LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10097, 20 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During the year 1909 six deaths from cancer and six from phthisis were registered in Masterton. The school excursion which will be made from Masterton and other townships of the Wairarapa to Wellington, promises to be the biggest ever made from the district. The lima, which is now said to be exceedingly scarce in the North Island, was, a few years back, quite common to the Forty-Mile Bush. The native pigeon, which was also numerous in the Bush, is now to be found only in isolated parts.

A cable received from New York on Saturday conveyed the information that a woman eighty years of age had entered the University of Ohio. This is nothing very new or remarkable. A few months ago a man eighty-two years of age sought admission to the Victoria University in Wellington, stating that he was iesu'ttUS of Studying law..

The Masterton Egg Circle sent thirty-nine crates of eggs to Wellington yesterday, containing 992J dozeu eggs. The Mauriceville Rifle Club intends practicing assiduously this season, as several of its members intend competing at the Trentham Association meeting. Mr J. C. Boddmgton inputs that the rainfall registered at the Upper Flam tor the 21 hours freceding •) ;'•):,. 07i Sunday was 36 points'. Seven degrees of frost were registered yesterday morning.

"The Deform Party is raging j through this country," said Mr McLaren, M.P., in Masterton last evening. He was, of course, referring to the iMorm Party. Mr McLaren, M.P., stated in Masterton last evening that there should be at least ta, Labour j-tp-rcseirtatives returned tu Parliament at the next election. Miss Rout.told her hearers in Masterton last evening that the new Labour paper, "The Maori and Worker," did not intend publishing either "quack" or "whisky" advertisements.

A'Mastertott settler, who has been on a visit to the South, states that the turnip crops in Southland are looking exceedingly well. On one turnip area he saw no fewer than 14,000 theep, and on another 8,000.

Dr Pettii will give an address to-nio-ht, at Knox Church, the sub-, ject being "Recent World Movements and their relationship to the Church." A 'heavLy welcome is extended to everybody to attend the gating, and a ccllection only wiH fee taken. -' 7. , :,..'..■ ■ %

Mr A. G. Pilmer, of Masterton, who' returned at tbx cad of last week from a visit to Southland, states that tne want cf rain is bring severely felt in some parts of Canterbury. Between Ashburton and Oamaru the country looks particularly dry.

Messrs A. R. Bunny, James El- J liott, W. B. Chennells, and W. E. | Chamberlain have been nominated for the three vacancies on the directorate of the Masterton Permanent Investment and Building Society. ■ Adam McMorran, who shot himself at Porirua on Sunday, resided for a number of years in Masterton. At one time he was regarded as'.;among the best cross;country riders in the Dominion. He was married to. a of Ponrua. :• ~. ■,-. ..;''' ■' •.: Mr Laracy-met'a miintier^'of'•'members of the Masterton branch of the Shearers' Union last night,'and discussed with them the question of the shearers' demands, and the recent developments. The meeting was of a private nature, and no resolution was carried. Amateur boxers from all parts of the Wairarapa are joining the Masterton Club, in order to compete in i the championships,on the. 28th inst. i The meeting should be a very suc- ! cessful one. Full particulars as to bookings appear in our Amusements column. This is how a Hastings paper puts it:—"Prohibition has . .: made; Masterton so prosperous that the: inhabitants threw out a proposal to borrow £30,000 for sanitary purposes. They can't pay rates levied now." Prohibition had about as much to do with it as the' man in the moon.

The gale experienced in Masterton at an early hour on Sunday morning did some damage to fruit and ornamental trees. On the Akura the wind bjew with hurricane force, and the iron roof of Mr Sedceie's residence was lifted bodily of: and deposited" on the road some distance" away. The chimney of the house was also damaged."

.Mr Laracy, secretary ,ef ; : the Shearers' Federatidn, who "was in Masterton yesterday, was': asked' by a representative of the Age if 'it was true that the shearers in • the South intended demanding 22s 6d per hundred. He replied that it all depended upon whether an amicable settlement was arrived at. "If they compel us to fight," he said, "we are going for the 22s 6d." , The following telegram from Mr Glover, secretary of the. Miners' Federation, was received by Mr Laracy, secretary of the Shearers' Federation, yesterday, and was read by Miss Rout in the Masterton Town Hall last evening:—"Congratulate you on determined stand. Can depend on financial and moral support if required. Coast guaranteed over £IOOO towards Federation -paper. Largest Unions yet to be visited. Men very enthusiastic."

To-morrow will be St. Matthew's Day, the annual festival of the Parish Church. In another column will be found the list of services announced for that day. The preacher at the evening service will be the Vicar of Greytown, the Rev. A. T. B. Page, and the neighbouring clergy and choirs have been invited to take part in the service. The offertories w'ili be given to the St Matthew's New Church Building Fund.

In the course of his address in Masterton last evening, Mr McLaren stated that he "had asked the Prime Minister if he would introduce legislation to do away with the "quota" system which gave the voter in the country a larger vote on political questions than those in the cities. Sir Joseph Ward had replied that legislation to this effect would not be introduced at present. Mr McLaren maintained that every mail's vote should be of equal value.

Mr M. Laracy, Secretary of the Federated Shearers' Union, informed a representative of the Age yesterday that he receives between twenty and thirty letters a week from Australian shearers. In every case the shearers on the "other side" intimate their intention of remaining away from New Zealand until the shearers' dispute is settled. Mr Laracy states that most of the shearers in the South Island are in employment, and they will not leave their employment to go shearing unless they are paid 20s per 100.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d. 2s 6d. REXONA.

The Rapid Healer is an Ointment which heals with remarkable rapidity. Unlike the old-fashioned ointments which are very slow in their actions, Rexona speedily effects its cures after a very few applications. Sold in triangular pots at Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere.

The milk supply at* the Ballance butter factory had reached ll,6831b» j on Friday last. | A theological student at Christ 1 church kas been committed for trial on the diarge of making a false ] declaration at his marriage.

Another interesting divorce sui* is on the tapis in Masterton. The necessary citations are about being filed. " " One settler in the Wairarapa is stated to havi netted £ISOO already this season from the sale of Romuey Marsh stud rams. Wanganui, taking a leaf from the book of Palmerston North and Napier, is starting an elocutionary contest. A wool-classers' union is being j formed in Canterbury, and another ; Arbitration Court award will pro- | bably be sought. i>o fewer that 1317 marriages wera performed in the- registry offices of New Zealand last year. This was very nearly one-sixth of the total number of marriages .solemnised.

What's in a name? A man named "Heaven" has been appointed inspector of nuisances at Eltham, which does not begin with an aspirate. So far this session, Parliamentary spokesmen have filled about 2,000 pages of Hansard, and spent about £20,000 of public monej', to pass half-a-dozen harmless enactments. Crops in the Masterton district are looking very healthy just now,, but farmers state that a twentyfour hours' warm rain' would be i welcomed. The amount that the firm of Bovvron Bros., Ltd., of Christchurch will have to pay the luoow.:Tax Department for the year !}>>'•'.: will, with penalties, bo ,££3oo.

The annual school concert in connection with the Fernridge school is to be held ■on Wednesday evening. A very fine programme has teen prepared for the <;;:casion.

The milk supply at all the creameries injthe Stratford district is steadily going up, says the Post, and quite equals the supply at this time last year. Parsnip wine was responsible for a woman procuring a separation order from her husband at Dunedin last week. It went to the man's head, and he blackened-his wife's eye. r A member of the Farmers' Union at Feildihg expressed the opinion that if good, wholesome New Zealand wine were manufactured for consumption, the evils of, the drink traffic would soon disappear. The Eketahuna Express tells of a lamb born in that district Which possessed two bodies joipsd together I at the shoulders, one head, two tails, [three front legs, . and four hind i legs. Nine young women oeoween the i ages of fifteen and sixteen, thirty- [ seven between sixteen and sevenI teen, and 130 between seventeen and f eighteen were married in New. Zealand last year. It is expected that a start will be ■made, in the course of the- next few weeks, with the work of improving | the northern approaches to Masterton. The undertaking will involve I an expenditure of about £6OOO. Although Mr W. Lenz, of Masterton, conducts bee-keeping • «orr; ...a. larger scale than any other apiarist in the Dominion, he was not to be present at the bee-keepers' conference in Wellington.

The session of the Masterton Parliamentary Union will be concluded with a social re-union on Monday evening next, when there will be an elocutionary contest -as well as songs, recitations, etc.

When in Wellington last week, the members ■"' of the Masterton Trust Lands Trustees made enquiries concerning the cost of the plant necessary for lighting the Town Hall with electricity. During nearly the whole time he ' was in Buenos Ayres, Mr E. Short, the well-known Romney Marsh breeder of New Zealand, was confined to a private hospital with an affection of the kidneys. It is stated that, whereas there were at one time fully five hundred Natives in the neighbourhood of Masterton alone, there are now not more than that number of fullblooded Maoris in the whole district. Docking operations will soon be in progress in the Masterton district. Notwithstanding that cue or two cold snaps of weather have occurred since lambing commenced, the percentage is expected to .1e well up to the average.

Among the attractions at a fancy fair to be held at ■ Eketahuna this week will be "shirt-ircning and bed making, by gentlemen." The fair is evidently being conducted by the weaker sex, as there is no mention of "wood-chopping and fire-lighting, by ladies."

At a meeting of the, Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union, held on Friday, arrangements were made for giving evidence before the Arbitration Court in Wellington and elsewhere in the shearers' dispute. Mr EL A. Nevins, of Tenui, was present at the meeting.

It may be said at once that at a General Election the scope of either error or fraud has been very narrow ; but at the Local Option poll the complications of the double vote have produced a much larger crop of mistakes, and the immensity of the interests at stake and the intensity of the feelings aroused on botli sides have combined to make the suspicions of fraud both frequent and free.—Wellington Post. Reports through private channels from New South Wales indicate that shearers are none too plentiful there. In this Dominion it is stated that they will be scarce during the early part of the season, in consequence of so many sheds starting operations simultaneously. The pastoralists have themselves largely to blame for such a state of affairs, as they give little or no encouragement to young" men,' who ' would ; gradually fill the places of 1 the older men who are getting beyond shearing. Many amployers, wishing to push on the work with the utmost dispatch, iiave.no ■time for beginners, some sven stipulating that hands must shear 150 or more sheep per day. Nature's Embrocation. ROCKE'S Eucalyptus Oil. The finest that Australia produces. There's "Something distinctive about ROCKE'S. 2

It is estimated that the capital / valtie of all licensed houses in New Zealand is about £3j156,147.

Four red deer are to-be liberated on the -Kaimanawa Hills, in the Taupo district, as the nucleus' of a herd future'benefit, of'sportsmen. , : ; ,

: " The' consulting engineer's report on'New'Plymouth's suggested electric tramway scheme states that about., £SO,OuQ would be re/juired to instal it.

; Mr J. Armstrong, late of Tauranga, but now of Opotiki, has yielded to-the pressure of requests from many .of the Liberals in the Taurelectorate to contest the seat in the Government interests at the next general election.

During the year ended June 30, 6672 bicycles, valued per invoices at the Customs at £23,887, were imported for New Zealand, and no less than £137,269 worth of parts and .materials. The Customs duty on the whole was £9S;~/.

The amended credit system, under which the giving of credit was restricted to short and defined terms, and which was adopted recently by the Auckland Master Grocers' Association, is stated to be giving much satisfaction to the tradesmen. concerned".

The autocracy of unions is mar-

vellously rampant in the town 'of . Rbtorua. There, by order of the Domestic Servants' Union, all. the. hoardinghouse proprietors .intimate 'tq : their guests that they must have .rtlieir dinner on the half-holiday at *:lp.m.. ; .,\" :; _■/ ~ .- v •;,':';■.

: kauri jgum afro reported from, the .""Northern Wairoa. Two Maori girls unearthed a patch the other day, a few miles- from Dargaville, which went about five hundredweight and realised some £2U. Several of the lumps weighed over twenty pounds.

It is stated that Mr N. Fulton, of the butter-grading staff of Auckland, •and who was at one time butterniaker to the Mangatoki Dairy Co., is to be placed in charge of one of the Taranaki, Cow-testing associations. Mr Fulton's headquarters will probably be at Stratford. •

Current lobby gossip is to the effect that some of the largest trading concerns in"'■'the Dominion have T>een in the habit of making up. their income tax returns in the same'-iiiahf ner as Bowron Bros., and that there 'is. a probability of some very, interesting ,* cases .coming , '...the t'purts., : :V V T;'" ; "' -'{' T ;'"' -f ; .■/. ~,-.; J

;iThcVGisborne dredge Maui, wliich contiimes to do good work in' excavating a channel ■'■; bet ween the v breakwater and groyne. Some; of the pieces broxight, up are so large thai; they" fill the bucket, and have to he chopped to pieces in order to let them down the chute.

■in a bankrupt estate before the Wellington . Official • Assignee , .the bankrupt attributed his failure part- ' ily to sickness, and his : statements ■ showed -thai of seventeen creditors : seven .of them Were made up of n»edical men, a dentist, a chemist, and a hospital boanL , Of.-the, total, ;liaS; £g§ 'i?&M» Jh&P • creditors; were owed-£27sr3s 6d, *' .r^*.-'-..'

|Twp Ashburton residents -are

planting apple tree* -on a large scale ? ;- for commercial purposes. One profe;i Eposes? to^plantf:twenty-five acres, & js-preparing about:fifty: t% ' -■of land,: twenty-five-of which ; '.wilf be planted this season.: C : land is■?• good rhrer silt, and is to be '% laid down in apples and in .stone !► X.frnit for the New Zealand markets.

The Patea -paper .states , that ne-

; icessity; has i/ arisen to . prov; cure another steamer to cope: with '• the increased, trade. in that port. This step, it says,.-.has; :.l)eeii ;fpuid V necessary owing to the large increase in -export: trade •'during; the pasit season^, : ; and the furthers demand 'for, , .shipping space *which:wilLresult with - the enlargement eft. -the meat works i.

Dr. Graham Telephone Bell, of U.S.A., is now in Rotorua, where he will spend a'few days prior= to returning to Wellington. Dr. Bell iand his travelling companion, Mr F. W>' Baldwin,: a noted American airman, have accepted the honorary life membership of the New Zealand Aero Club, which - has its headquarters in Auckland. A promising invention has been made by Mr W. H. Davy, a medical student' at the Auckland University College. The purpose of the invention is to warn ships in due time of their proximity to dangerbus rocks, by exciting an electric alarm placed on the ship. It.is being patented in all'the leading mantime countries of the world.

An amusing feature about the •complaint of the South Canterbury Education Board as to the treatment meted out ; to it by the Education Department in regard to building maintenance funds is that the delegate from that Board to the Education Conference (Mr Bell) was continually, praising the ' Department and its administration, until his attitude became somewhat of a joke.

Reports having gained currency that the Cambridge Sanatorium for Consumptives was to be closed, Sir Joseph Ward was interviewed and stated tnat the Government had no intention of closing the Sanatorium. It had never been expected that the sanatorium should be a money-mak-ing institution, but it was put "up to help those unfortunates suffering from tuberculosis. It had done a great deal of good work, which work would be continued. J There have boen allegations of sweating in the "white" trade in Auckland, and .employers have been interviewed by a i>ew Zealand Herald reporter. Some girls work on weekly wages and some on piecework, most preferring the latter, as they make better v. ages. Competent jrirls made 23s to 30s a week. At buttonholing a fair week's wages was 28s. A girl who started last year at the regulation 5s a week is now making from 13s 7d to 15s 8d per week. These wages seem very good for the class of work done.

A rise in oil freights has taken place which is likely, the Auck- • land. > Star says, |^ ( add;considerably to the'cost of the article to consumer/ This is unfortunate,., as; - stocks of kerosene have ; > sonr'ewhat' in Auckland, l owing to buying, from the „ south. : Further supplies are due, by the oil steamer: Island* Monarch, and this cargo Ms "being quoted at the old price. s The rise,in oil freights from America.to Australasia is stated to Have increased 25 per pent.

The Palmerston North Borough Council has received an btfer from a private company to establish petrol trams in Palmerston, and is arranging to discuss the matter with representatives of the company.

Of the prisoners received into the gaols of New Zealand during last year, only 28 were of what is described as possessing 'superior education." No fewer that 4885 males and 533 females were able to read and write; 64 males and seven females could read only; and 230 males and 22 females could neither read nor write.

An experiment which should prove of considerable interest and P'-obably commercial value is being carried out by Mr J. N. Williams, Frimley, Hawke's Bay. Over forty years ago he' plauted walnut, pinus insignis and African popular trees, which to-day are fit to turn into milling timber. Mr Williams has had some of them cut down and sent to the sawmill. It is believed that the timber will be suitable for cabinet making purposes.

So pronounced is the shortage of beef becoming in Timaru, that one butcher is buying regularly from distant northern and southern markets. One tradesman has for several months been securing his supplies from a farmer in Southland. The. quality of the southern meat _is known to be prime, but what with the cost of. the railage, etc., the butchers are , left with .but; little margin for profit when the time comes for local retailing.

: The Minister of juands has given ;an interesting statement regarding 'the white pine'supply in New Ze;i;laiid*iii'reply to a\ question ;by; Mr Malcolm. He x states—' 'According' to careful estimates made Last year nsito the remaining white pine.timber in New Zealand, it was reported that there was a gross total of 2,586,190,783 superficial feet, of which 1,452,550,640 ■ superficial feet grown on private* or native land. Of the balance standing on Crown land, ■a" large portion is included within mining districts, and' is available for mining purposes at. the 'discretion of the Warden."

More will sooir have to be paid for the pudding basin and soup plate, all in consequence of advanced legislation. News has been received in Wellington of the recent decision of the, British Earthen T 'ware Manufacturers' Association'to; raise the price pf its goods. Earthen* ware is to be,raised; in price 'Bi per cent:r and china> ' ;pe| cent. The reason given by the 1 advance .is that owing, to.;. fche ..(Steps tha,t now haye.to. be<taken to safeguard the health rpf/ivorliersiin,pottery under recent . legislation,. .the cost of manufacture has been correspondingly increased. It is, therefore passed on„ to consuming public. ;.'-.;■' :,:•;•

A request was recently made from Christchurch that the Wellington City Council should, ; conjvene .-a. meeting ,to; consider the, fesitablishment of ')&'■ memorial .to the late Edward Gibbon Wakefield arid to raise a subscription for .that, purpose. The Finance Committee recommended .tj the Council, on Thursday evening that.a reply shPuld be forwarded,; expressing .syjmpatfry. with the movement,!but that the: Council could not see its way ,to take part in the\ proposal in the meantime,. Several councillors expressed; Pie opinion that some action should be takenjin. the matter, '.. and the Committee's. reconimendd,tipris' '.was; referred back for further! considera; tion. ■ .■■ .■ ■ '.■-.'.'

' A novel scheme for providing the children of country schools,, with facilities for: receiving, manual instruction is about to be tested, by' the Auckland Education Board. Two vans are to, be sent, out upon rural jaunts, r ; one' containing,jthe ;V - necessary equipment lor the teaching of cqokery, and,the .v.other-.< .the tdols, etc.,- ; required : :ior.n• via manual-- training;. -Members.; of {the Technical College staff, .will, of course, take part in the» ; -sxpeditipn, land, i the- vans -will 'travel ;- in company ■ from . school to > school, spending three weeks at each. The undertaking is for the benefit of the higher standards.

An owner is wanted for a purse that was picked up yesterday. < A boy to learn the job printing trade is advertised for. An'owner is wanted for a parcel that has been found, containing a pair of corsets. ' A piano, practically new, is advertised for sale cheap. ' For address apply to the Age Office. The third term of the class in dressmaking under Mrs Howell, at the Masterton Technical. School, commences this afternoon. • ' , The third term of the art classes ! at the Masterton Technical School, under the direction of Mr E., P. Fenton, commences to-morrow. Mr Home, grocer, Queen Street, in a replace advertisement, calls I attention to his high-class groceries at bedrock prices, quotations being given. ; The W.F.C.A. have'just landed their shipment of heavy weight wool packs. In addition to a fine quality of rape ."seed to hand they are carrying large stocks of all varieties in grass seeds, which are enumerated in their advertisement on the leader page. Samples will be posted on application.

Mr Donald Lett, who is leaving for Sydney next week, has given instructions to Messrs Finnegan and Bushell to sell, without reserve, the whole of his household furniture and effects, together with his pri?e Leghorn fowls, at his Cole Street, on Saturday afternoon next. The sale presents 'in o.co!lent opportunity to those >i K'tveh of bargains. Full particulars aie advertised on page 8 of this ldoiit,

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