LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3127, 2 March 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I'hrae weeks will see the completion of the brickwork at the new gas carbonising plant works at Masterton. The auxiliary buildings—a fitter's shop and storereoom—are already finished, while the roof is being adjusted to the machinery depot. Twenty men are engaged on the work, including seven bricklayers.

There is every prospect of the musical recital in Knox Church this evening being a decided success. The first part of the programme will consist of miscellaneous items by Mr Purcell Webb on the organ, and solos by Mrs T. P. Wilson and Mr W. S. J2g<\ Mendelssohn's "Lauda Sion," under the conductorship of Mr R. J. Young, will form the second part of the programme. Altogether the performances should attract a large audience.

Highly satisfactory entries have been received in all classes for the Horticultural and Industrial Society Show to-morrow, the total entries for all classes being over seven hundred. The exhibition will be opened by the Mayor (Mr P. L. Rollings) at 2 o'clock, and will remain open to the public till 5 o'clock, and again in the evening from 7 till 10 o'clock. Voting papers for the beit decorated tables will be handed ut to adults only as they enter theo Hall in the evening. The charge fov admission to the Show has been fixed at Is for adults and 6d for children.

An accident of a very serious nature befel Mr David Ogilvy, a member of the firm of Ogilvy and Sons, butchers, of Masterton, yesterc'ay. Mr Ogilvy was driving along Waimata road, Lansdowne, in one of the delivery carts, when the cart was capsized through getting into a drain. Mr Ogilvy was thrown out on to his head, and sustained a fractured skull. He was at once removed to the Masterton Hospital, where he lay last night in an exceedingly critical condition. Mr Ogilvy is very popular in Masterton, and the news of the accident caused general regret in the town. Earnest hopes will b<? universal for his recovery.

The Meynell and Gunn Dramatic Company open their tour of the Dominion in Auckland, on March 15th. Thoy appear at His Majesty's Theater on May 20th. The repertoire; comprises a new Australian drama, "A Miner's Trust," and "Two Little Sailor-Buys." The principal member of the Company will include Miss Beatrice Holloway, as leading lady, Misses Lilian Myers, Elizabeth Hunthorne, Mabel Russell, Aiice Deorwyn, Queenie Williams, Jessie Turner, Norma Morton, and Maggie Dickenson; Messrs Herbert Bentley, C. U. Stanford F. Coupe and J. B. Atholwood. The Company will visit Masterton.

After winning the hunter's competition at the Masterton A. and t'. Show, Mr E. R. Hastie disposed of his well-known hunter "Feilding" for two hundred guineas, a Christchurch resident being the purchaser, says the Manawatu "Standard." Feilding was well known along the coast as a tirst-ihiss hunter, and also has a great show ring record, having during, the la?t season won numerous prizes at Wanganui, including champion hack, Egmont, Taranaki, Feild ing, Masterton, and other shows. During the hunting season he also won a point-to-point steeplechase at New Plymouth.

The usual meeting of the 1.0. G.T. Lodge was held in the Dominion Hall last evening. Routine business was transacted. An ex-member was reinstated. Sis. Richards was present | fro.n tbePioneer Lodge, Wellington. She gave an excellent address on her travtls in various parts of the world. She also conveyed fraternal greetings from Lodges in the r Jnited Kingdom, Auscralia and Wellington. During the evening Bro. Leighton rendered a sone, Bro. . Morris a recitation, and short addresses were delivered by Bros. Heyhoe, Mjrris, Collier, Gilbert and Bedford. The programme , for the next meeting will be a "question box." wflr tS SANDER & bONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT superior to any other Eucalypti Product ? Because it is tho 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 preparations which are now palmed off as Extract are avoided. A death was vooontly reported from the use of one of these concoctions and in an action at law a witness testified that he suffered the most cruel irritation from the application to an alcor of another, which was sold as "Just as good as SANDER'S EXTRACT." Therefore, beware of such deception. Remember that in medicine a drop that cures is 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 daring the ast 35 years, to be a preparation of ermine merit, viz: •THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS TURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Retiring Licensing Committse at Wanganui have been re-elected unopposed. The stock in the bankrupt estate of A. E. Williams, tobacconist, Masterton, has been purchased by Mr C. Corbett.

The Napier to Wellington express train v.as about an hour late on arrivinr at Mastertcn yesterday afrernoon owing to a truck having been derailed at Takapau.

A very satisfactory rehearsal was held in the Town Hall, last evening, by the performers who are taking part in the Dominion Bazaar, to be held next week. Every 'tern was rehearsed without a hitch.

The Florence Baines Company was somewhat abruptly disbanded at Palmerston North, and Miss Baines, it is said, is contemplating making a tour of the Dominion alone in a monologue entertainment.

The twelfth annual snorts meeting of the Kopuaranga Sports Club will be held on Easter Monday when a grand total of prizes in cash and trophies of £7O will be awarded to competitors. Entries close with the Secretary, Mr G. A. Donovan, on .Saturday, April 3rd. Mr Harold Ashton has gone on to Australia wit?:; the Tittell Brune Company, and Mr Richard Stewart is now in charge of "The Red Mill" Company which is still in Wellington. Th 3 latter Company will go South shortly to commence a season at His Majesty's, Duneiin, on Msrch 10th. The Mt. Holds worth Track Committee was tj have met last evening, but owing to unforeseen circumstances the meeting had to be postponed. Half a dozen members attended, and an interesting informal discussion ensued as to the question of charting out *he ranges intervening between Wairarapa and the East Coast.

A Masterton resident who has just returned from Hawke's Bay states that the Eketahuna Band Contest to take place on the 17th inst. (St. Patrick's Day) is attracting attention in the districts he has visited. The band contests for smaller bands are almost universally successful affairs, and it is proposed to make the Eketahuna contest an annual affair, and to increase the area within which bands are eligible to compete.

A meeting of the Friendly Societies' Council was held last evening, Bro. Smith being in the chair. Bro. Pragnell was elected President and Bro. Darroch elected Treasurer. ]t was decided to hold a Football Tournament 0:1 the Saturday previous to the Hospital Sunday Demonstration on the Showgrounds in aid of the Hospital. A shield will be presented by the Council, and teams will be entered by the various Friendly Societies of the Wairarapa. A discussion of the Friendly Societies' Act will take place at the next meeting on March 31st.

The manufacture of agricultural implements promises to become quite an established industry in a minor way at Masterton, in one shop at least. La3t winter Mr J. C. Ewington turned out at his engineering shop no less than 250 turnip and rape seeders tn the order of the Massey-Harris Company. These implements were distributed all over the Dominion. The same firm are expected to place an order for three hundred more with Mr Ewington, a tribute to the generally satisfactory nature of the first big contract.

Splendid weather favoured the Waihakeke school for their annual picnic, held on Friday last at the Taumata Island, when there was a good attendance of parents, scholars, and others, writes our Carterton correspondent. The picnic was a decided success. Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., distributed the prizes. General regret was expressed at the departure of Mr H. Wedde, headmaster, who will leave shortly. At the close of the picnic, cheers were given for Mr W. C. Buchanan, the chairman of the Committee (Mr Anderson), and the ladies who nrovided the refreshments.

The Hon. A. N. Hogg, Minister for Roads and Bridges, left Masterton yesterday morning en route for Stratford, where he will attend a dinner in honour of Mr Symes, the successful Government candidate for the Stratford electorate. From Stratfurd V!r IIo;jg, accompanied by Mr McLuggage, a well-known member of. the Taranaki Land Board, will drive through to Whangamomons, where a dinner is to be tendered to Sir Joseph Ward and himself. Mr Hogg will then make a trip through the various country districts with a view to learning the requirements ot the settlers, and will return by way of Inglevvood. He hopes to get back to Wellington by the end of the week.

One of those cases of cruelty to others of their own age, of which children sometime''guilty, occurred in Dunedin a ago, and had a very sad ending, writes a correspondent A littie boy was in the liabis of going home from school sopping wet, as if he had been paddling in the water. This occurred so often that the parents at Inst said that he would be punished if it continued. The warning apparently hud the desire:! effect, but later the boy was seized with pneumonia, of which he died. Befc-e his death he explained what had been the cause of his getting wet. He had been "ducked" by other children, and being afraid of the punishment with which he had be°n threatened, he used to loiter about his clothes dried before going home. Then followed pneumonia. The feelings of the parents may be imagined, and knowing not who to blame, cannot help blaming themselves. Further investigations will probably be made to find out particulars of the case.

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The total receipts from all sources at the Hastings band contest amounted to £690.

Mr G. A. Fairbrother's was the only nomination received for the Wairarapa Licensing Committee, writes our Cartertonn correspondent.

The greater part of the bean crop in the Woodend district, North Canterbury, says an Asnburron paper, are said to be ove** eight feet high, this season.

Roads are now being constructed through the Carrington Estate, writes our Carterton correspondent. The balllot will iake||place at Carterton on March 27th.

It is expected that £5,000 will go» to the Teviot district, Otago, this year for fruit. At present there are no less than 250 horses engaged in carting the fruit to Edievale.

There are at the present time about 400 men working on the" Stratford—Onearue railway line, says the "Taranaki News." They are living in tents, and the camp is a large one.

Mr Walter Monk, well known in Masterton and avant courier in the Dominion of many of Mr J C. Williamson's companies, has deserted the theatrical life for the more prosaic occupation of advertising agent in Auckland.

St. Patrick's Day Sports Association have set up a ladies' committee presided over by Mrs A. Haughey, to arrange for the supper and other details for the social and dance to be held on the evening of the sports— St. Patrick's night. In connection with the wreck of the Penguin, says the" Westport Times/* it will be remembered, at any rate fay seafaring men, that Captain Georsre Allman was a long time in command of the Penguin, and it was during that time that he experimented with and subsequently patented the life rafts which are now in general use and known as the Allman raft. In order to avoid the expense of an election, the Liquor and Prohibition parties in the Tauranga electorate, which includes the Waikato, have (the "Waikato Independent" understands) agreed on the nomination of a Licensing Committee for that electorate. An effort by the Mayor of Feilding to bring about a similar agreement in the Oroua electorate failed. For the latter nine candidates have been nominated for five seats.

The Gear Meat Company are killing over 6,000 sheep daily at Petone, and about £2,000 weekly is being paid in wages at their meat works. On some days, however, the company has disposed of as many as 6,500 sheep per day in former seasons, but for weekly records the present season stands out by itself. The splendid condition of the sheep, as a representative of the company pointed out, shows that the feed in the country must be very good. Last season, however, was a poor one. The bulk of the sheep are drawn from the Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay, Taranaki, and Taihape districts. A few, however, come from the South.

Some time ago one of the leadingRussian diplomatists found on his return home from a great dinner party in St. Petersburg that his pocketbook, containing thirty thousand roubles, was missing from one of the pockets of hin overcoat. Deeply chagrined at his loss, he requested the immediate attendance of the Chief of Police who assured him that no effort should b? sparerl to bring the thief to book, and that there was no doubt he would soon be discovered. To the diplomatist's great delight a week had not passed before the chief restored to him the entire sum quite intact, but without the pocket-book, which, lie said, the thief bad thrown away to avoid identification. There seemed nothing amiss with such an explanation, and the prince was only too glad to recover his stolen property. But a day or two later, in putting on the same overcoat, he was surprised to find in a pocket, strangely overlooked before, the missing 1 pocket-book, containing untouched, the th : rty thousand roubles, which he had really never lost at all. The idea of restoring the supposed stolen money to the prince from the public funds, in the hope of thus winning favour for zeal and efficiency, speaks well for the police officer's ingenuity, but presents a curious phase of Russian official ethics.

"I cannot congratulate you on your sense of discrimination," sarcastically said Mr Plowden, the weli-known London magistrate, recently to a person charged with hawking coal to the annoyance of the public. "You appear to have blundered into this. If you had thought about it you would know you might ring a peal of church bells every hour of the day and nobody would object; you might stand en the steps of an hotel and whistle for taxicabs and handsoms and four-wheelers, morning, noon and night, torturing the nerves of everyone within hearing, but no notice would fee taken; you might drive a roaring motor-car through Oxford Street, again hurting the nerves of every bedy, and nobociy would say a word; and you might even, with comparative immunity, use a barrel organ in the street, and a great many people would not object. Yet, with all these opportunities, which you neglect, you go and shout coal in a little by-street. Well— one shilling." In the next case it was explained that the shouting of the street hawkers broke the rest of the police living in the district who had been on night duty. Mr Plowden, with a smile, to the defendant: "Do you hear the mischief you are doing;-—shattering the nerves of the police force? (A laugh.) The whole safety of the capital is undermined when you shout coal. I must fine you one shiling. I must protect the force."

. Nearly all cough medicines that are offered for sale simply control the cough—that is all. There is nothing healing about them. This is where they differ so greatly from Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. When the mucous lining of the throat becomes congested, when the lining membrane of the bronchial tubo is inflamed, or when the most delicate tis.su s of the lungs become affected, then Chamberlain's Cough Remedy shows itself superior to all other mulicines, because of its healing and strengthening properties. Its power to control congestion and infiam-. mation puts it in a-different list from any other cough medicine. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy soothes, heals and strengthens. The cough disappears for the cause has been removed. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers,

Ihe Stratford Acclimatisation Society has decided not to endorse shooting licenses from outside its district. The grounds upon which this decision was come to are thai; the 'Society is importing fresh strains 'of birds into Taranaki, and no other Society is doing so. A lady correspondent writes to the "Post" with the object of warning householders against buying a <hair "specific" which is being taken by a female canvasser. The correspondent states that she purchased a bottle of the "specific" fur ss, and found that the contents consisted of common washing soda. "Let us hear what the debtor has to say," remarked Mr District Judge Haselden in the Court at : Strattord the other day, checking an • explanation about to be given by learned counsel in a bankruptcy matter. Continuing, his Honour said: "I prefer the unvarnished statements of the debtor himself to the sometimes 4>ighly French-polished ones of counse' • ? ' v t jSf ) \35313 oasts _ m ,^, J ,^„_ Recently at Edendale Dairy Factory, Southland, some interesting ■experimental work was undertaken by Instructors VV. M. Singleton and James Sawers, of the dairying service, in the paraffin waxing of chesse. About one hundred and fifty ca3es of big cheese were made, one half of them, says the "Wyndham ■Farmer," being subjected to the ;paraffin treatment, and the balance Just finished off in the or:,'iiary way. .All of the make except one case each -of waxed and unwaxed, made on the ■■ same day, from the same vatful of milk, and sent to the cool stores at .Lyttelton, was sunt home. The report of the Old Country experts on the condition of the respective lots of cheese, as placed on the London . market, is awaited with interest.

Last week a large gathering of "Maoris was held at Taiporohenui, in the vicinity of Hawera. The "Hawera Star" says that it appears that the meeting was called for the purpose of forming a union amongst Taranaki Maoris with a view to giving concrete expressions of opinion respecting native affairs. "The farmers have a union," "the tradespeople have a union," "the workmen have their unions." the Natives say, why not the Maoris'' Parliamentary representation, the need for land" which the wjrkles3 Maoris are anxious to cultivate, a restoration i of West Coast Reserves land which the Natives declare have been subjected to a second confiscation, and questions of a similar kind are to come in due course before the Maori Union. In an equity suit i" Sydney last week concerning the will of Sir Peter Nicol Russell, formerly of Sydney, Who made large bequests to the Sydney University, an incident was related of how Sir Peter Russell on one occasion dealt with workers who threatened to go on strike Sir Peter Russell at that time had an iron foundry business in Sydney. He refused conp'iance with certain demands, ana he men announced their determination to cease work. "If you go on strike," said Sir Peter Rus=ell, "I'll sh it these works and never open them a a; ." H-.j was a man of his wori. The hands went out, the gates wjre closed, and never more was tha olang of steel heard inside them. Sir Peter Russell went away to England and lived there until his deati. The Njw South VValss Fisheries Board, say 3 the "Melbourne Arjus," has under consideration a Drue ical scheme for the destruction :>f sharks. The scheme originated with the New Zealand Fisheries Company, which affirmed its williangess to establish depots along the New South Wales coast for catching sharks, coupled with a proposal to erect an oil rc-fh-e*y and an extensive fertiliser i ctcry nsar Sydn;y. The sharks v < rAd be caugnc uy means known to die company, and every part of them it u'ned to practi .al advantage. The company asked for a bonus of Is a head for ait sharks caught up to 6ft long, and Is 6J a head f r all over that leigti. The board gave its unanimous approval to the proposal, and sent it en witi a strong recommendation for its acceptance to the Chief Secretary. An advertiser requires a good carpenter for aDout one month's work. An advertiser, who is leaving the district, has for sale a well-appointed and centrally situated five-roomed cottage, and furniture at option. At the Masterton Horticultural Society's Show, to-morrow, Mr H. Poole, nurseryman and florist, of Wellington, will make a special display ot pot plants and floral designs. Messrs Harcourt and Co., land and estate a?ents, Wellington, advertise particulars of two well appointed dairy farms of 105 and 150 acres, respectively. . These farms are for sale on exceptionally easy terms. Messrs Charles Allen and Co., land agents, Hamilton, advertise particulars of several well improved farms of from 300 to 1,000 acres. The country is well situated for profitable farming. Applications are invited to close at noon on Monday next for the positions of instructors in the various clasess at the Masterton Technical School. Application forms and terms of appointment will be supplied by the Secretary, Mr N. D. Bunting. Mr A. ...avvford, land and estate agent, Auckland, advertises for sale a valuable block of country on the Wanganui river, consisting of 715 acres freehold, and 2,017 acres leasehold; 1,400 sheep and 50 head cattle are to be given with the estate. Mr Crawford will give the fullest particulars to purchasers. Particulars of a block of land situated in South Wairarapa is advertised for sale by Mr J. R. Nicol, of Bannister street. The land is suit ably adapted for dairy farming, fattening and cropping; exceptional heavy yields of oats, barley and wheat, have recently been taken off the land. Messrs J. A. J. Maclean and Co. ■elsewhere notify that the date of Mr T. J. Cobb's clearing sale of household furniture, etc., has been altered to Thursday March 4th. Further particulars of the sale appear* on page Bof this issue, and special attention is called to the heavy lines of poultry to be auctioned. The sale will take place at the residence in Main South Road at half?past one on •the date mentioned.