LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9639, 3 November 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the last meeting of the local Amateur Theatrical Society eight new members were elected. A conference of Fruitgrowers' Associations of New Zealand will begin in Wellington to-day.

The Masterton W.C.T.U. have decided to hold their annual social on December 7th.

During the tree-planting operations in Wellington last winter the corporation planted over 42,000 trees, comprising from 25 to 30 different species. Wanganui land agents report an awakening in the land market. More money seems available for investment than has been the case tor some time. This week's shows are at Piilmerston North (November 3rd, 4th and sth), Blenheim (November 2nd and 3rd), and Ashburton (November 3rd and 4th).

Evidence that the tourist season is commencing early this year is shown by the large number ot strangers who are to be seen about Wanganui. One boarding house had as many as 25 in at the latter end of last week. The silver jubilee of the foundation of St. Patrick's College, Wellington, on June Ist next, will be fittingly celebrated. About one thousand young men, scattered throughout New Zealand, and Australia, have received their [education at the College.

Two hundred and fourteen estates of deceased persons were lodged for probate duty in the Stamp Office during October. The largest was that of the late Richard May Morten, of Christchurch, whose estate was valued at £83.878.

Fifty-three years' work on one farm is the record of Joseph Bradshaw, awarded first prize at Loughborough Show, England, for length of service in one situation as farm labourer.

Interesting particulars of th 9 season's wool clip are now coming to hand, states a contemporary. At the station of Mr W. E. Bidwill, Rototawai, Lower Valley, though the eheep only included wet ewes and hoggets, the whole flock of 5,433 averaged 101b 4oz nett per sheep. Last year they averaged 101b 2oz. The flock is of the Romney Marsh breed, and has been established for at least forty years. Last year the wool (including locks, pieces, and in fact, everything that left the shed) averaged 10.31 d per lb. The next performance of the Mas>

terton Amateur Theatrical Society will be Gilbert and Sullivan's wellknown comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance. The Society expect to be able to stage the opera by February next. Towards the latter part of this month "Facing the Music," a popular, comedy, will be presented, the proceeds of which will ,go towards the Masterton Hospital. The Society is considering the matter of staging either "Trial by Jury" or "Facing the Music" in Carterton at no distant dats.

There is nothing like being resourceful, says the "Eltham Argus." A gentleman was in Wanganui and fishing to catch the express train ■for the North, but missed the train for Araraoho. However, he was a man of resource and not easily beaten, so he hired a cab. He was driven at a furious rate to Aramoho, and as he reached the station he heard the engine whistle and just on the tick of the train starting be scrambled aboard, panting and exhausted. When he recovered his breath he told his fellow oassengets of his experience. Then the laugh came in. In his eagerness he had boarded the wrong train, and was being taken back to his starting point, Wanganui. There is a big "boom" on at present in the dairy industry in Auckland province. The factory outputs of biitter and cheese are mounting up at a rapid rate, and by those closely interested in the industry the rate of increase of exports and the chances of climatic conditions are watched with almost as keen excitement as the share list by the biggest operators in mining scrip. For the fortnieht ending last week the quantity of butter put into cold store! for

export totals 15,680 boxes, or 392 tons, valued approximately at £37,257 as compared with 10,941 boxes, or 273 tons, for the corresponding fortnight last year. This brings the export for the season from September Ist to date to just on 900 tons, valued roughly at £86,700, as compared with 539 tons for the corresponding period of last year—an increase of 361 tons in two months. Sixty-six thousand cubic yards, or 96,000 tons, of sandstone has been taken out of the second longest tunnel in New Zealand, which is the Calton Hill tunnel, on the DunedinMosgiel duplication railway at Caversnam, states the "Duneriin Star." The longest tunnel is that through the Port Hills at Lyttelton, which is over a.mile long, and therefore the. lonu«st in the country until the com pletion of the Otira tunnel, which will be over five miles in length. The'length of the Caversham tunnel is 71 chains, or three chains less than a mile. The tunnel was begun two years ago, and is expected to be finished in December. To make it as it is twenty tons of blasting powder and five tons of gelignite have been exploded, and there has been a mighty lot of honest, good work. It is interesting to note that the first

blow was struck in the new tunnel on I October 22nd. 1907, and that it was pierced on October 22nd, 1909. There are at present 250 workmen employed on the works. The licensing laws of New Zealand occasionally press very severely in sudden emergencies. One evening quite recently, says a Wellington paper, a highly respected and well-to-do couple were walking home after having speiit a quiet evensng with some friends, without any warning the lady was srized with an attack of heart failuie. It was about 11 p.m., and no ore was about. Her husband knocked at the door of a hotel near by, but on making his request for a drop of spirits for his wife was poirt blank refused. With excusable indignation he made for the police station in the vicinity, and explained his case to an officer—a stimulant was urgently wanted for a l*dy. The constable ran to the hotel and demanded what was required, but was treated w'th as scant cere- | mony as the first applicant. The publican would not serve him. Mean, while the lady had gradually come to,' and was taken home in a cab. Of course, for all a publican may know such applications may merely be a trick of obtaining drink after hours, in which case he is liable to be fined heavily and have his license endorsed, and so the hotel proprietor io3olves to take no risks and so refuse drink ta all after hours.

The Eketahuna wool-classing classes has a membership of 81. During October the rainfall registered in Eketahuna was 3.93 inches, rain falling on 17 days. A branch ot the Navy League in connection with the Fernridge School 1 is to be formed on Thursday afternoon next. Mr W. T. Mansfield will ! give a short address on the occasion.'.

The Masterton Ladies' SwimmingClub have at last been suceessfuli in effecting a sale of the cottage presented to them by Dr. W. H. Hosking. The price is £2OO, and the purchaser Mr Jas. Buckton. The recently formed association which has been organising to deal with the small bird nuisance has already purchased 5,601 blackbirds 5 ' and thrushes' eggs, and 273 dead; birds.

It was reported at the meeting of the Eketahuna branch of the' New Zealand Farmers' Union on Saturday last that only fourteen members had paid their annual subscription to date. Charges of breaches of the Licensing Act by selling on Sunday, against Mr Percy Rogers, of Greytown, hotelkeeper, will be heard before the Magistrate at Greytown to-day. Mr C. A. Pownall is retained for the defence.

The Court in connection with the Park street "raid," recently made by the police will be ventilated at the next sitting of the, Magistrate's Court. It is understood that the case envolves some fifteen charges. Mr C. A. Pownall will apper for the defence. An unoccupied house at Lansdowftd was burglariously entered some time on Saturday or Sunday night last, when several articles were removed, including a cash box. The furniture was in the house, and the lessee was about to enter into possession. The police are making enquiries. The Masterton Homing Pigeori Club have decided to hold young birds' races on Thursdays, and also to procure two mere training hampers capable of holding twenty birds. Mr G. Miller has been appointed to sea to the forwarding of hampers containing birds. A race is to be flown from Ohakune on Saturday 1 ; next.

On Saturday last the Tararua Rifle Club held the fourth competition tor the Alberthsen cup and club medal, the following being the best scores■» Rifleman Alex. Petersen 66,, Rifle-' man T. Daysh 66, Rifleman H. Ticehurst 61, Rifleman 0. A. Olsen Rifleman J. Petersen 56, Rifleman R. Thomasen 56, Rifleman B. Al* berthsen 55.

At a meetiing of the Masterton Women's Christian Temperance Union, yesterday afternoon, the elec» tion of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: —President, Mra L. Devonport; Vice Presidents Mes* dames Adj. Green, Fannjn, Exell, Green and Burton; Treasurer, Mra J. Miller (re-elected); Secretary Mrs D'Ews (re-elected); Organist, Mrs Falla. Mr Aitken, hotelkeeper at H bertville, is being sued in the Magistrate's Court at Dannevirke on Thursday for recovery of a cheque for £SO, alleged to hav<e been "knocked down" in bis hotel. The case is creating considerable local interest.; Mr Gordon Lloyd, of Dannevirke,,' will appear for the plaintiff, and Mr C. A. Pownall, of Masterton, for the defendant.

A property consisting of acres, situated on the East Coast,, has been offered to the Masterton Land League for closer settlement.

purposes through Messrs Cochrane u and Butement, land and estate «ft agents. A competent person is to make an inspection of the property in a few days, when a full description of the place will be submitted to the League. At the Police Court, yesterday afternoon, Thomas Morton was charged l before Mr E. G. Eton, J.P., with the theft of a lawn mower, the propety of Mrs H. Infield, and some flowers and flower-pots belonging to William Henry Beetfiam. He was remanded until Satirday. On the application of Mr G. A. Pownall, who ( appeared for accused, bail was al-

lowed in accused's own recong'sance 0 of £SO and one surety of £SO. The I bail was forthcoming. A representative of a firm wbicb operates very largely in the Feilding district has informed the "Star" that taking a period within which the firm did £60,000 worth of business, they had to write off only £SO for bad debts. Although it was possible to make one or two debts in the town, if they liked to ba reckless, the district was absolutely solid. Business is and has been extremely good, and is improving. On the East Coast route alone there is more than one undeveloped' \ A Taranaki, and experience hps abund- m antly shown that, taken as a whole, Auckland is the real dairying province of the Dominion, states the New Zealand "Herald." Butter tothe value of a million sterling could be raised yearly in Auckland province ias easily as a million loan can be - ' raised once in London provided only that settlement we?e permitted on< the locked-up lands. • The South Australian Government has juat located the crave of John Charles Darke, who wasj killed by blacks on Peninsula, on Qcto* Der 24th, 1844. and intend to tree! a monument there. Darke assisted in laying out Melbourne in 1838, / and afterwards joined the South. Australian Survey Department, under Colonel Frome., He located the beautiful country which is about to be opened up by a railway that? will pass within eight miles of hia grave, but over which no white man ever passed for over half a century after his death.

Nearly a million pounds of but} ter, or about 412 tons weight, werQ manufactured at the Glen Oroua factory (Palmcrston North) last year—an increase of 35 tons over the previous year. Owing to the variation in values, however, thQ increased bulk brought the same return as in 1908. The grose profit on the manufacturing account was •£3,470, and the net £854, .-enabling a 6 per cent, dividend to be paid-! Every pound of butter look 22.721bs of milk, and a bonus of one-eighth of a penny per pound of fat will be paid to suppliers. The directors, in their annual report, speak hopefully of the results of the pasteurising experiment being carried out by the Government to eradicate tuberculosis, which is very prevalent iuthepig herds of the district.

» The Woodville Bowling Club will open the season to day. The number of sheep in the DanneV\rke cour.ty at the year ending April 30th, 1909, was 249,598. The Carterton exhibitors at the ManawatuShow consigned their stock ■*•l through to Palroeiston North yesterday morning. Henry Beaumont, the keeper of a second-hand shop in Whangarei, committed suicide about 4 p.m., yesterday, by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Stonehenge Lodge, U. A.0.D., held their fortnightly meeting last eveny ing, Bro W. Gourlay, A.D., pre- / siding. Considerable correspondence was dealt with, and two new memJjers were initiated. A well-known Wanganui identity "Jimmy" McCann, died yesterday at tlie age of 70 years. The deceased was a Crimean and Indian Mutiny veteran, and also went fthrough the Maori war with the 68th Regiment. Onß of the Standard VII. pupils attending the Kimbolton School, Frank Nesdale, showed such skill in classing wool at the classes recently held by Mr Cahill, says the Feilding "Star,"' that he has been engaged by Mr William Beard to classify his ""7 reason's clip fo? him this year.

A Press Association telegram from Eunedin states that in a prosecution against the Ophir hotelkeeper for permitting a portion of his premise to be used as a dancing saloon, Bit Bartholomew, S.M., following a lecent English decision, held that one isolated act did not constitute using, and dismissed the information. Great interest is being shown bv hotelkeepers in the case, which is regarded as a test one. Totara Lodge, U.A.0.D., met on Monday Bro. E. WalliS ( A.D., presiding, writes our ton correspondent. Three friends were proposed for membership, and one was initiated. Bros. R. Smith and W. Erickßon were added tc the committee, which is arranging the social in connection with the card tournament and Bro. Molloy's departure. Receipts for the meeting amounted to £l2 lis, and disbursements to £6 Ba. Ten thousand codlin moth grub 9 have been sent to Auckland from the Manawatu district by the Govern* *nt pomoloeist. The grubs are to be used for food for the parasites that Mr Boarchier is Dreeding for the campaign against the destructive codlin. They are caught Dy means of bandages placed round the tree trunks, the larvae taking refuge In the folds of the sacking. From one orchard in the Feilding district recently 3,000 grubs were taken. In/New Zealand there is good rea*ot» to hope, says the "Christchurch I'ress," that the money market will become easier, for there is a very marked connection the price of money and the activity of the wool-buyers, and it is believed in some quarters that the comparative weakness of the opening sales in Brisbane the other day was due to the increased dearness of money at Borne. A rise in the bank rate may therefore have very material bearing upon the prosperity of the farmers, and therefore of the Dominion, and the course of the money market will he watched with more than usual interest during the next few months.

YoUtl# trifih able to milk seeks position on a dairy Earm.

fiSrF. F. Welch baa a new list .of wanteds on page 1 of this issue.

An especially fine assortment of art copper-ware is now on view in the W.F.O.A. Fancy Department.

The year's output of brewer',3 grains at the Eagle Brewery, Masterton, is advertised for sale. Mesrna Varnham and Rose invite tenders to close at noon on Wednesday next for the erection of a dwelling at Lansdowne, Mr J. Carpenter advertises apecial lines in ladies' light footwear for the summer season.. Particulars and prices appear elsewhere.

As there are at present two Mr Stuart Campbells's residing in Colomba road, Masterton, the. request is made that alPletters and parcels show; the address as set out in the advertisement.

Messrs Geo. Boyes and Co., land i and eßtate agents. Hamilton, adver- j tise particulars of two well improv- c ed dairy farms which they are i authorised to sell at a moderate price I and on easy terms. 1 All careful housewives are well 1 aware ttowt t "Varnishine," Champion "Baking Powder, Champion Custard < Powder, and Reliance Blue are , articles of everyday use and indis- , pensible. They are procurable at all i grocers. i Some three months ago Mr A. J. Giddings started to sell the now famous Ship brand Jelly Crystals at five packets for one shilling. Since that , time he has sold over ten thousand packets of this delicious luxury to people resident in the Wairarapa district. He is still stocking and selling this delicacy, and he points out to his customers that these Jelly Crystals are made absolutely from purest French gelatine, and' flavoured with the real fruit juice pressed from freshly picked fruit. Those who have not already bought some of the jellies are Invited to da so, as the quality is exceptional and the price decidedly low. IF YOU HAVE * A Cough. Cold, Nose, Throat or Lung Trouble, Stomach, Bowel or Liver Com*iln.i«t Rheumatism, Neuralgia, USE SANDEE'S EUCALYPII EXTRACT, 5 drops in a tablespoon water. Remember, youcanmot expect the good effects.torn any sort of Eucalyptus. SANDER o EXTRACT CTJ RES bfiCfmso it ccut&ins Athereal and antiseptic substances not contained in other Eucalyptus products. These latter, made by persons ignorant to chemistry, and provided with fancy names and labels by trading concerns who do not know what they contain, have caused grievous harm, and a death has resulted from their use. Do not apply an ointment to a sore! It keeps back the secretion, lo wounds, bruises, sprains, burns, ulcera e™ and other skin troubles APPLY SAN DEE'S EXTRACT—IS drops m a tablespoon of Olive oil. The effect will surprise XT SANDER'S EXTBACT HEALS, . Lcause it is freed from the irritating constituents contained in ether Eucalyptus predictions. It heals when others "ISt .poJ the QENDINE SANDER HDCAKMI EXTRACT, an 4 JOT fche benefit. * l3