LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8994, 3 December 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A copy of the petition for the subdivision'of the borough into wards, which is now in course of signature, will be found on page 6. The arnual statutory meeting of the contributing local authorities to the Masterton hospital was held, yesterday, to elect trustees. The following wn'e elected: —Mr Walter Harris, representing the Masterton County Council; Mr Murray J. H. Jackson, representing the Featherston County Council, and Messrs J. C. Ewington, Wm. Fisher, J. B. Keith, W. H. Kurnmer, and J. J. Mead.iepresenting the Akitio, Castlepoint, Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Pahiatua and Wairarapa South County Councils, the Carterton, Eketahuna, Greytown, Masterton and Pahiatua Borough Councils, and the Featherston and Martinborough Town Boards.

The ceremony of dedicating the statue of the Madonna, which was recently erected in the grounds of St. Bride's Convent in commemoration of the anniversary of the Order of St. Bride, will take place on Sunday afternoon next.' This ceremony, which is to be performed by the Very Rev. Dean McKenna, has been delayed up to the present owing to the illness of the Mother Superior of the Convent.

The Board of Management of the Y.M.C.A. met, last evening, Mr P. L. Boilings presiding. Two new members were elected. The recommendations put forward at a meeting of members, viz., that the billiard table be abolished and the room converted into a chess and draughts room, and that the present reading room be converted into a sitting room, were adopted. The question of reorganising the association was held over until some future date. It was decided to grant the Congregational Church the use of the room for its meetings for another month. Accounts amounting to £SO were passed for payment. As soon as the meeting adjourned, the resolutions with regard to abolishing the billiard table and instituting a sitting room were carried into effect by the members present. Good progress is being made with the erection of four new butts and a target-shed at the Fairview range for the Opaki Rifle Club, and it is expected that the work will be completed this week. The Opaki Club will commence practice in earnest on Thursday week in view of the forthcoming North Island championship meeting at Wanganui. The club will send two. teams to this meeting to defend their right to the North Island Challenge Shield,' which they won last year. The matriculation examinations in connection with the New Zealand University will commence in Masterton to-day, in the Dominion Hall. There are 24 candidates for examination. and Dean McKenna will be supervisor. 1 A practical examination in plumbing was held in Masterton, yesterday, under the auspices of the Wellington j Technical Education Board. Mr J. Campbell, of Wellington, was supervisor. Four candidates —iwo from Masterton and two from Pahiatua presented themselves at the examination, the results of which win not ba made known for about a fortnight. The Rev. J. N. Buttle has received two bequests of £3OO each towards the Home Mission Fund and the For' eign Mission Fund of the Methodist Church. Instead of their usual practice of playing selections opposite people's houses during the night of Christmas Eve, the Masterton Municipal Brass Band intend, this year, to visit residences during Christmas Day and favour the inmates with musical items, The Band also intend to give a sacred concert in the Town Hall on Christmas night. .. At a meeting of delegates representing the contributing local bodies held in Pahiatua on Morday afternoon, Messrs S. Bolton, J. D. Wilson, Godfrey Taylor, G. C. Burgess and J. Boagey were elected trustees of the Pahiatua Hospital for the ensuing year. Messrs R. Smith and H. J. Eames have also been appointed to the board,[representing,respectively, the Featherston and Masterton County Councils.

A meeting of the Mount Holdsworth track committee will be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Thursday evening to receive the report of the building committee and transact other business in connection with improving the track up the mountain. Dr. Valentine will visit Masterton, to-day, to inspect the drainage of the new hospital, which has now been completed. The Featherston Co - operative Dairy Company having a new mill and a new chc.esje press installed in their factory. Considerable difficulty is being experienced in obtaining station hands in the Low'-'r Valley, and in conse.quence a number of settlers are either curtailing their work or doing it themselves. Grass is very plentiful throughout the Nireaha district and stock are looking exceedingly well. The supply, of milk to the Nireaha Dairy Company's factory has increased considerably during the past two or three weeks. Two thousand three hundred and fifty gallons of milk per day are received at the factory, and the company will shortly instal a fifth vat. Twenty-seven large cheeses are being pressed every day, the weight running from-801b to Siilb. By the Gothic the company will shin Home 140 cases of cheese. It is anticipated that in about a fortnight, another shipment of 170 cases will be forwarded to London. Mr J. Gallic, has sold his farm at Patakanui, Otaraia, Lower Valley, io two Canterbury settlers, who will take possession shortly. The farm has an area of 2,400 acres. Mr Gallie •intends to reside in Wellington. Twenty-seven cases of scarlet fever have occurred in Carterton since the outbreak there was first reporte 1. Eighteen cases have occurred in the borough, and nine in the surrounding district. At the monthly meeting of directors of the Belvedere Dairy Company held yesterday, the sum of £543 was authorised to be paid out to suppliers for milk supplied during the month of November, being at the rate of (id per lb of butter faj;. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIED THE FAMOUS SANDER AND SONSPURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT was proved by experts at the Sup remo Court o£ Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its own, and to be absolutely siifi?, • ffective and reliable. Therefore do nor, aggravate your complaint by the use of one of the many crude eucalyptus oils which are now palmed oli as "Extracts." and from the use of which a death was reported recently, but insist upon iho GENUINE SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, add reject all others, , For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples, blackheads, freckles, cracked hands, dry and inflamed skin, use SANDEII ifc SONS' SUPERB A SKIN FOOD. No lady should oe without it. Allays'irritation, produces a clear and spotless complexion, and a smooth und supple skin. REMEMBER lhat SANDER & SONS' SL'PEBBA, SKIN FOOD is not an ordinary face cream, and unlike any of them,produces a permanent beautifying effect. All chemists and stores. «-

The Carterton Rifle Volunteer Corps has now a membership of about thirty-live. "Growing wheat is like plajing euchre with the joker in," said a witness at Leeston on Friday last. "You may hold the two bowers and the ace and then get euchred." The beginning of the end is approaching with regard to work on the Main Trunk railway, says the "Taihape Post," and a number of homes that have been employed on the construction works' by different contractors are boing sent to Waikato for sale. Also, trucks and other gear are being forwarded to lines north of Auckland. One result of the coming into of the provisions of the new Gaming Act was very noticeable on Friday, says the Wanganui Herald, when the crowd which formerly assembled at the corners in the vicinity of the Post Office was conspicuous only by its absence. Although an important race meeting such as Feilding was in progress, the small army of "bcokies" and their harpies tfhich was wont to infest the locality above mentioned had entirely disappeared having, like the Arabs, apparently "silently folded up their tents and stolen away." During the recent flutter in the potato market some persons made money, though a good many lost. One middleman in Invercargill is reported to have cleared £1,400 over a week's transactions. ' It is stated that there is a scarcity of cheesemakers in the dominion this season. The reason is said to be the opening up of new factories,especially in Taranaki, where one farmer alone, Mr Joll, has six establishments. Since the death of Te Whiti an unusually large number of applications have been received by the Native Land Court from Natives Who were under hi<* influence for succession orders and similar instruments which the. cult of the raukura feather forbade the Te Whiti Natives from recognising. Mr A. Rothenberg requires a young lady for a dental establishment. Particulars of a chestnut gelding impounded from Renall Street are advertised by the poundkeeper. A An advertiser has excellent accommodation for a married couple or two lady friends. Mrs E. Jackson inserts a notice of thanks fbr sympathy in connection with her .son's death., The advantages of the standard Rotary sewing machine form the subject of an advertisement inserted by Mr C. Y. Dally, local agent. The Masterton County Council invite tenders to close at noon on Wednesday, December 11th, for several metalling contracts. In another column Mr A. Rother.» berg announces that he will commence the practice of his profession as a dentist in Masterton on Monday next in rooms over Mr Eton's pharmacy. The New Zealand Clothing Factory advertise special value in boys' clothing for the summer season. The firm quote prices of the leading lines, ar.d every purchaser will be presented .with a boy's top while the stock 1 lasts. The wonderful adaptability of the lime manufactured by the Mauriceville Lime Company for agricultural ' purposes is recognised by farmers ' not only in the Wairarapa but 1 other parts of the country. Farmers ' desirous of obtaining lime are invited to peruse the price list which is 1 advertised on page 8 of this issue. Attention is drawn to an announcement on the leader page of by Mr F. Black, A.M. Inst., jflp., : whose offices are situated in a The ' King's Chambers," Wellington. Mr Black may be consulted in connection , with the construction of tramways, \ light-line railways, power undertakI ings, and municipal electricity plyThe timber exported from New | Zealand to Australia is now estimat- * ed to be from 50,000,000 to 60,000,000 superficial feet per annum. Large quantities of white pine " are exported, this timber being utilised for the manufacture of boxes for ; butter, soap, candles, etc. Kauri tim- : her is also exported in considerable - quantities, and is used for railway i carriages and interior linings of - houses of a superior kind.

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