LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8461, 11 June 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thursday next will be the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Church of England in New Zealand. Accor Jing to a decision of the Defence Council, all volunteer Sunday parade 3 are to be abolished, with the excaption of church parades. The Y.M.C.A. membership campaign, at Christchurch, which was resolved upon about ten days ago, has resulted in the enrolment of 81 new members. / Mr W. J. Jackson, late assistant lineman at the*'Masterton Post Office, who has recently been acting as postmaster and lineman at Tarawera, has been appointed telegraphist at the Taihape Post office. Mr E. E. Chamberlain has placed an order with Mr C. E. Daniel I for the erection of an up-to-date residence on the farm of his son, Mr A. Chamberlain, at Takapau. At the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr J. H. Pauling J.P., Michael Rock, a third Offender, was fined £5, in default 14. days' imprisonment, for having been drunk. At the Wellington Police Court, yesterday, Charles Dunn and Frank Morrah, were committed for trial on a charge of assault with intent to do grevious bodily harm. The assault is alleged to have taken place in a "two up" school. , The Taihape Post states that information has been received that Taihape will be the principal changing station for the Auckland-Wellington service and that £IO,OOO will ''■ be spent on improving the railway station. The second term of the Masterton Technical School commenced, last evening, when 45 pupils presented themselves for the English and Arithmetic Class, which ,is the compulsory subject for free pupils.- 'The Dressmaking, Plumbing, and Commercial Classes will meet this evening. The following are the tests of the various creameries supplying the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., during .the month of May:—Nikau: Highest, 5.6j lowest, 4,7; average, 5.16. Rangitumau: highest, 6.2; lowest, 4.2; average, 4.97. Mangamaire: Highest, 5.3; lowest, 4.3; average, 4.77. A number of wreaths were placed on the late Mr R. J. Seddon's grave, at Wellington, yesterday, including those sent by the Westland Memorial Committee, West Coasters' Association, and Wellington Memorial Committee. On Sunday members of the Cabinet visited the burial place and put a wreath on the grave. THR .',L K.G.'l RECORD.

The ' L K.G."idi ot a new or improved milking machine, it is ttie only machine < ir of many hundreds which has stood the ordeal of public use ' and until it had worked for lour jpms on n numbn- of fhims.it was considered impossible to produce a successful milking machine. Yet immediately this is assured, at least a dozen inventors confidently assuro the puMie that they have sudden!* hit on various designs superior to the " L.K.G.." descite the fact that it holds securely the only successful principle diFcovered after 100 jears ol experiment. Talk is cheap, but it costs thousands to produce a record equal to the "L.E.G." Sole Agents, MaoEwan'B, Ltd.,

From to-day the East Coast mail will leave Martinborough .at 8 a.m. instead of 9 a.m. Mr T. W. D. Quaintrell has disposed of his farm, consisting of 678 acres, at West Taratahi, to Mr A. Anderson, of Clareville. Considerable interest is being taken in the question of railway communication for Martinborough, and a meeting is to be held this week to discuss the matter.

It is stated that Mr P. Gaskin, of Carterton, has sold his farm, consisting of 96 acres, to Mr Herd, of Masterton. The price is reported to be £25 per acre.

A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Pahiatua, on Sunday at 2.15 p.m. Shocks were also experienced, on Sunday afternoon, at Greytown and Carterton.

An effort is being made to match B. R. Day, the English professional running champion, now in Auckland, against a local runner, states a Press Association telegranij from Auckland. ....*«££

During the season which closed with the Winter Meeting, on Saturday, the /Auckland Racing Club put through the totalisator £216,283, an increase of £17,419 on the previous season. mt<miM . 1 Ms®B& .>«££££

The Gisborne Borough Council has decided to take a pol) under the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act. It is estimated that if a fire district is created the Government will have to contribute £7O a year and the insurance companies £3OO. Petitions, signed by the storekeepers and assistants, are in circulation in Carterton, asking Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, M.H.R., to use his influence in getting the half-holiday finally altered to Thursday instead of Saturday. Referring to the expiration of the terms for which Messrs J. E. Jenkinson and J. Rigg were appointed to the Legislative Council, the Dunedin Star states that it expects to find. direct Labour representation in place of the two ex-Councillors.

The Dalefield cheese factory is the only one in the Carterton district now open for the supolv of milk, Taratahi, Belvedere and Parkvale having closed till August. The lateness of calving and the plenitude of grass is mainly the cause of Dalefield farmers being able to keep their factory open till July 2nd. At a meeting of the Featherston Fresh Milk Supply Association, on Saturday last, Messrs J. S. Cundy, H. Pinney, W. B. Sadler, A. Tocker, 1 A. M. Wilkinson W. Hodder and W. J. Murphy, wera elected directors. It was left to them to decide whether the Association should\i go on with 4 the establishment of a 'depot.' •.qaagl ■

The preyailing fashion among ladies of carrying their handkerchiefs in their purses, taught one fair resident of .a Jjesson recently, says the Lytteltofr .Times.* On leaving a dentist's surgery she pulled her handkerchief from her purse, and with it two £5 notes. She has heard nothing since of the lost money. .:

At a special meeting of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association, on Saturday night, at which the local members of Parliament were present, opinion was strongly expressed as to the necessity for continuing the protection of the colonial fruit trade. The members of the House present promised to resist any endeavours to take off the duty on imported fruits.. of distribution was referred to, and the meeting showed itself strongly favourable to the establishment of municipal markets. "pie Assessment Court wa? qngaged for four days, last week, in ing the Government valuators for Westland County, states a Hokitika Press Association telegram. A feature of the proceedings was the fact that in one riding the County Council. entered 235 objections on the ground that valuations were too low, except in two instances. Trie objections were successful, and the total valu ation of the riding in question was increased by about £27.500. The settlers showed a good deal of opposition, and attended in force. The proceedings excited a large amount of local interest.

Changes of ownership., of several large Southern stations are reported by the North Otago Times. Mr Joseph Preston has disposed of his Woodlands property, near Catlins, to a Timaru syndicate. The Christ- V churih syndicate that recently bought and disposedof the Clydevale Estate have bought Mr Bullen's large estate at the Kaikouras. Mr James Preston has disposed of his Black Forest Station, in the Upper Wataki, to Mr Smith, manager of Mprven' Hills Station, and Mr McArthur, who re-* cently sold his Te Akaterawa run to Mr Paterson, has bought Mr W. Grant's Grampians Station, in the Mackenzie Country. A writer in the Taranaki News, discussing the native question, re-, calls to mind a happening of some years ago at the opening of a hall in one of the Taranaki kaingas. There was quite a large influx of Europeans. The Maoris seemed to have developed a craze for "change." Visitors were approached by ajMaori in this wise: "You got te two single shillin' and te ikipenny for te halfcrown?" And the change would be given. Others wanted two sixpences for a shilling, two shillings for a florin, two threepenny pieces for a sixpence, and so on. By-and-bye came dinner time. The pakehas trooped in and enjoyed their feed. A collection was taken up. Not pne of them had anything smaller than a two-shilling piece. That's how the "child of nature", got home on the civilised product.

Ths Celebrity of Sander and Sons Pjrb Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the entire rneuioal 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 Hoi*' reputation. Sander and Sons ins.Uuted an action at the Supiemo Court of Vic'orin, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. ' Madden, K.C.M.G., etc.. mikl nt the trial a sworn wining tcstifi. d th:it he had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. This shows what care is required to obtain on art'de that is scientifically tasted and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and * recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS'PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI' EXTRACT.

During the month of May the Manager of the Masterton Gasworks laid 19 ■■ new gas services, and connected 10 new meters. The contract for converting the Engineer's office, in the Borough Council Chambers, into a gas showroom has been completed. A stock of gas fittings is being removed into the room, and the Manager of the Gasworks hopes to have the room open for the display of goods in the course of a few days. The Gas and Finance Committee of the Masterton BoYough Council, last evening, further considered the Gas Manager's report on the requirements at the Gasworks for the next five years. The report will come up for final consideration at the next meeting of the committee. At a sitting of the District Court, yesterday morning, presided over by Mr E. Rawson, Registrar, William Henry Wilton, sheepfarmer, of West Taratahi, was adjudged a bankrupt on the petition of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., for whom Mr B. J. Dolan appeared. The gratuities of 10s each to the sixteen marksmen of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers for the last year's shooting will be paid out at the ordinary parade of the Corps on Friday evening next. Bugler Harding, who , is the champion shot of the Ruahine 1 Battalion, will receive an additional 10s. A meeting of the Social Committee of the Carlton Cricket Club was held in the Occidental Hotel, last evening, Mr E. Welch presiding. It was reported that all arrangements were complete for the social and dance to be held in the Exchange Hall, on Friday evening next, and that there was every prospect of the function being a success. ' At the meeting of the Gas and Finance Committee of the Masterton Borough Council, last evening, the following resolution was passed:— "That the attention of the Works Committee/' be drawn to the fact that £he expenditure oh maintenance this year is running to £250 per month, which the Finance Committee consider is excessive and will n:ce3sitate an 1 increase in either races or overdraft, or both." A Press Association telegram from Pahiatua states that a man naraed John Beaufort, surveyor, was found by two men at the foot of a staircase, about ten p.m. on Saturday, he evidently having fallen downstairs. He was conveyed to the hospital, and a doctor summoned, but the man died at eight on Sunday morning. The deceased leaves three grown up sons at Pahiatua, his wife, and, two children being in America, .and a daughter in Australia.

An Auckland Press Association telegram; states the Nautical Court's decision in the enquiry into the collision between the Rotomahana and Kestrel absolved the Kestrel from blame and ordered the owners ,of theßoJomahana to pay the,costs. In the"matter ! of the &>iljson between the steamer Kanieri and the ketch Dawn, the apportioned . the costs—threequarters to the Dawn and one-fo|urth to the KfanierL The court did nqt deal with the officers'certificates, these being the first cases in ■which the harbour regulations had been in question. . ~i

A.meeting of tbs members of the Y.M.C.A. was held last evening. Mr P. L. Hoi lings, President, the chair, and there was a large attendance. After the chairman had addressed, the meeting at some length on matters connected with the/Association, a general:,.discuss- ■-■■„. ion ensued. Finally Messrs. A. Donald, D. E. Parton, A. Hollling* and D. McNally were appointed a committee to arrange for the opening k f& a gymnasium class, in connection 'with the Association,. consisting of Messrs J. Hebenton, H. Lett, W. Kemp, C. H. Anderson and A. Billington, was., appointed to arrange for the inauguration of a literary and debating society. The amount of gas made at the Masterton Municipal Gasworks during the month of May, 1907, was 1,915,300 cubic feet, as compared > with 1,543,200 cubic feet during May, 1906, being an increase .of 372,100 cubic f*et. The amount of gas made during the mori'th shows an,increase 0f'24.12 per cent, over that made during the corresponding month last y~ar. The average rate of increase for the first ■ two months of the present financial year is 32.82 per cent. The receipts for the month of May were £738 4s M, being an increase of £239 8s 7d over the receipts for the corresponding month last year. •'■■,• At the annual meeting of the Cartertori Bowling Club, during a discussion in connection with the Booth Challenge -Gup, Mr. Conrack suggested procuring a shield on which to record the names of the winning clubs for exhibition in the pavilion of the club which holds the Cup for , the season. Mr Fisher" suggested that the win of each individual rink be counted as a point, and the winning/*club on' theie***"points be. the holders, instead of as at present, the win being decided by the aggregate points of the rinks in all the matches ptayed. Both suggestions were held over until the Masterton and Greytown Clubs had been consulted. .

A meeting of members of the Victoria Tennis Club was held, last evening. Mr R. Buxton presided, and there were ten others' present. The Secretary submitted a balancesheet, for the past season, ( showing a dr. balance of £3 2s. The excess of assets over liabilities was set down at £1 18s. The question of winding up the club, owing to the lack of iii-' terest on the part of a great manymembers, was discussed at some length, but it was eventually decided to hold the matter over until a future meeting. Thoseipresent undertook to endeavour to collect from, members an amount necessary to wipe offjthe dr. balance, in the hope that the club might be able to start the next season free of debt. A vote of thanks was accorded to the secretary (Mr W. J. Vernon) and the treasurer (Mr ,

L. Nicol) for their services during the past year.

If you want your furniture or goods removed anywhere in the Colony with the gnatest care and exredi ion, send to J, J. CURTIS & CO., LTD.. Shipping, Custom house and Fnrwardirg Agenti. Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Only experienceo** packer employed. Reasonable charges.

,A merino Tram i disposed, of i. at the iHdmebush stock sales.(Sydney).ithe day was the , possessor of four fullrgrownt horns. It. had the «ordinary.spiral,pair,, and two., others jjust.as.thick and .long. standing out from the top of the head .towards the .front.of the .animal, , giving, it a re.markably strange appearance.. It re- . ceived.a deal of. attention,-, and event.ually a butcher purchased the. freak ,for£3.

.A serious buggy .accident occurred at Tirauraea on Sunday. As Mrs Col,lins, Mrs Holmes, Miss Gilbert,. Rev McLean and servant were- returning thome from Waterfalls the. horses bolted and.commenced kicking. The road being roughs the occupants were precipitated,from the vehicle. Mrs "Holmes was picked up unconscious, but after artificial. respiration she came round. The driver, Hansen, was also rendered ..unconscious,.. and still remains so. He is under medical attendance. The other occupants were more oriless shaken or bruised. The adulteration .of foods,*and ibaverages was discussed at a meeting of the Auckland City Council, last week, when a deputation waited upon the Council, and urged the importance of organising a Health .Committee, -who vwould-sunwise »the inspection of foods and beverages, more especially the sale and distribution of all fermented or spirituous ilifluors. The Mayor, Mr A. M. Myers, moved that the subject matter introduced by the deputation be communi.cated ctolthe Gov.erame.n,t,/.witfareview .to their agreeing to the request. This was carried.

Mr Oliver Burgess, a .missionary in x iChina, and formerly of Victoria, •waiting to a friend ;in i&hat,-State, I savs:— ,, l am in the famine centre, commanding relief works. I Jiave :3,500 men on road and canal work, and spend about £2OO weekly besides which each man gets 21b qf fiaux daily. Thousands must die, as we cannot save more than a fraction «f the number starving. The men drink \weed-soqp if or .their iTJbe, idead lie on the roads and streets.; and. there are skeletons in groups along the city walks. Hundreds of starving men run after us, pleading for work and or food." In ithe (.course ; oi tefi.flnawaii ?epors tthe Comptroller-General of New .South Wales Prisons, .Captain. F.vW. Neitenstein, stated that during 1906 the vast majority of those under sen- / tence found themselves in gaol not so V much for committing offences as because they did not pay the fines imjposed upon .them. "I cannot >bejp thinking that this indicates ;tbere,is unnecessary gaoling,", the Comp-troller-General adds, "and that altermatives miight rbe devised to'ttake: the jplace of flO' m»ch .imprisonment. ' JTbe granting of longer time, to pay, or payment by instalments, would possibly decrease the number of prisoners and prevent, the .joss of employment / ioMowSngUiioniimpriisonment." In his opening raddress at .the conference of- the Methodist Chureh.of Australasia, at Sydney, ;last week, the Rev. Dr. Fitchett (the retiring ■ president) ibad aamething to sayt»aapecting the progress of the Church and the character of its men. "If I dropped out of a balloon," he said,' "into a gathering of Baptists, I could tell at ones who they were by the cut •%>f their ihair—.{laughteri)—-.and if > ->5 dropped into an Anglican Synod, I could discover my ecclesiastical whereabouts by itfaeu? cdlars—,(laugh-tejjlr-but if I dropped from the sky irt#a Methodist Conference., il .would discover who the representatives were, not by their hair or the shape of their collars, but by the type of the facet. " As evidettce of the fattening capacities of Moa Flat country, i.t«ig. worthy of note, cays the Southland Timea, that a record line of 239 lambs, from Mr Charles Howell's Moa Flat Falls property, > were killed i at Mataura freezing works on the 17th 'tilt. The purchasers report them to be a phenomenal line aa to weight, price and quality—in their opinion a record for Otago and Southland, averaging as they did 50 1-fllbs net freezing weight, all prime, the heaviest being up to 601bs. Less than a year ago the whole of the country on which these lambs wera fattened was in tussock. The price received for the lambs was 22s per head at Etievale.

■•' Public attention at Home is being awakened to the need of curtailing the hours of shop assistants. "It is astonishing," wrote Lord Avebwry, in a letter apologising for his ab;.'aence from a conference of grocers' assistants, "that the Government ignore the general wishes of the shopkee'ping community, and bring forward .instead so many contentious

measure,*.about, which the country is so much divided. Shop assistants fand especially the women) are certainly the hardest worked part of the community, and' entitled to more attention than they receive from the Government and* the 'House' of' Commons." The Rev. R. J. Campbell (of "New Theology" fame) wrote saying that the long hours of shop assistants were a disgrace to #ie community and utterly unnecessary. Colonial employers .appear to be getting as particular as Americans about "shunting;" any workman showing signs pf age, say's the Timaru Herald; Some time ago a Timaru tradesman went to one of the large centres and was told by a friend that a certain contractor was ! in need of men. On applying to the contrdfcfcor he was told that no men His, friend, when he hear»this, still maintained that the contractor did need men, but said that ■ the tradesman's beard was against him. "Shave that off," he said. "The contractor thinks you look too old to climb about a roof:" Off came the, beard, and the carpenter went back to the , contractor, who, put h>«Lon it once. Later on the inquiries from the contractorV*lnd was told that the first man he had recommended was too old to be given a job, but the second was a first-class man. "While rid'nß no-■•orb th« bridge to PtM*--ford," says Mr H. Umwford, of Curd iff, . N.Z , "ruv horsi sipped, comint? down on my lrg andb u'einy it very badly. As . soon as I got home I bathed the limb in Very hot water, and then had Chamber.- '■ 1 tin's thoroughly rubbed in. ~' Hive a believer In this Unl- ' me-** en now, (or in twodavs' ;' time thp bad nearly disappeared, i- aid with'n'lMveek I was as fit as ever." ( ; For sale by T. G, Mason, Masterton. M-t," foods' Greet Peppermint Cura for fM f, w'h3 aud Colds never faiJa. la 6d and

Mr B. Sandilands, who practised as a solicitor in Wellington for several years, died at his residence at Johnsonville, on Saturday night, at the age of 73 years. A four-year-old son of Mr George Price, a Karapiro (107 miles from Auckland) settler, was burned to death through his clothes catching fire, states a Press Association telegram. His parents were absent milking. A Dunedin Press Association telegram states that Adams, the crack University centre, came into collision with Given, the Alhambra captain, in the University-Alhambra football match, on Saturday last, and sustained injuries that will prevent him again playing football. The committee of the Auckland Flaxmillers' Association has passed resolutions strongly urging the Government to appoint a chief fibre expert at a salary of not less than »£450 a year, and recommending Mr Johnston, grader, at Auckland, for the position; also recommending the Government to undertake the grading of tow. "Forgery is treated in this colony ■in very much too free and easy a manner," said Mr Justice Denniston in the Auckland Supreme Court, in sentencing Walter Scott to twelve .months' imprisonment for forging a cheque at Hawera. The judge reminded the prisoner that not long ago the offence was a hanging matter.

,-A. correspondent of the Brisbane | Worker predicts that "on the first day of July one of the greatest strikes which ever befel the 30,000 workers of Australia following the j shearing industry will occur, if some mutual agreement is not come to be- ( tween both parties." He continues: "Icthink if we enter upon a strike we must all •be unanimous to carry it (out to the bitter end. We are all united at present, and I think our best policy is to move slowly, but surely." Concluding, he says: "I think it is a wery bad time for us to move forward. We must remember we have not quite settled the Machine Shearers' Union, and we also,have a lot of the group shearers to fight." Mi E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock for the Colony, spoke hopefully to a lEost reporter, yesterday, with reference to the proposal for the testing of dairy herds for the purpose of enabling dairy farmers to ascertain the milking value of every cow. Mr Clifton points out that in Denmark the dairy farmers form themselves into groups and establish testing stations. A sample of the rniilk of eadh tcow is tested by an expert every mow and then, and with the information gained in that way the farmer is able to cull the unprofitable animals. The scheme works splendidly in Denmark, and the Agricultural" Department does n6t see why equally satisfactory results should not be secured in New Zealand. I > Mr J. A. McCullough, when asked to state his opinions >on the new \Wages Boards proposals,, informed the Christchurch Press that they were really too vague at present for discussion. Speaking generally, the workers were satisfied with the present systsm of Conciliation ]Boards,and would be glad to see their powers extended. If it was (thought desirable, however, to do tine same work, by other machinery,' there would be no objection to an alteration. He was strongly of opinion thai it would be better for the parties concerned to choose the chairman of the Wages Boards, since too much influence would be placed in the hands <pf> the Government if it wa« given that power. He certainly thought'' the Arbitration Court should be retailed, as was evidently the in- j tention of the Minister. The MeOiboitrrie police state that a hunt extending over twenty-five years for the lost heir to a Dutch title has «nded in his discovery, in the person of a fish and rabbit hawker, Titus Schukking, a resident of Armadale. Schukking left Holland many years ago, reaching Australia after a good deal of travelling in 1&83. He has resided in different parts of Victoria and settled at Armadale with his wife. While on his rounds as a fish haiMer, the Armadale police noticed the name on the barjrow, and recognised it as the name of the person who was sought for by the Consul-General for the Netherlands. jThey accordingly communicated with the Consul, Mr W. L. Boysehent, who has- informed Schukking "that he is heir to a Dutch title and estate. . Schukking is 49 years of age, and is married, but has no family. Board and residence is wanted by two young men in a private family. Two gentlemen (friends) require board and residence in private ' family. The Dresden Piano Company's annual sale at all its branches and agencies throughout the North Island is now on. Special terms are offered.

The winning plots of swedes and mangolds in the ,root competitions held under the auspices of the Masterton A. and P. Association, "were grown from seed supplied by Messrs J. D. Cruickshank and Co., Ltd. In the-Exchange Buildings, Masterton, on Friday and Saturday next, Messrs Sidey, Meech and Co. will submit at auciion Mr A. E. Haswell's stock of first-class assorted crockery. The sale will commence at 11 a.m. each day. Intending buyers are invited to watch for full particulars in to-morrow's issue. For Bronchial Coughs take Wo-ds Great Peppermint Cme. ]a Od and'is (id ■Baby's Lrrrw: Thoubi,ks. Baby's cough, it not attended- to, o'fn results in cioup and other serious troubles. Always keep a bottle of Dr Sheldon's New Discovery hand* at dbe piopan d. Every bottle guaranteed. Obtainable at H. E, Eton, Uhemist, Masterton. Can't Shakk it Off. How of ten. we hear persons with .colds make tho above remark; but Dr. Sheldon's New Ditoovery shakes them off promptly and effectively in af j w d nts. Obtainable htH. E. Etoo, Cneuiiat, Masterton. The comfort of elderly people depends vdry largely in keeping tho boweU in a boaltby condition. After certain age, muscular weaknfss causes chionic constipation, a oomphint which invariably eau?es sonous illness. No medicine is so safe, pleasant or certain for old people's relief as Chamberlain's Tablets. Try them. They are just what you need. For sale by t T. G. Mason, Masterton.

According to .the .Dunedih Star, the standard number of loaves from a sack of flour is .68. thus, the product from one .ton .of flour is-680 loaves, which at Bd.apiece would return £22 13s 4d. At about 5.45 O'clock, last evening, an alarm of fire was sounded on the;,belil3 at ihe Central and Kuripuni Fire Stations. .The Brigade turned .out but soon discovered that the causa for the alarm was the burning of some hedge trimmings along the Masterton-Carterton Road, near Mr C. A. Pownall's property. Complimentary reference was made at the meeting of the Pohangina County Council, on Saturday, tot (.■■•? fact that of close .0n..£5,000 general jrates. the .county clerk, Mr J. Coyle, had collected all but Is 9d, amount due on sections owned by persons un known- The chairman said that the result was certainly a record for the Pohangina County, .if not for all other Counties, and .he thought the clerk was to be congratulated on the sult.

In a recent .address, Mr.Fairburn, a citizen of Melbourne, . said that Australia had been taken from the aborigines because they.had not made use of it. Now Australians must use it or lose at It was a,most unhealthy sign that 20,000 peqple should watch a football match and defile, the air with tobacco smoke. Military training could be inade as interesting to these people, and he .would strongly urge that a great scheme of citizen soldiery should be formulated, in which work wouid be made a great pleasure and one that .could satisfy the necessity for healthy recreation and amusement. The ,men of the j country could be drawn ,a\vay .from football grandstands and .enclosures to military training. At the time of the collision between railway trains at Bankside some few weeks ago. which arose through the Christchurch .train having overrun the crossing-place, .John Joseph M'Namara, who was in,change of the train conveying volunteers from Timaru to the volunteer encampment at Sheffield, aeted with l promptitude. When Driver M''Namara's train was passing over tthe Rakaia Bridge M'Namara heard the train from Christchurch whistling. Concluding that the whistle was intended as a warning that the Christchurch train was approaching the bridge. M'Namara applied the Westinghouse brake and stopped the train. He then reversed his engine for the purpose of setting the train back,, and it was at this time that the Christchurch train crashed into it For his promptitude M'Namara has been granted a bonus of £lO, and highly commended. Wny sp-nd money at Rotoruaand other thermal when JRheumo will quick y cure you of rheumatism, pout, scia.«wu. or lumbigo. dbemi9ts and stures, 2s 6d and *s6d.