LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8330, 11 January 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fruit crop, and particularly apples, will be very large in Taranaki this season. It is understood that the Fijian nrewalkers will give an exhibition in Auckland at an early date. A young man, named Jeremiah Grant, was killed by a fall of stone in the Keep-it-Dark Mine, Reef ton, on Wednesday. Colonial mails, which left Sydney on November 27th, by the R.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, arrived in London on the afternoon of the 6th inst. The official assignee at Auckland (Mr Gerald) has, during the year 1906, dealt with 55 cases of bankruptcy, seven private assignments and one company in liquidation. A number of men who left the Hokitika district for Taihape a short time ago have returned home, being greatly dissatisfied with the conditions existing in the north. Mr J. H. Lynskey, headmaster of the Petone District High School, and well-known in athletic circles, was married at Hampden, on Wednesday, to Miss Nora Joyce. In passing sentence, at Auckland, on four young married women, who had pleaded guilty to charges of shoplifting, Mr Kettle, S.M., said the love of dress and show had become almost a curse. People allowed their desire to be well dressed to carry them beyond all sense of moral obligation. If the offence were repeated he would be driven to send offenders to prison. Each defendant in the present case was fined £lO. The Celebrity of Sander and Sons Poke Volatile Eucalypti Extuact 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 the 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 Buch is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT

There are said to be many professional thieves at present in Wellington.

Mr H. Johnston has disposed of his interest in the Alfredton Hotel to Mr J. Donald.

The dog tax in the Greytown Borough has been reduced to five shillings per dog. A. partial eclipse of the moon will be visible shortly after midnight on January 28th. About three thousand sheep and lambs were railed to Wellington from Waingawa yesterday, morning, Mr Jas. Brown, of Carterton, has been elected to fill a vacancy on the Board of Trustees of the Greytown Hospital. Another old Wellington resident has just passed away, in the person of Mr J. L. Moffitt, who, after a long and painful illness, died on Wednesday. At the inquest on Albert Edward Newdick, who shot himself at the Upper Hutt, a verdict of suicide while temporary insane was returned.

At Martinborough, on Wednesday, Mr Edward King was married to Miss Mary Dixon, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs D. P. J. Dixon, of Martinborough.

Trout are fairly plentiful in the Kopuaranga stream this season, writes our Kopuaranga correspondent. Some good bags have been secured.

The Kaiapoi Woollen Company has presented the Wairarapa Rifle Association with a travelling rug, as a prize for competition at the forthcoming Rifle Meeting.

Mr Colin Gilray, son of Professor Gilray, of the Otago University, has been selected as the Otago candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship for New Zealand for 1907.

At the meeting of the Eketahuna Town Board on Tuesday evening, it was decided to inspect springs on Mr Tumor's property with a view to ascertaining their suitability as a source of water supply for the town.

The Kaupokonui Dairy Company (Taranaki) is paying out between £II,OOO and £13,000 per month at present, which is almost double the amount paid out monthly at this period of last year. The Premier, Sir Joseph Ward, has received a cablegram from the Canadian Club, Toronto, inviting him to address a public meeting there when returning from London to New Zealand. Sir Joseph Ward has also been invited to a dinner to be arranged by the Empire Club, Toronto. It is the Premier's intention to return by the Vancouver route. A Christchurch solicitor, named Harry Francis, appeared before Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., at Wellington, yesterday, charged with theft of £IOO belonging to James Henry. Thomas, at Christchurch, on September 18th, 1905. On the application of Chief Detective McGrath, accused was remanded to appear at Christchurch next Monday. The Masterton Fire Police twomen competition was decided last evening, and resulted as follows:—Secretary Lewis and Constable Batcher (time, lmin 19sec), 1; Lieut. Braggins and Constable Bockman (time, lmin 24 4-ssec), 2; Lieut. Attwood and Constable Russell (time, lmin 26 .3-ssec), 3; Constables Groombridge and Harding (time, lmin 38 3-ssec), 4. Lieut. Wilton was starter, Messrs O'Meara, Pook, and Bradbury timekeepers, and Lieut. Wilton and Mr Pook judges. Circular saw machinery was responsible for two accidents at Dunedin yesterday morning, states a telegram. Allan Burns, employed by John Murdoch and Co., received injuries which necessitated his removal to the Hospital, where two fingers of the left hand were amputated. The other case was that of John Hesford, who was employed at Herbert Haynes and Co.'s factory. He, too, required an anaesthetic when being attended to at the Hospital, but it is hoped that his fingers may be saved. The thumb and first finger of his right hand were injured.

A meeting of the voluntary contributors . to the gMasterton Hospital was held in the Borough Council Chambers, yesterday morning, for the purpose of electing two trustees. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., Chairman of the Hospital Trustees, occupied the chair, and there were eight others present. On the motion of Mr E. McEwen, seconded by Mr J. Caselberg, Messrs A. W. Hogg and J. A. Renall were reelected as trustees. Mr Hogg briefly thanked the contributors on behalf of Mr Renall and himself. He stated that everything was working smoothly at the Hospital, and the staff had the interests of the institution at heart. He added that the Hospital was generally full, but that did not signify there was a lot of sickness in the town. The population of Masterton was increasing, and it naturally followed that the accommodation at the institution would be correspondingly taxed. A reward is offered for the recovery of a gold stud lost on the bowling green. "The Mauriceville County Council invite tenders, to close at noon on Saturday, January 19th, for several contracts of road metalling. The Seventh Day Adventists will conduct services in the Y.M.C.A. Buildings, to-morrow, at 10 a.m., and on Sunday at 7 p.m. The Akitio County Council invite tenders to close at 10 a.m., on Saturday, January 26th, for road formation, culverts and metalling on the Waihi-Akitio Road. At their rooms, Perry Street, on Saturday, Messrs R, E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will offer at auction a large quantity of furniture, fruit, Sydney palms, produce and poultry. Messrs J. Graham and Co. notify that they will commence a great clearing sale to-morrow. Enormous reductions are being made in drapery, crockeryware, boots and ironmongery. Particulars of the reductions will be given in an inset which will be circulated with to-morrow's issue.

*Why spend money at Rotorua and other thermal springs when Eiibgmo will quickly cure you of rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or lumbago. Chemists and stores, 2/6 and 4/6.

Theree is some talk of'a i match being- arranged between the Wariganui sculler, Webb,, and a Napier sculler, named Paul. It is possible that something more definite maybe heard of the matter in the course of a few days.

Mr P. Bresnan, formerly of the Wellington Telephone Exchange staff, died at the Wellington Hospital on Monday afternoon. Mr Bresnan, who was only 27 years of age, was connected with the Wellington Telephone Exchange staff for about 12 yeara.

At the inquest at Dunedin, yesterday, on the body of William Brownie, a young man who died in the Hospital on Wednesday under circumstances calling for an inquest, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that death was due to acute appendicitis.

Apparently the drought has not had a very detrimental effect on the dairy industry up to the present. "Here is a quotation from a letter I have just rec«ived from a factory manager in the Wairarapa," said Mr J. G. Harkness, Secretary of the National Dairy Association, in answer to enquiries made to him by a Post reporter: —"The weather here is very hot, and potato blight is in evidence all over the district." The Wairarapa district, Mr Harkness went on to say, was suffering severely from the drought. There had been ho rainfall for a considerable 'time. In Taranaki, the home of the dairy industry in New Zealand, however, matters were different. Mr Harkness spent a week in that province at New Year, and while there had but little rain, pasture was plentiful and of good quality. There had been an enormous increase in the output of cheese. This was attributable to the high prices ruling. Cheese at 6d per lb was practically as good to the dairyman as butter at 13d or 14d. Butter, when selling at lid per lb, could not possibly equal cheese j[at present price's from the point of view of the producer. At the same time the output of butter had increased, and so far as Mr Harkness could ascertain the drought had had no effect. If, however, the drought continued a reduction in the output would have to be looked forward to, and the dairy season would be considerably shortened. So far the season had been a record one for prices and quantity.

Gout is really a spec'al form of Eheu ■ j, atism, caused by excess uric aoid in he blood. Whether your gout is acute or chronic, Kh£Ojio will cure you. All stores.