LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8509, 10 August 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest dredging returns to hand are Masterton 930z 7dwt, Mystery Flat 440z Bdwt.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that twenty-eight cases of flounders from Auckland were condemned by the Health Department as unfit for consumption.

A sailor named Eric Asturland, an A.B. on the barque Gannymede, got caught between a railway truck and a mooring post, yesterday, and was crushed, states a Greymouth Press Association telegram. He died in half-an-hour.

A Dunedin Press Association telegram states that Joseph Edward Hainer, who in March last, while working on the Manukau, at Dunedin, was knocked down the hold and severely injured, claimed £1,500 damages from the Union Company. The case has been settled out of Court., the Company paying £6OO.

Those who are watching the cheese market very closely (says the Hawera Star) are confident t'j it this season will show a continua :c.e of good prices. Stocks throughout the world are said to be lower than last year, and the Canadian make, which is almost completed, is not being stocked, but going into consumption. There appears no chance of extra competition on the Continent, while in the colonies Victoria is the only one likely to make any amount.

At Gisborne, yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, the Magistrate imposed a fine of £5 and costs against the licensee of the Albion Hotel on a charge of permitting drunkenness on the premises. It being the first case so far as he was aware in which the question was raised as to the right of a licensee to permit a lodger while in a state of intoxication to be in the public portion of licensed premises the Magistrate refrained from ordering the conviction to be endorsed on the license.

More is done for the comfort of the worker in Germany than Britons here or elsewhere are mostly aware. "We have a great deal to learn from our German kinsmen," confessed one of the English editors who went over the Channel to improve their minds. "The system of national insurance, established by Bismarck, works admirably. Endeavours are now being made to simplify it. Whatever its complexity, there can be no doubt of its beneficence to the workei-s. The German artisan is insured against every possible vicissitude of industrial life, from accident to old age. Both workmen and employers contribute to the old-age pension, and sickness funds, the State supplementing their contributions by a grant from the Imperial exchequer. No contribution is -made by workmen to the accident fund."

A number of valuable ,dogs have lately been poisoned in various parts of Auckland, and it has been found that poison has been laid in the public thoroughfare,apparently for this spec ific purpose. The cases are not isolated, but there appears to have been special attention paid to the neighbourhood of Grafton Road, where a number of good dogs, which have only occasionally been taken out for exercise, have been poisoned. One resident of Grafton Road saw his pug dog pick up something,and only a few minutes elapsed before the dog was dead. So serious has the matter become that the police .have instituted a number of inquiries, and if the offenders are discovered proceedings will at once be taken. One peculiarity about the poisoning is that mongrels, which are such a nuisance in some quarters, hava not been affected.

It is announced that the Prefect of the Federal district, Rio de Janeiro, General Souza Aguiar, has decided to sign a contract with Dr Tupinamba for the .construction of 2,000 workmen's houses, which shall be equipped with all modern hygienic arrangements, and be at the same time comfortable and pleasant to live in. The minimum rent will be 20dol per month, or 255. and the maximum 60dol, or £3 15j. The only concession granted to the contractor is exemption from payment of the house tax for a period of fifteen years. It is also stated that the Prefect has also under consideration the proposal of an American syndicate to build 20,000 houses on the same condition. At last it seems 'that the hardlytreated workman, who hab been so much commiserated and so little helped during the period in which Rio has been demWished and rebuilt, is to meet, with the consideration that he deserves.

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Technical education is making great strides in the Wanganui district. There is still living in Glasgow, a Mrs Campbell, whose age has been certified as 109 years. She is the oldest woman in Scotland. j At Wellington, yesterday, two Chinese named Ja Hee and Yen Shing were each fined £IOO on charges of having sold pak-a-poo tickets. i An Executive Committee was ap- ( pointed at Wellington, last night, to arrange a reception to W. Webb, the champion sculler, states a Press Association telegram. ! Should the weather be fine, to- ; morrow afternoon, the Masterton , Municipal Brass Band will render a select programme of music in the Park. The meeting of the Executive Committee of the Literary and Musical Competitions, which was to have been held this evening, has been postponed until next Thursday evening. The services in Knox Church and at Wangaehu, to-morrow, will be conducted by the Rev. C. Connor, of Napier. Mr Duncan McGregor, senr., will conduct the services at Dreyerton at 3 o'clock. Many residents of Mornington and Roslyn, states the Dunedin Star, are now completely out of water. Some of the old inhabitants say that this is the first time their supply has failed at this time of the year. The meeting of the managers of the Masterton Technical School, which was to have been held last evening, lapsed for want of a quorum, only Messrs W. H. Jackson and E. H. Waddington attending. At the annual meeting of the Mauriceville Dairy Company, on Thursday, it was resolved to ask the j member for the district to protest against the increase in the duty on dairy requisites. I At the Ashburton Magistrate's Court, yesterday, Isabella Burgess was fined £lO for sly grog selling, states a Press Association telegram. The defendant stated that her husband suffered from asthma, and sha sold the liquor to make both end 3 meet. A week was allowed for payment of the fine. A Press Association telegram from Napier states that, in an interview, Mr McMillan, Government Road Engineer, said the probable cost of the East Coast railway from Napier to Gisborne would be about £B,OOO per mile, and the total cost, roughly, £1,200,000. No tunnelling of any magnitude would "be required, but some of the country was very rough. Mr P. G. Scrimgeour, who has been employed on the staff of the Masterton Railway Station for four years, has been promoted to the position of station master at Rangat&wa, on the Main Trunk Line. Befoi'e leaving, yesterday, to take up his new duties, Mr Scrimgeour was presented by the stationmaster, Mr F. Hill, on behalf of the employees at the station, with a handsome travelling bag. Mr C. O. Montrose, well-known throughout the colony mainly through his connection with journalism, died in Wellington yesterday; aged 67 years. The deceased, states a Press Association telegram, served in his youth in both the Navy and Army, and was afterwards private secretary to Sir George Grey. Subsequently Mr Montrose was engaged in journalism. He is the author of "Picturesque New Zealand," and "Strikes and their Remedies."

The Hon. J. Rigg, on arriving in Masterton, yesterday, by the midday train, was met at the Railway Station by the Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine), and members of the Workers' Land Settlement League, and subsequently entertained at lunch in the Exchange Buildings. In the afternoon he was driven around the outskiirts of the town and shown various properties, which were considered suitable for workers' dwellings. The vacancies on the steamer Invertay, which was delayed through trouble with her firemen, three of whom were sent to prison for mutinous behaviour, have been filled. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the vessel sailed again last evening for Delaware Bieakwater, United States. Two of the new firemen signed on at £5 a month, and the other at £B. The rate of pay received by the firemen who shipped in the Old Country is £4 10s a month.

The following particulars are available of the exports from the colony during last month, states a Press Association telegram. The figures for last year where procurable, being stated in parentheses:— Butter £25,375 (£6,589), Cheese £3,702 (£578), beef £55,571 (£23,124), mutton £147,934 (£122,752), lamb £167,614 (£127,789), wheat £43 (£279), oats £299 (£6911), potatoes £B2 (£142), hemp £47,536 (£76,461), rabbits £6,691, hops £1,489, hides £19,339, tallow £46,013, skins £72,101, timber £25,147, wool £207,882, gold £212,809.

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The Athenic, due at Wellington about Monday afternoon from London, via Capetown and Hobart, has on board 1,265 packages of British mails for New Zealand.

At the annual meeting of the Woodville Jockey Club, says a Press Association message, the balancesheet showed a profit of £6OO, notwithstanding that the club had bad weather for its autumn meeting. New Zealand is making advances in municipal enterprise, but has not yet caught up to Germany. "Municipal government in Germany is efficient and enterprising." states a correspondent of the London Nation. "Municipal ownership of the public utilities is general. Gas, water, electricity, tramways are worked by the community for the community. The intrusion of private interest into this domain would not be tolerated.. We (a number of British editors) inspected municipal museums; we drank in municipal cellars; we were entertained at municipal opera houses. There is nothing in Germany analogous to the 'vis inertia' interests of the powerful vested interests which obstruct the means of progress in Great Britain." Before Mr W. P. James, S.M., at the Masterton Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning, Charles Wainwright Baker was charged with having' furiously ridden a horse in Queen Street, on July 30th. Defendant pleaded guilty and was fined 20s and costs in default seven days' imprisonment. John Lett, for having ridden a bicycle at night without a light was fined 5s with 7s cost. A Press Association telegram states that at the Ashburton Magistrate's Court, yesterday, Edmund Morley was fined 20s and costs for sending liquor into a no-license district insufficiently labelled. Alice Voyce sued A. L. Z: uch, dentist, for £IOO damages for wrongfully extracting two permanent teeth. The defence was that the teeth were taken out under specific instructions. Judgment was reserved. I Mrs J. Cairns has vacancies for generals and other domestic servants. I Mr E. Sterry inserts a notice of thanks to the Masterton Hospital, staff for kindness shown to him. A full supply of the best qualityfruits is to hand at the fruit shop next to the Tip Top tea rooms, Queen Street. The valuation rolls for the County of Mauriceville will be open for inspection at the County offices from the 10th to the 17th instant. Mr H. Connop, Woodville, advertises for sale the purebred Clydesdale stallion Young Pride, by Pride of Frimley. Full pedigree and particulars will be supplied on application. Mr W. Rose, Dannevirke, advertises particulars of a profitable livery stable with mail and coaching business attached. Further information will be supplied on application. Messrs R. E. Howell, and Co., Ltd., will offer at their rooms, today, at 2 o'clock, a large assortment of furniture and general goods, poultry and produce. The auction sale at Glasgow House to-day, will commence at 1.30 p.m. In addition to the drapery and clothing, which must be cleared, a fine range of glassware will also be sold. A . new list of farm properties which Messrs East and East, of Wellington and Christchurch .Jhave for sale, will be found on page 8. They are all specially selected and recommended. The ladies of the Wairarapa district are invited to write to the D.1.C., Wellington, for samples and prices of their new dress goods, prints, muslins, and blouse materials. These are to hand in great variety, and in every shade of colour. Mr John Graham who recently sold his farm at Opaki to Mr C. D. Fendall, has purchased through the agency of Mr W. H. Cruickshank (in conjunction with Messrs Husband Bros., land agents, Pahiatua), Mr H. Eglinton's farm of 298 acres, situated at Pahiatua, together with stock. This property is one of the best in the Forty-mile Bush. To-day Mr A. Henderson, watchmaker and manufacturing jeweller, is making a big display of a consignment of the latest and most unique styles of jewellery, just received direct from Home. 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