LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10624, 1 May 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thcro arc at present over 1000 pupils attending Jhe Napier Technical College per week.

Tlie export of butter from the Auckland province is now practically over for the season, as owing to the lower prices on the London market most of tho dairy factories are now storing butter for local requirement in the winter.

The heavy rains of the past week are having a. damaging effect on the roads in. the outlying districts of Masterton, causing them to cut up badly and become very heavy for traffic. The council of the Taranaki Chamber; of Commerce has decided to ■ ' -ko a further effort- to pbtaiiimore suit«b.& train ■arrangcmentV <in the local Hue.. The new Minister of Railways «i! 1 he asked to visit New Plymouth when convenient.

There arc no fewer than 464 licensed motor-cars and motor-cycles in the Ashburton County. Tho officers of the Ashburton County Council are now preparing a return for the Government showing tho number of cars and cycles licensed, together with til? names of the manufacturers and the ' power of the machines. A cargo of sfidks is under order from Calcutta for a South Island firm, who have found tho importation necessary to overcome tho shortage which has ex--isted all over tho grain districts of the South Island during the past season. Tho cargo will arrive on May 14th. and already orders have been received for tho whole consignment. Settlers in the bush districts along the Main Trunk line complain that they have not been able to burn their bush this season owing to the very wefc summer. Settlers are. consequently considerably bandicaped, as the land will lio idle until next year, when, a burn may bo procured. Poultry lovers will learn with great interest that a big show of birds may bo looked for at tho National Dairy Show on tho 25th to 28th of June next. Wo aro informed that a special and enthusiastic committee of the Maiiawatu Poultry Association, working m conjunction with the National Dairy S'how Committee, have gathered in many "specials," and reports from all over the Colony indicate a large number of entries. Special accommodation is being provided by the Dairy Show Committee in anticipation A separate schedule covering list of classes, special prizes and judges, is being prepared, and anyone desiring one should communicate with the Secret- . ary, Mr W. T. Penny, Palinerstoii North. Tho parents, scholars and public are invited to bo present at the opening ceremony of the new .assembly hall at the Masterton District High School to-morrow afternoon. On Friday evening there will by a scholar plain and fancy dress party, when there will be competitions for fancy and originv; dresses. For Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d and 2s 6d.

Mr J. C. Boddingtou reports- that tho rainfall registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. yesterday was 19 points. The steamer Wairoa, now .at Dm:edin, will shortly bo ready to make her cruise in search of the Genera! Gravs sunken treasure. Tln> Gisborno C! amber of Commerce is petitioning tho Government to have an experimental farm instituted for the Poverty Bay district. Ir so mo, i arts of Otago ret crops are this yeai an entire failur l , due iv is staled, to the very wet wuso:i •viiich l:iis ijc'-n e>; oncuced Tho total are* of land leased in Iho Dominion on renewable lease i r.der tho Laud for Settlement Act is 266,-i.Co acres, \vitli a capital valuo of *JI , : )15.512 at \ime of leasing. Mm Jean Smith, of Karori, eays a Wellington wire, was badly burnt yesterday, while heating beeswax over the fire. She is now lying in the hospital in a critical condition. Thomas Jolin Jjowis, who escaped from the Terrace-Gaol on Thursday last, and was recaptured on Saturday, has been sentenced to a further year's imprisonment, Tho North Island Poultry Association has allotted a championship for White Orpington, to bo competed for au fcho Palmorston show, in addition to tho buff and black Orpington ohanipionships already allotted.

It is held by some that it i>- a mistake to make ensilage where good hay can bo made. Asa means, however, of preserving fodder that would otherwise go to waste, ensilage-making cannot bo too highly recommended.

A movement is .on foot to inaugurate a fruitgrowers' Association in Northern Wairoa. Au effort is aiso being madei a syndicate to-take up one thousand acres and put the resources of the district for orcharding to a practical test.

During the past year the Hasting* Permanent Building and Investment S6ciety,-has 'received applications' foi advances amounting to £14,372. ot which £12,995 was granted. The year's operations show a profit of £IIS'J 12s sd.

There are 1,651,235 acres of .and in New Zealand leased in the perpetuity system under the Land Act, and 664,078 acres on-tho lease-i.i-perpetuifcy tenure under the Lands for Settlements Act, and tho capital value of these lands at time of leasing was approximately £5;395,14R.-

In the Tarauaki\district picture entertainnients.aro being utilised to' j rovide funds for uniforms and other < >•. petises for the.Boy Scouts, .aid also to enable, tho. Ijovs to visit Well mi "ton to welcome their Chief, General HadenPowell, who shortly arrives on a tour of tho Dominion.

The Executive of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association has resolved to issue lists t-o all swimming clubs in tho Dominion asking for on '. shilling .subscription from every member,!,for the purpose, of defraying tiie cost of Ml" J. Champion's visit to Stockholm to compete at the Olympic sports. Questioned at Ilawera as to next year's camp, Colonel Malone said it would take the form of a brigade. encampment, which would, he attended by all the infantry regiments'composing the Wellington Brigade, of v Taranaki was a unit. Some 4000 territorials would then be under canvas. Tho camp would most probably ho hold at Mar ton.

A Wellington telegram states that { reserved judgment was given in the Magistrate's Court yesterday in the, i case of the Wellington Furniture Union versus Charles Goldman, upholsterer, to enforce tho penalty lor alleged Jn:edc&«f tho-Furniture Trades Award. It ,yas'alleged that' Goldman paid an "app|rentice.in his second-year IDs weekly instead of 12s, a. l ; provided by the award. The ease was dismissed. Dr. Mc Arthur holding that as .the .apprentice had been indentured- during thexistence of tho previous award, th • present award did not affect him. Mr J. C. Boddington reports a.5 follows regarding the rainfall at the Upper Plain for the month of April: —Rain fell on eleven maximum fall during twenty-four hours, 1. ' inches,'registered on the 21th; minimum fall, ono point on the 10th ; total for tho month, 3.53 inches; average for | April during tho provic.'.'i year*, 2.76 inches; total for tho last .foiir I months. 12.30 inches; average for tho idi'i'cspfi'H-ilig period, niche*, j The children, of the Onehunga High | School, says the Auckland Star, have gone in whole-hearted for tho cause of charity, and during last week no less than £l*o 9s 3d was collected by the children to benefit the fund of tho Titanic disaster. The children were entirely responsible -for the movement, ' and expressly desired that tho * money should go to the widows and orphans ?! tho members of the crew, who cam'? from SoUtliampfon. Captain AmundS6h had little that was new to tell the interviewers in Ohristchurch. He was asked by a local ornithologist for a description of tho bird of a now species that was mentioned in one of the cablegrams published in London. The cablegram purported to bo an interview with Captain Amundsen, but tho explorer says that he was not responsible for its" statements. bard of th© new bird until he saw it mentioned in tho newspapers.

This district, says tho Feikliug Star, has been dependent for some time on the Taupiri mines for tho coal supply, and loud complaints aro made that the Railway Department has kept tho supplies of trucks so short that the mines are only working half time, although the demand for tho coal is very great. A Feilding coal dealer informs us that he has run out of coal and finds it impossible to procure any more from Taupiri for tho reasons stated. This seems very bad policy on the part of the Railway Department, and should be inquired into immediately.

Haw-era- experienced a sharp >h'\?k of earthquake at '2.10 o'clock yesterday morning.

Every freezing works in tho South Island this year is complaining of ;> short-age, and it is reported that- the Canterbury works are half a million carcases behind last year.

At last night's meeting of St. Matthew s \ estry, it was decided to call applications for tho position of organist, rendered vacant by tho resignation of Mr IT. S. Claughton, who leaves shorty- for Wellington. A Chinaman, resident in Hawera, applied for naturalisation papers. Tho Under-Secretary stated that "ho wa.s directed by the Minister for Internal Affairs to inform the applicant that it is not considered expedient at present to grant letters of naturalisation to porsons of tfio Chinese race." A strong branch of tho Association of honorary members of the Territorial for.ee was formed in Napier on Friday evening, with the object of giving those not compelled to serve an opportunity to. assist the new Defence scheme by their moral support. One employer present declared t-bf.t the Defence Act was one of tho most beneficial placed on the Statuto Book. *■-

Tho Trade Review, referring tc the growth of imports, expects to see reduction within'tho next two mo: it lis. This, in the opinion of the Review "i;, i desirable, and would assist materially j towards easing the money market. la,| the meantime lending institutions are getting fairly high rates for their funds, and can afford to take their choice of tho securities offering." The true worth of coal ashes, says a writer on gardening, does not .seem to lx> realised even by the professional gardeners. The saving of the lives of many precious plants can be effected by the placing of a few liandfyls of ashes in and around ..their crowns. They will be saved from two possible j evils by so doing—from rotting away and from being eaten by slugs.. Ashes are invaluable for keeping expensive delphiniums, choice old carnation plants, phloxes, crinums,-lupins, hollyhocks, and outdoor fuschias.

According to a Christchureh paper the bachelor is the pioneer at marine resorts from which he is gradually ousted by the married mail and liio family. The bachelor comes first and pitches' his tent or erects hiswhare, and then along comes the married man and his family, and the bachelor Seeking for "the simple life looks for newer and greener \ fields, probably only in the end to be again pushed out. by the married man. ■ " •

The general tone of the press I throughout New Zealand surprised I and pleased, Mr H. J. Patten, . j. American visitor, who has left Auck- i I' laud for Vancouver, via the Islands. 1 Mr Patten expressed the opinion -that the tone of tho newspapers in the Dominion is higher than of the on'inavy American papers. He thought tlvj New Zealand press less inclined to indulge in sensationalism, more enrcf«l as to detail, and in the habit <i c-n- ---■ deavouring to get at facts. Messrs Yickcrs, .Ltd. (England) have produced a new quick-firing gun at their for use on dirigibles and aeroplanes. The weapon-has been . taken to tin: company's Eskmeals ran go on the Cumberland coast, wheie it has been thoroughly and suceessful- ' ly tested. It is of very light construcI tion, is shaped almost like a telescope, and weighs probably not more than a hundred weight. Jt ia easily trained and worked, and is reported to be a weapon which can easily be cairied by an aerop}ano or airship.

Mr J. Hawk inn, gaoler charge or the; Invereargill reformatory prison, paid a flying visit to Auckland on Saturday. He informed a Stair- reporter that tlie reclamation by prison labour of $ largo area, of river estuary adjac-ent.'to-the Invereargill gaol is. progressing well. It is expected that within two years or so an area of about 800 acres will Ik? reclaimed, of which 250 will go to the Prison Department for the purpose of a prison farm ; and the lemainder to tho municipality of Invereargill. Mr Hawkins, says tho Star, was present at -the conference of gaolers with - the Minister of Justice in Wellingtons last week, and is . confident that tire straight talking which took place has put. at tho disposal of tho'Hon, J, A. Hanan information j which should enable him to. remedy tie- . fects of departmental administration j which have--of la-t« years shown 'them-' j pelves. . j ' Brovevs, of whoiii there are a -largJ. number engaged every season in the Wairarapa, complain of tho manner it; which' motorists and drivers of vehicle;-, drive through mobs of sheep or cattle on tho. roads, and showing no consideration whatever for tho men who are in charge of tho stock. Drovers si. ato that their work, which is very trying at all times, is rendered much more difficult by tho way.motonst-B especially take charge of the road. _ MotorC?v drivers, driverspf'vehiclcs also MhoVlW" remember the importance to the country of the. sheep and cattle raising industry, and, show Ttvoie consideration for those in charge of mobs of sheep and cattle on the public roads, for though a person owns a motor. :t is not tantamount to owning the public roads also.

One of the main objects in Lie at pre<cnt'. of tlio member for Napier, remarks the Poverty Bay Herald, is to sec work on the Napier-Gisborno railway started in real earnest from the Napier end. As the result of a recent interview with Mr \V. S. D. Macdonald. Minister for Public Works. Mr. Browju obtained a promise that move men would be put on immediately This has already been fulfilled in <Ol.lO measure, and the member for sapid has received the following telegram from the Minister "Engineer m charge of railway construction works at Napier advises that he is nutting oil twenty additional men at the fc-egin-,ning of next week, and the re..iait;tier <as soon as possible afterwards. Kui'l regards. —M aedona Id.'

The Native Land Court will sit in Mastertou to-day h:hl to-morrow, when a tiu;_>;bor of ia.'id cases will ! e dealt with. A euchre tournament was engaged in last evening at the Central Fire Hrgade station, when the Old Boys Association defeated the Fire Hrigadc and ] Fire Police combined by 29 games to ' 20. Mr Prior Gilbert-, tho President of the Old Borri' Af-'neiat ion, presided, and a very pleasant evening was spent. There hats of late been a good deal ot controversy iu t-lui Taranaki papers regarding the commisnriat departmenfc at the recent Territorial camp in Taranaki. One territorial, who was present at. the encampment, wriles ■ very strongly on tho subject, .and I states that he did not have one good I meal during the time he was in camp; I Tho authorities on the other hanxl proI duce strong medical evidence that the I food was all that could bo desired.

There must ibo some queer people about Auckland, according to the Minister of internal Affairs. "I am told," says Mr Russell, "a.nd needless to say I was more than surprised to learn it, that there are people who seem to take a horrible pleasure in drawing up'their vehicles and listening to the cries of the unfortunate patients' who can bo heard from the road. I sincerely hope the.police of. the district'will put in nn appearance oti Sundays, which -appears to be the popular day for this morbid rendezvous, and see that the.se unfeeling people move on." The Kaupokonui Dairy Company expects to turn over between £140,000 and £150,000 this season. It was not many years .-ago that the company \va« congratulating itself on bavins: a turnover of £20,000! Tho .Toll Company, which operates in the same district, one of the factories being >a mile distant from tho Kaupokonui Company's main factory, should have a revenue equally as big, whilst Riverdale, but four miles from Kaupokonui. will also show n large turnover. Probably the>'<* is no dairying land in tho world so productive as the Wiiimate Plains. When the season ends, it will probably be found that the Plains will have produced over a third of a million -sterling from the manufacture of .•butter and cheese alone. A ■ special meeting of the Drivers'* Union is convened for to-night, in the Foresters' Hall. A reward is offered for the recovery of a black cocker spaniel, with white chest, answering to the namo of "Togo'." ; ; .

x The "desiralibity of "bc'ing well dressed is evident to every man. In their replace" announcement, Messrs.. -Ktohageii and Chapman invito men to try their tailoring service iiforder to get perfect suit satisfaction.

Tho W.F.C.A. liave secured a line of eighty Norfolk shape golf jerseys* in navy bhie and cream—quite tho latest style. They will be offered this: week at a very low price,, and are now on view.

Messrs McGruer and Co., Queen ■Street, Masterton, advertise" special l lines in, ' mercery, including gents' gloves, , hose, waistcoats, ties, mufflers, and shirts.

A cheap Hawke's Bay farm, of 1150 acres, is-advertised for sale .at a low price, and oil easy terms. The agents, Messrs Hunter, Schultze Napier, will bo pleased to forward any further particulars thaix will bo fountr on tho front page of this morning's issue.

Messrs Thos. Hortou, Ltd., nurserymen, Hastings, 'draw the attention of' farmers and sett Lars to the: planting season, which has now commenced. Thev hold a very Large stock ©f trees of all sorts, shelter, ornamental, fruit., flowering "-shrubs, Kfltivo bush,', roses, hedge plants,_stovo 'and green house* plains, and any orders entrusted totheifi will receive careful attention ami prompt delivery.

Messrs J. Eraser and • Co., land agents, .Masterton, advertise for *a!c- - station on the East Coast of thy Wai-. rarapa, of 2220 acres of first-class land. There is a good homestead, and all necessary outbuildings, and the carrying capacity is 34C0 sheep and 300 head of cattle. Also 1000 acres war 'Master; ton, a, compact little place that can be obtained at a low price, and on easy .erms. " v