LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3000, 24 September 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting regarding Mr Buchanan's offer respecting an experimental farm in the Wairara'pa was held at Greytown yesterday. It was resolved that the delegates should wait on the Minister of Agriculture and put the matter before him. Messrs Loasby, Bunny, Fisher, and Fuge were appointed speakers. The following hours of attendance will be observed by the Maaterton Post and Telegraph office on Saturday the 26th inst. (Dominion. Day): —Post Office—Open from 9 to 10 a.m. only for the transaction of all business except money order and savings bank. All mails usually despatched on this day will be closed to connect with early trains and coaches up to 8 a.m. Mails for I-lawke's Bay will be closed at 8 a.m., and forwarded by express train at noon. A counter delivery of all correspondence (including registered) will be made between 7 and 8 p.m. on Friday, the 25th. Telegraph Office—Open from y a.m. to 4 p.m., and 7 to 8 p.m. Telephone Exchange—Open as usual, i.e., continuously. Mrs L. Peters, Minimal", Wellington, N Z., says: "I can safely recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Dinrrh«>a Ueruedy to anyone suffering from pains in the stomach. A few days my little boy, ago <> years, .was agony with this complaint. I only gave him a few doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Bemedy and ho was soon well and has not been troubled since. I thins: this remedy slionld be kept in every home." For sale by nil chemists and sorekeepers. A Tsnr of old, who caught a cold, Swt for his Empress, who was told It was her fault! Then ho lay hold Of liia poor wife, and slew her! Tho tyrant's crime whs quiet absurd! She'd (lone her best, upon my word! But in these days folks had not heard Of Woods' Great Poppermint Cure!

A gale raged at Pahiatua yesterday, and heavy rain fell at intervals. Mi* J. B. Moodie "has donated a guinea towards the funds of the Wairarapa Amateur Swimming Club. The Masterton Ambulance Corps will hold its final practice to-night prior to the annual examination next Thursday. The examination will be held in the Dominion Hall, and will be conducted by Dr Archer Hosking. A five-roomed house at Eketahuna, owned by Mr W. Preston, and occupied by Mr H. Walker, was destroyed by fire, at 1.30 o'clock yesterday morning, with its contents. The insurance on the house was £lso,and on the furniture £luo, in the National otfie-j. 1 Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, Japan, Straits Settlements,also SoulhAfrica, Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, per Moeraki, will close at Masterton on Friday, at 6.15 a.m. The residence of Mrs Travers, in Sedcole street, Pahiatua, was burglariously entered on Tuesday night, and a trunk in a lodget's room opened. The occupant of the room was spending the evening out at the time of the robbery. Some jewellery and £7 in bank notes were stolen. A meeting of directors of the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company was held yesterday, Mr J. C. Ewington in the chair. The que.stion of disposing of the season's output wa3 discussed, but it was finally decided to defer the matter tor a future meeting."

The Grey town District High School Committee met r>n Monday night, when the headmaster's report allowed the roll number at the primary school to be 202, with an average attendance of 185. The figures for thi secondary school were 20 and 17.6 respectively.

The weather condition* at the time of going to press of the Age. were favourably inclined for the Handicap Kifle meeting to be held at fairview range to-day. A large number of visiting riflemen arrived by various trains yesterday, an J a mojt successful meeting is anticipated.

A chess match will be played on Friday evening, between North and South Wairarapa, nine men aside. Tne following will represent North Wairarapa:—Messrs Kummi'r (3), Dagg (2), Winchester (2), D. Guild, and Geo Joues. Emergencies— Messrs Hood, Logan. Lett, Taylor, and Cole.

In connection with the Methodist Foreign Missions the Rev. W. E. and Mrs'Bromitun will give an address on mission work in the Methodist Church, Masterton, at 7.30 p.mi tomorrow. l'he Mayor (Mr P. L. Hoiling.H) will occupy trie chair, and a collection will be taken up in aid of the Mission Fund.

A resounding alarm on the main firebell last evening, just in the height of a southerly gale, caused a great concourse of pedestrians, cyclist?, and others to rush in the direction of the lire. The magnitude of the conflagration and ,fche vigour of the alarm were inversely proportioned, however, and a victimised gleam was visible in every eye as thp crowds wended their way back in the face of tha gale from a mere chimney fire. .

A meeting of the Ground Committee of the M;uterton A. ana P. Asso ; ciation was held yesterday afternoon, when the suggestions made by Mr J. W. Johnston, of Palmerston North, for improving Solway Showgrounds were considered, the plan of the ground submitted by Mr Johnston being gone fully into. The chair wa9 occupied by Mr W. Perry. The Committee decided, after an exhaustive di.-cusaion, to adopt Mr Johnston's plan in the main ideas, and instructed the Secretary to redraw the plan on a larger scale, with the modifications necessary to suit the ground. This plan is to be submitted to the General Committee for approval.

At a sitting of the Pahiatua Magistrate's Court on Tuesday two informations were laid by the County ranger and fines imposed against settlers in the district for having allowed cattle to wander at Igrge on the Ballcnce-Gorge and Qirdwood's roads, Ballance. A charge against W. H Paget of having unlawfully procured liquor for a prohibited person was dismissed. Defendant was fined £7 and costs 7s on a charge of having procured liquor for himself during the currency of a prohibition order. For the theft of clothes and other articles valued at £7 Is 6d Harry brand, who pleaded guilty, was placed on probation for six months, and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution.

Acknowledgment is made of a copy of the prize list for the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Show to be held on November 4th, sth, and 6th next. A glance at the prize schedule will show that it is compiled on liberal and comprehensive lines. Roughly, the pyze money offered is over £1,70 d; exclusive of trophies and medals, and is distributed through some 700 classes, embracing horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, poultry, and pigeons, horticultural, home industries, needlework and industrial, photograhpiCg and technical, schools. Special features in evidence each day are competitions* for horses, some of f .he prizes being exceptionally liberal, for instance, £ll3 is allotted for four hunters' events. Challenge cups and shields are prominent in the sheep and cattle divisions up to the value of 100 guineas. A perusal of the | 89-page free prize list concerning this | exhibition for the range ot divisions is so wide and comprehensive that it cannot fail to draw exhibitors. A post card to the secretary. Mr J. C. Lane, P.O. Box 85, Palmerston North, will sac ure a free copy. ONCH A MAN BUYS A suit from us ho is most unwilling to wear any oth?r make. That's why we're making suits for gentlemen all over the Dominion—gentlemen who have tested tlio lit, comfort, style, and quality of our olothes, aud have iound them the best: Why not leave your order with us when next in Wellington. Our cosh prices mean money saved to you. Morrison and Penney, Tailors, 73 Willis Street, Wellington.; Thero is not a particle of opium or other narcotic in Chamberlain's Cough Kemedy, and never has been since it was iirsfc offered to the public. It is as safe a medicine for a child as for an adult. This remedy is famous for its cures of colds and croup, and can always bo depended upon. 'For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

The total cost to the Dominion of the farm and farm labourers' dispute up to September 15th, 1908, was £B6B 17s Id.

The amount of compensation paid., by the Department of Agriculture for stock condemned for., tuberculosis during the five years ending March 31st, 1908, was £34,000 approximately.

According to a Parliamentary return, from February Ist, 1902, to June 30th, 1905, the number of convictions recorded for drunkenness in the Rangitikei electorate , was 286, and 84 prohibition orders were issued. From July Ist, 1905. to June 30th, 1908, there were 552 convictions for drunkenness, and 105 prohibition orders were issued.

The danger of firearms .in hands of the inexperienced i" continually receiving illustrations, and the latest record comes from Hamilton. At a shooting gallery a lad was pulling back the "catch" of a Winchester, and as it became jambed he used force, with the result that the gun exploded, the bullet missing a bystander l.y about six inches and burying itself in the wall. As it was about the height of a man's waist, had it struck the onlooker, the result would have been most certainly fatal at such close range.

The settlers in the newly opened Tamaki and Raumati blocks will regret to see that instead of establishing schools in their midst the Education Board is calling tendei-3 l'or the conveying of the children to and from Dannevirke schoolsays the "Dannevirke Press." Especially-in the case of Tamaki does the action of the Board seem disannointing. as the settlers there have obtained an offer of a suitable building at a price which would not pay for the timber in it, and they have agreed to bear the cost of fellinor the school site themselves. The road is dangerous ami a serious accident occurred only a few days ago. It is to be hoped that for the education of the thirty children who are running wild in that block that the Board will see its way to encourage the settlers to obtain education for their children uuder more satisfactory conditions

The motorist*'who recent.] v crossed Australia from Adelaide to Port Darwin had somy strange experiences with aboriginals. At Tennarit's Creek the oiotorists received a shock by finding all the aboriginals whitewashed. They were rubbed all over, from the youngest to the oldest, with pipeclay. Strange to Fay there was one man amongst the lot who knew a few words of English sufficient to explain that the whole tnb9 was in mourning tor the loss of a chief. While they remain in mourn-, ing no one speaks. . Everything is'' done by signs. It wns. only out of courtesy to the new arrivals that the native who spoke English was allowed to make known the state of affairs. At Daly Waters the mutorists encountered one of the laziest tribes met with «m their journey. The men simply bask in the sun all day, send their wives out to gather food, which mostly consists of berries, lizards and "goannas." From the tails of the latter they make in clay pots a sort of soup, to which is sai J to have a semi-intoxicating effect.

Two locomotive engines played shuttlecock with a livina: man and he escaped almost unhu-t, was the graphic summary' given by an eyewitness of an accident which occurred at the Flinders street railway station, Melbourne, last week. Edward Hord, a porter, while crossing the line from one platform to another was struck by an incoming train. He was lifted clean off his feet and flung against the wheels of an engine shunting on the next line of rails. It seemed inevitable that the man would be crushed to death, but extraordinary good fortune came to his aid. A second time he was lifted again and thrown back acainst the wheels of the first train which had struck him. The chances were ten to one then that he would fall beneath the wheels and be cut ' to nieces.but the one chance was Hord's. He was thrownagainst the side of a wheel, and; fell back into the space between the two lines, where he lay bruised and breathless until he was picked up. He sustained nothing; worse than minor injuries, and after treatment was ab/e to leave for his home. f

Advices just to hani contain 'accounts of a remarkable experience of the well-known barque Antrope, on her recent voyage from Newcastle with a cargo of coal to Sun Francisco, says a Sydney paper. When in latitude 20deg. south a large quantity of "grease" was seen floating on the surface of the ocean, and, calm prevailing, the men managed to scoop up several bucketfuls of the stuff. The "grease" was found excellent, and it was used for slushing down the masts, the balance being used by the men on their oilskins and boots. The captain said that much more could have been collected,, but thought the amount picked up by the men was enough. It was not until a few days after the arrival of the Antrope at San Francisco that Captain J'ohn Mathieson, master of the vessel, learned that he had let a fortune siip through his fingers. A small part of the "grease" had been saved, and this was identified by an Oakland druggist as an ambergris. The sailors had greased masts, sea boots, and oilskins with ambergris, valued at approximately £BO a pound, and thus wasted about £4,500 worth of the stuff unaware of its value.

WUi? IS SANDER& SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalypti Product ? Because it is the result of full experience, and of a special and careful process of manufacture. It is always safe, reliable and effective, and the dangers of irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off iib Extract are avoided. A death was recently reported from the use of one of those concoctions and in an action at law a wittier testified that he suffered the most cruel irritation from the application to an ulcer of another, which was sold as "Just as good as SANDER'S EXTRACT." Therefore, beware of suob deception. Remember that iu medicine a, drop that "cures is bettor than a table* spoon that kills; and insist upon the preparation which was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria, and by numerous authorities during the last 35 years, to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz: THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. 1/6 sad 2/6.

Dealing with the question of National Defence, the "New Zealand Herald" says:—"We cannot yet put 'great battleships" afloat, nor muster to hold the highways of trade; this we must long leave to vthi Motherland, whether we have iso-called colonial "navies" or not. But we can train our youth and equip 'ourmen, gun our--forts in peace and igarrison them in war. We can, if •we like to do so, make New Zealand and every other British dominion impregnable to raid and unpleasant to .invade, so that we may hold our part ■of the great Imperial frontier against ■svery enemy, and even send help to any section wnere our fellow citizens arj being overborne." The beque3l which Sir John Hall made to the Christchurch Library has resulted in some hundreds of books being added to the collection. They deal principally with the early history of New Zealand, and there are -collections of pamphletd, journals «nd ephmeral publications generally, •which will prove a valuable addition 'to the prestni collection of works with New Zealand, and sMuld also prove vtry useful to the future historians of the Dominion. 'There are some fine folio editions >of Cook's voyages, in excellent condition, and a large variety of lesser works dealing with the early days •of the Dominion; travels and exploration, and ihe lives of the foremost "ni lof early times. Fiction by New authors dealing with life in this land has been assiduously collected. At a meeting at St. Aidin'j Orphanage, Bendigo (Victoria) weak tu make arrangements for the sannual garden fete in aid of the orphanage, Monsignor Barry, suggested that Tommy Burns should be invited to be present at the fete. Burns would be engaged in Melbourne the "day after the fete. He was a very '•charitabie man, and a good Catholic, -and it would not be too much to expect him to come up a little earlier .and be present, seeing that it was for a charitable purpose. His presence would be one of the greatest attractions they could have. Monsignor Barry moved: "That an invitation be extended to Mr Tommy .Burns." Miss Berges (one ot the • secretaries) opposed the motion. She said she had read the reports of the fight between Burns and wSquires, and although they understood that Burns was a good Catholic gentleman, she •did not look upon him as the exponent of a ,vi ry noble art. The matter was deferred.

A smart youth is wanted for the drapery business. Mr A. Crawford has for sale a supply of first-class matai firewood. The Railway Department notifies that all goods sheds will be closed on Saturday next (Dominion Day). A thoroughly competent woolclasssr, with twenty years' experience and highly recommended,,-is ■ open tor engagement. Th 9 necessity of sound teeth is the subject of a new advertisement inserted on page 1 of this issue by Mr E. R Wilson, dentist, Masterton.. A list of interesting and popular ■books in stock at Mr C. C. Aitken's -Book Depot, will be found in another column in this issue. The tennis and cricket season is now right at hand, and a special rfcting is called to inaugurate these fe?riative games in conmctnn with -oar .local Y.M.C.A. The meeting will take place to-night. Mr J. V. Gordon, chemist, Masterton, has a supply of water glass for sale. This is a reliable preservative <by which settlers can keep eggs as good aa fresh for a lengthened period.

Mr J. L. late of the firm of RosS and estate agents, has opened in business on his ■own behalf in offices in the A. and P. Buildings, Perry street, Masterton. Mr Macgregor has a thorough grip •of land values and, is in a position to give practical advice on land matters A li3t of properties will •be advertised in to-morrow morning's issue.