LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8477, 3 July 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Whooping cough and croup are prevalent in Stratford. A movement is on foot ir Westport to form a co-operative bakery.

Our Tinui correspondent states that measles are prevalent in the Tinui district.

The Wairarapa Hunt Club intend to hold a steeplechase meeting on the T&ratahi racecourse on August 15th. The petition for the further extension of the Otago Central railway to Hawea has been very largely signed in the Cromwell and Upper Clutha districts.

The State collieries are putting out about 3.000 tons per week. Boring operations show the existence of coal in the flat, so that an enormous area of coal-bearing country has been proved.

At the Orange Police Court (N.S.W.) recently a man was found guilty of allowing an unlawful game of dice to be played in a licensed bil-liard-room. He was fined £4O, with the alternative of four months' imprisonpient. Speaking at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court, last week, Mr V. G. Day, S.M., said that .billiards was not a fit amusement for youths of the age of 17, and legislation should be passed limiting the age of persons allowed to enter licensed bil-liard-rooms. The Gas Committee of the Masterton Borough Council met last evening, there being present—Crs Temple (chairman), Elliott, Ewington, and Yarr. The committee went fully into the report of the Gas Manager on the probable requirements of the gasworks for the next five years, and decided to submit the report to the Council with a recommendation that it be adopted. The Church of England Messenger has the following announcement: —It is learned from Sydney that Archbishop Saumerez Smith will leave for London etrly next year to attend the Lambeth Conference, and that it is his intention to resign his office as Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia. At Sydney it is regarded as probable that the successor in the Archbishopric of Sydney will be the Bishop »of Gippsland (Dr. Pain), who, with Archbishop Clarke and Archbishop Donaldson the Metropolitans of Victoria and Queensland, respectively—will be eligible for the office of Primate of Australia.

Says the London Daily Mail:— "Francisco Jose, who was born at Paradella, Amares, in 1788, was recently presented to the Medical Congress on tuberculosis at Oporto as a fine specimen of a perfectly healthy old man of the Lusitanian race. Though 119 years old he has no symp torn of disease. Jose served in the Portuguese army which in 1810 opposed the invasion of the French under Napoleon I. He was present at the siege of Oporto in 1832, [and at the revolution in the province of Minho in 1846. He is still a good shot, and works as a tailor, carpenter, shoemaker, painter, and gardener.

According to a correspondent at Opotiki, the "prophet" Rua has again made his appearance, and this time he has chosen his native home for the his operations. Rua's followers are letting their hair grow, and the prophet now calls himself "Moses." Rua has prophesied a tidal wave at Te Teko, and this has led the natives to clear away from the pah, leaving behind them their kumaras, potatoes, and other food products; in fact, they have turned their horses and pigs into their cultivated areas, and must for some time be minus food. The result of such action will, when hunger sets in, be that an appeal will be made to the Government for supplies.

In the Knox Church Sunday Schoolroom, last evening, Mr F. H. Spencer, agent for the New Zealand British and Foreign Bible Society, delivered a lecture on Missionary work amongst the natives of Africa, illustrating his remarks with numerous lantern slides. Mr Spencer stated that the churches of New Zealand subscribed something like £1,500 yearly for mission work, but this amount was insufficient for the purpose. It was with the object of. getting the churches to contribute more to the funds for missionary work that he was visiting the various parts of the colony delivering lectures. Mr Spencer was accorded a vote of thanks for his address.

POPULAR MILKING MACHINE. The popularity of the "L.K.G." Milking Machine was never demonstrated more fully than at the recant Palmerston Winter Show. Numbers of intending purchasers, after waiting to see the different machines at work, placed their orders for the "L.K.G." Ir-ing thoroughly satisfied that the tried and proven machine represents the safest and most profitable investment, If you intend installing in time for the ensuing Fcason, it will be necessary to book at once to make sure of getting delivery in time. Leading farmers in every district use the "L.K.G." J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.

The next "meet" of the Wairarapa Hunt Club will be held at Greytown to-morrow.

Mr H. Morgan, late of Rongokokako, died at Christchurch on Friday last.

One thousand emigrants a day are being sent out to Canada by the Dominion Emigration agent in London.

The colonial mails which left Melbourne on May 29th, per R.M.S. Mongolia, via Brindisi, arrived in London on the morning of June 30th.

Mr Andrew Collins, labour organiser, addressed a meeting of timber workers, at Dannevirke, on Monday night. A branoh of the Wellington Timber Workers' Union was formed.

."The Farmers' Union should protest against the duty on wheat," said Mr J. G. Wilson (President), at the annual conference of the Farmers' Union a v . Wellingtdn, yesterday.

An Auckland Press Association telegram states that the cutter Esk, which went ashore- at Chamberlain's Island, during the recent gale has been abandoned as a total wreck.

The subject for discussion at the Y.M.C.A. Debating Club, this evening, will b3 "Should billiards be introduced into the Y.M.C.A.?"'. The affirmative will be taken by Mr A. E. Rees and the negative by Mr H. Lett.

The takings at the football match, Southern v. University, on the Caledonian Grounds, Dunedin, on Saturday, represented a record for Dunedin for a "gate," at which sixpence is the charge for male adults, with free admission for ladies. The receipts, amounted to £l4O.

At the monthly meeting of the Eketahuna branch of the Farmers' Union, held on Saturday last, it was decided that the Department of Agriculture should be written to asking if the services of an expert were available to give a lecture at Eketahuna to farmers on wool classing. Special prizes have been won by the following pupils attending the RongokoKako School: Drawing, Allan Elliott and May Hunt: composition, Cecil Parsons and Eric Charles; letter writing, Elsie Morris and Elsie Priest; neatness of books, Eileen Hare and Ernest Hare; good conduct, Eileen and Winifred Hare and Harry Farrow.

A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that the the late Sir John Hall's will included many charitable bequests, the principal ones being £30,000 to be administered by the Trustees for charitable purposes in Canterbury, £IO,OOO to establish a hall for working boys, and £IO,OOO for a hew Anglican Church at Hororata. Almost every benevolent institution in the district is remembered in the will.

The following are the leading aggregates in the Morris Tube Association's Renall Cup competition for the two matches already fired: —J. McHattie 66, H. Perry 66, H. L. Brighting 65, J. Allan 65, M. Mcintosh 65, W. D. McCalmont 65, A. Lewin 65, R. J. King 64, W. Winslade 64, T. U. Wellington 63, S. McNabb 62, R. Spademan 62. The next match to count for this trophy will be fired on Thursday next.

1 The vital statistics for June, for Dunedin, compared with those for the corresponding month last year show a decrease in births, an increase in deaths, and an increase in marriages, says a Dunedin paper. Authorities on the subject, however, are confident that this is no cause for uneasiness, for vital statistics are the most fluctuating things imaginable, and people who base their theories of a rise or decline of population on one month's figures are pretty certain to have all their calculations upset on the next.

Something in the nature of a strike is reported to have occurred at a fiaxmill in the Bruce district last,week, says the Milton Mirror, owing to the posting of a new set of rules for the men. One rule was to the effect that no breakfast would be served after 7 o'clock, and the men were required to be in their places at the stroke of time. This was a sore point with them, although other rules, such as the prohibition of liquor in the camp, etc., were also much resented, and eight of the men left the job.

• Mr D. J. Curran, of Lincoln Road, had the misfortune to be accidentally shot in the foot by a bullet from a pea-rifle at a shooting gallery in Queen Street on Monday evening. The attendant at the shooting gallery was cleaning out a pearifle, which he thought was unloaded, when the rifle went off, and the bullet entered Mr Curran's foot. The latter walked to Dr. Hosking's surgery, and had the bullet extracted. He is now confined to his room.

In Africa the wattle plantations are made to yield very profitable re ■ turns from land devoted exclusively to the industry. The trees mature early, and yield three tons of bark to the acre, worth about £5 per ton. In later years, the plantation becomes more productive, for in the first "harvest" every alternate tree is stripped and this allows more nutriment area for the remaining trees which a year later give as much as four or five tons to the acre. Wattlegrowing should be a successful industry in New Zealand says a northern newspaper, especially if carried on where a sale for fencing posts and firewood can be found. It is claimed that in the Auckland province wattle plantations yield 1,000 posts to the acre, besides bark, and a considerable amount of firewood.

MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE.

The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and ono 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 judoment said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the pubxic by reason of its good quality, etc., it s not perrmssable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing go, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish thisto 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 during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PUREjVOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

A very old Napier identity, Mr Alfred Edser, senr., died on Monday, after a brief illness, aged 84 years.

The Eketahuna School Committee have appointed Messrs Waldie and Vile as delegates to the Wairarapa School Committees' Association.

The rainfall in Eketahuna for last month was 4.84 inches. "Rain fell on 12 days, and the maximum fall was registered on the 26th, 1.60 inches falling.

Ths consumption of gas in Wellington last month was about 2,000,000 feet more than in June of last year. The increase was equal to half the total consumption in 1872.

Notwithstanding that the winter is half-way through, the Auckland Labour Bureau reports that work is plentiful, and that the demand exceeds the supply in the cases of stonemasons, navvies, and farm hands.

Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe, for specially addressed correspondence, per s.s. Rimutaka, will close at Masterton on Wednesday, July 3rd, at 4.45 p.m. (due in London on August loth.). Mr Witty has given notice in the House of Representatives that he will ask the Minister for Agriculture whether he will this session amend the Small Birds Nuisance Act, so as to compel cities to pay a fair share towards the destruction of injurious birds.

General Botha informed a London paper of the fact that his attendance at the dinner given to the Colonial Premiers by the Irish party in London would rank among the pleasantest of his stay. His wife, he said, was of Irish extraction, and a relative of Robert Emmet, after whom one of his sons was named Robert Emmet Botha. Upon every anniversary of his wife's birthday, his whole family sang Irish melodies in honour of the land of her ancestors.

The Secretary of the Mount Holdsworth Track Committee has received from the Government a cheque for £35, being a portion of the grant of £SO towards the erection of an accommodation hut on Mount Holdsworth. The material for the erection of the hut is at the foot of the mountain, but the work has been delayed on account' of bad weather. The hut will not be erected until the spring.

"I don't want to blow about this country but I would like to quietly slip out where it is a milder, and, I think, better climate," writes an inhabitant of Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, to the Tourist Department. He states that he has 2,500 dollars to bring to New Zealand as soon as he iearns about the prospects. Like many other American enquirers he is anxiuus to know whether New Zealand is plagued with snakes, insects, and so on.

The Norwegian postal authorities have under consideration an application for permission to print adverisements on the back of postage stamps. It is proposed to devote the proceeds to the erection and maintenance of a large sanatorium for consumptives. About fourteen years ago New Zealand stamps had advertisements printed on the back of them, a Wellington firm having obtained the right in this connection.

Shortly before two o'clock yesterday morning the premises of Mr W. McFarlane, hairdresser and tobacconist and billiard saloon proprietor, Greytown, were destroyed by fire. Practically nothing was saved, and, in addition to the stock, some £3O in money was destroyed. The Club Hotel, which is next door, had a narrow escape, for the roof, of the building caught fire. The building was insured for £4OO, and the stock for £2OO.

The following is the order in which competitors have drawn to shoot on Thursday night, in the third Renall Cup match of the Morris Tube "Association:—7 p.m., Oed, Sutherland, Tomlin, Smith, E. Perry, Lett; 7.30 p.m., King, McCalmont, Wellington, M. Mcintosh, Hodges, Robertson; 8 p.m., Brighting, Robinson, Lewin, MclSabb, Redmond, Taylor; 8.30 p.m., Spackman, Winslade, C. Perry, H. Perry, Burridge, D. Mcintosh; 9 p.m.. Meredith, Hornblow, McHattie, Blane, Allan.

Honesty brings its own rewardsometimes. A boy on one of the steamers running out of Wellington found a valuable ring in the scuppers of the steamer recently, and was prompted to return the trinket to its owner. The ring was valued at about £4O, and the youth had visions of a handsome reward. The reward came in due course in an envelope addressed to the lad. The contents comprised a polite note and one shilling. It is stated that the generous reward was returned inside another polite letter.

An advertiser wants a good carpenter. &

Messrs Kebbell Bros., Alfredton, require an experienced bullock driver. Messrs Gillespie and Co. have vacancies for a gardener for station, and boarders for private family.

Messrs Krahagen and Chapman, merchant tailors, make a specialty of dress garments and guarantee satisfaction.

Messrs Hare and Davidson, land agents, Pahiatua, advertise for tease a 400 acre sheep farm all in grass and well watered. This property is pronounced a bargain and early application is advised.

Mr T. C. Taylor, land agent, Wanganui, advertises for sale several handy-sized farms, well-improved and situated close to creameries. Particulars, which will repay perusal, will be found elsewhere in this issue.

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"I could drink as much as comee through a half-inch pipe," said th e Mayor at the special sneeting of tht Masterton Borough Council, las r evening, when referring to the wate supply. "Not water, your Worship," interjected Cr Ewington. The honourable position of representative of the people has its drawbacks in Russia. Of the delegates to the first Duma one—Professor Herzenstine —was murdered by assassins belonging to the Black Hundred; one has gone insane; two have been cruelly beaten by the pulice; five have been exiled; 10 are in hiding; 33 have been arrested and searched ; 24 are in prison; and 182 are under indictment on the charge of treason. In an interview in Dunedin, Mr W. Fraser, M.H.R., said that in regard the proposal to deal with the land question in the form of three Bills, i t would, virtually mean that there would be three sets of speeches on the same subject instead of one. The . subject matter of the three Bills would be found so intertwined, so inextricably mixed that it would be found impossible to refer to one without also treating of the others. This might prove to' be contrary to the fttfJitUv" u-ders of the House. As a member -jjeaking to on- item on the order paper was barred from speaking on others.some curious complications would in all probability arise.

A glaring case of villainously bad sportsmanship or wanton brutality came before the meeting of the Otago Acclimatisation Society on Friday (says the Otago Daily Times), when a letter was read stating that in the country between the Ahuriri River and Lake Ohau sheep had been found dead in bunches, and on being examined were found to have been Phot with rifle bullets. It is difficult to understand the motive for sue h a deed, as a sheep would be almost as easy to hit asa haystack, so that ij'ven the worsV sportsman in the world could find no pleasure in shooting at one. The affair seems something of a mystery, but the Otago Society will place the matter before the Oamaru Society (in whose district it occurred), and doubtless steps will ha taken to trace the offenders.

A rather novel mode of obtaining a free night's shelter was explained by the police at the Christchurch Magistrate's Court, on Thursday last. It seems that on the night of June 21st a man gave himself up to the' police and accused himself of having mis appropriated a sum of money from his employer in Sydney. Reluctant to arrest hiro, the police allowed him to remain before the .fire to see if the warmth would lead to his changing his mind. He reiterated his t-:eif-

accusation, however, so the police cells were opened to him, and he was charged with drunkenness. The last act of the comedy was presented when one of his employers, who had followed the man from Sydney, stated in explanation .that the man had been drinking to excess and had left Sydney suffering from an hallucination that he had stolen money. His employer wished to take him back to Sydney.. A Wellington Press 'Association telegram states that the Farmers' Union Conference passed a resolution "that no form of tenure would gu r e Satisfaction Which does not include

the option of the freehold." It was also decided that Crown tenants on lease-in-perpetuity tenure should be given the right to acquire the freehold of their holdings on payment by the lessee of the original. value, and payment of the difference oh the lease-in-perpetuity and the 5 per cent, charged to tenants with right of purchase; and also that tenants under the Lands for Settlement Act should be allowed to purchase at the original valuation, provided all the conditions imposed have . been comi plied with. The conference further decided, "That this conference is opposed to the proposal to set aside all the remaining Crown Lands as endowments in the hands of the Government for any specific purpose with the exception of purely pastoral lands."

A case decided at Southwark has an interest for all suburban railway travellers, says the Westminster Gazette. The defendant, Mr Langton, who was travelling from Water-

100 to Clapham Junction, accidentally exceeded- his .journey, and when he • reached Wimbledon refused to pay the excess fare.: Returning at once to Clapham a demand was made upon him for the fare, from Wimbledon, but this also was refused. The prosecuting railway company failed to show that the defendant intentionally went beyond his destination, and judgment was given for him, with costs. The, decision seems sound. We never heard of a railway company charging a passenger . under such circumstances, although the judge held that there was no liability on its part to return him free of charge. But, as his Honor pointed out, it is always done; and, as it was not alleged that defendant went to Wimbledon willingly, there eouH be no ground for supposing chat he meant to defraud the company.

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