LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9188, 10 September 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is reported that the Ballance Dairy Company has sold their season's output of butter at a price somewhat better than elevenpence per pound. The adjourned meeting of the members of the Masterton Ladies' Swimming Club will be held in the Dominion Hall at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The principal business will be to receive the report and balancesheet, adoption of rules, and election of officers. The dedication of the new Masterton Congregational Church will take place at 4 p.m. to-day, when the service will be superintended-by the Rev. D. Hml, M A., Chairman of the Union, and an address will be delivered by the Rev. W. A. Evans, of Newtown. Tea will r>s served at half past five, and a public meeting, presided over by Mr Granville Hunt, District Secretary, will commence at 7.30 sharp. Speeches w<l! be delivered by the resident and visiting ministers and workers. Mrs L. Peters, Miv.iiiiivr, Wellington. N Z., says: ,l l can safely recommend Chamborlniii's Colic," Cholera and Dianha>a llemcdy to anyone suiTerinn from pains m the stomach. A few days ago my little boy, ago li years, was suffering agony with this complaint. I only gave him a few doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and he was soon well and has not been troubled since. I thinic this remedy should be keptinevory home." For sale by all chemists and sorekeepers. For Bronchial Coughs take Woods 'rteat Peppermint Cum, 1,'6 and 2/6.

A practice will be held to-night by the St. John Ambulance Brigade in the Dominion Hall. The Workmen's Friend Building Society will hold an appropriation by sale on the 22nd instant. There is something like an epidemic of serious crime in South Australia at the present time. Mr T. E. Taylor will deliver an address on the No-License question in. the Town Hall, Masterton, about the middle of October. A first offending inebriate wa3 convicted and discharged by Messrs Eli Smith and J. Cross, J.'sP , at the Masterton Police Court yesterday morning. There has been a wonderful growth ' of grass throughout the Pahiatua district and contiguous districts during ' the past few days?, and the hearts of < farmers are rejoicing. A gale of exceptional violence, accompanied by rain, was experienced at Carterton early yesterday morning. A number of fences were blown down. The annual smoke concert of the Masterton Morris Tube Association, which marks the closing of the season, will take place in the Drill Hall next Monday evening. The additions to Knox Church will be carried out by Messrs King and Son, their tender having been accepted at a price approximating £1,400. There were five tenders received. The Carterton Rifle Volunteers held a military dance in the Clareville Hall on Tuesday, which' proved very successful and enjoyable. Miss C. Berrill supplied the music, and extras were contributed by Miss Hall and Mr W. Robinson. The M.'sC. w eraMessrs W. B. Allen and C. Reid. The quartprly sitting of the Wairarapa Licensing Bench, was held in the Courthouse, Carterton, on Tuesday, Mr W. P. James. S.M. being in the chair. The following transfers of licenses were granted:—T. P. Firman to O. Mosen, Club Hotel, Carterton; T. Smith to H. Harbroe, Royal Oak Hotel, Carterton. Mr Giles' boarding-house at Carterton had a narrow escape from being destroyed by fire early on Tuesday evening. It appears that a boarder, who occupies a room on the top storey of the building, had retired and left a candle burning. By some means the bedclothes became ignited, and the flames were put out with difficulty by members of the household. A movement is on foot to erect a new Roman Catholic Presbytery at Carterton. The present Presbytery building is situated about two miles from the Church, which is considered to be an inconvenient distance for the priest to travel to officiate at the services. The matter of erecting a Catholic Convent and School is also being considered by the authorities. It is understood that the whole of the Catholics in the South Wairarapa portion of the parish have signified their willingness to subscribe liberally towards the movement. The Waingawa River is now flowing almost entirely - over its. old course in the vicinity of th° road and railway bridges. A new channel cut by the County Council has had a marked effect on the course of the river in this locality, and the result will be that the strain on the approach at the north end in flood times will be materially lessened. The rivtr wears quite an unfamiliar appearance under its new conditions, several new, channels having been formed under the centre portions of the bed, where, except at flood times, no water has flowed for many year". The Trustees- of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society met jesterday afternoon. There were present Messrs R. T. Holmes (chairman), J. Morris, and Mrs Keane. The offer of the Christchureh Salvation Army Prison Gate Home to care for a recipient of relief at 10s per week was accepted with thanks. It was decided to grant 10s per week and rations till next meeting to a new applicant for relief, who has been ill for some time. The Chairman's action in admitting two inmates to Solway Home was confirmed. The pay-sheet, amounting to; £l9 12s Gd for Solway Home and £22 5s 7d for general expenditure, was passed. Among the petitioners in the Diyo.ee Court in Sydney the other day was a young woman, who stated that at the age of 17 years, three weeks af er leaving school, she marritdi ugfcinst her mother's wish. Mr Justce G. B. Simpson's interest was • roused in the clergyman who pert the ceremony, and he put questions which led the petitioner to. state that upon being informed by the clergyman that he could not per- ! form tne ceremony without her mother's consent, she returned home to get the necessary authority. But the mother declined, saying, "If you want my content you will have to sign it yourself." Whereupon petitioner signed her parent's name to the document, and handed it vvkhout coment to the clergyman, who then proceeded with the ceremony. Petitioner told her mother of what she' had done, and was advised that her home must in' future be with her husband's people. A few miles trom El'tham. there is a swamp called by the Maoris*Ngaire,. or quaking. This is in process of reclamation by draining, and as the surface subsides several phenomena are seen. One of there is. the constant coming to. the surface of tim- ] ber. Timber has been found in the swamp at a depth of several feet, and settlers- are quite willing to. ] believe rt extends in layers to I fabulous depth?. Several well- i known varieties of trees have been j found, but, strangest of all, a very hard wood has come to the surface in certain parts which no one seems to recognise. How it cama to ba in the swamp no one knows. There are theories, and one of them is that at one time there existed vast forests which throve in a climate that has since been modified, and that an eruption from Mount Egmont covered up these forests, and the swamp formed above them. The explanation is probably as useful as any other would be, and it has the merit of taking account of Mount Egrnont, which no moderately aspiring imagination could dissociate from the mystery of the swamp.

A woman died in New South Wales recently, at the age of 109 years. , She had spent 101 years in Australia. A number of dairy factories in Queensland are sending exhibits to the Royal Dairy Show to be held at Islington, London, early in October. All the medals for distribution on Dominon Day (September 26th) are now in the hands of the Education Board, who are busy sending them to the various State schools. Up to date, £6,400 has been collected for the Dunedin Anglican Cathedral Fund, and £3,000 has been promised. The foundation stor.e will be laid in June, 1910. The number of Maori village schools in operation at the end of the last year was 99 (a decrease of one on the previous year), and the number of children on the rolls was 4,183, an increase of nine. The protection of fish and oysters last year cost the Dominion £6,756 12s 2d. Of this £4,274 133 9d was spent in experimental trawling. The ~. collection of brown trout ova cost £129 10s lOd, and the introduction of Atlantic salmon accounted for £202 6s lid. At Cape Foulwind last week a Harbour Board workman employed in excavation work on the recreation ground unearthed a Maori axe and a spade guinea (coin) .dated George HI.. 1790. It is suggested that some whalers may have camped there a century or more ago. There are now thirty-eight lighthouses on the coast of New Zealand and at the entrances of harbours. Their maintenance last year cost in all the sum of £16,007 17s 4d. The salaries of the attendants amounted to £9,33-> \? T while stores and contingencies entailed an expenditure of £4,930 18s. A peculiar circumstance was observed in connection with the rain which fell at Picola (Victoria) recently.. Water caught in tanks was discoloured by earth, and sheets and linen left on the clothesline had to be washed after the rain owing to» mudstains which wer3 left on. them by raindrops. The time electorates in which it is proposed that, on. account of the distances between the poMing booths> the second ballot should not be taker* until the fourteenth day* if the Government, proposal is carried, are —Bay of Islands,. Bay of Plenty, Kaipara, Marsden, Taumaruiiui„ Tau:ranga, Wakatipu,. Wallace, and Westland. Motueka has just been) added to the list. There are a large number of ca<rpentirs out of work in Wellington just now. "Work is very scarce in Wellington at present," remarked a prominent Union official to an> Age reporter, "and there are over a hundred carpenters out of work. Other trades are in a similar position, and the past: winter has been the worst experienced in Wellington for years." "The Social Party is gaining ira strength rapidly in Wellington,'" a. prominent Wellington* Socialist informed a Wairarapa Age reporter,, "and we intend to take a big hand in tha forthcoming elections." On sunsdry nights in the week, and more especially on Saturday nights, the doctrine of the Socialists is expounded in Wellington by speakers from platforms and street corners in various quarters of the city. An advertiser has to let three unfurnished rooms. Notice to make rates for- the current year is advertised by theMauriceville County Council;. Mr F. P. Welch has vacancies for farm and station hands, marriud couples, and a shearing machine expert. The Masterton Borough Council notify that an auctioneer's license i has been issued to Mr J. A. J;. | Maclean, .of the Wairarapa Auction Mart. \ ■ At the Post Office Auction Mart,, on Saturday next, Mr M. O. Aronstem will sell by auction household furni ture and effects, drapery, crockery poultry and produce. At the residence, No. 14 C?ieStreet, on Saturday,. Mr J. R. Nicol will sell, on account of Mr EL Russell, who is leaving Masterton, the whole of his household furniture; and effects. Messrs Norris and Bell, land agents, Tauranga, advertise particulars of a sheep farm of 5,800 acres of first-class country, partly improved, which they are instructed to sell. The firm have for sale a num- ' ber of small blocks of" laud, and a good paying drapery business.