LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10450, 16 October 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. H. Buick, of Masterton, intends exhibiting his Romney Marsh sheep at the Poverty Bay show. From a flock of 300 Romney Marsh ewes, Mr W. H. Buick. of Masterton, has this year secured 364 lambs. An effort is being made to secure circuit sittings of the Supreme Court at Dannevirke. Olem. Hill has been re-elected captain of the Australian cricket team in the test matches against England. Snow fell in several parts of the South Island on Saturday. It was two inches deep at the Bealey. A proposal has been made that the next Friendly Societies picnic in the Wairarapa he held at Sol way instead of Pigeon Bush. LACK OF ENERGY. If you lack energy, don't relish vour food, feel dull and constipated, i ll you need is a dose of Cliamberl un's Tablets. They will make' you f >e l like a new man, and jrve you a j ealtlxy appetite-. They will do you r-.ore good than a ss< bottle of tonic. <"v<H liv nil chemists and storekeepers.

The members of the Masterton Gun Club have accepted >ah invitation from tho Carterton Gun Club to compete in a shoot for a gun on Thursday next.

Mr G. R. Sykes has donated a guinea to the funds of the North Wairarapa Rifle Association, of which body he is Yioe-President.

A Timaru telegram states that cold, heavy showers fell there on Saturday, and a ibig fall of hail occurred a few miles out of town.

A contract lias been let for the erection of new premises at Palmerston North for the Union Bank of Australia.

Sixty-five new members were elected at the meeting of Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday last. The membership now stands at 10.95. A "bending" competition is to be added to the programme for the first day's ring events at the next Masterton show.

The Eketahuna paper has been informed that within the next two years a motor or coach service will be established between Eketahuna and Pongaroa. . The tender of Messrs Rose and Mason, of Masterton, has been accepted for the erection of a band rotunda in Carrington Park, Carterton, as a Coronation memorial.

The Mast-erton Hospital oontains thirty-two patients at the present time. This is the largest number that has bee i in the institution for some Considerable time past.

The petition of seventy-four residents in Pahiatua that the Balfour estate jshould be acquired for closer settlement has been recommended by the Lands Committee for favourable consideration.

A conference of Clydesdale breeders is to be held at Hastings on. the occasion of the coming show. The Masterton A. and P. Association will be represented at the conference by Mr R. J. Dagg, and others who may be present.

Mr James MoGregor, of Masterton, who reoently visited the Waikato, informed a representative of the Age that the chances of, carrying N<> Lioense in the Waikato electorate this election are exceedingly bright. The organisation of the party, he says, is perfect. A change in the leather occurred in Masterton on Saturday. The wind veered round to the south, and a cold, southerly rain set in. v iThis will have a revivifying effect upon cereal crops, which were badly in need of nourishment. The ~ weather took up again yesterday. The meeting of the Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday last was one of the longest and most important that has -taken plaee in the history of the Association. The afternoon meeting i lasted for over three hours.

Numerous entries are coming in for the annual shoot of the North Wairarapa Rifle Association, to be held on the Fairview range on Thursday next. A strong committee has arrangements well-forward, and, given a fine day the meeting should be as successful as in previous years. A well-known dairy farmer, conversing with a Ha.wera Star reporter last week, said that if the dry weather oontinued the outlook for the dairy factories would be very serious. As it was, the supply at several of the factories was falling offi As the .outcome of a recent visit of the police "to the" shop 7 of a .Waahi chemist it is •understood that ab iii?, fornfatidii charging the' person'' with k&et>iiiig liquor for sale will be laid,'' and tiiat the case will be heard at the next sitting of the Magistrate's Court, on the 18th inst. The action will be the first of its kind in the Dominion. "Masterton has been selected as the first place for the holding of the fairs in connection with the Romney Breeders' Association, because it attracts a greater number of Romney breeders and buyers than any other place in j New Zealand."—Mr Alfred Matthews, at the meeting of the Masterton A. I and P. Association on Saturday last. ,

Mi" Alfred Matthews stated at the ' meeting of the Masterton A. and P. • Association on Saturday last that a memorial shield to the late Mr G. 0. Wheeler was to be offered by the Roirmey Marsh Breeders' Association, for competition at the various A. and P. Shows in the Dominion. It would not, however, be ready for this' year. The shield would pass from one show to another, but would never, become | "the absolute property of .any breeder. J The schedule for th© jumping competitions at the next Masterton show I was revised on Saturday last, by the General Committee. It was decided that the first- prizes; for the . hunters' leaping competition be reduced from £2O .to £lO, for the Champion jump from £SO to £25, and for the concolation jump from £2O to £lO. # A proposal was made at the meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday last; on the suggestion ef Mr I. Allen, that a competition for traction engine drivers be added to the programme. It was decided to thank Mr Allen for his suggestion, but to point out that the competition would be impracticable on account of the danger involved. A cricket match was commenced on the Park Oval oa Saturday afternoon last between teams representing Carlton and St. Matthew's clubs. Mr J. Stewart was elected captain of St. Matthew's club for the season. Win- | ning the toss, St. Matthew's elected to j I bat, and put up 96 runs before the , last wicket fell. Of the number, [ Walker (39), L. Boyd (26), and H. Braggins (13) were the chief scorers. Temple obtained four wickets for 19, and E. Petersen 3 for 17. Carlton, in I th<yr attempt, knocked up 49 for 8 i wickets, A. Hoar (17) being the only player to reach double figures. Boyd showed fine form with the ball, taking ' six wickets for 20. The match will lie t continued next Saturday.

HOW TO CURE CHAPPED TEATS ON COWS. In the spring, there is a certain a-mount pf fever in the cow's teats, and with lying on the cold ground the teats become badly ohapped. It is a painful thing to milk such cows try hand, and the rows resent it very much. We continually receive reports of cases where com. would not stand quiet to be milked by hand, yet the first time the T 'RiIIS r D" MILKING MACHINES were applied to these sore teats, the cows stood quiet, chewing their ciud all through the milking, and the teats healed up in a few days. Prove our statements ■for yourselves., and if you are satisfied write or call on us for prices and particulars of the "RIDD." MANSON AND BARR, Pialmersiton North, AGENTS.

The strawberry season has opened in Auckland with a poor supply. Forty-four waggons, for use on the southern lines, are being tumed out at the Addington workshops. The Foxton Borough Council has decided to run a weekly picture-show. A Late cable states that women's suffrage has been carried in California by a majority of 200. Messrs Nelson Bros, will open the [ Tomoana freezing works in Hawke s I Bay this week. A London cable states that .'Tack Johnson has declined to box Wells m Paris. Sergeant Motion, of Queensland, won the King's Prize at the nfle ineeting" at Sydney, -with a score of 2J6. He also won the prize in 190». The latesr, returns rrom the Worksop dredge are 87ozs. 13dwts. for 111 , hours' working.

Mr D. Threadwell presided at the Y.M.C.A. Strangers' Tea in Masterton yesterday. "Rocks, Shoals, and Currents" formed the subject of a much appreciated address given by Mr G. Ftalla. The ladies of Knox Churcih were accorded a hearty vote of thanks for furnishing the refreshments. A Dr. Pease, crusading against tobacco, says that "cigars make widowerg—the fumes of which are killing our wives." Since the doctor made this statement many married men, who never l>efore thought of , using the weed, have beoome absolute slaves of the habit.

A sub-committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association, consisting of Messrs Summerell, Bidwill, Caselberg, Moodie, Morrison, Welch and Dagg, has been set up to canva:s Wellington for donations for the next show of the Masterton A. and P. Association. Masterton will be canvassed by the same committee as last year. . Mr G. R. Sykes addressed a larglyattended meeting of electors in the Wangaehu schoolhouse on Friday night. The chair was occupied- by Mr J. H. James. The candidate dealt with the political questions of the day on similar .lines as in other centres, and, ; On the motion of Mr D. McKenzie, seconded by Mr H. Falloon, he was i accorded a hearty, vote of thanks.

An interesting experiment was carried out at the Rexdale cheese factory in the Forty-Mile Bush, to' test the quality of butter-fat in whey. One hundred pounds of whey were taken direct from the vat and put through a hand separator, with the result that slightly over two ounces of butter were made from the butter-fat obtained from the whey. The article looked similar to ordinary butter. From these figures it follows that it would require 8001b of whey to make alb of butter. Probably further experiments will be carried out.

In speaking; of Mr. A. W. Hogg, of Masterton, at Foxton last week, Mr. Byron Brown said that Mr. Hogg an honest man, and acted up to th§ principles of the greatest good for-the' i greatest number. Mr. Brown said that i shortly after Mr. Hogg had been appointed to the Ministry, he (the . speaker) had stated at a banquet that Mr Hogg in the Ministry was like a gold dollar in a mud gutter, and ho w6uld either come out very quick, or get besmirched. Mr Hogg came out, : and Mr Brown said he was sure his ! reason for doing so was the same as [-that which actuated the Hon. George Fowlds-to tender his resignation.'. . v A junior assistant for the irorimon- : gery department of* 'the W\F-C.A • ; * 8 for. .. . West En<kfluality...at East End prices sale. . The price9_of all goods are down below zero. Big bargains in carpets and floorings." An opportunity to buy "now" and save money.* j Mr Walter Crossley, bookseller and I stationer, of Queen Street, who re- \ cently took over Mrs Smith's business, advertises that he purposes stocking-] all the newest literature, and is agent"; for all the principal newspapers. "There are clothes, and clothes, and clothes and, clothes, and clothes, and clothes, and clothes,".. Pardon, Harry Lauder, but 'this little parody serves its turn in. emphasising the exceptionally high quality of Mr J. L. Murray's stock of men's underwear. In another column you will find details.*