LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 23 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Worksop Dredge returns for the past week were 220z 2dwt lor 126 hours work.

Lord Plunkat paid a farewell visit to Feiiding od Saturday, and received an address from the Mayor and residents.

The share list of the Success Gold Dredging Company closed on Saturday night last, being slightly over subscribed. Mr Hathaway disposed of 6,700 shares, the ballance being taken up in Greymouth and Dunedin.

The Fifth Ruahine Battalion Band made such a full muster and fine display in Friday's procesaion that many thought there was more than one band participating. There was actually no massing of bands, although the official programme indicated such a combination.

The Orchestral Society will give their first concert of their seventh season thisjjp.vening at the Town Hall. These excellent concerts are always well attended, and are being recognised and favourably commented upon|by the press of the larger'centres. Parents are ,reminded that children are admitted at half price. Our Carterton correspondent writes that on Saturday it was discovered that someone had been tryng to set fire to Messrs W. Booth and Co.'s moulding mill in the timber yards. A heap of charred paper and pieces of wood were found in one corner of the building. The accumulation had apparently been ignited and left to burn.but fortunately did not continue to do so. The matter is being investigated.

The engine shed and men's quarters at Messrs Morrison's Blairiogie Estate were destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. Mme de la Roche has won an air; pilot's license from the French Aero Club by flying four times round the aviation course at Heliopolis, a total distance of twelve miles. She is. tne first woman to get this distinction. In sentencing a prisoner the othermorning the magistrate at New Plymouth by a ailp of the tongue said three months when he meant six. But the prisoner bad been removed before the mistake was ciscovered, and he got the benefit of it. A movement is on foot to commemorate the reign of King Edward VII. by tne erection of a children's hospital in Auckland, to be known as the King Edward VIL Memorial Children's Hospital.

The weekly rehearsal of the Operetta, "The Egyptian Princess," will be held on Tuesday night, at 8 p.m., having been postponed on account of the Orchestral Society's which will take place to-night.

On Saturday morning, at Carterton, the Carterton High School defeated the Masterton High School by nine points to three. Meyrick and? Beard (2) were the scorers for the

winners, and Hooper for Masterton.

The opening of the Saturday hockeyseason took' place at Lansdowne on baturday, when St. Matthew's, playing three men short, defeated the Masterton team by two goals to nil.

R. Hatch and H. Russell scored for the wiuners, and H. Heyhoe for the losers.

A settler in returning thanks at a farewell function down the Coast the

other night stated that he,, waa particularly sorry to leave the district where he had made so many real friends, who were equally willing to help him if he had a)cow that required palling out cf a creek or a fat turkey for Sunday dinner that required eating.

In dealing with a civil case in Christchurch in which a police constable in a northern district was being sued for a small amount, the Stipendiary Magistrate said that be coul:i not make an order against a soldier, but he did not know whether this| would ,also apply to the constabulary. For one thing, a constable was an enlisted man, and be ' lwould not be able to deprive the country of his services.

The Carlton Cricket Club's seventh; annual social and dance, which is to be held in the' Drill Hall on Thursday, June 2nd, promises to be a great sue- ' cess. Judging from the number whor : have signified their intention of being present there should be a crowded room. A combined meeting of the ladies and 'gentlemen's committees will be held in the secretary's (Mr F. P. Welch) room in Perry Street tonight, at 8 p.m., to make arrangements.

' During the progress of the telegraphic chess match on Saturday •night, Mr J. A. Comieil received a letter from Mr W. Witty, of Gisborne, asking him for his photo to be included in a group picture of members of the Gisborne Chess Club of which Mr Connell is a life mem-. ber. Mr Witty is secretary of the" club, and though now well over the allotted span of life, won second prize in the Auckland problem solver ing tourney, this ytar. Nearly fifty years ago he played over the board sSalrtat the late Mr C. W. Benbow in Birmingham.

In connection with the death of Mr F. E. Baume, M.P. for Auckland East, the question has arisen whether, in view ot the necessity of an election to fill the vacancy, any extraordinary . step will need to be taken to certify the fact of the death —a simple matter when it occurs inNew (Zealand, but possibly more complicated when it occurs abroad. Sir Joseph Ward points out that the Act is silent on the subject, but if the report of the death is confirmed by the High Commibsioner he thinks it'will be sufficient for the Speaker to act upon.

A suggestion was made at the lasc meeting of the Featherston County Council which is worthy of mature consideration. It is to make a deviation of the road leading down from the Rinmlaka keeping on the hillside all the way, and thus avoid the crossing of Abbott's creek. lb will be remembered that this creek; is crossed no less than three times, and owing to flood water the upkeep of the three bridges has amounted to a considerable sum. The suggestion would alter also the outlet of the road, and it would meet the Western Lake Road near the cemetery. The Victorian Minister for Mines states that as soon as Parliament gives the necessary authority he will be able to sell coal to the public at 14s per ton, delivered at the railway depots in the suburbs. "I have gone into the matter very closely," he said on recently, "and I can make a profit and deliver the coal at 14s per ton; but I cannot do this unless Parliament gives me the necessary authority." The Minister's idea is to establish depots for coal from the State'mine at the various a railway stations in the metropolitaiJj area, from which it can be by the public. '

Some two months ago, it will be recollected, the Kaponga Town Board wrote several local bodies in Taranaki urging the claims of Kaponga as the terminus of the Ungaruhe railway. That progressive'body does not intend to let the matter drop, as at the last meeting ot the Strat ■ ford County Council Mr R. G. Cook, clerk to the Town Board, in acknowledging receipt of the Council's letter sympathising with the movement, stated that a meeting of representatives of all parts of the district interested would shortly be called to die- . cuss the matter, and the Council would duly be advised of the date of such meeting.

"Buy your blouses by post" is the text of a new advertisement inserted on page 3 of this issue by Messis Veitch and Allan, the well-known drapers, ot Wellington. A detailed price list of special value bargains ... is set out in the advertisement, to. which attention is drawn.

Messrs J. E. Blade and Co. wilt sell, on account of Mr J. Hall, 32 Cole Street, the whole of his household furniture and effects, to-morrow (Tuesday) at two o'clcck. Particulars are advertised on page 8.

'U is estimated tnat the London newspapers benefited; to the extent S SIOO 000 by the advertisements .Sit we're published to attract in--vestorsin the rubber and oil speculations.

A daughter of Mr W. J. Bryan, the Kex-American J Presidential candidate, ■who was recently divorced, has been carried in Lincoln, Nebraka, U.S., to Lieutenant Owen, of the British RoyaJ Engineers.

A reward of £SO is offered by the eGenaral Manager of Railways for information leading to the conviction of the person who stole four cases of tobacco from the railway good* shed at ' Cbristchurch.

A German syndicate has begun the attempt to ut lise the enormous 'quantity of locusts in the Argentine Republic for preparation into a commercial fertiliser. Locusts contain ■ about 14 per cent, of nitrogen, and are therefore of considerable value •-for the purpose. They are already •used in the manufacture of dog s bu*ccits and for chicken food. As soon is the service at Mr Gladstone's funeral was concluded, the Prince of Wale?, afterwards the late King Edward, instead of leaving the Abbey, walked gravely to where Mrs Gladstone was seated, toook h?r hand in his, stooped over it, and kissed it. A very uncour-tier-like Radical who saw the scene «exclaimerl. ''This atones for a pool deal. I'll nevar pay another word .against him as long as I live."

A Eleven monksys have been sent ~"lp a United States Government hos•pital for insane, although the little ""forest men" are sound mentally. Ffesh from George, Washington University where the professors" and students of psychology pronounced their faculties frr perception and sensation more keen than those of the average man, the Simians are now to be subjected to closs scientific scrutiny in order that the scientists may learn what effect will follow confinement among insane persons.

There are rumours of an organisation about to be started which, if it 'is carrier! through successfully, will mean a big increase in the population of Argentina and a corresponding benefit to its commerce. It is • stated that, under the auspices' of the Pope, an emigration society has been formed with a view, to directing would-be emigrants to Argentina. It is said that one of the agents •of this society has just .concluded an agreement with the Argentine •Government for the colonisation of one of the territories and it is exipanted that a hundred thousand Itallian colonists will be sent, and they will be accompanied by priests. Lonely Opotiki impressed Colonel ; Knight, of the Salvation Army, with its potentialities during his recent tour of the North Island. "I believe 'that Opotiki is a <:oming district,"'he remarked to a Dominion representative. "In some ways it reminds me very much of Gisborne, and in other ways of Eltham. If ever;the railway '. gets to that part of the world, and the back country is thrown open, I believe that it will carry a big

population. The district has a superb climate." "So near and yet so far," might be the lamentation,of Opotiki. 'lt is 26 miles from Rotorua, and the journey takes a day and a naif by coach, and it is f irty •miles, or a day's coach journey, from Tauranga. The sagacity of a dog was responsible for saving the lite of a two and a half year old child in the Taruheru 'river, Gisborne. When steaming down stream the attention of the crew of Messrs Nelson Bros', steamer iHipi was directed by the engineer, ''Mr McGregor, to the exhausted state of a dog in the mud close to a. jetty near Mr W. A. Barton's residence. Upon a closer examination of the object being made by Mr Pitzmorice, the man in the barge rfollowing, it was ascertained that a child in the water was the cause of the dog's dismay. The attention of several peopler was at once called to the child's predicament, and it was rescued without delay. The child is stated to Invejbeen up to its neck in water, and with tie rising tide would certainly have lost its lifr; Sydney papers gi?e the following •details of the realistic stage duel at the Criterion Theatre, mentioned in our cable messages last week, in which Mr Oscar Asche and Mr Gerard K Soaper were the principals: '"The two actors were fighting hard, for the duel, which id fought with swords and p?ignard», is a strenuous conflict throughout. It was in the third stasre. jist bafore the incident :in "which Count Hannibal (Mr Asche) sweeps the candelabra from 'the table, and he lunged at his opponent, and the point of the sword struck him at the side of the left eye. 'The skin was penetrated, and the .point passing through emerged above the eyebrow, blood nouring from the wound. With his face bathed in blood, and hardly able to Eee, Mr Souper valiantly kept his blade flashing before Count Hannibal, and ■once got so close that his weapon scratched Mr Asche's neck, and the point came through his shirt collar. The audience breathlessly watched the conflict, eager to see whether Mr Souper could hold out to the receiving the vanquishJ&rblow from Count Hannibal; but Tjp. he did, and when the fight was over the audience accorded the t placky actor an ovation. Mr Souper Joat much blood, as the state of the stage indicated, and was very ■weak when be appeared next night. The Wellington Farmers' Meat Co., Ltd., Dubhah a notice under "The Fencing Act, 1908," in another place. An advertiser has a vacancy for two respectable young men in private family. Address may be obtainJ ed at this office. The tecmd term of the Girls' Collesgiate High School begins to-morrow. The Principal, Miss L. E. Hampton, will be at home this afternoon from . -3 10 5 o'clock. A bay mare has strayed into a paddock on Mr C. G. Fletcher's property at Tenui, and notice is .given that the animal will be sold if not claimed.

/ In connection with the |»ank" sale to be held inst., ;at Gladstone, the youugi .cattle, which are particularly good,; will be drafted to Jauit buyers, and: the steers separated from the heifers.; The breeding cows are station bred 'ilines/and in first class condition. Thej sale commences at noon, luncheon be-! 4cg provided by Mr sDouglas.