LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9041, 27 January 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wairarapa South County Council have increased the wages of the permanent men on their staff from 8s to 9s a day.

At a special meeting of the Wairarapa South County Council, on Saturday last, it wa3 decided that Thursday should be the statutory half-holi-day for shops within the County.

The Luncheon Committee of the Masterton A. and P.. Association met on Saturday, and made all detail arrangements for the luncheon on Show Day. The Association will do its own catering as usual, but the supervision of the luncheon, will be in the hands of Mr J. Shout, of Wellington.

At /the Dannevirke Magistrate's "Court, on Friday last, Luther' Martin Murray was committed for trial on the thirJ! charge against him oi sheep-stealing. The case will be heard at the Napier Supreme Court, and Mr C. A. Pownall has been retained for the defence. V At the meeting of the Wairarapa South County Council, on Saturday last, Crs Barrer and Douglas wer« appointed a committee to go into" the question of purchasing a gravel pit at Te Wharau. The Chairman and<Crs Moore and Welch were appointed a committee to attend to charitable aid matters. Mr T. Clarke, who was keeping wickets for the Gasworks team in the cricket match against the Borough Staff and Fire Brigade on the Park Oval, on Saturday last, received a severe cut in the face just below one of his eyes, owing to a fast ball rising and striking him. He had to abandon playing in order that his injury might receive medical attention. The Masterton Municipal Brass Band gave their fortnightly concert in the Park yesterday afternoon before a large attendance of the public. Included in the i rogramme were the test pieces for the New Plymouth contest: —"William Te\l" and "Gems of Schumann." The former was fairly well played, but the wind militated against good effect. However, there is a month to go before the contest takes place, and the band hope, by .'onsistent practice, to make great mprovements in the playing of ;hese two pieces.

It has beconio a trite saying that you can fool sonic of the public liiosfc of the time, and most of the public some of the time; but you can't' fool all of the public all the time. The remarkable and reremarkabiy maintained success of the Dresden Piano Company in New Zealand is primarily due to the fact that the Company has never stooped to fool the public at all. It can't transform you straightway into a. Padeiwski; but it can iix it to an absolute certainty that you shall have good music, once you're ready to bo helped. Whatever instrument is selected, the Dresden Piano Company make it their business to sell you the best piano to be had at the price. Terms as easy as you like. Why | not settle .the thing now? Your Local 1 Agency is in Queen Street, Masterton ; < or you could call upon Mr M. ,T. Brookes, ! "The Dresden's" Manager in Wellington, j the very first time you are in town. .

By Gazette notice Parliament has been further prorogued to March 26th. Only seventeen points of rain have fallen in Eketahuna since the beginning of the month. The bush fires in the Forty Mile Bush have been responsible for the destructiton'of thousands of trout in the streams. As a result of the bush fires, the milk supply at the Nireaha cheese factory decreased last week by 500 gallons. A Kairanga farmer calculates that his wool clip this season, chiefly from hoggets, averaged 941b. A Kimbolton farmer averaged a 101b clip from hoggets. There is a probability of a combined week-end Volunteer camp being , held at Greytown from February Ist „ to 3rd, when the Masterton and Carterton Volunteers will go into camp with the Greytown corps. During last week a number of . farms in the Featherston district changed hands. Mr A. E. O'Neale purchased Mr H. Willis' farm on the Underhill Road, and Mr F. Pearce, of Kahautara, disposed of his farm to Mr H. Willis. Auckland is to have something in ,• the nature of a skyscraper, for a contract has been let for the erection of an eight - storey brick building, in Custom street East, near Queen street, for Mr J. C. Spedding. The building will cost close upon £20,000. It is reported that a number of those who assisted in fighting the bush fires in the Forty Mile Bush district have been rendered partially blind by the ashes and smoke. So seriously were the eyes of Mr Bra'> stock, of Rongokokako, affected, that , be has had to go to Wellington to 'consult a specialist about them. It is fully expected, says the "Eketahuna Express," that the butter and cheese factories in the Eketahuna district will be compelled to close down at least six weeks earlier this season than last, owing to the curtailment of Ihe-milk supplyconsequent on the depletion, of grass by the recent bush fires. iv -

It is an unusual circumstance that: this 'year no Legislative Council ap-; pointments expire by effluxion (£ fi time. Usually there are several instances, and it will be so in 1909, when the appointments of the Hons. James Holmes (Westland), George Jones (Otago), James Marshall • (Westland), R. H. J. Reeves (Nelson), and William C. Smith (Hawke's Bay) will terminate.

A meeting of the Social and 1 Dance Committee of ths St./ Patrick's Day Sports Association x waa held on Saturday evening to make arrangements for the concert, and dance to be held on the evening of March 19th. Mr P. Haughey was in the chair. It was resolved to write ( to the four bands in Masterton -asking them to submit terms uncer which they will provide the music at the sports; also to ask Mr Reihana , Boyesjhis terms for providing music for the dance. A strong committee - of ladies was appointed to arrange; for the refreshments at the dance. It was decided to sell,.all privileges by public auction. / ,

The following is a list of the candidates in the Wairarapa district who have been recommended by the Wellington Education Board for scholarships, with the number of marks obtained by the successful candidates: —Harold Meredith Ewart, Masterton, 587; Margaret Mullon, Mangatainoka, 483; Lilian E. Brown, Mangatainoka. 476; Clifford H. Wilton, Konini, 473; Annie D. Mathieson, Rongomai, 539; Alan C. Elliott, Rongokokako, 416. Each of the above-namsd scholars obtained a* Board scholarship, which is of the value of £5 with £4O allowance if the student has to -reside away from home.

Professor Yalder, of the U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, is on a ten days' visit to New Zealand, and Mr T. W. Kirk, Government Biologist, has been selected by the Minister of Agriculture to show him round the dominion. The Professor has been through the West Co'ast of the North Island, visiting the' Levin State Farm and other places of

interest, and was in Carteiton ou

[Saturday "last. lie paid a visit ftp the Belveciere Dairy Factory, and gathered information as to cur system of cheese-.uaking and the running of co-operative dairy companies. He left for the South Island on Saturday, via Wellington, and, if possible, will visit the Cheviot, and some of the larger dairy factories. The cutter-yacht Snark, a smartlooking craft of abuut 10 tons, arrived at Papeete on December 26th, from San Francisco, having railed it Honolulu, Hilo and Anna, en route., It has been chartered by Mr Jack London, the well-known American author, who, with his wife, is making a cruise round the world in the little

vessel, which is fitted with a 70h.p. oil engine, and carries a crew of five, including the master. Electric light is installed throughout the yacht, which is also provided with a launch propelled by electric power.. Upon arrival at Papeete Mr London was recalled to San Francisco on urgent private business, and the Snark remains at Papeete until the return of the Mariposa from the Cailfornian port. When Mr London gets back to, Tahiti the yacht will leave for the. Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji; thence for Sydney, Melbourneand Tasmania, afterwards coming to. New Zealand, calling at the Bluff and the usual coast ports up to Auckland.

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During the past season over 4,000 bales of wool have been despatched to Wellington from Eketahuna.

The New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union has decided to pay suppliers 9Jd per pound for butter fat for the month of January. M According to the teachers' superannuation financial report for the quarter ending December 31st, the net accumulations during that time were £6,000. The statement showed that £55,000 stood to the credit of the fund. Nearly 3,000 teachers are now contributing to the fund.

The shearers of Molesworth station have all struck and left, writes the Hanmer correspondent of the Lyttelton Times." The cause of complaint was that the machines were not kept in working order and did not allow of anything like a fair tally being shorn. One of the shearers volunteered to keep the machines going provided he was paid his shearing tally, but that the manager refused to consent to.

An unusual amount of interest has ' been manifested by the members of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of New Zealand in the ballot which has just been taken in connection with the biennial election of a general secretary of that body. There were two candidates —Mr W. J. Edwards, who has held the position for eighteen years* and Mr M. J. Mack, a guard on the Waikaio section. The returns show that Mr Mack has beaten Mr Edwards by about three to one. The election has to be con- • firmed at the biennial conference of the society in Wellington towards the end of next month.

The medals provided by the Government for presentation to all school children to mark the raising of the status of New Zealand to a dominion tfwill be presented to the scholars Tiexfc month. It is stated that .170,000 medals have been ordered, a Dunedin . firm having the contract in hand. The medal, which will be of magnalium, will be about the size of a florin. On one side it is indicated that New Zealand was proclaimed a dominion on September 26th,.1907, and on the opposite side King Edward's portrait is given, surrounded- by the British and New Zealand ensigns, with the inscription: —"God Sa v e the King, Edward VII., of the British Dominions, King."

Whirlwinds of small dimensions are frequently seen on windy days, out at Fairlie recently one of proDortions very unusual there was seen by a good many people. At two o'clock a perfect calm prevailed, • but at a few minutes past a'light Jfeiind arose. A minute later a whirlV/ind was seen in the middle of the street of the township, and for fully two minutes it, kept within a space of HOyds or 30yds. A tremendous cloud of'dust rose to a height considerably over 200 ft. The pillar of dust was not more than 30ft in diameter at the base, while it tapered away to a point. It gradually rose, and a minute or two later looked like a cloud in the sky.

The trustees of the. Sydney Art Gallery have issued a "Notice to artists," signed by Mr E. Du Faur, president, and Mr G. V. F. Main, secrteary, dealing with the question of acquiring paintings of the less, known and more remote scenery of the Commonwealth and New Zealand. The trustees during the next two years will consider the purchase of two or more works each year byartists resident in .this part-of the world, at prices not exceeding £IOO for each oil painting or sculpture, and not exceeding £75 for each water colour. No work previously exhibited will be considered eligible. Details as to the subjects, size of drawing, mounting, and methods of selection, delivery and return, are duly quoted.

According to Mr J. R. Corrigah, of Hawera, the farm labourers of the present day are of two classes, as near as he can reckQn up from experience—7o per cent., are "practicals" and 30 per cent, are "trying planes." The "practicals" are satisfied with present conditions, so they do not trouble to join any union; hence the "trying planes," although in a minority, try to rule the roost, and they will"do it if the faimars do not wake up and look after tl e'r own interests more' than they have done in the past. He goes on to say, in a letter to the "Hawera Star:" "I don't object to the farm labourers having a union. I think they have a perfect right to have one, but I would like to see every farm labourer belong to it, so that the majority could say what conditions they would work u:> der; not as it is at present, the 30 per cent, of 'wasters,' 'fanatics,' and 'agitators' running it." kiss Lois Bryant, who recently left Sydney by the R.M.S. Aorangi on a visit to San Francisco, tells of a pathetic incident in the course of a letter to relatives She describes two bright young Australian girls, Rita and Ada Sharkie, aged twelve and three years respectively, who were fellow passengers with her on the voysga across, and -who were lost - before they reached tbeir destination. The girls were accompanied by their mother, and all were proceeding to San Francisco, where the bread-winner had secured a permanent position as a carpenter ,in connection with the Pacific Railways. Mr Sharkie met the Aorangi at British Columbia, and the meeting with his family, from whom he had been parted for ' a couple of years, was an affecting J one. The reunited family transhipped from the Aorangi to a coastal steamer named the President, for San Francisco, and on the second day out a terrific sea broke on board and swept the two children overboard. It was impossible to heave the vessel to on account of the heavy seas, and the two girls were never seen again. The Masterton Borough Council insert a notice with reference to thd payment of outstanding rates. Miss Dupre, Church street, announces that she will re«ume her classes for tuition on the pianoforte to-day. The New Zealand Railways Department advertise holiday excursion fares in connection with the Pahiatua races on Wednesday' and Thursday next. A bad taste in the mouth always arises from a disordered stomach, and may be corrected by taking a dose of Chamber- - lain's Tablets. They cleanse and lnvigorte the stomach, improve the digestion, and give one a relish for food.