LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 October 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Killing operations will commence at the Paki l'aki (Hawke's Bay) freezing works on Monday next. A house-to-house canvass is being made in Masterton for signatures to a petition in favour of a referendum on the Bible-in-Schools question. The totalisator vinvestments at the Masterton races yesterday—£l4,lol —constitute a record for the club. On the £ame day last year the amount put through the totalizator was £9744. "A cow-testing association is to show the dairymen what cows are keeping him and what cows he is keeping," was the way the position was described by a speaker at a meeting in Dannevirke last Saturday. Word has been received that Dr Ramage, late of Waitara, has received a public appointment, in Warwick, Queensland, at a salary of £IOOO per year and a free house. The doctor lenves for his new sphere almost immediately.—Mail. The 1 following will represent the Opaki Rifle Club in the teams match against the Te Wharau Club, at Te Wharau, next Saturday : Messrs W. J. Welch, It. J. King, G. Hydey R, J. Smith, A. V. Swaftson, A. Beetham, H, Mawley and F. Minton. At the annual meeting of the Homewood Sports Club, it was. decided to hold the usual sports gathering on December 27th. The finances are in a strong position, and it is anticipated that a substantial increase will be made in the prize-money this year. At a meeting held in Pongaroa recently, it was decided V a large majority to recommend that the exiting mail service between Pahiatua and Pongaroa be continued. The Postal authorities will decide which route will be adopted after tenders have been received. The luck experienced by a syndicate of thirteen (supposed to be the unlucky number) Ohakune residents this week has been the theme of gerieralt comment, says the Ohakune Times. They struck the second horse at Tattensall's sweep in the Metropolitan Handicap, and drew £IBOO to be divided amongst them. It is stated that on the farms around Waimate (South Canterbury), even on the hill country, the tlireeweeks old lambs are dying unaccountably. At least sevep per cent are being lost,, after having apparently: -thriyed since being dropped- ;The \ cause is unknown; but : the post-mor-tem ■ -discloses that the .liver is flabby j. or resembling putty. At a meetipg of the Wairarapa Presbytery this week, it jwas stated that £220 had been contributed by the congregations of Masterton, Carterton, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, ajid Pongaroa towards the "every member campaign." The guarantee fund, on behalf of a missionary to be engaged by the Presbytery for the. foreigii field, is making steady progress. The hearing of a case was commenced in the Magistrate's Court at M&sterton yesterday, in which W? Eagle sought to recover from B. Douglas the sum of £25, commission oil the sale of the Taratalii Hotel. Mr T. Jordan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Moran for tlie defendant. After the , evidence • of, the plaintiff had been' heard, the case was adjaurned for a fortnight, to permit of the attendance of a witness. At the nfonthly meeting of the Wairarapa. Presbytery, fce Rev. L. Thompson gave in the evangelistic report, in which it was stated thatMr James .W. Kendrick, Scotch Evangelist, had been engaged to, conduct mission services throughout the Presbytery. At Martinborough, wherfe he now is- conducting a mission, the meetings were largely attended. Uhe Rev. G. K. Stowell, convenor of the 1 Presbyterial Visitations of Carterton and Masterton, respectively, submitted. reports and findings, which were adopted, and ordered to be read to the congregations. Since, his arrival in, England (says a London correspondent) General Cxodley has done a good deal of business at the War Office in connection with the New: Zealand Defence forces, and hei then went to Scotland for the grouse .shooting, "proceeding afterwards to Ireland for the Dublin-horse show week. Next week he will go to Aldershot for the autumn manoeuvres which are the climax of the army training for the year. After the manoeuvres, General Godley .will be in London in close touch both with the War Office and Aldershot, and he hopes to leave for New Zealand early in November, travelling via the Continent and Egypt, and reaching the Dominion at the end of the yfcar. General Godley's health is much benefited, by the change and kas never been better than now. Mr L. G. Rjeid, S.M., gave judgment for the plaintiffs by default in the following civil cases heard in the Magistrate's Court at Mastqrton yesterday: W.F.C.A. v. H. Behan, claim £7 8s 4d costs £1 8s 6d ; Commissioner of Taxes v..-James Curry, £2. 15s-^-ss; J. Alnass and Co. v. S. Bclmett, £3 ISs Bd—os ; J. L. Mat-" thews' v. Sidney Harris, £3 9s 2d—--10s; A. F. Billington v. Thomas Lee, £2 8s 7s-r-10s; Robert Pook v. Puliara Te Tau, £1 3s—lis; R. Jones v. Stanley Bennett, £6 5s 9d—- . lis; W. G. Butcher v. Wm. Davies, £2 8s 6d—los. Jn judgment summons cases, Arthur Styles was ordered to pay £1 14s od to Holloway and Son within one month. L. Altaian was ordered to pay Eaton Bros. £5 14s lid forthwith, the warrant to be suspended for two months.

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The monthly meeting of Masterton Chamber of Commerce is to be held to-day. | Mr C. Eaton has .purchased Mr Ross's farm of some 400 or 500 acres at Kaitawa. The three-year-old child of a Newman resident was badly bitten on the face by a dog on Tuesday. The Rongokokako Cheese Company has decided to treat its whey for butter fat. This will be sent to the Otaki factory for manufacture into butter. Hie Public Library at Alexandra South has been destroyed hy fire. Thp building was insured for £BS, and the books and fittings for £l9O, in the Royal office. The News states that at a clearing sale held by Mr Newton King on Monday, a sow and litter of eight pigs realised £lO 15s. The young pigs were about five weeks old. Mr J. F. Heckler informs us that it was not he, but Mr J. L. Heckler, who wrote the Masterton County Council complaining of the increase of rates in the Alfredton Riding. A Press Association telegram states that the Invercargill branch of the Law Society, 1 is urging the appointment of a, J/udge of the„ Su-r preme Court, with '' headquarters: in that town. .; v . Rape is, in some instances, on account 1 of the favourable seascm, being sown earirer in the Eketahuna district than usual. It is considered that if the cummer turns out dry, as promised, the early crops will fyave a better chance. / As Elsewhere (says the- "Timaru Post) the farmers of Albury are losing a fair number of lambs just now. This mortality is considered to be due to overfeeding of the mothers as well as lambs, the result of abundance of feed. Last year a property-owner in the Eketahuna district lost several bullocks for some considerable time, and these eventually turned up in the paddock from which they disappeared. This year a similar loss has'happened, but despite a considerable wait the animals have not this time reappeared.—Express 1 . A Timaru telegram states jbliat Mr C. M. Burdon and his Eustace, Mr Scott and his sister, and Mr A. Woodbury, a party who were lost on . Mount Peel'on Tuesday, were safely found by search parties on Wednesday night. They became lost when in a, fog, but fortunately found a disused hut and caimped; there.; TJhejr 'sttfferedv no inijury;v 'butf ; went rather short of:food. • . • '

••Mr W: Thompson, of Halkett, near Christchurch, a young man of 25 years, has invented and constructed a machine that can be driven over a turnip paddock, will lift the turnips from the ground after grubbing, clean them up, cut them up, and deliver the; cut roots in a neat line ready to be eaten by the sheep. A man, a two-horse team, and the machine can raise and cut about six acres of roots per day. Not long before adjourning, the Chamber voted a Bill creating new nickel five and ten centime pieces to replace the obtpper sous (says the Paris correspondent of the Standard). A. considerable time, however, must elapse before the fresh money can be put into circulation* The designs have not yet been adjudicated upon, nor has the necessary quantity of nickel been bought. According to the Mint authorities, it will not be till February or March that the first batch of sixty and a-lialf millions of these new coins can be issued.. After that annual emissions • will continue regularly for three years, afad it" is hoped that by the end of 1916 nickel '•will have altogether replaced the beloved but unclean copper sou, which. will begin to be withdrawn from circulation in 1914, when all administrations, banks, and large establishments will be.invited to send in their copper to be melted down. Besides being cleaner to handle, nickel money will have the advantage of being about half the weight of copper, and it will certainly be heartily welcomed by the public." : \ : ' A lady's bicycle lias been .taken by mistake f/om the Club .Stables. Experienced, ploughman is advertised for by Mr E. Harper, Matahiwi. Married mah advertises ;for employment of any .kind in' Masterton. , 'First-class.- coat-maker is required ;hy Mr Alexl Donald, tailor, Queenstreet. . '. ■ " s -. Thoroughly qualified teacher advertises for position as tutor in private family. Mr F. P. Welch- advertises for shearing experts, fleece ohs, ejiationhands, etc. Foreign stamps, sent on approval, j and lost at Lansdowne by a school- ! boy, are for. Invitation-holders are reminded of the Costume Social in connection with the Knox Young Men's Bible Classed to-night. ! / Mr G. D. Ay soil, architect, invites ten deiis for the erection of a residence :h concrete and wood for Mr W. 0. Dorsety of C&rterton. Drawings and specifications may be eeen at the office of Mr L. H. Smart. Carterton, or at the office of the architect, Masterton. . > - Mr A. T. Dickasou advertises on page 8 a great sale of travellers' samples of jewellery, fancy goods> etc., which must be cleared, the.sale commencing on Saturday; also gaslight display this evening, from 8 to 0 o'clock, of goods arriving to-day for to-morrow's .sale. Anyone looking for bargains should not miss this side.

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