LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8373, 7 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. D. Watson, of Masterton, will judge the horses at the Eketahuna Show to-day.

Since the Mt. Holdsworth track has been opened there have been about 400 visitors to the mountain. The funeral of the late Mr E. Meredith will take place to-day, leaving his late residence, "Llandaff," Upper Plain, at 3 o 'clock.

A movement is on foot to secure a new school for Putara, the children from which district are at present being conveyed to the Nireaha School.

Owing to the funeral of the late Mr E. Meredith taking place this afternoon, the Fairview Rifle Club will not hold their usual trophy shooting competition.

A cable message has been sent to Towns by a committee of Wanganui rowing- enthusiasts enquiring whether he will row Webb for the championship, and what expenses he will allow the New Zaalander.

Tho. election of a representative for th" Wairarapa Ward of the Wellington Education Board will take place in July. Mr A. W. Hogg. M.H.R., will be the retiring member.. It is rumoured that ho will be opposed by a Pahiatua resident.

The monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association will be hsld on Saturday, when a balance-sheet showing the receipts and expenditure of the Association to date will be submitted.

At a meeting of Cabinet, yesterday, Mr F. ds C. Malet, Chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, was reappointed for a further term of two years, and Mr W. H. Quick, barrister, of Wellington, was appointed director in place of Sir James Pren degast, retired. A Kaffir office boy, employed in a Capetown office, and rejoicing in the name of "Charlie," did not feel very well one morning, so he wrote to his "boss" as follows-.--"Dear Sir, here I sent that boy in my place I dont feel inclitnb to come to-day please show my work I done perhaps if I feel well will I come tomorrow morning."

The Victoria Tennis Club will commence a Ladies' Handicap Singles competition this afternoon. The following handicaps have been declared, each game to be 30 upMisses E. Hooper, Infield, Fisher, R. Hooper, M. Siempa, Mesdanies W. G. Smith and R. Buxton, scr; Misses M. and A. Rive, E. Carpenter, B. and I. Hammond, 5; Misses W. Jones, M. Smith, M. Morgan, M. Hourigan, Dixon, Townsend, V. O'Connell, M. Tait, M. Wagg, Scott, L. Wickens, D. Gardener, H. Wickens, V. Carpenter, Monk, and °W. Carpenter, 10 points. The final in the Men's Handicap"Singles will be decided today, when C. Carley will meet R. Buxton.

The Y.M.C.A. Chess Club held their annual meeting and social in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms, last evening, Mr W. Kummer occupying the chair. The Secretary read the annual report and balance-sheet. The latter showed a small credit balance. During the evening Messrs W. Jones, P. Lett and G. Rees gave recitations, and a song was sung by Mr It. Hatch. After the social an adjournment was made to the chess room, where- a match, Married v. Single, was played, with the following result (the names of married men appear first): —W. Kummer beat D. Lett, W. Lett lost to F. Youle, W. Jones beat W. Miller, H. Lett beat B'. Syverson, J. Candy lost to P. Lett, David Lett lost to J. Winchester, C. Winchester beat J. Syverson, J. Logan beat R. Hatch. The married men thus won by five games to three. An interesting little booklet has been issued by the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance , Company in connection with the earthquake and subsequent fire at San Francisco. The amount paid out by the amounted to £1,750,000 —the-largest sum which has ever been paid by a British company for a single fire. This sum, if paid in sovereigns, placed end to end, would extend a distance of 24.1 miles, or in dollars would extend a distance of 213 miles, equal to a continuous silver line from London to Liverpool. Again, this sum in dollars, piled up on each other, would represent a column 13J miles high, a height seven times that of Mount Blanc. Mr J. C. Boddington is the Masterton agent for the London and Lancashire Company.

The Paris correspondent of the London Daily Mail, writing to his paper on the occasion of the "Springbok" victory in Paris, remarks that the French public accepted the defeat in a very sportsmanlike manner. The following is an extract from Les Sports:—"The South Africans will leave in France, among the sports men who came into closer contact with them, the reputation of perfect gentlemen. We cannot resist telling the following little story. Nothing had been arranged between the team's manager, Mr Garden, and the organisers. the State Francais, and the Racing Club de France, as to the percentage of profits to be paid to the South Africans. At the banquet Mr Carden was offered 60 per cent, of the receipts, as was the case with the New Zealanders. Mr Carden, however, replied: 'lt is too much. We have £6O in expenses, pay us thsjt; that will be enough. We make it sport, and not business, and' if there be anything over spend it in improving your grounds and clubhouses, as we will also do with our receipts on our return to the Cape.' " The thought that naturally arises in one's mind, on reading the foregoing paragraph is whether Mr Carden sought to cast any reflection upon the action of the New Zealanders.

No matter from what form of rheumatism you suffer—chronic, muscular, inflammatory—or gout, sciatica, lumbago, Khedm'o will surely cure you. All stores 2/0 afid 4/6:

Miss G. Allen has been appointed sole teacher at the Ihuraua School.

A sitting of the Native Land Court will be held in Greytown on the 20th inst.

An almost complete skeleton was found at Hedgehope (Southland) on Tuesday, states a telegram. There was no evidence as to the identity of the deceased.

At the Masterton Borough Abattoir, during the month of February, there were condemned, wholly, four cattle, three pigs and one sheep, and, partially, three cattle, five pigs and three sheep. At-the fortnightly pay night of the Workers' Mutual Benefit JJuilding Society, last evening, the sum of £46 10s was received. The sale of ,£3OO, free of interest, will take place tonight.

An Invercargill telegram states thajj a boy will be charged in the Juvenile Court, to-day, with having been found in possession of a firearm. This is believed to be the first prosecution of the sort in the colony.

The Native Lands Commission commenced a sitting at Mohaka (Hawke's Bay) on Wednesday, the inquiry affecting the Mohaka Block (24,000 acres) and the Whareaurata Block (3,300 acres).

At the inquest, at Invercargill, yesterday, on the remains of Charles Smith Nicol, found in a well near the Mill Road, the jury returned a verdict that the body was found in a well, but that there was no evidence to show how it got there.

The rates due to the Masterton Borough Council for the year 1906-7 are coming in very slowly. After the 15th inst. all outstanding rates incur a penalty of 10 per cent., and it is expected that before that date there will be a considerable reduction in the amount of rates due.

A Press Association telegram from New Plymouth records the death, yesterday morning, of Mr James C. George, for fifty years a'resident of New Plymouth. The deceased was one of the proprietors of the Crown Dairy Company, and a pioneer of the dairy factory industry. The Harnua School Committee has asked the Wellington Education Board for a statement of the Committee's powers and responsibilities in regard to the school grounds, which are used for the grazing of horses ridden by pupils coming from a distance. The Board has replied that the matter is one for the .Committee itself to deal with.

A Wellington telegram states that the Arbitration Court has ratified the agreement between the clothing manufacturers and the Federated Tailoresses' Union and other employees. The agreement was the i"esult of a conference held in Christchurch and was signed by Mr P. Hercus, of the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory, for the employers, and the Hon. J. T. Paul for the employees. The movement to apply the principle of rating on unimproved values continues to go forward. On the 28th of February the Dannevirke ratepayers adopted the new system by 308 votes to 94, and a few days previous poll was taken in the Clyde Town District, Wairoa, when the ratepayers adopted it by 68 votes to 12. Steps are shortly to be taken to submit the question to the ratepayers of Hastings and Napier. At the request of the Advisory Board of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, the Otago Employers' Association have agreed thai their secretary (Mr W. Scott) should proceed to Auckland, after attending the sittings of the Arbitration Court on the West Coast in the matter of the Westport coal dispute, and there representee employers in the tramway dispute and also the Waihi goldmining dispute. At the Greytown Magistrate's Court, yesterday, before Mr W. P. James, S.M., Mark Maxton, auctioneer, was fined £lO for selling without a license. D. P.' Loasby sued the Public Trustee for £IOO for goods supplied to Mrs Mahupuku's order in connection with the tangi over the late T. Mahupuku. Judge Palmer, of Wellington, gave evidence to the effect that it was not the custom to allow charges to be made against an estate in connection with a tangi. The persons attending ,the tangi usually gave voluntary contributions. His Worship reserved judgment. A respectable girl is wanted as a nurse girl. Mr J. Cairns has vacancies for sfeveral lady helps. A thoroughbred bay gelding is advertised for sale. A married couple require two ( rooms furnished or unfurnished, j The Masterton County Council invite tenders to close at noon on Tues- , day next for road works and metalling contracts. 1 The price of the 986-acre section i advertised by Messrs Hare and j Davidson is £l2 per acre, and £8 10s for the 1,200-acre block. The name of E. Eastwood (20yds) was omitted from the list of handicaps in the two-mile bicycle race to be decided at St.Patriclc's Day Sports on Thursday next. The Trust Lands Trust voters' list is now open for inspection. Any objection to the list must be lodged at the Trust Office, Hall Street, before "Thursday, March 14th, at 5 p.m. Messrs Hendry and Buxton are now opening up their autumn and winter goods. The firm have up-to-date novelties in all departments, , and will make a gaslight window display every evening during the week. Owing to the great success of the sales" last week at the Masterton auction mart, on account of Mr D'Arcy Ford, the latter has sent up a further consignment of drapery and clothing, which will be sold without reserve on Friday and Saturday. The/goods are now on view at the mart, and inspection is invited.

Mr C. C. Aitken, bookseller and stationer, holds an up-to-date supply of the latest books and magazines and is in regular receipt of every published novelty appertaining to the stationery business. With a stock so regularly supplied his customers can rely on up-to-date reading matter to suit all tastes, t The fancy goods department is also carefully studied and every novelty secured that will be suitable for presents for all ages. In an advertisement appearing elsewhere Mr Aitken quotes prices for leading lines.