LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9593, 13 September 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Work son Dredge is 270z for 100 hours. P t the last meeting of the Feather • at i County Council a dr. balance of £3,337 lis 8d was reported. The British Board of Trade Commissioner. Mr G. H. P. Rolleston, says Taranaki is one of the solidest places he has passed through. Mr J. C. Boddington reports tha* there were eight degrees of frost on the Upper Plain on Saturday morning last, Mr W. B. Matheson. of Eketa - huna, will attend a conference of the Society of Friends which is to be held at Adelaide shortly. The Ashbu-ton County Council has arranged for the importation of a number of little owl 3 for liberation in the Ashburton county, to keep down small Dirds. Ploughmen and general farm hands nre so scarce in the Feilding district as to be practically impossible to obtain. General labourers are also hard to obtain. The Nireaha Cheese Factory will open for the season during this week. The factory would have been opened earlier but for the alterations that were being carried out to the buildings. A conference will be held shortly by*.he directors of the Masterton and Matiriceville Dairy Companies to discuss *he question of amalgamation. The directors of the Masterton Com • pany will meet on Wednesday next to fix a for the conference. The first anniversary services of the Congregational Church in Masterton were held yesterday. Rev. A. Hodge conducted the services, and there were large attendances both morning and evenjng. The subject for the morning address waß "The Method and the Spirit of Church Building" from the text "The House that is Builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical," and for the evening the subject was "The Battle of the Religious." A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association was held on Saturday morning. Mr 0. C. Cooper was elected chairman for the ensuing year. The secretary was instructed to circularise members, asking thum to pay their subscriptions at their earliest convenience, as the Associai tion was undertaking a great deal of expense in connection with the Solway grounds. The general committee of the Association adopted the report at its meeting in the afternoon. Mr Purcell Webb's organ recital will be given at the Knox Church on Wednesday evening next, when an attracive programme of music from the works of Wagner, Liszt, Collins, and other composers will be performed: Miss May DriscolJ, who lately took the contralto solos at the Choral Society's concert in the Wellington Town Hall, has been engaged as soloist. Anthems, quartettes, and a cornet solo by Mr F. W. G. McLeod will also be rendered, Tickets may be obtained from members of the Knox choir or at Messrs McLeod and Young's, Queen Street.

There were large congregations at both the rroming and evening ser • vices, held in the Methodist Church, yesterday. At the morning service, in his talk to the children, Mr Porter spoke on "The Highest Learning." The subject of his address to the adult members of the tion was "The E'act and Function of the Human Will." At the evening service Mr Porter spoke on "The Gospel for the Lost." During the service a special anthem was rendered by the choir The services held at Rangitumau by Rev. C. E. Porter at 3 p.m., and at Kuripuni in the evening by Mr Thomson, were also well attended. At the Y.M.C.A. Rooms yesterday, Mr. G. Falla spuke at*the men's meeting, taking as his subject Genesis 1., 1, "In the beginning, God." He Bewailed the fact in these days men were leaving God out of account, and even in religious organisations things secular seemed to be more popular than things religious Even in the Y.M.C.A. the tendency to day was to drop out the "C." The danger of this was pointed out. and the speaker urged upon the young men the necessity of .-liming at higher things. At the strangers' tea, which followed, a good number of young men staved and visitors from the Old Country and other places spoke in response to welcome by the General Secretary. The tea was provided by the ladies of the Methodist Church, and a hearty vote nf thanks was ten ■ dered to them by the members.

The Wanganui society intends to arrange for a big display of wool at its Show. The Wellington crematorium, which is situated in the cemetery at Karori. has been tested and worked satisfactorily. The temperature registered was 1,500 degrees Fahren • heit. An old and trusted departmental servant in Canterbury, says the "Press," received intimation on Monday of last week that his services would not be required after Tuesday—one day's notice. Last year heifer calves were worth17s 6d. now we can get £2 10s. Then, pigs are realising £1 that were not worth more than 6s lasc year, said a local farmer to the "Eltham ! Argus." | An Eltham dairy farmer who was ' milking 55 cows last season received milk cheques to the amount of £834 3s 6d. In addition to this he has a bonus to come of from £25 to £3O, while he sold a lot of pigs. A meeting' of the committee of the Masterton branch of the Navy League will be held in the Council Chambers this evening at eight o'clock, to make arrangements in connection with Trafalgar Day celebrations and other business.

A local shipping authority believes that Nelson will prove a considerable rival to Wellington now that Nelson is accessible to the large liners. "It needs no more than a casual glance at the map to see how Nelson is going to beat Wellington for the West Coast transhipments," he remarked. "It does not matter what part of the world you go to," said Mr W, Reece, at the meeting of the General Committee of the Canterbury A, and P. Association, the fame of New Zealand is known as a little country producing some of the best stock in the world. The Wairarapa dairy farmers do not consider that there will be many outrighs sales of dairy produce mad© this season. Owing to the fact that many buyers were hit heavily last season it is more than likely that most of the. cheese and butter will be forwarded to London dn consignment. At the meeting of the General Ccmmittee of the Masterton A. and P. Association ori Saturday last, the following new members were elected Messrs J. Dawson, S. R. Amyes, C. Peters, W. J. Reed* W. Winslade, B. Wadham, C. W. Marshall, A. Mason, G. H. Inness, V. vV. Groves, C. Re id, J. Porter and Miss A. Gardiner. A recent visitor to Australia, Mr Robert Bell, of Ashburton, is not at all sanguine as to the argicultural prospects of Queensland. "The question for those who are turning their eyes toward Queensland to consider,"" he stated to an intervjewer, "is whether during a period of twenty years—which is hot too long a period in a man's lifetime - whether at the end of twenty years they would have done better in a country which is bo prolific on the one hand, and, on the other, is so cruelly devastated by droughts, floods and fires, or whether at the end of that period they would not have been better off in, «ay, New Zealand, with' its equable climate and its more even' conditions. This is a question which I leave farmers and investors and' all interested to answer for themselves."

An inquest touching the death,of Norman Sutherland, son of Mr J. O. Sutherland, which occurred at Admiral Run on Thursday last was held on Saturday afternoon at Gladstne, Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, J.P., presiding. According to the evi • dence it appears that the deceEßed and his brother Gordon (twins aged about twelve years) were out shooting in a boat on a lagoon. A pea rifle which was lying in the bottomof the boat, suddenly exploded, the contents of the charge lodging in one of the unfcrtunate boy's lega, severing the main artery. Medical assist* ance was procured, but without avail, the boy dying in the evening.. A verdict that death resulted from hemorrhage due to accidental shooting was returned. Mr W. Allen wrote to the meeting of the Mastercon A. and P. Association on Saturday last, suggesting, as a means of raising funds for the showgrounds at Solway, that exhibitors, members, and well wishers' lists be prepared in the following manner:—A list to be opened for four years at £5 per aunum, and payable each year at Kam Fair time, 100 subscribers to be obtained for this if possible; another list to be opened for four years at £4 per annum, and so on; and that the members of the Association double their subscriptions for four years. Mr Alien stated that his first subscription towards the fund would be a twenty guinea stud ram. A subcommittee, comprising Messm u. C. Summerell, J. D. Cruickshank, J. B, Moodie and O. C. Cooper was appointed to leport in connection with Mr Allen's suggestion at the next meeting. He was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his generous offer.

There was a large attendance at the Town Hall last evening, at the sacred concert organised by the members of the Masterfcon Fire Police and Fire Brigade for the benefit of Mr F. Boyle, who recently had the misfortune to be laid up in the Hospital with a fracture, and whose family is in need of some assistance. As a rasult of the collection which was taken up during the evening the sum of £l2 3s 9d was'realised. The Committee who arranged the very excellent programme of items, were, however, disappointed with the small amount subscribed, especially in view of the large attendance. The following programme was rendered Overture, "Jubilation,'' Battalion Brass Band; song, "Ls Rameaux," Mr F. Hunn; string quartette, "Boccherini Minuet," Miss Hollo way, Messrs Reiharia Boyes. Inns and Goldard; Song, "Oh Sontr Divine," Mrs Francis; recitation, "Man," Mr E. R. Wilson; song, "De Profundis," Mr W. Iggulden; song, "The Valley of Tears," Miss Baxter Instrumental duet, "Excelsior," Messrs F. W. U. McLeod and J. Elder; song., • "The Holy City." Mr W. ' Jago; quartette, Misses Jago and Baxter, and Messrs Hunn and Jago. Miss Winnie Jones presided at the piano in a very able manner. At the conclusion of the concert Mr L. H, Lewis returned thanks to all thosa who had assisted with the concert.. The piano used during the evening was kindly lent by Messrs McLeod; g d Yung. :