LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 23 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is stated that the loss on the M.C.C. tour will be £I,OOO at least. The death occurred, on Thursday morning, of the infant child of Mr and Mrs J. Grant, of Akura.

The latest return from the Masterton Dredge is 490z Bdwt for the week.

Mr J. H. Pauling has been appointed a member of the Masterton Licensing Committee, vice Mr C. E. Daniell, who has resigned.

The large painting, "Mount Cook from Governor's Bush," by Mr E. W. Christmas, has been purchased for. the National Gallery at Dunedin. Misses M. Scott (Whareama), M. Finey (Mangapakeha), and C. Zohrab (relieving) have resigned their positions under the Wellington Education Board.

An information has been laid against a Thames cab proprietor for not responding to tne call of the police when asked to convey a man, arrested for stabbing, to gaol.

A telegram from Invercargill states that 42 rinks have entered for the Invercargill Bowling Tournament. This constitutes an easy colonial record.

Colonel Loveday, who is the officer commanding the public school cadets in New Zealand, hopes in time to establish a miniature rifle range at every school where there is a cadet corps.

The name of the man who droppped dead at the Invercargill Railway Station, on Thursday,, is William Pant.on McClure. He is believed to have relatives in Timaru. He has been known lately as William Carter. —Association.

The Wellington Provincial Volunteer Rifle Association's meeting will be concluded at Trentham to-day. The Masterton Rifle Volunteers will be represented by Lieut. Brighting, who is leading by one point for the Provincial Championship Belt.

An Oamaru telegram states that a man, named Donald McDonald, with several aliases, who has been wanted by the Invercargill police since 1905 for forgery and uttering at Nightcaps, was arrested at Oamaru yesterday. McDonald has been masquerading as a sheep-buyer at Palmerston, Waimate, Timaru and Temuka. He recently purchased a merry-go-round for £6OO, and was negotiating for a farm at Waimate to cost £13,000.

Evidence given in the Invercargill Magistrate's Court as to the damage by sand drift in the Mew River district was rather remarkable, states a telegram. One witness said that an ordinary wire fence put round his agricultural land a few years ago was now completely submerged and six fully equipped waggons could be taken over the site. At another place the sand had drifted away and left a fence suspended. An enquiry is suggested. ■ "The general run of the people of Dunedin would be astounded," says the Dunedin Star, "if they even guessed dimly how many of the commercial and business methods of the city are becoming 'Americanised' in a very bad sense. Resort is had to 'commission,' u~der which 'palmgreasing'is alleged to be rife. From time to time cases are brought under the notice of our reporters, and often startling proof accompanies the allegations. In the interests of those who are victimised, in the interests, of clean, legitimate business, these cases should be exposed to the last detail. But there is the libel law. As long as it stands in its present admittedly unsatisfactory state business righteousness will never be possible in this colony." "The system of re-purchasing private estates has reached, or is rapidly reaching, a position in which it will be confronted with difficulties which are absolutely unsurmountable," said Dr. Findlay at New Plymouth on Thursday night. "You cannot purchase land at its real market value," he said. As one who has fought many an estate through the Compensation Court, he gave instances, such as Flaxbourne and Hatuma, in which the cost of land for settlement to the Crown and therefore to the tenant, had been considerably increased by the difficulties put in the way of the CroWn in purchasing land for settlement. "Do you know," added the Attorney-General, "that of the five million pounds spent by the Government, three million pounds is unearned increment.'' WINTER DAIRYING, If you are wanting a reliable Seoarator to help you make your butter during the winter months when the roads are too bad to cart the milk to the Factor/, don't forget that the "BALTIC" represents the latest, most convenient, and easiest separator to handled They are built in all sizes from 16 t i 100 gallons per hour, and for skim mine; and easy turning have no pqual. The "BALTIC " Separator is compact and neat in general design, and is not only a money maker, but an ornament in any dairy. Far prices, terms, and full particulars write to J. B. MacEwan and Ltd., U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.

On the motion of Messrs Hogg and: McDonald, the Wellington Education Board, on Thursday, appointed - Mr' W. T. Grundy, of the Clyde Quay School, as its representative at the Imperial Education Conference.

One unwelcome fact for woolgrowers arising out of the fires on New Zealand wool ships, says an Auckland paper, is that insurance premiums on wool now being shipped. Home show an enormous increase over the rates ruling formerly.

The Christchurch Press states that Mr Henry F. Toogood, who contested the Christchurch East seat at the last Parliamentary election, is proceeding to Singapore in a few days to take up an engineering appointment under the Government. The appointment is understood to be in connection with the erection of the big new naval dock.

A Press Association telegram from Nelson records the death- of Mrs Jackson, a Hutt young lady, 26 years of age, formerly Miss Parsons, and wife of Mr Edward Jackson, of Nelson. Mr and Mrs Jackson returned from their honeymoon only a few weeks ago. Mrs Jackson was taken ill, and went to private hospital, where she was fast recovering, but heart trouble seized her, and death, ensued in twenty-four hours.

Mr Rutherford, M 11. R., said in. his speech at Mackenzie, recently, that perhaps, in combating the Land Bill as he was, he was beating a shadow, emulating Don Quixote. The Premier had suggested that the Bill of last session would not be the Bill of next session, and . he himself did not really think it would. But he was there to combat the Bill in the form in which it had been presented to the House.

"This year will outstrip last year in point of public revenue," said the Attorney-General, in the course of his. speech at New Plymouth on Thursday night, "by a far greater sum than any previous year outstripped its predecessor." As an instance of the colony's prosperity he quoted the Savings Bank returns. In 1896 the amount of deposits was two and ahalf millions. Last year the amount was seven millions, and this year the amount would be even greater than that. "That the conference consider, in committee and advise the councils and unions of the colony on the following matters having reference to the operation of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act:— (1) The underlying principles of the Act; (2) the present and probable future effects of the Act upon the character, standing, and progress of the trades union movement; and (3) the present and probable future effects of the Act on the economic and social conditions of the workers of the colony." The foregoing suggestion is to be laid before the Easter conference of delegates of the Councils of the colony by the Wellington delegates. A Gisbome telegram states that a commercial traveller, Mr Andrew Sharp, representing the Phoenix Company in. Dunedin, met with a fatal accident at 6 o'clock on Thursday evening. He had been visiting a country customer, and was riding a high-spirited horse, which when he mounted bolted with him. Approaching a trap going in the same direction, the runaway swerved, and Mr Sharp came off, his head striking the wheel of the vehicle violently, fracturing the base of the skull. He was removed to the Hospital, where he died at 9 p.m. Mr Sharp, it is understood, was a married man, his wife and family residing in Dunedin.

Commenting on the district high schools in Wellington, the\ inspectors of the Wellington Education Board state in their report for last year:- ''The work in these school is not yet of such a practical nature as we should like to see it, but there are signs of improvement, more especially in those schools situated in the country, where the work in{ elementary agriculture is being taken up with enthusiasm. At Masterton and Greytown provision has been made for individual work in science, and at Carterton arrangements have been made to fit up rooms for the same purpose. Pahiatua has not yeu been provided with the necessary rooms, as the whole question of school accommodation, for that town is now under the consideration of the board."

Mrs Patience Tayler, who, after a residence of about a quarter of a century in Masterton, proposes to leave the district, was presented, last evening, by a number of her friends, with a handsome Gladstone bag bearing a suitable inscription, together with a purse of sovereigns. Mr A. W.Hogg, M.H.R., who made the presentation, referred to the active part that Mrs Tayler had taken in connection with social gatherings and public demonstra- ■ tions. Mrs Tayler, he said, had identified herself with works of charity, and there was hardly a local institution deserving the general support to which she had not in some shape or form contributed. Her friends could not allow her to leave Masterton without some recognition of their esteem. Mrs Tayler, in responding, said she highly valued the appreciation of so many friends. She had spent may happy days in Masterton, and she trusted she would not be permanently separa ted from a place whose associations must always give it a special value in her estimation. It had been a pleasure to take i an active share in public life, and if she had influenced some of the movements that had promoted the rapid growth and improved prospects of this part of the colony the reflection that her efforts had not been unavail - ing was ample reward. Songs, toasts, and instrumental music followed the presentation ceremony. Thk Celebris of Sander and Sons Pjrb Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the entire medical profession has adopted its use. In l itntions sprung up without Dumber. The latest of them—as styled " Extracts "—was oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under the grossest misuse of Sander ahd Sous' 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 produoed. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tested and approved of. As euch is surely endorsed; and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONB' PURE! VOLATILE EUQALYPTI EXTBiCttV

Speaking at Christchurch, Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.H.R., who contacted the no-license campaign on the West Coast, said that in future the New Zealand Alliance were determined to run no-license candidates for all public positions. The representatives of the Masterton Fire Brigade who competed at the . Exhibition Demonstration, at Christchurch, will return to Masterton on Tuesday evening. They will be met at the Railway Station by the Masterton Municipal Band. The Wairarapa public schools representative cricket team will play ,the Wellington school representatives", at Wellington, to-day. The team, which u in charge of Mr Has- ~ lam, of the Masterton District High School, is as follows:—R. Miller, Sutton, Montgomery, Wheeler, Edwards, Hoar (Masterton), Beard, N. Armstrong, H. Armstrong (Carterton), Haigh (Greytown), Fenwick (Featherstr.i). A Wellington correspondent writes: "The Colonial Museum, which houses many valuable treasures, is in a disgracefully dilapidated condition. The building leaks in a number of places, and during the recent heavy rain valuable records had to be removed from the office. There is also danger from fire in such an old, -ramshackle building. If a fire did break out, the loss to the colony be almost irreparable." 'Mr Felix Tanner has at last succeeded in bringing his barrel craft to a successful issue, although it has taken him years to do so. It is plaimed that the vessel, which is how on view at Christchurch, made a smart passage through Cook Strait, under trying circumstances, and proved herself a thoroughly seaworthy vessel. The vessel has been passed by the Marine Department, and is about to tour the world, both as a novelty and an improved lifeboat.

man, named Charles Jago, comifeted suicide by hanging himself from a rafter in the kitchen at Mr J. Kennedy's Station, Tikitapu, near Mauriceville, on Thursday afternoon. The deceased, who was 60 years of age, had only arrived at the station in the forenoon, and was to have commenced work there. He came from Palmerston North. At the inquest held at Mr Kennedy's station, yesterday, before Mr W. P. James, Coroner, a verdict that the deceased committed suicide by strangulation while temporarily insane was returned. Three thousand three hundred head ef cattle left North - West Australia nineteen months ago for Queensland. They have just reached their destination, having been on the move constantly ever since. At times the drovers went a hundred and fifty miles ahead of the stock in search of water, having met with' a drought in the Northern Territory of South Australia. The mob arrived in excellent condition, though with a total loss of eight hundred head. The venture is said to have been a financial success. It is believed to be the biggest droving feat on record for Australia. '' The illegal netting of trout at \Rotorua is reported by the Wonderland Gazette, which says:—"A few nights ago 104 fish were netted and retailed at 6d per lb, in Rotorua. This traffic has been going on for many months past unchecked, and it is time the regulations were properly enforced. The Tourist Department has been wired to on the matter, and the sooner the rangers are at work the better. Fishing without license is also being indulged in, and whatever prosecutions follow, the first aid all convictions should carry the maximum penalty, as there can be no plea of ignorance or otherwise." A good g2neral servant is advertised for. A married man used to horses seeks ~-v work of any description. An advertiser requires a woman to do washing one day a week. An advertiser has to let two Jarge well furnished rooms. Board and residence is wanted by a . gentleman in a private family. A young man with first-class references seeks a situation in an office.

A large furnished -room, with bay ! window, close to post office, is adver- -. tised to be let. , *". Mr J. 'Jairns, of the Wairarapa Labor Agency, has vacancies«-for all classes of domestic helps, cooks, and y married couples. 4 Mr P. Haraill, of Queen Street, has his windows tastefully dressed •with furs and other winter goods. A special display is being made in view of the approaching season. Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell at 2.30 p.m. to-day, at their auction mart, Perry Street, a portion of the Empire Hotel building and siables, containing a large amount of first-class timber, iron, doors and windows. Messrs McLeod and Young have just opened up their first consignment of hockey and football goods of the season. Those in search of these lines can rely on getting a good article at a most reasonable price at "The Academy." Messrs East and East, Wellington and Christchurch, besides drawing attention to their system of expeditiously working the sale of farms,give particulars of four special properties in Hawke's Bay, Taranaki and Rangitikei, which they consider particularly good. %• The subject to-morrow at Knox Church Young Men's Class will be "How we got our New Testament. Divine service will be held at 11 a.m.. when the expository addresses on the Philippians will be continued. At 7 p.m. the Rev. A. T. Thompson will preach on "A study on the problem of evil," when a criticism and I" account of Coulson Kernahan's new "*' book "The Duel"—a struggle for the soul of man-will be given. At 3 p.m. special anniversary services .will be held at Dreyerton. Services "will be held : at Wangaehu at 3 p.m. It Dazzles the Would. No discovery in medicine ba'i ever . created one quarter of the inierest that has been caused by Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for Cough*, Colds, and Consumption. It has bronght relief m the most hope'fi39 oases when all else bsis failed. -Fir sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Mas- ' terton, J. Ba.illie, Carterton, and >»ie Mau- "" ' riwrille "Cooperative-Storei M'aricewile West.-- •