LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 19 April 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr T. H. Hamer, Under-Seoretary of Mines, has been appointed an Executive Commissioner for the New Zealand Exhibition. The balance-sheet of the Police Provident Fund shows that* 1 ' the amount now in hand ia £27,121, as compared with £24,875 three years ago. Robert MoOartie, painter, of Marti-iborough, has been adjudicated bankrupt. The first meetmq of creditors will be held in the Martinborough Courthouse on Monday, April 24th. The statutory meeting of householders, fnr the purpose of electing a Sohool Committee for the Masterton School District, will be held in the DriJl Hall, on Monday, 23rd iust , at 8 p.m. ' A meeting of the Masterton Borough Council as a oommittee of the whole will be held at 7.30 o'clock this evening, and to-morrow evening at the same hour the Borough By-laws Committee will meet. There has been only one hour's rain in Christchuroh since April Ist. Reports from the country districts as to pasture, etc., are of a most cheerful character. The days are exceptionally warm, but some of the nights are frosty. . We may now say goodbye To the long doctors' bills, To the coughs and the colds And tho various chills. For the high and the low, The rich and the poor Have found all they needWoods' Great teppermint Cure

The strike of postmen in Paris has collapsed. * A cablegram states that tbe deathrate in Sydney is the lowest for eight years. It is reported that the Premier will introduce a Tariff Bill soon after the meeting of Parliament, and that it will be pushed through among the urgent work of the session. The annual report of the Sydney Town Clerk shows tbe capital valuer of Sydney properties for rating purposes to be £45,54-5,000, an increase of £6-16.000 on the preceding year. A Press Association massage from Hamilton, reports that Mr Hursthouse, Chief Engineer of Koads, was taken to s-the Waikato H'ospifcal on Tuesday suffering from hemorrhage. A general store, at Hamua, owned by J!. Cavanagb,, and occupied J l . P. Clark, was totally destroyed by fire,, early yesterday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. The stock was insured for £700; and the* building, for £200; A Dunedin telegram states that the funds of the Dunedin Hospital-, were benefitted to- the extent of £7 133 7d, as the result of a collection made when the Wellington Central Mission Band played in- the grounds on Tuesday. The public debt of the Borough of Carterton 1 is £21,750; which, is made up as follows:—Water,. £11,750'; drainage,. £7,000'; gasworks, £6; 000. The whole of tbe loan money is. not yet expended but will> be by the end of the year. At the fortnightly pay-night of the Workers' Mutual Building Society, hold last nighfc, the sum of about £l9B- was contributed by the shareholders to enablie them to participate ia the ballot for £3UO ; tobe disposed of free of interest tonight. At the Master ton Police Cjourt yesterday morning, before Mr El'i Smith, J.F;, a first offender was fined ; ss, in. default 2& hour&' imprisonment,, for having been* drunk. A prohibition order was issued against a Local! resident,, on. his owa application.. The Coat Oomuaay r being; unable to supply the demand for coal', have decided to. put on a \ double shift at the Denniston mine,, as well as at Granity Creek, says a. Dunedin Press Association telegram. Thi& will give the Company &o output of 3,000. tons per day. A Press Association tel'egramy re- ' oeived last evening., states- that theEaster Tennis Toarnatoenfc at Wellington: was concluded yesterday ; when Brown and Miss. Travers won ; the Combined Doubles Champion- , ship,, beating Fisher and Mrs Holmes. ;In the Ladies'' Handicap Singles Miss Travera beat Mies A. Ward.

A meeting of the Committee of Wairarapa Coursing Club was held in the Empire' Hotel,, last evening, Mr E. WeM* presiding. A number of matters in connection with the forthcoming meeting were dealt with, and the' Chairman reported that everything pointed towards a successful meeting. It was announced that the balance of the hares would arrive in a few days, making a total of 100 on the ground. Sheep are disappearing in a most mysterious manner in the neighbourhood of Walton (Cambridga district*,, and £IOO has heen offered for any information tending to eluoidate the present position, says au Auokland paper. 'lbis apoears to have been going ou for some time, but the climax was reached when nearly 300 sheep disappeared in about three days. Jt will be remembered that within the 'last fortnignfc similar complaints have been published in the South. Our Kopuaranga writes:—'"Considerable disappointment was felt here at the fiand not turning up to the sports on Monday as promised." In oonneotion with this matter the Carterton News states that at the meeting of the Carterton Brass Band on Tuesday night the secietary, Mr P. Roydhouse, explained that the acceptance of the band's terms to play at the Dreyerton sports had only arrived by telegram on the day of the gathering, and when a number of the band had left the town for other engagements, consequently the band was reluctantly compelled to refuse the offer.

In connection with the opening of the Reuall-Solway Home and the new portion of the Masterton District High Sohool, the Town Olerk has received the following telegram from the Premier:—"Re the opening uf the Old Men's Home and the Technical School at Masterton, if you can arrange the opening for next Monday it would suit me, and I oould be with you. Kindly let me know if Monday next will suit." The Town Olerk has replied mtating that Monday will be a suitable day, and suggesting 2,30 p.m. for the School and & p.m. for the Home as the hours for the opening ceremony. Arrangements are being made accordingly. It is intended to try and obtain a half holiday for the occasion. An advertiser wants to rent two furnished rooms. The declaration of the election of Mr JKenall as Mayor is published elsewhere. The opening of the Masterton Gymnasium for the season has been postponed. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF 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 Victoria, before his Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G,,,ate. His Honour, when giving udcmont k 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 permissable to 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 Victoria and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS* PURJS VOMTILES EUCALYPTI EXTRACT,

Tb© Minister of Lands has in formed Mr J. M'Laohlan, M.H.R., that negotiations for tbe purohase of the Lagbmor Estate, near Aahburton, for oloser settlement, are still proceeding. For having committed a breach of the Immigration Restriction Act by allowing a Chinese oook, named Chow Oboy, to land at Sydney, on the ocoasion of his vessel's last visit, Hans Fujal, master of the island trading steamer Germania was recently fined £IOO. A valuable exhibit in the shape of a copy of the New Testament written on reed-paper with the ancient stylus has been presented to the Ararat Museum (Victoria) by Mr R. Hursttield, of Ardara. The writing is in Hebrew, and is beautifully executed. For the first time for many years the Taranaki Maoris are using the berries of£tho karaka tree for food. The kernels are ground into flour after tbe deleterious substance has been steeped out. The failure of the potato crops is the reason for the use of the berries. The alleged highway robber Howell was charged at Wangacui with having on St. John's Hill, on March 31st, while armed witb a revolver, robbed James Edward Bailey of 2s in money, a pocket knife and some cigarettes. Aooused reserved his defence, and was committed fqr trial. The Otai?o Daily Times is informed on good authority that the romark of Mr Hewitt, nt the meeting of the Palmerstou North branch of the Farmers' Union in reference to Farmers' Mutual Fire insurance premium rates, telegraphed by the Press Association, are not warranted by facts. Tbe legality of the premium notes (referred to as xates) is perfectly uncontestable. The Government having declined to acquire the Hillend Estate, in Otago, for oloser settlement, the proprietors, Messrs Begg Bros., have determined to plaoe on the market 10,000 acres of their station, which lies between Smith's track and the Waitabuna River. The new settlement will be known as Blackburn, and on this block thirty farms have been surveyed ranging from 65 acres to 920 acres.

On board the a.a. Lincolnshire, whiob was loading wheat at Geelong •recently, there were a number of sailors who are forbidden to land in Australia by reason of the provisions of tbe immigration Restriction Act, saya a contemporary. The vessel has, for nearly two years, been visiting no purts save in countries where similar legislation is iu foioe. The result ;s that there are several men among the crew who have not set foot on land for 21 mouths. \ The potato croDS of New Zealand are subject to attacks of blight, but those of Victoria have an equally tuber-destroying plague to contend •with. ft writer in the Melbourne Argus says that 9 per cent, of the potatoes placed on the Melbourne market are rendered unfit for human consumption owing to being tunnelled and re-tunnelled by the potato borer grub. The grub leaveß an evil smell behind it, and unless every affected part is cut off the potato cannot be used. Lord Northcote, the GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth, recently received the GovernorGeneral of Canada a request that he would send him some samples of Australian wines. The GovernorGeneral ot Canada has already imported to that country samples of Gape wine, and he is desirous of testing Australian brands, and letting people know what sort of wine is produced in Australia. Lord Northoote has obtained samples from all the vignerons in the Commonwealth to forward to Canada as . requested. s The British ship Valca, of Liverpool, bound from Iquiqno to Sydney, which is now at Auckland, called off Papeete, Tahiti, on March 24tb, with small-pox and typhoid among the crew. Two men died and were buried at sea, and another .man was in a critical state. The pilot returned to Papeete, and the ship was not allowed to enter the port. The master asked for medical assistancs and provisions, but the wind being contrary he had to sail from the islani. The Valca was sixty days out on, her voyage when she called at Papeete. In a reference to the census, the Auckland Herald says:—"ln the first chapter of the Book of Numbers is set forth the taking of what is probably the first census in written history, when Moses, according to divine command, took 'the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,' the Levites being excepted at this enumeration, and again on the plains of Moab was another census taken, but there was then not a man alive among them who had been numbered in the first census before Sinai, but Caleb and Joshua. History tells, but only in an incidental way, of another census taken in the time of Caesar Augustus, when Joseph and Mary went up to Bethlehem to be taxed, or, as some commentators have it, for enrolment. History, then, has stamped the taking of that census with the hall-mark of approval, therefore tho numbering of the people of New Zealand, which takes place on Sunday, April 29tb, may be fitly regarded as an event of more thai statistical importance. QUITE DIFFERENT. ■ The ordinary cough medicine may soothe the throat, but it hus no power to heal; recovery is not complete, and a second attack is more liable to follow. Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy is quite different, because it not only soothe 3 but also heals, so that the affected parts are restored to a healthy condition, and the danger of a future attack is remqved. For sale by T. G. Mason Masteiton.—Advt. TOUR COMPLEXION. It is an index to the state of the stomach. If you have pimples, boils,, carbuncles, or any other public signs of distress, your blood is full of impurities from your stomach. Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules will remove the cause of your mottled appearance, and will cure the headache, in' digestion, sleeplessness, and all other evils that arise from a disordered stomach. For Bale by H. E. Eton, Masterton, J. Bailie, ' Carterton. —Advt. For Colds in the Head and Influenza, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/0 /6 per bottle.

Mr S. Haigh has been a member of the Greytown Town Lands Trust for 27 years. The new school building at Carterton will be finished about the end of this month. A Sydney cablegram, received this morning, states that heavy gales are predioted on the ooast and between Bass Straits and New Zealand. The first monthly match for the Challenge Shield of the Wairarapa Golf Club, will take plaoe on the F.ototawai Links next Saturday. It has been dee'ded to form a olub, to be Known as the "Danuevirke Working Men's Club," to be run en strict temperauce lines. The conference of delegates under the Maori Councils Act, 1900, will be held at Papawai to-day. A large gathering of delegates are expected to be present. A Lyndhurst resident threshed 4,021}£ bushels in one day, which he clafms is a world's rocord, Bays a contemporary. His tally for the week is stated to have been \2,819}4 bushels. Messrs James Brown and Geo. A. Fairbrother have been nominated for the office of Mayor for the borough of Carterton. Mr W. Udy has been returned unopposed as Mayor of Greytown North. Three weddings were celebrated at Carterton yesterday, the contracting parties being Miss T. M. Petersen and Mr F. E. Rofe; Mr W. H. Humphrey and Miss Lorai Keid; and Mr Walter Terry ami Mia*. Matilda Anderson. So great are the demands f Or' fat stock in Auckland city that the. Rarawa will be engaged for the next four months, as well aa an occasional second steamer, in carriyng. cattle and sheep from, New Plymouth to Onehunga.

A cablegram fromi Sydney, this morning, stated that the weather was very sultry yesterday. It was tbe hottest April experienced for 17 years. The thermometer registered 88 degiees in Sydney, and ranged as.high as 104 degrees in the oountry..

At Grßytown on Tuesday Miss Jessie Taylor, eldest daughter of Mr J. Taylor, of Greytovvu, was married to Mr John Lamb, of Ashburton. Miss Tene and Myra Taylor were the bridesmaids. Mr Charles Lamb was beat man, and Mr John Taylor groomsman.

It is reported, says a Wellington correspondent, that a vacancy will shortly occur in a prominent position in the office of the Registrar of Friendly Sooieties. The matter has been the subject of much discussion in pubio service circles but no details are yet available. / A striking comment on the alleged injury resulting from the , "dumping" of American steel in Wales was furnished by a recent case of summons for, debt. A steel worker in South Wales was compelled to give evidence of his wages, an 3 it was certified that his average monthly earnings amounted to £23 2s Id. Nearly £6 a week earned by a steel-worker in Preetrade England I The secretary of the Katikati branch of the Farmers' Union writes to the Advocate: When a few srade unionists and other residents in towns who know nothing of the difficulties with which'farmers have to contend propose to dictate the terms on which farmers should hold their land, it is aurely time that farmers should join together to resist any such interference. If they do not'the time will come, and that before long, when they will see their mistake and have cause to regret their indifference. A couple of weeks ago a man named Thomas Goodger was arrested on a charge of stabbing John Prestidge, aged 63 years, and had since been out on bail while Prestidge received medical attention. Yesterday, states a telegram from Wellington, Goodger was re-arrested, owing to it being thought desirable that Prestidge's depositions should be taken. The depositions were taken t by Dv MoArthur, S.M. Prestidge has a wound in bis side and two in the left arm. It was the outbreak of a severe hemorrhage from the arm that caused uneasiness as to the man's condition. From a mass of interesting patter concerning the smoking habits of the rulers of the world collected by a former diplomat in Washington, it appears that while King Edward and the Austrian Emperor prefer cigarß, the Kaiser and the Czar are devotees of the cigarette. The Sultan of Turkey, in spite of the popular idea to the contrary, is a non-smoker, and the King of the Belgians contents himself with acigarette if he cannot indulge in his favourite briar pipe. lh is said that the King of Portugal smokes 40 cigars a day, and he has been declared to be the most inveterate smoker of all the crowned beads. Pope Pius X occasionally smokes a cigar. With the exception of the Queen of Holland, the King of Bavaria and the Sultan, says the "Cigar and Tobacoo World," every reigning monarch is addicted to the use of tobacco. S">RK LUNGS. When your lungs are sore and inflamed from coughinc, is ths time when the germs of pneumonia, pleurisy, and consumption find lodgmentand multiply. Dr Sheldon's New Discovery for Coughs, Oolds and Consumption stora tho cough, heals and strengthens the lungs. Dr. Sheldon's New Di3fiOvery is a safe and never-failing remedy. Small dose. Pleasant to take, Everv'bottle guaranteed. For sale by H. E. Eton, Masterton, J. Bailie, Carterton.— Advt. Perhaps you wish to send a parcel "to another town either in New Zealand or across the sea. If so, you will find it best to forward it through J. J. Curtis and Co., Ltd., Forwarding, Shipping, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Not only will it be the cheapest way, but you will be saved time and trouble— Advt. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS. Many sufferers from rheumatism have been surprised and delighted at the prompt relief obtained by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. In advising you to use Chamberlains Pain Balm for Rheumatism, we know it will give you perfect satisfaction, as the first application will relieve the pain, and its continued use for a short time will effect a cure, for sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton. —Advt. For Children's Hacking Cough at night , Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and .2/o,per bottle.

Thirty thousand persons travelled by tram in Christchurch on Easter Monday. Miss K. Oompton, at present on the staff of the Newtown School, has been appointed to the Waioue School. At Eketahuna, on Monday, Mr | Nelson Ranger, of Feildmg, was married to Miss Annie Calton, of Newman. The Presbyterian Church at Hastings has uuaumimously decided to send a call to the Rev. Donald McIvor, of Herbert, Otago. A London cablegram, last evening, stated tuat King Alfonso, of Spain, is visiting Princess Eiia of Batten berg at the Isle of Wight. It-is stated at Singapore that a German firm has acquired a commercial coalius sta' ion at Pulalant Island, south-east of Dutch Borneo. A conference of the Shop Assistants' Union meeting In London has adopted a draft Bill making early closing compulsory. Captain Pearson, a North Sea and i English Channel pilot was brought on to Adelaide in tbe barque, Gtinista. A teriifio gale prevented him from being lauded in England. The Crown lands available farselection in the Wellington Province total an area of 49,037 Thia- area includes 29,608 acres of unsuCTeyed rural lands, and 12,328 acres of small graziug runs. , At the yearling sales at Sydney, yesterday, sixty youngsters realised !9,925 guineas. A brother of Lord Fitzroy and a sister of Ebullition brought 850 guiuoas each. At Knox Church, Danuovirke, on Easter Monday, Mr Donald Rose, the well-known auctioneer, was married to Miss Mary Edwards, only daughter of the late Mr Edwards, of Hastings.

A gang of women has been carrying on systematised shoplifting for some time past in Melbourne, goods having been stolen to the extent of twenty or thirty pounds per day. Two arrests have been made.

Walter Maxwell, who has completed his sentence in West Australia for an offence under the Bankruptcy Act, has been arrested at Auckland to answer similar charges in connection with bis business failure at Cambridge, Auckland.

Mr J. H. Carruthers, Premier of New South Wales, states that while a very large amount of Australian money has gone to London for investment, it has not been done suddenly. The money has been sent pending better securities being available here.

On April 23rd the Selwyn Settlement of 37,444 acres, on the Auok-land-Rotorua railway line, will he 1 open *for application under the Lands for Settlement Act. The areas range from 100 acres to 6,600 acres.

At the annual conference of the Canterbury Temperance Workers on Monday, resolutions were passed protesting against the granting of charters to clubs at Masterton, Feilding, Hastings and Wellington. A motion was also passed urging the value of the redaction vote.

A Palmerston North telegram, last evening, stated that Mr J. Fitoh, a well-known prospector, has been lost in the Ruahine Ranges, above Raneiwabia, since Friday last. A search party has gone out, but grave fears for his safety are entertained by those who are\ familiar with the locality.

A successful meeting was held by the North Enngitikei Rifle Association at Mangaweka during tbe Easter Holidays. Competitors took par t from Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Rangitikei,, and along the Main Trunk Line. The champion gold medal for tbe highest aggregate was obtained by Banks, of Kimbolton. The J'annevirke Rifles team won tbe Teams Match.

The North Canterbury Saleyards' Company, at a special meeting at Rangiora on Tuesday, decided to wind up and accept the offer of the North Canterbury Stores Company for the freehold of the yards and buildings of a sum sufficient to pay the amount of the mortgage, the bank overdraft, and the costs of winding up.

At the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court, yesterday, Lilian McMahon, alias Martin, a young woman of prepossessing appearance, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen £6B 10s from Catherine Buokley, an old woman with whom she lodged. She took the money from a drawer and portmanteau in her room. She was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence, , v^

The Canterbury Caledonian Sooiety has offered a scholarship of £ls, tenable for two years, fDr children of Soottish parents (either side), and the Governors of Canterbury College have granted one year's free education to the successful candidate. The examinations will be in (1) Soottish history, 1560—1650, from Scott's "Tales of a Grandfather"; Soottish language and literature, including the life of Sir Walter Soott, two of his epics, and two of Burns's larger poems. BABY COUGH MUST NEVER LINGER. . Nothing is more distressing than to see a helpless littie infant suffering with a cough, and to be fearful of using a remedy which may contain some harmful ingredient. The makers of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy positively guarantee that their pre* paratton does not contain opium in any form, or any other harmful substance. Mothers may confidently give this remedy to their little ones. It gives prompt relief, and is perfectly safe. It always cures, and cures quickly. For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton—advt. JUST WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD DO. Mr S. G. Mather, proprietor "Chronicle" Normanton (Q.), always keeps a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Bemedy at hand, ready for emergency, for there is no telling when it may be needed. He saya: —"lt completely cured me of chronic dysentery, from which I had suffered for year?. I feel confident that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera aDd Diarrhoea Remedy saved the life of my infant daughter, who, when teething was severely attacked with diarrhoea, t.nd was given up by the doctors." For sale by T. G. Mason, Masterton.—advt. Pretty Pictures want Pretty Frames. You can get the Finest Selection and the Best Workmanship at R. J. Lyttle's, Gillespie's Buildings.—Advt.