LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8999, 9 December 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An old man, named Robert Mold, a resident of Gladstone, met with a serious accident on the road bar tween Masterton and Gladstone on Saturday evening. A coach, 'owned by Mr Thos. Koyth, of Gladstone, runs from Gladstone to Masterton and returns daily, and Mold was a passenger on the return journey on Saturday. It appears, from statements received by the police, that the driver of the. coach, Charles Green/ fell oft' the cuach about two miles past Mr W. WardeM's residence. Control over the horses having thus been lost, they bolted, and after going about two chains distance, the vehicle was capsized. Moid was thrown out and pinned to the ground by a portion of the overturned coach. Dr. Cowie was communicated with by telephone, and went out to the scene of the accident. The doctor found that Mold had had his right arm fractured in two places. The injured man was brought into the Masterton hospital. The driver of the coach was uninjured. The results of the games played on the Masterton Bowling Green, on Saturday af lernoon, were as follow: —Dixon, Haughey, McEwen, Gordon (skip), 22. beat Pike, Beale, B»rtlett, Prentice (skip), 17; Johnson, Moss, Pragnell, Prentice (skip), 17, beat Blink home, Boagey, Cameron, Ewington (skip), 1G; Blackman, ArnoH. Johnson, Ewington (skip), 15, beat Butt-rev. Seale, Hunter, Yates (skip), 14; Holling*, 22. beat Boagey, iZ; Cameron, 25, beat 0. Pragnell, 14; Blinkhorne, 19, beat Wilkie, 17; McEwen, 24, beat Robieson, 20; McEwen, 22, beat' Lawrence 10; Prentice, 31,' beat Beale, 11.

At a meeting of the executive committee of St. Patrick's Day Sports Association, on Saturday evening, Mr H. O'Leary presiding, the programme for the annual sports, on March 14th next, as drawn up by the programme committee, was adopted. Owing to the dangerous nature of the bicycle tnuk in the park, no bicycle events included in the programme, but, instead, an additional number o? foot-races and some swimming events have been added. The swimming races will take place in the park lake and should prove an interesting feature of the programme. Frederick Newman, alias Wilson, was charged at the Police Court, on Saturday morning, before Mr Eli Smith, J.P., with having forged a cheque for £8 10s on the Bank of Australasia, Masterton, purporting to be signed by H. G. Williams, Lansdowne. On the application of the police, the accused was remanded to appear before Mr W. P. James, S.M., this morning. Permisson has been given by the Wairarapa Caledonian Society to Messrs U. Johnstone, and Watling, of Dannevirke, to arrange a chopping match, for .£2O aside, at the Society's sports on New Year's Day. The match iis purely a private one, but should form an iiitesresting feature of the programme. The logs will be sft Sin in length, and 4ft Sin in girth. At an auction sale of property in Christehurch, last week, an eighteen feet frontage on High Street was sold at the rate of .£405 10s a foot. SII(V KSS KUI, M 11, KIN (.1 JVIA(' I! I \ iO. Writing in reference tu the "Lawrence-Kciinedy-<iillies" Milking Machine. .Mr John Mathioson. of Tomahawk, says, " [ have c(iinc to Hi", conclusion that Ihe money was well invested installing the "L.K.t.-J." 1 have been using four machines, ami can honestly say have found no ill effects after flic second year's milking on the same cows. I ha,ve tried (lie cows at intervals, and always found the quantity fully more with the machine than )>y hand. Since obtaining tin; new inflations and mouthpieces nine months ago, have had practically no expense with the upkeep." MacEwans. Ltd., sole agents, U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.

Mr A. J. Wicks, representing the Trinity. College of Music, London,.! held the hallVyearly examination in the theory of music in the Masterton District High School, on Saturday morning. The results will not be made known until March next. Mr. Wicks intends to appoint a local honorary representative of the Trinity College in Masterton, vice the late Mr A. E. von Keisenberg, who held the position for many years. The employees of the W.F.C.A. intend to noid a swimming race in the Park Lake this evening. There are about, i:\ve.jty entries, and the event is creating considerable interest. The distance will be fifty yards, and the prize will be a valuable trophy. Mr D. Caa'-lberg will act in the capacity of judgt-, Mr Jas. Scott staiter, and Mr E. Richards handicapper. Before Mr Eii Smith, J.P., at the Police Court on Saturday morning, Michiul Mooney was fined £3, in default i'o;a teen days imprisonment, for drunkenness, it being the accused's third offence within six months. Peter Neilson was, also, charged with drunkenness, and fined £1 in default 43 hours' imprisonment. The privileges in connection with the forthcoming sports of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society, on New Year's Day, were sold at auction by Mr J. R. Nicol on Saturday. The prices realised and the purchasers were as- follow :—Publican's booth, Mr Firman, Carterton, £29 10s; luncheon booth, Mr E. Polling, £6 15s; fruit stall, Mr J. Scorrar, £7 15s. The Stewards of the Masterton Trotting Club have decided to license bookmakers at their trotting meeting on December 19th at a fee of £lO. This fee will entitle the bookmaker to the services of a clerk. The return last week from the Antonio dredge was 230z 1 Idwt. The ground committee of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society visited the showgrounds on Saturday afternoon, and made arrangements for the preparatior of the running track and a few necessary alterations and improvements in view of the forthcoming sports on New Year's Day. Mr J. C. Cooper has informed an Eketahuna Express reporter that he has received strong requisitions to offer himself as a candidate for the Pahiatua seat at the next general election; Mr Cooper is withholding his reply pending the bringing for ward of a strong candidate to oppose Mr A. W. Hogg for the Masterton seat. Mr M. Hodgins, formerly of Mangaone Valley, and brother of Mr T. Hodgins, chairman of the Pahiatua County Council, has been elected to a vacant seat on the Borough Council at Lower Hutt.

Settlers in the Kaiparoro district have commenced shearing. There is every indication that the clip this year will be a good one. Messrs R. Gyde and 11. Dunstone have been elected members of the Newman School Committee, vice Messrs T. Youle and H. Fredericksen, who have forfeited their seats through non-attendance at meetings. The work of erecting the new police station at Carterton is nearing completion. The contractor, Mr H. Trotman, of Greytown, commenced the work about a month ago. The funds of the Greytown Library will benefit to the extent of about £8 by the Garden Fete held in Greytown on Thursday last. A meeting of the directors of the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company will be held on Wednesday next at 1.30 p.m. Private C. R. Fairbrother has been elected acting-Colour-Sergeant of the Carterton Rifle Volunteers. Captain Skey, Lieutenants Hart and Toomath, and Messrs Pulsford, McKcnzie and Fairbrother have been appointed a finance committee. It is understood that the mission of the Mayor of Eketahuna, Cr. Wise, and the Town Clerk (Mr Prendeville) to Wellington on financial matters connected with the electric lighting scheme for Eketahuna has proved successful, and that the council at its meeting this evening will be asked to choose between one or two proposals. At Carterton last week two draught horses were sold to a buyer from the Bush district for £llß. The buyer in ' question states that it is difficult to purchase good draught horses in the Forty Mile Bush district. Farmers in the Martinborough district are busily engaged in haymaking, A larger quantity of hay is being gathered than last year. Owing to the late spring and the dry weather during the past few weeks the crops generally are not up to the standard of previous years. Twelve cases of scarlet fever occurred in Wellington last week.

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The Chinese of Wellington have - formed an association for the protection of their interests in view of re- , cent legislation connected with their admission to and standing in the dominion. The association includes most of the moneyed men settled in the city. One of its objects is to take such legal steps as may be necessary to protect them from insults, which they S3y have been extremely frequent in Wellington during the past six months. t On Friday night, at Feikling, about twenty small sections in two miles from Feilding, and outside the borough, were sold w auction and averaged £l5O an acre. The statement was made to a Gisborne Times reporter by Mr W. L. Rees that the attitude of the people of Poverty Bay towards the timber industry was simply disgraceful. He declared that £200,000 worth of timber was bein . destroyed in the district every year, while at the same time £40,000 was being sent away to buy timber from other places for Gisborne requirements. Among the cows entered in the Jersey class at the Taranaki Show was one which was recently sold by auction at Waiwakaiho for £lO4. The potato market is still depressed in Dunedin. One firm reshipped 200 bags in Melbourne, for the reason that they would not realise freight and charges. Prime whites now are offering from £2 to £2 5s a ton; soft and inferior, from 30s to 355. A Wanganui Maori who by the "fasting cure" reduced his weight from 25 stone to 18 stone is still suffering reduction, according to local rumour. The case is taken up by Dr. Bakewell, who is a firm believer m the "frequent feed," and not too much at a time. He writes sarcastically to a Wanganui paper to ask if it is true that the big Maori who reduced his weight from 25 to 18 stone by fasting has since died? Is it ako true (he further enquires) that some of the people who are giving up breakfasts, and who "feed like boa constrictors at their other meals," are sending their children to school without breakfast? If so, they ought to be prosecuted; he says.

The Taranaki Agricultural Society's recent show resulted in a deficit of about £IOO.

Notwithstanding that fully 42,000 super .feet of timber arrives in Hastings daily, the supply is censideraby short of the demand. At the present time over 50 new buildings are in course of construction, the majority of which are dwelling houses.

Speaking to an "Auckland Star" reporter regarding tht Mediterranean fruit fly, Mr T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, said:— "We have every reason to believe it is under control at both Napier and Blenheim. It is impossible to say anything for certain until next season. It is of special importance that the strictest surveillance should be kept, since the fly attacks stone fruits for preference. We have been compelled to •Jestroy poaches, apples, pears, cherries, pineapples, tomatoes?, bananas, water melons, and pretty well every kind of fruit, so it will be seen (hat the danger to New Zealand; is not so much from oranges and mandarins as other varieties." The opinion was expressed some time back, Mr Kirk continued, that the fly wuold not stand a New Zealand win ■ ter. Over four years ago he had taken infected orancres into the freezing stores to see whether it was possible to kill the maggots, and only when the fruit was ixQzen hard did he secure the desired etrbct. Other tests in a uniform temperature of 32 degrees over a period of three days left nearly half the maggots alive. An advertiser requires a girl to assist with housework. In another column in this issue Mr 11. T. Wood announces that he has to hand a supply of special lines for Christmas presents, and invites inspection. Mr E. Hale, of the Wairarapa Nurseries, Te Ore Ore Road, announces that he can supply cauliflower, brocoli, and savoy plants in .quantities to suit buyers. The W.F.C.A. are town agents.