LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8319, 27 December 1906, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mystery Flat Dredging Company has declared a dividend of two shillings per share. Four rinks . from the Carterton Bowling Club visited Petone yesterday, and defeated four rinks from the local Club by 89 points to 76 points. Dr Alva Jones, of Louisville (U.S.A.), has solved the problem of maintaining telephonic communication between moving trains.

M. Vivani, the French Minister for Labour, promised a deputation of French Socialists that he would introduce a Female Suffrage Bill. It is reported in Pekin that America is shortly to refund to China the unexpended balance of the four million four hundred thousand sterling Boxer indemnity.

A deadlock has occurred in regard to rates of pay between the master butchers and the slaughtermen in Sydney, with the result that Sydney is threatened with a meat famine.

The London Daily Mail says it is understood that a Canadian is to be appointed to the staff of the Hon. James Bryce, the new British Ambassador at Washington.

By climbing a wastepipe and forcing a skylight, burglars obtained entrance to the premises of the Goldsmiths' Company, Oxford street, London, and carried off jewellery valued at £3,000. About 70ft. of shelving, laden with goods, broke away from a wall in a crowded shop in Adelaide, pinning several assistants to the counters. Great alarm was caused in the shop. No serious injuries resulted.

Fears are entertained for the safety of the steamer Tako Maru, which left Ocean Island for Japan on October 17th, with a cargo of phosphates. It is feared the vessel foundered during a typhoon in the China Sea. A New York cablegram states that President Roosevelt has opened a fund in aid of famine-stricken Chinese, and proposes that Government transports should convey food supplies to China.

The largest, nugget found on the new field at , Poseidon (Victoria) weighs 960 ounces, and measures sixteen inches by ten by five. Several small nuggets, weighing up to fifty ounces, were found last week. Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of South Africa, in congratulating the South African team of footballers on their victories in England, suggests that the New Zealand . 1905 team should be invited to visit the Cape. > The Tagliche Rundschau, a Berlin journal, reports that the Berseba Hottentots, on the upper reaches of the Great! Fish River, are showing signs of unrest. They muster some six hundred strong, and are armed with rifles, and great anxiety is felt as to what course they will pursue. Mr J. Devlin, M.P., the Irish Envoy, will deliver an address on the Home Rule question' in Masterton on either January 12th or 14th. The date has not yet been definitely fixed by the Masterton Reception Committee. •

The Criterion Hotel •at Blenheim was destroyed by fire," yesterday morning, at 12.40 o'clock. The boarders, twenty-two in number, escaped in their night-clothes. Nothing was saved. Captain Falconer, the licensee of the hotel, lost his Christmas Eve takings, amounting to £l5O in notes.

Shearing is finished in the Wainuioru district, and one or two places on the Coast, where operations are not completed, will "cut out" very shortly after the New Year. The clip is a splendid one. Nearly all the settlers have installed machines in their sheds, and those who have not done so will have had them put in by the\time next wool season is round again, j Good seasons and good prices are having a very beneficial effect. More bush has been felled this season than during any which had preceded it, and farmers generally are making substantial improvements to their holdings, due to the better prices being received for produce. —From a correspondent.

The OEusßßxry op Sjnder and Sons Pobe VoTjATiTiE Eucalypti Extkact is universally acknowledged. Royalty honours it, and the eutire medical profession has adopted its use, Imitations sprung up without number. The latest of them—as styled •'Extracts "—was oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under the grossest misuse of Sander ahd Sons' reputation. Sander and Sons instituted an action at the Supreme Court of Victoria, before His Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn witness testified that he had to stop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tßsted and approved of. As such is surely endorsed and recommended the GENUINE SANDER AND SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUOALYPT* EXTRACT!

China's Customs revenue for 1906 is the greatest on record.

A house belonging to Mr F. Martin, and occupied by Mr W. Fisher, was destroyed by fire at Mauriceville on Monday last. The building was insured in the State Office for £l5O.

Mr W. Judd, a well-known resident of Manaia, died at his residence on Tuesday morning. The funeral will leave his late residence at 2 p.m. to-day.

The Ohristcharch police now state that there is no truth whatever in the recent report that a man was sandbatrged and robbed when he wan leaving the Exhibition. !

Mr W. Barton, of Featherston, has just returned from a visit to the Argentine. . He speaks in glowing terms of the condition of that country.

A Westport telegram states that Johh Hindley Woodford, aged nineteen years, was drowned at Granity on Christmas Day, on the sea beach, while passing from one rock to another gathering mussels. There was a large gathering of bowlers on ths Masterton Bowling Club's green yesterday afternoon. A doubles tourney between members was played, and resulted in a win for Messrs Perry and Thompson, who secured five games. On Saturday night the flaxmill of Bale and Saunders, on the Waiorongomai station, was destroyed by fire. The loss exceeds £7OO. A few days ago the scutch-house and fibre-shed were burnt down, a loss of £2OO resulting.

Advice has been received at Nelson that the Government has purchased John Tinline's Wangapeko run of 4,480 acres for closer settlement. The price is not known locally, but it is supposed to be between £15,000 and £20,000. The Masterton Fire Brigade were called out yesterday morning to attend to a grass fira, which broke out on the piece of land adjoining the Park, and near the W.F.C.A. powder magazine. About five acres of grass were destroyed before the fire was put out.

At the inquest, at Hamilton, on Crombie, the railway clerk who was killed on Saturday while exchanging tablets with the driver of the morning train, a verdict of accidental death was returned. The jury added a rider, calling the attention of the Minister of Railways to the danger attached to the existing methods of exchanging tablets, and asking that inquiry be made with a view to minimising the danger of accidents. An Auckland telegram states that a new two-storey brick building, occupied by Ryan and Co., engineers, was gutted by fire on Christmas Day. All the contents were destroyed, including sixteen motor cars, valued at about £IO,OOO to £15,000; also plant valued at £BOO. , The origin of the fire is a mystery. The building and plant were about covered by insurances, but the stock represents almost a Complete loss. A Wharau correspondent writes—"l am pleased to be able to report that E. Nitz, a son of Mr H. Nitz, of Kaiwhata, who injured his leg some months ago playing football, and has lately been troubled with the injury, has been succesfully operated upon by Drs Cook and Cowie, of 'Masterton. Mr Nitz is a good footballer, and is very popular with all who know him, consequently he has many friends to congratulate him upon the improvement he is making." Mr Newton King, Taranaki "land agent,Jin an interview with a Herald representative, stated that a good class of settler was coming into the district. The prices of dairying land, he says, have risen from fifteen to twenty per cent, in the past twelve months. A farm near Eltham sold by him last year for £24 an acre, was recently sold again at £3O, and another, near Manaia, at £35 typical first-class dairying land. Second-class farming land, however, has not participated in the rise. Mr King considers that, with the present high prices of butter and cheese, the advancing [prices of farming land will give return on the outlay.

Speaking at a meeting of physical culturists at Christchurch, Mr J. A. Hanan, said that as Chairman of the EdueationCommittee in the House of Reprsentatives he intended to do all he possibly could to get the physical education of the young New Zealander placed on a better footing. It was time to hav ( e done with pretty movements executed music. This was only playing With the development of the physique. Good" work could not be done if the mind were distracted by the more or' less melodious Sounds issuing from the school piano. Mental development too was of practically no value at all unless backed up by physical force and vitality. Smoked mullet, fresh from Auckland, can be obtained from Mr T. J. ■Nott's Cafe, Queen Street. The Masterton Borough Council notify thdt the Borough Inspector is instructed to prosecute persons for wasting water from the Borough mains.

Intending visitors to the International Exhibition at Christchurch are notified that accommodation will be found for them on application to the Official Residential Bureau, the of which are Messrs Mayes and Langdown, Christchurch. Prospectuses and application forms can be obtained at the Age office. CAN I'OU J!LAM E HER? If at last she tires of the fault-finding of a dyspeptic husband and leaves him? The worst of the dyspeptie is that he does not realise his own meanness. His world is entirely out of perspective. A man is only as strong as his stomach. When the stomach is diseased all the' other organs suffer, Dr Sheldon's Digestive Tabules are the sufferer's tree of life. They will curd him and bring him health and happiness just as certain as he takes them. They are sure because they are a natural remedy, and contain exactly the same chemioal properties as the digestive fluids in the stomach. For sale by H. E. Eton Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carter ton, and the Mauriceville Co-operative Store, Mauriceville West.

Why suffer the torments of Hell with Rheumatism or Lumbago when Tr Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment will ease the pain at once, and continued applications effect a permanent cure. Price 1/6; large bottles 3/-. For sale Dy H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville) Co-operative Store, Mauriceville West.