LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10274, 29 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, The timetable for closing of mails at the Masterton Post OficeV•corr.eqted to date, *is published in the WaHfiirapa Age. The schools in; the Masterton. district will resupie on Monday next, after the winter vacation. i Quite a number of Masterton residents intend proceeding to Wellington to-day to hear the Sheffield Choir. Invereirgill appears to be booming just now. A property has just changed hands in that town, the price representing £2lO a foot unimproved . T alue., The, delegates .attending thejHos.pif tal Board 'Conference ; iriU Wellington, are to be entertained at dinner bjy* His Excellency: the Governor at Government House this evening, j Old settlers of Masterton stalte that it is years since a "south-easter" has been experienced in the Wairarapa of as long duration as that which has latteily visited us. Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., will address the electors in the Public Hall, Lower Taueru, on Tuesday evening next. Mr J. C. Boddington reports that the rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Wednesday was 29 points'. No less than thirty per cent of the - hilt teachers in the employ of the Wanganui Education Board are uncertificated. A commercial traveller informed a representative of the Age yesterday that during the last few months he has observed a very distinct improvement in business in Masterton. His orders, which are followed by prompt payment, are fully twenty per cent larger than they were ■> two winters ago. ; Bobby pushed me in the gutter, In the pouring rain.- . ; All my cake and bread and (butter Floated down the drain. r Mummy put me straight to bed l , 'Cos my olotihes were dripping, Gave me Woods' Great' Peppermint • Cure. Bobby got a whipping. 7

Travellers by the trains between Masterton and Wellington complain that the number of foot-warmers in the carriages is so small that few derive any benefit from them. Stock in the Masterton districtparticularly hoggets—have suffered a great deal by the severe weather of the last week or two, and a heavy mortality is expected. The selection of a candidate to contest the I'ahiatua seat in the Opposition interest will bo made at a meet- 1 ing o be held in Woodville on Wedsnesday next. | The Wellington Industrial Exhibi- i tion serves more useful purposes I than one. A Masterton resident I says that he is glad that he visited it, because he was enabled thereby to renew acquaintance with a friend whom he had not seen for thirty-fivd years. A narrow escape from a conflagrar tion occurred in Masterton on Tuesday night. On entering his shop yesterday morning, a son of the owner 1 , found that the pockets of a coat which had been left hanging in a room had Ibeen burnt out, a box of matches it contained having by some means ig- x nited. It is almost a miracle that the fire did not spread.

The seats in use in many of the schools in the Masterton district are by no means satisfactory, either from j the point of view of construction or i repair. It may interest School Committees and parents, therefore, to know that the Education Board is at present discussing a scheme for placing improved seating in the whole of the schools under its jurisdiction. In the course of his remarks before the Wellington Education Board on Tuesday in support of the establishment of an aided school on the Waihi Road, Mr R. B. Ross, M.P., suggested that, the Board had deliberately refraiaed from putting a school where the settlers wanted it, because they v desired to see the children forced into other schools in the district. Mr J. G. W. Ait ken took exception to the remark of Mr Ross, which he said was a reflection on the Board. Mr Ross'explained that he had no intention of reflecting upon the Board. He merely represented the case as it had been put before him by the settlers.

Mr C. T. Elers, Native agent, of Masterton, has received a letter from the Inspector of Rabbits and Noxious Weeds, thanking him on behalf of the Department for the way in which he las handled the Natives in reference to the poisoning of their Kaiwhafca country. The Inspector states that the Natives have in consequence been saved a considerable sum in legal expenses"; and the department a good deal of trouble. Lovers of the occult will be interested in a lantern lecture to be given by the Rev. S. Barnett in Murray's Hall at Masterton this evening. Mr Barnett undertakes to scientifically explain and illustrate "How the (socalled) dead return.'' Thousands have attended this lecture, including the Speaker and members of the House qf Assembly of the Orange" Free State, South Africa. A meeting of the subscribers to the Hawke's Bay Flood Relief Fund was held in the Masterton Borough Council Chambers yasterday afternoon. His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. M. Coradine) presided. It was decided te place the balance of fcne fund on the Public Park Improvement Fund, and it was also decided to advertise the fact for the benefit of subscribers who did rot attestd the meeting.

An electrical engineer engaged at the Bealey end of the Otira tunnel works met with a distessing accident a few days ago. His arm got caught in the cog wheels of a machine in the tunnel, with the result that the was stripped from the elbow to the vrist. "He is now in Hospital and the doctors are hopeful of saving the limb. ' Keas are said to be unusually numerous in the back country above Ashburton, aad these destructive biids have already been responsible for killing a large number of isheep. It is stated that, the birds attack the sheep mainly in foggy weather, and frequently drive the animals over precipices while hunting them. Recently Mr Edgar Stead, of Christchurch, paid a visit to the Mount Somers estate for the purpose of studying the habits of the birds. <

Gisborne and Palmerston North; are the, two-next towns to hayev electric car systems.. 4 J!he proposals in each these CUU3S* for up-to-date installations are making rapid progress.' Tnvereargill's expected ,to be running in September, I 'Qi4ithere k is; prospect of a scheme being. introduced 1 to enable Timaru to instal a car ser- I vice. Masterton may some day follow suit.

Last week (says the Auckland Star) a number of companies were %ied for not having supplied the Registrar of Companies with a schedule of their shareholders and a summary of their capital for the year 1910. In several instances the plea of "Not guilty" was put in on legal points, and these were argued on Monday afternoon, but the Magistrate (Mr E. C. Cutten) held that the companies were liable, and in each case inflicted a fine. In his opening remarks at the boxing tournament in Masterton last uight, the President-(Mr A." P. Whatman) created. amusement/ by stating that a *€( cent tournamfehl at Carterton was held on. the same/'night that a :,- much-advertised political speech was given; ' Three-fomjths of. the people went to the tournament—the other fourth to the political meeting. (Laughter). Mr Whatman predicted that the time was coming when, if a man desired to succeed in politics/ ho must graduate as a pugilist.

Mr P. E. Debreceny, of Pahiatua, is taking over the Tenui Hotel. Mr Hazelton, one of the Irish envoys, will give an address in Pahiatua on July 17th. A Hobart cable states that the steamer Tongariro arrived yesterday from London. Gisborne and Timaru are said to be the two 'busiest towns, in New Zealand just now. Needless to say, loan money is being spent in boib« A line of Romney ewe hoggets ,_ bred at Sandon, were sold to a Bahiatua (buyer at 30s per head. This is said to : be a record price for the district. I An area of 1200 acres has been pur- ' chased by a syndicate, near Motueka, I in the Nelson' district, for fruit-grow-

A Targe number of visitors from the Forty-Mile Bush, as well as from the Lower Valley, were present at the boxing tournament in Masterton last night. James Murdock, bankrupt, arrested on warrant at Dunedin, was before the Registrar of the Supreme Court yesterday, and ordered to provide sureties that he would attend the meeting of his creditors. We have been requested to notify the pupils of St. Bride's Convent, who are at present on vacation, that it is the wish of the Mother Superior that as many as can make it convenient should attend the funeral of the late Sister Mary Michael this afternoon. Plans of the proposed new church, ) to be built at Kuripuni, Masterton, \ to seat 200 people, were submitted by ' Mr H. A. Jones to St. Matthew's • Testry last night. The plans were re- ! ferred to the Building Committee, with power to act. j As illustrating one of the advantages gained by the formation of eggcircles. Mi* Rutherford read an interesting pamphlet at the meeting at Palmerston North on Tuesday evening, Jon the. egg output of the Masterton j circle. This pamphlet stated that the leggs handled by the circle realised £1099 5s 6d, whereas the amount*; would only have been £787 19s 10d if j they had been sold locally. At a meeting of St. Matthew's parish Vestry, held in Masterton last nftght, a letter was read from Mr W.\' H. L. Galwey, resigning his position as a member of the Vestry. It was resolved, "That this Vestry places on record its high appreciation of the services of Mr Galwey during the ten years he has acted on the Vestry; ■ thai his resignation be accepted; with regret, and that a letter be sent to him •■ conveying the resolutions." A meeting of the- parishioners will be held on the 26th July, to elect a successor to Mr Galwey on the Vetstry. A meeting of the United Evangelistic Council took place at Knox; Church, Masterton, last night, the Rev. A. Hodge, the President, in the chair. A balance of £2 12s 3d was reported as the net result of the Tercentenary meeting in the Town Hall, and this amount is to befforr r warded to the British and Foreign Bible Society. The next united meeting of the Churches is tp take place at Knox Church, on Wednesday, July 20th, and these meetings will be held on the third Wednesday in each month, at each church in turn, the Council to meet at the close of each meetmg.

At the P'ispital Boards Conference in WellingLon on Tuesday, the Minister in charge of Hospitals expresesd •the hope that the boards would show some initiative in making provision for attendance in materaity cases, and remarked that, at present an insufficient number of trained nurses were turnedjout, especially in the country districts. The existing system of i training wa? not enough, and some im- j pjfovement had to be made. In this .connection, the public 4 will be giving the movement a helping hand fey attending the production of "Stweet*: Lavender" in\Masterton this evening, ! the proceeds being in aid of the D&- i 'trfct Nurse Fund. ' ■ "What became of the money you received from the sale of stock off! your place?" queried counsel of Mr Patrick Carr, when the latter was under examination at Dannevirke on Tuesday. "Och! divvil a thing do I I know about it; it went in payin' people—and that's all I know,'- was I the characteristic reply. The. same j witoess, when questioned by Mr Oil* ten (solicitor) as to the name of 4 tain turned to the son.of the ] said nfttfve|who was prewnt; "and i ed affakjy^"Sure, and phwat'was the f name iv'tlte old dumpjin'?'*. /"","' i

' >During j;|(e-'^rflc^iri^^at :i reine Court in NajpieVon "Tuesday, Mr' Dolan pointed out that while the punishment for stealing a bicycle could not exceed two years' imprisonment a man who received it knowing it to be stolen was liable ;£<s•' be sentej|g>ed to seven years;. Mr-Justice ClnJfpmari said that appeared to be so. "And further than that," added His Hqnor, "a man s! *night get fourteen ..years for stealing sucking pig while'''he could riot get more than two years for the,theft of a motor car!"

At the annual meeting of the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society yesterday, the President, Mr A. H. Russell, drew attention to the falling off in the sheep classes at the society's shows durihg; the, Ja,ss. few years.. The "matter, he said, deserved special a&tentioriy "rind local breeders should receive ;every en-coui-agemeut. He also mentioned that the memljership was rather lower now than in the previous year. Although the society had a larger membership than any other smaller society in New Zealand, they would be pleased to see the numbers increase.

A reward is offered for the recovery of a ladies brown fur necklet, lost between Masterton and Hbmebush. A bay gelding is advertised for sale by Mr J. W. Compton, Upper Plain. Mr F. P Welch, labour agent, requires scrub-cutters, bridge carpenters, etc. ' Experienced men are wanted for putting 3000 red birch posts and 30 strainers. For address apply at the Age office. A young girl to assist with housework is required at the' Private Hospital, Kirton Street. Mr E. Hodge, licensed second-hand dealer, Queen Street, has several useful lines advertised for sale —guns, bowls, rackets, saddles, rugs, and the like. The July records are now to hand at "The Talkeries," Mason's Buildings, Bannister Street. The consignment, which is a very large one, includes all the latest and most popular selections. Inspection is invited. The hospital ball will this week attract the attention, of many people, and amongst them gentlemen, who, nodoubt, will be much in evidence. The said ball will, be a painful matter, es- . pecially to the dancer, unless the feet are properly clad, and Mr J. Carpenter has some advice to offer through his change of advertisement to-day on the matter of court shoes for gentlemen. ' • ' > The need of room is the,cause of | the great drapery sacrifice at the W.F.C.A. Thousands of pounds of \ stock are on the water. Price is not I so much the object as empty fixtures, i This is your great opportunity. SpecJ ml prices are quoted in this issue for I Saturday.* Nowadays the great cranes * get the cargo out of the 'holds of & steamer as swiftly as the Chinese pirato junks used to clean'tip a captured merchantman. Business men who want their goods delivered right from the "slings" should place thefr Customs work and carrying in' the hands of J. J. CURTIS, Custom- . house Shipping Agents, Customhouse 1 Quay, W*»l»inet«r>