LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8536, 17 September 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough Gas and Finance Committee have resolved to recommend the Council to procure, at a cost of about £lO, an apparatus for testing coal and gas. Mr G. Heron, J.P., at the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, fined a first offender ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk. An old age pensioner, named John Morton, aged 74, was found hanging dead from a rafter in his whare at Otaika, states a Whangarei Press Association telegram.

The New Plymouth Bowling Club has decided to erect a memorial to the late Mr James Paul, who, says a Press Association telegram, was known as the father of bowling in New Zealand. It is reported by Christchurch papers that a local company is about to embark upon the preparation of humanised milk, in that city, and that i-this will be available to the lpcnl public in six weeks' time. A Hokitika Press Association telegram announces the death of Mr James S. Benyon, till lately proprietor of the Kumara Times: also the death of Mr Alf red Patterson, one of the pioneer men of South Westland. At the meeting of the Masterton Borough Gas and Finance Committee, last evening, it was decided to consider at the next meeting the advisableness of moving the gas manufacturing plant to a site near the railway station. There are at present three hundred and nineteen subscribers connected with the Masttrton Telephone Exchange, and, as there are nine applications in hand, the number at the end of the month will be at least three hundred and twenty-eight. Mr Alf. Lawton, who came to Australasia many years ago, and speedily established himself as a popular comedian, died at the Wellington Hospital on Saturday morning, lie was stricken by a serious illness some four months ago, while performing with the "Human Hearts" Company, and from this he never rallied. He was forty-eight years of age. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch states that at an inquest held at Kaikoura, on Saturday, on a man named Gregor, employed on the road works at Kincaid, who was found dead in his bunk on Thursday morning, the jury returned a verdict that death was the result of foul play by one or more person*, but there was no evidence to show by whom. A deputation of members of Parliament waited on the Premier, yesterday, to ask him to allow salt for agricultural purposes to be carried free on the railway?. Sir J. G. Ward promised to consider the matter, but emphasised that salt was already carried at a low rate. He certainly could not allow it to go free, but would see if he could placj it on the Q rate. j A Wellington Press Association telegram announces the death of Mrs Levi, wife of Mr P. Levi, solicitor, which occurred yesterday. The deceased lady, who was much esteemed by all who knew her, was a daughter of Mrs Davis, of Dunedin, and sister of Mrs Isaacs, of Wellington, and Mrs T. W. Stringer, uf Christchurch. She had been ill for a considerable time. The family consists of two daughters.

An additional length of the duplicated line, about threequarters of a mile, was opened for traffic between Wellington and Petone, on Suncay, thus disposing of the heaviest portitn of the whole scheme. The duplicated line now runs from the Hutt to within a mile of Ngahauranga, which station will be reached by the double line by January next. The Department proposes to shorten the time for the journey by three minutes from October Ist. The whole work is expected to be completed in eighteen months more. The Manager of the Masterton Gasworks reported to the meeting of the Gas and Finance Committee, last evening, that connactio'.is had been made between the present Villa Street main and the end of the Albert Street main, a distance of six and a half chains, and also from the three-inch mains in the Te Ore Ore Road to the main supplying the road running past the old hospital. Additional lamps have been erected at Hogg Crescent and at the corners of Renall and Pownall Streets, Cole and Pownall Streets, and Wriglcy and Villa Streets. Enquiries made by a Waiiarapa Age reporter at the office of a leading house-agent, yesterday, elicited the information that there was not a very heavy demand for empty houses in the town. This, he considered, was on account of the high rentals asked. "Houses at about 12s per week are eagerly snapped up," said the agent, "but the average rentals asked now are 14s or 15s per week, and this is too much for the ordinary working man. Fifteen shillings a week is almost equal to two days' work for a working man, and with the large amount of broken time there is at present it is more than the working class can pay." STEAM ON THE FARM. Do you recognise what an advantage it is to have a supply of live steam on the farm? It means a liberal supply of boiling water for washing cans or clothes, for s-eitlding or cooking sfcoek food, a.ml you ca'i secure these advantages at a very small cos', by purchstsing a "New Century" bioaruf-r. One ftoed fire provides stea'Ti for about two hours, and can be left with oerfect safety. The "Now Century" combines the strong pcintaof the ordinary portable wasbnar c&ppw and the high pressure steam boiler without their disadvantages. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington,

The Kuripuni Dancing Assembly purpose holding a dance at an early date in aid of the Masterton Hospital. The annual meeting of the Star Cricket Club will be held in Messrs W. B. Chennells and Co.'s rooms, this evening. The members of the Hibernian Society are invited to attend the funeral of the late Mrs F. Siemonek, which will leave St. Patrick's Church, at 2.30 p.m., to-day. Mr VV. Gillanders, assistant organising secretary of the Y.M.C.A. for Australasia, will visit Masterton in about three weeks and will probably deliver a lecture on Y.M.C.A. matters generally. v The Farmers' Union Advocate states that Mr H. Lan Simpson, Chairman of the Hastings branch of the Farmers' Union, will be a candidate for the Hawke's Bay seat at the next general election. The Methodist Young Women's Bible Classes of the Wellington district have subscribed the sum of £Bl towards sending a lady missionary to work amongst the Maoris in a district yet to be decided on.

Since December 16th last 1,577 sacks of wheat and 14,431 sacks of flour have been exported from Melbourne to New Zealand, and the week before last [450 sacks of flour were shipped from Sydney. , Says the Dunedin Star-—"We hear that a Government official once stationed here has been ordered to return to Dunedin on account of certain irregularities involving over £2OO, but has not done so up to the present."' ~, With regard to the limitation of the catches of fish, Mr T. E. Donne informed the Rotorua correspondent of the Auckland Herald that the Government had decided that the limit be 501b weight of trout, or 25 fish per rod per diem. The case of Heron v. Masterton Borough Council, a claim for damage to property, «'hich was heard at the Masterton Magistrate's Court some weeks ago, has been settled, and the plaintiff has agreed to pay the assesSDrs' and counsel's fees. A Press Association telegram from Napier states that an inauest on the body' of John Morris Shannon, who was found hanging by a strap in an outhouse of the Stratford Lodge Hotel on Sunday morning was held, yesterday afternoon, and a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned. In emphasising the value of a nation teaching the young idea how to shoot —with a rifle —an ex-champion rifleman, at the conference of school committees at Dunedin, last week, asserted that a thousand trained boys who could shoot were a better asset to the colony than a.thousand footballers. The amount of ga3 manufactured at the Masterton gasworks during rmnth was 2,02:5,100 cubic feet he'll 3 an increase of 485,400 cubic feit over the amount made during tha corresponding month last yeai*. This is an increase of 31.46 per cent. The amount of gas sold per meter during last month was 1,725,900 cubic feet, an increase of 357.300 cubic feet over the amount sold-dur-ing August* 1906. The receipts for the month amounted to £768 7s 2d. Mr C. N. Mcintosh, formerly of Timaru, witing from Cordoba, in Argentine, to a friend in Christchurch, says:—"l have just finished a drive of 750 miles through the country. One can have no idea of the area going under crops unless, he has actually seen it for himself. For days on end we drove through nothing but fields of linseed and wheat, just shooting through the ground. Given a good year, and no locusts to destroy the crops, Argentine's production of cereals this year will be something enormous."

D;iriny the proceedings at the social in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms last evening, the President (Mr P. L. Rollings) took occasion to refer to the excellent services rendered by the honorary secretary, Mr A. E. Rees. In all matters connected with the Y.M.C.A. Mr Rees had worked untiringly to help the Association along. At the recent bazaar the secretary had proved himself an indefatigable worker and the success of the Fair was in a trreat 1 measure due to his efforts. The Presi ident had much pleasure in present' ing Mr Rees, on behalf of the members of the Association, with a watch and chain, the former suitably inscribed, in recognition of his ser- ' vices. The recipient suitably acknowledged the gift. "The great trouble in regard to people rot keeping their orchards clean," said Mr A. Williamson, Inspector of Orchards in an address at Gisborne, "is the way in which they render useless the work of their neighbours, who do take trouble." Mr Williamson went on to say that evexy latitude had been given to people to comply with the Act. Some had received warning after warning, and then simply made excuses; in some cases there were temporary tenants who did not think the responsibility should be placed on them; others stated that they had sprayed but did not know even the spray they used. It would be necessary, he feared, for the protection of those who did take the trouble, to have the penal clauses of the Act put in force against those who continued to ignore the warnings. The full period of grace had expired, and negligent ones need not be surprised if they were brought before a magistrate. It was not only the loss they occasioned to themselves; it was the needless trouble and expense they occasioned to their neighbours that had also to be considered. Fruit trees that were not looked after were better cut down than left as a menace to the orchards surrounding. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIEP. THE FAMOUS SANDER AND SONS" PUBE VOLATILE KICMiYPTI EXwas pmveJ by experts at the Sup remo Court of Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its own, and to be absolutely safe, effective and reliable. Therefore do not aggravate your complaint by the use of one of tiu mnny crude eucalyptus oils which are now palmed off as "'Extracts," and from the use of which a death was reported recently, but insist upon the GENUINE SaNDKK- iV SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTBACT, add reject all others. Ilheuni'iti-m can be cured - then why \v ; ll you continue to suffer. Bheumo has effected wonderful cures for others, after all else had failed. It will cure you. Try it. *

At Roxburgh last week a man was; fined 10s.and costs . for. being in a hotel yard on a Sunday forenoon without a lawful excuse. The colonial mails which left Sydney on August 6th, per K.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, arrived in London on the morning of tht,jiL3th inst. ;-'' T T T "- An old veteran of the Crimea has passed away in the person of Mr James Blake, of Papatawa, who died at his residence at half-past eight on Sunday evening. The Morris Tube Association will hold the final shoots for the Holmes Trophy, and the B Class Trophy, under the usual conditions, tomorrow night, when all ties and finals will be fired. Mr A. E. Hall, prospector, brought into Woodville, last week, says the Woodville Examiner, some excellent specimens of copper obtained on MrJ. Fabian's property adjoining the Maharahara Company's property. A number of settlers at the Hundalee Settlement, says the Marlborough Herald, are introducing the electric light into their dwellings, and have completed a dam across Te Mukuri (Dog Creek) for that purpose. Much interest is taken in the experiment. Sir Joseph Ward has received favourable responses from the Mayors of towns in all parts of the colony in reply to his suggestion that Thursday, September 26th, should be observe;! as a public holiday in honour of th? proclamation of New Zealand as a Dominion.

It is estimated that the 18 months* drought at Oamaru has cost the diftrict not far short of a million sterling. On the last grain harvest, as compared with previous averages, therj war a loss of £200,000, and' the loss on th-i decreased output of butter ran into nearly another £50.0(!0. It has been carefully computed that, about 75 per cent, of cattle and 50 per cent, of sheep that were in the district twelve months ago have been potted or exported to more favoured districts. If butter factories were centralised in Taranalri as in the Argentine, said Mr S. Turner in an with the Eltham Argus, the system in vogue would be after this fashion: Express trains doing sixty miles an hour would pick up the cream every morning about 4 or 5 o'clock, from convenient depots a'ong the line, and convey it.to the factories in Wei >i rig ton, where it would be made into butter the same day. From the factories the butter wouid be loaded on Home-going vessels, and transhipment would be 'unnecessary. Prior to racing at Newmarket the King sent for his trainer, By Marsh, and congratulated him y«i the successes recently achieved wrm horses in the Royal stud. His Majesty, with charming graciousness. remarked to Marsh: "It's no use giving you any more pins,", and placing a small packet in the trainer's hand, added, "Take this as a little souvenir for your wife." Thegift was a handsome brooch in diamond?, representing a racehorse at full gallop, with the jockey bearing the Royal colours. A few, years aeo His Majesty presented Marsh with, the Coronation medal. Some indication of what a drought means to farmers is given by the returns of free carriage of fodder and transhipment of starving stock in Ots-go during the drought. It is estimated tha 1 ; quite 9,300 tons of fodder had to be purchased by the farmers to keep their, stock alive,, while a good many animals were transported to Southland for pasture. Within the past month or more there ha 3 passed' through Dunedin from Southland, for Central Otago and North Otago, over 1,500 waggons, averaging at times between 50 and 60 waggons per day. This abnormal traffic was due to the free railway facilities granted by the Government to droughttroubled farmers.

Last Saturday Albert Mercer, barely two years of age, had a miraculous escape from death, says the Patea Press. The cabs were leaving the railway station after the arrival of the mail train, when the child ran across the road in front of them. The first cab succeeded in pulling off sufficiently to miss the child, but a landau which was following immeditely behind knocked the youngster down, and the wheels of the vehicle passed over his body. Everybody whosaw the incident, expected the child to be killed, and there was general astonishment when on being picked up he showed his animation by screaming. He was driven to Dr. Simmons, who ascertained that no bones had been broken, and the child was taken home but little the worse.

A kitchen-man is wanted for the Prince of Wales Hotel. An experienced tailoress is wanted for Gisborne. The Deputy Official Assignee in. Bankruptcy, Mr W. B. Chennells, gives notice of a dividend in the estate of Mr J. W. Mcßae. Messrs R. Hannah and Co. are now opening their new season's stock of cricket and tennis boots and shoes. \ Prices are quoted in the Wanted Column. By announcement elsewhere those who are desirous of selling or exchanging pi-operties are requested to communicate with Orchard's Agency, Manners Street, Wellington. The auction sale of the whole cf the stock of the iiook Arcade Company will be commenced to-morrow, and continued on Friday and Saturday. The auctioneer, Mr J. 11. Nicoi, has instructions to sell every line without the slightest reserve. An inset giving further particulars will be circulated to-morrow. A reliable watch, for minimum price, is offered by Mr A. Henderson, jeweller, Queen Street. Mr Henderson has also special facilities in his optical department for attending to the wants of those in need of spectacles, and a stock of the best glasses is kept by him. The latest appliances for sight testing are used, and special attention is given to this department. When you need a good and reliable liniment try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, It has no superior for tprains and swellings. A piece of iiannel slightly dampened with Pain Balm is superior to a plaEter for Jama back or pains in the chest or side. It al ;o relieves rheumntic pains arc! makes sleep and rest possible. For sale by all dealers.