LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8357, 12 February 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is said that water is becoming scarce in Martinborough. The employees of Mr C. E. Daniell have decided to hold a social every year. Owing to failure to supply • sufficient rolling stock, the Auckland Tramways Company has had to pay the Auckland City Council fines totalling £320. The monthly meeting of the Council of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce will be held, on Friday next, at 3.30 p.m. A gener&l meeting of members will be held afterwards.

The judges at the Exhibition Band Contest are Lieut. Bentley and Messrs W. King and 0. Schwartz.

The band of gipsies, which has been exploiting the colony for several months past, left for Sydney on Friday.

Dr Findlay, Attorney-General, says that a number of legal practitioners have sent in applications for the position of K.C.

Mr J. G. Harkness, Secretary of the National Dairy Association, has been elected Chairman of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce.

Entries are still coming in for the Masterton A. and P. Association's forthcoming Show. Twenty entries for various classes were received yesterday.

In proportion to its size, Timaru is said to contain more motor-cars than Christchurch. Recently cars to the value of £7,500 were seen in a garage there at one time.

Matters in connection with the Technical School in Pahiatua are almost completed, the necessary money for the purchase of the land having all been subscribed.

A conference of the members of the Boards of Advice and Training College Principals was opened, yesterday, in Wellington, x The proceedings are not open to the Press.

At a meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Chess Club, last evening, it was decided to hold the annual meeting on February 27th, and also to open the season with a social on that date.

There is said to be at present a shortage of sheep trucks on the Wairarapa line, and stockmen who have fat stock to handle are heavily handicapped in filling orders, besides which the sheep have to be held so long as to cause them to lose condition.

Several members of the Y.M.C.A. met, last evening, and decided to form an Amateur Dramatic and Glee Club in connection with the Association. A large number of the members' have decided to support the movement.

To-morrow will be Ash Wednesday —the commencement of the Lenten Season. At S. Matthew's Church there will be Holy Communion at 7.30 a.m. and services at 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. Special services will be, held at S. Patrick's Church. '

Captain Edward Lascelles, of Napier, who served with distinction in the South African War, and subsequently joined the Third Dragoon Guards, now stationed at Curragh, in which he rapidly gained promotion, has been appointed senior drill instructor to the New Zealand forces.

The deadly pea-rifle is again in evidence despite the new statutory restrictions. The daughter of Mr Manfred McMahon, hotelkeeper at Tararu, Thames, had a narrow escape from being killed on Wednesday last. She was struck on the forehead by a bullet from a pea-rifle, the bone being splintered. A farmer on this coast, says the Manawatu Standard, has put up a good performance this season. Being unable to secure labour, he and two sons have harvested nearly 150 acres of heavy crop, and his bill for outside labour has come to under 30s. Besides this, .they have managed to milk fourteen cows every morning.

The Harbour Board election at Wanganui, yesterday, resulted: —W. G. Bassett 707, J. T. Hogan 656, A. G. Bignell 655. N. Meuli 612, T. B. Williams 597, John Jones 590, A. Harris 572, W. E. Morgan 549. The first four were elected. A. Higgie was elected for the Wanganui County.

In connection with the visit of the Besses-o'-th'-Barn Band to Welling" ton holiday excursion 4 tickets Wellington and Te Aro, available for return until Saturd-iy, February 16th, will be obtainable at Masterton Greytown, Mungaroa and intermediate stations <»n February 13th and 14th. '

The Masterton South Band played a programme of music at the Triangle at Kuripuni, last evening. There was a large attendance of the public. Over twenty members of the Band were present, and their rendering of the various items showed that the Band is making steady progress under the conductorship of Mr T. Rodgers. The Band intend to hold a bazaar shortly in aid of the Uniform Fund.

The ship Port Elgin arrived at Auckland, yesterday afternoon, bound from Anto Pagasta to Sydney for orders. Captain? Hand is suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia, but is mending. Dr. Sharman, Port Health Officer, is attending to the captain. The ship will remain in Auckland for a few days to see if the captain's condition will allow him to proceed on the voyage, or compel him to come ashore at Auckland.—Association.

Messrs A. E. Wilton and R. G. Townsend left Masterton at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning for Mount Holdsworth. One of the party, rode a bicycle while the other was mounted on hoi'seback. The summit was reached at 8.20 o'clock. They state that the weather was perfect, but the view from the top was marred by the smoke from bush fires in the valley. The edelweiss on the mountain is beginning to fade, and the blossoms are withering. They consider that the value of the suspension bridge over the Maungatarere River to travellers cannot be over-estimated, but the metalled portions of the road leading to the mountain are very rough on cyclists and their machines.

The representatives of Labour, says the Post, have adopted the following platform to be advocated by the Labour candidates at the approaching municipal election: —(1) A more vigorous forward policy in connection with the suburban water supply and drainage; (2) municipal markets for fish, fruit and vegetables; (3) municipal abattoirs; (4) establishment of a depot for the sterilisation of the city's milk supply; (5) workers' homes, and the speedy demolition of insanitary dwellings; (6) that a minimum wage, should be fixed for all employees of the corporation. The campaign will be conducted by the Labour Representation Committee, consisting of representatives of the Trades and the Political Labour League and delegates from eighteen unions.

The Dreyerton Sports Club has decided to affiliate with the New Zealand Athletic Union.

A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Wairoa on Saturday last, at 6.35 p.m.

Taranaki farmers find that in some instances the cocksfoot crop is blighted this year.

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers will not continue their trophy shoot-> ing competitions until after the Trentham Rifle Meeting.

At Maheno last week 400 aged ewes were sold at Is per head. They were railed to the boiling-down works at Pareora.

The death occurred, at Dunedin, yesterday, of Mr William Wardrop, chemist, formerly Mayor of South Dunedin.

A dog savagely attacked a lad named Arthur Sanford at Thames, yesterday, lacerating his arm' severely. His parents arrived in time to prevent fatal injuries. The Murchison Post hears on good authoritythat there is every likelihood of the Government purchasing Messrs Wilkie and Page's run at Braeburn. The owners fix the price at £12,000. (

David Whio, a native, employed in the Turua Bush, Thames, was riding home on a truck when he fell off and he wheel passed over him, inflicting internal injuries to which he succumbed.

The Minister of Labour is considering the question of displaying the "sweated industries" exhibit in other parts of the colony after the close of the Exhibition at Christchurch.

A very fine trout, scaling 221b, was caught in the Opihi River (Canterbury) one day last week. Another one, which weighed 21£lb, was also taken from the Opihi River last week.

Messrs W. M. Easthope and P. M. Compton, representing the Masterton Tent of Rechabites, will leave Masterton"on next for New Plymouth, to attend the triennial Conference of Rechabites, which will open in that town on Tuesday.

A new type of blight has attacked the potato crop of Mr C. Twining, of Shag Point, says the Palmerston Times. The skin of the tubers is quite brown; and when it is removed insects in large numbers are seen, some of them being a quarter of an inch in length.

One of the oldest residents of the Hutt, Mrs M. A. Buck, relict of the late Mr James Gregory Buck, died on Sunday. Mrs Buck had resided in the district for 55 years. She was 75 years of age. She leaves a family of grown-up sons and daughters, residing in the district.

The team that has been selected to represent the Masterton Fire Brigade, at the Fire Brigade Demonstration at Christchurch,are practising assiduously for the various events for which they have entered. The team should give a good account of themselves at the Demonstration.

Four firemen, named James Farrell, Leonard Ambrose, Walter Dainty and William McLean, were arrested on warrant in Masterton yesterday by Constable Townsend on a charge of deserting from the s.s. Kumara, at Wellington, oh Fberuary 6th. The men will be brought before the Magistrate's Court this morning.

There are now thirteen Sports Clubs in the Wairarapa district that have either affiliated with or obtained permits from the New Zealand Athletic Union. Several -clubs in the outlying districts have not yet affiliated. It may not be generally known that athletes competing at a meeting of a club that is not affiliated with the Union are liable to disqualification. At St; Joseph's Church, Wellington, yesterday, Mr Frank Stempa, eldest son of Mr A. Stempa, of Masterton, was married to Miss Kate Drumm, eldest daughter of the late Mr Drumm, of Greymouth. Miss G: Drumm, sister of the bride, was the bridesmaid, and Mr A. Stempa, junr., brother of the bridegroom was best man. The marriage ceremony was _ performed by the Rev. Father O'Shea. . .

At the conclusion of the services at the Masterton Methodist Sunday School, op Sunday last, Mr C. E. Daniel!, who has been superintendent of the School for about fifteen years, , was presented, by the Rev. J.N. ! Buttle, on behalf of the pupils and teachers of the School, with a handsome travelling rug to mark the occasion of his departure on a trip to England. Mr Daniell suitably acknowledged the gift.

A meeting of the. committee, who are arranging a public "send-off" to Mr C. E. Daniell, prior to his departure for England, was held in the Borough Council Chambers last evening. Mr E. McEwen, presided over a large attendance. The secretary reported that he had made arrangements with a Wellington firm to prepare an illuminated address, the price of which, with about one hundred signatures embossed on it, would [ be £6 6s. The amount collected up to [ the time of the meeting was £35. i The question of selecting suitable presents for Mr and Mrs Daniell, with the balance of the money collected, was left in the hands of Messrs P. L. Hollings, W. H. Jackson and the secretary (Mr A. Hathaway). It was decided to make the presentations to Mr Daniell in the Town Hall on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The Chairman was appointed to make the presentations. The matter of arranging a musical programme was left in the hands of Mr J. Candy. The Chairman and Messrs R. Brown and A. Hathaway were appointed to draw up- the other portions of the programme for the evening. The Celebrity op Sasder and Sons Pore Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it. and the entire medical profession has adopte&iisuse. Imitations sprang 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, 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 artiole that is scientifically tssted and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCA.LYPTI EXTRACT

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers will Ibring their class-firing to a close on Thursday next. Members must complete class-firing on that day in order to avoid being fined. The bi-annual conference of Druid Lodges will be held in Nelson next week. Messrs W. W. Mansfield (Carterton), Bannin (Grey town), Nicol (Masterton), and Jackson (Eketahuna), will be the Wairarapa delegates.

, The Minister for Lands (Hon. R. " M'Nab) will leave on Saturday on a tour of the North of Auckland district. He 'is booked to speak at several places, and will be on the "move for at least a fortnight. He is due back in Wellington on March 3rd, and after spending" some days in Wellington attending to departmen- . tal business, will leave for a threeweeks' trip through the country south of Auckland.

..At the Masterton Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning, before Mr W. P. James, S.M., William Palmer, alias Downes, and James McKee, pleaded guilty to charges of being found on licensed premises during the currency "of a prohibition order. Palmer had previously been •convicted for a similar offence, and McKee was a first offender. Mr James, after severely reprimanding both the accused, ordered Palmer to •come up' for sentence when called ■upon and discharged McKee. • The balance sheet of the New Zealand Insurance Company for the year ended November 30th,. 1906, has been published. From this it appears/ that the net income from premiums interest and rents was £594,370, the underwriting profit, after deducting San Francisco conflagration losses, having been £89,038. San Francisco conflagration losses amounted to £285,694, all charged to profit and loss account. In order to liquidate these lossses transfers were made to the credit of profit and loss account from the reserve fund of £120,485, and from other special reserves of £45,000, leaving a credit balance of £17,758 to carry, forward. It is proposed to pay a dividend of two shillings per share, absorbing £12,500, •out of the amount carried forward.

' The Conciliation Board sat in Masterton, yesterday, to hear the claims of the Wellington Letterpress' Machinists' Union to have a separate award made for country machinists, who are at present included in the Wellington Country Typographical award. The members of the Board were Messrs P. J. O'Regan (chairman),, A. Collins (employees' representative), and H. Innes (employers' representative). Mr S. E. Wright, secretary of the Wairarapa Employers' Association, appeared for the printing firms cited in Masterton and the surrounding district, and Messrs T. L. Buick and N. Mcßobie for the firms cited in the Dannevirke and Woodville . districts. The employees were represented by Messrs W. Jones and J. O'Connor. Mr Wright applied to have the Wairarapa employers entirely exempted from the proposed new award. The Chairman replied that applications for exemptions would be considered when the Board sat in Wellington, after visiting all the country districts. A conference, between the representatives of the employers and employees was then held in , camera.;. The conference occupied all / the afternoon and part of the evenr * ing. The Board will visit other country, centres, before making any recommendations. ' Mr H. Johnson, gives notice of an application, in respect of ,the transfer of the 1 icense of the Alfred- ', ton Hotel. A reward is offered for the recovery of a child's beaver coat lost between Sussex and Church streets on Saturday evening last. New and special lines of crockery ware, electro-plated ware, and fancy goods are now being shown .in the Fancy Goods Department at the W.F.C.A. Hugh Rea, of Masterton, has been adjudicated a bankrupt, and the first-meeting of creditors will be held in the Courthouse,. Masterton, at noon on Monday next. Mr J. R. Nicol will sell, on Saturday next, the whole of the furniture and effects contained in "Ringwell" boarding house, of"seventeen rooms, without reserve. Full particulars will be advertised on Thursday. 'At 4 (jf'clbck on Tuesday; February 19th, the' New Zealand Loan - and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., will hold a sale of fat and show stock on the Masterton Showgrounds. Entries to date include a draught stallion by Young Pride.

Mr E. ■W. Christmas, the Australian artist, arrived in Masterton yesterday, and will hold a private view of his paintings, on Wednesday and Thursday next, in the Exchange Buildings, from : 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., to which lovers of art are invited. - Some particularly good opportunities in farms are advertised to-day by East and East, of Wellington and Christchurch, in a special selec- . tion from their extensive lists, of five farms, ranging from 100 acres to 1,000 acres. All open to buy or sell farms are invited to communicate . direct with the firm, whose methods and system are thoroughly up-to-datei • A publication that* should be acceptable to all business and profes- '' sional men doing advertising in the colony is a "Handbook to Newspapers and Newspaper Advertising in New Zealand," which Messrs Bailey and Milburn, advertising agents, of 123 Princes Street, Dunedin, have just published and are distributing free to all bona-fide advertisers. This handbook contains a list of all the papers in the colony arranged in tabular form under provincial head- , ings, together with information as '-..t0 population of districts, days of "publication, etc. Several well thought out articles on such topics as "The v > Necessity of Advertising," "Who Should Advertise," "More Business for the Manufacturer,'' also appear, while Messrs Bailey and M ilburn reproduce a number of their advertisements to illustrate what can be done to make advertising,attractive and what they are doing for their clients. Accompanying the booklet is a neatly printed newspaper map of the colony, showing the railways and indicating the position of every town in, Ne\y Zealand in which a newspaper is issued. Undoubtedly both of these publications should be in the hand of ■every business man for reference.

At Wellington Chamber of Commerce meeting, Mr D. J. Nathan said that so far from the preferential trade question being dead it was only just beginning to move.

The Auckland Star urges the Government to take special precautions to prevent the spread of plague to New Zealand from Sydney. Dr. Mason says vigilance has not been in any way relaxed.

The special Mission services, that are being conducted by the Redemptorist Fathers, were continued in S. Patrick's Church, Masterton, yesterday. All the services were well attended. Rev. Father McDermott preached an impressive sermon at Devotions in the evening.

It is probable that the Tutira, Mohaka and Waihua, and possibly Waimara, Blocks, in the Hawke's Bay district, will be first enquired into by the Native Land Commission, and then Wan<ranui, the King Country and-En.-? ; : Caps will in turn be visiter].

At Martinboi-ough, on Y; ,'dnesday last, Mr Malcolm" MeLennan, son of Mr Simon MeLonnsn, of Shannon, was married to Mhs Grace McMaster, daughter of Mr James McMaster. The bridesmaids were Miss Rose McLennan(sister of the bridegroom), and Miss Jane McMaster (sister of the bride). Mr Angus Sutherland was best man.

Four cases remain for trial at the Wellington Supreme Court criminal sessions, which are postponed until Friday next in consequence of the absence from Wellington of the Chief Justice and Mr Justice Copper, who are on circuit in Hawke's Bay and Taranaki, respectively. The cases are:—Sidney George Ingram, alleged aiding and abetting in fraud; Rupert Kellow, alleged unnatuaral offence; Patrick Francis Brosnihan, alleged attempts to extort money (three charges); and Arthur Law, alleged keeping a room for betting purposes. A serious result has followed upon the recent flood in the Mauhgakahia district, near Whangarei. A considerable portion of the countryside has been covered, to a greater or lesser extent, by a coating of silt brought down by the Hikurangi River, a tributary of the Maungakahia, and left on the flat ground by the receding waters. The silt, dried by the sun, has settled into a solid mass, not unlike a cake of cement, and I as hard as a sun-baked brick. absolutely unfertile, and is so hard that nothing could grow in or through it, so that the loss to settlers in the district will be considerable. It is extraordinary that so hard a deposit should have been so rapidly formed.

"Fin-ilan-ori!" The gentlemen in the street who use that cry to apprise the public that they have fine island oranges to sell require a little watching by intending purchasers of wares displayed on the coster barrows, says the Post. Placards give details of tempting bargains such as "Bananas, thirty for Is; tomatoes, 61b for Is, "passion fruit, thirty for 6d." But the hawkers do not always carry out their contracts. On Saturday morning, for instance, a citizen tendered a shilling to one of the pedlars, expecting six pounds of tomatoes, according to' the cardj\ but the bag contained . barely three pounds. Another discovered a shortage in his passion fruit, y Other instances of, sleight-of-hand taicks by pedlars have been reported recently. * .■'.'•,■ A Wellington telegram states that the adjourned inquest on the body of the infant found buried in the bush near Otaki, last Thursday, was held yesterday. The. alleged mother of the child, Matilda 1 Morris, was present. She is under arrest on a charge of murder. The evidence given showed that the mother left the place she had been living at one morning with the child, and arrived that evening at another house without it. Suspicions were aroused, and it being found that the mother's story was unsatisfactory;, the police were com • municated with, "the result being that the mother showed where the body was buried. The medical evidence was indefinite, and the "jury returned the following verdict: "That Albert Morris met his death on January 21st, but there is not sufficient evidence to show the actual cause of death." i No matter how long you' have suffered from rheumatism, gdut.sciatica or lumbago, Bheumo will cure you. All chemists and stores stock it. Price 2/6 and lj(i.