LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8516, 22 August 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Telegraph Department has decided to establish telephonic bureau communication between Napier and Dannevirke with Hastings as an intermediate station. The Auckland Education Board has appointed Mr John Gurrell its architect at a salary of £SOO a year, and travelling expenses, states a Press Association telegram. In consequence of the high price of flour, the Dunedin bakers are considering the question of combining and importing all their flour from Australia.

Mr R. S. Thompson, aged 68 years, who was well-known in connection with native affairs on the west coast of this island for many years, is dead, states a Hawera Press Association telegram.

A Press Association telegram from Gore states that Mr Andrew Carnegie, the American millionaire, has notified the Mayor that he will give two thousand pounds towards a free library building at Gore, provided it is free for reading and also for books for hem.! use, and is maintained by a rate producing not less than £l5O per year.

A boy, named Sydney Carson, aged 13 years, shot himself in the head with a toy pistol, at Palmerston North, yesterday morning, and is in a very precarious condition. It appears that he had a difference with his elder brother about how he became possessed of the pistol, and when his father subsequently demanded the pistol the boy placed it to his forehead and fired, after his father had left him. A Press Association telegram received late last evening stated that the boy Carson died at 7 p.m. An inquest will be held to-day. At the District Court, Pahiatua, yesterday, before His Honor Judge Haselden and a jury, a slander action was heard in which Alic? White, of Konini, spinster, claimed from Mrs Margaret Brittland, of Konini, the sum of £3OO for alleged imputations on the character of the plaintiff. Mr G. Harold Smith appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr B. J. Dolan (instructed by Mr W. Tosswill) for the defence. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff for £25 damages. When "God's own country" has become the Dominion of New Zealand, as it is [about to do, says the London Daily Chronicle, it will probably have attained its final designation. New Zealand is like most other comparatively modern lands in having had another name at first. Tasman, who discovered this high j mountainous country in 1642, called j it Staten Land. This was always a favourite name with the Dutch christeners of new lands. To this day there are Staten Islands in New York State and Argentina. But the j Staten Island of Japan, in the Kuries, j is generally known as Etorop now, ! and probably few inhabitants of New j Zealand would recognise themselves as Statenlanders. j

Speaking of the manner in which some ofthe employees worked for the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union, the chairman at the annual meeting at Eketahuna on Mondaj, said that two years ago when *-, he Union was in a tight corner, the employees had agreed to take half wage-3 for four months. It would be a great pity, he said, if the labour unions were to step in as the present relations were of the best. Every employee ought to be paid according to his ability. They had often kept their men on in the winter months when there was nothing doing.and had employed them for the purpose of painting the buildings and doing other work. The Painters' Union had interfered with this and endeavoured to make the men join their union. However, they had not been successful. As against the slackness of .vork in winter tune, they often had to work sixteen or seventeen hours a clay during the busy season, and he thought they should study one another.

A BANDY SEPARATOR. The Baltic Hou,-e* ol 1 Crearr Separator has caught on. Sine . its h troduction a fow mouths ago, the sales have exceeded a!l expectations. As an example, Oi.e user states that formerly he mads four pounds of butter pr wa.k from his single cow, and now, with the separator, he makes ssven pound i of bu'ter f.om ih.i same quantity cf mi k The Hon* hll Separator does away with a'l die labour ami ificenveniene- of sett'ng mi k in puis, a j(1 makes nearly twi e as- much butter i to tie Oir 4 ai.i. Price, £i us each, f.om all leading ironmongers, or MacEwan's, Ltd., U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.

There are nearly 13,000 more horses in New Zealand to-day than there were twelve months ago.

The first rhubarb of the season has arrived in Dunedin and realised fivepence per pound.

Weasels are attacking young lambs in the Ellesmere district and one farmer has lost several lambs in that way.

November 15th will see a general strike in Belgium if eight hours are not made a legal day's work before that date.

Otaki residents are making a move to purchase a recreation ground at a cost of £BOO, and already half the amount has been promised. A visitor to New Plymouth from the United States and Canada considers the New Plymouth Recreation Grounds the most beautiful spot he has seen.

Mr Norman Ross, of the Bank of New Zealand at Pahiatua, is to be transferred to Kaikoura, where he will succeed Mr F. Pender, who is under orders to proceed to Christchurch. Messrs Ballinger Bros., of Wellington, have been invited to join the New Zealand rifle team for the international meeting in Australia. Mr Arthur Ballinger is the present champion of New Zealand. A Whangape Press Association telegram states that a Mr McMillan had been fishing with his wife and family, and the party left the boat and went into the bush. Returning, they found the boat adrift, Mr McMillan swam after it and was drowned.

The march of the motor: There are twenty-five thousand motors in London and two thousand fewer hansom cabs than there were a year ago. The hansom, says a London paper, will be a matter of history ten years hence.

The Taihape News states that for years liquor has been illicitly sold in Utiku and other parts of the Rangitikei district quite openly, one vendor on closing down his "business" publicly boasting that he "had cleared £6OO at the game."

A committee of the Masterton County Council, consisting of Crs Toogood, Harris and Welch, met yesterday and reviewed the rating area for the East Coast Road Loan of £3,000. The committee approved of the area, which has already been proposed. At the meeting of the Masterton Hospital Trustees, yesterday morning, Mr J. A. Renall was granted leave of absence for a further period of three months. It is expected that the new hospital will be opened within three months, and Mr Renall wishes to be present at the opening of the building.

In the opinion of Mr Cuddie, Chief Dairy Commissioner, New Zealand has now a good reputation as a cheese-producing country, "and so long as the quality is well maintained we need have little fear in marketing the article to as good an advantage as other countries engaged in the same line of business."

"What can we make of cur prisoners?" asked the member for Ashburton in Parliament. "We can't make shoemakers of them, or the Shoemakers' Union would rebel. We can't make tailors or carpenters or plasterers or plumbers of them, for the same reason. We have to put the prisoners to tree-planting, or something of that sort."

At the Wellington Supreme Court, yesterday, Philip Brewster and Charles Dunn, who were convicted on Tuesday on a charge of keeping a "two-up school," came up for sentence. Mr Justice Cooper said there could only be one opinion about "twoup" houses, and that was that they were a menace to the community, particularly to the best interests of the working men. He ordered each accused to pay a fine of £IOO. The object of the Bill introduced by the Attorney-General in the Upper House, amending 1 the Indictable Offences Summary Jurisdiction Act, is to extend to Justices of the Peace the power now possessed by magistrates of committing to the Supreme Court for sentence persons pleading guilty to charges of indictable offences. The present law limiting this power to magistrates is found to be the cause of inconvenience in country districts, and renders necessary a Supreme Court trial in many cases in which the accused is ready to plead guilty in the Lower Court.

I In the course of his lecture on the ; Polynesians at St. James' Hall last | week, says the Sydney Morning Herald, Professor Macmillan Brown, while on the subject of carving, told !an interesting little story. A half- ! caste named Wilson came to him one day and told him of the korotangi, a | stone bird, which the legend relates was brought to New Zealand in the fourteenth century. This was formerly carried to battle as a talisman by the ancestors of Wilson, who were Maori chiefs. At first it brought good fortune, but later the luck changed and they cast it away. It was accidentally discovered by Wilson and shown to Professor Brown. The owner expressed his firm belief that the mascotte had brought his immediate ancestors nothing but bad luck, and Professor Brown concluded by expressing curiosity as to whether this fate was still dogging his footsteps. The relic was of interest in itself, since it must have come from Japan, and thus proved a migration of a Japanese people into Polynesia.

The Celebri't of Sandek axd Fox.s Pcke Volatile Eucalypti Extract is univc sally acknowledged. Boyalty honour? it, and the entire medical profession has adopted its use. Imitations sprung up without nutnbt r. The latest of them—as styled •' Extracts "—was oil foisted upon the truEting and unwary under the grossest misuse of Sander ahd Kons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted an ae r ion at the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.&i.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn witness testified that he had to stop the use of counterfeits en account of the irritation produced. This shows what caro is required to obtain an article that is scientitically tested and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PUBS VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

A meeting of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will be held on Saturday afternoon next.

An Auckland Press Association telegram states that the Governor and Lady Plunket left for Wellington yesterday.

During the rough weather on Tuesday last there was a heavy mortality amongst the lambs in the district around Masterton.

During the past month 21 patients have been admitted to the Masterton Hospital, and nineteen discharged. There are at present, seventeen patients in the institution.

The death is announced of Mr Allan McLean, of Te Arai, Gisborne, aged 77. The deceased was. a wellknown sheep farmer and a prominent member of the Gisborne Caledonian Society.

It is estimated that when all expenses have been paid there will be a balance of £6O to the credit of the fund raised to adequately represent Hawke's Bay industries at the late Exhibition.

At the fortnightly pay-night of the Workers' Mutual Benefit Building Society, last evening, the sum of £135 10s was contributed by the shareholders to enable them to participate in the ballot for £3OO, free of interest, appointed to take place on the 29th instant.

The Trustees of the Masterton Hospital, yesterday morning, decided to give the Matron of the hospital permission to hold a ball under the patronage of the Trustees in connection with the opening of tie new hospital. Mr A. W. Hogr, M.H.R., who wrote to the meeting suggesting the matter, said he would endeavoui to secure the attendance of some Ministers and members of Parliament at such a function.

It was reported to the meeting cf the Masterton Hospital Trustees-, yesterday morning, that the accon - modation at the hospital was oveicrowded to a considerable exterr. This was so much the case that tl e corridors were practically full, t! e dispensary was being used as a temporary ward, and a male child h s had to be accommodated in the female ward. The Trustees resolved to bring the matter under the notice of the medical officers. * JMBI A Press Association telegram nHfes? Auckland states that the fate of John Henry and Albert Watkins, of Devonport, who left in a small yacht for a fishing excursion on Sunday, still rt - mains a mystery. The Spendthrift, a fishing boat owned by Mr Tanner, left Devonport at 10.30 p.m. on Mor.day to make a search for the missing; men and returned at an early hour yesterday morning, after having madea thorough but ineffectual search of the islands of the gulf.'

A meeting of the Programme Committee of the Mastertcn Trotting Club was held, last evening, at the club's office, Hail Street. It was decided to increase the stakes for the trotting meeting to be held on November 14th next lo< £220. The Masterton Trotting Handicap has been increased to £6O, and : the other races in proportion. The secretary reported that considerable improvement had be?n made to the track, and, with the increased stakesoffered, a very successful meeting, should result.

The account of £73 due to the Masterton .Borough Council by the Masterton Hospital Trustees for the installation of a water service at the new Hospital, was passed for payment at the meeting of the Trusteesyesterday morning. The difficulty has been that the Trustees were unwilling to pay for the maintenance of the water pipes, but as the • Borough Council has decided tomaintain the pipes as far as thepoint where they cross the river Trustees consider they are now justified in paying the account.

I "There are houses in Wellington that are a disgrace to the authorities, and the City Council or the Health. Department should see that they are rooted out." This opinion was expressed by Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., at the meeting of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees on* Tuesday afternoon. The subject under discussion was that perennial topic, high rents., and wretched quarters for the poor. "We want a number of cottages of our own, that we can let to. these people at ten shillings a week,"" remarked the chairman. Mr London thought the greatest evil in Wellington was the state of overcrowding that prevailed. At the reception to Webb, the champion sculler, in Wellington, on the motion of the Premier a voce of thanks was passed to Mr Tuck„ Webb's backer, who is reported to have done well financially out of the venture. The Dunedin Star says ;#—«■*• We are never backwai'd in encouraging sound sport and physical prowess, and we have already recognised the national aspect of Webb's victory over Towns on the Parramatta River. But it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that Sir Joseph Ward missed the due sense of proportionate values, so to speak, when he adjourned the House half an hour earlier than usual in order that members might take part in the reception of the champion sculler. We hope that the action taken by the Prime Minister and the subsequent entertainment at Belamy's while Parliament was sitting, will not serve as a precedent for similar incongruities in the future.

After all there is nothing like the best obtainable. Everyone is, consequently, pleased with Myrtle Grove Cigarettes—they are the best!* Wood's Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails, la 6<i and 23 (id.

Are you going awav for a holiday. Thsn let J. J. CUKTIb & CO., LTD., Forwards ug, Shipping, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, take charge of your luggage. The charges will le moderate and everything will be checked and forwarded quickly.

When you feel the first twinga of rheumatism, gout, sciatica, or lumbago, send for a bottle of Jtihenmo. It will quickly care you. All stores a-od chemists sell it at 2/fi and 4/6. A positive and lasting cure.

It is understaßH that the recent court-martial in -Wellington censured a prominent officer of the Permanent Force for a breach of the regulations. At a meeting <tff the Grey Lynn Council it was decided to take proceedings against the Auckland Tramways Company for • not adhering to its time-table. Burglars have {been in evidence at Dunedin, acd two attempts at robbery were made on Sunday night. In one case as explosive was unsuccessfully used ©B an office safe.

During Grand National week the Christchurch tramways carried 202,084 passengers -oyer the system. The Riccartan line.carried 26,729 and the Addington line 27,956.

So far the sdHcehave failed to discover any trace of the safe robbers who used dynamite at,.tke May Queen battery, Thames. The .safe has now been opened. Inside it was a quantity of amaigaus of small value, not more than £3O. Most of -.the amalgam was removed to the bank .the day previous to the attempt.

The Young Men's -Christian Association is making an ..effort to raise £17,000 for a modern .building in Dunedin. At a .preliminary dinner of business men mi fending citizens, to be held on Monday next, the scheme will be outlined by Mr Lyman L. Pierce, says s. Press Association message.

Steps are being taken in Wellington to give public recognition to Chief Detective M'Graih and Detective Cassells for the prompt .capture and equally speedy conviction of the three pronounced criminals wiso committed the recent burglaries, It has certainly been one of the smartest piece* of detective work performed in Australasia for a good many years, -remarks a contemporary.

False packing of produce is far too common in this country, says a Sydney paper. The latest complaints x:oncerning false packing ■ come from the buyers of rabbit-skinj, the practice of petting several pounds of 4dirt in each bale becoming very (common. As rabbit-skins sell at Is per lb and over, this fraud is becoming # serious tax to buyers. A few years ago one enierprising woolgrower was sent to gaol for weighting his bales of wuel by the addition of a few bricks.

Jtaggfewing to the temptation of vHfase engaged in the dairying industry to divert their attention from butter to cheese making, the Chief Dairy Commissioner says:—"As to the wisdom or otherwise of making such a change, it is impossible to say definitely. Taking the cheese industry for the past two seasons, it has certainly paid the milk supplier better than the making of butter would have done. A higher return per cow has been received by the dairymen who have supplied milk for cheese-making, but whether this will continue or not will depend on what the relative values of butter and cheese are going to be in the future. It is safe to say that the production of cheese in other countries will increase as the result of the high price now being paid for this product, and consequently the price is almost sure to recede. Any increase in the quantity exported from this colony, however, would have little, if any, influence upon the market. In the case of those dairy companies which are now the owners of large and cosfly central butter factories, with a number of outlying skimming the position is a difficult one. In most cases it will mean the erection of an entirely new building at each station, in which to manufacture cheese."

A lamp-socket, lost between the District High School and Perry Street, is advertised for. Mr A. Norman, draper, Queen Street, quotes prices of special lines in men's suits and under wear. Mr F. P. Welch requ'res bushfellers and underscrubbers, ar.d a rouseabout for a hotel. Messrs W. H. Lambert and Co., land agents, Palmerston North, advertise particulars of several improved farm propertes which have been placed in their hands for sale. Orchard's Agency, Wellington, have for sale several good sheep farms and are prepared to purchase 10,000 acres of sheep country. They also offer to let on lease a property of]6oo acres. Messrs Lomax, Lucena and Co., land and estate events, of Wanganui, hive a replace advertisement on page 8 of this issue. Those on tb.3 look-out for good strong land on easy terms would do well to peruse the advertisement. "The Dominion," the new Wel-

ington morning newspaper, is expected to be published about September 17th. Those wishing to become subscribers are elsewhere notified that they can leave their order with any of the booksellers and stationers. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report the sale of the following properties and stock: —On account of Mr W. B. Coleman, of Eketahuna, his leasehold property of 740 acres with 1,300 sheep and 140 cattle, to Mr E. L« Holnvwood, of Masterton. On account of Mr Thos ISJestor, of Kohinui, his freehold property of 1,000 acres, with 2,000 sheep and 80 head cattle to Messrs H. W. and Frank White, of Tane, Pahiatua. On account of Mr Murray Jackson, of Featherston, his freehold property comprising 360 acres heavy alluvial flats, with stock thereon, to Mr Arch. Clark, of Gladstone. "For years past,"- says M - s Catherine Weeks, Bowral. N.S.W.I "I have made it a point to always keep Chimberlein's Cough Ktmedy in my home. Just as soon as any member of my family thow symptoms of a cough or cold, 1 Give them a and it invariablv check? the com plaint." For sale by all dealers. A "cockey" out west named McLure Had suffered from coughincr and chili?, He saved up his money like bees getting honey, And never would spend on his ills. At last in despair and much pain, He opened his puree did McLure, Some "bawbees" went bang, tut the pranes he sang Of WoodV Great Peppermint Cure.