LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8250, 3 October 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The natfc overdraft of the Mastertou Borough Council ia £3,532 15s lid. The rates outstaiidiug amount to £448 6s 4d. A meeting of the general nommitteo of the Albion Football Club's social will be held in the Empire Hotel at 8.15 o'clock this evening. Mr P. Gordon Lundon, architect, lnfce of Auoklund, will commence the practioo of bis profession ia Masterton to-morrow. Mr Lundon's office is in Mr W. G. Beard's buildings, Queen Slreet. A snla of work in connection ivitb the missionary branch of the Method iat Church will be ia the Sohoolroom, to morrow, commencing at 3 o'clock. The lady members of tbo Church have been untiring in their efforts to secure the success of the present sale. The ordinary meeting of the MastGrton Manioipal Fire Brigade was held last evening. Captain Jenkins presided over 29 members presont. The average attendance for the month of September was reported by the secretary to have been 3534. Mr J. Thompson was elected an active member of thq Brigade. At the meeting of the Masterton •Borougb Council, last: evening, the tender of Mr IS. Coyle, at £6l 17s 6d, was accepted for the work of laying 50 chains of water pipes in Cole, Essex and Heesey Streets. The tenders for road machinery were referred to a committee, consisting of Grs Ewington, McEwen and Temple, to classify. That dreadful word "consumption" need never be feared if Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery i 3 taken in time. Thousands speak of it in the highest ; praise. For. sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Maaterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, ancl the Mauriceville Gooperative Store. Mauriceville Weat.

There were 15 men's and Ibbug~ g fishing lioenses issued at the Masterton Post Office on Monday and luesday last The rates now nhargeable on ordinary, Government and postal messages to Tasmania are reduced to 4>£d, 3d and Id per word, respectively. Correspondence from places beyond the colony is lying unclaimed at the Masterton Post Office for the following persons:—W. E. Oole, E. A. Gilhaeer, Chas. Harvey; Mrs T. J. Hunt, Tom Hunter, William Kilpatrick, .Ralph Manning, D. A. McGhee, W. Sherwood, B. A. Saunders, Hugh Ross, Miss Spence, E. Conrad.

The report of the Manager of the Masterton Borough Abattoir for the month of September shows that there* were slaughtered 144 cattle, 9 calves, 751 sheep and lambs, and 82 pigs. The total receipts amounted to £lOl 3s 6d. During the month three cattle, eight sheep, three pigs, and the heads and tongues of six cattle and five pigs were condemned as being unfit for human consumption. The Masterton Town Hall has been booked as follows—October 3rd, Austral Laßses Band; Ootober 4th and stb, The World's Pictures; Ootober 10th, Gymnasium Display; Ootober 25th and 26th, TaylorCarrington Company; November 13tb, Willoughfcy-Geaob Company; November 28th, Antonia Dolores; January Btb, 1907, Meynell and Gunn; January 18tb, J. C. Williamson (pencilled); January 25th and 26th, Brought leming Company. At the weekly practice of the Masterton Orohestral Society, last night, Mr R. 11. Rath bone, who has been the Society's conductor for some considerable time, and who will shortly leave for Suva, was presented with a handsome silver-mounted baton, suitably insoribed. The Chairman (Mr J. Candy) in making the presentation, referred to the ability shown by Mr Rathbone as conductor, and regretted his departure. Mr Rathbone suitably replied. Tbe financial |iosiiion of the Masterton Borough Council at the preJ sent date is as follows:—General I Account, dr, £4,396 13s lid; Gas Account', or, £B9l 16s 7d; Library Account, dr, £125 19s 9d; Waterworks Account, dr, £6O 10s; Deposit Account, cr, £l7B 10s; Abattoir Account, or, £24 2s Id; Interest Account, drainage, dr, £ll4 9s lld; : Interest Account, Bannister Street,, cr, £7O 9s; Loan Account, drainage, or, £ll4 14s 4d; Loan Aocount,. abattoir, or, £4M 18s 7d; Loan Account, schedule B <<£25,000 loan), or* £1,926 7s 7d. [t is quite on the cards that a Land Bill No. 2 will be brought down this session, dealing with small grazing runs, and providing for valuation for improvements and other matters. The holders of these leases urge that they are afraid to spend money in regrassing their country, beaause at the end of their leases there is no provision by which they can get valuation for suoh improvements* Much of the high country in Otagtt aud Canterbury is, in consequence, N being allowed to deteriorate. The lessees also think they should have tbe option of re-leasing their riinsi at the end of the term. Ehtries for tbe Homo Industries seotion in connection with tbe New Zealand International Exhibition clored on Monday. Twenty-three entries from the Masterton diatriot by Mr J. C. Boddington, looal secretary. Tbn estimated value of the exhibits is £65. i The number of entries in eaoh sec-, tion is as follows: Ornamental work 3, drawing and painting' 2, drawing and painting from nature and composition 1, shurtbhand (any style) 3, arohitpctural drawings 1, woodwork 1, work on linen, muslin, eta., 3, lace 1, dolls 2, miscellaneous (fanoy work) 6. Farmers and settlers generally throughout the Wairarapa and adjacent districts should be interested in the "Land and Investment Guide," circulated through fchig issue of the Wairarapa Ago by Messrs Mackay and Wishaw, land agents. Tho guide contains properties for side all over the North Island and inoludes ail classes of sheep and dairy farms. The excbatigw of property is now an important department of the firm, and in this direction they are prepared to effect exchanges of country property for town property, or small farms for ,larger ones. iMumerous exchange j bargains are enumerated, and anyone wishing for further jpartioulars regarding any property can obtain the =ame on application to tho firm. A man, named Peter McEwen, employed on the electric trams, was received into the Uunedin Hospital last night, savs a telegram, suffering from a bullet wound iu the thigh. His oonditiou is believed not to be serious. A Chinese fish hawker, nanißd Lin Hoon, has been arrested on a charge of shcoting at McEwen. It' appears that Lin Hoon has been molested a good deal by larrikins, und it is believed he thought MoEwen was one of those molesting hiru. As McEwen was walking home by way of Walker Street the Chinese fired two bhots at him from a slxohambored revolver, one of the bullets striking him on the thigh.. When tho Chinese was arrested he bad a revolver on bim, two chambers being empty. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and' access of SANDER & SONS' EUCA.I LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many mitations, and one case was just tried in he Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udornent, said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to theY public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not pcrmissable to imitate any of its features. He restrained tbfc 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.

Tbe Otago Acclimatisation Society bad a record In the matter of ova tiife year, the total number handled being 2,187,000. The Swiss authorities continue to persecute foreign ■ motorists, and motoring is said to be unsafe on a number of roada, where attempts are made to wreck cars. James McNally, the King's oldest flobjeot, died in England recently at tbe age of 109 years and 6 months. He was bcrn the year before the battle of St. Vincent, and remembers Daniel O'Oonnell and President Lincoln. Lord Curzon is, says a message dated London, September 9th, so overcome by the death of his wife that he hHS practioally abandoned his Intention of re-entering political life. He is planning a long tour of the world, and will first visit America, then travel to various other countries, including Persia. Dr. Bullock Workman, who has recently been mountaineering in Kashmir, ascended a pack in tbe Nunkum range over 23,000 feet high, says a London correpondent. With his wife and Italian guides and porters, he camped two nights at an altitude of over £21,000 feet, this being the highest camp ever made by mountaineers. George, a Cnitiese fisherman at Moturoa, Taranaki, must have been surprised on Friday when the heavy-/ weight at the end of his line proved to be a fish over 15 feet long, says the Taranaki News. After some difficulty the monster was landed, and brocght into town. Piscatorial exDerts claim to reoognise it as a line sample of the ribbon fish. Miss Beameton, an English governess, employed by a wealthy Frenoh family who are staying at Merlingen, in tbe Bernese Alps, had a terrible experience last month. Accompanied- by a young girl, she was gathering flowers when she slipped down a grassy slope and fell over a precipice. Twenty yards down she struok a tree, and her clothing catching on tbe branches, she hung suspended in mid-air. She remained there for some hours before she could be rescued. It was then found that she bRd broken an arm.and a leg. It has long been a notorious fact that in Taranaki everything is referred to in terms of the oow. Jesters innumerable have made the most humorous use of the characteristic of our neighbour province, but no jester has ever perpetrated anything so brilliantly , funny as this serious paragraph from the Taranaki Herald of Friday:—"Extraordinarily fine weather continues, to the amazement of the cows, who at this time ot the year are acoustomed to hump their backs against abilling blasts, and fn drag their udders through deep mud at stockyard gates. Night frosts are giving the potatoes a little anxiety, 1 but may providentially banish the blight." Taranaki, it would appear, oaunot even rejoice unless its oow is,happy. Mr F. Harrison advertises to-let an acre of land with live-roomed house on the Upper Plain. Mr S. Mawley, Ditton, requires a mau for gardening and to milk; also four hand-shearers for October 30Lb. Mr T. J. Nott offers a reward for the return of an oval gold brooch, lost between the Post Office and Worksop Road. A reward is offered for the recovery of a buuoh of keys and notebook lost in Queen Street yesterday. Mr R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd.. advertise particulars of a number of town and coantry properties which have been placed in their hands for sale. In a new advertisement, appearing elsewhere, Mr A. Norman, draper, u? Queen Street, announces the arrival of a large assortment of new and up-to-date spring goods. Messrs J. T. Barry and Co., land agents, Feilding, advertise for sale a blacksmith's business in Palmerston North. A cneap dairy farm is advertised for sale by the same ! firm. Mr Wl Mrs J. La Roche insert a notice in this issue thanking the Fire Brigade, Fire Police and all others who assisted in putting out the fire which occurred at their residence yesterday. Mr A. Ilollings has received supplies of the Christmas number of tbe Chnatcburoh Weekly Press, and requests that customers will send their orders early so as to avoid disappointment. Messrs Donald and Sons., Ltd., received orders by the last Australian mail for 1,200 of their wire strainers. An important local in- . dustry is being est&blisbed in this town with these and other patents of the firm. A COSTLY COUGH. The uncared for cough, the coush you let go on, hopiEß it will cure itself, is the costly cough. It is the cough that annoys you, keeps on hacking and tearing the delicate and sensitive membranes and tissues of the throat, until it is impossible to cure. Take care of your cough now. Take Chamberlain's Cough JRemedy. It 30otbs, relieves, and cures. For sale by T. G. Mason, Chemist, Masterton.