LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3105, 30 January 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Masterton dredge is -370z Briwt for 13(3 hours work. The Eketahuna Tennis Club will hold a tournament next Thursday, writes our correspondent. Several old-age pension Explications were dealt with by Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court. Masterton, yesterday morning. Twenty renewals were granted and seven new claims. No applicants were refused.

Whilst Mrs Dunstall and her son were driving home Wednesday the horse shied at some timber near the Newman bridge, writes our Eketahuna correspondent. The trap was capsized over the bank, but, fortunately, the occupants escaped injury. The three Magistrates who sat on the Bench «t the hearing of the Hutt Licensing petition, Messrs W. P. James and W. S. Riddell, *nd Dr. A. McArthur, S.M.'s, are conferring in Wellington at present nrior to giving judgment tu-day. This accounted for the presence of the Napier Magistrate, Mr S. E. McCarthy, at the Police Court at Masterton yesterday. A party of Masterton residents, consisting of Messrs Donald Donald, V., Donald, „ W. H. Cruickshank and N. D. Bunting, paid a visit on Thursday last' to the Wairarapa Lake and Palliser Bay. At Pigeon Bush they were met by Mr W. Barton, who took them over the Lake in an oil launch. On the return journey the party had a rough passage, and experienced a good soaking.

The opening of the new pipe organ at Knox Church jiext Thursday evening, by Mr Maughan Barnett, is nn event of considerable interest to residents of this town, and marks an item of importance in musical circles. The organ is by far the largest in the Wairarapa, and is said to be of specially high-class quality. Knox Church congregation is to be congratulated upon having placed such a fine instrument hi the Church. It is fully expected that the Church will be.- crowded next Thursday evening to hear Mr Barnett play.

For many months the ladies of Knox Church have been preparing tor a monster Garden Party, which is to be held on Thursday next at the residence of Mrs H. T. Wood, Victoria street. The arrangements will'be on an elaborate scale, and no trouble will be spared to make the afternoon a thoroughly pleasant one for visitors. There will be a large number of stalls and many new and novel competitions. The "May Pole," and "Crowning of the May Queen" by the children, who are being instructed by Mrs Kendall, will also be given. An orchestra will play a programme ot music during the afternoon.

A charge of using a ticket on the railway, the time for which hgd expired, was preferred by the Department against a defendant named Mrs Whittaker at the Police Court, at Masterton, yesterday morning. Mr C. A. Pownall appeared for defendant, and pleaded not guilty. The circumstances were stated by counsel to be that defendant had lost her own ticket, and having picked up a privilege ticket she tendered that to the guard on the train. After hearing the evidence, Mr S. E.. McCarthy, S,M., who occupied the Bench,, held that the charge was proved, and entered a conviction and fined defendant £l, with 12s costs.

A sitting of the Juvenile Court was held before Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at Masterton yesterday morning. Four boys were, charged with the theft of two dozen knives, a dozen forks, and five small locks from the pavilion of the Masterton Golf Club at Lansdowne. Two pleaded guilty and two denied participating in the theft. All were found guilty and convicted,, and ordered to receive six strokes of the birch rod. Thrae of the four accused were also charged with breaking telegraph insulators at Akura. They pleaded not guilty, but the Magistrate held the charge to be proved and imposed a penalty of 10s on each. The Magistrate gave the boys a severe lecture, advising them to abandon evil ways which they had embarked nn very young, and which might result in their committal to an industrial school..

The quarterly meeting of the Masterton Cemetery Trustees was held yesterday afternoon, the Trustees present being Messrs E. Feist (Chairman), R. K. Jackson, H. J. O'Leary, W. Sellar, and A. K. Bunny. The treasurer reported that receipts for the quarter amounted to £4B 12s and expnediture to £5.9 12s 2d, there being now a credit balance at date of £39 17s 9d. in addition to £39 17s 9d on deposit in the Building Society. The sexton made a report recommending various small works to be carried out at the cemetery. The report stated that eighty-six interments were made last year, against 79 for 1907. Mr D?vid Donald, of Johnstone Street, was appointed a Trustee in place of Mr Walter Perry, who resigned at the previous meeting. The meeting decided to apply to the Rorough Council for five hundred gallons of tar for flushing the cemetery paths. Tlie treasurer's annual statement showed that the receipts were £157 12s lid, and disbursements £205 lis 7d, the credit balance to Decevnber 31st being £l4l 7s 4d.

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To-day is the last day for making claims for enrolment on the Trust Lands Trust electors roll.

Mr C. J. Tocker will take the chair and Mr H. JVlcHat'ie will be the discussion leader at the meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Bible Class this evening at 7.30 o'clock.

The following teachers have resined from the service of the Wellington Education Board:—Miss Mead. Mrs Lock, Nikau; Miss Allen, lhuraua; Miss Bactersby, Pongaroa; Miss Tbwaites, Gladstone.

The Y.M.C.A. will hold a special men's meating at 5 p.m. to-morrow. The Rev. J. N. Buttle will give a short address, taking for his subject, "The man of the future, what has he to be?" This institution has now a fine orchestra. The strangers' tea is a special feature.

Mr Barrington Waters, advance representative for Mr Clement L. Wragge, the well known scientfie entertainer, is at present in Masterton making arrangements in connecton with Mr Wragge's lectures which will begin on Friday, February sth.

Mrs J. Edge met with a painful accident on Wednesday last, by which she sustained a fractured teg r writes our Eketahuna correspondent! Mrs Edge was alighting from a trap at her home ac Pleckville when the horse began to kick. Mrs Edge fell backwards and fractured her leg. Dr Chadwick is attending the sufferer.

The Kev. A, Hodge will lake for his address at the -Congregational Church on Sunday night a subject which is of considerable Interest to all parties at the present tim°, yiz, "Behold the Worker Thinks." This--13 the legend upon the banner carried at the head of some thousands of men on the occasion when Tom Mann was arrested.

A very successful meeting of ladies was held in the Buxing Hall yesterday afternoon, when a considerable amount of business was transacted in connection with the allotting of stsr!ls and appointment of stallholders for the Masterton South Band Bazaar, Another meeting- of the Ladies' Committee will be held on Tuesday next in the Boxing Hull, which has been kindly lent for theoccasion by Mr Whatman.

"We iri New Zealand lead the world in miny things," said Fire Inspector Hugo in an address to local firemen last night, "and one of the unfortunate things is m the matter of our annual fire loss. It is much heavier in New Zealand than in a great many other countries, and" is no way attributable to the inefficiency of the fire fighting organisations." The Inspector said he was ; investigating into the cajises leading up to this state of things.

Fire Inspector Hugo has been conducting a very thorough inspection of the Fire Brigade and Fire Police corps at Masterton during Thursday and yesterday. On Thursday night a false alarm was sounded by the Inspector's order, and last night a parade of both corps was held at the Central Fire Station. Here Inspector Hugo grave the men an address, and pointed out various ways in which the men could increase their efficiency. False alarms were, the Inspector said, good thines, even in large towns, as they brought on the probationers and showed wno were the most su'table men for actual fire service. The Chairman and Secretary of the Fire Board (Messrs O. Pragnelland R. Brown, respectively) were present at the address. Mr Pragnell, in a short speech, said that it was a good thing for the Dominion that the question had beentackled by the Government of putting the fire services of New Zealand into a better condition by the means now being employed. He considered Inspector Hugo was doing valuable work.

A number of miscellaneous charges were dealt with by Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning. Charles Dickens and Arthur Buckthought were fined 10s and 7s costs for riding cycles between sunset and sunrise without lights. On a similar charge John Fahey was convicted and discharged, the defendant pleading extenuating circumstances. John Kobinson was fined £2, in default seven days's hard lahour, for procuring liquor whilst prohibited,, a charge of drunkenness being withdrawn. Thomas Friend, for supplying liquor to a Maori woman,, was fined £5, in default seven>days, with ,i 9s costs. Walter Btingay, a cafe- • driver, was fined 5s with Ts costs t\r having his cab on the cabstand opposite the Club Hotel when the stand already iheld its full number of vehicles. M. Earnshaw (Mr C. A.

Pownall) was charged with allowing a dangerous dog to be ar large unmuzzled. He pleaded not guilty,, and the Magistrate upheld the plea, and dismissed the case, though Worship advised defendant to either destroy the dog or have it taken away. Wra. Heggie was charged with being on licensed premises during prohibited hours. Defendant traversed the charge, the police evidence being to the effect that; Heggie was standing in the doorway of the Central Hotel. The information was dismissed. Edward Groombrklge was charged by the police with keeping his shop open on a Sunday foir transacting business. Defendant admitted having sold cordials, and the Bench • held that such was not an offence, '"* and dismissed the case.

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%e skua-gu'l, W2 are told, says the Bluff correspondent of the "Otago Daily Times," is following on the c evil courses of the kea, and making sad havoc amongst the island flocks. His delinquencies have been speeidlly noted at Campbell Island. There he is understood to have relinquished

h$ customary seafaring pursuits and devoted attention exclusively to the -pastoral interets. No sooner does a ■sheep get down on its back than he is dawn upon it like a flash, pickiii g -out its eyes and otherwise assisting •it to a rapid despatch. As we understand it, this is altogether a new departure, and the probabilities are that we may hear more about it in the lambing seasons.

A well-known Napier builder, Mr W. Ward, in conversation with a "Hawke's Bay Herald" representative, emphasised the difficulties under which employers are placed by the

Arbitration Court awards, not so

much by the rate of wages fixed as by the different hours worked by various classes of workmen. "For instance," he said, "m my business, I employ men who are under five different awards. The carters work a week, the carpenters 47, the machine hancte 46, the plumbers 45, and the painters 44. The}, don't ;all start at the same time in the

irnrning, and they don't all have ■< he same interval for lunch. How to

keep the work going satisfactorily when all classes are employed on the same job is something of a poser to the average builder, and yet the public innocently uonder how it is we jre sometimes dragged before the Arbitration Court .for breaches of awa:ds."

A closing incident in one of the roost sensational events of New Zealand's financial history was enacted last week, when all" the books and documents of the old Colonial Bank, ■which had been stored in the cellars of what is now the Stock Exchange, building, were taken out and carted a vay to the parjer-mills at Woodhaugh to be converted into pulp, savs a Dunedin paper. Ever since the liquidation of the Colonial Bank, in 1905, these books and documents hive been the subject of very frequent litigation, and about two years ago the Supreme Court . ordered that they be destroyed. A suspension of this order was asked for by Mr Victor Braund, and a temp', rary suspension was made, but the order for their production and retention was cancelled again on ,Mr B aund failing to make good his case, a-id now the last has been heard of them.

At least one of the cowardly in • dividuals who ha«e been devoting annoying nocturnal attentions to the houses of the officials who stayed on the Proprietary mine, when the present trouble started, has been given a lesson he is hardly likely to forget, says the "Sydney Morning Herald." One of the officials who came out on "red Monday" became so exasperated at the annoyance caused his iamily, that one night he made up a bed behind his wood heap, and went to sleep with a gun, loaded with rocksalt, beside him. About mid•night he -was awakened by stealthy footsetps, and he saw & man with a crowbar or some such implement creep to 'his water tank and attempt to upset it. 'After making sure of the man's intention, the official took careful aim. and (fired. A yell of anguish followed the report of the firearm, and the man at the tank was next moment flying down the road af fast as his feet could carry .< him. The officiatl. it might be mentioned, has since left Broken . Hill with his family.; but has taken the precaution to hand over his house rent free to four of the best amateur pugilists in Broken Hill.

Whilst hathing at the sands at Tahuna, Nelson, a few mon,.ngs •ago, two young men had an exc-i'.ing adventure with a shark. Ruvir.g swum out a considerable distance from the shore one of the bathers raised a shout of alarm as a shark twice brushed him and continued to circle round his companion and himself. Both bathers kept their presence of mind, and splashing and shouting they eventually got into -about three feet of water, whence they commenced to wade. To their horror they found their assailant getting more aggressive, and the grey and black body, which was about Bft in length, circled very close in, and was plainly visible. Keeping their faces towards him, and splashing vigorously, they •reached a bank where the water was not more than a foot deep. They then lost sight of the shark, but on crossing the channel between the bank and the shore, they were again menaced, the shark approaching to within two or three feet. The splashing and shouting, however, appeared •to be effective, and the bathers reached the shore safely but utterly exhausted.

On the tree-planting prison camp at Waiotapu there are 50 men at work, and at Waipa 23. The men who are sent to these stations are generally selected from those who are serving fairly long terms, and against whom for some time past there have been no complaints. •Generally speaking., the m:n who have been given this privilege have, it is reported, justified their 'selection, and some, on the strength of the experience so obtained, have been given work by the Forestry Department at the expiration of their term of servitude. From the prisoner's point of view it is not a bad thing to go to the tree-planting. An ordinary inmate of a. prison who behaves himself perfectly can get a remission of one-third of hi 9 -sentence, not counting the first three months. If he plants trees he increases the remission to the extent of 26 days for every year he has to serve. Half a mile distant from Waiotapu i 3 a tree-p}anting establishment where convalescent consumptives from ,the Waikato Sanatorium, Cambridge, are at work. The ex-consumptives are given a fortnight in which to get into the way of things, and after that they have to do sufficient to represent a money value of 15s a week. Sume of them earn 10s a day. This camp is in charge of a matron, and indications are that it is serving a most useful and practical purpose. Messrs Hansen and Co, General Mer clan's, Shortland, Thames, N.Z., say—- " I'rom our experience in Felling Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Rem edy, we are satisfied that a few doses o£ it is SU'licientto cure anyone suffering from •colic, diarrhoea, or pains in the stomach.'' Sox sale by al l chemists arid-Storekeepers

As a result of something[less than eighteen months' work, the Victorian Licenses' Reduction Board, working under the new Licensing Act, has closed, in round number*, 200 hotels, at a cost of £IOO,OOO. average payment made in inspect of each hotel is about £SOO.

George Hclz, aged twelve, son of Mr Peter. Hoiz, of Clydesdale, near Singleton, New South Wales, was admitted to the Singleton Hospital last week suffering from a bleeding nose, and bled to death. Evidence was given that the bleeding bad been caused by* deceased being hit on the nose in play.

An advertiser desires to purchase a full-sized cilliard table.

Holiday excursion tickets will be available for the Feilding A. and P. Association.

A special meeting of the Stonehenge Lodge is called for Tuesday evening next.

Some excellent investments in freehold property are advertised for sale by Messrs C. C. Ross and Co., Masterton.

A first-class property in the Gladstone district, containing 300 acres, is advertised for sale by Messrs W. B. Chennells ar.d Co.

At Derby House, Victoria Street, this afternor.n, Mr J. R. N'col will sell the whole of tl e furniture and effects. Ihe various line* have only been purchased a few weeks, and are practically new. Everything will be sold absolutely without reserve.

A particular bargain in leasehold property is the heading to the advertisement inserted by Mr J. R. Nicol, of Bannister Street. Further information will be supplied by the agents to those seeking land suitable for grazing and cropping.