LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 9 June 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is at present practically no demand for farm or station hands in the district The labour market generally is now quieter than it lias been for some tune past.

It is stated that another moving picture syndicate is making enquiries in reerafd to leasing one of the hotel buil'aings in Masterton for the purpose of cinematograph and vaudeville entertainments.

A meeting of the Ball Committee of the Masterton Mounted Kifies was held last evening, to arrange matters in connection with their forthcoming annual ball on the 7th prox. Both Town and Drill Halls, and an orchestra of six instruments, have been engaged for the occasion, which fair to eclipse any ball yet held by jthe squadron. The dairy season, which is now. drawing to a close, has been one of the most successful in the history uf the industry in the Wairarapa—in fact in regard to many factories it has been the best experienced. Such wonderful strides have been made in dairying in Wairarapa during the past year or two that indications point to the industry having a great future in the district. A well attended Government pari ade of the Masterton Mounted Rifles was held last evening. non- ' commissioned officers took charge of the squadron in turn, and put the men through the various movements with credit. Kegimental SergeantMa jor Collier also imparted some useful information on military matI ters.

The Master ton Chess Club issue a cordial invitation to members and friends to an "open" night's sides match on Friday evening. The club is losing the services of Mr J. A. Connell, who has been a great help to chess generally, and Friday's match will give players an opportunity of saying good-bye to him. At the same time arrangements will be made for the return telegraphic match with Carterton and Lower Valley, which is to ba played on Saturday night.

When asked how to procure such minute details of the record lainfall at Waihi oh March 29th last, Mr H. H. Devereaux informed the Silting Commission recently that he stayed up all upon realising that an abnormal fall was occurring. "You are evidently keen on meteorological matters?" remarked Mr McVeagh, and the witness gave an enthusiastic affirmative. "Ah, well, you see," observed the chairman, "this was the chance of a,lifetime."

"The output from the dairy factories in the Wairarapa will about double next season,providing the conditions are favourable," prophesied a Carterton dairy farmer to a Wairarapa Age representative yesterday. He further remarked that during the past season the outputs of the factories both in and Forty Mile Bush had greatly increased, and in a large ; number of instances one hundred per cent, more butter was manufactured as compared with the previous season.

The United Morris-Tube Club held a very successful practice last evening. There was a large attendance, the beat scores being as Murrav 32-31, Butler 31, Waddington 31, Sammereii 31, Fuller 30, Drummond 30, La Roche 30, Hogg 30, Gallie 30. On Friday evening next the first of the Club trophy shoots will tako place. A Handicap Teams-'Match will also be held. Entries for the Teams Match will close with the Secretary at 3 p.m. on Friday.

Although the entries for the Winter Show at Hamilton do not close until June 11th, the Secretary, Mr Maxwell, has already received a great number. Catalogues have been applied for from all parts of the Auckland province, whilst exhibits are promised from the Taranaki, Manawatu, and Wellington districts. The Winter Show Association's schedule of prizes covers a wide field of operation, and is calculated to make the Show of interest to every class of the community. Women folk will doubtless ba interested in the display of plain and fancy needlework, for which over thirty classes are arranged. The companions set out for scholars attending State school should also prove a pleasing portion of the general display.

Stoats and weasels are said to have acquired such a liking for game in preference to the rabbit, for whose destruction they were imported, that steps will have to be taken to limit the numbers of these animals. At the annual , meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, Mr J. J. Devine stated that if the caretaker of the deer farm had not been an enthusiast there would have been very poor returns from the pheasants owing to the depredations of stoafs and weasels

In sentencing a motherland daughter who had been convicted to false pretences to terms of imprisonment in Long Bay reformatory, Judge Murray, sitting in th 3 Quarter Sessions at Sydney said that there was a great number of women in Sydney who had a very liazy idea of truthfulness, nonerty and honour, and who laid themselves out to swindle the business people of the city. In the present case it was quite possible the women got into trouble through borrowing money and setting -out afterwards toobtiinit by hoik or by crook, but the offence was a serious o~e, and could not be overlooked.

Effects of the Civil Service retrenchment last year are still to be found in the number of applicants for clerical work in Wellington. Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P., since his installation as Mayor of the city, has received very many such applications for employment, or, in default of that, for temporary assistance. He estimates the average number of callers of thi3 nature at fully 153 a week—not all different individuals each week, for the same faces are seen and the same stories are heard agai and again. Apparently the situation of many is very distressing, says the Post. In regard t> manual labourers, it is not anticipated, at the pr=se it ti.ne at leas', that there will be the same state of affairs there was last year. Still, many will. feel the pinch of winter.

it is only r a few short years ago since the Winter Dairy Show at Palmerst'm North was started, and at that time very little public support was extended to the movement. It struggled -throqgh its early stages, and great credit must be given to the Department of Agriculture for the practical assistance they gave to the movement. The Department sent its officers to the show to lecture on the scientific side of cheese and battel' making, and to give practical illustrations of the best methods of conducting the work. The National Dairy Association, North Island, also encouraged the movement by arranging to hold their annual meetings at Palmeraton during the Winter Show week. The annual show has now become firmly established, under the auspices of the Manawatu Agricultural and Pa torn 1 Association, and valuable prizes are given to induce dairy factories and farmers to compete at the shows. This year the increase .in the butter, cheese, other produce, fruit and farm products is fully 30 per cent, on the entries received for tht same classes last year. la butter and cheese there are 281 entries; apples alone 258. Eighteen separate collections are being entered for the championship section, representing both islands. For the challenge cup fur farmers' butter classes 32 entries have been received.

An illustration of the coolness of unprincipled men was afforded last week at the cost of several tenants in houses in Vincent street, says an Auckland paper. . A young man of respectable appearance <md good address called and stated that the usual collector wa3 away for a fortnight's holiday. He intimated that he had 'called for the rent. When told that the usual time was Tuesday, he promptly remarked that he had called a day earlier owing to the huliday. Some of the tenants, fortunately, had not the money ready, and the collector obiigingty offered to call again the next Tuesday. As a matter of fact he was careful not to do so. He, however, succeeded in collecting altogether £2 lis 6d, and gave receipts for the same. The imposture was not suspected until the real coilector cailed the next day, and told the tenants that they had been swindled. It is also stated that £lO worth of rents were collected in a similar manner in Ponsohbv road,

1 A striking individual tribute to the late King was paid by a veteran splitter, working alone in the forest at Tootangi, Victoria. On the day of the King's funeral Mr W. H. Luly, Cr».p;.s land 3 bailiff, was walking through the dense forest just about twojo'clock. Everything was still, save for the regular stroke' of an axe. Suddenly the strokesceased, and as they were not resumed in a minute or so he looked through the vista of trees, and there saw the splitter standing stock still, like a soldier on parade, with his hat off. The man remained in that position for five minutes, and Mr Luly concluded that this was the veteran's tribute to the dpad Kin™. After the man had resumed work Mr Luly approachea him, and ascertained that his conjectures were correct. The veteran had read somewhere that at two o'clock there wou d be a cessation of work for a minute or two throughout the Empite. Ho spoke admiringly of the lata King, and ,j tnen went on wi h hid work.

A suggestion was thrown out by Mr N. Galbraith, Wellington manager of the New Zealand Shipping (jompany. "If." he said, "a trade with America in frozen meat should ultimately be developed, advantage must be taken of the new service to Montreal which the New Zealand Shipping Company has. just commenced under to the Canadian Government. One cftha conditions of. the contract is that the steamers employed shall carry insulated space. At present the steamers run from London to Montreal, and monthly from the Canadian port to Sydney, Melbourne, and the principal New Zealand ports, returning via London; but iC there was sufficient inducementiven the boats could run dfrect to Montreal instead of going (o London. Mr Galbraitbalso pointed out that in the west of Canada mutton is very scarce, and he considered that if tariff could be overcome a good business in frozen mutton could be done with that country. If the New York m?rket offered more inducement such, produce could be readily railed tothat city from Montreal, . ; The annual meeting of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers is ;to be held-tc-morrow after the ueua! parade.

TheMastsrton Borough' 3 new Gasworks, situated near the Railway Station, will be p ihlicly opened toI day, and the Mayor, Mr J. M. Coradine, invites the public to be present at the ceremony, which takes place at naif-past two o\l ck. Although it would appear that the domestic servant is still difficult to ob air in Wellington the officer in cluige of the woman's branch of the Labour Bureau statss that day workers and charwomen are offering their services in large trimbars at the present time. Many mistresses - are reported to be taking advantage tof the help of these women for two or ihrce days a week, and are thus able to manage without any assistance in the house. The boy immigrants who arrived at Melbourne by the Osterley from England stated that th 3 Central Immigration Board in London, the organiser of which is Rev. R. G. Gwynne, led them to believe that thsy would receive 10s and 15 j a week, witn board and lodging, if they went on to Victorian farms. They expressed treat diuapj.o n'ment when they learned thai they would have tn start at 5s a week and found. "The ~-ire letter-'-.oxes there are the grea e'will »e the curresoondpt.ee," if th' orgnrent of the Postal Department of Germany, wjjich h?s pr ved itljbv exp.rience. Mr D. Eoberfso \ Secretary to the Post and Telegrapi Department, was ."truck with the dea when on a recent trip to Europe, and intends to giva it a ~ trial in Wellington. With <hn object in view a number of small wooden ie.tter-postinz boxes, about 30in ry 12in. have been constructed and •/re to be erected forthwith at different points between Clyde Quay and Lambton Quay. The Thames Star learns that there is a probability of the representative of an Anglo-French syndicate paying a visit to the Goldfields of New Zealand at an early date. In a private letter received by a Thames resident one representative nf the syndicate who has heen m Chili, Bo- ! livia, etc , tor some years, and who has just conluded operations on a large "concession," states that Australia and New Zealand will be tbe next part of the world visited, aid if any promising properties are available they will be inspected, and if the inspection is satisfactory, perhaps worked under option. The results obtained in connection with the Dalefield Cow-testing Association have bpen thn means of bringing the Holstein breed of cattle more prominently, before the dairy farmer of Wairarapa. It will be remembered that rece-itlv several Dalefield farmers combined and decided tn import a purebred Holstein bull for the purposa of improving their dairy herd?, and yesterday a Wairarapa Aae reporter was informed that several other Wairarapa farmers are givne serious consideration to the matter of amalgamating and importing three or four purebred Holstein bulls, hoping thereby to improve the milking strain of their dairy herds. People are beginning to wonder whether tbe aeroplane will ever be commonly used fo<- carrying passengers or freight in tlr ordinary way. Recently, when Sir Hiram Maxim had invited a party to inspect his r-ew rlyinrr machine, which will be "tried out" very srnrtly, be was # asked his view*. "No. I do net ' think for a moment that tbe sen plane will ever become a popular mears of onvjyanee with the crowri," he said, "but there can be lit'le doubt amoung sporting men ?nd men imbued with the -" (fort-devil, spirit of adventure, serophnina will—and in the near future, loi become a very porular pastime. In the very nature of things, flying will always oe beset with a considerable amount of danger, which, to sporting men, will add to its fascinaions; but to 'the crowd, the element of danger will not appeal. As a military weapon, however, its possibilities are almost limitless."

The committee of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Societv * has the schedule well in for the summer show, which is to be held on Wednesday, November 16th. Tl e schedule will be printed and posted to members and exhibitors within the next week or two. It will be found that provision has been made for {ll seasonable flowers, including roser, sweet pea?, pansies, stocks and wallflowers, carnations, pecatees, dgmIrpia. e?c. In the home industries section, butter, ergs and fcomy has been added. In vegetables provision has been made for all kinds in season. Pot p'ants will 1e a special ieature of the show. Champion certificates will be given for roses, sweet pea?, and pansies. Roses will undoubtedly be the feature of the show, as nine classes are provided. In addition to the Society's prize, MiHale has offered 10« 6d in plants for the most points gained by amateurs. Mr Varnham haa alsu offered a 5s special prize for the champion blocm. recounts an amusing experience that befel him some time ago infaManchesterTfaeatre when he occupied a stall one evening to hear the performance of his "Pagliaeci." It the finale a stranger sitjL ting near him kept ["exclaiming en- ™ thusiastically, "What a masterpiece! What a pertect masterpiece!" Leoncavallo, imagining himself utterly unknown in the audience, thought it would be fine fun to play the critic of hia own work, so chimed in "A /nasterpiece? I don't at least agree with you, sir. I'm a musician myself, eo know what I'm takling abour. The fact is, this opera is a worthleps production, and brimful ol imitations and plagiarFar instance, that cavatina is filched bodily from Brelioz, the duet in the first act is all Gounod, while the finale is a sorry copy of one you •will find in Verdi." Next morning Leoncavallo drove to the railway sta tion and bought the leading local journal. On comfortably seating himself in the train he opened it, and was aghsst with astonishment at encountering the following headlines: . —"Signor Leoncavallo's opinion on 'Pagliacci.' Declaration of plagiar ism. Confession of a composer hereft of all originality." The great Italian master adds: "Evidently my neighbour was a journalist who had -" dogged me, but to this day I have cold shivtrs every time I recall the incident " Messrs R. Hannah and Co., Ltd., outilne specialities in boot?, goloshes and general winter footwear.

A notice in reference to nursing is published by Mrs Mitchell. - A reward is offered for the return of a bunch of keys lost last week. The "Health Tea' is the subject of a change advertisement inserted by Mr. Home, grocer, Queen Struct Mr J. Ca penter, uf the Centra! Shoe Stnr-p, draws attention to the famous "Walk-over" boots for men. Murray's, Hall, ''next Club Hotel, Mastt-'Hon, is speedily fitted for social evening's, public and private meetings, everything being up-to-date. Terms of hire cin be obtained at Mr J. L Murray's Mercery. A clearing sale of 10,000 feet of heart of totara timber. builders plant, household furniture and effects will take place at (he residence of Mr C. A. Bluett, near the Pahiatua Station, on Wednesday, 15th inst, commencing at 11 a.m.