LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8412, 29 April 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Colonial mails which left Sydney on March 19th, via Vancouver, arrived in London on the morning of 25th instant. Mr J. Winterirgham, of Masterton has been appointed representative at Eketahuna for Messrs Abraham and Williams, Limited. The Kaituna branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union have appointed Mr W. L. Falconer as their delegate to the Farmers' Union Conference at Levin. A party of miners is at present opening out a claim in the vicinity of Oraki (Southland). The prospects are exceedingly good, and some rich returns are expected. The first of the series of lamps to be erected in the centre of High Street, Carterton, is now completed. It is situated at the Belvedere-Park Road intersection. The Native Land Court held a short sitting in Masterton on Saturday morning. The bulk of the business transacted was in relation to the making of succession orders. The total amount received in the Exhibition tea rooms during the season was £16,771 5s 4d. The lavatories earned £482 7s 7d, and the cloak rooms £297 Is 4d; William Ignatius Shanly, plumber, of Greytown, filed his petition in bankruptcy on Saturday. The first meeting of creditors will be held in the Courthouse, Greytown, on May 6th, at noon. At a meeting of the Masterton Mounted Kifies, on Saturday evening, it was decided to hold a military ball about the end of June. A strong committee was appointed to make arrangements for the function. The Masterton Dorcas Society will re-commence work on Thursday afternoot} • next, in Mr Jas. McGregor's cottage, in Church Street. The meetings are held on alternate Thursdays from 2 p.m. till 4 p.m. New bers will be gladly welcomed. The grain mills of New Zealand employ 540 hands, six of whom are females, and pay an average jwage of £lO6 per year per employee. The breweries employ 731 hands, 11 of whom are females, and the average wage paid is £126. There are now 22 boys on the training ship Amokura, and Captain Hooper hopes to be able to receive another contingent in about three weeks. Two boys have already left the ship; one was dismissed, and the other, a boy of 15. years, got so bad an attack of home-sickness that he was allowed to leave. During the winter months Mr Jaques, Government Canning Expert, will go through New Zealand' giving demonstrations of the art of preserving and packing fruit. He will commence at the Auckland winter show, on May 23rd, 24th, and 25th, and will be kept busy afterwards till the new season, begins. The New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association has received an application fro'n the Auckland Centre asking for next year's championship meeting. It is understood that Wanganui will also apply for the gathering to be held there. 1 The championships will not be allotted until the annual meeting of the association in October. At a meeting held at Greytown on Friday night, it was resolved to form a golf club, and the following officers were elected President, Dir. Bey; Vice-President, Mr C.. Ellis; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr Cromie; Committee, Messrs 1 Balfour, Te Tau, Laurenson, and Halse. The club has secured links at Platform Farm, near Greytown. A Press Association telegram from Westport states that Mr Kenrick, S.M., fined a hotelkeeper, at Karamea, £3 for selling liquor on a Sunday. Two teams of cricketers, one having travelled five miles, had dinner at the hotel, the losers of the match paying Is 6d per head for the dinner, and beer was supplied with the, dinner. The Magistrate held that there \ was a sale. 1

The following are the results of the fiftieth week of the Blenheim Egglaying Competition Eggs laid during the week, 516; grand total, 96,16 G. The highest pens for, the week, wereßrow Poultry Farm 24, Sowman 23, Goodman 23, Miss Murphy 23, (all Silver Wyandottes). I The leading pens to date are:' — [ Brookes 1,397.. A. and P. Association I 1,280, Seryajean 1,226, Thomason 1.188, Marlborough Hotel 1,176, Mrs J. Hodson 1,156 , (all White Leg-'' horns). \ Mr Scott, the South Australian Commissioner at the Exhibition, informed a Christchurch Press representative that, irrespective of samples, the hospitality of South Australia at the Exhibition extended to 64 cases of wine. The New Zealand Government had charged him duty amounting to £32, at the rate of 10s a case on this wine. "Never before," said Mr Scott, "at any exhibition in the world has such an impost been levied, and this sort of thing is calculated to do the colony a great deal of harm." Mr Scott reports that 14 cases of grapes out of the last shipment have dissappeared in some mysterious manner. He is quite unable to trace them, and has been obliged to refund to several purchasers, being unable to deliver. THE PREMIER SEPARATOR. The new principle covered by the " Baltio'" patents is rapidly establishing this machine as the Premier Cream Sepamtor. The Split wing system has been discarded, and a special and very simple arrangement feeds the whole milk to the separating planes without disturbing the cream layer. Results achieved in actual "practice with the -'Baltic" have astonished practical factorymen, and tbe really marvellous capacity and clean skimming have exceeded anything hitherto known. Practical proof will be given on application to JJ. B. McEwan and Co., Ltd., U.S.S. Co'sUuildinge, Wellington. Why not get your customs work done with the greatest promptness and despatch? Send the papers to J. J. Curtis and Co. Ltd., Shipping, Forwarding and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, who will carry out every detail and deliver the goods to you, at the most rea sonable oharges. Write for further parioulars.—Advt.

A large drumhead cabbage grow by Mr B. Fahey, Otautau (Southland), turned the scale at 351b. Mr W. L. Falconer has been elected chairman of the Kaituna Debating Society, and Mr A. Ross act-ing-secretary. The society intend holding a social and dance shortly. A meeting of the Opaki Rifle Club will be held in the Central Hotel, on Wednesday evening next, to decide the date on which the presentation of prizes won during the season ahall take place. The Masterton Mounted Rifles held a parade on Saturday last. SergeantMajor Barr was present, and putjthe men through field movements and gave them instruction in the new drill. At the annual meeting of the Wanganui Agricultural Association, on Saturday afternoon, Mr J. H. Nixon " was re-elected President. It was resolved to increase the secretary's salary to £2oo.—Association. Mr J. S. Sutherland died at Carterton, on Saturday morning, at the age of 39 years. The deceased, ilvho had been in the employ of Messrs G. A. Fairbrother. Ltd., had resided in Carterton about 18 months. Mr. Boucher, Government Pomologist, says there is no need for alarm in connection with the fruit fly, and his Department hoped to have the pest absolutely exterminated before the next fruit "season. Mr J. B. Hull, Mangapakeha, has disposed of his farm to Mr A'. Groves, and together with his family will sail for the Old Country, in the s.s. Paparoa early in May. Mr Hull intends to return to the colony about the end of /j;he year. A Press Association telearpm from Napier states that at the annual meeting of the Star-Bowkett Societyit was shown that the total defalcations of the late secretary were £7lB, which was reduced by £2lB by the payment of fidelity bonds. * A special meeting of the Directors of the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company will be held, on Wednesday next, to elect two Directors in place of Messrs W. Perry and T. Wyeth, who have resigned their positions on the directorate. On Saturday morning Constable Gregor arrested a young man, named Patrick Bur'ie, on the Taueru Road, on a charge of having stolen a piece of greenstone, valued at £2, from a Maori at Te Ore Ore. Bourke will appear at the Magistrate's Court this morning. The directors of the Royal Humape Society of New Zealand have decided to award the Stead gold medal to Staff-Sergeant-Major Henry Redmond, ppd 32 years, of Nelson, who rescued; A. O'Brien, Walter Hill, Mrs A: Colt and her daughter, from drowning in the Collin River, on November 4th, 1906. A resolution was passed, at a meeting of the shareholders , of the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company, on Saturday last, confirming the resolution, which had been passed at a ' previous meeting, with reference to altering: the Articles of Association of the, pqmpany, to allow of shares being'allotted in future on the'butterfat principle. ' ' , ... It is officially repprted that the . efforts of the staff of the New South Wales London Office to induce a good type of the British agriculturist ' to emigrate to New South Wales are meeting with increased success. Notwithstanding the fact that the ranks of the applicants are mercilessly weeded out until only the most desirable are left, the number of men booked for Sydney is steadily growing week by week. Cabled advices have been received within the past day or two, that, the weekly shipments at the £nd of March ahd beginning of April were much larger than had heretofore been the case, the total in one week being as high as 207. The bulk of these men are of the very best type, and they should render a good account of themselves under Australian conditions. ,

The drawing; of Mr G. R. Irvine's art union of twenty-five hand-painted pictures took place in the Drill Hall on Saturday evening last, in the presence of Sergeant Miller, Mr Eli Smith, J.P., and a large number of ticket-holders. The list of winners is as follows, the numbers of the winning tickets being in parenthesesl, Mr T.Parker, Carterton (1,469);2, Mrs W. Simpson, Carterton (1,490); 3, Mr L. Pierce, Masterton (3,568); 4, Mrs J. Pickett, Masterton (2,638); 5, Mrs W. MclCenzie, Masterton (84); 6, Mrs C. Braggins, Masterton (947); <7, Mrs Chunn, Masterton (3,112); 8, Miss Delaney, Palmerston North, (1,173); 9, Mr F. Shaw, Te Ore Ore (67); 10, Mr C. Watson, Masterton (3,315); 11, Mr H. Johnston, Alfredton (818); 12, Mrs B. | Gaigh, Masterton (1,996); 13, Mrs J. McHattie, Masterton (199) ;14, Miss M. Kavanagh, Masterton (4,825); 15, Mr Chamberlain, Hukanui. (2,523); 16, Mr H. A, Walker, Eketahuna (4,486); 17, Mr E. Dixon, Masterton (844); 18, Mr Orsborn, Pernridge (629); 19, Mrs W. Fish, Konini (803); 20, Mr H. Tutbery, Featherston (3,815); 21, Miss V. Halfyard, Parkville (3,675)22, Miss R. Hill, * Masterton (1,707); 23, Mrs T. Wickens, Masterton (517); |24, Mr R. Houston, Masterton (1,363); 25, Miss U. Coster, Masterton (3,327). The Celebrity of Sander and Sons Purr Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the entire medical profession has adopted its usp. Imitations sprung up without number.. The latest of them—as styled •' Extracts "—was oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary itnder tbe grossest misuse of Sander ahd Sons' reputation. Sander end 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 tbe irritation produced. Thiß shows what care is required to obtain an artiole that is scientifically tested and approved of. As such is surelv endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Rheumo has cured thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, lumbago. It will cure you. Try it. All stores and chemists, 2s 6d and 43 Cd. A positive cure, BROUGHT TO BAY Are those enemies of civilisation, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, when Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are employed. 2s 6d per tin. Obtainable at H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville Co-opetativ9 Store, Mauriceville West.

Mr Robert Clark, of Tinwald, has ?sold one of his Clydesdale horses to Mr P. A. Bremer, of Hawera, for ■BOO guineas.—Press Association. Two young men, Nolan Christopher and Henry Easton, aged 19 and 18, respectively, were arrested at Oamaru, on Friday,for burglary from a dwelling-house atGlenavy.' Mr A. A. Wagstaff, of Pohangina, reared an unusually heavy sheep which, when killed a few days ago, turned the scales at 2151b, ■ dressed weight. It was a 6-tooth wether. The Tarnnaki Law Society has passed a resolution in favour of the repeal of the clause of the Law Practitioners' Act, 1898, giving solicitors power to practice as barristers after five years. The president of the Palmerston North branch of the Farmers' Union, Mr Balsillie, mentioned at a recent -meeting that a gentleman well known in farming circles in the district was prepared to give £I,OOO towards the cost of erecting a Veterinary College in the North Island. The union decided to urge upon the Government to establish such a college. During the March quarter 20,067 accounts were opeened in the Post Office Savings Banks of the colony, -and 14,285 were closed. The deposits •amounted to £2,32?,099, and the •withdrawals to £2,090,250, leaving an excess of deposits over .withdrawals of £324,848. In the March quarter of 1906 the deposits Were £1,933,384, and the withdrawals £1,718,158.

The labour unions of the United States are becoming militant. An official report'by Captain Whitney, of the National Guard Organisation, states that bodies of "labour union soldiers" have been organised in at least thirty-seven localities, with the object of supporting strikers in case of labour troubles by force of arms, and to "make war on the State militia." An expensivn bit of sheep killing was done at Awahari during the past couple of days, says the Manawatu Standard. A thoroughbred sheep dog, belonging to a well-known resident in the township, was enticed away by another dog, and before they finished their escapade had killed 20 sheep belonging to the Hon. W. W. Johnston and six belonging to other • owners. < Numerous applications for space at the coming Auckland winter show have been received, and a successful exhibition is regarded' as assured, says a Press Association telegram. The show will be opened on May 22nd by the Minister for Agriculture. During the show, which will, extend over four days, the Agricultural Con-, ference, which will be addressed by the Minister; and various experts of thefDepartment, will be held. Several of the country districts are arranging for Spurts for the display of their produce. Some interesting statements as to the political situation have been made by Mr T. M. Healy, M.P., has returned to England from a visit to America. He says he found that "the feeling of extreme Irishmen in A,merica iias certainly changed towards the British monarchy since the accession of King Ed- , -watd, and, righflyor wrongly, they regard him as a frfend of Ireland." Mr Healy was not very hopeful that any measure of self-Government Tvould be passed during the present session. He 'was rather inclined to ihink that the most that Ireland will Ijet this year will be a measure dealing with the University question in Ireland. ■

Discussion took place at the meeting at Wellington of the Shopkeepers' Association on the question as to who •were watchmakers and jewellers and who were not. A member lately from England said that the local "difficulty arose through the non-exist-•ence of plate-sellers' licenses. In England a plate-seller's license had to be taken out, and in this way the members of the trade were easily ascertainable. It was a good rule, too, for it gave the public a protection it needed. Before a man could •get a license he had to show that he possessed sufficient knowledge to enable him to tell whether plate or, other articles were eighteen carat or t something less. In New Zealand people were allowed to sell plate who • could not tell whether its carat was as represented or\ not; and the result was that they passed on tp, the public as eighteen carat goods which they only believed to be of that quality, but which for all they knew might be of much less value. Mr A. Haughey inserts a notice of thanks forfh is return to the Masterton Borough Council. A reward is offered for the recovery of a railway ticket, Wellington to Napier return, lost on Saturv day evening. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., notify that, in connection with the Whangaimoana stock sale on Thursday, May 9th next, special coaches will meet the early morning trains to convey buyers to the sale. On page 8 of this issue Messrs Lewis and Co., land agents, Wanganui, advertise particulars of 'two grazing farms. The firm is in a position by an intimate knowledge of the properties to pronounce them to to be exceptional bargains. At 1.30 p.m., on Thursday next, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell on the premises, on account of Mr "W. G. Taylor, the whole of his household furniture and effects. Particulars of the entry will be published in a later issue. On the premises of Mr S. Bartlett, Lansdowne, at 1.30 p.m. to-day, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co. will sell the whole of his household furniture and effects. At the same time the freehold of the property, 1J acres, and a substantially-built house,, will be offered at auction. Particulars \of the furniture will be seen on page 8 of this issue. don't wait tilt, to-morrow. It's little colds that nrow into bis colds, the big colds that eDd in consumption and death. Don't wait till to-morrow to cure the little colds, for one dose of Dr Sheldon's New Discovery for Cou?hs, Colds and Consumption will break ivj n cold if, taken at the beginning. Df. 8h 'don's New Discovery is a safe and neve -tailing remedy. Price, Is 6d, and 3s. Ot dnabie at H. E. Eton, Chemist, Mastertoi J. Baillie, Car terton, and the Maurices lie Co-operative Store, Maurioeville Weßt Ehenmo haa enabled m ny a poor sufferer from rheumatism, «ouc, sciatica, and lumbago to onoe more enjoy health and happinaßfj. '2fl.6d and 4s 6d. Sold every "Whore.

A movement, backed by several influential residents, is gaining ground, having for its object the establishment of a Young Men's Club in New Plymouth. At Otautau, Mr T. Mackenzie, M.H R., addressed a meeting, on Friday night, at the invitation of the Farmers' Union. He made a strong advocacy of the freehold, and at the conclusion the meeting passed a resolution affirming the freehold principle, a somewhat ambiguous amendment being lost.

In reply to an invitation to turn on the Waipori electric power, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones stated that he was unable to leave Wellington at present. He had no doubt in the near future development by hydro-elec-tricity would revolutionise the industries of New Zealand, and he congratulated Dunedin on its enterprise in undertaking the Waipori scheme. Mr A. G Campbell, an English sportsman, has been wonderfully successful on his recent fishing excursion to the centre, of the North Island. His catches on the Tongariro River included several brown trout oyer 201b in weight, and one of 23£lb —a real beauty—caught on the 3rd inst. In order to convince the sceptical—and they are legion when fish stories are afloat—Mr Campbell intends to have several of the fish stuffed, as indisputable evidence that there is no trout country like New Zealand in the world.

It is stated that there are two sides to the question concerning the management of the Yaldhurst School, near Christchurch, by a committee of ladies. At Monday night's meeting of householders, it transpired that the committee and the head master had been at loggerheads for the greater part of the year. The headmaster complained that it was almost impossible for him to work with the committee. The committee, he said, had even asked the Education Bjoard to remove him. He had, however, to acknowledge the courtesy and assistance of the chairwoman. The only nominations forthcoming for the new committee were four ladies, who were elected.

According to the Taranaki Herald, amine was sprung on a number of New / Plyniouth shopkeepers on Thursday morning. It was a circular from the Labour Department, notifying that the privilege of closing certain shops on Thursdays instead of Saturdays was to be withdrawn. .The circular read thus:—"Notice is hereby gi\en that 14 days from date the provision of section 33, subsection 2, of the Factories Act will be enforced —that is, that the permission hitherto giver, to close your factory on day set apart for the shops' half-holiday is rescinded, and your employees engaged in the factory, coming under the provison of the said section must receive the half-holiday from one of the clock every Saturday. I trust you will see your way clear to fall into line in these requirements, so that no friction may between yourself and the department." A deputation, headed by the Maypr of New Plymouth, waited on the Hon. J. Carroll in respect to the matter, and pointed out that the circular proposed to upset an arrangement that had existed in New Plymouth for nine'years. The Minister said whatever might be the principle of Parliament's legislation, the objective was never intended to be tyrannical. He thought there was a hardship, and said it created unnecessary friction, and promised to bring the matter before the Government.

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