LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8367, 25 February 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next outward English mail, via San Francisco, will close at the Master ton Post Office on Wednesday, next, at 4.45 p.m. A supplementary mail will close on Thursday morning at 5.30 o'clock.

A Mataura farmer, who is in the happy position of being able to hold for a rise, is reported to have :-old three years' accumulations of oats, amounting to some 10,000 sacks, at 2s 5d per bushel. The same farmer is said to have secured 2s 8d per bushel for a similar holding three years ago.

There are 70,403 workers in New Zealand's factories.

A plague of grasshoppers is reported between Maitland and Lochinvar, New South Wales.

Only 26 men are at the present, time employed getting coal at the Seddonville State colliery. One of the successful applicants at the ballot for the Mangatahi Estate declined £2OO for his interest in the section he drew. Mr W. Turnbuil, an old citizen of Wellington, and one of the most prominent architects of the city, died on Saturday at the age of 82 years. Mr Turnbuil had been in failing health for some time past. The Wellington Trades and Labour Council have passed a resolution of | sympathy with the slaughtermen who | recently left work and congratulating them on their victory. There was one dissentient' from the resolution. The drawings for the second round of the Booth Cup Bowling Competition are as follow :-February 28th, Carterton v. Greytown, at Greytown; March 7th, Carterton v. Master ton, at Masterton; March 14th, Greytown v. Masterton, at Greytown. Mr W. M. EaSthope returned to Masterton from New Plymouth on Friday night, after being present at the annual conference of Rechabites. He states that the conference decided that the District Council of Rechabites should meet in Masterton during February, 1909. The members of the Opaki Rifle Club, who attended the Exhibition Rifle Meeting, at Christchurch, will return to-day to take part in the Wairarapa Meeting, which will open at Papawai to-day, and be continued to-morrow. The team will then proceed to Trentham and compete at the meeting which will open there on Thursday. ,

A man, named John Conrick, 25 years old was found dead in a house in Martin Square, Wellington*, on Saturday. The medical evidence showed that death was the result of an epileptic seizure resulting from alcoholism. The Coroner remarked that at least fifty per cent, of the deaths that came under his notice were caused by drink.

In the recent school teachers' examinations the following Masterton candidates passed:—Class D: Ivy P. lorns, partial pass. Class D: F. J.. Beechey, Florence M. Chapman, Florence E. Kay, R. G. Messenger (passed in four subjects). Class C: Olive E. lorns (passed in three subjects). Class C: Mary C. Armstrong, Jane Bairstow. \

The Antonios Flat dredge, which is principally owned by Masterton residents, promises to turn out a success. A telegram was received, on Saturday, that the fiirst "wash-up" gave a return of about 260z for a week's dredging on the "wash." It will probably be some weeks before the dredge has a good working face opened up, when a regular weekly return may be looked for.

Mr A. C. Scrimgeour's lease of the Club Hotel, Masterton, will expire' next month,, and the hotel will then be taken over by T. Porter, late of the Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington. Mr Serimgeour has been proprietor of the Club Hotel for the past Six years, and by careful management and up-to-date methods he has made it one of the best appointed and most favourably known hostelries in the colony.

Four persons were charged before Mr W, P. James, S.M., at the -Masterton Magistrate's Court, on Saturday morning, ' with having been drunk. George Howe, an old age pensioner, who appeared pn remand, had his pension cancelled for the current year. Mary Murray was fined 10s in default 48 hours' imprisonment. One first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, while another was convicted and discharged.

The result of the Guessing Competition held in connection with the Masterton A. and P. Show was made known on Saturday. The competition took the form of guessing the weight of a bullock. 'The bullock, after being killed and dressed, turned the scale at 7341bs (forequarters 3581b5, hindquarters 3761b5). Messrs J. E. Blade, of Carterton, and Chas. Ross, of Kuripuni, tied for' first place, each having guessed the exact weigh of the animal (7341b5). Mr R. Gray was second, his guess being 733£lbs. The other nearest guesses were—E. Harper, Matahiwi, 734£lt)s; W. ( lorns, Masterton, 733£lbs; T. Harvey, Clareville, 733 Albs;: C. T. P. Hubbard, Carterton, 733Jlbs.

Mr F. Grady, of Wellington, has presented two medals, to be known as the "Grady Inter-Club Challenge Medals," for competition between the Bowling Cl\ibs of the Wairarapa.. Pairs will be selected from: each club to compete for the medals, which can never be won outright, the idea of the competiion being to foster good fellowship between the clubs, and to promote inter-club matches. • Each club will play two rounds, and a final, in order that the best pair maybe selected to represent the club in the competition for the medals. The following are the drawings of the first round of pairs in- the? Miasterton Club: —G. Townsend. and J. C. Ewington play 0. Pragnell and C. Perry; J. W. Whittaker and R. Rigg play W. Perry and P. Gordon; J. W. Cochrane and J. Scott play W. Pragnell and E. McEwen; F. Dupre and J. Yates a bye. The first round must be completed by March 2nd. MERIT REWARDED BY COURT OP JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and 81-ccess of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one casß was just tried in the Supreme Court of Viotoria, before bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udement 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, eto., it is not peranssable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing 30, and ordered them to pay all oosts. We publish this to afiord 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 80 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PURE'VOLATILE EtTOAIYPTI EXTRACT.

Orchard, robbing is said to be rife at Nireaha. There is a great scarcity of labour „in connection with sawmilling in the Rahotu district. i Writes our Kopuaranga correspondent —Mr R. D. McKenzie left here on Thursday for a short visit to the Christchurch Exhibition. Several farmers at Matamata intend to revert to sheep-breeding and raising in lieu of milking. The trouble in the latter is the uncertainty of labour. It ha* been ruled in the Brisbane District Court that the Chief Justice of Queensland is not exempt from income tax. It is understood that an appeal will be made. Turnip crops at Oamaru are this , year suffering severely from blight, | and in many instances farmers are undecided whether to keep them or plough them in and replace with green feed for the winter. • The deer liberated by the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society on the Albury ranges have done so well that they are now becoming a nuisance to farmers, whose they eat.

The Dairy Union's creamery at Nireaha is now receiving between. 400 and 500 gallons of milk per day. The highest test for the Week ending February 16 th was 4.2, and the lowest 3.7. For last month's supply* the Union paid out ninepence per pound for butter fat.

Owing to a mishap to the engine at the Summit,, on Saturday morning,, the first train from Wellington to Masterton did not arrive until shortly before 12 o'clock—two hours and a half late. The mail train was also delayed along the line, but it arrived, in Masterton on time.

The amount of milk received daily at the New Zealand Dairy Union'screamery, writes our Kopuaranga correspondent, is about 500 gailons. The tests average about 3.7. The company paid out £279 10s 8d for butter fat received in January. The largest cheque paid to any one supplier was £49 13s.

At a labour demonstration in Sydney a competitor in one of the flat events was leading so easily that he got in first and jumped over the judges', tape instead of breasting it in accordance with custom. This little bit of facetiousness, however, cost him the prize. An opponent protested that his opponent had, by jumping over the tape, not completed the race, and the protest was upheld. The point was regarded as a novel one.

At the Wbodville Court, on Saturday morning, three men, named Vincent Fobar, Thomas Wilcox and' Robert Neil, were arrainged on charges of using obscene language, threatening behaviour, and vagrancy. A riot took place in Vogel Street, Woodville, on Friday, a young man being set on to by the accused Several citizens interfered,, and* most disgusting language was uSed by the accused; The police evidence showed that all three were racecourse "guesaers." The charges of vagrancy /were dismissed. On the charges of threatening behaviour each of the accused was fined £l,, in default 14 days' imprisonment. On the obscene language charge Wilcox; and Fobar wer6 fined £5, in default'a month's imprisonment, and Neil (who is only a lad) was. fined £3, in default 21 days'imprisonment.

A yowarcl is offered .for the recovery of a young black Kelpie dog lost on Wednesday last.

The W.F.C.A, are making a special display of high-class furniture in their show-rooms, Queen Street, and incite inspection.

In a new advertisement, on page 6 of this issue, Messrs Hannah and Co. particularise the advantages of their "G" boots. The points to be remembered are worthy of perusal. .

An advertiser has for sale a good country blacksmith and wheelwright business. The property is freehold and the present satisfactory business is capable of further improvement.

In a new advertisement Messrs J. G. Swan and Co., Wanganui, announce that Ferro-Stout, the king of tonics, is procurable at all the leading hotels.

Mr W. B. Chennells, Deputy Official Assignee, invites tenders to close at noon, on Thursday next} for the stock-in-trade and plant of the bee farm in the estate of H. S. Izard.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Palmerston North, report having sold to a New South Wales buyer 100 Romney rims on account of Mr David Buick at 4gns each, and 50 4-tooth Romney ewes at 3§gns each.

Attention is directed to Mr Imlay Saunders' advertisement offering a farm for sale on the beautiful Wanganui River. This is said to be a really cheap property, the owner having made a 1 comfortable income from it for several years. The only reason for selling is ill-health. Messrs Abraham: and Williams, Ltd., announce that a brake will leave Masterton for Te Rangitumau each morning of the stock sale there. Vehicles will also, meet the North and South trains at Opaki, due at 9.15. a.m. and 10.10' a.m., respectively.

There is every prospect of the annual sports meeting of the Dreyerton Sports Club bfeing a decided success this year. The officials have all the arrangements well in hand. Mr G. t A. Donovan has decided to reconsider hs decision to resign from the position of secretary. At the' Masterton Auction Mart on Wednesday, Mr J. R. Nicol will sell on account Mr D'Arcy Ford, the well-known manufacturer and, importer, a large selection of drapery and clothing. Previous sales held by . Mr D'Arcy Ford in Masterton havebeen very successful, and the public will, on this occasion, find the consignment a: very varied one. Particulars are advertised in this issue. Stop It A neglected oough or cold may lead to. serious bronchial or lung troubles. Don't take chances, for Dr Sheldon's New Dis oovery for Cougns, Colds, and Consumption affords perfect security from Berious effects of a cold. Small dase. i Pleasant to take. Every bottle guaranteed. For sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, j. Baillie, Carterton, and the Mauricevillft v Co-operative Store, Maurice ville West.

Bishop Neligan confirmed five 'Maoris at Rahotu last Tuesday. It is 'believed these are the first Parihaka natives confirmed since the Te Whiti trouble.

One hundred and twenty agricul"tural and pastoral runs in the Westland district varying in area from 1,500 acres up to 45,000 acres, are about to ba classified.

A 278-acre farm at Manaia, ' Taranaki, was sold the other day to a successful dairy farmer for £36 p9r acre. The Manaia land carries a cow to the acre pretty nearly the year through.

The Woodville bandsmen who returned from the Exhibition contest last week, stated that they have been served with a summons for breach of contract in not going to the hotel where quarters had been procured for them.

Australian rifle clubs are nowadays carefully collecting "empties," as the cartridge-cases, owing to the high prices of metals, find ready purchasers at sixpence per lb. To a small country club this means an item of £4 or £5 per annum.

The bookmakers, who were lately fined in the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court on charges of betting on a reserve at the recent Taranaki Jockey Club's races, have decided to test the borough by-laws under which the informations were laid. The hearing of the appeal will occupy the Court on March 18th.

At the inquest, at Pahiatua, on Saturday, on the body, of Martin Madigan, who died from injuries received through falling out of a trap, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from paralysis caused by an accidental fall. The deceased was a farmer in Ormondville, and has a brother in Hastings.

A bush settler, who resorted to the expedient of digging trenches in order to combat the fires, informs the Free Press, Balclutha, that he found the roots of trees on fire fully 2ft below the surface, and not a vestige of fire on top at the particular spot. Some of the roots extend for 20ft- from the parent stem, outcropping intervals, and they are almost as bad as the mossbanks in causing the fires to spread.

The Whangarei Press has been informed by a gentleman just returned from Rotorua that the increase in thermal action is marked, jets of steam and water are now bursting through the crust where these manifestations have hitherto been absent. Many of the Maori residents are leaving. According to the informant there is a great unrest among the native population—a sort of presage of coming disaster. A lady recently returned from Rotorua describes life there as "living on the lid of a boiling pot." She declares her conviction that the pot will shortly boil • over.

As soon as arrangements can be ' made, the Minister for Agriculture, • intends to provide means by which instruction will be given to young farmers on the Ruakura and Momohaki experimental stations. The cadets will be> given a two years' course in up-to-date farm practice, with a grounding in the simple . principles underlying plant and* animal life. It is intended to transfer "the youths from one statiop to another during the currency of the course, so that they may obtain an insight into the variation of methods required in different districts of the colony.

Addi-essing the Maoris at Whakatane, Mr Wi Pere, M.L.C., urged the Urewera tribe not to part with their land, says a contemporary. He said to them: "You are the best off tribe in New Zealand. You have thousands of acras of la~d without any encumbrance thereon, and if you will take my advics you will hold on to it, or it will all go by decrees." He exhorted them not to take notice of Rua, the prophet. "If I thought that Rua could drive the pakehas into the sea I should soon .be with him," concluded Wi Pere, "buthe can't."

That the Angora goat is something • more than a fad is shown (says the Sydney Morning Herald) by the sensational price obtained by Messrs Blaxland and Knox, of Wyalong, for ' the fleece of the stud buck Perfection —namely, 4s 2d per lb. Perfection was bred at the Peake Station, Geni tral Australia, was bought privately by Mr Blaxland for 75 guineas, and was shorn in September last, cutting a " fleece weighing 91b Boz, the staple measurement 14in to 15in. The skirted portion of the fleecenamely, 61b—was forwarded to a New York merchant, who paid for it at the rate of one dollar (4s 2d) per lb, leaving a nett return, after deducting cost of transmission, of £1 2s.

Mr John H. Fairhurst, in a letter to the Dannevirke Advocate, supplies the following particulars of careful experiments made to ascertain which paid best when planting potatoes, to use small or large seed. Three rows of equal length and equal number of sets were planted with Northern Star potatoes as follow:—No. 1, 38 sets weighing 3!bs» which produced 541bs of potatoes. Row No. 2, 38 sets' weighing 41bs, produced 641bs of potatoes. Row No. 3, weighing Tibs, which produced 921bs of potatoes. Assuming that the seed cost Id per lb, and the produce sold atjld, we find row No. 1 returned 4s 3d; row No. 2, ss; and row No. 3, 7s . Id—clearly a great gain in favour of the larger sets. All were planted on the same day, in equal .ground, and all had the same amount of cultivation. Why not get your customs work done with the greatest promptness and despatch? Send, the papers to J.J. Curtis and Co. Ltd., Shipping, Forwarding and Customhouse Agents, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, who will «arry out every detail and deliver the (roods to you, at the most reasonable charges. Write for farther parjoulara.—Advt. Stubbobn as a Mown. A bad cough is more stubborn than a mule, and, if the right method is not used, 'it is more difficult to conquer. Dr. Shel don's New Discovery for Coughs, Colds and Consumption conquers the moat stubborn < cases. It is a safe and certain remedy for coughs, colds, an' all lung troubles. Small dose. Pleasant to take. Every bottle - guaranteed. For sale t>y H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baiilie, Carterton and the Mauricevilie Co-operative Store, Mauriceville West. No matter from what form of rheumatism you suffer—ohronic, muscular, ' tory—or gout, sciatica, lumbago, Khet/mo •-will surely cure yon. All stores 9/6 and 4/6*