LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 18 May 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr M. 0. O'Connell has resigned the position of President, and, also, as a member of the Wairarapa Coursing Olub. Dr Findlay has been re-elected ohairman of tha Victoria College Counoil, Sir Robert Stout has been re-elected to represent the Victoria College Council ou the University Senate. • > The concert to We given by the Masterton Orchestral Sooiety in the Town Hall on Thursday evening next. f)romises to be a pronounced success. The programme will comprise botb vocal and instrumental items. , Overtures by Schubert and Rossini and characteristic pieces by Eilenberg and Von Blon will be rendered, under the uonductorship of Mr R. H. Rath bone. Vocalists on the occasion will be Mrs Mathieson and Miss Nilsson. For Children's Hacking Cough at Night ' Woods' Great Peppermint Care, 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle

The biennial conference of the Municipal Association of New Zealand will be held in Wellington in July. Between £2,500 and £3,000 is to be expended in enlarging the Napier Working Men's Club premises. A party of three Akaroa sportsmen shooting at Lake EHesmere on Tuesday and Wednesday last week secured 183 ducks and 20 odd swans. The total number of ova hatched out during the season at Westland was 650,000, including 12,000 Loch Leven, 130,000 brawn, and 250,000 raiubow, hum the Westland Acclimatisation Society's stock, and 500,000 from Hakataramea. A bankrupt named M'Garry has given remarkable evidence before the Court in Hobart. He first admitted having lost £SOO in the streets of Hobart whilst druuk. Then he' purchased large quantities of stock and other goods and sold them, pocketing the Drooeeds and failing to pay the accounts. The Hermitage of Mount Cook i s to be closed during the winter, from about the middle of May till the middle of Ootober. Previously a caretaker has been stationed at the Hermitage in winter, but the lack of visitors at this seison has induced the lourist Department to-take the decision mentioned. Mr Laurenson, M.H.R., who has just returned to Lyttelton from a visit to the Lake Hawea distriot, states there is land there capable of givipg over eighty bushels of wheat to,the acre. This country can fce bought.at from £3 to £5 per acre; but it is some seventy miles from the nearest rail way station. Serious allegations have been made, against a member of the Melbourne detective force, to the effect that he instigated two men to put up a crime in order that another might he oonvioted of receiving. It is also stated that the person so trapped was oonvioted, and is now serving a sentence of two years. An enquiry is to be made. A Christohuroh telogram, last evening, stated thac at the annual meeting of the Utility Poultry Club, held last night, the report referred to the first egg-laying competition, just closed, and stated that the average returns from the whole of the competitors had been highly (satisfactory. The Director of the College reported that the average return per bird iu the competition was lis from the sales of eggs, the cost of feed being 5s 11 Kd, leaving a profit of 5s The leading pen yielded 13s 4d per bird, less cost of management, and the lowest pen a profit of 2a 4%d. . A corresoondent infornja the Oamaru Mail that a certain school committee in the North Otago district received three applications for the position of charwoman, all the women asking the same remuneration. The votes were evenly divided between a poor widow woman with six ohiidren and the wife of the chairman of the committee. The chairman, who owns 100 aores of land, settled the matter by giving his casting vote in favour of his own wife. It is said that at ' least one member of the committee has resigned in consequence of the chairman's action.

, The Wellington correspondent of the Cbriatchurcb Press states that the Hutt railway works, on which there was great'activity at election time, have slackened off perceptibly. The southerly galo last week ■ did considerable damage to the works, the SBa making breaches in the rook and earthwork. The damngq is estimated at from £6OO to £I,OOO. On Wednesday men worked all night trying to save the works. The straightening and doubling of the line will probably take another two years. There is a good deal of doubt, even in the minds of experts, as to whether or not the Department has gone the right way about the work.

The prizes won in connection with St. Matthew's Sunday School were distributed in the Sunday' Schoolroom last evening, by the Rev. A. M. Johnson, in the Young Ladies' Bible Class the principal prizewinners were Misses J. Robins, D. La Roche, S. Winzenberg and M. MuNair, and in the Boys' Class S. Edwards, W". Palamontmin and P. Hyde. All the youhg children were She recipients of prizes. Two speoial prizes for scripture knowledge and conduct were won by Miss L. Peters and Master W. Te Tau,!ro3pectiyely. During the evening a musical programme was rendered items being contributed by Misses E. Richards, E. Jepsen, W. Jones, V. Edwards, N. Hooper, M. Infield. R. Hooper, M. Wagg, and Master E. Mackersey. It was originally intended to hold a chrysanthemum show in connection with the distribution cf prizes, but owing to the recent bad weather most of the blooms that were to have been shown were destroyed. A few blooms were, however, shown, and the prize for the beat blooms was won by Master E. Perry. In out bloomß Miss E. Richards was first and Miss M. Lungdon was second, and the competition for button-holo9 was won by Miss Alma Perry.

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A meeting of the Sunday School teachers in the Wairarapa will be held in the Masterton Presbyterian Sunday School room on Monday evening, at 7.30 o'clc/ok. The following are the latest dredging returns to hand:—Masterton, 460z sdwt, for 99 hours, from top of plates only; Bessey, 14oz lOdwt; and Mystery Flat, 290z, for the week. It is now reported that the story telegraphed from Auckand last week about the' sighting of a sea serpent by the officers of the, steamer Taviuni is declared by the captain of the vessel to .be fictitious. The Eketahuna Mounted Rifles paraded at Eketahuna yesterday, and under the command of Captain Herbert, marched to the rifle range for target practice. Lieutenants Stonewigg and Page were also in attendance. A foot parade was held in the evening, when there was a good muster of members. Dr. Todd, late of Southland, has commenced the practice of- his profession in Masterton, and may be consulted daily at the ClubHotel. Dr.' Todd, who practised for ten years in the Lumsden district, wao presented prior to his leaving with an illuminated: address' from the Oddfellows M.D. Lodge, and, also, with a similar token of ' respect from the residents of that district. Since leaving Southland Dr. Todd has visited the hospitals of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow* and San Francisco; The value on the .Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., notes of all denominations has, up to the present, been printed in the one colour. The bank has now issued new £l, £5, £lO, £2O, and also £SO notes, with the value printed in different oolours, as follows, thus making the difference in values more mumed—One pound, pale oerise on pink ground; five pounds, green on paler green ground; ten pounds, yellow ochre on light brown sienna; twenty pounds, white on lavender ground; fifty pounds, white on grey pink ground. In other respects the dis? tinotive features of the desigh are maintained, most prominent being the figures of Britannia ,and the Coronation portrait of tne late Queen. The new notes of the different denominations also vary in size, the £1 issue being smaller than those formerly issued, the size increasing slightly for each denomination. The new £1 notes are already in circulation, and the larger , denominations will be issued forth- , with.

Sergeant O'Malley, of the Mastertoo Police Force, received intimation, yesterday, that as he will be 65 years of age, on June JOtb, be will theu, in accordance with the regulations, be retired. Bergeaqb O'Malley joined the Police Pbrce in Cbristohurob, ,on June 13tTv 1865, and was sent to the West Coast of the South Island at the time of the gold rush. He some stirring times on the Coast, especially w£en the Burgess and liielly gaqg of bushrangers were there. Sergeant O'Malley was stationed for over thirteen years on the' West Coast. He was then transferred to Ha wke's Bay, where he remained for ten years. He vtfas stationed at Lyttelton for six yearji, and at Wellington and Blenheim , for about three years. It is nine years ago last; March since Sergeant O'Malley took charge of the Police, Force at Masterton.v,He has served altogether for 41 years, without a break, in the jfJew Zealand Police Force. He was appointed a Sergeant in 1875, thus serving in that capaoity for 31 years—a record for the polony.

A meeting of the Masterton Mounted Rifles was held in the Drill Hall, last evening. Captain Cameron ocoupied the chair, and there was an attendance of over 30 members. On the motion of Sergeant-Major Collier, Dr. Cook was appointed Sargeon-Oaptain of the Corps. The Corps decided to change their uniform* to one of blue with red \ facings and a committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements. The following team was chosen to represent the Corps in the competition for Major Bolton's cup, at Pahiatua, on May 24th Captain Cameron, Lieutenants MoKillop and Whittaker, >SergbantMajor Collier, Sergeant Daniell, Corporal Wall, Troopurs MoLaohlan' a, Field and Stewart. Major Bolton will entertain the competing teams at a dinner at Pahiatua in the eveniug. The sum of £5 5a was voted to Sergeant Major Collier for carrying out various duties in the interests of the Corps during Ibe past year. Sergeant • 1 Major Collier thanked the members for their kindness, but refused to take the bonus, donating it instead to the Uniform Fund of the Corps.

A reward is offered for the'recovery of a black retriever dog. A r.eward of £1 is .offered for the recovery of a bay horse, lost from the Prinoe of Wales stables. •. > •• ' • . " ' Messrs Gillespie and Co. require ten men for scrub-cutting and bushfelling. \ Mr Angus Frasei' notifies that all treepassei'B found on his property at Dixon and Herbert Streets will ' be prosecuted. The Masterton Borough Council/ invite applications from butohers for the lease of paddocks at the Borough abattoir. Mr J. Niool will sell at his rooms, Bannister street, at two o'clock, on Saturday, a quantity of groceries, mackintoshes, furniture, fowls and sundries. Mr W. B, Chenueils, 1 D.0.A., notifies that Mr Benjamin boteikeeper, Gladstone, has been adjudged a bankrupt, and tne first meeting of creditors will be htld jn, Courhouse, Masterton, at nooti„ on Friday, May 25th. Look alter the outside of your business it will have a good effect on the inside. Professional>nen, business men, if you want to attract attention just have a ohat with E. J. Lyttle, the up-ro date sign writer and decorator, Gillespie's Buildings, Queen Street.—Advt. Are you going away for a holiday? Then give your luggage into the charge of J. J. Curtis and Co., Ltd, Forwarding, Shipping, and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Not only is it the cheapest and quickest way, but you vrill be saved time and trouble. Write for jurther'particulars.—Advt.