LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10261, 13 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton County Council holds its monthly meeting to-day.

Auckland continues to advance ty rapid stages. A ferry steamer is row being built to carry 1400 paksens;ers. Thirty-five new dairy factories were opened in New Zealand last season — nineteen in the North, and sixteen in the South Island.

A plate of ripe raspberries was gathered by a Masterton orchardist yesterday. This is somewhat unseasonable.

Over one hundred entries have already been received for the competitions in connection with the Masterton Musical and Elocutionary Society.

The Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company is .holding* 479 boxes k butter in the cool store at the Waingawa works for the local market.

Pheasants- are stated to be very plentiful in Ihe Upper Waitotara, u sport in that district having already secured 26 "long tails." >

The Maoris up the Coast do lot intend to bo behind the pakeha in the matter of being up-to-date. The natives at Nukumaru. Waitotara, and the Waitotara Pah have had the telephone installed.

The Royal Hawaiian Company left Masterton for the North by the midday train yesterday. Quite a large number of natives assembled at the railway station to see them off.

"When "' does a farmer finish .nis day's work?" This was a question asked at the Farmers' Union meeting in Palmerston North : "When he goes to bed," was the prompt reply.

Chas. Bradley, who levanted irom his mill at Catlins and left, hjs; creditors lamenting, has been located in America.

Auckland magistrates are discouraging the use of bud in the streets by the infliction of a uniform fine of £5, with alternatives of from one ; to three months" imprint anient, with hard labour.

Mr J. C. Boddingtori reports that the:rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Sunday was 21 points, and on "'Monday 33 points.

The butter made during the month of May at the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company's factory amounted.to 98521b5, an increase of 23581bs over the corresponding month for the previous vear. '

"There is no other country in the world that gives its Judges such nucj t'> crack at intervals as New Zeaalnd .does," remarked His Honor Mr Justice Denniston during the hearing of a case in the Supreme Court in Christchurch.

A new Norwegian Whaling Company will begin operations in August in the South Sea Islands and the East Coast of Africa. Mr James Bryde has been appointed manager. The company, with a capital of half a million kroner, has been formed at Sandefjord under the title of "Oestkystens Hvalfangersebt.ab" BUYING A PIANO. During our annual balance in June month we are prepared to offer terms of payment even more advantageous than the very liberal and exceptional terms we extend an the ordinary course of 'business. Perhaps you do not want terms; 'but if. you do this is your special opportunity. All our instruments are absolxitely good, bearing—in addition , to the names of 'famous makes, such as the Broad wood, the Roniiisch, the Lipp, and the Stein way—the guaramtee of our wiide repute and long experience. If we sell you a piano during this annual !ba.la.nce period, you aire assured of_ a fine instrument, and the payment's will be too easy to bother you at all. The Dresden Piano Comoanv, Ltd., Wellington. 'North Island Manager: Mr M. J. Brookes. Local Representative: Mr H. Inns, Daniell's Buildings, Queen Street.

A sucessful practice was held by the Masterton Pipe Band last night.

A case of scarlet fever has been reported in Greytown. Only fifty-one dogs have been registered in Masterton this year. The total number last year was about_2so.

The members' roll of the Mastertoii Methodist Church now stands at 212, which is an increase of forty-two compared with last year.

The Featherston County Council merely "received" the communication from the Masterton Chamber of Commerce relative to the deviation of the Rimutaka railway. .

A set of by-laws dealing with the erection of private telephone posts on County roads is being prepared by the Featherston County Council.

The erection of a new bridge across the Ruamahunga river near Martinborough is being pushed forward at a satisfactory rate of progress.

Arrangements have been completed for the publishing of a Maori newspaper in the Wairarapa. The Greytown Standard is informed tliat Maata Kingi is objecting to the sale' of Papawai No. 3, which, it was reported, had been passed :by the Ikaroa Maori Land Board at Masterton on Friday last. The Taranaki News hits off the "George Fund" fairly accurately when it says:—"lt is as sensible an idea as presenting Mr Rockefeller with a tin of kerosene; sending a bag of ironsand to Carnegie; or awarding the British coal kings a sack of 'Mokau.' "

The gathering of fungus, which at one time was a profitable occupation in the Masterton district, is still finding employment for a number of people in the Taranaki district. It has been suggested that Dr. Bradshaw, of Christchurch. who will act as judge at the musical competitions in Masterton next month, be irvited to give an organ recital in Knox Church during his visit to the town. -

A Blenheim telegram states that a motor launch belonging to' G. Pilmer and F. Nicholls was totally destroyed by fire in the Opawa river on Saturday, through a.leak in the benzine tank. The launch'was valued at £SOO, ami was not insured.

The Public Trustee desires it to be understood that none of the staff of the Public Trust Office of Christchurch are implicated iii the embezzling reported yesterday .morning,, except one named Ironside. The paragraph stating that further arrests are tc- be made in Christchurch is incorrect.

Reports, from the" Country beyond" Masterton indicate that 'a mortality amongst hoggets, similar to that of last year, has commenced. The cause of the mortality is thought to be the parasite ,:.V:'hich attacks the fourth 's'tmuaoh hogget. The-effect is to oroduee diarrhoea, which terminates in death. A good reniedy is to turn the sheep on to fresh pasture.-.