LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8439, 10 May 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Gun Glub is to be formed at Pahiatua. There is a probability of a Golf Club being formed at Carterton. The latest return from the Mystery Flat Dredge is 50oz 2dwt for the week. The Masterton District High School will close on May 24th for the usual winter vacation of one week. A notice,, published in last night's Gazette, declares hydatids to be an infectious disease. —Association. At a meeting of the Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday evening, it was decided that the Agricultural Department should be approached with the object of establishing a branch at Eketahuna. At the meeting of the Masterton School Committee, last evening, a motion was passed congratulating Mr A. JB. Charters on his appointment to the headmastership of the Greytown School,- and regretting that the Mssterton School was iosing his services. ■ The statue of Queen Victoria, which has arrived from Italy at Melbourne, is the largest statue in Australia. It stands 13ft 6in high, and weighs eight tons, and is to be erected at Alexandra Avenue at a cost of £6,000. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the estimated population of the colony on March 31st last, excluding Maoris and inhabitants of the Pacific Islands, is 913,873, of whom 484,516. are males and 429,357 females. Including natives the total population at 973,944.. At the sitting of the Conciliation Board, yesterday, the claims of the timber workers and counter claims by the employers were discussed in committee. The sitting was a short one,, lasting only a few hours. The Board will sit next at Dannevirke, then at Napier, Palmerston North and Wanganui, in that order. The final sitting will be held in Wellington about the 22nd inst. A Press Association telegram from Wcstport states that it is alleged that some members of I. Battery have circulated a round robin amongst the members, asking one or more officers to resign. There are small troubles on parade. The captain placed two members under arrest, charging them with insolent: and mutinous behaviour, subversive of discipline. The staff officers will hold an enquiry. While riding a horse over the jumps on the Taratahi racecoui'se, yesterday, a jockey named Cameron had the misfortune to fracture one of his Jcgs. The horse had cleared all the big jumps and was about to take the last fence when itjswerved and hit a post, jamming the rider's leg between the horse and the post. Cameron was brought to the Masterton Hospital, yesterday afternoon, and is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances. SUCCESSFUL MILKING MACHINE. Writing in reference to the "Lnwivnce-Kcnnody-Oillies" Milking Mnohino Mr John Miithieson, of Tomahawk, says: "I have come to the conclusion that the money was well invested installing the "L.K.G." 1 havß been using four j machine?, and can honestly bav have found no ill effects after the second yeavM 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 obtaining the new inflations and mouth-pieces nine montha ago, have had practically no expense with the upkeep." MoEwan and Co., Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Co'a Buildings, Wellington.

A cheese factovy is to be eretfftod at Kaiparoro. A ladies' hockey club has been formed at Eketahuna. A project is on foot to establish a musical society in Dannevirke. The evacuation of Manchuria by Russian troops has been completed. A branch of the National League of New Zealand has been formed at Napier. One week's work of the Association of the new Cathedral Board resulted in £7OO being promised to the Dunedin cathedral fund. Messrs Brown, Waddington, and Fendall were appointed a Finance Committee at the meeting of the Masterton School Committee last evening. At a meeting held in the Foresters' Hal!, last evening, at which Mr A. W. Hogg occupied the chair, it was decided to form a General Labourers' and Navvies' Union. The Marine Department intends to appoint throe surveyors shortly in connection with the marine survey of the colony to assist Captain Sinclair, R.N.—Association. A notice appeared in the Gazette, last night, states a Press Association telegram, in reference to Mr R. H. Loughnan's appointment to the Legislative Council. The Wyridbam Farmer states, on reliable authority, that a dairy farmer in Wyndham district has just refused a cash offer of £2O per acre for his 200-acre farm. And another settler, within four miles of Wyndham Post Office, recently declined to close with a cash offer of £25 an acre for his 50-acre farm. At the opening ceremony of the Johnsonville Post Office, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, referring to the Manswatu railway, agreed that one of the most urgent steps that lay before the Administration was the acquisition of the railway. This important step, he said, had pressed itself increasingly upon the Government. Five men were charged at the Westporl: Magistrate's- Court, yesterday, with having played "twoup" in the open-air at midnight at. I Burnett's Face. Miller, who was holding the "kip," and whom the I constable heard say. "Two shillings I head them," was fined £5. The informations against four others were dismissed, as there was nodirect evidence that they were playing. Nearly one- thousand orphans are cared for in the orphanages of Victoria. According to the last published figures there were at the close of thte last financial year 581 boys and 403 girls in the orphanages. Of these, 634 were under four j ears of age, 31G were over four and under 10, 28 were over 10 and under 12, and six were 12 or over. In addition,, 111 boys and 122 girls were boarded out, while 154 boys were apprenticed and 73 girls were at.service. A Press Association t3legram from Invercargill states that the Hon. G. Fowlds was present at a banquet given last night by Mr J. A. Hanan,M.H.R., to the members of his election committee. Presentations were made to Mr Hanan and his wife.. Mr Fowlds, in the course of .a speech,, said that the party opposing the Land Bill represented the "party of privilege," and those supporting it the "party of the people." He had no doubt that the "party of.the people" would be victorious on the land question. The option of. purchase would be given over large areas of native land acquired after the Bill had been passed. At a meeting of the Ashburton A. and P. Association it was stated that, the following recommendations had been adopted for submission to the next Agricultural Conference: —(1) "That the advisability of adopting the 'point system' of judging stock at all agricultural shows throughout New Zealand be considered"; (2): "That the Conference take into consideration the question of setting up a colonial standard for all classes of stock"; (3) "That the question of setting up special committees to arrange dates for agricultural shows throughout the colony—one for the North Island and another for the South—be considered." A correspondent writes to the Nelson Mail :■—"Hop-picking extraordinary. Recently a correspondent stated that Mr Justin McCarthy, of the Baton district, had succeeded in; picking 83 bushels of hops a day,, and that the tally probably constituted a record for the hop-gardens of the world. This total, however, was easily beaten last week by Mr Ralph Bate in Mr Clark Goodhall's garden, Riwaka. On Thursday Mr Bate picked 100 bushels, and on Friday,, between 6 a.m. at 5.30 p.m., with an interval of 15 minutes for lunch, and in addition to pulling the poles for two hours in the morning, he picked 120 bushels. These totals are vouched for by a large number of the residents of Riwaka." The bankruptcy returns for the three months ended March 31st, 1907, are now available, and they show an increase in the amount of business. The Wellington districts included Wanganui, Palmerston North, Dannevirke, Pahiatua, Mas~ terton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth and Hokitika. There were 27 bankruptcies in this area during the quarter mentioned, and the assets realised amounted to £5,103 15s Id, as compared with 21 bankruptcies and £2,418 worth of assets during the corresponding period of 1906. In the Wellington city district there were 13 bankruptcies this year, while the assets realised amounted to £1,194, as compared with nine bankruptcies and £782 worth of assets for the quarter, ended March, 190 G. Tub CELEnmrs of Sander and Sons Poke Voi vniiE Eccaii\t?ti Extract is universally acknowledged. Boyalty 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 unwary under the grossest misuse of Sander ahd Pons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Maddon, 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 tho irritat on produced. This shows what care is inquired to obtain an artiolo that is scitntifically tested and approved of. As suoh is suroly endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

There are 121 subscribers to the Carterton Public Library. One flaxmill owner at Palmerston florth had £4OO worth of prepared fibre spoiled by the recent floods. Two new Indian mountain batteries and one Indian cavalry regiment are to be a raised this year. A decree nisi was granted at Wellington, yesterday, in the divorce case Harry B. Kennerley v. Annie Kennerley. Twenty sheep belonging to the Hon. W. W. Johnston, at Awahuri, were recently killed by a well-bred sheep dog. At eight o'clock this evening a meeting of those interested inj the establishment of workers' homes in Masterton will be held in the Foresters' Hall. A Leipzig firm has secured a contract to build an aerial suspension railway in Spitzburgen to serve the coalfields. It will be the "farthest north" line in the world. A petition is being signed by Kaiparoro settlers asking the Government for an increased grant to enable a bridge to be erected over the Makakahi River at Mount Bruce. Young women and married men i n Hull, Canada, have sent a largely--signed petition to the City Clerk proposing that the council should tax every bachelor over twenty-five £l. It was stated, at the last meeting of the Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce that one auctioneering firm bad put through 39,000 sheep in Eketahuna during the past three months. At the Masterton Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning, Mr W. P. James,, S.M., presiding, Messrs Hooper and Co. obtained judgment by default against J. Attree for £3 10s Bd, with costs Bs. The Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce has decided to ask the Railway Department to provide sufficient passenger accommodation on the evening, trains from Masterton on Wednesdays and Saturdays. At Auckland, the Agricultural Department has entered upon a campaign against noxious weeds. Poßtytwo out of forty-four offenders at Pukekohe were fined 10s and costs, I with the exception of an absentee, | who was fined £2. , At the Masterton Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning, before Mr W. P.. James. S.M., Walter McLeary was fined one shilling and seven shillings costs for having ridden a bicycle without a light on the evening of the 6th inst. A committee, consisting of Messrs Waddington, O'Leary, Perry and Townsend was appointed, at the meeting of the Masterton School Committee, last evening, to report on the establishment of sewing classes at the Masterton School. Judge Longley, of Ottawa, speaking at. Halifax recently, said: "The destiny of Canada is independence, and men living now will see it." Shouts of "Never!" rang through the hall, and the audience sprang to their feet and sang, "Rule Britannia." Changing your mind is a very costlything in the Magistrate's Court, says the Christchurch Press. An accused person who pleaded not guilty to a charge of procuring liquor for a prohibited person, and then altered his . plea to guilty, had to pay exactly £2 : more into the Government coffers than his companions, who admitted the offence in the first instance. The rabbits arriving at the Southland frozen Meat Works this season are much more numerous than those which came forward last year, says the Southland . News, and if. the supply is maintained,.the 1906 figures will be doubled. Some farmers have found, a difficulty in retaining workmen, who are attracted by the earnings of rabbit trappers to enter on that occupation, and it is stated that some se?kers after bunny'are netting as much as £l2 a week.. ' The fact that a woman who had lost her husband through an accident while he was working for the Government was obliged to come before the Wellington Benevolent Institution Trustees, on Wednesday, for. assistance, pending the hearing of a claim for compensation against the Crown,, called forth some trenchant: criticism , from Mr D. Robertson, says the Post.. The case, he said was anything but creditable to the Government which thus evaded the responsibilities its own-made laws placed upon private employers. The conditions which had. to be observed by employers of labour in regard to accidents were very strict, and here was the Government, which should be looked to to set a good example to the colony, doing the very reverse. The trustees granted assistance to the unfortunate widow, who has four young children, and whose small capital has vanished.. A situation on a. sheep farm, is wanted by's family jot three.. An advertiser requires a house- • maid. An advertiser desires board and residence in a private family. The annual meeting of the voters of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust will be held in the Town Hall at 8 p.m. on Thursday next. At their rooms, Perry Street, at 2.15 p.m., to-morrow, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co. will submit at auction a quantity of fishing tackle, numerous lines of household furniture,, poultry and produce. Further pai'ticulars in connection with the sale of furniture and effects to-morrow, by Mr J.'R. Nicol, on account of Mrs W. Judd, are now advertised. The sale will take place at the l'esidence in Villa Street, which will also be submitted by auction during the afternoon. Mr J. R. Nicol has been instructed by Mr James Stuckey, who is leaving for England, to sell at the residence, Perry Street, on Saturday, 18th inst., the whole of the well-selected furniture and effects contained therein. Further particulars will be advertised later. 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A new Post Office was opened at Johnsonville on Wednesday. Miss R. Bell has been appointed assistant teacher at the Morison's Bush School. Victoria is at present bringing *"l:oJth a crop of divorcejsuics. No less than 44 of such cases are set down for hcarng in May. •A large dog, while rushing from ■la butcher's shop in Melbourne collided with a valuable draught horse, which fell, breaking its neck, and died instantaneously. Following the example of Australian cities, and also that of the New >v ,4#aland Exhibition and of Auckland, 'a "Wonderland" is to be formed in Wellington. The Wellington Rugby Union will play a return football match with Wairarapa this season, but at a later date than that suggested by the Wairarapa Rugby Union (June 3rd). A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states thaf Inspector Donaldson, of the Health Department, made a gruesome discovery in King Street on Wednesday. An elderly •Couple have lived there for -years, and the man died suddenly from heart failure on Monday last. His body, fully dressed, was found lying •on a sofa greatly decomposed, whilst the widow, who had kept vigil over it since the death, was half demented. An order for burial has been obtained, and the woman is being taken care of by friends. "A person is liable to prosecution for handing round Bibles or hymnbooks in church on Sunday. People might not believe, it, ( but any cantankerous person has only to go round the churches on a Sunday to get evidence for a prosecution of this sort." Thus said Mr Marshall Lyle, a well-known Melbourne lawyer, in defending William Fleming, a noted Socialist propagandist, who was charged with distributing books on the Yarra River bank on a recent Sunday. A member of the Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce suggested, at a meeting on Wednesday last, the advisability of clearing and forming a track to the top of the Ruapai Peak in the Tararua ranges at the back of Eketahuna. It was contended that the scenery was equal to, if not superior, to that of Mount HoldsJLworth. By giving access to the peak ™ f a popular tourist resort would be opened up. The secretary was authorised to write to settlers in the vicinity with a view to ascertaining the cost of clearing a track io the summit. If a laddie gets a wotting Coming ihio' the rye, if he lias a cold upon him JNeedthoLiddid die; He cuu liiuyli tit all chest trcutle3 , If re can procure 'il e proper stuff, and plain enough, I,'o vVooJs' Uraat Pappermint Curd.