LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3055, 27 November 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest dredging returns to hani are as followMasterton Dredge, 430z 2dwt, for 148 hours' work; Mystery Flat Dredge, 660z 9d\vt, for 137 hours' work. The local option poll in connection with Wairarapa electorate is as follows: —Continuance, 2282; reduction, 1801; No-License, 2782; valid votes, 5101. No proposal was cavried. At St. Mary's Church, Carterton, yesterday, Miss Emily Hickson, daughter of Mr W. Hickson, of Waihakeke, was married to Mr W. A. Fisher, son of Mr J. Fisher, of Oxford, Canterbury. The Rev. Father Bowe was the officiating clergyman. The sale of work in aid of the Congregational Church Minister's residence fund concluded last evening,the sale also being held in the afternoon. There were large attendances on each occasion, and a very handsome sum will be realised as a result of the sale. The Arawa due at Wellington from London next week 5 s bringing 129 assisted passengers, 94 of whom are adults. Amongst these are 20 farmers, six farm labourers, and 13 domestic servants. One man has £4OO, and all the others have a little capital. A Theological Conference in connection with the Masterton Deanery (Roman Catholic) has been held at Pahiatua by some nineteen priests, telegraphs our Pahiatua correspondent, the object being mainly the instruction of the clergy on social and industrial questions, and their relation to the church. 1 Record entries are being received for the Mangatainoka Athletic Society's annual sports, which will take place at Mangatainoka on Boxing Day. Patrons of this popular gathering will be enabled to view the proceedings this year from an up-to-date grandstand which is in course of construction. There are twentyeight events on the programme, including dancing contests, and no less a sum than £BS will be distributed in prizes. Trains will stop close to the ground, and entry forms may be obtained from the secretary (Mr J. A. WaJsh), Pahiatua. A meeting of the Committee of the Masterton Thursday Cricket Association was held in the Secretary's office last evening. There were present—Messrs A. Caselberg (chairman) and A. H. Rothenberg, VV.F.C.A.; F. Welch and S. Aymei, Carlton; A. Thompson and J. Gray r Rivals. Votes of thanks were accorded to Messrs A. W. Hogg, A. Henderson, W. B. Chennells and A. C. Major for donations to the Association. A letter was received from the Wellington Wednesday Cricket Association, asking if the Masterton Association could send a team to Wellington to play a match on Christmas and Boxing Days. It was decided to request the secretaries of the various clubs to send in names of players who were willing to make the trip, and if a team strong enough could be arranged the match should be played on the dates suggested. A letter was received from the Carlton Club with regard to defaulters, and it was decided to deal with the letter at the next meeting. I i A meeting was held in the Masterton Borough Council Chambers last evening of all those interested in the holding of an aquatic carnival on the Park Lake on Anniversary Day" Mr J. C. Ewington was voted to the chair. It was decided that those present should form themselves into a committee to carry out the necessary arrangements in connection with the carnival. It was decided to appoint a secretary to be paid in accordance with the result of the carnival, and Mr A. K. Johnston was elected to the position. On the motion of Mr F. W. Temple, Mr John Hunter was appointed treasurer. An executive committee consisting of fourteen was appointed with power to add to their number. It was decided to appoint Mr F. J. Hunn as general supervisor for the sports. On the motion of Mr Daniel, it was decided to appoint a finance committee of three—Messrs F. W. Temple, E. J. Rose, and A. Haughey. The swimming and diving events on the programme were left in the hands of the Amateur Athletic Swimming Club to submit a programme of events to be approved by the Executive Committee. Messrs Levien, Taylor, Richards, H. Ewington, and Thompson, were appointed a committee to arrange all events on the programme apart from the swimming and diving events. It was decided that Messrs Rose, Temple, and Haughey, in conjunction with the Park Committee of the Borough Council, suggest suitable accommodation for the general public at the carnival. It was decided to hold another meeting on Thursday next to receive reports from the various committees appointed. WHY IS 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 as Extract are avoided. 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Mr Buchanan's actual majority , over Mr Hornsby, for Wairarapa. is , 136. There were 52 informal votes. The official returns are:—W. C. Buchanan, 2721; J. T M. Hornsby, • 2585. A pleasant afternoon was spent by bowleis on the Carterton bowling green yesterday afternoon. Afternoon tea was dispensed by the ladies. There were also a large number of players on the Club's tennis courts. Arrivals in the Dominion during October totalled 3,806, (2,495 males and 1,311 females), as against 3,590 for the corresponding month of last year. The departures numbered 1,904 (1,226 males and 678 females), as against 1,780. Mr Allan Campbell, of Pahiatua, write-; as follows:—"Can you tell me why the poll at Pahiatua closed at 6 ■ o'ciock (and the hotels did not open ti'l 7 o'clock), whereas in Wellington the polls did not close tili 7 o'clock." (This is apparently an anomaly.—-Ed. W.A.) The first meeting of the new • Pahiatua County Council was held on Wednesday afternoon, telegraphs our correspondent. Mr T. Hodgins was re-elected chairman. An appreciation ot the services rendered by Councillor McCarthy as acting-chair-man was unanimously recorded. The Pahiatua Racing Club stewards met on Wednesday evening, 1 and adopted the Programme Committees report increasing the stakes for the Pahiatua Cup to £2OO, and for the principal event on the second day and the Hack Hurdles, to £l3O and £6O, respectively, tele- [ graphs our Pahiatua correspondent. The total increase in the stakes amounts to £55. Messrs Langley Bros, were appointed caterers for the January meeting, and Messrs Naylor and Spriggins will have charge of ' the totalisator. A special general meeting of the members of the Masterton Trotting . Club will be held on Wednesday, 9th December, at the Trotting Ciub's offices, Hali Street, Mastertoi:. The , business will be as follows: To j confirm the following resolutions car- . ried at a meeting of the members held on Saturday, November 21st: —Moved by Mr A. Si.odgrass, secI ondrd by Mr J. Dixon, and carried, : "That the affairs of the Masterton Totting Club be wound up"; moved by Mr T. Porter, seconded by Mr G. 1 H. Yates, and ca-ried. "That to i facilitate the winding up uf the affairs of the Mafterton Trotting i Club, a levy tf £3 per member be made, payment of such Lvy to be due and paid on or before December 12th i next." During the recent by-election (states the Hokitika "Guardian") Mr Seddon announced on the authority of the Hon. Minister for Public Works that the Ross rail.vay would be opened next nifimh Exception was taken to this statement by some of his opponents as v being contrary to possibilities. Mr SedJon has had further communciation with the Minister in regard to the prorrrs?, and as a result the line will be shortly opened fo the Totara Bridge (only a few chains from the Ross Statio-'i). Mr Seddon, when in Wellington, will arrange for the opening prior to the Christmas season, so that the southern borough will have the benefit of the convenience in good time for the holidays. In connection with the foregoing, the "Grey Star' says that a number of Railway and Public Works officials, having paid a visit of inspection to the Ross railway works, after consultation, came to a decision that it would be expedient to carry the passenger traffic to Ross or as near thereto as possible within the next few days, and arrangements are being made accordingly. The people on the coast have long and patiently awaited the opening of the line as far as Ross. A sensational career has been closed by the death of Mrs Adelaide Kingscote, or as she was better known to the readers of her novels, "Lucas Cleeve." A novelist of no mean order, the multiplicity and variety of her financial embarrassments long caused "Lucas Cleeve" to be a notorious figure in the English courts. It was she who was indicated in a famous letter of Sir George Lewis's in "The Times," in which he referred to the open secret that a West End moneylender had long been advancing money to a married lady at 60 per cent, and that her entanglements had led her to put into circulation a forged promissory note for £20,000, an insinuation which was immediately followed by a threat from Mrs Kingscote to bring an action, which, however, was never commenced. "Lucas Cleeve" also borrowed large sums from Lord Bryon and two clergymen, and in the end was the means of their bankruptcy. Mrs Kingscote, who was a daughter of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, at*, one time British Ambassador at Madrid, and who married Colonel Sir Howard Kingscote, had a most fascinating personality, which to doubt was inherited from her grandfather, Joseph Wolff, a converted Jew, who is said to have procured, by hypnotic power, the release of the two British officers from the Khan of Bokhara. An example of the influence which she exercised over all with whom she came in contact is shown by the way in which she induced Major W. A. Adams to marry her sister-in-law to save the latter from bankruptcy. Major Adams saw the lady for the first time in his life on November Ist, 1904, and married her on November 7th, to divorce her five years afterwards. How often one finds a most imperfect piano in what would be otherwise be a well-appointed home. So frequently, too, that piano is quite past restoration. Money spent on it would be money wasted. Get it up to tune —it drops back. Give it tone or touch —neither ; last. Imagine the thoughts of your guests who are asked to play upon or listen to such a discouraging instrument, ' Not only that, but you don't do justice to the talent of even your own family. '• Get another piano at once. Communi- 1 cate with Mr M. J. Brookes, North Is- < land Manager, in Wellington, of the ( Dresden Piano Co,, Ltd. His firm will allow full value for the old piano, and equip you with a new one—a really line ] instrument, sensitive, responsive, triuni- . phantly superior in every single respect. . You can get it on time-payment, too, if yon wish—simply 20s or so each month, 1 until this roally fine piano has become ] your ".very own. Local representative, Mr < T. B. Hunter. t

r At the annua! meeting of the 3 . Featherston County Council, Mr A. . D. McLeod was elected Chairman . for the ensuing term. It is .stated that owhg to the exceptionally good season this year there will be a much greater per- . centage of lambs ready for the freez- ; ing chamber as compared with several years past. : The Feiiding "Star" says:—Tb.3 victory of MeF.sri N-w-nan and Buick mincer the w:i,,j . 0 f th • Coast ' fr ii the southern bjun iary of Palm- ! erston electorate right up to the Waitara river (with the exception j of the Wanga.iui patch) represented 1 in the House by Oppositionists, who are also farmers. The Wellington Post Office is issuing "homo savings banK safes." s Tr.ey are locked money boxes, and i can be opened only at the Post Office, i where the keys are kept. The • amount of the money is entered, ' when the sales are opened, to the "~— credit of the depositor in the Post Office savings book. ' A Pre3s Association telegram from Ashburton states that' although the i farming community has just come through a very critical and financially stringent year it has not prevented a large amount of business . being transacted in land sales. This has been clearly exemplified by the Ashburton branch of the National ■ Mortgage and Agency Company, who report that for the twelve months • ending October Ist they sold land iu a the total amount of over £258,000. , Mr John Smith Ritchis, an old as d ' pected resident of New Zealand, died on Wednesday at Wellington, states a Press Association telegram. ; The deceased, who was 69 years of 3 age, was a native of Arbroath, Scotland, and came out to Canterbury ' nearly 40 years ago. On the death ' of his wife in Christchurcb two and a-half years ago he removed to Wellington, where two of his sons , Messrs D. and J. Ritchie, are in \ business. For some time before his ' death he had been in failing health. 3 The King's Trumpeter, Mr W. i Short, who is now on a visit to ) New Zealand, does not altogether - like the manner in which band c«»n----3 test judges are boxed up in this part : of the WGrld. "Iheyarenot so sus- • picious of you at Home as they are out here," he said, "for they don't i lock you in nad make you pass your judging scores out under the door as I had to do in Australia." He did not mind being put in a tent out of i sight of the competing bands, but he did object to having a key turned on ; him. At the Auckland Police Court 1 Wednesday CulUu, Rowe and Moorish, printers, were charged with having i printed a leaflet regarding Mr Glover's candidature without their name and address being attached . thereto. Defendants admitted a breach of the Act, but pleaded that the leaflet was a biography of the , candidate, and that his name being on the face of the leaflet was [ sufficient. The Magistrate said that . he believed that defendants deliberately took their name off the leaflet because they did not wish people to know that they prit ted them for Glover. He fined defendants five pounds. In these days when one hears so much of the advantages of Australian farming as compared with New Zealand, it is refreshing to come across an instance of the effect cf capable management and knowledge, states the "Manawatu Standard." During tfit past week Mr D. Howie, of Pohangina,. has shorn a line of 4tooth Romney-Lincoln cross ewes which have not only an average of II Jibs of wool, but have also 116 per cent, of lambs. The weight of wool is a record fur'the Valley, and perhaps a much wirier area, whilst the percentage of lambs is also very much higher than the ave:age this "eason. Tho clipper ship Mersey,, recently acquired by the White Star line for the purpose of training officers, and now on her voyage of instruction, has reached Sydney. The Mersey made a run of eighty days from Liverpool to Wilson's Promontory. Captain F. W. Corner, R.N.R., who is in charge, was commander of Devitt and Moore's former training ships Harbinger and Macquarie, under Lord Brassey's scheme. More recently he went into steam, and was master of the French liner •Norfolk. For the first time in the history of Sydney there were last week two British training ships in port—Devitt and Moore's famous ship Port Jackson and the White Star clipper Mersey. Monday,. November 16th, stood out pretty nearly, if not quite,, a record in connection with the Australian wool trade,, the offerings set down for that day in the three principal markets amounting to over 50,000 bales, South Australia easly leading with record catalogues of no less than 37,600 bales, states the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." The value of this wool, [taken at an average of £l2 per bale, represents no less a sum than £600,000, or equal to a leturn of close on 6s per head of the population of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Queensland, the four contributing States. All the wools were not sold during the day, but nevertheless such a possibility is an object lesson for the world at large to read, and goes to show how vast the Australian wool industry might become with a larger population. The Masterton Borough Council elsewhere notify that they have appointed Mr George Morris to the position of keeper of the Masterton Public Pound. At the Masterton Auction Mart, tomorrow, Mr J. R. Nicol will sell, on account of Mr C. Savage, who is leaving Masterton, the whole of his furniture and effects. Particulars are advertised in this issue. The Masterton Borough Council elsewhere invite tenders for the installation of an electric fire alarm system, in accordance with a specification, upon deposit at the Borough offices, which are open to the inspection of tenderers. Messrs W. B. Chennells and Co., land and estate agents, elsewhere advertise full particulars of a 62 acre dairy and cropping farm. The property is one of the bargains in the district, and intending purchasers should make a point of ..consulting the agents. **_ iSS* .»».«■■;