LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8513, 19 August 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The return from Antonios Dredge, last week, was 17oz lOdwt. Mr F. Alexander, of the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, has been transferred to Pahiatua. A fifty-acre section, about two miles from Hawera, was sold the other day for £SO per acre. Arrangements are being made to tender a farewell social to ex-Ser-geant O'Malley prior to his leaving Masterton for Christchurch shortly. The colonial mails which left Sydney on July 9th, via Vancouver per R.M.S. Manuka, arrived in London on the morning of August 15th, one day late. The Masterton dairy factory will open to-day for the season with a small supply of cream. For the present the cream wi'.l be supplied by the Nikau Creamery only. It has been decided by Kaiparoro settlers to abandon for the present the proposal to erect a co-onerative cheese factory in the district, states the Eketahuna Express.

At'the Masterton Police Court, on Saturday morning, before Mr G. Heron, J.P., Michael Mooney, a second offender, was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk. A Hawera Press Association telegram states that a native named James Haddon, S6 years of age, who wilfully shot himself in the stomach, on Friday evening, died yesterday morning.

The amount taken at the pates at the football match, played en Saturday afternoon, between teams raprtsauting the Masterton Fire Brigade and Municipal Brass Band, in aid of Mr J. K. Blinkhorne, was £2 4s 6d.

A fire gutted the premises owned by Nichol Bros, at the Bluff, on Saturday, states a Press; Association telegram. The premises of Price and Bulleid, drapers, suffered a little from water. The former building was insured for £7OO.

The directors of the Masterton Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., met on Saturday, and accepted the following tenders in connection with the Masterton factory for the coming season : —Butter boxes, C. E. Daniell; firewooJ, G. Daysh; carting, E. Heggie. During the past month 2780 bales of hemp, weighing 444 tons, and valued at about £11,500, was graded at the port of Auckland. This is an increase over the corresponding period of last year of 543 bales, or 47 tons.

Mrs Kate Rains, wife of Mr William Rains, passed away at Wellington, on Friday, in her 63rd year. Mrs Rains arrived in Wellington in 1863. She leaves a family of four eons and two daughters (Mrs E. Sullivan, of Pahiatua, and Mrs W. MTartland, of Carterton). Amongst the guessing competitions to be held during the Y.M.G.A. Village Fair, which will open to-mor-row night, is one in which the competitior has to guess the number of seeds in a pumpkin, weighi. g 451bs, which has been presented by Mr Le?, of Lansdowne.

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that, in response to an invitation from the New South Wales bowlers, who visited Auckland last season, a strong team from Auckland is likely to visit New Suuth Wales next January. Thirty members of the Auckland Association have already intimated that they will make the trip.

At Wellington, on Saturday, before Mr Justice Cooper, Henry Peacock was found guilty of incest, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, states a Press Association telegram. On a charge of making counterfeit money, accused was sentenced to five years imprisonment, the terms to run concurrently.

Owing to the fact that the Y.M.C.A. Village Fair will be held in the Drill Hall, this week, the Masterton Mounted Rifles, instead of holding a parade in the Drill Hall on Wednesday next, will meet in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms at 7.30 p.m, when lectures will. be delivered to the members of the corps by the officers.

The Managers of the Masterton Technical School met on Saturday morning, and prepared a statement of the funds in hand for the new Seddon Memorial Technical School. The statement will be sent to the Education Department. As the Department has liberally assisted in the erection of similar schools in other parts of the colony, it is anticipated that it will also recoanise the splendid manner in which the people of Masterton have contributed towards the funds.

It was stated at the meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association, on Saturday, that special prizes had been promised for the next show as follows: — Wolsley Machine Shearing Company, a valuable silver cup for the most points in English Leicesters; Murray, Roberts and Co., agents for Fisons, Ltd., a silver cup valued at £l2 12s for the most points in sheep for freezing purposes, the cup to be won twice in succession or three times at intervals; Messrs Sutton and Sons, a special prize of £5 5s for the best yields of turnips, swedes and mangolds. Smokers consider that it is worth while knowing that Myrtle Grove Cigarettes can be obtained from all tobacconists.* THE COMING MACHINE. There is no necessity to wait for the coming mlkng irt.e i;i<\ Tin "L K.G." cams five yeors :uo aril is still here. There is no clitiianlty about securing a comii'g machu e, as thie always has been, and alwwyy will b?, hmdrccb of maebines wh'ch are just at the stage of eith.r comirg or going. The trouble is tj go*. them to remain. In this respect the '•L.K G." stands alone, —as the first and only rt'.ilkipt! nacliinj which has jet (iemcnstrati cl bu.yond doubt that it is a prmat.eit s ccess Why cxper<m u ni when you can get (he j revet and fhm'y establUhed "L.K.'l." machine? MacEw.m and Cj., Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Co.'s Buildhig3, Wellington,

Measles are raging at Hamilton. Nearly every family has one or more members down with the disease.

With the aid of two rat traps, baited with poisoned sparrows, a resident of the Oamaru distiicthas caught 79 hawks in two weeks. The foolish practice existing in Blenheim of sending anonymous postcards is growing more prevalent daily, and in nearly every case the victim is a lady.

A loud detonation was heard over Oamaru the other evening. It was occasioned by a rain-maker, who took advantage of the lowering clouds to explode a big bomb, so as to increase the fall of rain, which at the time was very slight. A novel method of providing funds for tho improvement of the local park was resorted to by some residents of Greenborough, Victoria. Some of the leading residents met, and played a series of games of cards, the losers to bear the cost of the improvements which are now being proceeded with.

At the Eltham Axemen's Carnival, at Christmas, the total prize money will be £325. The Cup remains at £l4O, but the size of the blocks has been altered from 18in in diameter to sft in girth. A special prize of £25 has been added Underhand Chop. The commercial travellers of Victoria made a request to the AttorneyGeneral that they should be excused from service as jurymen, as it interfered with their business arrangements. Mr Davies replied that the duties of a juryman were for the public benefit, and could not be modified to suit the convenience o* individuals.

The Grey River Hospital Trustees have received a "windfall" by a bequest of over £6OO made by the late Mrs Bowden, who died in the hospital a few weeks ago. The deceased for many yoars lived in Barrytown and Cobden and had no relatives living. As the Government allow a subsidy of 10s in the £ the Trustees will benefit to the extent of £yoo.

The creameries and dairy factories in South Taranaki are already opening for the new season. The vexed question of butter v. cheese is for the time being practically settled. Despite the urgent demands of the supporters of cheese and the temptation of higher prices, the Eltham, Mangatoki, and Opunake factories are standing by butter, but Kauonga and Hawera have gone over to the cheese party.

Some days ago telegrams from Christchurch and Dunedin reported the mortality among elderly peoplejto be unusually high, and it was stated the same thing was noticeable in other centres of the colony. In Wei lington, however, quite the reverse seems to be the case. Of the total

number of deaths (200) registered in the months of May, June, July, of this year, only 26 were of people between the ages of 50 and 54, and 38 over the age of 65. For the three months in 190G the deaths amounted to 176, and of that number 43 were of persons between tha ages of 50 and 64, an J 40 of yersoqs over 65 years of age.

The General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association met on Saturday, and drew up the prize list for the next annual show. In competitions the mounted infantry and the leading and jumping classes were eliminated, and in field competitions a class was inserted for the best built grain stack, to be judged dui> ing the first week in March. Various small alterations and additions were made to the schedule. In many classes the prize money was materially increased, but in no class was any reduction made in the prize money.

It is now generally recognised that the average Maori is not quife the guileless and unsophisticated child of nature he was formerly deemed to be, says the Taranaki News, and an incident occurred prior to the sitting of the Native Lands Commission in Napier, on Saturday, which clearly illustrates the fact. One of the Maori owners of an area in the Ta'capau district was asked privateiy if he and his co-partners would be willing to lease the place, to which query he astutely replied, "Well, we don't object to short leases to Europeans so that they may clear the land and then leave it to U3 Maoris to work." Mr Laurenson. speaking in the House on the Maori Land Settlement Act, on Tuesday, read a letter from a man whose name he said he would give to the Minister, complaining of the aggregation of estates through the leasing of native lands by Europeans in Waiapn and Cook Counties. The writer particularly referred to applications by a certain family who, he alleged, though already holding 190,000 acres on lease, were applying for another 30,000 acres. Mr Carroll said there was no limit to the number of applications that anyone could make, but it did not follow that the Native Land Board would grant them. Mr Laurenson said it was a letter written by an educated man, and one of some standing in the district. Mr Herries pointed out that the stringent conditions in clause 16 of the Act would thoroughly guard against aggregation. If the statements made were true, the Native. Land Board was not doing its duty. HBRIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and srccess of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT h'.ve brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in tbe Supreme Court of Victoria, be'ore bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving judvment said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER SONS' EUCALYPTI EXIRACT, 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 30, and ordered them to pay 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 dui ing the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE HANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT

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A Harriers' Club has been at Eketahuna. Staff-Captain Ward, Secretary of the Young People's Branch of the Salvation Army, conducted most successful services in Masterton yesterday. To-night a special display of lantern pictures will be held in the Barracks, and all young people are invited to attend. number of men employed in the Waihi Company's mine last year was 1,465. It was stated in the Warden's Court at Waihi a few days ago that the Waihi Grand Junction Company, had spent about £200,000 in connection with mining development and was spending £SOOO a month. It was 67 years on Sunday last since the British flag was hoisted at Akaroa by Captain Stanley, of the I Britomart, forestalling the French frigate L'Aube by two days. The French vessel Comte de Paris arrived on the 16th with 57 immigrants, who were intended to form the nucleus of the French colonisation of the South Island. An advertiser has a vacancy for a gentleman boarder. The Masterton Borough Council invite tenders, to close at 4 p.m. tomorrow, for removing a cottage in Hope Street. The Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., invite application, to close on Friday next, for the position of manager of the creamery at Rangitumau. On Wednesday next, at tke'r rooms, Perry Street, Messrs Howtll and Cq., Ltd., will sell at auction a quantity of furniture on behalf of a gentleman wbo is leaving the district. The Dresden Piano Company htve just supplied a set of Hawkes' band instruments to the Citizens' Bra. s Band, Petone. "Hawkes for bai d instruments" is evidently a household word. Messrs Abraham and Wilrhts*-'., - Ltd., Pahiatua, report having soM seven acres of the Hall's Estate Pahiatua, near the homestead, at £44 per acre, and also a quarter acre section on the same estate for £35. At the Masterton Auction Mart, on. Wednesday, Mr J. R. Nico] wi£sel), on account of Mr J. N. Ancierstv , florist, of Napier, the second consignment of beautiful pot plants in bloom. They will be on view at the mart to-morrow. At the residence, Worksop Rear", on Saturday, August 31st, under structions from Mr G. G. Cork, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell by auction the whole of his furniture and household effects. Full particulars will be duly advertised. Tenders are invited to close en August 30th for, the lease of 153. acres of land with dwelling-hovse-and outbuildings at Featherston, now in occupation of Mr Henry Willis.. Full particulars can be obtained from Mr W. G. Beard, solicitor, Masterton. A four-roo.ned cottage and lar*e workshop, with half an acreofknd,. at Greytown, together with woodworking plant, is advertised for sale. Full particulars can be obtained from Messrs Chennells and Co., Mastertcn, or Messrs Maxton and Co., Greytown. Tenders are invited, to close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 28tr, for the right to cut and remove flax from the property of Brooklands, Alfredton. Terms and conditions can be seen at the Homestead, or at. the office of Mr W. B. Chennells, agent for the Public Trustee, Masterton. The Akitio County Council give i notice of their intention to strike a general rate of one penny halfpemy over the whole rateable property within the county and a separate ra'e of equal amount in the Akitio, , Waihi, Rakanui, Pongaroa, and Mataikona ridings. After all there is nothing like tl.e best obtainable. Everyone is, consequently, pleased with Myrtle Grove Cigarettes —they are the best !* " No matter from wbat form of rheumatism you suffer— chronic, muscular inllaromatcry -cr gout, sciatica, lumbago, Khsuim will surely curd you. All stores at 2s GJ and 4s od. Wood's Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Cold.? never fr;;lj. 1= (H • ecJ 2s 6cl.