LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9059, 19 February 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Borough overdraft now stands at £7,084 lis 3d.

It is reported that Messrs R. and F. Maunsell have disposed of 2,000 acres of their Tinui property to Mr Dickens, of that district.

Two teams from the E Company of the Ruahine Battalion will compete in the tent-pitching competition at the Napier Carnival next month. The Mastertoni Municipal Brass Band will give an open air concert in the Park to-morrow evening.. A collection will be made in aid of the Contest Expense Fund-

At Belvedere there is a'shortage of water, and stock? are suffering to some extent. Some of the farmers have found it necessary to search the slopes of the Taratfuas for sprinas in order to get sufficient water for their cattle.

Mr R. Foss, writing. I, from Hukanui, states that his father's, death was very sudden.. Mir Fossi.snr., was retiring to bed apparently in the best of health and spirits, when lie was stricken down with an apoplectic fit, and died almost immediately..Hfe was buried on Tuesday at Hukanui. The number of scholars on the roll of the Carterton District High School at present is as follows Primary, 266; Secondary, 45.. The average attendance for the past two weeks was 266 and 42 respectively. During the year 1907, 157 children were admitted to the school, and 147 left. A strong southerly wind spang up yesterday morning, writes our'Carterton correspondent, and continued to blow throughout the day. Rain fell at noon, but was only sufficient to cool the atmosphere and check the bush fires. Later on the weather showed signs of clearing. The ordinary meeting of the Masterton Fire Brigade was held last evening, Captain Jenkins presiding. The U.F.B.A. wrote forwarding copies of the agenda paper for the apnroaching conference. Messenger Clark was promoted to the rank of fireman.

The Masterton Municipal Band will give an open-air concert in the Park next Thursday, commencing at 7 p.m. Included in the programme will be the test selection "William Tell," "Gems of Schumann," "N.1.8.8.A." "Contest March," trombone trio and a quartette. A collection will oe taken up in.aid of the Contest Fund.

It has been pointed out to us that Shows were held in Masterton prior to 1877, under the auspices of z body known as the "Wairarapa Pastoral Society," of which Mr Thos. Freethey, of Greytown. was secretary. At a show held in.1872 Mr E. Braggins was awarded silver and bronze medals for the best sow of any breed. An inquest was held yesterday, beiore thtf District Coroner, Mr W. P. Janr-s, S.M., on the remains of the man found in Solway Bush, on Thursday morning. The body was identified by deceased's brother as being that of Ernest Rvalls, through a peculiarity of che teeth. The jury found a verdict to the effect that the deceased, Ernest Ryalls, committed suicide whilst temporarily insane.

The members of the Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade held a "wet" practice in front of Mr A.. Stempa's shop in Queen Street last evening. The Jubilee engine was put on to pump water from the fire-well; in that vicinity, and in ten minutes the mud on the bottom was reached. This went to show that the well, which is used as an emergency source of supply in caae of a fire, is unreliable in dry weather, and the fact, will form the subject of a report to the Borough Council by Captain Jenkins at a later date.

At the Oddfellows' district meeting held at Featherston,. yesterday, officers were elected as follow: — P.G.M., Bro. J. F. O'Sullivan; P.D..G..M., Bro. C. D. Robertson; P.T.., Bro. T. S. Powell; auditor, Bro. W. J. Foster; Book Examiners, Bro. M. Maxton and T. Palmer; Management Committee, Bros. W. H. Madeley, J. Guise, A. J. Ibbotson, I. Ha'gh, E. Hobman; deputies to Movable Committee, Bros. D. P. Loasby, G. E. Godber, John Smith, VV. Guise and C. D. Robertson; examining and relieving officers, Bro. G. E. Godber. The next meeting will be held at Masterton.

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Messrs Olsen Bros, haye purchased Mr T„ J. Allen's farm at Haunui, and Mr Blake has disposed of his farm to Messrs Moms Bros.

Mr J. C. Cooper is to be asked to act as assessor for the Eketahuna County Council' at the Assessment Court to be held shortly at Pahiatua.

On Saturday last the Pahiatua Lawn Tennis Club defeated Eketahuna at Pahiatua by seven sets to four, or 117 games to 86.

The Eketahuna County Council have decided to strike a special rate of fd in the £ over the property afT jcte 1 by the foot bridge leading to Mr Mowbray's property.

It is stated that one of those who drew a section in the Nireaha Totara Reserve Block, offered by the Government for selection recently, has refused an offer of £IOO for the right to cut the totara timber off the land.

A notice appeared in last week's Gazette referring to an alteration in the boundaries of the Carterton Borough. Part of the southern and north-eastern sections are included in the Wairarapa South County Council area.

While returning from Eketahura, on Monday evening. Mr and Mrs T« F. Calton, of Newman, were thrown from their vehicle and severely shaken, through the becoming unmanageable while going down a hill and running into a ditch.

It is understood that the Government is supplying settlers with grass seed on terms spreading over three years. No interest will be asked for the first year, thoueh after the expiration of that period interest on a sliding scale will fee charged. A fire occurred at 8 o'clock yesterday morning in the Victoria Boarding 1 House, Pahiatua. The Fire Brigade was quickly on the scene, but the conflagration was extinguished by the boarders before their assistance was required;,.

Yesterday a fire was burning fiercely on the fiats at Mangamaire, and eettlers were having an anxious time watching their homes. The district is enveloped in a dense smoke. Up till late in the afternoonuio rain had reached Mangamaire..

In connection w-ith*the old stockade at the Park, mentioned in our special article yesterday dealing with the hi»tory of the Masterton Show, Mr E. Braggins, nightwatchman, informs us that he assisted his father to build the stockade in 1869 thirtynine years ago.

In the northenvpartofMadagascar is the most remarkable natural fortress in the world.. It is occupied by a wild tribe who call themselves the people of the Rocks. The fortress is a lofty and precipitous rock of enormous size, 1,000 feethigh, and it is eight square miles in area. Its sides are so steep that it cannot le* climbed without artificial means. Within it is hollow, and the only entrance is by a subterranean passage. The Grevtovvn Rifles have accepted a challenge sent them by the Eketahuna Rifles to a tent-pitching competition for £lO aside. It will be remembered that the Greytown Rifffes. woo the tent-pitching event at the New Zealand Exhibition,, and the Eketahuua Rittes won a similar cc repetition at the military sports atPal-, merston North on January Ist. 'lhe competition between the two corps will take place during the Easter encampment at Wellington.

The crew of the armoured cruiser. Kent, on the China station, have just distinguished themselves by some' brilliant gunnery practice.. With the 6in gun they made 103 hits and scored' l 52 bulls out of 109 rounds, thus beating the Drake's wonderful record for 1906. With the 2-pounder gun she made a world's record, her best gun scoring fourteen hits out of fourteen rounds in fifty-five seconds.. In the battle practice, just before her crew was paid off, she made another world's record.

At the meeting of the Masterton' Fire Brigade, last evening; the sum of £5 5s was received from theMasterton County Ccuncil for distribution among the members of the Brigade,, who rendered good service recently in guarding the bridge over the Waipoua river near Mr Kummer'S house,, and the Mount Bruce suspension bridge, when the surrounding bush and grass fires endangered them. An excerpt from the covering letter to the captain of the Brigade from the County Clerk, is as follows:—"I am further directed to convey to you the' hearty appreciation of the Council at the ready manner in which yourself" and those engaged with you responded to the call for help in the two instances mentioned, and with regard' to the Ruamahanga suspension bridge, to compliment you upon the excellent judgment displayed by you und your party in putting the approaches to the structure in a condition of greater safety during the> night you spent in guarding it."

A decision that should ( entail a great falling off in the ntimber of German clerks who flock to London, and other centres in Britain to. learn the English language has just, been taken by the municipal authorities of Berlin, who have ordered that, the study of English in the higher schools of that city shall be compulsory. Hitherto young men who. have had a "gymnasium" (public school) education, the class from which most young men who enter commercial life come, have had frequently French as a compulsory and: English as an optional subject. English will now be made compulsory for the last three years of the gymnasium courge, and French optional. It is known that the Kaiser is strongly in favour of the change, which is regarded as the precjrsor to the introduuction of English as an obligatory study throughout the German school.

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Mr C. F. B. Livesay, Architect of Wellington, has removed to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Oilico of the Bank of N.Z.)

The telephone bureau at Morison's Bush was opened on Monday last. Owing to the dry weather the JLo crops in the Martmboroagh dialhct are a complete failure. On account of the shortage in milk supplies the retail price of best factory butter is being raised ■one shilling and fivepence per pound. The music at the recent Eketahuna race meeting was supplied by the Kaiparoro Brass Band not the HastVeils Band as previously stated.

A fire on Messrs Rayner and Denbee's properties at Parkvale on Thursday last destroyed about 200 acres of grass and several chains of fencing.

The maiority of the immigrants by the Ruapehu brought from £lO to £25 with them. Practically the whole batch of men and women has practically been absorbed. 'At the Pahiatua S.M. Court, yesterday, before Mr W. P. James, S.M., John Carkeek, was fined £lO and costs for trespassing on the Pahiatua racecourse during

the recent meeting. For procuring _ liquor during the currency of a prohibition order against him, M. S. Tully was fined £lO and costs.

An advertiser requires a first-class b'Jshman for sawmill.

The W.F.C.A. require a smart lad for the grocery department.

Lunch will be supplied at the Arcadia tea rooms, to-day, and the rooms will be open in the afternoon and evening.

Monday, and Tue3dvy, 2nd and £rd, are the next raceiving dates fjr at E'cetahuna and MauriceMessrs Dimock and Co.

Mr C. C. Aitken, bookseller and scationer, Masterton, has a large selection of stationery in the most favourable varieties. A price list wil 1 . be found in another column.

The display of special millinery "models at Wamock and Adkins' Masterton premises closes to-mor-row, as the goods have to be delivered.

Mr J. Kitchner, boot and shoemaker, has just received a large consignment of the very latest footwear. The goods have just been landed, and the proprietor cordially invites inspection of same. Mr J. L. Murray, the quality draper, of the Exchange Buildings, Majlterton, has a very fine_ display of seasonable goods on view in his premises. The big price reductions still hold good, and undoubted bargains are obtainable.

Mr Thos. Shields will be in attendance at his Masterton tailoring establishment during the next week, Tjnd those wishing to avail themselves of his skill as a cutter and liter should place orders with him during' that period.

Thp annual race meeting of the Whakataki Hack Racing Club will be held on the Castlepoint beach on Saturday 21st, March. Nominations for the'Castlepoint Cup will -close with th-9 secretary, Mr W. H. Mason, on Saturday, March 7th.

The drapery department of the W.V.C.A. is already putting on its autumn garb. The staff are busily opening numerous case." of notefties, which have been imported direct from Home. Ladies interested in fashionable high-class drapery are respectfully invited to call and inspect the variety shown. The dressmaking department is steadily booking orders for the approaching •season.

Settler.* on a visit to' the Show who are requiring grass seeds are invited to call at Jno. Graham and .'Co.'s stores to get their quotations and see samples before buying. This firm have some splendid samples of clean and heavy ryes, clovers and •othor seeds bought before the rise in the market created by the extraordinary demand for seeds, and are offering the setters the advantage of their buying. Through pressure of business they have been unable to have a stand at the Show this year, but an extensive display of seeds -will ba found at their stores.

John Broadwood and Sons, the famous English pianoforte makers, -esHribit at the Showground, to-day, in the Dresden Company's' stall No. 1, the very latest Broadway playerpiano, which is the evolution of attachment players. Mr A. B. Wallace will give special recitals during the •day of classical and, modern pieces. Visitors to the Showgrounds should -make use of the opportunity of inspecting the instrument, as Messrs •John Broadwood and Sons have sent it out specially for the Masterton Show.

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