LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10120, 15 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An empty dwelling-house at Morrison's Bush, owned by Mr. Field, of Carterton, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night.

The prize money to be given for the annual meeting of the North Wairarapa Rifle Association, to be held on the Fairview range on Thursday next, will total £44.

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League on Monday, the membership of the Ashburton branch was reported to be 92. The total membership for Canterbury was given at 766. It is stated that a Mataura horsedealer cleared between £6OO and £7OO on his last consignment of horses for the Melbourne market. "On one mare alone he realised a profit of over £IOO. All the rivers in the Bush districts are in flood, and the flats are submerged, especially at Konini, where the water is over the fences, and the river—the Mangatainoka—is still rising. The chairman of the ' Masterton Trust Lands trustees has given notice to move, at the next meeting, that the resolution applying to the working of scholarship grants be rescinded, and that in future a pupil must servo half the term before the money is paid. Mr. Wagg said it had come to his knowledge that some of the pupils who had been in the , receipt of grants had not completed j their second term.

It is to be hoped (says the Rangitikei Advocate) that sheepowners will act on the advice of Mr. H. Nevins, at the recent meeting at Masterton, and employ a certain number of learners at each shearing shed. There is no reason why this country should be dependent on Australia for the labour that takes the wool off the sheep's backs. There are plenty of farmers' sons to do the whole work, especially if, through the agency of the Farmers' Union, it was undertaken co-operatively throughout the whole country. An'additional advantage would be that the money earned by shearers would continue to be circulated in this country.

"Inadequate smoking-car accommodation" is just now a chronic form of complaint amongst first-class passengers, on the Main Trunk line expresses. For months these trains have each provided a first-class halfcar, accommodating only fifteen people. Lately, the first ''smokers" have been so rushed, even at their starting places, that it has been a case of "standing-room" only," to the general inconvenience of every passenger in the car. It is pointed out that on the New Plymouth and Napier expresses, the first-class accommodation on each train is for more than thirty passengers. Why is it less on the Main Trunk expresses ? <

Judging competitions for fanners' sons are being introduced at Scottish shows with considerable success.

The freezing works at New Plymouth are commencing operations earlier than usual this year.

A severe frost in Nelson last week destroyed thousands of tomato plants, one grower alone losing about 10,000 plants.

Grants of £3l Is. 4d. to the District High School, and £33 6s. Bd. to the Technical School were passed by the Masterfon Trust Lands Trustees last evening.

The Hon. J. A. Millar has intimated that he proposes to provide for the making of a Dominion award in cases where the Arbitration Court was satisfied it would be desirable and work well.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report that at their wool and skrh sales held at Palmer ston iNorth yesterday the competition was keen throughout the sale, but that hides sold at slightly easier rates. At tne meeting of the Masterton Trust Lands Trustees last evening it was decided to send a cheque for £IOO to the Minister for Justice, and that he be asked to complete the transfer of the sites, in regard to the Courthouse, as soon as possible. The Masterton Loyal Orange Lodge held an extraordinary meeting in the Exchange Buildings last night, when two members were raised to the Secaond Degree. It was reported that the lodge was gaining influence in the district.

Insurance in all its forms is rightly called betting j but it is wrongly called 'gambling, because insurance is a process that substitutes certainty for uncertainty. It is the man who abstains from insurance who is the gambler, though the policy-holder makes the bet, and the uninsured man does not. —Fry's Magazine.

Mr. C. E. Daniell expressed the opinion a- the meeting of the Masterton Trust • Lands Trustees last evening that the Trust should do sometning in the way of offering prizes for the encouragement of agricultural plots at the various schools of the district.

As demonstrating the rapid manner in which fat sheep have increased in price during the past few weeks, it may be mentioned that a farmer five weeks ago purchased a fairly large line o£ ewes at lis., which he sold on Tuesday at 15s. lid.—Ashburton Guardian.

The long arm of the law.—This week Constable Wade arrested a business man in Eltham on a warrantof commitment for having failed to pay a fine, amounting, with' costs, to £23 16s, imposed at Auckland in 1905 in connection with a charge of laying tote odds. Payment of the amount followed the arrest.

Mr. Krahagen moved, at the meeting of the Masterton Trust Lands Trustees last evening, that the secretary write the District High School Committee and ask when it was proposed to do something in the matter of placing the museum exhibits in the new museum building at the school. Mr. Daniell seconded the resolution, which was carried.

The Gisborne City Council, at ameeting on Thursday night, passed a resolution in favour of inviting the North Island Brass Bands' Asso6iation to hodl its 1912 contest at Gisborne. The necessary guarantee of £SOO was raised by the' Acting-Mayor, Mr. William Pettie, in half an hour, and he states he can get £IOOO if required. A committee of leading citizens was ap- * pointed to take initial steps. j

The North Wiararapa Rifle Club lias received donations from the following : —Messrs. J. 0. Bidwill, F. G. Maunsell, H. J. Dagg, D. M'Gregor, senr., H. G. Williams, and H. Holmes, one guinea each; D. J. Cameron and C. J. Taylor, 10s. each. In addition, trophies for the annual meeting, which takes place at Fairview range on Thursday next, have been donated by leading local firms, while a number of further donations have been promised.

A Native of Gladstone, named Cody, has been admitted to the Masterton Hospital with a fractured leg. How the injury was sustained is at present unknown, but the Native showed great- fortitude after the accident by improvising splints from flax, and afterwards crawling to some manuka scrub, out of which he made himself a crutch. He was found at five o'clock in the evening, and the ambulance was sent; out for him.

A meeting of St. Matthew's Cricket Club was held last evening, Rev. Raine presiding. It was decided to takeover the liability of the defunct United Club, and in return to keep all the club's material. After considerable discussion it was decided to leave the A and B teams as at last year constituted, and to fill in the vacancies with the new members. The annual subscription was fixed at ss. for members under 18 and 10s. for members over that age.

The committee that has taken in hand the task of raising funds to provide a Nursing Home for the Maoris of Wairarapa are meeting with gratifying success amongst their own people. They have not yet canvassed outside this district, and here they have the promise of money amounting to £IOO, a donation of one acre of freehold land at Te Ore Ore, and the native owners have given 42 acres of native reserve towards the object. It is anticipated that money will conic in freely from natives all over the Dominion as soon as the object is known and application made in the right quarters. In connection with raising funds for this object a social and dance Avill bo held on Friday night, 28th October, in the Meeting House, Te Ore Ore. Mrs. Tai Te Tan and Mr. W. Tamihana are the joint secretaries, and a strong committee is working to ensure a successful gathering.

The • annual social of the Hope of Masterton Juvenile Reehabite Tent was held last evening, and was very largely attended. Mrs. Green, occupied the chair, and gave a. very instructive opening speech. During the evening Misses Syverston, E. Andrews, ii. ... ember, T. Andrews, L. Davis, L. Gourlay, F. Davis, and L. Green contributed recitations, while a dialogue in which Mesdamcs Gourlay nad Iveson, Misses Duffy, I. Andrews, 0. Andrews, F. Davis, and Masters H. Miller, A. Lee, and L. Davis took part, proved most enjoyable. Songs were given by Misses Green, Anderson, J. Duffy, and I. Andrews. The president of the Tent, Mrs. Nellie Miller, explained the working and reported on the progress during the past year. Refreshments were handed round and votes of thanks were passed to all who had assisted.

"Courtesy personified" is, the'entry which a visitor from England has made in the visitors' book at the Christchurch office of the Tourist Department.

At the meeting of the Palmerston Hospital Board the chairman remarked that it was evidently the policy of the Government to thrust more and more responsibility and expense upon local bodies.

As showing the effect of cheap tram fares in popularising and populating a district, the Dunedin Star understands that the number of pupils on the roll of the Mornington school is larger than at any time during the past eleven years. The increase for the past three months is fifty.

Candidates for some seats are early in the field. The East Coast Guardian understands that Mr J. Armstrong, in response to numerous requests will probably contest the Tauranga; seat at the next general election. In this connection we .

learn that Mr E. H. Taylor is to have opposition from quite a new quarter at the next general, election. —Thames Star.

"The railway experience shows that the department has invariably been able to transport the sheep as quickly as the freezing works have been able to deal with them, and, in many cases, it has actually ianded the sheep faster than they could be disposed of," remarks the Hon. J. A. Millar, answering a request for more sheep-trucks on tlie Wellington-New Plymouth section.

The simple life for clergymen was advocated at the Conference of the iNew Zealand Baptist Union. A discussion on a proposal to fix the stipend of a single minister lower than that of a married clergyman was in progress, when a delegate, like a patriarch, gave it as his opinion that if a single man could not live on £3 a week he ought to be out of the ministry.

In illustrating a point he wished to make at a political gathering in the west, a noted pontican told of an epitaph which an Indiana man had caused W J - be inscribed upon the monument of his wife, who had died after a somewhat tempestuous married life. This legend reads: ''Here lies a wife. Tears cannot uring her back. Therefore her husband weeps."—Harper's Magazine.

Dairy farmers in Hawke's Bay are watching with interest the great development of the industry in Taranaki. Conversing with a Hawera> Star reporter, a resident of that town who last week had been on a visit to Hastings mentioned that three dairymen from that district were shortly coming over to Hawera to have a look round the country, and more particularly to inspect the big dairy herds.

The difficulty experienced by the North Canterbury Education Board in filling positions in country schools is not as acute as it was a few months ago. It has been relieved by the fact that a number of secondyear students are now available, and willing to go out into the country. In deciding to use their services the Board is merely drawing upon next year's supply and the fact that teachers are very scarce still remains.

Mr Martin, organiser of the Political Reform Party, in the course of an interview with an North Auckland Times reporter, predicted that next election would witness the biggest political battle ever fought in New Zealand. The strength of the Opposition party was. increasing all round, whilst the, tactics of the party in power had disgusted manv of its old supporters, especially in regard to land questions, and backing down in other important matters.

While the oath was being administered to a witness •at the Nelson Magistrate's Court this week, he didnot kiss the Bible, and ,the Magistrate, noticing'this, pointed out that the oath would not be properly' taken until the witness" had kissed the Bible. "I don't object to kiss the Bible, your Worship, but I do object to kiss a dirty Bible," .replied the witness, turning over the leaves, of the book, which has been in use at the Courthouse for a considerable period. To get over the difficulty the Scottish form of oath was administered.

The fine distinction, which may, or may not, make such a difference, went home to those attending a musical festival at a Dunedin Baptist Church last week, and made the audience laugh. Mr J. G. Fraser, who had been talking eloquently about Baptists, said "that puts me in mind of a very dear friend of mine, long since gone to glory, thank goodness." After the merriment had somewhat abated, Mr .Fraser argued that a good friend gone to glory was in a literal and every other sense a safe subject for congratulation, and he did not see anything to laugh at.

'"During recent years," says the- • .annual report af the Northern Bowling Association, "bowling clubs generally have felt the charges by way of rates upon their greens an increasingly heavy burden, and your Council is now glad to inform you that : there is a prospect of some measure of relief being obtained. As a result of representations made by a deputation arranged for by a subcommittee of the council, the Prime jVihiisters ( promises to insert a clause I in the Municipal Corporations Act empowering local bodies, in their discretion, to remit either wholly or in part rates upon bowling greens." The question of whether single men should be given the preference for labour when married men are awaiting employment is a much debated one at the local railway coal yards, states the Palmerston North Standard. It appears that on certain dnys coal arrives from various • places and the Department employs casual labourers to empty the trucks. Maried men have been glad of this work, and it has been willingly accepted by them. It is alleged by the married men that their services'have been dispensed with and single men have been given the employment.

'There is no" place in the world where there are moro sudden and extreme changes of temperature than m Australasia. We often experience a climate of three different seasons in one day, and the result is that numbers of people contract a cold in the stomach, and bowels, which causes great pain and suffering. There is nothing that will relieve this suffering so quickly as Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This is the bet* medicine in, the world to cure bowel complaint in all its forms. It is a sure cure for diarrhoea, dysentery, and colic, and has never been knowa to fail.— For sale by al! chemists rod storekeepers.

several Mastertonians intend be- ■ ing present at the Hastings Show, *SB-hich is to be held next week.

As the Carterton Show will be held -on the last Thursday in October, the new Masterton fire station will be opened on the first Thursday of next month.

Sunday is recognised throughout the Dominion as the "Young People's Day," and special services will be conducted in the Methodist Church, when a large attendance of children is expected. Ihe subject to be taken bv the Rev. C. H. Olds is "Faciifg

the Alternative." Similar services will be conducted at Kuripuni by JMr. I'- T. Harris. fHft has been estimated tht the of the Masterton Town Hall with electricity will \cost £650. The matter has been referred ■to the Town Hall Committee of the Trust Lands Trust for a report to next meeting. The verbosity of members of the ■Masterton Trust Lands Trustees induced Mr. C. E. Daniell to remark at last night's meeting that it was impossible to transact business where there was so much talk. Members continued talking.

The members of the Huia Ladies'

Hoekev Club entertained their friends

■ait a very enjoyable evening in the *,Jfrxchange Hall, Masterton, last even,!\iig. Messrs. L. Nicol and C. Smith M.'s.C, and dainty refreshwere supplied by Miss Finnis.

One of the properties in Queen Street, Masterton, upon which the Trust Lands Trustees recently erect•ed a brick building, has been valued at £72 per foot for rating purposes. The Trustees think the valuation is "too-high, and decided last night, on the motion of Mr. Pragnell, to lodge -an objection at the proper time.

Mr. E. G. Eton asked, at the. meeting of the Masterton Trust Lands Trustees last evening, if,the Trust justified in making scholarship •Kilts towards children who came "from outside the Small Farm Settlement. It appears that v. pupil from Eketahuna attended the Masterton District High School, matriculated, and was granted a scholarship of £lO. It was pointed out that there was a resolution on the minutes of the Trust, to the effect that the •grant should be made to all children "matriculating at High School.

Evenly-developed quarts crystals •are a rather rare occurrence, and on this account a good specimen is a decided acquisition to the mineral collection of a museum. Mr.' E. S.

Richards, who is an enthusiastic

of the finer branches of minV has very kindly presented to ''**•"' the Masterton School Museum a quartz crystal, which he obtained from the Waihi goldfields. The peculiar form which this group of minerals takes is shown very plainly in a beautiful hexagonal pyramid, and the specimen certainly presents a most instructive study in crystalography.

-i demonstration of a new explosive was given at Te Whiti yesterday, in the jpresence of Messrs. G. C. Summerell, H. Perry, A. H. Wrightson, Allan, Davis, and others. The first

~" , trial was made on a huge totara stump which proved to be partly decayed. yThe result showed the enormous power of the explosive. The splitting power of the explosive was successfully tested on some logs, and several stumps were shifted from their bases.

, A strong boy is wanted at Mr. J. Dixon's cordial factory. An experienced skh't hand is required by Messrs. M'Gruer and Co., ■Queen Street. { English tweed suits in latest styles are. advertised by Messrs. Finnegan and Bushell at nominal prices. Monday next is the last day on ,which discount will be allowed for; f September gas accounts. :;'. .' . Notice is given that shearing will commence at Te Parae on Friday, October 21st. Absolute bargains in new and . .'" second-hand bicycles-are advertised by Messrs. Finnegan and Bushell, auctioneers. Separate tenders are invited by the AVellihgton Education Board for the re-erection of the school at Pahiatua, ■and for the erection-of new latrines, . with drainage. Train arrangements for the Wellington races at Trentham, are advertised. Holiday excursion tickets for return until the 24th October will be available at all stations on the 18th, --"' 19th and 21st instant. In connection .with the Hawke's Bay Show holiday excursion tickets '.-•' to "Hastings and Napier, available for return up to, and including, 24th jnstant, will ; be obtainable on the 17th and 18th instants, at all railway stations. I All those requiring 'Xmas nura< hers of illustrated papers and magazines are advised to book their orders now with Mr Jas. Henderson, > "Queen-street, to ensure delivery. At.to-day's weekly salef Messrs. and Bushell will offer Hi) "Vvhite and Brown Leghorn, pullets, bred from Mr. Mark W-'l-<)Jr. ton's fam6us stock; also other poul\j "try, large extension dining table, pictures, pot plants, and other useful ■articles.

Mr. A. Henderson, jeweller, has just landed a very fine selection of silver rose bowls, silver prize cups, -and a rare assortment of enamelled buckles, bangles, and solid gold safety pins, with enamelled fronts. The new goods will be on special view to-dav.

The new stock of gem rings just

received by Mr. Frank Dupre ihi elude all the latest and most fashionJ able designs. The lines are a high- "*' class lot, and a special display is now being made of engagement rings and dress rings, set with beautiful diamond clusters. OF RARE DELICACY AMD k FLAVOUR. JUL? FLAG BRAND PICKLES give to just that finishing touch HHBhich'■ often draws from the diner !" ' aroma and flavour of good always stimulate the apadd a relish to whatever, pickle can be prepared more tempting to the - FLAG in it are the are

It is elsewhere announced that Mr. H. Hadley's great alteration boot and shoe sale will close on Saturday next. Those who have not availed themselves of the opportunity are invited to call and secure .the bargains. Goods are marked down in overy department to the lowest 'possible margin.

Attention is drawn to an announcement on the auctioneers' page of this morning's issue to the effect that the portion of the entries for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's spring sale are being yarded on Wednesday next. The firm wish to announce that they have .iot postponed their sale, which will be conducted as originally advertised.

An important clearing sale of'dafry "tock will be held at Mangaoroiiga, near Eketahuna, by Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., on account of the trustees in the estate of the, late Mrs. Schormann. The list to be of- '.' i'."l includes 45 first-class dairy cows in full profit, one purebred Shorthorn bull, 30 store pigs, ;two harness horses, one brake, as well as •i J ;:'.ilk cans and dairy utensils. Thr> herd is one of the best in the district, and buyers will have an opportunity of securing reliable stock. The. vile will take place on Friday next, October 21st.

Messrs. J,. A. J. Maclean and Co. announce that they are holding a clearing sale on the premises, No. 101, Villa Street, next Thursday, of household furniture and effects, and as the list comprises, amongst other tilings, a piano by Collinson, a Wertheim sewing machine, a mirror-back-ed sideboard, overmantle, Axminstor squares, and other lines, the sale should be a good one. A horse, gig, and harness will also be offered.

Intending exhibitors at the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural Spring Show, and the Manawatu Kennel Club's Dog Show are reminded that as entries closed yesterday, late fees are open up to the 21st in st., at Palmerston North. Reports to hand indicate that entries so far received give promise of a fine exhibition of live stock. As usual exhibitors will be present from as far north as Auckland, and the surrounding provinces in this island; while in sheep several exhibitors will be present witli good entries from Marlborough and Canterbury.