LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3012, 8 October 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr R. Brown was the successful applicant for the position of Secretary of the Masterton C:> operative Oaiiy Company, rendered vacant by the lesignation of Mr G. R. Sykes. Six applications were received.

Heavy rain commenced to fall at Carterton on Tuesday night, and continued yesterday. The rain will have the effect of freshening up the pastures in thy district, writes our correspondent.

The total assessed valuation of ail taxable pronery in New York City for the past is -£1,431,638,080,of which i21,228,3()0,C24 is realty and the balance p.-rs.tinl property. The increase over th-j previous year is £87,4t)b,090. Th is afternoon the ladies of the Feathi rston Golf Club play the second round for Messrs Hardie and Sons' trophy. The handicaps are as follow:—Mesdatr.es Saunders owe 3, Allan sc..-, Toogo-xl 9, Lucas 9,Fenwick 14, Speedy 23, Williams 30, Wickens 3X, Miss Viles 9.

The installation of officers in con nection with St. John's Lodge (Featherston) took place on Tuesday evening, when Bro. C. J. Carlyon was installed as W.M. for the ensuing year. Visitors from Wellingi ton; Martinborough, Greytown, Car- | terton and Masterton were present. The eat crops in the Carterton district have bean very backward so i far this season, owing no doubt to the succession of and the hard state of tb-i ground, writes our correspondent. The recent rains have had the effect of bringing on the oats. There is now an abundant growth o'£ Seel for stock.

A case to be heard at the next sitting afc Maslerton of th"s Wairarapa District Court is one in which awl Co., Ltd , are suing Alex.. MmKeiizie, of Featnersion, £armei»„ ton' £236, alleged to be due on the saie r>f 45 rains. Messrs Gawith and Logan are acting for the plaintiffs.

a' meeting of members of the locaKbranch of the Greytown and Lower Valfcy Horticulfural and In dustrial'Soeiety it was resolved to hold theiSpring Show about the middle of next month,, and it was stated that £2s'Los> had already been promised towards prises. Judge's were appointed as ftYllow ; Bouquets, etc., Mesdames W, P. James and N. B'jetnam-;. vegetables, Mr S. Dinby; produce, ' M,esdames W. J. Martin and. Gi VW. Lee; Miss Smith,, of Maryborough; schoolwork, Messns F. C. Everton and E. A. King;: photography, Mr G. W. G6bb<; woodi-carving, Mr G. Fenwick. It was.deaided tO' include a class for the best. decorated bicycle, and to jjidgfi the- beat decorated table by popular vote. Messrs F. C. Everton, Gj. J-Peiawiek, A. J. Toogood, A. Tocker,. E,. A. Laejvv, l J. W. Card and C.. JvKent-Johris-toh were appuiuted.a programme and execut've, com mittee..

Tha- death, occurred on Tuesday rnosning of Mr Edward Wilson, licensee of the Club Hotel, Wei and wim for many years was proprietor' of the Post Office Hotel, andi mora recently of the Albert Hoteh Mr Wilison, who was born in Cumberland, England, in 1840, was originally a miner at VVhitboun. He subsequently became a colliery mechanic,, and visited America, whore lia*engaged in goldmining in Nevada*, audi coalmining in British Goltunbia; After returning to England,. he came oot to New Zealand in>lS7S{ and was- employed at the Otago Foundry, Dunedin, during the timer the first locomotive built in Now-' Zealand wad in course of construction; Later he entered thj Railway/ Department, which he left to» go in for hotel-keeping. Mr Wilbon ia survived by his second wife'and! ani adult son.

; h-ifty-tlure© ®f the fifty-five doc tors'in. Belilinz-Jim, Switzerland, and its.'suburbs, haive "gone on strike." 'Ehey ace; paid by the municipal afthomties, tiie salaries ranging faram £l2® to £2OO a year and by contract riMHt give their services Sree to poor and rich alike. The town- and its. environs are divided into' '"miediicat districts," and the residents pay a small tax to the munkipal'iity for medical assistance. Hl»e result is that a doctor is at the beck; am) call of everyone at all hours ofi'thw day and night. The doctors have almost unanimously broken their 'a®nfcra;C-ts with the Belinzona authoriand demand a fixed salary of i JLliOO' a year and the right of thargin s fees varying from 6d to 5s to patients wtio are in a position to pay, and special charges for night visits. ;They agree to attend the poor with,®uit payment. The local authorities i will .shortly examine the question. INo other town in Switzerland has : this syst°m of municipal doctors. Wellington booksellers do not seem to be greatly perturbed by the decisions of Mr H. VV. Bishop, S.M., in Christchurch. "If the magistrate's argument is sustained," states the representative of one leading firm, "we shall have to put away Shakespeare, the Bible, and goodness knows what else. Public opinion would never stand it. The position is absurd. We don't make a practice of selling immoral literature; in fact, there is no particular demand for it, unless a book becomes notorious and talked about. Prior to the Christchurch cases, there was practically no enquiry for the books mentioned in the prosecution,, but ever since then hundreds of people have asked for copies." Another one of the city's principal booksellers mentioned that thei'e had beea a very spirited demand for the hocks which were placed under the magisterial' ban at Christchurch. He and his brethren, he added, were quietly awaiting the result of the appeal by the Christchurch booksellers. The Wellington men had not yet made any move.

Ladies irom the Wairarapa when visiting Wellington would be wise to inspect the grand nuige of New Summer Hats on view at Mrs Mathewson's. The styles are exclusive, the deaigns perfect, and the prices right. Please remember that the address is Melbourne House, Lambton Quay (opposite Bank of New ftefUwd),

The opening of the Carterton Bowling Green will not take place until November sth.

The annual meeting of the Masterton Crjcket Club will be held in the Central Hotel to morrow evening at 8 o'clock.

The Taratahi Dairy Factory has installed mechanical curd agitators, which on trial have proved a success. The old system was to stir with wood curd rakes.

The following appointments have been made by the Wellington Education Board Assistant, Fahiatua, Mr W. W. Scott (Mangamaire); assistant, Newman, Miss M. Hughes.

The interest taken by ladies in the trend of political matters in the Wairarapa electorate promises to be rather keen. At ali three of Mr Buchanan's meetings at Miki Miki, Kaituna and Upper Plain there was a fair' proportion of ladies present,, especially at fcbe former piace.

An echo of the recent "lambing down''' case ira Gisborne was heard

yesterday,- states a Gisborne Press ' Association telegram, when J. Bui'ke, ex-licensee of the Record Reign Hotel (plaintilf in- the recent libel case against the "'Gisborne Times'') was; found guilty of having supplied liquor to George Pearson, who was. in a state of intoxication at the time. Bourke was fined £lO and cost £3 4s.

It is expected that tfie two-manual pipe organ, which is being manufactured in England for St. Mark's 'Church) Carterton, will arri^' 1 'it Carterton* at Easter,, wr.ifces our correspondent. It is pntuaole tnafc Bishop Wallis,. of Wellington, will conduct a special ser.vice to celebrate its erection.. The organj.when erected in the Church, wili tie nearly twice the size of the pipe o-er«n in St. Matthew's Churchy Mastenton..

The annual Bill enabling t -,e land tax and income tax to be eo.iected has made its appearance, and does not differ iirom its predecej ir of last year. At the beginning of November the unwtlcome "den and" will commence to give concern to property owners,-who must rav tax b" December 13th. Incomes pay their tribute unliliFebrnarjy 14 hj, cue demands being distributed tn the fiist of January.

"A speech of colonial importance—» even of a sort of colonial violence." In these terms the "Worlds Work" refers to that speech,, delivered before the arrival of the American fleet at Auckland, in vvnich Sir Joseph Ward, said that "the day will cinie when a great fight will b-J for the supremacy of the white races in the Pacific, and when tine comes Great Britain can have cha assistance of the American fleet; ■the two nations will be-found figMirgr shoulder to shoulder.!'

Hydrophobia is raging in the village of Bielskiy, in the Yenisei; district, Siberia. The village possesses a large number of dogs, which during the hot summer were attacked with raoie* and bit many of thahorned cattb. The owners of the cattle, noticing that some of them were ailing, killed them for food. Many of the peasants afterw«rt's ; developed hydrophobia. The disease was communicated to the domestic poultry, and even some, horses showed signs of it. In the village cwentv-se/en fa niliea are noiv infected. |

" Tiie Dutch Government ha 3 under consideration a plan for drying up the Zuyder Z j e. This is a tremendous enterprise, as the gulf covers about 870,000 acres. Tne special Commission appointed to study the matter proposes the construction ot" a dyke, which would join the coast of La Frise to tnat of Holland. The Zuyder Zee would thus- be transformed into a vast artificial lake,, in which would be floated huge rafts of faggots and stones. On these ratts would be thrown, ot sand, to be covered by a layer of clay. The Commission estimates that thifs gigantic work wouldioccupy fully thirty years, and would cost £16,000,000. ,

An indication that the recent extreme tightness in the money-market seems likely to relax before.- long iagiven (says the "Gisborne Times") by the fact that some of the more important lending which have recently refu.-ing loans, have notified intending bomnvers that if they apply again at. the end of October they will in all-probability be accommodated. How; extreme the position has been local'yis shown by the statement of a gentleman closely connected witti the inner working ofi financial cirles who declared to a, "Times" reporter that during a recent week "you, could not hive borrowed sixpence in. Gisborne from recognised lending:instilutions, no matter how good the- seaurifcy.

In connection with the ; prospects of the next season for butter, the opinion is expressed by Messrs Weddel.and Co., in, their annual i

review of the colonial.cUtiry produce trade, that in the uncertainty of supplies for the coming winter, the Home-market will be more dependent that ever on imports from Aua~ tralasia Jr though the bad condition of trade will greatly, diminish the purchasing pbwer, of the mass of' consumers, and tend; to ' reduce the demands The.supply of cheeses will; depend largely upon tdie weather in summer in Canada, and in some? districts it is very dry. On the whole, however,, the averagf values, will probably be lower for both; tetter and cheese daring the comingseason than, they were in the season, just closed..

WHi? SONS PURE VOLATILE IfiUUALYPTi EXTRACT superior ta any other Eucalypti Product ? Because* it is the result of full experience, and oS a special and careful process of nianiifact are.. Lfc is always safe, reliable and effective,. aau\ the clangers of irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off a:-. Extract are avoided. A death was recently imported from the use of oae of thews coac-actions and in an action at law a witness testified that he suffered the most cruel irritation from the application to an ulcer of another,.which was sold as " Just us good as SANDER'S EXTRACT." Therefore, beware of such deception. Remember that in medicine, a drop that cures is better than a tablespoon 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, vi 7 4: THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT*

'The tourist season is apparently 'going to commence earlier this year than last. Already a number of oversea visitors have arrived, and are "doing" JRotorua.Te Aroha, and other thermal resorts, while several are en route to Wanganui River. The attention directed to the Domini jn by the visit of the American fleet is expected to mean an .extra influx of •visitors to Auckland this year, and there are indication that the coming summer and autumn months will see •a record tourist traffic to the thermal •and scenic centres of Auckland Province. An American gentleman, at ■present in Auckland, stated to a 'Herald' representative recently that in many of the large cities of America the wealthy residents were looking up New Zealand guidebooks as they have never been looked up before, and while the absence of the former San Francisco mail service would militate against the tourist traffic, still, he expected to see more Americans coming to New Zealand this year than in any previous year. A young mar for a farm is required "by'MrF. P. Welch, labour agent.

A married couple, without encumbrance, require positions as chief and sscond cook.

At the Post Office Auction Mart, on Saturday next, sales will be held, particulars of which are advertised on page 8.

The burgesses of Masterton are invited by the Mayor, to observe Tuesday, October 29th, a holiday as from •no,)n, on the occasion of the Carteiton Show.

Mr J. Kitchenar, boot and shoemaker, and importer, has a large stock of men's light boots, which he is offering to the general public at very low rates. The boots are of good quality, and of standard sizes. The Manawatu Kennel Club have secured the following judges for the forthcoming Show: —MrG. R. Hutchinson, of Auckland, for all the terrier classes; Mr A- T. Moore for the Bull and Spor'ing Dog Classes; and Mr G. R. Harrison, of Ponsonby, Auckland, for rhe Collie Dog Clause-. The Show is held at the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association's Agricultural on November 4th, sth and 6th next Good prize money is allrtted to each class, besides several special prizes from the New Zealand Irish Terrier Club, the. New Zealand Fox Terrier Club, and a gold medal for the best collie at the show. Promises of support have been received from all parts of the Dominion, and a big entry is expected. Entries will close on the ItSch inst.