LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 24 December 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The First Battalion, Ninth Regiment, will go into camp at Oringi from April iSthto 20th. • A•■ number of carolling parties will bo out in Masterton to-night, should tho weather continue favourable. An elderly, man, who was arrested in Gisborne the other day on a charge of drunkenness, had £62 17s Id in, his possession. A man named Bourke was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Napier the other day for being drunk while in charge of a motor car. Mr J. C. Boddington reports.that there wero 6 points of rain registered on Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday at the Upper Plain. The Government Orchard Instructor reports that the black aphis has done considerable damage in Wairarapa orchards this season. Very heavy postal and telegraph business has been transacted at the Masterton Post Office during the last day or two. The inward and outward mails have been records for size. Inspector Hill, speaking at Hastings on 'Friday night, said:—"On no account should we have the ministers in our schools to create discord, di&sension, and, shall I say, decadence. The Wellington Farmers' Meat Company will ezport 8000 carcases of mutton and lamb bv the .s.s. lonic, which leaves Wellington for London on December 27th. | Fat stock are arriving at the Waingawa freezing works in large numbers. During the past week, close on 9000 head were slaughtered, •twenty butchers being kept going at i thigh pressure. Several parties of Mastertonians intend making the ascent of Mount Holdsworth during the Christmas holidays. Visiting alpine tourists are also expected. The track to the mountain house is in excellent order. .' A Maori who intends spending a , Merry Christmas with his friends in • tii.: Masterton district, turns the scaie at 24 stone. He is increasing fin weight every year, and l has, ap- ; parently, got a long way to go.

Some very good, shearing tallies are ■ reported to have been' made in the ! Masterton district during the last | week or two. On one station five ' shearers put through 1172 with the j machines in a. single day. The birds which were sent to ' Timaru by the Masterton Homing i Pigeon Club last week, did l not arrive at their destination, until yesj terday. The race will take place on Christmas Day..

; Pocket almanac cards have reached *<us 'from the Government Insurance j Office, giving six reasons why New Zealanders should insure in • the

State Office, and thus support local industry. The cards were printed in America ! I Five men arrived in Masterton on Saturday last for their annual Christ- • mas holidays. They haled from stations on the East Coast, and their ! cheques amounted to a total of £3OO. I They left for the south in the evening. ! Rabbits are said to be very plentii ful iu some parts of the Bay of 1 Plenty, where the post was previously ■an unknown quantity. Inspectors havo been very.busy for some time ; past, and settlers are taking up ! systematic poisoning. J Taraaiaki townships havo almost, 1 without exception, established Beau- , tifying Societies, the .primary ob- ' ject of which is tree planting Tn the • various streets. The movement has apparently been taken up with considerable enthusiasm. The contractors for the sinking of , the oil bore in the Mangaone Valley are (reported to have been making good' headway during the last few clays. They have penetrated through the rocky substance, and the drill is now passing through a soft strata at the rate of between 50ft* and 60ft per day. ' * The outlook for a good crop of hooey in the Wairarapa this soason ,is not very bright. The continuous. ! boisterous weather has 'prevented any, | secretion of nectar .in the flowers*, thus forei.ng beekeepers to feed their bees on sugar syrup until ' the main I flow. Unless there is a spell of warm, sunny weather the crop will be a light one. One of the biggest lines of fat i wethers that have travelled the roads j jin the Wairarapa for .some time will i 1 arrive in Mastertcn. to-day. It is a j draft of 5000 from the property of . Mossrs W. and R. Burling, of Pon- , garoa, and is one of the* most even lots that have ever gone to the freezer from these parts. The sheep, which (have beei driven through to Wangaehu ( Valley, will be trucked to Wellington. ! In opening a church relief andi labour depot at Brixton recently, Mrs Asquith said: "There is only one way in which tho problem of unemployment ' ■ will be solved, and that is by love. j There is no other way of serving God ! than by serving our poor fellow-crea- ', tures."' A labourer among the au- ! dience remarked that he met ■ with no sympathy from the rich. Mrs Asquith replied: "I think the poor are i very sympathetic to the poor, and ! help one another more than the rich help the poor." BEOHSTEIN, BOYD, EAVESTAFF, HAAKE, HOPKINSON. We hereby tender our thanks to the residents of the Wairarapa and surrounding districts, for the splendid support accorded us during the past twelve months,, and assure them that we shall endeavour to deserve their continued support durin the comine year. Wo hold a large stock of high jtrado pianos pianolos, and organs. ' His Master's Voice Gramapbotias and ! records. Our terms ara tha easiest in existence. Wishin gyou ne and all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.—Wo are, you> faithfully, Tii© British and Continental Piano C«, J. Lowndes., loea? reaflaVw. 1.96. %.ieea Street, Masterfttt.

BABY BURNT WITH RED HOT IRONS. Mrs Croty. Little Denison Street, Carrington,' N.S.W., writes:—"My little baby girl, Rita, burnt both her hands until they were nearly raw, by picking up a red hot iron. Nothing j relieved the pain until I got Rexona. This helped her at once to take away I the pain. We have continued to : use ifc since, and it has cum the t«> ribl» burns* iu ® wonderful manner. •, Rexona, th« flffiapid Healing Ointw»ttl'. i> tM *»■ trfttgaljir p«ti atH

Teams of the Carterton, Groytown, and otlior Lower Valloy Bowling Clubs are expected to compote at the New Year bowline tournament, to be held at Masterton. Quito a number of touring motorists have passed through Masterton during tihe last few days. The majority of them have been going north. The Tribune, to bo published at Wavorlcy, is the latest addition to the newspapers of New Zealand. The proprietor is Mr A. E. .Green, formerly of Masterton. A feature of the Amateur Athletic Club's sports meeting at Masterton on .Boxing Day will be the walking events. In both the one and) twomile events the entries treble those of last year. The committee of the Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Club will have the assistance of several well known officials'of the Wellington Centre, and also of the N.Z. Council, at the sports meeting on Thursday. The demand for residences continues keen in Masterton. Building operations have, eomparativelv speaking, been at a standstill during the last year or two, and this is given as one. of the reasons for the scarcity of suitable tenements. The matron of the Renal! Sol way Home, acknowledges the receipt of Christmas gifts for the inmates from Mrs Duncan McGregor Mr Richard Williams, Mr S Ralph, and a Christmas linnn>°r from members and friends of therlYlM.C.A: It is stated, with authority, ' that an e.roert gang of pickoockots is operating in New Zealand. It was presumed: thnt the- have recently arrived with a view to following their nefarious callings at various gatherings held at Christmas time. Tliß following nominations for the three vacancies to be filled at the annual meeting of the Workmen's Friend Building Society, rvf Masterton., to be heldi on January 6th, J913. have been made .-—Messrs J. A. McEwen. A .E. Winzenberg. A. Elkins. and J. Jenkins. Tlt> retiring directors are Messrs A. Donald. J. A. 'McEwen, and A. E. Winzonberg. Mr W. H. Field,' ex-M.P., for Otaki, is continuing his agitation for a track over the Tararua range to connect witli Wairarapa. In a letter to the Levin paper he says: "We want to get on with the erection of the shelter huts, v and the making of the track at once', on the bare mountain tops.. I will gladly give a subscription towards cutting a track to the back of Waiopehu, behind Levin." A record shipment of 39,000 boxes of butter was made from Auckland to England and Canada on Saturday last. About 10,000 boxes went direct to Vancouver by the Mara ma yesterday, while to-day the Corinna will take 20,000 boxes for transhipment to the lonic at Wellington to he delivered' in London. At ruling prices this shipment will reach a value of over £105,000. The previous largest shipment within a fortnight, was one of 31,000 boxes in the latter t half of November by the Tainui, Surrey, and Zealandia.

There will be-.special Christmas music at the eleven o'clock service at St. Matthew's Church Masterton, tomorrow. The choir will sing Tour's anthem "Sing, 0 Heavens"" (soloist, Miss Vera Edwards), and the organist (Mr Spencer Compton) will play the beautiful "Pastoral Symphony" from the "Messiah." "Adesto Fidelis," and the well known and, well loved "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," with other Christmas hymns, will also be. sung, while at the 7.30 service, carols will be given by the choir.

Recently the Orchards and Gardens and Apiary Division of the Agricultural Department received for examination two samples of honey ._ No. 1. procured from a shop in Dunedin hy 1 the Government Apiary Instructor, was marked "Pure Extracted Glover Honey." No. 2 was received from a private gentleman, wlio obtained it from another shop in Dunedin. Jt was marked "Best Clarified Honey." These samples were submitted to the Dominion Analyst, who reports as follows:—No. 1." "Pure Extracted ■Olovor Honoy;" No. 2, "Bost Clarified Hr*ncy," etc. No. 1 contains approximately 37 r>e>- cent of cane su<rar. No. 2 con+abis added invert piio""'. North c- of these samples is wholly genuine honey. The adjourned special general meeting of the Workmen's Friend Building Society was held on Friday eve.ninp" in the Y.M.C.A. Kooms. in MasIterton, Mr W. H. Jackson being in the chair. There was a r"ood attendance of members, and considerable interest was taken in the -proposed alterations of rules. The following are the principal alterations ma-die :—Altering the time for nominations for directorate from 14 to 7 days; altering the date of the financial year from November 30th to December 31st, and the annual mooting within thirty-six days from January Ist in place of December Ist; altering the quorum for general meetings from fifteen to twelve; /recasting and simplifying the rule re solicitor's duties and charges: simplifying the rules as to paying off mortgages; adopting a new rule for a division of profits after the year 1917. It was also unanimously decided;, on the motion of Mr Elkins, "That as soon as -1-50 shares are issued, the directors be requested to give three, months' notice of closing the sharo list."

XMAS, 1912. ' NEW YEAR, 1913. Are jus tto hand. Thousands of gifts will soon be passing between relations and friends, but the problem is WHAT SHALL I GH^E? It must be something USEFUL. DAINTY, and worthy of expressing a deep, sincere "GOOD WISH." Everyone knows best what their friends would prefer. If. however, you find in the following list any suitable article, vou can rolv on getting absolutelv the* BEST <QUALITY at MOST REASONABLE PRICES from GORDON'S MEDICAL HALL. We have just opened up a large, fresh, up-to-date stock of Ladies' Hairbrushes and Combs. Gents' Military Brushes Baby Articles, Cut Glass and Silver Mounted Bottles, High Class Perfumery, Perfume Sprays, Scented Satchets.' delicately perfumed superfatted Toilet Snaus, Soap Cases, Mirrors, Safety Razors, Shaving Brushes aad Scans. Cameras and Pb«to ©irtfits. and numerous other 3ara<fcy and useful, yet meipensire 800DS. ' Pestall ©rders re««iv» «ar*ful a*«l oramot attentisa-

It is difficult to credit all the war stories that are cabled to New Zenland, but it may be accepted that th* Allies have beaten back the Turks, and look like being able to force terms of peace at the gates of Constantinople. Absolute reliance can; however, he placed in the statement that Orescent Tea is the best tea procurable in New Zealand at 3s, 1" 163 aad li 8d per lb. Try a fr*« Ask to see the new low bust, long skirted madel ia "Warner's" Rustproof #*rs»tß. Et6tj pair gwft**.

I No fewer than ten race meetings* are to ho hold in, the Dominion oa Boxing Day. | The Pahiatna Herald thinks thai I the East Coast railway project is as "dead as a door nail." We shall see. I One bnver of sheep is reported to have purchased 20,000 head during the last few weeks, in the Featherj ston district. Bv notice published; in last,week's Gazette, the Postma.ster : General pi-o-hibits postal correspondence for Scott and Martindale, of Wellington. The Masterton Municipal Brass I Band will render a musical programme* iin Queen Street this evoning, whk'h j will bo followed by Christmas carols in various parts of the town. A strong team from the Opaki tß.ifle> Club will compete at tho N,ew Year meeting of the Wellington Rifle Association. I A large number of Master tomans in- ! tend leaving this evening by the 1.1 o'clock train for Wellington, wherethey will spend Christmas Day. i At Wellington the other day not a. single Territorial put in,',an appearance in answer to an or.der to attend !pa radio. The Defence. Act is apI parently openly defied.; , , Goldfinches are in future to be protected b yseveral countries in the South Island. For some time past ! these birds were looked upon as pests, : and. boys were paid for procuring j their eggs. I A cricket match, which is likely to a'rouse a good deal of enthusiasm, is being arranged between the Wairarapa Thursday and Saturday Associations. The match will probably .take i place on January 22nd. The Seventh Day Adventist Training College, a building containing over fifty rooms, situated three miles from Cambridge was totall- destroyed by fire at 2 a.m. yesterday. Nothing I was saved. The origin is a mystery. I The insurances totalled £2400 on. j buildings and £614 on furniture in 1 various offices. Thopropert was. ' lately purchased by JTiclrie Bros, the Adventists occupying "it till tho endi of^ i the year. Most of the furniture had* been removed to tho new college near Palmerston last week. The students , were nearly all away on holiday.

I At a meeting of the Hosm'tal and Charitable Aid Committee, held in ' Masterton yesterday afternoon, in the Board! offices, the following tenders for supplies to the Board's Masterton in-. stitutions, in respect of the ensuing year, were accepted:—Meat, Holloway and Co. (Masterton Hospital), W. Morris (Solway Home); . groceries, W.F.&A.; milk. A. F. Billingtoa (Masterton Hospital); drags, etc., H. T. Wood; dressings, Sharland andt Co.*. funerals, Hoar and Permain ; firewood, coal and coke (Sobvay Home), R. Moss; bread, to be divided equally amongst three firms who sent in the lowest tender, Messrs Alpass, Anstire and Wickens. Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., wired the Minister of Railways on Saturday |]as't, pointing oat the serious inconyenience that was being occasioned to special arrangements to facilitate dewool traffic, and-"the refusal to take wool for transport at Wairarapa railway stations. Mr Sykes .received a replv from the Minister yesterdiay, stating that the blockage had .been caused through the extraordinary demand made unon the storage accommodation by wool for export. The Harbour Board; had, However, made special arrangements to facitilate delivery, and the restriction in regard to ""wool traffic had bsen removed. | 'niivifjtmqß T)nv services in St. Matthew's parish are advertised on the' front page. A reward is offered for the recovery of a black mare, .with white star oil forehead.

r ' A house in Pownall Street is ad- , vertised to let. . Particulars - may be b obtained from Mrs Wiekens, 88 Lincoln t Hoad. j Mr Gordon Hughan greets our ;; readers with tho compliments of the. J season, and wishes them a year «*• in 1913.. 3!" Mr J. B. Keith, land and estate * agent, Masterton, advertises for safe b m this morning's issue. ,two specially s selected properties, 75 acres and SO acres, particulars of which are well "worth perusal. In an advertisement in this issue, ■MrG. R. Sykes. M.P.. expresses thanks for the courtesies extended 1 lum during tho past year, and wishes * his constituents "A men- Christmas, and a Happy Sow Year." J A notice to parents, -guardians and . others, appears on the front page of ■ this morning's issue. Thoso purehas- . ing toys for Xmas and New Yearpresents are requested to inspect the ; largo stock of new importations on. view in the premises in Queen Street, ! two doors from the New Zealand Clothing Factory's I Special Christmas bargains are announced by the Management of the assigned stock of Messrs H. P. Ross and Co, whose nremises arc situated' opposite the Club Hotel, Queen Street. All departments are overflowing ivith the .latest and most fashionable goodis, which are quoted at prices that should appeal to the thrifty buyer. ! Xmas time brings with it untoldi' joys, but tho greatest joy, at present known, is felt by those shopping at tho W.F.C.A. Hero you find the festive season has been well catered j for in tlfe drapery department. Everything one can imagine to .bring' joy * into the lives of others is to be found here. Prices are low, variety and value good. Come along to-day. , * "Nothing succeeds like success." Mr .Torn Holland, proprietor of the Car and Meter Depot, Queen Street, has further demonstrated his business enterprise by the purchase of another motor car ', which was landed in Masteiton last Saturday. The new car is a beautifullv finished, la to model 16-20 H.P. Wolsoley, 6 seater, and m fully equipped in every detail. Cars for hire are always available, fundi town and country patrons can rely on receiving prompt and efficient attention at any hour of the day. Mr Holland's telephone number is 2.96. I You need not ..be disappointed at having left the order for your holiday .suit. Messrs J. L. Murray, Limited, can supply your wants. Tho lit of their tailor-cut readv to wear box suits is guaranteed, and tho goods equal in every respect to the bespoke garment. A full range of smart Harris tweeds, Donogals, worsteds, and :navy coatings are being, shown. Sizes have boon given .special attention, and. in addition to the ordinary range, both stout and slender figures can !h» fitted. Tho suits are in £ia»latesHi cut, icoalt [being semi-fitjiin£.. with smart roll collar andi rent; frttttsers, tin? new Varsity cut, with bctfe. plain and cuff bottoms. The JjpasFair Sale extends to tha end e£- j&tm. year, and these goods are anarfcgd »fe special bargain pricoa; *