LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1037, 18 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Success dredge shows 19osb. 14clwts. for four days' work.

1 Nominations close to-morrow for the steeplechase meeting in connection with the Wairampa Hunt.

A Gisborne telegram states that Charles Taylor, aged twenty-one, has been killed whilst bushfelling at Te Araroa,

A representative football match, Manawatu v. Wairarapa, will be played on August 26th, either at Carterton or Masterton.

Mr A. H. Herl>ert will address the electors at Hulcanui on Saturday evening, and at Kuripuni on Monday evening next. It is officially announced that C. B. Pry lias declined to accompany the English , team of cricketers to Australia. 1

The veeital by the organist and members of St. Matthew's choir, which was to have been held this evening, has been unavoidably postponed. The date will be announced later.

The latest return from the Masterton dredge is 30ozs 14dwts for 131 hours' di-edging. A dividend of Is per share is to be declared in connection with the Masberton Company this week.

Sir Robert Stout's report on the Cook Islands was laid on the table of the House of Representatives yesterday -afternoon. It was decided to take the discussion on the report on Thursday next.

Whether it be due to No-License or other causes, it is nevertheless a fact that during the tost month or two there has been quite a dearth of litigation in Masterton. The civil sitting of the Court yesterday occupied only a few minutes.

A Masterton tradesman writes to the Age:—"Can you tell me why, when local shopkeepers are compelled to close their establishments on Thursday afternoons, a visiting tradesman is allowed to keep his premises open ?" We cannot.

For Chronic Chest Complaints, Wtoods' Great Peppermint Onre, Is 6d, 2s 6d.

The Government is inquiring as to I whether tihe banks oould not do with- J out their regulation prohibiting bank i , clerks from marrying until they ob- I ' tain a salary of £2OO a year. A largo area of land has been set i aside for hospital and charitable aid purposes, and for the four cities it amounts to about 340 acres, valued at £IBO,OOO. One by-law case was heard at the S.M. Court in Masterton yesterday, Thomas Ridgway being fined Is and costs 7s for having ridden a bicycle on a footpath. In a civil case at the Masterton j Magistrate's Court yesterday, in which J. Billington claimed £8 8s from Geo. Page, Mr L. G. Reid, S.M., gave judgment for pj.aintiff, with costs £1 3s 6d. Mr O. Pragnell appeared for the plaintiff. In his reserved judgment, Mr Riddel!, S.M., held that the North Island Brewery Company, Patea Shipping Ooy., Nelson, Moate and Co., and the Rafoanui Hall Company had committed technical breaches of the Companies Act in not forwarding certain returns to the Registrar. Finer, of Is with 38s costs were imposed. The Minister of Public Works says he cannot promise/ Mr Ross to make provision on tihe estimates for the met- ■ filing of a portion of the Pahiatua- : Pongaroa. road. Mr Ross asked for J £IOOO, but the Minister siays it is re- j ported that a much smaller amount j would be sufficient, and it is not in- i tended to provide a vote for metalling roads where it is not required. A Masterton resident relates an i incident in the life of the late Cardinal i Mo nan which is. said to have the merit of being true. The late Cardinal was on a visit to New Zealand, and was staying at "Larnaoh's Castle," at Dunedin, about twenty-five years ago. His Eminence 'was passing through a field in his clerical robes, when a vicious bull 'attacked him, and he was within an ace of losing his life, his robes being torn to shreds. A Masterton young man, who was recently oii a, "visit" to the Wellington Gaol, states that it was common property among the prisoners that Joseph Powelka would attempt to escape from gaol unless his sentence was reduced., by the clemency of the Crowe, at Coronation time. Powelka was working in the boot department at the gaol. The question of making provision to,give road aqcess to lie domain and'Pongaroa public cemetery. will be considered by the Government, when framing the public works estimates this session. Consideration is also promised to Mr Ross's proposal to make provision up to £ISOO for the metalling of. the Pongaroa to Weber section of the Alfredton-Weber road. "Do tlhe experiments being carried out with Wakeman's fescue give evidences of probability of this grass beiiig possessed of the special value i claimed for it?" asked Mr Ross the other day in the House of Representatives. The Minister of Agriculture replies that a sample of this grass was obtained only at the beginning of this year, and was sent to the department's farms at Ruakura and Tauranga to be sown and observed. No results will be available until the spring. If these are favourable, the matter of obtaining further supplies will receive consideration. Mr L. G. Reid, S.M., delivered his judgment in the Masterton Magis- ' trate's Court yesterday, in the cases in which Maggie Young claimed £2B 9s 3d and £5 damages from Leo. Barker f6r artidles destroyed in a fire, and Henry Edelsten claimed from the Bame defendant £l7 for goods destroyed and £3 damages. Mr G. H. Cullen appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr C. Pownall for defendant. The casa "was the outcome of a fire, in connection tfdth which Leo Barker stood his trial at the last sitting of the Supreme Court in Masterton on a charge of incendiarism, and had been admitted to probation. In each case judgment was given for plaintiff for the value of the goods destroyed, but damages were not allowed. Costs in the oase were allowed at £4 lis and £2 2s . respectively. The Popular Concert held under the auspices of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society in the Masterton Town Hall la.st night, was unanimously acknow- . 1 edged to have been the best yet held, both- in respect to the attendance and the excellence of the programme. Miss ' Thelma' Petersen sang "Douglas Gordon" during the first part of the programme, and responded to an emphatic enoore with "Where Dew-drops Sleep;"- During the second part she sang "The Silver King," and as an encore, "Awake Dear Heart." Mr Peter Eadie (who was passing through Masterton, and who is always a warm favourite at the Society's concerts), kindly gave several humorous recitations, which were much appreciated, and enthusiastically applauded. Pressure on our space Outgiving a detailed report,, suffice, it to say that all the perfprmers were at their best, and Mr R. W. Robson, the presiding Director, was deservedly congratulated on all sides upon the enjoyable evening's entertainment. The piano was a high-grade Brinsmead. kindly lent by Messrs McLeod and Young. PUFFS AND PANCAKES. BAKEWELL PUFFS.— Required —One egg, its weight in flour, butter, caster sugar, and a teaspoonful ■df baking powder, short pa.stry, 51 little jam. Melt the butter;, acfcL the beaten egg, sugar and flour, bea/t all together, with the baking powder last. Line small bilking tins with the pastry, put a teaspoonful 0# jam into eaah, and a dessert spoonful of the batter on tli top. Bake in a good sharp oven, for ten minutes and serve when almost cold. For a change substitute chocolate cream for the jam and ice each tartlet with chocolate icing. PANCAKES.— A quarter of a pound of flour, oave egg, half a pint of milk, and' a level teaspoonful of salt. Mix the flour and salt in a basin, make a hole in the centre and break the egg into it, or only the yolk, keeping back the white"; add about two tablespoonfuls of the milk, and stir in some of the flour very smoothly, adding more of the milk and flour till half the milk is used. Then beat the mixture thoroughly. Next, stir in- the rest of the milk and 'beat again. Now set it aside for two hours, as this much 1 improves the result with all batters. Take the white, beat it well now, and add it lightly to the mixture. Melt some good dripping or butter in the frying pan till a blue smoke arises, pour in some of the butter, brown it on both sides, and serve with butter and sugar, with lemon or treacle. If you feel like enjoying a cup of good honest tea, try the "New Orescent" Blend at 2s per lb. It is a tea that has won its way into the homes of the people. The flavour wins favour—its quality never varies, for it is blended by a connoisseur. Your grocer is certain to have the "New Crescent" Blend Tea.

Only fifteen pupils were present at Lhe Belvedere school on Wednesday, out of a roll number of fifty-eight, i The rest were down with measles. There will be no criminal sitting of the Magistrate's Court in Masterton to-day, the sheet being clean. No trace has yet been found of the young man James Kingdon, who disappeared from Masterton some weeks ago. Great interest was taken in Masterton in the result of the Christehurch North election. The final return ( reached the Age office shortly before j nine o'clock, and was communicated to Mr Robson, at the Caledonian gathering, where the announcement was received with applause. The Rev. L. M. Isitt, the successful candidate, war. a former resident of Masterton. having filled the pulpit of the local ' Methodist Church for several years. j Some old wool books from a New South Wales'sheep station which Iras bsen in the posse sion of one family for 85 years, furnish some interesting particulars of the prices of wool in the sixties and seventies. In ISB7 fleece wool described as second quality brought 2> 9d per lb in London. That I was the time when t;he ruling rate of } ''further advhnces" was -never' less i I than 12£ per cent./ In 1868, first qua.l- j I ity'clothing, free from seed, brought 1 3s Id, and first combing 2s 6sd. This j ' seems rather reversing the main genj era! order and range of values. In j 1872. third clothing brought 2s 6d. i I third combing, 2s 6£d, and second I clothing 2s 7d. In 1875, belly wool I brought Is od, wethers 2s Id to 2s lid, j and pieces Is 6£d. j An advertiser wishes to lease for 12 j months a furnished house. i 1 A good pack of rabbit dogs and two j feretts arc advertised for sale. A man for light work about house and garden is advertised for. A reward is offered for the recovery of a lady's watch and wristlet, lost between Worksop road and Cole Street. ; Keep your eyes open, ye men of Masterton, there's a great happening at J. L. Murray's, the Quality Store. The opportunity for securing special values in evening dress wear—seasonable and fashionable —is within the reach of all.* Messrs McGruer and Co.'s speciality in their replace advertisement in this issue is gentlemen's caps. They are showing a fine range of gentlemen's ' full-sliaped'"-6i.i)s in all the latest'patterns; They also quote cheap line, of umbrellas. : A boot bargain sale is now in progress at Mr .J. Kitchener's bootshop, opposite the Masterton post office. Ladies" and gentlemen are invited to call and inspect the high-quality goods that are included in the large stock j now to be sold. Though prices are cut down to bedrock, the quality of the goods is of the highest. Messrs Kraliagen and Chapman are to the front with a magnificent selection of high-class woollens imported direct from the best English and continental houses. On entering their showroom one is struck with the extensive stock they carry, and the splendid taste displayed in the selection of all the latest to be had in high-<;lass woollens. Messrs Kraliagen and Chapman, being direct importers, are in a position to procure the best to be had, and patrons in want of spring or summer clothing would be well-paid in visiting their establishment, as the goods are sure to please.