LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10151, 30 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

White clover is reported to be abundant in the Tinui district this season.

The latest return from the Worksop' dredge gives 34ozs 3dwts, for 951 hours' working. .

The Taihape Borough Council has authorised a contract for an electriclighting scheme to cost £5504.

Record entries have been received for the Feilding Show, to be held on February 7th and Bth. The total number received is 1232.

Sir Joseph Ward has cabled Home, protesting against the removal of the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific from Fiji to Sydney.

(Several members of the Opaki Rifle Club will compete at the Ruahine Rifle | Association's meeting at Dannevirke I this week.-

A resident of Nelson has constructed a very powerful telescope. The instrument is 7ft 10in in length. Very satisfactory entries are reported to haye been received for the Paliiatua Show, which is to be held on Friday, February 10th. He was a fanner, but did not reside in the neighbourhood of Masterton, who the other day informed his friends that "the Rev. Bates is very good at 'procrastinating' the weather!'.' A return of 72 bushels of Algerian oats to the acre has been secured this season by Mr James A'Court, a farmer of Sandon.

Mr J. C. Boddington reports that two degrees of frost were registered at the Upper Plain on Saturday morning.

New Zealand has contributed £214 towards the starving millions of China. New Zealand's sympathy always did extend toward China, particularly when it provides cheap fruit and vegetables.

It is stated that, the membership of the Masterton "Droppers' Club" is steadily increasing, and that a proposal has been made to have It registered under the Unclassified Societies Act.

Not the least interesting event at the Park Fete in Masterton on Thursday next will be a tug-of-war between teams selected from the Corporation staff and all-comers'.

The improvements in regard to ventilation, which have been carried out in the Foresters' Hall in Masterton by Messrs Thompson and Payne, were much appreciated by patrons on Saturday, and though the hall was packed the atmosphere inside was as cool as&it could possibly be., This delightful state of affairs was brought about by the installation of four electric fans, which ensure .a continuous current of cool air through the building. . In addition, when the entertainment commenced, the folding doors were thrown up, green baize curtains hung above the doors preventing the light from outside affecting the pictures. The interior of the building is to be further beautified by groups of coloured electric fairy ligEts distributed in different parts.

The Pahiatua Boy Scouts, under Acting-Scoutmaster Entwistle, are at present in camp. It was stated by farmers at the Ashburton market 011 Tuesday that turnip and rape crops were becoming affected with blight. The Cabinet has passed an authorisation for the erection of a new chapel and workshop at the Invercargill Gaol.

Several cases of ptomaine poisoning have occurred in Auckland of late, but,.generally speaking, they have not been of a serious character.

The bookmakers of New Zealand will be officially dead the day after tomorrow. It may be a case, however, of "though dead, he yet speaketh." A farmer in the Wakanui (Canterbury) district has threshed a fairly large paddock of wheat, which yielded an average of forty-five bushels per acre.

' The building trade in -Ashburton appears to be satisfactory, and a fairly large number of residences are being erected in the borough and its environs.

Owing to the high fees that are being charged, Messrs Wirth Bros, are compelled to cut a number of New Zealand towns out of their tour. At Dunedin £2O had to be paid for the ground.

At the Hawke's Bay Ram Fair on Friday, two lots of five Shropshire Down and eight Lincoln shearlings were sold on account of Mr W. Rayner, of Masterton, at sgns and 4|gns respectively. The Mayor of Masterton (Mr J. M. Coradine) has been asked to contest one of the Wairarapa seats on the Wellington Harbour Board, but has not yet arrived at a definite decision in the matter.

Masterton parents should remember that the schools in the district resume to-day, atid that, under the new Act, "please excuse Mary," is an insufficient excuse for absence. The child must either be sick or detained through stress of weather. It has cost the Geraldine County Council (near Timaru) over £IOO for small birds' eggs this season for - the Ternuka district alone. Some of the eggs have not been paid for, and many boys are holding I.O.TJ.'s for their egg money.

A Timaru policeman surprised about twenty boys and girls who were stealing fruit. He secured the names of ten youthful thieves. The boys ran away, but some girls who were, captured by the constable, amid tears and denials, furnished him with a list that includes representatives -of almost every family resident in the' neighbourhood.

The secretary of the Park Fete Committee made a canvass of Masterton on Saturday .afternoon, and procured from the shopkeepers within the space of two hours, eighteen hftlfpage advertisements for the Park Fete programme. The revenue from' these advertisements will more tha,n pay the cost of the- printing of: such programmes.

One of the Fire Brigade events which are to take place during the evening of the Park Fete'in Masterton on Thursday next, will be an exhibition of the latest French method of saving life from a burning building. A live patient will be rescued from an imaginary fire and then treated by the St. John Ambulance Division, and removed from the grounds,. v A new device; has been tested on an American* railway for picking up and delivering mails by fast trains. If the invention will do what is claimed for it it will prove a marvellous appliance. The inventor, states that a live porker weighing 65 pounds, was delivered, without the slightest injury, at a station which the train was passing at the rate of 'twenty-five miles an hour. •

A special train comprising forty odd trucks containing 3000 .breeding ewes from the Te Awaite station is leaving Featherston at three o'clock this morning for Hamilton, the principal centre of the Waikato. The sheep, which were purchased by Mr G. E. Jaskson through the agency of Abraham and Williams, Ltd., are described as a specially good line of bigframed ewes, which it is anticipated will do remarkably well in the northern district.

The services in the Congregational Church, Masterton, ■ yesterday were both conducted by the paßtoE, the Rev. A. Hodge. In the morning Mr Hodge preached from the text to be found in 2 Peter, chapter In verses 1 and 2. In the evening the subject of the address was based on the words contained in Deuteronomy, chapter, 37, verses 11 and 12,.. In this t6xt God is compared to an eagle, and the preacher, in an eloquent and inspiring sermon, demonstrated the different ways in which God could be likened to this king of birds.

Some of the women in the back blocks of Taranaki have much to contend with at times. Here is an instance : A while back her husband died, leaving her with three young children. Next day she fras thrown from a gig, resulting in a broken arm ana a much damaged conveyance. Later, a newly-installed milking machine and cowshed were destroyed by fire, while such, minor calamities as pigs destroying the potato crop, and cows getting logged up, have ceased to cause comment. In conversation with a friend, she remarked cheerfully that when her arm knit again she "would soon- have things m going order.

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The General Committee of the Maaterton Musical and Elocutionary C&tn~ petitions Society meets this svening. The premises of the Manawatu Club were entered on Friday night by burglars, who got away with two cash boxes, containing between £25 and £3O.

In the last four years, no fewer than 15,141 pianos have been imported into New Zealand. Last year Britishmade pianos exceeded the foreignmade pianos in number.

Reports from the East Coast show that the rain of last week was fairly general. The drought has not been felt so keenly in the back country as nearer to Masterton.

Masterton breeders who were present at the Hawke's Bay ram fair last week express themselves very well satisfied with the prices obtained for their stud and flock sheep. The demand for Romneys continues very brisk.

The Wairarapa deputation, which will wait upon the Hon. J. A. Millar (Minister for Railways) ■ to-morrow morning, will confer with Mr H. C. Tews ley, Chairman of the Wellington Chamber 1 of Commerce, this evening.

The remains of; the late Mr William Donaldson were interred in the Masterton cemetery yesterday afternoon. The following of mourners was lengthy, and included the children of the Methodist Sunday School, of which the deceased had for some years been a teacher. The ceremony at the. graveside was. impressively performed by the Rev/C. H. Olds.'. . ' ,

Several Masterton firms had goods on the steamer Parisiana, which was burnt at sea. One firm, which had a small consignment aboard the vessel, inadvertently omitted to affix a stamp to the insurance draft within the period prescribed by law; and has had to pay a fine of £lO to the Stamp Department.

In another column tenders,.,are invited for the erection <)f banking-pre-mises at Pongaroa. -

A bed-sitting room, furnished, is advertised for in the wanted columns of this morning's issue.

Warner's Corsets are rust-proof and can be washed asjsafely as the famous Roslyn Unshrinkable flannel. "Delta" finish.* .

Notice is given that the Masterton Borough Council has licensed Mr J; A. J. Maclean to sell by auction under the provisions of,the Statute.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., make 'very largo additions- to their Masterton Stock Sale, to be held next Wednesday, February Ist.

All members of the executive' of the Park Beautifying "Committee are notified by an advertisement on the- front ' .page that a meeting will be held in the old gas showrootn to-night, at 8 o'clock, when business will be.dealt with, and a fulLattendance is: requested.

A reminder is given of the clearing sale fto be held at Clareville to-morrow by Mr V. L. Fairbrother, auctioneer, on account of Mr L. A. Beckett; at his stables. Full details of . horses and plant are advertised on page 8 of this issue, particulars of which are wellworth perusal. Entries on account of other vendors are also advertised.

On the auctioneer's page : of this issue, tHe New Zealand Loan arid Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.,. announce that_ they haye quality Algerian oats for early sowr ing.f -.Prices -are : reasonable, and 1 the firm invite inspection of samples.

The balance of the bankrupt stock of bicycles are now for immediate sale at the Post Office Auction* Mart. Those requiring machines are asked to call early at the Mart and make their , selection whilst the opportunity presents itself.

A representative of, Redstone's Gripe Drench preparation is at present staying at the Club Hotel, Mastertori. To show its efficiency; he is .prepared administer hi& horse drench free of charge to animals suffering from gripes or bots, and will guarantee a cure. *

Notice is given by the secretary of the Pahiatua Racing Club that bookmakers and their clerks, ex-bookmak-ers and their clerks, and any undesirable persons, will not be admitted to iir e j? a^l^a ' :ua ® ac * n S Club's course on Wednesday and Thursday. February Ist and 2nd, 1911. -

In connection with the'. Pahiatua races on Ist and 2nd February, excursion trains will be run, tickets beare available up to 14th February. A special train will leave . Palmerston North on both race days, connecting at Woodvi lie with the Dannevirke train, and reaching Pahiatua at about 11 a.m. The evening train will leave Pahiatua at 6 o'clock, connecting at \\ oodville with Palmerston North and Dannevirke trains.