LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 17 January 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Shortly before ona o'c'.ock, this morning, welcome rain was falling lightly in Masterton, and was coming down steadily as we went to press. The latest dredging returns to hand are as folloiv: Mystery Flat, 104oz 7dwt, 193 hours; Masterton, 670z 2dwt, 193 hours; Hessey, 550z 6dwt, 170 JiQurs. At a meeting of the parishioners of St. Patrick's Church, Masterton, held last . Rev JDeanMqKenna presiding, it Was resolved to hold a picnic in the Park on February 13th. The gathering will be under the auspices of the parishes of Hutt, Wairarapa, Forty-mile Bush and Masterton,'and will be attended by parishioners from those places. Mr J. Kelliher was appointed secretary. A settler informed a Wairarapa Age reporter, yesterday, that the present season was by far the best he had known for rabbit poisoning. The absence of moisture in the grass has induced the rabbits to take to the more succulent phosphorised bait. Places that were formerly badly infested with the rabbit pest are now practically clear. This is particularly the case in the MikiMiki district. The Stock Department is supplying the poison, and the officers are giving fanners every assistance in their to rid their lands of the pest. ' The torchlight procession to be held on the evening of Anniversary Day promises to be very successfjL. Members of the Fire Brigade, Fire Police, Friendly Societies and the Ambulance Corps will each be well represented, and competition is expected to be very keen for the prize provided by the Aquatic Carnival Committee for the tableau most appropriate to the occasion. Mr T. Rodgers has resigned the conductorship of the Masterton South Band, though he will still remain a playing member. The vacancy has been filled by the election of Mr Jas. Bentley.

d The application of the Wairarapa | -Amateur Swimming Club to the Borie ough Council for an extension of the is hours for bathing in the Park Lake 0 was considered at the meeting of the , Park Committee last evening. Messrs ' W. G. Taylor and E. , Richards £ attended oil behalf of the Club., The d .committee agreed, to extend the d hours, which will now be from 6 ,f a.m. to 12 noon, and from 4 p.m. to dark on week days, and from 6 a. m. y to 12 noon ton Sundays, suhject to the !- condition that bathers must be attirr ed in trunks as well as costume. 1 A donation of £2 2s has been made i by the W.F.C.A. towards the Aquatic Sports to be held on Anniversary Day. A meeting convened by Mrs Blackman is to be held in St. Matthew's g Schoolroom,'this evening, to organise a Ladies' Swimming Club in Master- \ ton. It is proposed that members of > the club will receive free tuition in , swimming and diving. All ladies .. interested are invited to attend. j The entries received for the T Aquatic Carnival events to be competed for on Anniversary Day number 170. The entries from Welling- ! ton are yet to come in, and will ■ probably bring the total number ! well over 200. ; The Masterton South Band has been engaged to supply the music at the Gladstone sports on Anniversary Day/ A meeting of the Programme Committee of the Aquatic Carnival will be held in the Fire Brigade Station, to-night, at 7.30 o'clock. Another batch of 84 immigrants will arrive in a week or two. These newcomers are on board the steamer Rippington Grange, from Liverpool, and it is interesting to note that farmers predominate. Victorian flocks in the pas»t years have increased from 10,000.000 '■ to 13,000,000 sheep. Of the total 43.5 per cent, are in flocks of less than 2,000 each. • ( i TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIED. 1 THE FAMOUS SANDER AND SONS 1 PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EX \ TRACT was proved by experts at tho Sup- J reme Court of Victoria to possess curative v properties peculiarly its own, and to he absolutely safe, effective and reliable", f I Therefore do not a gravato your compl tint ] by the use of one of the many omrfe ° eucalyptus oils which are now paW-d off <j [ as "Extracts," and from the US3 of which a '" death was reported rc.ipntlv, but insist ucon the GENUINE RAND «H <* PONS' * EUCALYPTI EXTRAC T, add reject all J others, I h For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, black- " heads** freckles, cracked hmds, dry and " inflamed skin, ns« S»NDER & SONS' " SUPERB A SKIN FOOD. No lady should il be without it. Allnjs irritation, produces ° ] a clear and spotless complexion, and a «' smooth °nd supple skin. ti REMEMBER that SANDER & SONS' hi SUPEBBA SKIN FOOD is not an Jai ordinary faoe cream, and unlike anj of hi them,produces a permanent beautifying k( effect. All chemists and etores. V

An expensive and popular shell fish in New York, called the "short necked clam," is our despised friend the pipi. Mr A. F. Kennedy, of Gisborne, says;so; ( .he has brought back a clam shell to prove it. The "sliort necked" dainties cost about 4s the plate of six when he was in the Am°ricaii city recently. The Cook Islanders have taken to drinking perfumery for the sake of the spirit it contains, and regulations are now gazetted stipulating the conditions under which perfumery may be imported and purchased, and the quantities that may be sold, also the fines for breaches of the order. ' The "strictly cash" system for bakers is in operation in Gisborne. It has been in existence, a week. Carters usually taking back a shilling or two to their employers bring in as many pounds daily now. But there is a fly in the master baker's ointment; it is this: it takes 12 to 13 hours a day to deliver bread on the cash system, and carters are not allowed to work more than nine hours a day without overtime. The increase .in the time of delivery results from the carter having to wait while his customer, who may beat the washtub, making a cake, or feeding a baby, prepares to receive the bread (usually left on - a . shelf at the back door), find the money to pay for it-.-.or. runs around to get change. • While it is legally permissible for a shopkeeper to sell non-alcoholic, beverages on Sundays, such beverages must not be swallowed by a customer in any part, of the shop where the customer can bfi seen from the street (says the" Lyttelton Times.") This regulation, according to Mr. W.. H. Hagger, in charge of the LabourDepartment's Christchurch office, has been made in accordance with the spirit of the legislation, which decrees that no person shall follow his ordinary trade or avocation within view of the public on SundaysSome of the shopkeepers, however, appear to consider it absolutely necessary that the customer shall remain seated while drinking. Need.less to say, there is no legal authority 4 for this opinion. Owing to the permission given by the New Zealand Government to allow Australian, grapes to come into ; the dominion, arrange nients have been made by some Dunecin auctioneers to bring in quantities sufficiently . large to sell at from 4d per lb ar.da little over, so as to enable retailers to sell at 6d per lb. ~ Tremendously powerful rrolor lan- : terns have been long ago in Paris by order of M. Lepine, but. this does not prevent them. from being used on country roads, and giving rise to curious incidents. The latest of these (says the Paris correspondent -of t'le London "Daily Telegraph") has occurred in a small village of 800 inhabitants, and is related by a country paper with' asv much gravity as if it were a tragedy.. At midnight, or thereabouts, whew nearly everyone was asleep; the tocsin sounded the fire alarm. The "lieutenant dss pompiers, "says the paper, harnessed his horse to the engine, and everybody turned out to* help put out the fire- which was seen a mile away. When they reached the place' they found, to their utter disgust, that "it was an automobile "en panned" with two big flashlights. 'The language of the . "lieutenant des. pompiers" to the chauffeur is only found in some of* the classics. There had been a fair N and he had not .slept the night before. Messrs R. E. Howell and Co. wilt sell at their Perry street Auction Rooms, to-morrow (Saturday), a large quantity of furniture and gen,- : eral produce. Messrs Varnham and Rose, archf--tects, elsewhere invite tenders toclose at noon on January 20th, for removing back and effecting repairs to the old Technical School. _ Messrs East and East, land agents,, advertise particulars of a block of 4,000 acres of first-class farming country in the county of Raglan. Th& property is one that should* interest, those in want of high-class land. Every garment turned out by Messrs Krahagen and Chapman,, tailors,' of Perry Street, Masterton,. bears their label, and,that label guarantees the best in material, pattern, cut, and finish. Having a large and competent staff orders are. turned out, without delay. At the residence, Wrigley street,, on Tuesday next, Mr J. R. Nic?f wjllsell on account of Mrs Butler, who has given up housekeeping, the whole of her well selected and nearly new furniture and effects. Further - particulars will he advertised on, Monday. ■.-.■!. Messrs Townsend and'Cowper, saddlers, have just had completed alterations to their business premises in Queen street. The shop itself has; been renovated and enlarged, while the work rooms have also been added, to and greatly improved. New stocks of the latest goods have just been opened up, and the public are invite di to call and inspect the range. An inset is circulated with this: issue giving particulars of a sweep- ; out sale at the W.F.C.A. boot de- ' partmenr. Boots and shoes of standard make, combining style and wearing qualities, are to be sold at lialf the usual prices, and the selection is practically unlimited. A clause n the inset deals with crockery and ? ancy goods that are to be sacrificed it any price. The consignments of drapery and ■lothing to be sold by Mr J. R. Nicol, o-day and to-morrow, on account of Ay Russell D. Martin and Mr W. R. ioughton, are now opened up. and on' 'iew at the auction mart. The two ats comprise the largest assortment, et offered in Masterton, and the najority of the lines being directly mported exceptional values will be btainable. UCCESSFUL MILKING MACHINE Writing in reference to (lie "Lawrence-x'lmedy-Gillies" Milking Machine, Mr olm Matlrioson, of Tomahawk, says, " I ave come to the conclusion that the ' i.oiipy was well invested installing the J L.K.G." I have been using four niaeh- " - les, aild can honestly say have i'ouud m> 1 effects after the .second year's milking i the same cows. I have tried the cows ; intervals, and always found the quality fully more with the machine than by uul Since obtaining the new inflation's • id mouthpieces nine iiilonths ago, have id practically no expense with the upep." MacEwjuis, Ltd., sole agents, S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington. •