LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8372, 5 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton portion of the San Francisco mail arrived yesterday afternoon. Elizabeth Buckmaster was committed for trial at Wellington yesterday on a charge of robbing two men from the Main Trunk Railway works of £l6 and £l7, respectively. It is officially announced that Mr C. E. Button, of Auckland, has accepted the position of Acting-Judge of the Supreme Court. He will probably act until the end of the present year at least. A body was found yesterday in an old well near the Mill Road Station, Invercargill, and it is believed to be that of a man named Nicol, who has been missing froim Tisbury for some months. The first case in Christchurch under the Habitual Drunkards Act was before the S.M. Court on Saturday. A woman with 14 previous convictions against her was sent to the Samaritan Home for two years. The population of Victoria on December 31st last, exclusive of fullblooded aborigines, was 1,237,998, consisting of 620,380 males and 617,618 females, or an increase of 19,427 compared with the preceding year. It is officially announced that Colonel A. Pole Penton has been appointed brigadier-general to command the Scottish Coast Defences, succeeding Major-General T. Perrott. Colonel Penton was formerly Commandant in New Zealand. On Saturday the three-year old son of E. H. McPartland, manager of the Hunworth Dairy Factory, Taranaki, drank a quantity of sulphuric acid to. which it obtained access in the factory, and died after great suffering. At the inquest a verdict of death by misadventure was returned. The next sitting of the Conciliation Board will be held in Wellington on the 12th inst., when the Painters' dispute will be taken. The Plasterers' case will be heard on the 14th inst. Sittings of the board will be held at Masterton on 15th, Dannevirke on the 18th, Napier on the 20th, Palmerston North on the 22nd, and Wanganui on the 25th inst. A sitting of the Compensation Court will shortly be held in Napier to fix the price for 4,650 acres of Mrs Mathews' Te Ohu estate, near Noreswood, which the Government have decided to acquire compulsorily for closer settlement. The Chief Justice will preside, and the assessors will be Mr D. Guild, of Masterton, and Mr F. W. Williams, of Napier. A meeting of the Board of Management of the Y.M.C.A. and the Ladies' Auxiliary was held, last evening. It was decided to hold a bazaar, which is to take the form of an Old English Village Fair, on June 12th, 13th and 14th, in the Drill Hall. Most of the stalls have been allotted, and numerous- promises of assistance and material have been received. The Ladies' Auxiliary will hold a meeting every Tuesday afternoon and evening. The following is the result of the Egg-laying Competition of the Utility Poultry Club, for the week ending March 2nd-The total number of eggs laid to date is 50,827. The best totals for the week are: — M. Blanch, Silver Wyandottes, 30; L. Webster, Silver Wyandottes, 23; H. Hawke, Silver Wyandottes, 22. The following are the best aggregates to-date:—M. Blanch, 1,008; J. Ashton, Silver Wyandottes, 837; F. O'Brien, Silver Wyandottes, 779. The Celebbit* op Sander and Sons Fobs Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged, Boyalty 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 ahd Sons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme Court o£ 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 produoed. 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

The latest return from the Antonio's Flat dredge is 17oz sdwts for 108 hours' dredging.

At the last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board there were 106 applicants for 22 positions.

Four thousand acres of vacant Crown land in different parts of England are about to be cut up into small holdings.

The Hastings Standard understands that the canning factory at Frimley will put out half a million cans of pie fruit alone this season.

™ A local farmer informs the Feilding Star that it cost him <£4o last year to eradicate pennyroyal from one of his paddocks.

A Dunedin firm recently obtained judgment against a Marlborough resident for sixpence. The costs of the case amounted to seven shillings!

Messrs C. F. Vallance and J. Macara, left Masterton, yesterday morning, for Cambridge, where they will judge the horses at the A. and P. Show.

At the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr E. McEvven, J.P., John Gorzleek was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness.

The two patients who were suffering from measles have been discharged from the Hope Street fever hospital. There are now three cases of scarlet fever in the hospital.

The three coachbuilding fr.rn's in Masterton have decided to change the date of their weekly half-holi-day from Thursday to Saturday, after the 16th ir,scant.

A youns man » named William Butterworth, 25 years of age, blew his brains out in a paddock on his employer's farm, near Normanby, at an early hour yesterday morning.

An expert has been in Masterton during the last few days inspecting property where clay, said to be suitable for bricks, is to be found. He is quite satisfied with the quality of the clay, from samples that he took some time ago, and he has now taken away more samples, including some * fine clay from Mr F. W. H. Kummer's property at Mauriceville, which he intends to further test. A company is in course of formation in Masterton to establish brick-making works near the town.

Our London correspondent writes: —"Since writing my previous note, the Tyrolese chamois presented to the New Zealand Government by the Emperor of Austria, have arrived from Ostend. Inspector Krauss, of Schonbrunn, was in charge. ( > On arrival they were met by Mr Bertliery and an official from the High Commissioner's office, and they were then transferred to the Royal Albert Docks, where they will remain in quarantine until their departure by the Turakina, on January 25th. On their voyage to the colony they will be under the (fore of Mr Bertliery. Inspector -Krauss will take back with him the birds and lizards which were presented by your Government to the Imperial Austrian menagerie. The shipment consistsof two bucks, and six does, and the animals have been slowly habituated to the diet which will be necessary during the long voyage." The bankruptcy is reported of Dr. C. D. Greenwood, of Christchurch, whose debt£ to unsecured creditors amount to £275 2s 9d, and assets £l4O, leaving a deficiency of £135 2s 9d. He had a private consumptive sanatorium in Christchurch, and attributed his bankruptcy to the competition of Nurse Maude's public camps. In his statement Dr. Greenwood says: —"I was very enthusiastic in the crusade, against consumption, and had made up my mind to devote my life to this cause, and in furtherance of this object I devoted a large proportion of my time to these camps in organising, advising and medical attendance on the patients for about three years, and for this I have not received any payment whatever; but many of those who might otherwise have come to my private sanatorium were treated there without payment." The creditors decided to recommend bankrupt's discharge as soon as possible. The Official Assignee stated that the bankrupt had informed him that he would as soon as possible discharge every penny of liability. A sitting-room and bed-rooms are advertised to be let. Messrs Cresswell and Wright insert a notice that Mr J. Wallace is not now in their employ. The Masterton Eorough Council give notice of a special rate in connection with a loan for the Abattoir water supply. -The Masterton Farmers' Implement Company, Messrs Thos. Wagg and Co. and J. C. Ewington notify that their factories will be closed on Saturday at noon as from March 16th. Holiday excursion fares will be charged on the New Zealand railways in connection with the cricket match, M.C.C. v.-New Zealand, at Wellington, on March Bth, 9th, and 11th.

The annual meeting of the y.M.C.A. Chess Club will, be held tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, at 7.30 o'clock, when all members of the club and of the Association are invited to be present.

For 'the convenience of intending purchasers at the sale of horses and implements at Te Rangitumau, on Thursday next, Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., have arranged for a drag to leave the Masterton Post Office at 9.30 a.m. and to pickup passengers at the Opaki Railway Station: Nominations for the handicap events at the annual sports meeting of the Forty-Mile Bush Athletic< Society, to be run at Hamua on Thursday, March 21st, will close with the secretary, Mr F. P. Walkley, Hamua, at noon on Thursday next. This society offer liberal prizes, and the outlook for a successful gathering is exceptionally good. Eight from the first dose Bheumo gives relief from the awful agony of rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago, etc. 2/6 and 4/6. Obtainable frwn all Chemists and stores. Why suffer the torments of Hell with Rheumatism or Lumbago when Dr Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment will ease the pain at once, and continued application effects « permanent cure. Price 1/6; large bottle 3/-. ifor sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Maurice* vi\ le Go-operative Store, Mauriceville Weal*

The rainfall in Dannevirke for the -month of February was 2.94 inches.

Owing to scarcity caused through the continued dry weather, the price of milk has been advanced to 4d a quart in Invercargill and Christchurch.

America manufactured 38,000 motor-cars of all types 'ast year, as against 3,500 in 1900. One hundred and thirty-four persons were killed by motor-cars during the year.

An elderly man, a carpenter,, while cycling, yesterday, from Mangatera to Dannevirke, dropped dead. Heart disease was the cause of deaths. The deceased has left a wife and young family.

The amount of bounty paid for sugar in Queensland this season is £243,849. This will probably be increased by the end of the season to £260,000. Last season only £111,608 was paid.

Mr James B. Connelly, the popular writer of sea-stories in America, has -enlisted in the United States Navy. He took this step at the request of Mr Roosevelt, who wishes him to _do for the American Navy what Kipling did for the British Navy.

Replying to a deputation from the Auckland Kauri Timber Company, the Minister for Lands said Cabinet would decide upon what course he would follow regarding the remaining kauri country. It seemed to be understood that there was not much more than 10 years' timber available for ail the mills now in existence. Ha favoured the scheme of reserving the balance of the remaining timber country and ■slackening down the cutting out of the rest so as not to unnecessarily hasten the end of the kauri timber industry.

"What has this horse cost the 'Country?" was a question put by Mr Justice Denniston to the Crown Prosecutor at the Supreme Court, Auckland. Mr Tole, in reply, said that it would be somewhere about £SOO. That such an amount should he expended because of a horse may seem strange, but it is easily explained. The animal in question changed owners in the King Country some time ago, and was the subject of .proceedings against a Maori for theft. After two trials the accused was acquitted, and, as a, sequel, three Maoris were indicted for perjury. Two of them have been acquitted, leaving the third one to still be tried.

A verv ingenious invention by Mr Arnold Hare, of Auckland, for the automatic lighting and extinguishing of gas lamps is being patented. By this device the street or other lamps can be lighted and extinguished at any set time. It is so arranged that it can be regulated for moonlight nights, so as to automatically extinguish the lamps upon the moon rising. It has been tested by the Auckland Gas Company, which has signified its intention of ordering some as soon as it is upon the market. It is constructed as a clock, capable of going for two weeks, and when wound up requires no more attention till run down.