LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9153, 28 July 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Worksop dredge is 470z for 142 hours" work. Mr A. C. B. Munro, of Weber, having , resigned his po-.ition as a member of the Pahiatua Licensing Committee, His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr S Bolton to fill the vacancy. The secretary of the Woodlands Hunt Club has been advised that the New Zealand Railway Department will issue holiday excursion fares in connection with their steeplechase meeting at Pahiatua, on Wednesday August sth. Mrs Siir.ih Moßurney, Upper Hut N.Z, says : "Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best mtdicino for croup in children that is made. I have no fear in locnmmondiug it, as, after a lengthy trial, I have found it to have no bad offoot. Hiwo used it for yoars, and will havo no other. All my friends say the same," For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

There was a heavy frost at Pahiatua on Sunday night. The weather yesterday was fine, though the air was keen.

There is to be a re-union held shortly in Masterton of the office staffs and heads of the various law offices, stock agencies and banking institutions.

The Y.M.C.A. Parliament held a very successful sitting last evening under "Premier" 0. Pragnell. There was a splendid attendnnce, and some good speeches were made, various "Bills" being submitted. A memorial service in memory of the late Mrs C. Tunned life, of Dalefield, was held in the Dalefielil Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon, the service being conducted by the Rev. W. J. Elliott, i here was a very large congregation present, and hymns appropriate to the occasion were sung. ' The continued fine weather of the last few days is giving the roads in the district a much-needed chance to dry up a little. The transition has been rapid from ankle deei) mud in ( the beat thoroughfares to almost dusty conditions. Taken right through the roads throughout the district are in very fair order, and even the northern approach is in excellent condition for mid-winter.

. His Excellency the Governor has notified Mr A. J. Parton, secretary of Ihe Master'.on branch of St. John Ambulance Association, that he could visit Masterton on August 19th to. make the presentation of certificates to those entitled, at the display to be given oy members'in the Town Hall. The date has accordingly been altered from the 26th to the 19th for the ceremony.

At the Carterton Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning, Gerald Presswood, 2K years of age, was sentenced to one month's, imprisonment with hard labour, on each of two charges of theft, the first being thtft of a horse-ru?, and the second theft of magazines from, the Public Library. The sentences are to be concurrent. There were two previous convictions against him.

A Press Association telegram from Levin records a fatal accident which occurred at Bartholomew's mill. A knife fiYw out of a planing , machine,, and struck John Stanley Widdows on. the side of the head, breaking, his jaw and neck. Death was instantaneous. An inquest was held, and"a verdict was returned that death was accidental, and no blame was attachable to anyone. 1 The Pahiatua branch of the NewZealand Farmers' Union held its monthly meeting on Saturday, writes our correspondent, when it was decided to strongly protest against the Shearers Accommodation Bill, the protest to be referred to the Colonial Conference for consideration. Mr J. G. Wilson, President of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, will probably address the local branch at an early date in August. Mr J. C. Cooper will act as local representative to the Colonial Conference.

The following tenders were received for the erection of a Post Office at Featherston:—A. Cooper and Son, Wellington (accepted), £2,394; J. McKenzie, Mauriceville, £2,762; H. Trotman, Grey town, £2,763 3s; Coradine and Whittaker, Masterton, £2,848; F. King and Son, Masterton, £2.900; H. M. Davis, Wellington. £2,905; W. G. Emeny, Wellington, £2,915; A. R. Wall is, Carterton, ,>£3,629 18s; McLean «*nd Gray, Wellington, £3,898 JOs. Two cases have been set down for the next District Court session at , Masterton. Mr P. L. Hollings, acting for W. Morris, has issued a writ against, Ogilvy and Sons, claiming £3OO damages for alleged malicious prosecution in connection with the recent- Magistrate's Court case in which plainiff was charged .with the theft of one of defendants' beasts. Mr C. A. Powna|l has been retained by Messrs Gawith and Logan to appear for the defence. The other' case is the adjourned one of Geange v. Jones, a claim for £IOO damages' foralleged slander. \Mr C. A. Pownall will appear for plaintiff and Mr P. L. Hollings for defendant. Every week of July has had its conference in Wellington, and there are more to follow. At 10 o'clock this morning the seventh annual conference of the New Zealand- Farmers' Union will,be opened at headquarters, in the National Mutual Buildings. There is a bulicy agenda paper, and a week's duration seems a moderate estimate of the length of conference. The Colonial President, Mr J. G. Wilson, will open the proceedings, and the delegates will be as follow:. ""—Auckland, Mr Allan Bell and Mir F Dye; Poverty Bay, Mr T. Elliott; Hawke's Bay, Mr J. Beatson; Taranaki, Mr E. Maxwell and Mr S. Forsyth; Wellington, Mr F. F. Hiockliey and Mr W. B. Matheson; Marlborough, Mr A. MacKay; Nelson, .Mr Ivo Tunnicliffe and Me N- A. M'Laren; North, Canterbury, Mir R. Evans and Mr O. F. Clothier; Otago, Mr R. Scott and Mr A. S. Orbell; Southland, Mr J. M'Queen 'arid Mr H. J. Middleton. There was. a large audience at the Tiwh Hall last evening,, when Mr Thornton's Company staged "The Private Secretary." The comedy kept the audience in roars of. laughter.. It was splendidly acted by the members of the Company. Mr Thornton* in the role of the Rev.' Robert: Spalding:, was excellent. It is difficult to imagine a more humorous delineation than that given by Mr Thornton. He was ably assisted by Mr Harry Ashford as Cattermole. Mr D. Hamilton, as Gibson, the Bond Street tailor, was capital, as was Miss H. French as Miss Ashford. Miss E. Hawthorne's impersonation of Mirs Stead, the landlady, was while the acting of Miss Belle Donaldson, as Edith Marsland, was all that could be desired. Miss Clare Manifold as Eva Webster, Mr T. Powell as Douglas Powell, Mr Stone as Harry Marsland, and Mr Keppel Stephenson as Squire Marsland also carried out their respective roles well. Mr C. P. E. Livesay, Architect of Wellington, has moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Cnambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Office of the Bank of N.Z.) Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2692.' Send the doouinents of your importations to MESSRS J. J. CURTIS & CO. LTD., Customhouse shipping and Forwarding Agents, Customhouse . Quay Wellington, who will quickly clear, pass and forward the goods to you. Moderate, charges.

Two female canvassers engaged in getting electors' names on the roll at Wellington, on behalf of the local

option poll committee, were yesterday fined £2 each and £4 costs for witnessing electoral forms without having seen the forms in question signed.

A meeting of the Otago members of Parliament was held at Wellington yesterday to consider the question of the establishment of a Veterinary College in connection with the Otago University, It was decided that the members present should wait upon the Government with a request for the establishment of a school.

From a return compiled by the officer in charge of tha Telephone Exchange in Christchurch, it aopears that there are 2,405 subscribers to the Christchurch telephone, and from a tally taken in one week in June last it was found that the number of calls received and replied to between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on the six days was 97,852, or an average of 16,308.6 per day.

With the advance of settlement into the heart of the bush country and with the destruction of the forests, some special measures are becoming necessary for the protection of the native birds (says the "Lyttelton Times.") We snould be glad to see more bush land reserved in trie South Island. In Canterbury, especially, native forest is becoming very scarce, and the Lands Department should spend some of the seventy or eighty thousand pounds available in purchasing bush areas from the farmers and runholders.

Following the example of Canada, which has an institution in connection with tne new Grand Trunk Railway, Sir Thomas liciit (Premier of Victoria* inlands to establish a Stateowned hotel at a cost of £IO,OOO at Mount Buffalo, , The hotel will have forty beds, several special suites of rooma, incluuing a bridal suite. It is to be an Weal, summer resort; and in winter, among the amusements it will provide skating and toboganning. The ice skating will be on an artificial lake six. acres in extent; another lake o£ nearly ninety acreswill pruviJe boating, in the summer. Speaking; to< a press representative, in Wellington,, yesterday, the Hon. W. Ha!b Jones said that he could find'work foir hundreds of met* an co-operative works, and imview o£ that fact he could not see why men," who were-physically capable of work, should stay in towns}, and,, was done in; Christchurch,, go-round, with a carfc and collect food. As io the wages earned: the Minister said; that the ' system, was- based; on payment by results. If. an average- \man worked > up to his> ability he* could earm eiffhfc a. day. Many men- earned, more.

In the course; of a conversation with an "Otago Daily Times'' reporter,, a well, known volunteer 1 captain painted a dismal; picture of the--pres-ent condition, of, volunteering in his own and in some other Has corps numbered only 43oufeof a district, with' a population of:' 6(000: Everything; had. been done to encourage mem to-join, but with little success. Asked why, young fellows would not join the.- volunteers, he' said: "Because they are too lazy..';■ Nothing, he believed; would be any goodl except, universal/ training; Things had got fct such; a. state thatsomething would, have to be done,, and quickly. < , The Trades Union Conference-in Wellington (says? the "Farmers' Union Advocate'') has Revealed: the fact:that labour is more thamever determined to make its , influence felt in; politics. There are to>be on half measures. Socialist?, and Socialists only, are to be supported at the coming polls. The: community, iie.,. thi masses of the people,, will have no'difficulty in discerning the position. The Socialists hive hitherto traded under the name of ''Liberals.'* They have now broken' loose, audi an* determined to. have a party of their, own*. What steps shall be taken tO' prevent the further encroachments.of Socialism?.' Will the Ministry.'continue to* pander, to, those wtio>opfinliy revile it?. I£ifedoes„it will surelyr be courting disaster. At no time in the history of the Dominion was there greater necessity than at present for the combination of moderate thinkers with a view to> preserving: the national.equilibrium.

In the report of the executive off';.'' the NfW Zealand PlaxmiU'crs.'' Association, reference is made to the'fact that the-price of flax. &L JuJiy, LZtb was under the actual, cnst of production in the case of the great majority of mills. The pfopospd grading of tow meets with unqualified' approval v Regret is expressed thait the Chief Government Grader, M>r Fulton, should have be» j n absent from the» Dominion in order toi foster competition in other parts.of the world. At the same time it was hoped that his visits to various manufacturing? centres, where fibre was dealit with, would be of service to> New Zealand millers. The visit of Mr Cohen « to the Philippine Islands, and his investigation of the Manila heijip industry, was productive of much valuable information to millers* 'lho improvements in machinery,, with the object of increasing the production and lessening the: cost of fibre, were noted with, extreme satisfaction, "If any man has £IOO and heeds £2O or £6O, or even £2OO, to make a success,. I promise to give it him. Whatever he needa he shall have." This is the substance of a remarkable announcement published by Mr C. W. Averill last month in Los Angeles (America). Mr Averill, who gained between £200,000 and £300,000 from gold mines in Alaska, has just inherited £2,000,000 from an aunt at Farmington, Maine. "I can never spend the interest on those millions,** he says, "so I propose to make happy 20,000' people who have no one but the devil and the police courts to look after them. Good persons have the churches and philanthropists to care for them, but who cares for the bad onc j s? I intend to help the intemperate, the down-trodden, ex-con-vict, the poor girl who has to hang her head) and the man who has made afailure of himself. Lots of us, you know, can resist everything but temptation. But although I may be i fooled occasionally, I ani not going to be a fool about this thing." Mr Averill proposes to open headquarters for a "distribution depot" in New York or Chicago. For Bronchial Coughs take Wood* **reat Peppermint Cure. I ( '6 and 2/6.

According to the annual report on the coal mines of the Dominion shows thai Ilie number of--hands employed in 1907'waa 3,910. Of th« number, 1 143 worked above ground, ax\6A,ib( ; b'elow ground. The West Coast rmnes .en ployed 2,158 men. The number of •deaths from accidents was 12, and d-i persons were injured. The lives lost ■averaged 3.U8 per 1,000. Residents of Pareora (ten miles below Timaru) have been greatly annoyed lately through the indiscriminate use of-firearms. On a recent - Sunday the nuisance was particularly bad about the Pareora township, when shot was rattling on the roofs of houses, and a bullet entered the' grocery stars there. A series of acts of sttp'dity concluded with the shooting of a valuable horse The horse's head was opened after death, and the bullet was extracted from it. Detective Fitzgerald and Constable Bolton (of br. AnJr ws') have been investigating .ihe matler, and as a result it is -probable that some person or per-(tWsonti-will be called to account before the Stipendiary Magistrate for the death of the horse. It is not thought that the animal was deliberately shot. "The poverty in Auckland this ■winter is the worst I have ever known." This remark fell from Mrs . «fc|elson, a leading member of the ladies' Benevolent Society, in converraiion with ah Auckland "Herald •reporter. The present (list-ess, it apoears, is largely amongst the •mi Idle classes—respectable people livi ig in small homes—and amongst old folks. Of course, the usual modicum of "loafers" is not lacking. The saddest case 3 that come under tha Society's notice are those where the families are large, and the husbands are unable to do, or to obtain, work. Cold and wet weather have been responsible also for sickness .amongst those who, cannot afford the expense involved thereby. The Ladies' Benevolent Society members find, too, that numerous calls are made upon them by new-comers to theDominidn, chiefly the wives of men who are away looking for employment. Every lady, visitor in Auckland reports the same* state of affairs.

A brick shop in Pony Street \z advertised to be let. The finder of a parcel of billheads, lost on Saturday, will please return eaine to the Age Office. Mr R. W, Cook, who is recognised ;as a particularly capable landscape gardener, has a business announce- : ment on page I of this issue. Messrs Baker am) Crabb, land agents, Hawera, advertise particulars of three handy-3ized and highly improved farms which have been ; placed in their hands for sale. Pectaral for colds, nervol for toothache, are two specialities obtainable ' from Mr J. V. Gordon, chemist, Masterton. Hot water bottles of the best makes are still obtainable at the Medical Hall. Messr3 Todd Bdsl announce that fresh and smoked fish may be ob- ' tained daily at their premises, Queen Stieet (opposite Union ,Bt.nk). Orders will be delivered to any part ■ of the town. ■ ... ■■ ' The great bargain lines at Mr J. J: # fclurray's great sile at the Ex- - change Buildings t>day are ladies' tweed an i caracul jackets, and Kaiapoi tailor-made costumes, ' Sale prices are quoted in an advertisement • on page 6 of this issue. At Minto Villa, Chapel Street* to- ; morrow afternoon, Mr J. R. Nicol will sell, on account of Mr J. Bur-' , gess, the whole of the furniture and effects. The auctioneer's instructions are to sell every line without reserve. Miss Waddington. certified pianiste, " T.C.L., who secured her diploma as a certificated teacher under the " tuition of the late Mr A. von K>iscnberg, is prepared to receive pupils her address, 60 Church Street, Mas- " terto i. The Scoullar C 0.,. Ltd., Lambton "Quay, Wellington, are now showing -»a splandid selection of quaint artistic , furniture in oak, walnut, kauri, etc., at their warehouse, Wellington. Our readers, when in Wellington, should call and see the display—-or catalogues, designs and estimates will b? aunt post free on application to the Company. In or, er to cope with the increasing number of skaters at the Elite skating rink, the pioprb tor has found it necetsary to order a further consignment of new skates. There was an attendance of over 160 at the rink during Saturday's sessions. A children's carnival is being arranged /to take place at an early date, whicn ia creating a deal of interest amen? < juvenils skaters. morning a repre3entrtive of the Age had tin pleasure of inspecting the new miniature rifle range in Queen Street, near the Central Motor Garage, which the ■ proprietors wtl! open to-day. The first impression or*e has h that the proprietors have a thorough knowledge of their business, that even the smallest detail has bee i carefully thought out. The (lighting- ventilation, and general comfort fur patrons cannot be surpassed. The i range is the most up-to-date that has ever .been erected in Masterton, and shooting men are fortunate in having such a fine range erected in their midst. At the moving figure targets there are so.ne fine designs, including a kangaroo, which should please the heart of visiting Australians. The figures are made of steel plate, and ha/e been manufactured loyally. Next to the moving figures range will be found the fixed target, the bull's eye being re luced to the same proportion as tha Bisley 500 yards target. Valuable prizes will be given for competition every week, and the rules in connaction therewith are clearly out, so competitors will have no difficulty in understanding them. / For rheumatism, b.ickncho, faceacho, earache, neuralgia, and othor muscular puns, nothing can equal WITCH'S OIL (registered). 0