LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10714, 18 October 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

J Thursday next, 2-4 th October, 1912, is declared, a special tank holiday in ! Master ton, being Carterton Show Day. Mr J. C. Boddington reports that there were 8 points of rain registered at the Upper Plain for the 24 hours preceding 9 a.m. yesterday. •■Several scores of motor cars were plying for hire and. in general use in connection with the Masterton races yesterday. It is satisfactory to note* that not a single accident was recorded; Mr George (Joker brought to Masterton from Sydney hull' a dozen blooms of Waratah, the emblem flower of Xeiv .South Wales. The blooms are remarkably fresh, and are to be seen in the window of Mr C. E. Danicli's store, Queen iStreet. Get your piano where you can rely on quality and value. Hundreds of people are taking advantage of the Dresden Piano Company's time payment system; and shipment, upon shipment of panos and organs is coming in month after month. "The Dresden," with years of experience, and a remarkable turnover, is evor able to sell the best goods at the lowest market rate. But it is not satisfied with merely aining a new customer; it aims at making another business friend—and nisually doee so. Now. with the Dresden Piano Co., Ltd, absolute quality is guaranteed. Tlverv piano issued_ is perfect material and workmanship. This reputation is guarded most jealously. Where, for titeamplo, will you find better instruments than the Broadwood the Lipp. the 'Ronisch. and the Steinway—they are indeed four great pianos! Yon should certainly either call or write to the Dresden Piano Co.. Ltd'.. Wellington; or you' could see their Local Representative —H. Inns, Daniell's Buildinp Queen Street. Masterto" TKo Rapid Heo-- « to Uintmenn which healo witk remarkable rapidity. \Jnlike the old-fashioned ointmenti which are very Glow in tHoir actions, itoxona specially effects ita cares after a very few application- Sold in It Si

The Ekctahuna committee of tho Acclimatisation Society is asking that I: a larger number of trout be liberated ' i in the streams of that district than heretofore. The Nireiha Cheese Company is paying out r.n advance of 8d per 3b on butter-fat supplied during. the mouth of September. i The latest return from the Success i ■dredge- is 350z lOdwt for 120 hours' work, and from the Masterton dredge 30oz 3dwt for 127 hours' work. A Reef ton telegram states tint the Conciliation Court is still consider--1 ing .the mining dispute. The discussion is likely to continue for some ■ time. The offerings for the Building Fund for St Matthew's new church laid upon the foundation stone yesterday, , amounted to £77. According to a Taranaki exchange the present season promises to eclipse all past years as far as 'iaiiy returns are concerned. Parliament was represented at t!;o Masterton races yesterday by one Reformer, one Oppositionist, one Independent, and one Labour .•Member. Everybody should then? .re be Batisfied. The Palmerston North Mmoiigh Council has decided to grant firemen attending picture theatres 2s Gd per night, instead of Is 6d. as has been previously paid. The first shipment of wool from thw district this year was despatched from Carterton on Wednesday, tei bales being consigned by Mr W. Rayner, of The Cliffs, East Taratahi. * T The motor car is responsible for more than "potroliana" and dead dogs. 0»e young man of Masterton was s serving in the-Mounted. .Rifles. His father sold his horse and' bought a motor car. And now he has to do duty in the infantry. Wc are in Receipt of the Christmas number of the Auckland Weekly I News. -Its. illustrations ,are ad- i mirable, its letterpress well selected, | and its general get-up a credit to- the | firm by which it has been produced. J Tho stationmaster at Masterton [ lias been advised that owing to the I slips on <tho Main Trunk lino at Oha- ] kune, tho train can only be pushed | through by daylight, and till after ' Siturday passengers by the up | Auckland express will have to stop ! over night at Gliakune, leaving there; at 5.1.5 p.m. next day. All other traf-1 fie may now be" accepted as usual, \ , but consignors are to be advised that some delay might "occur en route.' : Shorthorns at the W;iirarapa show will provide keen competition, all/ classes being well filled. It is an-* tk-ipated that tho judge in many in- ) stances will have an exceedingly dif-' fisult task in .separating exhibits, j they having been brought to such a ] state of perfection. The judging ring will ber well attended on the , Wednesday "morning at 9 o'clock, when decisions will be given. Excellence in its minagement, in its organisation, and in the appointments of its show grounds can be very properly claimed by the Wairarapa Society, which. has made such a close study of the necessities and requirements of agricultural and pastoral shows during the last thirtyfive years. The buildings already | erected and thoso which have been I built during tho last six months, have l placed tho Society in the enviable [ position of possessing the best appointed show grounds in the North Island, if nofc in the whole of tho Dominion. Mineral gas, apparently of the same description as that found at Waipatiki, near Weber, was discovered at Akitio a dayoi; two ago in the . most unexpected manner, says the J Dannevirke News, Experimental I borings for ascertaining the nature of / the foundation for bridge building j purposes h.ul been made. One of I

these was in mid stream. While in the vicinity of it one of the workmen struck a match and an area- some two or throe feet in size hurst into flames on top of the water, showing that there was evidently a strong escape of gas coming from the earth up through the water. The escape is considered to have heen pretty strong as the bore remained open for some days, while the fallowing day the gas was also again in evidence. The gas was burning altogether for a period of two or three hours. Referring to the exhibition of Romney Marsh .sheep at the Hastings show, the Hawke's Biy Herald • .says: —''Taken on the. whole the quality of the Romneys has never been better than at this show. That is the general expressed ooinion. Mr W. Perry is always a foeman worthy of any exhibitor's steel, and he sends an exceptionally strong team, hut though he captured the ewe championship, he failed to land the ram championship and with it the Levin Cup, which ho has already won twice and only requires to win again for 'ifc to become his property. His winner in the class for rams over 18 months and under 30 months was an exceptionally fine sheep, and he must have gone very near winning the championship; in fact many good judges assigned to him that coveted position. However, Mr J. TC. Hewitt's four year old ram which gained j the championship, and Mr G. K. Al- J leu's ram hogget are both very fine animals, and it would be hard to find thrco better animals of their respective ages, and the judge- must have had no enviable task in making a selection." DRUG QUALITY. AS The Hall Mark on silver denotes the best best quality of the article, so our name, on the bottle denotes the best quality in medicine. , Wo. make a speciality of this recognising the fiet that quality should bo considered first in everything, but particularly with medicines. We guarantee all dugs and. chemicals and anv article stocked by us to be absolutely the best. No person would I risk their life to a rotten rope when scaling a precipice. Still you run a greater risk by taking impure drugs, etc. We mnko a speciality of dispensing and compounding physician's proscriptions accurately and scientifically with onlv mirest ingredients. J. V. CORDON" chemist (by Mastcrfcon. JUST SPLENDID. "Two years ago I was thoroughly run down from biliousness and constipation," writes Nurse Cnrr. 28 George Street, Camperdown. N.S.W. "Ono day T saw Chamberlain's Tablet' advertised and as I knew Chamber.niVs Cough Remedy wan so good decided tfl.givo the tablets a trial. I found them just splendid, for they soon comoletely cured me, and I naturally recommend them to my patients."

Dairy factoiles ::ro increasing in tlio [South Island, and it is anticipated j I that the dairy output this year will far excel that of past seasons-. James Stellin was fined £2O yesterday in the Wellington Magistrate's Coin: for betting on licensed premises. Notice of appeal has been given. J A telegram from Waihi states that , strike matters are comparatively quiet, excepting for the usual demonstrations when the men are proceeding to and from work. A Dunedin telegram states that there is every prospect of a heavy flood in Southland. Rain is filling incessantly, with little appearance of ceasing. Considerable damage has been done to roads and bridges in various parts of the country. In the New Plymouth S.M. Court yesterday Frederick jCairrington and A. J. Moreton were each lined £lO and costs £ll Ss Id for keeping liquor for sale at Awakina, which is a i prohibited district. A poll was taken yesterday on the question of forming pji't of the Waimairi County, known as Lower Riccarton, in which the Addingt-on saleyards are situated into a borough. The proposal was agreed'to, 345 votes being cast in favour of the proposal, and 142 against. Mr W. Perry, of Master ton, took six first prizes and three seconds, bosides the championship in Lincoln sheep at thg Hawke's Bay show. The same owner took four firsts and two seconds in the Romney Marsh class. Messrs A. and J. Gray, G. E. Allen, W. Ray nor and W. H. Buick were >also successful in the latter class. Mr W. Howard Booth, of Carterton, took a first and second in Shorthorn cattle. A copy of the "Wairarapa Age" of 24th June, 1912, in which appears a ' full report of the movement for the' 1 erection of the new AngJic.ni Church in Masterton, has been placed in a bottle with documents connected I with the Church, and sundry standard I coins of the realm, and will be ceJ mented in on top .of the foundation : j stone. A beautiful silver trowel, with ivory handle, bears the following inscription:— "Presented to the Right Rev. T. H. Sprott, D.D. Bishop of Wellington, by P. Graham and ; Son, Contractors, on the occi lion of J laying the foundation stone of St 'Matthew's Church, Masterton, Oc- '[ tober 17th, 1912." ,( "Now Zealand is all right," declar- ' ed Mr William Wright, a burly Scot I with nn American flavour to his na- . , tive dialect, to a' New Zealand Her- . iki representative a day or two ago. "I- have worked in all the big cities of America, Canada and the Old / Country, and I consider 'that this is . the working man's paradise. In the ' 1 States a labourer gets 8s for a tenhonr day, here lie gets 8s for an I eight-hour day. But the New Zea--1 la ml lumper thinks he is badly treatled, and is clamouring for.more. If he had n taste of life in rougher psirts he would be glad to come back again. There is too much Federation, talk here, though, and I am sorry-to see many of my own countrymen cn the soap-box leading the feather-headed creatures on." Mr W. McKenzie announces tint he is a cash buyer of all kinds of fat stock during the present freezing I season. I 1 A meeting of the Masterton branch , | of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Union will be held in the Druids' Hall to-night. | Mr W. H. CruicVshnnk. land agent, ! Masterton, advertises leasehold and j freehold larms. Particulars are to be i found on page 8 of tliis morning's Age. Messrs Irwin and George, ' sharebrokers, Wellington, -have a business card on the "leader" page of this morning's Age.