LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The schools in the Masterton district will "break up" to-morrow for the spring vacation. Excellent progress is being made with the work of erecting the new brick premises in Masterton for the Bank of New Zealand. According to the Australasian, a party of Australian horse buyers purpose visiting New Zealand shortly with the intention of securing some of the best that, the Dominion has to" offer. The following tenders have been accepted by tho Wellington Education Board: Fornridge, improvements to fencing, Mr H.' Watson; painting, W. H. Cole. Eketahuna, repairs and painting, J. H. Rashley. Hamua, residence improvements; Hoar and BailJie. The Opunake Times says that the surveyors who are making a survey of the proposed Opunake railway route are • getting through the work smartly and will soon be at Opunake. When they havfc reached that town it is expected that they will commence a. flying survey of the route from Moturoa to Opunake.

It is currently reported that a farm on the Plains which changed hands the other \lay brought somewhere about £BO per acre. The pastures in South Taranaki have seldom looked better so early in the spring than is the case this year. There is an excellent growth visible already.— Hawera Star. * The Wairarapa branch of the Educational Institute forwarded to, the Education Board on Tuesday the .conditions for the agricultural and nature study, for which Mr A. H. Cockayne, of the Agricultural Department, had offered a prize of £3 3s. A hearty vote of thanks-was passed to Mr Cockayne. At the meeting of the Wellington Education Board on Tuesday, the secretary intimated, that all arrangements had been completed for holding a course of elementary agricultural instruction at the Masterton School, beginning on Monday next and extending over a fortnight. Between 30 and 40 teachers were undertaking this course, and all of them were giving up their term holiday in order to attend.

At the meeting of the Wellington Education Board on Tuesday, grants were made for Wairarapa schools as follows : Newman, blinds and concrete Hoors in sheds Waterfalls, refund of cost of extra work on residence; Horo" eka, verandah breakwind to residence ; Ponatahi, fencing; Kahutara, extra, graift for grading; Taueru, half-cost ground improvements; Makuri, draught-sashes; Dyerville, subsidy on improvements. Every preparation is now complete for the production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the Masterton Town Hall to-morrow .night, and we are asked £o advise those who have not already booked their seats to do so at once, as the sales of tickets have been heavy. It will be necessary for those who wish to get a good place iti the house to be early in attendance. Tlu> doors will be opened at 7.30 o'clock and the Orchestral Society will piny the overture and a selection of American airs. The performance will b<}-. gin punctually at 8 o'clock.

YOUR CHILD AND .HE PIANO. Teach your children t! -> piano 1 Do not let them grow up with vain regrets that they did not have the opportunity when young! Think of the future. The purchase of a piano may seem a big item; but, really, nowadays things have been made so easy that everyone may possess an instrument, and on such simple terms that the sum required each week is never missed. The Dresden Piano Co., Wellingon, will give you the most superb piano for a small sum down, and thereafter monthly payments of from 20s. Think lln a short time the instrument will he your very own— what an inexhaustible source of pleasure it will prove to be. Do not delay another day—write to the Dresden's North Island Manager, Wellington, Mr M. J. Brookes; or se the Local Represenative, Mr H. Inns, Daniel!'s Buildings, Queen Street.

The Mastorton Municipal Band will play in front of tho Town Hall this evening.

Close on £SO was taken at the gate during the Wairarapa-Taranaki football match at Carterton yesterday. There was & general exodus of Ma 8tertonians to Carterton yesterday afternoon, the Taranaki-Wairarapa football match being the main attraction.

The value of the steamer Devon, which was wrecked at Wellington this week, was between £50,000 and £60,000. The insurances upon her are not known.

A danoe in aid of the meetinghouse wilTVe held in the Lanedowne pa on Thursday evening, Sept. 4th at 8 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained from the secretary, Mr J. Haeata. Bluff sealing parties have been carrying out operations round the West Coast, and information to hand from Dusky Sound brings news that seals are scarce and the luck not too good. In the House of Representatives yesterday, the Bluff. Harbour Board Empowering Bill (Sir Joseph Ward), and Water Supply Amendment Bill (Hon. A. L. Herdman) were read, a first time.

At the pay-night last evening of the Masterton Workers' Mutual Benefit Building Society the sum of £3lO 9s was paid in. It is rather a coincidence that this sum is exactly the same a« that paid in at the last pay night. - A Canadian paper, -says that the Postmaster-General there recently issued instructions that telephone girls were to be allowed to marry. Almost immediately 300 of them took advantage of the liberty, and the Poetmaster was asked to be best man at each of the weddings. Mr Greenwood, of Toe&l station, Longreach district, Queensland, who went to Australia from New Zealand, is a great believer in the Corriedale sheep. The other day he landed 19S Corrredale rams at Longreach, to be transferred to hie property. The Corriedales that he had previously put on his property cnt over 111b of wool at the last shearing-

The Masterton Amateur Theatrical Society held a most successful practice of "The Geisha" on Tuesday evening. They were assisted by a capable orchestra. The whole of the music was rehearsed, when everyone acquitted themselves in a satisfactory manner. The society will hold another practice to-night, when the libretto as well as the music will be gone through. A Masterton cyclist caused an unr expected obstruction to motor oar traffic as it was returning from Carterton on Wednesday evening. The [ cars were all travelling on the wrong side of the road. The cyclist refused to leave the track, and put his hand, out as a warning. Half-a-dozen cars were brought to a standstill, and the drivers said positively "nothing." The cyclist looked, if he did not feel ! like, a hero. . | There was a civil list of hot less than 78 cases for tho sitting of the Napier Magistrate's Court recently. However, the sitting was only a very short one, for only 11 cases were actually mentioned. Five judgments went by default. Of the remainder the debt was either admitted, paid into Court, or struck out; while in 19 cases there, was no proof of service of the summons. The defended cases—only two in number—were ' both adjourned. * A meeting of settlers was held at Dyerville on Monday evening, to consider the advisability of erecting a hall at Dyerville. Mr H. Daysh presided. After discussion it was .decided to take active steps towards procuring a hall. The initial capital it was resolved to raise by the issue ofv debentures, and it was arranged ,to hold entertainment at an early date, 'mm Martinborough Town Hall. funds.

Professor Macmlllan Brown, of New Zealand, has arrived at Sydney from the Caroline and adjacent islands. He found the natives on the rich islands tending to "extinction. There were very few children on them, whereas on" the islands where there was a hard. struggle to live he found children swarming. This bears out the professor's conclusion tha't any people securing food too easily becomes sterile. There is, he says, a lesson for Australia in this. The easy life which is the goal of Laljourites and Socialists means empty cradles.

Two first-class ploughmen for station are required at once by Messrs G. H. Perry and Co., Masterton. A reward is offered for the return of a 3-months-old black and white sheep dog pup. Address at this office. Mr W. R. Kemball gives notice that owing to the damage done to ewes and lambs on his property at Waingawa, he will be compelled to destroy all dogs found straying thereon. In a change advt. elsewhere Mr C. E. Daniell has a special word to say about wall-papers. An importation of distinctive and home-beautifying papers has just been received, embracing all the latest and most fashionable designs. The New Zealand Lo'an and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received instructions from Mr Arthur Harris, who has sold his farm at Taratahi-road, to sell by public auction the whole of his live and dead stock. Full particulars will be advertised later. . " Artistic furniture is not expensive" is the heading of a new advt. inserted by Messrs G. Hyde and Co. in this issue. The firm point out that although their furniture is made of the best seasoned woods, by firstclass workmen, and finished in highgrade style, yet the prices are always moderate. - ITTHE RMOLVE " i to obtain the GENUINE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT which will procure for you a remedy of sterling value and will protect you 'rom having your health injured by one of the many crude oils and so-called "Extracts," which are passed off by unscrupulous dealers as just as good, " and which are according to authentio medical testimony very depressing to the heart. The GENUINE SANDER'S , EXTRACT is absol-tely non-injurions ! and brings instantaneous relief in headaches, fever, colds, bronchial and gastric affections, and its great antiseptic powers protect from fixture infection. Wounds, ulcers, burns, sprains are healed without inflammation. SANDER'S EXTRACT is endorsed by the highest medical authorities, and is unique in its effect; purity, reliability, and safety are its distinguishing qualities. Therefore, get the GENUINE SANDERS EXTRACT —insist if you hive to—but get it and derive the benefit.

Tho censure debate is the st§w South Wales Parliament resulted in favour of the Government by 40 VOt69 fo 34. A London cable states that Sir William Dunn, the banker, hag bequeathed £750,000 to alleviate human suffering, especially among children, and promote emigration. In the second spell of the Nel«mWairarapa hockey match, played at Nelson yesterday, Tunnicliffe, one of the Wairarapa representatives, had the misfortune to sustain a broken rib..

As the result of the ballot taken by the Manawatu Flaxmillß Workers* Union, it has been decided to join both the Social Democratic Party and the Federation of Labour. Th© ballot was carried by an overwhelming majority. The Dannevirke to Weber mailcoach met with a serious accident » few days ago, through the leaders breaking away and pulling the coaeb over a steep embankment-. Three* passengers and the driver received injuries, more or less serious. A Blenheim' telegram etates that the steamer Kahu, inward bound from Wellington, went aground near the swimming baths at Picton early yesterday morning. It is understood that the vessel was not damaged, and it was hoped to refloat her at higb tide in the afternoon.

At a special meeting of the parishioners of St. Matthew'b Church, Maeterton, last evening, it was decided, on the motion of Mr J. Black:man, seconded by Mr E. Hale, fchafc the seats in the new church Be free throughout; The ihotipn_ was carried! Vifter"; oohfiideir&ble * According tb a Gisborn© telegram, a fire was discovered in the upper story of the freezing chambers at Tokomaru Bay at midnight on Tuesday. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. The total insurance on this portion of the works, mcliidingr tfi» machinery, is in the New Zealand Office.

A Wanganui telegram states tha-fc after being miesing for over three weeks the body of Frank Neylor was found floating in the river yesterday. Atthe inquest held later a verdict was returned that deceased Bad been found drowned, thr>re being n» evidence to show how he got into the river.

A card tournament and social evening was held at the Masterton Fire Brigade station last night. The brigade defeated the gasworks staff at cards by 44 games to 30. Musical items, etc., were rendered' By Messrs E. J. OTLeary, E. Fragging, R. Mexted, W. Richards, D. Jackson, and W, Dixon.

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