LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10286, 14 July 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Gisborne has crderori two Edison storage battery cars for its tramway system.

It is stated that ore or two Masterton young men are to be prosecuted for failing to register as Territorials.

A young Jady visitor to Masterton slipped in Queen_ Street yesterday morning, and fell rather heavily, spraining her left wrist.

A commencement has been made with the erection of the caretaker's residence at the entrance to the Masterton Park.

The Appeal Court has reserved its decision in the oase Massey v. The New Zealand Times.

A considerable-number of Masterton "sports" intend proceeding to the Wellington races to-morrow.

A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced in Masterton at 1.40 o'clock on Thursday morning. Mr G. W. Sellar, of Masterton, was awarded third prize at the Napier dog show for Irish terrier dogs (novice), and Mrs Maloney third for colonial - bred bull dog. Mr J. C. Boddington reports that the rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hourc preceding '9 a.m. on Thursday was 3 points, and the frost registered was 12 degrees. Mr Oartwright, of Milford Sound, Canterbury, has grown a very largo mangold of the long ied variety. It weighed 64|lba. A Mangaramarama settler was con-' victed, and ordered to pay costs amounting to £1 3s 6d, at Pahiatu.a on Wednesday, for allowing pigs ;o stray on to County roads. Some Southland farmers tried u> kill thistles by a free application of whey. The thistles throve, but the grass was al>solutely destroyed. They are now looking for another "way.'' A Poverty Bay settler states that

the recent cold weather has cut down the feed, of which there haa been a good supply up to the present, andthat stock are beginning to- feel the effects of the, wintry weather. It is extraordinary the prices land is fetching up Hawera way. Here are a few instances: 90 acres at £45 per acre; 45 acres at £73 per acre; 20 acres at £B7 per acre. The two first mentioned sales were for cash. "'"

About one thousand head of beef have been sent from Hawera to Auckland of late, and tha price in the northern capital was brought down from 30s to 23s per lOOlbs, owing to the heavy importatiors. A South Island correspondent states that the best remedy he knows for the potato grub is to sprinkle the tubers with sulphur in the bags or on the ground, which he says deals death to the grubs. . .

The district of Kapuni, in Taranaki. appears to be becoming depopulated. One evening last week a public farewell was tendered to no fewer than eight settlers, most of them with families, who were leaving the district. A conference of acclimatisation societies in Taranaki is to be held, the principal object being to investigate the results of stocking the streams of Taranaki with trout, also to discuss the question of fish culture generally-

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A full attendance of the Methodiat Church choir is requested at the schoolroom to-night.

The Irish envoys are to be given a send-off at Wellington on Thursday next, prior to their departure for Australia.

There are at present 6617 men employed on the co-operative works in the Dominion.

Thirty-six stud Merinos -purchased by Mr Andrews, if Marlborough, in Sydney, arrived in Wellington on Wednesday.

A London cable si i. tea that at the wool sales 4970 biles were catalogued, including 4171 bales from New Zealand. The offerings consisted of a poor selection.

There is true municipal spirit in Foxton. Lately the Mayor and nine Councillors subscribed £ls each to a fund to erect ajCoronation Hall. One other Councillor put ia £o, rtnd the town clerk £lO.

An inset circulated with the Age this morning states that "Murray's Clean Sweep sale is still in full swing." For the last week of the sale still further reductions are being made to reduce the stock prior to stocktaking. Clean sween prices are quoted for many lin.*

A well-known dairy farmer on the Waimate Plains is understood to have cleared £I7OO last year from a herd of one hundred cows, or thereabouts, in addition to which there was a substantial profit from side lines on the farm

The win of the Masterton Methodit choir in the choir competition in (■ o Town Hall last evening, was very popular, though somewhat unexpected. Mr S. H. Ralph, the conductor, was heartily congratulated by numerous friends upon his success.

In order to avoid the rush that took place for tickets at the Masterton Town Hall last night, it has been arranged for day sales of orchestral stalls 3s, stalls 2s, and pit Is at Miss Rive's up to 5 p.m. to-day.

To prevent the diappointment that occurred at the Masterton Town Hall last night through want of accommodation it has been, arranged to place a hundred chairs i>n the stage for tonight's demonstration. The price has been fixed at 2s for stage chairs. Admission will be by the side door to the stage.

When is a hotel verandah a "public place?" Two men who were found on the verandah of Fitzgerald's Hotel, Granity, near Westport, on a recent Sunday, were charged with being on licensed premises. As there appeared to be > some doubt as to whether the verandah was or was not erected on a public road, Mr Rawson, S.M., dismissed €he case.

The Buller Miner says:—"Portions of Westport's sporting fraternity are chasing around like scalded cats because of the recommendation of the Racing Commission to abolish the Westport gallops. What with the abolition to-night of bottle licenses, the 10 o'clock closing of the pubs, tomorrow night, the extinction of gambling in billiard rooms, and the wiping out of horse-racing, we Westportians will shortly become quite a respectable community."

Mr E. Wigstaff, who was farming in the Mai;awatu for 15 years, has disposed of his property near -Fahiatua to Mr M. O'Connor, of the Manawatu Line, arid intends to. settle in the northern "part of. thiv island. Mr Wagstaff has purchased 300 acres on the river,flats at Te Aroha, from Mr McKinley, who, for 31 years, has used the land for fattening bullocks for the Auckland market.

Sir James Carroll told his Invercargill audiences that he was in the South "just to .scatter a few seeds of kindness." Probably (says a Christchurch paper) seeds of the Government voting plant, which blooms triennially in polling-booths and places where they vote. The southern sowing is understood to have fallen on stony ground, and reports from all districts indicate that this year's yield will be scanty, and poor in quality. It is becoming generally recognised that it is a very exhausting crop.

According to the Waimate Plains paper, a big deal in dairy heifers came off last month, the seller being Mr Cecil Hawken, who lives at Hawera, and has land at the back of Eltham. The deal represented a mob of and the price paid was, £5 each, the'purchasers being a Manawatu syndicate. The destination of the large mob of next year's milkers is the Manawatu district. -It may be said that good dairy cows are frequently bringing from: £l2 to £lB at the clearing sales. A couple of yearj ago it was seldom that anything over £l2 was reached, but it is common enough now.

What might hare been a serious i conflagration at Inveivargill was averted by the quickness of wit and readiness of action shown by a girl.. On entering the Methodist Church last Wednesday morning for the purpose of her usual practise at the organ, Miss Gladys Searell was greeted by volumes of smoke issuing from the choir platform. , Up>>i investigation ■Miss Searell fouid thst the platform was on. fire. She rushed out of the buijdmg. gave the alarm, and by means of buckets of. water passed over the fence, extinguished the fire. Miss Searell's prompt action was, no doubt, responsible for the sup-1 pressing of, what would soon have been a big blaze. A hole tad been burnt through the platform, and the cocoanut matting was already on fire. The organ, which cost something like £BOO stands on the platform not far from where the fire originated. It m thought that the fire was caused through the heaters having been loft burning from the previous evening.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND That by using the commercial eucalyptus oil which is now bought up at 6d per lb weight and bottled, and on account of the large profit, pushed, you are exposing yourself to all the dangers to which the use of turpentine will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal trach, and mucous membranes. Bv insisting on the GENUINE SANDEto EUCALYPTI E £ l ?? iA< ? r you no * only, avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe, and effective medicament, the result of a special and careful manufacture. A trial will, at once convince. Quality in amaHdose distinguishes it from the bulky and danSmtous products. Remember—SANGEß'S EXTOAOT embodies the result of 50 jwi' exparraoce and special study ,*od it does what is promised: it heals and cures without UMurwg the ooiwtitatioii, as the oils of we markat freqasntly do. Therefore protect yourself *>? i-weotJng other brand*.

An Ayrshire Breeders' Association was formed at Hawera last week.

The oompetitio is were not concluded in the Masterton Town Hall last evening until very nearly midnight. No dairy produce was shipped for London by the Athemc, which sailed from Wellington yesterday.

Factory butter is selling in Eketahuna at Is 4d, ami in Pahiatua Is 5d per lb.

Thrf children of the Rongokokako school are to be taken to Wellington on a three-days' excursion before the Exhibition closes.

The Eketahun.i Express states that exaggerated reports jf the ravages of graas grubs in the Bush districts are going the rounds of the preis.

Mr A. 11. Herbert, "an Opposition oandidate for the Masterton seat, delivers an address -■« liketahuca tonight.

The impromptu del ate on the subject, "Should women smoke?" at the Masterton competitions last night, caused a great'deal of amusement. Some of the arguments employed in the affirmative were ingenious, if not quite convincing.

The Masterton and Lansdowne schools were given a hair-holiday yesterday, to enable the children to take part in the competitions in the Town Hall,

It is somewhat of a coincidence that, of the forty-one competitions held in connection with the Competitions Society in Masterton this week, No. 8 on the list should have scored sixteen first prizes and seven seconds.

Says the Dominion :—ln connection with the recent Supreme Court case against Thonas Kennedy Macdonald it is probable that further proceedings will be taken at an -early date.

The Carterton centre of the Wairarapa Boxing Association will hold its first tourney on Thursday evening next. Several Masterton boxers intend competing.

The following will represent a teamto play a match with the P. and T. team at Lansdowne on Saturday afternoon, at 3 -o'clock:—C. Hendry, C. Cole, R. Hatch. R. Morris, B. Morris, J. Tait, F. Madsen, M. O'Brien, 'P. Truscott, Douglas an! another.

A Gladstone correspondent write* that those settlers who banded together and presented Mr John Strang with a purse of sovereigns had intended buying a memento, but, as the time was so short, they, handed the money to Mr Strang with the request that he would purchase a suitable memento himself.

The bookings for the final demonstration in the Masterton Town Hall this evening in connection with the musical and elocutionary competitioni are very large, and the audience promises to be one of the biggest ever seen in Masterton. The whole of the prizewinners at the competitions are expected to take part. The programme was arranged by the Committee last night.

The monthly meeting of the Masterton District High School Committee, which was to have been held last evening, lapsed for want of a quorum, the only members present being Messrs R. Brown, E. H. Waddington and E. Pragnell. . .

It would appear (says the Timarn Herald) from a statement made in Court by Mr JElmslie; that.married Women in New Zealand have not the same contractual powers as married women at Home. The latter, he said, have power to enter into partner r ships in the same way as a man, but a married woman in New Zealand must first obtain the consent of her husband in writing.

• A proposal is on foot to establish a professional sculling handicap at Akaroa on the same lines as.atParramatta. Dr. Thacker is to be asked whether hia offer of £IOO for a professional handicap, made on the day-of the Whelch-Arnst race,, still holds good. Whether it does or not, there is every probability of the handicap being instituted, as the id<\a is enthusiastically received in Akaroa

The Secretary of the Masterton Boxing Club states that, upon investigation, it has l»een decided to decline W. Downos' challenge to fight V. Bilh'ngton, the middle-weight ohampion of the Wairarapa, on the ground that it is not considered that the former would be, a match for the latter.

Mr C. N. Baeyertz suggests that a number of the performers in the Masterton Competitions should try conclusions with Wellingtonians in. October next. A splendid list of special prizes amounting to £2BO, in addition to ordinary prizes are offered for competition. Full particulars and text book of the New Zealand Competitions Society may be obtained from the Secretary, Mr J. Dykes.

A competent gardener is wanted by Mr P. Neilsen, of Eketahuna.

A" shepherd to live in house with manager, is advertised for in the wanted columns.

Tenders are invited by the Eketahuna Borough Council for the erection of additions in brick to the powerhouse. Particulars are advertised. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., advertise an important clearing sale of sixty-eight first-class dairy cows, sheep, etc., to be held on the farm of Mr John O'Neill, BaUance, on Thursday, July 20th, at 11 o'clock

A warning note to fruit-growers is E7 <* e ?^ n ge advertisement of fI ™ l i amell fl ' inserted in *** issue. iho firm announces the sale of lT^r^ ron n 0r sprayin S> is Srf e "?, fr ? m Government formula, and which had such a successful sale last year—a preparation that has done such wonderful work.

Those requiring the best value i n tweed overcoats, oilskins, and water proofs at bargain prices are invited to call and see the selection at the after? stocktaking sale now in progress at Messrs McGruer and Co.'s. ThTspJc ial price list appearing in the adverpSaf ° n *" fn>nt Pag6 fe ""»

'Tve found it!" cried a luoky prospector when he discovered a gold mine/ Likewise, the lucky ones who have got the habit of attending cry, "What bargains—what great good fortune!'-Read in anothefSumn of the savings to be made.*