LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8279, 5 November 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the officials of the Wairarapa Athletic Association will be held in the Club Hotel, on Saturday evening, at 7.30 p.m. "• Messrs Gray Bros.' 4-tooth Romney ram, which is to be shown at the Canterbury Show, has been purchased by Mr A. Harding, of Ashhurst, for 100 guineas. \ Mr J. A. Kinselia, Obief Dairy Commissioner, has resigned. His severance with the Department dates from Saturday last. Mr Ouddie, assistant chief, will probably succeed him. The Rev. B. H. Ginger, of Carterton, who has cbtained twelve months' leave of absence from the Wesleyan Circuit, purposes leotucIng on New Zealand in Great Mritain daring six months of the period. A wrestling match took place in the Foresters' Hull, on Saturday evening, between P. Donovan and Moana Paratene. The match was deolared in favour of Moana Paratene after a bout which ocoapied only a few minutes. Mr R. Carroll was reteree. The Hon. Mr MoNab will leave for the South to-day. H 8 will attend the Canterbury Show on Thursday, thence going on to Duoedin and In* vereargill. He will address meetings in Central Otago on the Government's land policy early in November. On Thursday night the Sydenham Post Office was broken into by burglars, ' an entrance being effeoted through the bacK door, wbiob was pnaed opeii. Everything bad been securely locked up when the office was clOßed. The uooturnal visitors were forced to go away emptyhanded, as far as can be gathered. No clue has been obtained aa to the perpetrators of the crime.—Association. News has been received at Whangarei that a quantity of wreckage, almost certainly part of the Hud-art-Parker steamer Elingamlte, wrecked about four years ago, has been washed ashore near Paiengarengai Included in the wreefcagß were a bundle of oars lasned together and a large section of decking fastened by irou bands. j The Premier has aooepted tha position of president of the Navy League. In a letter to Mr H. M. Banneur, acting secretary of the league, Sir Joseph Ward says that the objeots of the league have his earnest sympathy. The active oooperation of the various leagues throughout the Empire is, he considers, most necessary to foster and maintain those feelings of loyalty and patriotism so vital to the unity and welfare of the British iumpire. A telegram from Auckland states that Mr M, M. Kirkbride, M.H..R. for Manakau died yesterday, aged 58 years. He left Wellington in bad health some time before the session was over and was reoently removed into a private hospital for treat* raent. The funeral will take place on Tuesday afternoon. Mr Kirkbride was an old colonist of the best type, and took great mterest in agricultural matters. He won the respect of people of alt shades of politioal opinion. The menace which threatened the oo'ony's fruit industry, if fruit infooted with the Queensland fruit fly was allowed to be landed at Auckland, was referred to at the Auckland Trades and Labuur Council meeting ou Wednesday night. Mr W. Peake said the two inspectors at Auckland were oapaole men, but it was impos si tie for them to go over every orange in a case, and it was a welL known faot that only one or two oranges in a whole cargo were affected. Under the new regulations the whole shipment was to be confiscated if an isolated case of Queensland fruit fly was discovered, but the trouble was that sometimes this isolated case would not be found and then the pest found its way into thß oofouy. Only two or three islands were affected by the fly, and he moved that the Government be requested to prohibit the importation of fruit from infected islands. Some discussion took plaoo as to the advisability of recommending such a drastio measure j hut eventually the motion was oar- | ried. i HIGHLY BENEFICIAL. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab- | lets prove highly benefioial in .'all liver troubles, entirely removing biliousness, and in so doing will clear away all skin eruptions, such as boils, pimples, and eczema. For sale by T G-. Mason, Chem ist, Masterton.

Potato crops around Levin are reported to be looking splendid. The banks throughout the colony will be closed on November 9th (King's Birthday). During the past ten months New Zealand has exported 469,310 ounces of gold, of the value of £1,893,955. Last month's export of gold totalled 57,291 ounces, valued at £231,118. It IS significant thafont of 968 natives in the Whangarei distriot there are not more than 150 pure-blood Maoris; they are fast mixing with Europeans. Kumeras are being imported by the Government from America as it is thought that a changa of seed would be beneficial and that the cultivation cf the kumera should to a large extent take the plaoe of the potato. Mr Justice Cooper, says a Taranaki exchange, remarked during the hearing of a divorce suit at New Plymouth where there had been a refusal to obey an order for restitution of conjugal rights that he did not know of any country exoepting America where such an easy method of obtaining divorce was provided by the Legislature. The fiftieth anniversary of the Masterton Methodist Sunday School was celebrated by special services at the Methodist Church yesterday. The services in uthe morning, afternoon, and evening were conducted by the Rev. J. N. Buttle. There was a large oongrega*ion on each occasion. The church was tastefully decorated. A feature of the servicer was the singing cf special anthems by the Sunday School children. A strong choir and orchestra, [under Mr S. fl. Ralph, also assisted. In the course of conversation Mr MasseyJ Leader of the Opposition, was asked by a Press reporter howjhe viewed|[the statement of the Premier that be and other members of "the Ministry intended opening their campaign in favour of the Land Bill. The Leader of the Opposition replied: "So much was said by the Government, both before and after the introduction of the Land Bill that I am not disposed to take all I hear quite seriously. All I can promise is that any platform speeches made ny members of the Government will be replied to by the Opposition as effectively as in the House. that you may be perfectly certain." It is reported by the Cambridge correspondent of the Auckland Star that the farmers of the Waikato and East Coast have combined to send large quantites of beef out of the colony, with a view to compel butcherd to pay then a better price for that remaining. Arrangements have been made for exporting over 1,000 head of oattle as a first consignment, through the Farmers' Freezing company, and several truck loads have already been put through. The correspondent understands that several thousand head of oattle from the Waikato and East Coast per the route above indicated. The chief complaint of the farmers is that they only received from 16s to 19s per owt. for their beef, while the price uoted in the Auckland papers for the same is about 225. In addition to the dressed beef the hides and offal must bring in a respectable sum. / ■ ■ Mrs E. U Harris requires a young woman as nurse, A rewbrd is offered for the recovery of a Ashing rod and tackle with gig whip attached, lost on October 20th. The New Zealand Railways Department advertise special train arrangements in oonneotion with the King's Birthday, on Friday next. A copy of the Masterton Pictorial Writing Tablet, with blotter, is to hand from Mr O. O. Aitken, book, seller and stationer, Queen Street. The tablet is neatly designed. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and spcoess of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI 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. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udsment 1 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 Victoria 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.