LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8376, 9 March 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is stated that a member of the present Borough Council will contest the Mayoralty at the forthcoming election.

The names of forty-five intending members have been handed in for the new rifle volunteer corps in Carterton.

A cablegram states that the American visible wheat supply is 78,640,000 bushels. \

The largest cheque paid to any one supplier by the Masterton Dairy Company during the month of February was £B2 15s 3d.

Through an outbreak of measles the attendance at the Hawera State School was reduced by 150. The school is now closed.

There will be no amateur events run at the S. Patrick's Day Sports, on Thursday next, owing to insufficient entries having been received.

At the Masterton Police Court, yesterday morning, before Mr W. P. James, S.M , a first offender was fined ss, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk.

The total amount of butter-fat received at the Masterton Dairy Factory during the month of February was 28,.9061b5, as compared with 33,7521bs for the month of January.

Owing to the briskness of the building trade in Poverty Bay a local timber mill is obliged to work double shifts in order to keep pace with orclerp received.

Many have testified Kbeuuo haa permanently cured them from rheumatism, etc., after all other remedies have failed. All chemists and 3tores. 2/0 and 4/6.

It is understood that Mr J. M. Coradine has definitely decided to offer himself as a candidate for the Mayoralty. The tennis match played between Greytown and Carterton, on Thursday, resulted in a win for Carterton by 13 games to 4.

The balance of the cheese made at Dale field Factory by the cool-curing process will be railed to Wellington on Monday for shipment to London by the Tongariro.

According to a Press Association telegram from Auckland, the Huia expedition has recovered an additional £3OO of the Elingamite treasure since returning to the Three Kings, making about £2,000 in all. The following team will represent the Carterton Tennis Club against Masterton, at Masterton, to day: — Misses K. G. and D. Booth, Cormack, Davifon and Scott, Messrs Bunny (2), Maunsell, Douglas, Foot and Burns.

Anti-Christian riots broke out on February Ist at Chinkuei, near Soochow, province of Kiang-su (China). The troops temporarily restored order, and reinforcements were sent to the scene- of the outbreak.

The tests of the various creameries supplying the Masterton Dairy Factory for the month of February are as follow: —Mangamaire, highest 4.4, lowest 3.1, average 3.83'; Rangitumau, highest 4.6, lowest 3.6, average 4; Nikau 4.2, lowest 3.8, average 4. The total number of births in the four chief centres in 1906 was 6,512, as against 6,335 for the previous year. The rate per 1,000 of the population in the four cities was as follows: —Auckland, 29.96; Wellington City, 27.85; Christchurch, 28.19; Dunedin, 28.96.

In the second reading of stations at the Methodist Conference Revs. R. Richards, Harding and Tinsley were appointed to South Wairarapa, Rev. J. J. Pendray (formerly of Greytown) to Whangarei, and Rev. C. E. Eaton (formerly of Carterton) to Stratford.

The following players will represent ths Master ton Lawn Tennis Club against Carterton, in a match to be played on the local Club's Courts, this afternoon: —Messrs Cox, Aitken, Gawith, Bunting, Sclanders and D. Caselberg, and Misses Pay ton, Heath, Holmes and Caselberg.

The Auckland manager of the' Oceanic Company states that the Ventura will leave Auckland for San Francisco oti March 22nd, and the Sierra on April Ist. Passengers already booked by either of these steamers may embark on the Ventura or transfer to the Sierra.

At the meeting of the Managers of the Masterton Technical School, last evening, the Managers present took advantage of the opportunity to wish Mr E. Feist, the chairman, who will,shortly leave on a visit to the Old Country, bon voyage and a safe return to Masterton. Mr' Feist briefly acknowledged the kind wishes expressed by the Managers. The railway revenue for the fourweekly period ended February 2nd, amounted to £220,013, and the expenditure to £144,926, against £204,978 and £135,846, respectively, for the corresponding month last year. The revenue collected on the Napier - New Plymouth -• Wellington line totalled £63,744, against £60,065 for the same period in 1906. The tender of W,. Benton and Son, of Featherston, at £505, has been accepted by the Public Works Department for additions and alterations to the Martinborough Post Office. The unsuccessful tenderers were: —■ J. Renouf, Wellington,£63y 13s 6d; H. Humphries, Greytown, £7Ol 19s; W. Boyd, Petone, £765 15s; Leadingham anci Co., Wellington, £843 3s* Bd.

An American farmer has invented a machine for onion planting, which is said to closely approach perfection. It is a han.l drill which will drop one seed in each drill, any distance apart. It also makes a row, covers the seed the required depth, and rolls the row to make the earth compact. In a test there was not d single seed missed or misplaced in a number of 200 dropped. The machine will also plant carrot seed, bearis, peas and other seeds.

The statement of J. C; L. Jensen, adjudicated bankrupt, shows that the liabilities, all unsecured creditors, amount to £238 10s, and the assets nil. The unsecured creditors are as follow: - Featherston: E. H. Saunders, storekeeper, £129; K.lVincent, butcher, £39; J. McCarty, saddler, £10; A. Toogood, storekeeper, £9 15s; A. Tait, carter, £3 ss; Mrs G. Tucker, storekeeper, £1 14s; G. Allen, blacksmith, £2 ss; Mrs Jones, baker, £1 10s;. P. Blachford, storekeeper, £10; J. Smith and Sons, storekeepers, £23 15s; Dr. Palmer, £1 18s; Dr. Deamer, £2 7s 6d; Kirkcaldie and Stains, Wellington, £4, os 6d. A meeting of creditors will be held on Thursday, 14th inst., at the Featherston Courthouse.

The drawings for the first round in the Ladies' Handicap Singles, in connection with the Victoria Tennis Club, are as follow:—Miss V. Carpenter plays Miss M. Smith, Miss Infield plays Miss W. Carpenter, Miss Dixon plays Miss M. Wagg, Miss R. Hooper plays Miss W. Jones, Miss E. Carpenter plays Miss Hourigan, Miss E. Hooper plays Miss Scott, Miss D. Gardner plays Miss H. Wickens, Miss M. Tait plays Miss B. Hammond, Mrs W. G. Smith plays Miss I. Hammond, Miss M. Rive plays Miss M. Morgan, Miss V. O'Connell plays Miss Monk, Miss L. Wickens plays Mrs Buxton, Miss A. Rive plays Miss Townsend, Miss Fisher plays Miss M. Stempa.

Thb Celebrity of Sander and Sons Porb

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Captain Bower completed his thirty-second year's service as Town Clerk of Napier on Wednesday last.

The latest dredging returns are: —■ Mystery Flat, 40oz for the week; Heßsey dredge, lOoz 14dwt for the week; Masterton dredge, 260z 12dwt.

An Invercargill telegram states that the steamer Rakiura, which went ashore three weeks ago, near the Nuggets, was got off yesterday morning.

Eighteen persons are gazetted naturalised this week. Most of them are gum-diggers, Austrians by birth. One is a Syrian hawker residing at Wellington.

A telegram reports that a very rich vein of good gold has been struck in the Alpine mine at Lyel'. The vein is said to be similar to that discovered in the mine some months ago.

The potato blight has made its appearance in real earnest amongst many crops in the Peilding district. The effect'upon the plant is becoming more noticeable since the recent warm rains.

At a meeting of the Holidays Committee of the Employers' Association, held on Thursday, it was decided to recommend that Thursday next be declared a holiday as from noon for the annual sports meeting of the S. Patrick's Day Sports Association.

As showing how sheep have gone up in price as a result of the recent, rains, a farmer told a Timaru Post reporter, on Saturday that sheep for which he had been offered lis 6d three weeks ago, he had since sold at 16s per head.

An agitation is on foot in Foxton to prevent the Borough Council giving away the rights of the citizens to a private company to light the town. Exception was taken at a bare majority of the Council dealing with the matter.

A Pahiatua settler reports that from one pound of Uncle Giddeon's Quick Lunch seed he has grown 451b (401b saleable) of potatoes, and from 19oz (one potato) of Old Waikato Maori seed 741b (481b saleable). From a quarter acre patch another settler got a yield of three tons.

Speaking of the premium paid on the sub-lease of a portion of the VVaimarama (Hawke's Bay) Estate in 1896, Sir Robert Stout said that it was a clear loss to the natives, and that, had it been invested for them, it would have been worth £50,000 to-day.

A smart lad is wanted by Messrs R. Hannah and Co., Ltd.

An advertiser wishes to purchase 75 to 100 acres of good land within three miles of Masterton.

The various .classes in connection with the Masterton Technical School will be resumed on Monday next.

Particulars of a roan gelding, impounded from Albert Street, are advertised by the poundkeeper. On account of unforseen delays the Misses Whitcombe will not open the tea and luncheon rooms in the Exchange Buildings, on Wednesday, March 20th.

The Wellington Education Board invite tenders, to 1 close at noon on Saturday, March 16th, for .the erection of a teacher's residence at Rangitumau.

At 2 o'clock to-day, in their rooms, Perry Street, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell a quantity of furniture, general sundries, cutlery, crockery, fruit and poultry.

Mr C. Smith announces that he has now opened up his new autumn and winter goods, which include the latest novelties from the British and Continental markets. They are now on view, and inspection is invited.

The Commissioner of Crown Lands notifies that four lots in the township of Langdale, varying from 3£ acres to 154 acres will be open for application on lease-in-perpetuity on and after Wednesday, March 27th.

A new eight-horse power horizontal engine, with fittings for either gas or oil, is offered for sale by Messrs J. J. Curtis and Co., Ltd., Wellington. An advertisement appears in another column.

At the Central Boot Depot Mr J. Carpenter is now opening a large consignment of Jboots and shoes in the latest styles from the best European factories. Special new lines in ladies'footwear are included in the shipment.

At the Masterton Auction Mart, this afternoon, a clearance is to be made of the drapery and clothing on account pf Mr D'Arcy Ford. The sale will commence at 2 o'clock, and every line will be sold without reserve.

The Knox Church Young Men's Class will meet at 10 o'clock, tomorrow morning, when the study of Professor Henry Drummond's "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" will be completed. At' the morning service the Rev. A. T. Thompson will commence a series of expository sermons on "Philippians." In the evening the Rev. Thompson will deliver a sermon to young men—"Where art thou, where is thy brother?" He will also conduct Divine service at Wangaehu at 3 p.m. Mr F. W. G. McLeod will conduct the services at Dreyerton.

Mr A. Henderson, watchmaker, has added to his business a mannfacturing department, and is now in a position to undertake the manufacture of all descriptions of jewellery, medals, shields and all classes of gold and silversmith's work. An expert working jeweller has been engaged, who has had a large experience in the trade, and clients, who. desire their jewellery re-modelled or stones re-set, can rely on this class of work being done to their satisfaction. The addition of his important branch will doubtless prove a great convenience to Mr Henderson's numerous clients. The S. Patrick's Day Sports Association, at Palmerston North. have extended the date for receiving nominations for the Professional Mile Race and the Amateur Mile Race till Wednesday next, the 13th inst. They have .also added a Half-mile Professional Race for prize money £3, entries to close on the ground. At the closing night of nominationa the Secretary had received 130 nominations for six handicap events, which far exceeded anticipations, and some prominent runners are amongst the number, so the public will have a good afternoon's sport.

The Woodville Band was served with a summons, for over £4O, on Thursday, for breach of contract at Christchurch. The case, which will be tried in Christchurch, has arisen out of the Band changing their quarters. A stock dealer in a large way of business estimates that upwards of 300,000 store sheep will be placed on the market during the next two months, says the Palmerston South Times. This number represents the surplus sheep from various stations, and does not include farmers' lots. The death is announced, at Palmer- | ston North, of Mr Alfred Richard P Lyons. The deceased, who had reached the age of 63 years, was at one time the manager of Mr Spencer Gollan's station in Hawke's Bay, and latterly was superintendent of properties for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. •An instance of the fruitgrowing ■capabilities of this district, says the Feilding Star, is given by Colonel Gorton, who weighed two peaches grown on his wooden wall, ■.at "Rangiatea," Bulls, without glass. One measured lOgin by 91 in, and weighed' over 9oz, while the other measured 10in by 9|in, and weighed over Boz, surely a record. • Presiding at the sitting of the Land Commission, a few days ago, Sir Robert Stout gave very emphatic expression to his opinion that the price of land was being unduly inflated. He said farmers were "going mad in the prices they were paying for their land," and that their estimate of the -value of land was apparently based •■on the expectation that the present prices of the products of the farm ! would be permanent. A message from the sea that has been a long time on its travels has i*eached Gisborne from one of the members of the Tenth Contingent, who went to South Africa from Gisborne in 1900.' Upon a scrap of newspaper he scribbled the words: —"Drayton Grange, Tenth Contingent on board; all well; one day from Sydney.—Thomas Howell. Anyone finding this please send to t Poverty Bay Herald." The paper was placed in a porter bottle, and consigned to the sea. It was found a few weeks ago on the coast of ■Queensland, a few miles south of Cooktown. The "Wanted" columns of the . Australian exchanges teem with advertisements for servant girls. Apparently there is an insatiable demand. "The 'domestic,' " states the Melbourne Argus," is daily becoming more scarce, and at the present rate of retrogression a few years will see her numbered with the dodo, the diprotodon, and other creatures of a bygone age." Registry office keepers in Melbourne state that never have they known fewer girls to respond to advertisements. It is a trouble to obtain any girls whatever. One office-keeper could place 100 "any sorts" right away, while for really good girls he could find situations for 1,000 in a day. Elderly people suffer much from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago. Burtjmo quickly cures by driving out tbe •excess uric aoid from the blood. All stores and chemists, 2/6 and 4/6. You just try it