LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10263, 15 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Beef was sold at about £1 per lOOlbs at the fat stock sale in Masterton yesterday.

The Wairarapa hounds will hold a ran at Greytown to-day, and at Blairlogie on Saturday.

A light fall of snow occurred on the lower ranges of the Tararuas yesterday.

Wednesday was the coldest day experienced in Masterton this winter., The air, in the words of the poet, "bit shrewdly." A Masterton settler informed a representative of the Age yesterday that ,he had already lost between 30 and 40 hoggets this season from parasitical gastritis.

Several Mastertonians are making horticultural exhibits at the Palmerston winter show next week.

Good business is being done in all lines of manure in Auckland just now. Basic slag is selling freely for topdressing purposes.

Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., will address the electors at Bideford tonight, and at Waingawa to-morrow night. The cold snap experienced in the Masterton district during the past few days has caused a considerable number of deaths of hoggets.

A first offender was charged at the Police Court in Masterton yesterday with being drunk in Queen Street. He was fined ss, or 24 hours' imprisonment, by Mr J. Brown, J.P. So far as can be ascertained, the "Georges" of Masterton have not rushed the Bank of New Zealand with contributions towards the "George Fund."

The Directors of , the Wellington Farmers' Meat Company will meet nest week in Masterton to receive tenders for a new boiler, a duplicated electrical plant, and other important additions. Should the proposal for enlarging the works be. approved, the additions now contemplated will be of service.

Of fifty pigs which were recently slaughtered at the Waingawa freezing works, only thirjbeen were suitable for export. The remainder wer-3 more or less affected with tuberculosis.

Mr R. Mcßae, of Masterton, has been approached to act as judge of the Highland dancing events to jiake place on Coronation night in the Exhibition stadium at "Wellington.

Mr S. Barnett, spiritualistic lec-tui-er, intends giving a series of lectures in Masterton at an early date. Mr Barnett, who is a very_ able speaker, is well-known in the Wairarapa as a former resident.

Mr J. C. Boddington reports that the rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 houra preceding 9 a.m. on Wednesday was 3 points.

Four entries have been received for the.Church choir competition in connection with the Masterton Musical and Elocutionary Competitions Society. One of these is from tonThe fat stock sale in Masterton yesterday was not as successful as had been anticipated. The reserves placed upon the fat stock by sellers did not quite agree with the idea of buyers.

It was a noteworthy feature in connection ( with the dozen divorce, cases heard at the Christchurch Supreme Court (says the "Lyttelton Times") that all but two of the marriages had taken placie in registry offices. In order to assist in the study of "eugenics" the North Canterbury Hospital Board has decided to keep a record of medical 4 and moral history of cases within the Board's institutions.

I At the Soiway saleyards yesterday, i Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., offered a sheep on behalf of the Masterfjpn Hospital, which resulted in £6 13s 6d had been raised towards the funds of the above institution. The sheep was presented by Mr T. W. McKenzie, of Lansdowne. In the Sydney Morning Herald a practical farmer urges that farmers should take more trouble than they do to avoid marketing a lot of rubbish with their wheat. In lib of grain that he showed there were. £j>z.of one weed and |osi of another!"■■■ That was equaj to 51b lOoz of weed seed to the bushel. A sample of Comeback wheat weighed 581b per bushel, and after re-; moving IJok of screenings, loss of straw, chaff, barley, and smut balls per lb of grain, it weighed at the rate of 64J] b per bushel. Dirty seed wheat was responsible for a good deal of rubbish in'the harvested grain. The Southland News says ryrThe fat cattle market shows a much easjier tendency; than', it has exhibited for some .'months. The all-round reduction of from 5s to 7s per hundred pounds for' beef is accepted with favour by all' except the few holders of fat stock.) There is very little prospect of prices reaching the figures which ruled three weeks ago—for this year, at all events.

Mr Hammond, the New Zealand aviator, who was a passenger by the Moeraki from Sydney yesterday, states that he intends to bring his machine to New Zealand at Christmas to give exhibition flights, say across the Straits to Nelson, or Wellington to Christchurch, if a sufficient guarantee is obtained. He also intends to compete for the prize of, £15,000 offered by the Commonwealth Government for a flight from Sydney to Melbourne.

, IRISH CAKES.—Take half a pound of flour, add two and a half ounces of butter, a quarter of a pound of sugar, three eggs, a small cupful of milk, two teaspooufuls of baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, then add the yolks of eggs one by one, , beating well; next add the milk and flour alternately, the baking powder, and the whites of the eggs very stiffly beaten. Pour into a buttered tin, and bake in a quick oven, for about haM an hour. Turn out, and when cool split and put half of the following mixture between, and half on top—a quarter of a pound of grated chocolate, a quarter of a pound of icing sugar, whites of two eggs, a little vanilla essence. Rub, the sugar through a sieve, put into a basin with the chocolate, then add the whites well beaten, and the flavouring.

This is an excellent cake for any occasion and added delight i» obtained by serving Orescent Blend Tea. This tea costs but 2s a pound, and is absolutely the finest tea at the pnice. Tit is the with the ladies who know good tea,. The flavour wins your favour, and. its good qualities will appeal to every palace. If your grocer does not stock this tea insist upon him getting it for you.

An effort is to be made to induce Mr P. M. B. Fisher, M.P., to deliver a political address in Masterton. The takings at the Sheffield Choir's performance in Sydney amounted to over £9OO. Over three hundred entries have been received in the poultry section of the Palmerston winter show. Levin butchers have decided, owing to the high 'prices ruling for stock, to increase the price of beef. :

It is just ten years since King George and Queen Mary were in New Zealand.

The General Committee of the Masterton Musical and Elocutionary Competitions Society will meet this evening.

The meeting of the Masterton Horticultural Society, which was to have been held last night, was postponed until Monday next, the rough state of the weather having prevented some of the members from attending.

A meeting of the Coronation Celebration Committee will l>e held in Masterton to-night, to make final arrangements for the celebrations on Thursday next.

The Government has granted free railway passes to veterans living within fifteen miles of a centre, to attend the Coronation celebrations to be held on June 22.

The council of the Wellington Philosophical Society has arranged for strong representations to be made to the Government to try to have the whole of tho Kapiti Island preserved for fauna and flora.

The Municipal Hahd-Book shown the general rates struck on the unimproved values in various townships to be as follows:—Masterton, 2Jd; Dannevirke, If d; Pahiatua, 3d i Palmerston, l|d; Petone, 2fd<; Stratford, 2|d. The subject upon which Professor W. T. Mills, M.A., of the United States, will lecture in Masterton on Friday, will be, "The Public Ownership of Monopolised Industries."

Notwithstanding the cold snap of weather now being experienced, there will be an abundance of grass in the Masterton district for the remainder of the winter. The mild weather of last month gave vegetation a good start.

• ■ A Taranaki youngster got possession of a dynamite detonator, and a playmate got a fire-stick from the School fireplace to "make-it fizz." It did fizz, afid the boy is now in the hospital minus two of his fingers and portion of his thump.

At Te Suiti butter is scarce and dear, and miik is not procurable at all, suppliers having been endeavouring to make arrangements for a supply by rail,b ut without effect. The position is the result of the late dry season. ,

The New, Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union paid out to its milk suppliers, for the month of April, £2839 10s Id, of which amount £250 was paid for cheese factories. Owing to the severe drought experienced during the autumn the milk cheques were, in some cases, just half of what they were in the corresponding period last year. Through their forced inactivity, however, the cows generally seem to be in good fettle at present, and show indications of "coming in" early.

Given a " - ood season strawberries should be plentiful in Auckland next summer. It is reported that the growers of the Northcote district alone have given orders for a total of no less than 700,000 new plants, so that, with the plants of the previous season, the yield ought to be a record one.

At an enthusiastic meeting of sympathisers with the Home Rule movement, held at Pahiatua, it was decided to invite the Irish delegates to visit that township. Over £SO was subscribed in the room

The Pahiatua Golf Club will play a match against Masterton on the Masterton links on Saturday next. The following will represent Pahiatua:— Messrs Liily, Swainson, Smith, MeSherry. Marshall. W. J. Collins, W. E. Collins, and TJlrich. The team will leave by the early morning 'train. . Dealing with the advice given by Mr C. J. Reakes, M.R.C.V.S., for the treatment of hoggets suffering with parasitical gastritis (as published in yesterday's issue of the Age), the €ai*teirixm u News J says :^'Changing pasture, drenching, and a picking of dry food are undoubtedly good; but the advice seems to us to have the air. of the experimental laboratory rather than of the broad acres where it is to be employed. As in the advice about potatoes, it is only good for retail lots, while a. wholesale application is required."

A visitor to Masterton, In conversation with an Agej representative, expressed himself as very pleased with the public institutions and general surroundings o,f ;i the town. The ■xmlj institution with, which lie found "fault was the public reading-room. This, lie thinks, could be greatly improved.

Sergeant Shortal (4th Battalion Leinster Regiment), Sergeant Partridge (3rd Battalion Worcester Regiment), Sergeant Nicholls (sth Lancers), Sergeant Wood ' (3rd Dragoon Guards), Sergeant Beer (2nd Dragoon Guards), and Corporal Norris (Royal Horse Guards) —six of the non-com-missioned officers selected for duty with the New Zealand Defence Forces —arrived in Wellington from London by the Athenic.

The sight of a Stipendiary Magistrate and a well-known Masterton solicitor making the ascent of a ladder, created seme little diversion in Eketalnma the other day. It was not the golden ladder, nor the ladder of fame. It wa? none other than a ladder by which they had to reach the halls of justice,! to wit, the Courthouse. Road excavations had been made in front of the building, and a ladder had to ho employed to enable those engaged in litigious business to effect an entrance. BUYING A PIANO. During our annual Mance in June month we are prepared to offer terms of payment even more advantageous than the very liberal and exceptional terms we extend in the ordinary course of business. Perhaps you do not want terms; hut if you do this is your special opportunity. All. our instruments are absolutely good, bearing—in addition to the names of famous makes, such <as the Broadwood, the Ronisch, the Lipp, and the Steinway—the guarantee of our wiide repute and long experience. If we sell you a piano during this annual balance period, you are assured of a fine instrument, and the payments will be too easv to bother you at all. The Dresden Biaoa Goonpa*ny, Ltd., Wellington. Nortih Island Manager: Mr M. J. Brookes. Local Representative:'Mir H. Inns,' Daniell's RuiWngs, Queen Strrct.

A case Speedy v. Castlepoint County Council is set set down for hearing at a sitting of the Arbitration Court in Wellington on June 27th.

An advertiser wishes to purchase a> good gig horse.

The manager of the Pavilion Skating Rink, Masterton, notifies that the rink will not be open to-day on> account of the skating carnival at Greytown.

Messrs C C. Ross and Co. have a client with £4OO cash, who wishes topurchase a five roomed cottage, on the station sido of Queen Street.

Prof. Walter T. Mills, M.A., is announced to deliver a lecture in Murray's Hall to-morrow night. Those who go to hear him will have tho plea-sure of listening to a topical lecture by one of the greatest of theworld's orators.

An advertiser in the wanted column requires a furnished or partly furnished house in Masterton for a few months.

Messrs Johnson and Co. will sell at their mart on Saturday afternoon next, a large consignment of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, etc, on behalf of Mr Robinson.

There is at present on view in Mr I). G. Brown's motor works, Queen Street, a very fine 3s-h.p. Bradbury motor cycle, fitted with a side car, which he has just received direct from the manufacturers. The machine isfitted with a two-speed gear and free engine attachment, and is" finished on the most modern lines. The side-ear itself is made of the 1 best wicker, to ensure light and easy running, whilst all the fittings are of the finest and most durable workmanship. It is worthy of note that every detail in connection with the manufacture of the motor cycle and side-car was turned out at the works of the Bradbury Company. The machine is now on exhibition, and Mr Brown will be pleased to explain to anyone interested. '