LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10558, 13 February 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hie Wairarapa Presbytery meets in Knox Hall, Master-ton, this morning. The Dannevirke A. and P. show is t« be held to-morrow.

A sories of young bird races are about to bo held in connection with the Masterton Homing Pigeon Okib, A contractor was in Masterton yesterday' looking for men. to do road work. He found none.

Several well-known Pahiatua farmers visited the South Wairarapa yesterday, with ® view to a land deal in that district.

Seventy-eight Masterton school boys visited the public baths yesterday, every one of wiliom were comperbent swimmers.

A horse in a gig ocetipied by two young ladies slipped on the asphalt in> Mastearton yesterday afteauiooii and. came down. Tlie ladies received a fright, but were otherwise.urihurt.

About twenty drovers are at' present ui 'Masterton, awaiting instructions, and feeding their dogs. They h ave notlung to isay- at all regarding strike agitators! •

At the meeting of the Masterton Cooperative Dairy Company, the Secretary was instructed to obtain information for the (benefit of members in regard to tlie imanufa-csture of casein.

A good many people are wondering why butter is dear -when deed isi so plentiful in the country. The fact is that butter is fetching a very high price ait Home, and the local price : s governed by the export price. At tiho meeting of the Masterton Cooperative Dairy Company the matter of the supply and delivery of pasteurised milk and creaan in tho town was discussed. No action; was ta.kera,. pending the receipt of fuller partieujars.

FLax-mills . are re-opening- everywhe.ro throughout Southland, but labour is very difficult to obtain, oven at a rwago of ten shillings a day. Flax areas in that part of the Dominion are in great request, and from present indications it would appeal* that a revival in' the flax industry- lias certainly taken place. The lack of the requisite liabour required is, Uiowever, disconcerting, and will have a tendency to ciipple tihe development which would otherwise have taken place. A word to farmers! Speaking of the results of the third Christ church wool sale ,tlie Farmers' Co-op. remarked: "The Dominion Woollen Manufacturers' representatives were ■more active than at previous sales, and to a large extent the very firm values ruling for tie fine •*voo 1 s were due to their influence." Isn't L-his conclusive evidence that all farmers should support the''country that sunports them. Insist on KAIAPOI Clothing and KAIAiBOT Woollens. KEEP HIM IN PERFECT ORDEiR. "For the past seven years T have kept my system in perfect order by the occasional use of Ghamiberlain's Tablets," writes Mir W. Mo William, J.P.,. Waimana, N.Z. "Whenever I feel dull I take a dose and find that two tablets taken at night leave me a fresh man next morning. Chamberlain's tablets are particularly good as they neither gripe nor purge." Sold by all chemists and storekeeper*.

Very welcome rain foil at Hastings on Friday last.

The Masterton public baths aro free to all males between. tlio hours of 11 a.m. -and 2 p.m.

Tho election expenses of Mr H. Hill, th*o JAiilxmr candidate for Napier 'City, havo been returned as £73 9s.

The G-isborixe Racing Club will pay £457 3s to the Government, as toialisator tax, over their recent mectir.ii. Tho Labour Department at Napier has received 04 applications for work on tho East Const Railway.

According to the Liverpool Post the population of tho -world at- the present time is 1,r>00,000.000, of which one half is female.

Some of tho Natives in the Tanamki district intend giving practical support to the movement afoot for tho improvement of tho old soldiers' graves. Carbolic acid has, by Order in Council, been declared to be a poison under tho Poisons Act. The order will como into force at the expiration of three months.

New Zealand La,rob can still hold ,it.s own on tho Home market, and at one time during tho summer was fetching •higher .prices than home-killed Scotch lamb.

. About twenty drovers, who are remaining iifMaisterton, pending the result of tho freezing works trouble, were photographed in .Queen Street vesterdav, at-tho expense-of a wellknown \Vaira-rapa farmer.

Very heavy rain was experienced at Nelson on Friday lest, and was much, appreciated by farmers, a's.'the country in that district was becoming very, much dried up. ■ ■

During the past six weeks the Rev. A. T, Thompson has been attending to the work of tihe Presbyterian Church, in the country districts, and as a. result £l7O has been, guaranteed towards the salary of an assistant. In order tliia t the very best men may be obtained for the Imvercargill tramway service the Council has decided to offer the maximum rate of Is 2£d an hour for imotormen,. three years' service in such employment iuiywihere to' be accepted as the necessary qualification.

A Hawera telegram states that a labourer naimed William Aden Reed, was yesterday fined £2O (afterwards reduced to £10) for having supplied liquor to a Maori woman. The defendant's wife was also fined £5. The waterside workers obtain some strokes of good luok now and again. Ait West-port, in order to save the tide, tihe (Steamer Wairuna worked through the dinner hour a few days ago. Under tihe new .agreement the waterside men employed were each paid 4s 4d for the (hour's work.

A five-roomed dwelling owned by Mrs Vowless and occupied by Mr Sims was tota-lly destroyed by fire a.t Hamilton on Saturday night. The furniture was insured for £IOO in the Northernoffice, and tho house was also insured, but till© amount and office <a.ro not available." Tihere was no water supply to fighf the outbreak. The steamer Monowai, from Grisborne, arrived at Napier yesterday too late to connect with the soutih-txrand express, and ia protest t-o the Union Steamship Company, signed by about fifty passengers, was forwarded against sucih delays. ' The brilliancy prize at. the recent chess congress at' .Napier lias been awarded to Mr" WelUugton, Mr Jonesi of M&sterton," "being second, and .'Mr Jounian, of Niaipier,.tJiircl and fourth, and Mr Grierson, of Auckland, fifth.

The protest entered against Mr J. Dixon, of Masterton, in connection, with, the recent (federation pigeon race, has been settled. It transpires that a mistake had been made through there being two birds of the same colour and with similar iwvm'bers. Mr Dixon has been awarded the shield, which is expected to come to luuid shortly.

As it has been considered too much for the minister in charge of the Masterton Presbyterian Church to attend to all the work connected with so wide a 'district, it'lias been decided to submit a proposal to the Wairarapa Presbytery tfco appoint an assistant, who should have his headquarters at Lansdowna, land who could attend to the cmmtry districts of the Ghurch.

Tlie Pebruao-y circular of the South Island Dairy Association states that the butter market is very firm and inclined to advance further, and ...that cheese is selling in small lots of medium at 6;] d, and 7d is expected for small lots coming to hand. Supplies are short. From the commencement of this, season to t-ho end of Jamiary over 500,()00 boxes of butter have been shipped from the Dominion, and 184,101. crates of cheese.

The 184,101 crates of cheese shipped from the Dominion so far this season is worth, approximately, about £4 to the producers per crate. Thus this season tlie dairymen of the colony have divided almost three quarters of a million between them. The export from the Bluff alone has been similarly valued at nearly £210,000 this season, which, divided into monthly pay. ments, shows what a good thing the dairying industry is for a district. — Southland Daily News.

Several Southland farmers who have been, growing red clover during tho past year or so for hay Avinter feed ore beginning to realise what a profitable crop it is. One Western District farmer told a reporter recently that he had already taken- "two crops of hay off a paddock of clover this summer, ■and would get another before autumn. He added that lie gave the paddock an annual dressing of -a ton of lime to the acre each winter.