LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8326, 7 January 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual picnic of. the Newman School will be held on February 14th. The Eketahuna Mounted Rifles will go into camp on Saturday, February 2nd. Eighty-eight rinks have entered for the bowling tournament at Christchurch. The death is announced at Taupo of Mr J. S. Johnston, a well-known commercial traveller. The supply of milk to the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company's Factory has shown a slight decrease lately. During the past year 107 building permits were issued by the Napier Borough Council, representing an expenditure of £27,920.

Mr McNab, Minister for Lands, will visit Carterton on Wednesday next to inspect the Carrington Estate, with a view to its purchase by the Government for closer settlement. The Government Viticulturist, Signor Bragato, who is at present in Wellington, states that the crop of grapes 1 in New Zealand this season will be a record for the colony. The Masterton Municipal Brass Band played a number of selections before a large attendancu of people on the Schoolground yesterday afternoon. Already Mr J. E. Fitzgerald, of Kaiwarra, and Mr F. T. Moore, of Johnsonville, have intimated their intention of contesting the new , Wellington Suburbs seat at the next election. Although the hay crops this season throughout the Wairarapa have not come up to expectations owing to the continuous drought, those in the Forty-mile Bush are exceptionally heavy. For using obscene language in the corridor of the Princess Theatre, Dunedin, while a performance was going on, a young man was, on Friday, fined £lO, in default two months' imprisonment. During the recent rainy season at Fiji last month there were three distinct floods in the Rewa River. !At Naitasiri six inches of rain were recorded in one night. The I river rose 12 feet at Naivalivali.

Probably the oldest elector who entered a polling booth in Victoria at the recent Federal elections was Mrs Parker, who recorded her vote in person at the Casterton booth, in the Wannon division. She is in her 94th year, and still hale and hearty. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Athletic Association on Saturday evening, Messrs T. Duncan and J. B. McKenzie were appointed to represent the Association at the conference of delegates to the New Zealand Athletic Union, to be held in Christchurch from January 23rd to 26th. ■ A single man, named George Fred-, erick Clark, committed 'suicide at Auckland on Saturday by taking carbolic acid. He was formerly an inmate of the asylum. At the inquest a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity was returned.

The Carterton Town Clock and chimes have arrived in Wellington. They will take a month to put together, says the Carterton News, and the authorities expect that it will.be the middle of February before they are erected in the Post Office.

Meetings of the Wellington Land Board will be held at 10 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on the following dates: —January 31st, February 28th, March 28th, April 25th, May 30th, June 27th, August Ist, August 29th, September 26th, October 31st and November 28th.

The following are the tests for the past month of the various creameries supplying milk to the Masterton Cooperative Dairy Company's factory: —Rangitumau, highest test 4.1; lowest test 3.4, average test 3.75; Nikau, highest test, 4, lowest test 3.4; average test 3.71; Mangamaire, highest test 3.9, lowest test 2.9, average test 3.56.

Mr W. Cousins, manager of the Newman Creamery, met with a painful accident last week. While clean- 1 ing out a tank he accidentally fell back on to the concrete, inflicting' a nasty gash on the back of his head. The wound bled profusely, and it was found necessary for the sufferer to seek medical aid, three stitches being put in by Dr. Bartlett.

Mr Fergus O'Connor, who has been connected with the printing trade in the Wairarapa for over thirty years, has decided to retire, and on Saturday last he severed his connection with the office of this paper. Mr O'Connor served his apprenticeship on the Greytown Standard, and subsequently came to Masterton, wlier3 he has resided fi>r twenty-five years past. A good tradesman, and a man of genial disposition, Mr O'Connor has many friends both in the printing trade and out of it.

An imitator of the hero of Kopenick has played an amusing joke on the garrison at Stuttgart. Attired in the ; uniform of a major, he arrived before the guard-house of the palace, and ordered the whole guard to turn out and presenb arms. The necessary command were hurriedly given, the soldiers rushed for their rifles, and with their officers drew up in full war array, with drummers in position, when the supposed major took to flight. Before the soldiers recovered from their consternation. the joker had disappeared, and has not since been heard of. A rather exciting incident occurred at the corner of Queen and Church Streets, about 10 o'clock last evening. Three young men, named R. McKenzie, S. Hogg .and H. Arnold, were driving in a buggy, and as they were crossing Queen Street the bolt connecting one side of the shafts with the body of the vehicle gave way. Owing to the shafts 'striking the horse's hind legs, it commenced to "play up," and dashed into a post near Messrs McLeod and Young's new shop. The animal then bolted down Church Street and dashed into another post. The animal freed itself from the vehicle, and was stopped near the Fire Brigade Station. Hogg jumped out of the vehicle, and was uninjured. As the buggy stopped Arnold also endeavoured to jump out, but caught his foot in the vehicle and was hung up over the wheel. His leg was badly cut about. The vehicle was slightly damaged, and the horse's legs were injured. Tub Celebris? of Sander and Sons Pdre Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the eniire 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 the grossest misuse of Sander ahd Sons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, I K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn I witness testified that he had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produoed. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tasted and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT

The- Wellington Automobile <Glul> contemplates a test journey for motor-cars-next year. A young-man named William _ Wilson, while working on the railway deviation at New caugKt his/ foot in the points, and was knocked down and run over by a loaded! track. He died in the Hospital late last' night. The: Masterton Mounted Rifles left Masterton. yesterday morning for Castlepoint, where they will be encamped for a week. It is expected that there will be about 40 men undercanvas.. Among the attractions during the encampmnt will be a sports meeting. Gold to the value of £240 was found in a bag on a seat by a boy near Newton Heath Railway Station, near Manchester. He took it to the lostproperty office, and it was discovered, on enquiry that it belonged to a lady who had travelled from that placeto Manchester. She had missed money, but had no idea where she had left it. On recovering the £24o' she gave the boy threepence.

The fact that there was not a single arrest for drunkenness on New Year's Eve was commented on by the presiding justice at the Dunedin Police Court on Tuesday. He thought it reflected credit on the carefulness of the police and the discretion of the public. An experienced police official states that in 30 odd years he has never, seen such a sober and orderly street gathering as that in Dunedin on Monday night. On Christmas morning a crowd at Prince's Bridge and the congregation leaving St. Paul's; Melbourne, were considerably astonished by the appearance of a very red faced man, lightly costumed, wheeling a barrow up St. Kilda Road at top speed, followed by a crowd of cyclists. When he reached the intersection of Flinders Street he stopped, and the crowd of followers cheered him, while he mopped the perspiration from his forehead. The barrow-wheeler was Walter Wright, holder of the barrowwheel championship. He had just, accomplished the task of wheeling a barrow -from Sandringham to Melbourne, a distance of 10 miles in lhr 54£min.

Pipe-Major McCallum, of the Dunedin Pipe Band, which won the Pipe Band Contest at the Scottish: Society's competitions, has been only 14 months in the colony! He informed a reporter that he was much surprised on coming to New Zealand to find so many pipers here, though he did not think the standard of piping was quite so high as in: the Old Country. The great disadvantage in this country was the scarcity of good teachers. Nearly all the bagpipe tunes, and especially pibrochs, could hardly be expressed in ordinary musical terms, and the best personal instruction was necessary to teach one the expression and tune correctly.

A tragic sequel attended some' preparations for celebrating the arrival of the New Year on board the scow Wanderer, lying off the Auckland railway wharf (says the Auckland Star.) A sailor named Christian had provided himself with a revolver with-which he intended-to fire a shot at the midnight hour, and he was examining it on ■ board the scow with another of the crew named David Budgeon. He was loading it* but the cartridge jammed. In trying to force the cartridge into place ,he caused the hammer to slip, and the revolver went off. The bullet passed into Budgeon's cheek. Budgeon was taken to the hospital, and the bullet was foiind behind the ear, and extracted. He is making a good recovery.

An advertiser has for sale 150 pounds of black currants.

A reward of one pound is offered for the recovery of a lady's gold watch, lost on New Year's Day, either on the Park Oval or between Masterton and, Gladstone.

Messrs Donald and Sons, Ltd., are now booking orders for next season's delivery of Cooper's sheep-shearing machines. The firm fitted a large number of sheds with these machines last season, and they have invariably given satisfaction.

In a new advertisement appearing l on the leader page, Mr J. L. Murray announces that he has' a large and varied assortment of ladies' gloves, collars, and blousings, in plain and fancy materials. Inspection is invited. All cyclists will be interested in Messrs E. Reynolds and Co. 's change advertisement which appears in another column. For the month of January only, the firm are making great reductions in the usual prices of bicycles and accessories, and readers who wish to make a considerable saving will do well to send in their orders. The goods can be supplied at the same prices by the company's agents and depots throughout the colony. Messrs Reynolds and Company are to be congratulated on their new head office building, into which they moved on January Ist. This fine four-storey structure is situated in Victoria Street, Wellington, and the ,fact that it is by far the largest warehouse occupied by any cycle firm in the colony is in itself a great tribute ta the growth of the firm's business. THE WHOLE''BODY LATJGHS. When the liver and bowels don't act,. •life is a failure. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets wake these drowsy organs, like the sun wakes the earth, and the whole body laughs. It is fun to live when the body is in good trim, but it is never so when the liver and bowels shirk' duty. There is more happiness in als 6d ! box of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets than you ever dreamed of. They stimulate the nervous system and make you feel young again. For sale by T. G. Mason, Chemist, Masterton. Why not get your customs work done with the greatest promptness and despatch? the papers to J. J. Curtis and Co., Ltd., Shipping, Forwarding, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, who will carry out every detail and delivev the goods to you, at the most reasonable charges. Write, for further particulars.—Advl. Anxious Moments. One of the most anxious times of a mother's life is when her little ones have croup. There is no other medioine so effective in this terrible malady as Dr Sheldon's New Discovery. It can be safely given and depended upon. No. mother should ever be without a bottle in the house, For Sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton! J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville Co operative Store, Mauricevilla West,