LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8304, 6 December 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Kirk has been elected Chairmau of the United Charitable Aid Board. A Wellington telegram states that the Commissioners have apportioned £750 for primary and secondary schools. The School Commissioners have deoided to give Lansdpwne an extra section of nearly three acres for a school site. Mr C. C. Waud waa in Masterton yesterday making arrangements for the visit to Masterton of Vernor's Royal Irish Dramatic Company. At the Masterton Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr W. P. James, S.M., a first offender was fined 5s for having been drunk. For a 1 similar offence, Denis Q'Snllivan, a second offender waa fined 10a. A meeting of the Borough Weighbridge Committee was called tor yesterday afternoon, hut only Ors Temple and Hoar attended. It was decided to meet again shortly, as matters of importance] demanded the committee's attention. A meeting of the committee of the Victoria Tennis Club was hold last I evening. A "working bee" was formed to ereot wire-netting around tbe oourta in Chapel Street this ! afternoon. Mr W, J. Vernon was i appointed secretary as Mr Pragnell [ was unar-.le to undertake the duties. The Masterton Fire Police will hold a Two Men Competition in Chapel Kt'ree'iy at 5.30 o'clock this evening, for medals• presented by Captain Dixon and Mr F. S. Cooper. Eight teams will compete, and considerable interest is being taken, in <;ho event. A representative reception commifctPe of leading Masterton citizens is being formed to meet the prima donna, Miss Marid Narelle on her arrival in Mastorton on Tuesday next and give hwr a welcome to the town befitting such an artiste. While in Masterton Miss Narelle will stay at the Club Hotel. it has been decided by the Masterton Borough Council to divert the Town Creek into the water tables in Albert Street, and already the work is in hand. This will necesaitate the removal of the present weighbridge. This matter will reoeive attention at the next meeting of the Borough Weighbridge Committee. The manager of the Masterton Corporation Gasworks applied at the sitting of the Conciliation Board yesterday to have the employees at the gasworks exempted from the proposed plumbers' award. The Board deoided that the employees would be exempt so far as work to tha meter and connecting gas fires autl cookers were concerned, but further consideration of the matter was deferred until the Board meets ngain in Wellington about the 17th inst.

! A trap acoident ocourred, yesterday, on the Alfredtoo Eoad, when Mrs H. Johnston, of the Alfredfcon Hotel, and the drivei, Mr Rhodes, who were on their way to oatah the south.bound mail train, were capsized. Both were considerably bruised and shaken, and tho trap was badly damaged. Mrs Johnston was brought to Eketahuna unoonsoious, but recovered sufficiently (6 come to Maatertou by the 5.30 p.m. train, where her injuries were attended tA by Dr Cook. 1 Ors J. 0. Ewington and J. Elliott, representing the Borough Park Committee, visited the Kuripaui Triangle, yesterday > morning, for the purpose of devisiug a eoheiue for beautifyiug the spot. The Councillors decided to interview the residents in ttie neighbourhood with the object of forming u committee to raise funds to carry out the beautifying work. It is considered by the committee that there is ample room to fence off a large triangular space and beautify the enclosure. MERIT ItEWAEDED BY COURT OP j JUSTICE. ( I The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTEACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udoment said with regard to the GENUINE SANDEB & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTBACT, 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 SANDEB & SONS? PUEE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTBACr.

The bilght has made its appear* ance In some of the potato crops la Dauedin. The Wyndbara Courthouse was> ■ totally destroyed by fire on Toesday night. All the records were> bcirot. Sir Joseph Ward will speak at : Inveroargill in favoar of theGovernment land proposals on Mon- ■ day next. At the Dunedin Police Court yesterday three dairymen were eaoh fined 20s and costs for supplyingimpure milk. • The exchange of lands at Master-' ton giving the Borough Council an extra area for the public park will take effect at the end of the year. The Wellington School Commissioners have resolved to recommend a technical university as a suitable, memorial for the late Premier. Messrs Forsyth and Edwards,, both ox-obampions, will definitely represent the Otago Chess Club at the Exhibition Chess Congress. There are now seven sawmills lathe Upper Hutt district, Wellington,, as against two or three a couple of years ago. In a rifle match, ten men aside,, against Olutba last Saturday, the Kaltangata Rifles put up the .finescore of 909 at two, Ave and six hundred yards. Private T. Frazer made 98 out of a possible 105. At the inquest at Auckland yesterday on the Calliope Dock victims Mr Brigham, Secretary of the Harbour Board, stated in his evidence that the Harbourmaster superintended the dooking of all vessels* He was of opinion that the inspec- - tion of blooks and other appliances, was the duty of shipowners, because under the Board's bye-laws it took no responsibility. Mr F. J. Dignan, Manager l of the* local branoh of the Bank of NewZealand, will leave Masterton on Saturday morning next for New Plymouth to take charge of the bank in that town during the illness of the present Manager. Mr Baillie,. of the Masterton staff, will act as Manager during Mr Dignan's absence, while Mr W. A. Fendall i will take the accountant's duties.. There has for a long time been a difficulty with regard to the distinction between the terms, plumbing and tinsmithing, and to settle the misunderstanding the Conciliation Board, which sat at Masterton,, yesterday, defined plumbing to mean all sanitary work, gas fitting, installing hot and cold water for domestic purposes, heating apparatus and ventilation; also fitting spoutin'g, down pipes, guttering, valleys, flashings and step-flash-ings to buildings.

i A maoting was held iu Masterton ; yesterday afternoon, to consider some definite scheme lor the estab- , lisbment of freezing works in the ; district. There were Dreseut~ Messrs* D. Donald (chairman), F, 0. Lewiß,, . D. McGregor, jnr., T. P. Lett and: Jos. Morris. A letter was received from the Carterton Chamber of' Commerce stating that aa. Messrs. Fairbrother and Ligbtfnot, who had gathered certain informatiqu in the matter, could not attend the" meeting, the Chamber regretted, that they were unable to sond delegates. After a brief informal discussion the meeting adjourned untiL Wednesday next. The charred remains of Mr W. Keeble's cab, which was destroyed by the fire on Monday morning, were exhibited at the corner uf Queen and Bannister Streets, yesterday afternoon. On several partsi of the vehiole were placards bear* ing the followiug 'inscription:—* "Keeble Relief Fund—This is all (hat iB left. Will you help us to buy 'Billy' a new one," Between-, the hours of 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. the sum of £7 Is was collected. This. sum includes the amounts collected oy Miss Brooks (£1 10s) and Mr' W. G. Newton (10s 6dl. Up to. the present about £6O has been' collected for the fund. Mr T. Dwyer offers a rsward for* the recovery of a black mace lost from Bannister Street, Mr J, K. Niool, will sail at his auction mart, on Saturday next, a large consignment of furniture of every description. The owner is wanted for' four heifers and one steer, now straying • on the property of Mr* John Gunther, at Femridge. ~v Messrs Dimook and Co., Ltd.,. notify that tne next receiving day for pigs at Eketahuna will be ,Monday, December 17th, and at Manriceville on Tuesday, Deoomber 18th. Mr W. Chamberlain, land Woodville, recorts having effected the sale of Mr W. R. Taylor's property qf 1,000 acres at Mounfc Bruce to Mr Samuel Banning, Mangatoro Valley, Danuevirke. By announcement' claawhere all claims against the estate of tue late Mr John Greathead, of Brammerton, must bo rendered to Mr W. B. Ghennolls, agent for the Public Trustee on or before February stb, 1907. [ Mr G. Smith, draper, of Queen Street, announces that, in view of the holiday season, he has to hand a large assortment of novelties which will make admirable Christmas presents for old and young. These are now ou'view and are worthy of lupection. An item of interest to caterers, pastrycooks, fruiterers, and the < spesulating public is contained in the auctioneers' columns, where G. A. Fairbrother, Ltd., announce that they are Belling, on Saturday next* at their Carterton Auction Rooms, the privileges of the Carterton Friendly Societies 1 sports gathering. to be held ou Boxing Day. CAN SOU BLAME HEE? If at last she tires of the fault-finding of a dyspeptic husband and leaves him?' The worst of the dyspeptio i 9 that he does not realise his own meanness. Hia world is entirely out of perspective. A' man is only as strong as his stomach. When the stomach is diseased all the other organs suffer. Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabulea are the sufferer's tree of life. They will curd him and bring him health and happiness just as certain as he takes them. They are sure because they are a natural remedy, and contain exactly the same chemical properties as the digestive fluids in the stomach. For sale by H. E. Eton l / Chemist, Masterton, J. Baiilie, Carter! -' ton, and the Mauriceville Store, Mauriceville W«st.