LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10271, 26 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Success dredge is ISojis. Sdwts for 110 hours. There are a'i present seventeen patients in the Masterton Hospital. A considerable number of Lower Valley boxing enthusiasts have expressed their intention of being present at the boxing tournament in Masterton on Wednesday evening next. A considerable number of season tickets have already been sold for the festival of the Masterton Musical and Elocutionary Competitions Society. All arrangements for the Hospital to be held in Masterton nextweek are now practically complete. The function promises to be one of the most successful ever held in the district. It is probable that a visit will be made to Masterton during the present season by one of the Wellington Chess Clubs. At the conclusion of his sermon in St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, last evening, the Rev. W. Raine, who is leaving for Wellington this week, thanked the congregation for their helpful ; kindness during the term of his ministration in Masterton.

The Conference of delegates of Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards is to be held at Wellington to-morrow. Mr J. C. Boddington reports that the rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Saturday was 13 points. "The bills were torn down before they were put up," said a witness at a Cork election petition. This, of course, could only happen in Ireland. A number of settlers in the FortyMile Bush are installing milking machines in readiness for the next milking season. A special meeting of the Pahiatua Racing Club is to be held to-morrow evening, to consider the report of the Racing Commissioners. In a blasting accident at Dannevirke, two children of Mr and Mrs Jensen were severely injured. One had three fingers blown off, while the other received an injury to its eye.

It is reported that the dairy companies in Wanganui intend raising the price of first-grade butter to Is 4d per pound this week. The work of erecting a new police station and residence in Masterton will be commenced immediately upon the completion of the new Courthouse.

The gata takings at the Palmerston winter show this year amounted to £558, which is about £l7B behind J of last year. Mr T. 11. Rutherford, of Masterton, will address a meeting in Palmerston North, to-morrow on the egg circle movement. . The Masterton Battalion Band wore their new uniforms for the first time at the ceremonial parade on Thursday last. One or two Masterton settlers intend, planting trial plots of kohl rabi this year. The kohl rabi, besides possessing most of the qualities of swedes and turnips, is not affected by either drought or blights. Faiming operations in the Masterton district have been seriously interfered with by the "mixed" weather experienced during the last week or two. A children's ball, given by Mr and Mrs F. C. Tumor, was held in Eketahuna on Coronation night. The function was largely attended, and proved most enjoyable. A slip occurred on the Rimutaka Road, on the Wellington side, last week, and the road was blocked to all but vehicle traffic.

William Nathan, Millson, agen 19, on Friday attempted to cross the Karamea River on horseback near the mouth. The horse arrived horn© alone. No one saw the accident. The body has not been found. At the police court in Masterton on Saturday, before Mr J. Brown, J.P., a first offender pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk. He was discharged with a caution. The first prize in one of the sections of amateur photography at the Wellington Industrial Exhibition was taken by Mr S. Brockett, of Masterton.

The Minister, of Railways declined the application made by the Farmers' Union that at country stations notice boards should be provided on which farmers in need of labour could state their requirements. The shooting competition by teams of members of the Farmers" Unien for a shield and medals presented by the Colonian Ammunition Company, and for which 21 teams entered, resulted as follows:—Palmerston, 624 points', 1; Kaitangata, 570, 2; and Paraparaumu (Wellington), 562 points, 3. Mr Charles Holdaway, formerly a resident of Masterton, but now a successful farmer in the Ballance district, writes to the Pahiatua paper to say that he has, by the use of fertilisers, secured a remarkable increase in his yield of hay. He took five tons per acre off one paddock during last season. A correspondent of the Age writes: —"lt is about time something was done to stop the rattling of the Masterton Town Hall windows. During Saturday night's performance the noise acted as a continuous accompaniment to the music, much to the discomfort of the occupants of the dress circle " Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P., writes", us to state that he finds he has made a mistake* over the time at which the Coronation took place. He, like many others, had been under the impression that New Zealand was behind, instead of ahead of Greenwich, time. Mr Hogg thinks that the performance o| the morning newspapers of New Zealand, in securing such a fine description of the ceremony so soon after it took place, was a remarkable one.

A Coronation service was conducted by Bishop Td Tan in the Te Painui Maori Church, at Te Ore Ore, yesterday. In the course of an interetsing address, the Bishop stated that the people ought to give thanks to their Father in Heaven, and pray that He might; bless the newly crowned ruler, His Majesty King George V. He also compared the Coronation of the King to the anointing of David by Saimiel. .....''

A Marton telegram states that a deputation from the Rangitikei Racing Club will .wait upon Ministers tomorrow, and ask that the recommendation' of the Racing Commission in;regard to the abolition of the: totalisator permit to that Club be not approved.

The latest returns for the Worksop* Dredge show 59ozs. odwts. for 123 hours' working. The number of games played by the Wairarapa chess representatives when in Wellington last week, was fortythree, the city teams scoring points to the visitors' lot. Large numbers of swaggers have passed through Masterton during the last few weeks, which is evidence of the scarcity of work in the North Island just now. Thg Wairarapa chess-players returned on Saturday, after a most enjoyable visit to the Empire city. The players speak in glowing terms of the hospitality extended them, and express their particular appreciation of the unremitting efforts of Mr F. J. Kelling, the well-known Congress representative, to make their stay in the city as pleasant as possible. Up to the present, says the Otago Daily Times, the harem skirt has not been in evidence on the streets of Dunedin, but a venturesome young lady appeared in latest creation, of fashion at a public dance in Dune-\ din the other evening: Needler-s to say, both the costume and the wearer attracted considerable attention.

A proposal to hold an aviation carnival in Auckland next January is being considered by the Aero Club of New Zealand. The club has been in communication with several of the leading Aero Clubs in different parts of the world, with a view to inducing certificated aviators to compete at the proposed carnival.

A Harrisville farmer, who purchased a small property of 26 acres for £420 four years ago, aceoi'ding to the Poverty Bay Herald, has very good reason to congratulate himself on that purchase, as he has already cleared the price of his property several times over out of potato growing. Last season he put in 9£ acres of early potatoes, which realised £605. He immediately resowed five acres for a second crop, which he has finished digging, and out of this crop he has sold seed to the value of £175, besides keeping sufficient for his own use. This 9| acres has shown a total return of £7BO for 12 months' cropping, which is nearly twice the value of the whole farm.

The Masterton Racing Club will consider its position in relation to the reduction in its totalisator permits at its next meeting. • Members spoken to in regard to the suggested coalition with the Taratahi-Cartertdn Club.do not consider the proposal at all practicable;

Mr Jock Willis perpetrated a rather neat joke at the expense of Masterton during his performance in the Town Hall on Saturday night. He stated that be had not been here more than half an hour when a policeman asked him if he was "Tom Oats." Jock replied in the affirmative, and was presented with a warrant for his arrest for ill-treating his children. "What!" said Jock. "This a NoLicense town, and I can't thrash (thresh) my own oats!"

The following is a list of recent sales made by Mr.P. Tulloch, land agent, of Pahiatua:—Mr J. O'Neil, of Ballance, to Mr J. Vile, Ballance, of 157 acres; Mr J. O'Neil, Ballance, his homestead, dairy farm of 150 acres, to Mr W. W. McCardle, of Pahiatua. Mr E. Wrgstaff,' Mangamutu, his daiay farm of 102 acres, to Mr Maurice O'Conner, of Longburn, Palmerston North; Mr J. Bremner* of Konini, his interest in 127 acres, together with all stock, to Mr Gibson, Konini. Mr W v W. McCardle, of vPahiatua, his dairy farm at Ballance of 75 acres, to Mr J. Bremner, Konini; Mr W. JSmith, Hukanui, his dairy farm, of 202 acres, together with all stock as a going concern, to Mr J. Turley, of Carterton; in conjunction with another Pahiatua agent, Mr Hi Miller's dairy farm of 57£ acres, as a going concern, to Mr J. Cruden, of Mangatainoka, also in conjunction with Latham p.nd Co., land agents, Woodville, Mr H. Singey's property of 45' acres, to Mr A. Ockerstrom, of Hukanui.

A somewhat peculiar feature of the law is disclosed by the recent theft of the horse Prince Warbeck from a stable in Yaldhurst, remarks the Lyttelton Times. It is believed that the persons who took the horse are known, but the police cannot charge them with the crime because they did not offer'it for sale. Thetheft of the horse: is: not, apparently, a; theft in the eyes of the law until it is offe>red for sale, and. tb/3 only satisfaction the owrref can obtain is by civil action oh account of any monetary loss he has suffered. "A man* may take a Jiorse and fide from here to Limerick on 'it ,' ' Chief-Detective Bishop said on Saturday, "and you can do nothing to him from a criminal point of view as long as he is shrewd enough not to sell it, and the desirableness of civil action depends on whether the man who appropriates the horse .is worth powder and shot. Mr W. H. Cruickshank advertises for sale a small farm of eleven acres, close to Masterton, at a very reasonable price. In connection with the visit of the Sheffield Choir to Wellington on the 29th and 30th June, and July Ist, and to Pailmerston North, on June 3Qth. the railway department is issuing ex- ' cursion fares in accordance with notice oil tiie front page. - Messrs McGruer and Co., drapers. Queen; Street, notify that their great after stocktaking sale will commence •on Wednesday next, 27th inst., when there will be bargains for all.