LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8438, 9 May 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There are now 298 subscribers to the Masterton Public Library. It is stated that the Town Hall at Gfreytown may be built in wood instead of brick. , At a gift auction for the funds of the Cust Presbyterian Church, last week, a pair of common ducks brought £2 .*■■ - vr ._ Miss H. Hurren has been appointed cole teacher at the Alfredton School, and Miss H. Mead sole teacher at the Kohinui School. At Featherston, on Tuesday, Mr S. Symonds, of Kent, England, was married to Miss Grace Martin Monckton, of Newstead, Featherston. The Postmaster-General has informed Mr Hornsby, M.H.R., that the construction of the telephone line to Matarawa is expected to be completed within a few weeks. • The reasons given by the committees of twerity-five schools in the Southland Education district for the reduced average attendance during March were sickness, long distance, and the need for assisting with the harvest in remote localities where labour could not be easily procured. In an address to the boys of the Timaru High School on Friday, Mr Hall-Jones cautioned them against taking to politics when they grew up. He had found its rewards Dead Sea fruit. But whether they went into trade or industries or polities he urged them to concentrate their mind upon their calling/ The London Morning Post, of March 23rd, contains the announcement of the marriage, at St. Golumb Minor, Cornwall, by the Rev.. Canon Thornton, of John Mr P. Gedge, Newquay, to Jean, widow of the late Mr W. A. Donald, of Glasgow and New Zealand, writes our London correspondent, s SUCCESSFUL MILKfNG MACHINE. Writing in reference to the "Lawrence-Kennedy-Gillies" Milking Machine Mr John Mathieson, of Tomahawk, says: " I havo come to the tonolusicn that the money wab well invested installing the "L.K.G." 1 havo "been using ' four machines, and can honestly sav have found no ill-effects after the second year's milking on the same- cows. I have tried the cows at intervals and always found the quantity fully more with the machine than by hand. Since the new inflations and mouth-p'eces nine months ago, have had practically no expense with the upkeep." McEwan and Co., Ltd., Sole Agents, U.B.S. Go's Buildings, Wellington.

There are 150 Masonic Lodges in New Zealand. There are now 4,892 books in the Masterton Public Library. Twentynine new books were obtained during the past month, and 1,171 books we're lent out.

A meeting of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held on Saturday afternoon, immediately after the meeting of the A. and P. Association.

At the meeting of. the Borough Park and|;Library Committee, last evening, the Borough Engineer was instructed to furnish an estimate of the cost of baths similar to those at Woodville.

Vice-Admiral Fawkes left Wellington for Picton, yesterday, states a Press Association telegram. The departure of the Australian Squadron for the North has been postponed until Saturday. ..

Mr A. B. Charters, of the staff of the Masterton District High School, has been appointed, by the Wellington Education Board, headmaster of the Greytown School. This means a well-earned promotion for Mr Charters.

The Conciliation Board will hold their sitting in the back room of the , Masterton Court-house, to-day. The Native Land Court will open at 10 o'clock, and will adjourn at 10.30 for a short time to enable civil court business to be dealt with, and then the sitting will be resumed. A Royal Arch Chapter, known the Robins Royal .Arch Chapter, has been formed in Masterton in connection with the Druids' Lodge. The Chapter will instruct young'members and officers in ritual work. Bro. D. A. Pickering has been elected Royal Arch Druid of the Chapter. On March 23rd the New Zealand jockey, Hewitt, made his first appearance on an English racecourse at Liverpool, writes our London correspondent. 'He rode Mr George Edwardes' Rara Sort, and won the race of the day. .It is understood that he is to ride for the Ogbourne stable. A correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle says Mr David Peat is providing £l,ooo'out of his own pocket to make a road into his youngest son's place, which is located not far front the Ahu Ahu. This road will greatly benefit quite a number of the Crown land settlers. Mr Peat, as well as making the road, is going to pay half the cost of the maintenance man's wages for a year or so.

Members of the various local football clubs met Mr A. P. Whatman at the Boxing Hall, last evening, in reference to fixing certain nights in the week for fooiball practice in the Hall. It was decided that the Albion Club should have the use of the Hall on Monday evenings, Red Stars on Tuesday evenings, and Masterton oo Wednesday, evenings. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings were set opart for boxing purposes.

An application to strike off the rolls of New Zealand solicitors, Henry Sfcratton Izard, formerly of Greytown, who was guilty of embezzling trust monies, was before Justice Cooper, at Wellington, yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, when a rule nisi was made. Izard is now suspended, and the Cpurt being of opinion that the. rule should be made absolute the Court of Appeal is to be moved to that end at its next sitting.

Early yesterday morning a fiveroomed house at Upper. Opald, occupied by Mr W. Rossiter and his wife and child, was destroyed by fire. The inmates escaped through a window, and only about £5 worth of their effects were saved. The property was recently sold to Mr George Williams, who was shortly to have taken possession. The building was insured for £2OO and the furniture and effects for £IOO in the South British Office, for which Mr J. R. Nicol is the local agent. A congregational social was held in the Wesleyan Sunday Schoolroom, last evening. There was a. large attendance, and the Rev. J.j N. Buttle presided. Addresses on church woik were' given by the Re v. J. N. Buttle, and Messrs H. Beale and J. Heyhoe. During the evening songs were sung by Mrs Edwards,. Miss B. Joy, and Messrs Schubert, S. Ralph, J. B. Nicol and T. R. Mannell. 'The accompaniments were played by Missesl!'-Church and E. Daniell and Mrs».W. L. Joy. Refreshments were provided by the ladies.' ' Many stories aije told of the'distances cats have travelled back to old haunts, but the feat of a spaniel dog seems to eclipse them all. Two or three weeks ago a young man went to work in Dunedin from Chiistchurch, and took his dog with Lira. Shortly afterwards the dog was missing. He advertised for it, but without result. A week, later he received a telegram from , Christchurch to say that the spaniel had turned up at its old home in Christchurch, having covered the whole distance of the back trail.

The old-fashioned • method of drenching horses through the nostrils is still affected by some ignorant persons. A case was mentioned at a recent meeting of the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in which it was alleged that a horse had been taken ill and had been drenched by an amateur as above. The lining of the horse's nose, • throat, and lungs were severely scorched. As a result of the operation the horse broke a blood-vessel, and, although eventually treated by a veterinary surgeon, it died within two hours of the drenching. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and s»boesq of 'SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one casfl' was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving judament said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that Whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it s not penmssable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing go, and ordered thom to pay nil costs. t Wo publish this to aflovd the public an opportunity of protecting them»elv< 3 and of securing what is proved beyond bll doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. "

A Press Association telegram from Inveicargill states, that the next Masonic Lodge Communciatiori will be held in Auckland in May, 1908. . During the past, .year three new Masonic Lodges have been formed ih' New Zealand—at Roxburgh, In vercargill and Pongaroa. Mrs N. Gooder, an old resident of Wellington, who arrived there k with her father, Mr F. J. ~ France, in 1841, died on, Tuesday, aged' 69.

Colonial mails : which left Melbourne on the 3rd April, per R.M.S.S. Moldavia, via Brindisi, arrived in London oh the-night of the 3rd instant, one day early. It is understood that the question '■ of appointing a second ' magistrate in Wellington is engaging the attention of the Government, and that the announcement of an appointment may be expected almost immediately. The technical illegality which resulted in unseating Mr R. A. Loughnan, who was appointed to the Legislative Council in January, has now -been removed. Mr Loughnan's reappointment will probably be gazetted this week. In'addressing the Sandon branch of the Farmers' Union, Mr J. G. Wilson said the season had been the best that he had known during his 34 years' experience. All kinds of pro- : duce was realising good prices and I the outlook for the present year was i most encouraging.

A sheep-farmdr in the Narribri district of New South Wales' has a fine flock of 3,000 merinos, absolutely . black. These have averaged 7&lb of wool, rather, nipre than white:merinos in the same district, and , the wool sold at' 13d ' per lb. The last lambing was 84 per cent., and there was not a piebald among them.

A Cheviot correspondent writes that it is not..generally known, that there are indications of petroleum on the Cheviot Estate. It is stated that an expert will visit the district .fh a few weeks to investigate. Much of " thef water obtained from the wells in ■ the township gives signs of the presence of oil.

A Press Association telegram from Invercargill states that the marshal of the New Zealand Admiralty Court, accompanied jby the solicitor for Lloyd's ' went to the Bluff, yesterday, and formally arrested the .-, ship Stefano Razetto and her cargo and freight by affixing the necessary documents to the mainmast. v .

,Mr A. Clark, of Gladstone, has sold a portion of the Tupurupuni

Estate, which he bought from Mr W. C. Buchanan, to Mr Ralph Beetham, son of Mr Hugh Beetham,

of Braricepeth, states the Carterton News. The land is said to be of ad-

mirable quality, and 1,000 acres in

extent. The price paid, including stock; is reported. to have been £lB

per acre,

•The temperance hotels of Wellington will, by the end of the year, be ' added tp by one to'be erected in Cuba.Street by >the Salvation Army. / It is intended to pull down the ' ' Paulina Home and the adjoining headquarters offices, and erect upon the sites a three-storey brick hotel, or People's. Palace. The new buildi ing will have , a frontage tp Cuba | Street of about 100 ft, and will run 1 back to' the next street in. the.rear. .Its cost will approximate £8,000.., ._ It,is to ; be "run" purely as a com-, mercial venture. ', , ' The first of this season's farm,com- ' petitions arranged by the Masterion - ; A. and P. Association is to be decided this'week. The crops grown are ordinary turnips, the area being restricted to three acres, and the owner of the plot' with the heaviest average to the acre will be declared the winner. ! The competitors are:—Messrs W. Perry and Bland Rayner, both of ■ Taratahi; McGregor Bros., Manaia, and W. Cameron, Opaki. The judges will be Messrs R. Dagg and J.'. Morris. ' The allocation of the Wellington , Education Board's' share of the special capitation grant made to . : the various Education Boards has just taken place. The amount received for distribution among the Wellington district schools, at the rate oi 9d per head on the average attendance for the past year was £538 75." The ' <■■ amount due to the larger schools, was as follows :*— Newtown, £3B /3s 9d, . Petone £32 lis, Masterton £2B 2» 6d, Te Aro £26 4s 3d, Clyde Quay £24 15s 9d, Terrace £22 16s, , South Wellington £2l a2s 9d; Mount .Cook (three, schools) £4O 18s 3d, Thprndon Normal School £ls 3s 9d, Brooklyn £l4 7s 3d, Hutt £l3 19s, Levin £ 12 18s 9d, Pahiatua £lO 10s. In an interesting article on old age pensions in the' current number of the Empire Review, Mr A. C. Brownlow, declares that the class [of the community which deserve pensions most are .the-wives ef worki ing men —the women who, on a wage 'of "sometimes less ' than twenty 1 shillings a week, have brought up a , j large family. "Without the mother i where would the nation be?" he 1 asks. "Yet what is the State doing at present for the mothers of England? Surely these women above all , others should be able to look forward to' a period of rest, after fighting the battle of life. With a State pension how much lighter would the burdens of the working man's wife become! What an influence, for.' good would she be in her old age to / the young mothers of. a rising generation, instead of as at present a drag on the energies of her offspring, young people who ought to be able to gjve all their time and devotion to their own families." Bheumo cures rheumatism and kindred complaints. It eliminates the excess uric acid and purifies the blood. All chemists and stores, 2/6 and 4/6. Try it. "Some little time ago," says Mr J. G. Boyle, Kelmscott, W. A., "I was suffering from a severe cough, which threatened to , take.a serious form. Hearing so much aoout Chamberlain's C6ugh Remedy I decided to give it a trial and to my great, satisfaction was completely cured, by the time I had finished the first bottle." For Bala by T. G. Mason, Masterton.. Wny spend money at Botcrua and, other thermal springs when Bheumo will quickly cure you of rheumatism, gout, sciatica or . lumbago, "aemists and stores, 2s 6d and *s. 6d. ; Tell o£ the fjood of it, Say what you should of it. All that you could of it, , Say what you would of it; Tell of colds cured by it, ; Good health ensured by it, Long life secured by it—. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.

,' TbU season Messrs Dalgety and Co.; Ltd/; have from Sydney to Loudon two tons of mohair, which has sold at from 12d to 15Jd per lb. A well«k||Own authority in cheese circles declares that prices for cheese must rule very much lower next season. They are peeping up very well at present. A Southern factory sold its May and June output the other day at sixpence. Mr Anthony Wilding, the' New Zealand tennis-player, is to the front in the Riviera Lawn . Tennis Touhiamenttt, writes our London correspondent. He won the Gentlemen's Singles Championship, beating Mr G. J. Ritchie in the final. At Cannes, on March 28rd, Mr Wilding was beaten by Ritchie in the third round of the Cannes Cup.

' Germans resident in New Zealand who are liable for military service Will shortly have an opportunity of undergoing examination on board a German warship. Mr E. Focke, the German Consul in Wellington, has been advised that the warship Condor will arrive at Aucklard on the 21st of the month, and. will remain there about five days.

Writing under <hte March 29th. our London correal <?" it says:— Inman> the billiard player, left last ; Friday. He wi'l spend a fortnight in ■ Ceylon, and is due at Perth on May 9th. A fortnight in West Australia, a month in Victoria, and a month in

Sydney will bring him to New Zealand on Avgust sth. He leaves New Zealand on September 16th, visiting Tasmania, Adelaide, and Brisbane, afterwards going to China and India.

"The numbers for tlje higher standards possess no characteristics markedly superior to the ordinary mn of school readers, and, if we are to judge by the evidence before us, this venture, is one of the wildest alternations ihe Education Department has indulged in, and that is saying a good"deal.* According to vtbe memo, at tbe end, 89,800 of these publics' r9 h.tve been printed!— The Feilding Star on the School Journal. On Su'-Jay, fec>>u o 'o of v Centre Hill (fjinhtend), was acci.dentally shot, in the leg by a compuiviofl, ujumri O'Lcury. The latter** 4jun I'ad gone wrong somehow, and as he was trying to fix it it exploded, .the charge striking Johnston, wbo \was about 15 yards away, below the Jknee. They were far from any habitation, but O'Leary carried his mate ion bis back till he reached moans .of commu'Mcatioii. Six miles journey was tbrocigh bush in the ', dark.—Association. Write* oi • i .'■ i t , '».ii;i«iv..ndent ;mndor J<<li V '« £9.. h- Mr Harold aCox intcmla to t» ove ii ths Hoiise of Commons, ."■* an a>v li'-.-'tv.t to tbe laecond twj' .of s.he Territorial and .' JJeservo' ICoi; Dill row under con-'sidet«'ci\-v.', "t'*■•-•■. it is undesirable to : procc- *V with a mevsurefor ■ ithore-o^.. i 3 , i'or> of His Majesty's : '3at?d jforcpi until the self-governing .isotonics have definitely stated what ■ iWiUtary forces they are prepared to jnamtsivi, a?d to place at tbe service .of His Majesty should occasion re<tuire." ' *■ A meeting of the Trastees of the Jfoeth Wairamm Benevolent Society . was held ito the Exchange Buildings , jjeaterday afternoon. There were present *-Messrs R. T. "Holmes lehajrnoa*r), W/Mowia, J. Morris and Mrs GaiwJir. -A 'sotf' of an Irimate A v W the BenaH-Solway Home wrote Jtttiaf that heatjdais brother would , p/ovjde a. Jnotoe for their father in Paimeratpn Nc*th. The writer atated th:t he was unaware, until

twently, of the .whereabouts of his father. it was decided tyontinue relief, tsbw+icg to 16s per week for another Hpooth, to a woman who had jasfc.beea from tbe Waiteri--sa Hospital. The Trastees :alaodecid3d*\to. allow a widow, who lately lost her husband, and who has three little children to sapport, 10s a week until feext meeting. Account amounting to MQ 6s 5d were passed ; for payment., \ The action 'of the ;, Cha?.rmi»o add Secretary in dc-1' g '' with ceriau' ca3es sii'ee the lost meeting uas rypfUmed.

An advertiser has vacancies for two gentleman boar Jew, • • ■•.•■. , Mr F.. V, Welch has vacancies for blade e»\d machine scutchers, V Messrs W. B. Cbenneils pndCo. advei Use teveral houses to let. The Masteitoh Boroujh Council adveriise tarsal? a quantity of good . soil suitable for top-dressing. i \ ' An advertisor requires a young i woman to keep books and assist in shop. Notice of an application for a transfer of the license of the Club Hotel is advertised in this issue. A reward is offered for the return 0 of a lady's watch, lost in Chapel Street ' Messrs Ross JBros., land agents, Marton, advertise particulars of two * good farms which have been placed in their hands for sale. Mr A. Norman, draper, has decided to offer, all his lines of trimmed millinery at reduced prices. Comparative prices of the reductions will be found elsewhere. Farmers looking for a purchaser for their farms' are requested by 1 Mtasrs East and East, Wellington, to lose no time in giving them full 1 particulars, as they are able to reach buyers in every quarter of the, colony.' They also give a special selection of four farms for sale, . which they proclaim thorough "bar- . gain properties. i« Professor Williams, hairdresser tK and tobacconist, Queen Street, has Just had several improvements car- " ried out in his hairdressing and shaving saloon.,, Three new American chairs have teen installed. These chairs are made of quaiter-aawed oak, gold finished, upholstered with crimson mohair plush, and are fitted with a patent adjustable head rest. The chafes are worked by hydraulic * power for the purposes of raising, lowering or revolving. The chairs \ should be much appreciated by customers. Profe'ssor Williams has to hand a large stock of the most popu- ; Jar brands of cigarettes, including :' 'Savoy and Co., State Express, Winiand Vafiadis, The * • 'tobacco* stocked include such welll! f Imowb brands as Players' Navy Cut, *" Lambert and Butler's Log Cabin, af/Jtojal Salute, Viking, Taddy's Myr- " tie Grove and Premier Navy Cut.