LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9107, 5 June 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr A. P. Whatman has donated £2O to the fund being raised for the improvement of the A. and P. Grounds at Solway. Mr Donald Bower, of Ak'aroa. has been appointed manager of the Parkvale cheese factory, out of forty applicants.

There was a large attendance at the skating rink last evening The Masterton South Band was in attendance and played a number of selections.

The inspection of local dairy herds supplying the town with milk is now being carried out by the local Dairy Inspector (Mr Wrieht), who is testing animals for tubeiculosis.

The latest dredging returns to hand are as follows—Mystery Flat dredge, 46ozs Bdwts for 112 hours work; Masterton dredge, 530z 3dwts for 133. hours work; Hessey dredge, 26ozs Odwts for 137 hours work.

A large staff of men is engaged on the work of erecting the Seddori Memorial Technical School, and so great has been the progress made that the contractor (Mr A*;' liaughey) anticipates that the roof will be on by Monday, and the brick-laying completed before the end of next week. The building is.now sufficiently advanced to give a idea of its proportion when finished, and the general opinion is that it will be a structure that will be a credit tn thn town.

"We shall have a Showground worthy of any district in. the Dominion," stated a 'leading member of the A. and P. Association to a Wairarapa Age reporter yesterday. "The fact of our having ample time to prepare trie Solway grounds for our opening Show there in 1909 will mean that we shall have a most auspicious opening, and one that will surprise a great many people, I have no doubt. It is really surprising how much vitality our Association possesses, and the committee selected to conduct the canvass for funds are meeting with the most cordial support on all hands. Wairarapa will have reason to be proud of the Masterton Show in a year or two."

The Park Lake has been emptied by the Park Custodian (Mr i). Jackson) to enable deepening operations to be carried out on the side nearest town. The spoil is being used to topdress and level the area which the caretaker is converting into a lawn, where the old football ground was located. The oval is looking very well since its new came through the recent top-dressing. A commencement has yen to be made with the wo-k of extending the Lake area, which the Council authorised to be done some weeks ago. Unless this is soor. put in hand the most opportune season of the year from many points for such a work will be missed. Sir C. B. Live say, Architect of Wtc lington, has moved to more convenicnrooins in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Office of the Bank of N.5i.) Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2M2, For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Care J,l> and 2/0.

The Greytown Dairy Factory has closed down for the season.

An effort is being mada to form a chesS 'and draughts club at Carterton.

The North Island Brass Band Association have agreed to the 1909 contest at Hastings being held from 17th to 23rd February.

Plumbing work is at a standstill in Carterton just now, writes our correspondent. A number of hands have had to cease work, but it is hoped that the slump in the trade will only last for a few weeks.

At the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr M. O'Connell, J.P., one first offender for drunkenness was lined 10a (he did not appear), and anuth r was convicted and discharged. The Woodlands Hunt Club held a very successful "meet" on Mr Maxted's property, Pahiatua, on Wednesday, about thirty-five following the hounds. Afternoon tea was kindly provided bji Mr Maxtecl.

The adjourned civil case, Pickering Bros. v. Waterhouae (claim £I7G and counter claim £104) on various plumbing contracts, will come on again at the S.M. Court at Masterton to-morrow.

The Opaki Kifle Club's trophy competitions are to close next week, when the results for the season's shooting will be compiled. Matches missed by members who are still eligible to shoot are all that remain to be fixed.

Encouraging success i 3 being accorded to the promoters of the continuous telephone service idea for Masterton, the petition now in circulation among subscribers being very largely signed. The ultimate success of the proposal is regarded by many as almost a certainty. "Where are you obtaining your potatoes from?" was a question addressed to a Masterton merchant yesterday by a Wairarapa Age reporter. "We are getting the bulk from Gamaru and Canterbury just now," was the reply. "The local supply is, of course, very limited, consequent on the drought,- and the quality is not altogether even.'' Dr Cook (president) has donated a handsome solid silver inkstand for competition among the members of the, Masterton Morris Tube Association. Trophies have also been presented to the Association by Messrs C. E. Daniell, Hodges and Taylor, R. J. Lyttle, D. Lett, and the Cement Pipe Co. A visit ,vas paid to the headworks of the Masterton water supply, yesterday, by several members of the Committee appointed by the Borough Council to investigate the reports of Messrs G. Laing-Meason and D. Dubson in regard to the improvement and extension of . the water and drainage.

The following officers have been nominated for positions in connection with the Carterton Fire Brigade--Captain, Mr C. Lumley; first lieutenant, Mr E. McKenzie; second lieutenant, Messrs G. Canton and W. Campbell; foreman, Mr F. Jackson; secretary and treasurer, Mr W. Campbell; custodian, Mr E. McKenzie; auditor, Mr R. J. Chapman; officer in chartie of the South Carterton station, Mr H. Hutchinson. • A Miki Miki settler states that the Miki Miki Valley, which probably suffered wor.*e than any other neighbouring locality from drought and fires last summer, is now a picture, the grass being more abundant than ever bfefore, while stock are also in the best of condition for this season of the year. Though a valuable area of forest reserve was devastated by fire, there was a considerable amount of good done by the fires in clearing scrub, quite a transformation being effected in this respect on many properties. Bro. J. Nichoils, P.C.R., presided at the fortnightly meeting of Court Marquis of Norman by, A.0.F., held in the Foresters' Hall, Carterton, on Wednesday evening. The following nominations for official positions were received —C.R., Bro. R. Spora; 5.C.R.,. Bro. A. Holmes; Treasurer, Bro. P. Molloy; Secretary; Bro. R. J. Chapman; S.W., Bro. J. Hurt; J.W r Bros. J. Fisher and J. McDonald; 5.8., Bro. G. [I. Meder; J. 8., Bro. VV. Vickerstaf?; Surgeon, Dr Jonnston; Auditor and Minute Secretary, Bro. C. Moore. Routine business was transacted.

A visitor to the peaceful haunts of the Upper Milei Miki Valley would never dream that there, where the dense native bush has its fringe and quietude reigns all the year round, an industry of some importance once had its seat. A Mr Silvester took up an area of 960 acres, of mostly bush country some six or seven years ago, and while his sons farmed some of the land:, Mr Sylvester himself launched on a basket-making venture, collecting the supplejacks from the bush for tlm purpose. The number of articles manufactured was fairly considerable, loads being brought to Maaterton weekly for transport elsewhere. In the long run, however, Mr Sylvester found that the trouble and expense of collecting the supplejacks, and the other drawbacks to the carrying on of an industry in such an isolated spot, did not warrant hi-n continuing, and the project was eventually abandoned. The factory in which Mr Sylvester carried on his operations is still standing, though bush and grass fires raged close to it last summer. In tho homo music is as necessary to the mind as ventilation is to the body. It doesn't matter whether ymi run an elaborate establishment or a baeiwlor Hat, a cottage or a club —you need a piano. Hotter get a ;jjood piano while you are at it. Tho Dresden Co. deals only in good pianos, and carries the largest and most varied stock in Australasia. Mr Brookes, in Wellington, who is manager for the North 1.-stanil, is kept to see that you got just what you want. You will be charged the honest value of the instrument —and 110 more. In selecting the instrument you will have the full benefit of the specialised knowledge and ripe experience of absolute experts in the piano business. Yon can buy on terms so easy that payment of the instalments will seem merely au inexpensive habit, with the piano as clear profit at the end. Beware of the dealer, salesman, or traveller who casts reflection upon his competitors. Ho djes so from interested motives —perhaps to back up his own weak position. Our Agents aro instructed not to discredit opposition iiruis. They are to rely solely on the merits of the Company's instru. mmts.

West Australian flourmillers are asking the State Government to run subsidised steamers to Japan and China.

There was a record gate at the Dunedin Winter Show on, Wednesday, the takings amounting to £390.

The "sneak thief" is abroad at Pahiatua. Recently a resident had a number of fowls stolen, and on Monday night sev«ral towels, which were hanging on a line in\ the yard of Mr H. Taylor, hairdresser and tobacconist, were stolen. "This city eats 25,000 bullocks and 100,000 sheep a year," said an Auckland gentleman with a hobby for statistics, to a press representative, and taking the whole province at)i very moderate estimate, 50,000 cattle and 200,000 sheep are slaughtered every twelve months to feed the people. Burns, the boxing champion of the world, and Squires, of Australia, have been matched to box in Paris on the 13th instant. An Australian syndicate has arranged with Burns to visit Australia during the time the American fleet is thera, and it is probable that some American boxers of repute will be imported to give displays with the champion. Squires may also be brought out and again matched with Burns.

The latest journalistic venture in the Dominion is "Good Cheer," a monthly journal for New Zealand homes, published at Wanganui. We have received a copy of the June issue, and we can honestly say that it is a remarkably good publication. The paper consists of t'iirty-tw> pages of stories, illustrated articles, cookery and household rotes, poetry and a variety of other matter. Some eight pages are devoted to the realms of + 'ashion and fashion blocks. A cut pattern is given away free with each number.

£ I "The oat market is very firm still," said a local grain merchant to a Wairarapa kge reporter yesterday. "Danish Grey and Gartons are already in large request for cropping purposes. We are experiencing a larger earlier demand than ever previou=ly for oats for the white crop. Farmers are apparently determined to take the risk of a wet winter in preference to a dry spring, and already Algerians are being replaced in the market demand by the varieties for the main crop." "The cruel practice of docking: horse 3 is still largely in vogue iti Canterbury," seated Mr W. H. Zouch, in his monthly report to the committee of the Christchureh Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals (reports the "Press"). He expressed the hope that this useless and unwarrantable disfigurement of horses would be one of the chief matters for consideration at the proposed conference of societies at Wellington. The American Society was doing its best to put a stop to it; j an Anti-docking Bill was before the I Legislature of that country.

Responding to the toast of the Ministry at a complimentary social tendered to Mr Baume, M. P., at Auckland, the Hon. G. Fowlds said, with reference to the recent talk of coalition, there was-wo* reason why the Liberal party should coalesce with a small party like the Opposition. Some members of the Opposition admitted they would have great difficulty in forming a Ministry from their ranks, even if they returned from the polls with: a> majority, while the Government party could: form two or three Ministries from its ranks. Socialism was only a party cry. The aim of the Government was to make progress along sound lines.

" A miscarriage "of justice" is how tiie Dunedin "Star" characterises the sentence of three months" imprisonment imposed by Mr Justice Denniston at Invercargill on Tuesday on the young man, Clempson, fox* signing a false declaration in stating, that he had passed the fifth standard (whereas he had only passed the fourth), so as to get employment in the Railway Departin,ent. It id pointed out that the prisoner's wrong-doing was due to his desire to provide for a sick wife 'and two children, and the opinion is expressed tint ttw case was ona for the operation of the provisions of the First Offenders' Act and probation. "The sentence was an o.urage," says the paper, and the Premier is'urged to intercede with his Excellency the Governor to have it squashed, or at least materially modified.

Sir Joseph Ward rnad« an important statement to a reporter at Invercargill in reference to the through express service. He said the matter had been occupying the Railway Department some time, and it is its intention to have a through service from Auckland to the Bluff, with proper connections, and without delay. The South Island service will' remain practically as at present, and the North Island service must of necessity be partly a night servise. The Railway Department has to face the difficulty of making provision for services at stations touched at by the express service. The express must necessarily leave Auckland at night to allow the people of Auckland to get their mails right through by train. To> leave there in the morning means that the mails remain there all day, which would not be up-to-date business. Scenery was not a consideration, as the intermediate services fully provided for that, and business must not be sacrificed to scenery.

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As showing the wonderful recovery the country around Woodvllle made when the rain came after the drought, Mr W. Remnant's milk 'checue for thu month of April amounted to £53 9s, says the "Examiner." Thii was for the milk tfrooi forty-eight cows, and averag -sad £1 2s 3Jd per c>w for the month —a truly wonderful result when we .■jremetftb'er how the milk' cows '/went: .off'" during the long spell of dry weather. There are other settlerg iin the Maharahara district that received large cheques for the same »month.

It is announced that under the will .of Mrs Elizabeth Watson, of Pulteney street, Bath, England, who died ►on March 16th, provision is made, , subject to certain contingencies, for ■establishing a fund to be known as "'The Elizabeth Watson Fund," under ithe control of the Bishops of New 'Zealand, with delegates of one clergyman and one layman from each •diocese, for the purpose of allocating pensions to clergymen who have served in the diocese on reaching the age of sixty-five years. No annuity to _-any clergyman is to exceed £3OO. A second obj. ct of the fund is to provide annuities not exceeding £l2O to ithe widows of clergy, and annuities 'to their orphan?. The testator was the relict of Mr Robert Watson, formerly resident in Christchurch, New Zealand. tioard and lodging at Lansdowne is required by an advertiser. Board and residence in a private family is required by an advertiser. First-class tear) and residence can be obtained uc 73, Lincoln road, Masterton. A good pantrymaid or pantryman is required at the Central Dining Rojms. Mr F. P. Welch, labour agent, has vicancies for cooks and married ■ ouples. An inset from Messrs J. Graham and Co., dealing with their great sb of drapery and crockery, will fce > emulated with to morrow's issue. Tenders are invited by Mr Holmes Warren, ot' Turanganui, Pirinoa, for ist imping and burning about 50 acres of gorse. At their Perry street Mart, toi morrow afternoon, Messrs R. E. .Howell and Co., Ltd., will hold a sale of superior household furniture j/and general sundries. At the Post Office Meat Mart, this i-evening, a special display of prime •ox beef, lamb and mutton, veal, i.pork, and ham and bacon will be made, and the public are invited to i make un inspection of same. A very pretty suite of dining-room furniture made from fiumed oak and 'in an uncommon pattern, is Exhibited in Messrs G. Hyde and Co.'s Mastertton premises. Casement curtains in • various designs are also shown. At the Masterton Auction Mart, f on Saturday, Mr ;J. R Nicol will fsell, on account of several vendors, 1 j j a good range of leading furniture lines, which will be sold without :reserve. A meeting under the auspices of the Knox Church Young People's ..Association will be held in ICnox Hall, this Evening, to which the gereral public are invited. Particulars are advertised on page 1. Mr J. Sdott, watchmnke- and jeweller. makes an elaborate display of jgOld bamboo, curb and bond bangles in his Queen street premises. The 'designs are artistic and varied, and the prices quoted are remarkably reasonable for such high quality goods. VThere are exhibited in the window vof Mr Frank Dupre's Masterton pretwo 400-day.clocks. The mechanism is wonderfully simple, and when once the clocks are wound up i they are guaranteed to keep correct time over the period mentioned above. The time-pieces have attract- ] ■ fid a good deal of attention from resi- • dents. Messrs East and East, of Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington, wish to draw special attention to their advertisement appearing in this issue, in which they advertise par'ticulara of an exceptional cheap property situated in Queensland. From ; the particulars it sounds a real good thing, and otters a splendid opportunity for cutting up into small dairy farms. The display of the Scoullar Co., Ltd., at their warehouse, Lambton 'Quay, Wellington, is a revelation ao to the high-class furniture turned out iin the Dominion. New Zealand producer work of the class equal to any imported. The Scoullar Co. employs highly skilled designers and cabinetmakers; men who .have been trained iin the great establishments of Eng~™""Tand and Europe; their machinery is •of the latest type, while they are kept closely in touch with the latest styles and ideas. Made in our own land, by our own people for our own jpabple, the display is indeed a tribute to' New Zealand industry. Readera should write to the Scoullar Company for catalogues, designs arid full particulars, which will be sent post free.