LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8998, 7 December 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr A. W. Hogg, M.P., submitted to the meeting of the Wellington School Commissioners at their meeting, on Wednesday last, an application from the Masterton Hospital Trustees for a slight deviation of the road leading from Te Ore Ore road to the new hospital, and ,so avoid a dangerous corner near the Waipoua river cliff. The Commissioners consented to the deviation provided the County Council bore all the expense.

Good progress is being made with the construction of the public swimming baths in Dixon Street. The plastering work is now being carried out, and the fence is being erected. It is anticipated that the cuntract will be completed before Christmas.

Up to Thursday last the quantity of wool despatched from the Masterton railway station was 3,844 bales, as compared with 3,520 bales for the period of the year ■ended December 7th, 1906. It is expected that the amount of wool handled at the station this season will'be much greater than that of last season. For the month of December alone, from present indications, it is expected that there will he an increase of about 500 bales over the quantity handled last December.

The work of extending the platform of the Master ton railway station is practically completed. Another new work in hand at the station is the foundation and pits for the new engine-sheds, which are to be erected shortly. At a special sitting of the Wairarapa District Court, held on Thursday, before Mr E. Eawfon. Registrar, application was made by Mr A. J. Toogood'and Messrs Pain and Kershaw to have Dugald McLeay, farmer, of Dyer settlement, adjudged bankrupt. It was stated that the debts held by petitioners amounted to £44, while the debtors' assets amounted to considerably over £ 1,000. After legal argument, the application was adjourned iov a week. Mr J. W. Card appeared for the petitioners, and Mr 8.. J.. Doian for the debtor.

As showing to what an extent dairying is carried on. it is interesting to 'earn that no less a sum than £688,495 has been paid out to farmers for milk up to the present time by the New Zealand Farmers' Dairy Union. This sum is for milk alone, besides which £7o r SS7 has been paid out for wages,, firewood and carting.

A case of alleged assault was heard before Messrs G. Heron and Eli Smith, J.P.'s at the Police Court yesterday. Maggie Young, wife of a Chinaman, was the complainant, and she alleged that the defendant, a Chinese laundry proprietor, named Tai Lee, took her by the wrists and endeavoured to force her to leave his shop on Monday last. Cross-exam-ined by Mr P. L. Hollings, who appeared for the defendant, complainant admitted that she had tried to seize some blankets in the laundry whieh she alleged belonged to her husband, Sue Young. Complainant also admitted that she had received no injury from the assault. The Bench dismissed the case without calling evidence for the defence.

In the report of the meeting of the Licensing Committee, in yesterday's issue, it was stated in error that Mr W. Roigard was licensee of the Timii Hotel, and Mr W. S. Barr licensee of the Whakataki Hotel. It should have read that Mr Roigard was licensee of the Whakataki Hotel, and Mr Bariv licensee of the Tinui Hotel. TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIED THE FAMOUS SANDER AND SONSPUKE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTit ACT was proved by experts at the Sup reme Court of Victoria to possess curative properties peculiarly its own, and to he absolutely safe, < tt'ective and reliable. Therefore do not aggravate your complaint by the use of one of the many ©mrle eucalyptus oils which are now panned' oil as •'Extracts," and from the use of which a death reported recently, but insist upon the GENUINE BANDKK <V SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, add reject all others.

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The Borough Park and Library ' Committee met last evening, there being present:— Crs J. C. Ewington (chairman), P. W. Temple, J. Prentice and J. Elliott. It was decided to invite tenders for the hiring of the . park tea kiosk for a period from the date of acceptance of the tender to April 30th next. . The St. Patrick's Day Sports Association were granted permission to use the park tea kiosk on the occasion of the sports on March 14th next, at a fee of £1 Is. The acting-engineer reported that he had engaged J. tfraggins for the position of fife engineer, vice W. Norman resigned. The captain of the fire brigade wrote stating that Mr Braggins was well suited for the position, and ths committee approved of the appointment. The committee decided to invite all persons interested in aquatic sports to attend a meeting of the committee tobe held in the chambers on Wednesday next at S p.m. A return of receipts and expenditure in connection with the library showed a credit balance of £24 9s sd.

A Government parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers was held last evening, Lieut. Brighting being in command. Staff-Sergeant-Major McNair was also present, and exercised the company in company • drill, the new physical drill and signalling. There was a muster off about 38-

Knox Young Men's Class meets at 10 o'clock when "The Sermon on the Mount" will be further studied. Divine service will be held at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. In the evening the service will be for young men, and the title of the sermon is "The Strait Gate." Afternoon services will be held at Dreyerton, Miki Miki ; ,. and' Bideford, conducted .by Rev. A,. T.. Thompson, Mr D.. McGregor, and Mr A. G. Crawford, respectively. Service at Wangaehu in the evening will be conducted by Mr A. G. Crawford.

Nominations for the Wairarapa Caledonian Society's sports,, to' be held on New Year's Day,, will close this evening at 9 o'clock with the secretary, Mr J. B. Emmett. A number of nominations have already come to hand, and it is expected that this year's sports will be even a greater success than previous gatherings of the society. The Sheffield Handicap is "likely to attraofca;large number of entries.

The Ballance Co-operative Dairy Company (Pahiatua) will pay out to suppliers next week alout £5,400 for milk supplied during the month of November. The average test for the past month was 3.5.. The milk supply to the factory continues to increase, and the company is now turning out one hundred boxes of butter daily.

There were only three members of Parliament who succeeded during the recent session in getting bills introduced by them placed on the Statute Book. These were Mr Flatman, member for Geraldine, whose Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Bill was taken up by the Government; Mr Colvin, member for'- Buller, whose Coal Mines Act Amendment Bill extended the bank-to-bank principle; and Mr Sidey, member for Caversham, who introduced a short amendment of the Trustees Act relating to the application of capital moneys for the maintenance of infants.

Farmers in the Forty-Mile Bush are experiencing considerable difficulty in obtaining farm hands. It is generally considered that ,the labour tension will not be relieved till after the completion of the Main Trunk railway line, .as every available labourer is being engaged to expedite the carrying out of that work.

Mr Baume has expressed his determination to contest the Auckland East seat at the general election, contradicting a rumour that he intends to retire in favour of Mr Mayers, the mayor. His Honour Mr Justice Williams spoke in very happy terms at the banquet tendered to Sir James Mills by tne citizens of Dunedin. In proposing•'The Commercial and Manufacturing Interests." llis Honour said—l suppose I have been asked to propose this toast because 1 have so little to do with the commercial and manufacturing interests, and know so little about them. (Laughter). However, I have no objection to that; I rather like talking about things of which I have no knowledge... (Laughter). My connection with commerce is pretty well confined to paying monthly bills, and the only article I manufacture is sucking lawyers.— (Laughter). My output averages about one a week."

Work on the Main Trunk Line continues to progress rapidly and the sap between the railheads is now only some twenty miles, the principal amount of work now being concentrated on the three big viaducts, and the spiral near Raurimu. There is already quite a large amount of through traffic, many people appearing to prefer even the incomplete overland route between Wellington and Auckland to the sea journey. Most of these have used Waiouru as. their "stop, over" station when travelling northwards, but Taihape will, in future,, receive the benefit of. these, and already, it is understood, work is to be undertaken for greatly increasing the : capacity of the Taihape Station yard, to accommodate the increased amount, of roiling stock which the change will necessitate room being found for.

Speaking recently.at Parnell on themilk supply question, Dr. Mason,, Chiei Health Officer, said:—'"Jhere is no one outside of. the trade but, wills admit that the milk supply of many of the large towns is far from, being what it ought to be, and from the kindly way in which most of the representatives of, the milk trade have, received tru foreshadowed regulations, I am perfectly certain that they will he productive of great, good." M ILK !Xt; MACHINE K.YUDEN.CE.. j-.Messrs W liailey and Son, of Waiuku,, write sis follows re the " Lawrence-Kon-nedy-Gillios" Milking Machine :—"-Wo are using three machines for the third, season, a.\id we find them satisfactory. We milk Bl> cows in \l to. I:'}. hours.. One man wo* look after tl\e machines and, carry tlve milk away, :nvl one hoy attends to the Vailing up, ctc. v wh,Ue one or two boys do the stripping, of which, as a rule„ there is very little to do. The butUT tat test and quantity of milk are h\\\y " maintained, and we find no illoff'eets on the cows. There is no trouble with keeping quality of the milk." MacEwans', Ltd, IJ.S.S. Co.'s Buildings, Wellington,

The Wellington Education Board ;has appointed Miss Bradbury, of .Hukanui, assistant teacher at Mas•terton, and Miss M. Clark, of Mas■terton, assistant mistress at the Fernridge school. Dr. Frengley, District Health Officer, has submitted to further inspection the three passengers by the lonic who were delayed on account of ill-health. It is understood the doctor's test showed that only one of the number was affected with consumption, and the sufferer is to be kept under surveillance until his case is considered by Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer. The;Anstable stationed at Waitati, a man said to be Lionel Terry. It turned out that the man was a former inmate of the. Seacliff Mental Hospital who had been discharged and was wandering over the country much as Terry has been. He was recommitted to the asylum. Messrs J. Hessey, D. J. Cameron anl G. L. Tacon some time ago acq lired the freehold of 600 acres of land on Boatman's Creek, near Reefton, for dredging purposes. The work of removing and re-erecting the dredge is now almost complete, and work is expected to commence early next week. The building trade in Eketahuna is said to be very brisk.

A meeting will be held in Featherston, shortly, for the purpose of forming a Chamber of Commerce.

Mr W. H. Wyborne, of Waverley, had his champion ram which was shorn at the Paimerston show shorn last week. The ram was rough shorn and had thirteen months' growth of wool. The fleece weighed 431b whirh must be a record. Valuing the wool at lOd per lb the fleece was worth 35s lOd, very near the pdee of two fat sheep at the present time.

The new Gaming A«t is supposed to suppress street betting, and there are those who assert that it has already done so. "As a matter of fact," says the Christchurch Press, "the silver-coin bookmaker, whose operations are tightly regarded as particularly injurious to the community, because he numbers so many lads S'mong his clients, is plying his trade as freely—though a little less openly—as he did a month ago.

Private board and residence is wanted by advertiser. A smart lad is wanted for the grocery business. Mr F. P. Welch has vacancies for experienced lianas for wcolshed. At their mart. Perry Street, today, Messrs R. E. Howell and Co., Ltd., will submit at auction a number of first-class oil paintings by Mr E. W. Christmas. At the same time a quantity of furniture and general goods will be offered. At the Masterton auction mart, this afternoon, Mr J. R.. Nicol will sell the privileges in connection with the Wairarapa" Caledonian Society's sports. A number of leading lines of furniture will afterwards be sold without reserve.

Mr J. Carpenter, of the Central hoot store, has landed direct from the manufacturers a shipment of gents' summer footwear. These are now being opened up, and include the best lines in tan and glace kid goods.

The Wellington Piano Company are offering special terms to buyers of pianos for Christmastide. The company's easy payment systsm will be fully explained by the local agents, Messrs McLeod and Young, "The Academy," Masterton.

l AFancy goods, toys, and Christmas of all descriptions are in full supuly at Mr C. C. Aiken's bookstore, Masterton. A sp?cial line of Chris!mas post cards and gqod3 suitable for presents are on sale at reduced prices.

In view of the busy season, Mr T. H. Thompson, saddler and harnessmaker, has just opened up a new consignment of good 3. The articles are set out in the window in a most attractive manner, the show of leather goods being particularly varied. Town and country residents are invited to call and inspect the stock, the prices for which are all marked at reasonable rates. Very few residents of Masterton are aware o* the beautiful spots to be found within a few miles of town. One of the grandest is a waterfall of considerable dimensions on the Magarei river, about two miles from Bowlands station. Mr Candy has just received a series of coloured nost=cards of this and other beauty spots of Masterton and district. These postcards are beautifully but not too .highly coloured, and are sure to command a large sale. Mr A. Rebay, who this week purchased the Cafe de Paris luncheon and supper rooms from Mr T. J. Nott, is making special preparations for the busy season. The rooms are under the personal supervision of the proprietor, and will be conducted on the most approved and up-to-date lines. A capable staff is in attendance, and clients can rely on receiv#ing every attention. A three-course dinner can now be obtained daily fro-ri 12 till 2 p.m. Arrangements have also been made for the regular supply of fish from Napier, whr.h can be obtained from the shop at the -establishment.

Messrs W. B. Chennella and Co.'s •'Property Guide and Business Register"' is circulated with this morning's issue. The Guide contains no less than sixteen pages of properties that have been placed with the firm for disposal, all of which are arranged with a view to easy reference under the different headings to which they belong. Particulars ol hundreds of farming properties cf e erycksription situated in both the North and South Islands are enumerated, and should be read with interest by farmers on the "look out" for profitable investments. The list of Wairarapa and Forty-Mile Bush district properties is a particularly attractive one. The "town ana suburban house property," "sections," and "business" portion of the Guide is a special feature, and well worth perusal. The inspection of shearing sheds

throughout the dominion is riroceedt ing satisfactorily, and in some NorthI ern districts the work is completed. Mr Georgeson is inspecting :in the Masterton district; Mr Carnoby, Canterbury; Mr McQuarters, Marlborough.; and Mr Lynch, Wanganui.

The allegations of child slavery, of which much has been heard in the domnion lately, received passing mention by Dr. Mason, Chief Health Officer, at Auckland the other evening. He said that most people knew of the half-time schools in the Old Country where children commenced work at six o'clocK in the morning and received their schooling in between the working hours. The half-time boy beat the whole-day boy in the school work. The real interpretation <>f this was that only smart boys could do the work.

"I could fix them all like shelling peas if they would not dilly dally in coming in," said a representative of the Labour Department in Wellington, in answer to an enquiry as to how the recent arrivals were making application for work. lie further stated that so far sixteen of the lonic's immigrants had been placed, some locally, others at Wanganui, Paimerston North, Taihape and Wairarapa.

The distribution of £3,000 by the Government to public libraries will be made on February 4th next, but ail claims must be sent in by January 27 th.

Ever since the world oogan, man has bueo-contriving instruments for the reprcproduetion ot sound. Nature's sweetest miißic—the sighing of wind through reed?; the laughter of a brook; or the Japping of waves -these have unused me i to stop und ponder. We see the result in such instruments as the violin, the harp, the flute. But most effective of all, perhaps, is the Piano. Imprisoned within its four walls hide the magic works which breathe forth the harmonies of the world. Almost anything can be achieved on the piano: it is the triumph of the musical world ! Just to ruo one's firjgera along the keys of au instrument such hs the Broadwood, the Honisch, or the Lipp is a supn me delight. The Dresden Piano Co., Wellington, who are the Agents for those, and, idneed, every instrument of high repute, will gladly tsll you about their ea-y time-payment system, which makes it easy to possess this king of instruments—the piano.