LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In connection with the subscription list opened at the Age office, on the suggestion of a Carterton resident, f.«• the fund in aid of the widow and child of Shunter Leonard Knight, who was killed at Masterton railway yards about a fortnight ago, we are pleased to record a donation of £5 from Mr W. Howard Booth, of Carterton, who writes to aay that he considers the case a most deserving one. Mr W. H. Hawkins, >ol Pahiatua, has also forwarded 10s towards the fund, expressing the hope that a substantial amuunt will be realised for such a worthy object. We shall be pleased to acknowledge further subscriptions to ths fund, which, as the two foregoing donors state, is in a thoroughly deserving cause.

Last night the members of the Y.M.C. A. Debating Society spent a very useful evening in analysing the issue of the Wairarapa Age of yesterday morning. Faulty advertising was criticised and "catchy" advertisements complimented. Each member also gave his views on the questions of vital interest contained in the cable news. Next Monday night each member is to bring to the meeting six words with their derivation, and ask any member in the room to spell them. The Society is endeavouring to work on lines of solid improvement all round.

The serious illness of Mr C. A. Pownall is likely to cause the postponement of the hearing of the License Party's petition in connection with the Masterton Local Option Poll, which is to come on at the Masterton Courthouse tomorrow. It is understood that Mr P. L. Hoilings, for the respondents (the No-License Party) will not stand in the way of an adjournment, if ifc is applied for on the grounds of Mr Pownall's indisposition.

An enjoyable social evening was spent by members of the Endeavour Lodge, 1.0. G.T., in the Dominion Hall last evening. Mr J. McGregor occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance. An excellent programme of vocal and instrumental items was provided. Songs were 3ung by Miss Jones, Messrs Morris, Collins, K. J. Young, J. Nicol, and Niven and Moorshed (duet); Miss Church played a pianoforte solo, Miss Allsworth gave a recitation, and Mr Retter a violin solo. Interesting addresses were delivered by Messrs J. McGregor and J. Heyhoe.

The seventeenth annual sports gathering will be held at Homewood on Boxing Day, when a programme of twenty-three events will be presented for competition. These annual sports meetings have in the past been most successful gatherings, and the committee anticipate that the sporis to be held next Boxing Day will be a record, both as regards the attendance of the public and competitors. The programme composes a particularly interesting and varied class of sports items, and in addition there will be numerous side events for the children. Entries will close on the ground.

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. A death was recently reported from the use of one of 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 stub deception. Remember that in medicine I 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 ast 35 years, to be a preparation of enuine merit, viz: THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. " I

A case of scarlet fever has broken out in Carterton, the patient is a little girl of about 12 years of age.

For the convenience of patrons Messrs McLeod and Young will keep their premises open every evening except Thursdays until Christmas.

A shock of earthquake was felt at about a quarter past 11 o'clock on Sunday night at Featherston, Greyton and Carterton.

Sneak thieves are said to be roaming the city of Wellington. Several instances ot pocket picking have been reported to the police.

For the four weeks ending Ist December, the Featherston Co-oper-ative Dairy Company paid £2,093 10s 9d to its suppliers. Out of this amount four suppliers drew over £IOO each.

William for vagrancy, received a sentence of a month's hard labour at the Masterton Police Court yesterday, a first offender being convicted only for insobriety. Messrs G. Heron and J. Cross, J'sP., were on the Bench.

Hawks are very numerous about Morison's Bush just now, and have been the cause of much destruction amongst young chickens. One resident had two broods, numbering eighteen chicks, killed by the hawks, and several residents have lost various small lots.

The Featherston Gun ;Club held three sweepstake competitions on Saturday. The following were the results:—Twelve bird sweepstake: T. Skipage (20yds), 27, first; C. Skipege (11yds), 24, second. Twelve bird sweepstake: M. Hyland (14yds) and C. Burt (15yds) a tie with 24 each. Six bird sweepstake: M. Hyland (16yds), 15, firdt, and C. Skipage (12 yds), 12, second. The following handicaps have been declared by the handicappers for the race to be held in the Park Lake on Thursday evening next (December 17th), at 6.30 p.m., by the Wairarapa Amateur Swimming Club:—W. Darvill and L. D. McLean scr, V. Gray lsec, S. Dixon, J. Winchester, F. MacDougall and A. Falkner 2secs, R. V. Hosking, M. Olds and D. Loader 3sec, T. Burns 4sec, H. von Keisenberg 6sec. The Education Board has accepted the following tenders for works: Mauriceville, Smith and Sons; Gladstone, T. Barker, Gladstone; Waingawa, D. T. King, Carterton; Wharau, A. R. Wallace, Carterton; Pirinoa, A. Taylor, Martinborough; Belvedere and Ponatahi, A. R. Wallace; Matarawa, H. Humphries, Greytown; Martinborough (including erection of two rooms and alterations to a third), W. > Maxton, Greytown. The Auckland City Council has received a copy of the plan of the famous Ruapekapeka pa. The donor was Mrs C. S. Ruck, who stated in her letter to the Mayor, conveying the offer, that her father, Captain Atkyns, was prominent in the taking of the stronghold. Although the relic was a cherished family possession, it had occurred to the writer that it might be acceptable to the City Council.

The Christchurch Boys' High School Old Boys' Fooball C ub has set on foot a movement to raise funds in order to establish a memorial of the late Mr R. G. Deans, one time a famous footballer. For-tbaliers throughout the Dominion are being •canvassed for subscriptions for tbe memorial, which is to consist of a tablet in the High School and a Robert Deans Memorial Scholarship.

As a result of the action of the Fiji shippers of bananas in boycotting Dunedin, the Auckland merchants are reaping a harvest. Over 1,000 cases of Tongan bananas, ex Atua, have been sold up to 12s 3d per 9in case in Dunedin, and Fijian purchases from WeJlington have been sold to arrive at 16s per case. The Dunedin fruiterers are boycotting Fijian pines, and are buying Tongans.

The Wanganui hotelkeepers evidently intend "setting their house in order." Some time ago a decision was arrived at by the publicans that they would serve no one addicted to excessive drinking. A list has been prepared, and the persona concerned have, so to speak, been warned cff the course. A.t a meeting on Friday the names of some additional people, who are not prohibited, but who waste their money, were added to the list.

The weather in interior Otago has been very erratic of late, says the "Mount Ida Chronicle," the ther mometer ranging from 130 to freezing point. During the last week the district has been visited by hot, scorching winds, warm and cold rain showers, and finally with a fall of snow, showing the mountains in their winter garb. Frost, wMch invariably follows snow, blackened the potato crop, and nipped the flowers and fruits.

Very f ew dairymen in Australia, and not many more in New Zealand, where the climate is milder, rug their cows in the winter. One farmer in Victoria id reported to have tried the rug last winter, with extraordinary results. He first rugged one cow, and was so surprised at the result that he had to go over the tests again and again before he could believe it. His books now show that whereas the cost of his nutter in winter without rugs amounted to lid a pound, with rugs it had been reduced to 6d.

Following on the very prolific growth of grass practically everywhere in Otago, there has been nothing like the scarcity in stock that was anticipated some months ago, and as a result the Dunedin butchers nave been enabled to reduce practically all items on their list, with two exceptions, from a halfpenny to one penny per lb. Fat cattle are making very good prices, \but in the case of sheep, the unfavourable reports from the Home market have had a weakening tendency on the local market, and have caused sheep to fall in price. The name of AYLMEE'S, WiJlis-st. Wellington, is synonymous with perfection m the art of Millinery. Ladies write for a selection on approval. Designs by every mail from the leading London and Paris houses. i Effervescent Saline, purifying, refresn. ing, invigorating to all who suffer from sickness, headache, sluggish liver, etc Price, 2/6. H. T. Wood. Chemist and Pharmacist (by exam.), Masterton.* I

One of the steam shovels engaged", in work on the Panama Canal recently lifted out a quantity of dynamite, which is described in an official report, as being "more than a bushel." What would have happened if the shovel had struck the dynamite instead of the earth around it is easy to imagine. The cartridges were of French, make, and bore the date November 2nd, 1887.

An advertiser wants to purchase an English setter puppy.

Mr F. P. Welch has vacancies for hotel hands, cooks, milkers, and station hands.

A new list of specially reduced lines now being offered at Messrs Warnock and Adkin's clearing sale will be found in the Wanted Column in this issue.

Mr W. H. Cruickshank advertises particulars of a 200-acre farm, held' under lease in perpetuity, which it is proposed to sell as a going concern.

Particulars of a first-class property of 1,000 acres near Whangarei are advertised by Mr A. Crawford, estate agent, Auckland, who has the property for sale. On the property are 50 acres bush and 300 acres of rich coal bearing land.

•' At the residence, No. 63 Cole Street, this afternoon, Mr J. R. Nicol will sell the balance of household furniture on account of Mrs R.. E. Howell. The two hundred lines to be sold are contained in diningroom, passage, and three bedrooms.

Mr G. H. Goodall reports a successful sale of drapery on Saturday last, when the bankrupt stock of drapery and clothing in the estate of Mrs Carrick was submitted at auction. Judging by the parcel-laden, people that emerged from the premises good business was being enacted. Mr Goodall sells again on Wednesday afternoon, also on thefollowing Saturday.