LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8203, 6 August 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Mastorton Racing Club will give £1,240 in stakes at its Spring Meeting. A cablegram from London states that there has been an exodus of a milJiou people from London during the past week for the summer holidays. Mr Fred Pirani, one of the proprietors of the Feilding Star, was presented with a purse of sovereigns at Palmerston North, on Friday (says a Press Association telegraru) in recognition of his services to the district. John Jarvis Gillies, was ohaiged at the Palmerston North Court, ou Saturday, with having caused the recent explosion at the Bunnyt.horpe dried milk factory, and was further remaurted, oa the application of the prosecution, till Thursday next. Mrs Smith, a through passenger by the Manuka, from Dunedin, sustained a nasty accident at the Nauier breakwater, on Friday afternoon. As she was crossing the gangway the end of it suddenly came away from the vessel owing to a sudden surge, and Mrs Smith was precipitated into the water. She clung to the tender ! till rescued from her perilous posiI tion,£wbeu it was found that she had sustained a broken arm.

Twenty-seven oases of Hobart H apples, landed at Dunedin on Friday H from the Monowai, were condemned H owing to their being infeuted with H blaok spot. fl The bad condition of the roads\ at fl Ngawakq, three miles outside of-sai- fl hape, en route to Mataroa, is causing settlers to be hemmed in. It is impossible lo ride-on horseback at , more than a walking pace. The decision of the Telegraph Department to cut off the telephone from all bookmakers' premises is viewed with disapprobation in Dunedin, and an appeal isoertain to barnacle to the Postmaster-General. The Roxburgh branch of the Law-renoe-Koxburgb Railway League is dissatisfied with Che slow progress of the work, and is asking the Government to place at least £SO,COO> on the Estimates this year for furtbeiing the extension. At the Hastings poultry show, on. Friday. Mis Holland, of Bonn'ty thorpe, won the North Island Championship for White Leghorns, with a cockerel. Mr W. A. Suwman, of Blenheim, wen the cup for the most points in Blaok Orpington young hirds. There were 950 entries for the show. A process for 1 making optical lenses, just perfected by a Hungs*fen chemist, should have great possibilities, if the reports about it are true.. It is said that large lenses which took several years to make can be manufactured in a few weeks, and high . quality lenses tha"; cost £350 will' only cost £7 10s. A new apparatus has been invented ' whioh, it is said, will revolutionise the manufacture of glass. Until now in the making of window glass the molten substance has been blown into cylinders by glasstnakers' pipes,, and subsequently flattened, while - in the making of plate glass the viscid mass was oast from the pot» . and rolled. The new invention draws the molten substance from the pot and conducts ic between rollers lying side by side. Seventeen p&irs of these rollers are built up tower-like above the pot, A contraot was lee oh Thursday, says the Post, for some 200 to 300' tons of "fair average" quality of New Zealand hemp at a price wh'oh is within the region of £3O per ton r f.o.b. The sale has been six months ahead of the season. Nine years ago, when the product of the colony's flax mills was 1,800 tons, the selling price for a higher grade quality than that contracted for on Thursday was from £9 to £lO per ton. For the 1906 season the amount of flax produced, in New Zealand was 29,000 tons.',,', A drastic Lord's Day Observance Bill, introduced by the Government, has been before the Canadian House of Commons for some time. On June27th the House debated with great vigour a clause which proposed to exempt Jews and Seventh Day Adventists from the operation of the measure. Several amendments were rejeoted, and finally, by a vote of 79 to 59, the original clause, providing for exemption, wasj struck out. The Cabinet is about evenly divided on this question. frid Laurier and Mr Borden, Llader of the Oppoisition, voted with the Ministry. i The Blenheim Borough Council, \| whioh has occupied two rooms in the Government Buildings since thepresent structure was erected after the fire in 1876, and before that had accommodation in the original Provincial Government Buildings by virtue of the said buildings being ereoted on land vested by the late Mr Fell in the superintendent in trust as sites for public buildings, and for other purposes of publio utility, recently reoeived three months' noiioe from the Publio Works Department to quit. The period expires next Thursday. At a meeting on Friday, acting on legal advice, the Counoil unanimously decided to contest its right to the chambers, if necessary, in the reme Court and instructed its local solicitors aooordingly. At the meeting of the Stewards of the Masterton fteoing Club, on Saturday, Mr Thos. Duncan intimated that as he intended to start in business in Wellington, it was his intention to resign the position of secretary on November Ist. He stated that he had fixed that date so that he would be able to see the club through the coming meeting. He added that he greatly appreciated the kindness the Stewards had shown him durine his term of office. The intimation was received with regret. Several of the Stewards referred in a eulogistic manner to the services Mr Duncan had rendered the olub, andi of the efficient manner in which be] had conducted the club's business as secretary. On the motion of Mr Pownall, seconded by Mr Smith, the < following resolution was carried—"That the Seoretary be instrno ted to invite applications for the position of secretaiy, the applications to close on September 30th, and the Seoretary to me his own discretionin the matter of advertisine." In most of our New Zealand towns and in many oountry places (says the Auckland Weekly News) people are anxious to know how to grass steep banks aod terraces. The following directions should help them:—• For each square rod to be planted take half a pound of lawn grass seed and mix it thoroughly with six oubio feet of earth and loam. This should be placed iu a tub, and liquidsmanure, diluted with about two-* thirds of water, added and well stirred in, so as to bring the whole to a consistency of mortar. The elope must be cleaned and made perfeotly smooth, and then well watered, after which the paste containing the grass seed should be applied with a trowel and made as even and thin as possible. Should it crack from exposure to the air it must be again watered and smoothed up day by day until the grass makes its appearanoe, whioh will be in eight to fourteen days;' the whole slope will soon be covered with a velvety coat of green. ARE YOU COUGHING YET? ' It is unwise to let your cough run on, for this frequent coughing naturally increases he hritition of the bronchial passagesYou are wondering whaf; to take —supposp you try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy this time. It has relieved others, and will relieve you. Pleisantto tike— soothing <, and healing. For Sab by T. G. Masoa Masterton.

An exohauge states that inquiries have been made at Auokland on behalf of a Victorian pattyj as to the prospects of settlement in the Auokland or Taranaki provinoea. Those interested are small farmers, whose capital is said to aggregate over £20,000. The destiny of Crete (says the Times of India) is anion with Greece, and if the latter Government emerge creditably from the further period of probation on which the Powers have insisted, the amalgamation will not be long delayed. But there will be no reserved naval base in the island for any great power. Victorian farmers, like our own (says a northern paper) oumplain of excessively high valuations. At a publio meeting of farmers recently called in that State it was said tbat unless valuers with local knowledge are appointed, injustioe would *be done in the classification of lands of different values. It was thought that there should be three classifications for each distriot. The meeting agreed to form a oeDtral league and branohes in the various centres, each of which will be represented in the central body. Mr Aitken, M.H.R., who has just returned from his visit to Canada, found that country to be in a very flourishing condition, everything being in a progressive state. There was a strong influx of settlers from every part of Europe, together with a great many from England, Ireland and Scotland. They were mostly young and able-bodied men and women, and not a few families emigrated as a whole to Canada. Land was the inducement, it being eoaroe in their own country, where farming did not nay, and the "fresh Adds and pastures new," offered by the Canadian Government proved tempting. Referring io General Rennenkampf's assertion that a war of revenge is imminent and to General BasohenofE's memorial in a similar sense, the Japanese press condemns the temper of these Russian Genera'.s as opposed to the principles of Bnsh'do, which enjoin men to fight with the utmost resolution while the battlepasts, but when once the sword is sheathed to striße hands in genuine friendship with the recent foe. The press declares that tha decision rests entiiely with Russia, whether the Japanese shall be friends or enemies. She, can have whichever she desires. The French Parliament was opened on June 2nd. The members had only just taken their seats, and the doyen of the .House was on the point of opening the sitting, when a white haired lady in one of the npper boxes of the publio gallery flung into the hall a package of multi-coloured papers that fluttered down upon the Deputies' benobes. She was immediately expelled, but before the stir caused by the incident was over, another lady, younger than she, and seated in the same gallery, flung a similar packet. This novel demonstration was due to ths initiative of b Woman Rights Association, and the pink tissue paper that had fallen on the benches was a manifesto in favour of woman suffrage. In diaoussing potato blight with a Taranaki Daily News representative, Mr,( Teed, senr., New Plymouth, stated that he had last season investigated the blight very closely, and that the result of his investigations had convinced him that the blight was caused -by the sting of a minute fly, Mr Teed is fur'her of opinion that the fly attacks the leaves of fruit trees, such as pears and plums, but these trees, being much more hardy than the tender leases and stalks of the potato, the attacks of the insect are not so damaging. Mr Teed hopes to be able to secure specimens of the fly when next the blight appears. Speaking at Napier reoently, the Rev. Mr Fletcher, the well-known Maori missionary, made an urgent appeal for an extension of the missionary movement. He stated that faots that oould not eeoapt. attention were that half the Maori children djed before reaching the age of five years, and that 75 per cent, of the Maoris at the present day were suffering from consumption. Another statement which the speaker regretted having to make was that were it not for bad examples in the European population, the mission work among the Maoris would have been finished long ago. The two Japanese who are now tooxing the colony state that their countrymen are likely to include meat in their diet, and that it is quite possible that they will get it from New Zoaland, says a contemporary. American tinned meat has already found its way to Japan in considerable quantities, jj and the movement in favour of a meat diet appears to be increasing. China, says M. Sakamoto, will probably follow suit in this respect, so that the opportunities of trade with a producing country like New Zealand are considerable. He pointed out, however, that one essential would be the establishment of a direct line of steamers between New Zealand and Japan, and he hinted that there was a possibility of such a line being established by a Japanese firm. Dr. Frederick A. Cook is on his way to Alaska, where he proposes to make a fresh attempt upon Mount M'Kinley (20,300 ft) believed to be the loftiest summit in North Ameriua. A previous attempt was made by the same climber in 1903. The expedition began with a tramp of about 500 miles "over swamps and tundra, through glaoial streams and dense forest," to reach the foot of the mountain. The first further advance was defeated by unfavourable wenther, and the second by qlimbing difficulties. A layer of snow 14in deeo had to be removed cefore some ice in which steps could be out was found; 3,000 feet was thus ascended, and a floor large enough to pitch a tent upon was then carved out of the foe.' In the morning, however, the climbers found themselves faced by an arete with a nearly vertical granite wall 4,000 ft in'height. There was nothing for it but to turn back, having only ascended 11,400 ft. For Children's Haclrag Cough at Night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/6 and 2/6 per bottle

A total eclipse of the moon occurred on Saturday night, about 11.30 o'clock, and was witnessed by a large number of people. Tlse eclipse lasted about two hours. Fifty professors in American colleges and universites have been selected to receive pensions amounting in all to £14,000 annually, from the £2,000,000 pension fund for teachers established by Mr Andrew Carnegie. The members of the Wellingtjn branch of the Independent Political Labour League have been]debating at recent meetings a motion that the following plank of the league's platform should be dropped:—"Periodical revaluation of all Crown, lands held on lease. Such revaluation not to apply to existing leases until the death of the present leaseholder or the transfer of the lease to another, or whiohever occurs first, subject to fail compensation being allowed for any variation of lease." At a meeting, held on Friday night, the motion was negatived by a large majority. Something approaohing a record was achieved in the Wellington Supreme Court last week. Last Mou'lay the criminal sessions were begun, there being thirteen charges listel against twelve persons, for offences rau«ing from alleged attempted murder to an alleged offence under the Bankruptcy Act. On two of the charges No Bill was returned by the Grand Jury, and the duties of the Court were further lightened by two prisoners admitting their guilt. Of the nine prisoners who went to trial eight were found guilty and one not guilty. All this business wag got through in five sitting days. Wellington representatives of every department of the New Zealand Railways have passed the following resolution:—"That this meeting of Wellington New Zealand rail way employees oordially approves the action of the general manager in initiating a movement among railway men to subscribe to a national memorial to perpetuate the memory j of the late Hon. R. J. Seddon." j A representative committee has been I formed to carry the proposal into j effect and to see that all railway men should have an opportunity of voluntarily subscribing to the fund. There was a good attendance at the Town Hall, yesterday afternoon, when Mr R. H. W. Bligh delivered his last lecture to women in Masterton. Mrs L. Devonporl, secretary of the W.C.T.U., occupied the chair. During the course of his address, which was listened to with interest, the speaker urged young girls to ohoose good companions. On the motion of Mrs Arnott, seconded by Mrs MoLean, Mr Bligh was aooorded a vote of thanks. (In the evening Mr Bligh addressed a large audience of men in the Town Hall, and his lecture was followed with interest. The speaker was accorded a vote of thanks on the motion of the Rev. a. M. Johnson, seconded by the Rev. J. N. Buttle. A communioat'on asking the opinion of the agricultural community on the proposed importation of Australian and Chinese quail was reoeived by the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association at its meeting on Friday. The president said weasels and sparrows and other pests had been imported and farmers had to feed them in various ways. Agriculturists should protest against further importation, for quail were of no use. Mr R. Dick said farmers might forgive a pheasant or two, but quail was not fit for shooting, and the country was now overran by quail. It was resolved that in the opinion of the meeting all applioptions for the introduction of quail or birds of similar oharaoter should be refused unless the importations are consented to by the agricultural community. A boy is wanted to drive out with ! a traveller. [ An advertiser wishes to sell a pair 1 of purebred Japanese pugs. The Wellington Education Board invite tenders, to dose at noon on Wednesday, August 15tb, for the ereotion of a School at Alfredton. Mr C. O. Ramsden, Opaki, invites tenders, to close on Wednesday next, for felling 25 acres of bush at Mangamahoe. In a new advertisement, on the leader page, Messrs Hooper and Co. announce sweeping reductions in all lines of drapery and clothing. EdisonVPopular Pictures are advertised to be shown at the Masterton Town Hall on August 9th and 10th. Expert tradesmen appreciate good tools, which enable them to turn out their work with ease and profit. Mr O. E. Daniell claims to be in a position to supply tools by the best makers and invites inspection. Mr J B. MoKenzie, Boyne Terrace, writes to say 1 that three Mas torton Dairy Company's "shhres, reoently disposed of by Mr R. E. Howell, on hin behalf, netted him £1 10s per sharp, not £5 10s as stated in a previous issue. On page 7 of this issue Mr Alex. Donald, ladies' tailor, Queen Street, announces the arrival of new fabrics for the coming season, and invites his lady patrons to inspect goods at his new premises next to Mr O. E, Daniell. On account of the large number of orders executed during the past three years Mr Donald claims to have gained such experience tbat is a guarantee of satisfaction. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged pood qualities and svcws« of SANDER.& SONS' EUCA. LYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in he Supreme Court of Victoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udement, said with regard to the GENUINE BANDER & 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 RANDER * SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT