LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10037, 11 July 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two persons were arrested in Masterton on Saturday and wiU be charged at the S.M. Court this morning with having been drunk.

At a meeting of the Red Star Football Club, on Saturday evening | last, it was decided to hold the annual social and dance in the Drill Hall on Thursday, August 11th. The Masterton Homing Pigeon Club's annual smoke concert and presentation of prizes will take place in the Dominion Hall to-night, and not at the Fire Statioa, as was first arranged. The chair > will be taken at I 8 p.m.

Messrs Thompson and Payne desire i to thank the public of Masterton for | J their loyal fupport during the produc- ('• tion of the "Balaclava" picture, aDd , » also the Masterton South Band for I £ their kind assistance on Saturday j' night. After a few incidental ex- i 1 penses are deducted, the sum of £53 e 4a will be available for the fund. c At its iast meeting (he Wellington j Education Board bad before it the ( question of the vacant assiatantship - at the Normal School, Wellington, . and Miss lorns, assistant at Laos- | downe, having expressed a strong de- . sire to be transferred to the position ( the Board agreed that Miss lorns i should be transferred provided that a suitable assistant could be obtained for Lansdowne. Messrs D. Hebenton, G. R. Sykes andJ. C. Cooper will represent the Masterton Parliamentary Debating ! Society in a challenge debate against the Wellington Y.M.C.A. Debating Society at Wellington on Friday, 15th met. The subject is "That the Leasehold is the beat system of land tenure for New Zealand." Masterton takes the negative. '' 1 Mr G Laurenson, V M.P., recently informed a Christchurch Press repor- • ter that at present there was little • doing in matters political. The real , fight, he considered, would commence wheu the financial proposes of the ! Government were brought before the " House. Mr Laurenson added that all i the members with whom he had r spoken stated that there was now a much better feeling throughout the r country than at this time, last year, ' and all indications pointed to a pros--1 perous period ahead. The "Labour party" will occupy ) the "Government benches" for the 3 first time to-night, at the Masterton Parliamentary Debating Society. Mr ' Edwards, the new Premier, will announce his programme. The "new Ministry" is composed oi Messrs Edwards, O'Regan, Rue, Kemp, Flannagan, and Abbott. A large ate tendance of the public has beeg s ■ prepared for, and a very vigorous j debate on the new Government's polj icy is anticipated. Mr Hornsby will deliver his usual criticism of the speeches after the adjournment of the e "House." e There were large attendances at f both services in the Congregational - Church yesterday, when the pulpit waß occupied by the Rev. J. McDonald Aspland, lrom Wellington. 6 In the morning tne subject of his ad- • dress was "Christ and the Cross," - and his text was taken from CorinI thians 1.—1.—23, "But we pieach I Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block, and not the Greeks foolishness." In the evening the sub--3 jectwas: "uod's appeal to Man's 5< Reason," and the text waß found in Isaiah I—lß. The Minister said that '* all God's commands to man were rea--3 sonable, and 1 that the person who e obeyed them would be assured of haps piness.

From a Government return we learn that thirty-six savings bank offices were opened last year and ten were closed, leaving 619 offices open at the end of the year. The net gain in the number of accounts was 17,637, the total number bejng £359,147, or more than one account to every three persons in the Dominion. The net amount added by depositors to their savings was 111,799 in excess of withdrawals, plus £395,804 of interest earned and credited. The total amount to the credit of depositors is £12,66(5,898, representing £35 4s 3d to e*»ch depositor, or £l2 5s lOd per head of the entire population. The cost of working was £27,000 last year and the cost of management 4s 3d per £I,OOO of the total amount at the credit of depositors.

A naval officer who distinguished himsiilf considerably in the Maori war in the far north of JNew Zealand, died this week at Edinburgh, writes a Home correspondent under date of May 20th. Admiral David Robertson Macdonald, who was a native of Inverness-shire, joined the Navy in 1831, and went to the East India and Australian siation in 1842 as lieutenant on H.M.S. Hazard. Early in 1544 the Hazard was ordered to New Zealand, and in August of that year, on the death of Captain Bell, Macdonald becameg commander. In 1845 he landed with a small body of marines and seamen to assist in the defence of Kororarika against the attacks of Hone Heke. For his gallant conduct on this occasion, when he j was severely wounded, be was promoted commander, and received the New Zealand medal. Five hundred j colonists signed an address of thanks to him and he was presented bj the I Governor and eighty-two others with a sword of honour. Captain Macdonald was afterwards appointed inspector of lifeboats and a number of awards icr gallantry in lifeboat work. . j

A woman was arrested on Saturdi by the Masterton Police on a charge of tfceft, and will appear at-the Masterton S.M. Court this morning-

At the meeting of the directors ol the Masterton Dairy Company on Saturday, Mr F. Coleman was appointed manager of the Nikau creamery, and Mr William Kjestrup manager of the Kangitumau creamery. Mr J. Tait, supervisor, repurted to the meeting of the Ground Committee of the Masterton A. ana P» .Jp , Association on Saturday last, that the buildings on the old Showgrounds 1 had been removed and re erected at Sol way. Reference was made by members of the Committee to the splendid manner in which Mr Tait had carried out his duties.

A farther advance of a halfpenny per lb of butter fat to milk suppliers for the past season was decided on at the meeting of the Masterton Dairy Company on Saturday. The directors went carefully into the matter, and although they were not in "possession of the final account for the consignment of butter, they decided Hf I to make the advance. r'

The sweeping of the Rangitoto Channel, which was undertaken by the Auckland Harbour Board a<» a resalt of the grounding of the Bteamer Kaipara in the channel on January last, has been completed. In this announcement the chairman of the Hoard said that practically no obstructions had been found in the channel other than thoae already reported. So far as the surveyor was aware, everything was now clear. The Building and Siding CommitI tee reported to the meeting of the ! Ground Committee of ;he Masterton ' A. and P. Association on Saturday last that they had visited Wellington, I and finally arranged details for tha ' I construction of the grandstand at 1 Solway. They had also interviewed I the Minister far Railways in refer- ! ence to the proposed siding, but .10 definite iepiy had yet come to hand. A full meeting of the directors of the Masterton Co operative Daisy • Company was held r.n Saturday afternoon. The directors went exhaustively into the matter of installing a combined chum and worker, and a Pcisueurising plant. It was decided tp 1 order a Topliss churn and worker 5 1 a Sabroe pasteuriser and cooler.

The tiawke's Bay Education Board approves of the principle of exchange of teachers between New Zealand, America, and England, and will favourably consider an application from any cf its teachers for leave cf absence to enable thera to accept temporary employment in any of ttiese countries, and will, moreover, endeavour to employ a limited number of recommended teachers from outside. is . to be asked to defray the coat. .« The Bill that Mr G. W Russell is introducing for an alteration nfthe£A Legislative Council provides the Council shall be elected by the - voters for the House of tiepresentatives It is proposed to form combined electorates by grouping 'our of the present electorates together, each group being allowed to elect two councillors. The Council will thus be I numerically half the size of the other j chamber. Members of the Council j will be elected for six year?.

Mr K. M. S. Mant, who is well known in the Masterton district, and lived for some time at Whareama, where he was known as the "Whareama Poet," died a few days ago in the Dunedin Hospital. Deceased, who was well connected in the Old Coun--try, spent many years of his walking ffrom town to town in NetfV Zealand, and contributed largely to the newspapers under the nora de plume of " Homra." Many oi his contributions were published in the Wair arapa Star, and were of considerable, literary merit. It-was the intention of Mr Mant, had he lived, to publish his poems in booklet form.

The Maaterton A. and P. Association's Finance Committee met on Saturday last, there being present:— Messrs 0. C. Cooper (chairman), J. B. Moodie, G. C. Sumroerell, H. Morrison, W. J. Welch, W. Perry and D. McGregor junr. The balance aheet was submitted, showing a balance of assets over liabilities ot £5,438 lis 2d, and an increased bal- ; ■ ance of £1,248 5s 9d over that o? the ■/ previous year. The Ground Committee was authorised to spend a sum not exceeding £2,000 on the erection of a grandstand, and to proceed with the erection of two sheep pavilions as recommended.

In connection with the elections for the Wellington Education Board, , there is a big Bible-in-Schools battle on between the Chairman of the Board, Mr Robert Lee, and Dr Wallace Mackenzie, president of the Wellington Householders' League.. The League is circulating papers containing the opinions of Doctors and school teachers in favour of relipious teaching, and giving a list of euun- u tries in which either religion or mor- f ality are taught. Mr Lee, so far, does" not appear to be troubling himself, evidently he relies on his many good and faithful services, and the hUh reputation he enjoys in connection with educational matters, to return him to the Board.

The monthly meeting cf the Ground Committee of the Masterton A. and F. Association on Saturday rooming, was attended by Messrs W. Ferry, chairman, B. Rayner, W. J. Welch, D. McGregor, junr., H. Morrisor?, R. J. Dagg, G. C. aummerell, W. Cooper, R. Gray, J. Sira«ig. After x I some discussion it was decided td 4H ' recommend that the Building Com- ™ mittee be empowered to erect two sheep pavilions of a dimension of 300 ft and 43ft respectively, and at, an estimated cost of £312 eairh. It was decided to apply for authority t« spend up to £2,000 in tha erection of the grandstand at Solway, as per plans. In connection with the proposed road on the south end of the grounds, it was decided that authority be given to the Building Committee to enter into negotiations with flaessr3 Judd Bros, in the matter and submit a report at an early date.

DO NOT BE BEHIND THE jTIMFS but move with [them. Salts, Castor Oil and harsh purgatives are'out of date, and have bsen tho cause of rtiauyi a ease of constipation. Chamberlain's Tablets are the medicine iliafc you want to take. They cure constipation, |indigestion, biliousness, and cure jtheni permanently. Remember the name—-Cbambei lain's Tablets aud bo sure you Fget theia fje there is nothing " just, as good."

The police authorities received a 'telegram on. Saturday from Martiniborough to the effect that James •'Cornptoa, 62<yearsof ace, employed -as a cock at Hautotara Station, was found dead in bed on the previous evening. The R.M.S. Manuka with an English nod Amirican mail on board arrived at Brisbane yesterday. She has a number of passengers for New Zealand. During the voyage John Richards, the ship's hairdresser and barber, cicd and was buried at sea. A farmer In South Carolina broke up an acre of land recently with 800 ■charges of dynamite, the explosive being used iustnad of the plough. He claiEis that blasting sat?d with dynamite is t!i« be?t method for snbsoiling, and that it <an be done more cheaply than by manual labour. Ashb'jrton, which has an unenvi able reputation in regard to its temperatore—which reaches 100 degrees •Fahrenheit in the shade in summer, and gets far below freezing point in winter—experienced 17£ degrees -o ! frost on Saturday morning, the termomster falling to 342 degress Fahrenheit. This is a record for the past three years, though 17 degeres was recorded last winter. Forty-four of the third-class pessengers of the Tainui are coming out under t'-e Government 33 isted system. Most of them have hj« en nominated by relaiived in the Dominion. "With the exception'of t-vo me", who are farmers, and nine children,» all the assisted passengers are either domestic servants or married women coming to rejoin their husoands. Some are bound for ihe Wairarapa. A ttkaram from Inveicargill on Saturday stated that information had been received that the Government drill at Orepuki had s ruck shale at -a depth of 270 ft. The seam is of -high gra}« and 4ft 9m thick. A heavy seam of superior coal has also been struck. Out crop? of-cnal have beeut acfd fi wide-area, and the results or Ihe bore the basin of the bnver WJau is one vast coaland oil full. Accorr'ng t« the Stratford Post, articles of agreement for u wrestling match between R. J. Scott and Louis S. Robertson have been signed and a deposit of a portion of the side stake made by each principal. The match, which is to take place on or about the 4th of August next, is to be for the heavy-weight championship of New Zealand and a side stake tof £SO each, winiier to receive tne whole amount of the gate. Hundreds of applications from all parts of New Zeaiaod have been received for the positions of twentysight officer and non-ccmmisaioned officers io carry out the new defence scheme. The greater number <of applicants have been rejected, and those remaining art men recommended by district commanders. A board has been set up in each dis- • trict to consider the applications, and to make final recommendations 1 -after examination.

The census of the Dominion, which •will take place early next year, will necessitate a zurther readjustment of the boundaries of the electoral districts. The last readjustment following the census of 1906 resulted in a loss of three members *o tn« South Island and a corresponding gain to North Island. Ntxt year the South Island may be expected to suffer a further loss in the number of members. In view of the uncertainty as to the boundaries several prospective candidates ■are in doubt as to which district they will efftr their services to at the general election next year.

Judge Emderc, at tne Lambeth County Court recently, on learning that a firm had no book in which to. record telephone messages, observed that for business men of modern day 3 to have so no such book meant that did not advance with progress. They kept their book as if the telephone and other inventions had never come on the scene at all. "It is high time that business men pulled themselves together and Drought themselves up with modern inventions," observed the judge.

At the last meeting of the Upper Butt Town JBoard, the extraordinary question of what was to be done with the eight applications for the town clerkship, , which was not vacant, was decided by the full board of commissioners unanimously resolving that an there was no vacancy to be filled, the chairman should open the of applicants, find.himself re turn the contents to the senders. The Finance Committee's repurc was refern;'! back, with a direction to report upon a revision of hours of attenlance and more adequate remuneration of the clerk.

Daaling briefly in his annual report with the subject of ra-afforastation, the Under-secretary for Lands states that the work has been vigorously .prosecuted, and that the results have exceeded the most sanguine expectations, So well have the trees grown at Waipa and Waiotapu that it has been decided to set apart a large " area of say, 20,000 acres on the Waiotapu-Galatea Road, upon which a central camp will be selected and from which planting oper ationa can be conducted for five or six years without a further re&oval of the prison headquarters. A unique record is held by Cliefden Station, now owned by Messrs Rolhery Bros., says the Sydney Morning Herald. This fine pastoral roper.ty was acquired ty their father in 1832, and for the past seventyseven years their annual clip has always been consigned direct to London, and there sold by the same firm. In this long period there has not been a hitch in the smooth working of this method o£ forwarding and realisation until this sensor, when forty bales were held up for three weeks at Lyndburst railway station, as a result in the | block in the railway traffic caused by the coal strike. This is the first time in the long history of Cliefden that the owners have, directly or indirectly, bfeen inconvenienced by a strike. Jt in a matter for satisfaction for them to be able to look back over the seventy-seven y( ars rfcie station has been in existence and review the fact that the working of the property has never been interrupted in the slightest degree by trouble witn the shearers and other labour employed. For Influenza lake Woods' Great ••Peppermint Car?. so7or fails. 1/6,

' Two men, named Caldwell and Sil- • ccck, were on .Saturday injured in tha 3 face at the Harbour Board's Cape 1 Foulwind quarry, West Coast, 5.1., ' by a premature Jaxplosion of a shot. ) b'ilcock's jaw waa broken. "The saddlery trsde 13 in ouch a condition," said counsel in the Dunediri Police Court, "that there are numbers of men out of wcrk. At this time last year they were working overtime," Counsel's clisnt added that the present was the . quietest time in the saddlery trade for four years. F,ew people of 70 hive both parents living. Miss Margaret Scott Dougln?. who dierl the other night ai the Melbourne Hospital, was one of the exceptions, says the Argus. Her death, which wis due to pneurnoi in. was expected, and her relatives were notified by the hospital a-jlhoriti?3 Her father and mother, bo Hi over 99 years of age, came in to the deatubed to say good bye. j The widow of the late Sergca'-t Magnire, who was fatally shot at Palmerston North during the chase of Pnwelka, is petitioning the House for compensation. She states that she has already received tno sum of £SOO from the Police Department, and that that sum, and an annua! allowance of £lB from the Polite Provident Fund, represents her s-o.'e means, and that the income c'erivtil la not sufficient for her proper support and maintenance. The Nautical Court of Enquiry in'o the cause i f the fire on the steaner Indradevi on Saturday, found theie was evidence of neglect or wrongful act on the part of the master, officers, or crew, or the men employed in discharging, and no conclusive evidence of the cause of the fin-. The cargo destroyed damaged was not of a nature suggesting spontaneous ignition. The position of the oil and paint locker, with tanks containing various oils, imme diately above the seat of the fire, | pointed to the possibility of oil having leaked tnrogh the deck in La the charcoal insulation, and the court was of opinion that so combustible a substance as charcoal should nnt be used for insulating th 9 holds of ships. A statement was made to the, House by the Minister of Education in Parliament in answer to Mr G. W. Witty, on the subject o£ the ninepence per head capitation grant to school committees. The Government," he said, proposes to provide again this year the capitation of ninepence per head for the benefit of the school committee funds, and would be quite willing to reinstate it in the form in . which it was pre- 1 viously paid if such reinstatement wouli solve satisfactorily the question cf allowances to school committees. The Post, however, thinks it would probably be better to in- 1 crease the rate of capitation to the. Education Boards from lis 3d to 12a: j per headland to name by statute the minimum average rate of allowance , to be paid by the boards to the com- , mittees. < A reward is offered for the recovery of a greenstona baDgle, lost 1 in the town on Saturday night. i All claims in the estate of the late Mr A. Armstrong are to be sent ] m before the 16th inst., to Messrs 1 Maunsell and Hart, solicitors for the ] Trustees in the estate.

The New Zealand Clothing Factory, Quuen Street, Masterton, is holding a stock-taking bargain sale, starting on Wedensday next, on special lines at clearance prices. A special discount wili be made on goods not marked at reduced prices. Town and country residents will be interested in the announcement made by Messrs C. Smith, Ltd., relating to their annual winter season sale, which commences on Friday next, 15th inst. Mr F. Whitton, the loca! manager, has just returned from a trip to Wellington, where he has been busily engaged in making special preparations for tne event. Ihe firm promise to let the public know the meaning of low prices for good quality goods. The tobacconist had a cousfh so bad, He looked as pale as death; His "pipes" were stuffed, he only " puffed," Could scarcely "draw" a breath. He looked a "weed" "cut up,'' indeed, And thought he'd soon be " clay," But Peppermint Care, that remedy pure, Drove ills and doubts away.