LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3086, 7 January 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Ambulance Saturday" for Masterton this year was fixed by the local Division of the St. John's Ambulance last night for the last Saturday of next month (February 27th).. Last year the collections were made en March 14th.

The following team will represent the Tararua (Carterton) tennis club in a match against Masterton on Saturday next:---F. C. Bunny, J. L. Bliindell, T. E. Maunsell, H. A. Bunny, R. W. Roydhouse, A. F. Foote, B. Booth, J. Steel, F. Kissel, and Sid Seivers. A Masterton visitor t* the Bush districts states that he had thd pleasure of visiting an up-to-date milicingshed lately when X2 cows in full milk were disposed of by a man and two boys with the aid of three milking machines in the satisfactory time ot one and a-half hours.

The changes of personnel recently decideJ upon by the Stock Department in the Masterton office staff took iplace yesterday, when Mr R. F. Crosijie took up the position of head clerk, Mr E. A. Farrington, who vacated the position, leaving for the Wellington office yesterday. Now that stacks are going up in all directions, dotting the agricultural landscape, it may be timely to remind farmers that the Masterton A. and P. Association will hold a competition for the best built grain stack—a utility competition which deserves the support of every up-to-date farmer. Entries will close on the 20th February.

A large slip yesterday in the Manawatu Gorge prevented the morning train from Palmerston North coming through to Woodville. The mails and passengers were brought through by train from Woodville. The slip was cleared in time to enable the ] o'clock train to get through. The rivers are all high as the result of the last three days' heavy rain, but there is no fear of flood.

At their last meeting the Fernndge School Committee passed a unanimous vote of thanks to Mr and Mrs R. E. Graham, of the Upper Plain, for their tangible expression of interest in the Fernridge School Cadets. Mr Graham has generously donated a silver medal to be awarded to the highest scorer of the above corps, all ranges to count and no handicaps to be used; whilst Mrs Graham has "presented a liberal cash prize for the runner-up in the above competition. A GOOD START IN LIFE Is what the " Gilruth " Calf Food gives your calves. It is celebrated throughout the Dominion, and solves the problem, " How to raise calves successfully without whole milk." It replaces exactly the fats taken out by the separator. Obtainable from W.F.C.A., all branches.

A case of scarlet fever is reported at Kokatau.

During the month of December there were three births, two deaths, and two marriages in Featherston.

Entries for the Gladstone spurts to be held on January -22 nd will close with the Secretary (Mr S. Dalgleish) on Saturday January 9th.

Reports received by the Agricultural Department show that the potato blight ha 3 not been much in evidence this season.

It is understood that provisional approval has been given by the Government to a loan lor water supply in Eketahuna, writes our correspondent.

Orchard robbing is reported to be taking place occasionally in Masterton, youths being credited with making nocturnal raids on more than one fruit plantation.

The tests for the week at the Rongokokako Cheese Factory have increased all round as compared with the preceding week, writes our Eketahuna correspondsnt. The highest test was 4.1 and the lowest 3.6, the average being 3.78. Government officials have been busy at L.)ijgbu 3 h procuring young stags to sund away to different parts of the Dominion for stocking purposes. Seventeen were caught in all, tais beir.g all to be taken from the locality this season.

■ Knox Sunday School will resume on week, after ,the| holiday vacation. The choirmaster, of the Church (Mr R. J. Young) to commence with the practice of anniversary music for March as soon as tha school re-op ins. The export of timber from the side stations hag decreased very much recently, writes our Eketahuna correspondent. Though the quantity railed from Eketahuna has been larger for the last thre" months than for any like period for the last ten years.

The whole of the foundations for the new carbonizing plant for the Masterton Gasworks are now put down, and a commencement is to be made immediately with the erection of the walls. • The new works will make a substantial block of buildings when completed, and will be a conspicuous landmark in the vicinity of the station.

Some of tne farmers in the Mangatainoka Valley have had some difficulty in crossing the river during the recent heavy rain, writes our Eketahuna correspondent. For the convenience and safety of farmers and their families, at least two light traffic bridges are required in this district, as most of the farm houses on the west side of the Valley are over the river from the road.

A large number of persons attended the sale of sections in Sydnay Johnson'sJjMokoia Estate, near Woodville, held at Woodviile yesterday. Only two sections were r ,sold under the hammer, one at £26 and the other at £25 per acre. The reserve on the bulk of the land was considered far too high. After the sale two other small sections were sold at the reserved pries—viz.,.£2s per acre.

Druing the Christmas and New Year Weeks rain and wind in the Forty-mile Bush has been varied by wind and rain, writes a correspondent. No less than 5.18 inches of rain have fallen in the fourteen days to date (Jan. 5), while all out-door engagements have been, i* not peremptorily cancelled, at least seriously interfered wi>«\ Many farmers have sustained considerable losses through their inability to harvest their hay, while the wind has played havoc with grass seed crop 3. As a result of this unusual rainfall, lowlying lands have become scenes of miniature lakes. Pastures are especially fresh for this time of the year, while mushrooms abound in every field.

The following is the drawing for the. first round of the Grey town Tennis Club's ladies singles competition for Mr Irotmar/s trophy:— Miss Humphries owe 10, v. v. Miss Spring 5; Miss Z. Humphries owe 5, v. Mrs Wigg 5; Miss E. Bicknell scr. v. Miss Tocker 10; Miss Mitchell scr. v. Miss Hawker 10; Miss Murray scr. v. Miss McDonald 10; Miss McMaster scr., v.. Miss Baillie 5; Miss Haigh scr., v. Miss Usher 5; Miss Freeman 5, v. MissUdyls; Miss Webster .10, v. Miss Miller 15; Miss L.Webster 10, v. Miss Hayes 15; Miss E. Gallagher 10, v. Miss Orr 15; Miss Robinson 10, v. Miss H. Gallagher 10; Miss R. Humphries 10, v. Mis 3 N. Robinson 15; Miss Donald- 10, v. Miss Wendan 15; Miss Kennedy "10, v. Miss R. Beard 15.

Regarding the bazaar proposed to be held by the Masterfcon Division of the St. John's Ambulance Association in connection with the raisina of funds to encage the services of a district a-id Plunket nurse for working among the poor of the di = > trict, the Division decided last evening that the two local Superintendents (Mr A. Donald and Miss Gillespie) be appointed to wait upon the Mayor m regard to calling a public meeting. As thejjmovement to procure a nurse for sick people was considered to be closely allied with church work, and as the nurse is to devote herself to assisting all the poor of the district irrespective of creed, it was unanimously resolved to invito all the churches to equip a stall at the bazaar. ft is hoped to net £SOO from the bazaar, an amount which the Association believes will easily be raised with the assistance promised, and that Jikely to be forthcoming. WRY IS SANDER* SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRAC'I 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 t>f 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 such 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 j ast 35 years, to be a preparation of | enuine merit, viz .- THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE: EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, i

The estates of no fewer than seventy deceased persons were placed in the Public Trust Office for adr ministration during December.

A peculiar mishap occurred to a large load of pressed straw that was being driven along Bannister street, nn a lorry last evening. The straw,, which evidently was not securely fastened on the lorry, slipped, and the whole load with the exception of one tier which the driver was sitting, on fell to the ground. Had the remaining tier fallen it is almost certain that the driver would have been killed.

An unusual number of have been noticed on the country roads in various parts of New Zealand. One station in Marlborough) on the main road to the south has been visited lately by an average of between twenty and thirty "blueys", every night. The average at this' time of the year used to be ten (says the "Marlborough Herald"). A person travelling on the North Island 1 railway the other day counted twenty:swaggers on the road in the space of. half an hour. The appearance of such a l?rge number of swaggers is. said to be due not to real lack of. work so much as a sudden from the large centres.

The Lighting Committee ot the Eketahuna Borough Council have adopted the plans for the electric light power-house, writes our correspondent. The building is to be. built in brick, the external measurements being 58 feet by 42 feet, divided into four compartments—viz., produce and engine-room 40 r 34, battery room 29 x 20, office 10 x 10, store room 10 x 10. The building is to be erected on the reserve at th% Frrkville Bridge, which is central between Pantville and Eketahuna town. A separate lead will be used for each place, and as all the business, premises are on the Eketahuna side,, this should make for economy in loss. ot power.

The following extraordinary sequence of events is reported in the Melbourne "Argus":—Two agents, while doing business with a Bejteh farmer,' o~pied a mob of geese, and thinking of Christmas dinner prrchpsed one. In the rounding-up process to catch the goose the noise a"d excitement frightened the farmer's horse, which, attached to a for*wheeled vehicle, was tethered to a post. It pulled bar':, and thD wirkers came off. The agents jumping ro stop it, left the buggy pair which they were driving. These took fright at the commotion, a-id skr* bolted, one of them kicking vet y badly. The upshot was that tha single hon-j and trap pulled uo a mile away unscathed, while the agents' vehicle was hung up in a boxfrcs, ve.*y badly smashed about, and when their noises were captured the only bit of harness left was one colter...

A Canton correspondent sends to the Sydney "Herald" some curious instances of the quaintness and severity of mourning ceremonies in that city arising from the recent Imperial deaths, white cloths and ' lanterns lettered in black are suspended on all city gates, street entrances, and elsewhere. Everything of red has been converted into mourning hues of black or blue. It has been decided that all officers must continue to wear white for a pericd of twenty seven days, and they must not participiate in feasts for one hundred days. Commoners must dispense with tassels on their hats, and females must doff all jewellery. All marriages and music are prohibited for a month, and there muse be no shaving of heads for one hundred days. The regulation is causing a famine among barbers, many of whom have closed their doors. Schools have been suspended for a certain number of days, and the publication of newspapers has been forbidden for a period. A rewar.l ia offered for the r;i.urn of a loss terrier pup. An owner is require:] for a collieslut found on the Upper Plain. An advertiser requires a situation as gardener, or generally useful. A seven-roomed furnished house, is advertised to let on vei-y advantageous terms. Tenders for the erection of an electric power house are invited by the Eketahuna Borough Council. Mr H. A. Jones, architect, invites tenders for additions and alterations to a residence in Johnston street. Messrs Mitchell and Griffith, Ltd., will seli at their Pahiatua Mart on Saturday next, fruit, farm produce, uigs, poultry and sundries. A handy little property of 22\ acres is advertised for sale by Messrs W. B. Chennells and Co. Only £IOO cash is rtquir^d. Particulars of a number of sound investments in freehold property, which Mr W. Inglis Husband, cf Pahiatua, has for disposal, appear elsewhere. A notice in refertnee to a special meeting of the Masierton Borough Council for the purpose of deciding the statutory closing day under the Shops and Offices Act appears in another column. On Saturday next, Mr M. 0. Aronsten, cf the Post Office Auction Mart, will sell on behalf of Mrs Wheelman, the whole of her furniture and effects, absolutely without reserve. Sixty cases of assorted fruit will also be offered. Suitable and ufeful articles for wedding presents embrace carvers, fish knives and forks, fruit knives and forks, and cutlery sets. Mr Frank Dupre has a splendid assortment in his Masterton shop, and they are very reasonably priced. Messrs J. Graham and Co. announce that their great summer sale will commence on Saturday next, January 9th. The whole of the stock has been submitted to sweeping price reductions, and bargains will be obtainable. Elsewhere in this issue Messrs McLeod and Young have something to say with regard to 1909 diarie?, typewriters' supplies and office requisites. The firm keep large and up-to-date stocks of these lines, and the prices are the same as that charged by city firms. Lines not in stock are quickly obtained, and the requirements of clients ere made a special study by the firm..