LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10109, 3 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The last return from the Worksop dredge shows 240z. Sdwt' for 124 hours' working. Twenty-two births, eight deaths and six marriages were registered in Masterton for the month of September.

The annual meeting of the Masterton Permanent Investment and Building Society is to be held this afternoon

Tlie sale of work held in Masterton last week in aid of Ramabai Mission was well attended, and the stall holders were pleased with the results attending uieir efforts.

Messrs James Grant and William McCaft'ery, have been elected to till the vacancies on the Woodville Borough Council caused by the retirement of Messrs Rosenberg and Rapley-

At the annual meeting of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce on Friday last, reference was made by the retiring President and others to the excellent work done by the secretary, Mr J. C. Boddingtno, who was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Mr E. Richards mentioned at the annual meeting of the W.F.C.A. in I Masterton on Friday, that Mr F. H. Sutton had been identified with ! the business which' now belonged to the Association for the last five years, whilst he (the speaker)" had been in it for thirty-two years.

An Orchestral Society lias just been formed at Dannevirke.

The Tararua ranges, to the west of Masterton, are again free from snow.

A branch of the Union Bank of Australasia has been opened at Pahiatua.

The swimming season will be opened by the Masterton Swimming Club with competitions on the Park Lake on Thursday next. There were five births and one death, but no marriages, recorded in Featherston during the month of September.

Mr Alex. .McKenzie, of Featherston, has been appointed judge «f sheep at the Manawatu A. and P. show.

The dry weather of the past few weeks has seriously affected the milk supply at some of the factories in the Wairarapa.

A Masterton resident, who is connected with neither the Licensed Victuallers nor the No-license party, has been asked to contribute a paper for publication, dealing ill ail independent manner with the effects of No-license in Masterton.

Masterton residents are breeding utility poultry on a large scale this year, and the output of eggs next season should be very nearly doubled.

The Masterton Racing Club has decided to increase the charge for admission to the outside cf its course on race-days, from one shilling to two shillings.

The Special Committee of the House of Representatives, set up to investigate the charges made by Mr Hine, M.P., will lioid its first sitting on Wednesday next.

Master ton parents should warn their children against eating anemone blooms, which are highly poisonous. A two-year-old child at Ashburton very nearly lost its life last week through eating these blooms.

The Rev. E. P. Blamires, of Wellington, conducted the morning and evening services at the Masterton Methodist Church yesterday. The congregations were large at each service.

The annual report of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society stated that it would be a recommendation _ to the incoming directors to consider the addition of horse events on the programme such as are included in the Kopuaranga and Gladstone sports programmes.

The Wairarapa Caledonian Society on Saturday made a donation of £2 2s towards a fund which is being raised for the assistance of the widow of the late Piper David Campbell.

Masterton dairy farmers will be interested to-know that rape, mixed with oats, makes a very fine winter feed for cows. A farmer of Aorangi tried the experiment last season, with excellent results.

Mr G. H. Rutherfurd, of Masterton, addressed a meeting at Newman last week on the subject of tlie formation of an Egg Circle in the Eketahuna district. At the conclusion of the meeting, which was attended by between twenty and thirty persons, a committee was set up to further the project. The westerly winds following the long spell of dry weather have made the earth parched rind dry, and a scarcity of grass is reported by farmers in the'Wairarapa. A couple of days' soaking rain would do an immense amount of good to both pastures and cereal crops.

Another novel method of strengthening the ties of Empire has been conceived by a manufacturing firm of England. It is turning out articles in china ware containing "hand painted views of New Zealand scenery. Some 'of these articles have just readied Masterton, and should meet with a ready sale. Three well known Duuedin gentlemen—Messrs C. W. Hay, T. H. Thompson, and F. R. Brown—have received cable advice from New York that they have secured the selling rights for New Zealand of Edison's new storage batterywhiclr it is said is destined to revolutionise motor traffic, including tramways, says the Otago Daily Times. It is stated that the demand in America for batteries is so great that the Edison factories, working night and day, can hardly cope with it.

An eight-year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarke, of Matahiwi, near Masterton, met with a painful accident a few days ago. Tie- child was engaged frying some bzcvn for breakfast, when its clothes accidentally caught lire. With great presence of mind she rushed out of the house and jumped into a stream in the neighbourhood, thereby extinguishing the flames and probably saving her life. As it was, the child was severely burnt about the body.

[ Mr S. Hodlers, of Christcliureh, the late honorary secretary of the New Zealand Forward Movement, during a short stay in Lancashire, gave a lecture to school children on New Zealand, explaining in the course of it, that the Maoris belonged to the. Polynesian family. He then offered a prize to the child who wrote the best essay about the Dominion and its Natives. One of the efforts contained the following: "The Maoris are not New Zealanders—they're politicians!" and another: "The Maoris came to New Zealand in canoes to show their daring and thrift."

In an editorial the Lyttolton Times. remarks—"The hockey girl and the golf girl and the tennis girl and the cycling girl are simply illustrations of the triumph of open air life. They are not peculiarly colonial, but the opportunities and the necessities of existence in young countries have made them essentially a part and parcel of our life. There is 110 destruction of womanliI ness, no lessening of sweetness, and no depreciation of the charm of feminine spirituality. The girls simply realise, that Giod meant them to be well and frank and generous, and, cradled freely in the ample bosom of Mother Earth, they are gathering that strength of mind and of character and body that will fit them in turn to become the wholesome mothers of a great and wholesome race."

You May Have Tried "This, that, or the other," but for permanent relief and pleasurable action you will never find anything to equal Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion, constipation and bilious* ness.—For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

A man was fined £2 at Waipawa last week for disturbing a public en' tertainment.

Shearing operations have commeiv eed at Waipukurau and the immed iate vicinity. 1

The Tiuiaru Hospital Board has resolved to write oil' the large sum of £II,OOO, uncollectablc accounts.

At the Otano stock sale last week, fat ewes in wool realised the high price of 23s to 245. Other classes also brought good prices.

The Oroua No-License League has adopted a resolution in favour of a Dominion vote on the liquor question. TV ; •vo stained glass windows to i> ■. i.vU'i in memory of the late Clio!!"! Gorton in the Greatford Clr.irc!i .ire on their way out from England.

Dr. Th acker, of Christchurch, says that it is his intention to contest the Lyttleton seat against Mr Geo. Laurenson at the next election. He will stand as an Independent.

The builders are making rapid progress with the additions to the Castlecliff Freezing Works, and the contract has every appearance of being completed by due date.

The Opunake Bowling Club is in a very happy state financially. At the end of the year it had' a credit balance of £lB on working account, and its assets exceeded its liabilities by £270.

"The railway -time-table—well, you know all about it," said the President of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce on Friday. "We do," interjected a member, "when we travel."

It is estimated that the street decorations in connection with the King's coronation next year will involve an expenditure of £500,000. Flagmakers and others are already working overtime.

Mr Justice Sim remarked at a sitting of the Arbitration Court at Palmerston North last week that "it seemed to be the special function of the Court to increase wages and reduce hours till the end of time."

The man who spent two terms, each of one year, on Pakatoa Island, shows no symptoms yet of being "cured," for lie was discharged from the Island on Wednesday, and locked up drunk the same evening iu Auckland.

As showing the sound financial position of Stratford at present, it may be mentioned that * the total amount of borough rates collected todate is almost double the amount collected during the corresponding period last year.

A sad fatality occurred at Ashburton on Thursday afternoon, when the two-year-old daughter of Mr Arthur Mayor strayed into the Mill Creek, not far from her home, on the outskirts of the town, and was drowned.

At a meeting of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society on Thursday a member reported that the water was so low in the Hae-Hae-te Moana river that gulls were eating trout wholesale. If the present dry weather continued, there would be no fish left there.

The West Coast Times reports an instance of where three men employed in one, sawmill were summoned to attend as jurymen. It was found impossible to continue operations at the mill, as no substitutes could be found, and 15 men were thus thrown idle.

Ther6 is still a lively demand for houses in Stratford, says the Post, and an empty dwelling is as difficult to find as payable gold in the ranges. Now buildings are .going up on all hands, and carpenters, bricklayers, painters and paperliangers are having a busy time.

"Than the. ladies there are no better canvassers. The men think they do a lot. They talk away in their clubs, and they talk away in their 'pubs' (laughter), but the ladies work, and when a lady gets going she'll do more than teii men."— Mr Herries on the lady as an electioneering asset.

The secretary of the Seamen's Union at Dunedin, sent a lengthy printed circular to the Masterton Chamber of Commerce, dealing with the question of Lascar seamen 011 a certain line of steamers. "We are not a seaport town," said the President of the Chamber, "and I don't suppose 'the matter interests us very much." The circular was received.

The Dunstan Times reports thatthe Ida Valley settlers consider the present spring one of the most backward that has been experienced in that locality. Keen, cutting winds prevail day after day, and there is practically no growth 011 pasture land. These winds increase at times until little short of a hurricane in force, and have done considerable damage. .

Each week the supply of dairy produce increases at the grading works and present indications point to a very busy season, says the Patea Press. On Monday last there was a record supply of 800 cases of butter sent in, to say nothing of the usual supply of cheese, which is also large at present. The staff is now kept very busy, and expect to be miich busier within the next week or two.

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A large number of invitations have been issued for the official opening of the Masterton bowling green on Thursday afternoon next. It is expected that the Gaming .Act Amendment Bill will be brought ■down for its second reading in the House of Representatives to-mor-row evening. A Mastertonian who is an ardent worshipper of "My Lady Nicotine," estimates that he has smoked a ton of tobacco since he was fifteen years of age. Inspectors Bakewell and Teniiant conducted their examination of the .Masterton District High School on Friday last, and to-day the children are enjoying an "Inspector's holiday." Oil the Masterton Showgrounds son Saturday, Red Star defeatedDaletield in the final Pears&n Cup footiball match by 9 points to 3. For Stars, tries were obtained by Waugh (2) and Oberherber, and for

Dalefield Playle scored. A swarm -of bees alighted on a telephone post in Masterton yesterday. The contemplation of a Government position was evidently not sufficiently inviting, for the busy little honey-makers sought subsequent repose in a Chinaman's garden. Efforts are being made to induce Archdeacon Garland, of the Queensland Bible-in-Schools League, to visit New Zealand on a campaign similar to that undertaken in |

"Queensland, where the Bible was recently introduced into we schools on a referendum of the people. "I have never seen the grass better than, it is at the present time," said a Feilding farmer recently. "We have had an excellent winter. Sheep are looking .exceptionally well, and for dairying the present condition and prospects could hardly be better." "My experience of deputations is

ttliat you come away with about as. much as you went with," said Mr J. B. Moodie, at the meeting of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce last week. He had been one of the delegates of the North Island Railway League to interview the Prime Minister. Since the 31st March last the Stratford electrical Supply Company lias wired forty additional houses, and twelve others at present in course of erection have still to be done, the total number of houses being larger than for the whole of the last year.

Mr Gr. de S. Bayliss, Supervisor of Experiments under the Agricultural Department, met the Agricultural Committee of the Master* ton A. and P. Association on Saturday and discussed the question of agricultural experiments in general, and the offer of Mr W. Perry in particular.

The Wanganui Chamber of Commence forwarded a circular letter to the Masterton Chamber in reference to certain alleged defects in the telephone system. 'me secretary of the Masterton Chamber advised Wanganui that he had ascertained that the grounds of complaint did not exist. The Wanganui Chamber lias decided to withdraw its circular.

Teachers in back-blocks schools have much to put up with, and receive some curious communications from parents of scholars. Here is a copy of an excuse for a girl's unpunctuality, received by a teacher from the girl's, mother: —"Please excuse Hazel this morning. The reason is no business of yours. Quite sufficient that it's my fault. Don't be so fond of prying."

Under whatever form a Govern-

ment holds office, it is necessary above all tilings that they should be 1 firmly led. Without firmness and without purpose 110 leader can make progress, If the Government were to cease from pursuing the impossible "task of pleasing everybody and settle down to a definite policy, the country would be better pleased, for it would be better served.—Mataura. Ensign.

Two deputations will wait upon the Prime Minister to-day—one to urge the construction of a railway line from Paliiatua to Pongaroa, and tlie other to represent the claims of the Masterton-Waipuku-rau line. The latter deputation will consist of Messrs Eli Smith, Masterton ; J. Mclntyre, Waipukurau; .J. McDonald, Pongaroa, and J. W. Murray, Akitio County Council.

As showing the popularity (?) of the renewable lease system, it may be mentioned that there was only one applicant for 2000 acres in the Okoroire (Auckland) district, at a ballot taken last week, whilst there were as many as forty-two applications for a section of 388 acres, which was offered under the occupation with right of purchase tenure.

There were large congregations at both services in the Masterton Congregational Church yesterday, when the Rev. Hodge occupied the pulpit morning and evening. In the morning he gave an address on the words found in John, chapter 111., verse 13, "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do." In the evening his address was based on the words from John, chapter 3, verse 56, "Except ye eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of His Blood, ye have no life in ye." At the close of the evening service the Communion of the Lord's Supper was administered.