LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9595, 15 September 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two cases of infectious diseases have been reported to the Eketahuna County Council. Mr J. C. Boddington reports that seven degrees of frost were registered on the Upper Plain yesterday morning. A case of fever at JVJanaia was reported by Dr Cook to the meeting of the Masterton County Council yesterday. The annual general meeting of shareholders of the W.F.C.A. will be held on Tuesday, September 28th, at 2.30 p m. In the Morison's Bush district the lambing has been very satisfactory though the rough weather during the past ten days has caused considerable mortality, The Tararua Kifle Club opened the season on Saturday last with a match between teams selected bv the captain and vice-captain. The latter 'a team won by 399 points to 390,

The new King's Theatre, which is to be erected at the corner of Dixon Street and Courtemiy Place, Wellington, will cost £9,000, and ia to be completed by February 22nd next. Mr Wi Hutana has resigned his position as a steward of the Lower Valley Jockey Clab, and Mr J. Orbell has been appointed to fill the vacant position. The club have fixed bookmakers' licenses at £lO per day. The following is the result of the second and third rounds of the Grey • town Golf Club's consolation handicap competition: H Feast 92, W. J. Feast 96. J. Ireland 96, H. V.} Halse 106, A. L. Webster 115, W. Feast 122. The Borough Council decided last evening to proclaim Thursday, October 28th a public from, noon on the occasion of the people's, day of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society's Show to be held at Carterton on that date.

*;The Masterton County Council decided yesterday to write to the Secretary of the Opaki-Lansdowne water supply scheme, asking him to arrange a meeting for the purpose of electing a Management O'ommittee to take over the control of the scheme, which will soon be completed.

| The bejstruck in the Masterton County received final consideration at the meeting of the Council yesterday. AH the rates as, advertised were authorised to b8 levied, but in the case of the Rangitumau riding it was decidedto collect only id of the fd in the pound previously struck. ££," HenriJ of fiNavarre", which ' hasbeen secured for Australia by Mr J. C. Williamson, is enjoying a fine run in London, for, according to the "Daily Telegraph," it- scored its 200 th performance last month, and that paper goes on to state that it is "one of the conspicuous successes of thejaeason."

A; debate of considerable local interest will take place at the Y.M.C.A. Roems, to-night, at 7.30o'clock," when a team from the Fire Brigade will meet a Y.M.U.A.. team on the question "That Fire Boards Should be Abolished." An invitation is extended to all who care to do so to be present.

Feathorston defeated Grey town at golf on Saturday last by ten games to three. The Featherston men won by s'games to 3, and the Feath • eraton ladies won by sto nil. A match is to be played on the Greytown links on September 25th'.be* tween the Greytown and Middle Kun Golf Clubs. '■'*,."

" One of the new settlers on Carrihgton Estate, Mrs Harris has been experiencing an unusual run of misfortune. Mrs Harris' hubsand died: some time ago, then las>t week her youngest child died, and dn returning home from the funeral found another child had passed beyond human aid. At a meeting of the Wellineton Presbytery yesterday, it was resolved to set up an evangelical committee foi the Wairarapa. It was decided to recommend the Church Extension Committee to make a grant to the Wairarapa South and Carterton charges for the- employment of a student.

Letters for the following persons are lying unclaimed at the Masterton Post Office:—-W. W. Ballantyne, G. Bell, H. H. Uifford, J. S. Gilbank, John Leighton, Mtas E. B. Rutter, Mrs M. A. Turner, Wolstenholme,. Roland King Smith, United Kingdom; H. Brand, Netherlands; JaR. Jorgenson, United States; E. L. Foster, Cape Colony; John G. Ball, J. Bowes. C. J. Gibson, F. R. Smith,. New South Wales; W. Carnie, Jas. Chisholm, Albert Lucas, Victoria. Mr H. Wilson wrote to the Borough Council, last evening, asking for a committee to be appointed to re-open the question of erecting a singeing plant at the Borough Abattoirs for the purpose of singeing, scalding and scrubbing carcases of pigs. The Council suspended the standing orders, to permit of a resolution proposed by Cr Ewington being moved, to the effect that a committee consisting of Crs Pauling, Temple, Morris and the mover confer with Mr Wilson on thematter and report at the next meeting of the Council. The motion was carried. Though it seems incongruous, the • taste of quite a number of limelight favourites run to "a little farm well tilled."' A beautiful little farm near the village of Wimille in the north of France has recently been purchased by Mr Thomas Kingston, the well-kndwn actor, who is looked forward to settling down to the delights of a farmer's life when his stage career is over. At present the villa is in the charge of caretakers, who live tent free, and making a living out of the fruit and vegetables which they grow on the land surrounding the house. This has long been Mr Kingston's ideal for the time when he enters upon that period of rest all actors look forward to, and so few realise.

District military classes for the benefit of officers and sioned officers of volunteers have been extremely valuable, and their effect is shown in the great efficiency of all ranks During last week a class was held at New Ply mouth. Colonel uauchop, commanding: the district, taking the clashes for three evenings, and Captain Chesney, Assistant Adjutant-General, for the remaining two evenings of the season. The average attendance of', officers and non commissioned officers was forty. Two classes have already been held in Wellington, and one each in Palmerston North and Wanganui. It is intended to hold classes also at uarterton, Napier and Gis • borne.

! The Masterton Chamber of Commerce decided at its last meeting to write to the Masterton County Council, urging upon tint body the desirability of ejecting a stock bridge over the Waipoua liiver at the Colombo Road crossing, ?md suggesting that the timber from the present Waipoua bridge might be utilised for the purpose when the improvements to the Northern approach were effected. Mention was also made of the decision to remove the saleyards to Solway as an argument in favour of the suggestion. This letter was read at the meeting of the County Council yesterday, and on the motion of Or Toogood it was decided that the Council was not in a position to deal with the matter at present.