LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3052, 24 November 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The statutory meeting 01 me new-ly-elected Masterton County Council will be held to-morrow at 12 noon. A chairman will then be elected, and various appointments made in connection with positions on Hospital Trustees and Charitable Aid institutions.

At three o'clock to-morrow the Mayor (Mr P. L. Hollings) will open the sale of work in the Foresters' Hall, the proceeds of which will be in aid of the Congregational Church Manse Building Fund. The sale will be continued in the evening and again on Thursday. A musical programme has been provided.

Two inebriates came before Mr J. Cross, J.P., at the Masterton Police Court yesterday morning. One, named Michael Higgins, was convicted and discharged, though a second offender, as he stated he had work to go to immediately. A first offender W3§ also convicted and discharge^

''The Messiah" is to be rendered by the Choral Society on December 10th in the Town Hall, when the Society will have the assistance of two professional soloists from Wellington. The chorus are requested to atcend the rehearsal to-night, and also the two remaining rehearsals.

The contractors for the erection of the Ihuraua river bridge, on the Moroa Road deviation, are making good progress with the structure, which in all probability, will be out of hand in a month's time. The construction of this bridge—concerning which so long a controversy was waged—is regarded with satisfaction by the settlers in that locality, as the bridge has long been badly needed. Messrs Langlands and Cole £re the builders. The Cross Creek branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has passed a resolution expressing deep regret at the defeat of Mr J. T. M. Hornsby at the recent general election, as he had done much in the cause of the railway men in the Dominion. It was further decided that bis work should be recognised in some substantial manner, and it was resolved to solicit the support of other branches in subscribing towards a purse of sovereigns. The extension &f Colombo road into Cockburn street is a work Which will soon be brought to its final stage, as the Borottgh Council is now having prepared a conveyance of the laud in the Borough's jurisdiction necessary for the new thoroughfare* When the new junction street is completed (it will be made by the Masterton County Council) there will be the continuous •stock road desired by farmers from Te Ore Ore to the southern outlets of the town, without any busy thoroughfares or less than chain wide streets having to be traversed. A deficiency of £22 8s is estimated in the bankrupt estate of W. iggulden, carrier of Masterton. The filed statement shows the total assets to be £230, and the debts to tmiunt to £252 Bs. There is one secured creditor (Mr J. Cross) who holds a security of £7O over a brake, horse and harness, valued at £IOO. Th? assets cornpriseCarryingplant, £100; book debts £SO, estimated to produce £3O; furniture, £7O. The unsecured creditors are as follow Levin and Co., Ltd., £4B; T. Wagg and Co., £l4 10s; Farmers' Implement Company, £l3; Cameron, £l4; Keeling and Wynn-Williams, £6; A. Hadley, bootmaker, £2 16s; W. McKenzie, farmer, £l2; Donald and Sons, £1 13s; C. S. Ball, tailor, £2 18s; J. C. Ewington, £5; Masterton Dairy Company, £4; Mrs I. Sykes, £2O; Gawith and Logan, £lO lis. The Deputy Official assignee at Masterton (Mr W. B. Chenriells), will apply for release of administration, in the following bankrupt estates at the quarterly session of the Wairarapa District Court at Masterton on Friday next: —Joseph H. Dockery. Greytown, painter; John George Hayes, Masterton, labourer; James William Hallet, Masterton, painter; Fraser Mana Ross, Mauriceville, hotelkeeper; Edwin W. Gunther, Masterton, labourer; Joe Chong Lee, Martinborough, fruiterer; Henry O. Ramsden, Martinborough, storekeeper; Robert McCartie, Martinborough, painter; Frederick A. Hareombe, Masterton, storekeeper; William Craighead, Masterton, tailor; Robert G. Williams, Masterton, saddler; Tobias Miller, Masterton, herbalist. Discharges will be applied for by the following bankrupts:—William Blair, tailor of Pahiatua; W. R. Cook, painter, of Carterton; Benjamin Speight, of Masterton, hotelkeeper. Mr C. F. B. Livesay, Architect of We lington, has moved to more convenient rooms in the National Mutual Chambers. Customhouse Quay, (adjoining the Head Office of the Bank of N.Z.) Address— P.O. Box 771. Telephone 2692, Mr. William Francis, \aunceston, Tas writes: "During the recent hot spell in Melbourne, I had a very severe attack of Gastritis. I tried maify remedies, but nothing did me any good. A friend from Queensland, seeing how ill I was, recommended me to take Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I did so, and had only taken about four doses when I obtained relief. I am a commercial traveller, and visit many of the mining centres of Tasmania and New Zealand, and will certainly never go on my travels again without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with me. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers.

• Oaten crops throughout the Lower Valley bid fair to be exceptionally heavy this year. Rain is badly needed in many parts of the district. A number of late crops are coming out into head, though only a few inches high, through lack of moisture.

The Auckland "Herald" considers that ''generally speaking, the elections have improved the Freehold strentgh in the House, and the warning given by the Mataura farmers can hardly fail to have a restraining influence upon land legislation."

The date for the opening of the Seddon Memorial Technical School has be?n definitely fixed at December l()th, as that date will suit the convenience of the Hon. G. Fowlds, Minister for Education. The matter of attending to the dangerous -holes in the Miki Miki Road will be given immediate atten tion to oy the Engineer of the Masterton County Council (Mr D. McLachlan), who informed an Age reporter to chat effect yesterday.

It is now over three months since a case of infectious disease was reported from within the Borough limits, and the sanitary authorities are hopst'ui that that perennial scourge, scarlet fever, has been practically stamped <>ut. The weekly session of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge was held in the Dominion Hall last evening, Bro. Morris, C.T., presiding. It was decided to write to the No-License League, congratulating them on the success they had achieved in connection with the result of the Local Option Poll. Other routine business was transacted.

A readable little book of rhymes, entitled "Musings in Maoriland," from the pen of Mr James Sillars, is tj hand. The production reflects credit on the author, and the verses should undoubtedly prove interesting. A large number of the rhymes have already appeared in the columns of the press, and it is at the request of a number of his friends that the author has placed th<? collection intojbook form, consisting of some 120 pages/ Mr Hugh Long, of Masterton, met with a rather serious accident last evening, while riding along the Masterton-Carterton Road. He was thrown from his hoi'se about halfway between Carterton and Masterton, and was picked uo in an unconscious condition. The ambulance brougham went out to the scene of the accident, and Mr Long was conveyed into Masterton, where his injuries were attend dto by two doctors. Mr Long was considerably bruisad and shaken.

Tihe only Civil case now to be heard at the sitting of the Wairarapa District Court, which will open at M'«stertun on Friday—the case Hewitt and RoSsiter having been settled —is the one in which Dalgety and Co. claim £236 os from Alex. McKenzie, farmer, of F?atherf?to r i 7 in respect of thii sah cf *5 ri:v>s at eight guineas per head, in tins case no defence has been filed. The only other business is argument In the case of Kennedy v. Milicr, as "to whether the judge is satisfied with the verdict of the jury, and bankruptcy business, including the public examination of D. McFarlane, tobacconist.

That important work so long delayed—the widening of Kuripi'ni Street from half a chain to a chain wide —is now being consummated under expeditions circumstances. The Town Clerk has been successful in obtaining fhe consent of all the property owners on the side along which the land is being taken, and where compensation is asked that matter has been held over pending the completion of the work. Already over twenty chains of widening has been completed, along the eastern end, and a staff of Borough workmen are engaged in setting back the fences (and buildings, where necessary) along the unwidened strip.

The widening of Villa Street has been brought a stage nearer finality through s the Town Clerk having obtained a strip of land, free of compensation, for widening purposes, in the estate of V. Bockett, being administered by the Public Trustee. The length obtained is close on two chains, and now only a few properties at the north end abut on the roadway. Where the road is less than a chain wide the owners of properties in those strips will not'have footpaths constructed until the widening is completed. The Borough Engineer intends to build up the haunches of the road with the surplus soil off Lincoin'jJßoad, and when that work End the footpath construction is finally carried out, Villa Street will have a much improved appearance. The Masterton County roads are according to a settler who uses many of them frequently, in very good order at the present time. The continued fine weather is responsible for some roads usually not too good being now in very fair condition. A few of the main roads, where the traffic ia heavy, could do with some rain to prevent their breaking up. Several large installing contracts under the County control are being pushed rapidly forward under the favourable weather conditions. Mr M. Kenns is within a month of completing the metalling of about ninety-three chains of almost the last unmetalled length of the Wangaehu Road in the Masterton County. Mr J. Curry is also at work on 130, chains of metalling on the MastertonEatjt Coast Road, which work will absorb the last of the £4,000 exexpended by the County Council on this Road. Very little of the road will then remain^unmetalled. How often one. finds a most imperfect piano in what woild be otherwise be a well-appointed home. So frequently, too, that piano is quite past restoration. Money spent on it would be money wasted. Get it up to tune—it drops back. Give it tone or touch—neither last. Imagine the thoughts of your guests who are asked to play upon or | listen to such a discouraging instrument, Not only that, but you don't do justice to tlie talent of even your own family. Get another piano at once. Communicate with Mr M. J. Brookes, ■ North Island Manager, in Wellington, of the Dresden Piano Co,, Ltd. His firm will allow full value for the old piano, and equip you with a new one—a really fine instrument, sensitive, responsive, triumphantly superior in every single respect. You can get it on time-payment, too, if you wish—simply 20s or so each month, until this really fine piano has become yourjvery own. Local representative, Mr T. B. Hunter.

Roger Keane, a single mar., aged 57, a labourer, was foand dead in ahut near Mount Somers yesterday morning. He had been in indifferent ; health for some time.

Rain commenced to fall in Masterton shortly after one o'clock this morning, and at the time of going to press there was no indication of the weather clearing. The Taratahi Dairy Company yesterday, paid out the sum of £SOO to suppliers lor in IK supplied during the month, being at Liie rate of 6d. per lb for butter fat.

A man named Michael Higgins,son of a well-known farmers of Blenheim district, dropped dead yesterday morning, apparently from heart disease.

The Rev. Father Costello, of Palmerston North, arrived yesterday afternoon to conduct special services at St. Mary's Church, Carterton, in connection with the "Adoration or. the Blessed Sacrament."

At an enthusiastic meeting of" Wairarapa Liberals, heid at Carterton on Saturday evening, it was decided to present Mr J. T. M. Hornsby with a testimonial an.i a purse of sovereigns. Subscription lists are now; being circulated.

The Feilding "Star'* suggests the elevation of the Hon. R. McNab to the Upper House, as there is much work there tor one Minister, and it would be a way out for the : Government in appointing newr Ministers.

The Featheraton Rifle Club's competition tor the Bidwill Trophy ad--vancsd a fruther step on Saturday last. The distances were 200, 500' and 600 yards. The following scores ■' were registeredßifleman T. Benton 87, Rifleman A. Zeile 81, Rifleman L. Benton 77, Rifleman W.. Wakeley 77, Rifleman C. Nix 7*v Rifleman H. Williams 75, Rifleman J. V. Reed 69, Rifleman T.Sinclair 62, Rifleman A. Cundy 53.

According to Sir William Crookes, in 1931 the production of wheat will be unequal to the increase of the world's population, and the world Will find itself face to face with a condition of things on which Malthus based his great argument, if there is not seme compensatory influence, A Transatlantic writer now suggestsw§ should fake more advantages of the reserve food in the ajid; use to a greater extent edible; weed 3. In the suggestion as to< eating these weeds there is not; much new, for Asiatics have farcenturies availed themselves of: the supply offered by the sea. Seaweed found off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland has been utilised for feed purposes—that is to say, after they have been manufactured. A young lady is wanted for office', work. Mrs InSeH, Gfrandford House, has vacancies fur boai'defc}/ bddFcf ftfld residence is wdriCed by two gentlemen. For the current week Mr A. j Norman announces special lines in silk blouses, of which he has a large and well-selected stock. An advertiser requires a gaoJ 2cn?ral servant, and a boy to attend horsos. On account of no offer having baerii accepted for the lease of the late Mir F. Buick's farm at Opaki, the. sale.' of the stock and implements has;been.* withdrawn for the present. Particulars of an exceptional' bargain in a dairy or sheep farm for sale by Messrs W. 8.. Chennells and Co. will be found elsewhere in a this issue. At the Post Office Auction Mart tomorrow, Mr M. O. Aronsten will submit at auction a large consign- - ment of drapery, furniture, crockeryv atid glass ware, pictures and photo . frames' The whole of the lines .will be sold without reserve. I-n order to compete with thesmall bird nuisance, Messrs King and Henry have to hand special!, breech-loading guns and ammunition,., which can be easily handled by ladies or boys. Inspection of these - new lines is wanted. The list of furniture and effects to > be sold on Wednesday by Mr J: R.. Nicol, on account of Ml- Ji Barker,,, who is leaving Masterton,. is- advertised to-day. The sale will: take place at the residence,' COckburn Street, off South Road, and every r line will be sold absolutely wit'iou reserve.

The "Triumph Perfect Visible Typewriter" is the typewriter that. supplies the want of a long missed necessity. It is the result of many years of study, and is the latest , triumph in the typewriter industry. It is claimed to be the only perfect visible writer in existence,, asoperator can read every letter, all ~ the tin», at a perfect angle for the- K eye. Every key and lever is handy and within convenient reach, and oniy simple movements are required. The tension of the whole keyboard or any single type can be adjusted; by a simple turn of a screw to suit even the most particular operator, which is a new departure that should be greatly appreciated. In another column is an advertisement to the effect that a new "Triumph; Perfect Visible" can be purchased on very reasonable terms. There are only three of these machines left, which represent the balance of a. consignment. Full particulars in.connection with the machines can be obtained on application, at thisn. office. WHY IS SANDER & SONS FURE'VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalypti Product ? Because it is the result of full experience, and of ' a special and careful process of manufacture. It is always safe, reliable and effective, and the dangers of irresponsible i preparations which are now palmed off as Extract are avoided, A death was recently reported from the use of one these concoctions and in an action at law a witness testified that he suffered the most cruel irritation from the application to an ulcer of another, which %vas sold as " Just as good as SANDER'S EXTRACT." Therefore, beware of sucb deception. Remember that in medicine „a drop that cures ia better than a tablespoon that kills, and insist upon the preparation which was proved by experts at the Supreme Court of Victoria,, and by numerous authorities during the last 35 years, to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz : THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS. PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

A Returned Troopers' Association is to be formed at Napier. The first strawberries of the season were sold in Dunedin last week under keen competition, and realised 2s 7d per lb. At Gisborne, yesterday, states a Press Association telegram, John O'Grady, for supplying liquor to a prohibited person, was fined £lO, in default two months' imprisonment. One day last week a sheep, breaking from a flock which was being driven through Kaiapai, made a rush at a large plate-glass window in the establishment of Miss Thompson, milliner, and crashed, through it, doing damage to the extent of £ls or £2O. When Lord Kitchener leaves India, towards the end of next year, it is his intention to make a tour practically round the world. He first hopes to visit Japan and the Far East, and will then travel to Canada, and the United States, finally visiting, if time permits, Australia and New While in Japan he hopes to the army of that country very and he may go to Manchuria, in order to see some of the great battlefields of the recent war. A letter to the London "Times" gives a deviation of the word "chauffeur" that may be new and interesting, both to those important persons and to their employers. The chauffeur (French for "heater") was originally a brigand who, with others of his kind, sallied forth at night from a cave, masked, and forced the inmates of houses to hand over their treasures. If they refused, the wretched folk were dragged to a fierce lire, and their feet were roasted until they divulged where their money or jewels were hidden. The gang, which numbered over 100, and sheltered in the caves and disused quarries near Chartres, was captured, an j nearly all executed. This was in the eighteenth century. Tisere are some nervous pedestrians of the twentieth century who will consider the characteristics of the bfipiici-highwayman has not entirely Jigappeared in the present chauueur! "What in your opinion, Mr Royle, are the best show towns in New Zealand?" was a question put by an ] "Otago Daily Times" reporter to MlBert Royle. The answer w«K:— "That is a much-vexed question amongst theatrical managers. The 'North Island towns rank very high, particularly Wellington and Auckland. The Empire City is wonderful, this owing, 1 suppose, to its floating ' population, and Auckland runs it so close and sometimes surpasses it that I would declare these towns a dead heat. Then the small towns of the north are very good." "Have the erection of municipal theatres not had something to do with this?" the tepcrter*. "Oh, yes. I notice that where municipal theatWs erected a great improvement in the show business follows. One has only to mention Invercargill, Oamaru, Palmerston North, and Wanganui for an illustration. I am a great believer in municipal theatres, and am even now in communication with Feilding on this very subject. If Feilding, which is a good show town now, had a municipal theatre it would be included in all our tours."