LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 29 November 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Playgoers are notified that the box plan for the play of "Lovers' Lane" to be produced at the Town Hall, Masterton, on Friday, 2nd December, is open to-day at Miss Hive's. The prices are 4s, 3s and 2s.

It is reported that young men of Wellington, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-three, who wish to obtain liquid refreshments from the hotels, now carry their birth certificates with them.

It is understood that the Government intends paying £650 to the JN'.Z. Farmers' «Jo-operati v e Distributing Company, Ltd., in connection with the latter's claim for damages sustained through the working of the coal depot in Wellington.

A song recital by Mrs A. A. Pikett (pupil of Spencer Lorraine), assisted by Miss Hampton and Mr Clifford O'Keefe (late Royal Opera Company, Melbourne), is to be given in St. Matthew's schoolroom, Masterton, on Monday evening next.

A Press Association wire from Hastings'. states that the dry spring has retarded the growth of „ the crops, but that the ill-effects were not so extensive as has . been renorted.

The Masterton Homing Pigeon Club have been very unfortunate in having rough weather for most of the long-distance'races this season, and consequently a large number of birds have been lost. On Thursday last a race from Dunedin was flown and out of a total of nineteen birds liberated only two h»-'l reached home up to last night.

The news of the death of Mr A. McHutchon, Clerk to the Castlepoint County Council, was announced at the meeting of the Mauriceville County Council on Saturday. The chairman and several other Councillors spoke of the great loss which would be suffered by an adjoining County in the death of Mr McHutchon, and the Clerk was directed to send a letter of condolence to Mrs McHutchon. ,

The secretary of the N.Z. Counties Association has advised the Mauriceville County Council that he has referred to his Chairman the Clerk's letter, suggesting that pressure be brought to bear upon the Government to amend the Rating Act, so that the valuation of small grazing runs for local rates be brought into line with that of adjoining propertics.

Ifc is anticipated that tho collections taken up f\ Dunedin Hospital Saturday will an.ount to £I2OO.

Tho Knox Church choir and cantata practice will be held to-night this week.

The Horowheima Park Co.'s estate at Levin is to be subdivided for sale, tho public having failed to acquire it for show and recreation purposes.

Six new members were elected at the last meeting of tho Wairarapa .Amateur Swimming Club.

The official opening of the seuLim by tho Mastorton Amateur Swimming Club will take place 1 on Thursday, December Bth. The Hiuo charges in connection with the Hon. T. K. Macdonald are to be taken into consideration by thi! Legislative Council to-morrow.

A London cablegram states that Gray, the young Australian billiardist,'has won the match against Nelson, which was 4500 up. Nelson scored only 2418.

The adjourned annual meeting of the Maurieeville County Council was held on Saturday last, when.'Mr F. W. H. Kummer was re-elected chairman.

The race from Russell, for which the Masterton Homing Pigeon Club intended to hamper last night, has been postponed for a week on account of the birds net being back from Auckland.

The Taranaki Dairy Employees' Union has amalgamated with the Wairarapa, Manawatu, and "Wellington Districts Union, with the_ object of forming one strong uuion for the whole district named. The secretary of the Union, Mr J. Robertson, visits the Taranaki district next week.

Mr T. B. Taylor. M.P., stated in the House of Representatives yesterday that one hoot manufacturing company in New Zealand was putting boots on the market which were mainly composed of brown paper and cardboard.

The monthly meeting of the Wellington Education Board is to be held to-day.- The members will be preseut at the breaking-up entertainment at the Training College today, and to-morrow will attend a gubernatorial function.

Mr G. H. Redwood, secretary of the Pahiatua Licensed Trades Association, writes to say that there is absolutely no truth in-the statement that Mr Pebreceny, of Pahiatua, has been appointed organiser in the Pahiatua .electorate for the '.'Trade.'?.

The terms under which 620 acres of land adjoining the Greytown Fruitgrowing Company's property are to be sold by public auction, will be found exceptionally easy, being ten per cent, deposit at date of possession, ten per cent, in twelve months, while the balance may remain for five years at five per cent, interest. Possession will be given at any time from January Ist to Marcli Ist. Any particulars required relative to the property wiii be forwarded on application to Messrs Nicol and Edwards, land agents, Masterton.

A deputation from the Eketahuna County Council, consisting of the County Chairman, Cr Morris, and the overseer (Mr N. Nelson), attended the meeting of the Mauriceville County Council, held on Saturday, with reference to the division of timber traffic license fees from waggons using the roads 'in both Counties. After a very full and lengthy discussion of the matter from various points of view, it was agreed that an annual conference of the two Councils be held to decide the division of such fees between the two Counties.

The General Committee of the Masterton Musical and Elocutionary Competitions Society met last night, Mr G) Sykes presiding over an attendance of about a dozen members. The following additional officers were elected:—Vice-Presidents", Dr Cook and Mr G. R. Sykes; secretary, Mr W. Gillespie; Treasurer, Mr J. Pryor; Stage Director, Mr F. J. Hunn; Programme Committee, Messrs Young, Branson, Hunn, Claughton, Robson, 0. Pragnell, . and Eev. Hodge. It ,was decided to hold the competitions in the second week' in July, and tliat the.Programme Committee prepare the programmes • as soon as possible. Deputations were appointed to wait upon the Borough Council and Trust Lands Trust and ask these bodies for financial assistance, j

Tn the House of Representatives yesterday, the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill (No. 2) was read a second time. The Factory Bill was committed. A message was received from the Legislative Council that it insisted oh its amendments to the Dentists Bill, and a committee was appointed to confer with it. The Tramways Bill was committed, after a good deal of opposition from Wellington members. The Coal-mines Amendment Act (No. 2) and Mining Amendment Bill were also committed. The Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement, Bill was read a second time. .The Hon. J. A. Millar moved we second reading of the Government Railways Bill, ■which'was carried after a lengthy debate, ensued.

SUNFLOWER CAKE. Two cupfuls of sugar, half a cupful of butter, a quarter of a cupful of rich milk, one and three-quarter cupfuls of bread flour, or two of pastry Hour, the whites of seven eggs, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, the juice of half a lemon, and a, quarter of a teaspoonful of essence of almonds. Beat the butter to a cream, gradually add the sugar, then the lemon, and, when very light, the milk and whites of tho eggs beaten to a stiff froth; add the flour, into which the cream of tartar has been well-mixed. Bakein a hot oven, and when nearly cool frost with an icing composed of > two eggs mixed with powdered sugar sufficient to thicken it, and flavour with lemon or almond. Bo sure and serve Crescent blend tea with this cake, if you wish to please your guests. Crescent blend tea is blended by a connoisseur and the flavour never varies. Tt is a delightful combination of, Darjeeling and Ceylon teas, and pleases the palate with its exquisite aroma. Crescent blend tea is procurable from practically all storekeepers at Is 10 per lb. the New Crescent h\cv. r J is gflld, at 2s p_er lb.

A young woman was fined £lO and costs' at Manchester, for street betting. Ninety-two lock gates for the Panama Canal will weigh 60,000 tons, and cost over £1,000,000.

At the Marlborough Show, held at Lienheim, Lord Islington offered Father Bolley £IOO for a pair of carriage horses. The offer was not accented.

A fall of coal in tho Mangatina station, Westport Coal Company's Millcrton Mine, was responsible for the death of a miner named Edward Quiulan, a single man, at three o'clock on Thursday.

During the six months erided last month the Framlinghain Agricultural Co-operative Society collected from its members 2,759,626 eggs, weighing 153 tons 19cwt., most of which were sent to London.

Tho Wanganui Education Board is inaugurating examinations in bookkeeping, and endeavouring to have tho certificates granted to successful students recognised by employers.

The captain of an Atlantic liner receives little more than £lO for taking a ship worth a million pounds, valuable cargo, 2000 passengers, and a shipment of specie across 3000 miles of the worst sea in the world.

Mr J. C. Boddiugton reports that the rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Saturday was 2 points; on Sunday 11 points ; and on Monday 61 points.

The latest eel story comes from Mataura. The curator of the hatcheries reported to the Southland Acclimatisation Society on Thursday that one eel caught at Mataura was found to contain'-three ducklings in its stomach and another was found to have consumed a goldfish.

"Ladies have taken the legal copying business to such a large extent that lam unable to get work," said an unemployed solicitor's clerk to the County Court Judge at Watford.

Field-glasses are used by the police in South Bucks for detecting the Sunday card-playing fraternity, who frequent open spaces in the country, and hide the cards under the turf on the' approach' of strangers.

Asked by counsel, in a case at .Shoreditch County Court,. what he thought of a statement'the plaintiff had made, a defendant replied: "well, you'd have called him a liar, but I have gentlemanly instincts."

Sarah Brown, an inmate of the Paddington Workhouse, who was 105 years old recently, received letters from both the King and QueenMother, which were framed and hung over her bed. She had a tea party at which the guardians attended.

A man named Toth, of Brebnez, Austria-Hungary, has discovered that; an old violin which he possesses is probably a genuine Stradivarius. Inside it is inscribed "Antonius Stradjuarius, Cremononsis, faciebat anno 1724,-' and A.S., the famous maker's mark. ,',..'.

Speaking at -ie Levin flower show last week, Mr Field, M.P., said-he would like to see the society take steps to encourage the love of the many beautiful alpine plants and flowers to be found on the Tararua ranges near by; and expressed pleasure in announcing that a start would be made in a few days to cut a track up the mountain side near Otaki.

"What becomes of our boys, after they leave school. 1 "' *s a question often asked. An admittedly income plete memoranda obtained from Mr Lynskey show that since 1906 various callings embraced by Petone High School boys are as follows: Teachers 14, lawyers 6, dentists 2, chemists 2, commercial 38, railway ■workshops (5, tailors ~, Royal Navy 1, engineers 3, Railway .uepartment 3, farmers 3.

The assistant superintendent of the i J . and 0. Company, referring to a New Zealand cable that it was intended to register steamers in Australia, declared, says a Sydney cable, that it was the first he had heard of tne matter. He did not know where it had originated, but there were absolutely no grounds for such a statement.

The Ncra Niven arrived at Wellington from the'■ Chat-hams on Thursday morning with between 5 and (5 tons of hapuka and cod from the fishing station recently established at Waitangi by Mr John McLean of Wellington. The shipment is the result of three days' fishing. Mr McLean reports that fish are numerous, and the prospects of the industry excellent. The fishermen at itie uhathams are experiencing great trouble wnh sharks, which attack the boats laden with fish.

Mr Field, member for Otaki, had a vision of Kapiti Island as "a source of both pleasure and profit to the public." He hjiu asked -.whether the Government will propound a scheme for bringing Kapiti within the holi-day-making zone. Sir JoseDh Ward has answered that "if the public generally were admitted to the island and allowed to roam all over the reserve, the whole purpose of the reservation (a bird sanctuary) would r*v nullified.'' The has been de~ clmed.

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An advertiser wants a situation as housekeeper. A reward is offered for the recovery of a gentleman's gold watch, lost between Upper Opaki and Pmhey's stables yesterday. Mr E. Larson and- family, in another column, express their sincere thanks to the friends in Maunceville West and district who contributed to the benefit tendered to Mr Larson on account of his recent bereavement. Notice is given that Mr Holland, of the firm of Hole and Holland, Limited, has sold his shares m the Company, and is no longer connected with the business. Customers are requested to leave orders at the stables, or to ring up 'phone No. *24. Messrs Cochrane and Butement, land agents, Masterton and Ac Kuiti, advertise a seven years' lease of 916 acres of highly improved sheep country at le Kuiti, also a 900-am freehold section of heavy bush land. At a time when many people take the opportunity of brightening up their homes for the Xmas season, at is well to know that free advice will he given by Mr W. H. Cole, painter, and paperhanger, on the most artistic manner of papering and painting the interior of a house. Mr Cole is prepared to undertake work in any part of the town or country.