LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8519, 27 August 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An epidemic of measles has broken out at Woodville, and the school has had to be closed as a consequence. A Napier syndicate will commence prospecting operations on the claim adjoining the Maharahara Copper Company, near Woodville, ■ this week. The total takings at the recent Y.M.C.A. Village Fail amounted to a little over £3OO. The expenses are expected to amount to between £BO and £IOO, so that the nett profit should be over £2OO. The Nightcaps colliery disaster claims have been settled out of court for £2,200 and costs. The widows of the miners Carson and Duncan receive £9OO each, and the children of Welsh £4OO. News was received at Woodville on Saturday that the Christchurch Meat Company intend commencing bacon curing at the Woodville factory on October Ist, in succession to the North Island Bacon Company. A Waitaki settler, at present on a visit to England, writing to the North Otago Times, says the present season is the wettest and coldest known in England for years, and the farmers are having a heart-breaking time in trying to mak? hay without the necessary sunshine. A hor. e attached to one "Mr J. Wickens' delivery carts kited in Queen Street, yesterday morning, and careered along Smith, Dixon, Church, and Hall Streets, being finally stopped by Mr J. Connett, in Lin- uln Road. No damage was done, but a few loaves of bread were scattered along the road. Two persons, charged with having been drunk, appeared before Mr G Heron, J. P., at the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning. One, a first offender, was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, and the other, George Laurenson, a second offender, was fined 10s in default 48 hours' imprisonment.

The Waihi Goldmii.ing Company for the four-weekly period ended August 10th, crushed and treated 28,739 tons of ore for a bullion return valued at £65,167. The last return, £64,320, was a record, and the present return furnishes still another record from this splendid mine. The total amount of bullion won to date is £5,912,155. Dividends paid up to June last amounted to £2,519,706. The funeral of the late Mr William Logan took place at the Masterton Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The cortege included a number of members of the Albion Football Club, of which the deceased had been captain. The services at the graveside were conducted by the Rev. W. Woollass. The pallbearers were Messrs H. Williams, B. Keith, J. Jew and G. Jackson. The following is the order for shooting for the Morris Tube Association's Holmes Trophy, on Wednesday evening:—7 p.m.: Messrs H. Perry, Oed, Taylor, Brighting, Allan, McHattie. 7.30 p.m.: Messrs Lett, Sutherland, McNabb, E. Perry, McCalmont, Redmond. 8 p.m.: Messrs Blane, Burridge, Hornblow, C. Perry, Winslade , Soackman. 8.30 p.m.: Messrs M. Mcintosh, King, Robinson, Lewin, Cook, Hodges. 9 p.m.: Messrs Smith, Beer, Wellington, Williams, D. Mcintosh. A meeting will also be held to decide matters in connection with shooting for the finals. A meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton Municipal Brass Band's Literary and Musical Competitions was held in the Borough. Council Chambers last evening. The Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) presided, and there was a large attendance. A letter was received from Rev. A. T. Thoinpson thanking the Committee for their expression of sympathy in connection with his recent bereavement. The programme and prize money, as recommended by the Executive Committee, was adopted. A Press Association telegram states thit at the adjourned inquest held at Christchurch, yesterday afternoon, concerning the death of the | illegitimate child of Margaret Hogg, who was born on August 4th, and who died by suffocation shortly afterwards, a verdict was returned that death was caused by the neglect of the mother and the putative father, David Braid, who was the only person present at the birth. At the inquest Braid admitted that the evidence he had previously given that he had never had improper relations with the girl was false, and he was accordingly charged with perjury, and remanded. On Saturday a Parliamentary party visited Martinborough. The visitors were the Hon. J. Carroll and Messrs Guinness, Hornsby, Barclay, T. iVlackenze, J. C. 1 hompson, Lawry, Greensaie, Dillon, and Tanner. At Featherston they were met by Mr A. D. McLeod, chairman of the County Council, Mr M. Ross, chairman of the Town Board, and a large number of settlers. The claims of the district to a railway from Featherston to Martinborough were emphasised, and the party was given an opportunity of seeing the class of country by being driven over to Mar- | tinborough, where festivities took place in the Oddfellows' Hall. On Sunday an examination was made of the country around the settlement. WHEN TII3 ! UB COMES. The proof of th* isucl;ti*g is not always in the eatl p, tut >;■< iv faquc-ntly in the digesting. In this respect, piddings a'd mitkii g 111 cb 112 > are very much alike. It is easy to consume a a miikinji machine, but ihe rub comes when you h ; ivo to d »'e-1 Lb-> pudding or continue to use the jui machine if it proves unsatifrfaCory. There me l not be any hesitation about parcba?in? tl:e ' L.K.G." mi.kir.g machine, as donees; of practical men have g ven it the bighe t prui e after using it con iuucusly for time, four and five years. MacEwan's, Ltd., U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington,

The Ashburton Borough Council propose to raise a loan of £20,000 for a high pressure water supply, states a Press Association telegram. The Otago Acclimatisation Society recommends that the deer-stalking season should open on April 15th, and close on the last day of May, thus shortening the open season by a fortnight. A match was fired at Featherston on Saturday last, between the Featherston and Carterton Gun Clubs, the former winning by 313 points to 264. The match was one for twelve men a-side, 18 rounds, with clay birds. The National Mortgage and Agency Company have purchased the business of David Thomas, auctioneer, woolbroker and general merchant, as a going concern, states an Ashburton Press Association telegram. TJ.e business is one of the oldest in Ashburton, having been established over thirty years. At the annual meeting of the Featherston Tennis and Croquet Club held on Friday evening the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: —Patron, Mr A. Matthews; president, Mr J. G. Cox; vice-presi-dents, Messrs Barton, J. W. Card, J. O. and W. E. Bidwiil, C. Tringham, and Dr. Palmer; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr J. G. Cox. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that two men, named Thomas Rowe and Edward M'Donald, waiters employed at the Commercial Travellers' Club, quarrelled on Saturday night and fought. It was alleged that M'Donald stabbed Rowe with a file between the shoulders, causing a wound about two inches deep. No serious result is anticipated. M' Donald appeared at court yesterday morning, charged with stabbing and was remanded. With the object of increasing the interest of school children in horticulture Mr John Studhohne, of Coldstream, offers to school children in Ashburton County £25 in prizes for the best laid out and most attractive I school grounds and school gardens (flowers), showing wealth of colour, school gardens that are doing most to interest and instruct the children in agricultural matters, best collection of grasses, best collection of insects and weeds, and best collection of kitchen garden products grown by ; scholars in school gardens. • A Biil to amend the Gaming Suppression Act has been circulated in j the Victorian Legislative Assembly. | Its effect is to legalise certain games j of cards, namely, progressive euchre, progressive whist, or progressive bridge, whether played for prizes or not, and whether the public has access to the place or not, if the charges of admission, exclusive of reasonable expenses, are used for an object incidental to the purposes of some mechanics' institute, free library, or charitable or public institution, or in aid of the funds of some club, the objects of which are primarily devoted to some athletic purpose.

At the Woodville Police Court, on Saturday, the case in which George Perfect was charged with an alleged brutal assault on his nephew, Arthur Hope, by striking him on the head with an iron bar, occupied the whole day, states a Press Association telegram. The evidence for the defence showed that Hope had procured a gun-barrel from his bedroom, which he admitted he intended to use in self-defence, but Perfect got the first blow in. Family troubles, alleged to have been caused,, by Hope, were stated to be the source of the trouble. The Bench reduced the charge to one of common assault, and finsd Perfect £lO and costs, and bound him over in three sureties of £SO each to keep the peace for twelve months. The fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Oddfellows'' Lodge was held last evening, Bro. E. McCord, N.G., in the chair. A- letter was received from the District Management Committee, congratulating the Lodge on the excellent progress it had made during the current year. Five members were proposed for admittance, and two members were duly initiated into the Order, Bro., J. Lyall, G.M., acting as Initiating Master. The secretary of the Social Committee announced that arrangements were well in hand for the social and dance to be held on Thursday week, September sth. After the business of the Lodge concluded a pleasant social evening was spent. A long toast list was gone through, interspersed with songs and recitations. Brother Ballard officiated at the piano in Ins usual capable manner.

A Wellington Press Association telegram states that evidence for the defence was taken in the Magistrate's Court, yesterday, in the case' of Karl Foller v. George Musgrove. The case originated in Auckland, where the evidence will be sent. According to the defendant's case Foller was engaged in Germany to play among other parts that of the "Steersman" in the opera "The Flying Dutchman." Musgrove alleges Foller was unable to take the part and a substitute had to be procured. He therefore fined Foller £lO, which he was untitled to do under the terms of the agreement. Foller says the "Steersman" was not included in the list of parts he was engaged to sing. Evidence was given supporting Musgrove's case, it being stated that any competent musician could have mastered the part in a little time. The Celebrity of S.andeb and Sons Pchk Vclatiie Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours if, and the entire medical profession has adopted its use. Imitations sprung up withrut number. The latest of them—as styled ■' Extracts "—was oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under the grossest misuse of Bander ah;i Pons' reputation. Sander and Sons insii'uk d an action at the Supremo Court of Victoria, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn witness testified that lie had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tsstcd and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GRKUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is tid ar.d ?.s 6d.

A pipe band, consisting of t'Jafcye__ pipers, three drummers arid a drum"" major, is being formed in Wellington. Mr J. E. Fulton, C.E., of Wellington, has recommended the Woodville County Council to strengthen the Harding Road bridge at a cost of £2,600. A housewife in one of Dunedin's suburban villas was much concerned about the recent rise in butter, and when the driver of a dairy company's delivery van called she demanded: "How is it that the price of butter has gone up this-month?" The reply came without hesitation, "Well, madam, the company are getting two carts painted and done up."

The opinion has been expressed by Mr H. J. Scott, Executive Commissioner for South Australia at the New Zealand Exhibition, that New Zealand will become a buyer of wheat from South Australia to mix with its own softer qualities, because the tendency here is to grew less wheat and put land into the more profitable growing of crops to fatten lambs for the London market?. Already, he says, this is shown in the agricultural report for 1906, as upwards of 50,000 less acreage has been sown for wheat than formerlv.

Otago men are using Otago money to test the Philippine Islands for gold. Mr W. J. Love, who has returned to Dunedin after an absence of eight months, went to the Philippines to inspect a claim on the Parade River, Island of Luzon, this claim and the dredge that is upon it being the property of an Otago company. Mr Love consulted with the expert and went carefully over the claim, and he says that the commercial value of claim is proved. The dredge was to start work on the Ist of August. Facts received by the Department of Industries and Commerce indicate that Australia is profiting by Japan's adoption of Western ideas of material for clothing. During 1906 Nippon imported wool and tops to the value of £917,432, of which £200,505 worth came from the Commonwealth. Fcr the first five months of the current year the Far Eastern Power has taken wool worth £805,335, and Australia's share was £486,875. Efforts j are being made in the East to keep j Australia conspicuous on the horizon.

"There are still one or two sections in the city not built uprn jet/' said a witness in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday. was subdivided only a few months ago and a road put through it." The same witness recalled the days when sections in Newtown were bought by thelate Sir Walter Buller for £2OO to £3OO an acre. At the time when horse trams were first started in the city the ground on which the Newtown Hotel now stands was bought for £3OO. In 1882 Miramar was offered to the city for a cemetery for £7 an acre. Times have changed since then.. Mr W. J. Allen, the New South Wales fruit expert, who has been on a vi.=it to Tasmania recently, says that in a part of Kangaroo Valley, orchard lands costs £35 per-acre; clearing and burning off trees, £2O per acre; clearing off* and stacking stones, £l2 per acre; digging by hand, £5 10s per acre; fruit trees, £6 Is per acre; planting, £2 per acre; total, £BO lis. If to this , amount is added the care of the orchard for six or seven years before much return can be expected and interest on outlay, Mr Allen esti- - mates the total cost is £l3O per acre. But he points out that the return is big. After paying for all expenses, including spraying, the net returns in seasons like the one is £3O < per acre per annum. Most of the fruitgrowers in Tasmania use from scwt to ficwt of commmercial fertilisers (chiefly bone : dust and superphosphates) per acre per annum.

Two Maori boys were'charged in the • Hastings Court on Friday last, with having shown a night signal likely to mislead the drivers of railway trains. A railway guard gave evidence that on the night of the 17ih he noticed strange lights, red, green, and white alternately. There was a down train due at about the same time, and had the driver of that, train observed the green light he would have proceeded with his train and a collision would have occurred. He spcke to the two accused and warned them. The next night similar lights were exhibited, but witness could not say if it was the same boys who waved the lights on the second, occasion. The lamps used were bicycle lamps. The defence was that the boys were waving lamps to footballers on the trains. His Worship reprimanded defendants,, and ordered their parents to pay court costs. Full of jewels for the men on the land, the annual report of the Agricultural Department has at least one gem for the man about town. "The cessation of slaughtering operations in March, caused by strikes otL workers, with the reviving of fe&cl ar T* the time by brief showers," it is written, "led to great improvement in the condition of stock, but this was not maintained to the close of the season." The observer is left wondering what the chronicler exactly means, says the Wellington Post. The average man, condemned to be beheaded, but reprieved, considers that there is a "great improvement in his condition." Moreover, if slaughtering operations had not ceased there would have been fewer sheep to enjoy the revival of feed, and, therefore, the improvement should have been greater with killing going on than without it. Probably, after some further wrestling with the sentence, the reader may guess that the writer wished to imply that the stoppage of slaughtering, allowed comparatively lean animals a little more time to gain flesh.

No matter from what form of rheumatism you si fifer— chronic, muscular inHammatcry—cr gout, sciatica, lumbago, Rhoumo will surely cars you. All stores at 2s Gd and 4s Gd. A flight cf cokls set out one day, Great ugly things, and fbw away, across the hills and o'er the sea, Determiuei vengeful thus to be. But all at once these colds grew fewer, Vanquished by Woods' Great Peppermint Cure; And eo they died, oil one by one, Their deadly work left all undone.

The Jjfcdlington-Napicr mail train ran intoa bullock near Eketahuna, yesterday afternoon, and threw it off the line. The Napier-Wellington mail train had to slow down at the same placs o«wing to cattle straying on the line. The cattle , seemed to take no notics of the train, and had to be driven off the line by the surfacemen armed with shovels. The Exhibition authorities are making quite a large revenue from She sale of copies of diplomas issued in'connection with exhibits, says the Lyttelton Times. Business firms and others desire to have extra copies for 'displaying at their branches in different parts of the world, and some haw ordered several dozen. It is estimated that the authorities will sell about 2,0U0. The price charged is 2s 6d each. "Nearly p.very tbief or vagrent," said a detective, giving evidence at the Supreme Court, Christdiurch, recently, "carries a coupon book for photographic enlargements or something else." The statement was evoked when an accused peison pleaded his coupon book as evidence of an honest attempt at work. The same man was described by another detective as a "confirmed vagrant," and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with h'ird labour. At the annual meeting of the Tararua Rifle Club the following officers were elected for the ensuing, year:— President. Mr W. Bell; Vice-Presi-denls, Messrs A. Redpath, A. Quinlan. J. Drysdale, F. H. Dowden and C. Alberthsen; Captain, Mr W. G. Waterson; Vice-Captain, Mr J. Petersen; Secretary and Treasurer, jjr R. Thomasen; Assistant Secretary, Mr 0. A. Olsen; auditors, Messrs F. H. Dowden and C. Alberthsen* Messrs W. Bell, W. Waterson, J Petersen, R. Thomasen and 0. A. Olsen were elected a management committee; Messrs W. Waterson, J. Petersen and 0. A. Olsen were appointed handicappers. Small shopkeepers were staggered •when they learnt that, in the new Commonwealth Tariff, Ministers proposed a duty of 7s 6d on Vienna chairs. Orders are afloat for 308 cases, each holding four dozen chairs. This means an increase of £5,544 to the cost. The wage-earn-ing householder will also feel this particular duty in a marked way. These chairs are not made anywhere with success .except in Europe, because a special class of wood indihbsbous to Central Europe is required. The duty, if allowed to stand, will, therefore, cut them off the chairs, -which, because they are pleasing to the eye and durable, they have been accustamed to purchase.

One of the speakers at the Fire Brigade banquet, last evenirg, threw out a suggestion .that the Masterton Borough Council should adopt a system of insurance, that is, commence business as an insurance company and so prevent many thousands, of pounds of insurance money going out of the town. Later on the Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) made reference to the same subject. He said that it was a matter that deserved careful consideration, and one that had en • gaped his attention for some time past. He agreed with the principle of the scheme, but several matters would have to be looked into beforq anything could be done. He hoped to "bring forward a scheme at some future date. As an instance of the advantages of local insurance, he cited the case of the Wairarapa SawmiUers' Association. There were only about fourteen participants in this Association. Yet the premiums that the memhers now paid were less than half what they formerly paid to the insurance companies, and after two years' working of the scheme the Association had a credit balance j in connection with its accident fund | of something like £SOO. The W.F.C.A. have to hand special lines in children's shoes. An advertiser requires a first-class ca .vasser. Good wages will be paid to ar competent man. subject for debate at the Y.M.C.A., to-morrow evening, will be Town Life v. Country Life. Messrs Gillespie and Co. have vacancies for ploughmen, milkers, housekeepers, cooks, and generals. Mr Jas. Shakes, representing the Rheumo syndicate, was in Masterton, yesterday, on business in connection with the"firm he represents. |The Mauriceville County Council give notice that a general rate of three farthings :n tha pound will be levied on all vroperty within the County. Messrs Otterson and Pickering, Wanganui, offer for sale a first-class sheep farm of 1,630 acres. The property is stated to be equal to carrying two sheep to the ac"e. JSlew season's drapery now being opened up at the W.i<'.C.A. will give some idea of the new and fashionable in dress materials and millinery, which are to be worn during the spring and summer. The dress making department will be in charge of Mrs Stockley Jones, who may be consulted in all matters of dress on Monday, September 2nd. Meantime Miss Dixon will wait on ladies and receive orders.

Captain McNaught, organiser of the National Defence League, will | giye a lecture, on compulsory universal training, as advocated by the League, in the Town Hall, on Thursday evening next, at 8 o clock. Captain McNaught states that right through the North Island support has been received towards promoting the national defence movement. A branch of the League will be formed in Masterton, and a local committee will be appointed to further the aims and objects of the National League. Admission to the lecture will be free, so that every •nan and woman may have an opportunity of learning the details of compulsorv universal training for the youth of "the colony. _ A first-class musical programme will be rendered ' at the conclusion of the lecture. Eheumitism esn be cured-then- why will you continue io suffer, Eheumo has effected wonderfol cures for others, after all else had failed. It will cure -yon. Try it.