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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Among several interesting games played on the Masterton Bowling Green yesterday afternoon was a challenge match tor the Grady medals between Lightfoot and Roydhouse (Carterton) and Rigg and Whittaker (Masterton), the latter winning. Trophy club games weru played as follows: —Champion singles, C. Perry ,15, Carpenter 11; Chapman 21, J. Hunter 17; J. Hunter 16, King 13.

The Executive of the St. John Ambulance Association Nursing Fund Bazaar are meeting with every encouragement. Mr R. O. Jarrett, the well-known physical cultural exponent, has intimated his willingness to assist, and Mr John Hunter, the proprietor of Dominion Hall, has expresseoVhis intention of allowing the Ladies' Committee the free use of Dominion Hall for the "sewing bee" every Friday afternoon and evening for the purpose of preparing goods for tho Bazaar.

The following civil cases were disposed of by default in favour of plaintiffs by Mr W. P. James, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court at Masterton* yesterday morning:—T. J. Porter v. Reginald Sherman, claim £29 13s 6d, costs £2 18s; C. E. Daniel! v. Henry George, claim £126 lis sd, costs £6 4s. Judgment summonses were dealt with as follow: —Keeling and Wynn-Williams v. John Tinsley, amount of debt £7 lis; no appearance of debtor, who was ordered to pay forthwith, in default seven days' imprisonment, order suspended for a month. Oates and Co. v. A. T. Spackman, debt £2O 4s 6d.: no appearance of defendant, who was ordered to pay forthwith, in delault twenty days' imprisonment, order suspended for a month.

Faik Faces Faibkk. —Ladies troubled with growth of hair on face, neck or arms can" permanently remove it by using "Violet Snow Cream." It acts directly on the hair roots, and destroys their life. "Violet Snow Cream" is splendid for Blackheads, Wrinkles, Sunburn, etc., and is a guaranteed cure for superfluous hair. Obtainable from 11. T. Wood, Chemist, Masterton, for 4/6, or send postal note direct to Burnet, Hair Specialist, 46 George Street, JDnnedin. (All parcels sent in plain wrappers), llemsley Burnet's Hair RestfTcr for Grey Hair, 4/1).

The annudl picnic of the Catholic parishes of Masterton, Pahiatua and Woodville will be held on the Newman Domain on Tuesday nex'.

By using a steam waggon instead of horses and drays, the Gisborne Borough Council has reduced the expenditure for the haulage of road metal by about £2OO a year.

The latest dredging return to hand is that of the Mystery Flat dredge—viz., 47 ounces 9 dwts for the week. The Company has declared a two shilling dividend, payable to-morrow (Saturday). The members of the Masterton Fire Brigade will meet at the Central Station for inspection and practice at 7.45 o'clock this evening, and the Masterton Fire Police at the Fire Police Station at 7.30 o'clock.

The man who discovered Cripple Creek, the world's greatest gold camp, and sold his claim for £125, is living on charity at Colorado Springs, and a subscription for his relief has been started. The camp has yielded £59,500,000 in gold since 1891.

Last evening, Constable Doyle, of Masterton, who has been transferred to Wellington, was tendered a farewell social. Mr Eli Smith, J.P., occupied the chair, and there was a large number of persons present. Several toasts were honoured, and an enjoyable evening spent. Constable Doyle, who will leave for Wellington today, will carry with him the best, wishes for his future welfare of a large circle of friends in Masterton.

The suggestion made some time ago that Mr W. F. Massey, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, should be made the recipient of a national testimonial, is assuming concrete form. At a numerously-attended meeting held in the Auckland Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday night, presided over by Mr F. W. Lang, M.P., it was decided to take steps to present Mr Massey with a national testimonial to be raised by subscriptions of a shilling and upwards, and to invite the co operation of all interested in the movement throughout the Dominion.

At the meeting of the Wellington District Land Board yesterday the Commissioner submitted plans and particulars of 28 sections in the Carrington. estate, to be offered on land for settlements renewable lease tenure for 33 years, which were duly approved. It was resolved to give the Commissioner general powers to allow of any persons under any section of the Land and Land for Settlements Acts, who have leases, or who are in occupation, having sections without competition, provided that they are eligible; as also any matters connected with any sales now pending. It was also decided to classify the land as rural land. The Horowhenua and Akitio County Councils forwarded proposals for the exDenditure of thirds accrued on a number of sections stated in the schedule. The amounts approved were £53 10s 7d and £519 lis 6d, respectively.

A case in which Wm. J. Rossiler, late boarding-house keeper at Cross Creek, sued Joseph Croelman for £l4 3s4d, rates due in connection with a house agreed to be purchased by defendant, an agreement later repudiated, and interest on amounts agreed to be paid to plaintiff under the agreement, or to Mrs Field, the original mortgagee of the premises sold. The facts as outlined by Dr. Trimble regarding the agreement were not disputed, and were that the house said to defendant' for £530 was situaed in Villa street, the agreement was made in December, 1907, and provided for the payment of £4OO to Mrs Field, £3O deposit, and £IOO by instalments to plaintiff. Mr C. A. Pownall, for Creelman, said the defence was that defendant had as an undischarged bankrupt made a contract he found he could not fulfil. On the evidence of plaintiff himself Mr Pownall contended tnat the. plaintiff was suing for sums he hsd not himself yet paid over. Rossi ter should hav ; paid the amounts first and sued in damages. Defendant had paid sufficient on the agreement, £67, to compensate for his use of tne premises. The witnesses W2re plaintiff himself and defendant, and Richard Field. Decision was reserved.

i The claim of L. J. Matthews, mail contractor, against the Adams, Motor and Cycle Co., Christchurch, for £25 damages for non-delivery of ! a motor-cycle alleged to have been 1 agreed to be delivered within three months from the agreement, came before Mr W. P. James, S.M., again at Masterton yesterday, the case having been adjourned from a previous sitting. Mr C. A. Pownall ■ for plaintiff wished to establish that an unstamped agreement between the parties did not constitute a contract, for the reasons that it was not signed by the defendants, and even if stamped Counsel contended it was not evidence. The agreement was put in as evidence at Dunedin, where, it was remarked by Mr James, the question of stamping should have been brought before the defendants, and either the agreement stamped by them or not admitted as evidence. His Worship said that the document, though not signed, was still evidence of the contract, which plaintiff could not therefore expect to prove orally. Under this ruling Mr Pownali paid the stamp duty under protest, the agreement being necessary for his client's case, and, on plaintiff's application, the taking of expert evidence was postponed until the next sitting ot the Court on February 11th. Mr A. R. Bunny appeared for defendants.

VVrii 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 fcho application to an ulcer of another, which was sold as "Just as good as SANDER'S EXTRACT." Therefore, boware of sueb 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 ast 35 years, to bo a preparation of enuino merit, viz: THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

It is more than probable that the Alhambra Theatre, Dunedin, will pass into other hands. Messrs Fuller are now considering an offer made by an American evangelistic society, who are forming a circuit of missions after the of the Central Mission in the principal centres throughout Australasia.

Those who know what a "smother*" is among sheep will realise how a Taihape Maori sheep-farmer named Pukuiche lost no less than 400 prime two and four-tooth ewes one night last week. It appears that the usual curse in a Maori Kianga, the übiquitous Maori dog, got to work at a flock of 500 ewes at night, and smothered 400 in a small swampy gully. The sheep were valued at 17s each.

"The increased attention that is being given to the study of dietetics/ says the "Dunedin Star," "brings home the conviction that flesh-eating is too prevalent in this part of the world, and fir that' reason the necessity for public produce markets is all the more urgent., In Dunedin the want is great, for in no other large centre in the Dominon is there such a dearth of greengrocers' shops. We are trying to eliminate the Chinese, but without him there would be an unpleasantly near approach to a culinary vegetable famine."

A runholder in the Povertj Bay district inserted an advertisement in an Auckland weekly newspaper a few months ago for a female cook and a nurse-housemaid. Applications were to be sent through a business firm in Gisborne. A few days ago, says the "Gisborne Times," a letter was received from two sisters in Bristol, England. They stated tbat they were aged 40 and 36 respectively, and had been in their present situations for 27 and 21 years. They were apparently tired of life in the Old Country, and were desirous of making a fresh start in a new land.

A concrete example of how some of the fern tiiid ti-tree land in Auckland, which so often is regarded as of little use, can be brought into proauciton, was furnished at the recent wool sale in the form of the clip from the Karaka Land Company's estate near Drury.. A few years ago this land was regarded as hungry soil, of little value, tut it has this season produced one of the best lines of wool offered at auction. The clip comprised 113 bale?, and the "getup" of the wool reflected every credit on the estate manager. Some really good prices were obtained, as prices went at the sale.

' A deplorable catastrophe, resulting in the loss of six lives, occurred recently on Calais sands, near the Casino. The unfortunate victims, who were excursionists from Paris, in company with local friends, had been wading on the sands barefooted. They went on to a little slippery stone jetty to search fjr mussels, when the heavy roiling swell caused by the passage out of the harbour of the turbine mail steanier Queen, on her voyage to Dover, caused all six to be swept off the jetty into the sea. Plucky effo; fes were made by several people to rescue the drowning people, but the backwash carried them so rapidly out to sea that it was impossible to recover them, and they sank, cryingfor help.

The "New Zealand Trade Review,"' issued yesterday contains the following article on the money market:— "The bank returns for the December quarter, which are reviewed in this issue, show, that the demands made upon those institutions have continued without appreciable diminution. Further withdrawals of deposits have taken place to the extent of £887,954 in the quarter,, almost entirely from the free class, while additional advances have heert made to the amount of £205,792. At the same time the total of Government credits has been reduced by £171,421. The calls to which the banks have rasponied reach thus, a total of over £1,275,000 in the quarter in addition to the heavy demands that were, made during the twelve; month ending on the 30th September, as recorded in previous, issues. We also give aome particulars of the loans raised by local governing bodies in the Dominion according to the latest returns published. These extend, it is true, only to the 31st March, 1908, but they show that in a twelvemonth ending with that date over £1,100,000 of local money had ] been absorbed by these bodies, while the amount so raised within the Dominion equals nearly £4,000,000 in four years."

I An advertiser has for sale near town six acres of land' with sixroomed house and outbuildings. The auction s'ale of drapery and clothing will be continued in Messrs Warnock and Adkins' Masterton premises to-morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock. The first term of the Girls' Collegiate School, Church Street, Masterton. will begin on Wednesday, February 3rd, The principal will be at home on Monday afternoon next, from o to o. Of the great piano makers*, there is always oni.i that oau be most safely trusted" to furnish the instrument required in any single ease. The Dresden Piano Company stocks the instruments of all the j;rent houses. Before you buy a piano, you will do well.to profit by the- Com-. pany's experience. And if you want to buy on easy terms, the Company will arrange the matter for you without any embarrassing conditions. In a ,wellordered house of this century, a piano is as iiecossary as, a sideboard. Local representative. Mr T..8. Hunter.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3104, 29 January 1909, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3104, 29 January 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3104, 29 January 1909, Page 4

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