LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9161, 7 August 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The lntest dredging returns to hand are as follow:—■ Masterton dredire 420z sdwt., and Mystery Flat dredge I4pz 15dwt. for the week. Mr J. Hunter, of Masterton, recpived a telegram, yesterday, from Mr T. E. Donne, stating that Masterton's "Welcome Flag" had arrived at Auckland. A civil sitting of the Magistrate's Court wps held at Masterton yesterday morning, Mr W. P. James, S.M., occupying the Bench. The following cases went by default in favour of phintifTs:— J. L. Murray v. Honora Lynn, claim lis, costs ss; P. Carr v. I'. Carroll, claim £2 costs 7s 6d. The annual report of the Kongokokako Co-operative Dairy Company states that considering the bad seas m and the slightly lower prices realised, the shareholders are to be congratulated on the excellent position of the Company's affairs. The plant and buildings have been added to to the extent of £2lO 8s Id. The amount available for distribution is £1,455 lis 3d. It is proposed to make a further payment to shareholders of 2d, and to pay a dividend of (j percent on paid up capital. It is proposed to write o(f 12i ppp cent off buildings on a plant account.. Messrs Hare and Daysh are the retiring directors, both of whom are eligible for re-election. Mrs. T. Burton, Albert-road, Wpsom N.Z., writes: —We all use Chamberlain's Cough llomedy and think a lot of it. My husband who is a conductor on the Auckland Irani?, takes it when he lias the least symptom of a cold, and it always lessens the attack. Have given it to our children many times for coughs or croup, and it has never failed to cure." For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

The Opaki Rifle CJub will hold its animal meeting on the 19th instant. It will probably be some time next month before the Rev. Hodge, Congregational Minister, will take up his station at Masterton. The customary mid-winter demand for coke has caused the supply at the Masterton Gasworks to run practically out, and orders hove now to be supplied as the coke is made. It is all being used for local consumption, j The Wairarapa Hunt Club held an enjoyable "meet" at Upper Opaki yesterday. The run was made over the properties of Messrs C. BannisLer, W. H. Buick, Fendall, Holmes Bros., and U. Buick. Mr R. Buick laid the drag, and a splendid run resulted. The following participated:— Messrs H. Welch (huntsman), on Caroline; W: H. Buick (deputy master), on Dick Turpi!) ; J. O'Brit:!), on Surprise; E. Pelling, on Lady Culneen; H. Douglas, on Haka; !i. Buick, 011 Kiwi; J. Grant on Dolly, H. Long, tinel. One of the riders, W. Corlett, who was on Dolly at the time, collided in the open .field with E. Pelling on Lady Culneen, sustaining a badly hurt ankle; otherwise the "meet" was most succhessful, Mrs R. Buick supplied afternoon tea. A Masterton case—the appeal on a question of contract, in the case, Henry Evans, of Pernridge, farmer, and Benjamin Richard Rayner, Waingawa, v. Jacob D. Compton—was heard l?y Mr Justice Cooper, at Wellington on Tuesday. The matter in dispute was a gorse-grubbing contract undertaken', by the defendant for the sum of £IOO, plus 10 per cent., when the plaintiff Evans sold the property. Evans sold to the plaintiff Rayner, and notice of assignment of the contract was givpn to the defend ■ ant. Judgment was delivered for the plaintiff at Masterton by Mr W. P. James, S.M., for the sum of £SO damages for breach of contract. Appeal was made on the ground that the judgment was wrong, in point of fact, and in law, on the ground tha' the contract in question was void fo; want of mutuality and consideration and, further, was not assignable His Honour heard the arguments ol Mr P. L. Hollings, counsel for thi appellant Compton, and of Mr Myers on behalf of the respondents, Evam and Rayner, and dismissed the ap peal, with £lO 10s costs.

Returns showing the consumption per head of the population of articles in common use have been submitted t< Parliament. During 1907 740,936 gallons of spirits were consumed, an average of 2.46 gallons per bead. The rate of duty was 16s par gallon, the gross duty £592,749, a total cost per head of £1 19s 4d. This if; the largest total of spirits consumed since 1887, the amount collected being abo the highest, but the rate per head has twice been passed —in 1900 ancTl9fil. Tobacco also shows an increase. A total of 2,156,9451u was paid duty on, to the amount of £375,005, at a cost of £1 4s IOJd per head. This is the largest importation, but the rate per head was higher in three previous instances- 1903, 1904 and 1905. The duty on cigais, cigarettes and snuff amounted to 10s 6Jd per head of population. The wine dutv amounted to Is 3Jd per hear", and that of beer and ale to lOd, the highest since 1891 at'd 1892, when it was lid and lljd respectively. The total revenue from Customs in 1887 was £1,281,374, equal to £1 19s BJd per head. In 1907 it was £3,085,276, equal to £3 3s If d per head, an increase equal to 59 per cent".

The Town Hail held another very satisfactory audience last evening, when Vlr H. R. Roberts and his Company staged the case of "Rebellious Susan." The comedy is undouotedly one of very high merit, and dealt with modem society life at Home, and the doings of the suffragettes in an unmistakably humorous manner. The share of the work was more evenly distributed than at the "Prince Chap," and the various performers, from Mr Roberts himself down to the least important character, acquitted themselves well. The audience was most appreciative, the applause being frequent and spontaneous. The characters were cast as follows: - Sir Richard Kato, K.C., Mr H. R. Roberts; Admiral the Hon. Sir Joseph Darby, Mr Frank Lamb; James Harabin, Mr Fred Francis; Fergus-son Pybus, Mr E. Greenaway; Lucian Edensor, Mr Stuart Clyde; Mr Jacomb, Mr Charles Stanford; Kirby, Mr W. A. Charles; hotel waiter, Mr B. Field; footmdn, Mr Lewis; Lady S-'san Harabin, Misi Justina Wayne; Lady Darby, Miss Florence Redfern; Mrs Qupsnel, Mii--s Vera Remee; Elaine Shrimton, Miss Mary Keogh; maid, Miss Gertrude Smythe.

A symposium of an exceptionally happy character was held in the Exchange H'all, last evening, as a termination to the annual,football fixture, Banks and Law v. Slock and Station Agents. The match, played "t the Showgrounds, was won oy the former by five points to three, R. McKenzie scoring a try and kicking the goal for the winners, and F. W. Winter notching a try for the losers. Mr J. Lyall was referee. At the banquet Mr W. G. Beard presided, and over a hundred persons were present, representing all the legal, banking and stock firms in the town, and other visitors. A convivial time was "spent in toasts and speech-making. The following toasts were honoured:—"The King," the Chairman; "Stock and Station Ag°nts," Messrs Beard and Gal wey, and F. W. Carey and H. Perry; "Banks and Lawyers," Messrs J. B. Moodie and G. C. Summerel!, and J. B. Henry and C. A. Pownall; "Winning Team,," Mr A. P.. Sclan ders and Mr D. K. Logan; "Tne Referee," Mr W. C. Perry and Mr J. ! L.yall; "The Ladies," Mr A. R Selanders and Mr H. W Rishwortn. Songs were sung by Messrs F. H. Elcoate, W. Pownall, W. P. Jame.-;, J. B. Moodie. G. Cullen, F. W. Todd, I-I. C. Robinson, P. Gully and F. W. Winter. ONCE A MAN 15UYS A suit from us ho is most unwilling S) wear any othsr make. That's why "we're making suits for gentlemen all over the Dominion—gentlemen who have tested the fit, comfort, style, and quality of our clothes, and have found them the bestWhy not leave your order with us when next in Wellington. Our cash prices motUi money saved, to you. IVXorrison and Pennoy, Tailors, 73 Willis Street, W elangton.

The business of the Masterton Municipal Gas Department is assuming very substantial proportions. There are now no less than 930 consumers on the Department's books. It will not be very long either before the thousand will be reached. There are twenty-three suppliers to the- Rongokokako Co-operative Dairy Factory. During the past year the amount of milk supplied to the factory was 1,994,5061b5, and eightyfive tons of cheese were made. The average test was 4.2. The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Heart of Oak Lodge, 1.0.0. F., M.U., was held in the Forester's Hall, Carterton, on Wednesday evening, Bro. Ed. Eagle, N.G., presiding- Routine business only was transacted. The receipts for the evening amounted to £l3 13s Id, and disbursements £B. The annual meeting of the Masterton Tennis Club will be held this ! afternoon, in the Technical School Building, when the report and bal-ance-sheet for the past year will be presented. Mr N. D. Bunting, who has held the position of honorary secretary for a number of years past, has decided, owing to pressure of other duties, to retire, and amongst the business to be transacted will be that of the appointment of his successor. Sergt. Moore and Constable Wade, of Whangarei, arrested, at Mangakahia, on Wednesday afternoon, a Maori man and wife—Hirina Ngatino and Emma Ngatino—on a charge of wilful murder of their infant son, Makarino, eighteen months old, on or about July 2nd. The accused and the body of the baby were brought into Whangarei very late or Wednesday night. It is alleered that the child was shockingly ill-treated by beirg placed on a fire. The two accused were charged yesterday at the court with wilful murder of their infant son by burning with fire, and were remanded to August I4ih.

' Two Good Templar Lodges for- : warded resolutions to the last meet- - ing of ths Otago Rugby Union, draw- ; ingjattention to Mr Harnett's statement concerning drinking in Inver--3 cargill, and asking the Union to > Iring the mat er before the English 3 Union, with a view to obtaining an ■ apology from Mr Harnett. It was decided to take no action in the matter. One member of the Union said J that Mr Harnett was perfectly right ! in what he said, and the President I said that there was indisputable evi--5 dence of there being a good deal of 1 drinking in Invercargill on the day • of the Southland match, but it might ' have been ar. exceptional occurrence, just as it was an exceptional occasion. | Referring to the early davs of immigration in Canterbury, Mr e March, a land settlement officer, 1 who has just retired, said that pros bably the passengers by the ship ' Piako had the most exciting time.i * The ship, under the command of the r late Captain Bovd, left England on " October llth, 1878, but did not r reach Lyttelton until March sth, '» .1879.. The Piako caught fire off the ! » ccast, and for three days the flames 0 were fought with great gallantry, e when providentially the Loch Doon r hove in sight, took off the immi--0 grants and stood by the Piako until j she reached Pernambuco, where the d fire was subdued. It was a red-letter n day in Lyttelton, said Mr March, > when the Piako dropped anchor after a passage of 144 days, and nreeenta- ° tions were made by the Government L ' to the officers of the ship for their gallant conduct throughout a very y trying passage. g The bankrupt statement of F. B. McCay, draper, of Master ton, shows the debts to be £1,063 0s 7d arid the assets £985, leaving a deficiency of t ' £7B 0s 7d. The amounts held by unsecured creditors aggregate £1063 0s 7d. There is one secured creditor, viz.,- the Greytown Building Society, t which had a mortgage of £340 over a five-roomed hou?e at Lansdowne. belonging to the bankrupt, valued at about £425. The assets comprise:— Stock-in-trade, £800; book debts, estimated to produce £100; surplus from securities in hands of secured . creditors, £SS. The unsecured creditors are:—Mackay, Logan and Cald- ' well, Wellington, £340 Is 6d; Sar--1 good, Soi: and Ewen, Wellington, } £159 13s sd; Archibald Clark and Sons, Wellington, £lO4 Is 2d; R. Abbot, Wellington, £SO 8s; Butterworth Bros., Dunedin, £2Bl Is 7d; Manufacturing Agency, Christ church, £B3 8s 2d; Wairarapa t "Daily Times," £l4 6s 3d; Wai- , rarapa Age, £5; McLeod and Young, £4 4s ; Mis 9 Brown, £4 10s; Nicol and Co., £l2 lis 6d: Rutter and Mason, £2; C. Williams, £1 15s. President Roosevelt has furnished yet another striking instance of the multifarious uses of the "big stick" (says the London "Daily Mail's" New York correspondent). He has announced to all Government employees who fail to pay their grocery bills that they will be dismissed from the service. The announcement, which has been made through the medium of a letter addressed by Mr Secretary Loeb to the National Wholesale Grocers' Association, has fallen like a bombshell on the households of thousands of Government servants. The association has been confronted by an alarming development in the ledgers of its members caused by the unpaid bills which have been run-up by wives of Government employees, the worst offenders being, it appears, clerks in post offices. The association sent a petition to White House, asking the assistance of the Administration in the collection of Irs debts. The President immediately replied, expressing his sympathy with the grocers, and informing them that though there was no law in existence to compel payment of debts contracted by civil servants, he had sent a notice to all departments to the effect that the failure of employees to settle their grocery bills would be deemed sufficient ground for dismissal. The quick results of Chamberlain s TabId-' in the cure of Biliousness, and prompt \ relief of all its bad symptoms is something unequalled by any other medicine. They cleanse the stomach, clear out and gently stimulate the liver, drive away every symptom of pain, distress and discomfort. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers. Mr C. P. E. Livesay, Architect of Wei lington, 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 7.71. Telephone 2692,

A horse, < ffe*ed at the Otaki public pound on Tuwday, realised the sum of 2s 6d. A four-year-old child named A. Uuckman tried to run over a railway crossing at Blenheim yesterday in front of an engine, and was seriously injured. Sheep stealing-, continues in the Bay district. At Ashcott one yettler is offering £IOO, and in another locality another person is offer- : ing £25 reward for a conviction. Mies Keane, a visitor to Gore, was thrown from a horse on Wednesday evening on the road to the schoolhouse, and sustained concussion of tthe brain. She is still unconscious. The New South Wales Prohibition party is actively organising with a view to bringing about an amendment of the clause 3 in the Licensing Act which place restriction 3 on the local -option vote. The party wishes for State option on a bara majority vote. A boy named Roy Edmond3, aged •sixteen, was shooting shags with his ■brother in a boat at Kerikeri (Auckland), when a cartridge exploded as ..hid brother was closing the breach of his gun. Roy received the full charge in the right side and died twelve ■ hours later. An exhibition of walking is to be given to-morrow by Mr A. W. Kent, ■o>f Hawke's Bay, who will endeavour L- to wa'lu ten miles (from Lower Hutt ™to Wellington) in lhr 25min. He >haa the record of a walk Wairoa to Napier (70 miles, along a very rough • xoa 1) in IShr, and of having walked from Napier to Auckland in 190-5 (a distance of 350 miles) in six days. Some of the settlers in the Pelorus Sound (says the "Farmers' Union Advocate") have suffered serious lusses in grass seed through the vor:.aci )U3 appetite of the thousands of Califur.iian quail that infest nearly . all the shady slopes. One settler *, staged that about twenty acres of clover about six inches above the grjund were stripped as bare as a highway, and a big paddock of lu-> cerne was similarly treated. How a noxious weed may be spread throughout the Jength and breadth of the extensive Australian Continent ;(says the "Queenslander") has been well exemplified by the prickly pear. When Mr Patter McQueen, represent'ng an English company, selected he Segenhoe estates, near Scone, New South Wales, he brought out • with him in a flower-pot a plant of thprickly pear, and from this small pla it, it has spread throughout the whala of Australia. At present tramway conductors are expected to place a small sum on deposit with the management by way of fid lity bond (says the "Otago Daily Times.") It has been felt that "there was some unfairness in retaining without interest this money, which in the aggregate amount-) to something considerable, and in the report of the Tramway Committee to vt.ie City Council is a recommendation that the money be returned to all ■conductors with two years' service and over. In the same report it is recommended that apprentices' tram■way tickets be available to members of an employee's family, the age limit to be 17 years.

An unusual case was heard at Muree, New South Wales, on July -Ah (sayd thp Sydney "Telegraph"), wfien three well-known residents of Moree two professional men) were' proceeded against on a charge of shooting for sport at Terry-Hie-Hie, on Sunday, Jane 28th. Defendants pleaded "Huiity." According to tie statement of their, counsel, they were shooting with u miniature revolver at a target in a yard at the back of a house. Terry-Hie-Hie is an isolated place., thirtyona miles from Moree, and there are very few residences withtin miles. Each of the defendants was fined Is, without costs.

A No-License resolution led to something in the nature of a scene in - Knox Church, Parnell (Auckland), ' on Wednesday night. After the or- ' dinary business of the annual meet- 1 ing, a proposal was submitted expressing full sympathy with the ■ temperance movement, and appoint- 1 ing a No-License committer. The '• Rjv. Simpson said he thought the motion would have thj full sympathy i of the congregation, but Mr John Earl protested vehemently against a semi-nolitiC'il subject being intro- j duced into churcn work. The Rev. Si.npson said they knew he was an out and-out prohibitionist. If they did noS like it they could tell him to gr. Eventually the resolution waa t submitted and carried by 27 to 10, several present not voting. The methods of a road board in the Auckl nd district might be improved ud >n, remarks the "Herald." At the v ordin ry meeting of this particular board toe other night the minutes, recorded with almost painful attention to detail, were first read, then rwlowed innumerable "outward" letters, recited with admirable im- . partiality; no single one was deemed too unimportant; then the "inward" correspondence was gone through with the same painstaking accuracy. A verbose petition followed. After this ratepayers had their say—one lady occupying about a quarter of an hour discussing the why and wherefore of the change in the name of some streets and the burning of gorae. This was succeeded by an informal conference about a drain, which was still Droceeding at 9.30 p.m. The Auckland City Council, at their last meeting, contrived to dispose of all the business of the city in less time than it took this particular road board to finish the preliminaries. "vVHY ' ; IS 'UXDV < K& SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to an/ other Eucalypti Product? Because it is the result of full experience, and of a. special and careful process of manufacture. It i 3 always safe, reliable and effective, and the dangers of irresponsible preparations which are now palmo :l oil .ao Extract are avoided. A death was recently reported from the use of one of these concoctions and in an action at law ■ a witners testified that ho suffered the most cruel irritation from tlio appli- • cation to an ulcer of another, which waa sold as "Just as good as SANDER'S EXTRACT." Therefore, beware of such deception. Remember that in medicine a drop that cures is better than a table- • spoon that kills, nnd insist 'upon the preparation which was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria., and by numerous authorities during the last 35 yea.i' 3, to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz: I THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS .'PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EX-, TRACT.

An advertiser is anxious tt) correspond with a good looking young lady—view to matrimony. Mr I. Waterman, of Mangamaire, advertises tor a number of ducks which have been lost from his property. Mr Newton King, land agent, New Plymouth, advertises particulars of several first-class farm properties, ranging in area from dairy farms to extensive sheep runs. Messrs McLeod and Young, of Queen Street, announce the arrival of a big order of Edison's phonographs and records, and invite residents generally to attend at the Book Arcade and hear selections of the very latest and most popular instrumental and vocal records. On Wednesday next, at Lansdowne, Mr J. R. Nicol will sell on account of Mr P. N. Keeling, who is leaving the district, the whole of his wellselected and nearly new furniture and effects, also harness horses, dog-cart and harness. Further particulars will bo advertised later. Mrs W. Feasey announces in aiv other column that she will open a private kindergarten and prepartory school at the Foresters' Hall, Masterton. on Monday, August 17th. Mrs Feasey (who is the widow of the late Mr J. Feasey, killed in a bicycle accident at Dunedin last September) was for many years a teacher under the Southland Education Board, and has exceptional references as to her ability for kindergarten and preparatory work. Pupils will be enrolled on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next, at the Foresters' Hall.