LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8270, 25 October 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cablegram from Melbourne states that the New Zealand bowlers arrived there yesterday. A branch of the National League has been formed in Canterbury. It is stated that Mrs Seddon and her family intend residing at the Lower Hutt. In the manufacturing trade a scarcity of labour exists at present in each of the centres of the colony. The regular meeting of the NoLicense League will be held in the Y.M.O.A. building, at 7.30 o'clock, to-night. Mr R. Nordell has leased his section of tand at Mangaraupi to Mr Saye, writes our JEketahuna correspondent. ? Settlers at Nireaha and Kakariki, writes our Nireaha correspondent, are aomplaining of stock being allowed to stray on the roads. A Borlin cablegram states that the Hhine vintage is the worst obtained for many years. The damage caused by parasites is estimated at £500,000. In. reply to a question in the House of Representatives, yesterday, it was stated tha 1 ; it was too late iq the session to discuss a motion for Home Rule for Ireland. A good word for motor-cars corned from the apple-growers of Somersetshire, England, who deolare that the dust raised by the oars keeps their orchard free from blight. William Ryan, a powerfully-built young roan, was fined £ls at Blenheim l'or assaulting Ooustafcle Bird. The constable was knocked down by the aooused, sustainiug a broken rib. A reference to last year's Estimates shows that the vote for Pahiatua was £IO,OOO, of which £9,027 18a 7d was spent. 'lhis year the total vote for the electorate is £19,043, or nearly double last year's vote. A Dunediu telegram states that the Directors of the New Zealand Coal and Oil Oompauy have reoeived a cable from their London office stating that the expert tests of 50tons of Orepuki -ihale sent Ilomo in February last is most satisfactory. The Ventura, with the New Zealand mails, rtrrived at San Francisco at 6 p.m. on the 19th inst. The colonial mails whioh were despatched fiom Melbourne on the 19th September, via Brindisi, arrived in London on the afternoon of tlhe 20th inst. Official statistioe, says a cable, gram from Paris, show that the monks and nuns belonging to the dissolved orders in France have reentered sixty out of every hundred sohoois as lay teachers, resuming dogmatic instruotJon. The Radicals demand the secularisation of the sohoois. Mr John Wilson,the oldest and one of the best known settlers in the Pelorus Valley, died suddenly at Havelock on Friday. The deceased was an uncle of Mrs O. H. Mills, wife of the member for the district. He was one of the party of three who discovered the Wakamaiina goldfields. At the Mastertou Magistrate's Oourt, yesterday morning, before Messrs M. O. O'Oounell and) T. Duncan, J'e.P., a first offender was convicted and discharged for having been drunk. George Oakley pleaded guilty to a obarge of stealing a horsa-cover, the property of D. McNair. Aooused, who whs defended by Mr O. A. Pownall, was oonvioted aud discharged, and a prohibition order was issued against him on bis own application. .

It was stated in the House of Representatives, yesterday,, that the> Government were the question of a suitable memorial to the late Mr Seddon. It is stated that Mr Charles-Lewis, M.8.R., for Courtney,, who has resided at Halswell for a great number of years, has sold bis farm and taken up some land in the backblooks of the Hawke's Bay dlstriot. The authorities at Brisbane recently confiscated 600 oases' of sauce from Amerioa, on the ground that the cases confined a preservative deleterious to health. It is under., stood that the whole of the sauce will be destroyed. At Auckland, yesterday, Edward Williams, a boy employed on the steamer Clansman, fell' between the steamer and the Whangaroa wharf. He struok a stringer of the wharf and fractured the base of his skull, dying an hour later.. The Thames Magistrate has ruled that a hotel yard <s not included in the'description "licensed premises,." ns it appears in the Licensing Act, but is of the opinion that the ruling of the Appeal Court should be given on the point. Mr George Morris Mason, who left the Hutt with his two sons a few months ago, with a view to settling in Argentina if conditions were favouraole, returned to the colony on Saturday. Mr Mason was muoh disappointed with the country.. It is stated, says the Feilding Star, that some iron doors whiofr were to oost £BS, were out out of the specifications at the last moment* because the contract price exceeded the estimate by some £2,000, and but for that the Bank of New South Wales building would not have succumbed to the fire at Wel» lington on Monday. The usual solemnity of the Supreme Court at Napier waß recently broken by a wituess ignorant of Court proceedings, says the Napier Telegraoh. He had gone into the box, the oath bad been administered in the usual way, and tiounsel rose to put the formal question to him, "What are you?" "A Presbyterian," patly retorted the witness. The break in the Wainui water' supply near Ngabauranga, wnioh haa proved so costly to Wellington was repaired late on Tuesday afternoon. When the water was turned on, bowever, another break occurred at 5.15 p.m. near the Wellington Woollen Company's mill at Petone. This was not sndh a serious one, and was soon repaired, with the result that the city was fully supplied once more soon after 7 o'clock on Tuesday night. Writing of Wellington sixty years ago, the Rev. Dr Watkin, of Melbourne, &ays:—"The world is a muoh better one than it was when 1 was a boy in Wellington. No boy there tu-day oan see what 1 saw in the grey dawn of the morning—a number of the moßt distinguished citizens, who had been the princi-' pals and seconds in a duel fought , somewhere beyond the gao.l. No boy in Wellington can see an execution in public, like those whioh took place in my childhood outside the Wellington gaol. But as I rememter the men and women of Wellington three soore and more years ago,.and think of their bravery, their mutual helpfulness, the difficulties /they encountered and overcame, my wish is that the people of Wellington may prove themselves wor ; ;hy successors of the pioneer settlers, whom 1 regard it is a privilege to have known when 1 was a happy boy in dear old windy Wellington." Mr Rose, M.0.R., for Pahiatua, has a big electrical scheme on hand, sayq tho Dannevirke Press. In the course of an appeal to the Government /cr the development of water power, he spoke in glowing terms of Makuri River, and he wants the stream tested. He points out that there ia a fall of about 330 feet in four miles. The agitation for the utilisation of this power has , been going on for 14 years now, and on hfs last two visits' the late Premier gave sympathetic replies. It is contended that a power generating station at Makuri would serve the nowns of Pahiatua, Woodville, Palmerston Nortn, Ashhurst, Feilding, Dannevirke, Kumeroa, Pontmroa, Makuri and Hlketahuna. What a vision! Mr Ross is certainly optimistic, hut, we fear, ha is a good few hundred heads Bbort of enough to carry out his beautiful scheme. Perhaps Dannevirke would lend him Waihi. A reward is offerd for the recovery of a silver chain and initialled guldmounted ribbon chain lost yesterday at Carterton. At /the Bannister Street Auotion Rooms, on Saturday, at 2 o'clock, Mr J. R. Niool will sell a quantity of furniture and general goods, produce, meat, and poultry. 4 The Wellington Education Board invites tenders to close on Monday, November 26th, for the lease of two sections of ton and five aares, respectively, inithe Mikimiki and jßewaSurvey Distiicts. FACTS ESTABLISHED AT COURT. 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