LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8465, 15 June 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The amount paid out to suppliers 1 by the Masterton Co-operative Dairy i Company during the month of May. was £402 13s 9d. The Government has definitely decided to take the Carrington Estate of 6,178 acres, the property of Mr W. Howard Booth, Carterton. t ' The quantity of wool exported from New Zealand in 1856 was 2.559,6181b5, valued at £146,070. In 1906, 154,384,5681bs of wool, valued at £6,765,655, were exported. |.The annual meeting of shareholders of the Masterton Farmers' Implement Co., Ltd., will be held in Messrs Abraham and Williams' rooms, on June 26th, at 2.30 p.m. The Mayor of Eketahuna has given notice to move at the next Borough Council meeting that Mr Maben, of Wellington, be asked to supply a report in connection with the electric lighting scheme in Eketahuna. In 1856 there were 1,722 births, 406 deaths and 404 marriages in New Zealand. According to the returns to hand there were in 1905, 23,682, births, 8,061 deaths and 7,200 marriages in the colony. From a private source the Wanganui Herald learns that there is a great deal of sly-grog selling going on along the Mokau River, arid the authorities are to be asked to take action in the matter. A meeting of the Executi.ve.Con>. mittee of the proposed new Se,ddon Memorial Technical School for Mas--terton will >be' held iq .the Borough Council Chambers, :at 8 o'clock, on Monday evening. The sitting of the Magistrate's Court, which was to have been held yesterday morning to revise the electoral rolls for the Masterton and Mauriceville Counties, was, owing to the absence of the Magistrate (Mr W. P. James) adjourned until June 20th, at 10.30 a.m. Tanner's "Ark," has been ' ten days out from Lyttelton, arrived at Timaru safely shortly before 1 o'clock, yesterday. No mishap was met with, the boat merely being delayed by fog and through lack of i breeze. All hands on board are well. They ate the last of their provisions yesterday morning. * , • :. | The price of bread has been in- ,j creased throughout the Thames district to eightpence per four-pound loaf, states a Press Association telegram. The previous price was seven-, pence. The local bakers say the in- j crease is essential to*correspond with the increased price of flour. They do not anticipate the rise will be maintained for long. " The Rev. J. J.' Bates has decided to leave Carterton for Lyttelton early next month, behaving received notice that the call to him by that presbytery has been sustained by the Christchurch Presbytery. In recognition of his five years' service, the Carterton and Gladstone congregations are making arrangements for a farewell social and presentation to their pastor. It is probable that a course of instruction for officers holding commissions in companies located throughout the Wellington Volunteer District (i.e, Hawke's'" Bay, Wairarapa, Taranaki, Wanganui, Manawatu and .Wellington), will be held in Wellingtdn daring August next. The work and 'duties of branch of the service will be dealt with at the school, and invitations to attend have been sent to officers of all branches. The Minister of Justice intends to submit to Parliament a proposal to increase the pay of members of the police force. It is understood that this step is being taken on the re- 1 commendation of the Commissioner (Mr Binnie), who considers that owing to the increased cost of living, and the increase of duties cast upon the police, the time has arrived when an addition should be made to their pay. Under the present scale constables receive from 7s to 9s a day, sergeants from 10s to lis 6d, station sergeants from lis 6d to 13s, and detectives from 9s 6d to 14s 6d. The drainage enquiry at Christchurch is still proceeding. Lengthy evidence was given yesterday by accountants, engineers and clerks to the local bodies interested. Medical evidence was also given to the effect that before the establishment of the Drainage Board the deaths fiom typhoid fell from 45 in 1875 to 5 in 1889, and now the disease was little heard of. Dr. Finch, giving evidence, supported the statements as to the good effect of the drainage, and said tftat in Wellington in 1892 there were 192 typhoid cases, and after the installation of the drainage system began in 1893 the number fell rapidly, and ten years later there were only 27. For four years, from 1903 to 1906, the rate was 0.7 per thousand in the city, and 1.4 in the rural area. MILKING M\CHtVE FEViiK. Never in thn his:ory of the miiking machine hit* been mr-h p, crop of putitive machines "S now follow the uniqua success of the " Lawrence-Kennedy Gillies " Number- of hurriedly designed nml imperfectly te ted machine?, many of ■vbich are based on system.-} long ago disi'r d-ed are b»ing rushed on to the market t • swo in the present harvest which the "LK.G." sowed 5 years mro. .When eonsideriiitf oiher iwim-s, don't forget that until thf-y have,been worked for at least two yt>u.l's ;hy practical farmers, you nro only'buying' untied machines on the repu'ati n which the "L.K G." established. For Bronchial Coughs take Wmds Great Peppermint Cure. Js Gd and 2s 6d

There are now fifty-five subscriber s to the Carterton Telephone Exchange. Mr W. Bowie, of the Hinemoa School has been appointed teacher of Te Wharau School, East Coast. There are now no fever patients in the Infectious Diseases Ward of the Greytown Hospital. i The Canterbury Sheet-Metal workers' Union have decided unanimously to support Mr J. A. McCullough as the workers' representative on the Arbitration Court. A line of wheat was sold at St. Andrews (twelve miles south of Timaru), on Wednesday, at 4s 3d on trucks. Wheat in Timaru is at present worth 4s 4d per bushel. During the year 1856, 647 cwt. of butter, valued at £3,837 was exported from the colony. In 1906 the quantity exported was 320,225 cwt., valuedat £1,560,235. The Midland (England) Railway Company is the warm friend of the newly married. On some of their long distance trains they now attach a honeymoon carriage built for two. i The coupe can be reserved for the price of two first-class tickets. A man was arrested at Makatote last week by Constable Montgomery, on a charge of having imposed on residents there by selling cold tea as whisky. It is stated that he sold seven bottles in all, charging £1 per bottle. At a meeting of the Canterbury Cricket Association, a letter was received fiom the Auckland Association, challenging the Canterbury Association for a match to be played' for the Plunket Shield. It was resolved to suggest December 14th, 16th and 17th as the dates for the I match. I The ordinary parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers was held, last evening. Captain Morton being in command. Sergeant-Major McNair was present, and delivered an interesting address to the men, during the course of which he explained the new drill and the various uses of the modern rifle. A case presenting a peculiar feature was recently before the court at J Wagga, Victoria when Frederick) Stroh, owner of a fancy goods shop, was prosecuted for selling fireworks after sunset. The police said people imagined they could sell fireworks ; with impunity, but the Act stipulated that sales under gaslight were illegal. Stroh was fined. ', A footballer .returning from a match at • Wellington to Palmerston North missed his train at Otaki. This was on Saturday last at 7 p.m. He , forthwith set out to walk ,the distance of forty - four miles, and tramped over sleepers, crawled over bridges throughout the night, and ultimately arrived at his destination at seven o'clock next morning. On the way he was overtaken by a dense fog, which, adding to the darkness of the night, made his tramp over the 1 unfamiliar line an exceedingly periI lous one.'" , ; The Port Darwin correspondent of . the Sydney Daily Telegraph telegraphed, last week, that one of the Federal visitors <*o the Northern Territory, Mr Johnson,.M.H.R., had had a peculiar experience. It appears that while Mr Johnson was ! walking on the beach at Port Dar- ' win he fel*. tired and went to sit down on what appeared to be a log ' of wood, but what proved to bean ' alligator. It showed fight, and Mr ' Johnson threw a big stone into its 1 open jaws. Thereupon it took to the water. * The prospects of settlement along I pqrt of the North Island Main Trunk Railway appear to be exceptionally I good. Some forty or fifty thousand . acres in the northern portion of the Waimarino block are to b? opened for selection next month, aid the Commissioner of' Crown Land;. Mr J. Strauchon, states that enquiries have already been made by aoout u thousand people in regard to the various sections. Mr Strauchon has just returned to Wellington from a visit to that district, and fully anticipates that every one of the sec- • tions to be offered will be taken up. Mr H. J. Greenslade, M.H.R., has been in communication with the Minuter for -Industries' and Commareeas to the possibility of opening up a direct trade between Ne\v Zea» larid and India,*it having been represented to the member for Waikato that there was a likelihood of an excellent market being found in some parts of India for New Zealand butter. The Minister has, however, replied to the effect that the Government trade representative was in India * last year, and as .result .of his report on the master it is not [considered necessary tp take any further action at present. ' A Press Association telegram from New Plymouth states that at the adjourned meeting of the Licensing Bench objections were raised by counsel for the publicans to the Health Department being represented by counsel. The objections were overruled hy the chairman. Renewals were granted in the case of all applications adjourned from last week, the committee deciding not to father the objections of the Health Department, though recommending that certain suggestions of sanitary improvements should be carried out. Counsel protested strongly against the action of the Department as damaging to hotels of high standing. Mr G. R. Sykes, secretary of the Masterton A. and P. Association, has received the following memo, from the Agricultural Department: —"Could you arrange to send us, in time for the Palmerston Show, the large mangel grown by a member of your Association, and measuring some five feet in circumference; also about one hundred-weight of the other variety of mangels grown by fertilisers suggested by this Department, as we desire to make a yield exhibit of these. Kindly have the various lots numbered according to the photos so that we may identify them." The large mangel referred to was grown by Mr E. J. Haigh, of Greytown, and secured first prize in the recent competition held under the auspices of the A. and P. Association. The A. and P. Association are endeavouring to carry out the wishes of the Department in the matter. Wood's Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is Cd and 23 6d.

There is a Maori girls' hockey team at. Moutoa, near Foxton. The amount of butter fat supplied to the Masterton Dairy Factory during the month of May was 10,1831b5. The estates of forty-eight deceased persons were placed under the charge of the Public Trustee during May. The Otago and Southland Brass Bands' Association will hold the contest for 1908 at Lawrence. There are at present twenty uncertificated teachers in the employ of the South Canterbury Board of Education* No fresh signs of plague have been detected in Auckland. The authorities are still busy with the operations of thoroughly cleansing the city. Mr Bauer, whose death in Melbourne under peculiar circumstances is reported, was well known in Wellington, where he , represented S. Mayer and Co. Mr Bauer left New Zealand for Australia about three years ago. - s >- A party of three—two of them from Oamaru—went on a pig-stalk-ing expedition to the Orari Gorge, recently, and in seven days accounted for 82 pigs, some of them carrying formidable tusks. Permission has just been granted to the First Battalion, Otago Infantry, to have the words "South Africa, 1901-1902," embroidered on their colours for service rendered by members during the late war. The instalment of fines inflicted upon the Canterbury slaughtermen in connection with the recent strike, continue to be pa'id with satisfactory regularity, and of the £6OO due, between £3OO and £4OO has been paid, the money being raised by the Labour Department at the rate of £25 a week. A correspondent writes to the Wellington Post stating that the assertion that the break of 424 made in Dunedin by H. W. Stevenson constitutes a New Zealand billiard record is misleading. He states that Weiss, the Australian professional, made a break of 475 when playing a matcb of 1,000 up at the , Wellington Working Men's Club. ! I The Woodville Examiner says that a couple of Woodville residents in company with a gentleman from New Plymouth, procured some samples of what appears to be oil «n the surface of some water near the Mangapapa bridge., The New Plymouth gentleman thinks there is a pretty 1 - good indication of oil being ( present in the' ground. "He has taken the sam- - pies to New Plymouth to be tested. The certificates won by the successful candidates in the home-indus-tries competition at the late Exhibition will be issued to-day, The medals are not yet,ready. They were unfortunately delayed by a set of dies being smashed, which necessitated the manufacture of fresh ones. A Christchurch-firm is pushing on the work, and the medals are expected to be delivered in a fortnight. It transpired during the proceedings of the Assessment Court, at Auckland, says a local paper, that a property in the 'middle ijof Queen Street was valued at £3lO a foot, and another at £320 per foot. A section in High Street, parallel with. Queen Street, was valued at £6l per foot.- A section in Queen Street, ' above Wellesiey Stieet, was valued at £lso'a foot. Newton properties -' were valued at £l2O on one side and £9O on the other side of the street. "It is cursed money any way, and I would sooner die than receive a penny from fl the Benevolent," was the vehement statement of a man who appeared before the, Dunedin Police Court, last Tuesday. Having received a sentence of three months for refusing point-blank to.comply with an order for his wife's support, he soliloquised on what his children would do in his absence. There was nothing for it, he said, but that they should apply for help from the Benevolent. It- might be well if more, people felt as much compunction at receiving charity. Unruly sons know many methods of escaping from strict parental supervision. More than one has in the past made a class at the Dunedin Technical School the excuse for one or two nights' "out" per week, 'i Two cases came under the notice of . the director-of the school the other •', 'day. . The truants were given ,7s 6d each with which to pay' the fee, but avoided the school altogether, not even joining the class in the first place. The lads left their respective homes regularly on the evenings of the class, and the scheme was not discovered until the father of one boy inquired of the director how his son was getting along in his studies. "If there is anything," said Professor MacCallum in a lectuVe to the members of the Child Study Association at Sydney, a few days ago, : "that all our moral and educational authorities are concerned about it is the enormity of dawdling, wasting time, dreaming and squan- ' dering thoughts, without having a,, definite object. On the contrary, ' I think there is a good deal to be said for it. I would strongly recommend parents not to place a too close supervision over the;spare hours of their children. Let them ' loaf, let them dream; let their meditations roam where they will and where their fancies dictate. It can't do much harm, and it may do a lot of good." The Railway Department has adopted a somewhat unusual method of indicating its appreciation of the promptitude of Driver M'Namara in the recent Bankside collision, says the Christchurch Press. Mr M'Nam- . ara, it will be remembered, was in charge of the volunteer special train from the south, and when he saw the other train approaching brought his train promptly to a stand, and thus lessened the seriousness of the accident. The Department has presented him with a gratuity of £lO. In order to show their practical sympathy with ex-driver J. Meikle, who was recently dismissed from the railway service in connection with the collision, all the locomotive department employees in the Canterbury district are contributing a day's pay towards a fund that is being established for his benefit. Railway men in other parts of the colony are also subscribing liberally. Rhenmo has cured thousands of sufferers from lfceumatism, gout, sciatica, lum,b«go. It will cure you. Try, it. All stores and chemists, 2s 6d and 4s 6d. A positive cure,

The Matarawa telephone line and ■bureau is now open for businessMr Dudding has been appointed Clerk to the Waiohine River Board. The Maaterton Co-operative Dairy Factory will close down for the season this month. *N Weather permitting, the Master-] ton Municipal Brass Band will render a select programme of music in the Park to-morrow afternoon. Included in the programme will be "La Straniera," "The Nightingale," and "Mountain Daisy." A collection will be taken up in aid of the band funds. A very enjoyable drawing-room entertainment took place in the Knox ♦ Church Sunday School, last evening, and there was a good attendance, considering the very inclement state of the weather. The following programme was rendered, every item being encored:— Piano solo, Miss McKenzie; song, "When the Birds go North Again," Mrs Rawson; reading, "Paddy the Piper," Mr B. J. Dotan; song, "Mid the Hush of Corn," Miss Cameron; song, "There's a Land," Mr F. J. Hunn: - song, "Beautiful Land of Nod," Mrs Rawson; clarionet solo. "Alicenti," \ Mr J. Candy. Refreshments were "provided by the Jadies and were much appreciated. Messrs Eli Smith and J. H. Pauling, J's.P., occupied the Bench at. the Masterton Police Court yesterday morning. James Kennedy was charged with the theft of £5 from i Frederick Siegel on Thursday last. | the accusedwas remanded until today, bail being allowed in one surety of self £25, and two others at £25 each. Henry Cowin, did not appear , to answer a charge of having exposed sheep affected with lice for sale in a • public saleyards on May 22nd. He pleaded guilty ' by letter, and was fined 4Ca with 73 costs. John Dalzell ipleaded guilty to a charge of driving" ~a vehicle on May 21st with tyres less j than the width prescribed by the , Masterton County by-laws, and was /fined 5s with 39s 6d costs. A similar i against Adam Armstrong was .adjourned sine die. Harry Fawcett Emitted a of having ridden ,a bicycle at night without a light, and was fined 10s with 7s',Jcostß. A change against William Mackersey for'.failing to obey an order of the Court to provide for Amelia Mackersey viia adjourned until July sth. .' An advertiser has vacancies for " x "' .genMemen boarders or a married couple. An- advertiser has a vacancy for a - - young ..wan boarder , in * private family- ' - _ ; i Gas consumers are r notified that Monday next i 3 the last day on which /discount will be allowed on current accounts. Messrs Krahagen and Chapman have to hand ft new assortment of up-to-date' materials, and invite inspection. The New Zealand, Railways .Department advertise,,: holiday excursion fares in connection with the Winter shw at Palmerston North. Messrs Graham and Co. are making further,, sweeping reductions which will take special lines during the continuaoce.of their sale. «f At the Pfcrry Street auction mart, i to-day, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., . * N -- Ltd,, will offer' a large consignment of fruit and forest trees and shrubs.' Good reliable gum -boots and goloshes are an absolute Necessity at .Jhe present sdason. These are to be obtained at Mr Jj Carpenter's Central Boot Depot, ~- v ... , ... New silk attd golf blouses are special lines at-'C'Smith's Maaterton warehouse. Seasonable drapery and d&Mng are in fullsuppiy. . The furnishing department of the W.F.C.A* is offering .special reductions in all house furnishings. The reduced prices will take effect from to-day. The sale of crockery ware in the Exchange Buildings, was commenced, yesterday, by Messrs Sideyj Meech and Co., and will be continued, to- \ day, at 11 o'clock. i The Wairirapa Furnishing Company's sale of furniture will conclude For the last day very special are to be made in dining room suites, samples b| which are exhibited'in their Bhop windows, Exchange Buildings. Knox Young Men's Class will meet to-morrow at 10 a.m. when the subject [/' Revelation" will be studied and discussed. Divine service will be held at Knox™ Church at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., and at Mikimiki at 3 p.m. Mr D. McGregor, will conduct the services at Dreyerton. In the Wanted column Mi* A. S Awdry notifies his clients and the public that .he has removed to premises in Temple Chambers, next to Dalgety and Co. Mr Awdry keeps a large stock of mouldings for picture frames, and the stock of Ceylon tea . is regularly replenished with the best , hill-grown variety. . An election to fill the vacancy on the Wellington Education Board, caused- by the retirement of Mr A. W. Hogg, who, however, is eligible for re-election, will be held on Monday, July 23rd. Nominations of candidates will close at the Board's office, Wellington, at 5 p.m., on Monday, July Ist. Those in search of small farms near a good market will have their r j| opportunity, to-day, when Messrs . Abraham and Williams, Ltd., will offer at auction the several handysized lots into which Mr W. y. Watson's Te Ore Ore. property has been subdivided. Tha sections vary from 36 to 46 acres, and easy terms are being offered. In the Wanted column, Mr R. E. Jones, plumber,! announces that he has recently made extensive alterations and additions to his showroom wK workshop,' in Queen Street, ' whereby he is enabled to execute promptly all orders entrusted to him. Mr Jones has, during the past eight years, gained a reputation for the general excellence of his work; /Full stocks of all trade lines are kept, and estimates and plans will be supplied for sanitary work, -< BAllY'd LIX'XLE TIiOUBLKS. Baby's cough, if not attended to, oft«n result-) in croup arid other serious troubles. Always keep a bottle of Dr Sheldon's New DiS' overy hand* ai-d be propored. Every be!tie iruarnntaed. Obtainable at H. E, Eton, Chemist, Masterton.