LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9043, 30 January 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr James Miller has been elected, unopposed, to represent the Upper Taueru on the Masterton County Council in place of Mr C. E. Cock-burn-Hood. At the Police Court -yesterday morning, before Mr Eli Smith, J.P., William James was fined £l, in default fourteen days' imprisonment, for'having been drunk. This was his third conviction. It was resolved at the meeting of the Mauriceville County Council, on Saturday last, to notify the Minislter tha'. the County hud agreed to take over from the Masterton County Council the Mangarei Bridge Loan. Butter exported by the New Zealand Dairy Union from the Manawatu and Eketabuna districts during the last three months amounted to 5,832 boxes, equal to 146 tons. In October the amount was 937, in November 1,213, and last month 3,682 boxes. By the steamer Athenic, which will leave Wellington for London to-day, the Dalefield Dairy Company are forwarding 350 cases of cheese to London, the Taratahi factory 112 cases, Featherston 100 cases, Parkvale 1130 cases, and Belvedere 130 cases. The total quantity of gold won by the Masterton Gold-Dredging Company during the four years of its operations is 7,9060zs sdwt 4gr, valued at £31,169 18s lOd. The quantity produced last year was 2,1790z 14dwt, value £8,639 4s lid. Last yesr's expenditure was £3,886 18s lOd; and the total expenditure to date has been £14,512 8s 3d.

A batch of Wellington residents were before the Court, yesterday, charged with watering their gardens with hoses. Each defendant was fined 40s and costs. The* need for the exercise of care in connection with the city water supply was emphasised by the Bench. It is understood that Mr W. Moore, Mayor of Carterton, has been instrumental in obtaining a promise from Mr J. K. Logan, Superintendent of Electric Lines, to place Carterton in telephonic communication with Wellington, in the course of a few months' time. At a fruitgrowers' meeting at Hobart, last week, it was decided to ex- j port to England and Germany 421,000 cases of apples, per 23 steamers commencing iii the middle of Five shipments will be sent to Hamburg and Bremen. The largest shipment will be 80,000 cases, and it is to be in Durham at the end of March. Mr F, T. Moore, chairman of the Johnsonville Town Board, will be a candidate for the new Suburbs seat at this year's'general el action. So far there are six candidates mentioned for this constituency -Dr. Newman, Messrs A. C. Pearce (Mayor of Karori), J. P. Luke (a City Councillor), E. Fitzgibbons, J. E. Fitzgerald, and F. T. Moore, . A grass fire swept through Mr Ben Rayner's property at Kakara on Tuesday last. Besides a large area of grass a valuable totara reserve was destroyed, and also fifty cords of firewood. A latge body of men were engaged for a considerable time in keeping the fire away from Mr Rayner's butter factory, and their efforts in this direction were su:cessful. The bush fires are still burning in the Forty Mile Bush district, between Eketahuna and Pahiatua, but th.e flames are now chiefly confined to logs and standing tree trunks. • AW along the railway line there is a considerable amount of timber being Durnt, and the scene from a railway carriage at night time is a very brilliant one. ~ ~

An old settler ramarked to a iWairarapa Age leporter, yesterday, that, during the past thirty years, he had never seen the rivers in the Carterton district as low as they are at present. Streams t! at have always contained water are now dry, and the scarcity of water for stock is becoming a seiious matter. The Waipcua River at Masterton has probably never been so low. Mr A. Matthews, also a very old settler, states that parts of the Waipoua Rivpr bed, in the vicinity of his property, were now dry that had never before been so within his recollection.

A wantonly criminal act was perpetrated yesterday, at Te Ore t)re, and if the offender is caught he will doubtless be severely dealt with. A youth riding a bicycls along the Te Ore Ore Road was seen to get off his machine when opposite Mr Cooper's property, strike a match, and deliberately drop it in some tall dry grass in a paddock, adjoining the road.- The boy then made off on his bicycle.as. quickly as. he could. The fire ran through the grass rapidly, but fortunately the boy's action having been observed Mr and Mrs Cooper, together with their daughter and a Mr Brown were quickly on the scene fighting the fire. It was not before a quarter of aii hour's haid work that the fire was mastered. Had the flames obtained a-greater hold before being noticed, nerious damage would have been done, and Mr Cooper would have been a heavy loser.

The present condition of the pressure of water in Masterton and its admitted inadequacy to cope with an outbreak o* fire has turned the attention of the public towards the Jubilee fire engine, upon which reliance is placed to pump sufficient water from the mains to feed the leads of water used for fire-ex-tinguishing purposes. The engine, however, is stated to be unreliable, and would be of very little use with the present pressure. The n:achinery is about twenty years old. It was formerly capable of laising four jets of water to a considerable height, whereas now it is feared that only two jets could be thrown to only a moderate eievation. Besides being used for fixe purposes, the engine has be a .n ctllad upon to do service in connection with the laying of water mains an! drairage works, and the wear and tear of these services has still 'further diminished its efficiency.

Correspondence from plaaes beyond the dominion is lying undelivered at the Masterton >Post Office for the following:—J. G. Allison, Walter Anastay, Mrs Blackmore, J. A. Blair, A. Baugh, A. Bethunc, HBailey, Joseph- Barnes, Mrs Bell, Mrs W. Boyle. Mrs J. Charts, Abel Davis, W. Davis, Jno. Dean, A. Dutfielfl, A. Dowell, D. Fitzgerald, J. J. Floyd, Broome Giles, E. Gilbert, W. J. Hicks, E. Hall, T. O'Dwyer.Mary Hearty, A. Harding, Hy. Hughes, H. Hopkins, A. J. Holding, A. Jones, A. Johnston, F.„ J. Lovering, Alex Love, Jas. Leach, Chas. Lewis, Mary Minchau, W. Marven, F. C. Marshall, T. Neill, T. Moglia, Mrs R. Murphy, F. M. Mcintosh, T. 0. Mcintosh, Miss V. Petersen, J. Raillton, Miss Riddiford, A. G. Rhvs, W, T. Smith, T. V. Scott, V. Seudds, R. Saunders, Har- , old Thompson, H. Vollrath, Miss H. Wrigley, W. Whiting, C. Williamson, Walter Wicker, Miss Jessie Windere, Hubert Wheeler. Mr C. B. Livesny, Architect of Wellington, lias removed to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Oilice of the Bank of N.Z.) TWO SOVEREIGN REI'IEDIE-. THE FAMOUS-SANDER AND SONS PUKE VOLATILE ETTALYPTI EX TH/CT was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its own, and to be absolutely safe, i ffectivo and reliable. Therefore do not a grnvateyour complaint by the use rf one if the many crude I eucalyptus oils which nre now palmed oil as "'Extracts," and fromtbe use of which a death was reported recpntly, but insist upon the GENUINE SANDiSR * SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, add reject all others', For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, blackheads, freckles, cracked hinds, dry and inflamed skin, us<! SANDER & SONS' SUPERBA SKIN FOOD. No lady should be without it, Allays irritation, produces a clear and spotless complexion, anil a smooth find supple skin. REMEMBER that SANDER & SONS' SUPEBBA SKIN FOOD is not an ordinary face cream, and unlike any of them.produces a permanent beautifying effect. All chemists and Etores.

As evidencing the great value of ,the dairy industry to ;the Taranaki district, it may be remarked *tji a t the factories in the immediate neighbourhood of Stratford and doing business with the Stratford banks, have iust paid out no less than £21,200 to milksuppliers. These same factores, also, during the height of the season pay to their employees an aggregate of between £7OO and £BOO per month in wtges. At the meeting of the Mauriceville County Council, on Saturday last, the commendable action of the Ma&terton Fire Brigade in giving their services to protect the suspension bridge over the Ruamahanga River, at Mt. Bruce Road, "was brought, -under the notice of the Council, and it was resolved to .make a donation to the funds of the Brigade, and to request the Masterton County Council (which is equally interested in the preservation of the bridge) to co-operate in doing so. The produce market in Dunedin is fearfully dull, wires a correspondent, and at present sales are hard toeffect. This specially refers, to oats and chaff. Good feed yesterday was worth only 2s 4d a bushel, while good prime heavy oat sheaf chaff (old) sold from £3 10s to £4 per ton, whilenew season's stuff has been coming forward lately in a remarkably good condition, and has sold at prices aslow as £3 per ton ex truck. This must be satisfactory news to the stablemen and others who have had . such a hard time owing to tall prices during the past twelve months. : <• Fur some months past the r.atl* es ' of Te Kaha, in the Bay of Plenty, ' eastward of Opotiki, have been cdh-.; sidering a scheme to engage in \ he;'■■' dairying industry, and Mr Hamiora" Hei, of Gisborne, has interested him- - self a good deal on their behalf. -Mr Hei. who has been in correspondence .'-.. with the Minister for Lands on t! e subject for some time, waite<|upo i the 'Hon. Mr McNab (states *h•:•'■ "Poverty Bay Herald"), when the Minister is understood to have viewed the* proposal favourably. The position is that the natives desire to farm some three or four thousand acre?, ■eminently suited for the purpose, the whoie of the available captial (about £1,000) would have tt. t-: expended on the necessary plant, leaving,them without the required to carry on the factory. They are anxious to receive some monetary assistance to start them in the industry. The Minister promised to go fully into the matter, when, if it is possible, he may accede to the re-' quest. ' \ A smart boy is required by Me?srs . Krahagen and Chapman, tailors. Special lines of books, fancy goods, and crockery ware are now. being * offered at half the oidinary prices I by the boot and fancy department j of the W.F.C.A. At their mart, Perry Street, on Saturday, Messrs R. E. Howell and ; Co., Ltd., will sell a quantity of i furniture, bicycles, canaries, fruit - and sundries. 1 At the Masterton Auction Mart, I on Saturday, Mr J. R. Nicol will 5 sell a fine selection of drapery and 1 clothing, also new and second-hand furniture. . . ,

Messrs - A gmen, Smith and Co.> land and commission agent?, of 4, Peatherston street, Wellirgton, have some splendid city - investments to offer Wairaz*apa speculators. Particulars will appear in a later issue. The Wellington and Wairarapa Motor Company, whose, headquarters are at Masterton, will insert an advertisement in our columns on Saturday next of decided interest to motorists, Messrs Gibson and Co., land, estate and financial agents, Buildings, Manner Street, Wellington, insert an advertisement civ page 8 of this issue which is osf interest to land buyers and capitalists, alike. Dixon's celebrated ginger beer is at favourite temperance drink, madefrom the purest ingredients. Residents can have gallon jars delivered to their homes daily, at very cheaprates, and all orders sent in, will receive prompt attention. Mr Livesay, architect, of Wellington, who has ; for many years made a. study of the numerous special requirements which go to make and areessential in the design of a modern home, is prepared to execute plans: and specifications of picturesque modern houses, flax mills, dairy factories, farm buildings, etc. Messrs R. Bell and Co., of Wel- S lington, advertise in another column for the services of iifty girls for their wax vesta factory. It is claimed that there is no industry in (he dominion which offers a greater premium for smartness and energy than that of Bell's factory, and that a worker can earn as much as 42s per week. With this issue is circulated an inset announcing Messrs Kircaldie and Stains' semi-annual sale. As is well known this firm carries one of the largest and finest drapery siocks to be found in Mew Zealand, and with the reductions during the sale perrsd, J which are stated to be from 10 to* 75 per" cent, some bargains are to be obtained. ~ - Mr. J. Douglas Perrett, who is on his way to the Southern Lakes, has brought to Masterton a , very fine collection of. his works, which, along with a large number of other highclass pictures by eminent English and eclonial artists, will be sold by auction at an early date. Messrs I Howell and Co. have the sale in hand. Further particulars will appear in ' our advertising columns later. Cata~" logues will be issued in a day or two. Any dentist ambitious of doingjustice to his profession is under*the? obligation of introducing all thelatest and most effective improvements in his art. Having acquired' Mr Sidney Hall's practice (corner of Willis and Boulcott Streets, Wellington), Mr De Latour has fitted out rooms in an elaborate manner, and has spared no expense in introducing every known modern and approved 1 appliance for dental work. Dentistryis a science of distinct branches, and each operator in the American Dental Parlours is a specialist in his par- • ticular work. In an advertisement appearing on page 6 of this issue particulars are given which should interest all those'suffering from teeth, troubles. TERRIBLE FATE. It's a terrible fate to suffer from serious Lung Trouble. Ward it off with. Dr. Sheldon's New Discover v. Price 16/ and 3/-. Obtainable at If. E. Eton'schemist