LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8541, 23 September 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mauriceville Rifle Club will open the season on Saturday next, writes our correspondent.

Land is in great demand in the Auckland district, and settlement is proceeding at a satisfactory rate.

The total amount collected to date fo: the Christchurch Y.M.C.A. Building Fund is £8,482 3s 6d. Mr. D. Boyd, of the staff of the Martinborough Post Office, has been transferred to Gisborne.

A Wellington company have purchased Messrs Carlson and Co.'s sawmill at Mangamaire.

The Pahiatua Racing Club has decided to increase the stakes for the forthcoming meeting to £3,100. The latest return from the Antonio Dredge is 18oz 13dwt for the week. There was no "wash-up" from the Masterton dredge last week.

The Canterbury Rowing Association has decided to support the Hawke's Bay Association's claim to hold the next championship regatta'at Napier.

Mr J. W. Parker, of Mangamaire, has sold his property to Mr E. Bodmin, and has purchased another farm at Scarborough.

There are at present 51 prohibition orders in force against residents of Masterton, a great proportion of the orders being against young men.

At Hastings, last Wednesday, Mr P. Viggers, of Eketahuna, w*s married to Miss E. Bayliss, second daughter of Mr T. Bayliss, «f Hastings.

The Palmerston North Borough Council has decided to take no action in the direction of changing the name of Palmerston North to Manawatu, states a Press Association telegram. The Masterton Municipal Brass Band rendered an enjoyable programme of music in the Park Rotunda, yesterday afternoon, before a large crowd of people. On Wednesday last, writes our Mauriceville correspondent, Mr W. Payne was married to Miss Anna Goodgame. . The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr Kitcat, of Eketahuna.

The result of the poll taken by the Castlepoint County for the special loan of £2,000 to form and metal part of the Masterton-Waimata Road in the Whakataki Valley is as follows:—For the proposal. 70 votes; against the proposal, 40 votes. An Friday last the first of a series of progressive euchre parties took place in the Mauriceville Hall, writes our correspondent. Mr McLauchlan and Miss May Brooks were the winners of the two prizes allotted. A dance was afterwards held.

A Timaru Press Association telegram states that, at the annual meeting of the Timaru Farmers' Cooperative Association, the Chairman said that the year's business constituted a fresh record. The turn-over had been £900,000, and the profit £22,000.

At the Masterton Police Court, on Saturday morning, before Mr G. Heron, J.P., John Lee, a second was fined 10s, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for having been drunk. A first offender was convicted and discharged for a similar offmce, and was warned to leave the town immediatelv.

In connection with gold dredging during 1906 the Official Year Book states that the average yield per working dredge was £8,013, and the expenditure thereon £2,200; the average time worked per year was forty weeks, while the woi'king costs were £55 per week. The net average profit per 'dredge, therefore, was £Bl3, less cep.'eciation.

A meeting of original and present owners in the Te Cr> Ore Estate was held in the Masterton A. and P. ■ Association Offices, on Saturday, to consider the question of getting the .money held in trust transferred to the Te Ore Ore School Cornniittet. As there was not a sufficiently large attendance, the matter was only informally discussed, and a committee, consisting of Messrs David Donald, J. Morris and Jones, was appointed to obtain certain information and report to a future meeting.

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An effort is beir,g made to reorganise the Martinborough Rifle Club, states the local paper. The Rev. A. T. Thompson conducted ihe services at Knox Church yesterday. The congregations on both occasions were very large.

The building trade has been particularly brisk in Dunedin for some time now, and there is every prospect of it keeping up for some months yet.

For the four weeks ended September 7th, the Waihi Company crushed 27,759 tons for a yield valued at £66,070, constituting a record. The total amount of gold won to date is £5,978,197.

"The party the Government of today has to consider," said Mr Wilford in the House the other day, "is the Labour Party, and the question for this Parliament and for the next Parliament to seriously consider, is the Labour question." Mr E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock, states that the agricultural outlook in Auckland is very bright and the farmers are in good heart. Prices are good, particularly for live stock. At Remuera last week a line of fat sheep realised £1 19s 6d per head.

The cash w receipts at the Town Hall, on Saturday evening, in connection with the production of "Mother Goose" are said to have been about £s'_» more than the amount taken by any of Mr J. C. Williamson's companies that hdve previously visited Masterton for one night. The members of the Masterton Pipe Band held a meeting on Saturday evening at which it was finally decided not to accept the offer of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society with reference to the latter body having a share in the control of the band. The band is making steady progress, and the membership is increasing satisfacterily. Saturday last was St. Matthew's Day, and in consequence the services at St. Matthew's Church, yesterday, were of ? special nature to commemorate the festival. Special anthems were rendered, and appropriate lessons were read. The soloist during the offertory last evening was Miss Sweetman. The preacher at each service was the Rev. E. T. Wynne-Bond, Vicar of Greytown.

In answer to a telegram from Mr R. Brown, Chairman of the Wairarapa School Committees' Association, asking that the King's proclamation concerning Dominion Day might be telegraphed to all schools on Dominion Day, the Premier has replied that the matter will receive attention. He adds that the proclamation will be telegraphed from Wellington to all newspapers on the morning of Dominion Day.

At the annual meeting of the Featherston Gun Club the election of officers resulted: —Patron, Mr A. Mat thews; President, Mr W. Barton; Vice-Presidents, Messrs Allan Donald, Joseph Cundy, C. Matthews, and F. Pearce; Treasurer, Mr S. Murphy; auditor, Mr Robertson; Secretary. Mr W. Tucker (vice Mr A. Holms, resigned); Management Committee, Messrs C. Burt, S. Burt, C. Skipage, T. .Skipage, Arch. Benton, M. Hvlands and C. Elliott.

In the House of Representatives Mr Ngata stated that the influence of Rua, the Urewera tohunga, is said to have caused the closing, through diminution of attendance, of many native schools in the Bay of Plenty district. Rua, he-said, had advised his followers not to pay the dog tax, and he has gathered round him at Maungapohatu 600 followers, of whom fifty, mostly chi'dren, have died during the last three months, owing to exposure and the insanitary conditions of the camp life. "Great quantities of tea are cleared at 4d per lb, v sa per lb, and 6d per lb," said Mr T. Mackenzie, tho member for Waikouaiti,. in the /House of Representatives. "These inferior teas are mixed with smaller quantities of decent tea, so as to give a flavour, and 1 are sold to the public at exorbitant rates by wealthy merchants. The people pay something like 120 per cent, on the original cost, and about 80 per cent, above what they ought to pay." A remunerative pastime indulged Hi by small boys in Invercargill is that of "finding" golf halls, states a contemporary. Of late, the said small boys have adopted some of the methods of highwaymen, picking up or treading a hpel on any balls that happen along, irrespective of whether the owners are near or not. The incentive to the practice is the probabie reward from sale of the balls to club members, but the local club members will be requested to discontinue buy- I ing second-hand balls from any person.

If such a thing be possible the Japanese tar reverences the memory of Nelson even more than our own sailormen do (remarks a Home journal). Never a ship flying the redraved sun puts into Portsmouth but her officers and crew alike flock on board the Victory.- During the stay of the Tsukuba and the Chitose at our first naval pott so many of the Japanese sSilors wanted to look over the Victory, that special arrangements were made for them to visit the famous old ship. When the Japanese sailor —officer or man—goes on the Victory he does so not as a mere spectator viewing a world-famous sight, but more as a worshipper at a shrine. He displays a keen but reverent interest in everything shown him, and never fails to gravely salute the spot where Nelson fell and the plate in Jhe cockpit where the great admiral died.

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The death is announced of Mr A;' Stevens, a very old resident of Hunterville.

The overdue schooner Frank Guy, from Gisborne, has arrived at Westport.

The brown trout fry which have been liberated in our streams this year, says the Dannevirke Advocate, have come L from the Hakateramea hatchery, and will therefore const, tute some new blood for this district.

An eighteen-roomed boardinghouse at Waihi, owned by Charles Harley, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour on Saturday morning. The insurances were £SOO on the building in the Imperial: £IOO on the furniture in the Norwich Union; and £65 in the Government Office, also on the furniture.

The export of white pine to Australia, principally for butter-box making, is assuming large proportions. One firm in the Auckland district has a contract for the supply of 40,000,000 feet, and large orders have also been placed with millers in others parts of the colony where white pine abounds.

The Public Works Department have accepted the tender of H. Trotman, Greytown (£707) for the erection of a police station at Carterton. The other tenders received were:—A. R. Wallis, Carterton, £765; T. R. Arcus and Sons, Carterton, £786; D. T. King, Carterton, £862; H. E. Card, % Wellington, £915; Rose and Mason, Masterton, £958.

An unusual sight was witnessed at Moturoa, New Plymouth, a few days ago. A number of pigs were being weighed prior to shipment for Wellington, when of the num - ber escaped and raced across the sands and swam some considerable distance out to sea. It returned to the beach, but the performance was repeated twice before it could be caught. Two men on horseback eventually succeeded in lassooing and bringing it hack to the beach.

A wind-storm of unprecedented velocity swept oVer Takaka, Nelson, in the ear y hours of Friday morning. A large new two-story building in? the main street, which was being erected as a sash and door factory, completely collapsed, and is now a heup of ruins. The building was roofed, and the external walls almost complete, and in the painters/' hands Machinery and engines were installed and in daily use. The machinery was not much damaged, but the loss of timber, roofing, and labour is estimated at over £IOO.

Regarding pigeon shooting matchesthe annual report of the Christchurch* Society for the Prevention of Cruelty: to. Animals contains the following:— "Your committee regret that, although the majority of the present: Ministry and the Canterbury M's.H.R. have expressed themselves? as being favourable to putting a stop j" to live pigeon shooting matches by means of legislation, and notwithstanding the large petitions that were forwarded Parliament in* / references to this cruel sport last year, nothing .has yet been done in the matter. United action on part of all the New Zealand societies must be forthcoming in order to get this question again before Parliament, during the present session."

Several rich men in the United. States aspire to the honour ofi meeting Sir" Thomas Lipton for the America Cup next year. Mr J. H. Hannan, a millionaire, who has made his fortune as a boot and shoe manufacturer,. and Mr Prank Smith, the head of the * Borax Trust, who is known as the"Borax King," announce their intention of building yachts for the purpose. The two new aspirants for racing honours will not go to the Herreshofrs, the famous Rhode Island builders, who have constructed every Cup defender for the past dozen, years, but are giving their orders to. comparatively new designers. Henry Geilow will design the yacht fQr Mr Smith, and William Gardner will design Mr Hannan's yacht. The New South Wales Department of Agriculture has decided to establish a viticultural station for the propagation of phylloxera-resistant, stocks on the shore of Lake Macquarie, between Belmont -and Swansea. The area of the reserve is about 300 acres, and the site is between the shore of the lake tnd the main road, about a mile from Swansea Bridge. A number of men are at present engaged in fencing and clearing the land, which is mostly of a sandy nature, suitable for nursery purposes. It is understood that some thousands of cuttings will be planted this year. The use of resistent stocks is recognised as being the only means of guaranteeing freedom .from phylloxera, which lives on the roots olivines, and only assumes a winged Jorm, like some varieties of ants, at a certain time of the year.

The last people in the world who might be expected to object to having 1 a holiday are the workers. Apparently, however, the final limit of their requirements in that direction has, in Auckland at least, been reached, says the New Zealand Herald. A perfect chorus of disapproval was showered upon the proposal to add Dominion Day to the list of holidays when it was discussed by the Trades and Labour Council, on Wed- > nesday, and a resolution of proteiL. was carried. It appears that the labour man objects altogether to having to "lose a day's work and dance to' Joey' Ward's music." The Pre> rnier (the degree "glorious" was conferred upon him by one speaker) was twitted with being put to the necessity of working the people up into a state of excitement over his "great surprise" (the change of name from colony to dominion), which "nobody took a bit of notice of." Dominion Day by another indignant delegate was designated "a tin-pot jingle thing," and only one man in the room announced himself as a patriot and a holiday-maker, .and his self-revelation was gre&fccSfwith ironical laughter.

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4 'The Government has pledged itself," says Mr Donne, of the Tourist Department, "to make Rotorua one of the finest spas in the world. I have been at some of the most noted spas in the world —Germany, Italy, and elsewhere —and I have seen nothing to equal the new bath building, which will be perhaps the finest in the world when finished."

The Maoris in the Hot Lakes disw strict are much incensed at the action vV 0 f or persons in digging • - up the graves of natives buried on the island of Motutaua, Lake Rotokakahi, and removing the tribal relics which had been deposited alongside the bodies. The • Tourist Department is offering a substantial reward for information that will lead to a conviction of the offender.

. A shock of earthquake was experienced at sea by the barque Onyx, at noon on September 7 th, whilst on the voyage from Surprise Island to Auckland. The barque at the time was in latitude 25.3) south, longitude 160.20 east. The sea was much sagitated around the vessel, which -quivered fore and aft for about 10 seconds. It was at first thought that the barque had struck a rock. A few months ago, when the Norwt gan barque Dran was coming to Auckland from Maiden Island, with a cargo of guano, she met with a similar .experience.

Two Palmers ton North residents 4] iring a recent visit to Australia, says the Manawatu Standard, were much struck with the nature of the crop raised in che West Maitland distriet of New South Wales. The settlers there are to a great extent dependent on lucerne far a living. The ground is as hard as cement, and the lucerne is one of the few things that will grow - and thrive there, as may be gathered from the fact that a man with fifty acres of land is able to make a good income. Some idea of the growth of lucerne rr.ay be formed when it is stated that it is quite a common thing for some of the farmers to take six crops off it each year.

It has been in the minds of a good many people during the past week, writes the Dunedin correspondent of the Wellington Post, that if the v Monowai had been fitted with wireless telegraphic apparatus she could have spoken Sydney at once, and disclosed both her position and the iiature of her mishap. What is forgotten in these cases is that to establish communication the shore station must have a wireless installation also. From enquiry made the Dunedin Star thinks it is in a position to predict that once the Governments of the

various colonial States equip their ports with "wireless," the Union Company will not be slow to follow suit.

An experienced driver seeks empbyment. An advertiser requires a good gen■eralrffciplain cook.

Messrs A. H. Atkinson and Ca., Ltd., of Feildrg, advertise for sal-3 or lease a boarding-house doing a good steady business. Full particulars will be supplied on application. Mr C. C. Aitken, bookseller, Queen Street, has been appointed Masterton agent for the new Wellington morning paper, "'The Dominion,"which is to be published on Thursday morning next, "Dominion Day."

The annual horse parade, under the auspices of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society will be held on the Carterto.i Showgrounds, at 2 o'clock, on Saturday next. Entries must be made with the Secretary, Mr H. S. Moss, on Friday, 27th instant.

A carrying business with firstclass plant, including six horses, 16 bullocks, waggons and carts, together with the goodwill of 100 acres of leasehold land with necessary buildings and wool stores and stable®, is advertised for sale. Full particulars will be supplied on application to Mr A. McHutchon, Whakataki.

The annual show under the auspices of the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, November 13th and 14t'j. the Association has allotted the sum of £1,250 in prize money, and in consequence they anticipate that record entries both in quantity and quality of stock will be the result. By an announcement elsewhere it will be seen that entries will close with the Secretary, Mr Selby Morton, Wanganui, on Saturday, November 2nd.

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