LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3018, 15 October 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Should the weather prove favourable to-day, the Masterton Bowling Club will formally open the season. The President (Mr J. M. Coradine) will provide afternoon tea.

Mr W. C. Buchanan will address the electors at Te Whiti Schoolhouse to-night; at Homewood Public Hall on Friday evening; and at Te Wharau on Saturday evening.

The Masterton South Brass Band will (weather permitting) play a programme of mt-sic in the Triangle, Queen Street South, at 8 o'clock to-night. All membtra are requested to attend early. A heavy fall cf snow took place on the Tararua Ranges on Tuesday night. The lower lying slopes were covered right down to the birch hills. Yesterday heavy rain appeared to be falling on the ranges. Mr R. Lee, Chairman of the Education Board, together with Mr A. McDougall, yesterday inspected the new school building at Pahiatua, and expressed entire satisfaction with the work as carried out by the contractor, Mr T. Howatt, writes our correspondent. The building will be completed and ready for use well undtr contract time.

At the annual meeting of the Featherston Bowling Club, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:—Patron, Mr A. Matthews; President, Mr J. 0. Bidwill; VicePresidents, Messrs W. E. Bidwill, and W. Barton; Treasurer, Mr F. Bladen; Secretary, Mr J. McKenzie; Committee, Messrs W. Benton, F. C. Everton, A. J. Toogood, A. Don aid, A. H. Knowles, S. Aitcheson, and G. Yule.

There is every prospect of the Martinborough Tennis Club having a very successful season. At the annual meeting on Monday last, the following officers were elected for the ensuing; year: -President, Mrs W. J. Martin; vice-presidents, Mesdames J. Martin, E. G. Harris, G. Pain and Mr A. 0. Considine; secretary and treasurer, Mr 0. Vaughan; committee, Messrs W. J. Martin, C. W. Lee, S. R. Gawith, G. A. Clark, H. S. Lewis, Dr Webb, and G. W. Cobb; ladies' committee, Mesdames Lee and McLeod, Misses Evans, Martin and MacKay.

The annual social of St. Matthew's Club was held in the St. Matthew's Schoolroom last evening. Rev H. Watson presided over a large attendance of members and their friends. The following toast list was honoured :-"The King." "Y.M.C.A.," "St. Matthew's Cricket Club," "Rev. A. M. Johnson," "Ladies/" "The Pianist," "New Members," "Chairman," and "Press."' Musical items were rendered during the evening by the following: —Messrs J. Berry, R. Hatch, F. Phillips, P. Bennett, N. Hewitt, H. Russell, C. Cole, D. La Roche and A. Miller. Mr R. Mcintosh played the accompaniments.

It may not be generally known by anglers in the district that under the Fisheries Conservation Acts there are certain restrictions in respect to the number of trout that may be caught in one day and penalties, etc., for any breach thereof. Regulations gazetted August 29th. 1907, provide:—Every trout not exceeding nine inches in length from nose to tip of tail taken or caught by any person sha'l immediately be returned alive into the water from which the same is taken; no person shall take or catch more than 20 trout or more than 201bs weight of trout in any one day; the penalty for breach of regulations shall not be less than 40s or more than £SO: if any person convicted of an offence against the regulations, the license (if any) held by the offender shall thereupon become void.

The latest in railway construction at Petone workshops is the sleeping car. Eight sleeping cars are in couse of building. Like the present "birdcage" carriages, these sleeping-cars comprise several compartments arranged down the side of one long corridor. They are capable of being fitted out with 20 bunks, arranged as in ship's cabins. Four of the compartments have each four berths, and in each of the remaining two chere is sleeping accommodation for two passengers. The upper bunk is formed by the swinging out of the back of the seat. The cars are, therefore, intended to be.used as ordinary firstclass accommodation during the day, and when night comes down the attendants have little to do to make them comfortable bedrooms. The intention, is to dispense altogether with blankets, and to provide sheets and rugs, which will be carried in lockers under the seats when not in use.

The Trustees of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society met yesterday afternoon. There were present —Messrs R. T. Holmes (chairman), W. Morris, John Morris, J. C. Ewington," and Mesdames Cairns and Kean. The Y.M.C.A. wrote inquiring if the Trustees would grant the Association permission to hold an evangelistic service at the RenallSolway Home periodically. The Trustees decided to grant the permission asked, and to make it general to all denominations, the services to be held on Sunday. A letter was received from a Wellington solicitor, on behalf of a client, repudiating any liability in respect of the maintenance of his brother's child at Masterton, and stating that he was unable to say where his brother was. A cheque for a guinea was sent, however, as a donation to the Society's funds. An ex-inmate of the Renall-Solway Home who had been in the Hospital, was re-admit-ted. A large number of cases to whom casual relief was granted during the month were enumerated, and the action of the Chairman and Secretary in granting relief was approved. The pay sheet for the month was adopted, the amounts passed being £32 , 3s 6J for general maintenance, and £24 6s 6d for RenallSolway Home.

Write to-day, if you are not contemplating a visit to Wellington, for a selection of the Daintiest Spring Creations, from 30s, each one a stylo of its own. Ready-to-wear in the Merry Widow and Miss Hook of Holland shapes from 15s.—AYLMEK'S, Millinery Specialists, 9 AVillis Street, Opposite Grand Hotel

Mr C. F. E. Livesay, Architect of Wet lington, has moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers, Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Office of the Bank of N.Z.) Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2692.

Mr Weightman, of Feilding, will judge the plants and flowers at the Featherston Flower Show. All schools in Otago containing three rooms and over are to have fire drill as a regular part of the school work. The mails which left Wellington on September 4th per the s.s. Maitai, and connected at Sydney with the Naples mails, per the R. M.S. Ormuz, arrived in London on the morning ot Ociober 12th, one day early. The number of co-operative workers employed by the Public Works Department in August was 4,058 (279 artisai.s and 3,779 labourers). The number employed by the Roads Department was 2,257 labourers.

A man named Henry Bailey, who obtained a ticket from the Sergeant of Police last evening for a bed and breakfast, was afterwards arrested and "WJb fou-'.d to be in possession of £122 10s. Bailey will appear at the Court thij morning on a charge of false pr-.tiHces. It is state 1 Ur.it fully 75 per cent *\f the pupils attending the technical schools in the Wanganui Education District are girls. The boys seem to show nu desire for education of the kind provided at such great expense, and the girls show interest chiefly in dressmaking and millinery.

The boy scout movement inaugui*' ated by Lieutenant-General BadenPowell has already been taken up in Dunedin. A party of boys to the number of about twenty has been organised into patrols, evening meetings having 1 already been held and preliminary arrangements made. At a meeting of the Manawatu A. and F. Association, on Tuesday, Mr Lancaster announced that the collecting committee had collected about £542 in Palmerston North and district and £IOO in Wellington, and another £SO was expected. Mr Johnston said that that amount exceeded by about £IOO that of any previous year.

The motor-car is a continual nightmare to the farmer. Every Council meeting affords now an opportunity for some strong talk by martyrs to the speed mania, states the "Manawatu Standard." At the last meeting of the Kairanga County Council the matter was again discussed, and it was decided to instruct roadmen to keep an eye on the re-cord-breaking chauffeur, and at the first opportunity make a public example of the offender. An unpleasant expedience befell Mr H. Humphries and his daughter, Miss Ethel Humphries, of Napier, on the journey from New Zealand to America (writes a London correspondent), for their luggage was most cleverly rifled on the way over, thuugh at which point is not known. A large trunk belonging to Miss Humphries was opened, and many of its contents disappeared, including six dre.ise3; the trunk was carefully repacked with the cardboard boxes which contained the dresses, and care was taken to retie each box with string, so that, to the eye, the,,trunk, on being opened, presented exactly the appearance it had when it was packed in New Zealand. The Customhouse seal, which was attached at Vancouver, was apparently unbroken, so that thfc travellers are inclined to think that the tnefc occurred on the voyage between Sydney and Vancouver, while it was in the ship's baggage-room. The rabbit question is the subject of a parargapb in the annual report of Mr. L. Birks, engineer in charge at Rotorua. He says: —'"'One of the most serious causes of the destruction of the pheasants encountered in the district is the custom of laying poison for rabbits. As long as this is done systematically, it will be impossible to stock the district with game. The relative importance of breeding game and of destroying rabbits is for other authorities ,to estimate, but it would appear possible to destroy rabbits just as effectually, and with much greater certainty as to the result, by offering a reward for their scalps, and by encouraging sportsmen'to shoot them, and trappers to build up an industry by opening up a market for rabbits. Such methods would be much more remunerative to the district, and would not be so cruelly fatal to the intei'ests of a sport on which to a considerable extent the success of Rotorua as a tourist resort depends." It is pointed out by Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, in his annual report that the results of three censuses in respect of the number of bachelors of twenty years and upwards, and spinsters of fifteen years and upwards, show some interesting features. In 1891 there was an excess of bachelors over spinsters amounting to 3,497 men. But in | 1896 not only had the preponderence iof the male element been lost, but an excess of spinsters over bachelors was reported amounting to 1,786 women, white in 1901 this excess had risen to 3,572 women. The cenaus of 1906 disclosed the fact that there was a considerable excess of bachelors, amounting to 9,633. An excess of bachelors was preserved in Auckland, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Marlborough, Nelson and Westland from 1891 to 1906. In Canterbury, however, an excess of spinsters was found in 1891 of 2,516, which increased to 3,997 in 1896 and to 4,918 in 1901, but decreased to 2,117 in 1906; while in Otago an excess of 773 spinsters in 1891 increased to 2,066 in 1896, *" diminished in 1901, when there were 1,899 more spinsters than bachelors, and again in 1906, when the number of spinsters* was 954 greater than the number of bachelors. TCHk? [S SANDER* SONS PUKE VOLATILE EUCALYPIT EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalypti Product? Because it is tho result of full experience, and of a special and careful process of manufacture. It is always sat'o, reliable and effective, and the dangers of irresponsible preparations which aro, now palmed off as Extract aro avoided. A, death was recently imported from the use of one of these coucoctious 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 as good as SANDER'S EXTRACT." Therefore, beware of sucb deception. Remember that in medicine a drop that cures is bettor than a tablespoon that kills, and insist upon the preparation which was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Viutoria, and by numerous authorities during the last 35 years, to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz:

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The Devonport Bowling Club hast been senaing round circulars to various institutions with regard to the proposed "alteration of the clock." It suggests that public interest should be awakened in the conserving of daylight by the altering of the clock. "Both our own and Imperial Governments have the matter before tham in the form of a Bill," says the circular. "My committee believe it is only necessary to excite the interest of the sporting and athletic portion of the community, and in a very short time the Bill in the Dominion will become law, and New Zealand will once again lead the world. The eve of a general election suggests itself as a peculiarly appropriate time to agitate the question, and a rapid advance might be mad« by questions being put to candidates as to their views upan the proposal. Many courses are open, and with the object of securing combination in their adoption my committee ventures to solicit the earnest co-operation of yourself and influential association." A good kitcbenman is required by an advertiser in our Wanted Goi j.in. An adverfcissr requires three boys to deliver pamphlots around town. Gas consumers reminded that to day is the last day on which discount will be allowed on current accounts. A very fine assortmant of getieral household furniture will be offered for «ale by Messrs J. A. J. Maclean and Co., at their Perry Street Auction Marc, on Saturday next. Messrs Dimock and Co., LtL. will receive pigs at Eketahuna on Monday, November 2nd, and at Mauriceville on November 3rd. Those in search of safe and sound investments in freehold property should carefully peruse- the list published en page 1 of this issue by Messrs Hipkins and Madili, land agents, Auckland.

Mr M. 0. Aronsten, of the Post Office Auction Mart, will hold a clearing sale of household furniture on Saturday next, on behalf of MrsBowden, who is leaving Masterton. Fifty pair of table fowls and also purebred poultry will also be offered.

Twenty-eight thousand acres of first-class bush country, situated in\ Hawke's Biy, is offered fjr sale byMr F. P. Welch, land agent.

Mr Jabez Bridges v*iM address the electors on the No Lican-se question at Mauriceviile 3ast on Wednesday, Mangamahoe on Thursday, and Mauriceviile West on Friday evenings, October 21st, 22nd and 23rd respectively.

On Saturday next, at the residence No. 94 Villa Street, Mr J. R. Nicol wil! sell, on account of Mr Jamoton, who is leaving Masterton, the wholeof his household furniture and effects. Particulars will be advertised tomorrow.

Mr W.'H. Long notifies in another column that he has disposed of'the Al Butchery Business, in QueenStreet, Masterton, to Messrs Butcher Bros , and solicits a fair share of public support to. his successors. Messrs Butcher Bros, are en-r*etic young men, wall and favourably known to the public of Masterton. They have had years of experience at their trade, and under their proprietorship the business is bound to expand.

What has b2coma a most popular outdoor game now in town and country is the gentle, yet scientific game, of Croquet. To those who have a small lawn, no better pastime can be indulged in. Messrs McLeod and Young have a special advertisement, wherein they quote prices for the various croquet sets they have in stock, imported direct from the makers. The prices are claimed to be exceptionally low, and the quality first-class. The public are invited tj call and see these goods.

That the interest taken in the forthcoming show of the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society is of a very practical nature is shown by the fact that most of the Ground Committee were present yesterday to assist in building additional cattle stalls to the already large number the Society possesses. In view of the fact that entries are expected not only in Shorthorn and Jersey sections, but in the polled Angus and Holstein classes, and from owners who have never visited the Wairarapa as exhibitors before, it only needed suggesting to make the necessary extra stalls.an accomplished fact. The Society can confidently boast of having unrivalled accommodation in the stalls, numbering over 100, for purebred cattle, and exhibitors from beyond the Wairarapa will find their every want supplied on the 28th and 29th October.

Intending exhibitors at the Ma.c£^ ■* r *M| watu Spring Show, Palmeraton fij North, are reminded that en hies for ir the horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry classes, and also for the Manawatu Kennel Club's Dog Show, close on Friday." Exceedingly attractive prizes and trophies are offered in the horse division, being as follows:—Ladies' Classes (exclusively), £54; Hunters' Competition (jumping) (gentlemen riders) three events, besides Challenge Cups, £9B; other horse competitions £26.; thoroughbreds, £l2; carriage horses, £2B; ponie3, £28:; saddle horses, £64; carriage harness horses, £55; draught and other classes, £143, making a total prize money of £508; besides a special prize of £lO has been donated to the Steeplechase event on the second day, making £45 for this event, and £SO is offered for the Big Hunters event on the Friday. All other live stock sections are equally well catered for. A free copy of the schedule can be obtained from the Secretary. Effervescent Saline, purifying, refresh- 4 ing, invigorating to all who suffer from ' ■' sickness, headache, sluggish liver, etc. Price, 2/6. H. T. Wood, Chemist and Pharmacist (by exam.), Masterfcon.* Mrs. S. H. Walker, 230 Humffray-st., allarul. Vic, writes: '• Have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for four years,and known it is excellent. Have found it most beneficial. Can recommend it to anyone. In fact have done so many times and it has accomplished good results in every case." For sale by all, chemists and storekeepers. CHICK-BEARIJST* 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.