LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8385, 20 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fairview Rifle Club will hold a trophy shooting competition tomorrow. The nett overdraft, of the Masterton Borough Council is £1,594 12s 6d. The rates outstanding amount to £1,687 8s 7d. / Owing to the slips on the railway line, yesterday, the Taylor-Carring-ton Company were unable to get through to Pahiatua, and had to cancel their engagement in that town last evening.

The Mamari, which left Welling- I ton on January 31st, arrived in London last Sunday. Lord Plunket and suite left Wei- , lington for the South by the liotoma- ] hana last night. , The Hon. W. Hall Jones left Wellington for Christchurch last night. He will return" to Wellington on Sunday. ■' An Eketahuna telegram states that, in response to a largely signed requisition, Mr E<\ G. Tnrnor has intimated that ni will sj.v.y:\ for the mayoral election. Mr Pater 8. Haw. C'sief Engineer of the Public Works Department, died in Wellington last night. The deceased concracced pleurisy last November, and had been in the Hospital for some time. Mr R. Brown.. Tovv> Obrk. stit^i at-the complimentary soi.'ial re:r!ei*e'i to Cr Feist, lust earing, chat in Sep-. tember next, if he wa.-s : /till 'Lav:) I Clerk, he would have complete.! -V,) I years in the employ of thz Borough l Council as' Town Clerk.

The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Featherston Golf Club:—Patron, Mr A. Matthews; president, Mr A. Cotter; vice-presidents, Dr. Palmer and Mr G. Fenwick;hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr Fenwick; captain, Mr A. Toogood. At the Fire Brigades Conference at Christchurch the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, Captain Hansen, Westport; vice-presidents, Superintendent Lomas, Spit, and Sub-Super-intendent Wildish, Gisborne; secretary, Superintendent Gilberd, Mapier (re-elected). When forwarding their annual returns or any communications to the Labour Department owners of shops and factories should be careful to put stamps on the envelopes, otherwise the communications will be returned to them unopened. The local Inspector of Factories has. had to return several letters to the senders lately as they did not bear postage stamps. At the Napier .Supreme Court, yesterday, Robert Landale Mayne pleaded guilty to attempted arson at Dannevirke. The prisoner's counsel sought to show that Mayne was eccentric and furnished evidence of good character. His Honor said that eccentricity did not show insanity, and the fact that prisoner was caught disguised and armed had not been satisfactorily explained. A sentence \ of six months' imprisonment was im(posed.

The financial position of the Masterton Borough Council is as follows: —General Account, dr., £4,170 7s' lid; Gas Account, cr., £703 14s 9d; Library Account, dr., £52 2s lid; Waterworks Account, cr., £251 2s 6d; Deposit Account, cr., £220 10s; Abattoir Account, cr., £99 15s 8d; Interest Account, drainage, cr., £lB9 17s sd; Interest Account, Bannister Street, cr., £l2 18s; Temporary Deposit Account, cr., £1,150; Loan Account, drainage,, cr., £ll4 9s4d; Special Loan Account, cr., schedule A, £259 9s 6d; schedule B, £642 3s Id; schedule C, £365 Is 8d; schedule D, £1,094 19s 9d; schedule E, £667 15s 8d; schedule F, £719 17s Bd.

The W.F.C.A. require a smart lad for the gi'ocery department. 'An advertiser desires position as working manager on a farm or station. The W.F.C.A. keep a large stock of boots and shoes of best makes. A supply of gum. boots and goloshes is to hand for the winter season. Hot water bottles are indispensable winter comforts that are much needed in the home oir sick room. These ai'e obtainable in,all sizes, best quality, at Mr T. G. Mason's pharmacy. Mr G. A; Stone, of the firm of Stone, Son and Co., Dunedin (publishers of Stone's Directory) is at present in Masterton collecting data for the next issue of this work. Mr J. L. Murray announces that he is how making a display of autumn-and winter goods, including special lines in costumes. Inspection is invited. On account-of the flooded state of the country preventing the mustering of the sheep, the sale at Hautotara, Martinborotsgh, has been postponed till Monday next, March 25th. At the Exchange Hardware Stores Mr D. A. Morton has a full. supply of all the latest and most improved appliances for kitchen use. Housewives are invited to inspect.

Misses Whitcombe will open the Arcadia Tea Rooms, in the Exchange Buildings, this afternoon. The rooms have been beautifully fitted up,' and they will be conducted on the most up-to-date lines. Five reasons for their success are set out in a new advertisement inserted by Messrs Krahagen and Chapman, merchant tailors, Perry Street. The firm have to hand a choice selection of materials for winter wear and solicit inspection. On Saturday next, at 2.30 p.m., Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd.. will sell by auction a portion of the Empire Hotel buildings, to make room for the new structure. The auctioneers state that the portion to be sold is the newest part of the building, and contains a large amount of good sound timber, doors, windows and corrugated iron.

In another column Mr L. F. Hallam announces that he has arriving this week a big consignment of Island oranges, of the choicest quality. 1 There is also in stock piemelons, .apples, tomatoes, and all varieties of seasonable fruits and vegetables, which are quoted at the most reasonable rates. /The public i are invited to call at the. shop, which is next Mr J. Whittaker's store, Upper Queen Stx'eet. THE SUCCESSFUL MILKER., A short trial of a few months at the end of a season is no guide as to the reliability of any milking machine. Two full sea sons ia the ahorteßt, period in which to deteimine if the machines have any injur ious effect on the cows or their yield. Many previous machines apneared to milk satisfactorily for the first season, but, until the I "LrIWRENCE-KENNEDY-GILLIES" was ■ proved, every machine resulted in disaster during the socond, but most frequently during the Ax-si season. The "L.K.G." can show five years' practical use, and before any other machine can stand level, even on paper, it must give a five years' guarantee against los> of yield or injury to the cows. For full particulars apply to J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., JJ.S.B. d.'s Buildiog3, Wellington.

Entries for the handicap events at the Dreyerton sports meeting on Easter Monday will close with the secretary, Mr G. A. Donovan, Kopuaranga, on Friday next. Entries for the handicap events at the Alfredton sports meeting on Easter Monday will close with the secretary, Mr J. N. S. Owen, Alfredton, at 7 p.m., to-morrow. In the Wellington Divorce Court, yesterday, a. decee nisi was granted m the ca,eof William Edward James v. Ada Jam-33 (husband's petition), on the ground of adultery with Cuthbert Twyman, who was joined as corespondent. Costs were given against co-respondent on the lowest scale. Mr W H. Cruickshank, land agent. Perry Street, reports having sold (in conjunction with Messrs J. D. Cruickshank and Co., Ltd.) Mr E. E. Chamberlain's farm at the Mtkimiki, ; oncaining 1,317 acres, together with- | 2,000 sheep and 100 head cattle, the I purchaser being Mr D. Foreman, late of Gladstone.

J. P. English, manager of J. O'KeetVs station, Lower Valley, was charged at the Featherston Police Court, on Monday, with having committed perjury in giving evidence against R. H. Robinson in a case of alleged assault heard at Featherston recently, English being the plaintiff. Accused was reminded till Monday next, bail being allowed. Councillor J. B. Tunbridge, of Hythe (England) was recently summoned for the alleged striking of an ex-councillor at a meeting of the local Ratepayers' Association. Councillor Tunbridge (says the . St. James' Gazette) was the man who arrested Jabez Balfour, and brought him back to England. After retiring from the London police force he became Commissioner of Police in New Zealand.

Mr D. Dobson, Borough Engineer, referred, at the complimentary social tendered to Cr Feist in the Borough Council Chambers, last evening; tothe question of trams for Masterton. He said that people in Masterton. laughed at the idea of trams,, but when it was* remembered that the cabs made over 100 trips between the ' Club Hotel and the Railway' Station everyday the question of trams for Masterton was not so far distant as people thought. He also, referred to the necessity of a destructor for refuse in Masterton. That was a question the Council would have to deal with shortly as the depositing of rubbish in the open was a menace to> the public health. MEttlT KEW.VRnffiD BY COURTOF JUSTICE. The acknowledged Rood qualities and S"coess of RANDMR & SO>S' EUCALYPTI EXTHACT have hi ought out ninny imitations, nnd 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 judgment said wjt.b regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPIT EXTRACT, that whahever an / article is " x commended r,o the pubric by reason of its good quality, etc., it s not permifsable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitator? perpetually from doinr: 30, a->d dr.ieivd thorn to pay all costs. We publish this to afford the public an opportunity of protecting then-elves and of pccur'n? whit is proved beyond' all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Qonrt of Victoria, and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE aANDER <v SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT