LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8351, 7 February 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton Band will leave, tomorrow, for Christchurch, to take part in the Exhibition Band Contest. The next meeting "of the Masterton Licensing Committee will be held on March 7th. A civil sitting of the Masterton Magistrate's Court will be held this morning. There are forty-seven cases set down for hearing. One hundred and twenty-one applications for twenty-two sections have been received for the Mangatahi Settlement (Hawke's Bay). The ballot will take place qn Saturday. The quarterly session of the Wairarapa District Court will be held in Masterton, on February 28th. The only business, up to the present, that will come before the Court is a motion by Mr C. A. Pownall to set aside an order of adjudication made by the Registrar in the bankruptcy case of C. C. L. Jensen.

The rape crops at Te Ore Ore are looking: splendid at present. The recent heavy rains did a considerable amount of good to the crops, which, previously, werp.looking:very poor, j On Tuesday evening a man named Timothy Mellor, aged sixty years, in the employ of the Kaiapoi Shipping Company, was jammed between two trucks. He died from the effects of the injuries. Six members of the' Masterton Mounted Rifles, who were unable.to go into camp with their own corps at .Gastlepoint, recently, are at present attending the encampment of the Eketahuna Mounted Rifles. I

On, enquiry at the Hospital, yesterday, it was ascertained that Mr H. Collings, who met with a serious accident at Mr C. E. Daniell's timber yard on Saturday, is progressing very favourably. Harvesting is progressing in North Canterbury. The grain is in prime condition, and threshing returns up .to.the present are very satisfactory considering the season. Many results are far better than was expected. . The Christchurch Girls' High School is so overcrowded that classes have to be taken in the passages. The department has made a grant of £3,000 for additions, and the contract will be let shortly. Mr and Mrs F. • Feist, and Miss Feist, late of Carterton, and now of Wellington, will leave by the Monowai next Friday, en route for a tour of Egypt and the Continent of Europe. They will return in November next.

' A number of Maoris from Hawke's I Bay, who are to give performances at the Exhibition in Christchurch, passed through Masterton by the afternoon mail train yesterday. They (jerformed several hakas in the carpages while at the Masterton railway station. The champion brass band of Australia, the Newcastle City Band, .which is on its way to the contest in Christchurch, is due in Wellington from Sydney this morning by the steamer Maheno, The visitors have a fine record in and are saicl to be a remarkably strong bination. The majority of the players a*eworking miners. /

The Attorney-General,-in an interview, yesterday, said that the secret commission system was dishonest and demoralising. A Prevention of Corruption Act recently passed in Great Britain aimed at just such offences as the Wellington Grand Jury had protested against, and if an enquiry proved their presentment to be justified, he would advocate the adoption of a measure in this country on the same lines as that Act. Perhaps the most important, and certainly the most largely attended, congress of leaders of the Salvation Army held in the colony, is to open in Christchurch, to-morrow, and * the sittings will extend over one week. The congress will be attended by Commissioner McKie, Lieut-.Colonel Hoskins, and an Australian staff, and some 250 New Zealand officers. There will also be about 500 bandsmen in attendance, including some 300 from the North Island.

Grave comnlaints have recently been made regarding the overcrowding of the St. Alban's and New Brighton (Cl/ristchurch) schools. Yesterday the Building Committee of the North Canterbury Education Board met Mr Fowlds to discuss the question, and probably the Minister will make a personal inspection. Up to the present the department has declined to sanction a grant for an additfltaal building.

'At the ''Masterton Police Court,, yesterday mornjng, before Mr Eli Smith, J.P.,- a young man, named Anders Peters Petersen, was charged with having been drunk, also with having made use of obscene language in the bar of the Central Hotel. Accused pleaded guilty, to both charges. The Bench imposed a fine of £lO, in default two months' imprisonment, on the charge of using obscene, language. On the charge of drunkenness the accused was- convicted and discharged.

A fatal accident happened to a man named Richard Brown on the railway line near Ohingaiti, on Tuesday night. The deceased was evidently lying between the rails when the engine of the evening mail train ran into the body. The driver (Patterson) caught sight of ah obstacle on the line when within a few yards of it, and immediately put on the brakes, but it was impossible to prevent a collision. An examination showed that the man was still alive. He was taken to Mangaweka, but died shortly after his arrival.

The Minister of Labour has had enquiries made by the officers of the Department as to the allegations made by the Wellington Post that xihild slavery existed in dairy farms in some districts of the North Island. The Post stated, last night, that the report sent into the Minister showed that the allegations were justified, but the Minister is waiting until he receives reports from the whole of the districts before going fully into the matter with a view to seeing.if any legislation shall be introduced to deal with it.

A letter received by the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association seems to affect the Dunedin Winter Show. The Association asked the Colonial Secretary's permission to retail slices of coin-laden cheese, as had been done for years at Dunedin, but the Colonial Secretary refused permission on the grounds that this could not be made an exception under the Gaming and Lotteries Act. Therefore, it would seem that the Otago Association, in the event of its having a coin-laden cheese at its next Winter Show, will run the risk'of prosecution. The Celebri/tt of Sander and Sons Pdbe Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Eoyalty honours it, and the entire medical profession has adopted its use. Imitations sprungup 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, 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 }$ required to obtain an arttole that is seieni tifically t&sted and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS* PURE [VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT

Between 30 and 40 Grey town» cadets are expected to go into camp '» at the Exhibition.

Mr Hugh Morison has been elected chairman of the South Wairarapa Hospital Board. The profits of the Auckland Gas Company for the past year amounted t to £35,037.

The Palmerston North police paid surprise visits to Chinese premises in the tpwn on Saturday last dn search of opium. As a result, several prosecutions will follow.

Mr Hone Hekp, M.H.R., predicts that the coming session of Parliament will be one of the stormiest on record, the land proposals of the Government being likely to produce the result hs anticipates.

Misses F. E. Kay and R. Messenger, of the Masterton District High School, have completed their apprenticeship as pupil teachers, and have been selected for admission to the Wellington Training School.

His Honor the Chief Justice, who is Chairman "of the Native Lands Commission, will leave for Napier in a few days to make some preliminary investigations concerning Native lands in Hawke's Bay.

Welcome rain began to fall about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Ashburton, and there is every appearance of it continuing. Reports from the country districts state that rain has also fallen there.

A youth named R. E. Barrett, employed at Mr C. E. Daniell's timber yard, had one of his fingers cut off by a planing machine while planing a. piece of wood yesterday morning. The side of his hand was also badly lacerated.

Mr J. C. Williamson, the wellknown theatrical entrepeneur, arrived at Wellington from Sydney, yesterday, on a holiday visit to New Zealand. He was accorded a Mayoral reception, yesterday afternoon, at the Wellington Town Hall. The odd totalisator money at the Ashhurst race meeting amounted to £SB 8s 6d, and has been sent to the secretary of the Palmerston North Hospital, With the Government subsidy of 24s in the £1 this means an. addition of over £l2O to the Hospital funds.

At a meeting of the Vestry of S. Matthew's Church, last evening, it was resolved to make a special effort in the direction of securing the services of a curate for work in the parish and outlying districts. It was pointed out that, the need for a curate has been long felt in S. Matthew's parish. At the last meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association a motion; was carried to the effect that instead of receivingpasses at the gate, persons desiring to pass out of the grounds should be branded on the hand. Mr D. Caselberg has given notice to move at the next meeting of the committee, on Saturday, that that resolution be rescinded.

An Invercargill telegram states that the riders in the Invercargill Hedgehope Cycle Road Race, yesterday, were warned by the police before starting that they would be prosecuted if-they "scorched." AH started, however. The road was blocked by a mounted constable further on, and some of the competitors stopped. Prosecutions wilj probably follow. ' i Since the Masterton District High School re-opened on Monday last after the Christmas vacation there have been over 80 new pupils admitted to the rolls. A number of pupils who had completed their secondary education at the time of the closing of the school for the, holidays have, of course, left school, so that it cannot be said that the rolls have been augmented by 80 pupils.

The. inquest on Alexander Boldero, who was killed at the brickworks at Nelson last Thursday, was concluded late last night, says a Nelson telegram. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased was accidentally killed, and that the resistance post was not sufficiently fixed to stand the extra strain which'it was called upon to bear, and that, in their opinion, the work should have been 'suspended after the accident to Pender until permanent repairs had been affected. ■ It transpired that qn the same morning, while Pender was at the brake, an: accident occurred, and he was struck on rthe right side, but less severely than Boldero.

Messrs Gillespie and Co., Academy Buildings, have vacancies for experienced fiaxcutters, ploughmen, and general station hands.

Should sufficient pupils be forthcoming, it is proposed to form a GleeClass at St. Bride's Convent. Intending pupils are requested to apply immediately to the Mother Superior.

The sale of stock on account of the Whangaimoana Estate, which will be (conducted by Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd. has been definitelyfixed for Tuesday March sth. Full particulars will be advertised later.

The New Zealand Railway Department advertise that special excursion return fares, including steamer fares, will be issued from all booking stations to Christchurch in connection with the Exhibition. Intending passengers are required to give twenty-four hours' notice.

Messrs J. C. Cooper and W. B, Matheson have been appointed by the Partners' Union to give an address on the Land Bill, from a'freehold standpoint, in the Town Hall, Masterton, on Wednesday, February 13th, and at Carterton on February 14th at 8 p.m.

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