LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 3 December 1910, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Directors of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society meet this afternoon.

Denis A. O'Loughliii, enginedriver, of Masterton, was yesterday adjudicated bankrupt.

There was not a single charge of drunkenness in Masterton during the month of November.

The children of St. Matthew's Sunday School are asked to bring flowers to the service to-morrow afternoon, at half-past two. The flowers will be given to the hospitals and the sick in the parish.'

John Cameron' was fined os and 7s.costs in the Magistrate's Court at Mastertou yesterday for riding a bicycle in the street between sunset and sunrise, without lights.

For having failed to register a dog within the Borough, John A. Leahy was fined os and 7s costs in the Magistrate's Court at Masterton yesterday.

X-rays are being used for the treatment of consumption in London hospitals. They make possible the location of the exact spot whore the disease is most active.

Three charges against Albert R. Marsh of breaches of the Licensing Act were to have been heard- in the Magistrate's Court at Mastertou yesterday, but were a<ljourned until December 16th,

Mr J. B. of -Lower Manila, has this season ventured upon what is absolutely a new branch of agriculture in this dietrict —iiit of growing rape seed. His field of 12 acres is now in stook, and yesterday morning he began operations.

A case in which a man is charged with using obscene language towards his wife,' and with damaging her bicycle, has been adjourned by Mr Eli Smith, J.P., to be heard before the Magistrate on December 16tli.

An Otaki settler recently picked up something which he estimated as worth anything up to £9OO. He exhibited it with pride, but later ascertained it was not worth a cent. It was not ambergris.

A case of ptomaine poisoning occured at Motuiti on Monday. A native partook of sardines which had been kept in an open tin since the previous day. The usual emetics were administered, and the patient is doing well.

Messrs W. 11. Beetham and J. Brown, J.'sP., yesterday fined an inebriate ss, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment, for being drunk in Masterton.

Rev. A. T. Thompson will conduct both services at Knox Church to-morrow, and also the afternoon service at Kaituna. Mr D. McGregor, senior, will take the service at Kopuaranga at 3 pm. Immense shoals of kawhai are making their way along the coast just now, and the Tiinaru net fishermen are all getting great catches of them. The kawhai (which is called the New Zealand salmon) gives splendid sport, and is easily caught in the meshes of a deep-sea net.

Southland farmers are having a great time just now in all departments, says the Southland Times. Oats have risen with a boom, stock of every description is easily saleable, and feed is plentiful. At the fortnightly meeting last night of the Masterton Court of Foresters, there was a good attendance of members. Officers for the ensuing term were nominated. jßro. H. Sliapcott, District Chief Ranger, was a visitor to the Lodge.

During the month of November, 1908, fifty-four criminal charges were the subject of police prosecutions in Masterton. Only five cases were dealt with during the same month this year. v

Our Carterton correspondent Writes that the school garden competition under the auspices of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society was won by the Gladstone school, who thus retain the championship shield for another term. Clareville was second and Featherston third.

Many remedies for codlin moth have been printed, but perhaps the most novel was that suggested by a writer in a newspaper recently—that geraniums be grown under fruity trees. Mr A. Pickering, of Palmerston North," read the paragraph, and tried it, he says, with successful results. He is now a believer in the remedy.

An English farmer writes to the Farmer and Settler of his success in making stack ensilage:—"l put down," says lie, "about 100 tons of maize, and only about a foot of the top and sides was waste; the rest of it was lovely and sweet. In fact, once I opened it up one could smell it like new •: mown hay quite 100 yards away. Aft*«r the -first .week the cows ate it ravenously, and < they have fattened pn it, and milked well also. The ensilage lias undoubtedly saved me ft lot of money this- winter." J

In view of the prevalence of socalled facial eczema among sheep in the Mastertou district last year, and trhe desirableness of doing whatever is possible to check outbreaks of this disease if possible while,,it- is ya its early stages, it/is hoped that officer? of the Live-stock .Division of the Agricultural Department will be advised early ''whenever indications of the trouble commencing are noted by sheepowners. ' -

1 The grain crops of, the Masterton district - are ripening earlier than usual this season. In a few days', time the reaper and binder will be in evidence in many fields. The recent Warm rains have exerted a wonderfully beneficial effect on the crops, which will yield considerably better than was anticipated by farmers a few weeks ago.

A free lantern slide lecture on China and the opium traffic is to be given by the Rev. A. T. Thompson in Knox Hall, Masterton, 011 Thursday evening next. Mr Jas. McGregor, junr., will assist. The lecture has been arranged with a view to awakening interest in the question of the opium traffic, and to obtain signatures for the anti-opium petition.

A meeting of the Wairarapa Friendly Societies' delegates took place at Carterton 011 Thursday evening. Fourteen societies were represented, and Bro. Bowles (Carterton) was in the chair. The various committees were set up to arrange details of the annual picnic and sports at Pigeon Bush at Boxing Day. The guarantee to the Railway Department for a special train was subscribed by the various Lodges. It was decided that hot water and fresh milk be provided free at the picnic to the visitors. Bros, lloydhouse and De Lacey, were appointed to draw up a suitable advertising dodger. The refreshments were left in the hands of Bro. Pickering .(Masterton). Bros. Henry, Trotman, and Leppein (Greytown), Lust, Tocker, and Tait (Featherston), were appointed a Ground Committee, and Bros. Rue, Chapman, Thompson, Thread well and Feilding (Masterton) a Sports Committee. The next meeting takes place at Carterton on 15th December.