LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8410, 26 April 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Featherston School is closed on account of scarlet fever. the latest return from the Mystery Flat Dredge is 30oz lOdwt for a week's work. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Patent Slip Company', yesterday, states a Press Association message, a dividend of 6 per cent, was declared. ' A large number of entries have been received in connection with the re-judging of the wines and spirits exhibits at the recent New Zealand Exhibition. —Association. A large number of succession orders were dealt with at the si-ting of the Native Land Court, at Masterton, yesterday morning. There was no sitting of the Court in the afternoon. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that a cable message has been sent to the authorities at Monte Video respecting the arrest of D. C. Mclntyre, late superintendent of awards at the New Zealand Exhibition. The management of the Blanche Arral Concert Company advise that arrangements have been made with the Railway Department so that the train for Carterton and Featherston, on Monday evening, will be delayed till 10.30 o'clock.

A challenge has been issued by the Palmerston North Debating Society to Mr J. C. Cooper and any other two members of the Farmers' Union to a debate on the Land Bill. The Debating Society reserve the right to engage any three speakers they wish in the colony to speak in favour of the Government against, the Union's members. Mr Cooper has written to the Society accepting the challenge, and the debate will take place probably on May 22nd, when Mr Cooper returns from the South Island. During Mr Cooper's absence, the Palmerston North branch of the Union will make the necessary arrangements for the debate, which should prove of considerable interest.

THE HUSH FOli MILKING MACHINES. Now that the ' laiwrencc-Kcnnedy-Gillies" Milker h;is, after five seasons' ÜBO on numbers of dairy farms, proved an unqualified success?, there is a heavy and increasing demand for this pcpula machine. Throughout Australasia v, tvo nieniioua number of machines tiro bri.« booked for tho coming season, and in New Zealand alone some thousands will hi re quired. On all Bides one hears of pcoplo going in for tho "L.K.G." machine. If you wish to get a plant installed in anything like time for tho coming season, book your order without delay. Plants will only be supplied in priority of application. ~T. B. McEwan and Co., Ltd. Agents, U.S.S. Co's Buildings, Wellington.

Mr J. C. Cooper will deliver an address at Weber, on Saturday even • ing next, on the Land Bill.

Pastor Ries has been elected Mayor of Dannevirke, beating Mr Patterson by 11 votes.

Messrs D. Udy and E. Udy, of Greytown, have taken up a large block of land in the Mataura district, South Island, and will leave Greytown early next month.

At a meeting of householders held at Bideford, on Tuesday night, the following committee were re-elected for the ensuing year:—Messrs W. J. Percy, George Swinn, J. Percy, M. McGovern,, and J. W. Carswell (chairman and secretary).

The valuable meteorological instruments, which formed part of the British government's exhibit at the International Exhibition have been secured by the Victorian Government, and will be shipped to Melbourne forthwith, states a Christchurch Press Association telegram. At Eketahuna, on Wednesday last, Mr John Carter, eldest son of Mr S. Carter, of Eketahuna, was married to Miss Jane Koce, eldest daughter of Mr J. Koce, of Pleckville. Misses Lola Carter and Winnie Tonkin were the bridesmaids, and Mr J. Koce was best man.

Mr W. Cruickshank, of Eketahuna, received word from Wellington, on Wednesday, that his wife had died suddenly in that city. The deceased, who was 48 years of age, had been ailing for some considerable time. A family of ten are left to mourn their loss.

The death is recorded in Western Australia of Mr W, Bogle, who with his wife and family were erstwhile residents of Pahiatua, living on part of the land known as Hall's estate. Mr Bogle left Pahiatua between 10 and 11 years ago. The deceased was about 60 years of age. At Dannevirke, on Wednesday evening, a Rifle Association was formed. It v/as decided that the following clubs should be asked to join the Association—Wimbledon, Pongaroa, iVlakuri, Horoeka, Taradale, Maraekakaho, and all the Hawke's Bay Volunteer Corps. Several unusually heavy thunderstorms passed over Wellington last evening. The display of lightning was particularly vivid, lighting up at times the whole of the harbour and surrounding hills. Rain fell at times in torrents. The storm played havoc with the telephone service.—Association.

Mr G. Laurenson, M.H.R., has been in communication with the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Marine, with regard tq pushing on the Harbour Board's Consolidation Bill, states a Press Association message from Christchurch, and has received a reply from the Minister to the effect that he hopes to put the Bill through Parliament next session.

About 5.80 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, heavy rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, commenced to fall in Masterton, and continued during the night. At Eketahuna light showers fell during the afternoon, but towards 6 o'clock a thunderstorm broke over the town and continued for some hours. Loud peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning, such as have not been experienced in the district for some years, accompanied the rain. /

Mr J. C Cooper, vice-President of the Farmers' UnioiAfor the Wellington Province, will leave for the South Island at the end of next week, and will deliver addresses on the Land Bill. Mr Cooper will first visit Canterbury and will speak at Ashburton, Rakaia, Geraldine, Temuka, Methven, Leeston, Springston, Green Park, Little River and probably Oamaru. Mr Cooper will then tour Otago and Southland, and on his return will probably devote some time to speaking in Marlborough. He expects to be absent in the South Island about a month.

The residence of Mr W. Hume, Raho Ruru, Lower Valley, had a narrow escape from fire on Tuesday. A match had been thrown to the floor and fell alight and unnoticed on to a cushion, which soon burst into flames. This was seen by one of the ladies, who seized the cushion and stifled the flames. The cushion was then thrown into the bathroom and forgotten. About half an hour later the gardener rushed into the house with the news that the bathroom was in flames. Prompt action by ail, with buckets of water, quenched the flames and the house was fsaved. The floor and walls of the bathroom were burnt, one wall between the bathroom and a bedroom being burnt completely out.

A Press Association message-from Christchurch states that Captain William Jackson Barry died in that city, on Wednesday last, over eighty years of age. The "captain," as he was familiarly called, was wellknown throughout the colony, his first connection with which began in the days when whalers were practically the only Europeans who visited New Zealand. He traded in Australasian waters and hunted the whale, leading a very adventurous life. He also had much experience as a goldminer, having followed the rushes to the Californian, Australian, and New Zealand fields. When Cromwell (Otago) was the centre of the gold fever in the early days Captain Barry settled in business there, and served several terms as Mayor of that town. The story of his long and active life is told in two books of reminiscences, published by himself some years ago. During his later years he fell upon bad times, and was an inmate of various charitable institutions in Wellington and other parts of the colony.

The CKr-Eitnirt of Savdbb and Sons Pre u Vomtilb Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Boyalty honours it, and the oHiire medical profession has adopted its use. Imitations sprung up without number. The latest of them—as styled " Extracts "—was oilfoisied upon the trusting and unwary under tbe grossest misuse of Bander and Bona' reputation. Bander and Sons instituted an action at tbe Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn witnoflß testified that ho had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced, This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tested and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONB' PUKE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

Parliament has been, further pro* rogued till June 6th. Mr McCallum has been elected Mayor of Blenheim, beating Mr Penny (the retiring Mayor) and Mr •White.

There are rumours in Whangarei of the discovery of outflows of petroleum in Whangarei and one in Hpbson county.

The Athenic, which sailed from Wellington for London, last evening, took 14,507 boxes of buttp.r.—Association.

Mr 11. L. Michel, who opposed Mr T. Y. Seddon at the bye-?lection for the seat made vacant by the death of the late Premier, has been elected unoppposed to the Mayoralty of Hokitika.

The Featherston School Committee elected for the ensuing year is as follows:—Messrs W. Benton (chairman), Keys (hon. secretary), Tait (treasurer), Machon, Aitchison, S. Murphy and T. Saunders.

One of the largest pigs ever at the Addington saleyards was sold by Mr H. Stuart, of Middleton, recently. It was a purebred Tainworth sow seven or eight years old, and is estimated t!o weigh over 600 pounds when dressed. The price realised was £l6 ss. \

Land values in the Greytown district are showing a decided increase, says the Greytown correspondent of the Carerton News. Some sections outside the Borough are at present changing hands at about £25 per acre, and the owner considers if he had "held on," he could have touched £3O per acre.

At a meeting held at Featherston, on Wednesday evening, a settler's club was formed. Mr G. J. Cox was appointed president. ' The following 1 committee was elected to reportt.to a future meeting upon the course to be pursued i-vMessrs W. E. Bidwill, A. Hannay, G. Stewart, A. Donald, W. Barton, W. Benton, G. J. Cox, D. Yule, G. Burt, N. Matthews, anu W. Fuge. A provisional charter is to be applied for. Mr Merlet is the secretary pro tern. Thirty members are already assured.

At a meeting of householders in the Pukekohe West dismcc (Auckland), on Monday evening, strong comments were £made in shutting the doors of the school against primary school children for two days per week, and the following resolution was passed unanimously:—"That this meeting approve of the action of the School Committee in protesting against the closing of the school to children on statutory school days to hold agricultural classes for the education of the teachers, and would suggest that the holding of such classes should be on Saturdays." ' A peculiar incident in natural history is related by a Wellington resident. While watching some gulls at low tide near the artificial oyster beds in the Wellington harbour, he noticed that a small bird swooped down as if to pick up something from the water, but failed to rise again, A- bather, attracted by the struggles of the bird, went to the spot, and found that the gull's beak was held in the grip of an oyster, which it had sought to capture, but which had closed fast upon it. With a penknife he released the bird. Had he not done so, it is probable that the oyster would have retained its hold until the bird was drowned by the rising tide.

A further contribution to the controversy regarding the ancestry of the herd of red deer which has done •, so well in the Wairarapa district arrived by the mail from England in the form of a letter from the Hon. i. W. Fortescue, who writes from Windsor Castle to Mr Donne, Superintendent of the Tourist Department: —"Both the trout and the deer in New Zealand seem to grow bigger and bigger. The photographs of the stags' heads which you sent interest me particularly, for, unless I am very much mistaken, the forefathers of the New Zealand deer came from Windsor Park, and they in their turn, as I have ascertained by searching the archives of the seventeenth century, were imported from Germany in the time of King Charles the Second, in order to make good the havoc wrought by poachers during the Civil War."

The question of a universal Saturday half-holiday was raised at the Grocers' Assistants' smoke concert at Wellington on Wednesday night. Mr A. H. Cooper, president of the Trades Council, stated that the grocers' assistants of Wellingtcn, were, dissatisfied with the present closing hours of shops. They considered that 9 o'clock was quite late enough on Saturday night. He went on to say that he was sure the organised workers of the colony, who were enjoying their Saturday half-holiday, were not only ready to conform to the 9 o'clock closing hour, but also to a universal half-holiday. The Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Labour, in a subsequent speach, said anybody who knew anything about the matter knew that Saturday was the only proper holiday. Upon every occasion,, he said, he gave his vote artd influence for Saturday.

At a sitting of the Masterton Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning, Mr W. P. James, S.M., gave judgment for plaintiff by default in each of the following debt cases:—H* Remington v. Chas. Tulloch, claim £5 9s, costs £3 2s6d; W.F.C.A. v. James Jones, claim £B, costs £1 3s fid; Geo. Townsend v. R. J. Marr, claim £5 12s, judgment for £4 12s, costs £1 4s 6d. In the following judgment summons cases orders • were made as follows: Coradine and Whittaker v. H. Storey, claim £33 16s 3d, defendant ordered to pay the amount forthwith, in default 33 days' imprisonment; order suspended for one month. W.F.C.A. v. Walter Mortensen, claim £ll 6s lOd, defendant ordered to pay 5s ptr month, first payment to be made on May Ist; Hans Petersen v. James Braggins, claim £2 6s 6d, defendant ordered topay 8s per month, first payment to bo made on May Ist. Lina Thompson v. John Weyland, claim £l2 Bs, defendant ordered to«pay 5s ner week, first payment to be made on May Ist. In the case of Alfred Collins, a jockey, v. Henry T. Hume, horseowner, a claim for £l6, riding fees, judgment was given for the defendant with £1 Is casds. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is t»& and ?s <>d.

The Wellington City Council officials have captured 850 stray dogs in Wellington since January Ist. A movement is on foot to hold a •great world's fair in Berlin in order 'to stimulate German trade before the end of the present year. Mr A. F. Bony, a Swiss, has arrived at Cairo from Capetown. The journey took him eight months. He covered 1,000 miles on foot. Twenty out of the twenty-five workers' homes at Petone have now been taken up, and it is expected that the remaining five will be in occupation in the course of a few weeks. ""Potatoes are being quoted at from £3 10s to £3 15s per ton in , Invercargill. Tasmanian Derwent potatoes are bringing £3 15s per ton in Auckland, and Melbourne Pink Eyes £5 5s *** to £5 10s. ' „.,„,..„,„ ' """"I am a member of a trades union, and I hope to be a member of a trades union until I die," said the Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Labour, at the Wellington Grocers' Union of Workers' smoke concert, on Wednesday night.

A team representing the Combined East Coast Rifle Clubs will fire a match against the Opaki Rifle Club, on the local range, to-morrow, at 11 a.m. Tho personnel of the East Coast team is as follows:—Brown (2), McCleay (2), Vennell (4), Capt. Barrer, Kummer, Willoughby (2), Day, and Dorset. The match will be fired at 200 yds, 500 yds, and 600 yds ranges. A social was held in S. Matthew's Schoolroom, last evening, :in connection with the opening of the newlyformed Sowers' Band. The following contributed items:—Misses Hasel Fuller, Alice Snelgrove, E. Jepson, Ida Ashdowne, Messrs S. Earee, Ktmp, Sammes, K. Braddock, H. Whitton H. Wimsett, R. Chappell, and C. La Roche. The accompaniments were played by Mrs Earee and Misses R. Keeble and G. Brown. During the evening Mr W. A. Fendall :gave a short address on the objects of a Sowers' Band. In conversation with a Wairarapa Age reporter, yesterday, Mr J. C. Cooper said that if the Government intended to make the Land Bill an issue at the contest for the Taranaki seat, rendered vacant by the death of Mr E. M. Smith, the Farmers' Union would take up the cudgels and run Mr H. J. H. Okey against the Government. Representatives of the Union will probably tour the Taranaki electorate before the election and speak against the Land BillMr J. Prentice inserts a notice of thanks to the voters for his return on the Masterton Borough Council. An advertisement of interest from the Dresden Piano Company appears on page two of this issue. Snag-proof thigh gum boots, direct from the manufacturers, are now to be had at Mr J. Carpenter's Central Shoe Store. The declaration of "the poll in connection with the election of Mayor and Councillors, and 'also the result of the "Fire Brigade" poll, are published elsewhere.

At the Masterton Auction Mart, to-morrow, Mr J. R. Nicol will sell a number of leading lines of furniture in addition to boots, shoes, and clothing already advertised.

The Castlepoint County Council notify that the road at Flag Creek, Tinui, is closed to heavy traffic during the erection of a riew bridge. Arrangements are being made for light traffic.

The ratepayers of the Castlepoint County are notified that the electoral rolls for the County and defaulters' lists are open for inspection. Objections must be lodged not later than May 31st next.

At a o'clock, to-day, Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., will submit at auction, on account of the Wellington School Commissioners, a number of lots in the Otahoua and Mild Miki Survey Districts.

The members of the Masterton Masonic Lodge, who purpose attending the installation of.the W.M. and officers of St; Mark's Lodge, Carterton, are notified that a drag will leave the Club Hotel, at 6 o'clock, to-night.

The electoral roll and defaulters' list for the Masterton County Council are now open for inspection at the places specified in another column. All objections must be lodged at the Magistrate's Court, Masterton, on or before the 31st day of May next.

The drawing in connection with Mr G. R. Irvine's art union of oil paintings will be held in the Drill Hall, at 8 o'clock, on Saturday evening. Holders of books of tickets are requested to return same on Saturday morning.

At 2 O'clock, on Saturday next, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell at their rooms, Perry Street, a quantity of furniture and general goods on account of persons leaving Masterton. The usual lines of poultry and produce will also be offered.

At 2 o'clock, on Monday next, on the premises, Lansdowne, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell under instructions from Mr S. Bartlett the whole of his household furniture and effects. The freehold of 1£ acres and house will be submitted at the same time.

If you are troubled with dyspepsia, which gives its victims no rest day and night, and causes pains in the Homach and bowels headache, dizziness, lofs of appetite, constipation, etc., take a course of Chamberlain's Tablets. They will stimulate the liver and bowls to perform their work naturately and gently, and strengthen the digestivo organs. For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton. DON'T WAIT TIM, ,TO-MOMIOW. It's little colds that grow into bit? colds, the big colds that end its consumption and death. Don't wait till to-morrow to cure the little colds, for one dose of Dr Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, Colds nnd Consumption will break up a cold if token attho beeinning. Dr.'Sholuon's New Discovery is a safe and never-i'ailing remedy. Price, Is 6d, and 3s. Obtainable at H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton. J. Baillie, Car terton, and the Mauricevi'a Co-operative Store, Maiirieevillo West, DHOtJGHT TO'V.Y Are those enemies of civil', .tion, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, whe'. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are en .'loved. 2s 6d per tin. Obtainable at H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville • Store, Mauriceville West.