LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10107, 30 September 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Mystery Flat gold dredge shows 20ozs. 20dwt for 130 hours' working.

There a're ( at present 157 factories registered in Masterton under the Factories Act.

A' Christchureh business firm discharged six lads on Wednesday for the theft of stock.

The latest return from the Masterton Dredge is 270z 3dwt for 137 hours' work.

The trout-fishing season ; will open to-morrow. A number of adults' and youths' licenses have already been issued in Masterton.

Three persons have been charged with drunkenness in Masterton during the month ending to-day,'coin-pared with two for last month and five for the month of July; • '

A Wellington, resident has expressed his willingness to form a syndicate to thoroughly prospect the ranges beyond Masterton for minerals. >

Thirteen applications were received by the Mauri ceville County Council for the position of roadman and carter. The appointment fell to C. Isakson and August Olsen. Mr John Dineen, Truant Officer of the Wellington Education Board, was in Masterton yesterday, having completed a tour of the Forty-Mile Bush.

Practice was started at the Y.M.C.A. Tennis Courts yesterday, preparatory to the official opening on Thursday next. Several new players have joined, and a very successful season is looked' forward to. A report.upon the oil and copperbearing country at Aohonga, on. the East Coast, is now in course of preparation, and will shortly be presented to the House of Representatives.

The monthly mooting of the Council of the .Masterton Chamber of Commerce is to he'held at 3.30 this afternoon, and will ho L - itowed by the annual liu-othig of ;.•■:■ Chamber at 4 o'clock. Dr. \V. H. Hosking, of Masterton, who lias been successfully using racl-, ium for some months past for the cure of!external cancer, has cabled Home for another supply of £(500 worth of radium. This will be the third consignment he has received. The Yaldares gave their final performance in the Masterton Town Hall last night, before a large and most appreciative audience. The company is strong in every detail, and is deserving of public patronage.

In connection .with the Mission of Help, the Rev. H. R. W. Farrer has arrived in Masterton, and he is very anxious to meet, those who have been working, and those who are willing to work, for the mission. A meeting is called : for St. Matthow's Schoolroom at 7.30 o'clock tonight. The Matron of the Masterton Hospital desires to thank Mrs Petersen and Mr Whittaker for sittings of eggs; Mr Hale and the Congregational and Methodist ■Sunday Schools for flowers;'Mesdanies Wimsett and Daysh, and St. Matthew's Hockey Club for fruit and cakes; Mesdanies Beard, D. Caselberg; Arnott, and Hood for periodicals and magazines. At the uiiastei'ton School recreation ground yesterday, the High School ladies' hockey team defeated the Ramblers team in the final for the Thompson-Payne brooches by 2 goals to 1. When the full time had been played the score stood at 1 all, and it was decided to continue till one side had won, and after some very exciting play Miss Berta Scott shot the winning goal. Mr J. W. Murray, chairman of the Akitio County Council, has been appointed a delegate from the Council to wait upon the Prime Minister in reference to the proposed Mastertan'-Warpukurau railway line. Although the bowling season in Masterton is not to be formally opened until Thursday next, some of the more ardent members of the Club have already taken advantage of the beautiful weather to test the green,

J All Oriental Uazaar is being held j at the Y.M.C.A. Rooms this afterj noon and evening, the proceeds of J which will go to Ramabai's Mission to the child widows of India.' The object should meet with the ready sympathy of the public generally. Apart from that, the goods on sale are rare'novelties from India, Persia, Japan, Armenia, China, and the Continent of Europe. Amongst the varied collection may be found numerous articles suitable for presents. At a meeting yesterday of the North Kaipara A. and l\ Association, the .Land Bill was discussed, and it was resolved that no system j of land tenure be approved of that does not give the right of purchase, whether of Crown lands or lands for settlement' or Native lands, and also that the proposal to raise the age of applicants for land from 17 to 21 be disapproved of. Copies of these resolutions were or-

dered to ho sent to the Minister for

Lands, and to Mr Stalhrorthy,

Mr J. 0. Boddington reports that three degrees of frost were registered at the Upper Plain on Thursday morning.

The annual meeting of the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., takes place at two o'clock this afternoon.

Mr Jack Johnson,' of the Horowhenua Village Settlement, is said to possess a cow which last year returned a sum of £2-1 4s to its owner.

During the past season 837,000 young trout were despatched to various parts of New Zealand from the Masterton fish hatcheries. There, still remain 300,000 to he delivered, which will bring the total up to 1,137,000.

So great is the rush for land in. West Australia that the Lands Department is unable to cary out surveys quickly enough to supply all applicants immediately. At present fully a thousand applications are being dealt with.

The crew of the steamship Syria captured a shark while on a recent journey through the Suez Canal. When "the fish was opened the men were horrified to find a man's head, three straw hats, two fowls, and a large quantity of bones. The length of the shark -was 14ft., and it weighed about SOOlbs.

Not a single bankruptcy has been recorded in the Masterton district during the month ending to-day. Strangely enough, September of year did not produce a bankruptcy. The number of petitions filed in insolvency for the nine months ending to-day is fourteen, compared with eighteen for the same period last year.

The Daily News says that in \various parts of Taranaki the Maori has turned his hand to industrial pursuits, and it is found that, wherever he has done so, he has equalled his pakeha neighbours in application, interest and a natural desire to "get. on." As an instance, it is mentioned that one has just installed' at Waitara a modern- dairy plant with-milking machines.

A Masterton 1 resident who recently visited Wellington was surprised to find that, although large sums of public money are being expended in the Empire city, there is still a lack of confidence among financial institutions, and an acute depression exists in trade. The aftermath of the land boom is being acutely felt, and. hundreds of innocent persons arc being caught in the maelstrom. Mr Clement Wragge, lecturing in Victoria, reiterated his prediction . that the Australian rainfall might be Expected to fall below the average within the next few years. He-, said he was giving the best information of which he -was capable. It must be remembered that when he predicted a break-up v of the . last drought—using the same working hypothesis—the prediction was fulfilled to the letter. Weather forecasting, he said, was progressing like everything else. It was a matter of correct diagnosis. A sad fatality occured at IngleVeports the Taranaki .Daily News. The infant and only child of Mrs Chris Alleman, residing on the Windsor road, left for only a few minutes -to itself, cra'wled outside the house to where a bath was standing, with but a few inches of water in it. The little one, which was only 11 months old, must have drawn itself up by the. side of the bath,, and then overbalanced itself, for when. Mrs Alleman came out the child was lying with its face downward in the vrattr-r. All etiorts to restore animation failed.

Ever since the Government took over the Lake Wakatipu goods and passenger traffic there has been an insistent demand for improved stea- ' mer accommodation. The Government proposed to put a new steamer on the lake some years ago. Plans and specifications were drawn and teuders called for such a steamer, and it is understood that a tender has now been accepted. It is stated that the steamer will be built in New Zealand, and that a Dunediir firm is the successful tenderer, but nothing definite can be stated on this points

"It was intended when the Wanganui Moat Freezing Company was started here twenty years ago that it, should be a settlers' company, but we could not get the money * from them to erect buildinjgs in their own interests," said Mr E. A. Campbell, when speaking at the Waugairai Chamber of Commerce banquet on the subject of "Commercial Interests." "The works," continued Mr-' Campbell, "would be non-existent had we depended on the settlers whose interests were naturaly supposed to centre on the industry." The speaker went on to say that ho was afraid they would be" equally blind to their own interests when the Harbour Board appealed to them to sanction a rate .for a loan for harbour improvements, which must be of immense benefit to them. It is expected by the authorities that the greatly reduced fares recently fixed by mutual arrangement ™*Jr e shl PPihg companies from the Old Country to ,\ew Zealand will result in a large influx of immigrants this season. For domestic servants approved by the Commissioner, the fare is now £2 16s,' while for farmers it has been brougfit down to ■ £8 ■ ' the prospective settler to have £lo' or more capital instead of £25 as previously. Arrangements are to be made, solely at the London end, and nominations for domestics and farmers at minimum rates are not tobe received in New Zealand. The lowest figure for nominations in A T ew Zealand is £lO. The first contingent * of passengers at these rates is expected by the Corinthic next month. Ihe Kuahme in the meantime will Bring over 4/0 settlers in the thirdclass alone.

YOU SHOULD BEAK IN MLXD That by using the commercial eucaj lyptus oil which is now bought up at 6d per lb weight, and bottled and on account of the'large profit, pushed, you are exposing yourself to all the dangers to which'the use of turpentine will exposa you— irritation of kidneys, intestinal trach, and micous membranes. % insisting on l, GENUINE EtJCA LYPTI EXTRACT you not oiu> [ avoid these pitfalls, but you have a j stimulating, safe and effective med- ' icament, the result of a special and careful manufacture. A trial will at once convince. Quality in sma li dose distinguishes it from the bulkv and? dangerous products. Remember— SANDER'S EXTRACT embodies th* result of 50 years' experience and" special study, and-it. does what is ■' ' promised; it heals: arid cures without' injuring the constitution, as the oils of the market frequently. do. There- - fore, protect yourself by rejecting othei brands. s

No Englishman has held the title trf sculling champion of the world since E. Trickett, of Sydney, beat J. H. Sadler, of Putney, over the Thames championship course on June 27, 1876.

It is understood that the various manufacturers of implements have unanimously come to the decision not to exhibit at Agricultural and Pastoral Societies' Shows in future, states the Ashburton Mail.

The Hastings Angling Club this week liberated 10,000 Rainbow fry, the - distribution being in the Ohiti, Kaipo, Mount Erin and Maraekakaho streams. Very shortly 30,000 more fry will be liberated in thoTuki Tuki.

The "Wimiipeg City Council has passed a resolution that no parade shall henceforth be allowed in the public streets save with "the unfurled and flowing British flag at its head." All foreign flags must be in the body of the procession and be subordinate to the British flag.

A well-known Ashburton professional man is reported to have departed suddenly, without his creditors' knowledge. It is stated also that a somewhat awkward position arising out of a series of business transactions is likely to lead to further proceedings.

An unknown disease which advances with frightful rapidity has broken out in a lunatic asylum at Valladolid, Spain. Death in some cases ensues within a few minutes of the first symptoms appearing. The only external sign is a red spot, resembling that caused by a sting, on the face or neck.

The necessity of Wanganui being made a grading port was emphasised by Mr A. E. Cambpell at the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce banquet. He instanced the absurdity of sending butter from Wanganui to Patea, where the port was sometimes blocked, necessitating the butter having to be sent back here and shipped to Wellington.

The long arm of the law was exemplified in a case in the Kaiapoi Court recently, when a prohibited person who had entered an hotel admitted that he had been prohibited at Martinborough, but did not think the order would reach Kaiapoi. The Magistrate pointed out that it was illegal for a prohibited person to be supplied anywhere in the Dominion.

A strong demand-for a considerable increase in. the numbers of the German Army is made both by the Neueste Nachrioliten and the Hamburger Nachrichten. The German Army, Act of April 1905 expires in the spring of next year, and it is urged that the alteration of the political situation in Europe during the last six years imperatively necessitates an increase of Germany's military resources.

"I go amongst the workers a great deal," Mr M. Laracy said to a reporter, "and I find a general opinion amongst them that it is absolutely necessary that they should sink their differences, work together, and do something for Labour at the next election. There is a strong feeling in that respect amongst prominent Socialistic, trade, labour and democratic bodies in all parts of New Zealand."

At the ceremony of saluting the flag in honour of Dominion Day at Ashburton, "the singing of the National Anthem at a local school was palpably weak and uninspiring, which drew from the headmaster the taunt that "if the loyalty of the children was measured by their music, he didn't think much of it." The average New Zealande'r is not a singer, but the cheers which followed the ceremonv were truely British.

At a meeting of the Ashburton No-License Council the following resolution was unanimously carried:— "That this meeting deprecates the remarks of Mr Day, S.M., at Timaru, relative to drinking in No-Li-cense areas, and it gives an emphatic denial to the statement that liquor is practically kept in every house, so far as the Ashburton electorate is concerned. That this resolution be handed to the Ministers' Association to take such "action as it may deem necessary.

Speaking on the subject of local authorities at the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce banquet, Mr T. B. Williams commented on the benefits which the farmers had secured by the establishment of the meat-freez-ing works, and compared the prices ruling to- day with what they were years ago when legs of mutton Avere sold for one shiling each ,and the farmers had to boil down their sheep and send the fat to the London markets.

"Mechanic" writes to the Petone paper drawing attention to the fact that the men at the railway workshops had to work as usual on Monday (Dominion Day), while the clerks at the Government buildings were given a holiday on full pay. "This," states the correspondent, 'is making fish of one and flesh of another with a vengeance, and should so." He concludes by asking: "Are we grimy-faced toilers hot as much citizens of the Dominion as the quill drivers who take things easy in the biggest wooden building in the world?"

A DELICIOUS CAKE RECIPE.

FOR AFTERNOON TEA. POUND CAKE:—Rub one pound of butter and one pound of powdered sugar to a smooth cream; beat the whites and yokes 'of twelve eggs separately until they are very light; add the yokes to the cream, • and when they are blended stir in the whites; stir the flour, and add it little by little until all has been added and the mixture is well blended. Grate the rfnd of one lemon, and add it to the juice, strain it through a fine sieve, and stir into the cake; beat very vigorously until perfectly smooth and very light, for at least half an hour; then pour into buttered pans lined with buttered paper, and bake thoroughly in a moderate oven. This is really a delicious cake for afternoon teas, and if served with "Dragon" Brand Tea, the pleasure of the afternoon function is greatly enhanced. The "Dragon" brand tea costs 2s 8d per lb., and it is in Ca class" by itself. It possesses an exquisite flavour; it is a robust tea of full body and great strength, while the texture is very fine. For, thosei who; like, a really high-gjade tea" arid- do not mind the expense; -•■ the ''Dragon"' brand is strongly: recommended..', All the leading storeklceepers of the district sell this brand ■k tea. "New Crescent" Tea at 2s is another excellent brand.

The milk supply at the Scarborough creamery of the Ballance Dairy Company has now reached 1100 gallons per day. The Melbourne slaughtermen's trouble has been finally settled, on the basis of 27s 6d per 100 all round.

A miner and his three daughters, it is ~ declared, recently recovered £BOO worth of gold from their beach claim at Okarito, Westiand, for throe weeks' working. A Pahiatua deputation will wait upon the Prime Minister on Monday next, to urge the harnessing of the Makuri river—or creek—for the generation of electricity. A Sydney cable states that the population of tho Commonwealth at the end of June was 4,421,264. South Australia and Tasmania shew decreases, but the otlier States large j increases.

a professional wrestling match at Napier last night between F. Czar and Joe Gardiner, the latter was thrown on to his head, and had a cartilage of the neck twisted, so. that he was quite unable to continue. The referee gave his decision in favour of Czar, but the promoters refused to hand over the stakes.

An impudent and daring theft occurred within the Supreme Court buildings sometime between Thursday night and early Saturday morning, says the Otago Daily Times. The Judge's private chambers were broken into and two or three drawsrs forced open. A rug and a cushion were stolen, and the only trace of the thieves was a knife which had apparently been used to force open the drawers, and which was left behind.

•The annual euchre toun.„.nK. i fc and dance of the Masterton Fire Brigade was held last evening, in the Exchange Hall, and was very largely attended. The first part of the evening was occupied with euchre, at which Mrs Hoffeins and Mr J. McHattie were the winners, and Miss H. Braggins and Mr N. Hatch the "boobies." For the dance Messrs E. G. McEwen, G. Brooks, and J. Johnson were M.'sC, and Mr and Mrs Watson musicians. The ladies who presided over the supper arrangements are deserving of a word of praise.

The question of the advisableness of painting railway bridges was recently brought before, the Railway Department by the Hawke's Bay County Councjl. The Chief Engineer of Railways in reply to the council, states . that for many years past the department has not painted its bridges, as it was found that painting, imprisoning the sap, had a tendency to diminish rather than increase the useful life of the" timber. It is also advised that Australian hardwoods should be placed with the heart-wood down, and sun cracks on the upper surface should be filled with pitch or a composition of tallow and pitch in order to prevent water soaking in.

There was a large audience at Knox Hall, Masterton, last evening, when a number of local amateurs contributed to a concert, the proceeds from which were in aid of the funds of the Presbyterian Orphanage. Amongst those contributing to the programme were Miss Dorothy Vile, whose recitations were a feature of the entertainment, and who had to submit to a~ number of encores; Mr J. Candy, clarionette solo; Mr Wilton, cornet solo; Mr Watson, violin solo; Mrs Chamberlain .and Miss MeKenzie, pianoforte duet; Miss Logan, recitation. Amongst the singers were Mrs Ogilvy and .Mrs Anderson, Misses Joy, Miller and Anderson, and Messrs Clay son, Stewart and Gemmell.

Several members of the Masterton Parliamentary Debating Society journeyed to Gladstone last even-ing,-and met the.local Debating Society, the subject being "Is compulsory military training desirable in New Zealand?" The contest was* listened to by a very good audience, and the award of the judges, Messrs J. C. Cooper and J. Bridges, was received with applause. The points were: —Masterton 197 : (W. Kemp 79, J. Pryor 68, E. Flanagan 50.) Gladstone 191: (J. Hebenton 84, P. Tattle 58, S. Mason 49). Masterton thus won by 6 points. After the debate the Masterton visitors were entertained at supper by the ladies of the district.

■Mr F. P. Welch requires fencer able to do rough carpentering, married shepherd, etc. Miss. Thomson, of the W.F.C.A., advertises for a machinist and Jtcss makers.

A respectable young man ad-ei-tises for board and lodging, in the "Wanted" column.

"Up-to-date" seed potatoes are on sale in any quantity at Mr TL Boyle's, Curry's Shed, Dixon-street. In the Municipal Gas Showroom, Queen-street, there is just .low on view a collection of gas cookers, which are highly to be commended, for summer use es'peeialy. Mr J. J. Spillane advertises bicycles from £7 iUs upwards. His extensive stock in the Exchange Buildings, Masterton, is commanding a great deal of public attention, and he extends an open invitation to all and sundry to call and inspect his goods.

An electric stamp battery :uul 1?0 yards of cable, White Wyarutovte pullets, lawn mower, and a of other, useful articles, will be offered by Messrs Finnegan and iinsnell at their usual sale on Satunhy afternoon.

Messrs McGruer and Co., are now showing a range of cotton dress fabrics for spring and summer wear, fancy floral foulards, cord striped zephyrs, crepe cloths, , crimp cloth. Shantung' linens, and cotton costume cloth. Costumes are made on the premises, in the' best style- and finisli, at moderate prices.

PILES RAPIDLY CURED. "I liad been suffering from Piles for some little time, and had tried various advertised Ointments for my complaiiit, but I only grew worse. I gave Ilexona a trial, and was pleasantly surprised to find I was completely cured in four days. I used Laxo-Tonio Pills at the same time, so • they may have helped towards my quick recovery," writes Mrs Maggie Munro, Cooper street, Balmain, N.S.W. Rexona, the Rapid Healer, is sold in triangular pots at Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere.

Ladies and Gentlemen,—You cannot be too' insistent in . asking for ROSLYN Unshrinkable ture Wool Underwear, "Delta" finish, since it will add so tremendously to your comfort and enjoyment of life.*