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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The metallic system is shortly to be installed in connection with the Carterton telegraphic service. At the monthly meeting of the Masterton Racing Club on Saturday one new member was elected. Palmerston householders are suffering from a shortage of sugar, as a result of the disturbed industrial conditions. Mr J. C. Boddingtdn reports that there were 31 degrees or frost registered at the Upper Plain on Saturday morning, The £SO prize offered by the Waikato A. and P. Association for its champion jumping competition was won last week by Mr Ernest Short's "Scout." A young lady was badly injured at Foatherston on Friday through her hoa-so bolting. She was dragged for a considerable distance, and sustained severe lacerations of the face and arms. Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., has wired the secretary of the Masterton Distiict High Sch»l Committee, stating tliat clauses 4 and 7 of the Education Amendment Bill, dealing with subsidies to School Committees, , have been deleted from the Bill, TSho Masterton Racing Club; during the past two years', has expended £4500 in appointment* and general improvements. It says much for the management of the club's affairs that, after this large expenditure, the club's finances are in a very sound . condition. , A wild boar has been committing ravages among the sheep in the Waipara (West Coast) district, says an exchange. Several men have been out after him, but no rifle has yet brought down the cause of a fair amount" of loss on some; of the stations. The sheep have simply been killed and left. In addition td the events controlled by the W.airarapa Amateur Athletic Club next Thursday evening, a 100 yards championship for members of the Hdckey Cricket Club B team will be held. A prominent member of the club has donated a trophy for the race, and the event is already causing considerable interest amongst the cricketers.

Great interest is being taken in the theatrical entertainment to be given by the pupils of St. Bride's Convent in the Town, Hall, Masterton, on Wednesday next. The pioce to be presented is a melodrama in three nets bv "GncHA" entitled '-'The Wizard of the Moor." .The pupils-have been training most assiduously for'' some time past, and patrpna are- assured of an entertainment of exceptional merit. The box plan is! open at the t Dresden.

1 There is evidence that the fruit crop in Kaikoura this reason will be a very small one (says'"the Star). In ' apples and pears the shortage is very noticeable, but this was, no doubt, due to a couple of nights* heavy frost just when the trees were in full bloom. Stone fruit has been particularly liable this year to the climatic conditions and to blight, and there is little prospect of the fruit yield being anything like 'normal-or satisfactorv.

It is vsometimes remarkable the lack of knowledge displayed by the average person in regard to bird .species. A full-grown bird was picked up in the Masterton Park a day or two ago, and an argument cropped up as. to what species it belonged. One W convinced that it -was..a while another contended emphatically that it waa a blackbird. An appeal to about a, dozen passers-by elicited various replies, embracing positive assertions that the bird was 1 a thrush, starling, blackbird, yotang pheasant, sparrow, bull-finch, and robin. It was finally decided that the bird was a thrush.

Mr It. O. Jarrett, of Masterton, who recently sent a pen of white leghorns to )oompeto at the Missouri Experiment Station, in the United States, lias received a letter from the United .Breeders' Company of America, asking if he will sell the pen, for delivery at the end of the contest. The manager of the company!states that he desires to obtain some Now Zealand white leghorn stock, to compare with the American and English birds. He expresses a'doubt whether 1 the IS'evv Zealand birds will be successful at the Missouri competition, on account of the change of seasons. "It would," he says, "seem that your birdg Womld require a year's residence under the changed climatic conditions to show their best."

General maid ia advertised for by Mrs Norman Beethara, "Highmore," Masterton.

' Reward is offered for the return of gold brooch, set with large garnet in centre.

Pure-bred Jersey bull, 15 months 1 , is advertised for sale by Mr James Hunter, Short Street, Masterton. Reward is Differed for tho.recovery of/lady's silver watch in wristlet"toot between Weraiti road lind Masterton. Mr. W.-Piatt, water diviner, will be in Masterton for a few days. Lettens addressed to the Age Office will receive attention.)

Mr A. T. Dickason reports that poultry realised fairly'good',prices at tho sale at the Queen Street rooms on Saturday last, young lions bringing from Is 6d" to 2s, 'pullets Is lid, and roosters Is 7d per head. Messrs A. Henderson and Co., jewellers, in a change advertisement on page 6 of, this issue, draw special attention! to the preparations they have made,for tho Xmas season. The firm's spacious establishment is overflowing with a magnificent stock of every imaginable suggestion for appriatoly conveying the season's greetings. Beautiful jewellery of every kind, silver and plated ware of every conceivable style, ornamental and useful articles all priced low as the outcome of direct importing, are shown in endless variety. A detailed list of Xmas articles is advertised. The firm pay postage on all presents" to any part of the district, and all orders receive prompt and careful attention. DON'T DIET. It needs all kinds of food to supply the numerous demands of the body. That's why nature gives us euch a generous variety. Eat all your appetite calls for. That's what your appetite is for, to let you know what elements of nutrition you really need. Eat ali yon want. , Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules will digest it and make a. new person of you. They will give you strength, new life, new ambition, and enable you to enjoy livinc as von never have enjoved it befnre. tin. Obtainable everywhere.*

After two days' fine weather, a steady warm rain sot in at' Master* ton last evening. The officers of the Public Works .Department have completed the renovation of the Masterton Post Office The Chinese of Masterton, Carterton and Greytmvn North have contributed. £2O towards the Katong. Hospital at Canton for which Dr Kirk was recently on deputation work i«* New Zealand. Of this amount the Masterton Chinese contributed £ls. The Masterton Homing Pigeon Club held an open interval race fop old birds from Wellington on Saturday, the first bird being) liberated at 12.25 p.m. and the remainder at intervals of ten minutes. The result! is as follows-: Drake Bros'. "Intension" (lhr 20min),. Ist; H. M.-Wil-ton's "Stepaway" (lhr 29min), 2nd £ W. Gourlay's "Equinox" <lhr 30min), 3rd. It is expected that a race from , Timaru will eventuate on Saturday), next, but at present the club cannot say definitely whether it will be abler to get the birds through, owing to tho unsettled state of the ferry service. ! "BEAUTY DBAWS MORE THAN OXEN!" In like manner, that tried-and* trusted remedy, Tonking's Linseed Emulsion, draws daily greater praise for its immediate effectiveness in coughs, colds, influenza, sore (throat, croup, etc. 1/6, 2/6, 4/6—Chemists and Stores.*

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 December 1913, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 December 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 December 1913, Page 4

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