LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8995, 4 December 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dr. Valintine, Inspector 64&cp pitals, accompanied by Mr A'/ ~W. Hogg, M.P., chairman of the /&s----pital Trustees, Mr D. Dobson, C.t'// Mr J, Rose, cleric of works, and D¥ A. Hosking, visited the new hospital, yesterday, and made an inspection of the drainage arrangements. Dr Valintinev expressed himself as generally pleased with the building, but pointed out a few minor details in connection;with the drainage that would have to be attended to. The building will be formally opened on the 32th inst, and will probably be ready for occupation about the beginning of next year. It is understood that a leading Wellington solicitor has given it as his opinion that in the event of Court proceedings, it would in all probability be held that the more drastic provisions of the Gaming Act are practically inoperative. The matters in question have, it is further stated, been referred to the Crown Law officers.

One result of the passing of the Tariff Act will probably be additions to the number of works and factories in the dominion. Writing on the subject, a Victorian nianfacturer hints that works (representing a gain of £150.000 per annum) will ere long be established either in Auckland or in Wellington. A poll of the Trust Lands Trust voters will be taken, to morrow, on the proposal of the trustees to borrow £IO,OOO for erecting buildings on vacant trust sections. A man named Frank Pearce, who came into Masterton yesterday from shearing at Te Parae station, was arrested in the afternoon on a charge of stealing £3 from his mate. John Robinson, in the street. Accused will be brought before the court this morning. There were 16 impoundings from the borough and 22 from the county during last month. The receipts at the Masterton pound amounted to £2 14s 2d. The lecture given by the Rev. 1. Jolly on "The Manliness and Genius of Robert Burns," in Knox Church on Monday evening, was largely attended. The lecturer kept his hearers highly interested throughout with reminiscences of Scotland's favourite poet. He read a number of Burns' jongs and gave a brief sketch of his poetry. At the conclusion of the lecture the speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. During the evening songs were contributed by Misses J. McGregor, Elkins and Cameron, Mr J. Johnson, and Rev. L. Thompson. During last month 119 cattle, 23 calves, 620 sheep and lambs, and 54 pigs were slaughtered at the municipal abattoir. Five cows, two bullocks and one pig were affected with tuberculosis, and of these 3 cows, one bullock and one pig were partially condemned. Six sheep were wholly condemned. The receipts for the month amounted to £B3 Os 6d. It is considered improbable that th« Fire Board will meet before the New Year. The date of the first meeting has yet to be gazetted. Messrs M. Caselberg and G. Heron, J.P's., presided at the sitting of the Police Court, yesterday morning. John Mackay, alias W. Jones, and Alexander Douglas were each convicted and discharged on charges of drunkenness. Frank Frater, alias Lambert, was charged with having assaulted David Jackson, custodian of the park, and having used oDscene language in Queen Street yesterday morning. Accused resisted violently on being brought from the cells to the court, and it was with some difficulty that he was placed in the dock by the police. He was remanded to appear before Mr W. P. James, S.M., on Friday. ' The Post and Telegraph Department has informed the Akitio 1 County Council that the matter of ■ telephonic communication to Akitio ■ and Aohanga will receive immediate attention. An effort is being made to form a choir in connection with the Methodist Church at Morison's Bush. .

A petition has been forwarded by the settlers interested to his Excellency the Governor praying for a reproclamation of the Kahautara River district as a slight mistake had been made in the area* through including several properties in the proclamation which should not have been included. The Featherston Co-operative Dairy Company are forwarding to London, by the steamer Gothic, about twenty-five . tons of cheese. The Tawaha Dairy Company (Martinborough) are sending fifty cases of cheese by the same steamer. During the past month the Featherston Dairy Company have forwarded thirty-nine tons of cheese to London. During the past few days a large number of sheep have been railed from Hawke's Bay, via Wairarapa, to Wellington. i The Eketahuna branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union has decided to hold a dairy competition at their next show on similar lines to the one ' conducted by the Mastcrton A. and 11\ Association, It has «lso been decided to aak lu'i W. H. Jackson, head' master of the Masterton District High School, tc allett school work tr be exhiibted at the shew. At Ihe meeting of the EketahuriJ branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, on Saturday last, the matter ofthefalTu luboUiMls' dispute was. | discussed at considerable length. It was finally decided to recommend the Wellington executive to register as an association, so as to bd in a p'O'sitifiii to defend farmers to any' dispute.At EketahU'n'n,- On Saturday last, a team from the' W'oodviffe' Tennis Club defeated a team from s*£ Eketahuna Tennis Club by eleven 1 sets to six (123 games to 111.) The first mail for the new p'ost office at Dyerville left Martinborough yesterday. The mail for Dyerville will closs at Martinborough at 1.15 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and j Saturdays. The mail for Martinh/?l"6ugh will close at Dyerville at 10.45 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

The W?rk of shearing is nearing completion Jfl the Lower Valley, and : A number of glfitfohs have "cut out." During the past *§W days over 500 bales of wool hav'S msn Wiled from Peatherston to Wellingl^i]; Rain is badly needed in the Ld#'# Valley district, and settlers are becoming about their crops. A alight shower fell in the vicinity of Maftinborough, on Friday evening ;last, but was not sufficient to be of iany material beriefit, ' SATISFACTION GUAKAtfTEfiJD. j goes on, nsers of the Baltic CrSSfm; Separators experience the joy of handling ,a r lrVafchine thai) gfv'es no trouble, does it's'w'ork th'6'roughly', and costs prac tically riijtlrl'ng for repairs.' If you are in' want of a'.reliable machine of this ktn<V try the Baltic 1 ! and you will bh delighted with the easy running, increasid Output of butter, and per/oral 1 all round satisfaction which you will get. We can furnish you with testimonials "from hundreds of satisfied userfa, but prefer you to try the machine and satisfy yourself that the i Baltic is not built smiply to sell, but to' ' work and give continued and increasing satisfaction. MacEwan'<&" Co., Ltd., Sole Agents, U.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington. When a man has 3rrioked them once—cigarette buying is no longer a question of choice, fcfir f he'naturally , asks for Taddy's Myrtle 1 Grove Cigarettes.* ,'

The rain that has fallen in the Pahiatua district during the past week has interfered considerably with shearing operations. Large quantities of wool are being forwarded to Wellington from Pahiatua every day. Though it has retarded shearing, the rain has proved beneficial to the pastures and crops. "I employed only one unionist shearer, as far as I know," said a witness before the Conciliation Board at Christchurch, last week, "and I had to sack him because he didn't do his work." Last year 2,555,686 rabbits and 5,145,152 rabbit skins were exported from New Zealand.- lii both caips there was a substantial decrease, compared with the previous year. It is probable that a shipbuilding firm of Sydney will open a branch in Wellington in the near future. A man, named W. Morris, a resident of Pahiatua, met with a serious accident, yesterday, while driving i down the Scarborough. Hill on a dray. He was standing on one of the shafts, and over-balanced himself, with the result that he fell to the ground and broke one of his legs. He wa3 removed to the Pahiatua Hospital, where the broken limb was set. The Akitio County Council have decided to strictly enforce their wheel-tyre bylaws on and after March 31st, 1908. The following have been elected members of the South Wairarapa; Hospital Trust: —Messrs W. J. Nix (representing the Featherston County Council), R. G. Welch (Wairarapa South County Council), W. Udy (Masterton County Council,) J. Brown (Pahiatua County Council), A. Booth, M. Ross, M. Maxton (Masterton, Carterton, Grey town and Pahiatua boroughs, and Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Castlepoint and Akitio counties.) On Saturday last two more cases of scarlet fever were admitted into • the fever hospital at Greytown. One of the patients came from Dalefie!d and the other from Carterton. During the month of November there were five births and one death in Greytown.. No marriages were solemnised, jtfj It is understood that Sir JosTn' Ward has given instructions that the Main Trunk railway line must be completed by October next. The Government intends to take steps to indicate more plainly the exact locality of depots on the Auckland Islands,, so that mariners wrecked on other parts of the inlands may have less difficulty in finding these depots. On Saturday last the Featherstcn , Rifle Club fired a match at the 500 yds and 600 yds ranges. The principal scores registered were:—E. Bockett, (handicap 10), 89; (J, V.Reed ihandi- ■ cap 10), 86; J. Parker (handicap 10), 83; W. Wakely, (handicap 2), 80; R. Parker (handicap, 15), 80. The manufacture of butterine in , Sydney is assuming large proportions. • There are now three factories and they turn out" upwards of 100 to 150 tons per week. Stratford is agitating for electric ' ■ gongs at the railway crossings to signal the approach of trains., [ ..' It, is estimated that the cost cf the ' electric reticulation at Dunedin wilt 1 be about £BO,OOO. It is anticipated that the Huiroa sec--1 tion of the Stratford Ongare railway; 1 will be opened shortly after Christ/ mas.

A way they have of doing i\ in, th& ; country. A meeting of dogate? of local bodies to appoint a. tive to the Wellington and WairarapaJM Charitable Aid Board was called 2.30 p.m. at Pahiatua, on Wednesday last, says the "Eketahur.a Express." ThePahiat.ua delegates met at noon and elected the representative. Another delegate, representing an outside body, attended at the gazetted hour a'ud was informed, to hisdismay, that the business he had attended to transact had bnen dealt with a couple of hours previously. An explanation ■ was made that en previous years Pahiatua delegates were the only ones to attend, and it was considered, t he same would apply this vear and hence the delegates had met at a. .COr.veni£nt.hP"r and made , the 'appointment.' ; ■ • A thrilling scene wan witnessed'by maity thousands of persons when Ernest Capelle, a steeplejack, seated in a boatswain's chair with bowlines, climbed the steel flagpole on the top of the Singer Building, America's loftiest skyscraper. The flagpole rises 708 ft above the street. Capelle coolly adjusted the gilded ball on the top of the flagpole, which swayed gent'y when he painted it. Capelle was paid 200 dol. for his task, which occupied two hours., He declared that he thoroughly enjoyed his experience.

The attraction of the towjj ioi? thd country-born youth was a frequent ". subject of remark by farmers giving l \ evidence before the Conciliation Board m connection with the farm l labourers' dispute, at Leeston last U week. "There have been fifty born 3 and reared on try place," said a Leefetbh fai-mel' of forty years' standf ing, "and not 25 per cent." I have remained in the country." The ' experience of his district, he con- : tinned, had been repeated in other farming centres. 'He did not' attribute" the exodus entirely to the , attractions *ot the city as compared fi'ti the humdrum life of the counils! ht to the fact that machinery w'aS 6tfh\i* ,a great pftrt of ti;§ labour that ilsss vti he done by har.tL A tolling /, Oa any part of !%\isi}f will, if neglected,' end in some kind trfe,-tuch as a toil, carbuncle, ulcer, sheet%fipiuh, etc. 'Jo prevert such b remit. tifj)spt. Sheldon's Magnetic Liniment. relieve the pain, draw out the inflamaiYdiri, reduce 4W . swelling, and drive away the s'rJt; trouble.) Accept no substitute. Price Is' 6-1 and 1 3s.' Obtainable at H. E. Eton's, o'heSaU't I .' "Have /ollowtl the shearing' je'asbri' through Xw Ze lard and all ovor Austvalin, " says Mr R- L. Mcßean, Duni'iOoi?','" New Zealand, ••and the changes of wcterj, and tucker always bring on an attack of' ; diarrhoea, and the only relief I can obtain ' is from Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and' Diarrhoea Kemedy. Every shed now has some shearers who u.°e this wonderful medicine, and always carry a bottle with them." For sale by all dealers. If vow are an importer, send your docu merits to J. J. CURTIb & CO., LTD., Customhouse, Shipping, and Forwardug 'Agents, Wellington. They will quickly pas!) trie goods through the Customs and . (j'd.'vVt« ttteni to ycu

Father Walsh, who is in charge of the Woollongong parish (New South Wales;, defends the action of tho committee of management of St. Francis Xavier's Church, Woollongong, to hold a race meeting on Bo::ing Day for the purpose of rais--ing funds for the erection of a church hall. He made the following explanation:—The race meeting in question is being held, quite independent of the church and myself. The gentlemen who have offered to assist in this way are Roman Catholics, and it is intended to make the gathering more of a picnic character than an actual race meeting, as the term implies. It is no new thing. They are held in other parts of the State, and in this fee it will be nothing to do with the Church. The committee will hand the proceeds over to me for building a hall for social entertainments. It is intended that there will be other athletic sports, and the whole thing will be a uicnic. The committee of the parish consulted me, and surely if the funds of a race meeting can be devoted to a hospital there can be no objection for the purpose in view in this case. Anyhow," concluded Father Walsh, "money made out of horse-racing is much more honest * than maligning your neighbour." A recent visitor from England tells a good story as to the reserve of the London club men. At a certain Londjn Club alterations in the smokingroom were being carried out, and the smokers temporarily established themselves' elsewhere. A member going down the stairs of the club was j accosted by a gentleman, who asked j ; him where the temporary smoking- j room was. He received the necessary | directions, and then the gentleman j who had been accosted said: "Ex-j cuse me, will you allow me to shake hands with vou?" "Certainly," said the other: "but why?" "Well," was the answer, "I have been a member of the club for five years, and you are the first person who has ever spoken to me." "I have seen a sample of them, and thank God 1 am not a Unionist," •w is a statement made by a ploughman who gave evidence on the employers' side of the farm labourers' dispute at Leeston, last week. "Did you ever meet a man outside the Union who queried Mr Thorn. "1 can't say that I have," the witness replied, amid laughter. '"You say," pursued Mr Thorn, "that sail the incompetent and no class men ;are in the Union, and all the good men are outside it?" "Yes, that is •what I say, " was the unequivocal "response. The public are invited to use Pur- ' die's hair-Wfsh, a preparation recomvmendad to cleinse and beautify the hair. Messrs Varnham and Rose invite tenders, to. close at noon on Monday >next, for the erection of a residence at Upper Plain. Nominations for ' the handicap •events at the Boxing Day sport 3 meeting of the Mangatainoka AthUetic Society close with the secretary, .Mr J. A. Walsh, Pahiatua, at 8 -o'clock, on Friday, December 6th. The privileges in connection with the , Wairarapa Caledonian Society's .sport 3, to be held' on New Year's Day, will be sold by Mr J. R. Nicol at "the Mastercon Auction Mart on Saturday next. New and stylish footwear from the best makers, is to liand at .the W.F.C.A. boot department. 'The public are invite! to inspect the new .goods. A notice in connection with the technological examinations of tie City Guilds and London Institute and Science and Art examinations of the ißoard of Education, South Kensington, 190S ir f«5 inserted by the Secrc- ' tary for ; i/^kation. At 2 o'clock, to-morrow, at the •residence of Mr J. King, Lincoln * road, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will sell the whole of hie household furniture and "■effects. The goods will be on view to"day. The Seoullar Company have intro'ducsd some very high class lines in carved oak and walnut furniture which may he inspected at their Wel- ' lington warehouse. The firm have also on view some specially imported house furnishings purchased to their order in the best home markets. Correspondence on matters of furnishing is a special feature of this firm's business.

Mr J. J. East invites public inspection of his most up-to-date stock of saddles and harness. At the present time a specialty is being made ,of a patent buggy breast collar which is well worth inspection. Mr East • also makes a specialty of rough-rid-ing saddles, the cost of which is very reasonable. It is worthy of note that . at the recent buck-jumping competition at the Carterton show the winning rider used a saddle specially \ manufactured by Mr East for the •occasion.

The* contractors are at present busily engaged in extensive alterations to Mr Eton's business premises in Queen Street. The whole of 'the upper storey is being converted -into a fine suite of dental rooms for Mr A. H. Rothenberg, and the expected to be finished by . the end of this week. The rooms .' are well arranged, and will be fitted [up with all the latest and most modern appliances connected with the profession. Mr Rothenberg, who has just returned from England and America, where he has studied the most modern and scientific methods .cf dentistry, will take over the new room 3 on Monday next. '

Mr W. Wilkes, pastrycook and .confectioner, is making special preparations for the coming Christmas Ise-uson The shop window is looking particularly attractive, and fancy goods and confectionery are displayed i in a most enticing manner. The stock of confectionery is particularly varied, air the best lines of fancy and plain chocolates being stocked in abundance. Orders are now being taken for Christmas cakes, and patrons can have same made to any design Mr Wilkes has hdd many vear's' experience at the trade, and the progress he has made since commencing business in Masterton is the best evidence that his efforts are appreciated by the public. Attention ■ is directed to advertising matter on /age one of this morning's issue.

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