LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8529, 6 September 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The latest return from the Mystery Flat dredge is 50oz 2dwt for the week.

The next criminal sessions in Wellington will be opened on November 18 th.

Mr A. Redpath, of Nireaha, has been elected a director of the Nireaha Co-operative Dairy Company.

The colonial mails which left Wellington on the 26th July to connect with Naples mail per Gmrah arrived in London on the morning of 3rd inst., due date.

The sum of £602 Os 6d was collected in Dunedin, on Wednesday, on behalf of the Y.M.C.A. building fund, bringing the total donations up to £8,269 183 4d. Miss Hetherington, daughter of Mr S. Hetherington, of Thames, has qualified at Girton College, Cambridge, and has been awarded the M.A. degree by Trinity College, Dublin, writes our London correspondent.

Constable Sheary, of Martinborough, le p t Wellington on Tuesday, on transfer to Takak.-i, where he will take over the duties of Constable Mackay, who has been promoted to the position of police gaoler at Nelson.* Constable Warneford, from the West Coast, is to fill the vacancy at Martinborough.

The Wanganui Herald understands that the local butchers intend to ask for a writ of mindamus to compel the Borough Council to establish municipal abattoirs, andj also an injunction against the council entering into the proposed agreement with tbe Freezing Company for the slaughter of stock for the retail trade.

The Christchurch Cycling Club lost nearly £2OO on the Exhibition Wheal Race meeting, and in the annual report the committee expresses a doubt as to the of offering large amounts in prize money, the doubt being strengthened by the fact that the Good Friday meeting, with a much smaller programme, netted a profit of £42.

The annual examinations of the Masterton District High School will conclude this morning. This year the promotion of pupils into higher standards will not be made until the end of the year, and accordingly the list of promotions will not be published until that time. This is being done in every public school in the province, so as to bring each school into line with the other, and facilitate the transfer of pupils from one school to another.

The following story of Te Kooti, the great Hauhau chief, is told by the Wairoa Guardian:—"x\t the time of the Hauhau chief's march through the country after he had been pardoned, just previous to his contemplated descent on Poverty Bay, he passed over the Wairoa bridge, with eighty warriors, on horseback. Mr J. H. Sn.yth then kept the toll on the Wairoa bridge. The native in advance truculently threw a shilling on the deck. The toll-keeper ordered the whole cavalcade back, and bade the native dismount and hand him the coin. This the native refused to do, but'Te Kooti, who was in the rear, rode forward and asked what was the matter. On its being explained, he turned on the native and roundly upbraided him, making him dismount and uresent the shilling. He then ordered him to the rear in disgrace."

The tarring and feathering episode at Opunake recalls a somewhat similar incident that occurred there a few years ago, says an exchange. The Mounted Rifles were in camp and the usual pranks were being played. Towards the end of the encampment some one conceived the idea of having a joke at the captain's expense. This was a brilliant idea; but how were they going to make a butt of the captain without being caught? This proved an insurmountable hurdle, so it was decided to make the skipjser's hor&e bear the brunt. There were no sounds of revelry by night, but half-clad forms flitted to and fro, and in the morning the captain's snow-white charger appeared in roseate-hued splendour. The horse had been painted red. The incident caused a hubbub in camp, but the jokers were never found out. I

The litigation in respect of . the Mulgrave Hotel, Kopuaranga, was ended yesterday, when Dr. M'Arthur, S.M. gave judgment in the case in j which Frederick Johnston sued Mrs j Teresa Briggs for £2OO. states the Post. His Worship, in the course of his judgment, said plaintiff had abandoned part of the claim seeking £l5O for breach of contract, and that left only the claim for £SO on the 1.0. U. to be considered.' In his Worship's opinion the plaintiff's agent knew well that the defendant wouid require to be financed before she could carry out any contract for purchase, and he knew this before either the contract or the 1.0. U. was signed. Doubtless an 1.0. U., being a distinct admission of a sum due. was prima facie evidence of an account stated, and of a promise to pay the amount to the person who was in possession of the document, but the effect of it might be got rid of where it was the only item of evidence of account, by showing that there was no debt and no demand, which could be enforced by virtue of it. Judgment was for defendant without costs.

ST3AM ON THE FARM. Do you ic-cornhe what an advantage it is to have a supply of live steam on the (arm? It means a liberal supply o£ lioiiii;g water fir washing cans or clothes, f»r scalding pigs or cooking stock food, ai.cl you can secure these advantages at a ■very sma 1 cost by purchas-ing a "New Century" One good lire provides steam i';r about two hours, and can be l:ft with peifect safety. The ''New Centu-y" combines the strong points of the ordinary portable wash"m» copper a* d the high pressura steam boiler without their disadvantages. MacEwan and Cd , Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Co.'a Buildings, Wellington,

The annual meeting of the Rongokokako Co-operative Cheese Factory Company, Ltd., will be held to-day. The rainfall registered in Eketahuna for the month of August was 3.81 inches. Rain fell on seventeen days.

Miss Jacobson, of Pahiatua, has been appointed second assistant teacher at the Martinborough public school.

The Very Rev. Father Clune commenced a three days' mission in the Featherston Catholic Church on Wednesday evening last.

A Government parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers will beheld at 7.30 o'clock to-night. In the event of the weather being - wet the Corps will meet at the Y.M.C.A.

The members of the Masterton Borough Council were to have visited the site for the proposed swimming baths, yesterday afternoon, in order to fix the exact position of the baths, but as only Crs Prentice and Elliott attended nothing was done.

Our London correspondent writes: —Miss Audrey Richardson, the I clever New Zealand violinist, is the winner of the Tillie Gold medal, and * the Merchant Tailors' Scholarship of £4O per annum at the recent examinations held by the Guildhall School of Music.

"The old-fashioned stamp and stamp-licker are going out of use directly," said the president of the Timaru Accountant Students' Society th 3 other day. A machine was now in use in big offices in Christchurch, and would soon be in use in Timaru, by which letters and telegrams were stamped with values of a halfpenny, one penny, threepence, sixpence, and one shilling."

The Otago Daily Times states: — Tha chief reason why Otago and Canterbury object to the proposed clause to limit the catching of trout to 201b per day is, we are informed, on acount of the size of fish taken in their rivers. In some instances fish caught weigh from 101b to 151b, and such a regulation would, in some instances, limit an angler to one fish. Rotorua is also up in arms, as practically all the fish taken in the lake are large. **•

The quarterly meeting of the Masterton Licensing Committee was held yesterday morning. Mr VV. P. James, S.M., presided, and there were also present—Messrs E. McEwen, J, Hessey and J. H. Pauling. The police reports were favourable in every instance and the renewals of licenses of the Empire and Whakataki Hotels, held over from the annual meeting, were granted, as the recommendations made by the Committee had been given effect to. A transfer of the license of the Ranfurly Hotel, Eketahuna, was granted from A. E. Jones to D. H. Johnston.

A well-known Christchurch gentleman now in London, writes to a friend:—"There are many matters here, political and otherwise, that strike a colonial as very odd and oldfashioned. The necessity for old age pensions, protection, and the exclusion of aliens is particularly noticeable. It seems to me that England is driving from her shores her very life's blood. Thousands of her best men are constantly le iving for Canada and other places, and the gaps are being filled up with Russian and Polish Jews. London simply teems with foreigners. I mentioned this fact to a friend the other day, and he informed me that he could take me to a part of the town where I would find quite a colony of aliens who could not_ejten speak the English language." According to a police report submitted to the meeting of the Masterton Licensing Committee, yesterday morning, a commercial traveller arrived at a Master'on hotel by the evening train some weeks ago and was refused supper by the licensee. The licensee excused himself, saying that he had a football dinner on and he had no place to prepare a meal for the traveller. Sergeant Miller informed the Committee that the traveller had said, that he would take a meal anywhere, even in the room where the football dinner was in progress. Mr Povvnall, who appeared for the licensee, contended that there were plenty of hotels and refreshment rooms in the town where the traveller could have got a meal. The Magistrate said that that was not the point. The chief object in granting a license to a hotel was to ensure meals and lodgings for travellers. He warned the licensee in question against any future similar occurrence.

A youth named Walter John Pond, aged 17 years, an apprentice employed in Messrs Beale and Parton's plumber's shop, was found hanging from a rafter in a loft above the shop at about 5 p.m. yesterday. He had been working up. till about four o'clock, and he then appeared in good spirits. One of the firm's employees states .that the deceased said he felt a little tired. He was last seen shortly after four o'clock. An he did not appear again a search was made, and about five o'clock a lad, named Norman Morris, found the body hanging from a rafter in the loft. Dr. Cowie was immediately summoned. Efforts were made at resuscitation, but the doctor pronounced life to be extinct. The deceased was the only son of Mr Arthur Pond, of Cole Street, and had been employed at Messrs Beale and Parton's for about two and a half years. An inquest will be held this morning. The funeral will take place to-morrow. MERIT REWARDED BY COORT OF JUSTICE. The acknowledged good qualities and S"C3ess of PANDKB & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out many imitations, and one case was just tried in the Supreme Court of Victoria, be'ore bis Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G , etc. His Honour, when giving / judpment said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the pub.ic by reason of its good quality, etc., it s no( permresable to imitate any of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing 30, and orciered 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 ! duiing the last 30 years to be a preparation I

of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER & SONS' PUKE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTHACL' Elderly people suffer much from rheumatism, gou*, scbtica, and lumbago. Itheumo quickly cures by driving out the excess uric acid from the blcod. All sto ea and chemists, 2a 6d and 4s 61 jfou just try it. i,

Mr Frank Reid has been gazetted as an Inspector of Mines, states a I Press Association telegram.

A Press Association telegram states that Captain Adjutant F. C. Glover, of Nelson, has been appointed Intelligence Officer for the Nelson] military district.

The Carlton Cricket Club have allotted last season's trophies as follow :—Mr W. Piatt's trophy, for'the most improved junior player, to Mr A. Hoar; Mr W. Cragg's trophy, for best bowling average, to Mr J. Waters; and Mr T. Kemble's trophy, for best fielder, to Mr J. O'Leary.

The Balclutha town clerk, who is also treasurer, has put up something of a record in rate collection. At the last meeting of the Council it was mentioned that the total rates outstanding for the past three years amounted only to 8s 4d, only 4d of this amount being due for the year ending 1906.

Defaulting debt-payers in some parts of the colony would no doubt appreciate the procedure adopted in the Greymouth Civil Court. There the number of the, summons is simply called, and nobody but the officials of the Court and counsel are cognisant of who the financially embarrassed individual is.

The following have donated trophies to the Carlton Cricket Club : Mr W. Piatt, trophy for the most improved junior player who has not previously won a trophy; Mr G. Isaacs, a silver-mounted ball for the best bowling average for the season, to be won by a player who has not previously won a bowling trophy.

Another challenge for the America Cup is, it is rumoured, about to be given. Mr William Fife, the designer of the first and third Shamrocks, has received an order to build a new yacht, and the name of Sir Thomas LTpton is mentioned es being once again the prospective issuer of the challenge.

The Mayor of Hastings (Mr J. Thompson) has, says the Hastings Standard, been approached to consent to nomination as a candidate in the Government interest at the ne; t. general election. Mr Thompson has promised to give the matter consideration. It is probable that his reply will be in the affirmative.

A meeting of the Ladies' Committee in . connection with the concprt and dance, in aid of the funds of St.. Patrick's Church, to be held in the Town and Drill Halls, on Wednesday evening next, was held in the Presbytery yesterday afternoon. Reports showed that satisfactory prcgresswas being made with the arrangements, and the function pronised to» be a great success. The various committees were appointed for the entertainment and other routine business was transacted.

A Maori chief from Kaiapni, in an address to the Bench at the Native Land Commission in Christchurch recently, said the impression was gaining ground nowadays that the notorious Maori raider Te Rauparaha journeyed down tne -South Island by way of the West Coast. This was not so. It was the lesser £known Te Puaho who travelled by f that route, and he met his doom by"being!slai?! in one of the most sanguinary Sou h Island battles—that at Tuturau, near Mataura, in Southland, where the power of the Northern raiders was finally broken.

The Geelong, Victoria, Harbour Trust Commissioners have launched out into the dairying industry. The land handed over in trust by the Government to the commissioners comprised a considerable area of swamp, which in years to come might be possibly required for harbour works, but which in its original state was useless. The commissioners have banked this land and drained off the surface water, and on it they have established an up-to-date dairy farm, which premises to considerably add to the revenue. At present the herd comprises 50 cows, and within the next, two or three weeks it te anticipated that the total number will be about 150.

In spite of the admitted general' prosperity of Queensland, the charitable relief distributed by the Government during the last financial year absorbed over £13,000, including cost'of administration. This is, however, £3,232 less than the expenditure of the previous year, half thedecrease being accounted for by the cessation of free railway tickets to men looking for work. The improved condition of the labour market ,in the country districts is shown by a decrease of over £I,BOO in the amount distributed by the rural police. The principal claims on the fund are made by widows and deserted wives, and special legislation is suggested to deal with the large number of men who abandon their wives and children to the charity of the State.

i The large amount of good done in ! an unostentatious way by the Sixpenny Clothing Club in Dunedin was once again in evidence at the annual meeting last week. The club busies itself in relieving cases of real distress in a sound and practical manner. In Dunedin, as elsewhere, there is a certain amount of poverty that is not proclaimed from the housetops. Husbands desert their wives or families, or are removed by death, and those dependent on them for bread become practically destitute. The members of the club do not content themselves with visiting the orphan and widow in their affliction, but supply them with clothing, coal, blankets, and the solace of kind words.

First Aid to th» Injuiel. ) Accidents are common to everv bouse*hold, and it is necessary to be readv for fcunh emprgenrM'eo. A. bnffe of Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment and a roll of scffc bandage* will rplieve many a sufferer. It takes the pain from every burn or bruise ; will heal any and every sore ; destroys the poison from sting of insects; stops neuralg.a find cures rheumatism. No family oan affoul to be without Dr. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. Keep a bottle on the shelf in plain sight, that it may be quickly found when needed. Price Is Gd and 3s Obtainable at H. E. Eton, Chftmist, Master ton. MissN. Chillis, High Street, Carterton, N.Z , writes:—"l was a sufferer from chronic ind'gestion, and gave Chamberlain's Tablets a trial, with most satisfactory results. I can sincerely say that they are the best medicine I have ever used, and have pleasure in recommending them to all who suffer from indigestion in any form." For £ale by all dealers.

It is reDorted that Mr T. Buxton, ■ofTenW, has been approached by the Government to stand for the Geraldine seat at the next election.

It is stated by the Hawke's Bay Herald that there is much sickness Amongst the Maoris at Taupo. Four children have died and many others are sick.

A fire brigade composed of Maoris is being formed at Ohinemutu, Rotorua. The captain of the Rotorua brigade will instruct the natives in their new duties.

The Otago Acclimatisation Society has decideJ that haras are to be protected, except in Central Otago, and the society is determined to prosecute any person shooting them out of season, or shooting them in season without a license.

The great geyser at Tokaanu gives splendid displays with wonderful punctuality every thirty-five minutes, and is a source of great attraction to visitors, being by far the largest geyser in the whole of the thermal district, its enormous <neam cloud being seen for miles all round the country.

The smallest policeman in New Zealand, perhaps the smallest EuroT .ean constable in the world, was in New Plymouth on Friday. The officer referred to is Mcunted-Constable Hickman, %vho is stationed at Opusiake. Constable Hickman came out as a bugler to some of the troops in the early days, and later joined the ranks in a more serious capacity. He took a very active part in the suppression of the native disturbances between Parihaka and Normanhy. The little officer is known practically all over Taranaki.

A vigoious crusade to ensure a pure milk supply is being waged in Brisbane. At the recent exhibition of the National Agricultural Society of Queensland, a substantial prize was offered to milk vendors, points being awarded for healthiness of cattle, construction of cow byres, cleanliness, and suitability of dairying appliances, richness of milk, and its freedom from harmful bacteria. The testing of milk for i'.s bacteriological purity is a new departure, the only test usually applied being for added water, colouring matter, or chemical preservatives.

It is not often a jury deliberately disobeys the judg<% but this happened at the Townsville (Queensland) criminal sittings on August 20th. Chumtah, an Afghan, who ran amok at Richmond on June 29th. was charged with the wilful murder of Duncan MacMillan by

shooting. Chumtah on the same occcaaion wounded three other perjtewttgl Mr Justice Chubb directed jUjMiirv to find prisoner not guilty, on the ground of insanity, but after an absence of over an hour the jury returned a verdict of guilty of wilful murder, and prisoner was sentenced to death.

The annual renort of the Chanty Organisation Society of Melbourne gives some interesting information on the problem of poverty. The officers of the society closely inquired into 892 cases of distress during the year. It was found that 90 per cent, of these were due to. misfortune, and only 7.7 per cent, to misconduct, the remaining 2.3 per cent, being undetermined. During the discussion on the report, Mr S. Mauger, Postmaster - General, said that the problem of unemployment was most perplexing. At the roots of social evils were to be found grievous social wrongs, and he thought that the society would do well to direct efforts towards the finding out of the causes of existing social wrongs. Until that was done. he was afraid the unemployment problem would not be solved.

Mr T. J. Nott announces that the Cafe de Paris will be open on Sunday evenings from 8 till 11 o'clock.

The Board of Management of the Y.M.C.A. insert a notice of thank? to those who contributed to make their Village Fair a success.

The Masterton Borough Council invite applications for the position of second butcher at the Masterton Abattoir.

Tenders are invited by the Masterton Borough Council for forming and kerbing footpaths in Renall Street, and erecting an asphalt shed in Hope Street.

At the Masterton Auction Mart, tomorrow, Mr J. R. Nicol will sell furniture, crockery and general merchandise. The third term of the classes in connection with the Masterton Technical School will be commenced on Monday next. Mr Haslam's classes in English and arithmetic and Civil Service subjects will not meet next week.' Messrs Fairburn and Silk, land and estate agents, Wanganui, advertise for sale a splendid dairying and cropping farm. Farmers and speculators in search of a really firstclass property would do well to communicate with the firm. iT-- If yon are an importer, send your dosufeentsto J. J- CUKTIfcS & CO., LTD.. Customhouse, Shipping, and Fnrwardiig Agents, Wellington. They will quickly pass the goods through the Customs and del : ver them to you. Those who u-e Chamberlain's Cjugh Kemedy say it makes their throat strong. It is ce tainly excellent for delicite throats. It tones up the mucou3 membrane, en abling it to withstand exposure, »cm as beneficially uron the youngest r hild ns upon the older members of the family. Chamberlain's Cough HemeJy is thoroughly nliable and the famihe? that have used it know that it me^tsthe praise that it receivps everywhere. For sale by all dealers.