LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3134, 10 March 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders were accepted by the Masterton County Council as follows yesterday:—Metalling Opaki Loop-line, M. Kerins, £22 10s; metalling Upper Opaki Road, F. Donovan, £3l 10s; paiming two bridges, Blairlogie-East Coast Road, G. W. Blane, £l6. Tenders for metalling AlfredtonWeber Road were held over till next meeting. Two days mid a half were occupied by Mr D. Guild (judge) and the Secretary of the Masterton A. and P. Association (Mr G. R. Sykes) in inspecting the stacks entered in connection with the best built grain stack competition of the Association. The fir.-it prize stack was entered by Mr F. Evans, of Upper Plain, who scored 92 points, Mr J. Kilmister, Taratahi, winning second prize with 88 points. The first is £2 and the second £l. Thera were nine competitors, the competition being splendid right through. Fair Faces Fahier.—Ladies troubled w.th 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 liair. Obtainable from 11. T. Wood, Chemist, Masterton, for -I/O, or send postal note direct to HVmisley Burnet, Hair Specialist, 46 George Street, Dunedin (All parcels sent in plain wrappers), Hoinsley Burnet's Hair Kest/rvr Grey Hair, 4/5). You make preparations for a rainy day, j then why not for a cold or attack of influenza? You don't need to make costly pre-parations--merely invest lsCd in a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

The following entries have been received forjtbe Maiden Chop in connection with the Alfredton Sports: T. Smith, C. Cross, T. Mills, J. Thrupp, A. Tagg, and J. Stead. The water question is becoming exceedingly acute in Eketahuna. and unless rain soon falls a water famine will eventuate. Already water is being carted and carried for household purposes. At a meeting of the Privilege Committee of the Masterton Racing Club held at the Club's office, Mr C. F. Vallance wap in the chair, and Messrs 0. Cooper, D. Caselberg, J. Maeara and C. A. Pownall were also present. It was decided to instruct Mr J. Nicol to sell the publican's booths and horse-yards on Saturday, March 20th. The Club resolved to keep the gates and to reduce the charges at the outside sates for pedestrians and passengers to Is per head. It was decided to engage Mr Clark to carry out the catering for lunch. A communication was received at the meeting of the Masterton County Council yesterday from the Auckland County Council, asking co-operation in united protest against the legislation pa?sed la3t session whereby public bodies were compelled to appoint the Public Trustee Sinking Fund Commissioner on loans thereafter to be negotiated. Tie letter was not very seriously discussed several Councillors, contending that the County Council was not greatly affected by such legislation. The letter was "received," on the motion of the Chairman.

Mr G. Laing-Meason, C.E., Engineer for the Opaki - Lansdowne irrigation an ] high-pressure water schemes, waited upon the County Council yesterday afternoon, and reported that the contractor for the headworks, Mr M. Kerins, was making excellent progress with the work, and proposed to still further accelerate the speed of the work. The river being very low just now was very favourable for the carrying on of the contract. Two tenders were received for No 2. contract of the scheme, involving the highpressure scheme, close tendering resulting. The Engineer's estimate was £2,714, and the tenders were: Messrs Burke and Buckley, £2,706. and Messrs J. and R. Scott. £2,770. 'lhe former was accepted. The successful tenderers are at present carrying out waterworks in the Featherston district.

At the sitting of- the Native Lan 1 Court in Grey town before Judge Edgar, one of the principal cases was that of th Wai-te-tuma Block Lower Valley, of 22,800 acres. Of the total area the owners of about thirteen thousand are desirous of selling their apportionments, and the sanction of the Court has been given in this direction. The matter will now come before the Native Land Board previous to the survey of the block being put in hand. For the past three years Mr Henare Parata has interested himself in this particular block of country with the idea of it being subdivided for settlement purposes, arid the fact of it having been brought up to the present stage is due in a great measure to his energetic work in connection with the proposals to place the land in the open market. Wai-te-tuma joins the famous Wangaimoana Estate, and principally comprises well timbered hilly country. Apropos of the dispute betwe en the Lansdowne School Committee and the Wellington Education Board re the appointment of a headmaster, the following significant letter has been sent to the Board by the Secretary of the Wairarapa School Committee's Association"At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Wairarapa School Committees' Association, tbfl matter in dispute between your Board and tne Lansdowne Committee was under consideration. I am to express t ie regret of my Committee that your Board should at empt to over ride the wishes not only of the Lansdowne Commjttee, but also of the people of Lanadowne, in regard to the appointment of a teacher, and should further do this in a manner which apppears to my Committee to be in contravention of the Education Act. A meeting of the Association will be held on the 24th inst., when the whole question of the app-int-ment of teachers, at present in a very unsatisfactory state, will come up for consideration." The officer commanding the Fifth Battalion (Ruahine) Wellington Rifle Volunteers, writes as follows: —"On Thursday, 11th inst., tn-j Wairarapa Companies of this Battalion, the Masterton. Greytown, and Carterton Rifle Volunteers, will he inspected by the Inspector - General (Colonel Daviesj at Carterton. The inspection is an annual one, and upon it is.based the Inspector's estimate of the year's work done by the companies. Some of the men have Thursday holidays, some Saturday holidays, some none at all, and attendance at any such function is always affected by the fact that on the particular day some men are at work. Volunteers spend very much more time and do more strenuous work than people imagine, and the afternoon of the 11th will be no holiday in the sense of amusement, but on the contrary will be an afternoon's hard work. The want of public appreciation of our efforts is our greatest difficulty, affecting as it does attendance, recruiting, and everything else, and I would enlist your sympathy on our behalf." Our correspondent goes on to suggest that it would be desirable if employers were to give men facilities to attend the annual inspec tion.

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Seats with high backs to them are to be provided for comfort of patrons to the Wairarapa Amateur Swimming Club Sports in the Park Lake to-morrow afternoon. The committee have triade very complete arrangements for the Carnival, and if the weather is favourable a splendid outing is assured. The ordinary meeting of the Stonehenge Lodge was held last evening, Bro. C. McGaughran, A.D., presiding. Bro. Nicholls, District President, was in attendance, and was received with the usual Druidic honours. One clearance was granted, and three candidates proposed for membership. Other routine business was transacted. At the Masterton Police Cou"t, to-day, before Mr M. C. O'Connell, J.P., William Higgins, with several previous convictions for drunkenness and vagrancy against him, was charged with drunkenness. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon on condition that he consented to a prohibition order being issued against himself. Accused agreed tJ this course being taken. The hotels to be closed from June 30th as a result of the Court's decision in the Ohinemuri licensing appeal number 14, and are as follows: —At Waihi: The Central, Sterling, Rob Roy, anrf Waihi. At Waikino: The Waikino. At Karangahape: The Tramway and Talisman. At Mackaytown : The Mackaytnwn. At Waitekauri: The Waitekauri. At Golden Cross: The Golden Cross. At Paeroa: The Commercial, Paeroa, Criterion, and Royal Mail.'

At yesterday morning's session of the Methodist Conference, the Kev. J. N. Buttle reported that last year the total income of th 3 Foreign Missions Fund from New Zealand and the Commonwealth amounted to £29,492 7s, and the expenditure to £31,057 4s 6d. Included in the receipts was £3,285 18s 5d subscribed for the purchase of two mission boats. The mission districts contributed £9,375 —a considerable advance on last year. New Zealand's contribution to the fund was £2,161. A highly successful concert was held in the Congregational Church, last evening. The chair was occupied by Mr H. Parkes. The fact that there was a large attendance showed that there was a genuine sympathy with the object of the concert, which was organised to raise money for the fencing fund. The programme rendered was as follows:—Duet, piano, Misses Hunter and Tooby; song, Mr Henry; recitation. Mr de Lisle; duet, Messrs Henry and Tooby; recitation, Mrs Tocker; dialogue, Misses Hodge, Redman, Hunter, Tooby (2), Green; song, Mr Nicol; recitation, Mr Kemp; solo, piano, Miss G. Tooby. The piano was kindly lent for the occasion by the Dresden Piano Company. A desperate tug of war between four men and an octopus took place the other day in the Lower Harbour, Duuedin. One of the men ou the suction dredge was taking soundings as the vessel steamed across to deposit a load of spoil from che "new cut" into the old channel close to the I Kaik beach. At one cast of the lead some difficulty was experienced in pulling it to the surface, but the leadsman thought only of floating seaweed until he found that the lead resisted his efforts to pull it on board. Looking over the side, he saw a large octopus had entwined two of its arms round the lead and line, and with its other tentacles was clinging to the side of the «esI sel. Another man came to the leadsman's assistance, but the united efforts of the two men failed to drag the lead and line from the embrace of the octopus. Two more dredge hands came along and fasi t.ened a boathook into the body of I the octopus but the combined efforts >of the four man were unequal to the task of pulling it bodily up the ship's side or getting the lead line clear. It was hard for four men on deck tu acknowledge defeat by an octopus down at the water line. There followed a determined onslaught that resolved itself into a life-and-death struggle for the octopus, but despite the iron hOok digging into its vitals the tentacles retained hold of the line and of the vessel's side. Suddenly the boathook came away from the writhing mass —the iron hook, half an inch in diameter, had snapped—the tentacles released their hold, and the octopus quickly disappeared under the bottom of the dredge. The men on the dredge estimated the arms of the octopus to be about nine feet long.

An advertiser has a vacancy for a lady boarder in a private family. The owner of a black and tan sheep dog puppy cautions any person against detaining same in their possession. The annua! meeting of the I W.F.C.A. Hockey Club will be held at 8 o'clock this evening, in the dressmaking roo-ns, Chapel street. Mr J. L. Murray invites inspection of new lines in hosiery at the Exchange liooms. New lines in gentlemen's hats are a special attraction in the mercery department next the Club Hotel. Mr P. P. Welch advertises for salt several cheap dairy and sheep farms, including a very nice 300-acre leasehold, considered a bargain at the price. An exceedingly cheap dairy farm in the Thames district is included in the list. Messrs Warnock and Adkin are now showing a splendid assortment of furs. These goods, the firm state, are being sold at marvellous bargain prices, and in view of the approach of the winter s-ason, with the consequent necessity for warm wraps, the public will no doubt take every advantage of the present opportunity to secure first-class l'urs at specially j reduced rates. j

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''Legislation, like medicine, requires to be taKen in homoepathie doses."—Thus the Minister of Railways in a speech at Queenstown on Friday night. For some time past the EducationDepartment has had an arrangement, with several of the hospitals in the.' Dominion for training Maori girls as nurses. Yesterday the Methodist, Conference at Wellington decided, that some means should be devised in order that the two deaconesses who were doing good service amongst the natives in the North island, should be enabled to take into training suitable young Maori women for future usefulness in social work amongst members of their own race. It is stated in Australia that two days after the boxing match between Burns and Jonhson tha latter went into a Sydney hospital with two. broken ribs. This is believed to have been caused by some hard blows Burns gave Johnson in the clinches. The information leaked out thi'ough. a doctor in Adelaide, who is a brother of the doctor in Sydney who attended Johnson. Burns has abandoned his theatrical venture. It is understood he will lease the Sydney | Stadium and promote boxing tests.

PERSONAL. Last week, Mr B. Carps nter, late of Woolwich, England, was married to Miss E. Jerry, youngest daughter of Mr A. Jerry, of Camp Corner, Featherston. The death is announced of the Rev.. T. E. Thomas, M.A., Methodist minister at Leeston. and' father of the Rev. T. T. Thomas, 8.A., of Dannevirke. Mr L. H. Lewis, who met with an accident at Fire Brigade practice a few weeks ago, being thus prevented from visiting the Auckland Demonstration, is still confined to his bed* Mr Lewis will be unable to take part in the Ambulance competition on St. Patrick's Day. Mr T. H. G. Lloyd, the well-known barrister of Dannevirke, has been confined to his house during the past few days by a slight accident to his knee. The injury, says the "Advocate." has aggravated a ' wound received by Mr Lloyd in his football days, and the patient has been ordered perfect rest in the meantime. Mr J. Ross, who is shortly going to Masterton, was the recipient of a travelling bag and rug at the annual meeting of the Dunedin Football Olub, says the "Dunedin Star." Mr H. F. Sincock made the uresentation,. stating that they were all sorry to lose the services of Mr Ross, who had been connected with the Club for about fourteen years, and who had acted as honorary treasurer for the last three years. Mr Ross responded, with a few well-chosen remarks, after which three hearty cheers were given. A pleasing little function took place at the Masterton Hospital yesterday, when the retiring Matron, Mrs Morrison, was presented with a. beautiful silver salver from the Trustees, in recognition of her valuable services. Mr Keith, chairman of the Trustees, made the presentation in a short, eulogistic speech, and expressed to the recipient tho Trustees' best wishes for he future happiness. Mr J. C. Boddingcon, secretary of the Trustees, replied on behalf of the Matron. At tha same function, Miss Roberts, the new Matron, was formally welcomed. The retiring District Road Engineer for Wellington District, Mr G. F. Robinson, was accorded a complimentary vote at th° meeting of the Masterton County Council yesterday. The acting-Chairman, Mr A. Murray, said that the Masterton County were gratified to Mr Robinson in many ways for his treatment of the Council. He had always giver* full consideration to any requests for grants made by the County, and his sympathy could always be relied on in a deserving instance. OtherCouncillors indorsed the Chairman's remarks, and it was unanimously resolved to forward to Mr Rooinson a vote of appreciation from the Council.