LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8524, 29 August 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Ground Committee of the Masterton Racing Club will be held on the Opaki racecourse on Saturday next, at 10 a.m. The public meeting of ratepayers to consider the proposed loan of for the Gasworks will be held in the Town Hall on Monday evening, September 9th. There was an unusually good demand for Southdown fleeces at the annual Lewes wool fair, on July 18th, writes our London correspondent. Several lots fetched as much as Is 2id per pound. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia, Cey'on, India, China, Japan, 'Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, per Wimmera, will close at Masterton, on Friday,' August 30th, at 6.15 a.m. A settlement has been arrived at in the case of Miss Hall v. the New Zealand Times Company, a claim for libel. The terms of the settlement will be published in the course of a few days. Mr P. L Hollings acted for the plaintiff.

Positions under public bodies appear to be keenly competed for in Auckland. For the position of storekeeper under the Auckland Harbour Board no less thn 109 applications were, received at the last meeting. Seventeen applications were sent in for a place on the board's launch Kuaka.

The medals won by local competitors at the New Zealand International Exhibition are to hand, but in'no case has the name of the winner, or the particular section in which the award was made been engraved on them, and, as has been pointed out, should a medal be lost there is nothing to lead to identification. A neat publication, entitled "Gas Progress," is being sent out to all users of gas cookers in Masterton by the Masterton Corporation Gasworks Department. The book, which is published quarterly in England, besides containing a quantity of useful reading matter, gives many hints on the economical use of gas cookers and gas lighting generally. The box plan in connection with'Mr George Musgrove's Grand Opera Company, who will appear in the Masterton Town Hall on Tuesday evening next, was opened at Miss Rive's, yesterday morning, and throughout the day, there was a heavy demand for seats in the dress circle. There are still a number of seats in a goocl position remaining. The Masterton Town Hall has been booked as . follows: —September 2nd, Miss Jessie Maclachlan; September 3rd, Musgrove's Grand Opera Company; September 24th, J. C. Williamson's pantomime, "Mother Goose;" October 3rd and 4th, Biorama Company; October 16th, Wil-loughby-Ward Company; October 24th and 25th, Taylor-Carrington Company (pencilled); November Sth and 9th, Allan Hamilton (pencilled.) A wedding was celebrated in St. Matthew's Church, yesterday afternoon, the contracting parties being Miss Wilmot Rawson, eldest daughter of Mr P. Rawson, of Manaia, and Mr Frederick William Dunn, of Ballance. The bride was given away by her father, and was attended by her sister, Miss Constance Rawson, as bridesmaid. Mr H. Rawson was best man, and the ceremony was performed fry the Rev. A. M. Johnson. Mr and Mrs Dunn left for their new home at Ballance by the afternoon train.

A local medical man, says the Petone Chronicle, has added a new epidemic to his long list of diseases. He has called it tangi-itis, on account of its prevalence during the Maori tangis. The complaint, which is caused by overheating, over-drink-ing and over-sleeping, is far more seripus than one would imagine. During the recent targi at Waiwetu, quite a number of natives were seriously ill with the complaint,.and it is possible that some of them will not recover. It is a common occurrence for natives attending tangis to contract the complaint, with fatal results.

The prophet Rua, if all that was reported to the Auckland Education Board last week be true, has been responsible for materially reducing 'he t attendance at the Waioweka Native Schfol at Opotiki. It was stated that there were only seventeen Maori children attending, and that the European children were in the majority to the extent of twentyone, while Rua's influence had drawn away thirty Maori pupils from the school. The question which the board is now called upon to consider is whether the time has not arrived for it to take over the school.

By far the greater bulk of the milling- timber in Taranaki lies around the western and south-western edge of the Mount Egmont National Park. The quantity of milling timber here is estimated at -200,000,000 superficial feet of rimUj and kahikatea. Unfortunately,says the Feilding Star, owing to lack of railway and good road communication and its distance from any centre where a demand for timber is likely to arise, the bulk of this great asset is doomed to be wasted and lost by ravages of fire and the settler's axe. The projected railway from Eltham to Opunake will open up a market for a good portion t of this timber, provided its construc--1 tion is not unduly delayed. ICE FOE EVERYBODY. Tho demand ior a handy ; compact, little refrigerating plant lias now been met by Messrs Humble and Sons, the well-knowa refrigerating engineers, who have placed on the market a practical little machine ai a cost within easy reach of hundreds of dairy farmeis and dealers in perishable goads, whosei requirements do not warrant expensive plants. This machine has been specially designed for, private -butteimakers, butchers, milk vendors, fish dealers, hotels, or poultry and egg dealers. Fall particulars oh application to J. B. MaoEwan and Ca., Ltd.; U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington, * , t

At Lawrence, on Tuesday, John McKay was sentenced to six weeks' i imprisonment for assaulting a Chinaman at Evans Flat. "Eggs are becoming very plentiful," states the Christchurch correspondent of the Wellington Post, "with the result that prices have fallen to ninepence a dozen here." At the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, Mr Eli Smith, J.P., fined a first offender ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk. At St. Mark's Anglican Church, Carterton, yesterday afternoon, writes our correspondent, Mr Henry Nielsen, of Eketahuna, was married to Miss May Hannah, of West Taratahi. Miss Hughan was bridesmaid, and the ceremony was performed by the Kev. ft. Young. Mr and Mrs Nielsen left by the afternoon train for Wellington,-where the honeymoon is to be spent. Retail butchers at Ashburton have recently complained of a practice which they allege obtains of selling, at auction in Ashburton carcases of meat classed as rejects from the Fairfield freezing works. The Ashburton Borough Council has enquired into the matter, and has received an assurance from the managing director of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company that the freezing companies will shortly consider the question of ■the disposal of rejects. At the Dunedin Police Court, on Tuesday, a woman named Ella Regan pleaded guilty to a charge of sly grog-selling. The police evidence showed that on Sunday week a constable and two civilians -went to deI fendant's house, purchasing six bottles of beer at 2s 6d each. Four | bottles were consumed on the pre- ' mises and two .taken away. The Magistrate, Mr Widdowson, inflicted i a fine of £SO and costs, and refused a request for time to pay. The island of Futuna was suffering from the effects .of a plague of caterpillars when the island steamer South Australian left for Sydney recently. A little while ago the island was practically devastated by a hurricane, and the present visitation, following so closely upon the other, has caused a great amount of distress. The caterpillars, it is thought, will eat up all the young yam vines and banana sprouts, the result of which will be a scarcity of food, . a serious matter for the inhabitants. ! The missionaries on the inland predict a famine.

The Friendly. Societies (Amending) Act recently passed in Victoria is ilkely to have an important effect on trades unions having sick and accident funds,, of which the Amalgamated Miners' Association is the most important. Such unions will, it is stated, be classed as benefit societies. In that case the unions would not be able to carry on strikes or protect members industrially by voting money. The opinion is expressed that if the law is enforced in the direction indicated, it will be a serious blow to unions, and will practically destroy the miners' association.

The manager of the Masterton Gasworks informed a Wairarapa Age reporter, yesterday, that he did not intend to carry out anj> new works in the way of gas extension until the loan of £12,000 for the Gasworks had been authorised by the ratepayers. The work .being done at the Gasworks now was only of a routine nature. Speaking with regard to the loan, Mr Blackmail said he did not see how the ratepayers could help but sanction it, because if they did not they would put a serious check on the business. Taking into consideration the rapid increase in the consumption of gas he could not see how progress could be maintained without a loan, '

The Poverty Bay Herald reports that at a sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Wairoa, an application was made by George Hislop, sheepfarmer, for an order to < take action against John McKenzie, sawmilling contractor, for criminal libel, under the Criminal Code Act of 1901. McKenzie had t>een served with notice of the application; and had disappeared. The alleged libel complained of was in the form of doggerel, copies of which were pasted on trees and conspicuous places along the Waikaremoana Road, and eo affixed that they could not be pulled off. The copy produced in Court was obtained by cutting the bark of a poplar tree on which the notice had been pasted. The application was based on threats stated to have been made by McKenzie, and the similarity of the' writing on the alleged libel and on a letter written by McKenzie. The 1 application was granted.

A r general meeting of the Masterton and District Workers' Land Settlement League was held in the Fire Police Station, last evening, Mr D. Threadwell presiding. A letter was received from Sir Joseph Ward, through Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., regretting that he could not see his way to accede to the League's request that coal should be carried free over the railways beyond a radius of 20 miles from the port of landing. A discussion took place on the provisions of the new Tariff Bill, and it was decided to enter an emphatic protest against the increased duties on several necessaries of life. The secx*etary was instructed to ascertain the result of the visit to Masterton of Mr J. Barron (chairman of the Land Purchase Board) in respect to the acquisition of land for closer settlement and workers' dwellings. Tins Celebrity of Sender and Sons Pore Volatile Eucalypti Extract is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the entire medical profession has adopted its use. Imitations sprung up without number. The latest of them—as styled»' Extracts " —was oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under the grossest misuse of Sander ahd Sons' reputation, Sander and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme 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 he had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. Thiß shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tasted and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. If yon are an importer, send your documents to J. J. CURTIS & CO., LTD.. Customhouse, Shipping, and Forwardng Agents, Wellington. They will quickly pass the goods through the Customs and deliver them to you.

There is an epidemic of influenza in Greytown just now. The price of bread in Greytown has been increased to 3Jd cash and 4d booked for the two-pound loaf. '§ On a measured space where turnips were being carried off and trucked for the north a crop at Milton r?,ti as high as 57 tons to the acre. r *" v At the Carterton Gasworks during the past month, writes our correspondent, 150,000 feet of gas was manufactured at a cost of 6s 3d per 1,000 feet. The Legislative Council, yesterday, disposed of a few local and technical Bills of no general importance, telegraphs our Parliamentary correspondent. At the Wellington Magistrate's Court yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, Frederick Nicholaus was committed for trial on charge of obtaining money and goods by means of forgery. The cessation of passenger steamers running from San Francisco to Auckland is given as the reason for the abandonment of the intended visit to Australasia of Dr. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps." The record auction prices in Christchurch for cauliflowers and marrows for this season were obtained the other day by a Cashel Street auctioneering firm, namely from 12s to 18s a dozen for cauliflowers, ahd 17s 9d a dozen for marrows. There is a very great scarcity ot vegetables. There were thirteen judges sitting in the various courts in Sydney the other day, which is a record for the city. They consisted of live at the High Court, Darlinghurst, one at Darlinghurst Sessions, one at the District Cour% and six in the Full Court. The epidemic of sickness throughout the province shows no signs of abating. On Tuesday the Wellington Education Board received word that, in consequence of the prevalence of measles, the Kereru School, on the Manawatu line, had had to be closed. It is also stated that at Ballahce, near Pahiatua, only twenty, out of a total of seventy, are attending school, the absentees being unable to .do, so owing to sickness.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that a man nam£& William Millar, 40 years of age, who was arretted on Tuesday night, on a charge of drunkenness, hanged himself in his cell in the.gaol yesterday. Millar was, before the Court at 10.30 o'clock, and was remanded for a. week for medical treatment. At 12: o'clock he received his dinner, but an hour later was found suspended by the neck from a small hoofc in the wall. The deceased hanged'himself with " a leather belt. Millar wa?jp recent arrival from Scotland. f *

A plea of guilty to a charge of' stealing thirty sheepskins, valued at £lO, belonging to Dean Bros., fellmongers, near Masterton, was entered by a man named Henry Edelsten before Mr Riddell, S.M., at Wellington yesterday. A fine of £lO was imposed, in default one? month's imprisonment. A Press; Association telegram states that there were five previous convictions against the accused, whose counsel said some years ago accused received a blow on the head from a warder,; when in gaol. The effects of this were still felt, causing him to do things he would not do in saner periods.

A somewhat recent court case, in which the driver of a motor-car was. sued for damages by a Greytown resident, whom he ran over, has come under the notice of the Sydney Bulletin. Judgment in the case in question was given for the amount claimed, £49 15s, with costs. The Bulletin continues its report thusly: —"The magnate smiled, and, leaning over to the smart lawyer who had conducted the case against him, intimated that he was going to appeal to the Supreme Court. 'You can't! I knew that would be your game, and purposely made the claim 5s under £SO, which - is the smallest: amount you, can appeal over. You're in the mud, sir!' And he was. That, lawyer is a public benefactor!" A reward is offered for the recovery of fifteen ducks lost from Akura. Mr W. B. Chennells, agent for the Public Trustee in the estate of the late J. P. Russell, .invites tenders, to close at noon on Saturday, September 7th, for the lease of 348 acres adjoining the Whangaimoana Estate. The lease has about seven years to run. Particulars and forms of tender can be obtained on applica- ■ tion. During the continuance of the removal sale now being conducted by Mr J. L. Murray, special opportunities will be given to the public to secure the best bargains of the year. Mr Murray has always maintained a reputation for keeping first-class goods, and the fact that he wishes to clear the stock before removing to other premises during the re-build-ing operations, makes it imperative for him to offer his high-class drapery and clothing at ridiculously ow prices. After all there is nothing like th<y*; best obtainable. 'Everyone is, con-* * sequently, pleased with Myrtie Grove Cigarettes—they are the best !* There is no opiate of any discription in Chamberlain's Couph Remedy and that is one of the reasons why it has' become so popular all over the world. Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy soothes and heals, strengthens the lunga and removes the cause of the cough or cold. We condemn no honest medicine, but when the safety of your life or tbat of jouv child is at stake, take no chance for poison. Por sale by all dealers.

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