LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8990, 27 November 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following grants for roads, bridges, etc., are on the supplementary estimates passed by Parliament: —Fencing road taken through small grazing run, No 4, Mangatoro Survey district, .£247; Makuri Domain Boa I'd (for protection of Domain ground from erosion by river), £4O; Eskdaleroad (£ for £),<£2so; 'iVeber to Waiono (£ for £), .5100: Mangaone Survey district, section 120, block 1, Eketahuna (level crossing), £10; Uruti-Langdale road to post office, £SO; Maungaru to Fernyhurst, £SO; Waihakeke to Tnumata (Wairarapa South), £SO; erection of bridge over lagoon at section 8, block 0, Tawaha, £IU. It is stated that the Government will return a favourable answer to the protests against the heavy duty Imposed on Weldon's Journal, i

The Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Bill, which was put through all its stages in the House of Representatives, empowers the Governor to expend up to £5,000 for the purchase of land to be vested in trustees for the Maori owners, in exchange for certain lands on the shores of the Wairarapa Lake. The Chinese Immigrants Amendment Bill (imposing an education test of 100 words in English, besides the £IOO poll tax) and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act Amendment Bill (abolishing as grounds for.divorce failure to comply with a decree for the restitution of conjugal rights, and extending the grounds for divorce to include ten years' lunacy, and conviction for the murder of a child of petitioner or respondent) have been reserved by his Excellency the Governor for the Royal assent. The statement of Edwin Whitefield Gunther, adjudged bankrupt, shows that the debts oning to unsecured creditors amount to £(59 9s 9d, while the assets are set down at nil. Among the creditors is .the Masterton Hospital, to which £l2 10s is owing. The other creditors are numj etous, and the amounts due to them ! are individually smali.

"I notice a lot of sleek councillors around the table, and I wonder how they would get on with 8s per day," said Cr Yarr at the meeting of the borough council last evening. He had moved a motion that the wages of the casual labourers in the employ of the boi-ough should be raised from to 9s per day, and forseeing from the trend of the discussion that the motion would be lost, he was making a final appeal to the cuuneil on behalf of the employees. The appeal, however, was in vain. The staff at the Masterton railway station is kept busy at present in handling consignments of wool. An average of between 700 and 800 bales is despatched every week. Twenty trucks of sheep were sent from the Masterton railway station to Petone yesterday morning. Another twenty tx-ucks passed through from Pahiatua to the same destination. Entries for the- best dairy cow class in connection with the coming Masterton show, w.hich close on Saturday next, promise to be more numerous than last year. Up to the present sixteen entries are asaui'ed, while last year they only numbered thirteen. The cows will be judged about the middle of next month. The fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade was held last evening, Captain Jenkins presiding. Leave of absence was granted to Firemen Holmes and Hounslow. The secretary of + he Carterton Fire' Brigade wrote asking the brigade to recommend u judge and timekeeper for the fire brigade events at the Carterton Friendly Societies' sports. It was decided to leave the matter over till the next meeting. The secretary of the U.F.B.A. wrote intimating that the executive had agreed to the dates fixed for the fire brigades' conference at Masterton, March 9th to March 16th, 1908. Engineer Norman tendered his resignation as an active member of the brigade, which was accepted with regret. Hydrantman Church applied for a two years* service bar. The financial position of the terton Borough Council is as follows: ■ —General Account, di\, £6,838 10s lOd; Gas Account, cr., £737 10s 3d; Library Account, cr., £lB 16s 2d; Wateiworks Account, dr., £Bll 6s i lid; Deposits Account, cr , £147 10s; Abattoir Account, cr., £l9l 13s lOd; Interest Account, drainage, cr., £IOO 2s 2d; Interest Account, Bannister street, dr., £24 19s; Interest Account, £25,000 Loan, cr., £53 12s 3d; Loan Account, drainage, cr., £ll4 4s 4d; Special Loan Account, £25,(>00, cr., schedule A £475 0s 4d; schedule B £1,130 ISs 3d, schedule C £5Ol 16s 9d, schedule I) £460 3s lOd, schedule E £568 lite sd, schedule F £154 lis sd. The following members of the Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade intend to coinnete at the Friendly Societies' sports at Carterton: —Messrs J. O'Leary, O. Maymond, H. Selby,. IL Clarke, T. Elder, T. Fielding, F. Jackson and E. G. McEwen. The net overdraft 'he Masterton Borough Council now stands at £3,019 17s 9d. The rates outstanding amount of £G.G6B 17s, of which amount £283 14s 9d was due before April Ist last. The Tawaha Co-operative Dairy Company has received the following report from the Government cheese grader (Mr W. Grant) in reference to cheese recently consigned, by the company Flavour, maximum points 50, points obtained 43; body apd texture, maximum points 30, points obtained 27; colour, maximum points 15, points obtained 14J ; finish, maximum points 5, points obtained 5; totals, maximum points 100, points obtained 89-1»

Mr M. Mori arty, once a resident of Ashburton, says the Ashburton Mail, has forwarded a shark's tooth (.0 the Mayor for the local museum. The tooth is a particularly large one, and was found in the Masterton range, Wairarapa, SO miles from the coast. It was 25 feet beneath the surface, and embedded in some sandstone strata. However, it is not unusual for such a find to be made, as shark's teeth have been found on the tops of the Ruahine ranges; but this specimen is remarkable for its size and its excellent state of preservation. The discovery of such fossils seem to prove the mutability of the "unchanging" mountains, and suggests that they must have been at one time below the sea. On the motion of the Mayor, at the Borough Council meeting, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Moriarty, and the clerk was instructed to write thanking him. CONFIDENCE IN THE "L.K.G," The confidence with which Iliopubic accept the milking machine to day is in strong contrast to the scepticism of three .veavs Why is this? Because prior, to the 1 LK.Cx." every machine proved an | afc?o!u f e failure, and the publio fully ex- I prot< d thatft like fate would also overtake j the "L.K.G.but to-day the public know that it ha 3 bfon thoroughly tested by hun- | drcds cf practical farmers who have proved by five years o( constant use that it is thoroughly successful, You don't take nnyri&k if you buy the machine thai, has been thoroughly proved. MncEvv&fl &Co., Sole Agents, V.B.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.

The following tenders have been accepted by the Wellington Education Board for repairs to schools in its district:—Hastwell School, alterations and painting, McKenzie and Brenchley, £62 ; Mangamahoe School, repairs and painting, P. Clayton, £lB 10s; Kakariki, painting,. T. Bailey and Co., £l3 14s; Rangitumau, repairs and painting, F. T. Harding, £2B 10s; Mangaone School, repairs and painting, T. Bailey and Co., £44; Matahiwi School, painting, F. Harding, £2O Is 4d. Mr W. P. James, S.M., presided at the sitting of the Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning. A first i offender was fined ss, hours' imprisonment for having been drunk. For a similar offence John Whelan was filled ss, and ordered to pay 7s 6d medical expenses. Isaac Chadwick Taylor was fined 4Cs, in default seven days' imprisonment, for having used obscene language in Queen street on Monday evening last. In the case of O. G. Monro, architect, v. Mrs H. Hammond, a claim for £22 13s lOd for professional fees, judgment was entered for £l2 13s lOd with costs £1 12s. The counterclaim for £22 19s 6d was withdrawn without prejudice. The competitions held recently by the Martinborough Fire Brigade resulted as follows:—Three men event: Lieutenant Tyler's team, 41 3-ss'ec, 1; Branchman Thomas' team, 42 2-5 sec, 2. One man competition: Fireman Rowden, lmin 43sec, 1; Lieutenant Tyler, lmin 47sec, 2. The Featherston Rifle Club fired a fnatch on Saturday last, the conditions. being ten shots each at the 200 yards and 500 yards ranges. Mr H. Williams (scratch) was first, with a score of 92 out of a possible 100. Mr J. Parker (12 points) was second with 91 points, and Mr W. Wakely (scratch) third with 84 points. Major Hughes inspected the Featherston but's, on Saturday last, ard considered them satisfactory in every way. There is a plentiful supply of grass in the Nireaha district at present, and stock are in really good ccndition. About 2.600 gallons of milk per day are being received at the Nireaha Dairy Company's facjtsry. A larger area than last year mns been sown down in crop. It is generally considered tint, from a dairying point of view, this season will be the best ever experienced in the Forty-Mile Bush. Compared with former seasons, there is a large increase in the amount of milk being supplied to factories and a good price is being obtained for butter-fat. During the past two days beneficial rain has fallen in the Eketahuna district. An Eketahuna farmer, wh."> has installed a milking-machine on his farm, states that three of his employees recently milked sixty cows in ninety minutes by means of the machine. The short story competition held in connection with the "Lone Hand Magazine" (Sydney) has been 'won by Miss Dulcie Deamer, eldest daughter of Dr. Deamer, of Featheiston. The competition was op£n to all writers - in the Australasian' colonies, and some hundreds of stoiies were sent in. Miss Deamer is barely 17 years of age, and the securing of the prize reflects the greatest credit on her. On Saturday last the first wool of the season from Morison's Bush w?s sent away from Mr Tyer's-station to be railed to Wellington. Haymaking is in full swing in the Lower Valley, and the yield:promises to be a good one. • tinned dry weathtr is causing farmers, who have oats and other crops, considerable anxiety. If rain does not come shortly, the crops will suffer considerably. It has been suggested by a number of influential natives in the Lower Valley that, in connection with; the sale of certain land on the foreshore of the Wairarapa Lake to the Government by the Native Trustees, the State should devote the purchasemoney for the erection on behalf of the Maoris of a school for dairy instruction situated in a central position in the Wairarapa. It is understood tor at the money available for the purpose amounts to £5,000, and that the proposal may possibly be considered by the Hon J. Carroll (Native Minister), Hon. R. McNab (Minister for Lands), j and the Chairman of the Trustees | Council (MrH.. Ptirata). I As illustrating the danger to< which, children are exposed when, gate climbing, says the Grey town Standard, the other day Mrs Baker, when passing along Udy Street, Grey-town, found a child of about five years of age hung up by the chin to-a picket on a gate. The child was black in. the face when released, and to allappearances had but a few minutes t& live. As it was, the child tcolc a cota>siderabb time to recover when, re- | leased. I An old landmark in Carterton, King's grocery store in High Street, is being demolished and removed to Lower Kent- Street, where in future it will serve as a dwelling house. Although the shop was amongst the first built in Carterton, the timber in it is perfectly sound. A garden fete, in aid of the funds of St. Andrew's Church, Carterton, will be held in Dr. Johnston's grounds, "Carrington Lodge," Carterton, on December 12th. Coonoor and Makuri, in the Pahiatua district, are now connected by telephone. TWO S<" VEIiFIGX KKMEIME^. Tllft FAMOUS bANDKK AND SONS' PUKE VOLATILE lin.ALYl'i] KNTK a CT was provc-tl by experts at the Sap reme Court of Victoiia to possess curative properties pieuliarly its own, and to be absolutely safe, < lTective and reliable. Therefore c o not a gin vale your cc lr, plaint by the use rf one of the many orude eueaiyptuti < ils which are now pa-mpd oif ".Ixirncts," and froiutbe use cf which a, death wn j reported lecpntlv, but insist Upon the(• T? . V U!NE SANDSfiK <v HONS' EUCALYi II EXTRACT, and reject all others. For wrink'cs, sunburn, pimples, blackheads, freckles, cracked hands, dry and inflamed &Vm, use SANDER & SONS' 1 SUPKHCA SKIN FOOD. No lady should bo without it. All.tjs irritation, produces a ckar nnd spotless complexion, and a. auooth »'iid supple skin. KEMEMBEK that SANDEK it SONS' SUPELBA SKIN FOOD is not oidinan fa.oo cream, and unlike of the in,predicts a permanent All cbemifts and stores,

A child named Roy Alexander met his death in a peculiar way in a Victorian township recently. He put his head through the arrnhole of a pianafore hanging out to dry on the clothes line. He ran round and round until the pinafore formed a cord and tightened roun J his neck and choked him. On January Ist, 1905, Alfred. Boldner, who had in Windsor (Victoria), with his wife and two children, suddenly disappeared. During the day he had visited his mother and in the evening he attended church in company with his sister and a relative. After church he, with his sister jmd the citoer laly. went to the beach aFElwo«a; Boldner bathed on one part of the beach and his sister on another. The second lady remained on the sand. As the water was rough the sister stopped in only a few minutes. She then found the other lady and the two. waited for Boldner. He did not return, and it "was thought that sharks had attacked and probably eaten him. Insurance money totalling £2OO was paid to his supposed widow. A resident of Footscray, says a Melbourne paper, now declares I hat hn met Boldner a few •days ago at the Moonee Valley racecourse, and had a conversation with him. A second man asserts that he also saw him. The insurance money has since been returned. Boldner was apparently in comfortable circumstances. It seems a most extraordinary 1 thing, but to all appearances the fact remains, that an opportunity for obtaining an apprenticeship on the oversea sailing ship is denied the youth of the dominion. There is, the Otago Daiiy Times is informed, a very apparent disposition on the part of owners of sailing vessels of importance not to take from New Zealand, preferring to indenture j them in England. An endeavour just > made in Dunedin to apprentice a youth to the sea in a sailing ship met with no success whatever, and it was fuitherir.ora discovered, after exhaus- i tive inquiries, that it would not only be highly difficult to arrange an apprenticeship from that end, but practically out of the question. The reason is difficult to find. It may be that the finish sailing ship is a vanishing qjjppitity, or that the sailing ship generally is being so superseded by the steamer that but few opportunities'for securing an opening for apprentices now present themselves, and those that do exist are too eagerly sought after. There are certainly openings to be bad in Home training ships, but the payments demanded there are very heavy, the premium for the first voyage alone in one instance being £7O, with almost sim 1 irly large amounts in each succeeding year of apprenticeship. The "crawl" to Carnegie'for an additional £SOO for the Dannevirke library has been unsuccessful, says the Dannevirke Press. Andrew considers that the £2,000 already given should be enough for a building to suit such a town as Dannevirke. Further, he bluntly tells the Council that if they had found the money insufficient, the plans should have been re cast. This is unpleasant, but true. Two thousand pounds' charity was surely enough. The Council, however, is' to make a further prayer for crumbs from the rich man's table. The Canterbury College Board of Governors, at a meeting the other day, resolved to increase the public library subscriptions with, the object of reducing the annual deficit which now takes place. The board a'so resolved to procure legal advice as to whether it is solely responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the library. of the prosperity of Auckland is given by the city valuer on the supplementary list for the three months ended November 30th, which amount to £5,000, representing buildings which have been completed during the period. Of course, the larger buildings have taken more than three months to construct, but on the other hand a great number are now in course of construction.The £5,000 extra ratable value represents a capital outlay on buildings completed during three months of close upon £IOO,OOO. Agricultural and pastoral reports frorr. mid-Canterbury are cheering. Lambing in the upper, district, on tlje Rakaia river, show a percentage of 100 to 105. Crops are thriving, and the root crops coming up. Cereals ave backward, but are making good progress. Stojk feed is plentiful, and stock is looking well. The lambing percentage is slightly over the average. The dry weather is not suiting farmers in the Lincoln district so well, everything being backward. Larpbs will not be ready for market so early as in years paat. An effort is being made by the Health Depaitrnent t) inaugurate a scheme for the improvement of the milk supply of Auckland. Drring the visit of the Chief Health Officer (Dr. Mason) to Auckland a meeting of the milk suppliers will probably be held and .they will be informed of what the Health Department considers to be reasonable lines of reform and will be asked to take the fSwtter in hand themselves. In speaking on the subject to a New Zealand Herald reporter, Dr. Purdy, District Health Officer, stated that pasteurisation was now being regarded as the most satisfactory means of dealing with the milk s.ipply. "It was thought at ore time," he said, "that pasteurisation might interfere with the nutritive properties of the milk, but experience has proved that this idea was greatly exaggerated; whereas, on the other hand, any dangers are obviated by the pasteurisation and boiling of milk."

THE CIIARM ( F MUSIC. Kings cf old hav.i Iwen sootbed wifh music; tired nerves have relaxed under ils benign Influence; unci old ace has •quickened and pulsitfd 1 iko the fiery spirits of youth. There is nothing like music. To he able to produce harmonies —delightful sounds this i est and soothe, surely is athn«to In de ire-]! Have you ft piano in your home? If not, think what you aro missing. Piano warehouses nowadays are almost philanthropic in the way in which they give opportunities for •everyone to have music, l'or a trifling sum down, and small instalments monthly, the Dresden Piano Co., Wellington, will " make yon the possessor of a superb instrument. You will never miss ihe payments—they are st microscoi.io—and in a short time the piano will be your very •own. Write, or call upon the Dresden' 3 Agent for Miwtcrton for more information.

The Dunedin Star states that the sixteen bookmakers now in gaol in for trespassing on Riccarton Racecourse will shortly be released. This step will be taken on account of the provision in the new Gaming Act, which legalises bookmaking and authorises bookmakers being allowed on racecourses. On enquiry, yesterday, a Post representative was informed by the Minister for Justice that a number of applications had been received from book ■ makers in gaol praying to be released. These applications have not been considered by Cabinet. Mr M'Gowan points out that the Gaming Act is not retrospective. The statement published by the Dunedin Star is, he says, premature. A drover of long experience gives it as his opinion chat a dog used for mustering on rough country will no;; last more than seven years. Police-Inspector Cullen, who has returned to Auckland-from a week's tour of inspection round the King Country stations, says that the stride reports in connection with the employment of Austrians on the railway formation works there have been very much exaggerated. The men when he passed through were all at work, and apparently tolerably contented with their working conditions, with the exception of a few malcontents. A Dunedin miller on Friday, speaking to a repi-esentative of the Star*, as to how the drop of 80s per ton on flour and 20s per ton on offal would affect the millers, said that unless the price of wheat fell relatively to the drop in flour the miller would probably be in a similar position to what he was a few months back, selling flour below cost. Reckoning wheat at 6s delivered in Dunedin, the loss to the manufacturers would not be less than 20s per ton. The quantities of Australian flour coming in had forced the millers to bring down the price. Until the new wheat was ready in February they would not be able to buy wheat, which was really not obtainable. He had not the slightest doubt that there would now be a reduction in the pries of br^ad. The price of horse feed is exceedingly high at present, and this must be a matter of serious moment to owners and small traders. A member of one large firm in Dunedin remarked the other day to a Dunedin Star reporter, that it cost them 22s a week for feed for each of their horses, while at ordinary times it only cost them lis or 12s. Measles are rife in Waipawa and around Kaikora, and the attendances at the two school' in those districts have suffered severely. At Waipawa there are sixty children absent, reducing the attendance from 200 to 140. There is a water famine on a small scale at Martinborough. A large number of tanks are empty, and there is evidence of a shortness of water in some of the wells. A subsidy of £l7. 13s 6d has been voted by the Wellington Education Board for fencing the grounds at the Dalqfield school. Trout are said to he very plentiful in a number of streams in the Forty-Mile Bush district, and several anglers from Palmerston North and Hawke's Bay are reported to have obtained record bags. An advertiser has to let furnished single and double bedrooms. An advertiser requires an office boy. The proprietor of the Tip-top and White fruit shops is a purchaser of gooseberries in any quantity. The finder of a ladies' purse bag lost on the Masterton -Te Wharau road is asked to leave same at Age office. Special lines of children's summer shoes are to hand in all sizes at Mr J. Carpenter's Centra! shoe store. A price list appears elsewhere in this issue. Th r> Y.M.C.A. Derating Club will meet to-night, at 7.30 o'clock. A paper will be read by Mr Alex. Donald, and a committee will be set up to arrange for a social evening. Messrs O. McWilliams and Co., land agents, Palmerson North, advertise particulars of a " number" of handysized farms, which have been placed in their bauds for sale. Tenders for the subdivisional survey of a large Educational reserve, near Aifredton, are invited by the Wellington School Commissioners in this issue. Tenders close on December 12th. At the residence of Mr J. King, on Thursday, December 2nd, Messrs H. 'E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell the whole of his furniture aiid household effects. Particulars of the lines will be published in a future issue. Glass, crockery, silver and plated ware are in full supply at the W.F.C.A. fancy department. The sporting lines stocked include tennis and cricket requisites and fishing tackle by b'jst makers. Mr Newton King offers for sale a well-appointed farm of 150 acres. The terms and particulars of the property, which are advertised elsewhere, pronounce this an exceptional offer for a man of limited capital. Messrs Townsend and Cowper, saddlers and harness makers, are prepared to supply harness and saddle-y specially made of best quality. A full stock of all saddle ar.d harness requisites are on hand at bedrock prices. At their rooms, Perry Street, on Saturday next, on account of Mr Edward Collie, of Wellington, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell a large assortment of general furniture, particulars of which are published elsewhere.

Ladies should be interested in the very attractive display of millinery being made by the Misses Wrigley in the Exchange buildings, next to the Arcadia Tea Rooms. The show is a highly creditable one, all the latest and most fashionable styles in millinery being tastefully arranged, and shown to advantage. The Misses Wrigley make a specialty of temodelling and re-trimming, while all orders receive their best attention, and patrons are guaranteed satisfaction. The prices for all work are particularly moderate. A Tenant Dispossessed. A tenant which is quickly dispossessed by Dr. {Sheldon's New Discovery is a cough or cold. Cures when all else fails. Price Is < ! d. and 3i. Obtainable (10m H. E. Eton's, Chemi3t,

Captain Livingston, who brought ( out the Maori, has gone home to act as assistant building supervising engineer at Clyde for the Union Steamship Company. Fruit crops in the Otago Central district promise phenomenal yields of apricots, pears, cherries, and peaches this season. Poultry-farming is being carried on extensively in the Tauranga district The export of eggs in the laying season is about 12,000 per week. Two years ago a cancer patient in Hawke's Bay claimed to have been cured of his trouble by the systematic eating of molasses, and from time to time since then various people suffering from the disease have made similar claims. The medical faculty scout the idea that any permanently curative properties exist in "golden syrup." The most recent case of an alleged cure is reported from Sydney, where a Mrs Wilson, a cancerous patient, had been operated on in 1905, with only temporary relief, Finding the cancer again growing, this lady is said to have gone in for a systematic eating of treacle. For the past year the growth lias been dying, until now, it is claimed, she is almost cured. It has not yet been stated what particular properties treacle possesses as an enemy to these growths, any more than it hts been explained how a belief in some quarters exists that to matoes and bacon are a cause of cancer. The use of pills i : often followed by constipation that many i uffe-eis fromsto nach disoitiers hesitate about lakirg them. 'I here r.eed be no hesiirition about takirg Chambailain's Tab'ets, for their use id never followed by consUfation, in fact, llicy cure comp'aiijt in ils most chronic form Fo' side by fill dealers. E. K. Hill, B ilgitown, W.A , wri'es ' From rerscnal expeiimce I can testify to tho (fficaoy of Chimb'rliiin's Cough Remedy. Last wii:ter I was troubled with a very bad ccugh, and tried Chambeilnin'a Cough Femedv which quickly cured me. Now 1 keep a buttle on hand, and take a di se at the tirst symptom of a cold, and have > ever finrc hi.d a or cough For sale by all dealers-