LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7946, 23 January 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Last Week twenty six acres of land opposite the Lower Hutt railway station waß sold by Mr E. J. Riddiford to a syndicate for £30,000. A man named John Osbourne died at Uoroinandel, yesterday, as the result of injuries received in a trap accident on Thursday. It is estimated that the value of the wool disposed of .at-the sale in Dunedio on Tuesday last was £150,000. Mortality amongst foals has been a common complaint by horsebreeders this season pretty well over the whole of the Clutha district.

A waggon, loaded with wheat passed over the back of a four-year-old child in Victoria the other day. By some miraale the infant was neither killed nor seriously injured. As shewing what can be done by growing early potatoes at the present prices, a suburban resident of Gisborne has cleared over £SO from half an acre of tubers. Japanese papers declare that 12,800 Russian prisoners of war in Japan have applied to be naturalised as Japanese subjects. This sneaks volumes for Japan and against Russia, says a contemporary. There were in the colony on September 30th Jaat, 290 dairy factories, 446 skimming stations, and 572 private dairies, with less than 75 cows, a slight increase all round on the figures for a year previous. Eighty-six unemployed entered their names at Dunedin, last week, on the register of the Labour Department. The applicants for most part wanted to be locally employed, that is, in Otago. At the Eketahuna Sports yesterday, both the champion and handicap wood-chopping events weie won by Mr Con Casey, of Tarauaki. The quoits match was won by Mr R. Tankersley, Opaki, 2 points, with Bissett, scratch, second. Tne train, which carried excursionists from Hokitika to Lake Mahinapua, on the occasion of the opening of a new seotion of railway by Mr Seddon a few days ago, was the largest ever run in Wetland. It carried 3,500 passengers. Says the Pastoralists' Reviaw:—■ "One feature of the shearing season just ended is the extraoridnarj increase in the use of maobines, which by next year will be almost universal in the larger sheds throughout Australia." The St. [Matthew's Church Sunday School picnic and the ..Wesleyan Church Sunday School picnic were held, yesterday, at Solway, and on Mr J. Macara's property at Akura, respectively. Both gatherings were well attended, and proved to be enjoyable outings. , The decline of the interest in volunteer matters evoked by the Boer War is further instanoed by the announcement in the last Government Gazette of the Governor's approval of the disbandment of the Ruahine Mounted Rifle 3, says an exchange. A Tairna (Auckland) telegram states that a quantity of wreokage, including a hatch and the covering part of a deck-house, with a quantity of varnished lining boards, have been found near Tekaro. They have evidently been r«oeritly washed ashore. There is no clue to its identity. While there has been drop in the price of sheep in South Canterbury there has been more than a corresponding increase in the price of oattle. Butchers have still to pay 16s to 19s for 6nlb sheeu, while for beef, which they formerly bought at 18s to 20s, they have now to pay 23s to 25s per 1001b. ■' A man named Harris, who went pig-hunting in the (Kawbia district (Auckland) on New Year's Day, bad an unpleasant experience, being lost in the bush for three days, during which time he was without food. When he arrived at Kawbia be was thoroughly exhausted. "Can any of our poultry farmers beat this record?" asks a Taranaki oaper. Mr W. Lu&oombe, senr., of Kapuni, has a duck which made her nest away from the fowlyard. The duok hatched the eggs oat and marched home the other day with 20 duoklings. The brood is coming on splendidly, and so far all the duoklings are alive. The high price of hemp and the growing confidence of millers in the permanence of the flax industry, have led to some big transactions in the Manawatu district. A syndicate of Foxton fiaxmiilers has purchased a large block of flax land from the Makerua Estate Company at £ls per aore. In - the same district an area of flax land changed hands at £23 per-acre, and another block at£2o per acre. The Carterton Methodist Churoh Sunday School pionio was held, yesterday, in a paddock at Mr MoParland's farm at Dalefield. There was a large number of people present, and an enjoyable time was spent. A number of races were run during the afternoon. A race for two geese was won by A. Haigh, with E. King second; and a race for a rooster was won by W. Wenden. The arrangements 'of the picnio were supervised by the Revs. Eton and Ginger, assisted by an energetic ladies' committee. A woman to do washing for the Masterton Hospital is required at once. Full particulars can be obtained on application to the Matron. Mr A. H. A tkinson, land agent, Feilding, advertises for immediate sale a plumbing and tinsmith's business, whioh has been established for thirteen years. The business is situated in a first-class district, and is only beiug sold on account of the owner leaving the colony for health reasons. The oyster season, on aocount of its limited period, is always a busy one, and those who have not made arrangements for supplies should make a point of being in plenty of time. Mr M. Babich, of 49 Molesworth Street, Wellington, announces in the "Wanted" column of this issue that he is the agent for the Bluff Fish and Oyster Company. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and success of SANDER & SONS' EUCA LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Viotoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving ud«ment, said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc., it is not peranssable tb imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish this to afford the public an opportunity of protecting themselves, and of securing what is proved beyond all doubt by. skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Viotoria and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE : GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

A Rain commenced to fall at an early $ "hour this morning, and was continuing fairly heavily at the time of going to pre3S. Mr George Hutchison, formerly M.H.R. for Patea, who recently returned to New Zealand from South Africa, has taken up his residence in Auckland, where he intends to practice his profession of barrister and solicitor. An electrical engineer in New 'Zealand has expressed an opinion that the improved trolly-head for electrical tramways invented by Messrs Holmes and Allan, of Wellington, will be extensively adopted for swivel trolly-heads wherever they are used. It i=> thought that the invention will reduoe tha risk of injury in connection with eleofctioal trams. It is understood that important matters dealing with the administration of the police forces are to receive the consideration of the Cabinet, says the Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. The changes proposed by the Commissioner of Police have been sanctioned by the Minister for Justice, but Mr McGowan had decided to refer them to his colleagues* for final endorsement. It is stated at the Obristohuroh Labour Bureau that there is a great influx to the colony of strong, ablebodied young men from Australia, who appear to have come over for harvesting and graßS seeding. A number of new arrivals from Eng- \ land by the Turakina, mostly jf tradesmen, were also making in- '* quiries at the Bureau. It is. thought that they will have no. difficulty in securing employment. |The fitting trade, which has been* very dull, is now improving, and a scarcity of flttors is felt. The Oauiaru Mail says:—ln these times, when the mention of the word potato conjures up melancholy , fears of blight, it is a pleasure to note the particularly healthy appearance of the potato crops throughout the district, and, as there are at present no signs of the pest in the oountrj/, we hope that we are not over-sanguine in stating that, with the continuance of the dry weather which has prevailed during the past week, North Otago holds out prospects of preserving its tubers bligbtiess this season. The question of closer settlement, says the Sydney Telegraph, is occupying the mind of the State Government a good deal, and the Minister of Lauds, who has left Sydney on a visit to Lake Entrance, Victoria, will subsequently journey to New Zealand to inquire into the question of settlement there- The colony of New Zealandjbas been eminently successful, adds the Telegraph, in promoting settlement, and it is the intention of Mr Aahton to ascertain whether the metheds that have been 80 efficacious there can be adopted in New South Wales with advantage. The recently-published memoirs of the late Sir Harry Keppel, Ad miral of the Fleets contain many good stories of one of the most popular modern British naval men. Admiral Keppel had a stirring and adventurous life, and he was a typical sailor, bluff, hot-tempered, and chivalrous. Sir Algernon West, who has published the memoirs, tells how, when walking with a niece, the •Admiral met two young ladies, who bowed to him. He seized them by the hand, saying how kind they were to recognise an old fellow, and kissed them both. v His niece remonstrated, but he said: "I thought they were some morn nieces—at any rate, they were dev'lisb pretty girls!" Mr Malcolm Ross, of Wellington, has just been making a tour of Mount Cook "Je says that in ad- i ditiun to "colling" the monarch of i New Zealand mountains (i.e., cross- j ing over its highest peak from one! side to the other), the party did two I other climbs, one a first ascent of a peak of over 8000 feet on the Liebig ; Range, and the other an asoent to ' within 300 ft or 400 ft of the summit of Ehe de Beaumont, which is 10,200 ft high. In the latter case all the difficulties bad been surmounted, and the peak was practically climbed when bad weather made a retreat necessary. Mr Ross states that the party had no difficulty, in reaching the summit of Mount Cook in the record time of thirteen hours, but the feature of this climb was the descent on the Hooker side. The Kiniock Estate, near Little River, containing 11,866. acres, divided into twenty farms of all sizes, is to be opened under the lease inperpetuity system on February" 19. The settlement consists chiefly of hilly land on Banks Peninsula between Little River and the sea, and running from sea level to an altitude of 2758 ft. It is all fine healthy pastoral country, growing tussock, cocksfoot and other grasses, and the rentals will range from 6s 6d to 18s per acre. A week later the Mills Settlement, near Waimate, will fce opened. It was formerly the property of Messrs McGovern and Hardie, and consists of 882 acres divided into 21 farms, varying in size from 10 to 124 acres, at rentals ranging from 14s to 30s Der acre. The settlement consists of two blocks about 5 and 8 miles north-east of Waimate, and about two and a half miles from Hook railway station. TO SUFFERERS FROM RBEUMA--IISM Why suffer from rheumatism and its attendant evils when a fa'r trial of Rheumo will cure you, just as it has cured thousands of others. Liniments and plasters can never permanently cure, for the real cause of the agony is to be found in excess of uric acid in the blood. Rheumo neutralises and drives out those poisonous acid accumulations, gives speedy relief, and - ere long will effect a complete cure. Mr E. M. Radman suffered from rheumatism for 21 years, but Rheumo cured him. • Chemists and storekeepers sell it at 2s 6d and 4s Gd a bottle. A SEARCH WABRAHT. Search where you will, it is impossible to find a better or more reliable medicine for stomach, liver, or bowel disorders than • Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. During the past few years they have restored hundreds of sickly people to health • and will do as much for you. We urge • every sufferer from loss of appetite, insomnia, nervousness, indigestion, dyspepsia or - biliousness to give "them a trial. For s lie "by T. G. Mason, M'asterton.—abvt.