LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8290, 19 November 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cable message from Sydney announces the death of Mr Oily Deering, the well-known actor. A nagget weighing 1350z has been found near Wellington, 250 miles from bydney. Fox ton flaxmlllera are ordering gas producing plauts'aud gas engines to replace steam power. A* London cablegram states that the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile agency Company has declared a dividend nf 5 per cent. The New York Board of Education has refuseji io countenance President Roosevelt's spelling reform. The Canadian Minister of Defence, Mr Borden, states that every sohoolhoy in Oanada'who has reached the age of thirteen will shortly be trained in rifle shooting, i After a series of incendiary fires at Croydon (England), one of the outbreaks involving a loss of. £30,000, four men were arrested and confessed to being the authors. In the House of Commons Mr Winston Churchill, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, announced that members of the Australian Bar would be eligible for legal appointments in the New Hebrides. In spite of all forces to the contrary, writes the London Daily News, no country in Europe is nearer to an intelligent government of the people by the people for the people than Germany. Mr Jas. Cairns, Sanitary Inspector for the Borough of Masterton, has suooeeded in passing the Department of Pufclio Health's examin afcion in the theory of plumbing. Mr Caiius is now entitled to have his present salary subsidised by the Public Health Department. The following dredging returns are to hand:—-Myotery Flat, 30oz; Masterton, 13oz 17dwt, and Hessey 12oz 2dwt. The Masterton Dredging Company have 'declared a dividend of ss, making £2 15s paid on every £1 share. As : the result of this dividend about £9OO will oome to Masterton shareholders. Rev. E. W. Matthews, Secretary of the British and Foreign, Sailors Society, delivered a short lecture to the teaohers of the Masterton District High School on the Nelson Centenary movement on Saturday morning. In connection with the movement Mr R, Brown, Town Clerk, has consented to receive subscriptions on behalf of the Society. The Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Club held their first run for the season in the Park on Friday evening. The race decided was the 100 yds Handmap, whioh was won by R. MoKenzie, 10yds, with E. Tooby, 9yds, second, and W. Bannister, Byds, third. The time was 10 4-5980. OnFriday evening ' next a 220 yds handicap will be run. The following Wairarapa farmers have announced their . willingness to conduct experiments on farms as proposed by the Government in conjunction with the Wairarapa and Mastertou A. and P. Associations:— Messrs Gray Bros., B. Rayner, and Perry Bros, Tarafcahi; McGregor Bros, and R. J. Daga, Masterton; <h Wall, Martinborough; and J. O. Bidwill, Featherston, An Oaaaru telegram states that 1 Petersen's oil launch' has returned without having found any trace of the three , men washed out to sea from the mouth of the Waitaki River. A. diligent searoh is being main tained. It is now definitely ascertained that the names of the men are Blancy, Drew, and Olliver, all over 50 years of age. Drew has a wife and four children, three of whom are married. Olliver is a widower, and Blanoy is single. Concerning the withdrawal of the Land Bill, the South Australian Register says:—Popular enthusiasm whioh has been blighted by indiscretion cannot always be revived; and a Government which abandons its political guns during a preliminary skirmish can hardly maintain its reputation for courage by merely boasting of the valour which it intends to exhibit in the next fight. Despite the tpeoious explanations of Sir Joseph Ward and bis colleagues, it is evident that the Bill was withdrawn beoause the Cabinet was afraid to risk a deoisivo division, which might have preoipitated an appeal to the country while the electors are in their present frame of mind.

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 proseoution showed:— 1. That Sander and Sons' Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract contains all medical 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 eucalyptus preparations. 4. That it contains no harmful ingrodients, and 5. That it is highly commended by many authorities for the last 30 years as a safe, reliable and effective remedy. Some imitators have tried to deceive the public by simulating our get-up; others have relied on the "just as good" game. Therefore take care and ootain tho GENUINE SANDER AND SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The attendance at the New Zealand Exhibition on Saturday was. 14,803. . > / A match between the Masterton and Pahiatua Lawn Tennis Clubet>, will be played at Pahiatua next; Saturday. < Mr J. Hessey is at present ou a. visit to Waikaia, inspecting theMasterton and Hessey dredges. He is expected to return to about the end of the week. Mr D. K. Logan has resigned hia position as a member of the General Committee of the Masterton, Tennis Club. Mr S. R. Gawith has been eleoted to fill the vacancy. At a special meeting of the directors of the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company on Saturday, it was decided to pay 9%<1 per lb foe butter fat for the month of OotojWv This pi-ice will be paid in fq. Inn ui'il tha direutoi'j ddjide' otherwise. Mr J. Laarenson, who has] bee» in charge of Mr H. S. Izard's office, at Carterton, for several years, and who is also Secretary of the Carterton Chamber of Commerce, intends to take up his residence in Dannevirke. A matinee performance was given by Cooper's Biograph Company in the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon, before a large audience, composed principally of oh'ldren. An excellent lot of pictures were shown. ,Miss Fisher was warmly applauded for her singing. Mr Gilruth is of opinion that the. College for instruction should be near a city, preferably Wellington, The pupils should go to the teachers, not the teachers to the pupils. Apart from this, he says* there are many other advantages to pupils and teachers in residing near a big city. Mr O'Sullivan, Minister of Works, has granted the request of the Brisbane building trades unions for forty-eight hours as a week's work in Government contracts. As Commonwealth contracts stipulate fir a forty eight hour week, the Minister is notifying the Federal authorities of the nhange made in the State contracts. The workers in the Christohuroh. aerated waters industry recently formed a union, and obtained an inorease in their , wages. Then the* employers raised the price of the> goods fifty per cent. The contributor of Labour Notes to the Lyttelton Times states that the inorease in wages amounted to abont ten pet cent.,the difference cf forty per centgoing to the employers. Labour in America, says the Oatlook, has lived through the phase* . of local benefit societies, and its organisation on national lines is,< proceeding rapidly. Any interrup* tion of the existing era of prosperity will undoubtedly lead to th»< development, of a consoiousness of national solidarity oh the part of labour never before experienced. And labour in the United States will probably discovei its man. During the union labour discussion in the Commonwealth Parliament, it was stoutly denied that the label was designed ss a means of boycott. It bas long, however, been used in the United States, and is now being used against unionists themselves, The Chicago Federation of Labour has adopted a rule whereby no delegate will be entitled to a seat unless he wears at least four union label artioles. Such a regulation suggests opera bonffe. Dr Zamenhof, inventor of "Esperanto," is said to wish that he had never devised a new language. Wuenthe Eqpeiantist Congress, whioh was held at Geneva recently, brokeup, the delegates tried to show theit regard fur their hero. Hundreds shook his hand, and hundreds more embraced him with every show of affection, and this he bore with exemplary fortitude. But when the Esperantists of the weaker sex insisted on kissing him good bye, the fortitude that had stood by him so. well throughout the conference! deßerted him at last. \ A meeting of the Wairarapa Athletic Union was held un Saturday evening, Messrs J. B, MoKenzie and F. Hill being present. It. was decided to accept the resignation of Mr Thos. Duncan, as secretary,, and to appoint Mr O. A.JTabateau aa secretary pro teui. It was decided to oall another meeting for December Ist, and to intimate to other members of the Union that two meetings have already been called and lapsed lor tho want of a quorum, and if they do not attend the next meeting they are liable to forfeit their position on the Union. It was further deoided to intimate that it is necessary to hold a meeting for the purpose of affiliating; Clubs and granting permits. The little 89-ton wooden steamer Centennial, whioh is now thirty-one days overdue from Launoeston to Wellington and Napier, has undoubtedly met with some misfortune. The steamer was purchased recently by Messrs N. Fernandos, of Wellington, and J. Corry,of Napier, to assist the steamers Itaaoa and Phantom in trawling at Napier., Previous to leaving Hobart the vessel waß insured for £2,000.* The crew of the overdue boat is as follows: Captain M. Reason (a native of Lyt~ telton); mate, Mr Herbert Raynefr (from England, residing at Melbourne); engineer, Mr Thomas Russell (residing at Launoeston); firemen, N. Brand and H. Browne A. B.'s, J. Keogh, Karl Westergren, and another; cook, A. Marshall. CONVINCING! EXPEBIBNGE. "I wag badly scalded some months ago," writes Mrs Knight, storekeeper. Lutwyche (Q), "and after trying many remedies gaveup the idea of their giving me any relief. I was about to call in a doctor, when I remembered Chamberlain's Pain Balm was highly recommended for bums and scalds, and concluded to give it a trial. The way it stopped the pain n.nd reduced the inflammation and swelling in such a short time was really magical. This experience convinced me that it is a splendid liniment, and ever since I have been recommending it to my customers and friends;" For sale by T. G. Mason, Chemist Maßterton. highly benbviciMiChamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets prove highly beneficial in all liver troubles, entirely removing biliousness,. and in so doing will clear away all skin eruptions, such as boils, pimples, and. eozema. For sale by T f }. Mason, Ohem. ist, Masterton

Under a decision recently given by the Minister for Labour the Qlusing hoar for tobacconists in Wellington is 8 p.m. Mr Palmer, of limaru, is to be Tasked to judge poultry, and Mr Edwards, of Palmerston North, pigeons and cage birds, at the Woodville Poultry Show. Major T. Jaokson, who retired about ten years ago from the position of Stipendiary Magistrate in the Waikato, died in Auckland on 'lhuisday, aged 73. A Japanese flying squadron, under the command of a distinguished naval officer, who rendered brilliant service in the late war with Hussia, Is expected to reach colonial waters in August next. Six of the ohildren of bis Excellenoy the Governor and Lady Plunket will leave for Loudon by the Athenic in oharge of a governess and a nurse. Several of them are going 1 home to be educated. It is understood at Dunedin that when the difficulty over the Exhibition oontrol is adjusted, the management will he handed over by the Minister to one of the Commissioners. Thomas Laurenson, proprietor of the Royal Albert Hotel, Dunediu, was fined £5 on each of two informations, charging him with applying a false trade description to whisky in bottles. The New Zealand Flaxmillers' Association has been cited by the flaxmill hands of the whole of Wei •lington distrint for an increase of wages and reduction of hours. The demands are new being- considered fcy the millowners. The tenders, accepted by the Postal Department for Inland services in the Wellington district show an ail round increase on the amounts part last year, due to the fact that labour, horses, and horse feed have all gone up in prioe. The funeral of the late Mr D. W. Molntoah took place on Saturday afternoon. The oortege was a very large and representative one, and included members ot the Masterton Masonic Lodge and Yorkshire Sooiety. Members of the Masonic Lodge acted as pall-bearers. The Rev A. M, Johnson conducted the service at the graveside. As proof that the extortionate charges made by some persons connected with the New Zealand Exhibition are driving visitors away, it is stated, says the limes, that a party of a dozen young men who came to Chrißtohurch from, the North Island, were ho disgusted at the fieeoing to whioh they were subjeoted, that they out short their visit-, and returned to Wellington by the steamer on Saturday night. The Pahiatua Horticultural Society has eleoted the following office-bearers for the ensuing year:— Patrons, Messrs R. B. Ross, M.H.R., D. Crewe, and W. Tosswill; president, Mr T. Horton; vice presidents, Messrs J. D. Wilson and W. H. Hawkins; secretary and treasurer, Mr A. W. Hamilton; auditor, Mr G. A. Burgess; lsdie»' committee, Mfsdamep Hawkins, Cross, Petherick, flortou, J. D. C. Crewe, J. D. Wilfeon, Toawill, Cornelius, T. Quinn, Goyder, Bisdee, find Miss Mntthews; men's committee, Messrs Petherick, Cox, Dobbie, Polglase, Bisdee, J. D. 0. Crewe, Eddie, York, Rohinson, Dunning, Burgess, Luke, Cross, Mcßobie, Pirani, T. Quirk, Tait, Wakeman, T. Husband, and Goyder. The practice of "bleeding" kauri trees has been severely condemned by many people interested in the limber in the Auckland district, and is prohibited on Crown lands. Private owners of forests, however, who intend to trill the timber in the near future, are making a good thing out of the "bleeding." An instance is noted by the North Auckland Times of a case in whioh a large number of men are employed in tapping some 2,000 trees, of which some 600 have already yielded jover seven tons of pare white gum, valued afc £65 pet ton. The modus operandi is to puncture the baik in from twenty to sixty places, according to size, and then to collect the gum whioh hBS flowed and nar'lened outside the bark. A tree's yield on the average is abuut 841b, but one has created a record with 2031b. Statistics just compiled in the ''office of the Valuer General (Mr G. F. O. Campbell), give particulars of the increase in land values in the four chief centres. The capital value of Wellington City has risen from £6,069,295, in 1891, to £17,629,065 at March 31et, 1906, and tbe unimproved value from £3,569,611 to £10,975,151 in the sam& period. The capital value of Dunedin City la the last fifteen years has risen from £4,883,030 to £7,304,780, and the unimproved value from £2,424,234 to £3,418,218. Afc March 31st, 1905, the oapital valne of Greater Christchuroh amounted to £945,635, and the unimproved ralne £3,281,078, "Nothing could he more stupi d," said the captain of the sohooner Jessie Nicool to a Dunedin Star representative, "than the talk in the legislature of New Zealand about protecting the penguins down tn the Macquarie Why, you could not kill them if* you sent down ao army and sailed in With horse, foot and guns. No matter bow many may Be killed in one season, they come back next season in millions, and their tameness, when a killing party arrives, is almost pathetic. They crowd round the party as soon aa they land. When a bundled or two have collected, they are driven into a sort of stockyard and billed." INDIGESTION la always due to a stomach which is too weak to digest what you eat. It needs rest —you can't rest it by going without food. That would mean starvation. But Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules (io the stomj achio work. In the meantime the tired organ is regaining fresh strength. Before long it will be as strong as ever. A-tem-porary attack can be cured at once. A case ot long standing naturally takes more time. But the first dosq. brings relief, and a complete cure is certain in th 3 near future. You don't have to diet. Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules will digest any kind of wholesome food. Try them for a week and see how much better you feel. For sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist. Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton,, and the Mauriceville Cooperative Store', Mauriceville West.

Mrs Swan, an old resident of Carterton, diedoosq s Sanday evening at 6.45 o'clock. The Masterton Tennis Club has decided to reserve courts Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 for the use of the male members on Tuesday afteruoons. On Monday afternoons oourts Nos. 1 and 2 will be reserved for the ladies. There is plenty of accommodation to be had in Chrisicburoh just now, and a likelihood of hotelkeepwrs going back to their normal tariffs. There is a possibility of the tents one sees in some of the hotel yards being taken down, at any rate until Christmaß. Vandalism or carelessness is re sponsible for considerable damage to the representation of the thermal districts in the Exhibition grounds. Stalactites have teen broken off the geyser, and the mounds injured. Dr Wohlmann is suspending the operations of steam holes, etc,, in order to effect repairs, and he is also effecting great improvements in this; interesting portion of the Ex hibition. When entering Melbourne Heads on the evening of Novembet 4th, frotn Hobart, the, brig Edward had a sensatioual escape from disaster. She was struck by a series of fierce squalls, and the seas breaking over her smashed the wheel. The brig broached to, and with her steering gear disabled rolled about and drifted near the rooks. All hands started to work on the wheel chains, and managed to steer I the vessel into tafe water. Messrs John Nathan and (Jo., Limited, "of Wellington, have re. oeived advices from San Francisoo that the fruit market is very excited in oonsequence of a reported scarcity of stocks. Canned fruits are stated to be practically exhausted, and all grades have advanced Is per dozen. Kvaporated pears have advanced by 3s 6d per cwt, peaches 5s per cwt, apricots 10a 6d per owt, prunes 3s 61 per owt, and raisins Id per lb. Reoently a lad was killed by a train ut » street level crossing at Timaru, and the Borough Coimoil wrote to the Railway Department urgiog that a system of warning bella should be established. In the oourse of his reply the general manager for railways stated that the Minister for Railways was of opinion that the whistle of the looomotive is the irost effective warning that could ba given to persons using level crossings oyer the rai'way, and the experience of the Department had shown that in every instnnae where an aooident, similar to that which happened recently, had occurred, it had been beaause of the faiture of the parties concerned to exercise that cars which it was their duty and in their interests to do to protect iheir own safety. In these circumstances the Minister regretted that after giving the matter every consideration ha could not see his way tu adopt the Council's suggestion. Mi R. J. Lyttle, paintor nad decorator, has a special notice in the Wanted Column. Mx J. 0. Bid will, Pihantea. requires a capable man who can milk and look after horses. A reward is offered for the recovery of a small bag containing sovereigns, lost yesterday iu'Chapel Street or Upper Plain Road. A reward is offered for the re covery of two horses, lost from a paddock in Masterton. At his rooms, Perry Street, on Saturday next, Messrs W. B. Chennells and Co. will submit at auction eleven first class building allotments fronting on Donald and Devon Streets, and known as Beard's Estate. The sections range from a quarter acre to three quarter acre, and the streets' and- foopaths which they front are properly formed. These sections are offered on easy term and are worthy the attention of business men in search of suitable residential sites. Full particular* will be found on page 8 of this issue. Half the unpleasantness ot travelling is caused by the trouble and annoyance of looking after the luggage. The cheapest and best way to ensure prompt delivery of j 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 forjurther parcicu lara. —Advt.