LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8106, 28 March 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The uett overdraft of the Masterton Borough Council, at the present date, amounts to £1,409 Os 6d, and the rates outstanding amount to £787 19s 9d. Dr. J. M. Mason, Chief Health Officer for the colony, returned to Wellinston on Monday, by the Gothio after a nine months' trip abroad. The ploughing of the land in canneution with the organisation of the Argicultural Classes at the Masterton District High School, has been bom Dieted, and the next movement is that tenders are to be called and specifications drawn up. iox the fencing of the section.

The annual meeting of the Mas*-, terton Golf Club will 'be'; -held; at * 4.30 p.m. to-day, iuitbe Maafcerton • Courthouse. The death is announced of 'Mr' Conradsen a well-known old 1 'Carterton settler who has been in ; ill-;' health for some time past. A Hastings gardener has a string of twelve .onions ready for the Hawke's Bay Agricultural andPaatoral Souiety's Autumn Show,wtrioh weigh 291b 14oz. Mr C. H. Savage, poundkeeper, reported to the meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, last ever • ing, that there were 13 impoundings from the Borough, and four from the County during the month, ended March 25th. The amount received in f*>es was £5 3s 6di At the examination of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Koyal College of Music, London, held recently in Wellington, Miss Alice M. Jones, of Lansdowne, was a successful candidate in the intermediate grade of pianoforte claying. For a wager of £2O aside, N. H. McEwen and V. O'Neill have decided to race over a distance of 440 / yards on Saturday afternoon next. The competitors will start off the same marks as they did in the 440 Yards Handicap on St. Patrick's Day, viz., McEwen 12 yards, and O'Neill 28 yards. Mr J. 0. MoKillop has been asked to act as judge. The Executive Commissioners for the New Zealand International Exhibition, which will open at Christchurch on November Ist next, noti-, fy that applications for space close on Saturday next, March 31st. Already the large applications for space have necessitated considerable additions to the original plans. Exhibits will be made by the prinoipal \ manufacturing countries of tho world. Particulars appear elsewhere. The Napier Frivolity Minstrels intend giving an entertainment in the Masterton Town Hall on Easter Monday, April 10th. The company have been organised about ten years, and are said to have considerably more than a loeal reputation. Tho company comprises forty performers, including an orchestra of seventeen. The oorapany have lately imported a specially large consignment nf American and Continental "hits." ' The progrgamme will include coon songs, sentimental solos, duets, choruses, coon marches, and dances. Press notices speak in high terms o! the company. The following is the present financial position of the Masterton Borough Council, as submitted to tha meeting last evening:—General! Account, dr., £2,258. 3s lid; Gas Account, or., £547' 10s lid; Library Account, dr., £llO 10s 3d;: Waterworks Account, or., £99 7fl Id; Deposit Account, or., £144; Interest Aooount (drainage),, or., £47 lls7d; Interest Account (Bannister Street), or., £l2l 4a Id; Loan: Aucount (drainage), or., £BB 9s 73}. Loan Account (abattoir), or.,' £084; lis Bd. In another column of this issue is an official announcement from the-Acting-Resident Secretary for' New Zealand of the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music andl Royal College of Music, Londoß. Tnese two colleges are the onlysohools of mnsio in Great Britain established by Royal charter,. and responsible to the nation for. thecharacter of their eduotational.and! examining worth, and, therefore,, their various examinations- are accepted standards of proficienoy.. The/ decision of the Board to hold musih oal examinations in Maste-ton cannot fail to have a benefloiali effect* and should be hailed with pleasure and satisfaction by, every, lover of music in the Wairarapai At the Auckland Police Court,, on. Monday, James owner and! publisher of a weekly paper called Saturday Night,.published in Auckland, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal libel' in publishing twoarticles in February,, reflecting on the conduct and administration of Dr Beattie of the Avondale Mental Auckland-., Defendant later publshed a, complete apology, aud withdrew all; the charges. Dr Beattie,. on; oath, said: he was satisfled with the anology, but in the public interest the prosecution waa brought. It appeared defendant had received written statements from.attendants at the Asylum, who had' been Defendant was committed for sentence to the Supreme-Court. The divers engaged in salvage operations on the wreck of tjie Hilda, wrecked off the French Coast, have-brought up a box belonging to the late Major E. A. M. Price, one of the unfortunate passengers who was drowued; in the box was found a £I,OOO insurauoe coupon issued by Charles Letts and Co., in their well-known pocket books and drarieo. A condition of the insurance is that any claim shall be made within 14 days of the occurrence of the accident, the directors of the General Accident Assurance Corporation, however, on tho facts being plaoed before them, at once admitted the claim, and a cheque has been forwarded to the solicitors acting for the administrators of the deceased. Wittin the past few mouths claims amounting to upwards of £3,600 in connection with Charles Letts' insurance specialties have been paid, and nearly 150,000 persons have already this year availed themselves of this popular insurance. FACTS ESTABLISHED AT COURT. In an action, the cause of which was flagrant misuse of our firm name and other gross misrepresentation by an imitating company, which was tried before his Honor, Ch'ef Justice 3. Madden, K.C.M.G., L.L.D., in the Supreme Court, at Melbourne, the prosecution showed:— 1. That Sander and Sons' Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract contains all medical constituents of the eucalypti, in a highly refined and pure form. 2. That it is much more powerfully healing (antiseptic) than ordinary eucalyptus preparations. 3. That'it does not depress the heart like ordinary euoalyptuspreparations.. 4. That it contains no harmful ingredients, and 5 That it is highly commended by many authorities for the last 30 years as a safe, reliable and effective rerepdy. Some imitators have tried to deceive the public by simulating our get-up others have relied ion the "just as good" game. Therefore ■ take care and qotain the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

f Messrs C. Seeling and W. JohnBtone, members ot the New Zealand Football Team, returned by the Gothic on Monday. Mr Johnstone was ill when the team left Southampton, and had to stay beh'nd. A meeting of the General Committee in connection with the recent Hospital Floral Feto is conveued for this evening, in the Borough Council Chambers, when the report and balance-sheet will be submitted. A London cablegram, yesterday, stated that the Bristol squadron is expeottd to sail for Buitderabbas owing to Persia, at the instance of Russia, objecting to a site ohosen for a cable-house for a line constructed by the Indian Government. i A cable message received yester- , day stated that "Fighting with fanatical Pulgaries ia reported to bave occurred at Magataon, in Samar. (one of the Philippine Islands). Governor Curry iB missing. Reinforcements have been sent." A later message, received this morning, contained the news that Governor Curry was safe. Tha Masterton Borough Council, at their meeting Inst evening, appointei Mr J. M. Blackmann. out of thirteen applicants, to the position of Manager of the Corporation Gasworks. The successful applicant is at present in the employ of Messrs A. and T. Burt, at Auokland. He has been employed by the Auokland No. 2 Gas Company; Gas Company, Melbourne; Brighton Gas Company, Melbourne; and Castletnaine Gas Company, Victoria. With the latter company he held the position of engineer and secretary for upwards of thirteen years. At a meeting of the Executive of the New Zealaud Alliance at Wellington, on Monday evening, the following resjlution was oarried:— "That this Executive strongly protests against the action of the Government in granting additional club charters £ur the sale of liquor in violation of the spirit of the law, which prohibits any increase of licenses, and also in breach of the promises which they -« bave previously given on the subject; and respectfully urges upon all temperance bodies the necessity of using every effort to put a stop so the wholesale increase of facilities for the sale of intoxicants with which the colony is threatened by this unexeoted abuse of power of the Government.

Some time ago there arrived in Wellington, from Japan, a consignment of handkerchiefs of a texture -so fine and soft that the Customs officials took the material to be silk, and wished to levy duty accordingly. To this the consignee obeoted, declaring that the handkerchiefs were not made of silk, and the matter took a humourous aspect when the Japanese Consul brought evidence to prove that the raw material used was nothing moie nor less than New Zealand flax fibre. Of course the method of manufacture is a close trade secret. All that is known of it is that the process is a chemical one, and that the fibre thus split into threads is so fine that one of them, even when held in a strong bright light, is inrisible. One of these handkerchiefs, is now in the possession of Mr Fulton, the chief grader, who has candidly confessed that he huuself would have been deceived as to the nature of the material, though,, of course, had be seen the fibre, he would have recognised it as our product. From statements made to an Evening Post reporter it would appear that fraudulent practices in connection with tne sale of New Zealand frozen mutton at Home still go merrily on. A gentleman recently returned from London had occasion, while travelling in Sootland, to go into a meat shop in Glasgow where a placard announced that New Zealand mutton was on sale. He asked for 51b of New Zealand chops, and was astounded when he saw the wily butcher advancing towards a lean-looking carcase that would never have been permitted to leave these shores. "That's not New Zealand mutton," observed the newcomer while the butcher worked vigorously with his knife. "Oh, yes, it is," he replied. "Where's the brand?" demanded the customer. That settled the matter. The butcher recognised that he was in a hole, and promptly got himself out of the difficulty by saying he wbb sorry, but bad just discovered that he had no New Zealand meat in stock at that moment. The same thing is going on all over the country, and it is extremely difficult to detect the offenders. The new season's golf goods are now on view at the W.F.O.A. Fanoy Department. Mr A. Norman, draper, anBounoes the arrival of new autumn and winter drapery, and invites inspection. Mr J. L. Murray is making a special display of new autumn drapery, and invites the ladies of Maßterton and district to iaspect -the goods.

An advertiser, who ia leaving the district, wishes to sell a business which shows a profit of from £3 to £5 per week. Advertiser's address may be obtained at this office. Nominations for the Easter Meeting of the Peilding Jockey Club will close at 8.30 pm , on Fr day next, and not at 8 o'clock as previously notified. The public are cautioned against cashing a cheque for £35 9s (3d, drawn by Mr S. Kingdon. on the Bank ut New South Wales, Pabiatua. payment ot which ban been stopped. Applications are invited for the position of resident agent in Mastertcn for British. American and Indian import and export bouses. Particulars of business appear elsewhere, and applications are to be addressed to "Progress," care of Age Office. Mr C. Adams, of Wellington, announces elsewhere that he is holding a fourteen days' sale of first-class millinery, in premised in Queen Street, direotly opposite Worksop Boad. The stock is a varied one, and includes the latest styles in jackets, costumes, dress skirts, and blouses, whiob are being sold at reasonable prices.

An effort Is being made to form a Wcrking Men's Club in Dunedin. The net profits on the recent Catholic Bazaar held at Hastings amount to about £650. Mr J. Bradbury, of Masterton, intends competing at the meeting of the Port Nicholson Amateur Athletic Club, at Wellington, on April 7th. A New Zealand Leghorn and Minorca Fanciers' Club for the North Island has been formed, with quarters at Palmerstou North. A large number of South Africau war clasrs for 1901 are lying in the Defence Office, Wellington, awaiting claimants. The Lake Mahiuapua section of the Ross Railway Extension, south from Uokitika, jh expected to be ready for traffic by the Ist of April. The Stratford Post says that during December an 1 January thirteen dairy factory companies in the vicinity of Stratford distributed £74.835 amoug suppliers. A charter has been granted to the Civil Service Ciub in Wellington. The club has seouied a suite of rooms in a new building on Lambton Quay, close to the Supremo Courthouse. An epidemic of typhoid and scarlet fever has broken out at Waihi. Several cases of scarlet fever are reported from one of the Wellington suburbs. The total cost to the Shipmasters' Assooiatiop of New Zealand of the legal and other expenses, in connection with the collision at Auckland,, amounted to £163.

In April next Mr John Roberts, possibly tne world's most expert billard player, will retire from professional play. He has been before the public as a player for the last forty years. Mr Geo. H. Sheffer, representative of the Sheldon Drug Company, of Boston, U.S.A., was on a business visit to Masterton, yesterday, in connection with placing the firm's remedies on the market here.

A polo match was played at Wellington, ou Saturday, between the Wellington and Wbireatna Polo Clubs. The weather was wet, and the ground heavy. The Whareania team was represented by Messrs K. Morrison, H. M:;rrison, •*. Barton and Dr Hunter, and the Wellington seam by Messrs B. Vallance, Grace, 'M. Clarke, «• nd R. Levin. The latter team were runners up at at the Polo Championship Contest att Chriscchnrch. The game was a fast one, but the heavy nature of the ground interfered with the play of the Whareama team, Wellington won the match by 8 goals to 2 goals. The goals for the Whareama team were scored by Messrs H. and R. Morrison, who both played sterling games. The result of the movement to raise funds in aid of the new Hospital building is of an eminently satisfactory character. The donations received bv the Treasurer direct amount to £487 15s 9d, while the balance from the Floral F«ste amouuts to £239 12s Bd, making a total of £727 8s sd. When the Government subsidy is added to the sum already stated, the Building Fund will have been augmented to the extent of £1,600 6s 6d. The promoters of the movement, when undertaking it, hoped to raise £7OO, thus it will be seen that they have exceeded their highest anticipations. The energetio committee, and the indefatiguable secretaries, Messrs W. M. Easthope and A. Niool, are certainly to be heartily congratulated upon having achieved such a complete success.