LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10515, 3 January 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cheese is reported to be very firm in the Home market juet now.

There, are -at present sixteen patients •in the Master ton Hospital. >.

• Eight petitions in bankruptcy were filed an Napter during 1911, as compared with seventeen recorded the previous year.

Mr John Gross, J.P., yesterday forfeited the bail of £1 each lodged by two over-indulgent ,persons who t-ad been arrested on the previa is -Jay.

A handsome silver shield, bearing a gold pigeon, lias been presented to tin Palmerston North Homing Pigeon Gktb for the North Island .Federation race (Wellington, Palmersto: ;u:d Wairarapa owners). i In his last monthly repor" to the Labour Journal, Mr J. Georgeson, Inspector of Factories for Master ton, states that trade generally in the town lias been well maintained, and that there has been a good demaid for casual labour.

Arrangements have been mjade to tender a social in Masterton to the ladies and gentlemen in town and country who worked in the interest of the Reform candidates at the recent election. The social will be given in tihe'Exchange Hall on Thursday, January lltth, and 'admission will be by tickets, to l>e obtained through Mr R. F. Crasbie.

In conversation witli a representative of the Age yesterday, Mr A. L. Herdinan, M.P., said he was astounded that tho Prime Minister had tlhe effrontery to carry on wie administration of the affairs of the country with public opinion so pronouncedly against 'him. '"Hie longer he retains office," said Mr Herdman, "the more disgusted will the people 'become."

-> punfu! accident befei Mrs .T- Lu Morris, an old resident of Homebush, Master ton, a day or two back. Hie old lady, who is eiglhlty-four years of age, das descending from a buggy, wthen her leg twisted and the bone snapped. To one so advanced in years tihe accident is particularly distressing.

At the Rifle Association meeting at Trentham on Monday, Rifleman A. J. Cameron, of tlie Opaki Rifle Club, scored 44 at the 300 yds range, and secured £l. Rifleman R. J. King (Opaki) and Rifleman Groves (Alfredton) were counted out in the 500 yds miatdh. Among the tyros in the same match were Rifleman C. Taylor (Opaki) 44, 10s, and Rifleman J. Murray (Opaki) 42, 10s. In the 600 yds matdh among the prize winners were: Riffemen L. Loveday (WoodviUe) 14, £1; R. F. Wilton (Mauriceville) 41, 10s; tyros, Rifleman J. Murray (Opaki) 38, 10s. A feather boa, lost between, the Solway showgrounds and Lansdowne on New Year's Day, is advertised for.

Owing to steady rain falling yesterday, the second day of tike Tima.ru Oaledbnian Sports was abandoned. Last week tihe Carterton Egg Circle dispatched 125 dozen eggs to iMasterton. It is believed tihe consignment brought Is 4d per dozen.

The Japanese warships Aza and Soza arrived at Auckland from Fiji yesterday afternoon. The former was captured from Russia in the war. A report that the syndicate which has purchased tllio Tananaki Petroleum oil rights are agents for tihe Standard Oil Company is emphatically •denied. A Ghristchurch (telegram says that William Albert James, eight years old, ran a rusty nail in his foot some days ago. Tetanus set in, and the boy died on Monday. During tihe four days' racing at Auckland, which concluded yesterday, no less a sum than £176,906 was put through the totafldsator.

A resident of Dunedin who is aA present in Timaru informed a "Herald" reporter on Thursday that there hiaa not been a fine day in the southern city for tlie past seventy-eight days. Two Wangianui residents took out prohibition orders against themselves cn Friday last. They evidently intended enforcing tiheir new year resolution with tihe strength of the iuw.

Advice has 'been received by the Carterton Fire Brigade to the effect that permission 'has been granted by the Minister of Internal Affairs' for authority to hold am art union a.t tiheir forthcoming bazaar. . Guards on tihe railways are at present keeping a sharp watch on .'parents who are travelling with children over age, and numbers have had to purchase tickets on the train and pay an additional fine into the bargain. The first consignment of peaches for the local and Wellington markets arrived at Wanganui from the upriver orchards last week. The Herald states #<B4 the frtiit is really excellent for so early in the season.

A passenger by one of t Friday's trains to Levin left 'his notebook, conraining £SO in bank-notes in the carriage. Fortunately, tihey were shortly afterwards found by the local railway officials and placed in safe custody. A Pahiatua telegram states that a man named George L. Manser, aged seventy, died at his residence from ■heart disease while his wife was summoning medical aid. No inquest was considered necessary.

A cable message received from Messrs Lane and 00., London, advises the sale of a cheese consignment, ex Tainui, on behalf of the Haweria factory, at an average of 6 9-16 d per lib net. This is three-sixteenths better than the New Zealand record this season. Still higher prices are anticipated after the New Year. One of the Sedgwick boys, who working in the Masterton district, expressed his delight to an Age representative on Monday at the treatment he is receiving in New Zealand. Ho is surprised that colonial young men do not take more kindly to country life.

The news of the destruction by fire on Sunday of "Takitumu," the famous carved meeting-house at Tablelands, which was presented to the Government by the late TamJahau Mahupuku, will be learned with regret by Natives and Europeans alike. How the fire-originated is a mystery. It may not be generally lcnowa. that chimney soot is valuable as a manure and as an insecticide. Its fertilising properties are particularly r-oted in gardens and meadows. In oonnect-ion with the vineyard industry in southern Fra'icv it is stated that it kU's the phylloxera with tdie rapidity of •% stroke of lightning, and at the same time endows the vines with extraordinary energy of growth. A slaughterman who returned from Australia to "Aslhburton during,the week states that the season for butchens in Australia has not this year been so lucrative as on former occasions. The' number of sheep and lambs slaughtered wa-s not so great as is usually the case, hence the slaughtermen's cheques were proportionately smaller. Further, the slaughtermen do not to expect to make as good money in the Dominion this yeir as last. 1 A Dalefield resident, Mr W. To:/', had a remarkable experience on Monday night, according to the News. At about 11 o'clock he heard wind rising, and also some . unaccountable sounds of tearing and breaking wood. He went out to investigate, and discovered his barn in the grip of a" whirlwind, which had wrenched off hialf the shed, and had broken it up„. According to the Motueka Star, Mr T. W. Kirk, Director of Orchards, has been definitely authorised to inform tihe secretary of the Motueka District I Fruitgrowers' Union: (1) That a bonus of £SO will be given to each ship*which lands her cargo of New Zealand a,vpies in London in good order, provided each sHiipment shall consist of not le-ss than 2000 cases, and (3) that the bonus applies only to Shipments sent under the Government guarantee.

I A very valuable sliipment of high- [ class pedigree stock arrived at 1 ytteltoo by tJie Federal-Hmdder-Shire Line steamer Morayshire from England. The large shipment which has been imported by Mr J. Grigg, of Longbeach, ecroprises one bull, one bull calf, a cow, five heifers, and two calvas dropped 011 the passage out, all South Devonshire breei; three Southdown rams, five two-ffcootih Southdown ewes, itihree Sihire colts, one Clydesdale colt, and one thoroughbred filly. The animals are a very fine lot, and have •arrived in good condition.

The Aorangi expects to- arrive Wellington from 'Frisco at six o'clock on Thursday morning. Trade in Masterton during ih® Chris-tunas "holidays is reported to h&vet been particularly brisk. The E\enir,g Post says it is f.r:)uv>l« tint Sir Joseph Ward may be in ft position to make a statement rexfc wet>!j as h> intentions. There lias l)een a marked, diminution in the amount of poaching carried ort in South Can/terbury rivers this seas-* on compared with previous seasons. Ihe Post Office Hotel in Pifchiut&uai has changed hands, Mr Watts having disposed of his interests to Mr Fitzgerald, from the Hawke's Bay; j|is* tnot. The rainfall registered in EkeEaEuua. during the month of December was 7.81 indhes. ifoun fell on 24 days dtrr-* ing the month. The Central China Post, publWiecl ait Rankau, recently remarked: '"Ono great pull which the native soldiery has over foreign 'troops is the simplicity of .the commissariat. The rations sent down from the town to the troopa consisted of a large, number of lasketa of boiled rice carried bv a gang of coolies—only that- and nothing more."** The Salvation Army, in a notice tm tihe front page of till is morning's issue,, return thanks to those who generously contributed to the Xmas and New Year carol singers. The adjourned annual meeting of the Workmen's Friend Building So* cdety will be 'held in the Y.M.CXA* rooms to-morrow (Thursday), January 4th, at 8 p.m. ... - . . v --\

■ Owing .to the subdivision of seveyaf of the larger Hawke's Bay ©states, an<l the commencement of the Napier Gisborne railway, there will no doubt bo an increased population, both in tows and country. Increased ' population! means an increased demand for good tend, particularly in smaller areas handy to the town. For this rcasoa we predict good competition for Hi® various sections of the Pakowhia estate, which will be offered by aucfcioffi at Hasting on January lOth. *Ly Mtssra Dalgety and Co., Ltd,/ and Mft •: J.. R. Lanauze.