LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8473, 26 June 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Wairarapa Navvies and General Labourers' Union will be held in the Foresters' Hall at 8 o'clock to-night. The funeral of the late Mr Hugh Welch took place at the Masterton cemetery, yesterday, the cortege being a large one. The Rev. A. M. Johnson conducted the services at the graveside.

The colonial mail which left Wellington on May 17th by the Wimmera to connect at Sydney with the N iples mail, per R.M.S. Ormuz, arrived in London on the afternoon of June 23rd, two days early.

The Y.M.C.A. Debating Society will open the present season, at the Association's Rooms, at 8 o'clock tonight, when Mr P. L. Hollings will deliver a lecture on "A Trip Through the United States of America."

A special meeting of the Masterton .Borough Council will be held on Tuesday evening next, to consider a report from the Borough Engineer on the question of the drainage extension in the borough. There was a rather remarkable coincidence in connection with the sittings of the Arbitration Court and the Ikaroa Land Board, at Masterton, yesterday. Judge Sim, President of the Arbitration Court, and Judge Sim, President of the Ikaroa Land Board, who are brothers,. were engaged in sitting in their respective capacities in the same building.

On behalf of the Masterton and District Workers' Land Settlement Leagi\e, Mr John Mackay is at present securing names to a petition which is to be presented to the House of Representatives in support of having the various blocks of native land at Te Ore Ore cut up for settlement on the expiration of the present leases some five years hence. Late American newspapers state that the fleet of the new steam service between Seattle and Sydney, via San Francisco and Auckland, will consist of the following steamers:— Foveric, 6,600 tons; Aymeric, 7,300 tons; Boveric, 7,500 tons; Inveric, 7,500 tons; Cymeric, 5,600 tons; and Tymeric, 5,700 tons. They will sail from San Francisco in the order named,on the tenth day of each month, beginning in August. The Ikaroa Land Board commenced a sitting in Masterton; yesterday, there being present—Judge Sim (President), Judge Johnson, and Mr Ihaia Hutana. The Board was occupied all day in dealing with a number of applications for removal of restrictions, ar.d for permission to sell various native lands in the district. The sitting will be resumed to-day. ' Speaking to a Press reporter Mr J. F. Arnold, M.H.R., said that the sight of the Sydney coal lumpers walking the streets together with their wives and children, also the women collecting pennies to feed the children of the strikers, brought back with all its evil results this mode of settling disputes, and made one thankful for the sixteen years of industrial peace in New Zealand, under the Arbitration Act. He hoped both employer and employee would pause before doing anything to upset the present system. Sir John Gorst, in the course of an interview with the Weekly Scotsman, on his return from New Zealand, said:—"The chief lesson I draw from New Zealand is that when people look after the Government the Government will carry out laws for their benefit. If the working classes this country were like the classes in New Zealand, and kn6w their own interests —I do not say that you would have laws such as they have, but at anyrate your laws would be very different from what they are now. Perhaps the Labour party in Britain may achieve this change in time 1.

A deputation from the Wellington Acclimatization Society waited on the Minister for Justice, yesterday, and urged him to give instructions to the police to assist rangers in putting a check upon the wanton destruction of native and imported game, and to the growing practice of dynamiting fish in rivers/The Hon. J. McGowan said he was in sympathy with questof the Society, but there was the public view of the matter which must not be lost sight of. Thejr did not want anything like the game laws of the Old Country. However, he promised the deputation he would go into the whole matter, and see what could be done.

In reply to a question put by a member of the Canadian Parliament recently, the Minister of Finance stated that the Canadian Associated Press service had been assisted by a Government subsidy payable for five years from the year 1903-4, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars for the first three years, ten thousand for the fourth, and five thousand dollars for the fifth year, not to exceed in any case one-half of the total amount expended on this cable service. There had been paid in 1904 12,500 dollars; in 1905, 11.592 dollars, 1906, 10,597; dollars, and in the current year, 5736 dollars. In New Zealand, it may be mentioned, no subsidy is paid by the Government to the United Press Association.

The fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade wa3 held in the Central Station, last evening, Captain Jenkins presiding. Sick leave was granted to Hydrantmen Church and Jorgensen. ..The Greytown and Palmerston North Brigades forwarded complimentary tickets to th?ir annual dinner. which were received with thanks. The resignations of Foreman Maher and Firemen Hooper and Church as members of the Brigade were accepted with regret. The secretary was instructed to write to the Executive of the U.F.B.A. in reference to Hydrantman Church's gold star. Mr M. Maymond was'proposed as a member. Other routine business was transacted. MILKING MACHINE FEVKB. Never in the history, of the milking machine has there been such a. crop of putative machines gs now follow the unique success of the , "Lawrence-Kennedy-Gillies." Numbers of hurriedly designed and imperfectly tested machines, many of which are based on Fystems long ago discaided are being rushed on to the market to share in the present harvest which the "LK.G." sowed 5 years ago. When considering other males, don't forget that until they have been worked for at least two years by practical farmers, you are only buying untried maohines on the reputation which the "L.K.G." established.

According to Mr Arnold, M.H.R., who returned last week from Australia, he is satisfied that in comparison with any part of the Commonwealth, New Zealand to the working man or the poorer classes of the community is indeed "God's Own Country."

At Greytown, on Monday, Miss J. Smith, second daughter of Mr G. P. Smith, of Matarawa, was married to Mr C. F. M. Ross, of Waverley. Misses Eva Smith and Veda Halse were the bridesmaids, and Mr H. V. Halse was best man. The ballot for an appropriation of £3OO, free of interest, in the Workmen's Friend Building Society took place, last evening, in the presence of a number of shareholders. The appropriation was secured by Mr P. W. Wickens, who holds two shares, and is entitled to the full amount.

At the Masterton Police Court, yesterday, before Mr J. H. Pauling, J.P., Charles Blue, alias Neil McCormick, pleaded guilty to a charge of committing a grossly indecent act in Queen Street, on Monday evening last, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. A second offender, named Andrei Douglas, was fined 10s for having been drunk. The half-yearly summoned meeting of the Masterton Rechabite Tent was held in the Drill Hall, last evening, Bro. A. E. Baker, C.R., occupying the chair. The election of officers for the ensuing term resulted as follows C.-R., Bro. A. E. Prentice; D.R., Bro. C. Marshall; Treasurer, Bro. J. F. Heyhoe; Secretary, Bro. W. M. Easthope; C.S., Bro. D. Threadwell; 8.5., Bro. J. W. Andrews; L., Bro. J. W. Andrews; G. Bro. D. Mclvor. It was decided to hold a "pound night" at the next regular meeting of the Tent. The receipts for the evening amounted to £2O.

Speaking in connection with the plumbers' dispute at the Arbitration Court, yesterday, Mr S. E. Wright reminded the Court that' there were a number of contracts being carried out in Masterton at the present time where plumbers were employed. He considered that it would be a great hardship if an increased rate of wages was brought into operation before '.he were finished, and he asked lo have the present contracts exempted from any new award, 'ihe Court took a note of the application.

The following is the order in which competitors will shoot, to-night. for the Morris Tube Association's JHolmes trophy 7 p.m.—Oed, Lett, frighting, Taylor, Meredith. McCalmont, Sutherland, Robertson. 7.30 p.m.— Lewin, Hornblow, Burridge, Allan, C. Perry. Blane, King and H. Perry. 8 p.m.—Hodges, D. Mcintosh, Tomlin, Winslade, Wellington, Robinson, Redmcnd, McNabb, 8.30 p.m.—McHattie, Smith, E. Perry, M. Mcintosh, Spackman. Members have now been classified, and will shoot under the new conditions to-night. Edward Mitchell Tracey was sentenced in the Napiefr Supreme Court, yesterday, to severi years' imprisonment for arson and three years for housebreaking. Joseph Marten, found guilty of horse-stealing, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and was declared an habitual criminal. The jury recommended the prisoner to mercy, but Marten's 'record showed sentences for theft, vagrancy, horse stealing, housebreaking, etc. (one often years), and the juage ignored the recommendation. i

"I scarcely expect to get through the Hospital and Charitable Aid izsni this session," remarked the Hon. G. Fowlds to a Post reporter yesterday. "That measure will deal with the question of more direct Government on hospital and charitable aid uoarua, and will seek generally to improve me law relating to hospital districts. I want to give the new Inspector-General an opportunity of more iuily investigating existing conditions, but theie may be one or two amendments required. For instance, it is found that some of the boards have no power to raise money for building, say, \homes for chronic invalids. That difficulty the Government Bill will overcome. Further, there is a strong feeling growing up that adjacent boards should De allowed to combine for the erection of a home for chronic invalids, so as to obviate-the necessity and the full expense of such an institution falling on each body." "New Zealand has very much to learn from the Commonwealth upon some questions," said Mr Arnold, M.H.R., to a Dunedin Star reporter. "I consider that their prison management is far in advance of that of ours, especially in respect to the conditions under which the officials work. The training of criminals and waif children is also carried on in a manner that is likely to tend td the betterment of this class of the community. With the railway and tram services, too, one cannot but conclude that we have yet to learn to cater for suburban traffic by either of these means; while some oi their public libraries are a revelation-to a New Zealander. For instance, Melbourne Public Library, with over 70,000 volumes, is absolutely free, not only to ratepayers, but to any individual on the recommendation of a ratepayer. Yet out of the thousands of volumes that must be circulated annually, during the last twelve months there were less than thirty volumes lost. The library is supported by municipal rate and Government subsidy."

MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF ' ■< JUSTICE.

The acknowledged good qualities and BPccess of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria; before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving judenient Baid with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, eto., it s not Eermissable to imitate any of its features, [e restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, afld ordered them tojjay all costs. We publish this to afford the public an opportunity of protecting themselves and of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities duiing the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE jVOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Gout is really a special form of rheumatism caused by excess urio aoid in the blood. Whether your goul is aoute 01 chronic, Rheumo will cure you. All stores.

It is proposed to forni 1 a Mounted, Rifle Corps in Martinborough. Recent floods in Fijvdam'aged the' banana crop to some eiteht. A petition for the abolition of the totalisator is being circulated in New, Plymouth : Five hundred and eighty. two, new members have joined the Christchurch Y.M.C.A. past three weeks. Advice has been' received .by a land and estate agency in Wellington thai; a syndicate of small farmer# in, Victoria are prepared to invest the sum of £50,000 in Waikato-lands. In 1882 the Gisborne' county clerk advised the County 'Council ,to purchase a section at the corner of Gladstone Road and Bright Street for £3OO, or one in the next block for £BO or £9O. The Council are now paying about £2,000 fop a site. On Thursday evening at the Tabernacle, Dunedin, a large number of members assembled to celfebrate the wiping off of the debt from the building. Twenty-five years ago the debt was contracted, and ; it stood at £2,300. At this meeting the mortgage was publicly burned, amidst great enthusiasm, as it represented a payment by the present congregation of £825.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, London, recently, Sir Hugh Bell suggested that in a hundred yeats, with littleor no machinery on board and barely any crew, a ship would l speed on her way drawn by electric force generated at Niagara, and transmitted over the Atlantic hy wireless tfcVgraphy. (Laughter). Strange as lifs lorecast might be, it was no .;,ore incredible than what had happened since 1807. The world-moved on in a succession of dreams and their fulfillment.

At a meeting of the Eketahuna Borough Council on Monday evening,* a letter was read from the Seiddoh Memorial Committee, of Masterton. asking assistance towards the establishment of a 'Seddon Memorial Technical School at Masterton. Cr Wise said that he did not; think the Borough was in a position to make a grant, but coitended that tradespeople and others should extend practical, sympathy to the movement as such an institution enabled those who availed themselves of its privileges to become efficient; in many branches of trade. No action was taken in the matter. -

At the Conciliation Board's sitting at Christchurch, last' an interesting statement was made by Mr Young, representative of tlie Christchurch Bootmakers' Society, in opening the case on behalf of the repair and bespoke workers. He said that thirty years ago the' public paid 7s 6d for hand-sewn soling and heeling of men's boots, 6s for rrten's rivetted half-soling and heeling, and 4s for women's. At the present time the prices were 5s 6d, 3s 6d, and 2s (3d respectively. The cost of commodities, on the other hand, had advanced 25 per cent, during the past ten years.

Says the Dunecin Star: —It is a well-known fact that in almost every place where any. considerable number of hands are employed * the calls for subscriptions, to , presentations are as numerous ks they are unpleasant. The presentation blight was also on the volunteers, but is likely to cease now that Colonel Smyth has issued a district order forbidding it. -In the same list of nuisances comes the practice of making every public man a paying patron of every organisation in his district, We understand that one well-known ,! suburban councillor, largely identified .with cycling and other forms of sport, has to find no less than JBSO for subscriptions every year.

A great deal of modern education at the primary schodls has practica utility for its aim.. Members of the Scenery Preservation Society's Committee urged, at the New Plymouth meeting last Friday night, that the children should bo encouraged to practice the eminently. useful art of planting trees, and that they should be imbued with a special love for the beautiful flora of their native land. The Education Department has already introduced nature .study into the school syllabus; so the committee considers lessons oii' native flora might easily be arranged. " As 3 step in this direction, it is suggesteds that a competition for essays on trees and plants of New Zealand should be ar-' ranged for pupils of local schools just before Arbor Day. :

Major - General Henry Ronald Douglas Maclver' soldier of fortune, who fought under eighteen flags, died in New York the other day, at • the age of sixty-five. The General served as an ensign in India in the Sepoy mutiny, as a lieutenant in Italy under Garibaldi, as a captain in Spain under • Don Carlos, as a major in the Confederate army on the staffs of Generals Stonewall Jacksoji and J. E.B.Stuart, as a lieutenant-colonel ' under Emperor Maxiftiilian in Mexico, as a colonel under Napoleon 111. in the Franco-Prussian war, as f an inspector of cavalry for the Khedive of Egypt, and as a major-general under King Milan of ' Servia. He served in the ten years' war in Cuba, in Brazil, in Argentine, in Crete, in Greece, and in the two Carl ist revolutions in Spain. A Palmerston North gentleman has received a letter from Messrs Weddel and Co., the well-known produce merchants, of London, from which the Manawatu Evening Standard extracts the following:— "We think New Zealand is making a great mistake in erecting these factories permanently with the impression that \ the present high prices will continue. We look upon them as .being abnormal and accidental. Last year there was a drought, more or, Jess severe, in Canada, and. also a similar condition of things in this country, by which the make of cheese would be reduced from 30,000 to 20,000 tons, and if next' year New Zealand increases her cheese factories as she apparently is going to do (and which, Canada is certainly doing) aijd we have in ~this country and Canada a normal season, then cheese Will lose its position, and the capital invested in your cheese factories will be a dead weight on the owner or owners." Baby's Little Troubles. ! Baby's cough, if not attended to, often results in croup and other serious troubles. Always keep a bottle of Dr Sheldon's New Discovery handy afad be prepared. Every bottle guaranteed. Obtainable at H. E, Eton, Chemist, Masterton.

An old colonist, Mrs George Bagnail, died at the age of eighty-three _ja.t Auckland, on Sunday. he nett overdraft of ,the MasterBorough Council is £13.632 4s 4d. Vpe rates outstanding amount to 3881054 d. * The Premier (Sir Joseph Ward) is expected to arrive at Wellington from Sydney by the- Maheno, this morning. The poundkeeper (Mr C. H. Savage) reported to the meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, last evening, that the number of im~ poundings from the Borough for the ipaat month had been 12 and from the "County 53. The amount collected in j fees for the month had been £6 4s 2d. The financial position of the Masterton Borough Council is as follows: —General Account, dr., £5,098 17s ;2d; GaOiccount, cr., £1,084 16s 4d; Library Account, dr.'» £3 lis 2d; Waterworks Account, dr., £593 2s lid: Deposit Account, cr., £193 19s lid; Interest Account,, drainage, cr., 7s 8d; Interest Account, Bannister Street, cr., £l3 18s od; Temporary Loan Account, cr., £373 15s; Loan Account, drainage, cr., £ll4 4s 4d; Special Loan Account, cr., schedule A £169 4s 4d, schedule B £B7B 16s. schedule 'J £166 16s, schedule D £1,129 14s ?d. schedule E J5570 4s sd, schedule P £309 12s, schedule G £1,486 19s 6d. The report of the Works Committee of the Masterton Borough Council, last evening, contained a recom.n mendation that a footpath should be made for 20 chains along , the south side of Renall Street, and continued •on the north side of the street for another 20 chains, as provided in the loan schedule. Crs Temple and Ewington contended that the Com-' mittee had broken faith with the ratepayers as the loan, schedule that' was before the people provided that the footpath should be made for 20 chains along Renall Street on each side, commencng from Chapel Street. Crs Haughey and Morris, in supporting the Committee's recommendation. stated that the Committee had decided to make the footpath where the houses were, and where it would

be of most use. They contended that ,the Committee had used common in the matter. The recommendation was eventually approved of. The Borough Engineer reported to the meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, last evening, that he «3timated the cost of grading and asphalting Queen Street for 45 chainß between the Waipoua River and the Queen's Hotel, at £63 lisper chain fir, say, a total of 1£2,859 15s. In addition 30 chains of channelling would require to be taken up and re-laid at a cost of per chain; new culverts would be required to be put across the road, and at approaches at a cost of £150: regrading and asphalting the footpath at the low part of the street south of Ross Street for 10 chains would cost £75; and allowance for lowering gas, and water mains would amount to £IOO. Contingencies were expected to reach £335 ss, thus making the total estimate of the work amount to £3,730. /The sum of £3,000 was on the loan LSchedule to carry out the work with, Council decided to instruct the Works Committee to proceed with the of regrading and asphalting Street between the south side of Perry Street and the ilorth side of Hall Street. A night porter is required at the Prince of Wales Hotel. , The Masterton Rifle Volunteer Corps will hold a social in the Drill Hall tc-morrow evening. The proceeds will be in aid of , the Library Fund. Lithograph plans of -the subdivision of the Mount Herbert Estate; Waipukurau, are to hand at the Age Office and can be obtained on application. Messrs Graham and Co.,'s reduction sale has so far exceeded the firm's most sanguine expectations, and will be continued for ten days - longer. It is therefore incumbent on those who . have not completed their purchases do so at the earliest opportunity. s Mr J. R. Nicol advertises an unreserved sale of household furniture on account of Mr J. Jones, at his residence on Friday next. The furniture to be offered is nearly new, and is to be sold without reserve. The sale is to be held at the residence, Lincoln Road, and there will be no reserve.

) Th 6 private sale of ' Exhibition bicycles, which is \ being held in Messrs R. E. Howell and-Co.'s mart, is proceeding satisfactorily, and will "continue till Saturday nex,t, closing at 10 p.m. on that date. The machines are exceptionally well built of best * (materials, and are being disposed of at remarkably low prices. Particulars of these bicycles wiU be seen in "an inset circulated with this issue. This afternoon and to-morrow afternoon, Mr J. Gilchrist, who is endeavouring to interest the educational authorities in the use of the lantern in the work of educating young ■children, will deliver lectures, in the Town Hall, on the "The Animal Kingdom" and "A Trip Round the World." Mr Gilchrist's work has been very highly commended by rectors and headmasters of the various schools he has visited. § Anyone desirous of purchasing 1 a good dairy farm on easy terms should v write at once to Mr Newton King, has a special advertisement in another column with regard to the Crown Dairy Companies' farms, for which he is sole agent. Three of the properties have been sold since they were first advertised, and as the milking season is fast approaching intending buyers should not delay fip fetting ftill particulars of the !§w prices and exceptionally easy terms, on which the properties are to be sold. The Scoullar Company, Wellington announce that they have to hand some special novelties in heavy curtains, which have been secured for them from the best makers, arid include some lines that surpass in Quality and,design anything hitherto in the colony. The particular with a list of prices, are particularised in the firm's advertise'ment on page 2 of this issue, and •will prove interesting to lady readers. The name of "Scoullar" lias become a household word in the furnishing trade, and the firm state that their aim will be to maintain the record which has taken years to attain. The public are invited to write for estimates, samples, and designs.

The tender of Messrs Beale and Parton was accepted, at the meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, last evening, for the supply of twelve street lamps at £1 17s 3d each.

"The Works Committee Js starving; the streets are in a deplorable state with mud up to the top of one's boots, but still the Park Committee bring down a proposal to spend money—in fact, to tiirow money away on nothing," said Cr Haughey at the meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last evening. Cr Temple defended the Park Committee, and said that the money that was being expended on the Park had been provided for by loan and could not be used for any other purpose.

Among the Bills to be proceeded with by the Government this session is the Education Act Amendment Bill, which was introduced last year but. not passed. It provides, among other things, that the holder of a National Scholarship who has to travel more than four, miles daily each way to prosecute his studies shall receive an additional allowance up to £10: that secondary schools must provide absolutely free places for pupils who have qualified for them; and that private schools shall be subjected to Government inspection. The Bill will be in much the same form as last year's, but will be supplemented by a clause dealing comprehensively with the question of scholarships, and the removal of existing anomalies.

The willingness with which many sons shirk the responsibility of providing Maintenance for their aged parents is often demonstrated in our courts. A typical came before the Wanganui S.M. on Tuesday last, when a fine, upright old gentleman, an old veteran, and late sergeant ih one of the Imperial corps which went through the and the Indian , Mutiny, had to resort to the provisions of the Maintenance Act to enable him to extract the small a pitt ance of ten shillings per week from his son. The latter was established in a prosperous business at Akaroa some time ago by his father, and is still doing successfully, if making money may be called a success. Tne father, who is a total abstainer, was in receipt of an Imperial pension, but this was insufficient to keep him. He was willing to work, and wished to secure some light employment to lieep his hands and mind occupied. The S.M. made an order that the sen pay £2 per month into Court at Wanganui. llheumo ha 3 enabled many a poor sufferer from rheumatism, aout, sciatica, nrd lumbago to once more enjoy he .Ith and happiness. 2s Gd und 43 6d. Sold every where. ■ For Bronchial Coughs tfke Wooda Great Peppermint Cure. ]a6dand2s6<l