LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10056, 30 May 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There was no "wash up" of the Worksop dredge last week. The date for the Opaki Rifle Club's annual smoke concert has not yet been definitely decided on, but it is expected to take place fairly early next month. A meeting of the committee will shortly be held to arrange details. As Father U'SuUivan's lecture on ancient and modern J&'gypt in the Town Hall tc-night, at 8 o'lock, will prove interesting from'an educational pomt of view, all school children will be admitted at half pi ice.

A Press Association telegram states that the Rugby player who was suspended by the Otago Union last week for striking another player was Tansey, end not Dansey. The name was. erroneously telegraphed through the Dominion as Dansey.

The Postmaster announces that from the Ist June, the accounts for the charges fcr Bureau communication will be rendered daily to such subscribers as desiie to receive them, without any special charge being made, provided the amounts are paid on the day following. To all other accounts will be rendered four times a month, on the 7th, 15th, 23rd, and the last day of the month. Only the number and value of the communication will be shown in the account, thus:—"s at 3d", "4 at 6d," and '1 at 9d," and so on. All charges must be paid within one week from the rendering of the account, otherwise no further bureau communications will be allowed.

We have been requested to state that with regard to the exclusion of the Maaterton South Band from the procession on the occasion of the recent funeral ceremony of King Ed ward, it was the Staff-Sergeant Major who was responsible for the arrangements on the day in question, It is stated that he explained to members of the Masterton South Band that the procession "was a solemn occasion, and that it was not desirable to have the bands mased.' : Ihe Marshal explained, however, that if they liked to go down to the Drill Shed on the evening before, and put in proper drill in what is known as the "slow step," they would be massed with the Battalion Band. It is asserted that not one of them turn°d up, notwithstanding that the Marshal had given them firmly to understand that without the drill they must be absolutely excluded from tho procession. It was therefore, states our informant, their own fault that they were not included with the Battalion Band. This evening's illustrated lecture at 8 o'clock, 10 the Town Hall, on the Wonderland of the Nile, will possess features of the rareßt interest. For six thousand years Egypt, with its monsters of architecture and other evidences of ancient greatness, has been attracting the attention of the world, but never more intensely than at the present day. The subject of "ancient and modern Egypt" becomes doubly interesting when dealt with in lecture form by Father O'Sullivan, who comes from almost beneath the shadow of the Pyramids, and who knows Egypt as he knows his alpha- I bet. Commenting on a series of lectures delivered in Christchurcb, the "Press" says: "Father O'Sullivan is one of the ablest descriptive lecturers that ever vi-sited Christchurch. He possesses the art of depicting and narrating vividly and graphically scenes snd incidents which would only seem to he commonplnce matter in the hands of a less eble Fpeaker."

Friday next, the King's Birthday, will not be observed as a Post Office holiday. All post offices in the Dominion will be open as usual.

In connection with Mr J. C. Williamson's grand opera "Madam Butterfly," to be stsj;ed in Masterton on Saturday evening next, the management wish to state that no one will be allowed to book more than five seats each. The box plan will be opened at 8 o'clock at the Town Hall, and at 9 o'clock at Miss Rive's on Wednesday. Coupons entitling holders to first choice of seats veil! be distributed at the Town Hall at 6.80 on Wednesday morning.

Mrs Eariison Lee-Cowie, the visiting temperance lecturer, epeaking at the Town Hall, • Cbatswood, New South Wales, said tint the late Mr Seddon on one occasion estimated the value of (he yourg men of New Zealand at £SOO pur head as a national asset. He had not said anything about Ihe women, but shehad alway claimed that they should he valued at £I,OOO per head "For,"" explained Ihe speaker, amid laughter, "ycu know we are double you,. oh, man."

A flaxmiller in the Manswatu district, employing 20 men and youths, wages ai d contract?, states that the average GErnings of each man were 9s lOd per day cf Right hours. There was no overtime, and tv»o of the men were more or ler.s s!ck for days at a tiire during the fortnight. The flaxcutteis only wcrk about seven hours a day at this time of the year, on arccur.t of the dew in the morning making tie flax wet. During the fnitnight seven men were kept fiorn work half a day during the lain. Is there, asks the .Dominion, any other industry that can show such pay for unßlcilled labour?

During lhe last year or two therehas beeii a Fpasmodic agitation in favour cf cutting up for closer settlement a number of very large pastoral runs in the Mackenzie Country, in South Canterbury, many people holding that tre country is capable ci carrying a much larger population than it does at present. Those who have opposed the agitation, however, maintain that owing to the nature of the country and the climate,large portions of seme cf the runs bting covered with snow in winter, it would be impossible for small men to make a living there.

A new .telegraph form has been introduced at rhe Dunedin office, its ; purpose being to make for- economy of labour and consequently greater dispatch and efficiency. By mean?i of the new form the use of an envelope is rendered unnecessary. The operator types or writes the nrnne ar d address of the addressee on the sam« side as the message. The form is then folded in sn ingenious and simple manner, su that the address is outside, ard the message hidden from view, while the privacy ofcr tle contents is rnainvained by the simple expedient of gunrnmg astamp over the point at which the ends overlap. The message under the new system is much smaller and neater than when enclosed in an envelope.

The wonderfully mild season experienced up to the present time has meant no inconsiderable amount in the pockets of the dairy farmers, remarks the Taranaki Herald. At most cf the Taranaki milk factories the quantity of milk which has been received during the past several weeks has been about double the quantity received during the same period last year. At the Bell Block factory, for instance, the output lately has been between 3000 and 11001b oi butter per day. The test at this factory has maintained a very high average, one supplier, Mr J. Polletti, whose herd is confined to purebred and grade Jerseys, has reached as high as 7.2 lately.

The procedure followed in judging Messrs Thompson acd Payne's verse competition is as follows:—As each' competitor's verse is received it is numbered and the name and address detached and marked with a dupliate number. The verses are allplaced in one box and the various names and addresses in another. The judge is handed the'verses, and the management retain the names, etc.,. until the judge declares the winning verse. On receipt of the verse marked first prize, and endorsed by the judge, the number is noted and its duplicate sorted from its iellows to discover the winner. The judge has therefore absolutely no way of knowing who wrote the verses he isdealing with.

The Palmerston North sub-commit—- . tee of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society makes reference in its , annual report to the stocking with. , trout of the ornamental ponds made in the Square. The report says:— . "The trout fry put into tbe fountain ; pond in the Square prospered beyond all expectation. It was then estimated that about 250 were put in; but when the time came for transferring them it fwas found that there were over nine hundred yearlings, some of which were over lslb in weight. These yearlings were, with the exception of a number put into the new lakelet in the Square at the request of the Borough Council, librated in the streams in II e district. The trout put into the lckeiet and also four thousand fry put into tbe pond pre doing well, the latter proving a great attraction to people when the fish are being fed. It v/as proposed to liberate the fry put into the fountain pond, but as they were doing so well it was decided to allow thtm to remain and grow larger and stronger before doing so." A man for general work is wanted at the Club Cafe. ' The W.F.C.A., Ltd., have opened a new lot of golf clubs, and invite inspection of the Dreadnought drivers. Holiday excursion tickets, available for return until the 18th JuDe will be obtainable from the Ist to the 3rd proximo. Extra trains for June 3rd, between Wellington and Mastertoii are advertised. Messrs R. Hannah and Co., Ltd., in a change advertisement, draw special attention to their stock of winter boots and shoes. The range was never more extensive and varied than now, and all the newest and most pleEßng styles are shown in profusion, whilst the durability and workmanship is guaranteed in every detail. Special attention is also called to the stock of gum boots, goloshes ai.d felt slippers.

An extraordinary case of death resalting under gM took place at Waihi. A child named William Gib SDn Dickson, aged H years, residing with his parents at Waikino, fell down a flight of stairs, and a nasty gas'i was inflicted above the right , te-nple. The child was brought to Waib, where Dr. Craig considered if advisable to administer a little gas before stithing up the wound. 1 lie child was taken to the dental rooms of Mr Moses, where an anaesthetic rwas administered. Hardly had the 'child inhaled a few sniffs when he suddenly collapsed. All available mea:.si.<f reepiiation failed. An inquest has bean ordered. Doctors consider tha case an extraordinary one. Mi ChaF. M. Berkeley, representative of Mr J. G. Williamson's Grand Op ra " Company, left Masterton on Saluiday forei oun, alter making arrangementa for the staging of "Ma.ame Butterfly" at the Town Hall on Saturday, Jung 4th. Tha Company h»a been doing record business in Wellington, the Opera House beirg crowded nightly. Included in the combination there is an orchesua of iorty, under the direction c,f the renowned Signor R. Hazor.'a chorus cf sixty voices and company of ore hundred and thirty people. The box plans will be opened at Miss Rive's on Wednesday, June Ist R-served seats orchestral stalls, and drees circle, 7s Gd. Applications by le.terfrjm country patrons will ~ he attended to in the order in which they are received. A single-bam 1 hammerless breech loadina gun, nearly new, ia advertised for sale. Notice is given that objections to th» Electoral Rolls for the County of Masterton will be heard *t the bti,e. diary Magistrate's Court, Mastertor, on the yth June.