LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10225, 29 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The recent census taken in Masterton shows that there are 1159 occupied and fifty-two unoccupied houses in the tow*. At the meeting of the Masterton Boxing Club last night, the Chairman announced, amid; applause,' that; fduif: silver cups have been promised fir petition by Messrs A. Henderson, R. 0. Smith, W. Cameron, and A. P. Whatman, and gold medals by Messrs D. Caselberg and J. C. Cross.

Our Carterton correspondent writes that the price of »ilk is being raised from 3d to 4d a quart from the first of next month.

Mr J. C. Boddingtoa .reports that the rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Friday was 36 points.

The Acting-Prime Minister is considering the question of appointing a commissioner to enquire into recent statements made in regard to matters concerning the administration of the Cook Islands.

The Rev. A. Hodge reports that the rainfall for the twenty-four hours preceding 9 o'clock yesterday morning was 29 points.

The population of the Featherston and Western Lake Ridings of the Featherston County is shown by the census to be 558—304 males and 254 fe< males.

The following team will represent the Excelsior Senior Hockey Club in a match with' the Post and Telegraph team on Thursday next: —Keisenberg, Thynne, Williams, Nicol, Scrimgeour, Barr, Ashley, Williams, Pragnell, Minett and Smith.

Mr W. H. Cooper, speaking at Christchurch recently, declared emphatically that a municipal milk supply system would not prove successful. "Why," he added, "if the council asked their employees to get up at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning to look after the cows they would scout us out of the place."

The advances made towarus consolidating the ranks ef labour will, says the Hon. J. T. Paul, M.L.C., make the Trades and Labour Conference of 1911 memorable He included with the advances the spirit which promoted them. He believed that before many months passed industrial organisations would be under one head. Tho result following from such cohsolH;.. tion would be felt at once by tho mass of th-3 wage-earners.

The statement of the timber, output of the Rangitikei Sawmillers' Association for six,:months'ended January 31st, 1911, shows that Messrs Larsen and Co., Ltd., Marton Junction and' Rangitawa, head the list.with 1,477,386 feet, 178,125 feet more than anyother firm Messrs G. A. Gamman and Co., come next with 1,299,261. The total output for the 32 associated mills was 18,094,748 feet. Messrs Perham, Larsen and Co. employ upwards of 70 Hands.

The installation, of Bro. T. H. Hughes as Worshipful Master of St. Mark's Lodge of Freemasons; >. took place at Qarwton on Thursday evening. R.W., Pjrovincial Grand Master 'Bro; Moncrieff acted as Installing Master. The and officers of the Masterton' Lodge were among the visitors.

A rather plucky capture of a runaway horse attached to a baker's cart, was effected in Masterton yesterday afternoon. The frightened animal was careering along Queen Street, and had almost reached the first Waipoua bridge, ,* when'Mr "Bob" Andrew sprang'into'the back of the cjwt, crawled along the shafts, seized tite: reins, and brought the horse to a standstill just on the bridge. Needless to say, the driver of the vehicle was very grateful at the prompt action of Mr Andrew.

Mr Eustace Lane, who was elected f Wednesday last a member of the Napier Hai-bour Board, has given notice to move at the first meeting of the Board:—-"That this Board endeavour to find in New Zealand one engineer of high character, recognised judgment and mature experience, and emI ploy,-him at a. remuneration of £IOOO to recommend a course of action t.? the Board after investigating the Inner Harbour proposal..the Breakwater attempt, and the Kidnappers idea fronv. a strategic, economic, and en'S gineering point of view; that applications be invited from all the engineers in this Dominion entitled to consideration/;' and that the decision be accepted as final,"

The outbreak of typhoid among the Maoris along the Best Cqast of the North Island, Kawhia and Dargaville, has now pjactieally ceased. It was chiefly due to bad water, but with the closing of bad supplies, and the substitution of better .ones, the epidemic in time abated. It is also reported that therfe is no increase in the cases of consumption which were so noticeable among the Maoris of the Wairarapa a few months ago. Patients were then advised by Native health officers to leave the pahs and sleep in tents on hills, and it is stated that in quite a large nramoer of cases the results have been highly satisfactory. ■■,

On the. suggestion of Mr J. M. Cofadine, it was decided .at last mght's meeting of the managers of the Masterton Technical School to invite the Masterton A. and P. Association to nominate one of their most enthusiastic members for the purpose of attending the meetings of the Board of Managers, to advise them in matters m connection with the establishment of agricultural and pastoral classes at the school.' \

The grass seed threshing machines on Banks Peninsula have been taking advantage of the fine weather and are re-threshing the straw heaps and paddocks that were supposed tp have been threshed very clean with the Jail, and •■are getting good results. In fact, most .of the farmers who had" grass seed this year have refreshed, some with the flail getting as much as,'thirty or forty bags. The high prices of' seed has been the inducement to undertake the second threshing.

, IF YOU HAVE A Cough, Cold, Nose, Throat, or Lung Trouble, Stomach, Bowel, or Liver Complaint, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, USE SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT; 5 drops in a tablespoon water. Remember, you cannot expect the good effects from any sort of Eucalyptus. SANDER'S EXTRACT CURES because it contains ethereal and antiseptic substances not contained in other Eucalyptus products. These # latter, made by persons ignorant in chemistry, and Do not apply an ointment to a sore. It keeps back the secretion. To wounds, bruises, Bprains, < burns, ulcers, eczema, and other skin troubles APPLY SANDER'S EXTRACT, provided with fancy names and labels by trading concerns who do not know what they contain, have cautjed grievous harm/ and a death has resulted from their use. 15 drops in a tablespoon of olive oil The effect will surprise yon. SAN PER'S EXTRACT HEALS because it is .freed from the irritating, constituents contained in pther eucalyptus ers rrt"itate. ■' '<''" : - "'" I hwt upon th* OfJNTINE SANDER EFCALYPTr EXTRACT, ar* yon wiJ' d.-r:\f *««• benefit.

The latest returns from the Masterton dredge are lOozs. 16dwts. for 137 i hours' work.

The active membership of the Masterton Bo>ing Club last season wa* fifty-eight The latest return from the Success dredge is 17ozs. Udwts. for 150 hours' work.

There have been no bankruptcies in the Masterton D.O.A.'s district during the month of April. In the corresponding month of last year one petition was filed.

Amongst other records that Auckland is announcing is a total of 240 prisoners—223 males and 17 males—in,tho local gaol.

A Taihape telegram says that a boy of six years, Fred Lucot, had IBs hand blown off by a detonator at Raurimu. The sufferer was sent to Hamilton Hospital.

The members of the Conciliation Council leave. Masterton to-day for Napier, where they will take further evidence in regard to the enginedrivers' dispute.

By this evening, the number of sheep which have been passed through the Waingawa freezing works will have reached 100,000. This is a very satisfactory record fcr tke opening season.

It is not expected that the operations of the Wellington Farmers' Meat works will be completed for the season until some time in June. The works will probably be run on short time, however, from now to the end of the season.

It was resolved by the Wellington Land Board on Thursday that the alteration to the- dwelling-house and proposed new buildings on Section 89, Block TV. Mikimiki, proposed by the lessee and recommended by the rang--er, be.approved.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands submitted a schedule of unlet education reserves at- the meeting of the Wellington Land Board on Thursday, and was authorised to take the necessary steeps to deal with any of the sections which he may consider it expedient to apply for selection. In the Masterton Registrar's district for the month 'of April there wei;e twelre marriages, as 'gainst seven for the same month of last year. "Seven deaths occurred, with six in April of 1910. There was a decrease of 'two im the number of births, which was, eighteen this year, and twenty in April,of 1910. ; During the present, month, four charges? of drunkenness have been dealt with at the Masterton Magistrate's Court, two being from within the jßprougli, and one. from Taueru, and the other from Waingawa. There wasonly one charge of drunkenness heard during the month of April in 1910. Mr E. 'Griffiths has just purchased in Jersey, for Mr Charles Goodson, of Hawera, a yearling Jersey bull which has won the first jprize over the island. He is a son of a great champion, Noble of the Islands, and is .the first, first-prize 'winner qver the whole of | Jersey yet purchased for New Zealand. <---■

It is computed that a sum of £6500 has been paid in wages at the Waingawa freezing works since the opening of the works in December last. Local tradespeople have also received payments aggregating several*thousands of pounds. ;

A runaway horse, a shower of sparks from a skidding wheel, and ftn excited driver chasing behind, relieved the monotony of Lincoln Road for a brief moment or two early last evening; -'Efappilyr'the horse was stopped at the Post Office corner, without any damage resulting. Queen Victoria Eng-eme, who is in residence with the King and royal children at Seville, hos initiated a campaign against the promiscuous kissing of infants and young children. Elegantly printed label* bearing the words "No me-bese!" (Do not kiss me!) are now on sale throughout the eountrv.

At the meeting of the Wellington Land Board on Thursday, the Commissioner reported th.it together with Messrs Greville, district surveyor, and Amunson. timber expert, he had, visited and inspected the bnds in the Awarua Block. Ho recommended that an area of 2111 ctpr. subdivided intq five sections, should bo offered for disposal, and that the right to cut and remove the timber- on an additional area of 917 acres.in the same block be offered at the same time. .The Commissioner further ' imported that the necessary surveys, had been made _and that 'the adjustment of quantities of timber and royalties on same were now being dealt with. It was resolved that the 2111 acres be offered for settlement .on optional conditions and the timber offered at auction.

The quarterly meeting of the Masterton. Cemetery Trustees was held in the 1 office of the secretary (Mr J. C. Boddington) yesterday afternoon, there being present: Messrs E. Feist (chairman), C. E. Daniell, P. Gordon, H. J. O'Leary, W. Sellar, and David Donald. The treasurer reported balance at last meeting, £BO 9s sd; receipts since, £26 17s 6cl; expenditure, £27 9s; balance at date, £79 17s lid. Accounts amounting to £4.10s were submitted and passed for payment. The secretary's, action iii paying acduring the quarter amounting to ( , £27*. 9s was confirmed. A. matter concerning the fencing of a section'belonging to the trustees abutting on the cemetery was left in the hands of the works committee, with power to act.

SCONES AND BANNOCKS. WAVERLEY SCONES.— Ingredients: Half a pound of wafer oats, three ounceß of butter, one ounce or caster sugar, half a pound of flour, half a pint of milk, salt. Method': Mix the flour and oats in a basin with a little salt; rub in the butter, add the.sugar, and mix to a smooth dough with the milk. Roll out, cut in rounds, brush over with milk, and bake for about' twenty minutes, serve hot. BANNOCKS.— One pound of fine oatmeal, one ounce of butter, half an ounce of baking powder, half a saltspoonful of salt. Mix the oatmeal, salt, and baking powder together, rub the butter mto it, and make the whole into a stiff dough with cold water. Sprinkle out the dough as thin as posible,' and cut it out in squares; score these across from corner to corner without dividing them. They must be .cooked at once, either on a well-buttered oven shelf on the top of the fire, and turned as soon as the under part is browned, or they can bo baked on a flat tin, buttered, in the oyen. Serve withthese the Crescent Blend. Tea, .the, finest 2s,t&a on the market; This/tea i 6 blended by a connoisseur \ rnd is remarkable for its "exquisite flavour and delicious r»roma, It is ■ rong and palatahtp. Your }c c p rt;!'r> *v have i* in stock.

Several sheep-owners in the Masterton district have been missing sheep of late, and in one instance a clear case altering an earmark has been discovered.

Thus the Carterton Notts of yesterday ;—The early train from Wairarapa to Wellington was started an hour late this morning for the convenience of those who wished to attend some races down the line. It Was followed almost immediately after by another train with a few trucks and a guard's van!

A copy of an Empire number of "The Amateur Photographer and Photographic News" has just reached us from the publishers. It is full of fine pictures on art paper, printed in colours, which demonstrate many of the modern advances of the photographer.

Mr J. A. Connell, a visitor to the Wairarapa, has just returned to Masterton from a trip to the East Coast. Whilst there Mr Connell, who takes a keen interest in geology and mineralogy, secured several mineral specimens of • a most interesting nature, which he showed to a representative of the Wairarapa Age yesterday afternoon. One ' specimen shows distinct deposits of copper, whilst another is a curious heavy black mineral, which Mr Connell thinks may possibly be pitch-blende, from which radium is extracted. There are also some interesting specimens of silica: and limestone. All the mineral formations were obtained from the top of a range, having been\brought up by a local upheaval. At one of these vents in particular there is still being discharged a steady volume of gas.- It is Mr Council's intention to have some of the specimens subjected to an analysis, the result of which will be awaited with interest. ":

The Rev. Thomas Fee, of fellington, who is on a; holiday visit to Sydney, interviewed regarding the NoLicense movement, said the statement! that home-drinking had increased in "dry" districts in New Zealand was a gratuitous lie. "Sly grog-selliog," he said, * £ seems to be encouraged by the brewers and liquor merchants, who supply the sly-grog sellers, and then point to the conditions they themselves set up. If it is desired the trade could stopaly-grog selling by refusing supplies. If the No-License Party has not yet killed the traded* is only a matter of a little time until it meets its doom." .'' :

Mr A. Farthing, a Victorian delegate ; to. the inter•St > ate..L4cenj^; ; -yicK' tuallers'rOehfeh-.noe, in _b!fei: clared that the , "unenlightened" countries were France-,. ; Switzeriftne[, and Germany, -where licensing legislation "had been settled f or: mundrieds of years. The .United had dabbled in No-License for- sixty year a,' and did not now know where jftstjpod, while New Zealand was the laughing stock of the world and the home of freak, licensing legislation. And this is "A. Farthing's" opinion! It can.be assessed at about that value.

Elsewhere Mr J. Moore, of Kopuaranga, gives denial to the rumour that he'has sold iliis, butchery business.

Mr D. Threadwell, in another column, returns thanks to his 376 sU]Jporters at Wednesday's contest. , '-.,,:

Messrs McGruer and Co., pa page 1 of this morning's issue draw attention to some special lines in their fancy department. This department is now replete with a choice .assortment of novelties for the present season, inspection of which is invited. ,;

Mr W. F. Shaw has opened up his business in one of the new shops in the Trust Lands Trust Building, next the Gas Office. A$ extensive display of goods is being made, and the public are invited to call and make art inspection. -/

Special bargains in boots and shoes will Be available at Mr H. Hadley's sale to-day. Thogrexi reduction sale is skill! being,continued, and those who have not keen able to.call during the past day or, two are invited to avail themselves of this opportunity. Goods in all departments have been subjected to heavy reductions.

To-day in the final day of Mr J. L. I Murray's Surprise Sale. Not a day,' not an hour longer will you be able to secure such seasonable surprise bargains in clothing and ma rcery as those offering. We woulfl advise prompt attendance if you propose securing some of the,good things at big savings. < With the;cold weather at* Hand ■ men's thoughts are turning to the [selection/, ofi the wmter : Some-: jthing .arid easy .fitting," with the right touch of style and ;i workmanship is what is wanted. Mr j W. Pauling, tailor, has ju# received a fine ratige of the very latest winter suitings, and extends a special invita--1 tioh to town and country patrons to* call and make an early selection. Mr T. McCracken, proprietor of "The Cheap Furnishing House," 'an- - nounces the arrival of a big consignment of beautiful winter carpets and rugs. The range of these goods is really a very fine one, and those thinking of making-a purchase are invited to call and make a selection. All lines have been specially selected, and are pleasingly displayed. The prices throughout are very reasonable, and the extensiveness of the range makes ' selection an easy matter.' Mr Al Henderson, jeweller and optician, announces the! arrival of a big consignment of ladies'and gent's gold watches, including the Rbtheram, Banme-and Omegas makes. iOn j page 6 of thi?: issue is given ah iHuB-' ■ tration of a, ladies' plajri cased lß*6t. : , I demi-hunter watch, at £9. ■'■< .' Gent's; 18jct. chronographs are also specially J mentioned. t Mr Henderson also re- | ports a big .sale of the solid nickel 1 "Moeri" watches, which afe quoted at 20s, posijfree. ,

FORMING A BAND. It is a healthy sign of the times that every town and village wants its band. If you are forming on© in ' your locality, it will he to your ad- " vantage to communicate at once with the Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Wellington. They are sole agents for HAWKES' EXCELSIOR loj?o£ OUS BAND INSTRUMENTS These are the finest in the world They are used by champion bands everywhere. The Ballarat City Band lvon the Australasian Championship again last year, playing on Hawkes' instruments. They are superb in quality and tone. Each instrument is specially tuned by one of the most highly-skilled musicians in London. The inclusion of one, two, or. three Hawkes' Instruments in'a band is immediately noticeable, owing to the great added richness of tone. ; A band all Hawkes' must r be .%& 'iasm'e''o£Perfe^ 0 ?. ,«* far'as the'MsiMn^nts; '■ Dresden Piano Weil- 1 ingtoh. North Island Manager, B J. Brookes Local Representatives: Tmr ufid Go.! >a:t '-»st Club Hotel

Applications .for registration under ihe "Defeat Act, ,1909 are not com.incr.iiiasprmptolyasanticipated. ine j .attention of all, persons reqinred by .the Act is called to an advertisement appearing in this issue, and we trust iKillrnotibefiound. necessary to enforce the penalties mentioned therein failure.to enrol. Forms of regis-tration-may be obtained at any lost Office or police -station. Attention is drawn to the reapers ;and"biiiflerß,.manufactured and guaranteed by Messrs B. Hornsby and Sons, Ltd.; also'their oil and petrol -engines, mowers, and reapers. Ine yalue of these-machines lies m their ffaithful construction arid the quality •of thematerialsTised,- and not in the -cost 6i Belling. The New Zealand agents are the well-known firm of Messrs'Keid arid' Gray, and their local representative is Mr A. E. Upton, "Lansdowne, Masterton. A change :advertisement appears on page 4.