LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9551, 26 July 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Worksop dredge is 48ozs lOwts for 120 hours' work. A "meet" of the Wairarapa Hunt will be held at Martinborough on Thursday next, and the next run at Te Parae will be held on August 7th in place of the 31st instant. I A number of the Maoris in Masterton are making arrangements to welcome the commander and officers of H.M.S. Encounter with a haka on their arrival at the railway station from Wellington on Wednesday. . v Ksiwarra's new railway station is "' to be opened in about two weeks' time, when the straightened rail track from Petone will be complete as far as that suburb. The work has been in progress for five years. ' Miss Christie, of Oamaru, the present holder of the New Zealand ladies' golf championship, intends to defend her title at the championship tournament to be held in ■ Palmerston North. Memories of the Opunake tar and 1 feathering case, says the Cambridge paper, were revived in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, on Monday morning, when a young man named ; Harold Egbert Hill, who, it is alleged, figured largely in the t incident, was charged with violently assaulting an old man'named Richard Martin at Frankton. He was remanded for eight days, Martin still being in the hospital and unable to ■_ appear. A strong syndicate from Hawke's Bay has just completed the purchase : «f a large area of flax land in the vicinity of Foxton with the object of turning out hemp under an entirely new process. Under the new system. '- which is paid to be much cheaper than methods Hitherto adopted, bleaching in the paddocks will be done away with, and the fibre is said to show r better colour. The machinery is 2 already on its way from London. In a lecture at Timaru last week, ■ Professor Marshall, of Dunedin, said i that if the Tasman glacier melted j away .there would be seen a rock , basin with vertical walls 2,500 it high, and the tributary glaciers, ' now flowing in shallower streams of i ice at the. level of the main stream, j would leave "hanging valleys," from 1 which the rain water would reach the main valley by waterfalls over } high precipices. He fixed the date J of New Zealand's great glacial f period at about 150,000 years ago. 3 He said that at that period all lands in the Southern Hemisphere down to the same latitude were glaciated. t In Western Europe and in North i America the great ice descended to . still lower latitudes. > Amcng the many things "not gen- , erally known," to New Zealanders, at any rate, is that there are flamingoes in the Dominion. A popular 1 French magazine, Lectures Pour ; Tous, is the authority for this piece of news. It shows a picture of thousands of these long-legged, long necked birds above an inscription in French, which being interpreted reads:—"A colony of flamingoes in New Zealand." Perhaps the next thing will be a troupe of New Zealand giraffes, or, maybe, Antipodean armadillos. Constable G. Wilson, of Waitotara, has reported to the Marine Department to the effect that on Sunday week last, Messrs A. and G. Handley found a six oared whale-boat, between the Nukumaru rock and the | mouth of the Waitotara river. The boat is reported to be about 25 feet long, in good condition, has no oars or rowlocks, and contains a hdy'a white felt hat, and kapoc pillow. There was no name or mark on the boat to enable the finders to discover its origin and owner. The beat has been hauled above high water. It is suggested that it possibly belonged to the ship Orleans, which was wrecked off the Tasmanian coast in June. If this surmise be correct the boat has drifted a great distance in a short tie. The following is the report of the secretary of the Masterton Methodist Sunday School (Mr R. J. Mclver) on the attendance at the Sunday school for the month of July:—Teachers on roll, 23; average attendance, 20, or 86 per cent. Scholars on roll, 291; J average attendance, 212, or 71 per i cent. —increase of eight scholars during the month. Senior Men's , Bible Class on roll, 12; average attendance, 9.5, or 79 per cent. Tnis j class has been forrred during the month, and therefore represents an j actual gain of twelve members. , Junior Men's Bible Class, on roll,' 17; average attendance 15, or 91 Tpei' cent. increase of one member. Young Women's Bible Class, on roll, , 29; average attendance, 39, or 67 t per cent. Infant Department, on, v roll, 114; average attendance, 7G, or s 67 per cent. —increase of one scholar. « I

The annual social and dance of the Red Star Football Club is to be held in the Foresters' Hall on Thursday evening next. At the Wanganui district meeting of Oddfellows, a motion was adopted permitting women to become members of lodges. At the annual meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club, on Saturday night, the balance-sheet showed a credit balance of over £1,300. t. Messrs H. and T. Evans have commenced the work of widening the top end of the Upper Plain Road. Hedges are being removed and fences shifted back. Arthur Frederick Wimsett, charged at Wellington on five informations with breaking and entering and theft from the Government Post Office, and receiving goods knowing them to be stolen, was remanded till next Wednesday, bail being allowed. The services were very largely attended at the Methodist Cnurch yesterday morning and evening. The Rev. C. E. Porter occupied the pulpit on both occasions. He delivered a very powerful address in the evening on "At the Door —But on Which Side?" After the address, Mrs A. H. ! Daniell sang "Not Far From the Kingdom." A "coon" entertainment is to be given in the Methodist Schoolroom on Thursday evening next, by the members of the Junior Men's Bible Class, in aid of the fund for furnishing their clafsroom. A good programme of coon songs, "gags," and dialogues have been arranged and a very enjoyable evening is anticipated, i^lo-morrow evening (Tuesday) a concert and minstrel entertainment is to be given in St. Matthew's Schoolroom in aid of .St. Matthew's Cub. An excellent programme of vocal and instrumental items has been arranged, and an enjoyable evening is assured. The popular secretary (Mr W. Kemp) is sparing no effort to make the entertainment a success in every ; respect, and he is being ably assisted \ by an energetic committee. tThe'Rev. Spencer, who is touring . New Zealand in connection with the , British and Foreign Bible Society, is , at present on his annual visit to , Masterton, and will deliver a lecture j in the Methodist Schoolroom this evening on the work of the Society in South America. Mr Spencer will , illustrate his lecture with lantern j views. , A week of special services in I connection with the Methodist Church have been arranged to commence on Sunday next. Mr H. N. Holmes, * General Secretary of the Wellington ' Y.M.C.A. will conduct the services. 3 Mr Holmes will occupy the pulpit " next Sunday morning and evening, 1 and he will deliver an address in the Town Hall in the afternoon to men 3 only. The Rev. C. E. Porter will 2 deliver an open-air address at the . Post Office corner on Saturday evenj ing next in connection with the \ mission. s The weekly meeting of the Hope - of Masterton Juvenile Temple was f held in the Dominion Hall on Saturi day afternoon last, C.T. Sister Alice - Bedford presiding over a good attend--1 ance of members. During the after--3 noon Mr William Gillespie presented the prizes for the elocution competiB tion, which took place on the previous j Saturday afternoon and was judged . by Mr Gillespie. The piece for comf petition was "Crossing the Bar," Y and was won by Bro. H. Miller and , Sister Alice Bedford. An address n was given by Mr Gillespie, which r was both instructive and interestY ing. v The matter of the operation of unis versal military training has just been brought forcibly home to a young Argentina resident in the Palj merston North district. Being I still an Argentine subject, he £ has, in view of the possibility of t war between Bolivia and his native country, been required to obtain £ from his employers and forward home a dully-attested certificate giving ' his place of residence, and the najj ture of his occupation, as he may r at any time be recalled for, service in the field. Thft young man, who j is gaining agricultual experience, is well educated, speaking five lan- ' guages, and his relatives are in a j high position in the Argentina. A striking illustration of the fact t, that good farm labourers are in keen y demand was afforded at the meeting of the Farmers' Union at Christchurch on Friday last. The secretary stated that he had received 1 a "letter from a recent arrival \ from Scotland, a young able- " bodied single farm labourer, who desired work as a ploughman. He ! was accustomed to horses, machin- ' ery, atnd mixed farming, could repair drains, clean ditches, mend ' fences and was prepared to tackle 1 anything. There was keen competition for the services of this industrial paragon, three or four farmers present desiring to secure his services. Ultimately he was engaged by an Ellesmere district settler within five minutes after his letter was read to the meeting. At the Magistrate's Court, Hastings, Dr. L. A. Boranoff, a Russian lecturer, was charged with that, on July 17th, at Wellington, he did obtain 30s from Miss Moore by means of a valueless cheque. Accused stated that he had received the cheque from a man in Wellington, who said he could use it, and would place money iij the bank to meet it. He paid the cheque to Miss Moore at Dannevirke, and received a telegram saying that the cheque had been dishonoured. He then immediately sent a money-order telegram to Mifas Moore, and, on arrest on Saturday mornine, a reply came that Miss Moora hnd received the money. Accused was remanded to appear at Wellington on July 27th, bail being allowed. At the residence, No. 30, Chapel street, on Wednesday next, Mr J. JR. Nicol will sell on account of Mr N. H. McEwen, who is leaving Masterton, the whole of his well-selected household iurr.itura. Particulars of the leading lines are advertised. Elsewhere in thia issue Mr J. J. Spiilane, cycle agent, Exchange . Buildings Masterton, announces that ; he is prepared to book orders for ' new bicycles for ths cuming season. \ Mr Spillune stocks Premiers, Cen- j taurs and other first-class makes, or r will make from B.S.A. uarts to suit . orders. An inspection is invited. J The name or AYLMER'S, Willis st,, j Wellington, is synonymous with perfect , tion m the art of Millinery. Ladies write for a selection on approval.. Do- * signs by every mail from the leading f London and Pf lis houses. I