LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8535, 16 September 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man named H. Campbell was irowned at Portage, Queen Charlotte Sound, on Friday. The cold weather in the Forty-Mile Bush district is causing a number of deaths among young lambs. A settler at Putara has twin lambs in his flock, both of which are black with white legs and white stripes over their backs. The Masterton Mounted Rifles will hold an inspection parade in the Drill Hall on Wednesday evening next. Major Bolton will be present. The third term for the free students i'i the compulsory class (English and Arithmetic) at the Masterton Technical School will commence this evening. A public meeting will be held in the Hall, Tinui, at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday next to appoint a committee to arrange for the erection of a cottage hospital. An official of the Postal Department at Dunedin has been served I with a writ for £5Ol for breach of promise. The action will be defended. It is probable that the Eketahuna Mounted Rifles will enter for five competitions at the Palmerston North Military Tournament to be held in November next. No return was received from the Masterton Dredge last week owing to a break-down in the machinery. It was stated in error in Saturday's issue that the Hessey Dredge had broken down. A man, named John Greig, met his death in a mysterious manner at Kaikoura on Thursday morning. He was found in a tent kneeling in a pool of blood, quite dead. No particulars are available. Our Carterton correspondent reports that Mr J. Sullivan, father of Mr Denis Sullivan, of Carterton, died ■ at his residence, Hilton Road, Carterton, on Saturday morning, at the age of 96 years. TWO 8 V 'I.FIGN THK i'WVCtU-: SAND Fill AND SONS' PlHJf.' YCLATILK F.IC>LYPTI EX - Ttt'-OT wis j,r ivpil by experts at the Supremo C nut of Viciori-i to possess eurativo properties peculiarly* it.? own, a»3 to bo absolnte'y safe, effective and reliable. Therefore ''" not, a gravate your ccinphint by the use c f one ui' tho many crude eucalyptus oil-; which ara now palmed oil as •'Extrac s," and f.omt'ie U33 of which a death was reported recently, bat insist upon the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' , EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, add reject all l others.

The latest return from the Antonio Dredge is 12oz for the week. It is 3G years to-day since the Norsewood pioneers landed at Napier. A virulent type of distemper is raging among" dogs of the Palmerston North district. The death is announced of Mr Enoch Walker, an old and highly respected resident of Woodville. Mr J. McGregor, of Masterton, has been elected Vice-President of the New Zealand Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association. It is rumoured that more than one New Zealand business will shortly consider the advisability of introducing profit-sharing. At the Masterton Police Court, on Saturday morning, before Mr Eli Smith, J.P., two first offenders were fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk. Messrs H. J. Dagg, (Ngatitipu, Masterton), Dagg Bros. (Masterton) and A. J. Stone-Wigg (Te Rangitumau) have been elected members of the New Zealand Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association. Mr V. A. Sproul. representative of the Howard-Smith Company Limited, states that the Foreric, which will be due at Auckland about the 23rd inst., has 10 tons of mail matter on board from the United Statesjand Canada. Our Carterton correspondent writes: —The funeral of the late Mr A. J. Diamond took place at Carterton yesterday. The cortege was a large one. The services at the graveside were conducted by the Rev. R. Young, vicar of St. Mark's, Cartsrton..a The friends of Mr Frank Siemonek, of Upper Plain, will regret to learn of the death of his wife, which took place jesterdav morning, after a short illness. The deceased was 31 years of age, and leaves a husband and one child to mourn their loss. The funeral will leave St. Patrick's Church at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow. Messrs Keeling and Wynn-Wi!-liarns, of Masterton, have donated a special prize of £2 2s for the class Farmers' Plough Horses at the next Masterton Show. At the meeting of the General Committee of the Masts; to:i A. and P. Association, on Saturday last, it was decided to write to Messrs Keeling and Wynn-Wil-liams thanking them for their donation.

Messrs -Murray, Koberts and Co., Wellington, as agents for Messrs Joseph Fison and Co., England, wrote to the meeting of the General Committee of the Mastertoh A. and P. Association, on Saturday, stating that they would offer a silver bowl for competition in one of the classes for fat sheep at the next Masterton Show, the bowl to be won twice in succession or three times at intervals before it becomes the bonafide property of any exhibitor. The Secretary wai instructed to acknowledge the trophy with thanks. Five thousand rainbow trout fry will be turned out into the Akitio River in the course of a few days. Ten thousand brown trout fry have also been turned out in the lower Tamaki stream, 10,000 in the CrcuaKiritaki, 10,000 in the Matigaioro, and 30,000 have been s?nt to be turned out in 10,000 lots at Ormondviile, Makotuku, and Kopua. Altogether, says the Daijnevirke Advocate, 70,000 brown and 14,000 rainbow fry have been turned out in this end of the district this year. At the meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association, on Saturday last, a letter was received from the Secretary of the Otago A. and P. Society asking the co-operation of the Society in bringing united pressure to bear on the Government to induce ic to have the Dominion of New Zealand well and properly represented at all the chief agricultural and pastoral shows in Great Britain. The Committee decided to refer the matter to the Ajjricultural Executive of New Zeal uicL

The campaign in Dunedin having fo.' its object the raising of £-17,000 in fourteen days for the .Y.M.C.A. Building concluded on Friday night. The promoters did not succeed in aecompishing their object, but at the same time the "canvass has been remarkably successful, more than £iS,OCO having been secured. The organisers state that Dunedin hrs easily established a record for giving in the southern hemisphere, and the results have more than fulfilled expectations. The previous record was held by Wellington, where £10,600 was donated in twenty-one days. One team of young men, comprising ten members, collected £1,126, which is a record for young men's work. The Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradinej received the following message from the Premier on Saturday :—"lt gives me great pleasure to inform you that notification of change of name from Colony of New Zealand to Dominion of New Zealand was gazetted yesterday, and takes effect on and from Thursday, 26th instant. The day will be proclaimed a Government holiday throughout the Dominion, and all Government offices will be closed, and in order that it may be celebrated in a fitting manner your hearty cooperation is requested to assist in making the day a memorable one. With this end in view, I trust you will see your way to proclaim the day a full holiday in your town.' The Government is requesting Education Boards throughout the country to arrange for school children to have a holiday. During the afternoon a parade of the local and district Volunteers, where such can be arranged, will - take place, and the officer commanding the district has been instructed to confer with you, and to fall in with any arrangements for the day you may desire to make. Further particulars will be telegraphed you in due course."

STEAM ON THE FARM. Do you recognise what an advantage it is to have a supply of live steam cn the farm? It moans :i liberal supply of boiling water for washing c.ins or clothes, for scalding pigs or cocking stock' food, and you cim secure thes3 advantages at a very small cost by .pureh a "New Century" Steamer. One good lire provides steam lor ah nit t.vo bourj, and can be left with peifeci sifcty. The "New Century" combines the itrcng pdntsof the ordinary portable wash n;' copper and the high preseuro steam boiler without their disadvantages. MacEwAii and CD., Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington,

According to a reliable authority, says the Wyndham Farmer, upwards, of £150,000 must have been paid out in hard cash during last season to dairy factory suppliers of Southland, and of that amount fully £IOO,OOO went into the pockets of patrons settled in Mataura Valley. What is claimed to be the largest single leather belt in the world has been made in Chicago for an American sawmill plant. It was made from pure oak bark tanned leather; is 84in in width, three-ply in thickness, and weighs just 2,3001b. The belt is 114 ft long; it took the centres of the hides of 125 steers to make it, and each piece of this leather was separately stretched before being placed in the belt. Self-denial periods for the benefit of the Salvation Army funds have n'ready begun in some parts of New Zealand, and the Msts fcrWellington city are to be given to the collectors to-morrow. Last ye: ra sum of £30,981 4s 7d was contributed to this fund throughout Australasia, New Zealand leading the list with £10,435, which was over £4,000 more than the amount subscribed by the next country oh the list (New South Wales.) During the past month there has been a remarkable prevalence of criminal offences by young married women, in Christchurch. In one a woman admitted a charge of forgery. On Friday, Mr Bishop. S.M, dealt with a case of theft by a young woman of goods from a shop. The j woman appeared in court well dressed and showing every indication of being well-to-do. She said that her mother had taught her to drinK, and while drunk the offence had been committed. The husband was ready to pay the value of the goods stolen. The magistrate remarked on tie alarming increase of thefts by married women who came to court and confessed, pleading 1 excuses the court could not entertain. He convicted and discharged the woman and ordered 13s fid to be paid for th« goods. To ride 6,500 miles on a bicycle without one puncture of a tyre Is probably a record. Mr Liddle, the young Capetown "cyclist, who is touring the world on a bicycle, has journeyed'from Brisbane to Melbourne and through Tasmania and New Zealand without requiring any repair to his bicycle tubes, and in the whole of his tour he has had only s'x punctures in 11,000 miles, while the or.e pumping up of the tyres at Napier served' for the journey overland to .Auckland. Mr Liddle, who has arrived in Auckland, set out from Capetown* in December, 1005. I through the Orange Free State, [ Natal, and the Transvaal to Port Elizabeth, and thence came to Australia. On land he cycles and on sfa he works his passage by doing odd jobs on board ship. A reward is offered for the recovery of a lady's silver-mounted purse lost in Queen Street on Saturday night. A three days' auction sale of tin stock of the Masterton Book Arcade Company will be commenced, by Mr J. R. Nicol, on Wednesday, and continued on Friday and Saturday. The sale will commence at 1 o'clock each day, and the goods will be sold without reserve. A display of new season's millinery will be made by Cenci's, millinery specialists and ladies' outfitters, of Wellington, for a period of six days, in the Exchange Buildings, Masterton. The goods will be on view from. Wednesday next, and ladies are invited to pay a visit of inspection.