LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3169, 21 April 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following have announced their intention to offer themselves as candidates in connection with the Eketahuna Borough Council: —Messrs W. Kershaw, G. Jesson, P. Pike, J. J. Mead, W. Thomson, W. M. Wilson. The following judges have notified their acceptance of office in connection with the National Dairy Show at Palmers ton North Poultry, Mr J.Casey, Khandallah; fat stock, Mr W. McKenzia, Masterton; home industries and bottled fruits, Mr W. Dustin, Wanganui. The Nireaha Co-operative Dairy Company will pay out for butter fat supplied during March the sum of £927 Os 9d, being at the rate of 8d per lb. This is'a record payment for the month of March. Last week 130 cases of cheese were shipped Home, and 160 cases more will shortly be forwarded.

The Railways Superannuation Fund Board has passed allowances involving an annual liability of £5,576 13s 6d. Sixty-six ex-mem-bers are interested in the distribution. Allowances totalling £254 a year have been made to four widows and fourteen children of deceased contributors. The fund is in a satisfactory condition. The Wairarapa Hunt Club will open the season on Thursday next, when a meet will be held on Mr W. Buick's property at Opaki, a pooular hunting ground. The Club is now very strong numerically, and as hunting is becoming a very popular pastime in the Wairarapa a successful season should be experienced this year by the Club.

On Thursday next a strong "working bee" will, if the weather'conditions are favourable, undertake the work of placing the Knox Church grounds in thorough order. As soon as this work is completed a start will be made with the painting of the Sunday School, the contract for which has already been let.

The musical recital by Mrs H. J. Tpplay, which was to have been held in the Foresters' Hall, on April 7th, and was postponed, has now been definitely arranged for Wednesday, April ÜBth, at 3 p.m. Owing to the limited size of the Hall, Mrs Taplay has been reluctantly compelled to close the list of invitations.

Mr Dinneen, Truant Inspector for the Wellington Education Board, is at present visiting the Masterton district. It is understood that he has already laid informations against parents for failing to send their children regularly to school. As a result of the present visit the Inspector will probably issue a further batch of summonses.

At the Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr J. H. Pauling, J.P., John Robinson and Charlie John Jones, were each charged with having been drunk in Lincoln road on Monday last, while in chatge of a horse and trap. The Bench imposed a fine of 40s, in default seven days' imprisonment on Robinson, and Jones was convicted and discharged.

It will be quite nine months before the Manawatu line can be properly equipped to cope with the heavy traffic which will follow th° contemplated diver?ion of traffic from the Wairarapa line north of Masterton. The appliances, rolling stock, station organisation, and siding lines have to be thoroughly revised and very much extended. It i<i anticipated that everything will be ready before the summer tripping season sets in. The New Zealand Government was in the money market this week, placing another batch of short bonds—£soo,ooo worth, carrying 3| per cent interest and due in April. 1912, writes the London correspondent of the New Zealand "Times," under date 12th March). I understand that the whole amount was placed very readily, and that in addition a previous issue of short bonds to the extent of £1,000,000 were renewed. The transaction was not a public loan, the bor.ds being negotiated privately and the total amount required being left unstated. According to the "Times" city intelligence, there was' some adverse comment in financial circles to the system by which these private issues are placed on the ir.arket without any definite information as to the amount involved or the purpose of the borrowing.

A ereat public meeting is to be held in Auckland on 23rd, in connection with the Selwyn Centenary. His Excellency ttie Governor has consented to lay the foundation stone uf the Patteson wing at St. John's College in the afternoon, and at night there is to be a public meeting in the Choral Hall, when speeches will be made by the Governor, also by the Hon.. Dr. Findlay (Minister for Justice), Mr Justice Cooper, Mr J. H. Upton and the Anglican Bishop of Auckland. Services are to be held in Lichfield Cathedral on April 23rd and 25th,and it is probable there will be similar services in St. Paul's, London. The offertory at these centenary celebrations is to be divided between tne Selwyn College, Cambridge, and the Patteson wine at St. John's College, Tamaki. The Wellington celebrations will take place on April 23rd and 25th.

At the Magistrate's Court, Martinborough, yesterday, before Mr C. C. Graham, S.M., a large list of undefended cases were called. The defended cases were as follow Pain and Kershaw (Mr Card) sued Taylor and Hodges, plasterers, Masterton (Mr C. A. Pownall,. for £3 6s, trade discount on material ordered on contract. After the plaintiff and Mr Rose, ttoe architect, had been crossexamined by Mr Pownall, the Magistrate pointed uufc to Mr Card that his own witnesses had given his case away, and ultimately entered judgment for the defendants with Court costs 2s, counsel's fee £1 Is, and witnesses expenses Bs. In the case Thomas Kennedy (Mr Card) v. Nifriiwa Heremaia (Mr Pownall), claim £27 for half fencing erected, the plaintiff v\as nonsuited on Mr Ptnvnall's application with costs, and a counter claim was held over for settlement. Featherston County (Mr Card) v. W. Manihera, claim for rates as occupier. Mr Pownall fbr defeidant called evidence to prove that defendant was neither owner nor occupier of the land, although his name was on the roll. The case was adjourned by the Court to enable the plaintiff to prove occupation by defendant, failing which judgment is to be entered for the defendant with costs.

The annual general meeting of the Y.M.C.A. will be held this evening. There are 444 names on the district electors' roll of the ftketahuna. Borough. The annual meeting of members of" the Commercial and Farmers' Clubwill be held this evening at 8 o'clockThe Eketahuna branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union will hold its annual meeting on Saturday next. The annual meeting of the parishioners of St. Matthew's Church, will be held in the Sunday Schoolroom, at 8 o'clock, on Thursday, 28th inst. Mr John Drummond, a well-known business man in Dannevirke, has ■ decided to oppose Pastor Ries for the Mayoralty. The Eketahuna County Council and ' the Eketahuna Borough Council have aecidedto withhold their contributions to the Wellington, and Wairarapa Chartable Aid Board pending the proposed j conference of the Wairarapa contributing authorities.

In the Magistrate's Court, Martinborough, yesterday, before Mr C. C. Graham, S.M., Mr J. Dinneen, Truant Inspector proceeded against several parents for failing to send their children regularly to school. Convictions were recorded in each case, and fines ranging from 2s to 10s were imposed. The Magistrate at the same time warned parents that if they again came before him he would inflict the full penalty allowed | by the Act. The Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce has had under consideration the question of a metallic- circuit with Palmerston North. At a meeting last week Mr Bickford said this matter should be revived and the Palmerston North Chamber should be written to asking what they had done in the matter. There was considerable delay at present in communicating with Palmers tons North. On his motion the Post-master-General is to be written asking that the circuit be established.

"I was as much surprised as anyone by Mr Ronayne's withdrawal," said the Minister for Railways in> regard to the Addington inquiry. 'lt is unfair to blame him however. His memorandum was not intended for publication, and should not have been made public. It was based on statements from what he believed to be a reliable source. But when the commission sat Mr Ronayne found that his informant was not prepared to substantiate the charges contained in the memorandum, and he was comDelled to withdraw.

According to a contemporary, a mild sort of timber war is at present in operation near Ohakune, on the Main Trunk line. The fight seems to be between the Timber Association and some individual millers, and timber is now cheaper than it has been for years. • Ordinary rimu is selling for Vs per 100 feet, rustic at 9s, and there have been corresponding reductions in all the goods. It is considered that a truce between the contendiog parties will be called by the end of the month, but, until then, timber is to be solJ ac a considerable loss to the miller.

A man named Hanby was made the recipient, in the Supreme Court: at Washington, of what is regarded as the most remarkable sentence on record. Hanby, convicted on a bigamy charge, was not only fined £2O and . sent to gaol for six months, but also was sentenced to marry an Indian. woman. Hanby's first wife, learning of his marriage to a pretty Indian girl, secured his indictment, and then a divorce for herself. Be- - cause of the first marriage, the second marriage was declared void, but the judge oidered th" man to many the Indian girl before he left the prison gates.

The Minister for Railways has instructed the Addington Commission to visit the various Government workshops and private foundries, and he' has no doubt that good results will follow from the comparisons the commission will be able to make. "The work at Addington is," ke says, "very good. The question iswhether it is turned out as promptly as it should be. The plant is quite adequate, and we have spent considerable sums in recent years on new machinery, and, although in some cases machines were not of thenewest type, that should not make any appreciable differenca to the output."

Mr Fred Butt, ol Picf's Hill,. Langport, Somersetshire, who served in the Baltic during the war with Russia in 1854 —55> and was afterwards ergaged in active service in various parts of the world, is now seventy-three years of age, but his military ardour is as keen as eveut Feeling "ashamed of the young men of London being so slack in comir.g' forward for the protection of their country," he has written to Major A. G. Boyle, the secretary of the Territorial Force Association of Somerset, asking to be enrolled as a Territorial, remarking that "if the body is weak the spirit is good, and what there ia my country is welcome to.."'

A few yearg ago Tifh-ra del Fuego was about the last place in the'world any person would mention as suitable for industrial settlement of any kind. Yet to-day (says the Timaru "Herald,") Mr A. N. Williams., a New Zealander, who' has just returned from Punto Arenas,, on Magellan Strait, states that there are five important factories dealing with meat products within a few miles of lhat town. He statesjthai thecountry has a wonderful future for the production of both w,jol and mutton. The whole of the Argentine territory of Tierra del Fuego and the southernmost provinces of the Chilian > Republic, in spite of their high latitudes. are admirably adapted for sheep runs. Indeed, one of the largest runs owned by a single com- ■ pany in the world is close to Sandy Point.

Path Faces Fairer. —Ladies troubled with growth of hair oh face, neck or arms can permanently remove it by using.. "Violet Snow Cream." It acts directly on the liair 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 H. T. Wood, Chemist, Masterton, fcr 4/6, or send postal note direct to Hem«ley Burnet, Hair Specialist, 46 George Street, Dunedin. (All parcels sent in pjain wrappers), Hemsley Burnet's Hair Resfcrror fa Grey- Hairy 1/9;

At Wellington, on Monday last, •Us goodwill of the lease of the Club Hotel, at Carterton, was sold by auction, and purchased by Mr fatxick Scanlan, of Wellington, for £3,000, writes our Carterton correspondent. Recently a local resident had a valuable gold locket and chain stolen from his house. The missing property had been given up for lost when yesterday it was returned in a small box and attached thereto was a slip of paper containing the following words"Very sorry we took this." The fortnightly meeting of the Stoneftenge Lodge, U.A.0.D., was lield last evening, Bro. C. McUaughtan, A.D., presiding, H. P. Perry was installed into the office of V.A. A letter of condolence was authorised to be sent to Bro. James "Young, of Auckland, in connection with the death of his wife. The members of the Lodge decided to - take part in the Hospital Sunday Demonstration. Ttfere was a good attendance at the opening of the winter session of ' St. Matthew's Club in the Schoolsroom, last evening. The function, which took the form of a concert was highly successful, and was greatly enjoyed by those present, great credit being due to the secretary, Rev W. Rairie, for the complete arrangements made. The chair was occupied by the Rev. H. WstBon. The following was'the programme rendered: —Song, "Jack's the Boy," Mr Hurm (encored); reading, "Rugby Football," Mr W. Hemp; sone, Mr J. Berry; song, Rev. H. Watson (encored); song, Mr R. Hatch; song, "There's a Land," Mr Fisher (encored); recitation, Mr E. Hebenton; song, Mr W. Iggulden (encored); song, Mr Mothes (encored); song, "The Romany Lass," Mr Jago (encored); recitation, Mr R. Brown (encored). Mrs Young, of Scarborough, ladies' nurse, announces that she is prepared to enter into engagements. Messrs Ditnock and Co. notify that tht next trucking days for pigs ' at Eketahuna and Mauriceville will be the 3rd and 4th May, respectively.

The new Edison phonograph attachment and new records trill be on sale "at the "Talkeries," Bannister street, on the 15th May next. t -Messrs J. Graham and Co. are offering special links in kid gloves, and quote prices which will be found elsewhere in this issue. Mr A. J. Joblin, of T iriraukawa 'vhoisa candidate for the elective seat on the Wellington Land Board, inserts an address to the Crown tenants in favour of his cadidature. Particulars and price lists of the , latest novelties in ladies'neckwear will be found in a new advertisement inserted by Messrs George and Kersley, of the "Economic," Wellington. Forty-five first-class dairy cows are advertised for sale by Messrs Husband and Finch, land and estate agents, Woodville. Full particulars can be obtained on application to the firm. The Flite Skating Rink is now in full swing, and is being largely patronised, and a special daily session tor ladies is held from 10 a.m. till noon. The promoters are now issuing season tickets. At their rooms, Perry street, on Saturday next, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd, will submit at auction, under instructions from the Supreme Court, the right, of interest' in the property of Mr Wm. John Mannering, at , Aohanga. Particulars of the sale will be found elsewhere.

At the residence of Mr J. Lett, Lansdowne, at 1.30 p.m., to-day, Mr M. O. Aronsten will sell the whole of It s household furniture and effects, which include a large assortment of carpenters' tools, general sundries 'and several pair of good pullets. This sale will be held absolutely without reserve, and as the list is a lengone will start promptly at the hoar mentioned. The attention of readers who are interested in the tea trade is directed to an announcement offering the agency of one of the finest Ceylon teas at present on the New Zealand market for the towiis throughout *he Wairarapa district. Those who are looking for a really first-class tea agency should not miss this opportunity. The tea is of the very highest standard, and is packed on the firm's own estates in Ceylon,, consequently retains itp natural delicate flavour. The advertisement'will be found on page 1 of this issue.

The winter season is generally dis- / tinguished by some striking novelty produced by the celebrated Parisian artist. The. charming creations in millinery and costumes now being shown by C. Adams and Co., 108 110 Cuba street,, Wellington, strike ; the keynote of fashion, and are unanimously considered the finest in the Dominion. A visit to their spacious showroomwill convince ladies of the truth of ths assertion. Elsewhere a picture of a model is shown by C. Adams and (Jo., made of straw and trimmed with silk and wings for the sum of 12s 9d, which will surely interest the ladies of thw Wairarapa. Messrs E. H. Home and Co. have instituted a motor 'bus service between the Masterton Post Office and : :;-Bailway Station, at popular fares. The'bus, which is 20 horse-power, will seat comfortably 14 passengers, and will run to meet sll trains, It is the intention sf the proprietors to extend the service so as to include Lansdowne and Kuripuni, and should the business warrant it asecond and larger 'bus will be used. The firm will for the present run from the Post Office via Perry street to and from the Railway Station, and the novelty of a motor ride at a nominal fare should attract sufficient business to recoup the promoters for their enterprise. Where the nerves are concerned, good music is at once a stimulant and a sedative. A good piano provides the best muaio for, the home. Once you instal a Broadwood,. a Eonisch, a Lipp, or a Steinway, you will soon come to regard it as a personal Mend, The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., has made a ipecial study of the piano business. You have to face no desperate financing. ' If it is not convenient to pay cash, you can bny on the easy instalment plan. Local representative, Mr T. B. Hunter. Effervescent Saline, purifying, refreshing, invigorating to all who suffer from sickness, headache, sluggish liver, etc. Price, 2/0, H. T. Wood, Chemist and Pharmacist 62am,}, Masterton *

A Musical and Dramatic Club is being formed at Martinborough. No less than fifteen candidates will contest the Hastings Borough Council election, and five will contest the Mayoralty. The championship, for members only, of the Featherston Defence Rifle Club, was commenced on Saturday last, the 200 and 500 yards distances beii g fired. Messrs C. Nix (83), H. Beckett (82), and W. W. Wakely (81) are in the lead. A meeting of employees of the W.F.C.A. was held in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms last evening, when it was decided to form ia social club. The following officers wers elected: —Patron, Mr M. Caselbevg- President, Mr D. Caselberg; Vice-Presi-dents, Directors of the W.F.C.A.; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr H. Richards. s The Martinborough Town Board estimates for the year 1909-10 are: Expenditure, £844 Is Id; receipts, £250. The balance, £593 17s 4d. it is proposed to raise by striking a rate of lid in the pound on town property, and also a library rate, and recurring interest rate.

McLaughlin, who has been arrested at Brisbane on charges of murder in Johannesburg, was sentenced some ten years ago in New Zealand to four years' imprisonment for having in his possession house-breaking implements, states a Press Association telegram from Wellington. The rainfall in Ghristchurch lor the present year to date has totalled 12.20 inches, thanks a phenomenal downpour towards the end of last monh, but since then the rainfall has been virtually nil. Up to Monday night, no rain fell during April, but 0.006 inches was recorded yesterday morning. At the meeting of settlers held in the Fernridge School, last evening, to deal with the question of river protective works, it was pointed out that if the Waingawa river broke through the flood water would probably take the same course as was taken some thirty years ago. Ii would thus, traverse, the properties owned by Messrs Dagg Bros., Prentice, McGregor, Perry, McKenzie, Siemonek, W. H. Buick and Chamberlain, and connect with the creeK which flows through Wrigley's Bush in the vicinity of Cole and. Pine streets. <

| The party of motorists, who were precipitated over an embankment on the, Mastertrn-Eketahuna road on Friday last had a remarkable escape from fatal injuries, considering the steepi drop at the point where the car went over. The car was not visible to pedestrians at the spot where it lay. Mr Barney Hall, an employee of Messrs Knight Bros., of Eketahuna, got the car back on to th« road per medium of a cleverly arranged system of blocks and tackle, 'and considering the distance it fell (some twenty or thirty feet) the car suffered very little damage. Mr F. Warren Fowler, of the Central Garage, subsequently the car into Master ton. The Labour Journal publishes an interesting statement of comparative rent values in the four centres. They refer to houses let to workmen within a two-mile radius of the post office: —Auckland—4 rooms, 10s to s l2s 6d; Brooms, 12s to 15s; 6 rooms, 15s to 17s 6d; 7 rooms, l"s 6d to 22s 6d. Wellington—4 rooms, 12s 6d to 18s; 5 rooms, 16s to 27s 6^; 6 rooms, 18s to 32b 6d; 7 rooms, 22s 6d to 355. Christchurch —4 rooms, 10s to 15s; 5 rooms, 14s to 16s; 6 rooms, 163 to 20s; 7 rooms, 20s and upwards. Dunedin—--4 rooms, 9s to 15s; 5 rooms, 12s 6d to 18s; 6 rooms, 15s to 255; 7 rooms, 16s fid to 27s 6d.