LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3017, 13 October 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The recent rains have proved beneficial to the crops at Te Ore Ore, and they are making excellent headway. The grass in the district has shown considerable growth during the past week.

Heavy rain from the south-east fell at Carterton yesterday.

Mr Herbert Willis has been elected to fill the vacancy on the Kahautara River Board.

The Pongaroa Rifle Club has decided to compete in the London "Daily Mail's" Empire Day Cup competition.

The first load of woul this season arrived in Featherston on Saturday afternoon. It is part of Mr J. 0. tfidwill's clip.

The Featherston Rifle Club opened the shooting season on Saturday last with a sweepstake. The conditions were seven shots each at 20(J, 500 and 600 yards ranges. The match resulted in Mr H. Williams being first, Mr Bockett second and Mr T. Benton third.

The supply of milk at the Featherston Co-operative Dairy Co.'s Cheese Saturday was 3,602 gallons, being an increase of 952 gallons as compared with the corresponding day last year. The supply is increasing rapidly, and the seventh vat is now in use.

The following names have been added to the General Committee of the Featherston Horticultural Society, in connection with the approaching Show:-—Mr G. Fenwick, Dr. Palmer, Mr and Mrs Bagley, Mr and Mrs W. Hume, Mr and Mrs G. Hume, Mr and Mrs J. Young, and Misses B. and J. Donald.

The anniversary of the Carterton Methodist Church was celebrated byspecial services or Sunday morning and evening. At the service in the morning, the Rev. W. W. Avery preached an appropriate sermon to a good congregation. The service in the evening was conducted by the Rev. W. J. Elliott. During the evening a large choir rendered several anthems. The Anniversary will be continued on Thursday, when the annual tea and concert will be held.

The weekly session of the Endeavour Lodge was held last evening, in the Dominion Hall. C.T. Bro. Heyhoe presided over a fair attendance of members. An old Templar was readmitted to the order. It was decided to hold the meeting next Monday evening at 7.15 o'clock, instead of 7.30 p.m., and close it at 8 o'clock, so as to allow members to attend Mr T. E. Taylor's lecture. It was decided to raise the fee by 6d pp.r quarter. A motion moved by Bro. Gilbert that a social be held shortly, was lost.

The death occurred at Palmerston North on Sunday of Mr H. Seymour Edwards, son of Mr J. H. Edwards, late of Eketahuna. Mr Edwards was only 21 years of age, and during his residence in Palmerston North had won the respect of a large circle of acquaintances by his manly and straightforward life and cheerful disposition. He was an enthusiastic member of the Cuba street Methodist Church, having been secretary of the Mutual Improvement Society, a member of the choir, and a teacher in the Sunday school. The late Mr Edwards was employed at the Union Timber Company's factory, where he was exceedingly popular among his fellow-workmen. Death was due to inflammation of the brain.

A match was played on Saturday last between the Featherston and Greytown Golf Clubs, and resulted in a win for the former. The scores were a follow (Greytown players being mentioned first in each instance:—Men — W. J. Feast 1, Bicknell 0; Halse 0, ' Card 0; Calders 0, Toogood 1; Tocker 0, E. W. Toogood 1, Williams 0, Williams 0; Cotter 0, Burt 1; E. A. Feast 0, McCarty 1; Wilf. Feast 1, Cundy 0; Diddams 6, Donald 0; Stratford 1, Benton 0. Ladies—Miss W. Diddams 1, Mrs Speedy 0; Miss H. Diddams 0, Mrs Tocker 1; Miss Halse 0, Mrs Williams 1; Miss S. Jackson 0, Mrs Lucas 1; Miss A. Jackson 0, Mrs Allen 1. Grand totals—Featherston 8, Greytown 4.

A trip was made to Mount Holdsworth by Mr R. Graham and a party from the Upper Plain on Sunday. They were joined at the mountain house by a party from Carterton, consisting of Messrs F. E. Baker, W. Erickson, M. Osborne and M. Nicholls on Saturday night. The mountain house was left at 5 a.m. on Sunday, the summit being reached at 7 o'clock. It was too foggy for a good view, but the party had a unique time on the snow. They ascended from Threepenny Gully to Channell Falls, which on being measured was found to be 145 feet in height. The party then descended to the river, coming out at Thompson's at 2 p.m. Mr Graham states that most of the mountain flowers are starting to bud. A party will leave for Mount Holdsworth on Thursday next to mark out the horse paddock round the mountain house, and to visit McGregor Falls. Any one who would like to join the party ;:an do so at Mr D. McGregor's house, Upper Plain, at 7.30 a.m. The trip will be made conditional on the weather permitting.

The following unclaimed letters await delivery at the Post Office, Masterton: —Robt. Adamson, United Kingdom; Joseph Barnes, United Kingdom; Chas. Brown, United Kingdom; Mrs F. Brinkman, New South Wales; F. Campbell, New South Wales; Miss Barbara Campbell, United Kingdom; John Campbell, United Kingdom; John Coughlan, Tasmania; Miss M. Downer, United Kingdom; T. Egan, Victoria; Johann Gorzellick, Holland; E. H. Gidley, United Kingdom; Alex. G. Hill, United States America; May Hayes, Victoria; Joseph E. Herbert, United States America; A. C. Johnson, United Kingdom; Jas. Lyng, United Kingdom; Tom Matthews, United Kingdom; E. J. IVoulton, Australia; Mrs J. Mac Donald, Tasmania; John H. O'Grady, United States America; J. O'Brien, Queensland; Mrs M. Penny, United Kingdom; Harry Parkes, New South WalesjMiss H. Reynolds, New South Wales; J. Rowe, New South Wales; H. Rutledge, Victoria; C. B. Sutherland, Tasmania; Mrs R. Wood, New South Wales; John Smith, United Kingdom. CHICK-REARING A PLEASURE. "It is a pleasure to rear chicks on 'A. and P.' Chick-raiser," says Mr H, Ledger, of Levin —the most successful breeder of high-class poultry in New Zealand. If you are not already using it, begin now; it is not too late. Obtainable from W.F.C. A., all branches.

The premises of the Masterton butchers were closed yesterday, the staffs of employees celebrating Labour Day yesterday instead of on Wednesday.

A meeting will be hsld in the Y.M.C.A. rooms to-morrow evening at 7.30 o'clock in connection with the Debating Society, to make all arrangements for the final debate and "wind-up" social for the oeason. All members ar-j requested to attend.

Aoplications for casual relief continue ti be made to the local Charita le Aid officials. Last week saw the largest number of casual applicants for a very long period. The number of persons seeking reliet in the Lower Valley is also reported to be very large. A Press Association telegram from Blenheim stares that an old man named Ohariea John Withey, committed .suicide yesterday morning by cutting his throat with a pruning knife. He was an okl-age and army pensioner.

Details of the expenditure and receipts .'f th-j State poultry farms submitted to Parliament last week are as fol! <w:— Ruakura £651 and £405, Mounuhaki £624 and £428, Buruham £742 and £452, Milton £1,259 and £498 The total expenditure was £3,276, and the whole receipts £1,783 Ogg's weather forecast for Now Zealand for this month does not make pleasant reading. The forecast predicts cold rain, with a cutting wind, and in elevated districts, terrific hail squalls and snowing heavily; seas running very high for a few days in all southern latitudes. Twenty-fourth to thirty-first: Continued cold and blizzards.

The demand for good dairy cows has been so great during the past month throughout the greater portion of the Hawke's Bay, Taranaki and Wellington provkces that it is believed that fully a thou&and more would have been absorbed flad they been available without materially affecting the prices that ruled.

As significant of the increasing popularity of golf, it is interesting to note from the annual report of the secretary of the Ladies' Golf Union (New Zealand branch) that last year there were about 350 players in the four South Island clubs, and 700 in the eight Noith Island clubs, and that at present there are 450 members in the southern and 750 in the northern clubs.

A very large number of keas have been.killed in the Wanaka district this season. The "Cromwell Argus" says that keas have done a graat deal of damage during the winter. On Mr T. Russell's Cattle Flat station one of the employees killed thirteen keas with stones in a few hours recently, Mr A. Cameron, of the Hunter station, secured over eighty this year. A private in the Millerton Rifles named George Brown, a coalminer, while marking in the butts at Millerton on Sunday, looked up over the mound while shooting was going on, and was shot in the chin. He was brought to Westport by a special train, but died on reaching the Hospital at night. The deceased was a married man with a family of three young children. Just befo-e the shooting he was cautioned by the captain of the company, who was marking in the butts, to be careful about exposing himself.

Our Socialism, after all, is rather a question of names than a question of degree, remarks the "Lyttelton Times." Sir Harry Atkinson was certainly more socialistic than was Sir George Grey, Mr Massey is probably more socialistic than is Sir Joseph Ward. Both the official parties have adopted "Socialism" as a term of reproach, without troubling to consider very carefully what it means, and now, on the ev3 of a General Election, they are both promising the public more "Socialism," under a different name, if they are given an opportunity to develop their plans. According" to the "Athenaeum," there is a new French poetic sensation in store for the literary world. Its Paris correspondent tells us that before starting for the country the Ducnesse de Rohan gave at her house in Paris an audience the chance of hearing the work of a mystic poet, an > unknown, styled "Humilis." The beautiful lines, which, we are told, claim a place by Verlaine's side, produced a sensation. They will be gathered next winter into a 1 volume under M. De St. Chamarand's care. All the French reviews, he prophesies, will soon be talking of the obscure genius whose reason is fading away in a lunatic asylum. Another melancholy document, it appears, for Lombrosa and his school.

It looks as if golf might be made "the issue," of the Presidential campaign, and as if the American voter may have to decide whether the candidate who plays golf is an autocrat and the candidate who does not go in for golf as a- recreation is a friend of the people. Recently a Chicago paper said that Mr Taft had been urged by many friends to go out among the people, as the masses had a prejudice against a candidate who spent his summer at "an aristocratic resort playing golf." Mr Taft frankly admits that he has received letters from people urging him to give up golf as being a "rich man's game" and "waste of time." Meanwhile Mr Bryan, who has probably jiever had a golf club in his hand in his life, keeps himself sound by superintending work on his farm, which, his opponents aver, he purchased expressly that he might be photographed in the part of a worker.

Get your piano where you can roly on quality and value. Hundreds of people are taking advantage of the Dresden Piano Company's time payment systems and shipment upon shipment of pianos and organs is coming in month after month. "The Dresden" with years of cxperionso, and a remarkable turnover, is over ablo to sell the best goods at the lowest market rate; But it is not satisfied with merely gaining a new customor; it aims at making another business friend— and usually does so. Now, with the Dresden Piano Company Limited, absolute quality is guaranteed. Every piano issued is perfect material and workmanship. This reputation is guarded most jealously. Where, for example, will you find better instruments than the Broadwood, the Lipp, the Eonisch, and the Stein way—they are indeed four great pianos. You should certainly either call on or write to the Dresden Piano Company Limited,Wellington,or you could see their Local Representative, T. B. Hxvuter.

The Auckland A. and P. Association intends borrowing £5,000 for the purpose of purchasing land and erecting buildings for winter shows.

A Press Association telegram from Westport states that Anders Andersen, who was falsely charged with the murder of Bourke, is suffering from epileptic fits, induced by mental strain. He has been unconscious since 8 o'clock on Sunday night. Two young men, says the "Ulutha Free Press," last week shot forty-fiv shags on the Pomahaka riv«r. -they receive from the Acclimatisation Society a bonus for each bird. It is stated jtba't it takes six young .trout of tw'size of a herring to feed a shag for one day.

The following is a tablo showing the entries for the forthcoming Spring Show of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society : Sheep, 461; cattle, 179; horses, 488; pigs, 36; dairy produce, 98; poultry, 149; dogs, 81; sundries, 359; grain, 61; grand total, 1,912. It is reported that a serious accident occurred at Ormondville on Saturday as the express train was leaving the station. A man was running to catch the train and attempted to board it while it was in motion, with the result that he fell under the carriages and had one foot completely severed.

The lambing season is one of the best ever experienced by farmers in the Geraldine, Temuka and Levels Plains districts -, (reports the "Timaru Herald"). High percentages are the rule, and owing to the extremely favourable weather, the death-rate is very low. One farmer, owning about a thousand ewes, has, so far, had such a / fins lambing, that he expects fully 150 per cent, from all his ewes.

Speaking to a Press representative, Mr T. B. Goddard, president of the Hawke's Bay r-reezing and Industrial Union of Workers, deprecated the action by those unionists who are in revolt against the Arbitration Act awards. "Such action,"he said, "is derogatory to the workers' cause, and has alienated public sympathy, a fact which is much to be regretted. The workers should remember that the court can make awards on the evidence submitted, and often has a most difficult task."

The Arbitration Court at Auckland has given its decision in the action against several lumpers engaged to work the steamer Victoria who failed or refused to work. The Court held that clause 11 of the award was not intended to impose any obligation on the mensto work, but to enable an employer to proceed wiih the work : when he had arranged for the propp.r number of men, and one or more of the men failed to appear to commence the work. The present case involved a breach of contract, not a breach of award, and the employers remedy was an action for damages.

Chinese traders in Eltham appear to be having a lively time just now. The "Eltham "the town was brought into disrepute by the persistent annoyance to two Chinese fruiterers, whose windows were tarred durirg the nierht. On Wednesday night a more audacious outrage was perpetrated, when both windows-of a Chinese fruiterer's shop in High Street were smashed. Several stones were thrown, some striking ironwork adjoining the window, and others going through the holes previously made in the panes. The nightwachman (Mr Jones) was at the other end of the town when he heard the crash (about 12.15 a.m.), and when he arrived on the scene there were no traces of the perpetrators.

Within the last few weeks there has been a rush ot people to the Victorian Lands Department.' who are anxious to obtain from the Government the right to utilise the grass trees —so long regarded as useless—which cover a large area of Crown lands in Victoria. The Lands Department has recently agreed to give a syndicate the 1 right to the gras» trees over 100,000 acres of Heytesbury country. This syndicate pro- • poses to use the trees principally for manufacturing alcohol to be used for industrial purposes. A local farmer (Mr J. E. Harrison, of Caiiyle River, Colac) is also negotiating with the department concerning a contract for tha use of grass trees. He has .taken out a patent for the extraction of varnish from them, and is endeavouring to come to an arrangement with the Government. He • says that he can . produce a gallon of . varnish, worth ss, from one grass tree.

Fifty years ago two hundred citizens of Auckland organised into two volunteer companies and offered their services.to the Government of the day as a force for local defence in case of need. Their services were accepted as "the Royal" and "the City" Companies of Auckland Rifle Volunteers, and after preliminary drill, carried on in the open air in the early morning„hours, they were sworn in and armed on November 15th and 16th, 1858. , The first-mentioned date is therefore that from which the volunteer movement in New Zealand dates, and the jubilee of the force will fall on November 15th next. In the year following the enrolment of the Auckland Rifle Volunteers the great volunteer movement of the United Kingdom began, su that Auckland has th'e honour of having anticipated the Home Country in arming its citizens for self-defence. It is proposed to fittingly celebrate the jubilee. WHi? [S 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, ft is always safe, reliable a.nd effective, and the dangers of irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off as Extract are avoided. A death was recently reported from the use of one of these concoctions and in an action at law a witness testified that lie suffered thai 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 sucl> 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, viz: THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EX* TRACT.

Since 1891 fourteen new Governf ment Departments have come into V- existence. The total number of Dapartments to day is 47. :■ of milk to the Newman ;:' \ shown a marked mng the past week. The areas follow:—Highest, <3.B;jtowest,, 3 * 3 * '"The ner Chelmsford reH tumed ? to Ais. 'kland from a cruise round tthfe Gre *t Barrier Island yeßterday'morninß • having found no • fqrther'tfanwe of , s wreckage from the Jmissing Locfe Lori. one?. The tdt»l numt er of troops of -all arms and ranks hi the Wellington military district is 6,529—a decrease ►of 49 since the previous month. The decrease is hardly woitii. considering, not because 38 of fcne 49 were but because the majority of •those cadets have simply left the district and are not lost to the forces •of the Dominion. The New South Wales Department *>f Navigation proposes to hold a marine inquiry as to the seaworthiness of the barque Loch Lomond when\he left port. The vessel left —Newcastle for Lyttelton as far back as July, and has not been reported since the day of sailing. In connection with the proposed inquiry the secretary of the Marine Board in Melbourne has been asked for information respecting the Loch Lomond's condition before she left Melbourne 'tfor Newcastle. He has replied to the effect that the vessel was in good •order and well equipped with all iwceisary appliance?.

'Ata general meeting of shareholders of the Wellington and Manatyatu Railway Company, held yesterday, the Chairman drew attention to the fact that the gross Revenue for the six months ending •on'.-.August- 31st /amounted to • .4183,272, as compared with £76,272 tfor the corresponding period 1 last •year. The nett profits for six months showed a substantial increase of •453,148 as compared with the nett' .results of operations during the / ;first half of last year. , The meeting ratified the action of the directors in /agreeing to sell the railway and pro-x jwrtyto the Government. A settler who has travelled through I teany of the districts in Ashburton -I .County has informed the "Guardian" j that the late sown crops are looking spindly and miserable, ; This, he says, ja particularly l_ noticeable in •c?opa that were sown when the soil "was in a sodden condition. He also ■learned that heavy frosts followed the sowing of late crops and caused the sodden soil to lift/andjn many ■ ■■'cases expose the seed. The greater part of the, crops, however, were sown early and under the most favourable cricumstances, and as an '' old traveller in. the county he cannot remember the argicultural and pas- ,; toral conditions having presented a more hopeful and encouraging ap- ■'■. pearance.

Dr Brown Victorian Superintendent bf Food for Export, states that therqis a shortage v f meat, not only in Victoria, but throughout Australia. / Cattle are being/trucked to Victoria from Hergott and Oodna•dalta, in South Australia. "Few ; farmers/- said Dr Brown recently, , v "make sufficient prdvision for feed- ' ' ing stock with ensilage; But for the storage bf SO,OCO tarcases of ' '* mutton, and 2,000 carcases of beef at *ne freezing works there might have been a great shortage during 1 Fleet week.. The retail price for rump 1 isteajc isnow 10d per Ik, and up to '' la is paid for prime cuts. Pork has < reached the very high figure of lOd, and legs of mutton Superb. These rates are higher v than any prices since i the early days. They exceed those ■on the London market "

• The "red series/' as the French newspapers call the daily list of murders and other crimes of violence , m Paris and the province, is not, as i -some optimists declare* a passing phade.; Statistics show that the tide crime in France during the last, thirty years has been steadily rising, i f'the figures having almost doubled in r 'that period. What criminologists regard as a most disquieting symptom is the enormous, proportional increase -of juvenile crime:- TJie proportion of murders and attempted murders on the part of young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one is ' 4.20 per cent, of the general volume »ot crime, as compared with 2 per \ 'cent, for all ages above twenty-one. "The bands of armed Apaches who infest Paris are for the most part ' > boys between the ages of sixteen ' *and twenty.; Between 1896 an 1905 Undiscovered crimes increased considerably, and it is estimated that ■ the returns for the, last year or two will be still more formidable. » Mr;F- P. Welch has vacancies for , -a jjushman and sawmill hands* • '' At the residence, Pine Street, this afternoon, Mr J. R. Nicol will ' w "~Vhdia ah unreserved sale by auction of -.furniture and effects on account of Mr Mildenhall, who is leaving Masterton, All O lines are practically ■ new and in good order. 'Mr W. Bagby, borse dentist, is at present in Maaterton, and these! " who desire to have their horses' teeth ■ examined can consult him at the Prince of Wales Stables till Thursday next. * " Smokers are recommended to try the' Edgeworth tobaccos, because they ar»; made from th© finest selection of .eaf, and combine strength * with delicate aroma. Messrs A. White and Co. have a full supply. Residents of Worksop and Columbia Roads, Hessey, Miriam, Keaton, ' Sussex and Johnston Streets are notified that the town water supply will be cut off to-day between the hours ■of 10 a.m. and noon. Mr J. Cliarlesworfch, architect, Wellington, invites tenders, to close at noon on Friday, October 23rd, for the erection/of bandng premises for , " the Bank of New Zealand, at Martinborougb. Plans and specifications are to be seen at the Bank of New '<■ Zealand, Masterton, and at Mr Charlesworth's office, Wellington. /' , Lovely clear skins are co-incident V'ith the use of "Icilma ; Fluor Cream." The I-cilma natural i water it contains cleans the pores, prevents •. and cures chaps; sunburn, roughness and redness, and gives a lasting sense of cool comfort. Icilma has a great sale in England, where it is regarded as the greatest face cream «ver discovered. Mr H. T. ,Wood, - chemist, of Masterton, is agent for :Sts sale in thisdistri^t.