LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10035, 8 July 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The week's returns for the Masterton Dredge ate 21oz 19dwt for 134 hours work. Mr James Mathfison, advance representative for Allan Hamilton and Max Maxwell's Dramatic Company, is at present in Masterton, arranging tor -he company's appearance, here on the 14th and 15th insts.

The usual meeting of the Endeavour Lodge, 1.0. G.T., was held last evening, Bro. H. King, C.T., in the chair. L.D. Bro Heyhoe conveyed fraternal greetings from the Loyal Nelson Lodge, which were heartily reciprocated.

At the Mastertoti S.M. Court, yesterday, before Mr C. (J. Graham, S.M., judgment by default was given for plaintiff in the following cases—Joseph Stevcupo/i ••>. übarJes Martin, claim £5 10s, costs £1 3s 6d; Butcher Bro;v v. Martin Andrew, claim £1 Is Bd, judgment for 10s, costs sa. Judgment summons oEders were made as follow—lnns and Goddard v. William Heggie, amount £2 0s 6d, defendant ordered to pay forthwith, in default seven days' imprisonment; C. Snith, Ltd., v. A. S. . Awdry claim &2 17s, ordered .to pay £2 12s forthwith, in default seven,days' imprisonment, order suspended for fourteen days; T. G. Hoar v. Harai Patangaroa, claim £33 Bs, defendant ordered to pay forthwith, in default three months' imprisonment, order suspended for one month. A large gathering ot boys met at the Y.M.C.A. last night to reorganise the Boy Scout Patrol*. Dr. Cook presided, and the General Secretary enrolled the boys, four patrols being formed straight away, and pa-~ trol-leaders and other junior officers fixed. The boys were exceedingly interested in the prospect, and showed their delight at once more getting into a useful line of service. It is expectedlhata large number of other ; boys will join. Mr Pearson, of the | Thompson-Payne Company, has offered a medal to the Scout who ob-' tains the largest number of recruits during the next six months, lie furthermore, in a letter to Dr. Cook, offers all Scouts in uniform a free pans to the pictures in the Foresters' Hall on Friday night. On Saturday afternoon Mr Alf. Snowball will meet the boys, and others desirous of joining, at the Y.M.C.A., at 2.15 p.m., and at .2.30 a crosscountry paper-chase, will be organised. 'I hree or f jur of the bigger boys, with Mr Snowball.. . will be the hares, and will receive a start. An interesting afternoon is expected. The boys are invited to'the Stran-" gers' Tea on Sunday afternoon, when Mr Snowball will deliver a short address.

A settler living on the Parapara Road, some distance inland of Wanganui, reported to the local press that one day after the passage of the earth through Hailey's comet he was out mustering', an'i was astonished to find great numbers of hawkß and larks, especially the latter, lying on the ground, and evidently dead only at few hours. As these are high flyihgr birds, ne suggests that their fate wasdue to the ii fluency of the gas in the comet's tail, which while nut affecting the dense atmo3pbere near the earth's surface, may have had some effect on the more rarified air which such birds reach in their flights.

Considerable inconvenience is caused to local bodies in the collection of rates owing to their inability to Bpeedilj discover the identity of those owing the amounts in consequence of the frequent changes of ownership in rateable property./ To; meet the difficulty the Biuce County Council is circularising all local bodies suggesting that the Government be requested to amend the Rating Act, so as to require ah owners or their lawyers to notify changes of ownership or occupancy; Most of the local, bodies of that district have endorsed the proposal\tas-.tending; to .facilitate masters.; .''■'• *'• £ \;.\: >:*■'■ .-. 'Several merchants interested in the fruit trade in New Zealand are at present visiting.Cook Islands, saysa

correspondent of the Auckland Star, and the result is that excepionally good prices are being obtained for bananas. It was assumed that New Zealand fruit merchants were handicapped owing to shore supplies coming forward from *iji, and had been compelled to sicure shipments tofill their orders. The growers >were reaping the benefit, for they t were receiving good prices for the'ir fruit,, aitd delivery was taken on thewharf at Karotonga, so that they were not taking the risk of fruit 'arriving iii New Zealand in bad I condition.

A Wellington business man who was discovered with ,'hares ; in his - possession during the triennial close season will shortly tie proceeded againsc for a breach of the game laws It h Vtafed that the bares were shot in a district ; which had ,„ been specially granted.an open sea-",-,'*■ son for certain native and imported -f* game, and th«» sportsman had unwittingly brought them "over the border'' to a district which had been, declared strictly.closed fQrjall^.game f ;- and ;so .a technical -breach was ,;: mitted^ .'tit (appears, 1 that If. kills a:hareVi.h>.an open; ing >the triennial" 7 close forigame he y^;i';Oft-v:.gV^; away in thVt'' : distr)Ct. '' v '' r ■■:■*.''.''■■"*''.'■■ ! Whatever may be the future result > of the Defenca Act upon the emV ciency of trie forcer, there is no doubt.that at present it is booming existing corps. The local garrison* conipauies m various towns have v; lately hai almost more for enlistment than thty, can take, rf while some have had to refuse men. Many of the applicants, too, are from a class which, ,in the volunteering days, looked down upon defence training, but who have Been wakened, up by the, new law to the, duty, they .owe,their country. .„,. Not for many years has the 1 hu'raben of recruits been so great, and this state of things is being experienced by almost every corps in the Dominion.

In sentencing a racecourse "gueser" at the Ashburton Magistrate's Court to one month's iroprisonmen for the theft of a tofalisator ticket the Chairman of the Bench, .Mr H. r Davis, said. "It is a matter much regret' that x racing, as a sport," should b3coire sullied, by a.-band of social parasites, who make a practice of attending tlie whole of tne race meetings for t he' : .--purpose of conspiring to "take down" uniuiated and credulous persona' 1 by tricks of confidence The solo object of this 'class of men is to obtain money without work, and judging by the manner in which the greatar number of them dress they evidently manage 10 accomplish their ends."

Though so date has yet been fixed? it is likely that the issue of new Federal notes wiil star? from October Ist, says the' Sydney Daily Telegraph. The banks will deliver their unsigned notes over to' the control the Federal Treasury, and these will be signed by the Treasury, and issued as Government nota3. This will- be the interim arrangement until the Government has provided its own design and installed its. own plant. The notes will be payable in Melbourne in gold. A holder who wants gold will, therefore, have to go to the Federal Treasury for itf, uniess the bank, as most probably it will, will afford him the necessary accommodation. As the banks have expressed their readiness to co-operate with the Government, Mr Fisher has no doubt that the public will rapidly become accustomed to the new issue; and will for general purposes ually prefer the p'aper to goiG."** 11 ' 1 Outside Australia the noted will have only the value that can be, obtained for them at any ecxhange bureau abroad. This, of course, applies alsotd the existing banknotes, tnough the • banknotes, being payable in Australia at any issuing bank on demand, are now more readily convertible into gold.

"It is a strange coincidence," says the Pastoralista' Keview, "that wherever the agitation ,for the re» British ports to Argentine cattle appears to have a good ch:mce of success, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in London makeali half-promise to favourably consider " the request, reports are cabled that another outbreak of foot and mouth disease has taken place, in, say, the far never-never country of South America. Of course there is no getting awa3' from the fact that the proper way to convey beef to Great Britain is either fr«zeu or chilltd, hut there are many who would like to see the live caitie trade started again. A deck load of live cattle means a big freight. addition lo a steamship company for one thing. Of course, the competition for the cattle would be against the inter- y. ests of the freezing works and ex-4_, ' tract worke, so it is easily understandable that such- reports should be cabled to put a stop to it. The meat from aibeast with this-disease is, quite wholesome* "and,,asfa rule, the" attacksin Argeritine hare been, - , extremely jnajfld; so' much j ; -so that '/ • owners have at times pupp<;sely ptic "-' the disease through their herds to. get it over and done with. It ia all. a matter of business.''

The movement-agairst the reigning Chinese dynasty is being quietly but energetically organised, says a Canton message. It is known here than the anti-dynastic agitators have agents abioad who are busily employed collecting arms, many shipments of which have come to hand from San Francisco and Honolulu disguiseo as merchandise. The China Daily Mail, in discussing the danger 5 that menaces the country, remarks, 4 "We ara reluctant to write in an alarming strain, but it would be foolish to ignore the facts of the situation."

The Christchurch Press is sceptical about the Government's proposal io deal with the Oil Trußt. It says—We have not the slightest wish to defend the Oil Trust's methods of dealing with its competitors —defence of its actions is in some requite quite impossible—but is Sir Joseph htnt on ledreasing the wrongs of other American Oil companies, or is his object the cheapening of

'kerosene to the New Zealand consum- | <?r? And if the latter is what he is $■ aiming ar, is he quite certain that he is going the right way about it? In. view of the prospects of the .in er channel at Gisborne showing vconsiderable irrprovemerit in the hear »>K juture, >the Unit is Vsteam Ship CCtnpany have decided to thoroughly overhaul the Haupiri to place her in coed repair, and substitute her for tie Flora on the Auckland-East Coast ba>s ar.d Gis-borne run, the cbjict being that she fhsll, at an eaily date aa practicable, enter the river at Gisborne, and conduct a wharf to wharf service. "Have you seen ary signs that the arbitration end conciliation system is outgrowing its uttfulnesh'" a reporter asked Mr J. E. Tripgs, Conciliation Commissioner, at Christchurch. "I believe the amended scheme is working admirably," Mr 'lrlggs replied. "I need only refer to my recent visit to the south as an illustration. In one case theie this week one of the employers in a dispute said he certainly was not prepared to give the increased wages'a&ked by the workers. We had a friendly I meeting around a table, and I pointed out that he was paying lower wages than those paid to ordinary labourers in the street, whila his worers were engaged in much more unpleasant labour. He saw at once that there was a great deal in the I argument,, and immediately agreed to give an increase to every employee connected with the industry, and signed jari'agreement of his own accqrxtjand the dispute, which might Jiave caused, much , unpleasantness, .wJßSsettFed - without:any ' feeling, ) s»nd to the satisfaction of both sides.

Perhaps one of the most original and interesting operations that have teen performed on a horse has just tjeen successfully accomplished by Mr James McCarthy, a veterinary surgeon of Morpeth, New South Wales; says the Sydney Morning Hersld. The horse in question hud been working in one of the Maitland coalmines, land had run up against the edge of a*kip with such force that it fiactrued the bone of its forehead, and left a gaping hole between the eyes, through to the nasal cavity. If the nostrils were covered the horse could freely respire through the hole; and Mr McCarthy decided on covering it with a silver plate, which he sue-, cessfully affixed and drew the skin as nearly as possible back in»o place. The animal looks in the best of health and to the casual observer nothing is noticeable beyond a white patch on the forehead so frequently seen in horses.

The Waitotara County Council decided to purchase £lO worth of poisoned wheat to enable farmers to combat the small bird nuisance ard to'iiojify them that quantities could , be obtained at the Council's office. Some douK was expressed by Councillors as to whether poisoned wheat was any gdod. One remarked that all he had succeeded in doing was to poison three of his ducks with it. Another said he could not get small birds to take it, whereat a ihird advised him to scatter it in the evening, and when the birds got, up hungry next morning they would eat it. The chairman, Mr W. Ritchie, said he thought the btst way to gtt the birds to eat poisoned wheat was to cram it down their ihroats, and opined also that the Council might advise farmers not to feed their ducks with it. Another good way was to put salt on their tails.

The woik of Australian missionariis in the New Hebrides is being resetted by both Enplish a-rd French Uttle?F,'accordirg to a communication published in the "France Ausirale" of Ntumea. The lecruiting of labour for the . plartations is becoming more difficult each year, the report states, as the result of missionaries whose-influence is growing in a corresponding degree, preventing the kanakas from going into the service of the settlers. Ihe French colonists are inclined to think' that this opposition on the part of •missionaries i» of political significance; but it is stated British colonists are equally affecte-i. It is not eet forth why missionaries should wish to taboo the recruiting Bystem but it is evident that their interference if it may l e called so-is giving rise to warm feeling on the part of the settler?. Recently petitions were forward d bv the British and French residents, asking that an inquiry fce held "into the difficulty of obtaining local natives for work on the plantation?. We attribute the cause to the influence exercised by the missionaries through their teachers. YOU TAKE CARE to obtain the best possible and moat, JuiKe diet to protect your health. Howrmuch more careful should you be - ruT oh™™ of a medicine. SAV EXTRACT has ver? valuable curative and healing Sns; but the sc-called Euca yptus Sracte, which are crude oils made by Jerrons ignorant of chemistry, have done Seat harm by their irritant action Thereio^,re3ecUhem; insist upon a pure active vov- rritantand uniform product stcHITsANDER'SE^fRACT. Remember that SANDERS EXTRACT was proved by authoritative exrerts atThe Supreme Court ef Victoria fo contain antiseptic and healing substances not .contained in other EucalypusFroducts. al i?,r A m that made SANDER'S. EXTRACT: fam oK and its best advertisement is SANDER? EXTRACT , , .For cdtfghs, colds, tiroat and lung and urinary system, 5 drops ? n a tablespoon of water. To wounds, ulcers eczema, etc., 16 drops to tablespoon olive oil %nd apply.—o

; - A special meeting of the Shearers' Union will be held this evening.

A proposal is on foot in Uhrist- ! church to establish a national memorial to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and it is suggested that Parliament should be asked to vote a sum by way of subsidy o* the private subscriptions that rray be mised, so as to erect in Wellington a monument wor thy of the historical importance of the founder of New Zealand. The matter is to be discussed by the Canterbury College Governors and tha fclailji Colonists' Comrnictee.

A very enjoyable social evering was held hy members of the Masterto>) Fire Poire lasl evening. Mr T. Wage presided, and there were also present members of the Fire Board and Trust Lands Trust. The following toast list was honoured:—"The King" the chairman; "Town Lands Trust," Captain Dixon—Messrs Wagg and Hatbaway ; "Fire Board, '

Mr A. E. Wilton-Mr 0. Prjgnell; "Masterton Fire Police," Mr T. I Michel!—Mr F. Roboins. Other toasts honoured were:—" Winners of Trophies," "Captain Dixon," "Donors of Trophies." The trophies for the year were presented as folhws: —First, •Secretary' A. > Wilton, 47; second, Con. C. Morris, 43; third, F. J, Ropbms, 42; fourth, A. C. Fielding, 27.

A meeting of the Masterton Lubour Party was he?d in the Dominion Hal! last tvemig, Mr W. Abbott in the chair. Mr Hogg, who was present, britfly addressed the meeting, and expressed his gratification at fo many being prestnt. He advised the workers to be united in the fight against their sworn enemies, whose chief object was to keep the workeis in the background. Their condition had not improved of late years, but some classes of the community had no doubt done well, chiefly land proprietors and the commercial classes The banks were bursting with capital, while the Advances to Set' tiers office was unable to loan anything. We still had unemploymei t, and people anxious to take, up lard, i buc unfortunately there was roiiland available except at a very high price. Splendid Jand in the King Country had passed out of the hand? of the Natives, and Dr Firdlay and Hon. J. Carroll now admitted that there are no Native lands for EetUement. Speculators had already picked the eyes out of it, and what remained was only rubbish. He advised the . workers ti stand shoulder to shoulder, and with the Radicals of the Old Country at their head, tbey wouid obtain their rights.. v Mr J. uarpenter gives special and quotations for ladies, gents, and children's boots and shoes.

Messrs McGruer and Co., publish sale bargain prices in men's mercery, clothing and oilskins. . . Mr R. Russell advertises for sale a buggy, gig, and spring cart harness, second hand; also two riding saddles. punching ball, and boxing goods.

Mr ,W. Aubrey Gosling, Land Agent, Frankton Junction, publishes ia select list of desirable properties, particulars of which will be found in their advertisement on page 8. Mr W. Home gives notice that jn order to help the working man to economise during the winter months, he will make special quotations for Saturday sales of groceries. A special price list appears on page 1 of this issue.

Messrs J. A. J. Maclean and Co. will sell in their rooms on 13th inst a fine collection of suitings and costume lengths, comprising vicunas, worsteds, serges and cloths, light and dark blanket tweeds, ladies'jackets, full and threequarter lengths. A large assortment is now on view. Mr C. A. Smith, grocer, L'ncoln Road, Masterton, , advertises the Champion Clothes Washing Machines. They will be sold on easy terms, a weekly payment, and no deposit asked. A reduction will be madd for prompt cash.

Messrs McQueen and Co. will sell at their Post Office Auction Mart tomorrow, a large consignment of clothing, mercery, and Manchester goods, also fancy goods and groceries, and a general assortment of furniture to clear.

IMPORTANT 70 FARMERS. Now is the time to act ir you wish ro make moremoney out of your crops next season, anu' get rid ci tbe small bird pest. During the winter food for sparrows and other small birds, wh-ch do so much barm to the young crops, is very scarce, and they will readily take "Gordon's Poisoned Grain," which means certain dealh, even if only one cereal be swallowed. We sell it in any quantity to suit your requirements, and we will aleo poison your own grain at a little cost, if you prefer to supply it Wholesale slaughter 'does not adequately express the Jesuit amongst the' firdb if the poisoned grain is used at the rrorer time, which is MO vV. Apply J V. GORUOfI, M.PS. (by exams), Chemist and Druggist, Masteitot), for all particulars, BEST FOR CROUP. A child may go to bed at night in his usual health except, for a Colo, only to awafcenafew boars later with.a well developed attack of croup, aid the remainder of the night is spent by the aDxious rarer ts in tryi> gto ri-lievp his suffering, which is usually more or less e.xpenmt-ntal. A bottle of Chanjl erlain's ( oup-Ii Ktmedy in the home will save anxiety, expense, and perhai s the life of the child. When this medicine is givwn at tbn first indication of croup the attaci may ba avtided and often after the crn'upy cough baa appeared it will pievent tbe attack.