LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9016, 30 December 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Antonio Dredge is 340z 9dwt. There will be no further "wash up" until after the holidays. The telegraph operators at t l ><3 Masterton Post Office had a fairly busy time on Christmas Eve. The number of telegrams forwarded from the office was 695 as against 652 on Christmas Eve last year. The number received was 673, including 115 greeting telegrams, as against 676 for the corresponding day last year, and the numbars transmitted were 446 and 322, respectively. Myrtle (Jrove Cigarettes are obtainable from all Masterton ■ Tobacconists*.

Some rubbish at the rear of Mrs Pickett's private hospital in Cornwall Street took fire shortly after 1 'p.m.vyesterday. The Kuripuni portion of the Brigade was first on the scene, and suppressed the outbreak after some grass and a piece of the fencing had been burnt. The men from the Central Fire Station also turned out, but their services were not required. Mr E. G. Eton, acting-coroner, and a jurv composed of Messrs G. F. Pearce (foreman), Chas. Reside, G. Williams, H. B. Horsburgh, J. G. Ball and E. H. Lett, held an inquest on Saturday morning into the circulmstances surrounding the death of Miss Hilda Cook, of Wadestown, who was drowned in the Ruamahanga river on Friday afternoon, whilst endeavouring to rescue a boy. The evidence given by Lilian Hunter, a companion of the deceased, Godfrey Clapcott, E. H. Lett, Constable Townsend and Dr. A. iiosking bore out the statements made in the "Age" in Saturday's issue concerning the sad affair. , The doctor added that when the body was recovered it Had been so long in the water that resuscitation was hopeless. The jury returned a verdict I that the deceased was suffocated and V drowned while attempting to rescue Godfrey Clapcott in the Ruamahanga river. The body was taken to Wellington, on Saturday afternoon, for burial.. Whilst engaged in a horse event at the Te Wharau sports a man named Keegan was kicked by a horse and had his right ankle fractured. He is now an inmate of the Masterton Hospital. The fracture is a serious one.

Sue Young appeared before the Stipendiary Magistrate, at Wellington, on Saturday morning, on a charge of having deserted his wife at Masterton. As there is no Stipendiary Magistrate in Masterton just now, Sue Young was remanded to appear again in Wellington next Friday. The morning and evening services at the Salvation Army Barracks, yesterday, were conducted by Adjutant and Mrs Brown, of Wellington South. There were large congregations present on each occasion. The Wellington South Army Band, to (he number of 22, were also present, and in addition to rendering special music, the members were also heard in a number of anthems. In the afternoon the band gave a recital in the Park before a large crowd. The programme was greatly enjoyed, the principal items being:—"Geelong" (march), "Strike the Cymbal" (selection), "St. Leonards" (march), and "Memories of Otira." This evening there will be a special musical service in the barracks.

A meeting of the Masterton Borough Works Committee was held on Friday evening to make arrangements for the opening of the Municipal Swimming Baths, in Dixon Street, which have just heen completed. The Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) presided. The Secretary of the Wairarapa Amateur Swimming Club (Mr S. R. Edwards) was present, and stated that the Club was willing to assist at the opening ceremony by carrying out a pro gramme of four events to be competed for by the members of the Club. It was decided that the Mayor should formerly open the bath.s at 10.30 o'clock on the morning of New Year's Day, and that the Swimming Club be granted permission to carry out its programme. It was al«o resolved to secure the services of a caretaker temporarily. The following temporary scale of charges for the baths was drawn up:—Admission—Adults, 3d; children under fourteen years of age, Id; season tickets —male adults, ss; female adults and girls over 14 years, 29 Gd; children under 14 years, 2s. Bathing trunks and towels will not be available at the baths for the present, but later on bathers will be able' to secure these for a small fee. Invitations to be present at the opening of the baths have been issued to the members of the School Committee and several prominent citizens. A general invitation is also extended to the public to attend.

The Masterton Municipal Brass Band has been engaged to supply the music at the Caledonian sports on New Year's Day. A special meeting of the Band will be held this evening to rehearse the programme. Mr Thos. Quirk, of Konir.i, denies the rumour that he intends to be a candidate for the Pahiatua seat at the next election'/''

The following entries have been received for the dairy competition to be held under the auspices of the Eketahuna bvanch of the NevV Zealand Farmers' Union:-—W. Humphreys, Newman; W. Olsen, Parkville; F. Bright, Rongokokako; R. Archibald, Nireaha; D. Hercock, Hamua; J. Shirley, Rongomai; A. Dunstall, Newman; P. Thompson (2), Parkville; F. Tafeita (2), Newman; J. Neill, Rongokokako; A. J. Busst (2), Nireaha. Ths municipal baths will be officially opened at 10.30 o'clock, on New Year's Morning. His Worship the Mayor, Mr J. M. Coradine, invites the citizens to be present. Court Makakahi A.O.F. (Eketahuna) has tied with Court Ruapehu for a medal presented by the District Lodge to the lodge securing the greatest number of members during the past year. The professional musicians of New Zealand will hold a conference in Wellington on January 22nd and 23rd, to discuss the question of introducing legislation in connection with the profession and the establishment of a Conservatoire of Music for the dominion. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIED THE FAMOUFJ SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE BIT&LYPTI EXTRACT was proved by experts at the Sup remo Court of Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its own, and to be absolutely safe, < ffective and reliable. Therefore do not a-.gravate your complaint by the use of one of the many etude eucalyptus oils which are now palmed off as "Extracts," and fromt.be use of which a death wbh reported locf-ntly, but insist upon theGENUINE SANDKK * SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, add reject all other?, For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, blockheads, freckles, cracked h-nids, dry and inflamed skin, use SANDER & SONS' SUPERB A SKIN FOOD. No lady should oo without it. Allnjs irritation, produces a clear and spotleßs complexion, and a smooth end supple skin. REMEMBER that SANDER & SONS' SUPERB A SKIN FOOD is not an ordinary face cream, and unlike > anj of them.produces a permanent beautifying effect. All chemists and stores.

The Carterton Oddfellows Lodge has elected the following officers for the ensuing term:—N.G., Bro. A.Cane; V.G., Bro. B. Eagle; R.S., N.G. Bros. S. Bairstow; R.S., V.G., Bro J. Harvey; S. Stewards, Bros. F. Sparks and Lamb; Guardian, Bro. Wallis; delegates to the U.F.S.C, Bros. Wallis, and G. Bowles.

During the past week 649 bales of wool have been forwarded from Featherston to Wellington. Whilst engaged in shunting operations, at Woodville, a few days ago, Mr C. Billman, until recently on the railway staff at Carterton, had the top of his left thumb taken off. The Featherston Dairy Company is shipping three hundred and fifty cases of cheese to London by the lonic this week. Tradesmen in Eketahuna state that the business done in that town during the Christmas season was in excess of that transacted for a number of years. | The walking craze has reached I Eketahuna. Last Thursday two ladies walked from Eketahuna to Woodville„ s a distance of twenty-seven miles. The following Carterton dairy factories railed cheese to Wellington on Saturday for shipment to England, on Thursday next: —Belvedere 200 cases, Taratahi 180, Parkvale 200, DalefieU* i 1 400.

During the month of November 178,000 cubic feet of gas was manufactured at the Carterton municipal, gasworks.

It is reported that there have been nine burglaries in Wellington during' the Christmas season, but so far as is known the housebreakers have not secured much booty. In most instances it is houses temporarily unoccupied that have been broken into.

For the fortnight just ended the export of butter from Auckland province, exclusive of Poverty Bay, totalled 350 tons, of a value of about: £32.048. Of this total 1,088 boxes were consigned to West of England ports, 12,169 boxes to London, 705* boxes to South Africa, and 47 boxes, for the South Sea Islands.

A remarkable story is related in a communication from Buda-Pest. A young actor, named Viszary, who was fulfilling an engagement at the National Theatre in the Hungarian capital, suddenly awoke from sleep, and as he had to rise very early, he consulted his watch, only to discover' that it had stopped at 2 o'clock. Fearing that he might be fate for his appointment, he roused his housekeeper and asked her the time, but learned that her watch had stopped also at 2 o'clock. Three othei' clocks placed; in different rooms had : also stopped at precisely the same hour. Viszary was much surprised at this strange simultaneous stopping of no fewer than five timekeepers, and told several friends of the occurrence. Later on lie learned that at 2 o'clock that morning his wife had died at a hotel in Venice, where she had been btaying for several days.—"Science Sif tings."

That the earth is gradually drying up is the conclusion reached by the French geologist, M. Martel. He has made careful observations of subterranean caverns. They contain, he says, not only the secret of prehistoric life, inasmuch as they •vere the homes of men of the remotest age. M. Martel has found proof of a steadj fall in the level of the water in these subterranean depths and from this fact he concludes that the world will eventually become depopulated through the failure of the water supply, and, finally, become a dried-up planet.

After January Ist next a general reduction in the poundage on postal notes will come into force. From the same date the design on the notes will also be changed. The new design is very much simpler than that of the notes now in use.

One of the stations recently inspected by Mr W. H. M*Quarters, of the Labour Department, in connection with, the accommodation for shearers, was that at Kekerangu, in the Marlborough district. It wasthere (says the \Vanganui Herald) that, on the night of April 11th, 18S6, he was cast ashore after suffering shipwreck in the disaster which occurred to the Union Company's ill-fated Taiaroa. Mr M'Quarters had a terrible experience, sitting in a water-logged boat for 13 hours watching the other 23 occupants die one after the other. He was taken to ' the Kekerangu station in an unconscious condition and cared for. Mr M'Quarters was a sailor in those day?, and,it seems a strange circumstance that his next visit to the station should be 21 years after in the capacity of a shearing inspector. While there, he visited the graves of the victims of the wreck, and was presented by a resident with one of the life buoys of the ill-fated steamer, which was washed ashore after the wreck. A gold brooch lost on Saturday, December 21st, is advertised for., The Wellington South Brass Band will give a special programme of vocal and instrumental music, etc., in the Barracks to-night, commencing at 8 o'clock. A heat wave passed over Blenheim the other day, and one result, says the Express, was the baking of the gooseberries on the trees. Many people who had large crops looking: well the previous day have nothing now but a few prematurely ripened, berries hanging to the under branches. People who had made their goo?eberry gjam before the heat wave came are indulging in pardonable gratulation. , .

When a ma,n has smoked them once—cigarette buying is no longer a question of choice, for he naturally asks for Taddy's Myrtle Grove Cigarettes.*

MILKING- MACHINE EVIDENCE. Messrs W* Bailey and Son, of Waiuku, write as follows re the "Luwrence-Ken-nedy-Gillics" Milking Machine :- "We are using three machines for the third season, and we find them satisfactory. We milk 8(> cows in 1-i to 1J hours. One man can look after the machines and carry the milk away, and one boy attends to the hailing up, etc., while one or two boys do the stripping, of which, as a rule, there is very little to do. The butter fat test and quantity of milk are fully maintained, and we find no illeffects'on the cows. There is no trouble with keeping quality of the milk." MacEwans', Ltd., U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.

'fffee 'Moe ..correspondent of tho <"Melbourn&iAge".writes that a letter iMceived ibv of the Australian .axemen, Musis' McLaren and Jackson, now .in Belfast, Ireland, .states Lthey haw .entered into an ;agraement to m«t Germany, for which .they ; are to receive £6O per week.* They .have to provide their .own logs, which .they estimate will .cost =about ■£s per .week, and their other' expenses will .amount to about £l7 weekly. The engagement is for three months. They state that they have had no difficulty in vanquishing all their opponents.

When trout or salmon go down the rivers to the sea ,(say the "Timaru Herald") they meet with many enemies, and at ; the .mouth of the Waitaki River at the present time there is constant warfare going on between trout and the large fish, such as-ftJffrks, groper and porpoises. On Monly last, Mr W. Gordon, of Waimate) secured a groper which turned the scales at just 1001b. Inside the groper were found three trout weighing about 31b each, a flounder and a dog-fish. Possibly this .forms a solution of the mystery of what has become of all the salmon that have been liberated from the GHakataramea hatchery.

A writer- in an English paper says:—'The refusal of ithe Censor of Plavs to license Mr Granville Barker's*" new play "Waste," calls attention once more to the continued existence of this antiquated survival of the Puritan age. The Puritan spirit in the English race dies hard, otherwise it is difficult to see why the public tolerate the appointment of an individual who shall dictate as' to what is and what is not moral and proper in connection with stage performances. The position is full of anomalies, for if at is right to have a Censor of Plays, then there ought to be a Censor oi Books, and another for newspapers, and others for sermons, lectures, concerts, and all other media of literal and verbal communication. Besides, it strikes a great many people as hypocritical to object to •plays like Ibsen's "Ghosts' and G. B Shaw's "Mrs Warren's Profession" and r r Maeterl<nek's "Monna Vanna" being Deformed when the veiled indecencies of certain musical comedies are overlooked, and a license granted to a garish melodrama with a third act containing a whole stagejful of actresses impersonating ladies .A Mrs Warren's ancient calling. I .Jifer to Mr Hall Caine's play "The Christian," now attracting enormous audiences night after nifht at the Lyceum. Why the Hall Caine play is licenssd and the Shaw refused a license is a mystery to anyone who takes the trouble to look the facts m the face.

Speaking at Kentish town, last montb, MrH. C. Lea, M.P., said that when the House of Lords was mentioned he really smacked his lips, for he hoped that within three or four years there would be no House of Lords. During the past two years they had been particularly active, but for the previous ten years they did nothing but sleep. Directly the country woke up and sent intc\ power a democratic party with a mandate to carry out ion.estic legislation, then the doddering old idiots came down, clapped on their coronets, put on their bedspreads (laughter)-at-tended the King's Speech at the opening of Parliament, and said to each other. "Ah, Bill! here we are again—(laughter)—and we'll give old C.-B. fits." (Laughter). The Peers had certainly given the Liberals fits; but he thought the time was coming when they would return the compliment.

Our New Zealand nation is to be honoured above all others (says the Feilding Star). Sir George Grey once donned the robe of the prophet, and declared that New Zealand would become a nation of poets and painters, and Macauley prophesied that an artist from New Zealand would sketch the ruins of London. But surely this item from America caps all: ''Robert Fitzsimmons, as the most perfect modern production of the Roman gladiator, is to be sculptured in marble and placed side by side with the statues of the ancient fMiters for the instruction of future generations in the physical development of the twentieth century." Now this same "Bob Fitz," the prizefighter, got all his development in South Canterbury, for it was in Timaru that he spent his boyhood, and it was there, whilst a young man, that he iearnt the art of self-defence that afterwards enabled him to become the world's champion. THE RUSH FOR MILKING MACHINES. Now that the "Lawrence-Kennedy Gillies" Milker has, after 5 seasons use on numbers of dairy farms proved an unqualified success, there is heavy and increasing demand for this popular machine. Throughout Australasia a tremendous number of machines are tot-inn" booked for the coming season, and in New Zealand alone some thousands will be required. On all sides one hears of people going m for the UK At. machine. If you wish to get a plant installed in anything like time for the. coming season book up your order without delay. Plants will only be supplied in priority of application. J: B. MacEwan, Ltd., Agents, U.S.B. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington.