LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3157, 7 April 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wairarana Age will not be published on Good Friday. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at Wellington at 7.30 p'clock on Monday evening last. Two weddings, in which considerable local interest is being taken will be celebratedfin Masterton this week. ~ During the past year, the Musterton Borough Council crushed 4,980 cubic yards of metal, a work that indicates busy operations for the year. Keen interest is being taken by children. attending the Masterton District High School in their' branch j of the Navy League, and the membership has now reached one hundred.

Good progress is being made with the work of consolidating the loose metal in Upper Cole Street, the Borough steam roller being used for the purpose. At the present rate of progress the work should be completed at an early date.

The Masterton Bowling Club will hold a oairs tournament during the Easter" Holidays for which entries will close with the secretary at Messrs Rollings and Pragnell's. office, at 9 o'clock, to-morrow night. Ladies are reminded that a physi-" cal culture lecture and demonstration under the auspices of St. John Ambulance Nursing Guild will be given by Mr R. O. Jarrett in the Dominion Hall, this evening, at 8 o'clock. Dr. J. A. Cowie will ,take the chair.

The mayor, Mr P. L. Hollings, desires,to acknowledge with tharks the following subscriptions in aid of Hope-Jacobs memorial: —Mr P. L. Hollings, £1 Is, Mrs J. Caselberg £1 Is, J. Fayton, £1 Is. Further amounts will be acknowledged as received. 6 >

Golf players are practising enthusiastically on the Lansdowne links in anticipation of the opening of the season on the 17th inst. The club has definitely decided to engage the services of Mr Clements, of Wanganui, as a "coach" for players, and he will arrive in Masterton on the 15th inst. Mr Clements was the winner of the Open Golf Championship in New Zealand last year. The Ruamahanga River was in high flood yesterday—in fact, the river was higher than it has been for a number of years. The river overflowed its banks, and did considerable damage tu fences, etc. The new stop bank erected last year at the eastern approach to the Ruamahanga bridge at Te Ore Ore was tested almost to its utmost capacity. The Wangaehu river was also in very high flood, and was flowing over the road in several places.

The fortnightly meeting of the Stonehenge Lodge, U.A.0.D., was held last evening, Bro. C. McGaughran, H. 0., presiding. The resignation of Bro. R. G. RusseU. V.A., was accepted with regret. It was decided to allow Bro. J. R. Cole's trophy for elocution to be competed for at the next installation night. Bro. J. P. Smith, P.D.P/, was presented with a handsome P.D.P. collar and diploma. District Bro. Nicholls and Bro. Roydhouse, of To*ara Lodge, Carterton, w*re accorded the usual Druidic honours.

The following temporary promotions have been made in the Masterton Rifle Volunteers for the currency of the military manoeuvres at Oringi at Easter:—QuartermasterSergeant A. O. Levien to act as Transport Sergeant; Sergt. Perry to act as Colour-Sergeant; Corpl. L. Prentice to be acting Sergeant; Lance-Corpl. Scales to be actingSergeant; Private E. Munn to be acting Sergeant; Private C. Munn to be acting-Corporal;. Private W. Williams tojbe acting-Corporal; Private F. Boyle to be acting-Corporal; Private W. Hornblow to be actingCorporal. The following are the handicaps of the Masterton pedestrians who are competing at the Palmerston North snorts on Easter Monday next:—loo Yards: V. M. Richards. J. JH. Berry, 4yds; W. J. White, R. McKenzia, syds; E. Toobey, 7yds; P. H. Holmes, C. Ellers, 9yds. 220 Yards: V. M. Richards, J; H. Berry, 10yds; R. JMcKenzie, 13yds; E. Toobey, 14yrls; C. Ellers, 16yds; P. H. Holmes, 17yds. Sheffield Handicap —l2O Yards: J. H. Berry, V. M. j Richards, 6yds; W. J. White, R. McKenzie, 7yds; E. Toobey, 9yds; P, H. Holmes, C. Ellers 11yds. 440 Yards: J. H. Berry, J. Johnston, W. J. White, 25yds; E. W. Toobey, C. Ellers 30yds; P. H. Holmes, 35yds. 120 Yards Hurdles: R. McKenzie. owes 6yds; C. Ellers, scr. Walter Edward Beere, who was arrested on a warrant at Timaru, and remanded to Masterton on a charge of obtaining board, to the value of £lO 9s from James Reed, boarding house keeper, under false pretences, appeared at the Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs E. G. Eton and R. Brown, J's.P. Sergeant Miller asked for a remand until the next sitting of the Magistrate's Court, which application was strongly opposed by C. A. Pownall, counsel for accused, who pointed out that the case came within the jurisdiction of the Bench. ! Further, counsel objected to his client being kept in custody until the case could be heard by a Magistrate. Mr Pownall also took exception to the police conducting the case, when the information was laid under the Justices of the Peace Act. Mr Reed, who was present, stated that on account of the short notice he had received he had had no time to engage a counsel, and, moreover, his chief witness was absent. Mr Pownall said that Mr Reed had had the same opportunity of erga*ing counsel as his client. The case was eventually adjourned for hearing until this morning, bail being allowed in one surety of £5.

By a Gazette extraordinary members of Parliament are asked to meet on Thursday, June 10th. There are a good number of deerstalkers in the Maryborough district at the present time, some forty licenses having been issued at the' post office there. A social under the auspices of the Ahiaruhe Sports Club will be held on April 14th. The aj'vsngements forthe social are mo. c complece and. frorn present indications the gather-- [ ing should prove a great success. A man, named Smith, an employee of Messrs Kebbell Bros., of Alfredton, who is suffering from rheumatic fever, was brought to Masterton, last evening, by the 8.30 o'clock train from Eketahuna. He was conveyed to the Masterton Hospital in the Ambulance brougham;. The arrangements for the social and dmce to be held in the Clareville Hall on Thursday evening next, are such as to ensure the function being a great success. An energetic committee have the arrangements well in hand, and a large attendance is anticipated. During the arrest of an inebriate in Queen street, last evening, some hooting was indulged in by a section of the crowd which had quickly gathered. As a result a young man was placed under arrest, and he will be called upon at the Police Court, this morning, to answer a charge of inciting a prisoner to resist the police in the execution of their duty. [.Unclaimed letters tor the following persons are lying in the Masterton Post Officer—John Donald, Miss Emsrie. Mrs A. Hodges, Miss G. Langridge, E. Livermore, Jas. P. McAllister, Robt. McArthur, Alex. MacLeod. W. E. Taylor, Mrs Editfc

Taylor, H. H. Whittington, United Kingdom; Stuart McHale. United States; Joseph P. Brice, Donald Cameron, P. F. Hickey, Stephen O'Dea, C. Williamson, New South Wales; Miss A. Power, Queensland; M. Rodgerson, Queensland; Mrs L. Knight, South Australia; Mrs S. Davis, Tasmania; D. Hailing worth, E. Notley, A. Pringle. Miss Annie Reid, R. Waugh, Victoria. The appearance of a fine stag at Manaia yesterday caused a mild excitement among the settlers resident in that locality. The animal came from the direction of the Waingawa river, and passed through the propeties of Messrs J. Montgomery and J. Billington, and then made for the river again. After traversing along the bank of the stream the stag plunged into the river which was in high flood, and reaching the shore disappeared in the direction of Penrose station with lightning speed. It is surmised that the animal was on the Masterton side of the river when the flood occurred, and wandered down the stream seeking for a suit-r able place to ford.

Michael Byrne, who was fined at the Police Court on Monday last, for insobriety, appeared at "the Court again yesterday morning, beforeMessrs E. G. Eton and R. Brown, J.'sP., to answer charges of using obscene language and resisting the police in the execution of th*ir duty. Sergeant Miller stated that k when arrested by Constable Urown, waa intoxicated, and had made use of disgusting language when being arrested. It was with great difficulty • that he was lodged in the "Jock-up."" As far as he knew, Byrne was a hard working man, but seemed to get intotrouble when he came i.ito town. The Beich imposed a fine of £1 on each charge, or in default seven days' imprisonment, and ordered accused to< leave the town as soon as possible.

"The wife of a famous New York newspaper proprietor is wearing thisyear," says ' the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail," "a full-lenpth and very voluminous: coat of sable, with a large muff, cape, stole and turban to match. These represent an outlay of £7,000. In gloves. New York <somen are tremendously extravagant The correspondent listener] to a young lady ordering in a fashionable shoo a pair of driving gloves of sealskin, costing £l6O. Winter hats cost from £SO to £BO, and stockings are frequently purchased at 12 guineas a par. Js it any wonder that, as a thoughtful American said to me recenty, one longs to equalise matters in the great city, and feels almost an anarchist when at one corner is a luxurious carriage, in which a pug dos, with fur coat, cap and shoes, and its special attendant, is sitting, and at the other a woman starving for bread and dying of cold."

The London "Standard" tells a wonderful story about British sucI cesses in military aviation. While | so-called trials have been taking place at Aldershot, in the of all" men, foreign agents very much included, the War Office is said to be conducting experiments with balloons or aeroplanes in some remote hilly, desolate part of the islands, Royal engineers have been put into trains "by night," carried they know not whither, met at their journey's end by vehicles, and taken by silent, drivers by valleys* surrounded by hills (as they usually are), where thera are no habitations for miles. There they found material which might have dropped from the clouds, carefully prepared for the construction oi aeroplanes. The parts were, of course, put together, and the machine succeeded so well that "Britain has now a great lead in aviation for army pumoses." The story"might have been penned by a writer of romance. Nevertheless, the War Department has certainly been making secret experiments—somewhere.

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It is reported that a lode of payable silver sulphide ore has been unearthed near Maratoto, Auckland Province. It has been decided to hold a Rifle Clubs' camp at Palmerston North at Easter, at which a representative gathering of clubs is expected. A similar camt) is to be held at Wanganui. A Nelson ironmonger has had the unique experience of receiving a money order for one penny, for which he had to swear to the correctness of his debt at a total cost to himself of half a crown, and also to post a receipt. The penny was bis share of a bankrupt's estate. An advertisement in a recent Auckland "Star" convened a meeting of "clerks, both male and female; business, to consider the advisability or otherwise of forming a Union of Office Employees." This is reported to be the first organised attempt in New Zealand to form an ""Office Employees'"Union." ; A smart lad is wanted to sell and deliver papers. An advertiser seeks two or three furnished rooms. The finder of a black cocker spaniel puppy is asked to return same to Mr A. F. Billiiigton, T. Wagg and Co. 's. Messrs Hannah and Co. have to hand new lines in football and hockey boots, and elsewhere quote - prices. Messrs Gillespie and Co. require a station gardener able to milk, a cooklaundress and a woman cook for a country hotel. i Messrs George and Kersley, of the "Economic," offer special Easter bargains, particulars of which will be found on page 6 of this issue. The Masterton Farmers' Implement Company announce that their factory will be closed - for the Easter Holidays Friday till Monday inclusive. Mr C. y. Dally announces that he has resumed the management of the fruitshoD next to Pinhey's stables. Orders for fruit will be delivered to any part of the town. Mr J. K. Blinkhorne announces that his hairdressing saloon will be open till 10.30 o'clock to-morrow and till 8 o'clock on Saturday evening. Mrs H. J. Taplay announces\that through indisposition she has been reluctantly compelled to postpone ' her song recital till a further date.

The Trust Lands Trustees invite tenders, to close on Thursday, 15th inst., for removing the old Technical School from ita present site to Russell street. A bad headache is often the result of straining the eyes, and the only •way to prevent, it is to remove the cause. Mr H. T Wood, optician, examines the eyes free of charge, and fits glasses that corrects defects of the eyes.

The benefits to be derived from the'use of J. Gordon's Pectoral Cough Cure are forcibly emphasised in a new advertisement appearing elsewhere. Mr Gordon has had many satisfactory testimonials relative to the value of his preparation.

On account of their premises being closed on Saturday Messrs C. Smith, Ltd , notify that their premises will be open to-morrow night till 9 o'clock, and their customers are re-1 quested to do their Saturday's shop- i ping on Thursday. J Messrs Harcourfc and Co. report } having sola to Messrs Lefchner and ' Muir section 31, Jslbck 16, Mangaone, 1 held under a nin9 years' lease at 12s 6d per acre, with a purchasing , clause at £l2 10s. The place was i sold as a going concern, including dairy herd of 22 cows and farm ac-J cassnries. Also to Mr Linehan of Westland, 98J acres, being section 53, Rongokokako, all* in best English grasses; five roomed dwelling, 12bailed cowshed, and other improvements, the price being £1,850. These sales were made in conjunction with their Eketahuna agents, Messrs G. M. Dorney and Co. The latter report the sale to Messrs Richards and Tateson of 105| acres, close to railway, school and creamery, fully improved with good house and outbuildings, and excellent dairy herd. If ever grace, distinction, fashion* fit, wear and all round excellence were compressed ;sinto a suit they j are to be found in the garments turned out by Messrs Krahagen and Chapman, the well-known tailors, of Perry street, Masterton. In the manufacture, of a suit not one detail that goes for satisfaction is neglected, and their stock is at all ■ times large and comprehensive. The importations for the autumn and winter trade are, however, particularly well assorted and stylish, and it is safe to say that no better selection is available in many of the metropolitan cities of the Dominion. The principals of the firm are skilled cutters, whilst they maintain a staff of fifteen experienced tradesmen to deal promptly with orders. Patterns will be forwared to country clients who t cannot make a personal call, but ' whose measure has previously been taken.