LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XV, Issue 4087, 13 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For failing to register a dog a Foxton resident was fined Is, with costs 12s, and was ordered to pay the registration fee of 10s. A cow with two ear-marks on its left ear calved on Mr Lovelock’s property at Scarborough one day last week. The calf had exactly the same marks on its left ear. Hares are reported numerous in several parts of the Masterton district. They have a partiality for orchards and gardens.

The building trade is brisk at Napier. One firm is employing between 150 and 160 men on contracts and pays out considerably over £4OO weekly in wages. As a result of the shipping strike, Foxton storekeepers raised the price of kerosene Is 6cl per case, and sugar Is per bag, to cover the cost of extra railage freight.

Rats to the number of 258 were received and paid for at the Napier waterworks from September 25th to October 25th, the amount expended being £3 4s 6d. “With the completion of the new premises for the Bank of New South AVales at the corner of Mangahao road, Pahiatua will have three banking institutions in the main street within a little over 100 yards distance of each other. A casual glance at the Foxton main electoral roll, says an exchange, discloses the fact that there are numbers of people whose names appear thereon who have either “shuffled off this mortal coil,” or left the district, and others again whose names are doubled.

Mr AY- Inglis Husband, land agent, has disposed of _Mr AV. H. Meech’s propertv of 1092 acres, at Alakuri, to Air Frank Houghton (brother of Air Houghton, of Scarborough). He has also sold Air R. Reay’s property at Atangamaire, consisting of 605 acres, to Air Neil Small, jun., of Taihape.

At Hastings a boy was injured by fireworks. A match had been applied to a sky-rocket, and as it did not take its departure heavenwards, the lad began to investigate, when the bomb exploded. His face received the full charge of the powder, a great deal of which lodged in his eyes. His face was also considerably burnt. The residence of Air AA'. Lunt, of Horoeka, was burnt to the ground last week. Airs Lunt just had sufficient time to remove the children from the burning building when the whole place was enveloped in flames. It is surmised the cause of the outbreak was the high winds blew some sparks from a fireplace. Air Lunt will be a heavy loser, as nothing was saved.

Cabinet has decided to start the Stratford Alain Trunk railway at Te Koura, which is about five miles south of Ongarue. The engineer advises that this saves over six miles of construction, also a monetary saving of £70,000, besides the upkeep for all time. The ceremony of turning the first sod of the railway at Te Koura will be arranged to take place at the earliest possible date, the Premier officiating.

Napier has a tarring machine, which many of the residents regard as a white elephant, and it has been put into commission again. It is j stated that last year the authorities j tried an experiment and divided a | section of the Parade into two equal ! parts—one being tarred by the maJ chine and the other by hand. It was found that the machine did the work j ever so much quicker and at a i slightly smaller cost. A regulation which, in effect, puts j another crack in that- bete noir of j public health propagandists, the j school slate, has been added to the | school committee allowances regulai lions by the W ellington Education Board. It reads:—“The Board may j purchase and supply to schools staj tionery. including paper for use in school instead of slates, charging to I (he committee fund such amount as i it may determine, but not exceeding net cost, nor in any case exceeding 1 (id per child in average attendance. A mistake made in Pahiatua on j Saturday resulted in the untimely : death of several prize fowls and a , treat for the boarders in one of the ! local hotels yesterday. A purchase of I poultry was made < n behalf of the i hotel and a messenger was sent tor .the birds. Ho accidentally secured a I number of prize birds instead of the less aristocratic fowls which had been intended for consumption, and before 1 the mistake was discovered he had wrung their necks. The owners or the prize bird was not even mollified when he was assured by the boarders that the prize birds had made excellent eating -V cable has been received stating that Dalgety and Go. purpose declaring a eftvidend of 4s per share, i being at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, and making with the interim dividend, already declared and paid, 8 per cent, lor the 12 months ended •June 30. The Company has written off from profits £(>0,1)00 to credit of reserve :uml, which how stands at. £440,000. It has also written off from the profits £IO,OOO to the staff benevolent fund, which now stands at £41,000. It has also written off freehold promisee, £40,000. The balance carried forward after making due allowance for possible contingencies is £81,717. At a meeting of the Committee of the Alastrrton A. and P. Association on Saturday a letter was rend from the secretary of the New Zealand Itonmey Marsh Breeders’ Association, giving the results of the conference held at Palmerston North between the joint committees of the two Associations, on the question of holding a. llomney ram sale under the auspices of the llomney Marsh Association at Masterton. It was pro|>oscd that the Alasterton Association setup n sub-committee of two, to act with Messrs R, Gray and ,T. E. Hewitt, to act us stewards on the day of the sale. Three prizes .would be given for two-tooths. and three for fnur-tooths. The llomney Association would appoint its own judges. Alessrs AA*. I>. Watson, AA*. lVrrv and R. Cooper were appointed to represent the Masterton Association as stewards, and the report of the conference was adopted.

A donation of £1 Is lias been received by Mr S. V. Rodney from Mr A. Crawford for the Irving fund. Other donations are solicited.

The detailed figures for the Pahiatua. and Akitio County elections will be found on 3, notes for the man on the land on page 6, and the progress of the match between the English cricketers and South Australia is recorded on page 7.

A man named Samuel Keats was arrested at Te Whiti on Saturday charged with stealing clothing and jewellery, of the value of £l2, from the Admiral Run on October 28th. The accused was brought up at the Magistrate’s Court this morning, and remanded to Carterton.

The first annual dance under the auspices of the Eketahuna Hockey Association was held on Friday evening, and proved a fitting termination to a successful season. Music was suplied by Miss Tuckwell, of Hamua. During the evening Mr Fitzgerald, of Hamua, danced a cake-walk, to the amusement of those present. Mr A. H. Herbert presented the following trophies:—Cup, presented by Mr Herbert for the winners of the ladies’ competition, to be won twice in succession, or three times at intervals, the Eketahuna Club ; Druids' Challenge Cup, the Druids’ Club. The runners’-up for the ladies’ competition, the Hamua Club, was presented with a trophy donated by Air Herbert, and the captain of the team, Afiss Violet Tuckwell. was presented with a medal donated by Mr Bradetock.