LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9047, 24 March 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The estimated cost of tha Seddon Memorial Technical School building, according to Mr J. M. Coradine, is £2,600.

To-morrow evening a statutory meeting of the Masterton Borough Council is to be held to revise the old burgess roll, and also adopt a supplementary roll.

Another inmate (an old resident of the district) was admitted to Renall-Solvvay Home last week by the Benevolent Trustees. There are now six men in the institution.

The Masterton Rifles hold their annual meeting on Friday evening next, by which time it is probable some important information respecting the Easter Encampment may be to hund.

In connection with the proposal of the Taratahi-Carterton Kacing Club to erect a new stewards' stand on the course, it is likely that a Masterton firm of architects will be commencing on plans for the same in a day or two.

The Programme Committee of the Wairarapa Amateur Swimming Club meets on Thursday evening next, when the secretary (Mr S. R. Edwards) will present a balance-sheet in connection with the recent club carnival at the public baths, and the social in the evening.

At the monthly meeting of directors of the Belvedere Dairy Company, held yesterday afternoon, the dim of £33o'6b 3d was authorised to be paid out for milk supplied during the past four weeks, being at the rate of 9d per lb for butter fat. It is probable that the factory will be closed down for the season in two or three weeks.

A meeting of members interested in the formation of a Y.M.C.A. Hockey Club will be held this evening in the Association rooms, Church street. It is anticipated that the club will have a large membership, and a team will probably enter in the first-class matches. On Easter Moi.day a team is to . play a match with the Wellington Association representatives.

It is intended to form a glee club in connection with the local Y.M.C.A. and a meeting is to be convened shortly for the purpose' of making arrangements for the winter programme. Already a large i umber of inembsra of the Association have signified *heir intention of joining the club, which will be conducted by the organist of St. Matthew's Church (Mr Claughton).

Michael Mooney and John Whelan, ( two inebriates, each towering somewhere about six feet two or three inches above the floor of the dock, admitted having committed their fourth offence within six months against sobriety, when brought before Mr Eli Smith, J.P., at the Master ton Police Court yesterday morning. They were very strongly cautioned by the Bench and fined £l, with an alternative of seven days' hard labour, and were both ordered to take the pledge. A special meeting of the Board of M?nagement of the Y.M.C.A. was held last evening. Mr A. J. Parton was in the chair. A letter was read from Mr William Gillanders, Rational Secretary for Australasia, stating that he would visit Masterton about the 15th of April, and would deliver a lantern slide lecture on Y.M.C.A. work throughout the world. It was decided to invite Mr H. N. Holmes, secretary of the Wellington Y.M.C.A., to visit Masterton during Mr Gillanders' visit.

The Fail-view Rifle Club .intends adheiing to its usual custom of entertaining the Onaki Rilie Club at the '• close of the season on the Fairview Range. The date for the gathering this year will be Easter Monday (April 20th). A match between the two clubs is to be fired, and various games indulged in. Last year the gathering was most successful, a large number of ladies, friends of the two clubs, attending the outing, at whicn the trophies won during the season were presented. The function will be on the same lines this year. The local labour market has brightened up slightly since the rain came in such plenitude. Grass seed sowers are now being asked for by farmers, though only experienced men are wanted. Last season, it appears, there was, according to a local bureau proprietor, "a wild rush of anything but good grass ssed sowers," for the positions offering at that occupation, and the farmer paid dearly for his experience. Plough-. ing,' fencing, and other branches of farm and station work should sqon be j in full autumn swing.

A Borough Councillor was observed, yesterday, viewing with evident satisfaction, the newly asphalted roadway in Queen Street. A Wairarapa Age reporter approached and asked the civic representative what he thought of the latest municipal advance. "1 was just thinking," was the reply, "what a fine scheme it would be for • the Council to borrow £IO,OOO and expend it, as far as it would go. in asphalting ail the chief roadways in the Borough. It would pay the town handsomely in the long run, and give Masterton a winter appearance second to no town in the dominion so far as its highways were con-1 cerned. One line of road should certainly be asphalted as soon as the Council can spare the funds, and thatis the Perry Street route to the rail- / way station. It would cost probably } £1,700 to do this on the same lines J as the Queen Street work."

Mr C. F. B. Livesay, Architect of Wei jington, lias moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the, Head Office of the Bank of N.Z.) AddresS— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2002.

So far this month 2.87 inches of rain have fallen in Wellington.

Mushrooms are being,,pickjed in the vicinity of Eketahuna. A Wellington Press Association telegram states that a Gazette extraordinary further prorogues Parliament till May 29th.

In future bookmakers operating in West Australia will be required to furnish the Income Tax Commissioner with a detailed statement of their operations on every meeting.

A social gathering is to be held at the conclusion of the routine business of Stonehenge Lodge of Druids (Masterton) to-night, when the Lodgo members will entertain their wives and friends. A number of visiting brethren are also expected.

We are in receipt of a photograph illustrative of the business premises of Mr Coltman, the enterprising bookseller and stationer of Dannevirke. Mr Coltman is the agent in Dannevirke for the Wairarapa Age.

By the steamer Arawa, sailing for England on March 26th, the Dalefield Dairy Company will forward 202 cases of cheese to London, and the .farkvale Company 49 cases. These will be the last consignments for the present season from these factories.

The completion of the new water race at the headworks of the Masterton water supply system has been delayed by the rain of the last few days. The work would probably have been completed by now but for the inclemency of the weather. It is considered that, given weather, next week will see the work out of hand.

Mr Walter Ockenden, of Masterton, met with a cycle accident yesterday, which rendered him unconscious for a while. He was riding along the road past Davsh's mill, near Wardells', when the front for' s of his machine broke, and lie was precipitated on to his head on the road. He sustained some nasty abrasions, and picked up by sonr.e passers-by and brought on to MastCi.ton.

The Masterton Municipal Band held its first practice since the New Plymouth Contest last evening, Bandmaster Hutchinson acling conductor. t A hearty vote of thai ks was received from the Fire Brigai e. and Fire Police for the Band's services at the entertainment of the United Fire Brigades' Association Conference delegates. Bandmaster H. Joyce's resignation \vas received and accepted with regret.

The ladies' division of the local St.. John Ambulance Association have decided to have the opening night of the lectures on Wednesday, April Ist. It has not yet been definitely decided whether the first evening'* business. w*ll be devoted to Nursing Guild woik or ambulance instruction. Dr. Archer Hosking has acceptsd the office of 'lecturer to the ladies' division. Tfce classes will be held in the Dominion Hall, where the men's division also intend holding theirs.

A sovereign which, when placed on the scales, weighed sufficient to. be worth about 15s, was on view at Christchurch recently. The coin, which was only about as thick as a. half-sovereign, had evidently been treated by a mechanical or chemical process (known as sweating") and. burnished afterwards, as the milled edge showed no signs ot wear. The' coin was accepted over the counter of the General Post Office, and it: would appear that a number of them similarly manipulated are in circulation.

"What is the rain going to do frr the stock market?" was asked of a Masterton auctioneer, yesterday, by a representative of this paper. "Whih3 we do not anticipate an immediate rise in prices," was the reply, "we believe it will have a very steadying effect on the quantity sent to sales. The rain has saved hundreds of farmers—it was not too long delayed for many so far as retaining a portion of their herds or flocks were concerned —and the fine downpour we have had means an amount in money to this district that cannot easily be estimated." A meeting of the local members of the Masterton Fire Board was held last evening, the members■■„ presente being Messrs O. N. C. PragnelT (chairman), J. H.Tauling and W. Morris. Captains Jenkins and Dixon also attended. It was decided to ask the two captains to submit estimates of the requirements for the coming year, both for the Fire Brigade and Fire Police Corps. The secretary was instructed to write to the Borough Council asking them to appoint a valuer in connection with the taking over of the brigades appliances from the Council by the Board, and also'what the Council intended doing with regard to the installation of electric fire alarms in the Borough.

I A somewhat serious anticipation regarding local pastures was expressed to a Wairarapa Age reporter by an experienced farmer * yesterday. He believes that rye-grass has been so severely affected by the drought that on a good many pastures it will be found to have died right out. He states that on the Fernridge there is every indication so far that such is the case, of course it will be some little time before a'definite pronouncement on the matter can be made. What rye-grass does survive will not, he considers, be of much use this season. Cocksfoot being a deeprooted grass has weathered the summer ordeal with greater success, and it will doubt enjoy increased popularity with pastoralists, who have had the pastures denuded this season of lighter rooted grasses.

The Dresden Piano 'Company, Limited, is proud of the confidence placed in it by the public—a trust built up by years of: honest defiling. Frankness is the " Dresden's " motto in all its relations with a purchaser. The more the latter knows about the Piar.o he is buying', the moro likely ho is to be satisfied. What the Dresden Piano Company, Limited, has to oiler its patrons is quality—never anything olso. Had not good valuo been a characteristic feature- with tho Dresden, theirs would not bo the business it is today. That Company has many advantages.. It possesses an extensive capital, and an enormous output. Thus, it commands stock on a bedrock basts from the world's foremost manufacturers.. Then it possesses officers .of great experience, of unrivalled judgment, and of unquestioned imegrity, in whom, not only has " The Dresden " the ntmost confidence, but on whom the public too, can , rely—to the last word. Local Agent, Mr T: 13. Hunter.

Although the southerly gale has moderated, the weather in Wellington is still unsettled. Australia possesses more places of public worship in proportion to popu•iption than any other country. A boy, eight years of age, named Moon, was drowned in the Waikato River yesterday while bathing. W. Webb, the world's champion sculler, has been presented by the natives of the Putiki p«, on the Wanganui River, with a beautiful flax belt, which the Maoris desire should in future be known as the champion belt. Mr Eli Smith, who for many years represented the Alfreciton Riding in the Masterton County Council, and who filled the position of chairman for a term, will be a candidate for the vacant seat on the Masterton Borough Council. Reference was made the other day by an exchange to a seaside V place in the Hawke's Bay district r-nlled by the charming Maori name Tamataukakatangihangakoauau. Mr C. R. Parata says this is an abbreviated form (if the name. In full it is Tamatauwhakatangihungakoauaotanenuirarangikitanatahu. Mr Parata's ■ translation is: "The hill on which Tanenuiarangi (the husband of Heaven) played his flute to his be- ] loved." If this place ever gets a.. railway or a post office, will the Government retain the native name, as it has expressed its desire to do in all cases of late? An advertiser requires the services of an experienced motor engineer. An .experienced rabbiter is wanted by an advertister. A reward is offered for the recovery Slate-coloured Persian cat. Particulars of a Shetland pony impounded from Pownall street are advetised by the poundkeeper. _, An advertisement dealing with the marite of Golden Eagle tobacco appears on page 2 of this issue. The Mayor has declared a public holiday on Thursday from 12 noon in connection with the Masterton races. Mr J. R. Nic.o! advertises particulars of several excellent farms that aresuitahle for either grazing or agricultural purposes. Special lines for golf and hockey players are to hand at the W.F.C.A., and can be inspected in the firm's fancy department. Messrs Varnbam and Rose invite to close at noon, on Friday, jrApril 3rd, for the erection of the! Masterton Seddon Memorial, Technical School. /■ Mr C .C. Aitken announces that he is offering special value in a parcel of household stationery. The contents of the parcel are enumerated in the advertisement appearing elsewhere. At the Post Office Auction Mart, this morning, from .10 to 12, M. O. Aronsten will sell prime lamb, cut into joints to suit purchasers. On Wednesday morning prime ox beef will be offered. The Commissioner of Crown Lands notifies settlers in the grass burnt areas that applications for assistance must be received before the April Ist, on which date the lists will ■ close. Mr Frank DuprJ, of Masterton, has imported a very fine range<of ladies' Fgold wateHes, in handsome floral scrolled cases. These watches are decidedly uncommon in appearance,! and are priced from £3 to £6, and are guaranteed for three years. On account of the meeting of members of the Masterton A,, and P. Association bei-g held at 2 o'clock,', on Saturday afternoon next, the sale o"f Queen street frontages that was to have been heH by Mr W. B. Chennella at that hour has been altered to 12.80 o'clock: The attention-of readers is directed to an advertisement from Messrs East and East, of Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland, and appearing in this issue, in which they advertise an exceptionally cheap farm in the Wairarapa, and close to a large town. Nestles' Swiss Milk, Chocolate is a delicious and wholesome svveet, made from the purest ingredients. Mrs W. Horne, confectioner, of Queen street, has been appointed a»ent for I its sale in Masterton, and in order to +' push it will present a watch to everyone returning 20s worth of wrappers. t 'Those on the look out for a genuine land bargain should read particulars of a property offered by Mr A. S. Johnson, of Hawera, which appear on page 8 of this issue. It consists of 2,000 acres, will carry 1\ sheep to the acre and the price is only £5 per acre. The vendor will guarantee this as one of the greatest bargains in property on offer in the dominion. One of the most capable monu- . mental sculptors in the dominion is Mr T. G. Hoar, of Masterton, and samples of his work are to be found in a great many cemeteries" in both Islands. His stock of monuments and headstones is large and varied, and are imported direct from the leading Italian quarries. At present he has in his yards in Hal! street an exceptionally good selection, and within the next few weeks, another shipment is to come to hand. In an advertisement appearing in another column, Mr Hoar points out that he is prepared to undertake work in any part of the dominion, and will post to enquirers an illustrated catalogue of monuments and headstones, together with full particulars as to cost of same. Myrtle drive Cigarette? are rbtainM)le from all Masterton Tobacconists*.