LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10680, 8 July 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are at present twenty-three patients in the Masterton Hospital.

At the Solway sale on Wednesday next the Associated Auctioneers will offer several good lines of station cattle.

In our market report in Saturday's issue, the price of onions was inadvertently quoted at £8 10s. The price should have read £lO.

The Red Star senior and third-class football teams have granted donations to the Wairarapn Rugby Union for the purchase of a set of jerseys for the Wairarapa school representative team.

The gate takings at the GladstoneMasterton footjball match oh the old showgrounds on Saturday amounted to £9, and for the Liberal-Carterton match £ls was taken.

The usual Baptist services were held in Murray's Hall, Masterton, yesterday. Pastor Swinerd preached, morning and evening. At the latter service the subject was "Incarnation is not Atonement."

According to an Auckland telegram, a seaman named Frank Turrell fell down the forecastle companionway of the steamer Glenelg, and received a fractured skull, dying a few minutes afterwards. 'The deceased leaves a widow and seven children.

A five-roomed cottage, owned and occupied by Mr W. L. Poole, was destroyed by lire at Hastings on Saturday- morning. Nothing was saved. The insurance on the house amounted to £250, and on the furniture, £l5O, both in the Alliance office.

A Christchurch wire states that the Committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club have allowed the correction of the entry of Captain Jingle in the Grand National Steeplechase. Tlic telegraphic entry in the Grand National Hurdles was an error, and the horse should have been nominated in the Steeplechase.

When before the Education Commission on Wednesday, Mr F. A. Tyler said lie considered that the School Journal was of material value. So far as Tarannki was concerned, the School Committees attended' to their work very thoroughly. Most of the buildings were in a good state of preservation. It was not necessary, In order that children should do their home work, that they should sit up late at night. A Waihi telegram states that at a meeting of strikers, a letter was read from the Mayor, suggesting that a ballot be taken by the electors of the W'aihi Borough, and at the expense of the Borough Council, with two issues, in favour of an agreement on Federation principles, or under the Arbitration Act. After considerable discussion it was decided to give the letter the same treatment as the Union's letter to the Council, requesting the dismissal of the Town Clerk and Engineer received, namely, that it lie on the table.

All arrangements in connection with the Maste.rton Competitions Society's second annual festival are now complete. The competitions commence at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning in the Town Hall and the Methodist schoolroom. The programme in the Town Hall will commence with tho instrumental section and in the Methodist schoolroom with the elocutionary section. On Tuesday evening and every evening afterwards all the competitions will take place in the Town Hall only. The booking is heavy, and crowded houses are anticipated every evening. Picture-lovers were present in large numbers at the Masterton Town Hall on Saturday evening, when the Masterton Picture Company screened an excellent programme of cinematographic gems. The appreciation of the audience was evidenced by the rounds of unstinted applause, which greeted the various items. In the afternoon the matinee attracted a large crowd of juveniles, and an excellent programme was thoroughly enjoyed. Owing to the Town Hall being booked for the Masterton Competitions and other entertainments, t'lie management will not show for several days. On re-opening, however, a special attraction will be shown at tho Town Hall. The management are to be congratulated 011 tho very high standard of the films which have of late been shown.

A raid is quite a paradox, Because it makes you hot; It makes your now, red as a roso, And head faoil like a oot. But ere it reaches :point, If you use it's euMuer, It soon will fly, assisted by ITowto' Ocat Peppermint Curo, 7

The B/liik of New Zealand promises at Foxton Wore tot-ally destroyed by fire on Saturday morning. The actual profit on the last year's working of the Muster ton A. and P. Association, apart from the stock fair Avas about £l6O.

The latest return-for the Worksop dredge gives 82ozs. 9dwts. for 125 hours' work.

A post mortem on a '.horse which died recently at Mokau revealed the fact that tho stomach of the animal contained nearly lewt. of sand.

Quite a number of residents of tho Upper Plain have recently had their residences connected with the telephone scrvico in Masterton.

Mr J. C. Boddington reports that thero were 25 points of rain registered at the Upper Plain for tho 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. on Saturday. Masterton was favoured with a taste of spring yesterday. About ten hours of sunshine were experienced, and animal as well as vegetable lifo appeared to be the better for it.

A list of footballers disqualified for professionalism has been received by tho Wairarapa Rugby Union from the New Zealand Union.

At Saturday's meeting of the Wairarapa Rugby Union, permission was granted to several Liberal junior players to take part in third-class football.

The Ma-sterton Municipal Band rendered a programme of music in the Public Park on Sunday afternoon. There was a large attendance of the public.

It is probable that enlarged photographs of past Presidents of the Masterton A. and P. Association will bo procured and hung on the walls of the new offices of the Association.

To prevent spectators witnessing football matches gratis at Greytown, the Wairarapa. Rugby Union has decided to erect a high close-boarded gate at tho entrance to the grounds. Tho Dannevirke Press is alarmed at the aggressiveness of the Pahiatua Progressive Association, which not only wants "feeder" railways, but is now seeking to appropriate some of tho East Const mails which at present go to Dannevirko.

A copy of the Guide Book of the Irish Shorthorn Brooders' Association has been received by the Masterton A. and P. Association from Mr C. J. Reakes, Director of the Live Stock and Meat Division of the Agricultural Department.

At the fortnightly meeting of the Committee of the Wairarapa Rugby Union, held on Saturday evening, it was decided to accept the tender of Mr A. Hendry, of Masterton, for supplying a set of jerseys for the Wairarapa representative school football team.

The Management Committee of the Wairarapa Rugby Union has decided to metal the entrance to the Masterton football grounds, and also to erect ticket boxes at Masterton and Carterton for the sale of admission tickets to all matches for the rest of the season.

A number of friends of the Reform Party, including several from Masterton and Carterton, met Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., at Greytown on Saturday night. The health of Mr Massey and the Party was enthusiastically toasted, ai:d cheers were given for the Reform Party and foe the member for the district..

A now variety of clover, known us Boycl's clover, lias boon undergoing a series of experiments by Mr T. Harrison, of Ashhurst. A gamplo exhibited at the Palmerston winter show u few days back revealed a wonderful growth of foliage. This plant is grown fairly extensively in the Auckland province, and flourishes where no other grass will grow.

The streets of Masterton wore an animated •appearance on Saturday, hundreds of settlers and their families having come into town\ partly for shopping, aiul partly to discuss the latest phase in politics. The smile which adorned the features of nearly every farmer one mot was an eloquent expression of the satisfaction felt in the turn in the political tide. Numerous telegrams were dispatched to Mr Massey, congratulating him upon his decisive victory.

In the last number of the "Agricultural Journal," a settler of the FortyMile Bush was advised that nitrobacterine was of little value in ihe cultivation of potatoes. Mr .T. Wingate assures us that the advice tendered by I:ho "Journal" is wrong. He has experimented with nitro-bacterine in the growing cl potatoes, and has found that the yield has been enormously increased by tho use of the culture in a solution.

Tlie Kersands troupe of minstrels will open a one-night season in the Masterton Town Hall this evening. The entertainment will be new to most of' the Masterton public, and its novelty should make the performance specially attractive. The programme includes all the latest American negro songs, cakewalks, and musical items. The Kersands should draw a big Jiouse in the Town Hall, and intending patrons are advised to book their scats early.

Mr William Perry Has pro son ted an enlarged photograph of his Romney ram "Premier Lad." for exhibition in the rooms of the~Mastcrton A. and P. Association. "Premier Lad" took first- prize as a single hogget- at tho Palmerston North, Hastings, and Christchurch shows, first and champion at Hastings and Palmerston North in 1911, and Avas tlie Avinner of three cups. Mr R. Falloon intends presenting tho Association Avith an enlargement of his Clydesdale stallion, "Brilliant Boy." the Avinner of scat?™! Wairarapa gold medals.

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For Influenza tfko Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Never fails, Is 6d and '2s OtS.

One iittv oieniWr (if the Mastertoife Rftfiirig Chlb ft as ctecfed at the monthly meeting of) Saturday Iflst.

'Hie annual Meeting' (if the Master-* ton Racing Club will be' Mid on August Ist, and nominations* for officials •of the club ciose on July lifffiv

A number of sparrows whSrfif wPro-mt-ended to l>c usetf by ilio MifsfefefJ Gun Club at Saturday's shoot, were? killed by a* weasel, which found itsway into the box in which the bfnfo were penned.

The Secretary of the Masterton Guii Club has so far received tffirty-five entries for tho live-bird jtfsich, and thirty for the clay pigeon lWatch, t-o be held next week. It is anticipated that these figures will be considerably increased when distant entries are all in.

Tho Masterton Gun Club's big. shooting match will take place o:f the old showgrounds. The gathering promises to be highly successful.critries having been received from all parts of the Dominion, and including New-,Zea-land's best known shots.

There was a very large attendance at the Masterton Y.M.C.A. Strangers" Tea last evening, when the E«v. A. White, M.A., 8.D., of Port Chalmers, delivered an exceptionally good address touching on the 37th Psalm of the Bible. A vote of thanks was accorded the speaker. Mr G. Falla was. in the chair.

The special "star" drama to, be shown at the Foresters' Hal! to-night-is a beautiful coloured production of "Romeo and Juliet." The picture is 3000 feet long, and p'teiW of „ special interest to thu,~-> Et-iw. of Shakespeare who are taking part in the Masterton Competitions.

A fowl and a little terrier attracted quite a deal of attention and created no little amusement in Masterton yesterday. The fowl, apparently an escapee from some poultry yard, has taken up her abode on the topmost parapet of a building in Queen Street, and in full view of passers-by parades from one end of tho building to the other. She has kept this up_ sinceSaturday afternoon. The terrier figured even more prominently. _ Evidently resented being shut up in one of the drapers' shops in Queen Street, the little chap immediately commenced a raid on the articles of clothing in tho shop window. Judging by appearances, his work was well (or badly) done, and whatever lie turned his wrath upon is not likely to be fit for sale purposes.

Tenders are invited by Mr D. Smith, Stonehurst, Masterton, for ploughing and sowing 45 acres. Tenders close July 20th.

A fresh list of "bargains for men" at Hamill's mid winter sale is published in this issue, and is worthy of careful perusal by our readers.

Farmers and owners of live st'oclr of every description will be pleased to know that the recipes of Mr Ed. D. Halstead, well-known throughout the Dominion as a loading veterinary surgeon, are now obtainable, being manufactured at the Thames by the Halstead Veterinary Medicine Co. Thi> advertisement dealing with the Halstead remedies appears in to-day's issue, and further particulars can be obtained from tho manufacturers or the loca 1 agents. .

Interesting items in men's am? boy's wear at Murray's re-organising sale appear in our .advertising columns. Country clients are reminded that their orders accompanied by remittance will be as carefully attended to as if shopping personally, ancT goods will be promptly despatched. Clients should avail themselves of th. Clients should avail themselves of the dcring early.