LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10214, 17 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The shoi"tage of domestic labour is -reported to be acute in Auckland at the present time. A Parliamentary party leaves to-day to make a tour of the East Coast railway route. A girl named Coleman fell off the rocks at Otago Heads on Good Friday and was drowned. The Banks and Government offices in Masterton will bo closed on Monday next—St. George's Day. A line of twenty-five wcaner pigs were- stfkl in Pahiatua last week for Is a head. A cricket team from the Carter con Club were defeated by seventy runs at Mangatainoka on Friday by a combined team from Pahiatua and Mangatainoka. A feature of the entertainment at the Town Hall in Masterton on Saturday night was a one-act sketch entitled, "My Costumier's Bill," in which an actress appeared robed in the much-discussed harem skirt. The sketch went off quite smoothly, and the harem skirt did not cause a sensation. \lt had.a good effect on the stage, but, in the opinion of our bachelor reporter. | it would not look becoming for -'everyi day wear.

A large number of Masterton residents intend proceeding to the Kopuaranga sports to-day.

Several very line crops of mangolds are growing in the neighbourhood of Greytown just now. N

TIIO Waingawa freezing works susI pended operations from Thursday last j until Wednesday morning.

The collections in St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, on Easter Sunday, were, as is usual, handed to the Vicar.

Two weddings of considerable local interest will eventuate in Pahiatua this week.

The latest return from the Worksop dredge is 62ozs for 131 hours' working.

The latest return from the Success dredge is 17oks 4dwts for 124 hours' working.

■ The Southland News says the Farmers' Union is "transparently counterfeit." That is why is has never been a success.

A large number of motor cars, containing holiday excursionists, passed through Masterton on Friday and Saturday last.

The Pohangina County Council, which has a credit of £I3OO, is considering the question of reducing its rates.

The Palmerston - North Borough Council would not permit any picture shows or sacred concerts to be held on Good Friday.

A large number of Napier residents spent the Easter holidays at Taupo. The Taupo hot springs are among the most attractive in the Dominion.

A committee consisting largely of ladies, has been set up at Hamilton, with the object of raising the moral standard of the territorial force.

At the .end of April, out of an estimated population of 35| millions, there were 788,000 paupers in receipt of relief in England and Wales.

Protection is to be removed, from native pigeon, pukeko, teal and grey duck from May Ist until July 3lst, in certain districts to be subsequently notified.

A motor reliability trial, under the auspices of the New Zealand Motor Cycle Club, is to be held on April 21st and 22nd. The route will be from Wellington to Waipawa, via the Manawatu, x returning via the Wairarapa?

• The New Zealand Herald says that complaints cannot be made that prisoners in the Auckland Gaol are underfed. The evidence given at a recent inquest points in the opposite direction.

The Upper Plain school will be closed until April 24th next, on account of an unusually heavy epidemic of measles in that part of the district.

A young man who recently solicited alms on the train from Wellington to Masterton, on the plea that he was deaf and dumb and required assistance to start him in business, has fallen foul of the police in Dunedin, by whom he is to be charged with vagrancy.

The yield of wheat on the Waihao Downs estate, near Oamaru, has been exceptionally good this year. A difficulty has been experienced in procuring a sufficient number of trucks to get it away.

The Government has purchased 12,000 acres of Native land, known as the Manawangiangi block, and situated between Weber and Porangahau, for closer settlement. A walking-stick made from teak obtained from the wreckage of the old Wairarapa has been presented to the Hon. J. A. Millar by a Gisborne resident. ■ ,v '

The interval pigeon-flying race in connection with the Masterton Homing Club, which took place on Saturday from Hastings, was won by Mr S. Hoar's bird, with Mr W. Hoar's bird second. Only four birds had reached home yesterday.

A Masterton rabbitter informed a representative of the Age that the rabbits have been most prolific in the district this season. It is no uncommon thing to find a doe with a litter of ten, and he has found as many as twelvo young rabbits in a single burrow.

Good progress is being made by the contractors with the work of constructing the Waipoua bridges. Favoured by fine weather, rapid advance has been made with the laying of the concrete niers at both bridges, and, also with the metalling of the new width of road.

The following team will represent the Excelsior Hockey Club in a match with the Petone Wednesday Club at Laiisdowne to-dav : —Keisenberg, Hunter, Williams, Walker, ,Boyd, Byrn, Diggins. Williams. Loader, Ashley, and -FrnEP'-. Play will commence at X-.30 p.m. sharp. ■TJn to last Thursday, no fewer than 92.000 carcaserf of sheep and lambs and over 500 head of cattle had been put through the Wamgawa freezing works by the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company.

Two large consignments of frozen carcases are being shipped away this week bv the Wellington Farmers' Mont Company. The Arawa carries 10.000 carcases of mutton, lamb, and beef for London, arid the Kent 1000 carcases of mutton and a small parcel of beef for Liverpool and Glasgow.

Mr J. C. Boddington reports that the rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Saturday last was 2$ points.

The annual meeting of members of the Wairarapa A. and P. Society is to be held at Carterton on Friday May sth. Nominations to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of officers and committeemen close on April 28th YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That by using the commercial eucalyptus oil which is now bought up at 6d per lb weight and bottled, and on account of the large profit, pushed, you are exposing yourself to all the dangers to which the use of turpentine will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal trach, and mucous membranes. By insisting on the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe, and effective medicament, the result of a special and careful manufacture. A_ trial will at once convince. Quality in small dose distinguishes it from the bulky and dangerous products. Remember—SANDEß'S EXTRACT embodies the result of 50 years' experience :. and special study ,and it does, what is promised; it heals and curies without injuring the constitution; as the oils of tin market frequently do. Therefore protect yourself by .rejecting other brands.

Tho Keiburne tea kiosk in Wellington was partly destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. There are at present twenty-two patients in the Masterton Public Hospital at Lansdowne.

At a Marton stock sale a few days ago, dairy cows sold up to £ll 15s; tho herd averaging £7 12s 6d.

A New York woman has sued her husband for divorce because she caught him holding five aces in a poker game.

Julius Marx, aged 18, who was injured somo time ago through being crushed between tubs at Stockton mine, died in tho Westport Hospital.

A Sydney cable states that eightythree thousand persons attended the Royal Show on Good Friday, which is easily a record.

A Woodville young lady has been taken to the Pahiatua Hospital from Eketahuna, suffering from typhoid fever.

Tho Mangaweka Town Board is going in for a scheme to provide water, drainage and electric light, at an estimated cost of £IO,OOO.

The Feilding Star thinks that if only Sir Joseph Ward could get MiAndrew Carnegie to join the Treasury the American multi-millionaire would soon bo bankrupt.

Tho services in Knox Church, Masterton, were largely attended yesterday. The anniversary music was again rendered by a large choir under the oonductorship of Mr R. J. Young.

The latest extravagance indulged by Parisian society women is for lapdogs to have visiting cards, which are left by their mistresses at houses where there are pet dogs.

A Belfast man who wa,s caught by the police and had to lie clothed in a blanket before he could be taken before the magistrate, pleaded that he Avas born naked. The Court, however, fined him 40s.

During the discussion on the rise in the price of meat, a Cambridge dealer, who is in a position to know, remarked that there were not a hundred fat sheen within a radius of six miles of Cambridge, and probably he could count the number of fat bullocks on the fingers of one hand.

Mr Purcell Webb will resume his organ recitals at the Knox Church, Masterton. on Thursday next, when an attractive programme will be rendered by the organist and well-known amateurs. : l

The rain experienced in Masterton on Saturday appears to nave been pretty general in the North Island. In some' parts it. was very heavy. A 1 telegram from Eltham says:—Between 1 and .9;a.m. 3.59 inches of rain fell. This is the heaviest fall ever recorded in Eltham in the same space of time, the highest for 24 hours being about 2.45. Steady rain was falling all this morning, with signs of continuance. It will do a great deal of good.

The services at the Salvation Army barracks in Masterton yesterday were well attended. A number of soldiers and. friends from other parts were present, and took part in the different meetings. In the evening, Ensign Avenell delivered an address on. "The Final Issues.'' Company singing formed a feature of the gathering.

A married woman named Ellen Blair, agenty seventy, while suffering from mental derangement, the result of an incurable disease, hanged herself with a fishing line over a balcony in Auckland. She was quite dead when discovered.

There are some complaints in trading- cireles, says the New Zealand Tradei Review,,that money is becoming less plentiful, but we believe that there is a good supply of capital still available and sound investment shares have been rather more sought after as' an outlet for this, consequently such shares are commanding good prices.

•Two whales, a cow and her calf, were ■stranded on Tuesday morning on the spit at Otago Heads. They were left on the long sandy beach by the receding tide, and lie about four hundred yards north of the Mole. The cow is .thirty feet long, and the calf is fifteen feet> They are of the bottle-nosed variety, and are expected to yield some valuable oil.

The police received information on Friday from Nelson that Frank Gaiger, 27 years of age. was found in an unconscious condition on the Nelson Road at midnight, and was taken ito the hospital where later he expired. A revolver discharged in one chamber' was found alongside Gaiger. An inquest was opened and adjourned.

A good deal, of wheat is going out °* the Geraldine district, and strings of loaded waggons have been making for the Oram railway station. During the last two days of the week just closed one firm alone sent away four thousand sacks. The wheat is* being shipped at Timaru for London. - .services at the Masterton Methodist Church yesterday were conducted by the Rev. S. J. Serpeil, tire attendance being good on each occasion. In the morning, Mr Serpeil took as his text Christ's words, "For their sakes I sanctify myself," an d in the evening he preached from "For it pleased the Father that in him that is in Christ should all fulness dwell."

DON'T BE BASHFUL.

"There's many a good thing lost by not asking for it." The man who is. now grinding away at a labourers wage might have been earning a Cabinet Minister's income if he had exercised his will power.earlier in life. That's the great secret of some men's success—when they see a "good thing" they decide to use it to the best of their ability, as far as it affects them. Now, if you own a camera, or are interested in this most fascinating hobby, your success as a photographer largely defends upon familiarity with the numerous incidentals such as developers, mounts, re-touching apparatus, etc. There is one good way of familiarising yourself with these necessary articles, and that is by looking over the catalogue of Cameras and Photographic Accessories which is sent post free to any address by the Imperial Camera Company. We wouldn't ask you to send for this catalogue if it was no good to you. It is useful to every owner of a. Camera, professional or amateur. You can make the photos you take at Easter, life pictures if you know the best means of finishing them—this catalogue will help you; It only costs a half-penny, the price of a postcard on which you write the short message asking for it. Step into . the post office when you are passing, buy the card, write the message, and post it to the Imperial Camera Co., Willis-street, Welling.

To enable their clients to obtain tho very oest results from their ca&h purchase of Hooper'vS stock, the W.F.C.A. have decided to make the sale for cash only. This will bo strictly adhered to at tho sale in Mr Hooper's shop starting Saturday, 22nd inst. Mr J. C. Ewington, a candidate for a seat on the Wellington Harbour Board, has a notice to electors on the front page. Mr Hay ward, tho ladies tailor, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, draws tho attention of ladies to tho new silk, satin and moirctte underskirts which 1 ho has now on display. Tailor-mado costumes are a speciality with Mr Hay ward. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., will hold a stock salo in "Mr T. Ruskell's yards, Rakaunui, on Wednesday, April 19fch. Entries may bo found on -page 8 of this issue. A modern seven-roomed house situated in Cornwall Street, is advertised to let in this issue. The house is complete with every convenience, including hot-water, drainage, gas, etc. In another column Mrs Clark thanks the Masterton Hospital staff for their unremitting attention to her late husband, and to friends for their sympathy in their sad bereavement. A reward is offered for the recovery of a ladies long coat, with two capes, lost in Masterton. A reward is offered for the recovery of a lady's brooch, with large opal sefe in the centre.