LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10021, 18 April 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The late&t returns from the Worksop Dredge for last week were 430z 7dwt for 127 hours. The twenty rams belonging to Mr E. Short, that are being shipped to the Argentine Centennial Show, on Thursday next, will be on view on the lonic on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. A Press Association message from Wellington states that Dr. Kennedy, rector of St. Patrick's College, reports observing Halley's Comet with thet naked eye yesterday morning. Over £9OO will be paid out to suppliers of the Nireaha Cheese Factory on Wednesday next. Two hundred and ninety-.six rams from the Hawera district were shipped to Sydney by the Moara on Friday last, to the order of a New South Wales client.

. The unsurveyed land in Targnski available for future settlement is 92,000 acre?, and the Maori land awaiting settlement 480,000 acres.

The Prime Minister, Sir J. G* Ward, will open the new post office at Weraroa, near Levin, during the present wedc."

At the Inglewood S.M. Court on Monday a plaintiff in an action for damages for illegal re-entry described a bailiff as "a man who walked up and down and said nothing."- ■ ; , ....-, i

Rabbits and hares have obtained a footing on the bleak Waiouru Plains, and it is stated that their destruction, mainly bv poisoning, will cost one runholder about £2,000 this year.

The total wool sales in Australia and New Zealand for tee past eight and a-half months have been 1,750,000 bales, weighing approximately 525,150,000:b, of a value of £22,000,000.*

The relative positions of the sheep pens, cattle yards, horsd boxes and the various buildings were decided upon at the meeting of the Ground Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association which waa held at Solway on Saturday morning.

In response to a largely-signed requisition, Mr Jas. M. Coradine announces that he will be a nominator for the Mayoral seat at the present election, and tie will take an early opportunity of placing his' views before the burgesses.

Alter competing in tha "Parra-r matta Hundred'" Handicap in Australi?,- Mr Jack Arnst will accompany hils brother Dick Arnßt to Africa, where the present champion sculler of the world will row with the English sculler, Barry, on the Zambesi. j|

Although ploughing opertions have been going on all over the Wairarapa for some time past, yet it is stated by several farmers that the ground, has been very hard, and, not at alt suitable for ploughing. The neavy rains experienced last week will no doubt make a considerable difference in thj giound in this respect.

A social organised by members of the Roman Catholic Church at Mauriceville was held on Friday evening last, and despite the inclement weather the function was fairly well atceuded, .and a very enjoyable: evening was spent. The Very Rev. Dean McKenna, of, St. Patrick's Church. Masterion, was present at the social,;

The North Island Main Trunk Pailway (including the New Plymouth section) is more profitable already than toe South Island Main Trunk railways. During the period ending March stb, 1910 (339 days) the receipts on 1,064 miles of the North Island line were £1,430,002 8s lid, and the expenditure £973,490 17s sd, giving|aprofit of £456,511 lis 6d for the 1,064 miles. 'While the South Island line receipts for 1,323 miles were only £1,217,537 10s sn\ and the expenditure £850,499 0s giving a profit of £367,038 9s lid.

A i cameibt '> named Maurice Benedict was arrested at Paris a few weeks ago on a curious charge of robbery. Benedict some time ago waa under treatment at St." Louis Hospital. The patient was suffering from a disesae of the nose, and to euro it the doctors had recourse to a composition containing radium. The doctors did not tell the patient that he carried about on his nose £24 worth of radium, but Benedict found it out for himself. One day the doctors discovered that the bit of radium had disappeared from the; patient's nose. The latter protested he knew nothing about it. - From the time he left the hospital the police kept an eye upon him. and ultimately found the stolen radium carefully bidden in the lining of Benedict's coat. He was consequently arrested for the theft.

In view of the statements which have been made regarding the increased price of living the following facts (says a Dunedin paDer) may prove interesting: —Housewives haye to face the usual rise in the price of milk. It is up to 2d per pint, the same rate as at this time. last year. Butter has'risen to is 2d per lb, or Id above the rate in April of 1909; this is owing to the high ing in the outside markets, and therate may drop at any time. There is no alteration in cream, and has been none for about two years, the price remaining at Is per pint. Enquiries as to other lines bring assuring; statements from leading shopkeepers. The grocers say that none of their t commodities have gone up lately. Sugar has risen to the wholesale men by two or three little, advances of 5s and 10s per ton,- but the retailers are still selling at 2Jd, and though they fear that any further advance may necessitate an increase to the shop price, the most that is likely to happen Is a rise of |d per lb. Bread is at the same price as for>a longtime past, and the butchers report that meat is as cheap as at any time during the past seven or eight years, and there is no likelihood of an immediate rise.

The tinder of a rug lost near Masterton Club, on Saturday'morning, will be rewarded on leaving same at the Age Office or the Club. Mr G. K. Irvine elsewhere notifies ticket-holders and the general public that his Art Union of Gil paintings has been postponed until July 20th Commencing from to-day mails for «*• the Main Trunk and Auckland will close at the local Post Office at 11 a.m., instead of 6.45 a.m. Mr Newton King, land ard estate i agent, of New Plymouth, offers an opportunity for sheepfarmers to. secure a good sheep run. fcte advertises 8.840 acres of first-class land, ' well sub-divided with sheep proof fences. All the building are of th.3 best, and tbe property i 3 acknowledged one of the beat in Taranaki, also 1,450 acres of good sheep country adjoining. Particulars are given on page 8. Messrs Norris and Bell, the Bay of Plenty land agents, advertise 9,640 acres of splendid bush land, thirteen miles from Tauranga, in sections varying from 95 acres to 500 acres on very easy terms. Also the Kaimai station of 5,000 acres in areas of 100 acres and upwards. Anyone . desirous of iraining information as to the Bay of Plenty lands would do well to writs -to this firm for their free descriptive catalogue.

Bowlers art reminded, of the meeting to-night at tbe Y.M.C.A. Rooms. i!. .; New EJison's phonographs—-The <3ero, The Fireside and The S'andard, are all on sale at the Book Arcade, Queen street, Master ton. A reward is offered for the return of a gold locket and chajn lost in the Masterton Park, yesterday. Finder is asked to leave same with Mr A. R. Maltby, Queen street., ,- .. A reminder is given of the auction •sale of household furniture to be held at Mr'R. H. Turtop's residence, Worksop road, to-morowV The lines are a first-class lot and everything is forabsolute clearance. Tbe ladies of the Wairarapa are invited to pay a vinit of inspection to Messrs C. Smith and Co.'s drapery establishment. The firm notify that tbey are now equipped with everything requisite in high-class ■millinery, costumes, jackets, coats and dress tweeds Special novelties in neckwear belts,, gloves and hosiery. Their advertisement will repay perusal. Ten guineas in prizes for an hour or two's work is the unusually attractive subj-ct of an advertisement in column. The genuineness and fairness of the contest is guaranteed by the substantial firm inaugurating it, and our enterprising young people—and old too—would do well to learn particulars and forward their wordiis r s. Miss Amy Murphy, the celebrated vocalist, will give a vocal recital on Tuesday week at the Knox Church in conjunction with Mr Purcell Webb, who will render organ solos. Mastertan lovers of music are singularly fortunate in being favoured with a visit from this well-known artist. The Syfney newspapers sneak in laudatory terms of Miss Murphy's singin?, and the critics are unanimously of opinion that her voice has improved during her residence in the New South Wales capital. As only ' one concert is announced, no doubc ; there will be a good demand for seats on the opening nigbt. '