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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to unusual de\ elopments at the mills, our paper merchants have been unable to forward ua the usual size of paper on which the "Age" is printed. As a consequence our issue this morning appears in a somewhat reduced form. The difficulty will -be overcome in a few weeks, and we can assure advertisers and readers that we shall do our best to minimise as much as possible any inconvenience that may occwr. Farmers in the Lower Valley are going in for extensive tree-planting. The latest return from the W-irk-sop Dredge is 21cz 7dwt for a week's work. Mr J. Kay as resigned his position as headmaster of the Hamua School. It is stated that a well-known resident of Eketahuna is installing a - wireless'telegraphy plant. A syndicate of Chinamen has leased 600 acres of land for bananagrowing in Queensland. I The prices paid fc/r the past sea- \ son's butter-fat.by two of the leading ' butter companies in Victoria was 11.02 d aud ll£d The Pantomime "Jack"] and Jill," which is to be staged in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening next, will, owing to its length, commence punctually at 7.45 o'clock. fcThe Queensland Government is throwing open for selection about 8,000 square miles of country west of Charlesville, until now held by three or four occupation'licensees. ' A weifl-known Eketahupa farmer informed a Wairarapa Age reporter on Saturday last that in the Eketahuna district this season the percentage of twins and triplets among the flocks was greater any previous £ A Bluff firm of tisri merchants is - experimenting with a plant for canning oysters, which are preserved in their own liquor. The experiments are, it is reported, being carried out with considerable prospect of succespj The demard frnm Australia and - America for supplies of New Zealand hemp is still reported to be strong, but it is practically impossible to fulfil orders, though quotations ruling are in excess of the parity if London values. The Ashburton correspondent of i the Times" states that the much-dreaded grass grub has made its appearance in some of the early-sown wheat crops. In one or two instances paddocks affected have . been re-ploughed and sown in spring k cereals. At the annual meeting of the Tararua Rifle Club the following officers were elected for the ensuing 5 year:—President, Mr C. Albertsen; ' Vice-Presidents, Messrs J. Drysdale, P. H. Dowsett and A. Quinlan; ViceCaptain, Mr A. O. Petersen; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr R. Petersen; : Bandicappers, Messrs A. O. Petersen, Alex, Petersen aiid H. R. Keene; Management Committee, , Messrs A. K. Olaen, E. Biddle, E. J. Powell and K. Thomasen. Among the passengers on ihe missing steamer Waratah are Mr and Mrs Ernest Page. Mr Page (better known as Professor Bonner, a hypnotist) toured New Zealand in 1906 with Bostock and Wombell's circus. He used to hypnotise a man named Williams, and bury him beneath the ground for eight days. It will be remembered that when the circus was in Masterton "Professor, Bonner" caused Williams to drive blindfolded through the principal streets, over a trail previously covered/by a committee, in search of a Jwlden handkerchief. An old-time story is just told by the Dunedin "Star." An old man had come to the Otago diggings from the Fatherland in nis youth, and "humped his bluey" from field to field, year alter year. He had no luck, and eventually settled down in his little sod hut and worked a poor claim among the lonely hills. Then one day, when hope had fled, he saw the yellow'metal lying thick in his boxes, ' and in a couple of months or so he had £7,000 in the nearest bank. So ht went to Dunedin to set out for his beloved Fatherland. He booked his passage, but on the day the ship wad to sail he met some diggers, former mates, and —well, he missed the ship. That ship was the Tararua—and she was wrecked. Still we can go from home and bring back some strange news about our own country. In an article written for a London paper on where the Britisher might go to make a new home, Mr G. Henderson writes:— "New Zealand, the climate of which closely resembles our own, is grantng assisted passages to farmers and farm labourers provided they have not less than £25 capital. There are no free grants of land in New Zealand, but ground can be purchased freehold at about £2 an acre. There is absolutely no opening for mechanics." Freehold at £2 an acre' Then what are Mr Massey and the Reform Party getting red in the face about? Mr Henderson says, the Ward Government is throwing whole junks of our earth at immigrants without the option of leasehold. What a rush there will be for those £2-per-acre freeholds! The monthly meting of the Stewards of the Masterton Racing Club was held on Saturday afternoon. There were present:—Mr C. A. Pownall (chairman), and Messrs D. Donald, D. McLachlan, W. Piatt, F. E. Dorset, J. lorns, W. Cooper, R. Buick, Jaa. Macara, D. Caselberg, 1 0. C. Cooper, J. Crees. A polonies for absence were received from Messrs C. F. Vallarce, and. A. G. Pilmer. The Wellington Racing ulub wrote stating that licenses had been granted to F. Seccombe, W. Garrett and W. Bennett. The Secretary of the Racing Conference forwarded particulars of the alterations to rules and a list ot defaulting bookmakers. J. J. Cooper was granted a trainer's license and James Crerar a jockey's license. On the L motion of Mr O. C. Coope««j seconded by Mr D. Caselberg, a * committee consisting of Messra.Jas. Macara, R. Buick, W. Cooper, J. .< Cress and C. F. Vallance, deal with i all applications for licenses in fu- 1 ture: 11

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9581, 30 August 1909, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9581, 30 August 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9581, 30 August 1909, Page 4

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