LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8248, 1 October 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. W. N Mathieson, for nine years manager of the Bank of Now Zealand at Eketahuna, has been transferred to lauranga. A Maori boy, about five years of age, named Hemi Pouriri, was killed at Ngatarawa, en Friday, by falling from a waegon when trying to clamber up on it. A wheel of the waggon passed over hie, killing him initantly. At the inquest, held on Saturday, a verdict of accidental death was returned. A grand minstrel entertainment, introducing the latest songs and danoes, will be given in S, Matthew's Schoolroom, this evening, at 8 o'clock. ' The second part of the programme will be devoted to on amusing comedy by tea local artists. fhe proceeds will bo in aid of S. Matthew's school funds. The Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association, at a meeting held at Hasting*, 'on Saturday, says a telegram, decided tu petition the Government to establish an experimental fruit farm at Temata iu conjunction with tho present Arataki Fruit Farm, aud a committee was appointed to interview the Minister for Agriculture on tho subject.' A Napier telegram states that a man, named Kobt. David Robinsou, manager of Mr T. H. Lowry's Tomarauue Station, was found dead in his whare, on Thursday evening. He was lying in his bunk with his throat out from,, ear to ear, and a razor beside him. An inquest was held on Saturday, the Jury returning a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. A native, named Tini Kua Ropeba, was crushed to the ground in a forest at Hauturu a few days ago, by a tree which he felled. Some friendß of his who were working near at hand not hearing the usual sign ' that all was well, namely, three taps on the stump of a fallen tree with an axe, went to the spot, and found the man's body pinned tightly down. They had to saw tho tree across over his body, and before they could release him he was dead. k MODERN REMEDY. Ds. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption gets to the root of the trouble and effects a permanent cure. For sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist Masterton, J. v ßaillie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville Co-operative Store. Mauriceville West.

There were 25 births, 10 deaths,, and 3 marriages iu Masterton duringthe mcntb of September, 1906. During September, 1905, there were 21 births, 6 deaths, and 6 marriages. At a special meeting of the Stewards of the Masterton Kaoing Club, on Saturday, Mr A. Hathaway wasappointed to the position of secretary of the club There were seventeen other applications. The final meeting of St. Patrick'® Club for the present season will takethe form of a sooial, to be held on Tuesday evening next at the Club's* rooms. Members may each bring a. friend. Mr Shaw, the United States Treasurer, announces that 26,000,000' dollars of Treasury funds will be deposited in Amerioan banks, returnable when the pressure on the moneymarket is removed. The trout fishing season in the. Wellington Acclimatisation District will commence to-day. Up to the present the following number of licenses have been issued at theMasterton Post OtHoe:—Men, 21;; boys, 14; lady, 1. Mr Henderson, of Karori, ha* been eleoted as a lay representative at the Anglican General Synod, tobe held at Dunodin early next year. Mr Henderson will represent Petone, Uutt, and Wairarapa. On August 9fch, Senor Duro, the/ Spanish aeronaut, succumbed to typhoid fever. The deceased, who* occupied a prominent place In the aeronautic world, W3S the only aerial navigator who had crossed" the Pyrenees in a balloon. Mr Hogg, M.H.R., is asking the Government to consider the expediency of introducing a few fruit experts from Tasmania or California,, "for the purpose of giving instruction in the art of growing apples and pears without the assistance of pro> teotive duties." |V During the month of September there were no bankruptcies iu the Wairarapa us compared with three for the corresponding month of last year. Since January, 1906, there, have been nine casus of bankruptcy. There were also nine bankruptcies from January to October, 1905. It is understood that Mr Nelson fllingworth, the well-known Australian soulptor, who has been on a visit to New Zealand during, the past three weeks, has been commissioned to make a bust of the late Premier Sedddn. A plaster oast'of the bust is to be prepared for the Cbristohurob Exhibition. It has long been held that seasickness is really a brain or nervous trouble, and a recent "cure," if efßoaciQus, supports the theory, says a contemporary. The malady is treated by a few drops of tincture of atropine in one of the eyes, or by simply putting a bandage over one eye. Several claims for compensation under the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, listed for hearing by the Court of Arbitration at Wellington, have been settled. The list of settled claims includes the case of Michael Thomas, sawmill hand, of Greytown, v. Fred. O. Danieli, sawmiller, of Masterton.The Grey Collection Bill, which was introduced into the Cape of Good Hope Parliament to oonfer on the Board of Trustees of the South' African Public Library the power to grant certain MbS to the New Zealand authorities, has, after having been agreed to by the House of Assembly .been thrown out 'by the Legislative Council. A man has jaat performed the long and wearisome train journey of 535 miles, from Marseilles to Paris, strapped to an axle beneath one of the carriages. When discovered at the Paris station he was so travelstaiaed (says the Telegraph) that he was at first- taken for a negro, but on being banded over to the police, charged with intent to defraud the railway oompany, he said he was a Roumanian. Beyond a little'stiffness he was none the worse. Red Indian ohiefs treating with the American Government now have to append their thumb-prints to the doouraents, instead of cross-marks as hitherto. The reason is that ohiefs have frequently repudiated theoroasmarkfi and the obligations involved. The first document has just been signed by thumb-print. It was a tresty between the Government and the Umatilla Indians of Washington to allow cattle to cross the Indian reservation unharmed. Grain crops in the North Canterbury district look promising, and the growth of root crops has been remarkable. At Mr S. Gibbs' farm, Wioodond, for example, an area of elephant Swede turnips is yielding 80 tons per aore. A specimen was taken up growing 16in above-ground with a circumference of 41in, and weighing a little over 401b. The ground had been constantly cropped with root?, and recently carried nearly 120 tons of mangolds to the acre. : Enquiries were made in Cbristohurob by a Lyttelton Times reporter concerning Exhibition tariffs, and the prospective increase on the present rates. Prom the replies of those in charge of private hotels, ife apDeared that the quotation mentioned in Dunedin (understood to represent an increase of 100 per cent, on the ordinary tariff), was eminently reasonable, and really less than some of the establishments would have asked. At the first hotel visited it wad stated th»t the present rate was six shillings a day, and it would be increased to 10a during the whole of the Exhibition period. The weeKly rate ranged from 25s to 355, and it would be increased to £3 3s, which was an increase of more than IGO per cent. "We don't mind who knows it," was the assurance, "if one person will not pay it another will. We already have enquiries for all our rooms, but we aro not booking ahead, beoause we must protect; ourselves." IT DAZZLES THE WORLD. ho discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter of interest that has been caused by Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. It has brought relief in the most hopeless caaes, when all else has failed. For sale by H. B. Eton, Chemißt Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterten, and the Mauriceville Co-operatiro' Store, Mauriceville West.

A man, named John Byrne, hag died in the Goodna .asylum, aged 108 years. He came to Queensland 53 years ago. The gross receipts from the Tasznanian railways last year totalled £241,188, compared with £243,556 in 1904-5, and the expenses were £172,601,.an increase of £970. The profit was £68,587. The Otago Provincial Oonnoil of the Farmers* Union passed a resolution Btrongly objecting to the Land Bill as introduced by the Hon. the Minister for Lauds, and deoiaring it to be directly opposed to the evidence given before the Land Commission last year. Meetings of all, branobes are to be called at once to consider the Bill. An aged couple najied Matthews, of Middle Brighton, Victoria, 85 > and 82, respectively, who celebrated their diamond wedding a little over a year ago, were in dentb not long divided. The old man, a little over a week ago, died and was burisd, bnt the widow was too frail to attend the funeral. When the mourners returned to tbe house they found that she had died while they were away at the interment of her husband. The inquest on the body of a man who was kuooked down recently in Melbourne by a tramoar and subsequently discharged from the Melbourne Hospital as oured, revealed the fact that tbe deceased's skull had been fractured, but the fractures were not detected. The Coroner said the most skilful surgeon might have made an error of judgment like this, and recorded a verdict of accidental death. " The signs which everywhere prevail showing that Victoria's population is inareasing are borne out by official figures. In the quarterly statistical abstract' of the Government Statist, it is stated that the estimated population of tbe State on March 31st, 1906, was 1,222,044 —610,765 males; 611,279 females; on June 30th it was 1,226,230 613,228 males, 613,002 females—thus showing an inoiease of 4,180* persone. The natural increase during the quarter was 4,145, and the excess of immigration was 41. The automobile speed mania in New York has developed into a reign of terror. Never a day passes without serious aooidents, frequently fatal, within and around the city. The enormous increase in the number of oars has not bqen accompanied yet by any corresponding improvement in the system of regulation. Small fines, usually £l. or £2, are not enough to deter the drivers who are frequently fined and fined again without the slightest effect on the general reckless handling of oars. The want of system and regulation of tratHa of every kind naturally produces accidents, in the case of the swiftest moving vehicles. Three falls down mining shafts occurred recently in Viotoiia in about a week. At Rushwortb a labourer at Kuinaua, who had been drinking at a public house, disappeared oq the evening of Monday, September 9tb. On the following Saturaay morning, a young fellow who had arrived lrbm Melbourne on a visit, strolling round Out of cariosity, saw a man's hat lying near a shaft 75 feet deep. He lookdd down and saw a man. Calling out he heard the response, "Get me ont of this or I'll die!" He brought assistance, and the man was rescued in a shocking condition. The other two oases ooourred at Casllemaine, where an old man, a j rabbiter, lay ut the bottom of an abandoned shaft, 20ft deep, from the 12th insfc. to the 15th iust., after three days. r*£ exposure. H«* was uninjured save for some sovere bruises. An inmate of the looal Benevolent Asylum named Saundera strayed away and disappeared, but ! was ultimately rescued by a search oaity Jfrom a shallow shaft into wiiioh be had fallen. There is something of the air of a calm before the storm, says the Post, concerning the Land Bill. It was generally felt that the Land Committee would complete its work on Tuesday morniug aud report to the House that afternoon. Rumour has it that many amendments have been added to the Bill by the Committee, and it is probable that members of the House may require two days in which to consider the amendments before tbe big debate begins. The supporters of the Bill are confident that the measure will go through this session, and there are some members who are now sanguine that the session will close at tho end of next month—with tbe Laud Bill on the Statute, Book. "A conversation overheard in Addington saleyaids ou Wednesday was highly interesting," writes Mr J. A. M'Culloagb, a well-known Labour loader to Chnstohurob Truth. "Some butcher* woio called together to discuss tbe statements made by Mr Tanner, M.H.R., in the Hoase with reference to short \ weights and adulteration of article*? of consumption BUFplied by retail tradesmen of some towns in the colony, and considerable indignation was displajod by the assembled butchers at tbe 'terminological inexactitude' cf Mr Tanner '(only those are not tho worls used) and some decision wns arrived at as a mark of tbe displeasure. Some few minutes after the meeting afore •""Nsaid two of the butchers who had been prominent in their denunciation of Mr Tanner's wickedness were seen negotiating for the purchase, for human consumption, of a "couple of oalves certainly not more than a fortnight old." MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and srocess of SAN.DBR & SONS' EUCA) LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many mitations, and one caso was jur.t tried in he Supreme Court of Viotoria, before his Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udoment, 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 coats. 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 Victoria and by many authorities daring the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE.GENUINE SANDER * SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Minister of Labour baa given notice that he intends introducing a Scaffolding Inspection Bill. "I have become a convert to the absolute majority principle," said Mr Massay in the House of Representatives on Friday. A meeting of the Mastorton branoh of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held, on Wednesday next, at 3 p.m., to consider tbe Land Bill-/ Wi Parata, ex-M.H.R. t drecfat bis residence at Waikanae, on Saturday morning, his death being due to an aooident whioh he met with on Thursday last. About 60 young Chinamen in Paris have been preparing themselves for an examination at the Chinese Le« gation. They are bursars sent to Franoe at the expense of tbe Chinese Government, and after a year's study they have to prove to their Minister that their progress warrants another year'B stay at the Government's expense. Dr. Brouardel, the famous Paris medicine-man, who rtied recently, was a most accomplished toxioologist. He would have none of the comfortable theory that there is no poison which modern science is unable to trace. There were, be once told his lecture olass, at least a hundred and twenty poisons whioh would leave no traoe at all. Tne aggregate value of miuerals raised in Tasmania last year was £2,073,921, compared with £1,729,129 in the previous year. The net revenue from mines for the year was £20,819, an inorease of £4,426, and the highest received since 1900. The gold production was 76,7760z fine, against 68,425 oz for the previous year. A well-known art oolleotor in passing through Seven Dials, London, saw a dirty unframed canvas outside a second-hand dealer's shop. Examining it, he found it was the portrait of a man, and he bought it for a small sum. Recently (says the Daily Graphic) he had it cleaned, and tbe name "Turner" was found painted in the left-band bottom corner, together gwitb two other signatures, which are almost illegible. There were manifest indications that the work must have been the produot of two or more artiste, from the dissimilarity of the handling of parts of the faoe and dranery. Mr W. P. Fritb, R.A., and other surviving friends of Turner, declare the portrait to be an excellent likeness. Tenders are invited to close on Saturday next for the erection of about 21 chains fenoing'at the Langdale Domain. Specifications can be seen at the residence of Mr Geo. Pellingbam, Langdale. Applications are invited elsewheie for the position of secretary to th« Masterton '.trotting Club, at a salary of £2O per annum. Applications close with the secretary, Mr Thos. Duncan, on Friday, October sth, at 5 p.m. The Masterton County Council elsewhere invite tenders for building a bridge over the Taueru River and for metal repairs or» the Upper Opaki Road. Tenders will be received at tbe County office until noon on Thursday, October 11th. The drapery department of tbe W.F.C.A., Ltd., are,* now making their spring show of dress fabrics, specially selected for the season's trade. The imports in dress materials is the most complete and comprehensive over shown by the firm. The firm also announce that Miss Nioholls, who ia to take charge of No. 2 dressmaking room, will be ready to wait on customers tomorrow morning. Mr R. Everndon, who recently disposed of his hakery and confectionery business in Masterton, has with oonsiderale enterprise opened in Carterton on the most up-to-I date lines. Premises in Andrews' new brick building in High Street have been secured, and the proprietor has already had moat encouraging Hnpport. Un Saturday last a special display of over 40 different kind of cakes was made, the array bGing greatly admired by all those who saw it. At the back of tbe shop is a capacious tea room, whioh is fitted upon most modern lineß, and is capable of accommodating over 50 people. Refroshmeats can be had at any hour of the day, and speoial attention is paid to tbe wants of town, country and travelling folk. Half the unpleasantness of travelling is caused by the trouble and annoyance of looking 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, Shippinqr, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Write for further particulars.—Advt.