LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9549, 22 July 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

-1 Two cases of beer winch had not been properly labelled were seized by ; the police at the Masterton Kailway \ Station, last evening, and will prob- ( ably be the subject of a Court case. 3 Scolded by the Dunedin Magistrate for not knowing the age of * his youngest child, when prosecuted " for not sending it to school, a de- [ fendant pleaded in excuse that he ) had had nineteen of them. i Steps are beina taken among the r various cadet corpa of New Zealand ' to make a presentation to Lieut. Colonel Loveday, who has had charge of them for some years past, and has now retired from the service. A meeting of shareholders and others interested in the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company, Ltd., will be held in the A. and P. Association's »-ooms, Perry street, at 2.30 ' p.m. on Saturday next. Mr. J C. • Cooper, Chairman of Directors, will be present and deliver an address. At an inquiry held in Melbourne last week into the death of John Ashman, aged 19, who hanged himself at the Football Club Hotel, Carlton, it was stated that the deceased smoked six packets of cigar ettes a day. The ajroner expressed the opinion that this may have had something to do with his death. "I am nDt a prophet, nor the son of a prophet," remarked the JRev. W. Powell at a men's meeting at the Christchursh Y.M.C.A,; "but if j you don't colonise Australasia with / white people you will have Asiatics flocking in. The £IOO poll tax won't stop them; it doesn't stop them at present. And once they get in, it will be difficult to get them out." The method of preparing butter in India would not suit our New Zealand factories. There is no "over-run," no "water-logging." The butter, after churning i? boiled, to get rid of all water and curd, the former evaporating, the latter sinking as dregs, and a clear oil is obtained, which granulates on cooling. This is called "ghee.," and it is said that it potted it will keep good for 200 years. The annual long night dance of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants was held in the Foresters' Hall, last evening. There were about 50 couples present, and the floor was - in splendid order. Mr B. Gough made a capable M.O. The music was supplied by Messrs F. McKenzie and H. Fawcett, and Miss Lily Gowgh and Master Gough (violin). The catering was in the hands of Mesdames and Hanley, and Messrs Marsh and ! Smethurst. j Ihe poor are often good friends to s the poor. It was shown at the ] meeting of the Wellington Bene- i volent Trustees, on Tuesday last, \ that an old couple (sixty-seve»i and i sixty-eight years of age respec- ( tively) had somehow struggled nlonu r : up to a week or two ago, when the j wife, who had earned 13s a week, 1 fell and dislocated her shoulder. The i 13s paid the rent exactly. A friend g had come to the rescue and had f done the work for the aged woman, t giving her the money. Both man and a woman are obviously entitled t? the t old age pension, but the man has i never applied because he is "no 11 scholar." Assistance was given. n

George Bollona, a single man,, was drowned when fording the Waingongoro river, near Hawera,. yesterday. Two J. C. Williamson dramatic companies now "on the road" have been disbanded—the Tittell Brune Company at Newcastle and "An Englishman's Home" at Adelaide. The Junior Morris Tutye Rifle Club held their usual practic last evening, when the following were the highest scorers: —E. J. Fuller 32, Cox 31, De Lisle 31, La Roche 30, Hogg 30, Lawrence 30, Rawson 30. On completion of their present tour of Victoria, the Black Family of Musicians sail for the Bluff and tour New Zealand, opening in Invercargill. The Family will visit Masterton. The Hospital diary read at the meeting of the Masterton Hospital Trustees, yesterday, showed that 18 patients xyere in the Hospital at the last meeting, 31 had been admitted since, and 23 discharged, leaving 26 remaining. Mr Edwin Geach's "An Englishman's Home" Company's northern tour of New South Wales and Queensland was a greater success than the management expected. It is estimated that the company has travelled more than 4,222 miles in four weeks, bpsides appearing in a newtown each evening ' Mr Nottage, of the Agricultural ' Department, is to give a demonstra- ■ tion of the art of spraying and prun- ' ing fruit trees at the garden of Mr , A. Hathaway, Cole street, on Thursday afternoon of next week. The ' lecture will be especially for mem--5 i bers of the Masterton Horticultural f | and Industrial Society. (The demonj stration was previously erroneously . stated tu be arranged for this after-

noon). It is possibla that the Actingt'remier (the Hon. Jas. Carroll) will be ( a guest at the dinner of the Navy League to be held in Masterton on Wednesday next. Captain Columb, of the H.M.S. Encounter, who will be at the function is a son of Admiral Columb, under whom Lieut. Knox served. The latter officer delivered addresses in New Zealand (including Masterton) on the Aims and Objects of the NavyLeague. The Masterton Sub-branch of the Navy League is to hold a stnoke concert in the Arcadia Tea Rooms, on Wednesday evening next. The affair is to be one of some importance, and the Secretary of the Branch, Mr E. It. IJ. Daniel, is making preparations for a large attendance of members. Among the are to be Commander Columb, of H.M.S. Encounter, and the ward-room officers of the same warship. A Press Association telegram states that Frederick Cyril Ross,, late secretary of the Cheltenham Dairy Company, was arrested at Feilding on Tuesday night, charged! with the theft of £9 2s 5d from the Company while in its employ. Other informations have also been laid/ It is understood that the alleged defalcations total a large sum. The accused was brought before the Court yesterday and remar.ded till, to-day. The Auckland Board cf Education" has decided to accept a grant for free school books. It was stated that the Board had been too conscientious in declining to make the raquried declaration, knowing the grant was insufficient. Mr Greenslado, M.P.,. said that the Wellington E lacation Board lost £6O over the transaction, and the Auckland Board would lose; about £l5O. Winter gave place to an ephemeral spring in Masterton yesterday morning, and a succession of wintry and wet days culminated in one of glorious sunshine and invigorating humidity of temperature. In the afternoon. however, ihunder clouds gathered, and though a threatened storm did not eventuate, rain of a; light nature fell f«r a short period, * and the air became keener. The country would not be amiss for a spell of sunshine now, as lambing season is at hand. The announcement thpt Dr. W. H. Hosking had withdrawn his offer of £SOO for a ladies' bath at Masterton, caused one unsophiscated ladyresident to remark to her better half,, on reading in the Age of the Doctor's' intention to purchase radium with the money, "Fancy Dr. Hosking, instead of giving that £SOO to the ladies' baths, intends to buy £SOO worth of radium, arid give tins of it to the poor!" The innocent person had only heard of radium in the form of a well-known Wairarapa made boot polish. A prominent member of the Wairarapa Hunt Club stated to an Age reporter yesterday that the prospects for the Club's annual Steeplechase meeting, to be held at Taratahi on the 26th of next month, are very jood indeed, and though last year's meeting was a record an even better gathering is anticipated this ,reur. Horses from various neighbouring hunting districts are exacted to be entered in quite unisual numbers. The advice given to dairy commnies by Mr Cuddie, at the recent National Dairy Show at Palmerston >lorth, to aviod long Maori names hat are difficult of pronunciation, iss been detrimental to the sale of he produce on the, Home market, is lready bearing fruit, and, as a reult, it has been decided that the ew co-operative dairy company bat has been formed at Mangaiftire fchall be known as the Rexale Co-operative Dairy Company. The Trustees of the Masterton [ospital met yesterday morning, here were present:—Messrs J. B. [etth, chairman, H. J. O'Leary, J. liller, R Brown, J. C. Ewington nd C. C. Jackson. The treasurer rearted as lv!l iws:—-Cr balance at last leeting, 14s Id; receipts nee, £39 4s ;iJ; expenditure. £.?/)5 ! (id; cr. balance at date, £2(59 16s 1; cr. balance infectious diseases ard, £9O 8s 6d. An account was iceivedjfrnrn the Mastertqn Borough ouncil for £5 7s for water supplied, he account for the corresponding jrioJ last year was for £2 15s Bd. he chairman pointed out that the :count worked out at nearly 100 illons of water per day for every irson at the Hospital. He thought iere was some mistake somewhere, though the Town Clerk had stated at the meter had been tested, and was found to be working correctly. Ie account was'held over for pay- - :nt penning further investigation.

The members of the Wairarapa Hunt Club will hold a "meet," of the hounds at Gladstone to-day. Mr W. H. Buick, Master, will probably be in charge. The run will take place over the properties of Mr J. Strang and neighbouring places. The check will take placa at Mr Strang's, where afternoon tea will be servedV A 'large attendance is anticipated. There was a large attendance at the meeting of the ladies committee of th-: Red Star football club's social and dance, held in the Forehters' Hall yesterday afternoon. All the necessary arrangements lor the function were made and satisfactory support was reported to be forthcoming, l'he social is to be held in the Foresters' Hall on Thursday July 29th. The Foxton "Herald" ia responsible for the following In conversation with our representative at Palmtrston on Thursday last, Mr J. C. Cooper, the prime mover in the proposed co operative freezing company, • said that the Wellington site for the works was out of the question. He stated that the sub-committees set up to inspect and report on sites for the proposed works would visit Foxton in about a fortnight s time. There is a probability of the KaItoa property, near Woodville. belonging to Mr W. H. Nelson, being cut up into small farms in a short * time. The property is a Maori lease, which expires shortly, and in a day or two will be before tne Native Land Court at present sitting in Hastings, for subdivision. One of ! the owners of the property, Mr lan Simpson, accompanied by Mr R. Kennedy, of Napier, went over the farm last week for the purpose of arriving at a valuation. There are 1,500 acres in the property. An Auckland paper says:—lt is whispered'in circles that are usually well informed that there will shortly be a vacancy in the Stipendiary Magistracy, of Auckland. Judge Kettle, so the story runs, is to be translated to the position of Under-Secretary of the Justice Department, the pre sent secretary. Mr Waldegrave, re placing Mr Dinnie in the office of Commissioner of Police. As to Mr Kettle's successor, it is stated that he will bo found in another ex-Dis-trict Judge —W. R. Haselden, at rresent performing magisterial duties in the Taranaki district. It is reported in Wellington that negotiations have been proceeding in London for the raising of a substantial loan for the-Harbour Board. The Board has a powerful ambassador in : |the Old Country just now in the person of the Hon. T. K. McDonald, and his colleagues are said to have cabled some, very important instruction?. As the matter was dealt within committee by the Harbour Board, and the committee deliberations of this august body are strictly private and confidential when financial questions are involved, the _ city newspapers have been kept "in the dark" concerning the loan arrangements, writes a Wellington correspondent. A strange visitor has made an appearance on the farm of Mr R. Waghorn, Awarua Plains, about three miles from Woodend, in the shape of a hair seal, says the "Southland News." To get to the spot where it was found it must have made its way up the Mokotua Creek from the New River Estuary, » distance of eight or nine miles, and then worked inland over ploughed ground and tussocks for about threequarters of a mile. The seal, which is some nine feet in length from the tip of the nos9 to tail, has lost one eye, and i« also scarred, showing that it must have beer engaged i n combat With some enemy of the sea. It must be of considerable age, as the teeth are badly broken. What induced it to make inland can only be conjectured.' As the amphibious mammal appears to be far gone and likely to a slow death, t Mr Kerei Mitai Titore has announced that at the next general election he will contest the Northern Maori seat against all comers, in the interests of the Opposition, writes the Northern Wairoa correspondent of the Auckland "Herald." Mr Titnra is well versed in political history, and sp9aks English fluently, and with polish. He was educated in Wellington where his father held a responsible position in the Native office, afterwards spent some years in the Wairarana, but for the past 25 years has resided amongst his own people. He is a chieftain of the Ngatirangi tribe, being a lineal descendant of the great Rahiri, after whom the loftiest peak of the Mangakahia Range is named, and has considerable landed interests. He is confident of strong support. The New Zealand prison system is thus described in an English paper:"New Zealand is, of all colonies, the most lenient to criminals. In one gaol a prisoner may keep a racehorse ««nd is permitted to transact business concerning it. In the ame gao well-behaved prisoners are allowet an afternoon out occasionally,. Prison authorities in New Zealani are believers in the moral effects o: , open air. In one institution the newl; arrived misdemeanant is allowed thi choice of living in gaol or outside it tents being erected at the back. Thu system of sending people to gaol b letting them live outside has, how ever, its advantages. In one case the 'prisoner.' resenting harsh treat ment in the way of a 'lock-out/ lifte up the 'gaol' and deposited it fa away in the bush." Owing, probably to some defect human minds, the sight ot a worn a talking to a policeman in a publ; place is looked upon as the for* ground of a fancied picture ( trouble, remarks the Dunedin "Evei Ing Star." This curious public stai sometimes hurts, especially if th woman be the policeman's wife. the Police Commission recent a married constable spoke reaso; ably and well of the annoyance caus< by a regulation compelling marrie constables to go home wearing the uniform instead of plain clothes. T1 regulation is taken as a slight on tl character of the men. The witne said that if a married constable w going home and met his wife on £ streets, and stood with her and tal ed, people stared at her, because si was a woman speaking polic man! He thought that the grievan might be removed. The complai was noted by the Royal Comm sioner. Messrs Mitchell and Co., au tioneers, Pahiatua, announce in co nection with the auction sale of tii ber, on 28th instant, that approv bills will be accepted for amoun over £lO.

A meeting of the Ball Committee of the Masterton Mounted Rifles was hsld last evening, and was well attended. Messrs D. Walsh and E. Borrows were appointed joint secretaries, and a strong Ladies' Committee was appointed. All details in connection with the ball are now nearly complete, and the success of the function is assured. A widow seeks work by the day. Elsewhere Mr John Coradine, solicitor, of Gray's Buildings, announces that he has monay to lend ai current rates. An advertiser wants to get milking on shares or the lease of a small dairy farm as a going concern. Mrs H. J. Taplay announes elsewhere thftt she will resume music teaching in Masterton on Saturday, July 31st, and in Carterton on Thursday, 29th July. The attention of dairy farmers and contractors is directed to a sale announced by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, on account of Mr and Mrs Cadwallader at Nireaha on Monday, July 26th. Included in the sale is a first class dairy of 20 cows, farm and waggon horses, draught stallion Bothwell, contractor's plant, harness pigs and sundries. Messrs Warnock and Adkin, drapers, Queen street, announce that on Friday next they will commence a final clearing sale, which will be continued for 14 days, after which the balance of tha stock will be removed to Wellington. Exceptional bargains are promised. Messrs Hipkins and Madill, land dgentp, Auckland, report, in conjunction with Messrs Friedlander Bros., of Ashburton, that tnpj have recently sold Waikato properties to the value of £20,000. This is conclusive evidence that Northern land is in good demand. Mr 3 J. Morwick, Grey-st., Shortla.no, Thames, N.Z., says: "Some time ago when my little boy had his hands severe ly burnt, Hanson & Co. recommended me to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I applied the liniment as soon as possible, and after a few applications the pain disappeared, and his hands healed without scars. Since then I have used Chamberlain's Pain Balm for headache, toothache, and rheumatism, and I find that it alwaj s gives relief. I can recommend it to anyone wanting a good family linimeii'. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers i j j