LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9712, 7 February 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return fom the Worksop Dredge is 360z 13dwt for 124 hours' working.

The second demonstration of the series arranged by the Gas Department was given on Wednesday last in the Gas Showroom, in Queen street, in the presence of an audience of interested ladies, sufficient to seriously tax the seating accommodal tion. Miss Burnett again showed how useful a servant a gas stove may be, and gave a striking and convincing I proof by turning out several batches of most excellently cooked and delicious scones, cakes and pastry. She also demonstrated how quickly and well toast could be made on the griller portion of the stove. Mr Blackman, the Manager, announced that the total cost of the gas for the afternoon's cooking amounted to under three larthings, and stated that further demonstrations would be given at short intervals for some weeks, on dates to be advertised. He intends to show how cheaply a dinner can he cooked, ,how quickly an appetising breakfast can be prepareJ, and generally to prove the may advantages that lie in cooking by gas.

Delegates frsm the various Friendly Societies and other bodies interested in the St. John Ambulance Nursing Fund Bazaar are reminded of the meeting to beheld in the Drill Hall this (Monday) evening at 7.30 o'clock sharp, when important business in connection with the bazaar will be discussed.

A New Plymouth Press Association message states that a tram examiner named Fromont,. a married man, formerly at Wanganui, was seriously injured at the station on Saturday. He was stooping to examine a truck, when a van which was being shunted ran over him, cutting his thigh very severely. He was removed to the hospital in a serious condition.

To-morrow Messrs J. A. J. Maclean and Co., auctioneers, acting under instructions from the Public Trustee, will sell in the estate of the late T. J. McCarthy, on the premises Nursery road, the whole of the stock. The lines comprise 14 pigs, two horses, dog c&rt, pig cart, fowls, carpenter's tools, garden tools, etc. The household furniture consists of a piano (Bord), seven pieces of velvet suite, carpet, rugs, pictures, chairs, bedsteads, duchess pair and numerous | other lines too numerous to mention. | j The sale is advertised to start at I 1 half-past one. | ' ?"Mr T. Fleming, Chief Inspector | I of|Schools under the Wellington Ed- | ucation Board, who waited on the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday last in reference to securing a room for woodworking classes, stated that the Board was endeavouring to introduce a course of rural education in the District High Schools. The course was not intended to make farmers of the pupils, but the idea was to give them the necessary knowledge to furnish the basis for farming pursuits should they decide to go in for that class of work. The woodworking class was part, of this course. He had to thank the Association for the interest avirl support they Had always acccrdtd anything appertaining to matters of an educational nature.

"Our great ambition," stated Mr G. R. Sykes, Secretary of the Masterton A. and P. Association, on Saturday to a representative of thisjournal, "is to bring the membership of the Association up to I,UOO. We are putting on new members every month, and the general opinion is that if we work hard ft will not be long before we reach the goal of our desires." Nine new members were elected at Saturday's meeting, bringing the total up to 812. The list of new members elected is as follows Messrs J. Carr, Masterton; W. Denby, Masterton; R. Clephane, Dyerville: F. H. Latham, Awapirpiri;, J. T. Hawthorn, Lower Hutt; R. Miller, Kopuaranga;, S. Rpyner, Woodlands, Parkvale; William Algie, Alfredton; F. Arbon, Komako. A drowning fatality occured at i New Brighton, Christchuch, yester-r I day morning, reports the Pieas Association, whereby Robert Lee, twenty years of age, and Daniel G. Lee, seventeen years of age, lost their lives. Tbey were .'camping with their mother in Hood Street, and about 7.30 a.m., and went down to the beach for a bathe, telling their mother they would be back for breakfast within an hour. As they did not return at the expiry of that period the mother became anxious and went to the beach, where she found their clothes and a towel, but bo sign of her sons. So far as at present ascertainable the fatality was not seen by anyone, and it is assumed that one of the young men got into difficulties owing to the strong current and undertow, and that the other went to his assistance, witH the result that both were drowned During the afternoon the beach has been patrolled by numbers of men on horseback and by the police, but without being successful in recovering the hodies. A special meeting of the Wellington Branch of the Federated Shearers' union was held in the Dominion Hall on Saturday evening last, there being a fair attendance of members. An appeal from the Federated Miners to assist them was received, and after a lengthy discussion it was decided to vote the sum of twenty guineas to assist the union in obtaining the redress sought for. During the discussion Mr Wade's Coercion Act came in for a good deal of adverse comment, and much sympathy was expressed for Mr Bowling and his comrades, who had been victimised while endeavouring to obtain what was due to the workers. A resignation from one of the committmen was received with regret, and anoother member was elected to fill his place. Two other members who werfe guilty of breaches of the rules were called upon to resign. The secretary's report in regard to a four weeks' organising tour in Northern Hawke's Bay and Gisborne districts came in for favourable discussion, and Mr Abbott wa3 complimented on the energy he had displayed in furthering the work of the (Union in those districts.

A'Press Association telegram received from Auckland yesterday reads:—"lnterviewed in regard to the intimation that the Cabinet has reconsidered the Knyvett Case, and has no recommendation to make, Mr J. S. Dickson, Chairman of the Knyvett Defence Committee, said he was greatly .surged at the decision Cabinet had come to. 'lt is evident the whole was a farce,' said Mr Dixon, 'and I will call a meeting of the com. tted on Monday next to lay the whole matter before our legal adviser's. We intend to fight the matter to a finish, and will take it into the law courts. Cabinet's decision comes as a thunderbolt not alone to me, bur, lam sure to the Auckland public, and I feel now that Mr Knyvett has more unjustly treated than ever. We adked that the opportunity of thrashing the matter out should be given in a new trial, and that request has been refused. It can now be taken for granted that the whole of the facts will be adduced in the course of a civil action."'

Mr J. Smith announces by advertisement in this issue that his Saturday art classes will resume on FebTm H }l th and tho Th »rsdav classes on 24th February. Mr Smith's ability «» a teaclier is fully recognised, and his classes were well patroniaed during tha last term. A display of Mr Smith's work is made in his Queen street premises, and several specimens of pupils', work are also Showing the rapid progress raaae anring' one term.

At the Wellington Supi'eme Court,! on Saturday last, Joseph Williams, charged with the attempted murder of his son-in-law, Francis Joseph Martin, on December Ist, was found not guilty. At the meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday last the Railway Department wrote; stating that the by-law restricting . the weights of wheat, oats and barley, to be carried by the railway in any r o sack has been cancelled, and jA a nc- one brought into operation, jjk The i ow by-law restricts to 2001b the weight of all classes of cereals and agricultural produce to be conveyed by railway in any one sack, 1 and any sacks containing more than that weight (exclusive of the weight of the sack) will be charged at four timed the/Jordinarv rate.

®|Messrs W. 13. Chennells and Co. report the following sales ot farming lands on Saturday last. By public action in the estate of the late Mr A. E. Watson deceased, 4$ acres freehold, Alfredton, to Mrs T. M. Rutherfurd, at £9 10s per acre; , also the leasehold interest in 385 jjj.f acres, Alfredton, to Mr John Cross, J?'. junr., at £3OO. A large number of settlers attended this sale, and competition for both lots vias very keen. | The firm also report, by private treaty, 51 acres Rangitumau, on behalf of Mr. J. Clarke to Mr McKen7ie, and 248 acres of the Matahiwi Estate to Mr Clarke. Miss Waddington, A.T.C.L., gives notice of bavine resumed tuition for the term in pianoforte and theory. 9*-% A special meeting of the NoLicense League will be held in th& Y.'M.C.A, Kooms, this evening, to elect officers and attend to other important matters. i Tenders are invited by the i ( ton Farmers' Meat Company, Ltd.,V | Wameawa, tor farming and ! a rrs"i t" connect with the Masterton CiHierirn road, also fencing and drainagti. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Company's office, Perry street, and tenders close with the Secretary next Saturday, I2th . inst.

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