LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 February 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are at present twenty-six patients in the Greytown Hospital and the Buchanan Home.

During, the year 1912, only fourteen cases of infection's diseases were reported in South Wairarapa, which has a population of 10,670. A "man who had imbibed too freelv

of hops, was ordered to contribute 5s towards the State, by Mr Eli Smith, J.P., in 'Masterton yesterday. Notice i-s given by the Deputy Official Assignee. Mr W. B. Chegnells, that he intends at the next sitting of the Supreme Court, to be held at Masterton 011 Tuesdav, -18 th March, to apply . .for an' Order of the Court releasing him from the administration. of certain estates in bankruptcy. a list of which will ibe found published in this morning's Age. j

The Masterton Honiin-p; Pigeon Club hold the first young bird race of the season on Saturday, the point of liberation being Pahiatua, an airline distance of 36 miles. The weather conditions •were not favourable to fa&t times being registered. The resu t was as follows :—W. Drake's Pride Ist M. M. Wilton's Stowaway IV. Dowlme's Fullsail 3rd. The next race will take place on Thursday from the Summit.

/The earthquakes on the West Coast cf the iSiouth Island on Saturday were more severe than at first reported. At VVe.Sitport there way considerable consternation, chimneys oeing thrown dewn m all directions, and crockerv smashed in almost every building. A number of minor shocks were experienced throughout Sunday, and continned until yesterday morning. The recently erected post and telegraph olnce was cracked in many parts!

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-ISuilder,-! are reported to be having a very slack time in Xapier just now. Building is practically at a standstill.

A married woman namel Mary Kitt, tpek caustic soda at Hastings on bMurday. Sho is i:i tlie hospital now, 1

Iho turnip crops in tho Mastertou district arc .badly affected with blight just now.

The. Congregational Union, which' met in I imaru last' week, condemned ■the platform of tho Uible-in-Schools League, by iorty votes to two. • v 11 ' no Chambers of Commerce m the Dominion have expressed them.solves favourable? to the formation of a Cha.m.ber of Commerce Association.

Tho Invercargill Borough Council has decided to give a three months'' trial of Sunday trams. The trams however, will not be run during church hours on Sunday forenoons.

Air J. C. Boddington reports 22 points of -lain were recorded at Upper Plain for 24 hours', preceding 9 a.m., on and !io points on Monday.

Tho Balciutha police report that George Kirk an old age pensioner, aged U'J, way burnt to death ac Puerua some time between Tuesday night and Sunday afternoon. He liad apparently lived alone.

Air S. M. George, one of the candi-.

dates for 'the Alfredton Hiding of the Masterton County Council, will address the electors in the Waterfalls ■sc'hoolhouse on. March Ist, and in the Alfredton Public Hnll on March 4th.;

Tho secretary of the Alasterton Horticultural Society received an unsigned entry form by post yesterday, and he would be obliged if the sender would 'forward the name, so that the blank may be filled in. The entries aro iNos. 68, 112, 113, 119, 120, 121, 125 and 157.

It is understood that negotiations: are in progress from Wavcrley to Opunake, with a view to presenting a large petition to the Government praying for an Act to be passed granting the option of the freehold to holders of West Coast leases under the 1892 Act.

.'Mr J ay. McCarthy, of Featherston, who is well known in Masterton as an. old-time footballer, has again had to :retum to' .Wellington ;in connection, with the recent accident to liis. eye. The doctors have found it necessary to remove the injured member, and this operation has now been performed.

An Auckland telegram states that the body of Henry Siggs, a married man, aged forty-six, was found beside the railway track at New Lynn yesterday. It ,was clear of the rail's, and had nob been touched by trains. The man/ had probably fallen off the lb o'clock train on Saturday night, and had been dead some hours when picked up.

The Examiner states that entries.. for the Woodviile sports on Wednesday, are coming in weli from outside,, and Wairarapa, who won the McVilly shield on Wednesday, are sending all their best men up. Among number are included Bradbury,' McKenzie, Messenger, Williams and Jg,. gulden. A big team fiom Palmerston will as usual, be present.

A South' Canterbury farmer, : who> had a threshing mill at work on his farm this week, with the men working by the hour, wag so disgusted with the result that he turned the mill off his place (says the Timaru Herald).. The cost of threshing done up to the: time of dismissal, worked out at a fraction ov,isq .sixpence per bushel:, and it was, he said, impossible to 'stand that.

At the meeting of the Masterton' Borough Council this evening, a petition will be presented, asking that,a poll be taken at the April elections, on: the question of altering the half-holi-■ day from -Thursday to Saturday. Under the Act, if the petition contains - - the attested signatures of one-tenth: of the burgesses, the Borough Council has no option but to take a poll.

| In a "dry area" like Masterton it were almost sacrilege to mention a-, new kind of drink. Still, it may be.interesting to know that a liquor .has: -been found that arouses'indescribable* feelings. It comes from Denmark, and is said to be -made of aged Holland gin with crushed caraway seeds.' One of the guests at a boarding house. T j drank a whole bottle and went to bed, threw all of his clothes out of" tliew indcw and Ills vasile including the pillows and -mattresses. Then he rushed out into the. street, imbued with the .idea that he was a', bay-torse. Bis/ friends (ran after ■ .iiim, and only succeeded' in calm in nrhim down by _ putting a rope halter - around the victim's neck and tying'him up foil the night in a -stable near - ' I' u ,'l ere they left him with a -bucket of cold -water and a sack of oat?., .. A wealthy young Hawke's Fay Native named ; Kangi Kerehoma applied to Judge Gilfedder in the Native Land " Court, Wellington, last week, for a recommendation to the Governor to decare him a- European-, under section x( ctf the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912 Mr Beard appeared on .behaJf of the applicant, who is twenty-five years of age, ha-s a competent know edge of the English language, and has been a student at Wan.'College and St. Patrick's' Coland £7()mn 1S V w? b ? t,veen £60,000) . hen he came of ao - ©. feissyw?"*' imtl he i,,fa ' ra^ 7; ? Y OUl t that he spent £3OOO of H IS beautifying his home in; ~ Haw ke s Bay and £6OOO in acquiring a farm near -Masterton. Gif a . r T rt ™«ld be s "ent to. the Minister in due course.

r Ge, your piano where von can rely > on ( 3 7 uailt y and value. Hundreds of " rf°j ai i?- tak "?£ advantage of the 5 Dresden Piano Company's time pay- • ment system; and shipment upon i shipment of panos and organs is com- . ing m month after month. "The Dresden, with years of experience, and a remarkable turnover, is ever - 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 makin'- another business friend—and msuallv does n" t ,7- , with tlle Dl 'esd<?n Piano U>., Ltd, absolute quality is guaranteed. Everv piano issued is perfect material and workmanship. This reputation is guarded most jealously. Where, for example, will you find better instruments than the Broadwood the Lipp, the Ronisch, and the Steinway—they are indeed four greafc pianos! You should certainly either call or write to the Dresden Piano Co., Ltd.. Wellington ; or you could see their Local Representative —lnns, Daniell's Building CURED A CROTJPY COUGH. "My little girl Myrtle, had a hard! cough with real eroupy sound,"' writes Mr H. Cordes, of Cromwell, N.Z. "Mr Hotop recommended me to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which I did. After three or four, doees all signs of croupiness had disappeared, and the child wag soon, well. My wife ond I are more than pleased with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy^

/ A London cable states that the So- / *-\;ty for promoting Christian knowledge lias received an anonymous* donation of £IO,OOO. Tho Grey town District High School * liarl an average attendance last month of 215, and the Featherston school 4xn average of 142. During last year, sixteen persons ■were convicted of drunkenness in Mar"tinborough. The number of criminal •cases dealt with in that township during tho year was 6'3, compared with 43 in the previous year, L A Timaru telegram states that the I "total valuation of the Borough is fchj£lso,l99, which is an increase of H»11,899 on tho previous year. Three and a half inches of rain fell HA Timaru on Friday and Saturday. Weather continues showery and ■Hold, and is 4 having a damaging ellect ' on late crops. Complaints are made by anglers that poaching has been freely in--dulged in during the past few months, .and that the streams in the neighbourhood of Mastorton have been aljuost depleted of trout. A number of farmers in the Ma.steiton district are making applications tor post office mail boxes. These boxes which are of galvanised iron, may be .adjusted to a gate or post, and aie of groat convenience to the mail carTier. , The outlet to the Wairarapa Lake MLas been closed for a week past, and Hftavy seas have been running during period in Palliser Bay. With a Hrontinuancc of the heavy rain in evidence for the past few days, the flooding of land adjacent to the lake will result. One of the best cf the stories related by .Bishop Wood at the Melane,sian missionary meeting at Christchurch on .Monday night (says the Press), concerned a certain island in ■ 3iis diocese. In this island, he S'aid, when two of his white missionaries Handed there, thoy were besieged by .native women ■ who wished to marry -them. Their refusal greatly surprised the natives, until the missionaries diplomatically stated that they were tapu—that they were reserved for white women, and so were let off. "But a native teacher, who arrived earlier was not so fortunate. A feminine inhabitant of tlie island asked him ./to, marry her, and on his refusing yhe ■declared she would kill herself. But 3io said he did not mind. (Laughter). However, the position increased in -gravity when the members of tlie ■tribe informed him, that according to -the etiquette cf the tribe, a woman rejected must kill herself. But as he was, a stranger and a teacher, they would not kill him. but-would put him in a canoe with three cocoamits and push him out to sea. "Of course," said his -Lordship, "such a course ■could have hut one ending, and so the ■fcsacher married the lady. This 'has seriously affected the work on the " s'nnd. and 1 can assure you that when the lady visited our ship I found she was a regular demon, even makng the best allowances." (Laughter). W. H. Cole and Son advertise for two good painters. Peaches for jam can he obtained today at the. Post Office Auction Mart. ( A smart office boy -is wanted at the i Masterton Agricultural Association's l ■office, Perry Street. ; The W.F.C.A., Ltd., have a word ' to say about gloves, on our leader ' page. This firm has just opened a big shipment of this indkpensible article of ladies' attire from the worlds' 1 best makers. Every pair sold, car- <' ries-with it tho firm's guarantee. All f leading shades are stocked. t Easter comes pretty early this ' vear, so that men who have not yet 1 ordered their new suits should profit ' by the hint given in 'Messrs Krahagan 1 and Chapman's replace announce- i inent, and order now. Messrs Kra- 1 liagan and Chapman have a fine range i of autumn. suitings, and guarantee I perfect fit and finish.