LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10144, 21 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A proposal has been made to hold a "New Zealand Week" in Napier. A horse sale is to be held in Masterton to-day by Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd. During the month of December, 5560 men were employed on various Government co-operative works in *he Dominion. Masterton was visited with a westerly gale at an early hour on Friday morning. A good deal of damage was done in the orchards of the town. Although to-morrow will be the anniversary of the Wellington province, the holiday will be generally observed on Monday. '. A number of'Masterton"'''snorts''' intend proceeding to the 'Wellington Racing Club's meeting at. Trentham to-day. The bot-fly continues to aggravate horses in Masterton, and scree animals have been put out of work in consequence. Word has just been received by Mr Georgesbn, secretary of the Waimrapa Swimming Club, that Mr Hopkins,, director -of :the Miramar Fireworks Company, intends bringng a collection of humorous moving pictures to precede the great fireworks display ou Monday night at 7,80 o'clock.

! Yesterday was the fourteenth anniversary of the death of Prince Henry of Battenburg, whose son, Prince Leopold, is now en route to New Zealand. Mr H. C. Robinson, in the course of his address in Masterton last evening, opposed importation of boys for farming, when they had ;:n abundance of ! lads in their midst suitable for farm work. Mr John's residence at Manakau, West Coast, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. The inmates escaped with difficulty. The building was insured for £l6O, and there was £DO on the furniture. A number of Wellington ladies are I anxious to form a ladies' rifle club. The Defence Department is not .301 couraging the movement. It is oad 1 enough now fcr man to be out late at night I , sThe Masterton Ri£es, to the strength of about fifty, held a daylight at Te Ore Ore and Lansdowne Past evening. Various' company movements were gone through and useful mstftuc.tiongiv.er>.: An offer of £IOO per acre was made last week for a property of forty acres, with a substantial residence erected thereon, on the Kimbolton road. The Feilding Star says that the owner declined'theoffer. ■• -;. ; "Used as lam to addressing seven men and a dog on Trust matters, I &•■'< C. -S<»bf; inson, uvihe courseTrf 3aisaddress. - in ; Masterton last evening. There is a'.keen-enquiry in this district for sawmill hands t6r Y/airarapa, Hawke's Bay, and other districts. This may be looked upon as a confirmation of the reports from various quarters of restored confidence. The Opaki Rifle Club will be repre-sented-at the Mahawatu rifle meeting atfPa^merston- North to-day and Monday by Captain W, J. Welch and Riflemen Hyde, King, : Feast, Mcintosh, McCalmont, McKenzie, and Engstrom.

&. At a,>meeting- of the. Committee ■of Amateur Swimming Club held in Masterton last night, it was decided to provide hot water free of charge for the convenience of picnic parties at the Aquatic Sports in* the Masterton Park on Monday. A valuable thoroughbred mare was found'shot dead with a pea rifle in a paddock in the Oamaru district. She had a three months old foal at, foot by a thoroughbred horse and was also in 'foal to an imported sire, so that the j owner's loss is a very severe one.' A draught horse was maimed by a pearifle a few days previously in the same locality, :' An Australian paper'" furnishes* a* ;good sometimes produced by misplacing a* line of type. It says that . "if only j much as 4oz of alcohol be taken in 24 hours the heart will give ; 12,226 i 1 geese:"'/ f has often that intoxicate people are liberal,*but;the geese' belonged to another sentence, and the'rightful words, "beats extra," had been transposed. A startling incident of vandalism occurred at Ipswich, Queensland, last week. The Methodist Sunday School was broken into by some girls, and Bibles, library and* other books, some being-official bookstf'theschool, were [torn in pieces sqatt'ered about'the floor. HThe school'^piimo;;; a " 'one, was damaged,' and a fire - was * lighted in- a stable near at hand to burn-the destroyed literature. -

Exhibitors are reminded that entries for the Pahiatua-Akitio Agricultural and Pastoral Association's second annual show close with secretary (Mr J . A. Walsh), at Pahiatua on ■Wednesday-next, at 8 p.m.. It is gratifying to learHpthat entries are' 'coming in very freely, and everything indicates that the show to be held on the 10th February will easily eclipse the inaugural gathering. • ';• Miss.■> Grace ''Gilbert, a celebrated Lbearded lady,; has hiarried a farmer named" Calvin—the sweetheart pf her | youth—at 'South. Bend, Indiana, U.S.A. The bride-groom, who is cleanshaven, was dressed in a long ulster when he appeared with his bride before the desk of the judge who was. to marry them, and that official not unnaturally got them mixed, and asked the bearded lady all the questions he should have asked the beardless man.

The question.of securing' a: more suitable meeting-place was discussed by the 'Council .of Chamber of Commerce.yesterday. Mr Wv B. Chenhells expressed the opinion that the Chamber should strive -to j procure a room of ,its.. o'v\?n,' Avhere s ; members could meet :and .peruse suitable literature. Mr Diuriell 'suggested that some arrangement might be made I with the Trust. Lands Trustees for a! meeting-room. The secretary was j eventually instructed to report to the i Council upon suitablo rooms which may be available. *. |

During a discussion at the meeting of the Council of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mr C. E. Daniell remarked upon the pessimistic tqne which existed in certain sections of, the community. He thought they should all strive to advertise Masterton as an ideal place in which to live. He had noticed that with their local' freezing works any little .defect that could be detected was circulated far and wide. Mr Chennells. remarked that it had been mentioned at a previous meeting that most pf the employees at the freezing works were going to Carterton to live. He had made inquiries, and found that this was quite contrary to fact. Nearly the whole of the employees at the works were taking up their residence in Masterton.

The average yield cf v.heat Ir. the Timaru district is 27 bushels, and of oats 40 bushels. The French warship Kersaint is to visit Wellington waters, after spending a week or two at Auckland. The present is considered one of the earliest seasons experienced in South Canterbury for many years. Mr Alex McKenzie, of the Wairarapa, has been appointed a judge of fat sheep at the Dannevirke Show. The Patea Farmers' Co-operative Freezing Works are'kept very busy at present, laiobs being a prominent feature in the daily output. , The Ahiaruhe Sports Club, in general with other clubs in the Wairarapa this season, have added a number of amateur events to their programme. Grass-seeders round about Akaroa are obtaining from some employers as high as Is 9d per hour, With a good cook supplied. There is plenty of that kind of work just now down there. The-Prime Minister of the Dominion remarked thai in Southland and Stew- , art Island prosperity seems to be universal. Many of the farms were perfect gardens t© look at. It is stated that contraets.have been made for the supply of no less than . l0;000,000 feet of timber from the West Coast of New Zealand to A.U&tralia. v .night mubeaik ■ ■•!&&' y'' teward&'the the :- ; - -Patea:-"•"■:'■■";-.':-: k ■'■■."-.<■-- • * ' ~.>--'-.-y. ":' * At' the of the Council- of ifie"" Masterton Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a letter was read from a. business firm in America, asking for' a recommendation as to the best medium for advertising certain wares. A chorus of voices declared in favour of the Wairarapa Age. And it was left at that. V "Our experience is thaifc girl; tele- • phosists work more- satisfactory than boys," said Mr W. A. Blackstone, the manager of the Sydney Telephone Exchange, last week. For. that^es&on I the'girlswate*gradually in the well as th'e central^•:• 1 exchanges. < - The Christchurcli; Meat\ Company which now owns the Burnside freezing works, Dunediri, haYejust had the ? works enlarged. >. A ;brick store for 30,000 carcases has been added, the-, engine room enlarged, and another 75-ton refrigerator is;. being „ iiW stalled. ' -, - • ''*-_ .-■-"•■■' Mr W. H. Jackson, of .'who, in corcpahy \yith Mr P. L. f Hoi-; lings, motored through to Auckland" during the holidays, states that the roads in the Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay are in better condition than those in any part of the-North Island- for. motoring. t ;. r A Dunedin telegram says that Oldman rode unpaced from Christchurch to Dunedin, 243 miles, on Thursday, m 14 hours 53 mitt., thus reducing his own\ cycling record by 2 hours 15min. "The butter ananufactured at the Konini {Ballance No. 2) butter factory is; 86 boxes j»er day, about one box less than was made a fortnight ago. The Gladstone Sports in which a great deal of local interest's manifested, take place en Monday next. Sat- . isfactoryontries have'been , *eeeived,* !rand a god -doay'S sport isia&ticipated. |vA auunber of JSdasterfoniansf have ex.•pressed their intention of I>ehjg pre,"ient.

A son employed m'London his ■ father at King's Cross" 'station. "Lad," said the father, "on the: way, from bonnie Scotland I juist lost ma 'Oo did it cooir» aboot?" "Aweel, laddie, the cork cam oot." ■:'.," The/ Bannevii'ke • Press concludes; a caustic criticism ■•'"'of Mr Hogg : s , speech by asking-"What, then, -is ft Mr Hogg? Stripped of. all his .flowery 'oratory his political creed, lies . ex;posed' in three words—Masteiton's,, 'public buildings." . i- '; ■< Since "December 20th, covering a'; period of the labour troubles at this port (says the Patea Press), 16,173 cases of cheese and 9501 boxes of butter, were shipped away to Wellington for transhipment to Home steamers. [ This is said to bo a record for the period mentioned. Further Taranaki dairy factory returns for the December operations are as follows:. -Normanby; 60,4131bs butter-fat, valued ; at £2100; Mells, ;47-,4601b5-butter-fat, worth £1977; Ha.wera, 153,5071b5-butter-fat, giving suppliers :£6395. , All the twill Ibe at; the rate of 10d >a>er lb.—iSta?:'-''^--'.;^..:;-.;'-'- ■,*;■■>',/:;;';' other day ;.'±he lT , water .service pipes leading to the private residence pf Mr J. Pinhey suddenly refused to givp the usual flow of water..-. Various '■ attempts were made to locate the ob'struction until finally yesterday an eel nearly one foot in length was discovered in the.pipe. The intruder had ' endeavoured to turn round in its :new surroundings, with the result that it stuck fast, the'blockage being so • complete as to: prevent the smallest tiriclde of water, through the pipe. The Eev. Jl. A. Soper, an ex-Aus-tralian Baptist minister, and at present in charge of the Westbourne Grove Church, London, in a breezy, practical sermon*on ."perfect manhood," exalted the jdeal man, but did not spare the\actual man, especially the young- manhood' of London. !! "Whiletheyoting--women -of :London," said, the preacher, "were steadily improving, the; young men. were growing punier and uglier from year to year."

Owing to a number of members of the Carlton cricket team being unable to get away, they will be unable to send a team to Featherston this afternoon. Mr G. Hutchison, who was counsel in a case recently heard at Wanganui, said there . were three kinds of wit-, nesses —"those who tell the truth,' those who do not, and experts." We have received from \f» ssts Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., the "Dominion Year Book" for 1911. This is a very valuable publication, containing J a great deal of useful information. j The Masterton County Council gives ( notice that the bridge over the north branch of the. Waipoua river at the northern approach to Masterton is temporarily closed for all wheel and horse traffic. In case a fresh occurs in the river, provision will be made for permitting motor cars and motor cycles being taken over the bridge at a pace not exceeding a walk. A man, recently charged at Christchurch with the theft of a number of tools, stated that the police had found owners for tools, some of which he had had in his possession-for ■ r2O: years/ "Perhaps," he said, 'they could find an owner for my wife and children. I haven't known them so long." A splendid building site ■at Lansdowne is offered for sale; for which no offer will be refused. Mr F. P. Welch requires a staff of rrniil hands for Hawke's Bay, -mill viiiatids for Pelorus Sounds? and Wairarapa. . - . .. ... play the-piano, on Satur- . dav, is advertised for,- application to: ' Hoop La Shop;. ::Queea; ,/Street. ,/>"' ■ ■•■'':-,. /:/.'.- w •.: Messrs A. J. Johnson anc: Co. sell by auction to-day at the Post Office Auction Mart, a large consignment of poultry, including several well-known breeds* furniture and sundries. > Messrs .T. Graham and Co. draw attention,to a few special- lines- in, their Great Bale, which must be cleared. Prices have been cut to clearing scale. For high-class laundry work, Fong :i / ; Kee and Co., next-Queen's Hotels-are-recommended .-*in the' Wanted cfbhimns* of this issue, prices being quoted. . .During the tennis tournament luncheon Will be provided-" at the Arcadia Tea and Luncheon Rooms,' from 11 a.m. daily, for the convenience of players. Mr A. Webb, of Queen Street, Masterton, the high grade costume maker, invites clients at a distance to write for pattern and measurement forms, and he will forward same by return post. AH the most up-to-date riding and walking costumes are made to order. ' % Owing to the steady - -iutcrease-V in business, Mr J. Hall, manager of "The Talkeries/'has decided to remove their place of business to Mason's buildings. Bannister Street. The new , premisesi'pareijto -be fitted up on the most up-to-date lines,'and should'be greatly appreciated by patrons. . J

The new season's suitings to hand" %"slr W. Pauling are a most comprehensive assortment. They have ail been specially selected and embrace all the latest and most fashionable materials. ; Apart from the quality, tlie range is a most extensive one, and the person would be hard indeed' to please who could not make a satisfactory selection. Mr Pauling gives a guarantee of satisfaction .with',, all j suits 'built at ■ his : establishment, and j invites inspection of the new lines. : The catoring arrangements for the Amateur Swimming sports on Monday will bo in charge of Miss Pickering, of the Kia Ora Tea Booms. ' Afternoon tea will be dispensed in a large marquee by a special staff of attendants, tho charge being sixpence. Theinat- '''* quee will also be kept open during the evening when supper can be obtained at the same price.* ~.„,, ~'. The great stocktaking sale at Mr ''? A. Norman's isnow,going sti-ong, duo to the low prices at .which" he is offering his goods. A few of the bargains are quoted** iu, his replace advertisement to-day. Messrs Cochrane and Butement, land Masterton and Te Kuiti, advertise for sale 720 acres (150 acres freehold and 570 acres L.T.P. at £36 per annum); 650 acres are Well-grassed and divided into twelve paddocks, 100 acres ploughable. The land is guaranteed to winter.2J sheep: per acre, and is situated in the fertile llangitikei'district, near to creamery, school and post office. The buildings are all up-to-date, and the property is for sale as a going concern. Terms and particulates can be had from the agents. An important clearing sale is to be held by Messrs J. A. J. Maclean and Co., auctioneers, on Wednesday next. Under instructions from the Deputy Official Assignee they will submit to auction in the bankrupt estate of J. H". Blockley, his stock of furniture, crockery, and effects. On page 8 of this issue full particulars are advertised, to which .attention is drawn. During the sale there will also be- submitted tho house and lmildii)gs,jj-aerc, corner Johnston and Makora Streets, and one acre Makora Street. "A rare chance" is the heading of a new advertisement insetted by Messrs John Eraser and Co., bind agents, in connection with the subdivisional sale of Messrs McGregor Bros., Manaia Estate. Only three. more sections of this wonderfully fertile land are now available, and those wishing to secure one should make a point of an early selection. -The approximate areas of tho throe farms aie 70 acres, 117 acres and 190 aeies. Tii> first two sections are well subdivided, with homestead and outbuildings, all ready for the farmer. The 190-aor.j section is ring-fenced and subdivided into five paddocks. The agents wiii be pleased to supply full particulars to anyone on application.