LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8469, 20 June 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a dearth of teachers in the Wanganui education district. The colonial mails which left Melbourne on the 15th of May per s.s. India, via Brindisi, arrived in London on the afternoon of the 15th inst., one day early. "If we have the new hospital ! opened by November we need not grumble," said Mr J. C. Ewington at yesterday's meeting of th': Masterton Hospital Trustees. A meeting of the creditors in the bankrupt estate of Mr J. Mcßae, late of Stronvar, has been called for Wednesday next, to consider an offer for the purchase of the bankrupt's property. Police Inspector Ellison and Con stables McLeod (Wellington), Sheary (Martin borough), and Hammond (Featherston) were on a visit to Masterton, yesterday, in connection with police business. Mr W. A. Scott, of the staff of the Masterton Post Office, has received notice that he is to be transferred to Utiku, on the Main Trunk line. Mr Scott's removal means promotion, as he will have charge of the Post Office at that town. Fourpence per thousand gallons is the rate the Masterton Borough Council intend to charge the Masterton Hospital for tht suppply of water to the new Hospital. The consumption of water at the Hospital will be registered by meter. No tenders were received for the Prince of Wales Hotel building, which is to be pulled down to make room for a new brick structure. The old wooden building will be taken down by a staff of men engaged by the owner, Mr T. G. McCarthy. Miss E. Moore, who has served her time as a probationer nurse at the Masterton 'Hospital, has been appointed to a permanent position on the staff. Miss Lloyd, probationer, has resigned from the staff to take up a position in the Wellington Hospital, and she will be succeeded by Miss Dawe. from Dr. Ross' private hospital. Apparently the profits that some people believe are made out of breadmaking are insignificant alongside the gigantic harvest the sugar-re-finers reap, says a contemporary. Dr Macdonald, the White Australia lecturer, told an audience of Wellington labour men and Socialists that sugar which costs £8 10s in its raw state at the refinery, and a further 30s to refine, is sold for £26 a ton. In reply to a deputation of flaxmillers, at Palmerston North, yesterday, the Hon. R. McNab said that the Department had no desire to impose conditions which would interfere with the industry. A conference of graders would be held in Wellington during the month, when the matters mentioned would be brought up and the result announced early in July. — Association. At the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr L. J. Hooper, J.P., two first offenders were convicted and discharged for having been drunk. A second offender, named Robert Bamford, was fined five -shillings, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for a similar offence. Frederick William Anderson was sentenced to one week's imprisonment on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person. "There is an abnormal epidemic of sickness among children," says an Auckland Press Association telegram, "measles, whooping cough, and chicken pox having reduced the scnool attendance so much that teachers whose salaries are based on the average attendance will suffer severely. Over three hundred children are absent from the Mount Eden school —nearly half the average attendance. The school has been j dosed."

A depot for the sale of State coal will probably be opened in Dunedin shortly. Speaking at Dunedin recently,' the Hon. J. A.' Millar said that the present output of the State coal mine (3,000 tons a week) was not sufficent to supply the demand at those places where depots already exist. The whole of the output was consumed in Wellington and Christchurch, but as soon as the Minister of Mines got a sufficient coal output he had prom ised to start a depot at Dunedin.

An account for £7l 13s Id fiom the Masterton Borough Council, for laying the water mains to the new hospital, was'before the meeting] of the Masterton Hospital Trustees yesterday. The Borough Council also wrote stating that «they had done all the work that was considered necessary in connection with laying the mains, and payment of the account was requested as soon as possible. The question arose as to whether the Council should be responsible for the maintenance of the mains, which, at one point, cross the Waipoua river and are unprotected. The Secretary (Mr J. C. Boddington) said that the pipes over the river had already been carried away by floods. Mr J. C. Ewington: "If we get a severe frost the pipes will burst. The wonde ris that they have not burst already with the recent frostb." Mr J. B. Keith j considered that if the Trustees paid the account they should make it a condition that the Council maintain the pipes. It was then decided to pay the account on condition that the Council guaranteed to provide for the upkeep of the mains. MILKING MACHINE FEVEK. Never in the history of the milking machine has tbere been such a, crop of putative machines »s now follow the unique success of the "Lawrence KennedyGillies." Numbers of hurriedly designed and imperfectly tested machines, many of which are based on systems long ago discarded are being rushed on to the market to share in the present harvest which the "L.K.G." sowed 5 years ago. When considering other makes, don't forget that until they have been worked for at least two years by practical farmers, you are only buying untried machines on the reputation which the "L.K.G." established.

! The first meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of W. H. "Wilton will be held in the Masterton Courthouse on Monday next at 11 a.m. Patrick Henry Munro, formerly a ! notorious criminal, was found dead at Ohakune, yesterday, states a Press Association tele-gram from Taihape. During the month of May the Labour Department found employment for 40 married men and 130 single men in the Wellington South district. Of these 111 wtre sent to Government works. The latest announcement made by Mr McNab on the subject of the proi posed land legislation, says the Otago ! Daily Times, practically amounts to an acknowledgment that; there was little likelihood of the passage of the Bill of last year in the form in which it was presented. A Napier Press Association telegram states that the Arbitration Court wi/1 conclude the dispute connected wi'„h the printing oliices this morning. The Court will resume its sittings at Masterton on Tuesday next at noon, sitting that night and next morning. A resident of Napier has instructed the Napier Gas Company to supply a hundredweight of coal to every person certified by the Mayor or a clergyman as being in necessitous circumstances. The orders must be presented on the shortest day of the year (June 21st.) The steamer Moeraki, due at Wellington from Sydney to-morrow morning, .is bringing one of the heaviest mails ever sent to Wellington. Besides the Vancouver mail, the vessel ! has on board the Brindisi mail, which arrived a day early, and was able to catch the delayed Sydney boat. Thus two Brindisi mails arrive this week. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch states that Fuller, a solicitor, was suspended by Mr Justice Chapman, at the Supreme Court, yesterday, at the instance of the Law Society, pending the decision of the Appeal Court on the question of whether Fuller was wilfully careless and negligent in the matter of the payment of money of a client. An endeavour to bring into agreei merit the constitutions of the asso- ! ciations comprising the New Zea- ! land Lawn Tennis Association is to |be made, and a conference to that end is to be held in Wellington by the several associations beiore the next annual meeting of the principal association. Unanimity is needed for the better conduct of tennis generally, and tennis tournaments in particular. When the Trustees of the Masterton Hospital met, last month, there were fifteen patients in the Masterton Hospital. Since then eleven have been admitted and eighteen have been discharged, leaving eight at present in the institution., "This is the smallest number we have had for some time," observed the Secretary of the Trustees, when he read out the returns at the meeting./ of the Trustees yesterday. ' , At the annual meeting of the Wairarapa School Committees' Association, yesterday, it was decided, on the motion of the chairman (Mr R. Brown), to protest against the action of the Wellington Education. Board in closing schools without consulting the committees concerned. "My reason for moving the motion," said Mr Brown, "is because the Wellington Education Board have under consideration the question of closing the Te Ore Ore School and the Masterton Side School, preparatory to opening a school at Lansdowne, without consulting the Masterton School Committee in the matter." Colonel Collins gives some particulars of the British rifle team that is to visit Australia. Armourer-Serg-eant - Major Wallingford was the champion thot oi the British army, and Armourer Sergeants Comber and Lawrence had long been prominent. Comber won the King's prize in 1905, and he has been six times in the final stage of the competition for that coveted honour. Lawrence has an even better record for he has been in the final stage thirteen times. He belongs to the First Dumbartons. Lieutenant Peddie is a new shot. He came to the front in 1904, when he was in the final stage of the King's prize. Lieutenant Parnell is another young shot, and he has been four times in the King's prize final. Colonels Hopton and Barlow and Major Richardson are all members of the council which controls the Bisley championship meeting, and Major Richardson is an old volunteer. A New Zealand team will be sent to Australia to compete against the British and Australian marksmen.

The local Defence Office, says the Dunedin Star, has received copies of an account of Swiss Army manoeuvres which sufficiently illustrates our own apathy as compared with the keeness of other nations. The, account says: "The most marked'impression left on the mind of the British observer is the interest shown by all classes of Swiss for their national army. Every newspaper published a copy of the manoeuvre map and of the order of battle. The banks in Zurich and the factories were closed in order to give the employees an opportunity of seeing the manoeuvres, and special traii •: conveyed spectators to the ground in their thousands. Every booking clerk could tell you what station to book for to see the work of the day, and each train carried sightseers who, furnished with maps and coloured pencils, could tell you where Red had spent the night and how Blue would act. Kind villagers watered the roads in front of their houses to keep down the dust, and brought out water in tubs and buckets for the refreshment of the parched and wearied soldieYs; in short, it was the realisation of Kipling's 'Army of a Dream.' " The Celemiitt of Saxdek and Sons Pore Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged, Royalty honours it, and the entire midical profession has adopted its use, 'lmitations 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 and Irons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted nn 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 testifitd that he had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tested and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Hon. K. McNab, in the course of his address at the Dairy Confer* I ence at Palmerston North, yesterday, I states a Press Association telegram, J announced the intention of the Go--1 vernment to appoint an inspector of dairy produce in England. The number of men employed on co-operative works in New Zealand for the month of April was 5,644 —■ 3,251 "by the Public Works Department and 2,393 by the Department of Roads. There were 1,852 labourers and 65 artisans employed on the North Island Main Trunk Railway. , During the course of an address at. the Dairy Conference, at Palmerston North, yesterday, the Hon. R. McNab stated that the Government had been promised £I,OOO by a gentleman interested in agriculture towards Ihe cost of the nucleus of a dairy herd. It was the intention of the Government to purchase the beginnings of such a herd from the best milking s'rains obtainable in the world.— Association. A four roomed wooden house at South Dunedin, owned and occupied by Arthur Rowlett, was burned down, yesterday morning, states a Press Association telegram. It is supposed to have been caused byclothes left drying in the kitchen catching fire. There was an insurance in the South British of £2OO on the house, and for £75 on the furniture. At the inquest at Auckland, yesterday, concerning the death of Harry Elder, house painter, who was killed by a tram, the jury found a verdict of accidental death attaching no blame, but recommending that each car should carry two jacks and that motormen and conductors should be instructed as to their use in lifting cars. In the case there was considerable delay in getting Elder's body from beneath the cur. At Palmerston North, yesterday, a deputation of butter makers waited on the Hon. R. McNab, states a Press Association telegram. One matter mentioned was the shortage of white pine for the manufacture of butter boxes. The deputation urged that the Government reserves containing white pine should be kept for that purpose. The Minister replied I that the question for the future would be the planting of suitable trees for box making. At the Hawke's Bay Gun Club's meeting, on Tuesday, the ~ Open Handicap of 1,000 sovs., was won by .W. A. Alexander, who killed the whole thirteen birds. C. L. Mackersey, J. F. Kelly, H. Jensen, J. ReidV J. White, and J. Whittle, with twelve birds each, divided the second, third; and fourth prizes. A handicap sweepstake was divided amongst Cheeserr.an, Bayley, McKinnon, King, R. J. Fleming, Kelly and Peal, who killed ten birds each. An enquiry was held at Wellington, yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, concerning the stranding of the steamer Huia on Long Point, Kapiti Island, while on a trip from Wanganui to Wellington. The Court found that Captain Dowell did not take sufficient precautionary measures to ascertain his position when approaching Kapiti. The Court took into consideration his excellent record during the thirty years he had held a master's certificate, but thought he should' be censured for his want of care on this occasion, and be ordered to pay the costs of the enquiry. ""I think it would be a step in the right direction," said Mr R. Brown at the annual meeting of the Wairarapa School Committees' Association, yesterday, "if a branch of the Asso* ciation could be established in the Bush districts with headquarters at,. say, Pahiatua. The branch could then send delegates to the meetings in Masterton, and the Association would then be more representativeThe same thing might be done with the schools around Greytown." He moved that the Pahiatua and Greytown School Committees be asked to establish branches of the Association among the schools in their respective districts. The motion was carried. The Chairman of the National Dairy Association brought up, atjthe meeting at Palmerston North, the question of the recent action of the Labour Department in enforcing the half-holiday provisions "of the Factories' Act in the matter of dairy factories. He said he did not knowhow the dairy factories were going to carry on in the summer, months if they had to give their employees a weekly half-holiday. It was contended by some delegates that the Labour Department had exceeded its powers in this respect, as the Factories' Act did not apply to dairyfactories where no employees under eighteen years of age were engaged*' In these circumstances, it was decided to take no present steps, the matter being left in the hands of the executive for enquiry and further action if necessary.

Some trouble has occurred between the Wanganui Herald and the local Stipendiary Magistrate. It appears Mr Stanford, S.M., refused the Herald reporters access to his written judgments, and the proprietors of the journal in question brought the fact under the -notice of the Minister of Justice. In its reply the Department of Justice says:—"The Minister does not approve of the attitude adopted by Mr Stanford, but as it appears to be the rule that written judgments are the private property of the person who delivers them he is not able to give any instructions in the matter. In the Minister's opinion, all written judgments should be filed in the court with the papers in the case, and should be available to the inspection of the public." We are given to understand (says the Herald) that steps will be taken during the coming session to bring the law into line with the Minister's opinion on this particular matter. ' BIIEUMATISM. Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment cures more cases of rheumatism every ytar than all the so-cnlled rheumatism medicines combined. It will penetrate to your very bones ; sootte and subdue the pain. The first application will relieve, andcoDtinued use affect a permanent cure. Guaranteed to cure, or money back. Accept no substitute. Price Is 6d and 3s. . Obtainable at H. E.Eton, Chemist, Masterton. If you want your furniture or goods removed Bnywhere in the Colony with the greatest care and expedition, send to J. J, CUBTI& & CO., LTD.. Shipping, Custom house and Forwarding Agents. Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Only experienced packers employed. Seasonable obarge3.

'Thettotal,number of subscribers to the .Masterton Library, is 305. The death occurred at Konini, on 'Tuesday last,*of.Mr Thomas Rock, an •old settler. The deceased was fortysix years of. age. Thirty books, of fiction were added v - to the .Maaterton Library during the past month. During the same period 1,,.74fi books, including 1,706 works of fiction, were lent. The receipts for the month amounted to £ll 10s. A Wellington Press Association telegram .states .that at an inquest concerning the death of David Sutherland, .aged 50, a deaf mute, whose body was taken from the Wellington Harbour, on Tuesday, a verdict of found.drowned was returned. At the meeting uf the Borough Council Park and Library Committee, last evening, it,was resolved not to entertain the application of the Wairarapa Thursday Rugby Union to be allowed to play football matches on the Park Oval. AJuCr. Jas. Dalziel, who for a number of years has practised at Pukekohe, was arrested at Auckland, yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, charged with performing x an illegal operation. It is reported that the patient concerned is out of danger. Accused will appear before the Police Court this morning. A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that the four-year-old son of Mrs Burn, a visitor from Invercargill, .was seriously'injured on the D.LC. lift, yesterday afternoon. The' child had been riding up and I down ou the lift, and was being taken j out when he fell and was caught between the lift and the floor. He was taken to the hospital, and is in a i critical condition, j The Maaterton Racing Club wrote [ to the meeting of the Wairarapa Racing Club on Monday last intimat- I ing that the following motion had been forwarded to the Racing Conference for discussion: "The fees derived from the issue of gentlemen riders' certificates shall be returned to the Club collecting same to be given as a trophy for a Gentlemen Riders' Race." It was decided to support the motion. At the meeting, .last evening, of the Borough Park .and Library Committee, it was resolved: "That the time has arrived when the question of new Municipal buildings, including library, reading room, etc., should be considered, and the Committee; should go into the matter fully, and report to the Council as to the cost of the buildings, probable revenue to be derived therefrom and ways and means." At the annual meeting of the Greytown Bowling Club the election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows:—Patron, Mr W, C. Buchanan; President, Mr S. Nicholls; Vice-President, Dr. Bey; Secretary, Mr D. C. Humphrey; Treasurer, Mr H. Day; Auditor, Mr D. P. Loasby; Delegate, Mr John Smith; Committee, Messrs Si Haigh, A. L. Webster, A. McPhee, C. Amos and ' A. Balfour. Gas consumers at Lansdowne are notified that the gas will be cut off from 9 o'clock till noon to-day. Mr H. F. Fraser announces the arrival of a new consignment of the choicest confectionery, which is now on view at' his shop in Queen Street. The advantages of the standard rotary shuttle sewing machines are set out in an advertisement inserted in the Wanted Column by Mr C. Y. Dally, the local agent. Mr C. E. Daniell offers special advantages to purchasers of linoleums. The stock is large and well-assorted with plenty of patterns, all of best quality, to choose from. Tenders are invited for the erection of a residence at Carterton. Plans and specifications may be seen at the offices of Mr T. E. Maunsell, solicitor, Carterton, where tenders close at noon on Saturday, June 29th. The drapery sale at Mr H. A. Whelch's shop is now in full swing, and the public are notified that it will be continued for some time yet. The prices throughout are very low, and I all those in search of bargains are invited by Mr Whelch to call and see for themselves the values offered. Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, M.H.R., •will deliver an address in the Masterton Town Hall/on Monday evening next, dealing with the Asiatic question in all its bearings. The Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) will preside, and several prominent citizens and tradesmen have promised to take part. Bandsmen will be interested to learn that the Wellington Garrison Band (Lieutenant Herd conductor) has purchased from the Dresden Piano Company a complete set of Hawkes' Exceldior sonorous instru- / ments. It is a superb set, and will no doubt win further honours for the band. The following is the instrumentation : Seven B flat cornets, one E fiat soprano cornet, five E flat tenor horns, three flugel horns, two B flat baritones, two E flat bombardons upright, two B flat contra bass, one BB flat contra bass, two B flat tenor slide trombones, one G bass slkje trombone, one B flat euphonium (four valves). Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report the sale of Mr Archibald Hall's farm of 1,020 acres at Otaki to Mr Hamill, of Wellington, at a satisfactory price. This farm is said to be one of the best anywhere near Wellington. It is all good, rich, flat land, and for cropping and grazing purposes it cannot be beaten. There are 400 acres of it very rich, thoroughly - drained swamp land, suitable for grazing and growing root crops. The purchaser is immediately placing the greater portion of this magnificent farm on the market, in suitable blocks from 50 acres upwards. Those in search of small farms of really choice land should communicate at once with Dalgety and Co., Ltd., who are sole agents. A plan will be ready in a few clays. The latest ank the Best Remedy for Chest Complaints is Dr. Sheldon's Mow Dkcovery for Coufchs, C jldsand Consumption. It cures when all else fails la (id and 3s. Obtainable at 11. E. Eton Chemist, Mnsteitan. To cure iheiimatisni, gout' sciatica, or lumbago you must treat tno blood. The bast remedy is RheUiuo, which has cured thousands of sufferers. From all stores and chemists at 2s Od and 4s (id. Give :t a fair trial. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods Great Peppermint Cure. Is Od and 2s Od