LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10401, 23 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. C. Boddington reports that 12 degrees of frost were registered at the Upper Plain on Tuesday morning. The Rev. Bain Macdonald, who is at present on a visit to Masterton, will conduct the prayer meeting in Knox Church this evening. Mr W. A. McNaught is giving a lecture on wool-classing at Martinborough on the 24th, and Carterton (in the Agricultural Hall) on the 25th. The annual horse parade in connection with the Wairarapa P. and A. Society is to be held on the Carterton showgrounds on Saturday, September 30th. Mr C. A. Pownall, of" Masterton, will appear for the defence in a divorce case, A. J. Petersen v. Elizabeth Ellen Petersen, (alleged adultery), to be heard in Palmerston North on Friday. The Wellington Racing Club have again promised a donation of £lO to the Wairarapa P. and A. prize fund, and it is the Committee's intention to allot these prizes to the remount classes, altering the height of the remount to not under 14.3 or over 15.2 hands. The report of the Ploughing Match Committee, presented at the annual meeting of the Wairarapa P. and A. Society, w.a,3 a very satisfactory one, and it is expected that the balancesheet will show a small credit balance. Votes of thanks were - accorded all those who assisted to make the fixture so interesting and attractive. It was resolved that a gold medal be given by the Society to the winner of the open event as the champion ploughman, besides the money prize.

Referring to the discussion in the House on Mr Hogg's Duty on Foodstuffs Abolition Bill, the writer of political notes in the Dunedin Star eays:—Mr Hogg seldom gives , these debates a good start offJ he is too discursive; his remarks draw quite a shower of interruptions, which lead him hither and thither until his tracks resemble a patch of sand where rabbits have been gambolling. But there is no doubt of his implicit faith in legislation providing an efficient remedy for the high cost of living. His firm belief in a State Bank and a State note issue is corroborative evidence of a disposition to believe that if legislators would only come round to his way of thinking some day we should pass a law the effect of which will be to make a shilling buy a florin's worth of goods." Tllie foappy days we ispeand lim (health Seem all too soon to glide a>wa.y. Tlien comes a timo wheai. each of us Must to some illness be a prey. * And as an illness oft begins With cruel cough, or chill, or cold, It'® besit to take Woods 1 " Peppermint Oure,~ A drug that's worth its weight in gold. 4

There is reported to be an unprecedented dearth of plasterers in New Zealand at the present time. Mr A. H- Herbert addressed a meeting of electors at Rongokokako last night. One Masterton land agent has disposed of seven local properties during the present month. The first of a series of assembly dances was held at Eketahuna last evening. The Tawaha dairy factory at Martinborougjh was opened for the season on Monday last. The old Volunteer Hall at Mosgiel, together with a fruit store, occupied by a Mrs Smith, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.

The Martinborough Town Board is moving in the direction of providing a town hall. Alreadly several sites have been offered to the Board. J. McNiary Duncan, labourer, of Kaitawa, has been adjudicated bankrupt. His estate shows a deficiency of £192 2s 7d. The chief creditors are A. H. Herbert and Co., £lll. An effort is to be made to form a branch of the Master Builders' Federation in Masterton. A meeting of those interested is to be held on Thursday evening. „ Surgeon-Captain Cook, of Masterton, examined a batch of forty-seven Territorial recruits at Eketahuna on Monday night, and a further batch last night. The Nireaha dairy factory will open on August 31st. It is expected the season will start with a fair supply as a good number of cows are already in milk. The annual meeting of the Wairarapa Centre of the New Zealand Athletic Union is to be held in Masterton on Saturday next.

At its meeting this evening, the Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce will discuss the questions of the registration of land agents, and the District High School for that township. A final practice of the Masterton Orchestral Society for their concert takes place in the Town Hall to-night, to give the finislhing polish to what promises to be one of the best programmes presented by the Society. The following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Eketahuna Farmers' Co-operative Asisociation on Monday evening:—"That 1000 £1 shares be set aside as preference shares, tlhe minimum interest to be allowed to be 5 per cent, and that the directors'be authorised to issue them at par." A Hastings telegram states that a six-roomed house, between Longlands and Pakipaki, owned and occupied by A. J. White, was totally destroyed at about one o'clock yesterday morning. Mr and Mrs White were awakened to find the place in flames, and with difficulty saved their children. A Masterton resident received a letter by the last English mail from a friend in the Old Country, who stated that no fewer than four hundred New Zealanders were present at the launching of the battleship "New Zealand." Mr W. C. Arrow, of Dyerville, has disposed of his farm in that district to Mr .J. J. Jackson, who, for many years, has been carrying on the business of blacksmith in Martinborough. Mr Arrow has purchased a property near Pahiatua, and will remove to that district, as soon as he relinquishes possession of the property at Dyerville.

In speaking at Hukanui, on Saturday night, Mr Herbert said it was a fallacy to state that there was an unearned increment on bush land. The man who took up bush lands in t*he early days had earned every bit of the increased value; and it would have paid the Government to give them the land for nothing. The country did not want the land. It wanted genuine settlers on it -who would produce something. Mr J. H. Pauling has tabled the following notice of motion, which will come on for discussion at a special meeting of the Directors of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society, to be held on Saturday week, September 2nd: — (1) "That in the amateur events, all increases in prize-money be struck out; the fiirst and second prizes to be the same as last year, and that a third prize be added." (2) "That the hurdle race (amateur) event be withdrawn from the programme." Mr J. Barrett, of the Railway Department, is on a visit to Masterton, and will assist the, local Orchestral Society at their concert in Masterton on Thursday next. Mr Barrett is a very fine flautist, and was one of the principal performers in.the society at its inception. He was a most en-: thusiastic member, rarely missing a practice, and since his removal to Wellington has always taken a keen interest in the orchestra. SOME CAKE RECIPES.

RICH CHEAP CAKE.— Beat well the yolks of three. eggs, and the whites of two, with on© cup of fine sugar. Beat in one half cup condensed milk, one and one-third cups sifted flour, two 'heaping teaspoontfuls baking on© half teaspoon lemon, one teaspoon of vanilla extract. Butter generously two large cake tins. _ Put together with frosting made with one white of egg and two-thirds cup of sugar beaten together. AFTERNOON TEA CAKES.—One cup sugar, ome cup of raisins, one half cup butter, one teasipoonful cinnamon, one half tea spoonful cloves. Stir this all together and put on stove and let come to the boil. 0001, then add two cups of flour with one teaspoonful of .soda. Put in gem pans and .bake in a quick oven. A tea that you will appreciate is the "Mikado" Blend, a tea that costs but eighteen pence a pound, and tastes like that worth 2s. It is a good, strong, fkvoury tea with plenty of body, and extremely pleasing to the palate. For family* use it is unequalled, for it is inexpensive and good. It is worth a trial, and the trial will cost you Is 6d, for that is the price of a pound of "Mikado" Tea. Ask your grocer.

FIVE TOP NOTCHERS.

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The annual inspection of the Pahiatua District High School is at present in progress. Cheese buyers in Southland are offering 5Jd for the coming season's cheese. The Cheltenham Dairy Company has disposed of the coming season's output at a satisfactory figure.

Masterton house agents report ft keen demand just now for dwellinghouses containing six or seven rooms. The Belvedere and Carrington dairy factories mil be opened for the season on Monday next. Nearly 80 cases of eggs were shipped to Auckland last week by the poultry-keepers of Tauranga and Te Puke. • A large number of pheasants have been reared this year at the Auckland Acclimatisation Society's hatchery. The present year is the Salvation Army's thirtieth New Zealand anniversary, and its forty-sixth as a world institution. The Masterton Amateur Athletic Club proposes holding its annual meeting next month. A most successful season is anticipated. A speaker at the Feilding A. and P. Association meeting stated that it had been found that roots of lu- • cerne went to a depth of 18 feet. A shock of earthquake was felt iin Masterton about 11 o'clock yesI terday mornirg. It was also felt in Wellington. j Whitebait is now plentiful in the j Qtaki river, and some good catches [ have been made. The second term holiday in connecI tion with the schools in the Masterton ! district will commence on Friday, Ist ■ September. The schools will be closed for a week.

The Central Charlton Company, formed in the time of the dredging boom, goes into liquidation forthwith. Hie company has £SOO on fixed deposit, in addition to £4OO in the bank. . The licensee of the Hamilton Hotel at Oobden, on the West Coast, was fined £5 and his license was endorsed, for refusing to admit a constable when he demanded admittance. The Orepuki Advocate t states that Mr L. T. Iteichel, wfho has been some time in America in connection with his fire alarm patent, has been successful in disposing of the Canadian rights to a strong company, the price paid being about £6OOO. To indicate the improved farming methods now prevailing in the Dominion, it may be mentioned that over 2000 tons of basic slag have already been disposed of in Taranaki this season.

One of the recognised orators of the Salvation Army is Colonel Birkenshaw, who has a great reputation in many parts of the world as an organiser. It is probable that Colonel Birkenshaw may deliver a series of lectures throughout the Dominion on General Booth, the Army's Grand Old Man. Considerable improvements are being- effected to the North Island brewery at Mangatainoka. A third storey is being added to part of the struoture, which was originally of two storeys. The Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society held a most successful rehearsal of the first act of the opera "Dorothy," in Murray's Hall last night. The whole of the act was gone through without the slightest hitch. The Dannevirke Advocate understands that should certain negotiations now being made with the owners of properties in the Coast district be completed, an up-to-date oil-bearing plant will be in operation in two or three months' time.

William Francis Dow man was charged at the Magistrate's Court in Wellington yesterday witih having unlawfully killed John Wm. Long, on Saturday night, as stated in yesterday's issue. Long died suddenly, and an autopsy showed that he had a fractured skull. Dowman was remanded until the 30th inst., bail being refused. Deceased Long left a widow and two young children.

Some little time ago the Kiwitea County Council circularised local bodies asking for support in moving for some alteration in the method of conducting Harbour Board elections. So far 34 replies have been received, 26 of wihich are favourable.

A petition to the chairman of the Featherston County Council, in terms of "The Rating Act-, 1908," demanding that a poll be taken on the proposal "that henceforth the system of rating on the unimproved value of all properties in v the Featherston County be adopted, be submitted to the ratepayers' vote," has been signed by 101 ratepayers. At a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday morning, the following tenders were received for the erection of the Buohanan Home for Incurables at Greytown:—Taylor and Hodges, Mastertoh, £5221 (accepted); H. Trotman. Greytown, £5679 14s; Coradine and Whittaker, Masterton, £5500; Rose and Mason, £5799; Howie and Matthews, Wellington, £6343; Watts Bros., Wellington. £7151 4s. IF YOU HAVE A Cough, Cold, Nose, Throat, or Lung Trouble, Stomach, Bowel, or Liver Complaint, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, USE SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT; 5 drops in a tablespoon water. Remember, you oannot expect the good effects from any sort of eucalyptus. SANDER'S EXTRACT CURES because it contains ethereal and antiseptic substances not contained in other Eucalyptus products. These latter, 'made by persons ignorant in chemistry, and provided with fancy names and labels by trading concerns who do not know what they contain, have caused grievous harm, and a death has resulted from their use. Do not apply an ointment to a sore. It keeps back the secretion. To wounds, bruises, sprains, burns, ulcers, eczema, and other skin troubles APPLY SANDER' SEXTRACT, 15 drops in a tablespoon of olive oil. The effect will surprise you. SANDER'S EXTRACT HEALS because it is freed from the irritating constituents contained in other eucalyptus preparation. It heals when others irritate.

For that hacking cough at night, take Tonking'n TV-seed Emulsion. From all chemists r.rtd stores, Is 6d, 2s 6d s 4s 6d, 2

By taking advantage of cool storage at the freezing works, a Nelson fruit-grower obtains 150 per cent better prices- for his fruit than if ho had marketed it when it was harvested. Some justices are beginning to pass heavy sentences for the use of obsceno language. In Napier an accused got two montlis' hard labour for that offenoe. Mr W. A. McNaught will give a wool-classing demonstration by chart (his own invention), in Masterton on Saturday afternoon next, under the auspices of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. The demonstration will be held in the Dominion hall at half past two. Joe Mikulec, the young Austrian, who recently passed through Masterton on a walking tour of the world, writes as follows to the Wanganui Chronicle —'"Gentlemen. I will take a boat to Hobart on Monday, August 21st. My best greetings to all. I have very many friends in New Zealand by this time. It is the best country I ever was in. Good-bye to all." A good general servant is advertised for at good wages. A smart lad is required by Messrs Maclean and Co. A leading insurance offioe requires a district agent for the industrial and ordinary department. Salary and commission is offered.

Tenders are invited by the Masterton Borough Council for the lease of a paddock at the headworks of the water supply. Messrs E. B. Hare and Co., land agents, Pahiatua, advertise particulars of four farm properties, which have been placed in their hand sfor sale. Employers in the building trade are invited to meet at Murray's Hall on Thursday evening, to consider the advisability of forming a branch of the New Zealand Builders' Federation. Mr W. H. Bennett, the Federation Executive Chairman, will speak. A cablegram just received from Glasgow reports that the band using Hawkes and Sons' brass, instruments won the first prize and challenge cup at the Exhibition oontest, out of thirteen competitors. The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., are sole agents for these famous band instruments.

The first grand display of early spring novelties is announced by Messrs Hugo and Shearer. These goods have been specially selected for them by expert buyers from leading English and Continental manufacturers, and embrace, all the latest materials and shapes for the coining season. Ladies who are interested in fashion's latest creations should not fail to visit this display. Messrs? Lewis and Co., tne wellknown land agents of Wanganui, advertise on page eight of this morning's issue, particulars of two special land bargains, which have been placed in their hands for sale. The first property consists of 1355 acres, and the seoond 1000 acres, both of which' are situated in the Wanganui district. The wonderful fertility and productiveness of the land in this district is well known from one end of the Do-< minion to the other, and the agents remind those requiring special bargains in land to make a point of per* using the particulars. The firm havei also numerous other properties on their lists, particulars of which tlhey will be pleased to forward on application. Mr W. F. Shaw, wfaose new sHop is in the Trust Buildings (next the Gas Office), has with considerable enterprise just received a very fine consignment of new goods of every - description, including a fine assortment of the famous Kaiapoi and Mosgiel manufactures. There is a splendid range of men's clothing and boots, and the person would be hard indeed ,to please who could not make a satisfactory selection. The stocks are all new and up-to-date, and the . ~ prices throughout are remarkably reasonable. Sportsmen would do well to inspect the stock of breech-loading guns, rifles and ammunition, of which a specialty is made.