LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8313, 17 December 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the four weeks ended Dapombar Ist tbe Waihi Company crushed 26,888 tone of ore for bullion worth £62,930, A telegram from Timaru states that Mr J. Devlin, tbe Irish delegate was so unwell on Saturday morning that be was confined to bis bed, and he has been professionally advised tbat he should rest at Timaru for at least three days.

Mr Cuddie, Government Dairy Commissioner, intends making exporimenta at the Daleflald Cheese Factory in cool our.ng. At the residence of the bride's parents, Newman, on Thursday, Miss Mabel Petersen, eldest daughter of Mr J. B. Petersen, was married to Mr A. Wallace, Mr Hogben, Inspector-General of Schools, intends visiting America and Europe next March. He will make a special investigation of the eoieutiflo side of dairying. A party of men, under Mr 0. Bannister, left yesterday morning for Mount Holdeworth, for She purpose of clearing the track up the mountain. Miss Dora Florence, who was knocked down by a locomotive while crossing the railway line at Customhouse Quay, Wellington, on Friday afternoon, died the aame evening. The Aarioulfcural Department is being asked to appoint an Inspector to tour the colnny, iuspeatiug milking machiues and giving instructions as to (boh* use, besides affording general information to dairy farmers. The breeding season at the Government poultry farms throughout the colony has been tho best experienced since the establishment of those stations, lbe Chief Poultry Expert (Mr D. D. Hyde) states that the poultry industry is making great strides all over the colony. .The mail steamer, due to leave San Francisco on the fithinst., will not leave until the 27ch inst.' No mail by that route will, therefore, reach this colony on the 24th inat. The mail whioh left London via Brindisi, on November 23rd, will reach Auckland about December SOfcb, Wellington 31st, Christ church and Dunedin, January Ist.

At .Wellington, on Friday evening, Mrs Grace Neill was the recipient of some handsome presents from "New Zealand nurses." The gifts consisted of an alligator-skin travelling-base with silver fittings, a gold bracelet, silver manicure set, and a silver-handled umbrella, and the Danedin Hospital nurses gave her a travelling cloak. The Ground Committee of the Wairarapa Caledonian Sooiety visited th 9 Park, on Saturday afternoon, and arranged various matters in connection with the preparation of the ground for the sports on New Year's Day. With regard to the oyole track, it was decided to have it swepS thoroughly on day prior cc tbe sports, and it was thought that the track would then be in a fit state to race on. Mr W. 0. Davies, the Agricultural Instructor to tbe Wellington Education Board, says the Farmers' AdvoQMte, has already more than justified his appointment. Not only has he succeeded in establishing agricultural plots at various schools in the district, which have quickened nature study among the youth, but he has done splendid woik with the teachers of the country. The fourteen oows entered for the milking competitions in connection with the Masterton A. and P. Association's annual show were milked on Friday last in the presence of Btewards selected by the ABSOoiation. Samples of the milk were taken to the Masterton Dairy Factory, on Saturday, tor testing purposes, bat the results will probably not be made known until Show time. ..The owners of the three winning cows in the competitions will be required to exhibit their animals at the Show.

A pluaslng gathering took place at the Queen's Hotel, on- Saturday evening last, when an amber of the business men connected with the cycling firms in Masterton assembled together to wish the Arm of Messrs J, A. Lyttle and Sons, who have just removed into their new motor, garage and cycle works, continued success. Mr E. F. G. Matthews, manager of the looal branch of Mows Jenkinson and Go., Ltd., in wishing Messrs* Lyttle and Sons success, referred to the good feeling that bad always existed between the different oyoling Jflrms representing the trade in Masterton and district. Mr J. A. Lyttle, on behalf of bis firm, suitably acknowledged the kind wishes expressed by his fellow-tradesmen.

[A Maorij named Maihana Ropoana (Mason), WBS arrested in Masterton, I on Saturday afternoon, on a charge of having assaulted 'an oH mac named Charles Mabey. It is alleged that an altercation took place in a right of-way off Queen Street between the two men, and the Maori atrucK Mahay. The latter fell heavily to the ground and wmh rendered unconscious. He was hastily examined by Or Oowie, and was then conveyed to, the Hospital on a stretcher. Mafcey remained unconscious fur some considerable time, and ail day yesterday he was in a semi consuious state. Ue has a soar on the back of the bead, and is suffering from slight concussion of the brain. Ropoana will appear at the Magistrate's Court this morning.

Special importance was attaohsd to the services at the Maaterton Presbyterian Church, yesterday. Di Gibb; of Wellington; oonduoted the rooming service, and immediately after the Apostles' Greed he declared the name of the Ohurob to bo "Knox Church." Hifchertofore the Cburub baa been known as the Mastertou Presbyterian Ohurob, but the congregation reoeutly dooided by vote on the name "Knox Ohurob." Following the declaration of the name by Dr Gibb, there was a Dedication prayer, and later on in the service Dr Gibb discoursed on the text from Timothy: "The Church of the Living God, the v Pillar and the Ground of Truth" During the course of a powerful sermon the preacher dwelt on the origin and funotious of the Church, and also spoke on "Scotland's grandest sonJohn Knox," after whom the Ohurob had been called. At the evening service Dr. Gibb preached |an eloquent exposi*ory sermon on the parable of the talents. At each J servioe the Church was filled. That dreadful word "consumption" need never be feared if Dr. Sheldon's New Dis covery is taken in time. Thousands speak of it in the highest praise. For sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, 3. Bail lie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville Cooperative Store, Manriceville West.

The State Suhoola in the Well, ingfibn educational district will break up for the holidays next Friday. The Christmas vacation at S. Hride's Convent will oommenoe on Thursday next, and at 8 Patrick's School on Friday next. Mr F. D. HoldßWortb, Chief Postmaster at New Plymouth, baa received notice of hie promotion to Auckland. Mr»W. St. G. Douklbs, AsaißtantInspeotor of Poet Offices fur the Midland district, has been appointed Chief Postmaster at Dunedin. The Marine Department will pofc allow Felix Tanner to leave Nelson for Wellington in his new "ark" until he baa carried oat certain alterations to his peculiar looking craft. The Gas Committee has decided to reoommend the Dunedin City Oouneil to at once reduce the price of gas for lighting purposes from 63 3d to 5a Id per tbouaand feet. Mr Alex. Wilaon, Rector of the Otago Boys* High Subnoi, at the break-up ceremony stiougly condemned the "age limit for free places" syßtem, which he said often shot out promising boys from scholarships. The Hon Mr MoNab continued his land campaign at Opbir 011 Friday night. A resolution was carried with practical unauimity, thanking the Minister for hia address, expressive of confidence in the Ward Ministry, and pledging its hearty support in the land campaign. Every employer of agricultural labour in Canterbury, saya a contemporary, will shortly be cited before the Arbitration Court by the Farm Employeea Union, a list of about 10,000 employers having been prepared by the Union for the purposes of the coming case.

The directors of the Union Steamship Uompany have decided to name 'their new vessels, which are being built at Home to their order, as follows:-—Intercolonial steamer, Marama; turbine ferry steamer, Maori; lar^ecargo steamer, Wainora; new JK steamer, Komata. Acting on a suggestion from the Independent Labour League, the Auoklnnd Trader and' Labour Council has decided to run, a full Labour ticket of twelve candidates for the City Council next April, and is now busily enrolling trade unionists and their wives and daughters. An attractive programme of music was rendered by thß MastertonMunicipal Brass Band In the Park, yesterday afternoon, before a large oxnwd of people. The programme ineluded the tea* piece for the' Exhibition Contest, ") Lombardi," which was Well rendered considering tbe short time the band have bad it in hand. At the adjourned inquest at Napier touching the death of R. M. Hueston, chemist, who was fouud in a dying condition at the rear of his shop, a letter was read from tbe Colonial Analyst, stating that be had found traces of hydrocyanic acid in the contents of deceased's stomach. The jury accordingly returned a verdiot of suioide. Acute 1 differences exist, between *:he New Zealand Athletic Union and the Scottish Sooiety. In spite of tbe union's opposition, the sooiety, it is reported, adopted January Ist and 2nd as tbe dates of its carnival in tbe Exhibition Grounds, though these days were usually selected by Caledonian societies for their annual sports. The union decided to disqualify athletes who competed at the Scottish Society's fete, and. the chief then issued a manifesto declaring that any Scotsmen who gave ear to the anion's threat would be 1 unworthy to wear the sporran or oarry the claymore, and would be false to the traditions of Wallace and Bruce. In reply Mr G. W. Woods, president of the union, uses fairly .strong language. "Taking all in all, I am foraed to tbe conclusion [[that the indefensible • attitude assumed ty tbe Scottish Sooiety and tbe fulmination of its otaiof are prompted not by any motive to foster and promote true national sport and uphold the best traditions of the athletic prowess of tbe Land of the Heather, but rather by the more sordid desire to rake in the shekels e'en to the loss and disadvantage of the societies that . have for years catered for the amusement and delectation of tbe publio, and have honestly, honourably, and duoqessfutly carried on national sports that have been a ,credit to societies land to the land from which the directors SDrung." Mr D. A. Morton has on sale the Wilson bread-toaster and Peerless cake-tins.

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