LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10605, 11 April 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A lio'ckey tournament (eleven aside) •is to.bfi held 3rd. In the professional boxing-"match at Mlllerton, Mitchell beat Ireland oji points, The bout was fifteen rounds. . The numbervof hockey clubs a-ffilfat-•ed with tlie Wairarapa Association for last year, was seven, with a total mem hership of 157. A number of settlers in the, Masterton district have abandoned the idea of burning their felled bush this year, tlie .season having been. -so unfavourable. According to various exchanges, th 3 Easter railway traffic has been the heaviest; experienced for a number of years, and in many parts the passenger returns easily constitute lecords. In. the 'course of medical ex»>minntions held in connection with the cadet movement in Australia, it was shown that quite a large proportion of lads between, the ages of 14 and 18 years were effected by cigarette smoking. From December 25th to Miardi 3ht 418,000 sheep have been, put through the. Pnki Paki and Tomoana freezing, works, Hawke'.s Bay, constituting a record for the period named. For Influenza- take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Nover fails. Is fid and 2s 6d. ;

Several Mastcrtan-settlers are being prosecuted by the officers of the Agricultural Department for exposing for sale sheep infected with lice. William H. Ttrail, aged eighty-four, a resident of Waihi, fell on the deck of a ferry steamer travelling to Devonport. When picked up he had expired. An epidemic of measles is at present prevalent amongst the younger members of the community of Da.nnevirke. It is stated that potatoes are likelv to be scarce in the Southland district this season, owing to the fact that farmers, anticipating a low price, did not plant the usual amount. During the month of March the M'asterton 00-operative Dairy Company manufactured 19,5941bs "of butter, and forwarded 282 (boxes to the cold stores in Wellington!, ready for export to the London market. Very hot and sultry weather was experienced in the Canterbury districts during Easter, 80 degrees ibeing registered at Christchurch,; which is the hottest weather experienced at Easter for some years. A press message from Auckland states that the foundation of the new Y.M.O.A. building was laid yesterday by His Excellency the Governor, in the presence of a large number of peo- ' pie. The building will cost about | £IB,OOO. !•' It was-stated by; one of the directors meeting of ton Dairy' Company 'yesterday that dairying experts in America were experimenting for the manufacture of an article of food which contained ;the properties of both butter. and:cheese, ' it is l*e: highly successful. ' At the organ recital to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in St. Matthew's Church, Mr M.S. Claughton. will rear > der on the organ; SonataxNo., 2 ■ (Mendelssohn), and Miss Vera Edwards will sing "I Know that My Redeemer Liv■eth" (Handel), and "Angels ever Bright and Fair" (H. Gisby). The Acclimatisation! Society in "the;Taranaki district is urging the de-: struction of shags, which are reported to be doing immense damage amongst the trout in rivers and streams in the district. A shag recently shot tear Stratford was found to contain . number of fairly large fish in its stomach, which indicates the parti.»l.cy of the shag for fish. ) It was recently stated by one of the I directors of the Parapara Irr,i Ore Company that the new company would probably meet with success from the start, and in the event of this happening a large company would be • floated, and go into the business on a big scale, and Taranaki would thus have another valuable industry to add to its already prosperous district. Settlers in the backblocks of northern districts do not trouble to wait for the Education Department to build their schools for them, but when there are (sufficient children to a school, the building is very 'quickly, built by gratuitous labour. This, says 'a northern exchange, is the spirit that, lias made New Zealand the great country it is. Everywhere throughout Southland harvesting is going on apace, and very few farmers took advantage of the • holiday on Friday. Stacking is well advanced asAthe result -of jfarxners :nV>.kin£r,t,hA.mra^ ■ute to secure .their "crops. arestill a ..number of paddocks cont'ai ning. ; batS which 1 are ; stall as. green as the / grass,, and the prospects .of it being > harvest^- ■;■'. : .,'.'„

I workers can scaroely ; ex-i i poet to Jceep the sympathy of the genf eral public if they repeat what they did a day or two ago (says the Timaru Herald), .-■when they held a meeting during wbtMng-haurs to pass a resolu-, tion wliich could just as easily have been passed out of working hours. The; meeting lasted for two hours (it was not about any matter of local concern) and two boats were kept idle as a, re;; suit of this meeting. ' - ■•■-*■ « . •' ■ • Enormous crops of fruit are reported from every orchard in Hawke's Bay, in pleasing contrast to the poor yield! of last season. Insufficient labour has beenVobtainahle to can half the quantity of fruit coming in from > the orchards. As a ■.'result- of this scarcity of labour at least half the fruit crops have been sent to the fruit markets instead, of to the canning, fac-, ,tory. ' The number at present employed ''at'the'Fnmley works' is" not half that for .whom work could have been; found,. there being employment for, about 30ft hands all the year round. '"/. ' Thei monthly, meeting ,of i.the dir.ee-,'j .tors of-the' Master'ton Co-operative-Dairy Company was held yesterday afternoon in the Secretary's office, there : being present: Messrs J. C. Ewington i (Chairman), 11. Wilton, J. E. Kjestrup, P. Cotter, W. R. Boyd, and E. ; , J. Wright. The report of the manager w:is read and adoptcl, and considered .satisfactory. It was reported that the supply of cream showed a slight falling off, as is to be expected at this time of the year., Mr E. C. Holmes wrote resigning his seat on the directorate, owing to his leaving the district for a period. The resignation was accepted with regret. A letter was read from the Agricultural Department in reference to the manufacture of 'casein, and stating- that an expert had been sent to Europe ;to study. European methods, and' Dairy Companies would he notified later as to the information gained, - It was decided to pay an advance of lid per lb. for butter-f at for the month of April.:

CONSIDER THE BROADWOOD!

Potatoes aro scarce and dear in Sydney. Tasmaniaa potatoes are being sold at £lO per ton. A civil sitting of the Magistrate's Court is to 'be held in Masterton today before Justices of the Peace. The garden scene for the new Towns Hall at Dannevirke was painted by Miss Cameron, of Masterton. It is described as an excellent piece of work. According to a Wellington telegram I the award oi the Arbitration Court in the woollen mills dispute" is largely based on the Canterbury award in the same trade. The week's work consists of 48 hours; preference granted to Unionists, and the present rate for piecework to continue. The Arbitration Court, says a Wellington telegram, lias declined to grant an increase on the minimum of Is 6d per hour in the plumbers dispute, as the Union has not advanced Anything to justify any such alteration. I A Wellington Press message states that at the Sawmill and Timber Workers'.; conference yesterday, it was de- | eided to instruct-tho incoming executive to take immediate steps to register the federation under the Coiicilia-. tion and Arbitration Act. It was.also' resolved to urge the Government to carry out the work of re-aii'orestation. At the third annual conference of the New Zealand Shearers and Woolshed Association now be>iiig hejd in Wellington, and .representing about 4-,500 workers, it'"was decided to take a ballot next shearing season, as to whether the Union should cancel-its registration under the, Arbitration ■ '.'•■ ~.,■ .. • :V--''. \. -' An English' tourist' who- recently visited the New Hebrides, states that ! the islands have lost all their charm owing to natives becoming too civilis- [ ed, He also expressed the opinion that the group, had a great, industrial fut T ure before it, and woatld advise young. men to'go-there and take up plantationa. -.At a sale of blood stock at .Christ/ yesterday, Byron was- sold-Tti| : Mr G. L. Stead for 150 Osen~ hope to Mr LHStead for guineas, ' and Gnome to Mr G. Murray Aynsley for 270 guineas. Teviotdale was passed in at 230 guinea*, Canute at 210 guineas, and Lady Georgia, at 270 guineas. Sheep-worrying by wandering, dogs lias lately been causing consternation amongst the farming community in the Ashburtpn district, and recently :a number of valuable stud sheep were worried. A sharp look-out is .being kept for t!he dogs, which are likely to i meet with a sudden.end when found. Mr F. M. B. Fisher, M.P., has accepted a challenge thrown out by the Hon. G. Laurenson for any Oppositionist'to meet the Minister on the platform at Stratford. Mr Laurenson j has been silent since the acceptance of the challenge. Though he thinks boxmg a heallffy: exercise, tho. chief constable -Xb Bradford has siTOstituted wrestling for it in the Bradford City Police Club, because boxing teaches a man instantly to return) a blow ibefore giving the matter thought, and that, - says .the chief constaible, would never do for a policeman. At the Drivers' Federation Conference in,. Wellingtoii, -it was decided 1 to f ■ take steps to obtain a Dominion j ,;«,^aH-.; '■- to be sought with the employers with that wats.alsp. resolved before disputes are " filed' throilghout New; Zealand, the 'the-Government'-to appoint , aman' uiMsirial and commercial knowledge,: with a vjew to haying disputes settled on a basis of'equity and justice, and not on legal technicalities. , A Te Kuiti ( telegram says:—Early on- Sunday mornings John Parrell, ■/. a .settler from the Bangitoto Block, was djiscovered dead in, Solomon's yard at, An inquest was openedi•• on Monday, and was adjourned', for a? week. The evidence ...deceased had got liquor from the train on. Saturday. Deceased and others had taken the liquor to Solomon's, and consumed a considerable quantity. The witnesses' recollection of further events .was '"'. Since the inclusion .of the suburbs in the borough New Plymouth, with a. population of 6838, claims twelfth place in'.the list;of towns in tho N Dominion. Excluding the four* centres.the. towns .with larger populations than New Plymouth are:—lnvercargiU, 12,782; Timaru. H.2SOr Palmerston North, KK99I; Wanganui, 10,929; •Napier;"' 10,537 ; 8196; : :Nel4 : son,•'•8051. Masiek<m,witha.^opuln : J ,tion;oif town ..aiidshould also he added. - ' Hawke's Bay farmers are concerned about the reputation'of their grass seed, winch has been so highly spoken of in the past. It is said that a lot of ' vpasture, aiid some merchants had..intimated that tliey would not handle it. in future. It has been suggested that a series of experiments should on held to prove tJiat the *eed is quite up to its former standard. For the month of February the total births in the-four chief cities and their suburban boroughs amounted' to 582. against. 662 in January—a decrease of 90. The do*th>s in February .were 10-!, —a decrease of 77 as compared with the previous month*. Of : the total: deatlis, males contributed 86,-females 78. Twenty-nine of the deaths were of children under nve.yeaj-sof,age, being.' 17~68 per cent of thewhole number'; 2Vof these were under one year of age.

A South Island breeder fa visiting Palmerston North at present in search of purebred Holstein cattle. A house occupied by J. M'Cbesnie, near To Horo, was destroyed iby fire on Tuesday. Practically nothing was saved. The origin of the fire is a mystery. ' " With a view to fostering the gameof hookey, the Wairara.pa Hockey Association ha,s decided to take steps, to introduce it into the schools of the . district. A Dunedin Press. message states that a dairy factory at Uatanui, owned by Mr Daniel Oldham, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. TJie building was insured for £475, and the contents for £175, both in th* Royal Insurance Company. The crops in the Feilding district' are this year reported to be wonderfully good. Oats especially are giving excellent returns, and it is quit© expected that all previous records will be broken for the quantity and quality of the, grain harvest. ." T^^t»HKe-noJess than twelve weddings leefeorated in Wanganui during Easter,' and according te the Chronbusy.ciearing4iP; the rice and confetti,. which seemsfto Imy© ißeen'used with great liberality, ,: '"'■"<"•' ' --, ' The Auckland Cricket Asi9ociatioß• recommends that) the proposed visit of'% a New Zealand.team to; A#fcralia be " postponed tiH iC 'jiext -ißeafjon,' :■ ftpieit; ■ a ■■'.• «• numiber'\oiF tiho.; ially the bow'lers, have had more ex- ' perience, , ",;On, h'fe return to>Timaihv.the If6h. -' T. Buxtori told a importer that he had renewed reqoest 'W'taken' & deal with tire tariff as between New Zealand and Australia, and lie thought this matter would be . pushed forward at an early date.., . The theN New- Zealand •« ■ bred' Bomneys is not confined to the Argentine alone. Inquiries are at present being made in this" district, ' says the Manawatu Standard, ,by ; . breeders from Victoria (Australia) foV Romney rams, .and : hjgh]y probable that ; ; sent ovetf by localibreiea<wat'ai]i. early . date. "' ''"'■;:.' •;" : recent Native gathering in Poverty Bay the cooking was <lon© by means of a steam engine, the steam pipes leading ino casks containing the food to be cooked. It is vouched for that excellent order was maintained, drunkenness, 'being punished by a fine. Sanitation was rigidly enforced, tht* scavenger* commencing; early in the morninig-—a very different state of •affairs from l thiat winch prevailed l a few years ago on .such occasions. •'■'/'• • •'- ■'■'' • ■ : An interesting fact m connection wnth General Godley's visit' to tho ; Rangiora territoriai'camp, says tr>e( v - Ghristcburch Press, is thatteyefy man ~. I composing the guard of 'fiiwtoitr v.tis over 6ft in height. These men actually asked to. fee,allowed' to stay an extra .day in camp'|o;that they might receive 'the General, a- of theprevailing keenness.. ";, ; -i" Three men met on Tampo- Quny. One ' ~ was very drunk, one'not one perfectly sober. The very drunk ma ;i hailed the sober man, who, by theway, is always sobei* and always industrious in any good.cause. The drunken man said to the sober man, "What uon thv> Trotting Cup ?" "Don't know," w/i* •.ito I )teto^aots-a^ly;. , '.-' l T>bitt't.kh6w,i» - '^w3r> ; fdon'i;-;ydu?" 'The ■"trots dbri't . '. .eJ iitijanj snapping .^tog^%; ; and;-t^cS: 1 "■[ passmg ; on.7:;The '-vky } ;;'man v , loolted atliis .a moment, • "tlfen botli gazed at the retreitinß m an Said the.druiikeriihfln p<<intin{X man. Said the drunken man ; win tin',* down the street, "He's—hie—a wowser, isn't he?" The other nodded. , and they wobbled their way homeward. —Wanganui.' Chronicle. A#6man to do a day's gleaning is 7C 'An. advertiser wants to buy a seeon d-hand gig :^v*. A young girl to assist in house"* is required by Mrs H. P. Harrison,. Es- ■ sex. Street. Messrs G. Hyde and Co., furniture manufacturers, have a vacancy for a smart hoy as an apprentice. :. . An advertised wants to rent a 6 or 7-roomed house, with modern conven- > iences, Lansdowhe preferred. Messrs James Macintosh and Co: , advertise particulars of the , clbwrins sale to ih'e Tield on 18th April on at'#couiit of Mr'T.;P, ; Ke'mble.. ' iease withpurchhstiig'clausp-, are advertised ?iir "tllis ji issue' )\v ; Messrs'C: C. -Ross c and ■'■ G0.., 'land .- agents. A six-roomed, house in Workscp road, fitted with .modern conveniences, v is advertised for sale by Messrs' W. .B.jCliennells and Co., land agenfe. Masterton. The price is moderate and . the tenni easy. . • ; . The meeting of the stewards of the Masterton Racing Clulb lias been postponed until next Saturday week, on r.ccount of the meeting of the . Committee of the Masterton A. and P.' Association taking place next Saturday. Nominations for the Marlborough Racing Club's autumn meeting close with the 'Secretary, Mr L. Griffiths at Blenheim, oh Saturday. This is a club that, both gets and deserves meht by supporters of the sport from all parts. The stakes for the l.t events total .£ISOO, and with a £3OO Marlborough.Clip, the programme is:■ a most creditable one. Owners should respond more; partbuiarly. as the local competitors though not champion:, wilt | Ik\ sure to receive strong-local support, thr,s making it prnßble that the wmLncri from.a distance may expect fair [dividends. A feature of .the pro- ' gramme is the third money prizes, which are always popular with owners., During the vear. the caretaker at Riverlands has again -top-dressed the course, w*ich is in splendid order Evervthing points towards a record meeting and a record entry on Saturday.