LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9049, 26 March 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Parkvale Co-operative Dairy Company paid out on Tuesday the sum of £386 13s 3d for milk supplied during the past four weeks. John Burke appeared before Mr G. Heron, J.P., at the Masterton Police Court yesterday morning, charged with a third offence of drunkenness within six months. He was fined £l, with three days' imprisonment in default.

Mails for Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements; also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, per "Ulimaroa," will close at Masterton on Friday, at 6.15 a.m.

Mr C. P. B. Livesay, Architect of Wei pngton, has moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Olfice of the Bank of N.Z.) Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2G92.

An eight-day striking, clock has been presented to the Carterton Fire Brigade by Mr W. Keltie, Carterton. At Eketahtma, on Wednesday next, a billiard tournament will be played between Tararua and Eketahuna teams.

The music at the Hamua sport?, yesterday, was supplied by the Pahiatua Brass Band under Bandmaster J. W. Mills.

A meeting of the Masterton Collie Club is to be held in the Masterton A and P. Association Rooms on Saturday afternoon to fix the dale for the next trials.

"I wonder how many ratepayers realise that our hosnital levy is as heavy as it is, and that it is increasing yearly," remarked a member of the District Hospital Board to a Wairarapa Age reporter < yesterday. "This year our district, which embraces only sonic 30,000 people, will absorb £6,500 for hospital levy alone."

In view of the Wellington Education Board elections, to be held in July next, it will be necessary for a ballot ss,, be taken among certain members of the Wellington Board, in order to determine which of them will retire. The ballot will be taken as follows: Wellington Ward, Messrs Wm. Allen and J. G. W. Aitken, M.P.; Wairarapa Ward, . Messrs A. H. Vile and W. C. Buch--1 anan; Hutt and Manawatu Ward, Mr J. Kebbell, and Captain T. W. M'Donald. The increase from y«iar to year in hospital rates struck Mr W. Fisher, a member of the District Board, so forcibly yesterday that he moved, that it be a recommendation to local bodies that in their rate demands they set out the hospital and charitable aid rate separately in order to show the ratepayers what they were paying in respect of such rates. Mr Fisher said that, of course, the ratecollecting authorities need not adopt the recommendation, but it would be wholesome information for the public if they were supplied with it. The motion was carried unanimously. The sacred cantata "The Crucifixion" will be given in S. Matthew's Church this evening. The wellknown and popular work loses none of its impressiveness with repetition. The principal soloists this year are Messrs F. J. Hunri and W. A. Fendall, S. Earee and Nixon. Mr H. S. Claughton is the conductor arid organist, and is helped in some of the solo passages by Miss Hood, A.T.C.L., as pianiste. This arrangement has the approval of Sir John Stainer, the composer. Full books of all the words, solos, anthems and hymns will.be provided for the congregation. The paucity of information supplied to the Wairarapa District He sjpital Board by the three Boards of Trustees administering its funds in regard to the estimates fot the* year was adversely commented upon by the Hospital Board yesterday. One member saH the Board had been content to work in the dark more or less in the past, regarding the expenditure and perhaps too little regard to the same had been paid. Mr Moss moved, that the various hospital trustees forward more detailed information regarding their estimates, and that the respective secretaries of the same be asked to attend the meeting. This was considered an excellent suggestion, and the motion was carried unanimously. The liberal application of the pruning knife to the estimates of the Masterton Hospital Trustees for the ensuing year when before the District Hospital Board, yesterday, r£fleeted the feeling of the majority of the tfoard at the heavy additional expense involved as a result of the new hospital's existence. No less than £BB9 was struck off the ordinary maintenance account, although ' the infectious diseases account was increased £216 above the estimate, and it was thought nothing of by the Board to slice £IOO or £SO here and there off a list which the Trustees of the institution at their recent meeting declared was the bedrock of necessity. "It is aa I predicted before we built the new and expensive luxury at Lansdowne," said Cr Welch, "there is no limit to the increased expenditure. We are now able to do nothing but pay the piper." A meeting of the Masterton Gymnasium Club was held last evening to discuss the question of re-opening the gymnasium this season. Mr J. M. Coradine occupied the chair. The report of the treasurer (Mr NobleCampbell) showed that the Club had a debit balance of. £251 4s, after the rental paid by Messrs Dalgety and ( Co. for the hall, as a store, had I liquidated part of the overdraft. An offer was received from Messrs Dalgety and Co. to re-lease |the hall for another year, and another from Miss Cunninheam to run the gymnasium as a private concern, she, to pay a rental for the use of the hall and accessories. Mr R. E. Howell also offered to rent the hall at 35s per week for six months. The Very Rev. Dean McKenna (one of the guarantors to the Club) considered it unadvisable to re-commence this year as_ a Club, as little tangible support was offering. He moved that the hall be re-let to Dalgety and Co., as the rental to be derived would go far towards liquidating the overdraft, and it was not assured that the ensuing season's operations would be any better financially than last season's. A prolonged discussion ensued over the motion, which was eventually carried unanimously, it being mentioned that iis the event of the Club not re-opening, Miss Cunningham was intending to start a private class. 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Sir Joseph Ward, says a Southern paper, promises to out-rival the late Premier in the matter of making lightning trips •through thedominion when election time approaches.

A Pencourt settler who has bad to resow his turnip crop three or four times estimates that in consequence of the drought and the shrinkage in his milk supply his loss this season will be £2OO.

Sergeant Hood's team, representing D Squadron, Masterton Mounted Rifles, at the Napier Carnival, tied for third place in the tent-pitching event, a creditable performance, taking into consideration that the team is composed largely of .recruits. The competition was won by the Greytown Rifles. Scutching will be carried on at Messrs Roff and Thompson's flaxmill, at Opaki, which was destroyed by fire a few weeks ago, as soon as that portion of the plant can be restored. It is probal.le that the whole mill will be re-erected, though not for some time yet.

A novel way of chastising a wife was witnessed by a crowd of people in Brisbane recently. It seems that the man and his wife were having a heated argument outside a hotel. The husband, who was leading a dog with a rope, suddenly swung the dog round with the rope, and used the aivmal to beat his wife with."

The man Cameron, sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Napier, on Saturday last, for assaulting Constable O'Brien, is to be brought'up before Mr W. P. James, S.M., at Masterton, to-morrow on a charge of burglariously entering the premises of Mr J. Scott, jeweller, Masterton, and stealing therefrom jewellery to the value of £lO.

The Masterton Borough Council intended holding a statutory meeting last night for the purpose of revising the burgess roll and adopting a supplementary roll, but as only the Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) and Crs J. Elliott, J. Yarr and J. Prentice , put in an appearance, the meeting lapsed for want of a quorum. It is to be held at noon to-day instead. A retired sea captain named Pierre Loirat has just died near Bordeaux at the age of 10S, after an adventurous career extending back ninety - two years. He was only eleven, says an exchange, when he went to sea as a cabin boy, and later, while serving in a French barque, he was taken captive by Spanish pirates. He and his feliow captive, took command of the vessel, and brought it safely into a French port, where the pirates were handed over to the law. The projected bridge over the Waipoua river to connect the new Hospital with the town by a shorter route met with an unfavourable reception from the District Hospital Board yesterday. The difficulty which confronted the Board was that in the scheduled account of the estimates of the local Trustees no special mention ■ was made in any item of the proposed bridge being included, and though Mr W. Fisher said he thought that £SO was included in an item "road formation and grounds," which was cut down from £350 to £2OO, the Board having no definite information took what they considered to be the safest course, and did not revoke their determination to reduce the item in question. Had the bridge been specially mentioned ;

it may have had a chance on its own merits, although that was not a great chance> as the Board was in a strong humour for retrenchment yesterday. "I have been very much impressed by the great interest taken in New Zealand by the people in this country," 3aid Mr Baskiville, manager of the 1 New Zealand professional fontball team, in the course of a recent interview with the London correspondent of the Auckland "Herald." "They are always asking us questions, and many seem anxious to go, out if they could get there without, its costing all, or nearly all, their money. Numbers of people who are? able and willing to work,, and who would do well in New Zealand, can't scrape together even £lO toward their passage-money. Yet they would' make excellent and valuable colonists. The lower middle and labouring class appear to find great difficulty in getting the sort of information they need. It would be a capital thing if some capable man could go ; about among these classes lo supply such information in a readily understandable form. I am sure it would domuch good." ■' „•

The formidable list, comprising the staff of the Mastertori Hospital, caused exclamations of surprise from several members of the District Board at the meeting yesterday. The staff is made up as follows: Two medical officers, the matron, one nurse drawing £6O, two drawing £52, one drawing £35, and six probationary nurses each drawing £lB in salary, a male servant at £7B, cook £65, four other female servants, one receiving £65, two £4O, and the fourth £3l, "while the institution also has a salaried secretary, making a ,total staff cf twenty. "It must be a regular picnic up there," satirically remarked Mr W. J. Welch, when the list was under discussion in respect of the estimates. "The percentage is almost one patient, one attendant." The amount allocated by the Trustees as wages was £I,OOO, including £ll4 set down as an "extra nursing" contingency. It was felt by the Board that the position regarding the size of the staff was more or less inevitable, but they dealt ruthlessly with the "extra nursing" estimate, and struck it out, leaving the salaries list at £BB6, which covers the infectious diseases ward also. CLEANSE YOUR INSIDE

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Ik .man, mamefl tFhomas ißogers, was drowned .in the Hangaroa .River, mear limroto ((Poverty Bay), while attempting .to cross .the river on ■horseback. The mails >which ;left Sydney on February 18th, iper cthe R.M.S. Moana, via Vancouver, arrived in ■London sin the afternoon *of the 23rd instant, ftwo.days early. • A quarter-acre section iin Childers iroad, opposite the .Gisborne Hotel, -was sold privately last w.eek (reports the Poverty Bay Herald) for £3,500. JFour years ago it was knocked down ,at auction for £BIO. A Woodend (South-Island) witness, giving evidence before the Conciliation Board, stated that he had no difficulty in getting work; in,fact, tthefannera'"chased;hiiri*' to do work for them. The commander of -the -British Antarctic expedition has evidently gained the warm admiration of a married couple in Lyttelton. When ttheir latest infant was christened a few days ago it was given the proud names "Nimrod Shackleton." H The Minister.of Railways' Ought to try to'.accommodate railway customed and to increase railway .earnings by providing a .plant sufficient :for the industrial demands of the.district, says the Auckland "Kerala." TJ til this is done there will be=conatantly recurring complaints of truck shortage and corresponding (losses of araflw'iy revenue which ought mot to be upon what.Sir Joseph Ward endeavours to convince us are the beat managed railways iin the wide woiild. Action contemplated by the Local Government Board in England is j Jikfclv to have a serious effect an the ' &ew'Zealand meat anduntry, .probably the prohibition of the importation into England ,of boned beef, which: forms a considerable branch oi the; export beef trade'. The inspector; for the Board has directed .a report, against the Americana scrap meat, and has included New Zealand meat on apparently no other grounds than that it forms but a small proportion of the English meat trade. ( Describing the duties he performed as a roueeabout at 25s a week, a union witness stated at the Conciliation Board, at Rangiora, the other day, that he started the day at about 3.30 a.m. or 4.30 a.m. by training racehorses, then he did odd job 3 on the farm, including milking cows, doing fencing, feeding pigs, digging the garden, harvesting, breaking in horses to the plough and to harness, driving sheep to the saleyards and back to the farm, and making sheep and stockyard gates. Asked if he got a bonus when his master's horse won a.race, he replied in the negative. "I was a handy man," he added, "who could cto any mortal thing he was asked to do." An advertiser has a vacancy for a gentleman boarder. A lady typist and shorthand writer is elsewhere advertised for. Messrs T. Wagg and Co., coachbuilders, require a striker. Messrs Krahagen and Chapman have a vacancy for a shop boy. Mr Hugh Long, butcher, has a notification in another column. An advertiser require 3 a girl to asin household duties. Messrs Maxton and Co., of Greytown, will buy for cash one ton of galvanised iron. rlPorcelain bath?, with nickel fittings, ara obtainable at reasonable prices from Mr C. E. Daniells. At the Post Office Auction Mart, on Saturday next, prime ox beef, lamb and pork will be offered for sale by auction. The sale of dranery at the Post Office Auction Mart wili be continued to-morrow and on Saturday, commencing at 2 p.m. each day. Mr J. L. Murray publishes a price list for blankets.in his spact on page 2of this issue. "Winter coats" are treated upon in his advertisement on leader page.

At their Perry Street Auction Mart, on Saturday next, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will hold a sale of furniture, crockery, drapery and sundries.

Persons wishing to become subscribers to the Te Nui Doctor's Guarantee Fund are notified that the list closes on April Ist. A meeting of subscribers is to be held in the Public Hall, Te Nui, on that date. A novelty.plaster case is to hand from Messrs Hallenstein Bros., Ltd., (New Zealand Clothing Factory). It is quite a new idea The plaster is built up in the form of the dainty lotus flower, each petal of which is easily detached, and is suitable for the various cuts and scratches one gets. The pieces of plaster are antiseptic, of different sizes, and of a share which makes them readily adhesive so that the idea is very ingenious. The H.B. Co. are distributing these amongst their customers.

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