LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8331, 12 January 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Makuri Dairy Company will, next week, pay out about £7OO for milk supplied during December. The overdraft of the Napier Borough Council now stands at £11,700, which is £I,OOO less than it was a year ago.

Mr Ben M. Wilson, Private Secretary to Sir Joseph Ward, has been appointed Secretary to the Arbitration Court. Mr T. Duncan, J.P., late of Masterton, has been appointed a visiting justice of His Majesty's prisons at Wellington and Point Halswell. The Martinborough Town Board is applying to the Justice Department I for a sitting of the Magistrate's I Court to be held in that town once a month. The last census showed that there were 264 butter and cheese factories in operation in the colony, employing 1,484 hands, and 1 paying in wages £131,123. A man, named Henry Leslie, sustained a fractured leg at Gladstone, on Thursday, through being kicked by a horse. He was conveyed to the Masterton Hospital. The two-year-old son of Mr D. C. Stewart, of Pa Te Aroa, was accidentally drowned yesterday in a bath in which there was only four inches of water, states a Dunsdin telegram. The number of breweries in the colony last year was 72, and they employed 731 hands. The wages paid totalled .£2,128, and the beer made in 1906 amounted to 7,634,362 gallons, valued at £572,579. A Featherston correspondent states that the whole of the countryside is in a parched condition as the result of the dry weather prevailing, and several grass fifes have accidentally occurred, but none of a serious nature. The railway revenue of the colony for the period of the financial year to the Bth of December amounted to £1,679,881, as compared with £1,523,876 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The last bale of wool of this year's clip jjfrom Mr Dorsett's station was brought to Carterton yesterday, says the Carterton News. The bales averaged five cwt. The fleece of one hogget shorn weighed 221bs. The Dalefield factory has just sent 350 cases of cheese to Wellington, to be shipped to England by the Ruapehu on January 17th. Parkvale has sent 240 cases, and Taratahi and Belvedere 158 and 180 cases, respectively. The following are the bankruptcy statistics for 1906 for the Dunedin district: Petitions by debtors, twenty-two; petitions by creditors, three; Orders of immediate dis charge granted, eleven; orders of discharge suspended, two; liabilities as per bankrupt's schedules, £10,720 5s 2d; assets, £2,733 10s 4d; amounts secured to creditors, £5,070 3s 2d; dividends paid, £1,336 16s Id; preferential claims paid, £298 15s Id. The annual return of shipping for the port of Wellington for the year ended December 31st, shows that the total net tonnage of steamers arriving in Wellington was 2,503,818, with crews totalling 103,167. The sailing ship tonnage inwards was 31,364, with crews of 869 all told. The steamers leaving the port had a total tonnage of 2.460,683 tons, and crews totalling 103,094, the sailing ships tonnage outward being' 27,868 and the crews 856. * Twelve informations of alleged theft of money, and obtaining money by means of false pretences from the Wellington Benevolent Trustees, were preferred at the Wellington Magistrate's Court, yesterd-iy, against Alex. Purvis, ex-secretary and treasurer of the Trustees, and master of the Benevolent Home. The whole of the informations relate to the period between July, 1905, and July, 1906, and involve a sum of about £l4O. Accused was remanded till January ißth. A very vivid flash of lightning, followed by a loud peal of thunder, was particularly noticed during the thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. The lighning did not appear to be very far away from the Masterton Post Office, and the flash referred to somewhat startled the attendants in the Telephone Exchange, where all the "shutters" suddenly fell down. Altogether there are, perhaps, some pleasanter places than a telephpne exchange during the progress of a thunderstorm. It was reported to the Borough authorities yesterday, that some larrikins had, on Thursday evening, broken three of the globes of the large arc lights in the middle of Queen Street, and had also broken some hurricane lamps hanging on a scaffolding in Queen Street near the Queen's Hotel. It was further stated that they poured some of the oil from the hurricane lamps over the scaffolding, and set fire to the wood. The Borough Council, ata special meeting, last evening, decided to offer £5 reward for the discovery of tne offenders. It has been arranged by the Irish Envoy Reception Committee that the Mayor (Mr J. A. 'Renall), and the members of the Executive Committee will meet Mr Joseph Devlin, M.P., on his arrival in Masterton on Monday next. The Mayor has consented to preside at the public meeting to be held in the Town Hall in the evening. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., will move at the meeting a resolution of sympathy with the Home Rule cause. Messrs Hornsby and Ross, M's.H.R., have signified their intention to be present if possible. Subscriptions are coming in freely in aid of the movement. A general meeting of the Executive Committee will be held this evening in the Technical School building, at 7.30 o'clock, to make arrangements for the meeting on Monday evening MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT hive brought onfcmany imitations, and one cn.se was just tf'ed in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before'his Honour Chief Justice Sir .T. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving rdimenl: sfiid wjib vd Id the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, eto., it is not permissable to imitate any of its features. Re restrained the imitatou perpetually from doinc; so, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish this to afford the publio an opportunity of protecting themselves and ci securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court oE Victoria and by many authorities during the last oQ years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE j SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE ! EUCAIYPTI EXTR&CT.

The attendance at the Exhibition for the week ending last night was 83,614. A number of bush fires have occurred in the Pahiatua County lately. The thunderstorm on Tuesday evening was welcomed by the settlers. Mr and Mrs J. Ormond, of Hawke's Bay, will leave for London by the Shaw Savill steamer lonic, which is to sail on March 28th. Mr G. Marshall fias been appointed Crown Solicitor and Crown Prosecutor at Wanganui, vice Mr T. S. Fitzherbert, who has resigned. Rabbits are rapidly increasing in numbers in some portions of the Tapanui district, and they are damaging the young turnip plants considerably. Major H. S. E.Hobday, Active List (unattached), New Zealand Volunteers, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long-service medal. He has been in£ the service for over twenty years. The Timaru High School Board today selected Mr A. ?G. Johnson from fifteen applicants for the position of third 'assistant at the Timaru High , School. Mr Johnson is at present secondary master at the Tapanui District High School. Mr "Gust's furniture shop, at Pahiatua, was partially destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock yesterday morn- • ing. The building, ownec\ by Mr Crewe, was insured for £250 in the Victoria Office, and the stock and furniture for £350 in the Northern. The youngest wool buyer in the colony, if not in the world, was an operator at the Timaru wool sale last week (says the Herald), a lad of nine named Laburn bidding for and buying a number of lots. He was of course under the tutorage of his father. A lad of 13, named Palmer, was also a bidder. During the absence of Mr Justice Edwards on twelve months' leave, Mr Justice Denniston will preside over the Supreme Court at Auckland, Mr Justice Chapman taking the business at Christchurch. Mr R. Ulrich, formerly associate to Mr Justice Chapman, will be associate to Mr Sim, the new judge of the Arbitration Court. In all probability a covenant will be inserted in all agreements with farmers who take up land resumed in Victoria for closer settlement purposes that a certain area of each holding shall |be planted with trees. This is not only for the purpose of preserving the timber supply, but also for the purpose of affording shelter for stock. Mr J. T. Donovan one of the Irish delegates touring the colonies, reached Dunedin from Lawrence, on Thursday night, and was welcomed at a social in St. Joseph's Hall. Mr Donovan left for the North yesterday. Mr J. Devlin, is to return to Wellington on Friday, and will leave on Monday for Masterton, where he is to speak in the evening. About 1.10 o'clock this morning an alarm of fire was sounded on the bell at the Central Station, and a glare was seen for a few minutes in the direction of Akura. No trace, however, of fire could be discovered by the Brigade, Fire Police or police, who proceeded as far as the railway crossing Enquiries made in the vicinity failed to elicit "any information in connection with the fire. Speaking of old times in the East the commander of the warship Pioneer mentioned to a Dunedin Star representative that part of his duties during the Boxer rebellion had been to supply the war correspondents with such information as headquarters might see fit to give out. He added: "I noticed that the true facts of the case were never wanted. They were never lurid enough." An English journal announces the discovery that deaf persons do not suffer from seasickness. A sea-cap- . tain made this observation in taking across the Atlantic a large class of deaf mutes. Seasickness, says the paper, is without doubt in some way related to the organ of equilibration, which is associated with the ear. Deafmutism may in some way modify the internal ear so as to make it less susceptible to the motions of the ship than when in health. The rain which fell yesterday afternoon was welcome and temporarily cooled the atmosphere to some extent, but, " unfortunately, not enough fell to alter the arid condition of the country. The thunderstorm was, probably, more tantalising than anything else to persons, and did no more than remind residents of Lansdowne and other places that water was badly needed in their tanks. The lighting was responsible for the disconnection of some of the telephone wires in Masterton. The following resolution was carried at the last meeting of the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand Workers' Political Association: —"That this Association desires to draw the attention of the Government to the statement that efforts are to be made to bring 1 out as assisted immigrants a number of unskilled labourers, besides women ' and artisans in trades already over-supplied, and would respectfully urge that the utmost care should be taken in selecting assisted immigrants, and, further, emphatically protests against anything in the natiire of the importation of contract labour being allowed." The opinion has long been held by Sir Robert Stout that the pumice land of New Zealand will yet be a great asset to the colony. In the course of an interview at Rotorua, he said, speaking of his observations on the overland trip: "'On the flats and near the rivers and creeks the land is unsuitable for close cultivation. It grows excellent vegetables, and some kinds of fruit. I do not see why we should not rival Tasmania in the production of apples. The land in Tasmania that is used as apple orchards fetches a very high figure per acre —• up to £IOO. Here, I suppose, the pumice land could be obtained for £1 per acre. The only question would be the bringing of the fruit to market. The construction of the Main Trunk railway and the connection of the Taupo Totara Company's private railway with Taupo would give readyaccess to much land suitable for fruit culture."

A sharp earthquake shock of short duration was felt at one o'clock yes- ■ terday morning at Wanganui. New discoveries at Blackwater and at the Alpine mine are likely to lead to keen interest in reef prospecting -all over the West Coast. The monthly meeting of the Trustees of the" Masterton Hospital will be held on Wednesday, January 16th, at 10.30 a.m., in the Borough Council Chambers. Over half a million sterling was expended in the erection of new buildings in Wellington City during the twelve months ended December 31st—to be precise, £628,964. ' The year just ended constitutes a record as regards shipping at the port of Greymouth, the numbers being 687 steamers and 37 sailing vessels, and the tonnage 300,012 tons. The services to-morrow at Knox Church, Masterton, and at rWangaehu, will be conducted by the Rev. A. T. Thompson. Mr E. Feist will conduct the services at Dreyerton, at 3 p.m. A young woman, named Maritana Emanuel was committed for sentence at Christchurch, yesterday, on a charge of falsely alleging that she ■was married when registering a birth. A record supply of milk was received at the Ballance Dairy Com- ] pany's Factory last month. Over 75 tons of butter was manufactured during the month. Next week upwards of £6,500 will be paid out to suppliers. ! The solicitors for the Shaw-Savill Shipping Company have served notice on the Auckland Harbour Board of their intention to commence an action to recover fifteen thousand pounds damages in connection with the accident to the steamer Mamari at the Calliope Dock. The big "palace" double-decked electric cars that are being built for Wellington are to carry two conductors each. These cars are being built to seat 105 people, and it would be impossible for one conductor to -collect all the fares when the car is carrying anything like its full complement. j Mr Howard (Marlborough), at the i Educational Institute at Christ-! church, on Saturday, said an ex- 1 pert in educational matters had once said that the great drawback to our system of primary education was the crass stupidity of inspectors, who seemed utterly unable to approach the child-mind. A training college for inspectors was required. Mr W. B. Chennells, Deputy Official Assignee has accepted tenders for the law library : and the goodwill of the lease of the offices of H. S. Izard, bankrupt. Mr P. L. Hollings secured the library, his tender being £IOO. There were six other tenders for the library. Messrs Maxton and Co. were the highest tenderers for the goodwill of the lease of the bankrupt's offices. j Messrs Gillespie and Co. have removed to new offices in the Academy buildings. , Mr F. P. Welch requires a bench- | man, tailer'out and truckey for sawmill. Men must have had experience. A light bay gelding lost from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., stables is advertised lor. A special meeting of the Masterton Borough Council will be held on February 12th, to confirm resolutions in connection with the gasworks loan. Messrs Seaton and Sladden invite tenders, to close at 1 o'clock, on ' Thursday next, for the formation of several chains of road at .the W.F.C. A. granary. There were twelve persons present at the meeting of the voluntary contributors to the Masterton .Hospital, held on Thursday morning, for the purpose of electing two Trustees. Messrs McLeod and Young, will carry on their stationery, book and general business in the "Academy" Buildings, from this morning. They will hold a great clearing sale of toys, fancy goods, postcards and . glassware in the old premises, commencing to-day. Mr D. A. Morton, furnishing ironmonger, invites inspection of a large • and varied stock, which has lately "been opened up. Mr Morton is agent ' for gas engines, gas producer plant, separators, milking machines, and numerous other indispensablelines. At the Pahiatua mart, at 3 o'clock, on Thursday next, Messrs Mitchell and Griffiths will sell the privileges in connection with the Pahiatua Racing Club's meeting on January 30th and 31st. The privileges to be submitted are the inside and outside booths and the "correct" cards. There is every indication that the picnic and sports, to be held in the Park, on Thursday next, by the Masterton Municipal Band, will be a decided success. An attractive programme has been drawn up. The Volunteers will give an exhibition of physical drill, bayonet fighting and Maxim gun drill. A charge of 6d will be made for admission to the Park. With this issue is circulated an inset in which Messrs John Graham and Co. intimate that they intend holding an enormous sale of drapery, boots, crockery and ironmongery, commencing from to-day. The firm announce that the goods must be cleared in order to make room for their new stock, which will arrive in a few weeks, and they invite the public to call and see for themselves the bargains that are offered in every department. In drapery the whole of the extensive stock has been re-marked and subjected to substantial reductions, while special value is offered in the ironmongery department. In the boot, crockery and fancy departments there are all kinds of bargains, sale prices being marked in plain figures. Who Baby Buknh Hih Hand. When sister cuts her finger. When brother gets a bruise. In short, when anything happens to tbe children whiab c ms's them pain, it is mother's delight to comfort and relieve <he lictle sufferers. She can filwajs do this whfn nho lms Dr Sheldon's : Magnetic Liniment in the housi. Rubbing a little of it over a sore or wound immediately takes away all psiin, and vastly hastens recovery. Keeji a bottle in the house ahvnvs, and you will with a thousand other mothers who have said that they oulfl not keep house without it. For sale hv 11. E. Eton, Ch ; mi&t, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and tbe Maurinrville Co-operative Store, Maurici'ville West.