LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8337, 21 January 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A correspondent writes stating that there is a dead animal lying near the second Waipoua Bridge, and, that its presence is objectionable. He enquires for the Inspector of Nuisances. The Wellington-Wairarapa 'cricket match, arranged for to-day > and Tuesday, has been abandoned owing to the inability of the Wairarapa team to visit the city. A parade of the Eketahuna Mounted Rifles was held on Thursday.evening, there being 35 in attendance. The company were exercised in field manoeuvres by Lieut. Page. ' • It is reported on excellent authority, says the Taranaki Daily News, that at least two insurance companies' agents proceeded to Waitara,on Tuesday,, to cancel the insurance risks held by their respective companies in that town. It is recorded that Speaker Coles, of the South Australian Assembly, has put up what looks like a world's record. He has been nearly seventeen years in the chair, and during that time he,has not missed a sitting of the House. The United States and Russia are the world's largest producers of oats. Russia is the largest exporter, as the Americans consume their oat crop at home. These two countries are estimated to have about 160,000,000 bushels of oats more than last year. The annual rifle shooting match between the Opaki and Karori Rifle Clubs willjbe fired on January 22nd, atMasterton. The Karori team will be picked from the following:— Lewer, Head, Tarr, Judd, Bulford, Rabe, Turner, France, Guise, Randell, Burns, Hodder, Halliday and Marshall. The attractions of the Exhibition are probably partly [responsible for the large number of arrivals in the colony during the mqnth of December, 1906, for the total reached 5,259, nearly 1,500 more than the arrivals in December of the previous year. The departures for the same periods were 2,596 last month, as against 1,787 in the final month of 1905. The corn crop of the United States for 1906,13 estimated at 2,730,000,000 bushels. This crop, if divided among all the people of the globe, would give about two bushels to each person. Illinois and lowa are the largest corn-growing States, producing 305,000,000 and 382,700,000 bushels, respectively, in 1905. The Mayor of Ashburton has received the following letter from the Chairman of t the South Island Representation Commission: —'' After- very careful consideration of the statements contained in your objections the South Island Representation Commission in all circumstances regret exceedingly • their inability to give effect to the views and wishes of the. appellants." Following is an extract from a letter received from a former New Zealand resident, who recently went to Port Fairy, Victoria, to take up his residence:—"The cost of living here is ridicuously cheap after New Zealand—meat about half Wellington prices and of much better quality, almost equal to best British; eggs 6dper dozen. Splendid supplies of all kinds of fruits at about ljd per lb by the case." News was received in Masterton, yesterday, of the death of Mr C. R. Millar, which occurred at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr H. M. Gore, Hobson Street, Wellington.; The deceased, who was a cousin of the Messrs . Bidwill, of the Lower, Valley, was well-known throughout this district, of which he had been a resident for some 40 years. The funeral will leave the Masterton Railway Station for the Masterton Cemetery at ,9.45 a.m. to-day. The dryness of the season gives i rise to frequent interrogations as to j whether such a, drought has been j experienced here before (says the i Kaikoura Star). To such a query, Mr Lyford, senr., says he can remember one surpassing the present season in lack of rain. It was . in the year 1862—44 years ago—when • Lake Elterwater, Flaxbourne, dried up. The country then looked as if it would never recover from the effect of the drought.but it did. Kaikoura, it is held, has previously .worn a more parched-up appearance. A competent is wanted for family near Pahiatua. Mr W. Broughton has been appointed head slaughterman, at the' Dannevirke Abattoir. The funeral of the late Mrs F. E. Allen will take place to-morrow, leaving ' the ! Upper Plain at 2 o'clock. Mr A; E. Standen's name was inadvertently omitted from the handicaps in the cycle events at the Amateur ~ Athletic .Association's sports. , Elsewhere in this issue the proprietors of Tiger teas have a series of special notices with reference to the superiority, of their teas. Messrs J. Graham and Co. are the local agents. Messrs Krahagen and Chapman, tailors, Masterton, notify the arrival of a large assortment of the celebrated Harris tweeds and fancy vestings. These goods are now on view, and the firm are prepared to book orders. ; '.. Rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, are caused by excess uric acid poison in the blood, wh'ch deposits in the muscles and joints. Rheumo quickly cures. 2/6 & 4/6. MERIT KB WARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SONS' 'EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before his Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving ud«ment said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS'EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is oommended to the public by reason of »jts good quality, etc., it is not permissable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all | oosts. We publish this to afford the public an opportunity of protecting themselves and of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation I of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE 1 SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCAIYPTI EXTRACT -

, The monthly meeting, of the "Eke-' tahuna Branch of the New Zealand' Farmers' Union will be held on Saturday next. Mr W. Stevenson, the world'schampion billiard player, will make a tour of New Zealand this y£ar. He is to arrive in Wellington on May* 11th. ... », The Waikato Argus states that Rawhiti, "King" Mahuta's private secretary, who recently patented an. improvement in the under-carriage of waggons, and took down a specially constructed vehicle to the Exhibition at Christchurch, has been offered £1,500 for the patent rights, which in all probability he will accept. Slang has tripped freely from the fingers of women and girls who have thought fit to record their opinions of the Exhibition in the visitors' book placed in' the Tourist ? Department'* Court. Half a dozen of these feminine critics reach the acme of their powers of appreciation by saying that the Fair is the "juicy oyster," and others, pressed for time, have merely written "J.Q.," the initials of their sisters' classical phrase. "A snorter, boshker," shrieked another fair critic. That ugly word "bosca," which is not yet accepted by professors of English, and has yet no definite form, appears in several guises—bosko, boshker, boshta, bosca. Gentle hands have also written "scrumscious," "not half bad," "not so rusty." "just the fixing," "scrummy," "just the feller," "just the ticket," "not , arf," > "let her go." The Governor's advice to girls not to emulate their brothers prowess in slang was not given before it was due. Exposure to cold and damp causes rheumatism. The skin cannot give off theexcess uric acid and it becomes deposited' in the blood. Rheumo will quickly core the - trouble. All chemists and stores, 2/6 and 4/6 Why not get your customs work done with the greatest promptnessj and despatch? Send the papers to J. J. Curtis and Co., Ltd., Shipping, Forwarding, and Customhouse Agents. Customhouse Quay, Wellington, who wilt carry oat every detail and deliver the poods to you, at the most reasonable charges. Write for further parI ticulara'.— Ad'vt.