LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8284, 12 November 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. Oonsin has been appointed manager of the creamery at Newman. During October rain fell on 11 days at; Newman? tbe total rainfall for tbe month being 5.8 inches. Tbe Masterton Municipal Brass Band played a select programme of music m tbe Paik yesterday afternoon, There wa& a large number of people present. The members oi the Opaki Rifle Club won £35 at the Manawatu Rifle Association's meeting at Palmerston North on Thursday and Friday. The amount given in prize money was £75. ■ Or Moss was appointed, at the meeting of the Eketahuna County i Council, on Saturday last, to represent the Council »on the Wairarapa District Hospital Board. A ahed adjoining Mrs T. Brag, gins' residence, in Bentley Street, caught fire, oh Saturday morning, shortly before 10 o'clock. ; The alarm vms given ou the Hall Street bell, but before ftbe Fire Brigade arrived the shed was destroyed. However, the fire was prevented from spreading to an adjoining shed. The following are -the testa pf the milk from the various creameries supplying the Masterton Dairy Company's factory 'during the month of October:—Nikau, highest 3.8, lowest 3.1. averase 3.59; KaDgitijmau, highest 4.1, lowest 3,2, ave •- age 3.56; Mangamßire, highest 3.6, lowest 3 points, average 3.38. • The total amount of butter fat received at the Masterton Dairy Company's factory during the month of October was 21,5321b5—an increase of 5,5971bs on the corresponding month last year. The amount paid to suppliers was. £BO7 sa, and the largest cheque paid to any one supplier was £SB 14s 6d. A sheep-shearing record was established at Raukawa Station, near Hastings, on Tuesday, nine men working nine hours shearing a total of 2,394 sheep. The highest individual tally was 332, wh'oh beats the previous reowda in the colooy by ten. The other tallies ranged from 233,t0. 278; • ( A burglar was caught ted-banded in Mr E. Dowsett'a store at Eket«huna on Saturday morning.. Members of the Eketahuna Dramatic Club were returning home from Alfredton at 3 a.m. when they noticed a light in the shop. Investigations were made, when a man named E. Fowler, a resident of Eketahuna, was discovered. He had a number of articles in a sack and was promptly banded over to the police. ' Or Dorney moved, at the meeting of the Eketahuna County Council on Saturday, in accordance with his notice of motion, "That it |a the opinion of the Council that the time has now arrived when a cottage hospital should be established in Eketahuna." The motion was oarried unanimously. It was decided that the chairman and Or Dorney oonfer wiih the Town Board and Friendly Societies with regard to the matter. SICK JHBIES IN SUMMER. It is during the warm months of summer that mothers have to be most careful of their little ones, and at the first unusual looseness of their bowels should give the little sufferer a dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Kemedy. Get it to-day; it will save trouble later on. For sale by T. G. Mason, Chemist, Masterton. A PANACEA FOR ALh STOMACH TROUBIiFS Is found in Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules, which digest what ycu eat and give the weary stomach a much needed rest. For sale by H. E. Eton,. Chemist, Masterton, ,l. Baiilie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville Co-operative Store, Mauriceville West.

Eight hundred '. gallons of per day are being :reaeived <afc the • Newman creamery.. The returns for last week>of theMasterton and Hessey dredges are as follow, respectively,. 83oz ISdwtn and l4oz 6dwt. At Greytown, on Saturday, four • rinks of the Petone Bowling Club> defeated, four rinks •of the Qteytown Club by 94 points to 69.' Miss O. Manning,' has been appointed teacder at the Ponatahl School, and Miss M. Spence second* ary assistant at the (Jarterton School. . At Saturday's meeting of 'the Eketahuna County Council'Mr A.-. W.. Hogg, M.H.R., was elected therepresentative of the Council >on> the Wellington Benevolent Sooiefcy/ The London Daily Chronioie forshadows a Government sohemefOr> graduated income tax, , differentiating between trades and professions'" and property and investments. At tbe meetiug of the Eketahuna s County Council, on ' Saturday,. it was decided to write to the Minister of Public Works urging him tograntt an adequate subsidy for the Kopikopiko Road and the Mang&one West). Road. ' , At the military tournament at Palmerstun North, on Friday, .the bayonet fighting competition waswon by tbe Wellington" City Rifi&S;. with Palmerston North Rifles second, and Masterton Rifles third.. Wellington City Rifles woo the physical drill competition,. with this Masterton Rifles second. . A ten-year-old son of Wjir W. Poge,. of Kaiwaiwai, met, with ; a accident last. Thursday. A brake waa passing, and the lad endeavouredito swing himself up behind, in doing sohis left leg went tbroughiithe spokes of the revolving wheel,, severely■. wrenching the knee-cap and > causing; a compound fraoture of the limbL>. The lad. bad the same' leg bzroken About four years ago.. At the meeting of the EketahanaCounty Council on Saturday a letter' was received from the Masterton County- Council with regard to fees charged at the last. licensing.; Committee, eleotion,. and- asking the Eketahuna Council to join with the Masterton Council i in havingthe fees reduced.. The Eketahuna. Council agreed with tbe action taken< by the Masterton . Council in protesting against the heavy 'election fees* but -they considered that the money for the last eleotion should' be paid by the Masterton Council! who made no official objection to the heavy fees in time to prevent them. Men had been engaged in oonnectiou with 'hp election andthe Eketahuna 'Council 1 considered' that they should receive their money. ; >

Measrs J. and Nv. Iftlt; have- eon--eluded arrangements for the appearance in Masterton of'Mdlle.. AnEonias Dolores, the famous soprano.. One' concert will be given here, on the> 21st inat., so that muaie-laveraoan< look forward with pleasure to rehewing the acquaintance of this 1 delightful singer.. It is many year® since Mdlle. Dolores, appeared here,, and her visit will 1 be remembered by all. Mdlle. Dolores has now won world-wide distinction aslant artist, for she has sang with immense suaoees* in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and the principal) provincial cities,, as well as-is Berlin, Leipsio,. Munich'}. Vienna,. Bhda Pesth, and. Warsaw. Her recent ' Australian tour has- been a decided'' success. At Auckland on Thursdhyr last she was accorded: an enthasiastic demonstration., * '' In connection with the death of MrJohn Greathead,. who was found'in the Taueru River on Friday,, an inquest waa held at Brammerton< Station on Saturday morning,, before Mr E. G. Eton,. Acting* Coroner, and a jury of six.. The evidence given by W. Mace,. John* Jolly and W. B. Carpenter,, went to show that prior to-his-disappear-anon from; the' stadob,. the deceased! suffered frequently from-headaches. He was in the habit of setting eeli baskets in the Taueru River every evening,, and .oh' the particular day that he disappeared' be might. have* fallen into the river and' beendrowned, a» he oonld' not sw.imv I'he depth of fcfce water where the' body waa found was about eight feet* and the bank was rather steep. The jury returned 1 a' verdict 1 "'that th& deceased 1 was found drowned in the Taueru River* by Jraiafcrtune came by his death, and notr otherwise." \ Mr F. P., Welch requires threo machine shearers and efaed handa. Two experieuaed rabbit trappers are wanted at onae. Messrs G. Hyde and Company require two lads for the polishing and upholstering departments. Mr J. Stott; agent for Messrs W. Dimoek and Go., Ltd., will receive pigs at Eketahuia on Monday November 19fcb,' and at Mauriceville on Tuesday November 20th. ' A number of Christmas and-New Year post cards are to hand from Mr A. Hollings, boukseller, Masterton and Eketahuna. They are suitably designed and well finished, and should command a ready sale. A splendid cropping and grazing property, consisting of acres, ' near Feilding, is elsewhere advertised for lease 1 for five or seven years, with & purchasing olaase, at £l4 per acre. Full particulars can be obtained from Messrs A. H. At* kinson and Co., land agents, Feilding. * FACTS ESTABLISHED AT COURT. In an action, the cause of which was flagrant misuse of our firm name and other gross misrepresentation by an imi tating company, which was tried before, his Honor, Ch'ef Justice J. Madden, K.C.M.G., L.L.D., in the Supreme Court, at Melbourne, the prosecution showed: — 1. That Sander and Sons' Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract contains all medioal constituents of the eucalypti, in a highly refined and pure form. 2. That it is much more powerfully healing (antiseptic) than ordinary eucalyptus preparations. 3. That it does not depress the heart like ordinary euoalyptus preparations. 4. That it contains no harmful ingredients, and 5. That it is highly commended by many authorities for the last SO years as a sale, reliable and effective remedy, Some imitators have tried to .deceive the public by simulating our get-ujJ; others have relied on the "just as good" game. Therefore take oaro and obtain the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.