the unfortunate teast and ripped it to pieoes. The animal killed was a valuable one. The Victorian Premier has plaoed £2,000 on the Estimates as a grant towards a fund for providing a farm and home for deaf and dumb adults of weak intellect, and those afflioted with other infirmities in addition to the loss of speeob. The grant is to be conditional upon £2,000 being raised by public subscription. With reference to a statement made iu the New South Wales House of Representatives tbat the Australian Mutual Provident Sooiety is k using its position and funds in fL, favour of a political organisation, Mr Meeks, the chairman of directors, states that any such insinuation is absolutely without foundation. The Mataroa people are forming a road board, writes a Taihape correspondent. It is stated tbat this is the only wafy to get value for the rates they have been paying to the Upper Wangaehu Road Board for the last ten or twelve years. It is estimated that about two per cent, of tbe rates is spent in Mataroa, and 98 per cent about Fordell.

On Friday afternoon, Mr Ell, M.8.R., gave notice of his intention to ash the Premier, whether his attention had been oalled to the disloyal and unpatriotic proposal of certain oil companies of Taranakl, Dunedin, and elsewhere, operating the oil-fields in Taranaki, to dispose of cettain options to the Standard Oil Trns6 of America? If ho, would the Government take immediate action to conserve the interests of the people of New Zealand.

i There is no gambling in the world to surpass "speculations" in bonds. A clerk in the New York Office of the American Express Company recently submitted a bid for Panama bonds to the extent of £1,000,000, though without financial means. No deposit was required by the Government before August Ist, and the bonds were \ allotted. He promptly re-sold to a firm of bankers, and realised a profit of £3,000, Ibis only expenditure having been a two-cent postage stamp.

The Wanganni Presbytery lately resolved, on the motion of the Rev. Mr Jolly, seconded by the Rev. Hatson.—"(l) That the present system of the life tenure of the ministry is not working for the best interests of the church; (2) that no satisfactory change of ministerial tenure can be effected while tbere is no power in the church of transferring ministers from one to another, and while a call from a congregation is indispensable to a settlement."

The proposed Constitution for the Transvaal (says the Nuremberg Courier) may not be in every way to the liking of the Boers, but in any case it is a very good founda-tion-stone upon which to build up their complete independence. Considering that the British elements are spltt into four parties, and that the Boer population increases more rapidly than the British, the question of the Boers getting their independence is only a matter of time, and not a very long time either.

General Booth, speaking at Plymouth (England) recently, discussed the future of the Salvation Army. He said some people were anxious as to what would beoome of the army after he was dead." He ooald not name the,day when tbat interesting event was likely to happen, but be thought that arrangements had been made, legal and other, that were all that human ingenuity oould devise, under the supervision of the bigheat legal talent the land produced, so tbat the same announcement that rang round the world, saying that the General was dead, would say, "Long live the General," for another General would then step into bis place.

The Premier's Products Export Amendment Bill mikes extensions to ♦.he interpretation section of the principal Act of !ast year. The original list—grain, hops, hemp, frnit-palp, apples, pears, aDd poultry—is repealed, and in lieu thereof grain, must, frabbite, hares, poultry, eggs, apples, pears, fruit-pulp, hops, and phormium are substituted. Subsection (o) of fclause 3—which gives the Governor power to specify the ports within which the provision of the Act apply—ia repealed, and a new eub-eeotion reads: The Governor may from time to time "appoint any specified ports to be the only porta at whiob products or any speoifled product may lawfully be exported."

Mr Thrifty: " How can we have this dull room with this torn paper look nice without spending too mucb money upo Mrs Thrifty : '• 1 don't think we could do better than get Robt. J. Lyttle to do it.' Mr Thrifty : "Good idea! I will look into his shop on my way to the office."

Another commission to investigate old soldiers' ulaimu is asked for by Mr Bollard, M.H.R. . There are 550,488 sheep in tbe Masterton County; an increase of 25,564 sinoe April 30tb, 1905. William Housely, a single man, shot himself through the month with a revolver at Huntley on Saturday. A meeting of members of tbe Masterton Morris Tube Association was held on Saturday evening. Mr H. Brighting presided. In accordance with his notice of motion, Mr W. D. Ayson moved—"That tbe name'of the Association be altered to Small Bore Association." Mr R. J. King seconded the motion, whiub, after considerable discussion, was lost by seven votes to five votes. It was decided (0 instruct Messrs King and Henry to procure 10,000 rounds of ammunition for the next season. A vote of tbauks to tbe Fire Polije for the use of the room concluded tbe meeting. Mr R. H. who has held the position of aonountant in the Masterton branob of the Bank of New Zealand for over two years, has received notice that ne is to be transferred to tbe bank's branob at Suva. Mr Ratbboue will be much missed in musical circles in Masterton. He has successfully held the position of oonductor of, the Masterton Orchestral Sooiety fo'issome time past. Mr and Mrs Ratbboue will leave for Suva about tbe middle of next month. Mr Rathbone will be by Mr R. H. Baillle, of PalmerstoD North, who formerly resided in Carterton. Interviewed, on Thursday lapt, with regard to his intentions, in tbe event of the £50,000 olause in the Land Bill casßing, Mr G. O. N. Grigg, owner of tb- - > Longbeacb Estate, said he inter lod anticipating tbe Bill, and woulJ oommenoe selling a portion of his estate immediately. On Saturday, statds a telegram \ from Ashburton, the first blouK of the estate, oomnrising 1,200 acres, was sold, and instructions have been given for the sale of other blocks, so that a large part of this estate is likely to be subdivided into comparatively small holdings. The estate contains 10,000 acres of first-class land, tbe improved value of whioh is £112,211. The body of a man, name unknown, was found on the beach between Awatoto and Napier early on Saturday morning. Tbe deceased had bßen seen riding towards Napier on tbe previous day, arid his horse was subsequently found tethered to a telegraph pole and tbe man's bat, filled with stones, was on tbe beach. An inquest veas held in tbe afternoon, and was adjourned till to-day. in order to make enquiries as to the man's identity. (A later telegram states that the body has been identified as that of a farmer named O'Doriogbue, who resided at Mahora. The oircurastances point to suicide).

A simple but ingenious oontrivanoe has been devised by Mr T. Shields in connection with the proposal which he has made to give free instruction in swi joming to boys at Te Aro Baths on Wednesday afternoons. His idea is that the Wellington City Council should instal six light swinging derrioke, made of lin galvanised iron piping with tope loops for the pupils' arms. , „He proposes that the derricks, eaoh of which will not coat more than £4 or £5, should be erected outside the d-ress-ing-eheds, four to be" in the bath for men, and the remaining two in the women's and girls' bath. Each derrick is to be constructed with ball-bearings so that ; the iron arms will easily move across the bath when the boy or girl who is being taught strikes our witti arms and feet. Provision is to be made by means of adjustable weights for preventing a pupil using one of the swimming machines from sinking too much.

A man, named John Charles Wylie, was arrested in Wellington, on Saturday morning, by Detective Oassells, on a charge of stealing various articles from Mrs Watson's boarding-house in Masterton. It appears that Wylie came to Mastertoo from the North on Monday night last. He had dinner at Mrs Watson's on Tuesday, and went away to Wellington by the afternoon train. It is alleged that between dinner time and the time of the departure of the train he visited several of the rooms in the house and took away a number of articles of clothing,etc., the property of some of the boarders. When the matter was reported to the polioe at Masterton the Wellington police were communicated with, and the result was that Wylie was arrested. Nearly all of the articles have been recovered in Wellington. Wylie will appear at the Masterton Magistrate's Court; this morning.

An advertiser wants a six or sevenroomed dwelling house.

Messrs J. B. Wraiten and Co., land agents, of Dannevirke and Takapau, advertise particulars of a good farm of 98 ajres neai Dannevirke.

In a new advertisement appearine elsewhere the W.F.C.A. announce the arrival of a further supply of Australian-grown Early Rose and Beauty of Hetron seed potatoes. Mr P. Webb, herbal specialist, of Gbuznee Street, Wellington, was recently the recipient of an illuminated address signed by some 200 patients and ex-patients signifying their appreciation of the benefits received from his treatment. The presentation was made in Mr Webb's consulting room, in the presence of a large number of friends and patients, a number of whom had come from various parts of the colony to add their personal testimony to the good work done by Mr Webb. Mr Webb will pay a professional visit to Masterton, to-morrow, and may be consulted at rooms over Miss Rise's shop, Queen Street. don't diet. It needs all kinds of food to supply the numerous demands of the body. That's why nature gives us such a generous variety. Bat all your appetite calls for. That's what your appetite is for, to let you know what elements of nutrition you really need. Eit all you want. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive tabulets will digest it]and make a new person of you. They will give you strength, new life, ambition, and enable you to enjoy living as you have never enjoyed it before. For sale by H. E. Eton, Masterton J. Baillie, Carterton,>nd the MauricevilleCo'/Operativ Store.

The Auckland Bootmakers' Union is agitating to have tbe boot industry in this colony constituted t a State monopoly. With all its failings and oooasion a lapses, which it would be idle to ignore (writes Sir Balohandra Krishna, in the Times ot India), British rule has been a blessing to India, and is always to be regarded in that light. Mr Rodin, the Premier of Manitoba, estimates that the surplus of wheat available for export from tbe uorth-west provinces will reach bushels. He says that it will take the railways a year to carry this quantity down to the coast. Twenty thousand extra farm hands will be required to harvest the crop. Judging by the amendments whioh have already been given notice of, the Gaming and Lotteries Aot Amendment Bill is to have a l'vely time when it comes before tbe House. Mr Ell intends to move for the abolition of the totalisator, Mr Symes is moving for tbe limitation of tbe use of tbe machine, and Mr Jennings for tbe limitation of the number of totalisator permits. Mr T. Atwater, a large landowner in Tahiti, confirms tbe report that Fiauoe is about to cede the islands to Great Britain Mr Atwatei says: "Englaud has always bad a dormant claim to possession Business is not prospering; everything is mortgaged to its full extent; tbe ouoe fine copra trade is declining, and only the large pearl beds remain." A Bill amending the Unclassified Societies Registration Aot of 1895 was brought down by tbe Premier on Friday. The principal Aot is to be enlarged so as to include in its interpretation clause "any oombination of not less than five such societies or any association of uot less than five suoh combined societies formed." Under the Dew Bill any unclassified sooiety may, by a majority vote, resolve to register, and the original stipulation of a two-thirds majority is repealed. PREPARE FOR CROUP. The time wasted in sending for a phy sician, or for medicine, when a child shows symptoms of croup, of ton proves fatal. A reliable medicine, and one that Bhould always be kept in the house for immediate use, is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It wil, prevent the attaQk, if piven as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears. It is also the safest, as it contains no narcotics. For sale by T. G, Mason, Masterton. NATURAL MODESTY. The natural modesty of many people who have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy for Diarrhoea, Dysentery, ect., with splendid results, make them'hesitate about giving their opinion for publicity. Still, these same people have done much to make Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy a household word, for they have by word of mouth informed their friends what a good medicine it is to have in the house. For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton.