LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 903, 24 February 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A first-offending inebriate was convicted and discharged with a caution by Mr George Heron, J.P.,. at the Masterton Police Court on Saturday.

Farmers i;i the Eketahuna district are of opinion that there will be considerable mortality_amongst hoggets this year. Owing to the fires and the dry season, hoggets are in a lower condition than is usual at this time of the year.

There was a fair number of players on the Masterton bowling Green on Saturday afternoon. No trophy games were played, however, but some friendly matches proved very enjoyable. The caretaker of the green, Mr W. H. Denby, is pushing rapidly forward his scheme of improvements to the new green and 1 the flower plots.

A young man, aged 19 years, named Ernest Vaughan, was charged before Mr George Heron, J.P., at Masterton Police Court, on Saturday, with forgery. The police stated thai accused was arrested on a warrant issued at Christchurch, where the forgery was committed, and accused was therefore remanded to that city.

Showers from the south-east fell in Masterton during Saturday evening and early yesterday morning. The weather yesterday was line throughout the day, although the temperature was a trifle wintry, and clouds threatened heavy downpours occasionally. The good done by the rain will be great, but very much more is required r.o freshen up pastures and extinguish the bush fires.

At the service at St. Patrick's Church, last evening, the choir was strengthened considerably by the addition of three members of Mr J. C. Williamson's Musical Comedy Company. Miss Telfer (soprano) gave a delightful interpretation of Luzzi's "Ave Maria," Miss Maunsell, who is the possessor of a fine contralto voice, was heard in Mendelssohn's "0 Rest in the Lord," and Mr Briggs', a basso, contributed the "0 Saiutaris." Assisted by Mr A. R. Bunny, Mr Brings also gave Kellner's "Ecce Panis."

A Milci Miki settler, in conversation with a Wairarapa Age reporter, on Saturday afternoon, said that the fire in the Government Forest Reserve has not, he thought, done nearly so much damage as was at first thought. The heavy smoke in the valley rendered it impossible of correct ascertainment, but it was unlikely that the fire had reached to the summit of the Blue range, and it was just possible that it had not even attacked the lower slopes of the range, as a tract of flat country had to be crossed, and it would need a more powerful wind than those which had prevailed to carry the fire across this in the time which has elapsed since the fire commenced.

The report of the ordinary meeting of the Mast-erton Trust Lands; Trustees, held on Friday evening, was crowded out of our issue of Saturday. Among the business done, which was chiefly of a routine nature, was the granting of a scholarship allowance of £4O to B. Syversten, the scholar of Masterton District High School who recently passed his matriculation and solicitous' general knowledge examinations. The scholarship is to be granted only on condition that three years' terms are kept and the lad satisfies the Trustees as to his diligence. The Trustees decided to pay £2OO off the Town Hall loan, and re-borrow £3,000 at 32 per cent., from the Wellington Harbour Board on the Hall. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES.

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—w—aw————awn immihhm* A rifle match will be fired at Mauriceville, on Saturday next, between the Tararua and Mauriceville Rifle Clus. j. ......... The Cartertbn United Friendly So* cieties' Sports Committee; .'have decided to hand ; over to the Carterton Fire Brigade the sum of i£lo;h-h.' / ;;

Messrs Prendeville, Cowlam. and Haswell have been elected directors of the Ek'e.tahuna Public Hall Company, and Mr F. Wise secretary. The prizes in connection with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday School, Carterton, were presented to the successful scholars yesterday. The headquarters of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company are to be shifted from Dunedin to Wellington. Mr Cary, the Dunedin manager, will be general manager at Wellington.

A rifle match was fired on Thursday afternoon between the Tararua Rifle Club and the Eketahuna Mounted Rifles, and resulted in a win for the former by 768 points to 648 points.

The proscenium at the Masterton Town Hall is at present being repainted by Mr Churchill, a visiting artist to Masterton. The cost wiU'oe about £2O. '

Fairly heavy rain fell in Carterton on Saturday night and freshened the pastures considerably. The town was enveloped in smoke from the surrounding bush fires all day on Satu*--" day, but the rain had the effect of putting the fires out.

"It is quite surprising to see how ' badly New Zealand children, boys and girls, carry themselves," says' Dr. Max Herz, in a report on thehealth of school children in Auckland. - "An erect, well-balanced bearing is the rarest thing to meet when inspecting little New Zealanders' backs." ''"

A grass fire at Taratahi, ,on Saturday evening, came dangerously close to the tannery building 3. Its progress was stopped by one of the numerous water races, which form part of the irrigation scheme. Settlers in the vicinity formed a bucket brigade, and using the race «

water prevented the spread of. the flairr? in othar directions. These races have pi-oved of great value jin checking the progress of grass fires. Even where grass has been fairly long and the race narrow the fire has never been known to start on the opoosite side by which it reaches the .race, ~ ■

The Waingawa River has.ceased *.o flow in its course down"- byvthe rnqin road and railway bridges. In fact hardly a drop of wateris to be Settlers who have -resided on its banks practically for.-, years cannot remember an occasion previously when this'has occurred.-It; is quite a remarkable, sight to see this extensive water-course .with --a. twelve-span bridge as a railwayviaduct, without a drop of water into it. As this river supplies the town with its water apprehension might be felt by residents, but there need bo no cause for this, as at the headwords,, which, are- a considerable distance from the bridges, there is ample water. It is the big tax on the river's resources, caused by three large water supply and irrigation schemes, that is responsible (with, of course, the extraordinary dry season) for the present unprecedented condition of things lower down.

A steward named William Bakeiy employed on the Ruapehu,. concluded a three days' sleep in the Christchurch Hiospital on Friday, after

fruitless efforts had been made <o wake him. He had been taken to the institution from.the steamer earlier in the day. The man was shipped on board the Ruapehu in London, and throughout the voyage enjoyed excellent health. On Wednesday night he was playing cards on the ship, but ceased at ten o'clock, saying that he had a bad head. He went to bed, and all efforts to arouse him on: Thursday morning were without avail. Hp slept through Thursday.

In the evening lie went on deck, and acted as though he were a somnambulist. He soon returned to bed, and when the vessel arrived in Lyttelton he was sleeping peacefully. A medical man ordered his removal to the hospital.. He seems now to have resumed his normal condition.

Mr J. *C. Williamson's Musical Comedy Company staged "The Blue Moon" in the Town Hall, on Saturday evening. There was a large audience,, who. appeared to enjoy the piece. The singing and acting of Miss Amy Murphy as "Chandra Nil" and Mr Reg.. Kenneth as "Qaptain Ormsby" are worthy of hpecial mention. Mr P. Bathurst made an excellent "Prince Badahour Sanatsinghi," v while Miss Alma Barber as "Evelyn Ormsby," Mr Myles Clifton as the "Major," Mr J. R. Hogue as "Bobbie Scott," Mr Victor Gouriet as "Moolraj," Mr Frank Stirling as "Private Charlie Taylor," and Miss Daisie Wallace as "Millicent Le Roy" were also good. Miss Amy Murphy sang "Little Blue Moon"' charmingly,, and other items, which seemed to meet with most approval,, were "The Major" (sung by Mr Myles Clifton),, "The Burmah Girl" (Mr Reg. Kenneth), "Sometimes I think you love me" (Miss Alma Barber).

Messrs 11.. A. Wunsch and Co., land Feilding,. have for sale several leasehold dairy farms in the Manavvatu district.

At the restaurant, Bannister street, on Wednesday afternoon, Mr J.R. Nicol will sell on account of Mr P. Staples, who has closed his business, the whole of the goods as per advertisement. The sale is worthy of the attention of restaurant and boardinghouse propristors and the public generally. Every line will be sold without reserve.

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