LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3003, 28 September 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The young men's meeting at the Y.M.C.A. last evening was presided over by th* General Secretary (Mr Burgess), who gave a to members on "Common Honesty,' a subject which the speaker handled well, and left a Rood impression on his hearers. At the stranger's tea Mr Burgess again presided, over thirty sittinf down at the tables. Several strangers were prtsent and gave interesting addresses.

The North Wairarapa Handicap Rifle Association, which held such a successful meeting on Fairview Range, last week, received several valuable donations towards its prize fund. The secretary wishes to thank the following for the donations enum« erated: —Mr "J. Strang, Gladstone, £3; Mr W. G. Bnchanan, £i 2s; Mrs A. J. Came;on, 'gold medal; Messrs Levin and Co., valuable cup* Messrs W..L. and N. F. Willoughby, £1 Is each; Messrs King and Henry, trophy value £1 la; W.F.C.A., two trophies valued at £1 10s and 10s, respectively.

The Carterton Fire Brigade'B Bazaar was* brought to a conclusion on Saturday night. 3. he art union was drawn in the presence of the Mayor. The following are the winning tickets in their order:—23s, 515, 51, 191, 410, 1021, and 474. Saturday night's takings amounted to £l4O. It is anticipated that the funds of the Brigade will benefit through the bazaar to the extent of £2OO. At the conclusion of the bazaar, the opportunity was taken to present Fireman A. Maguire, who is leaving shortly for Wangaehu, near Wanganui, with a clock, as a token of the esteem in which Mr and Mrs Maguire were held by the members 6f the Brigade. Captain E. McKerzie made the pesen,tation, which was feelingly acknowledged by Fireman Maguire.

The fight between Burns and Johnson will take place about the beginning or December next for a purse of £7,500, which is about the largest evei offered for a champion contest. Burns is at present in training at Kosciusko. A cablegram has been sent to the whipping company booking first class passages far Johnwn and his manager and traint-r. Fights to-a finish are not allowed in Australia, and the articles provide for a points' decision at the end of twenty rounds. It has notyet been definitely decided whether the venue will be Sydney or Melbourne. is anxious to bet the coloured man £I,OOO that he (Burns) will'see the twenty rounds out, and another £I,OOO that he will win. This money has been lodged with the "Sydney Keferee," and await 3 Johnson's cover.

A statement has been published, to the effect that the Main Trunk line, which is to be opened for traffic on the Ist of November, will o.ily run a two days' service until the beginning of next year. This report was given an absolute denial by the Minister for Railways, in the House of Representatives on Friday night, and the Hor<. Hall-Juries declared that the line, as already promised, would be opened with a regular service. Sir Joseph Ward, when spoken to on the subject, said that the day on which the official opening of the line would take place could not yet be disclosed, but in the course of a few weeks a regular service between Wellington and Auckland would be established. There might be a trifling delay, the Prime Minister added, in gaining a thorough working knowledge of the line right through, but he did not think it would be lpng before trains were running: between the two cities upon the time-table announced some time ago. Mis. H, Gncld, 307 Madras-st., North Christehinclj, N. Z. writes: "Chamberlain's Cough llcniedy is a most valuable medicine." I sella lot of it in my shop,-and it is .used' in my home. I have recommended it to several people and have never known it to fail. There is no question but what it is the foremost cough medietas sold in this district." For salo by all chemists and storekeepers

Mr M. C. O'Connell has presented a Corean drake to the Borough to be put on the Park Lake. ' MrG. Gray's oil launch plied on the Park Lake yesterday for the first time. The little craft went splendidly, and comfortably carried ton passengers.

The Y.M.C.A. Debating Society will meet to-night, when a speech 'by Mark Anthony (from Shakespere) will form the subject for an elocutionary contest. A large number of entrants will|be heard, and the winner will be awarded a gold medal donated by the President (Mr K. Brown).

Dominion Day was an everyday sort of day in Masterton. A flog or two fluttered in a lethargic breeze, but market business proceeded on its accustomed course, no deviation being made for the rational birthd.-iy. The Courthouse observed a holiday, and the Post Office from ten o'clock, but theae were the only indications that the day was other than an ordinary business day. It is certain, states the RegistrarGeneral, that out of a total of 10,060 .deaths from all causes in New Zealand during 1907, 674, or 6.70 per cent., were caused by cancer. The death-rate from this disease is not so great as that from tubercular complaints, but is nevertheless a most alarming matter, not only on account of the number of deaths, but because of its progressive increase. A -young mannamedv<A!len Pricke,« aged 17 years, was recently exercising an imported 'bull at Gresvvick (Victoria), and when going through a gate the animal attacked him. His employer heard' the unusual noise. He went to see what was the matter, and saw the yoiirtg man' lying down, when he at once pludkfily went to.hie assistance, and rescued him from the animal. The injured man 'only lingered for about twenty minutes, dying from the terrible injuries he had received about the body. Certaili allegations were made after the Otago-Wellington representative match last Saturday at the Athletic Park against the. play of members of the Wellington team. A special ■ meeting of the Wellington Rugby Union was held y 6n' Friday evening to investigate the circumstances. After an exhaustive enquiry, in the course of which all the members of the team were summoned before the committee and the senior selectors, it was agreed that the evidence adduced was not such as to warrant any action being t*ken in the matter.

The following quaint epistle reached the Devonport (Auckland) Borough Council the other evening from a well-known and elderly lady resident: —"I request permission to keep a kennel of welt-bred dogs—lrish terrors (sic) and gun-dog 3 trained to murder fowls. I will bury them, tpresuraably the fowls) outside my pram • ises so many feet deep, and watch them fall in the desired depth. I have a partner in this business." Members of the Council are now trying to; understand exactly.what dark intentions are insinuated in the note, and the best means of tiding over the crisis.

"I think," said Mr Gow, tKa wellknown Trade Commissioner of New Zealand, in the course of an interview at Auckland, "that the Asiatics should be kept out, not only out of New Zealand, but out of. all British countries. Let them be taken iri'o some countries—on contract, if you like—but send them back as soon as the work is done. Otherwise, you will find that they will not remain hewers of wood and drawers of. water. Before you know whex-e ycu are you will find'them with their own banks and warehouses, and other institutions. The Asiatics simply swamp out the white man, wherever they ro. Look at Durban in South Africa. They did it thaiv; and*'if you let them in, they will do it here. Keep them oat, and don't run any risks.

Some miners from the Tairua dis trict arrived at the Waihi Hospital o,n Tuesday evening,, bringing with them a comrade named John McLanghlan, who was v suffering from pneumonia, with complications. Thei circumstances under which, the patient was brought somewhat remarkable. At Tairua the manager of the Golden Hills mine acquainted the men with the condition of the unfortunate man, and intimated that volunteers were • required to convey him to Puriri, a distance of some eighteen miles, over mountainous country, with nothing ; beyond a rough bridle track on which to travel. There was a ready response to the call, and just on fifty volunteers started off with the patient for Puriri, where he was first seen by Dr Lapraik and then brought on to Waihi by rail. The men worked in short relays of four, and carrying McLaughlau on an improvised litter, covered the eighteen miles in the fast time of rather under four hours and three-quarters. A correspondent writes as foilown to the Brisbane "Courier"— "About twenty-four.years ago an act of hero? ism was enacted in Victorian waters that, in my humble opinion, has never been excelled, and should not be allowed to pass into oblivion. The particulars, as related in the London "Daily Telegraph," are these:—The pilot schobner Rip was cruising outside Port Phillip heads, looking out for ships needing a pilot, when she encountered a severe gale, during which one of the musta snapped off and fell overboard. There was a pilot aloft at the time, who fell into the sea with the Inast. The latter, being held by the shrouds and stays, beat violently against the side of the vessel, threatening to stave her in. McLjod (I think was his name), seeing the imminent peril of founjering the vessel was in, shouted out, 'Cut away, mates, cut away; let me go, and save*yourselves.' They cut away, and were saved, but poor McLeod drifted away to leeward with tjhe wreck, and was seen no more. The "Telegraph" gave a leader on the subject, which was the most eloquent I ever read in its columns. To, its credit, be it said, the Victorian Government pensioned the widow for life, and made some provision for her children." Ladies from the Wairarapa when visiting Wellington would be wise to inspect the grand range of Now Summer Hats on view at Mrs Mathewson's. The styles are exclusive, the designs perfect, and the prices right. Please remember that the address is Melbourne House, Lambton Quay (opposite Bank of New Zealand),

"Those bits of tin!" Description • of the Dominion medals by "a member f i! of the Wangariui Education?Board.\ . v ;:

In the course of a lecture at Dune-' din, Dr P. Marshall, while exhibit- : ing-a splendid lantern view of the world-famous Tasman Glacier,p6inted . to the spot where, about two yeara ago, Mr Low fell and broke his legHe was alone, and .the weatherwaa ( rough. Tracing his point over the ■

rough, btoken surface of tba ice, the lecturer showed the path alone; which the Hlpinist had crawleu for three ,iniles to the nearest hut (the Bivouac). When he got to the spot there was not a scrap of food. Here the unfortunate man lay for six days ia agony, and then, crawlin? along over one of the wildest surfaces in New Zealand at last reached the Hermitage—some six miles further on. "Such," said the lecturer, "is the power of human endurance."

Says a correspondent of a Hawke'a Bay contemporary:— A bushfeller from the Ruakaturi district, who stayed one night with me, showed me a purse containing £6O in notes which had been punctured by the teeth of rodents. - The purse had been left under his pillow on going to work, but on his return he found it was missing. Thinking his mates were playing a practical jnke upon him he refrained from mentioning the loss. About a week afterwards he was getting some dry timber to kindle a ; fire when he espied his missing property. The purse, a leather was bitten almost to shreds, and a holehad been eaten through ths centre of the notes, while a corner of lha roll < had also disappeared. Thernan then r m3de enquiries, but ascertained that his mates had not removed th» purse which had evidently; been csrfiesd by •" the rat-3 a distance to a hole alongside a log. '

Dissension still existe in Zlon city. IllimjiF, „the headquarters of, the Christian Apostolic Church, in regard to the question of leadership. Pastor Wilbur ,Glenn Voliva, who was for 80me years head of the Church ia Australia, and who after , the detbronement of the late John Alexander Dowie left Melbourne with' a view to assuming the leadership, has .'.■'■■ a very numerous, following, but ac- ; ».[ cording to his newspaper, the "Zioii / Herald," he has had to contend against Parham, Bingley, Tom an 3 Manly. His latest rival is Lewis, who has been invited by a section of the Zionites to return to Zion and take command. Paster ; Voliva refers to v thesa people as being "in leagues with those who hate Zion," and he states that they are destined to fall into the ditch. "Those who stand for < truth and its principles," he qb- / serves, "can do no less than leave r Lewis and the rebellious ones to their own fate, to batter their ecclesiastical brains out against Zion's imrnov- ''■■'' able walls;*', v :

The necessity for takinqr; some steps to. protect meat and milk from flies and du3t i 3 again, urged on the Auckland City Council by Dr. Purdy, District Health Officer, in a letter to that body, . Dr. Purdy ~ says:—V "Owing to the dangers, more especially from flies , and dust,'.'l would suggest that a by law ue brought in making it compulsory "for all foods such as meat and milk to be sold in shops which have closed windows to prevent flies gaining, access to the meat. The butchers themselves have evidently notyetrealise'din Auckland the full extent to which flies are responsible fqr. contaminating: meat. In mahycountries all meat is rigorous-., iy protected' from flies. L .arcr firtnljt of opinion that the last epidemic of typhoid was mainly spread by their agency. lam informed that in lington, since the leading butchers put up modern establishments with glass fronts, the meat* has kept much better, and that iii a city where there is so much wind as in Wellington^people. are. no : longer served with meat that is v coated wifchdust." The letter was received.

Sir Robert Stout and Mir Bat at Wellington Saturday morning to deal w-ith a; question of the; - Waitu- ■;', tuma,l A, a block of native land '"or;; ;\ 17,800 acres near Cape/ Pallisery , South Wair'arapa. There wore 39 owners whose interests varied from 71 acres to 1,20& acres. The natives asked generally that the committee should be validated to deal with the blo:k as desired. A title partition order was issued in 1895 and the land was incorporated in 1907. The land./ was described; as rough and hilly and full of deer/ 1 One witness suggested that a deer park might be made of it. The children, ,however, did not cure; about it {They would like to be near tbet own and the billiard room. Several witnesses expressed thfi desire that,the area should be sold or leased, as the only animals on the land belonged to the Government and did not pay rent. The Maoris wanted to purchase other land more suitable for their purpose. Other witnesses desired - the partition of, the land in order that the areas might be defined and those who-wished might work their own sections. The Commission adjourned till October 6th;

Oversea buyers and their amenta ; (remarks the" "New Zealand Trade Review") are now in New Zealand in: considerable numbers, and are 1 active,:: visiting producers and endeavourinis to arrange for either purchase or : consignment'of the season's output. It is held by some that there is rea-;, son to fear another spell of dry weather during the season, and this theory helps to intensify the desire to - secure supplies. Some factories have been visited by as many as seventeen to twenty buyers. The great question of the hour with the /; factory directors is whether to sell or ship" on consignment. Hales of . total output have been effected at from lid to 11 Jd f.d.k—an excellent price for producers: and, if the weather conditions continue good, the;-' ,; year's dairy trade promises to be a record. A good many, however, i have so far decided to.ship, on Fignment, and in some cases consignments have .been secured under advance at lid ; per lb "without; re- y course." There are complaints tthat in some bases sought after on terms that no agency firm of good standing and repute would adopt, and Which, if persevered in and encouraged, are likely,to have a very detrimental effect, on, the trade. .... . ■■> ■,•■ '■_ ' .'.; ~'■■/-v \v.!C •, .ftfr.C. F. E. LtTesay, Arohitept of Wal , lington, -has moved to more boavenienif' rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, . Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Office of the BankofN.Z.) Addrea3— i P.O. Box 771. Telephone ,:

,; If The result of the mild weathar re- :. \Bently is to be noticed in the Kimv toolton and Kiwitea districts, where there has been a splendid lambing seascn, 180 to 150 per cent, being obtained on many farms. An interesting fact bearing on the profits of the hemp industry and the vexed question of royalties was testified to before the Rivers- Commission at Palmerston North. A witness .said his son, in one season, nine month?, paid £1,750 in royalty for iflcx taken off eighty acres of i .swamp. The Turakina from London brought out two Shropshire rams and four •ewaa for Mr Vavasour, Marlborough; five Lincoln ewes for Mr A. Crawford, of Wanganui; two Romney rams far Mr A. Tyer, Featherstoti, and one for Mr W. E. Ellis, Bulls; ralso a Border-Leicester ram and two Leicester rams for Mr Helton. The tsheep arived in excellent condition. They will bs placed on the quarantine island. The extravagance of- the. f<;w .mil ■ lio iaire3 not affected by the prevail- ... jiflLdenresaion in business is arouswidespread criticism in New York, and adding to the wave of social discontent (says the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail"). To day the newspapers tell of a special train being hurriedly called by Mrs Granville Wright, wife of. a wealthy resident of New Yurie, vfkd h spending the summer at CamWridge, Mass., to take herself and a blouse party to luncheon with a friend at Lenox, sixty ni'lea away. It is pointed out that the freak «ost almost the whole income of an Amerian family of humble circumstances for a year. The fact that Mrs Wright gave £2 notes to the enginedriver and train "hands" is not accepted as any mitigation, and is considered as poor taste in these hard times. An elaborate "flower ball" to take place on Saturday at Mrs Robert <3oelet*9 Newport homo also evokes criticism. At this ball, on which a iprtune is being expended, the women -will represent flowers. One debutante is announced to appear as "Rosebush"; another's costume i 3 being arranged to resemble a garden, in the heart of which will appear 1 the fair wearer's head and shoulders The promoters ot the forthcoming "Prosperity Boomsters'" congress in New York are wondering how to meet the leaders of the unemployed, who are to march with ten thousand workiess . -men to their meeting hall. An advertiser requires a good general servant. Tenders are invited to closo on "Thursday next for the supply of • desks for the Technical School. Messrs J. R. J. Maclean and Co. advertise particulars of several town - :and country properties placed in their hands for sale. The Wellington and Wairarapa Motor Company invite inspection of their large stock of bicycles and •cyclist's accessories which they are • offering at low rates. Mr Jas. Elliott, saddler, Masterton, has to hand a supply of cricket and tennis material. The goods are from the best makers, specially ;:selected to Mr Elliott's order, and are open for inspection. Tenders are invited to close at the office of Mr W. B. Chennells, agent for the Public Trustee, at noon, on Thursday next, for the lease for •twelve months of 12 acres of land and "dwelling in the estate of Mr Frank ■'.■-. P. Renall. The Caledonian Society will hold an Ingleside on the evening of Thursday x next. Tickets are obtainable from the Secretary, Mr J. B. Emmett, and '/, the members of the committee, whose names < will be found elsewhere. Messrs C. Adams and Co., the well- . known millinery specialists, of Wellington, will make an extensive display of millinery .in" the Exchange Buildings, Masterton, during the present week, starting from to-mor-row morning. The display will include over two hundred hats, made, *up in the very latest and moat popu -larstyles and designs.