LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8322, 2 January 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The population of Western Australia during 1906 increased by 7,733.

During the Christmas week between 40 and 50 marriages were celebrated in Wellington.

A yacht capsized in Moreton Bay, Queensland, and £two youths, named Gaylor and Renge, were drowned.

The Sonoma, with British mails of December 15th, left San Francisco for Auckland at 6 p.m. on December 28th.

An elderly man, named Thomas Vowles was burnt to death in a fiveroomed house at Waihi on Monday night.

During November the New Zealand Dairy Association paid out £18,884 19s 9d for milk supplied to its factories.

The authorities at Washington pledge then- support to Britain in any steps taken to ameliorate the Condition of the Congo State. The dividends paid by the Rand gold companies during the past twelve months totalled £5,556,000, establishing a record.

Those who grumble at municipal rates in New Zealand will, perhaps, find some satisfaction in learning that the rates in London are as high as 12s in the pound. The Full Court in New York upheld the conviction of Signor Caruso, the operatic singer, on a charge of insulting behaviour to a woman. His counsel announces that he will appeal to a still higher Court.

It is estimated that about 100 witnesses will be called in the trial of Charles Tucker and F. W. Forwood. on a charge of conspiring to defraud the South -Australian Customs Department.

' The ship Windsor Park, which left Wallaroo, South Australia, on October 10th for Algoa Bay, with 24,234 bags of wheat, is ashore at Cape Receife, near Port Elizabeth, says a Capetown cablegram.

The past year in Tasmania has been in many respects a bad one for producers, owing to the partial failure of the .crops. Exports showed a considerable falling-off. Imports increased by nearly £400,000.

A Melbourne cablegram states that a train ran down Taylor, a line repairer, and his wife, who were travelling on a railway tricycle. The wife was killed, and Taylor is in a pre carious condition.

During- the month ended December 31st, there were four bankruptcies in the Wairarapa as compared with one for the corresponding month in 1905. During the year 1906 there were 13 cases of bankruptcy against 11 in 1905.

L. Guinness, an elderly man, was fatally injured at Woodlands Railway Station, on Monday afternoon. He attempted to cross the line in front of an incoming train, and was knocked down by. the engine. Both logs were badly fractured, and the man died while being conveyed to the hospital.

™The Fire Brigade were "called out shortly before eleven o'clock on Monday evening, to attend to an outbreak of fire at the rear of Mr J. Wickens' shop. A box containing paper was found to be on fire, but was put out before the Brigade arrived.

The OELEiminc of Sandeii and Sons Ptjek Volath-e Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the entire medical profession has adopted its use. Imitations sprung up without number. The latest of them—as styled -'Extracts "—was oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under tbe grossest misuse of Sander and Sons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn witness testified that he had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tested and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDEB AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT!

The body of the lad Spence, drowned in the Waikato River a week ago, was recovered on Monday. At the inquest a verdict of accidental drowning was returned.

At the Lyttelton Regatta, yesterday, the Akaroa Rowing Club's crews got placed in every event but one, and won altogether £54 10s in prize money.—Association.

The death is announced of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, aged ninetytwo years. Death resulted from an attack of bronchitis. Thejdeceased will be buried in Westminster Abbey on Saturday.

There were four marriages, eighteen births, and twelve deaths in Masterton during the month of December, 1906. During the corresponding month in 1905 there were ten marriages, twenty births, and nine deaths.

The Masterton Band numbered 33 strong at the Caledonian Sports yesterday. Favourable comment %vas general upon the Band's playing, particularly in the two selections "Roderick Dhu" and "Scotland," into which was introduced standard gems such as "The Flowers o' the Forest," "Logie o' Buchan," and "Flora Macdonald's Lament," all of which were greatly appreciated. Special mention might also be made of the Exhibition march, "8.8. and C.F."

Mr Jas. McLean, Longbush, ad* vertises for practical bushmen and a camp cook. Mr H. G. Williams, Lansdowne, offers a reward for the recovery of two white swans lost on Christmas Day.

A reward is offered for the recovery of a chestnut half-draught horse, lost from Blairlogie Junction.

The]W.F.C.A. stock all the leading makes of binder twine, harvesting tools, machine oils and benzine.

In another column Mr John Tait, builder and contractor, announces that he will continue to carry on the business of builder and contractor, and will supply plans and estimates. The workshop is next to the Waipoua Bridge.

The proprietors of "Arcadia" tea have a special announcement in another column. This particular brand of tea is pronounced to be high-„ class, economical, and healthful. It is stocked by all wide-awake stores, and can be obtained wholesale from Messrs Gilmore and Co., Auckland.

The demand for silver ware and plated goods of every description necessitates the holding of large stocks and keeping constant watch on the foreign markets for the latest and best of the world's manufactures. Probably no firm in the trade gives this subject more attention than Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co., in whose Wellington branch there is to be seen a stock of gold, silver, and plated ware that will equal the largest Home establishments. The firm have an announcement on page 3 of this issue. ' NEW LHASE FOR WEAK LUNGS. Dr Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption cures Influenza and all Lung troubles. For sale by H E. Eton, Chemist. Mastsrton, J. Bailiie, Carterton, and the Maurieeville Cooperative Store, Maurieeville West. A PANACEA FDK ALL STOMACH TROUBLES Is found in Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules, which digest what ycu eat and give the weary stomach a much needed rest. For sale hy H..E. Eton, Ch-mist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Maurieeville Co operative Store, Maurieeville We HEADACHE CANNOT EXIST When Chamberlair 's Stomach an Liver Tablets are taken. Their marvellous in fluence on the liver and bowels puts, an nd to it every time. They follow , s own method, doing just what is needed. No other laxative ever made can compare with them for effectiveness. For sale by T. G. Mason, Chemist, Masterton. IND'CCSTIOS! A OUHE FOR IT. Cathartic pilh never have and never will cure indigestion and stomach troubles —Whj? Because they act entirely on the bowels, whereas the whole trouble is really the stomach. When the stomach is diseased, all fchd other organs suffer. That is why fatal diseases of the heart, liver, kidneys and lungs are si often the dirsct result of indigestion. The use of one of Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules after each menlgive? the stomach perfect rest, because they sun tain all the natural digestants us fou- din a healthy stomach. This is a connaon-sense method o£ treating all stnmaah troubles, and the results are always certain. For sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton. J Baillie, Car terton, and the Maurieeville Co-operative Store, Maurieeville West.