LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The fortnightly civil sitting of the Magistrate's Court is to be held in Ma sterton to-morrow. Clem. Hill, of South Australia, will captain the Australian cricketers against South Africa. There are at present five inmates of the Solway Home, one having been admitted from Featherston during the past month. A consignment of indooivgrown strawberries, from Hastings, realised 4s. lOd. per lb. at auction in Wellington yesterday. The property of Mr. W. McGovern, at Kaiwhata, comprising 500 acres, has" been sold through Messrs. Nicol and Edwards, to Mr. Or. H. Hodd, of Hawkers Bay. Thirty-six crates, containing 779J dozen eggs, were despatched from Mastertou to Wellington yesterday by the, Wairai-apa Egg Circle. Mr. J. C. Cooper, of Masterton, is to debate the question of leasehold v. freehold with Mr. 'G. Laurenson, M.P., at Shannon, on the 31st inst.

Lieut.-Colonel Bauchop, "C.M.GL, who recently underwent an operation, has sufficiently recovered to be able to devote a brief time daily to his duties at the District Defence Office.

A Perth cable states that two earthquake shocks were experienced at Marble Bar, the chief town of the Pilbarra goldfields, on Satu.rdav. A thunderous noise accompanied , the shocks. The only damage was to crockery.

The Council of the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution congratulating the Government on the steps taken to provide electric power for'the Dominion, and asking for the probable cost of the power per unit at Palmerston, either from M'akuri, as proposed, or from the larger Waikaremoana scheme. The resolution will be forwarded to thfi Premier. Mr. G. B. Nicholls, organiser of the New Zealand Alliance in the South Island, and formerly of Nireaha (Forty-Mile Bush), who is at present in Sydney, attributes the failure of the recent poll in New South Wales to the Labour and Liquor interests having voted together.

Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals,'in a letter to the Masterton Hospital Committee, states that he hopes the committee will be able to make arrangements for the supply of gas to the local institution at a lower rate than at present, otherwise the installation of an electric light plant will undoubtedly hare to be considered. , The Hastings Standard, of Monday, says:—Mr. Fred. Cassin was a passenger by this morning's express en rout..' to the Wairarapa, where he hopes to secure some options over oilbearing country. It is stated that excellent surface indications of extensive oil measures have been located in the district named. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Hospital and Charitable Aid Committee was held yesterday morn- j ing, there being present Messrs. J. B. Keith (chairman), W. Fisher, .Murray-Jackson, H. O'Leary, W. ' Morris, and Mrs. Cairns. The treasurer's report in regard to charitable aid showed a credit balance at date of £lll Bs. Id. The pay-sheet inrespect of charitable aid, £34 Ss. 7d., and Ken all Solway Home, £22 Ss. 2d., amounting in all to £56 lis. fM., was passed. The list of recipients of aid was considered in detail, and t was decided to strike three names' <J.Y the list. Mrs. Cairns and Mr. Morris were appointed to report to next meeting in respect of one or two other cases. An application for relief was granted, and the action of the secretary in administering temporary assistance was confirmed. The 1 matter of procuring certain requisites for the Solway Home was left in the hands'of Mrs. Cairns, with power to act. Mi*. Murray-Jackson was authorised to employ a man to attend to the garden at the Home. An apology was received for the absence of Mr. J. C Ewington at the meeting of the Hospital Committee. The teasurer's statement in respect to this institution showed a credit, balance at date of £315 14s. Accounts amounting to £I2G 18s. Id. were . passed for payment. The secretary was instructed to make further inquiries regarding the '.'Aerogen" safety gas for lighting purposes. A sub-committee was appointed to revise the patients' accounts. »;

The Cook County (Tologa riding) loan poll of £25,000 was lost by tho narrow majority of 3 2-sth votes.

A public meeting of the ratepayers within the Wairoa harbour rating district will be held on the 20th to consider the proposal to borrow £78,000 for harbour improvements.

The Colonial Sugar Refining Company is about to establish wireless telegraphy at its mills in Fiji, and also intends to equip the steamer Fiona with the apparatus!

A witness in the Ashburton Magistrate's Court on Friday stated that he was working as a labourer and earned 24s a week. He paid 9s in rent, and with the balance had to keep his wife and two children.

An (hder-in-Council gazetted on states that "The originals of inland telegrams and cable messages may be destroyed after the expiration of three months and twelve mouths respectively from the date thereof."

We believe there is a tremendous mineral wealth undeveloped in this Dominion, and it is time our legislators left off spoon-feeding the already wealthy farmers, and gave some attention to the fostering, on an extensive scale, of the great mining industry.—Petone Chronicle.

A peculiar disease has attacked poultry in the, Taranaki district. The birds seem to "go sick" suddenly ,aud in a few days die. One owner informed a New Plymouth News reporter that he had lost all lns_ good fowls from the disease, which, he said, was unlike any other disease to which icwls are subject.

A good old West Coast preacher, who had decided to leave an unrernunerative charge, finding it impossible to collect his salary, said in his farewell sermon:—"! have little more to add, dear brethren, save this: You were all in favour of free salvation, and the manner in which you have . treated me proves that vou have got it!" The "Dr" Searby who has been arrested at Sydney on a charge of forgery under a warrant issued in New Zealand in January in 1909, is known to the Christchurcb. police. The offence referred to is alleged to have been committed at Little River, and the warrant that has just beeV executed, was issued at that time. A constable leaves Wellington for Sydney to bring Searby back to New Zealand. In conversation with a representative of the Ashburton Mail the Premier mentioned that the Cabinet "could not see its way to, and would not, give Captain Scott's. Antarctic expedition anything more than £IOOO already promised. This sum was, he thought, a very fair contribution, and was made in recognition of the expedition's enterprise in the interests of. science.

The following paragraph appears in the Metal' Worker: The campaign against flies has reached that point that a price has been placed on the head of this domestic insect. According to newspaper advices, a price of .4 cents per 100 is paid on flies in the district of Colombia. Many of the boys enter with vigor on this reign of slaughter, and something more will be done to abolish the propagation of typhoid fever.

The deadlock between the shearers and their employers still continues, states the Poverty Bay Herald, but arrangements are being made by various owners to carry through the shearing with station hands. The Shearers'' Union officials Appear to be busy and to be keeping in touch with, members of the Union in different parts of the district. There are rumours in town to-day of a party of shearers coming overland trom" another district, and of a deputation of unionists having gone out to meet them.

The following motion was proposed at the last meeting of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, but was lost: "That the words in the definition of the Corriedale breed be altered from 'the result of five crosses of in-breed-ing' to 'a flock that has been bred either solely within itself for fifteen years or bred from a flock which is eligible under this limit' as laid down by the Corriedale Breeders' Association."

Facetiously the Financial Times remarks:—"The palm must be awarded to the Bank of Australasia for its courage in opening a branch at Ngnowangerupp. This township of a mystic name is situated in the State of West Australia, and it must be an added worry to the clerks of that bank Avhen customers are rash enough to propose to transact business with the new branch. Some reduction in the casualty rate might have been secured if the bank had, for instance, circulated with the announcement of the opening of the branch a small pamphlet defining the proper pronunciation of the name."

A Press Association message from ! Dunedin states that Mr. William 1 Snow died at Outram yesterday at the age of 72. The deceased 'was born in London in 1838, and emigrated with his .parents to New South Wales in 1841. In 1851 he went to the first gold "rush" at Summer Hill Creek, and thence to Turon. In May, 1853, he was at Bendigo and Bandicoot Gully, in Victoria, later going to Ballarat, where he was at the time of the riots. Later he started'a business in Melbourne, but the Dunstau "rush" in 1862 attracted him, and he came to New Zealand. The following year he began storekeeping at North Taieri and shortly afterwards at Outram.

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A branch of the National Bank it being opened at Paimerston North to-day. Mr J. C. Boddington reports thai 1()a degrees of frost were registered at the Upper Plain on Tuesday morning. Blackbirds and minahs are very numerous in Masterton this season, and the oufiook for small fruits is consequently not very promising. j

Over five hundred passengers, including fift»V-two assisted immigrants, arrived at Wellington by the Ruahine on Monday.

A fairly heavy frost was experienced in Masterton on Tuesday, morning. Owners of vegetable gardens report that tomatoes, beans, pumpkins and potatoes have suffered.

It is the intention of Mr W. F. Massoy, M.P., Leader of the Opposi tion, early in the year, to make* <'• rainpaign* of the Dominion. Ho will probably be assisted by one or mon of the 'loading members of the Op position.

The number of entries received for the Wairarapa A. and P. Association's show at Carterton, is not yet available, but is said to be larger than last year. Horses for both classes anil competitions are coming from all parts, and should form a feature of the show.

If New Zealand were fully settled, and were possessed of the great, secondary industries which can only follow in the wake of a great agricultural development, she would carry with ease many millions of people, and be in a position to secure for , her swarming population other lands and nther opportunities—as Britain har. done in the past.—Auckland Herald.

The butter-frit competition under the auspices of ike Wairarapa A. and .I*. Society will commence to-day. There arc thirty-two entries, and the management expect to have a full report for the first day of the show, giving the results. The number is a record, and embraces three big milkers from the Manawatu district. The result is being watched with great interest in the Wairarapa.

The Waikato Argus says that the farmers and dairymen in the Cambridge district are taking groat interest in the testing of their herds, and "when the day arrives for the inspector to' be at their respective places, they are to be seen scurrying off home and no amount of business will prevent them going. They evidently mean to improve their herds, and more power to them.

; Mr. T. Y. Duncan has assured an Oamaru visitor to Wellington that he will be a candidate for the Oamaru seat at the next election if he is able to stand. It has frequently been stated recently that Sir W. J. Steward and the Hon. T. Y. Duncan had had seats booked for them in the Upper House, but whatever the booking may have been we can only take Mr. Duncan's assurance that if he is well he will be a candidate against all-comers. —Ashburton Mail.

Pakatoa Island, where the Salvation Army has been conducting an inebriates'' home for some time, has been under offer, and was reported as about to be sold by auction. The Army has, however, come to terms with the vendors, and purchased the island outright. The price has not been made known. The island will be used exclusively for women patients. Ruthe's Island will be used for men, arid is now almost ready for occupation..

"The House will not tolerate the Licensing Bill," remarked a wellknown Canterbury member, "for an analysis of the position will disclose the fact that the majority of members are pledged to the three-fifths majority. They cannot therefore support the proposed 55 per cent vote without breaking their pledges." This fact in itself is sufficient to emphasise, that important modifications will be necessary if the Bill is to reach the Statute Book. At a meeting of a Taranaki local body the question of expenditure on a certain road (which for obvious reasons had better be left unmentioned) was under discussion, when .the member for that particular locality stated that the settlers were very dissatisfied with their past treatment by the local body. "Yes," ejaculated another member, "there's a certain percentage of settlers on. that road that if a man went up the road with a new suit on he'd be lucky if they left him his collar to return ; with." That settled the discussion. |

At the Matawhero (Poverty Bay) stock sales last week, a Times reporter interviewed a number of prominent sheepfarmers with regard to the possibilities of a general shearers' strike in the district tins season. The concensus of "opinion was that there was little likelihood of such an eventuality. When oriCO the shearing season started in earnest men would be too busy earning big cheques to have time to waste on haggling over the rate of pay. It was not an unlikely thing to have some murmurings at the beginning of the season. Native, shearers had more than once thrown down their shears, and walked out of the sheds in this district for no real reason at all. They caused the sheepfarmer inconvenience for a day of two, but as likely as not would return as suddenly as they had departed, and the work of the shed would then run smoothly till the flock had been cut out. No significance was attached to the action of the shearers at Muriwai.