LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8406, 22 April 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fairview Rifle Club will hold their final trophy shooting competition for the season on Thursday next. At a meeting of the Eketahuna Mounted Rifles, on Thursday last, Mr S. E. Greendale was elected secretary of the Corps. The Wellington City Engineer states that the building trade in Wellington is as brisk as ever, and seems likely to continue so. Dr. McDonald, who is connected with the White Australia movement, will deliver addresses in Wellington shortly on prison reform. A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that, at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday, Edith M. Malzard was charged with the manslaughter of her child, Edith Mabel Malzard, by having caused.Sits death by failing to give it sufficient care, food and attention. The charge arose out of the verdict of the jury at the inquest held on Thursday. The accused was remanded to Friday next. Charges of drunkenness and breach of a prohibition order, which were preferred against her, were held over for a week. MILKING MACHINE TiIIALS. Kesults ci' so-called trial-* are mis'endmg to the uninitiated. Successful exhibitions for a single milking have been given by drzans of midline) years" before tie "L K.G." was brought out. Where are a 1 those machines now ? How many fa mors have rued the day they were tempted to instal a machine after seeing a brief trial ? The " Lawrencc-Konnedy-Gillies" has been used night and morning by hundreds of practical farmers for (lie past two, three, four, and even five years, and is the only machine proved beyond a douot to bo non injurious to the cows. Write for list of 250 satisfied users in Now Zealand. J. B. McEwan and Co., Ltd., Agents, TJ.3.S. Co's Buildingp, Wellington.

At the Pahiatua S.M. Court, on Thursday, a man named Jo3eph Ryan was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour for cruelty to a horse. A weight-guessing competition was held in connection with the Nireaha Milk Suppliers' picnic, on Thursday last, and was won by Mr C. Alberthsen, who guessed the correct live weight of the lamb, which was | 651b. I The work of erecting the accommodation hut on Mount Holdsworth has been delayed on account of the wet weather lately. Shouid the I weather be fine the material for the | hut will be taken up the mountain I to-day.

There were erected in Wellington, during the year ended March 31 si, 294 dwellings, 13 shops and dwellings combined, y2 warehouses and business premises, eight churthes and public institutions, cne school, and two hotels. A Frets Association telegram from Inveicargill states that a writ has been served en the Southland Times, at the instance of Nurse Hall, of Masterton, claiming £2,000 damages for libel in connection with certain statements published regarding Miss Howell's death. Messrs Hall, Stout and Lillicrap, solicitors, have received a cable stating .that judgment has finally been given in favour of the Sutton family against the late J. A. Dowie, of Zion City, to whom Frederick Sutton willed his estate, valued at £13,000. Costs were given against Dowie's estate.—Association. At the inquest on the body of Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R., at New Plymouth, on Saturday, a verdict of accidental death was returned, the jury expressing sympathy with the bereaved wife and family. A large number of telegrams of sympathy have been received from members of Parliament, including the Acting-Pre-mier and Mr Massey.—Association.

At a meeting of the Auckland Methodist Mission it was stated that an offer had been received of the use of an" island with a substantial area for the establishment of ar, industrial institution for the treatment of inebriates. It was decided to secure the option for twelve months, to allow of a thorough investigation into the matter.

The death occurred, after a long illness, in the Masterton Hospital, on Saturday evening, of Mrs S. Bartlett, wife of Mr S. Bartlett, contractor, of Masterton. The late Mrs Bartlett was 51 years of age, and was a native of Bristol, England. She came to the colony with Mr S. Bartlett about thirty years ago, and for the past twenty-three years she had lived in Masterton. A widower and three daughters—Mrs F. Bland, Mrs A. Woodham, and Mrs R. P. Harcombe—are left to mourn their loss, and they will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends. The funeral will leave her late residence, at Lansdowne, to-day at 4 p.m. The blight which recently made its appearance among the turnip crops at Fernridge is reported to have attacked crops in other parts of the district. Several crops have been affected, and the settlers state that they are at a loss to know how to cope with the evil. "I have received no reply from the Agricultural Department with regard to the matter," said Mr R. J. Dagg, a well known Fernridge sett'er, to a Wairarapa Age reporter on Saturday. "They don't seem to be helping us at all." Asked if he had read the Government Biologist's letter on the subject, which appeared in the Wairarapa Age recently, Mr Dagg replied that he had. "What they told us in that letter," he continued, "we knew already. What we want is a remedy for the evil, and the Department has not given us that yet." Some years ago a firm of brothers carrying on a flax-milling business in the North Loburn district, Canterbury (says the Lyttelton Times) had, through misfortune, to take advantage of the Bankruptcy Court, and only paid a small dividend. The brothers went to the North Island, and eventually started a flaxmill in the Wairarapa district, where they are now carrying on a highly prosperous business. Recently they determined to pay off all liabilities left at the time of their bankruptcy, and recently a widow in Rangiora, in indigent circumstances, was agreeably surprised at receiving a cheque for over £34, for goods supplied to the firm by her late husband, and an oldage pensioner had his heart made glad with a cheque for about £IOO. A|number of others about the district also benefited by the meritorious action of the firm.

A pleasing function took place in the Exchange Buildings, on Saturday evening, when a number of members of St. Patrick's Day Sports Association gathered together to bid farewell to Mr G. Watson, Slate President of the Association, who is about to leave on a trip to the Old Country. Mr H.' J. O'Leary, President of the Association, occupied the chair, and on behalf of the members, presented Mr Watson with a handsome travelling rug. In doing so, Mr O'Leary made eulogistic reference to the valuable services Mr Watson had rendered the Association. He wished Mr Watson a pleasant voyage and a safe return. Messrs J. C. McKillop, W. L. Falconer, J. O'Dowd, J. Kiely, J. Bourke and J. Cullen also spoke in a similar strain. Mr Watson acknowledged the gift in a suitable manner. The health of Mr Watson was afterwards enthusiastically drunk. Mr Watson will leave Masterton on Wednesday next, and will journey to England by the Athenic, which departs from Wellington on Thursday. He will visit England, Ireland and Scotland, and return via America about six months hence. Tnu Celebkity of S andeii and Sons Pore Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty 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 unwarv under the grossest misuse of Bander ahd Rons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honour Cbief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc, and at the trial a sworn witness testified that he had to the use of counterfeits on acccunt 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 EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

A movement is on foot to erect a cheese factory at Kaiparoro. Mr E. B. Welch has purchased Mr T. McAnulty's property at Kaiparoro. There is said to be a good market at the present time in Hastings for forward bullocks. A Press Association cablegram from London announces the death of Viscount Midleton, aged 77 years. At Eketahuna, on Friday evening, Miss Gordon and Mr J. Gordon were tendered a farewell social by a number of friend-. Mr F. C. Tumor presented Miss Gordon with a handsome silver tea service, and Mr Gordon with a silver watch. The annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand 1 Farmers' Union will be held in the I A. and P. Association's rooms, I Perry Street, at 2.30 p.m., on Wednesday, April 24th. During the year ended March 31st last 553 permits for new buildings, including 336 lor alterations and additions, were issued within the Wellington city limits, the permits covering works estimated to cost '£381,233. The tests in connection with the various creameries supplying the Masterton Dairy Factory during the month of March are as follow: — Nikau, highest 4.5, lowest 3.9, average 4.23; Mangamaire, highest 4.6, lowest 3.4, average 4.15; Eangitumau, highest 5, lowest 3.6, average 4.2.

At a meeting of the Mangatainoka Quoits Club, on Wednesday night, Mr J. Robinson, who resigned his position as hon. secretary, on account of his leaving the district, was the recipient of a set of military brushes. A presentation was also made to Mr G. W. Chatvvin, the club's handicapper, of a pipe and tobacco pouch. Last week, Mr Bakewell, School Inspector, visited the site of the proposed aided school to be erected at Putara, and afterwards conferred with several settlers on the matter. Mr Bakewell considers the site suitable, and will recommend the Education Board to secure the section offered. • At a meeting of the Eketahuna Mounted Rifles, on Thursday, LanceCorporal Marenzi was promoted to be sergeant and elected secretary of the Shooting Committee. The officers, with Sergeant Marenzi, were elected a shooting selection committee, and Corporal Wise, Troopers A. Jackson, E. Jackson, Cheshire, and the secretary, with the officers ex officio, were appointed a Shooting Committee. The results of the forty-ninth' week of the Egg-laying Competition at Blenheim are as follow: Eggs laid, 705; grand total, 95,650. The highest totals for the week were: —Brow Poultry Farm 24, Sowman 22, Freeth 22 (all Silver Wyandottes). The leading pens to date are:—- < Brookes 1,381, A. and P. Association 1,268, Servajean 1,220, Thompson 1,188, Marlborough Hotel 1,160, , Miss Hodson 1,156 (all White Leghorns). -Association.

An influential deputation waited on the Hon. G. "Fowlds, at Christchurch, on Saturday, in regard to the . xhibition organ, stating that the late Mr Seddon had definitely promised that the organ should be given to the city at the close of the Exhibition, and this has been understood all along. Replying, Mr Fowlds stated that the matter had never been before the Cabinet. Mr Seddon had denied making such a promise, and SirJoseph Ward and the other Ministers; knew nothing of it. So far as he knew, there.was no record that any such intention existed. However, he would look through the official documents to see if such* a promise had been made. It is three years now since a. committee composed entirely of women was elected to take, charge of the affairs of the Yaldhurst primary school, says the Lyttelton Times. The experiment excited a good deal of curiosity at the time, and some ( rather cheap ridicule, but when it was seen that the ladies were not going to quarrel with the teachers or with the Board of Education or among themselves, they were allowed to go about their business, without much notice from any one outside their own little community. * There have been changes in the personnel of the coinmittee since it was elected in 1934, but it still consists, solely of women, and the householders in the district appear so well satisfied with the work it is doingthat there is little prospect of any change being made at the approaching election.

Obtaining £2 14s by means of a valueless cheque was the nature of a charge preferred at the Wellington Magistrate's £ Court, on| Saturday, against Andrew Hart, alias M. A. Anderson. The victim of accused's dishonesty, according to the police, was T. W. Manifold, of Clark and Manifold, drapers, Pahiatua. Accused, it was said, obtained the cheque from a man named Gasser, with whom he lived in a wnare a Pahiatua. He filled in the amount for £3 ss, signed it with a fictitious name, and tendered it to Manifold in payment for goods valued at lis, receiving £2 14s in change. The cheque was drawn on the National Bank at Greymouth. After the transaction accused went to Paraparaumu, and entered the employ of Howell Bros., butchers, but was traced and arrested. His employers were, according to Chief Detective McGrath, willing to reinstate him when at liberty. His Worship remanded accused till Friday next for sentence, and allowed bail in self £lO, and onefsurety of £lO. —Post. Why spend money at Rotoruaand other thermal fprings whenßheumo will quickly cure you of rheumatism, gout, sciatica or lumbngo. Chemists and stores, 2s Gd and is Gd. The mother who has acquired the habit of keeping a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy on hand saves herself a great amount of uneasiness aDd anxiety. Coughs colds and croup, to which children are bus eeptible, are quickly cured by its use. I counteracts any tendency of a cold to re ' suit in pneumonia and if given as soon at the first symptom of croup appears it wii prevent the attack. This remedy is free from all poisons, which makes it the mother's favourite everywhere. For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton. Dn. iSheldon's Magnetic Liniment Will relieve at once Rheumatism, Lumbago Lame Back, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, and corjjj tinued applications will effect a cure in a remarkably short t ! me. For sale by H. E; Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Maurioeville Co-operativo Store, Maurioeville West,

The late Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R., ■will be given a military funeral, states a Press Association telegram. Messrs Miller, Dick, Petersen, Falkner and Jensen, 1 have been elected trustees of the Kaiparoro Hall. The annual meeting of householders and the election of the Masterton School Committee for the ensuing year will take place in the Drill Hall, at 8 o'clock, to-night. During the month of March the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company paid out to suppliers the sum of JE1,165 3s sd. The largest amount paid to any one supplier was «£B2 9s 6d. The New Zealand Rugby Union has been approached by the New South Wales Union with a view to having the coming tour of the New Zealand team extended so as to permit of a match being played at Melbourne. The New Zealand body has replied suggesting that arrangements might be made for the match to be played within the dates already agreed upon. Country dates have been fixed by the Conciliation Board for the hearing of the dispute in the sawmilling industry and timber-yard businesses. The first country sitting will take place at Masterton on May 9th, and subsequent sittings will be held as follows: —Dannevirke, May 13th; Napier, May 15th; Palmerston North, May 17th; Wanganui, May 20th. Prior to these sittings the Board will sit in Wellington, April 29th being the date fixed. There are 88 firms of Wellington and suburbs made party to the dispute, while 181 country firms are also cited. There is a probability that a Japan-ese-Australian iron and steel industry will be brought into existence very soon. The Investor's Review Htated in a recent issue, "A large steel plant, to cost some 35,000,000 dol-. lars, is reported to be about to be erected in Japan, and all the machinery has been contracted for in the United States by Japanese agents. The greater part of it is to be delivered before the end of the present year." Recently the Japanese Government sent emissaries to Australia to report on the iron deposits, with a view to their utilisation in Japan. Agents are now negotiating for supplies with the Blyth River iron mines j in Tasmania. I Rugby football has been a paying game of late years, according to the balance-sheet of the New Zealand Rugby Union for the year ended March 31st. The balance-sheet shows that the Union has a credit of £12,329 19s lid. The sum of £3,450 has been advanced to local unions by way ioi loans, and an amount of £B,BOO is ,on fixed deposit. At the North v. South Island match, played in Wellington last yea'r, the takings were £419 13s 6d, and the' net profit worked ,out at £124 3s lOd. Interest earned >on loans and deposits amounted to £ds3 12s 9d. The balance to the credit of the profit and loss account for .the twelve months working is £302 3s Id. The Palmerston North correspondent of the Wellington Post says a surveyor's calculations show that between 1882 and 1906 the Manawatu River has eaten up 135 acres of land at Hokowhitu, the most fertile portion of the borough. The land gone would now be worth between £6O and £IOO per acre. On the .opposite •side of the river at Fitzlxerbert another large area has disappeared by erosion, making useless the «Uff road to Fitzherbert East and the Pahiatua Range road. Recent floods destroyed half the protective works erected by the Borough Council at a cost of £1,500, and there is now & danger of the river entering a chain of lagoons and thus reaching the eastern portion of the borough. A lamp socket lost between Opaki and Chapel Street is advertised for. Notice of the issue of an auctioneer's license to Mr J. R. Nicol is published elsewhere. Mr J. D. Cruickshank advertises particulars of a number of town and suburban properties which have been placed in his hands for sale. Messrs W. B. Chennells and Co. have to let a seven-roomed house, well furnished, and with five acres of land. Mr F. W. Temple, who is seeking re-election on the Masterton Borough Council, inserts a notice in support,' of his candidature. I Mr J. H. Pauling announces that he is again a candidate for a seat on the Borough Council, and solicits the support of the voters. Miss V. Hampton, teacher of the pianoforte, and the theory of music, announces that she will receive pupils in room No. 12, Exchange Buildings. In another column in this issue Mr Joseph Prentice, a candidate for a seat on the Masterton Borough Council, solicits the support of the voters at the election on Wednesday. In the Wanted Column Messrs A. H. Atkinson and Co., Feilding, offer for sale a sheep farm of 760 acres good'healthy country, near Wanganui. The Misses Whitcombe notify that the Arcadia Luncheon and Tearooms will be closed to-day and tomorrow, to allow important alterations to be effected. Messrs Read Bros., land agents, Wanganui, advertise particulars of two good well-improved farms of 440 and 76 acres, respectively. Both properties are pronounced good investments. The New Zealand Railways Department advertise a special train service and excursion fares in connection with the race meeting at Palmerston North on Wednesday and Thursday next.

Mr J. R. Nicol has been favoured with instructions from Mr Holmes to sell, at the residence, Lincohijgdad, on Wednesday next, the whole of lu3 furniture and effects, without reserve. Further particulars will be advertised to-morrow. "Some little time ago," says Mr J. G. Boyle, Kelmiicott, \V. A., "I wan sulftriiig from a severe cough, which threatened to taken serious form. B-nrir'K so much aooufc Chamberlain's Coupi' lleinedy I doddtd to give it a trial in d to my great satisfaction was completti/ cured by the time I had finished the 11m bottle." For sahi by T. G. hUeon, Ma.si ton. Ithf-umo han enabled mi i y a poor sufferer from lhettmatisnij (?ou , sciatica, find lumbago to once more enjoy hwltli and happiness. 2s Cd and 4s Cd. Sold every where.