LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8524, 31 August 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There ;:re 316 subscribers to the Masterton'Pubiic Library. Word has been received by Sergeant - Major Collier, of the Masterton Mounted Rifles, that he has been promoted to the position of Regimental Sergeant-Major, of No. 2 Regiment of the Wellington Mounted Rifles. The promotion has been sanctioned by the officer commanding the district, and dates from August 22nd.

The General Post Office, Wellington, has received information that ( c the Foreric, carrying American j mails, was to have left San Francisco, yesterday, for New Zealand. The latest return from the Master- • ton dredge is 90oz 6dwt for the ] week. At a meeting of Directors of , the Company, held at Dunedin, yesterday afternoon, a dividend of six shillings per share was declared. Mr G. Heron presided at a sitting of the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning. Charles' Russell, who appeared on two charges of drunkenness, was fined os, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. Hugh Scott, who was also charged with drunkenness, was remanded for a week for medical treatment. The fortnightly meeting of Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., was held last evening, Bro. A. Chapman, C.R., presiding. Business of a routine nature was transacted Two new members were initiated into the order and two were proposed for membership. Bro. Shapeott, District Officer in Wellington, visued the Court, and was received with the usual Foresters' Fira. The Court adjourned during the meeting for an hour's harmony. The fortnightly meeting of the Knox Young People's Association was held in the Sunday School Room, last evening. Mr R. J. Young occuDied the chair, and there was a fair .attendance. Two highly instructive papers on Turner and Beethoven were read by Mr A. Donald and Miss Hogg, respectively, and an interesting discussion followed. During the evening songs were sung by Misses McGregor (2), and Mr R J. Young. Mr Taylor contributed a flute solo entitled "Adieu." There is a penalty for insanitary dairying, but no reward save.the consciousness of doing right for the farmer who believes that cleanliness about the milking-shed is next to godliness, and acts accordingly. At the conference of Stock Inspectors, at Wellington, on Thursday last, the 1 question of assisting and encouraging the dairy farmer was favourably discussed. A proposal was made to reward the farmer with certificates and trophies if the conditions on his place were considered satisfactory. The possession of such certificates, it was emphasised, would 'be . an enormous trade advantage, and the emulation of other competing farmers would do much towards solving a serious problem—the purity of the milk supply.

The platform of a railway station is not a place where one would expect to fall across a gold mine, remarks; the Oarnaru Mail. Yet to "find gold in rjayable quantity" on a station platform near Oamaru the other day was the experience of a railway surfaceman. He was employed sinking a hole, and in the material which had been turned over his eyes rested on a yellow nugget. This he showed to a companion, who gave it as his opinion that it was the "real Mackay." Fired by his apparent luck he searched further, his reward being the findine of two more nuggets, but smaller than the first. They have since been valued by a jeweller as being worth 27s for the large, and 17s 6d each for the two smaller ones. The material of which the platform is made up is said to have come from the Otepopo tunnel. A meeting of the Borough Fir? Brigade, Park and Library Committee was held last evening, there beingpresent:—Crs J. C. Ewington (chairman), J. Prentice and F. W. Temple. The Committee approved of a letter being sent to Shand, Mason and Co., London, asking for a quotation for a new fire box and boiler for the "Jubilee" steam fire engine, also asking for a code word in the event of it being found necessary to cable for the fire box and boiler. The chairman was deputed to interview the Works Committee with regard to the stables at the Central Fire Station. The question of painting the tea kiosk in the Park and other Park business was held over until the next meeting, when the Committee will also go into the matter of a supply of books and periodicals for the Library, and financial matters. The committee decided to hold regular monthly meetings on the third Thursday in each month. Some interesting remarks were made by Cr F. W. Temple, chairman of the Borough Gas Committee, to a Wairarapa Age reporter, yesterday, with regard to the proposed loan of £12,000 for the Masterton Gasworks. Cr iemple said it was absolutely impossible to extend the works without capital, and that the works required extending was evident from the frequent demands for the extension of mains, and the rapidly increasing output of gas. At present all extensions were carried on out of revenue, and as long as this was dorfe, a reduction in the price of gas was out of the question, for the time being at least. As soon as the loan was carried all new works would be done cut of loan money, and the price of gas would be reduced. This was feasible because the works at present were paying handsomely, and from present appearances would continue to do so on a larger scale. Us added that the ratepayers need not be afraid that, if they sanctioned the loan, they would have to bear an extra rate. A rate would have to be struck legally to provide security for the loan, but it would not be collected as all interest on the loan would be paid out cf revenue. Cr Temple stated that the rate struck for the last Gasworks loan had not been collected during the past ten years. The public meeting of ratepayers to consider the proposals of the loan will be held in the Town Hall on September 9th. The CFi,Ei)r.iri* op Sander axd Sons Pcee Volatile Eccaiatii Extiiact is universally acknowledged. Loyalty honours ir, and the entire medical profession'hfts ail opted its use. Imitations sprung up without number. The latest of them—m styled " Extracts "—was oil foisted upon the trusting »md unwary under tee grossest / misuse of bander raid boas' reputation. Sander p. ml Sons insii'uted an tie;ion fit the Supreme Court of Vietorin, before His Honour Cbief Justice Sir J. Maddou, K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn witness testified that, ha 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 tested and approved of. As such is surely endorsed a»id recommended the GRNUiNE KANDF.It AND SONN' I'UHB VOLATILE EITALYITI EXTINCT. Wood's Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is Cd and 2a tid.

Miss Davis, of Tinui, is lying dangerously ill, and but little hope is held out for her recovery. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Masterton Branch of the National Defence League will be held in the Drill Hall, on Monday evening next, at 7.30 o'clock. Our Tinui correspondent telephones that a man, named Peter Hanning, commonly known as Andy Hanning, aged 57, employed at Mataikona, was found dead in his whare, yesterday. An inquest will be held to-day. The designations of three postal stations in the Wellington district have been changed, as follows: — Cross's Creek to Cross Creek, Saunders' Road to Saunders, and Ihuraua Valley to Ihuraua. During the month of July, 18 new works of fiction were received at the Masterton Library, and 1,673 were lent out to subscribers. The subscriptions received for the were: — Ratepayers £3 Is 3d, and non-rate-payers £5; total, £8 Is 3d. The Rev. James McCaw will conduct the morning and evening ser vices at Knox Church, Masterton, to-morrow, and at Mikimiki at 3 p.m. Mr Crawford will conduct the services at Dreyerton at 3 p.m. The Federal Government employs a linguist at Fremantle who can speak the Austrian, English, French, Italian, Greek, Syrian, Turkish, and Arabic languages. His duty is to interview immigrants on their arrival and he is paid at the rate of £1 per shipload.. ; At a meeting of the Social Committee of the Oddfellows' Lodge, last evening, final arrangements were made in connection with the social to be held on Thursday, September sth. A first-class musical programme has been arranged and special attention is being paid to the catering. The meteorological returns for July ' show *hat the greatest rainfall for ' that month was at Lake Waikare--1 moana, viz., 20.53 inches. The rain- ; fall in the Wellington district ranged from 2.16 inches at Pahiatua to 7.84 1 inches at Featherston. In one part of ! the South Island (at Clyde) less than 1 one-twelfth of an inch was recorded.

Each year, since 1897, a sale of J work in aid of the Melanesian Mis- • sion has been held in St. MatUew's | Schoolroom. This year's sale is to ; take place next Wednesday for one day only. A very choice collection of !; work and produce has been got to- j ■ gether and a very successful sale is anticipated. A Press Association telegram from : Dunedin states that at the inquest on. William Millar, who committed suicide in a cell at the Central Police Station, the jury added a rider that the attention of the authorities should be called to the necessity for having observation wards where cases of this nature could be treated otherwise than in prisons or police stations. Already eleven of the colony's leading bands have intimated their intention of competing at the band contest at New Plymouth in February next. These are Kaikorai, Dunedin Citizens. Mcrnington (Dunedin), j Wanganui, 'Wellington, Taranaki, Napier and Nelson Garrison, Woolston (Christcburch), Palmerston North Brass, and Master ton Municipal. An auctioneer worked "a good thing" the other day at a tree sale at Hamilton. A number of bundles of common heath, offered under the botanical name, were eagerly snapped up at Is 6d per bundle. When the last lot disappeared there was still an unsatisfied demand. The knight of the hammer apologised for the shortness of supply thus:—"Ladies and gentlemen,—l am sorry I have no more of theee plants to offer you, but if those who are disappointed care to go round to the back yard I will be pleased to allow them to dig up a dray load or two for nothing." The searchlights to be fitted to his Majesty's battleships, now being built on the Clyde, are of extraordinary power. The Glasgow Evening News says that it would be possible to read a newspaper by the light of one at a distance of about eighteen miles. The projector of these wonderful lights is no less than 48 inches in diameter, and the luminant is the electric arc. The apparatus is directed by means of electric motors, instead of by hand. 0"e curious fact about these and similar projectors is that a man standing quite close in front of the lens is not dazzled by the light, whereas one standing 20 feet away is so blinded that he would not be able to see that the first man was standing in the light at all. The nearer man, however, would find his position untenable, as the heat from j the projector is intense.

The sentence of fifteen years' imprisonment recently meted out by Mr Justice Cooper to three burglars in Wellingon, attracted the attention of the Australian press. The Sydney Telegraph, in the course of an editorial, remarks:—"Burglary is one of those crimes in the repression of which the public is particularly interested, for it is impossible to foresee what may follow from it, both of graver crime and possibly of the fatal consequences even of terror. And where it is of this kind, where expert burglars had been engaged, as was proved by the bursting open of a safe by dynamite, i'j is a crime which, to a large extent, may be prevented—in the manner in which the New Zealand judge has prevented it in the case of the men concerned — for fifteen years. ... It may be said of the burglar that the world has no place for him except in gaol, and whenever he is discovered the excellent precedent set in New Zealand should be remembered and followed as far as the circumstances of each case will permit; even though it he admitted that the remedy is but temporary. ICE FOR EVERYBODY. The demand for a handy., compact, little refrigerating plant has now been met by Messrs Humble and Sons, the will-known refrigerating engineers, who have placed on the market a practical little machine at a cost within easy reach of hundreds of dairy farmeis and dealers in perishable goods, whose requirements do not warrant expensive plants. This machine hai bee:i specially designed for private butierruakera, butcher?, milk vendors, iish dealers, hotels, or poultry and egg dealers. Full particulars on application to J. B. MacEwan and Cd., Ltd., U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.

Relieving teachers cost the Wellington Education Board £SOO a year. The allowance received by the Board for this purpose is only £3OO. This year's General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church will be held in Wellington, commencing on November sth. The Wellington Education Board have accepted the following resignations:—Miss R. Harvey, sole teacher at Waterfalls; Miss M. Cartwright, sole tea:her at Dyer. A Press Association telegrarayjmffl Gisborne states that at TolagtfSay, Nathaniel Fitzgerald, son of a sheepfarmer, died from injuries received by his horse falling and rolling on him. An express train on the Canada Northern Railway recently ran into an enormous cloud of moths. The j swarm obscured the driver's look-out, and so hampered him that he pulled up. The train had to wait two hours before the moths passed. For the * encouragement of the cadet movement, Mr J. Kebbell has offered a challenge shield for competition amongst the companies in the Third Battalion Wellington Public Schools' Cadets (West Coast and Hutt Valley). It is understood that Mr W. C. Buchanan intends to give a similar shield for the Fourth Battalion (Wairarapa). A Berlin journal claims that the greatest speed ever attained in Europe by a steam-driven railway train has been reached on several trips recently between Munich and Augsburg, on the Bavarian State Railway system. The engines, which were express train locomotives, pulled trains weighing 150 tons at j the maximum speed of ninety-six and I a-half miles per hour. Leave of absence was on Thurr- | day granted by the Wellington Education Board to the following teachJers:—Miss M. A. Broadbent, Carterton (three months from August 7th); Miss A. Stanton, Dalefield (six weeks from August 22nd); Miss Talbot, cookery instructress (two weeks from August 23rd); Miss i. Kirby. Alfredton; Mr G. Cromie, Grey town (two weeks from Sepi tember 20th); and Mr W. C. I agricultural instructor (three weeks)

Marseilles has decided to build, at ■ a cost of £1,380,000, a tunnel through which a canal from the Rhone to Marseilles is to pass. Though only four and a-half miles long it will be the highest and widest tunnel in the world. Its width will be 70 feet, to admit of two barges passing, and its roof will be 43 feet above water. On either side, in 6foot wide passages, an electric railway will be run. The tunnel wili be brilliantly illuminated by electricity. The suitability of New Zeahnd white pine for certain purposes has been brought under the notice of a large manufacturing firm at Salt Creek, Cape Colony, which has written to the secretary of the Welling. ; ton Chamber of Commerce ! the names of some millers in New Zealand with a view of obtaining their quotations for regular supplies of that timber. The firm in question is at present obtaining its euui plies from Sweden and America, but in face of the new preferential tariff it prefers to draw all its timber from New Zealand, provided that prices are satisfactory. The annual social of the Liberal Football Club was held on Thursday night at Featherston. The hall,was beautifully decorated. Nearly one hundred couples occupied the floor of the Town Hall. Messrs J. Hepderson, L. Keys, D. Tidswill, and J. Munro, were M'sC, and Mrs Wickens (pianoforte) and Miss Petersen (violin) supplied the music. At an. interval Mr W. Barton, the club's patron, presented the banner of the Thursday Rugby Union to the captain of the senior team, which this season won the championship for the first time since the formation of the union in 1895, and the junior championship cud to the captain of thesecond fifteen. In the Hawke's Bay district there are thirty-eight timber-mills working. The estimated cutting capacity of mills per annum is 700,804,000 superficial feet, and the annual output 40,868,11S superficial feet, in the following proportions:— Totara,, 5,G54,000, superficial feet; matai 11,010,000 superficial feet; rhnu, 19,568,412 superficial feet; kahikatea 4,635,706 superficial feet. The totalexport of timber for the year may be put down at 2,000,000 superficial feet, of which 1,500,000 superficial feet would represent white pine. A very considerable falling-off in this industry has occurred during the last two years in Hawke's Bay, there nowbeing some seventeen mills and factories less than formerly, while the reduction in the number of employees I amounts to over three hundredhands.

The Government Meteorologist (Captain Edwin) in his summary for July says:—"The average conditions of the weather in midwinter were this, year more pronounced than usual. In July the climate is usually drier in the south and wet in the north, only the conditions were extreme this year, for north of latitude 39deg. the rainfall was excessive, while from the average it fell away in the south to as low as one-sixth of the mean, and remarkable droughts held sway in North Canterbury and Central Otago_ In the first half of the month the weather was very unsettled from the passage of three extensive areas of low pressure from the westward. Between the 20th and 23rd heavyrains, came along with a cyclonic area over the North Island, and some remarkable rainfalls may be noted in the returns for about this time. The winds were generally light and variable. The temperature was not so warm, but more even in the north, and in the south it was at times very cold, with a greater number of frosts than usual. First Aid to the Injured. Accidents are common to "every household, and it is necessary to be ready for such emergencies. A luttie of Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment and a roil of soft bandaged will relieve many a sufferer. It takes the pain from every burn or bruise ; will heal any and every sore; destroys the poison from sting of insects; stops neuralgia and cures rheumatism. No family can afford to be without Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. Keep a bottle on the shelf in plain sight, that it may be quickly found when needed. Price Is Gd and 3s. Obtainable ut H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s fid.

The Maori language is taught ii the Wanganui Technical School. There are .721 hand 3 employed ij the timber mills in Hawke's Bay. The New .Zealand Dairy Union*! Creamery at Kopuaranga opened for the season on Monday last with a gooc •supply-of milk. iThe annual examinations of the ©lasses at the Masterton District High School will commence on Mon day next. . Mrs Tai Te Tau, of Masterton, received that he] mother, Mrs Farata, was seriorslj ill in Dunedin, and was not expectec to live. Mrs Te Tau left for Dunedir yesterday afternoon. A boy preacher is attracting some attention in the North. He preachec recently at Hamilton, and on each occasion the church was well filled. The lad's eloquent style was greatly admired, and .his addresses thoroughly enjoyed. The lower price at which wheat has bsen selling in Melbourne an'J Adelaide has reacted on the milling industry in New South Wales, and many of the city and country mil's are idie, being unable to compete with southern millers for the Manila, China, and Japau trade. The Wellington Education Board have decided, i-> reply to a request by the Wairarapa branch of the Educational Institute, to authorise the .chairman and chief inspector to make for the establishment of a singing class at Masterton, the cost not to exceed £25 a year.— N.Z. Times. At the monthlv meeting of the Wellington Education Board, the matter of the school 9 tyro settlement was held over pending receipt of a reply from the department to the application. The settlers who are dissatisfied with the fiteare petitioning for it to be changed. "I know a man who once lived just outside Wanganui, and nearly, made his fortune by cadet farming," writes a correspondent of the Christchurch Pres3. "He had little more than one hundred, acres of land, and his live stock consisted of a few pigs, a few sheep, three horses, and eight cadets each paying £IOO a year." In answer to a question in the House of Representatives, the Premier stated that the sheep ta:: due on September Ist will have to be paid. A great many people have already paid the tax. , The law, however, is to be amended so that will be the last occasion on which it is to be collected. There is apparently r.o scarcity of ', work in the local market at present, I writes a Dunedin correspondent, and 1 most, if not all branches of-trades i would appear to be more than fully occupied. Enquiry at the local Labour Department's office elicited the fact that there are openings in the country districts for fully thirty unskilled labourers and navvies, principally a4tttvage of nine shillings a day. What is known as a "superimposed" telephone system is now being installed between Dunedin and Oamaru, and will probably be completed in a month or six weeks, says the Dunedin Star. Two good copper wires crossing and re-crossing each other at intervals are the feature of the installation. The line is both telegraphic and telephonic, the lat- * ter service being superimposed on the former. The> death occurred on Thursday evening, at Fernridge, of Mrs Miller, wife of Mr Walter Miller. The deceased had resided at Fernridge for the past two years, and was well and favourably known. She and her husband had formerly resided at Taueru. The cause of death was heart failure. A large family is left to mourn their loss. The funeral will take place at the Masterton Cemetery to-morrow afternoon. A Drovers' Association is to be formed in Gisborne. It is proposed to fix an annual subscription, and with the proceeds pay for the services of a secretary, who will watch thee drovers' interests, keep a reccrd of the times at which members are open for engagement, receive messages from stock-owners in want of men, and generally act as an intermediary between employers and drovers. This method is preferred to the proposal that a register be kept by the provincial secretary of the Farmers' Union. A first-class cook is advertised for. A notice with respect to the terms ' of settlement of the libel action, Miss Hall v. the New Zealand Times, is published on page 6 of this issue. Messrs J. Graham and Co., Mas- . terton, announce the arrival of their 1 new season's drapery, which includes all the latest novelties from the fashion centres of the old world. The M ,- *ses Whitcombe, of the Arcadia Tea and Luncheon Rooms, notify that they will not keep their rooms open on Saturday nights till further notice. At one o'clock, tc-3ay, at the residence of Mr G. G. Cork, Worksop Road, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell at auction the whole of his high-class furniture without resorve. A gaslight display of the first spring millinery was made at Mr C. Smith's last evening and was most I Jptetctive. The display included the latest and most fashionable styles in millinery, costumes, jaikets and blouses. Mr J. Carpenter, of the Central Boot Store, has to hand a special shipment of ladies' bar shoes, direct from the famous "Bostoek's" Factory. The name of "Bostock" is sufficient recommendation, and Mr '■ Carpenter confidently- invites inspection. I Mr T. Dwyer received a telegram | from Blenheim, yesterday, stating that Miss Jessie Maaachlan, the j Scottish singer who was reported ill j on Thursday, was improving, and would keep her engagement to appear in Masterton on Monday evening* next. Those who use Chamberlain's Cough Eemsdy say it makes their throat strong. It ia eertaralv excellent for delicate throats, j It tones up the mucous membrane, enabling it to withstand exposure, acts as | beneficially upon the youngest child as upon \ the older members of the lamily. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is thoroughly reliable and the families that have used it know that it merits the praise that it receives everywhere. For sale by all dealers.

Polling day for the New Soutl Wales elections has been fixed fo Tuesday, September 10th. A small parcel of tea of the fines quality sold by auction in Sydne; recently at 22s 6d per lb. Great and widespread relief is £el in pastoral and agricultural district! in Otago as a consequence of th< recent rains. The price of sheep maj now be expected to rise. There wil also be a demand for cattle as during the drought cows worth £8 wen in some instances sold for 30s. A wandering carpenter called upor an ELtbam firm the other day anc asked if there was any chance of e job. "Of course there is," was the reply, "you can start right away.' 1 "Yes, but how long will the jot last?" queried the applicant. "How long will the job last? It will last till you die, if you are a fjood tradesman," was the reply. lie took the jab. Those beautiful kid gloves which delight the feminine heart are the source of great cruelty to the original owners of the skin, says a London paper. In order to obtain the skin as soft and , as pliable as possible, the goats in i India are subjected by the natives to a process known as "flaying" or, in I other words, they are skinned alive I and killed after this operation has J been completed. The work of the ' Calcutta Society for the Prevention Icf Cruelty to Animals has done | much to stop this barbarous practice, but according to the Society's latest report it still obtains in some parts of India. At the Waihi Police Court recently David Leech., bush contractor, was charged with trespassing on the property of Mary Alica Tierney, Waihi. After evidence as to trespass was taken, the Bench convicted defend- { ant and ordered him to pay costs, £3 I ss, and warned him not to go through ' plaintiff's property without permission. A somewhat unusual scene then occurred, defendant refusing to pay the costs, and asking what term of imprisonment would square it. The Bench fixed the default at seven days. Defendant then asked to be locked up forthwith, and followed Sergeant McKinnon out of the. Court. The latter explained that he had no authority to lock him up. Defendant still persisted, but eventually was induced to go home, and was given a month in which to pay the costs. Smokers consider that it is worth while knowing that Myrtle Grove Cigarettes can be obtained from all tobacconists.* If yon are «n importer, penrt vour doaumentcto J. J. CUKfIS & CO., LTD.. Custjrnhuuse, Shipping,, and fc'rrwanhi g Agents, Wellington. They will quickly pass, the goods through the Customs anl del ; ver thcoi to you. For Bronchial Coughs take Great Peipermint Cuie. ] s (hi und 2s Cd