LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3047, 18 November 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Saturday night a young man named McCann was admitted to the Greytown Hospital suffering from a fractured collarbone, sustained through a fall from a bicycle. A little boy, son of Mr Cave, of Carterton, recently hurt his leg, which was jambed in a door, and swelling followed, and on Sunday last an operation was performed at the Greytown Hospital. Alfred G. Chatham, who had been arrested as a vagrant, was found in Che police cell at Rjtorua yesterday morning. He was ill when found at Pukerua Hiil yesterday, and said he had been previously ill, but he did i,ot want the doctor. He appeared baiter at midnight, when he was last seen alive. The deceased catna from New South Wales.

It is already reedgnised by Education Bear,? Officials that the new Education Act has immensely simplified the law relating to teacher's salaries. To protect teachers from sudden decreases of salary owing to drops in attendance, regulations of a somewhat complex character were necessary to cover all eventualities. Tiiese disappear on December 31st, and in their place will come a new set in which will appear details of the salary receivable by teachers in every grade. Special care is being taken by the Education Department to frame the schedule of salaries in such a manner as to show the emolument of any particular teacher at a glance. The Australasian Insurance and Banking Record, in an article on the banking situation in New Zealand, says: —" What.js really the matter in New Zealand is that production, at least in total value, has declined, that the expenditure "of the people has increased, and that a high range of values for property has been reached. To comply with every demand for increased accommodation would mean, under existing circumstances, a fostering of inflation, which would invariably be followed by losses. New Zealand has to increase its production and to spend less, and within a comparatively short time the monetary stringency which now manifests itself will pass away." Ten Chinese were charged at the Auckland Police Court "that "on Sunday, October 18th, at Avondale, they did work at their trade of market gardening." The men were not doing ordinary gardening, but pulling carrots for supplying a ship the next morning. They admitted that there had been a technical breach. Sergeant Hendry, who appeared for the prosecution, said that at Avondale there were European as well as 'Chinese gardeners, and the former were in .the habit of working six days per week. The Chinese had previously been cautioned, and he submitted that the Court should "show these aliens that they must cumply with the laws of the Dominion." The Bench fined each defendant £l, and gosts 13s.

Ladies from the Yvairarapa when visiting Wellington would be wise to nspect the grand range of New Summer Hats on view at Mrs Mathewson's. The styles are exclusive, the designs perfect, and the pricks right. Please remetffber that the address is Melbourne House, Lambton Quay (opposite 15a* 1 Vof New Zealand). Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy'"is the most successful medicine in the world for bowel complaints both for adults and children. Pleasant and safe to take prompt, in its action, and effectual in results. Foi\sale clie and storekeepers. m WHY [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. It is always safe, reliable and effective, and the dangers of irresponsible preparations which are now palmed off ab Extract are avoided. A death was recently reported from the use of one these concoctions 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 better than a tablespoon that kills, »nd 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.

A rumour appears to have gained currency to the effect that a very large number of the men, probably about 200 at present employed on the Mosgiel duplication works are to be paid off this month. Enquiry from the district railway engineer (says the "Otago Daily Times") shows that there is no foundation whatever for the statement as far as he is aware. Such a course oi ; action he considers is most improbable.

In a lecture at Feilding, Dr Mason said there was one microbe in particular which was making more havoc than any war—viz., the consumption microbe. There were many people dying every year from an absoiuteiy preventive disease, contracted through infection from spume. In England and Wales 60,000 persons died every year from consumption, three times as many as the tutal number of British soldiers killed in the youth African war; and in New Zjaland the deaths were 800 every year. "The man who cough? and spits upon the footpath," said Dr Mason, "ought to be put in gaol."

It is inteided shortly to supply for extendi practical trial, with a view to its ultimate adoptio.i in the military service in England, a new pattern of machine-made horse-shoe, whose marked feature will be its superior wearing qualitieo to that at present in use, involving in consequence a reduction in the number of times that horses require'to be shod. All horses in the Aldershot command will, for the next six months, ne shod with the present pattern on one side and with the new on the other, so that a record can be obtained of the comparative life of the two patterns. Pull counter sunk nails will be used with the new shoe.

According to .reports received at the Department of Trade and Commence at Ottawa, from Mr J. b. Larke, Canadian trade commissioner in Australia, Canada 's. trade with NSW Zealand is increasing by leaps and bounds (wrote the Canadian cprrespondent of the Christchurch "Press" on October 9th). Last year Canada sold to the new Dominion goods to the value of £205,536, as against only £52,374 in 1902. During the same period Canada bought from New Zealand £78,015 worth of goods, as against £7,366 worth in 1902. Of the imports from Canada, Mr Larke says :—"There is no doubt that they were very much larger than the figures show. To the United States are credited imports under a preferential tariff which, in almost every case, undoubtedly originated in Canada, otherwise the extra duties woulj have been collected. . The Canadian exports to New Zealand are undoubtedly 50 per cent, higher than the figures indicate," Art advertiser has for sale a quantity of tomato plants.

An advertiser wants to purchase a spring cart.

A special importation of ladies' footwear i? Wing opened up at the Boot Department of the W.F.C. A. Mr A. Crawford, land agent, Auckland, advertises particulars of a number of small dairy farms which he has for sale in the northern district.

A meeting of parishioners will be held in St. Matthew's Schoolroom at 4 o'clock this afternoon to make arrangements for holding an entertainment in aid of the Church Building Fund

On Saturday next, at the Post Office Auction Mart, Mr M. 0. Aronsten will sell by auction a large consignment of superior and wellassorted croceryware, carpets, curtains, general drapery and electroplated ware. The shipment is valued at £SOO, and is from the firm of Messrs McDonald arid Co., Warehousemen, Glasgow, and is well-as-sorted in every department. The goods will be opened up on Friday, and during tha evening a gas light display "will be made.