LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton and Featherston golf teams played a drawn game oh Saturday. • The. Greytown Dairy, Company, intend commencing the season's operations on-August 30th. A poll will be taken in Featherston to-morrow oh the question of raising £SOO for .Town Hall improvements. One of the wettest on record is being experienced this year on the West Coast of the South Island. A Hastings land agent is reported; to have scooped), a commission of £IOOO on the sale of rural property which changed hands last week. , A -number of members of the Masterton Farmers' and Commercial Club will pay a visit to the Greytown Working Men's' Club this evening, when billiard and card tournaments will be taken part in. The weather has been particularly! favourable for lambing in the Mas-j terton district during the last few! days. Unless severe weather should come, the docking this year should produce a very big percentage. Mr J. C. Boddington, reports that the rainfall registered for the twentyfour hours preceding 9 a.m. on Sunday was 22 points, and for the twen-ty-tour hours preceding 9 a.m. on Monday was 2 points. Four degrees of frost were registered on Sunday night. Mirrors at road crossings, for the purpose of warning motorists, are commencing to be used in England', andi with satisfactory results. Theyare being ejected in places where the crossings are specially dangerou.9, and the use of large mirrors allows the driver, to see the;' reflection of: cars which are coming in other directions. The method will probably be extended in the future, as it is likely, to prevent many accidents, and is well worth the small cost of erecting mirrors.

The Masterton agent of the Labour Department writes to the August numbeK of the "Labour Journal" as follows:—The conditions with reI gard to trade and labour for the period just ended have remained very quiet. There has been very little demand for unskilled labourers throughout the district, and even in the various trades very little movement has been noticeable. The carpentering trade, which up to last month was fairly brisk and employing all. available tradesmen, has slackened off very considerably, so that there are now some idle. Bricklayers have been fairly busy, as the largest contracts have been for erections in brick. Very little roadwork has been in operation during the last month, so that there has not been much opening for general navvies. A fair number of men have been engaged in ploughing, fencing, rabbiting, "and scrub-cutting. Very little improvement is reported! in the general retail trades.

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i The correspondent of the Mataui'ft Ensign states that the Pukerau dairy' factory's output oPchees© for the season has been sold to ft Dunedin firm at 6Jd per lb on trucks. Eight members of the Masterton Gun Club intend competing in the £SO clay-bird match promoted by the Martinborough Gun. Club, and'" to be held at Martinborough on Thursday. A large meeting in the Auckland Opera House on Sunday night carried' a motion approving the programme of the United Federation of Labour, with its eocial and demoI cratic section. The Worksop Dredging Company have declared a dividend of 2s, payable on Wednesday next. This now makes a total paid' out in dividends to date of £30,000 on a capital of £6OOO, being £5 per share. A member of the Gisborne Borough Council is moving on behalf of the Gisborne retailers, - and has given notice of motion to have the borough by-laws amended so as to < increase j the fee for pedlars' and hawkers' lii censes from £5 to £SO. Keaa are said to be very numerous in some parts of the Aehburton district, and iaiie .causing considerable trouble to farmers. One farmer, who lost a number of sheep from the depredations of the birds, killed thirtytwo keas in a few days. mortality amongst stock throughout the Wairaraua ha* been, very smallHhis owing to the mildness of the' season.' - Farmers state : that there have "been practically/nb deaths, where in former seasonfi mortality, especially amongst -hoggets, has been very heavjjK i;, < .. ■ A special telegramvto'the Christ-) church Press on Saturday last read-as j

follows: "It is rumoured that serious trouble is imminent at the Blackball colliery. The, miners, by 300 votes to 3, decided to demand the abolition of the midnight shift on which about n dozen men are employed. A strike is freely talked of." About two years ago <says a southern exchange)" Australian horsebuyers flocked to New Zealand and paid high prices for the very best of this country's draught horses. Canterbury has never recovered from the se| Vere tax upon her beet draught stocki }t is rumoured that the big island contingent is in need of more horses and that Australian buyers will shortly visit New Zealand. The Te Wharau Rifle Club will open the season with* a trophy match on Saturday next/During the winter a number of useful improvements were effected on the range, which is now as up-to-date as • any in the Dominion. The popularity of rifle-shooting in this district is evidenced by .the fact that the club has a membership of thirty, which is highly satisfactory for such a sparsely populated? locality.

A well-known South Island stock owner stated recently that the flocks of South Canterbury were rapidly decreasing as the result of the large number' of fat sheep exported annually. He considered that Canterbury could easily maintain in its. regular flocks a million and a half more sheep than it'had at present. Sooner or later legislation would require to be introduced to keep the permanent flock up to the proper standard.

A Blenheim Press Association Message states that the borough gasworks office was burglariously entered on Sunday evening. The thief was evidently aware of the last discount day, when a large sum of money was in the office., Fortunately £2OO .was : banked on Saturday afternoon, and another £IOO was in the safe, which was not tampered /with. The burglar got away with 90s from a drawer.. A stranger was 1 observed in the vicinity during the afternoon, who is suspected of being the culprit. A Press Association message from Blenheim states that the Marlborough Teachers' Institute/ at its annual meeting, passed the following resolutions: (1) That while the institute is strongly opposed to the payment of salaries on the average attendance or average roll number, it is of opinion that at least minimum salaries, as outlined by the New Zealand Educational Institute should! be adopted as fr«m January Ist next;- (2) that the institute expresses keen disappointment at the meagre increase propos- I ed by the Minister, as it benefits only j a small minority of teachers. In presenting the story of "Unele Tom's Cabin," per medium of tableaux, slave songs, jubilee hymns, plantation melodies and recitals, the promoters of the entertainment in the Town Hall on the 29th inst., have undertaken a somewhat heavy task. A very large number of people have to, be. trained for the tableaux, and will include those who are to represent the principal characters in the book, as well as those idealised in the apotheosis,. In the first of these will be shown "Eva's" translation, and in the finale that of "Uncle Torn." The finale includes the "Rock .of Ages". Tableau, the "Spirits of Faith and Hope and Love," and the" "Angel Choir." The whole of the groups will be beautifully lit by electricity. The system of paying for cream according to the condition in which it reaches the dairy factory, was last season tried by a dairy company in the North Auckland district, says an exchange. Each supplier's cream was kept separate, and on reaching the factory was graded, the sunplier being paid according to quality/first, second or third grade, as the case might be the difference in price being a halfpenny per lb for each grade. Ihe system worked out very satisfactory, it causing those suppliers who were careless to be more careful as to cleanliness. The result was that a much better article was turned out than when all the cream was dumped together. The company will work on the same system during the coming season.

TO BANDSMEN. The championship and also the Challenge Shield at the Palmerston North Band Contest of 1911 were E 0 V b 2,r, the Weffington Garrison Band. They used Hawke's Excelsior bonorous Bamd Instruments— a complete set. In the first test piece the maximum number of points was allotted, the judge declaring that he liad never heard better playing. He commended in eulogisio terms the tone and blend The Well&gton Tramway Band, all using a complete set of Hawke's Excelsior Instruments, won the B Brade. ' These two successes on such a great occasion are worthy wins for Hawke's whose instruments Are pre-eminent all elf ?£ lorlI orl , d - „ Bandsman, buy a set of Hadwe's—there are honours and valuable prizes to be won with them! " Write for catalogues. Sole agents —The Dresden Piano Company, ltd., Wellington Local Representatives'? Darnell's Buildings, Qweni

It is calculated that with a 9ft agricultural motor, which is now in use in North Canterbury, 33 acres off tend can be rolled! per day. A section of land containing thirtyfive .acres was eoW in the Dannevirke district a few days ago, the price being £51300, ] THe champion shearer "'of Austra- "" lasia is in iaumaranuf «t present. His name is Patrick Howe. He claims to have shorn 377 sheep in. one day in Australia,- thus making a *•»• cord tally. There is a residential block fa 18» tham that is likely to become known as the motor car block (says the Argus), owing to 80 many of the residents in that locality owning catfs". Within the compass of a very smalt area there are 18 cars. A mushroom, 24in in circumference and weighing 12$ oz, was found in a sheltered spot on Sunday at Hamanui (says the Hawera Star). Apart from its size and weight, a mußhrqom is somewhaT of a phenomenon at • thiar season of the year. Mr Beddoe, the Canadian Comffiia* •sioner, will be shown over the Waingawa freezing worke after hia arrival in Maeterton to-morrow. He will speak in the A. and P. rooms in the afternoon, and will be entertained afc dinner at the dub Hotel in the evening. The delegate of the Castlepoinfc County Council intends presenting a remit aF the - Counties Conference, which opens in Wellington to-day, on the-subject of rating absentee lan<sr owners. It is stated that 50, per cenftof the rateable property in the Castlapoinfc County, is held by absentee;;;; owners'/ ■■ •■'■■•■••" .*:'-.'

A-quantity of Taranaki oilhasheea supplied to the committee of tife* Auckland Automobile Association by the~representative of the Taranakf Oil Company for testing purposes. The test will"be made shortly. Should the oil .prove for motors, it will mean much to motorists, as it can be purchased at a lower rata than the-imported benzine. Mr J. H. Eseott, member for Pahiatua, has given notice to ask thev Gfovernment whether, seeing that so many hotelkeepers are forced ,by high rents and monopoly conditions r into breaking the licensing law in their endeavour to pay. the brewers* exactions, the Government would make* it mandatory that all leases o£ hotels shall require the sanction of th» local licensing committee. Another big house greeted tho final, screening of . the "Cleopatra" season at the Masterton, Town Halt last evening, and the management have every reason to feel gratified? with the applause which attended each film, and that their efforts to produce the very best in picture* photography are being so highly appreciated. There will be no picture* shown, this evening, but to-morrow an '< excellent programme will be screened, ' the star item being "Sweet Neil of ! Old Drury," one of the finest productions yet manufactured. The usual meeting of the Loyal Masterton Lodge was held last night, Bro. P. Youle, N.G., presiding. The> Friendly Societies' report was read showing the strong financial position of j>he Manchester Unity, 1.0.0.P. The Loyal Masterton Lodge shows «. surplus of over £4 per member. P.G. Bro. W. C. Perry and Bro. G. White, V.G., will represent the lodge atvttis Foresters' reunion; > of; old members, which takes place on Friday, 22nd inst. Members of the,lodge wiH pay a fraternal- visit, to the Loyal Heart of Oak Lodge aE Carterton on September 10th. Three friends -vere proposed for admission.

A smart boy for parcels is wanted by J. L. Murray, Ltd. A young man advertises for a bedsitting room with use of bathroom %

A pernranent/tenant advertises for a six-roomed residence within 10 minutes of the Post Oflß.ce.

Members of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society are invited to attend the funeral to-day of. the late Mr James Brown.

; Mr George 15. Ayson, architect, invites tenders for the erection of a residence in camerated concrete in Es-sex-street for..Mr Norman H. James.

Members of-the Masterton Bowling Club are requested to attend the funeral of the late Mr James Brown, leaving the residence, Victoria-street, at 2.50 p.m. to-day.

The W.F.C.A. are holding a demonstration, in their grocery department, giving away oups of-.Nestle's cocoa, coffee, a«d chocolate arid milk, and would remind, the public of taking advantage-of sampling these specially digestible and easily r prepared coffees and cocoas. They say they are of the finest quality, and guaranteed pure.

Special advance shows of spring costume styles is now being made in our showroom. Some particularly smart designs in walking costumes are being produced! for the comingspring season and our customers willbe interested to know that we have secured a few of the beat of the early models. We wiTl be delimited to show them to you.— Ltd.* Particulars of the clearintr sa le of furniture, and household effects to be held by V. "L. Fa.irbroth.n- to-day on account of Mr J. Akel, who is leaving" o £? strsil ™> will be found on nage 8. rhe items to be sold are all in good order, and. include a new drop-, head Smger sewing machine. The Mis- will take place at the residence-, Villa-street, at 1.30 o.m. sharp