LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10126, 24 October 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Worksop Dredge is 390z 17dwt for 127 hours work.

Train arrangements in connection with the Carterton Sliow may be found on page one of this issue. A Masterton youth almost completely severed the fore-finger of his left hand whilst cutting firewood 011 Saturday.

The Masterton Park Oval is in excellent order for cricket this season, and several good pitches are available.

Delegates of the Opunake and Eltham Railway League and local bodies will wait on the Prime Minister to-day to urge the early construction of the line to Opunake.

Shareholders in tlie Masterton Gold-dredging Company will be interested to learn that a. Is dividend has just been declared. #

A number of members of Parliament made an excursion to Queen Charlotte Sound yesterday, to decide upon a suitable site for a National memorial to Captain Cook.

Another "record-breaker" has loomed over the horizon-. A barber at Broken Hill shaved fifty-five men in thirty minutes. He would have shaved more, only that the whiskers ran out.

A Masterton resident, who returned last week from a visit to the West Coast of the South Island, states that the past few months have been the wettest experienced on the Coast for fully thirty years.

A collision occurred between two vehicles at the corner of a Masterton street on Saturday night. _ A lady occupant of one of the vehicles was thrown out, but fortunately escaped with a shaking.

It is reported that half-a-dozen tenders have been received for the erection of the new Courthouse in Masterton, but that the whole of these are considered too high, and that fresh tenders may be called.

A paragraph is going the rounds of the Press in New Zealand that Masterton, among other townships, requires "workers in all branches of the building trade." This para-graph-is. at once misleading. Although the building trade is showing some signs of improvement in this township, it is still very dull, and there is an abundance of local labour offering.

The following are the proposed calling dates of the S.S. Mongolia, which is the first of the P. and 0. liners to leave Auckland during the coming passenger season:— Leave London, October 7tli; arrive Colombo, October 29th; arrive Fremantle, November Bth ; arrive Sydney, November 17th; arrive and leave Auckland, November 23rd.

The Hastings Homing Pigeon Club sent fifteen birds to Masterton 011 Saturday night, for liberation at ten minute intervals. The first bird was despatched at 7 a.m. yesterday. One or two of the pigeons got .away remarkably well, but most of them took some time to find their bearings. Mr W. Hoar acted as liberator, Mr J. Dixon as timekeeper, anc\ Mr A. Miller as judge. Mr W. A. Woodger, of Petone, the Australasian 100 yds and 220 yds amateur champion, will probably be in Masterton during this week, and the local Amateur Athletic Club will arrange, if possible, for a small evening meeting to enaMe Mr Woodger to take part in an exhibition sprint. If this eventuates, it should give amateur athletics in town a splendid forward movement. Definite word of the date of Mr- Woodger's visit will be known to-morrow. The Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Club is receiving applications for membership from many places outside the town of Masterton; Carterton, Gladstone, and even Tenui each supplying members. The local athletes are taking the matter up enthusiastically, so that the prospects of the club are very bright. . The committee meet in the secretary's office to-morrow night, when the Boxing Day programme will be finally arranged and sent into print. There was a good attendance at the usual Strangers' Tea in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms yesterday, when Mr E. 11.I 1 . Olds, a promising Christchurch student (brother of the Rev. Olds, supplying the local Methodist pulpit at the present time) impressed his hearers with a straight-out young man's talk which could not fail to hit its mark in spite of the fact that the speaker himself is the youngest who has yet spoken at t'liis function. Mr D. Tlireadwell presided, the edibles being provided by the ladies of the Congregational Church.

The services in the Congregational Church, Masterton, were both largely attended yesterday, the Rev. Hodge occupying the pulpit morning and evening. In the morning Mr Hodge took for his text the words from Luke, Chapter 11., Verse 1., "Lord, Teach Me to Pray." In the evening the subject of his address was taken from" I. Samuel, Chapter 30, Verse G, "But David encouraged himself in the Lord." During the evening service Mr F. De Lisle delivered an address to young men, dealing with his experience of deliverance from intellectual difficulties into the light of the Kingdom of God.

Eternal vigilance is the price that Feilding business men must pay if they desire to retain the calling of the Main Trunk express trains here, states the Star. During the course of the statement made in the House, the Minister of Railways said: "As time goes on it will no doubt be necessary to shorten the journey time, between Auckland and Wellington and with, this end in view the number of stopping-places must be kept as low. as possible." Feilding folks will have to.keep an ever-lifted eye on the going on of time so far as it concerns the trunk trains and the Railway Department.

Kiwis have frequently of late been seen on tlie property of Mr R. Bremer at Karihaka, near Waverley.

During the year ended March 31st last new buildings were erected in Rotorua (exclusive of Government buildings) to the value of £13,596.

The annual report of the Canterbury Central Dairy Company,. Christchurch, states that the profit and loss account shows a surplus of £6579.

A poll of ratepayers in the Mangatoki riding of Eltham County last week sanctioned the raising of a loan of £30,000 for road works.

The Fifth Battalion Band rendered a choice programme of sacred music in the Masterton Public Park on Sunday afternoon.

The members of the Feilding District Egg Circle sent away their first consignment of eggs on Friday last.

A steamer with 265 bags of American mail matter for the Dominion left San Francisco for Auckland last Monday, and she should reach there about November 10th.

Mr A. K. Hansen, who has just returned from a trip to the Old World, told an Eketahuna Express reporter that he saw more acute poverty in Glasgow than in . any city he had visited.-

Up-to-date Auckland has exported 26,363 boxes of butter, compared with 21,728 boxes for the corresponding period of last year. Prospects continue bright for the milk producer in the north.

A Nelson paper states that the Government has practically completed arrangements for the purchase of the Stoke Orphanage property, belonging to the Roman Catholic Church.

Tutu poisoning has been playing havoc amongst dairy herds and other clases of stock, says the Hawera Star. This is a very bad time for this poisonous weed, as it throws up a mass of tender shoots, thus making an "appetising dish" for the bovine.

An alarm was sounded on the Masterton firebells on Saturday afternoon, but the firemen and fire police, who turned out promptly, were not required, the cause of the alarm being some smoke issuing from a building in which a man was engaged boiling his billy.

"We give just as the spirit moves us," said Dr. Waddell, during his address to the Presbyterian Association, Christchurch, "but sometimes the spirit does not move us much." Another remark on the same lines was that "some people give according to their means, and many give according to their meanness."

*A supplier of milk to the Mangaramarama cheese factory (Forty Mile Bush) is credited with delivering the remarkable quantity of 5401b, obtained from thirteen cows. The supplier in question lias been feeding his dairy stock partly on green oats for some time past.

A member of the Stratford County Council who was advocating the opening of a back-blocks road to the settlers attempted to strengthen his argument by stating that "God Almighty made the road—," but other councillors immediately chipped in, "No, He didn't. What are we here for?"

The movement which has been made in Masterton in the direction of instituting elocutionary and musical competitions is likely to produce tangible results. A meeting of those interested in the matter is to be held next Monday evening, when it is fully anticipated that there will be a large and representative gathering/ "

The following quaint letter to the editor appears in ' the Lyttelton Times: "Sir, I make the complaint of your trains that you charge to me the same penalty for the journey from town to town by the slow, very slow, train as by the express which you so term. In my country this is not so.—l am, etc., W. von Elbrecht."

Nellie Stewart will have to increase the size of her oart-wlieel hat in "Sweet Nell of Old Drury." Miss Violet Halls,, an American comic opera artiste, has had a hat made with a When the curtain goes up she stands with her head bent forward, so that the audience sees nothing but the flower decked top of Iter- hat, which acts as a screen, hiding her completely. When she lifts her head she is revealed in a "stunning" costume ■witlr an enormous background. This hat is used in music hall, turns.

I The rewards advertised for lost cattle were discussed in a conversational way by several farmers, says the Opunake Times, and three of ' them who owned sections "at the | back" said that' after every muster- ' ing time the count always showed a number of head to be missing, and to prevent the continual leakage of profits milkers were put on the section. Another farmer said every time he mustered sheep for drafting purposes he took out less in number on the next morning than were put in overnight in the drafting pens. The same thing (they said) existed in many parts iof Taranaki, and despite a keen look out for the missing animals no trace is ever found of the lost, strayc-d, or stolen. According to the Rotorua Times, the number of trout of all sorts in Rotorua is almost incredible. During a thin-out drag by the official some time ago, one haul resulted in the capture of 850 fish. A second haul over the same ground produced over 400 victims. When such prodigious catches are made it must be remembered (the Times adds) that where one is caught half a dozen escape; a clean haul isf impossible owing to the nature of' the bottom." This catch is of sizeable fish, and yet the lake swarms with fry and fingerlings. It would be unwise to make any forecast of what will happen in the coming years, but more than ordinary care will have to be expended on our fishing or it will completely fail Rotorua". " , PILES RAPIDLY CURED. '' I had been suffering from Piles for some little time, and had tried various advertised Ointments for my complaint, but I only grew worse. I jgavo Itexona 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- Miihro, Cooper street, Balmain, N.S.W. Rexona, the Rapid Healer, is sold in triangular pots at Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable everywhere.

The new brick offices which are lteing erected for Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., will, it is expected, be ready for occupation before Christmas.

The Dunedin Star has taken upon itself to arrange the totalisator permits of the Dominion. It allots three days' racing in the year to Wairarapa. two to Masterton, one to Pahiatua, and one to Taratahi-Carter-"ton.

A lady somnambulist in the Masterton district walked two miles from her home the other evening, and created alarm in a neighbour's house by presenting herself at a window, ■clad in a garment of white. When the supposed .''ghost", was awakened, there was none more terrified than herself.

A young man named SchubertSturton had laid himself out to break the piano-playing record at Hamilton. He was arrested, however, on a charge of deserting his wife at Wanganui, and the excited public was denied the pleasure of going into ecstasies over his marvellous endurance. He had the princely sum of S.kl in his possession when arrested.

lu extending an invitation to the! Wairarapa Age to be present at the conference in Pahiatua 'on Friday 'next, to discuss the Makuri water-pov.-er scheme, Mr D- Crewe, the convenor of the conference, says:— "It is proposed that the conference will meet at 11.3.0 a.m., and that j the delegates win then be driven to Makuri, where lunch will be provided, afterwards returning to Pahiatua to discuss the scheme and pass such resolution as may be considered advisable." j

The Wellington Post, which strongly urged the claims of the member for Masterton for Ministerial rank, now has the following to say' about him:—"Mr A. W. Hogg, sometime Minister of Labour and Roads, is a Parliamentary comet. His course in the House is distinctly eccentric. Every day he recedes further from the Ministerial sun. His utterances, week by week, become more bizarre."

A a elderly person or lady help is advertised for.

Six shares in the Masterton Dairy Company are advertised for sale in lots. The shares are fully; paid up. Four golf clubs, lost on Saturday between the Lansdowne Links and Mr Hirscliberg's residence, are advertised for.

Applications are invited for the position of secretary to the Wairarapa Caledonian Society, Masterton. Particulars are given in an advertisement on the first page. A dog cart and phaeton, both in .splendid order ■ also a set of dog cart harness and set of double harness for ponies, are advertised for sale. As their owner has left for Sydney, these can be procured at a low figure to a prompt buyer. Address may be obtained at this office.

Members of the Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society are reminded (if the rehearsal to-night, in the Town Hall, at -7.45 o'clock sharp. A leather bag, with shoulder strap, v containing a pair of boots, was found oetween the Waipoua bridges yesterday afternoon. Owner may obtain same on paying the cost of advertising.