LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 May 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Quite a number of young (telegraphists from all over the Dominion are leaving for Australia to take up wireless telegraphy work. The. Wairara p;i .Rugby Union decided on Saturday last to issue special season tickets to all Wairarapa schools, including the Hikurangi Maori College. A Leyin farmer lost quite a lumber of slieep lately. They were poisoned tlhrough eating the berries of a weed called night shade. Tha unlucky owner «ays that this is the first time that he has noticed that particular kind of weed on his farm. A five-roomed house in Blenheim, owned by Mrs Burke, and occupied by W. Farrent, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday nig'ht. The outbreak was caused by an eighteen-:nonths-old child pulling the tablecloth from a table containing-an oil lamp.

The Rexdalc Co-operative Dairy Co, paid out to suppliers on Saturday just under £IOOO for butter-fat supplied during April, payment being at the rate of lis per lb. The average tes-t {'of the month was 4.42, only one supplier's test being below 4.0. The highest test was 5.1. It is stated that the bulk of the flax mills on the Motoa estate, at Shannon, will close down as from this month until the first week in August. Several other mills in the district, however, will be running through the winter owing to the higjh price "flax is now fetching. Labour is plentiful at the mills. 'Of the 138 fires which, occurred-in. Wellington during the year ended March 31, twenty were due to accidents with matches, nineteen to sparks, and twenty to lighted candles coming into contact with inflammable substances. Defective chimneys were responsible for 9 fires, incendiarism for nine, airing linen for six, and smoking for five. At the fortnightly meeting of the Wairarapa Rugby Union on Saturday, communications were read from Mas. terton, Carterton, Greytown and Featherston schools, intimating that there was no intention of substituting any other game for football in the schools, and acknowledging the substantial assistance given by the Union in the pa«t. Several suggestions were made regarding further, assisting school football. ! The Mangatainoka Block (Native Reserve) which i« to be balloted for at the end of the month, is situated between Pahiatua and Woodville, being about six miles from Pahiatua, and on the south bank of the Manawatu river, extending on both sides of the Gird wood road to the .Mangaliao river. The laud is all of a good dairying clasis, comprising rich alluvial flats along the liver and low plioughable rdges fronting both sides of the Gird wood road. The block, which comprises 1000 acres, was formerly owned by the Hon. J. D. Ormond, for a period of 21 years, and it was finally acquired by the Government from the Native?, in the spring of last year.

THE QUALITY COUNTS

Crescent Tea. is much higher in Quality ».nd no higher in price than obhor t 'as. It is a scientific bleind of the choice tens frfhii Darjeelinp and Oeylon. There is a subtle charm about the flavour that wives pleasure to ths pa-late, and that flavour never varies. Thi'oo grades, 1b Bd, Is lOd, & per Ife. *

Snow fell on th« low-lying ranges »t the foot of the Tarimaa on Saturday night. The capita] ralua of the Borough of Pahiatua at. the l#«t raluatiaa was £217,408, and tho unimproved value £97,925. The last return from tho Worksop dredg# T\a* highly satisfactory, being 1140z.r 2dwts for 120 kows' work. A fire at Taihapo on Saturday morning destroyed a block of shops near the railway station owned by Mrs Elliott Wilson. Two seamen hare* W»u arreted at GLsborne on a chai'<.y» of deserting the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waimata at Auckland, iMr J. C. Boddington reports that there were 7 points of raiH and 6 degrees frost registered at the Upper Plain on Saturday morning. An lnvercarjiill wire states that the body of Frank Petersen, the prisoner who was drowned in the Estuary on Friday afternoon, has beeai recovered.

Glyn Ivor Ha/ell, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the premises of Mr Alex Henderson, of M&sterton, will be br n ug,ht before the Chief Justice for sentence to-duy. The settlers at Hukanui, ia the Forty-Mile Bush, hare formed a committee to further a project to secure cimmunication with the West Coast by arteans of a stock track. A sum of £BO wa« collected by street collectors in Ashburton on Saturday in aid of the funds of the local centre of the Plunket Society for the Preservation of th» Health 7f Women and Children. The benefits of co-operation wero forcibly brought before delegates at the meeting of the Cheese Factories' Association at Eketahuna by a statement that over £IOO had been saved bv combining in purchasing cheese cases.

•Mr William Rayner, of "The Cliffs," Mastferton, has secured very satisfactory prices for his Romney wool this season, his returns from the January and March sales averaging 12Jd P el ' lb, with locks and everything iii.

A cable message has be&n received stating that Mr J. D. Henry, pet.roleum expert, and. Mr "W IVajg,-' 'of a refinery plant manui'ae: vring firm, together with an analytical chemist, have left London for New Plymouth by tlie Corintbic, and are due next month.

Since the meeting at Pahiatua on Saturday week (says the Express),' .\f<r T. I. Rayner, buyer for the Waingawa Bacon Company in the Forty-Mile Bush, has forwarded over 100 pigs, nearly all baconers. This makes it evident that liberal support will be forthcoming.

John Hitchcock, who assaulted his sister with a razor at Akaroa rtrcently, and subsequently* attempted to commit suicide, was charged at the Christehureh Court on Saturday with attempted murder. He was remanded, counsel saying that an application would be made to ha/e Hitehcof.k committed to a mental hospital. A report just published by the Labour Department shows that there are 1155 slaughtermen in New Zealand. The average duration of their employment) is thirty-three weeks. While during the main portion of this period their earnings average up to £7 per week, the actual average earnings throughout the whole period was £3 4s 2Jd per .week.

Messrs James Macintosh and 00., Masterton, report having sold tihe following properties:—4oo acres at Mauriceville; goodwill of 100 acres leasehold at Matahiwi; 3-58-4 acres freehold Awapiripiri, East Coast, together with all stock; also, in conjunction with other agents, (ioOO acres freehold at Wellington and 700 acres freehold in t.he Waikato.

A very heavy and continuous downpour occurred in Mast pi-ton on Saturday night. Thb streets were emptied at a very early hour. Many of the thorough fare 8 were flooded with surface water, and not a' few residents were subjected to an involuntary bath. The rivers were in a high state of flood yesterday, but no serious damage is reported. Tlie syndicate that puichased the ok! show-grounds from the Masterton A. and P. Association has discovered, in the making-up of its accounts, that it is indebted to the Association in a sum of £45. It was deeded, at. a meeting held on Saturday lasr. that the amount be paid over to tho Association. An announcement to this effect was made to the meeting of the Association on Saturday, and the action of the syndicate was" referred to in terms of commendation by the "President and others. A question was asked at the meeting of tho Masterton A. and P. Associate non Saturday last concerning a protest lodged by Mr Falioon against the awarding of the draught stallion prize to Mr Tatham. ' The ground for the protest wa s that tlie winning horse had not travelled tihe district, as required by the rules. The President .stated that tho Protest Committee had met on the day of the show, and ha<J dismissed tlie protest after hearing Mi - Tatham, who had offered to produce evidence that his horse had travelled the district, ft was decided that no further action be taken in the matter. I

At n meeting of tihe .Masterton A. and P. Association oil Saturday last, several men hers spoke strongly in favour of the establishment of an Agricultural High School in Masterton. i\lr I). McGregor stated that it was the duty of the Government to do something in this matter. It was essential that they should have at least one Agricultural College on the lines of Hawkesbury. But they also Agricultural High Schools. He hoped that at the conference in Auckland the Government would he urged to adopt the recommendation of the Education Commission for the establishment of Agricultural High Schools.

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Nine now members were elected at the annual mooting of the Wairarapi* Caledonian Society on Saturday last. Tho Mastorton Racing Club pakl Government tax amounting to £s7<> 8s 4d over itb Autumn Mooting. Tlioro are twenty-eight patients receiving treatment in the Masterton Hospital, five of whom are in the fever ward. The matron of the Master ton Hospital donirxvß lis to intimate that donations of old linen will be very gratefully received. The young man McMillan, who mei with a cycling Aocident near Solwav, last week, in making satisfactory progress iu tlie Masterton Hospital. Snow, which covered tho jyoun<l toft depth of two inches, wa« experienced in Inveroaxgill on Saturday. All outdoor sports were postponed. Tho Timaru -Borough Council lian decided to lease in four lots the 2000 acre reserve owned by it. It is estimated that the Borougjh will benefit to tho extent of £2OO a year.

It has been decided that in future' the annual mooting of the Caledonian Society will be held on t'he third Saturday in May, instead of the second Saturday. The Wairarapa Caledonian Societyhas decided to hold an "Inglesidiv J at Gladstone in honour of Sir Walter Buchanan. M.P„ on some convenient date after his return from Fiiigland. A team from th.eTe Wharau Rifle 1 Club defeated a Greytown team at ..Gre.vtown. on 'Saturday.. Tlie weather' conditions were most unfavourable, but the shooting was very satisfactory. Tlie Auckland Star's London writer »says- the Higjh: Commissioner, on instructions frcrn New Zealand," has just appointed twenty-five nurses (probationary) for mental asylums in th<v Dominion.

According to a northern contemporary Mr Massey, shaking at Tau---naranui, said that if Mr Allen had failed to negotiate a loan in Tendon, every public work in the Dominion would have had to stop. The Masterton Racing Club has" .every reason to feel satisfied vritlh the result of ownng its own property at' Opaki. Previously the Club was in; receipt of less than £IOO in rent,, while this year, a profit of £236 17s 2d was made. The Provincial Conference of the Farmers' Union, which meets in Masterton this month, is being asked bv the Mangaweka branch to set up a. committee to consider the question of a reorganisation sdierne for the* Union. . The follow ing new .'me libers were' elected at .the monthly meeting of* the Masterton A. and P. Association' on Saturday Inst: —Messrs John Pick-* ett and R. Mclvor (Masterton), CI G. White (Greytown), and W. Miller (Kopuaranga). A Timaru wire states that the parcels office in the railway station was broken into on Friday night, and a. number of parcels opened and a few shillings stolen from the till. It is not yet known whether there was anything taken from the parcels. The President of the Masterton Racing Club (Mr C. F. Vallanoe) in speaking on Saturday of the successof the Autumn meeting, said the club's thanks were due to the local newspapers for the assistance given in writing up the meetin. SMCr G. M. .Thompson, M.P., says that "iii the kindergarten the faculties of the children are drawn out in sympathy and love. In the primary sohool the-one thing is authority. We want the principle of the kindergarten 'carried more into the primary sahool."

At the Provincial Con fere noe of the Farmers' Union, to be held in ,Mastertori tliis month,, the following remit fron the Wangamii branch will be diseuased"That the time has come when the Farmers' Union s honl<J affiliate with the Now Zealand Employers' Association, -with the view of oo'Ji bining forces tho un just claims of organised labour." In connection with Professor Pereival's alarmist prediction of a "hi# blow up" a.t Rotorua, Professor Thomas, of Auckland, says that while it is possiblo we may hare irvolcali ;c eruption it is only a possibility. No person need be the least aJarinei] with speculations of this kind. Thermal activity at Rot-orua varies from time, to time. He did not think there had been any increase in activity there.

We would remind our numerous readers of tihe organ recital to lie giwn in St. Matthew's Church on Wednesday night by Mr O. Spencer Camp ton. An excellent programme of musical items has been prepared, commencing with tho overture to "Semira.mide," and , concluding with the great "Hailstone Chorus" of Handel's. Mrs H. J. Francis and Mr H. F. Green will be the soloists, and will also lie heard in a duet. The choir will sing the competition anthem "Send out Thy Light," and, taken altogether the programme is most attractive, and should ensure a very largo attendance. Thirty-four remits are set down for discussion at the Wellington Provincial Conference of the Farmers' Union, to be held in Masterton on May 27th and 28th. Seven of these have lvferene to railway administration, including one from the Executive; "Th.it tlie railway charges «vill never lie satisfactory until they are made uniform throughout the Dominion at per ton per mile, according ro traction." Two remits deal with motor traffic, and others have reference to such varied subjects 'as the Land Act, noxious weeds, the Employers' Association, contagious mammitis, daylight parades and postal arrangements.

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. Daring the stormy weatSef, .. Rangiiikei County Council has had to expand £2OOO moie in road maintain -anoe thia year than it did last year. - A heavy fall of snow occurred throughout Southland <xn Friday night. The snow was two inches deejv. in Invercargill on Saturday moving. Old inhabitants declare the w niter to bo the coldest known. Mr G. Major, Hastings, advertise® lor a supply of rabbits. " A traart grocer is wanted at the W.F.G.A., Masterton, at once. A girl for housework is required at "RingweU," Chapel Street, Mastertoa. Advertiser requires housekeeper or general, good wages, 7 miles from Master!on. Address may be obtained at office. The lease of the Masterton Railway Refreshment Roo"us is advertised for sale, particulars erf which can ba' obtained oh application at the fSoTIS.

The friends of the late Mrs James Wrigley are invited to attend her funeral, which will leave the residence Pine Street, at 2 p.m. to-day for the Masterton Cemetery. Mr V. L. Fairbrother inserts particulars of furniture, etc., to be sold this afternoon, on account of Mrs G. H. Daysh, who has sold her residence, and ia leaving for Auckland. Everything is to be cleared absolutely without reserve. Mr D. G. Brown is now making & line display of bicycle and mototr-cyole lamps. These include all the most reliable* mates, andare being sold at reasonable prices. Anyone roquiring a lamp should make a point of inspecting" the fine stock "at Brown's Motor and oyole Works, . "So doubt about the winter being lieffe- —the cutting winds assure u.B of it. Those who are outdoors much need n good war moverooat. J. L. Murray, Ltd., have a splendid range of new style overcoats just in. They Include! motor and" driving coats and raincoats. See advertisement in this paper. . Try Ottr "Roslyn" Writing Padthree for Is. Hugo and Shearer. No need to worry over those CusUiuia mvtie* aatii your brains are foKired. Pass them along to Me&Wl J J. Curtis and Co. Ltd, they we experts at the game. There's no tune to be lost (and time is money to you), when your entries are passed to Messrs J. J- Curtis and 00, Ltd., Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Their charges, too. are very moderate. 'jS&%orth Canterbury lady jirritesj ' "As "I have given Tonking s Ltarseed Emulsion a good trial I think it only right that you should know what good it has done for me, and also my little sister who tised to suffer with croup, but from the first dose she got relief and now, since she has had it a few times, she is as well as can be. Tonking'a linseed Emulsion Is 6d, 6d, 4s fid, from .chemists and ; stores.