LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10577, 7 March 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Typhoid fever is raging in Lisbon, caused through the drinking of impure water. Thq scarcity of servant girls in various parts of Now Zealand is as acutely felt as ever, and in many places it is altogether impossible to procure servants at all. The Opaki A team won the team's match' at tho Trentham shooting meeting yesterday with the excellent score of 484; Shooting as ia team the Opaki men can hold their own with any team Flounders are now procurable at Castlepoint. For some years they have not been seen in that neighbourhood, but latterly they have found their way into tho nets. Tho potato crops in Southland, which promised ,so well in the (beginning of the season, have become in miany cases affected with blight, with ihc icsiilt that crop* will not ncanv con.e >.?p ip last year's returns, and potatoes may be expected to reach a. .'vjg'h price during tho winter. Most people arc aware that the birth rate in. New Zealand is falling rapidly, but few realise what a serious effect this has on the increase of population. Tho birthrate last year was 25.97, or 10 per thousand less than in the eighties. In other words, 10,000 less children were born last year than would have been the case if the birthrate of 30 years ago had been maintained. —Hiawera Star. About fifteen men are at present engaged at Castlepoint in preparing for the erection of the lighthouse. The material is being sent from Wellington by the Government steamer Hinemoa. Tlie work of erection will probably occupy nine or twelve months. There will be three keepers at tho lighthouse, ) and cottages for the accommodation of j these arc already in course of erection. While army and navy ordnance experts arc giving much time and thought to tho best manner of attacking airships aloft, flying men themselves are asking if would not lie possiblo to provide some means, chemical or otherwise, by which the aviator can at his pleasure produce sonic cloudlike vapour to envelop his machine and obscure it from tho view of the enemy. The artificial cloud might bo visible, but would, only form a largo target, while tho machine, the real objective point of the firing lines, would form only « small part of the target, docriiM«ing in proportion to tho size of the cloud the prospect of being struck by the projectiles. STEINWAY PIANOS. •Mr Leonard Borwick, the distinguished pianist who recently toured the Dominion, in a letter to Messrs Steiuway and Sons ,says: ''l know no pianoforte in tho world <■■ 0 ( pare with your own mak- coinare the essential qi"-" ~, j n what strument—beau+- ...,rbies of the inness and o 1 .„ y of tone, and eveniPn' 1 ' rusticity of touch." "'" writes: "Nothing new -.rt« % Salt! oi: the Steimvitv I'ianos, it i.S true, for they have been justly praised by all the modern iriasters, and, I thoroughly concur in .'every word that has already been said. ..All who play Steiuway pianos can 'but thank the manufacturer." Write to-day for particulars of the famous Steiuway pianos. "Tho Dres'den" will give you easy terms. Sole Agents: The Dresden Piano.Do., Wellington. M. J. Brooke's, North Island Manager. Local Representative: H. Tims. Daniell's Buildings. Queen

A large number of suffragettes have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in London. • At the Trentham rifle meeting yesterday, the Ohristchurch Club won tho Eiflo Club's Championship and the Colonial Ammunition C'o.'s shield. There are 33,831) acres of land in ! New Zealand laid out in fruit farms and orchards, which shows an increase of oi>.) acres during the past year. A representative cricket match will bo played on the Turk Oval next Saturday'between the Wellington and \\ airarapa Schools. Sixty-seven birds were hampered last evening for tho race from Dannevirke to-day. Tho birds, which represent 14 lofts,'will' bo Liberated at noon. According to a Gisborne telegram, a six-roomed house belonging to the Borough Council, but unoccupied, was burnt to the ground last night. Insurances are not available. A French engine-driver, suffering from asthma, threw 'himself into ■the furnace of his engine while going at full speed, and was burned to death. Tiie labourers of Auckland, who , have lately been threatening to strike, have formed a union, to bo called the Auckland and Suburban Local Bodies Labourers' Union. The new union hits a membership of 150. A cricket match is being arranged for Thursday next, March llth, on the Park Oval, between teams representing tbo Civil Service and the Amateur [ Athletic Club. Mr E. Short, of Feilding, presented the Uruguay Commissioners with a Oydesdale colt by Royal Treasurer, for which he had quite recently" refused 300gns. . The edit "is far .the Uruguay Government. Tihe shares of the Masterton Gold Dredging Company amount to £SOOO, and against this they have as assets the dredge and claim, which is valued at £4600, and cash on deposit £4OO, which just totals the liabilities. Contractors are having great difficulty in finding men in the Akitio County for road work. They are offering 10s per day. The Akitio County Council is spending £30;000 on roads and bridges. Mr A. Withy, who is to speak on j "Land and Labour Problems" this j evening, was a candidate at the late parliamentary elections. He contested the Auckland seat with Mr A. Myers, tho sitting member, scoring over 2400 rotes. Mr Withy stood as a Labour candidate. • The." following transfer'of assistant teachers have been -arranged—Miss Fay Hogg,, from the Taueru school to Masterton; Miss 1). Jackson, from Gladstone- to Taueru; and Miss E. Turner from Masterton to Gladstone. Tho Masterton Gold Dredging Company has been in existence 7£ years and has won gold to the. value of £56.003 15s Bd. The amount of gold won during the year just ended was 978gzs., yielding £3861 in value. The £1 shares have realised £6 6s —not a had return for the original investors.

Fruit is cheap in Christchuroli. •' Pears have been selling at Is per case, and at an auction sale apples sold from Is 6d a. case upwards, and a fine • sample of dessert plums, nicely packed in three trays of 121bs each, or 361bs in all, went for 4s 3d. Inferior lots went for about a penny per pound. ] It is reported that during the Fifth | Test match between the M.C.O. and ' Australian cricketers, S. F. Barnes and J. W. Hitch, the English 1 bowlers, letired from the field to rest in the pavilion, and later returned to take up the bowling. Many Australian critics consider that this is hardly fair cricket. A Wellington Press message states t'hsat Mr W. Milne, of, l)a.maru, has been re-appointed one of he directors of the Bank of New Zealand, and also that Mr 1). J. Nathan, of Wellington', has been appointed to succeed Mr Harold Bewucliamp, whoso term has expired. The Uruguay Commissioners, who we at present visiting New Zealand, were struck by the number of streets in Palmcrston North which have no protecting trees. In Uruguay the authorities aro endeavouring to have trees planted in as many streets as ; possible. Mr Anderson, of Napier, who was judge of the flowers 'and pot plants at the horticultural show in Masterton yesterday, expressed himself as greatly pilcased with tlio w«y in. which "the ■stewards had arranged $lO vfarious exi ihibits. Ho considered that the arI ranging considerably helped tho judges j 'and was an improvement on anything I iho had .yet seen in other parts of the country. Lord Hawke's English cricket team, which i-i at present visiting Argentine, was defeated by four wickets in the first match of the tour. It is a surprising result, inasmuch as the Argentine, i--. a new field of exploration of English cricket teams. The Britishers include such good all-round players as AI. C. Bird, 0 E. do Trafford,'N. C. TuftieU, A. J. L. Hill',-' L. H. W. Trougl)ton,'B:B. Wilson, and. W. Findlay. ', •>'.,■ j At the flower show yesterday a popular vote w/t.s taken by ballot for the best decorated t:).ble. th e results were Miss Payton 304, Miss Reynolds 181, I and Miss Jago 75. Neither of these More awarded prizes by the judge, thus -showing the Masterton.. popular taste docs not coincide with that of the Wellington expert. KEEP HIM IN PERFECT ORDER, "For the past seven years T have kept my system in perfect order by the occasional use of . Chamberlain's Tablets," writes Mr W. McWiffiam, J.P., Waunana, jN.Z. "Whenever I feel dull I take a dose and find that two tablets taken at night leave »*- a fresh man next morning. r " -*ol berlain's tablets are partic : ' w'ffi'm-l as they neither gripe n'- ..t«i% by all chemists a*-" •** p,uFfto\" Bold . *a Bfor'e'kccpers. TP T ' .-*d 13 T6 'CERTIFY "I li'aV'e 'ifs'ed Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, and found it to b'o a m'o'st valuable medicine. I hav'e not only used it for myself but for merabevß of my family*, and have reepminrended it to dozens of friends. In fact. I cannot say too much in' favour of Chamiberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy." Arthur D. Beecroft, blacksmith, 487 Nicholson St., North 'Carlton, Vic. Sold by all chemiste and storekeepers. Look I This is from the report of the big diristchureh Wool Sale, held recently: "The competition, of the Dominion Mills for the finer qualities was a strong factor towards forcing values to a higher level." Tha j means more money in the pockets of all classes of producers. Bivj KATAPOT goods arsd help to mate

A Chicago policeman, who thought ho was going to a, woman's rescue, fought his way through blinding smoke of three, flights of stairs to find that it was a parrot screeching. Two small boys living at Fort George Island, Jacksonville, Florida, guided by an old chart, have unearthed, near an ancient Spanish hut, Spanish coins worth about £30,000. Tihe door takings at the Masterton flower show yesterday was £26 Is, as against £3l Ss for the autumn show of j £l9ll. ! Recently in South Australia the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1911 was made to apply to jockeys riding in races. The. responsibility of insuring .t'hem, it was said, fell upon the owner or trainer. The Onkaparinga Racing Ohib, however, has now decided to take. ilhs responsibility on its shoulders. The Secretary of the Club, Mr A. von Doussa, says whether the club is liable or not it intends to take the liability off the shoulders of the employer (the j owner or trainer as the case may lie) from the time the jockey goes to the scale until he has weighed in. Every rider at Oakbank on Easter Monday will be insured to t-ho following extent: —Non-fatal accidents, payment of half wages during incapacity (limit £1 per week); fatal accidents, payment to dependents, minimum £2OO, maximum £3OO. An open air address will be delivered by Mr A. Withy, on "Land and Labour Problems," in front of the Masterton post office to-night. A quiet first-class dairy cow is advertised for sale. It is about two weeks from profit, and the owner's reason for Belling is that he is leaving the di.s- ---' tact. The quarterly meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners will be held in tho Druid's Hall on Saturday night next, when officers will be elected for the ensuing quarter, also a permanent Secretary. All carpenters not belonging to tho Society will have a welcome. Messrs Watson and Co., drapers, notify that tho balance of the assigned stock of the Misses Hunter, on the i premises Lower Queen Street, must be sold. Every line has been greatly reduced with this object, and a grand opportunity is offered for buying ladies and children's underclothing at nominal prices. A three-days' salo.of toys and crockery is being held at Giddiugs' grocery store, Queen Street, prior to removing to more central premises.:. An effort is being made to clear out. all esisting •stock. For this purpose toys and other lines are marked at -'give-away" prices. Crockery is marked clown 25 per cen. A sale of work (organised by children) in aid of Dr. Ranardo's Homes,.is arranged to be held in St. Matthew's schoolroom on Saturday, March 16th. There will be stalls*, for dolls, plain and fancy work, fruits, cakes, and vegetables. Afternoon tea will be dispensed. Contributions will be thankfully received and may be left -with Mrs Dyer, Colo Street.