LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9106, 4 June 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The shooting competition for the Bolton Cup was held at Eketahuna yesterday, when the Eketahuna Mounted Rifles won, beating the only other competitor— the Masterton Mounted Rifles. A race which should create some interest at the skating rink, tomorrow evening, is one between two novices at the game, one having challenged the other to a race. Their weight is about twenty &tone each. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, China, Japan, Straits Settlement and also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom close at Masterton to-morrow morning, at 6.15 o'clock. i

Thf> game of "soccer" (Association) football played at Mastertou, yesterday,Neruonstrated the fact that there is ample local material for a first-class team. The close finish with an old team like Wellington Swifts was in itself evidence of this fact, and the spectators found the play at times as interesling to them as Rugby. The undoubted prejudice against Association football as being a dull and stodey game compared with Rugby will soon be removed if the local men shape as we'll in future games as they did yesterday with the additional perfection given by practice. Several prominent local football enthusit.st3, but whose football days are now over, intend foste'ring the Association by every means in their power, and the club has now a membership of over fifty, including thirty playing: members. The Rotorua trout-fishing season closed last Sunday (31st May.) The "Hot Lakes Chronicle," of Satur lay, say.-!: —"Although no record has been kept this season, as was the case during the past three seasons, from a knowledge of the fish taken from the lakes and streams, and'the quantity despatched daily by the express, we feel we are quite safe in saying that the "take during the season has quite equalled that of last season. Certainly not less than 70 tons of trout hav< j been taken from the bikes ami streams about Rotorua. intruding Lake Tarawera. Our estimate of. the quantity of fish may appear but it must be remembered tint the season has extended over seven months, and in ad lition to this a large nuiner of fish have been taken from Lake Tarawera, the average weight of which lias been seven pounds." A British red ensign, vvar-w orn and torn with bullets, has been presented to the Hon. George Fowlds (Minister of Education) by Poihipi te Kume, a chief livir.g at Oruanui, near Taupo. It is a flag with vividly interesting history. When the conor was a boy of nine or ten years the Maori tribe of which he is chief took the flag in battle. It passed through the Maori war, and received its first riddling with bullets at Kaukaoroa in 1865. Four years later it headed the Maoris who fought against To Keoti stTauno, being in the forefront of several fights along the shores of the lake. The climax of its battle career came when Te Kooti made his last desperate stand. Planted on the fence i thrown up by Te Kooti's men, it was torn down, falling into the pa with the body of the brave \cung warrior who l|;ul darimrly placed jt in position. The incident nerved the assailants to a determined charge, and the. maddened rush which followed resulted in the route of Te Kooti's followers. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES TUB FAMOUSSANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT was proved by experts of the Supremo Court of Victoria to posses curative properties peculiarly its own, and to be absolutely safe, elb.v.tivo ami reliable. Tiiereforo do not ftggi'evnte your complaint by the use of one of the many crude eucalyptus oils which are now pa lined off as "Extracts," and from the use of which a death was reported recently, but insist upon the GENUINE SANDER & SONS* EUOALYLMT EXTRACT all others. For wrinkles, simbu'.-ii, pimples, blackheads, freckles, cracked hands, dry and inflamed skin, use SANDER & SONS SUPERBA SKIN FOOD. No lady should bo without it. Allays irritation produces a clear and spotless complexion and a smooth and supple skin. ■ REMEMBER that SANDER & SON'S SUPERBA SKIN FOOD is not an ordinary face cream, and unlike any of thorn, produces a permanent beautifying oll'ect All chemists and stores.

Breeding ewes were recently sold 1 in Victoria as low as 5d per head. | A law student Society has been formed at Wanganui. A company has been formed in Sydney for the export of live stock to South Australia. Mr George Batty has grown a pumpkin in Bangitata, a contemporary, which is six feet in circumference and weighs 1101b. A number of sheep ha\e died in the Peak Hill district, New South Wales, from the effects of eating poisonous baits laid for rabbits. Quick work on the Pacific cable. The special representative of the Australian "Star," with the British football team, cabled thi result of the Otugo-British match on Saturday to his paper in Sydney in a fraction over a minute. Tho result was known in Sydney b«forc tha players left the ground. In connection with the liability of relatives for (.he maintenance of indigent person;;, the secretary of the Wellington Benevolent Trustees has been instructed to bring a test case against a man who refused to contibute to the maintenance of a relative who was in receipt of I charitable aid. In the course of conversation with an "Otngo Daily Times" reporter, the Right Hon. Sir J. G. Ward (Prime Minister) said that during the forthcoming session of Parliament the Absolute Majority Bill or a Second Ballot Bill would be brought down by the Government and put upon the Statute Book. It had not been definitely decided which of the two measures would be proceeded with, but without doubt one would.

During 1 a theatrical performance at a hall at Hikurangi, recently, a large oil lamp, suspended from the r)of, fall and burst into flames. A panic among the audience was only averted by the proir.pt action of the members of the company, and the flames were smothered with considerable difficulty. None of the doors in the hall opened ou'.wards, and those who tried to leave got jammed in the exit?. There were about 200 people in the hall at the time. Very favourable reports were given at a meeting of the Otdgo Acclimat;s:.ion regarding the beneficial effects of the little German owl which was introduced to Otago some three or four years ago. It was autht ritatively mentioned that in parts the small bird nuisance was iiow'almort a thing of the past. One great effect of this wais that fruitgrowi ig was made possible where previously, owing to the destruction of the fruit-bud 3 by the birds, it had been out of the question. When Mr George Harnett, manager of the British football team, proudly declared himself, at the .reception at Dunedin last week, to be a man of Kent, he was probably—to judge from the communications he nas received since laying the foundations for the establishment in Otago of a society of the "Men of Kent." Mr Harnett is a member of an important society of the Men of Kent in London, and he has authority from it to form a branch in New Zealand. A Man of Kent is not to be confuted with a Kentish man, the distinction being that; as authorities on subject are agreed, a Man of Kent is one born in thi; county of Kent to the east of the Med way, and Kentish men are those born on the west.

The New 3Coric correspondent of the "Otago Daily Times," writes as follows:--"Two men in an lowa town are engaged in playing a cribbage game for a score of a million points. Their score on April lSth was 460,234 to 455,231. Both of the players-John C. Loper and Milo Ward "-estimate that they will live to finish the exciting contest in 1915. Loper and Ward play once a week from half-past 7 o'clock to 11 o'clock in the evening. They have played for 37tJ consecutive weeks, and religiously keep their weekly engagement. The average cumber of points mace each night of play for the past seven years is 2,150. Tne playrra have worn cut a number of board* and al.out 250' packs of cards." According to the opinion of Mr J. A. Gilruth (Chief Government Veterinarian), the human being wages a i: mtimious war with microbes from his infancy, and, unless he is. very careful in the late days of his life, the microbes beats him. When a being was maturing, said Mr Gilruth, it was nvore prone to disease than later, when the body became set. Nearly everyone was impregnated with the tubercle of consumption, more or lass, but healthy living enabled a great number of us to withstand the disease. Now 'arid again, however, we heard that somebody • had caught a chill, or pneumonia, and had died. It was not pneumonia or the chill which had brought about death, but the microbes of consumption which seized the human frame, when it happened to be «n a very weak state.

A decision of considerable importance to frieirjly societies was cided by the English Court of Appenl on April 10th. Mr Richard Catt, a member of the Margate Lodge of Foresters, wished to recoup himself the money he had paid to asylum authorities for the maintenance of his son, who, like himself, had been for many years a member of the Order. He therefore sought sick pay on his son's account, but refused to pay the expenses of an arbitration to decide what sick pay (if any) should be paid; whereupon ha was expelled from his lodge under a rule which said: "The decision of every arbitration and appeal committee shall be binding immediately after it has been given, unless othii'wiro ordered; and any member, court, or district refusing to comply shall be suspended from the Order." Bro. Catt applied to Mr Justice Coleridge to grant an order restraining the lodge from expelling him, but His Hanour refused to interfere. The appeal hsld that the rule in .question was not ultra vires, and therefore that "Catt had been justifiably expelled. The appeal was dismissed with costs. _ Mr C. F. B. Livosay, Architect of Wte lington, has moved to more convenienrooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Oflico of the Bank of N.Z.) Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2602,

It stated that one party of rabbittrappers in tho Narrabri district. New South Wales, is averaging £6 a week per man. Neither poultry or rabbits were exported from the Dominion last month. In April of last year 470 pairs of poultry, of a total value of £J 93, were consigned. The Welsh Society of Wellington intends deputationising Sir Joseph Ward to ask that the anniversary day of St. David, patron saint of Wales, be made a Government holiday, as well as other national saints' day. St. David's Day falls on March Ist. "Sir," said one of the speakers at the Eltharn Literary and Debating Society's meeting on Friday, "The Government have been nursing a frozen snake in their bosom, which will turn to dust and ashes in their mouth," and by the time the audience had fully realised the horror of the situation (records the local paper) the speaker had soared to other realms of oratory. The big gasometer which the Gas Company is having erected at Miramar, Wellington, will eclipse anything else of the sort at present in New Zcealand. It will hold one p.ni a half million cubic feet of gas, will stand 122 ft high, and will cost some '£30,000. Its cubic measurement ha 3 been calculated to be one and a half times greater than that of the General Post Office. The ironwork will include 360 plates, the largest of which will measure 24ft [by 4ft, and will weigh 33cwt. The gasometer is to be built on the telescopic principle, and suspended on stanchions of steel latticework. The work of erection will keep 50 men employed. In New South Wales the'-e is what is called a public disaster relief fund, which now stands at £12.242. The report just issued, showing last year's operations, states that "tho sum of £1,288 has been expended in allowances to sufferers in connection with the disaster at the Mjunt Kimbla mine in 1902, £l2l 7s to sufferers by the disaster at Stanfor .1 Merthyr in 1904, and £22 19s to sufferers by the disaster at the Clifton colliery in 19.17, making a total of £1,432 6s disbursed in relief to recognised and deserving claimants; while the general charges for administration, postage, duty stamps, bank charges, clerical assistan'-e, etc., amount to £66 19s 3d; advertising, printing, etc., to £2 14s; and £99 17s 3d expenses connected with the investment of £6,000 in New Zealand Government bor.ds."

Mrs J. M. Meredith, "Brooklyn," Renall Street, requires an exoerienced housemaid and kitchenmaid. At the Post Office Auction Mart on Saturday, Mr M. 0. Aronsten will submit a quantity of furniture and general goods, poultry and produce. The New Zealand Railways Department announce holiday fares to Wellington in connection with Industrial week. Messrs W. Littlephn and Eons offer Dollonds' prism field glasses at exceedingly favourable prices, and recommend a tiny telescope for which orders may be placed now, tobe filled on arrival of the instruments from London. A sample may be seen at Messrs Littlejohn's. The skating rink is proving a very popular place of amusement judging by the increasing attendance. This evening and on Saturday the Masterton South Band will play a programme, of choice selections. On Saturday, at 3 30, a boys' race will be held. The floor is steadily being improved. Patrons who are anxious to be proficient in the art are reminded that Mr W. H. Bird, instructor, is ,in daily attendance at the rink. CONSUMPTION STILL CLAIMS ITS VICTIMS. That old enemy of the human, race—consumption—still claims its victims, but (and note this well) you can positively euro a cold an I thus prevent conau'l in increasing numbers. A cold neglected—that is always the start, always. It seems inconceivable that pei*sons who know poifoctly well that a neglected coW will cause the sulTeicr to find a consumptive's grave persist in. neglecting themselves. Don't lot a cold got a start—atop it right at the beginning with TUSSICURA—a truly marvellous throat and lung tonic-.. Two tcaspoonsfuls of TUS3ICURA taken at the beginning of a cold quickly clears the nasal passages, relieves thefovorishiu'ss, and reduces the momIrinous inflammation. You will find consumption exceedingly difficult to cure when it has a goodstart;i sumption by taking TUSSICUEA when the cold first appears. Tussicura is sold in two sizes, 2s-(id, by all chemists and grocers..

The streets of Masterton were very quiet for the holiday yesterday, the majority of townsfolk making for the outskirts to see hockey and football matches, and others going to Greytown to the "trot." The weather was beautifully mild, the sun shining all day, and in consequence the various football and hockey matches were largely patronised. The weekly session ot Endeavour Lodge, No. 203, was held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms last evening. Bro. H. King, Chief Templar, presided over a fine attendance of members. Two candidates were nominated for membership, and two new members were initiated. A visiting brother was admitted to associate membeiship. Other routine business was dealt with. An appeal for financial assistance is being made by the Agricultural and Pastoral Labourers' Union. Months and months were spent in taking evidence in the Canterbury district, and it has been freely stated the same class of evidence was taken over and over again. This has resulted in a big bill for typewriting— £220 is the Farm Labourers' Union ahara. Stock in the Lower Valley are reported to be making great headway on accounnt of the abundant feed. A Martinborough farmer expressed the opinion to a Wairarapa'Age reporter, yesterday, that green as the country is around Masterton, the southern valley pastures are better. A flock of fat sheep brought in from an East Coast station to Featherston, the other day, were, he said, beautifully clean and healthy looking. Only the weaker lamos are showing any signs of scour, the average and strong sheep being in fine condition.