LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8469, 21 June 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reduction of 10s per ton in the J price of flour took place in Welling-1 ton yesterday. [ A branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been established at Gisborne. Biblical instruction classes are now being held regularly at the Gisborne schools once a week. A syndicate is being formed for the purpose of boring for oil in various parts of the Ashburton district. > It is reported that the residents of Hilo, Haiwaiian Islands, propose to tap the live volcano of Kileaua, run the molten lava down to the sea, and use it to construct a breakwater. The death occurred in Dunedin, on , Monday, of Mr Morris Marks. The deceased was 84 years of age, and was one of the oldest members of the Jewish congregation in Dunedin. He came to Dunedin from London in 1859. With a view to the provision of pure milk, mainly in the interests of the infantile population, the local authority at Salisbury, Rhodesia (South Africa), is considering the question of taking the milk business of the town into its own hands. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, per Wimmera, will close at Masterton on Saturday, June 22nd, at 6.15 a.m. Liberal politicians at Home, says the Saturday Review, are incapable of rising above the party level; they do not seem to understand what is meant by fin imperial point of view. Mr Asquith's belittling of the Preference given to the Mother Country will sink deep into the colonial mir.d. A Dunedin business man who has just toured the North Island informs a Southern contemporary that the prosperity of the iarmers in the North is most striking. Dairy farming is an expecially lucrative pursuit. In the Waikato district it is quite common for the dairy farmer to draw £6O and £7O per month from the factory. i Speaking at the Holy Trinity Church, Devonport (Auckland), last Sunday, in connection with the jubilee of the signing of the constitution of the Church of New Zealand, Mr F. G. Ewington gave an interesting reminiscence of Bishop- Selwyn and Archdeacon Maunsell. "It was on Novembber 19th, 1863," said Mir Ewington. "when I was with the forces before Rangiriri, that I heard Bishop Selwyn preach from the text, 'There is but a step between me and death.' Next day the attack was made upon Rangiriri, when 37 of the British forces lost their lives, and 87 were wounded. The following day Archdeacon Maunsell buried the slain in the little graveyard at Rangiriri. The natives were buried in one of the trenches. Amongst them were young Maori gjrls who had been assisting at the 'defence, . and had been killed by the fire of the troops." The Wairarapa • Hunt Club met at Mr .J Macara's farm, Akura, yesterday afternoon. The hunt took place over Messrs Macara's and Buick's' properties. The following took part in the meet: Messrs J. Shaw (huntsman) on "Firestick," F. Buick (deputy master) on "Tattoo." F. B. Valiancy (whip) on "Te Kohau," C. Bunny (whip) on "Kopeki." W. H. Buick on "Dick Turpin," W. D. Watson on "Yeast," G. Beard on "Moonlight," L. B. Vallance on "Garry," W. Hockley on "Da'inty," B. Reardon on "Jenny Lind," J. Snell on "Sardine," J. Rossiter on "Ruamahanga," A. E. Miller on "Shop Boy," B. Collerton on "War Dog," R. Buick on "Kiwi." H. Welch on "Bay," R. Morrison on "Rata," S. Crawford on "Sou'wester." Members are reminded that the Club's steeplechase meeting takes place on Thursday, August 15th, and in order to qualify their horses for certain events on the programme they must take part in at least five runs this season before that date. MILKING MACHINE FEVaB. Never in the history of tho milking machine has there been such a crop of putative machines es nowfollow theunique success .of the "Lawrence(Kennedy* Gillies." 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 fit least two years by practical furmere, you are only buying untiied machines on the reputation which tho "LJLG;" established. Gout is really a special form of rheumatism caused by excess urio acid in the blood. Whether your goui is acute ot chronic, Rheumo will cure you. All stores.

A movement is on foot to form a Yorkshire Society in Wanganui. Mr Robert Pickett, avery old resident of Nelson, died oft Tuesday last, in his eightieth year, reports the Colonist. Deceased was a native of London, and came to Nelson over 50 years ago. Thirty-six hours continuous rain resulted in heavy freshes in rjyers around Whangarei. At Ngungurn there is a very heavy fresh, but no damage is reported. The flat lands around Hikurangi are all under water, presenting the appearance of an inland sea. The Government has received several offers from persons anxious to purchase the auxiliary schooner Countess of Ranfurly, built for the Cook Island trade, but none of the tenders were high enough. The Cabinet has also declined offers to charter the vessel. The Wellington City Council, last night, adopted the report of a commitctee, recommending an amendment o»_ the Municipal Corporations Act in the direction of widening the "qualification of an ejector, and' amending the existing enrolment form.—Association. At Parkville, on Wednesday last, Mr R. McGarry, of Elfetahuna, was married to Miss Annie Amelia Josephine-Smith, third daughter of Mr Joseph Smith. The bridesmaids .were Miss Myrtle Joblin (niece of the bride) and Miss Kate McGarry (niece of the bridegroom). Mr Leonard, Smith was best man. The ceremony was perfomed by the Rev. i Father Kelly, of Masterton. , |

( A Dannevirke telegram states that 1 Edward. Tracey was committed for trial, yesterday, on charges of breaking and entering and stealing goods to the value of £6l Is, and of arson. Accused pleaded not guilty to both charges. He was committed for trial at Napier. A charge of forgery against the accused will be concluded to-day. In connection with the collision with a timber waggon by the mail train at Newman, on March Bth latst, writs have been issued on behalf of the owner of tie waggon and driver bvv'.Messrs Pageaßd'Pfige? solicitors* of Eketahuna, against the Railway Department, for £75 and £6O for loss of the horse, and injury to the driver, on the grounds, of negligence. —Association. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the flour market is very. unsettled, and many bakers have been toltuy supplies of flour at high prices. Bread is "now selling at 7d per, 41b loaf, and it is contended by bakers that they cannot reduce the price on the , first indication of a fall in flour. In any case it is said to be improbable that anything will be done for a week. Mr W. P. James, S.M., sat at the Masterton Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, to revise the electoral rolls for the Masterton and Mauriceville counties. No objections were made,in connection with the Masterton roll, and no applications were received for enrolment. The name of Mr R. C. Fowler, was added to the Mauricevillf roll in place of Mr A. 'H. Wrightson, whose property he had purchased. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the New . Zealand Rugby Union, last evening, a statement of the financial results of the North v. South Island match showed . the total receipts to have been £34B,'' of which the New Zealand Union received two-thirds. After deducting certain expenses £174 remains, but the players travelling expenses have to be deducted from this. Members of the New Zealand team for Australia must reach Wellington by July 4th. According to ibe annual report of recruiting for the year ended September 30th, the number of recruits who joined the British Army, excluding those for colonial troops and re--enlisted men, for the twelve months amounted to \36,410, and for the militia 28,732. The tojfcal for the, ' regular army shows an increase of 1,059 as compared with the previous twelve months, while that for the militia shows a facing off of 1.209. The total percentage of rejections during the twelve months was 33.66, as against 73.71 in the previous year. "I feel sure that there are over 700 Chinese in Wellington," said Mr John Cameron at a meeting at Wellington on Wednesday night. The official Year Book gives the total as 342. Some ten towns in New Zealand have about a thousand Chiriese distributed among them according to the latesfrcensus,, on the following basis: —Auckland 110, 3 per thousand; Palmerston North 77, 7; Masterton 32, 6:*LowerHutt 41, 13; Wellington 342, 6; Greymouth 113, 28; Christchurch'4B, 0.99; Hokitika 19, 7; Dunedin 96, 5.50; Cromwell.2l, 16. The official estimate of the Chinese in New Zealand is 2,570. The enterprise of some?of the settlers in our newly opened inland blocks is well shown in the case of one of them who has taken up land in the Kaurarapaoa Block, west of the Wanganui River, near Atene. Last season he got 1,000 acres of bush down, and is now putting a road a mile and threequarters in length, and costing some £1,500, through his block. Last year he spent £SOO in getting this road extended from the Brunswick end up to his boundary, and he has now 20 men working on the new formation. If he finds that sufficient water is available for developing electrical power he intends to instal electrically driven sheep-sheajring machinery. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SONS* EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case wjis just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, before his Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour; when giving juderhent said with regard to the GENUINE BANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc, it. s not permissable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish this to afford thepublio an opportunity of protecting themselves arid of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities during the last 80 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PUREjVOLATILE EUOAIYFTI EXTRACT.

The price of bread in Dunedin ' has been reduced to 6Jd per 41b loaf. In the golf match for the ChaW lenge Bowl, played at Masterton, yesterday Miss R. E. Robieson beat Mrs Saunders, 3up and 2to play. At the residence of the bride's parents, on Wednesday last, Miss Margaret Drysdale, second daughter of Mr Ebenezer Drysdale, of Nireaha, was married to' Mr George K. Thomas, of Wellington. Miss Jean Drysdale was bridesmaid, and Mr W. Drysdale acted as best man.j 1 Experience has shown numerousdefects in the Fire Insurance Act of last session, and the probabilities are that an amending Act will be intro- / duced by the Government making radi- ;' •:al alterations in the existing law. A conference of representatives of' the principal Fire Boards will be held, and suggestions made to theMinister in charge of the department —the Attorney-General. Though in these cold damp times it is hard to imagine that there ever was a fire raging over the landscape, , Ashburton raises memories of con- / flagrations that Worked havoc during last summer. A remit from that district to the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations' coming conference suggests.that "in view of the large and serious losses sustained by farmers and graziers through fires,-, the government should be asked to pass "a.measure on similar lines to the Careless Use of Fires Act, 1906, Of New South Wales."

A "neW/Chum," a skilled .worker who recently arrived in Christc^urcli.; from. England, cottiplained td:; the ~.' Press he had been misled by the NeW Zealand Government's advertisements in Britain. "From what we have been told since coming." he declared, "it is farm labourers you want, not tradesmen, shop assistants andclerks. Then why doesn't your Government .-tell them "that at Home, and not let lecturers talk to the people in the large towns about the ... splendid prospect that awaits them here if they will only emigrate." A speaker at an anti-Chinese meeting at Wellington, on Wednesday night, referring to a suggestion that vigilance committees should be appointed with" the object of getting Chinese dens swept away, declared that more good would be done if vigilance committees wer,e set up to take the names ( of persons [ who patronise Chinese, shops. 'He had seen the "degrading, spectacle" of politicians—men whq called themselves democrats—prominent leader* of trades unionism, entering Chinese fruit shops and laundries. He. sub- * mitted that if the Chinese trader was not supported by the .whites, who. condemned him so Warmly, the Chinamen would have to go. If the " people were only loyal to themselves, there would be no Chinese problem. Two men", who violently resisted the police when being arrested* were brought before the Dunedin Police Court, on Wednesday morning. One powerfully-built man, after having been handcuffed, on Tuesday morn'ng, in Manor Place, on a charge of,stealing a bridle from his employer, viciously kicked a consljable twice in the abdomen, inflicting painful injuries. The second man did more damage. . He was roused out of a drunken sleep in George Street between the hours of 1 and 2 on Wednesday morning; and was only conveyed to the police station when four con- - stables were summoned. On the way, thither he contrived to wrench a waterproof cape from ths back of one officer, tearing it in half, and he so struggled and twisted that another policeman'was thrown On his hack in the mud, whereupon* tHe captive screwed his heel on to the policeman's mouth, knocking out a front tooth and loosening four others, besides • inflicting severe outward bruises. ' ' • Mr W. Chamberlain, land'.agent, . Woodville, advertises for lease* with right of purchase, a 2,000 acre prosuitable for sheep or cattle. A meeting of the Committee of • the Masterton Operatic Society will ba held in the Y;M.C.A. Rooms, at 9.15 o'clock, to-night. Applications for membership should be made riot later than 6 o'clock to-night. Particulars of five particularly fine farm properties are advertised to-day by Messrs East and East, land agents, of Wellington. The firm , urge upon all farmers who are open to sell their properties or to buy others to write them at once. At their rooms, at 2 o'clock, tomorrow, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co.* Ltd., will hold a sale of furnibehalf of a lady j giving up house-keeping. General lines, including bicycles poultry and produce, will also be offered. , To-day, Mr A; Norman, Queen Street, will commence a winter sale of drapery, when extraordinary bargains will be offered in special lines. The announcement, which appears elsewhere, states that the earliest callers will have the best choice in bargains. A good range of leading lines of furniture and effects, on account of a gentleman who is leaving Masterton, also ten shares in the Masterton Dairy Company (£26 15s paid up), will be sold without reserve at the Masterton Auction Mart, by Mr J. R. Nicol, to-morrow afternoon. ' Strawson's White Oil is an old English remedy of great efficiency, which has stood the test of time. It is strongly recommended for treatment of sprains, bruises, rheumatism, etc., and is becoming more popular every year. Mr J. Burkitt, of Palmerston North, elsewhere, / announces that it is , procurable from the local agents, Messrs J. Elliott and Townsend and Cowper. At the Masterton Auction Mart, «| to-morrow. Mr J. R. Nicol, will sell, *" on account of Messrs W. T. Benefield and Sons, of the Aramoho Nursery, a splendid selection of exceptionally well grown fruit trees and shrubs. Messrs Benefields' trees have a good name in this district, and all lines should sell readily. On account of Mr T. C. Fowler, of the T.C.F. Cyclery, a splendid selection of ladies' and gents' bicycles will be offered. They include, . Imperial Rovers, Premiers, Populars, arid T.C.F. cycles, and will be sold with-" out reserve. EHKEMOoures rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago quickly and permanently. It is a thoroughly safe and absolutely reliable remedy. All chemists and stores. 2/6 & 4/ft