LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3136, 12 March 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Mystery Flat Eredge is 41oz Bchvt for the week. »lhe classes in connection with the Masterton Technical School will reopen on Monday next, when the classes to be taken will be those in English and arithmetic. For the most part, the class nignts, will be the same as last year. s

Hares cease to come under the provisions of the Animals Protection Act in Otagu as trom March 4th. Pipiriki House, the well-known tourist hostelry, owned by Hatrick and Co., at Pipiriki, was burned to the ground on Wednesday night Fortunately it was a;i off tourist night, and very few people wt re in the house. The building contained about 100 rooms, and was a comparatively » new building. It will at once be rebuilt. There having been only one nomination for the Wairarapa Licensing Committee election, the following names have been submitted for appointment by Order-in-Council: — Messrs G. A. Fairbruther, Jas Brown (Carterton), W. Udy (Greytown), A. O. ConsiJine, (Martinborouj-h), and Allan Donald (Featherston). The first four named were members of the committee for the last term. I Reference to the poorly-attended nature of the annual meeting of householders to elect school committees was made at the meeting of the Masterton School Committee last evening. Members generally concurred in a remark by the Ssc retary that the Education Board did not nearly sufficiently advertise the meeting. The Curomitti.e decided to augment out of its own funds the meagre advertising of the mteting, which the Board considers sufficient. Mr J. Berry, of Masterton, who has of late ■ been shDwing excellent form on the running track, was successful in winning, the 75 Yards Handicap at the Gaslight Sports at Palmerston North on Wednesday evening last. Berry won his heat, and was f-econd in the semi-final, ' beating the well-known professional Morris, who was third. Jn the final, Berry, with a handicap of four and a-half yards, .raced away from the rest of the field, and won easily by three yards. The following are winners of points prizes at the recent Eketahuna Farmers' Union Show:—Mr florton's prize, value £1- Is, for most points in pot plants, cut flowers, fruit, vegetables and farm produce; Mrs A. 'Small; cookery and preserves, prize value 10s; Mrs Bray and Miss Bassett tied, and will divide; needlework, fancy work, etc., prize value , 10s; Mrs Waldin, Rongomai. Miss I Stuart wins a trophy presented by • Mrs Manson for the best lady rider. The collection of eggs by children numbered 9,156, and birds' heads 577. Mr Edison's long-promised new storage battery, which, if successful, wouli save a lot of money in laying down tramways, is about to be practically demonstrated. The new battery is not the device for automobiles which has been the subject of many premature announcements, but a battery for use on street cars. The inventor is satisfied that a car' will run a whole day without recharging. He expressed the opinion that the use of the new battery would revolutionise surface car traffic. He predicts that street car lines will employ none but cars equipped with the new batteries when he has demonstrated their commercial va|ue; the tracks will be without either overhead or underground wires or rails for the transmission of current, and comp sratively cheap staions will only be necessary, where the storage batteries may be charged after they have. exhausted their store of current.

In the Melboarr.c Divorce Court the other.day, Ernest John Taylor, a fireman on the Victorian railways, petitioned for a dissolution of his marriage with Ada Rebecca Mabel Gardner Taylor, twenty-seven years of age, principal boy in pantomime, on the grounds of desertion. The parties were married in January, 1901, and there was one child. There was no appearance of the respondent, who is known as "Mabelle Morgan," and is now in England. She visited Masterton as principal boy with the "Mother Goose" and "Humpty Dumpty" pantomimes. In granting a decree nisi the Chief Justice remarked that the woman apparently had more regard for her ambition to be an actress and for the pleasures of life than for home life and her hus- • band and chili The husband had apparently treated his wife well, and had done his best to try to get her to give up her stage career. He had appealed to her on his own and the child's behalf, but she appeared not to have any affection for either her husband or her child. writes to the-"Mel-bourne Argus as follows: —"Numerous requests for donations to different charities have already reached me. 1 am sure to receive many more. The exigencies of constant travel, my necessarily incomplete knowledge of local conditians, and the bewildering impasse created by an overwhelming correspondence, made it impossible for me to consider duly these several applications. The number ot concerts already arranged for my tour make it a physical impossibility for me to undertake any additional appearances on any pretext whatever. In any case, I wish to mark ray affection for the Australasian people by some direct personal gift, however inadequate, rather I than by a charity performance, which after all, is but a form of tax on the generosity of one's friends. I have therefore decided to meet the situation to the best of my abHity by donating I.OOOgs among the charities of the chief cities of Australasia, in the following proportion:—Sydney, £250; Melbourne, £250; Adelaide, £110: Brisbane, £110; Auckland, £SO; Christchurch, £SO; Wellington, £SO; Dunenn, £SO; Perth, £SO; Hobart, £4O; Launceston, £4O. Fair Paces Faireu.—Ladies troubled with growth of hair on face, neck or arms exn 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, Simburn, etc., and is a guaranteed cure for superfluous hair. Obtainable from 11. ".. Wood, Chemist, Masterton, for •1./b\ or send postal note direct to .Burnet, Hair Specialist. 46 j George Street, Dunedin (All parcels seat in plain wrappers), llemsley Burnet's Hair Rest/ >'er f w Grey Hair, 419. DISPEL YOUR DISCOEDS. Life's littl« worries can generally be removed by proper treatment. Nothing sweetens life so much as music does. Have a good piano in the house and you need never be lonely or dull. To get a good piano consult an expert. The Dresden Piano Company knows all about pianos and will be glad to advise you. It sells excellent organs, too. Terms of payment can be arranged to suit yourself. Local representative, Mr T. B. Hunter;

Marton is undergoing the experience of a water famine. Water is ; carted to the town and sold at a halfpenny per gallon. The bowling green is in ai> unfortunate condition, nearlyall the grass having been worn off. In the course of threshing operations on a farm in the Taieri last week there came to light what had, evidently been a deliberate attempt to wreck the machinery of the mill. In three separate sheaves there had been,placed large pieces of scrapiron and when the first of the sheavesstruck the drum of the mill a niece of iron concealed in it was thrown out. narrowly missing the head of oneof the men. The other pieces of iron were also thrown out unexpectedly, but fortunately struck no one. One or two of the beaters of the mill were damaged as a result of coming into contact with the iron. The consequences of this malicious action might easily have been very serious. There is trouble between the Wanganui Education Board and th? Electoral Department over the use of schools for the licensing election, reports the "Feilding Star." Sometime ago the board sent in a protest to the Government against schools being closed for electoral purposes in localities where other bulidings were available; but did not receive any satisfaction. Now the chairman of the hoard has notified the Chief Electoral officer of the places where halls are available in districts where it is proposed to use schools, and has intimated the intsntion of the board to refuse the use of the buildings. While the Electoral Act provides.for the giving up possession of the schools by school committees, it is questionable whether committees have the right to give up possession of schools during school hours without the permission of tne board. The matter it? now awaiting the attention of the Chief Electoral officer. Reuter's representatives has bad an interview with Dr. M. A. Stein, leader of the Indian Government mission to Central Asia, who reached London on January 21st last. Dr. Stein's series of expeditions in Central Asia involved t h ree years' travel and the covering of 10,U00 miles in some of the wildest ar.d bleakest regions of the earth's surface. Dr Stein supplied a lot of interesting particulars of his travels, among: which was the following :—"One uf our most profitable finds was the exploration of what has proved to be a treasure cave literally-crammed with ancient manuscripts, paintings, and other Buddhist remains. These had been .deposited and hermsticaliy walled up in a side chapel of a great Buddhist sacred cave. Here I found the whole of a large temple library, with other valued relics, which had been deposited there towards the end of the tenth centurv of our era, evidently to save them from the ened barbarous invasion, and which have ever since remained absolutely protected both against men and the ravages of the deaert. The manuscripts which are recovered from their imprisonment of centuries frequently dated in their ulae3t portions as far back as the first century after Christ, but, owing to the great mass of records, it was .quite impossible to ir.ake a thorough examination. The number of manuscripts exceeds 4,000, and as far as can be told, are approximately in about seven different languages."

An experienced married couple require a situation. A permanent lady boarder is required by an advertiser. Particulars at Arcadia Tea Rooms. The Wellington Education Bjard invites applications to fill various positions on teaching staffs under their jurisdiction. A property of 500 acres, only eieht miles from Masterton, suited for mixed farming, is advertised for sale by Messrs C. C. Ross and Co., estate agents, MastertDn. Nervoi cures toothache because it kills the nerve, and it acts like magic. It is prepared by Mr J. V. Gordon, chemist, Masterton, and is priced at one shilling per bottle. Mr Martin Buckly, machinery expert, is prepared to undertake work in any part of the district. Particulars are given in an advertisement on page 1 of this issue. Particulars of tha sale of household furniture and effects to be held by Messrs J. A. J. Maciean and Co., at their Perry street mart, on Saturday next, are advertised on paqre 8 of this issue, You make preparations for a rainy day, then why not for a,cold or attack of inllueuza? You don't need to make costly preparations- -riSUfcly invest Is Gd ma bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For sale by all chemists and 'storekeepers.