LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9075, 27 April 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Last week the new school at Waterfalls (Bush District) was formally opened. The Masterton Borough Council meets to-morrow evening. No special business is on the order paper.

The Fairview Rifle Club will, weather permitting, fire the last match for the McGregor Cup on Thursday afternoon.

A meeting is to be held this evening, in the Dominion Hall, of tnose interested in the formation of an Associattion Football Club.

The date of opening the Masterton Gymnasium and Physical Training School has been postponed till Thursday evening. e^lHi The fine weather prevailing on Saturday induced a large number of bowlers to turn out on the loeal green, and some very interesting friendly games were played. The country round Eketahuna and Alfred ton is looking well, and as the grass is coming on satisfactorily,, there is every possibility of a good winter supply. The Y.M.C.A. Debating Society will meet to-night at 7 o'clock sharp. The subject for debate is "Does the author or altar exert the greater influence." '

The Carterton Gun Club fired a twelve-bird clay match at Carterton on Saturday afternoon. Mr H. Jensen was the winner with a score of 35, Mr S. Jensen 33, second, and Mr J. Pveid 32 third.

George Groves, alias Williams, was sentenced by Mr Justice Chapman, at Wellington, on Saturday last, to two years' imprisonment for forgery and uttering a cheque at Masterton.

At the Town Hall, to-night, Mr P. L. Hollings will reply to Mr Coradine, and will outline his policy in regard to various municipal matters. The chair will be taken at 8 15 o'clock.

Special reference was made in several of the Masterton churches, yesterday, to the death of Sir HenryCampbell Bannerman, ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain. Special hymns were also sung in one or two churches.

A horse in the team drawing the coach which brought the Greytown footballers to Mastsrton, on Saturday, dropped down dead at Carterton on the return home. It was owned by Mr B. Stevens, the well-known livery-stable proprietor, of Greytown. On Monday night last a six-roomed house at Mangamahoe, occupied by Mr J. Dicken, and owned by Mr Syversen, was burned down. The fire is said to have been caused through one o the children in the liousevupsatting a kerosene lamp.

The annual meeting of the parishioners of St. Matthew's will be held in the Sunday school-room on Wednesday next at 8 p.m. After the ordinary business is transacted, the meeting will resolve itself into a social to enable parishioners to say farewell to the Rev. A. M. Johnson, and also to meet and welcome the new Vicar —the Rev. H. Watson.

A Railway League, having for its object the furthering of the scheme for a light line tYom Eketahuna to Waipukurau, via Pougaroa, has been formed at Ekttahuna. The following officers have been elected: —President, Mr A. 11. Herbert; general committee,. Messrs,F. C. Tumor, W. H. Matheson, E. Page, T. F. Calton, T. Moss, H. Dunn, J. Smith, T. Parsons, J. J. Mead; organising secretary, Mr J. C. Cooper.

The stock auctioneers operating in Eketahuna have introduced a time limit —ljj minutes —on which to dwell on the sale of a pen of stock, and the new system was brought into operation on Friday last. The time limit, says the "Eketahuna Express," was adversely commented upon by vendors, who considered the system would be an admirable one if the limit was extended to two minutes.

The usual "strangers' tea" in connection with the Masterton Y.M.C.A. was held last evening. There was a good attendance of members, and several strangers were also present. The customary speeches of welcome were made, the visitors duly responding. Mr J. Gordon sung a solo. The Rev. M. Aspland, con - grcgationul minister, gave an address, "Christ, the Despised,' prior to the tea. Mr VV. Kemp occupied the chair at the tea.

Several members of tho Mastsrron Homing Pigeon Club are making some important purchases to improve the strain of their birds. Mr J. Bradbury has just secured from Mr R. W. Dixon, a well-known New Plymouth fancier, the pedigree bird Explode, which has a long record of wins to its credit. Seven birds were consigned by Mr Dixon to various members of the club. A valuable homer has also been offered to the club by Mr Dixon for competition on terms to be arranged among the members.

Mr C. F. B. Livesay, Architect of Wellington, has moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Ollioo of the Bank of N.Z.) Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2092,

For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1/6 ind 2/0,

Dennis Ryan, a second-offending inebriate, was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' hard labour, by Mr G. Heron, J.P., at the Masterton Police Court, on Saturday morning.

The Bideford mail coach horses bolted away from the Masterton Post Office on Saturday morning, while awaiting the mail. The runaways were stopped before going any great distance, no damage being done. A lady passenger was in the coach at the time.

The opening of the skating rink above the moto 1 " garage in Chapel Street of the Wellington and Wairarapa Motor Company, which took place on Saturday evening, was a great success. There was a good attendance of skaters, and an enjoyable evening was spent.

The Y.M.C.A. campaign for raising £750 towards an organising secretary's salary for three years has not yet been concluded. It was intended to have closed it on Saturday, \

but the Easter vacation interfered with the campaign to a greater degree than was anticipated, anil operations will be renewed in a few days' time. So far £4OO out of the £750 required has been raised.

Great interest is manifested in Carterton over the annual meeting of members of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society, which will be held on Thursday next. The ballot for the ami'lgamatjon of the Wairarapa and Masttrton Shows lakes place the same Jay, and it is already predicted that the meeting will be the largest in the history of the Association.

The number pf bir,ths registered in the four centres of the dominion during March were:—Auckland, 189; Wellington, 149; Christchurch, 117; Dunedin, 118. The deaths were:—Auckland, G2. or 0.86 per 1,000; Wellington, 7R, cr 1.10 per 1.000; Christehurch, 47, or 0.79 per 1,000; Dunedin, 53, or 0.89 per 1,000.

A meeting of the Programme Coirmittee of the South Wairarar.a Poultry, Pigeon, and Cage Bird Association was held at Carterton on Saturday afternoon. Last year's programme was' adopted. It was ceeided to add a doll dressing competition and a sewing competition t<* *,he programme, to be open to all children of the Wairarapa schools. Mrs Moore is to be asked to act »n judge. Mr Johnston, of Palmerslon North, 13 to be asked to jjudge tne poultry, and Mr Fitzgerald the pigeons.

As indicating the productiveness cf the soil at Ahikouka, near Greytown,' a Clareville sheep farmer told, a Wairarapa Age reporter that he was able'last winter to weather 75 shtep on; five acres of gicund. To show the comparison, he instanced that on. bis property at Clareville he could onlywinter five sheep to the acre,, or 25 to the five acres, and then they were rot so prime as those wintered et Ahikouka. Besides wintering the 75sheep he had bejen able to close the property down last November, and by January he had reaped 17 tons' 3 cwt.. of hay from it. Truly a good record. Another Clareville farmer said he could breed sheep all right on. his property at West Taratahi, but the unfortunate part of the business was he could never get them in really good show condition. He is trying to make arrangements to get a few acres of the Tully Estate "Pu'rar kau," Papawai, so as to be able to produce better show sheep.

Dr..Helen Cowie, 8.A., M.8., Ch. 8., L.R.C.P., Ed., has commenced the practice of her profession at 24 Perry Street.

Mrs A. Kerr inserts a notice of thanks for expressions of sympathy in connection with her recent bereavement.

Mr M. 0. Aronsten reports that the whole of'the meat exhibited in the gaslight display at the Post Office Mart on ifriday evening, last was disposed of on Saturday. Mr Sydney Earee, who has accepted an engagement with the Brough Fleming Company, notifies that all.accounts against him are to ; be sent to Messrs W. B. Chennells and Co. for settlement. At the residence of Mr H. H. Cork,. WurKbop Koad, at 1.30 p.m. on Wed. nesday, Mr J.. R. Nicol will sell at auction the whole of his furniture and household effects. Full particulars appear elsewhere. Particulars of a splen'lid block of 10,000. acres of nignl.y-improved freehold land, for salt: by Messrs Barnard Brown and Co., Wanganui, are advertised, elsewhere in this issue.

At the Post Office Auction Mart, on Saturday next, Mr M. O. Aronsten will hold an extensive sale of crockery, china, and. glassware. The whole consignment, 'totaLling JE3SO worth of new and up-to-date lines, will be open to. view in the mart on Wednesday.. Fall, particulars of the lines will he advertised later.

Those on the look out for a genuine land bargain are referred to the particulars of a property offered by Mr J. R. JSHcol, auctioneer and land agent, Bannister Street, which appears on page 8 of this issue. The: vendor will guarantee that this is one of the m.o3t profitable farms in the district, and is either for sale or would be exchanged for a larger pro T perty.

TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES,

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Twenty-nine cr.ses of scarlet fever "oscurred in Wellington last week. The total Postal and Telegraph revenue collected in the dominion during the quarter ended 31st March Was £183,615, as against £176,897 for the corresponding period of 1907. There are still a number of cases of typhoid fever in Auckland, but the present month's returns show that ithe epidemic is on the decrease. The jnumber of cases in the city reported to the Public Health Officer from Jtpril 1 up till last week was seven, against 25 cases for the month of March.

Tenders will shortly be called for the new accommodation house at the Hermitage, Mount Cook. The 'building will be or local stone, with rough ashlar surface, and will be about a mile lower down the valley than the present house, on a terrace facing Governor's Bush, which will provide magnificent views of Mount •Cook and the Taaman glacier. The material of the existing house will in all probability be utilised in outbuildings for the new house. Captain England denies that he came to blows with Lieutenant Shackelton over the command of the Nimrod, or that there was any altercation between them that could been construed into a quarrel. i'He also, states a Press Association massage from Christehtirch, denies a report dealing with representatives of the Press and the Nimrod's log. He says he did not refuse a request to see the log, but declined to allow it to be taken away.

A machine that plays the violin "with all tha skill and feeling of a:i accomplished musician" was exhibited, for the first time in London, ,a: Menses Waring's recently. Tech. meally the machine consists of an or•dimry violin attached to an electrically controlled apparatus, in which revolving cri-scs take the place of a bow, wh'le the firgering is done by about 70 automatic steel fingers, which operate as the particular composition to be played may require. The music is contained in the interior of the machine in the form of a perforated and endless paper band, somewhat similar in appearance to that used in automatic piano-players. The price of the machine is about £3OO.

An extraordinary scene was witnessed recently at the Ross National School, near Boyle, Co. Roscommon, when sixty pupils in a body left as a protest against tha schoolmaster con--tinuing to keep on the roll an 1 in •attendance at the school several small children the sons and daughters of two residents named Mullooly and Brennan. These men have the care -of the extensive grazing ranch of Mr J. Woulfe Flanagan, who has recently fallen under the ban and displeasures of the United Irish League. At a prearranged signal the senior pupils left, accompanied by the juniors, leaving the teacher in charge of the four children who were the unwitting cause of the trouble. It is reported that there were no fewer than 25 marriages in Dunedin on Wednesday last. Every carriage -was in use, also every hireable motor car, during the day, and from early in afternoon until the departure of the second express for rthe South in the evening there was a. continual procession of bridal parties to the railway station, which was literally strewn with rice. The number of marriages for the year to date in Dunedin is 212, against 226 for the same period of last year; but Eastertide seems to have brought dilatory wooers to the point, and for the fortnight preceding Good Friday there have been, this year, 58 weddings solemnised •or authorised, or 16 more than for the same fortnight of 1907. Among the passengers by the WaiIcare, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney on Thursday, was Captain Robertson. He wa3 at one time associated with the permanent defence forces in New South Wvles, but is now on the unattached list. He came across to the dominion "partly on pleasure and pirtly on business in the interests of a large Llind Agency Company in Queensland. He told a reporter that a large number of New Zealandera had settled in Queensland recently. This he attributed to the high prices ruling for land in New Zealand, and the comparatively low prices in Queensland. "Of course," he added, * '"we don't get the rainfall you have; still it is 32 inches, and the land is jes 1 ; as good." Captain Robertson intends enquiring into the land question in New Zealand, and contemplates travelling from one end of the colony to the other. Rabbits are increasing in numbers ra i rapidly in various parts of South-' ern Auckland at present that they are becoming a serious nuisance, says the Auckland "Herald." Noticing this fact, and with a \iew to turning the rabbits to profitable account, the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company is making inquir; iea with the idea of establishing a rabbit freezing department at the Auckland works. In the South Island rtbbit freezing for export has become a very important trade, sincl daily trains run 1 on some of the Otago railways to convey the rabbits tu the freezer, while gang 3 of men make handsome cheques during the winter months at trapping. Should the inducement appear sufficient, the industry will ba commenced in Auckland'in time for this winter. There has always been a good demand at Home for frozen rabbits, and, although it may seem strange in this country, retailers in the poorer quartets of London do a big trade in parts of the carcaoes, one hindle? being a "frequent order, while in some homes half a rabbit is quite a big investment. Jink?, M.H.R., grew desperate, L'rugs by the quart was qimffin', And yot his cough would indicate Hu'd soon requii'3 n, coffin ! He took Wood's Peppermint Cure! And sinco , He's been of all debaters The no plus ultra, and the prince Of loiul-liuigad legislators! 5 The Clothes Question Is 6no which presents itself to the mind ■•of every man whoro to get a suit combilling the newest cut and material, and comfort, with a moderutness of price is perplexing to those who have not worn one of our suits. Once you wear one of these suits you feel as if tho clothes question is permanently settled for you, for bettor cannot ha found, and the cash prices ore the lowest obtainable. We • ahull bo pleased to receive a visit from you when next in Wellington, Morrison rind Pennoy, Tailors, 73 Willis Street, Wellington. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' ''lireat Peppermint Care, fl ,'6 and 2/6.

It is stated that the present conditions of the export trade of the dominion are poor. Several of the large liners are finding difficulty in securing sufficient cargo for the voyage to the Old Country, notwithstanding the recently announced substantial reduction in freights on some lines.

The North Island Main Trunk Railway will be opened to Makatote on Friday next, May Ist, thus reducing the distance between the rail heads to ten miles. The coach road Avill, however, be about twelve miles long. From the Ist proximo the train from Taumaranui will leave at 6.45 a.m. instead of 7 o'clock a3 at present, and will start on the return, journey from Makatote at 3.1S pan., reaching Taumaranui at 6 o'clock instead of at 6.30 (present time-table).

"It is still a gamble with the weather," said a butter merchant in conversation with an Auckland "Star" representative, when referring to the outlook of the butter trade throughout the winter. "If this weather holds on a bit longer, ws will have a steady supply right through the winter, but a frost or two will upset all calculations, and the make will drop to nil. Then the butter in cold store will be the only recour.se. The whole situation at present depends entirely upon the weather conditions directly ahead. Referring to the question of preservatives in butter, and the likelihood of a law being brought into force iu England to prevent the use of preservatives in importations to that country, 'an Auckland merchant contends that it was going to seriously affect New Zealand butter. He pointed out that it will be exceedingly difficult to send Home saltless butter. From 2h to 3 per cent, of salt has always been looked upon as necessary to bring about the perfection cf the article intended for the Home market. In the absence of salt, it has always been deemed necessary to use a half per cent, of preservatives. If the proposal to prohibit the use of any preservative is given effect to the outlook for the New Zealand butter trade will be somewhat serious.

On the occasion of the elevation in rank of the PalmeVston Nor\h Post Office, the President of the Chamber of • Commerce telegraphed to Sir Joseph Ward the thanks of the commercial community for the further advantages extended to the Palmerston North Post Office, and expressed regret that the rules of the service necessitated parting with Mr Inder, who had proved himself a most obliging and efficient officer. The Premier replied thanking the Chamber, as well as the commercial community, for their telegram uf appreciation of what had been done, and added:—"l am pleased to receive such a tribute of Mr Inder's worth, and I join with you in expressing regret that the regulations of the service necessitate his transfer to another important station under the reclassification of offices." Mr Inder is to take the position of Postmaster at Masterton.