LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 981, 26 February 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is stated that at the next genJ eral election the Hon. E. Mitchelson, \of Auckland, will re-enter the j politcal arena in the Liberal interest. I An enthusiastic member ot the ! xaastertun Rifles cycled from the other side of. Alfredton, yesterday mornng, in order to proceed to Wellington, with his Company which left yesterday afternoon for the "Kitchener uamp" at Johnsonvlle. « Freezing operations are in full swing at both the Gisborne freezing works at the present time. Last week over 12,7000 sheep were put through the Gisborne Sheepfarmers' works. -Bookings continue to be j heavy, especially with mutton. By special train, yesterday afternoon, the Masterton Mounted Rifles, Masterton Rifles C Company, and the Ruahino No. 5 Battalion Band, left Masterton for the encampment at Johnsonville, and will return by special train arriving in Masterton to-morrow afternoon., The warm soaking rain which fell all day yesterday was very welcome to farmers in general j throughout the wairarapa. A few days of weather like that or yesterday would make an appreciable difference in the autumn growth of grass. In answer to, a question as to whether the eggs of a tuberculosis fowl would be affected, Mr J. B. Merrett, on Thursday evening last, at his poultry lecture, said that at a conference of the medical profes sion at New York some time back, none of the medical men present bad j ever been able t.a trace any transmis- , sion of disease from poultry to huj man beings. J Superintendent T. Jenkins, of the : Masterton Fire Brigade, and decre- ] tary A. E Wilton, of the Masterton Fire Police, who have been attending J the annual Fire Brigades' Conference j at Hastings, returned to Masterton ! yesterday afternoon. They stated I that out of a tot»l of 111 brigades ' affiliated to the Fire Brigades' Assoi cation, repesentatives were present [ from no less than 108 brigades. It is not often that one hears of a hen laying a bad fresh egg, yet Mr J. B. Merrett, speaking at the poultry lecture on Thursday evening, said that occasionally such wis the case. The cause, the lecturer said, was through some injury, the result being that foreign matter became encased in the egg. These eggs could easily be detected, when held to the light in the proper manner, small black spots being discernible in them. The old Manawatu Gorge coach road has now been cleared of the slips, which have blocked the thoroughfare intermittently for the past two years. A number of new bridges are replacing the old structures on the road, and when these are completed the gorge will be clear for traffic. Unless some means are taken, however, to prevent the sliding of the hillsides in two or three places, it is very probable that the road will again be badly blocked in the winter time.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, stated to a West Coast interviewer tne other day that he believed Westla'-d would in time be as great a district as Taranaki. He propoa I to have experiments made to discover which class of grass was most suitable for pasture in the province. Once the Midland railway was through he was sure there would be a steady stream of farmers' sons into Westland from the East Coast s of the South Island. He looked forward to eseing many small dairying holdings of 100 acres or so. J

[ The gardens, eight in number, in connection with the Masterton Horticultural Society's cottage garden competition, were judged on Thursday last, and the result will be notified at the Society's Show, in the Town and Drill Halls, on Wednesday evening next. The entries, which were judged by Messrs J. Alpass. E. Hale and J. Pryor, are as follows:—H. Madeley, Lincoln road; W. H. Dunn, Dixon street; C. C. Cox, PownaJl street; S M. Hill, Bannister street; L. E. Richards,' Hogg Crescent: R. G. Dixon, Bannister street; T. Moof, Lincoln road, and H. Wimsett, Wrigley street

The membership of the Willington General Labourers' Union at present stands at about 670, a fall-ing-off of about 200 when compared with the membership at this time last year. The cause of the falling-i off is the number of men who left New Zealand during the depression of last winter. Bishop Welldon tells the follow-} ing story concerning his days as head master at Harrow. The boys on one occasion, he says, were asked to write whst they knew concerning Ballarat, i Australia:—"Ballurat *» is the mo /tain upon which the ark J rested afn-i* the great flood. It is also the name of a game,that the King plays every night!" The secretary of the Mastertort Hospital desires to acknowledga thankfully having received from Mr E. Gallichau, of 33 Firie street, We!-f lington, through His Worship tha Mayor ot Masterton, a receipt for a year's subscription to the "New Zealand Times," a donation to the institution, which will be muchap* : predated by the inmates. An interesting case is to be heardj at the next sitting of the [ trate's Court, when the Clerk of tha 1 Mauriceville County Council will ,^% ceed against Stephen Harding, wag- ! goner, Lansdowne, for alleged . breaches of the by-laws. The result will affect the majority of carriers throughout that district. There are six different counts, which include ' width of tyres, weights of loads, and . security against damage. r It is interesting to note that in f the season 1908-9 no fewer than! ' 228,856 bales were offered at the ' wool sales held in various parts of V 1 New Zealand. When the current sea-i * son ends we anticipate that the ag- ] gregate will approximate to 230,000 , bales, which, at an average of £l3 per bale, means £3,380.000, and if * we include the private sales, the t total income will be not less than s-w t £3,500,000. fl

From the Ist proximo a new sys--tem of handling parcels will be inaugurated by the Postal authorities throughout the Dominion. All parcels handed in for despatch must be accompanied by an advice card contain-; ing the names and addresses of both the sender and addressee. A supply; of the necessary cards can be obtained from the local office by peivj sons in the habit of posting parcels,! so that they can be filled up before the parcel is brought to the Office, which will be a convenience to both the senders and the Postal officials. During the hearing of a grass seed case at the Magistrate's Court in New Plymouth, a witness shed some 1 light on the tittle ways of land speculators. The grass seed was required] to be sown on a Crown Land section to comply with the regulations as to improvements before a transfer could be obtained. Witness stated: "He told me to get the neceessary seed and book it up to him. 'Any old seed would do. Anything they wanted to get rid of, at any price, It was only for the Land Board." "The best camp I have been at,"4 was the remark of a volunteer to another member of h»'s corps who had been unable to take part in the Abotsford encampment. "Kitchener? He's all right. He gave us no sur-«, prises. He's different from some V others. Why, he came on some of U3 ' resting on the side of the road -our horses were a bit blown. We jumped up to salute him. 'Never mind salut--1 ing me, boys,' he said. He seemed , just all right, and I believe weldid all right." Thus, if this is tvpical of the volunters' attitude to Kitchener, tney were pleased with him,' comments the "Dunedin Star." •; Lots of New Zealanders may. not remember that it was on the morning of February 25th of a bygone year that "K. of K." paraded New Zealand soldiers at Bothasberg, and said "Weil done!" He did not laugh then, because a number of men were digging boles in the brown veldt for j the reception of soldiers whose names "v j will be whispered in many a New f : Zealand farmhouse on the anniversary Jof that date. The comrades who "areleft will eat and drink in this "Dominion on that night, but they will 1 not laugh when they remember [ rush of the burghers, their women, and their cattle across the railway t I line at Bothasberg on the dark,: bloody night of long ago. It is stated on what appears to'be very good authority, says a Wellington paper, that Mr R.McNab has been selected by the Government as the Liberal candidate for Hawke's Bay at the next general election. It is not yet definitely known if Mr McNab has consented to fill the po»i-2* tion. Should he accede, it is almost certain that he will reside for a time in the district Another probable Liberal candidate is Mr A. E. Jull, the well-known Waipawa brewer, who is very popular, and who during the last nine or ten months has won some distinction as the champion of the country party on the Napier Harbour Board. Mr Jull has a very strong following. Still another probable candidate is Mr A. L. D. Fra3er, but there is some uncertainty as to whether he would subscribe wholly to the Liberal platform.

The Masterton Homing Club has now sixteen lofts under its control, 1 and most of these lofts contain firstclass pedigree birds. During the next /k four months no less than 200 youna ■ birds will take part in flying compel • - titions. One-half of these have been specially trained from the north and the other half frum the south In their trials some ol thesa nirds have put up exceptionally god times and when the "Bracelets" are competed for most interesting fini <lies are expected and possibly records. The first young birds race will be flown on Thursday next irora Pabiatua, and the owner of the winner win take Chamberlain and Sons" tophy Several of the Club's members have been importing new strain into their lofts, and the doings of their progeny will be eagerly watcned by the Club members. i An advertiser wants to sell pointer puppies by "Hampton Shot." Um °f muslin Pinafores at 9d each are advertised by Saba and bons, Queen street. The Rev.|A. Hodge will conduct cLTT 8t Che evedng. morniD K «nd Thei closing time forgiving ten. dera for painting the Club Hotel. fhriTh°Sh: haabeenextendedt^

Messrs C. C. Ross and Co. repoi the sale of 40 acres of land on th Upper Plain, the property of Mr C B. Buxton, to Mr Joshua McKe-zie. An advertiser wants to buy i sprine cart tor carrying milk, also i set of harness. Particulars may b< left with Mr Giddings, storekeeper. A meeting ot the Masterton brand of the Wellington General Labourers Union is convened for Wednesday next, at the Foresters* Hall. AI members are requested to attend. Messrs J. A J. Maclean and Co.. auctioneers, insert a preliminarj announcement of a clearing sale oi household furniture and effects on behalf of Mr Jas. R. Strachan, Government Surveyor. The date of sale and further particulars will be announced later. Morning and evenirg services will be conducted in Knox Ohruch to morrow by the Rev. A. T Thompson. 8.A., B.D. Sunday School anniversary services will be held at Lansdowneat2.3o prr.. Tie hours and places of the Sdi vices are advertised as usual. At the residence No. 114. Lincoln road, this afternoon, the contents of a six-roomed house will be sold on account of Mrs Hossborough by Mr J. R. Nicol. As the sale will be an unreserved one it presents a good opportunity to those requiring furniture and general effects Mr D. Milligan the v/ell-ktuwri Wellington tailor, has been anpointed a member <-f the British Institute of Tailors. fo«* having won the dress and frock cat cutting competition in Loudon. At Mr MHligan's. Kelburn Avenue, warehouse, may be seen a select assortment of English suitings Mr W. Pauling, tailor and costumier, announces the arrival of a new consignment of fashionable materia], a»d those requiring suits for th» Easter holidays are invited to call and inspect the splendid range All orders placed receive Mr Pauling'.'' personal supervision, whilst fit, style and workmanship are guaranteed. Mr Jas. S:ott, watchmaker and jewi Her, is at present making a particularly fine display of presentation good«, which are well worth inspection. They are of the very latest sign and workrc.anship, and embrace articles such as silver teapots, biscuit barrels, hot water kettles, silver trays, breakfast cruets. There is also on view a very nice assortment of silver-mounted cut-glassware. A special display will be made to-day, and all lines are quoted at reasonable prices. Mr Claude Corbett, hairdresser and tobacconist, has just received another consignment of tobacconis s' requistes of every description. The new lines include articles suitable for presentations, such as silvermounted pipes, cigar and cigarette holders, walking-stickp, razors and various goods too numerous to mentioD. The saloon is under the personal supervision, of Mr Corbett, and patrons can rely on receiving every attention. Mr H. L. Lewis, sole agent in the Wairarapa for the Mist Company's ''Odor Purifier," is in receipt of testimonial, dated 7th February, from the Chief Librarian, Wellington, praising the efficiency of the preparation and its beneficial effect in purifying the atmosphere. Similar letters cf appreciation have also Jbeen received from the manager of the Defiance Butter Factory, Federal Billiard Hall, and the Royal Hotel, Wellington. To-day is the last day of te sale of the stock of drapery and ladies' showroom goods at the Exchange Buildings, conducted by Mr J. L. Murray, and town and country patrons are reminded of this fact. In another column it is announced that the drapery and ladies' showroom wMI be closed all day on Monday and Tuesday next, February 28th and March Ist, for stocktaking, and it will be re-opened on Wednesday morning. Keen interest is being taken in the forthcoming annual gathering of the Kopuaranga Sports Club. In another column it id announced that the date of this popular fixture is March 28th ( Easter Monday). No less than £7O is to be offered in prize money, which includes the Kopuaranga Handicap of £2O. The programme, which is a most attractive one, in eludes running, wrestling, hammer and shot throwing, sawing and chopping, and quoits events, and numerous other interesting ccropetions. all of which should attract big entries. The entries will close on Saturday, March 19th, and programmes will be forwarded on application to Mr G. A. Donovan, hn. sec-

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