LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10063, 10 August 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Influenza is veiy prevalent in Masterton at the present time, and the bands of medical men are reported to be fairly full. "The very thought of Lord Kitchener at the War Office is alarming to everyone in it, from the civilian head downwards," saya tbe Broad Arrow. 'The one idea is to s;et him away as far as possible."

Two casea of scarlet fever at Lansdowne were reported by Dr Prior to the Masterton County Council yesterday. Mr W. B. Ingram will take possession of the Taueiu Hotel, the freehold of which he is reported to have purchased, before the end of the present month. The Public Works Department has given authority to the Masterton County Cnuucil to expend £l5O grant on Mangarai Road and £222 on Fernyhurst Koad.

The plastering of the new Fire Brigade Station in Masterton has been commenced. The station will, it is expected, be out of the contractor's hands in the course of a few weeks. A sacred concert is to be held in the Town Hall next Sunday evening, at 8.30 p.m. Many prominent local vocalists and instrumentalists are assisting. The object is to provide funds to furnish an American organ for the use of Hospital. Full particulars will be announced later. In response to a representative deputation of bowlers from both Islands, Sir Joseph Ward said that h J . would include in the legislation to be brought down this "session [a clause permitting local autnorities to remit rates on bowling greens.

The plans for the new saleyards to be erected at Solway for the Masterton auctioneers are at present being revised. It is expected that the work of erection will be put in hand very shortly. Accommodation is to be provided at the yards for 30.000 shtep and 2000 cattle.

Among the duties of a probationer nurse, as laid down in the new laws of the Christchurch Hospital adopted by the Board last week, it

is stated she must be "obedient, sober, honest, truthful, punctual, quiet, and orderly, cleanly and neat,' patient, cheerful and kindly." The fishing industry at Timaru has already attained surprising dimensions. During the past two months 82 tons of fish were railed away from Timaru, and this notwithßtandng that for a considerable portion of this period the weather was so rough that the boats were not able to go out. The hearing of the shearers' dispute before the Conciliation Council opens at Palmerston North on Monday next. The assessors are. with two exception?, the same as those who sat on the Council in Masterton, and the chief point for consideration is the question of wages.

That the expert shearer can knock up a fairly decent cheque at the present rate of pay is evidenced by the experience of a Masterton shearer,) who, last year, earned no less a sum than £BO for shearing done between October 11th and December 29th,

The offices of the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company are to-day being transferred from Perry Street to the neW'offices of the Trust Lands Trust in Queen Street. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., will occupy the offices in Perry Street until their new buildings are erected.

Special orders were made at a special meeting of the Masterton County Council yesterday, in connection with the construction of two bridges over the Waipoua river and twenty-six chains of approaches thereto at the north entrance to Masterton; authorising, the raising of a Joan of £3OOO under the Local Bodies Loans Act. 1908, and striking a rate to cover interest and other charges on the loan.

Speaking of the new geyser at WaimanKU. Mr Phillips Turner, inspector of Government scenic reserves, who surveyed the country in 1901, said from what has now taken place it is very probable that any day more geysers may oreak out in the same locality, seeing that it is the centre of great volcanic disturbances.

Excepting Napier, there are more subscribers attached to the telephone exchange in Wanganui than, in any of the centre?! outside the four chief cities of +he Dominion. Napier has 903, Wanganui 820. Gisborne 785, Invercargill 755, Palmerston North 658, Hastings 538, Timaru 540, Masterton 512, and New Plymouth 453.

j The monthly meeting of the Fin- [ ance Committee of the Masterton County Council was held yesterday morning, there being present Crs C. Kebbell (chairman), D. W. Poreman, J. Miller, D. J. Cameron, A. Murray, and W. J. Welch. The treasurer reported as follows:—Bank, g'-'tipral fund account, dr £2247 Os 11 : local bodies loans account, er £1643; accounts, dr balance' £914 (17s 9d. The receipts.since July 12th last amounted to £2512 8s 6d. Accounts amounting to £2149 19s lOd, including £1546 2s2d interest on Government loans due on August Ist, were recommended for paymeHt. It was decided that it be a recommendation to the Council to pass a resolution bringing into operation in the Masterton County, Part 11. of the Motor Cir Registration Act, .1908, with n view to placing the Council in a positin i to register motor cars. • Askeri by a representative of the Age ypa-'Tday if there was any immediate rospect of his proposal to hold f m for different breeds of sheep ■ fixed localities being adopte i. 'vlr William Perry, of Masterton. said the question was one entirely for breeders. If the different Breeders' Associations took the matter up, there was no reason why it should not be brought to a successful issue. What he had in his mind's eye was the holding of a fair for Romneys alternately in the Wairarapa and Feilding districts, an alternate fair for Lincolns in | other parts, and so on. It was, he I thought, too much to expect that one centre could be fixed for fair purposes for all time, as was possible in respect to Addington, in Canterbury. The value of these fairs was that they gave buyers a better selection than under existing circumstances, and fixed'a definite market price so far as breeders are concerned. IflE KAPID HEALEK. Ttexona provides the latest short cut of Science to a complete cure for Pimples, Boils, Sores, Wounds, and Skin Diseases generally. Whioh road will you take reader? The old-fashioned, tedious, long way round, full of irritations, relapses and delays, or the Bhort cut to the rapid cure which modern soience has provided you in the shape of Bexona. Sold in triangular pots at 1/6 and 3/-. Obtainable everywhere,

The latest returns from the Work- . sop Dredge are 40oz 18dwt for 127 hours. Sir William Steward has been invited to visit Masterton and give an address before the Parliament ary Debating Society on the question of an' ElecHve Executive,

To get over tha difficulty of publicans not being able to recognise* prohibited persons, Sub-Inspector Phair, of Dunedin, suggests supplying a photograph with the order. The Berlin police have published a new by-law ordering all shop windows and phov casea to be covered from public sight during hours of divina service in the city. In the letter to the Napier High Schools Board of Governors, Mr A. S. M. Poison, headmaster of the Boys* High School, said that practically every boy in the school could swim. Great quantities of fish which were taken from the streams at Rotorua are being carted into the Sanatorium grounds to be converted into manure. Lambs are now making a general appearance all over the Palmerston district. It is considered highly probable that there will be a big demand for early lambs during the coming season. The Wellington Association has appointed Mr J. V. Saunders, of Melbourne, the well-known international cricketer, to the position of coach for the ensuing season.

"It would ba a good thing if this credit system were dona away with, and a list published every month of those in arrears," remarked Mr G. C. Kettle, \S.M. t during the hearing of a judgment summons in Auckland. Hares are doing a lot of damage in the Ngatimoti district, Nelson, at the present time. In one instance a settler h?,d a q ,- :ar.t:ty of fruit trees that were bedded in ready for plantiv"; «'• moat stripped of buds and bark* Ratepayers in Westport received something like an electric shock when they read the new Government valuations placed on their properties, says a Westport exchange. In many cases the valuations have gone up 100 or more per cent. When speaking on the question of cool sforage at a meeting of tha Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association, the secretary, Mr W. Gould, said that last season's output of fruit through the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Company, Ltd , totalled 140,000 cases. At Monday's meeting of the Wanganui education Board a letter wp* received from Mr J. G. Wilson, of Bulla, Colonial President of the F?-- - mers' Union, offering a donation of £5 per annum for three years towards. the proposed agricultural scholar- ; ships. Mr Wilson in his letter expressed the opinion that compulsory technical education must come m the near future.

A rosy picture uf pensions for all was presented to the House by Mr Hine 4 He said that if £1 were set aside at the birth of a child, and invested at compound interest, there would be a sufficient accumulation of money at the end of sixty or sixtyfive years to provide a pension of £3O or £4O a year. He believed that this theory, if examined by.an actuary, would be found sound and he commended his suggestion to the Government,

An instructor in woolclassing assured his Waitara pupils a few days ago that many thousands of bales were bought annually by speculators, who made it their business to buy up lots, which, by reason of the diverse character and condition of the various fleeces,' were quite by the manufacturers, and after classing they were enabled to make a substantial profit, which, had the wool been properly got up in the first instance would have gone into the pockets of the growers. A report has been in circulation in Masterton to the effect that the trucking yards at the local railway station are to be removed to Sol way. Enquiry proves that there is no foundation for the report. The Traffic Engineer of Railways was in Masterton on Monday, and visited the new Showgrounds in company with representatives of the A. and P. Association. Plana nave been prepared for a siding and yards at Sowlay, and these will be presented to a meeting of the Association on Saturday next, in a revised form. The danger of drought which lately threatened Oamaru, says the Mail, is practically past, though there has not by any means been tuo much rain; but further south and in the neighbourhood of Palmerston no such fortunate state of affairs prevails. All along the railway from Oamaru tOoPalmerston the dryness of the land—resembling summer rather than winter—is a subject of remark. In some [lac?g newly ploughed fields have a fresh appearance, but this is not the general rule. At one or two spots grass i burning on the .railway embankments has been commenced, a most unusual occurrence at this time of the year, grass burning being almost invariably delayed until the grass is dry, when it is a source endanger unless cleared away.

f The annual report of the Belvedere J Co-operative Dairy Company shows - that the amount of milk received waa 3 5,766,4651b5, an increase on the t past year of 1,856,0531b5. The b butter "at averaged 3.99 percent., f and amounted to 230,288.801b5. be- - mg 64,745.891ba in excess of last a season. The cheese made was 582,J 5481bs (260 tons), an increase on J last season of 84 tons, and each , pound of butter fat averaged 2.521bs 3 of cheese,, and it took 9.89 lbs of 2 milk to make lib of cheese. The 3 whole of the output was graded first ■ grade, and top rates were obtained i on the London s and local markets. Advances up to 9d per lb of butter t fatwere made to suppliers during the i season, amounting to £8,635 14s 2d, , making for the whole season 11.615 ) pence per lb of butter fat In addition to this the directors have written off 7 per cent, for depreciation of f plant, etc., and set aside 6 per cent as a dividend on paid-up capital. |. Messrs T. Sparks and T. Conwell are the retiring directors, who are elig- ', ible and offer themselves for re-elec- ! tion. ; A vacancy on the directorate | has been caused by the resignation 1 of Mr Bowyer. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 2/6

Mark Twain's au'obiography will fee published next year. All passages relating to living personi are to be omitted. The Treasury has forwarded to the Masterton County Council the sum of £2290. being balance ot the Weraiti-Fcirnyhurst Road loan. It is reported that a syndicate has in contemplation the erection of a new theatre in Masterton. Plans are, it is s'ated, now,in course of preparation. [ Mr 'd. W. Abbott, CTganising secretary of the Sheaiers' Union, leaves Mastetton on Saturday for ine Wanqanui district, where he wili conduct an campaign. The subscriptions to the Mayor- ! ess's fund for the i.f a ciiil- i dren's hosoifal in Wdi;rgron now totaL £2,831, the sum of. £4(58 hav- \ irg b en adde.i yest-erday. The demand for Romney fiock I rams U very keen in the Wairarapa | and a'j )iaing districts. Somj breed- | era h:va nut only :,old the whole of j this y nc'* pupoly of rsms.jut have ! booket orders for next year, i It i* stat.'d thdt the Railway Department intrnLs acquiring several acres A the S.lsvay Estf?t° with a . view 'o erecting substantial tn;c;?ing y..rds >n tha vicinity if the i' iud siding. At the mon'hly meeting of *ha i MiKt-'ton County Council y« storrij.-y, j Cr Wel:h, ehairrnir;, on b j rialfof|' the ''ouncii, extended a welcome to j <Cr D J. Cameron, who was recently ( electa to fill the vacancy caused in t the r«uocil by the resignation of Cr Colquhorn. Th.rehi3 been a marked dhninu- i tior. 'n Vi>.'. number of applicants for s •casu I relief to the Secretary of the Ben v k-nt Society in Masterton during 'hi past month, as compared j wih the previous month, This would t appear to be an indication that there j 0 are f-wer men oti the roads mw than there >vrv some weekg back. The Wellington Farmers' Meat 9 Coizpmy have received an encourag- ° ing l? ! .fer from their London agents, s in whirh numerous valuable suggestions ara made, It is confidently anticipated that, with judicious hand- y ling, prices m excess of those ruling a for ordinary "North Islard" meat ii will 6? ob'ained. t An ingenious little metal tag has feeen invented for labelling N2W Zea- C land frozen meat when it is offered G in the Home market. This is already f, Ijeing used by a Canterbury freezing t: company, and will probably be utilised by the Wellington Farmers' ._ Meat Company. It contains letters L' -describing the various grades of J meat, and will r:place the ordinary,., •braod.

Mr Koterfc Lee, Chainuau of Che "Wellington Education Board, haq been re-elected on the Board by 87 votes, against 13 vctes cast for Dr. F. Wallace MacKenzie for the Wellington City Ward. Mr W. H. Field, M.P., beat Rev. Thomson by 213 votes to 34 for representation of the Hatt-Horowbenua. For the Wairarapa, Mr A. W. Hogg was returned unopposed. The election does not alter the personnel of the Board.

At the annual meeting of the Masterton Lawn Tennis Club yesterday, It was unanimously resolved, on the motion o! Mr A. R. Sclanders, seconded by Mr G. G Aitken, to place on record the valuable services rendered by Mr C. C. Cox, who has be6n transferred to Dannevirke, not only to the Masterton Tennis Club, but to tennis generally in the Wairarapa, the provincial district and the Dominion.

The ordinary meeting of Stonehenge Lodge was held last evening, Bro. A. 0. Levien, A.D., presiding. Two members were accepted by clearance, two candidates initiated, and two proposed for membership. Bros. Pickering, Shackleton and Gourley were appointed delegates on the Friendly Societies' Council. Relief was granted to a distressed Brother of the Maitai Lodge. P.A.'s Bros. Lev en. J. G. Miller, and C. McGaughran were presented with P.A. Diplomas issued by ths Grand Ledge. It was resolved to procure a P. A. collar for Bm. J. G Miller for past services to the Lodge. It was decided to meet the Oddfellows in a card tournament on Friday evening.

In response to numerous requests, the Methodist Junior Men's Class has decided to repeat the product'on of Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," m the Methodist schoolroom this evening. When its was first produced by tht! Class seme weeks ago it met with a good reception. The cast of characters is as follows: —Portia, MissTocker; Nerissa, Miss Logan; the Duke of Venice, Mr S. Temple; Antonio, Mr J. McMaster; ■Bassanio, Mr L. McMasf-er; Salarino, MrO. Jarrett; Gratiano, Mr R. TMiller; Salanio Mr T. McMaster; Shylock, Mr E. R, Wilson; Tubal, ■Mr A. Hoar; Clerk. Mr A. E. Dobson.. The Sp n3ter's Guild will supply the sei and part of the programme. Altogether, the evening's entertainment should be well worth <the small charge that is being made for admission.

The owner of a black and tan collie dog is advertised for.

Me3srs McGruer and Co. announce the last week of their great end of season sale. The event is being marked with the offering of substantial reductions in every department, and patrons are invited tu call early and see for themcelves the range of bar-gaina-that ?re on view.

End of nation clearance bargains in ladies' jackets are advertised by Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co., at prices tbat should attract attention. Great redactions are also being made in children's jackets, ladies' umbrellas, and inspection of the lines is invitad.

Mr A. Donald is a tailor who is known by the high quality of dress suit 3he turns out. A coat that does not wrinkle—nor grow unsightly—is to be long:d for, and it is yet obtainable at Mr Donald's Queen Street shop. In another column he announces: "A Tailoring Investment," and a trial order is solicited.

NEVER NEGLECT A BAD COLD. Never allow a cold to run its course. Too often its course is towards pneumonia. The first action when you lave a cold should he to relieve the lunss. This is best accomplished by the free u?e of Charnbe f lain's Cough Remedy. This mediofne liquifies *he tough mucus and opens the secretion* A compile cure soon follow*. Sold by nil-chemists »Dd-storekeepers*

1 I St is interesting to know that goDd ; f engraving can be executed in Mas- ' terton. Monograms, crests, initials, i and inscriptions can be engraved on trophies, medals, badges, rings, chains and bangles at Mr A. I Henderson's, Queen street, Maater- ! ton, the old-established jeweller and i optician. Mr Benders m has an exI pert for the manufacture of any cesign in gold or silver. Messrs Wellwood and Wei I wood, the well-known land and estate | agents, of Hastings, insert particu- ! lars of two flawke'a Bay properties, j which have been placed in their hand 3 for disposal. The first property consists of 300 acres of first class country partly flat and balance easy hills, situated a few miles from Napier. It is well sub-divided, and the buiidings are all up-to-date. The place is advertised as a going concern, and details of stock, implements, furniture, price, and- terms may be obtained on applicatiun to the agents. Another property for immediate sale is 2000 acres of 2 sheep country in easy diitance'of Wair.ukurau. The owner is disponing of this owing to ill-health. The price asked is only £8 per acre. The firm have numerous other properties on their hiok3, particulars of which they will ba pleased to forward to anyone on application.