LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9069, 21 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of Managers of Masterton Technical School is to be held this evening to consider a proposal to hold a foundation-stone laying ceremony in connection with the Seddon Memorial Technical School. At the Caledonian Sports at Palmer&ton. North, yesterday, V. M. Richards, of Masterton, won the 100 yards handicap and ran third in the 220 yards handicap. VV. J. White, of Masterton,. won the Sheffield Handicap. Mr Abel. Kerr, the driver of the Homewood coach, who sustained severe injuries through the coach hordes bolting on Saturday, succumbed in the Masterton Hospital yesterday. Besides a broken leg and a. fractured skull, deceased sustained serious internal injuries which terminated, fatally at about 12.30 p.m. yesterday. An inquest is to be held to-day-Speaking recently on the subject of the: Government's land policy, says an. Auckland paper, Mr Massey said that the first estate purchased by the •Gov-ermhent under the new taxing Ace was the Kewi estate, and not a single application had yet been receiver 1 far k. There was, he stated, no parallel between that estate ami theOtekaike and Culverden estates in. the Sfritth Island. The last-named ■ w,e:;e tix for cropping at once, but the one at Auckland would require years.of work before it reached that stageSeveral members of the Qpnki ■ Rifle Club took part in the meeting of the N'irth Rangitikei Rifle Association held on Friday and Saturday |laat.. They shot well, and were very successful. Rifleman R. J. King did some really good shooting, and won the championship belt and ;gQld medal. Rifleman Bairstow was stcond in the championship and ; Rifleman McCaimont also put up a good performance. The teams match was won by Opaki by 14 points. 'The following were the members of ' the team that won this competition: —Captain Welch, Riflemen King, ' Bairstow, McCaimont, and Harford. Mr Muschamp Earle writes to the "Auckland Herald" to correct a statement concerning himself and Gaptain Hope-Johnstone, to the effect that they had decided to discontinue their journey through New Zealand in a caravan, owing to trouble in Rotorua. "Owing to the lateness of . the season, as also the glorious uncertainty of the weather," he says, "touring in a caravan is not what it may appear to be to those who have not ha 1 the personal experience. The condition of the roads in the majority of the parts of the dominion is too appalling to describe." If the Government, ir.stead of lavishly spending large sums of money on palatial, buildings, would use the money in repairing bridges and putting the ronds in nacessavy order, it would be far more to ihe point. He addu, "Probably as election time approaches, we may hear ci some hundreds of men being thus 'temporarily' employed in order to procure their votes." PARASITIC DISEASES OP STOCK At this season young animals arc moro or loss affected by parasitic diseases, causing scour and general weakening of the system. "VEKM.OCINE" is unequalled for all internal parasitic diseases of stock. Prepared by the A. and P Pood Co., Ltd. Obtainable from W.F.C.A., Ltd.

The monthly meeting of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce will De held on Friday next, at 3.30 p.m. A special meeting of the Wairarapa Navvies and General Labourers' Union will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr R. K. Jackson, on Saturday last, received from the Registrar the certificate ot registration and incorporation of the Drovers and Shepherds' Industrial Union of Workers. In connection with Ins candidature for the Mayoral election, Mr J. M. Coradine will address the electors on municipal matters in the Town Hall at 3 o'clock on Thursday e\ening. The United States fleet is due at Melbourne on September Ist, after which it proceeds to Sydney, staying ten days at each port, so that it will be near October before it visits Auckland. According to Mr James Hay, solicitor, ot* Timaru, an award or no award in the farm labourers' dispute will mean to the small farmers of Canterbury the difference between sinking and swimming. Extensive oyster beds were located in Cloudy Bay by the steam trawler Nora Niven. The vessel, while trawling for fish, picked up quantities of the bivalves, which are said to be of good size. Foi disobeying commands to remedy the insanitary state of their premises, two Petone residents are to be brought before the magistrate at an early date. The Petone Borough Council intends to insist on all precautionary measures being observed, says a contemporary, and their efforts in this direction have already resulted in the town being cleansed and ! purified to such a degree that it is now one of the cleanest boroughs in the dominion. The Health Department is about to inaugurate a scheme that has been in contemplation for some years. The proposal is in the direction of providing suitable employment for people who have bean at the varfous State Sanatorium? and have recovered from consumption. The detail's of the scheme arc withheld' for the present, but it will be on the limes of enabling the people referred to to earn their' living in a manner that shoukl be of benefit not only to themselves- but tothe State. The "Oamaru. Mail" states that the Commonwealth mill en are'making a dumping-ground of New-Zea-land. It has learned, on. most reliable authority that, since the season' commenced Auckland alone has absorbed 1,500 tons of Australian flour representing a tremendous quantity of wheat. The price quoted thereat present for flour from the other side averages about £8 7s, at which price local millers couldn't hope to compete. It has been stated that the dominion's wheat yield will be short this season, but if the supply is to be augmented in the wholesale manner at present threatened, there will be at "the close of the year a surplus rather than a shortage. A visitor from Christchurch,.who was in Timaru on Saturday, says the "Timaru Herald," expressed the opinion that nr-license will very probao'y be carried in Christchurch at next election, though he said that ne would be very sorry if his prediction proved correct. The visitor added that the nn-license party in Christchurch had opened, a vigorous campaign, while the license party seemed to be doing nothing. The no-license party at their opening meeting three weeks ago appealed for £1,200 to defray the expenses of the coming campaign, and before the meeting closed a sum of £1,600 was handed in in cash and cheques. Referring to Ashburton, the visitor said he firmly believed that the next poll will see a reversion to license there. George Whelch, of Akaroa, the amateur champion sculler of New Zealand, is still awaiting an opportunity to enter the professional ranks. His backer, Mr Martin G. Daly, has not yet received an answer to the letter he wrote to R. Arnst, on May 2nd, asking him if he still wished to make a match with Whelch, and it is expected that within the next few days Mr Daly will communicate with Webb, with the object of arranging a match for the championship of the world. Whelch nus been "resting" from training since the Napier regatta,. but his occupation, that of waterman, of itself keeps him in fairly good form. It is understood that no difficulty will be experienced in raising any reasonable amount of '"stake" money in Akaroa. ( Referring to wheat-growing in i the dominion, Mr James Hay stated to the Conciliation Board at Christchurch that New Zealand was approaching the time when no more wheat will be grown than is required for consumption in the dominion, and, consequently, the time was coming when the price of wheat will be ruled not by the London market but by the New Zealand market. Asked by the chairman (Mr W. Minson) if the area of land devoted to wheai,growing would be lessened as the result of an award, in the farm laboui'ers' dispute or aa the result of fattening sheep and lambs being mere profitable Mr Hay said that of the two factors the more potent one would be the great profitableness of sheep. They might yet see New Zealand importing wheat though it would be a great calamity if New Zealand with its soil and climate did so; when that time came famers would grow whea* - and pass on to the consumer the increased cost of production which would result if an award on the lines of the demands of the Farm Labourers' Union were made. Numbers of physicians and druggists are now proscribing and recommending TUSSICURA because of the valuable lung tonic and expectorant qualities busing combined. Tussicurn. is a distinct advance in medical science, and is the masterful remedy known for all ailments of the throat and lungs. Is Gd and 2s 6d per bottle at all good chom.ists and stores or direct from the proprietors. 148 No old-world success has been grander Thai: that of Miss Lalla Miranda. She sang " Rigoletto " Without a falsetto, A champion singer they brand her! No voice could be truer, More'clear cr more pure (Her stand-by, we hear, is Woods' Pop- . permiivt Cure!) 8

The Masterton Cemetery Trustees will hold their quarterly meeting on Friday afternoon next, at 3.30 o'clock. Owing to the rise in the price of hemp in the' English-markets a number of the Manawatu flaxmills are again busy. A Havelock fruitgrower has marketed five tons of fruit from thirtytwo peach trees this season, which yield averages 3501b per tree. There were clergymen, barristers, solicitors, journalists, men with University degrees and others who have training In literary pursuit?, amongst the many applicants for the post of librarian at the Dunedin Carnegie Library, whilst there were many who apparently have had experience in commercial life with municipal institutions. A party of Maoris left Auckland recently for Sydney, under engagement to the Manly Aquatic Carnival Committee, to give an exhibition during Easter week. Fourteen poi dancers and eighteen warriors, who will perform hakas and war dances, will comprise the company, and the natives will take with them several canoes with the idea of holding boat races and taking part in the aquatic display. At the last meeting of the Marlborough Education Board a letter was read from Mr J. W. Humphries, of Seddon, urging that application be made to the Government for the Starborough Nursery property, 1.50 acres, as an endowment for the promotion of agricultural science in Marlborough. The Inspector (Mr D. A. Strachan) was of opinion that the adoption ,of the proposal would be a good way <o assist the agricultural work of the Board. It was decided to write to the department on the matter. A lady, who left Liverpool recently by the Lucania for America, had crossed the Atlantic on a singular mission. A prominent New Yoik business man, who died recently, directed in his will that his remains should be cremated and the ashes scattered on the waters of the Atlantic from a Cunard steamer. The Lucania, being the special favourite ;of the deceased, was selected, and the lady in question at a time fixed, |so that simultaneously the family could attend a memorial service in New York r crast the ashes from an lira into the ocean. Further testimony to the statement that beekeepers are never subject to rheumatism was given by Dr Kennedy in a* lecture at Hastings last week. The? lecturer, says the '"Blastings Standard," accounted for the immunity of apiarists from rheumatism by stating that when a bee inserted, a string the poison injected, known as formic acid, had a direct counter influence upon the ! unc acid in the body. He had been la' sufferer from rheumatism before ;he became interested in beekeeping, but since then tha Rheumatic pains had. completely disappeared. Mr Hopkins,, the Government bee expert, recorded a sirailar experience. At the conference of the Auckland ■provincial; Farmers' Union, to be .held on May 21'sfc and 22nd, votes will be taken: on the following proposals by the Executive:—(l). That the time has arnived for the Farmers' Union to form a separate political party and nun candidates for such seats as; are 1 considered desirable. (2) 1 That the Arbitration Act should be amended,, so that farmers cannot bo cited before the Conciliation Board, the majority of the Farm Labourers.' Union are in favour of'same, and the members of such Uhiom are composed of a majority of the farm-labourers in the district.

Mr W. Hi Buick; inserts a notice against trespassing on his property at Opaki. Messrs Husband Bros., Pahiatua, advertise particulars of a well-ap-pointed farm within a mile of Pahiatua.. Particulars of three good farms, ranging froms 102Jj acres to 1,340 acres, are advertised by Messrs Baker and. Crabby land agents, Hawera. Mr W. H.. Essex, land agent, of Auckland, advertises particulars of a number of desirable properties which have been placed in his hands for sale. Intending purchasers can obtain further particulars on application. Those \vho.>nro'seefcin£ dairy farms in the Wairarapa district either to purchase or are offered an opportunity of selecting one from the list of those that are avertised in this issue by Mr J. R. Nicol, auctioneer and land agent, Masterton..