LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9079, 1 May 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

*- The following are the latest dredging returns :—Mystery Flat, 430z 4 dwts; Masterton, 108oz Gdwts; both for the week. Hessey, 18oz Gdwts for 75 hours.. The only bankruptcy in Masterton for the month of April uccurred on Tuesday, making a; total of four for the present year. Iheve were five bankruptcies recorded in April, 1907. The Masterton Gymnasium and Physical Training School was opened last night under the direction of Mr A. E. Harvey, instructor. There was a good muster of gymnasts. There are now five typhoid fever cases in the Greytown Hospital. The last patient came from Martinborough, and was admitted r to the hospital on Monday. On Wednesday afternoon.the Woodville Rifles won the competition for the Bolton Cup by 61 points. Other teams competing were the Pahiatua Rifles and Pahiatua Mounted Rifles.

The Masterton District H%h School Girls Club opened the hockay season yesterday afternoon on the school hockey ground, with a match Reds v. Blues. The game resulted.in a draw.

The vital statistics for Masterton for April were: —Birtli3 14v deaths 11, marriages 14. The figures for the corresponding period last year were:—Births 25, deaths 8, marriages 12. ' The Fairview Rifle Club has concluded the comuetition for the McGregor Cup, which has been, won by Rifleman R. McGregor. Rifiteman S., Evans was second, and D. MMlresor, senr., third.

At the Police Court this morning, before Mr Eli Smith, 3.Ei r a man named Spencer was fined 20s for drunkenness, in de'fault 4S> hours' imprisonment. A first offending female inebriate was convicted and discharged.

The annual meeting of the Masterton Licensing Committe will be held in the Courthouse, Masterton, at noon on Wednesday, 10th June next. All applications must be lodged with the clerk (Mr M. Foley) 21 days before the meeting.

A collision happened at Akura on Wednesday. As Mrs C. Bannister was coming to town in a gig the horse, in passing a cab, shied off the road, locking the cab wheirl in the eig wheel, which caused the harness to break, also throwing Mrs Bannister and her son out. Mrs Bannister escaped with a severe bruising, the boy crawling out from under the wheels also quite unhurt. There is now a prospect of the Wairarapa District Court having some business at Masterton for the next session, a writ has been issued by Messrs Bunny and Dolan, ncting on behalf of A. F. Smith, executor of the late T. F. Smith,, claiming the return of the racehorse Gaelic, the property of the deceased, or, in the, alternative, £4OO damages Mr C. l A. Pownall has beem retained for the defence. At the annual meeting of parishioners of St. Lute's Church, Greytown, on Tuesday evening, the following officers were' elected for the ensuing year:—Vicar's Churchwarden, Dr Bey; People's Churchwarden, Mr H. Duckling; Vestry, Messrs W. A. Tate, M.. M'axton, W. Armstrong, W. Gates,. S, Kent-Johnston, E. Gates, W. C. Davies, H. Trotman, junr., C. Czpansky; Synodsman, Mr H. Dudding;, Auditor, Mr H. Walden. 'The following school committees have been elected:—Nireaha, Messrs Alberthsen( chairman), T. B. Mason,. E. E. Gora, C. Alberthsen, J. Hardyment, C. Connor, S. Smith, F. H. Dowden (secretary). Newman, Messrs T. F. Calton(chairman), T. T. Youie (secretary), P. Voigfc, J. Cooper, ft. Gyde. A. Syversen, F. MoManus. Alfredton, Messrs K. Burt (chairman and secretary), A. Gordon,. E. Green, W. Gander, '*. Benton. Hammi, Messrs F. Wakely, (chairman), L. Ogden, H. Hercock, C. Lawrence, D. Hercock, J. Lomax, VV. Tuckvvell'. Hukanui, Messrs C. R. Blake (chairman), J. Stovens, R. Riddio, J. Hunter, E. Leach, W. Patterson, P. A. de Loree (secretary). Mr C. F. B. Livcsay, Architect of Wellington, lias moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, ! Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head j Ollice of the Bank of N.Z.) AddressP.O. Box 771, Telephone 2692, i

The shooting season will open today and close on July 31st.

There are 81 schools in the Taranaki education district. Thirty years ago the number was 23.

Grass seed sowing in the Magamahoe district has been completed, and very large area has been sown down.

The Hawke's Bay Rifle Association has decided to enter a team for the Empire Cup competition.

The Mayoral election at Eketahuna resulted in the return of Mr A. H. Herbert, who polled 141 votes against Mr J. A. Haswell'sl33.

The factory half-holiday poll taken at Woodville, on Wednesday, re suited as follows:—For Wednesday, 42 votes; for Saturday, 5.

Mr J. M. Thompson, formerly science master at the Otago High School, and now analytical chemist, will contest the Dunedin North seat in the Opposition interest.

There has been some very extensive ploughing and sowing dune in the country between Masterton and Carterton this autumn, in fact more than ever before. Already oats are several inches above ground, and a phenomenal winter harvest is in prospect. The industry of winter agriculturists is being encouraged ty very favourable weather, and the winter season promises to be as favourable as the summer was the reverse.

The rifle Shooting for the season has closed, so far as provincial meetings are concerned. Probably no other club in the dominion can boast such a record as Opaki Rifle Club, which has five championships to its credit for tlTe season, including the coveted New Zealand Belt. The name? of the championships won and the winners are as follow:—Now Zealand Championship, Rifleman Geo. Hyde; Wellington district championship, Rifleman R. J. King; W'anganui Rifle Association's meeting, Rifleman J. McLeay; Manawatu Association's meeting, Rifleman W. J. Wrnslade; Rangitikei Association's meeting, Rifleman R* J* King. In addition, the club has won a large' amount in cash prizes and two very fee shields..

A knotty question cropped up during the Show amalgamation discussion at the annual meeting of trie Wairarapa P. and A. Society at Carterton yesterday. The sudden' advent of" a vsry large number of new members just prior to such an important matter coming oo caused the friends of amalgamation to a & whether all these new members had paid their first year's subscription. The chairman (Mr H. McPhee) ruled that they wero'entitled to vote in any case. Mr Perry, said the Society's x rules must be: taken in conjur.ctiorri with legislative enactments, and produced a legallopinion to show that unless new members had paid their subscriptions they could not legally' vote. Mr Wi. G. Buchanan 1 sndi others upheld the chairman in ruling that general practice and absence of special direction in the rules entitled new members to vote whether they had paid theirs subscription or not.

A portion of an' onyx brooch, with rubies, is advertisedfbr.. The owner of a collie dog, left at Te Nui stables, is advertised for. An advertiser wants to purchase pigs and poultry.. "Mr P. L. Hollings- inserts a notice ot thanks for his election as Mayor at Wednesday's poll. Mr John Hunter inserts a notice of thanks in connection with his election as a Councillor. Messrs Seaton and Sladden, civil ergineers and surveyors, of Wellintgon and Masterton, can be consulted at their offices Perry Street. The results of the bor.»ugh elections and poll in connection with the weekly half-holiday are advertised by the Returning Officer.

The public are- invited to inspect the display of prtaie meat and poultry which will b«. made by Mr Long at the Post Office Auction Mart this evening.

Boots for the'winter season atQ< now in full supply at the Central Boot Mart, Queen Street. Mr Carpenter advertises prices of leading lines, and invites inspection.

At their rooms, Perry Street, at 2.15 p.ir. to-morrow, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell at auction Mr T. H. Thompson's stock of saddlery and harness, and a quantity of furniture,, poultry aud produce.

At the Post Office Auction Mart, at 2 n'clock to-morrow, Mr; M. 0. Aronsten will hold an extensive sale of high-class crockery,, china and glassware. The goods are-; now on .view, and a gas light display/ will be made this evening.

Messrs G. Hyde and Co. announce' the arrival of a big consignment ofi.' carpets and linoleums, of the very/ latest design. Tho stock of inlaidi and printed linoleums is very comr pleto and well worth inspection. The firm have also a big 1 line of remnants' of oilcloth and linoleums to disposeof at bargain prices.

The results 29th annual! report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society will be found publSshed elsewhere in this issue. The.-fig-ures show very clearly the advancement in the Society's business foe the jwtst' year, and will prove inteuesting reading.

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The election of the last Licensing Committee for the Kaipara district cost JBIO4 6a 9d. Mr Tom Burrows started at 9 o'clock yeaterday morning, in the Theatre Royal, Wellington, to break his own world'a record of swinging cluba for 61 hours and forty-six minutes. The clubs weigh three pounds each, and he will have to make at least seventy revolutions a minute. It is authoritatively announced that Mr Bennet, M .P., will not contest the Tuapeka seat at the next election, his state of health making his participating in active politics again extremely improbable. A movement is on foot in the lower •end of the Wakatipu electorate in favour of Mr Thos. M'Kenzie contesting the seat in the Labour inter •esta.

The Timaru Presbytery had some difficulty on Wednesday last in dealing with the resignation of a minister, who requested them to preserve his status as a minister and his seat in the Church courts, he having accepted a church extension charge. Such a case was not provided for in 'the Church law; it could only be clone by the Assembly. Members remarked that this was a regrettable defect. A minister who gave up work altogether remained a minister; but one who gave up a charge in order to do session work lost his status.

Population of all kinds is what the dominion requires,, says the Eltham "Argus." We do not wish to see an influx of pauper population—New 'Zealand has tried that before—but we wish to see a steady and continuous stream of able-bodied, cleanliving, industrious men and women, particularly of the farming type, arriving by every steamer. The nominated system of immigration is being encouraged by the Government, but more can be done in th« matter, and should be done. We hope the Farmers' Unions throughout the Dominion will take up the matter in all earnjstnoHg and impress its importance upon the Government, and we trust the Government will give a willing ear to the representations.

For the first time in the history of the Australian service of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Auckland "Herald") the Japanese mail steamer Yawata Maru sailed from Sydney on Wednesday last for Yokohama without a single Chinese passenger in any of her classes, without an ounce of cargo shipped by Chinese fkm, and without the usual heavy gold shipments sent by every steamer Hv the Chinese merchants to the Far East. There has not been a single deserter from the ranks, and the shipp rs of both Meloourne and Adalaide have fallen into line with their countrymen in Sydney.

The law certainly does not require everyone to be reduced to the dead level of mediocrity, remarks the Marlborough "Express." The Court fixes a wage below which it shall not be lawful to employ a man, but there is nothing whatever to prevent employers from paying more, and they frequently do so. Some men are not worth more than the minimum, but others again are worthy of a higher rate of pay, and where the employer recognises this fact, as he occasionally does do, he pays accordingly. It is not the law tnat reduces workman to a level, but this unfortunate result is due to the action of many'employers who fail to recognise special merit in a workmen, and who make the mistake of regarding the minimum rate of wages as the maximum, beyond which they will not do. The Te Whiti monument, for erection in the marae at Parihaka over the funeral vault of the late chief Te Whiti, will probably be sent on to the village from New Plymouth this week. The monument, as previously described, is of gray granite, wilh red granite columns, standing 20ft high. It will be durrounrled by a concrete wall and iron railing, with gate openings, and two lamps, which will be lighted every night. The inscriptions will be carved in both English and Maori. Despite the enormous quantities of concrete used in the construction of the vault it has been decided to further strengthen it by the addition of another 12in of concrete, an'.! above the vault will be placed four steel girders embedded in concrete to take the weight of the memorial column. Tha total cost will be about £250.