LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3129, 4 March 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting of the Workers' Mutual Benefit Building Society, last evening, the sum of £2OO was paid in by shareholders. A ballot for £3OO will be held this evening. About a thousand persons visited the Masterton Horticultural Show yesterday and last evening. Th 3 Masterton Orchestral Society gave a number of selections in the Town Hall during the evening, the items being greatly enjoyed. A successful exhibitor at the Masterton Horticultural Show yesterday was Mrs G. W. Mace, who is 84 years of age. In the Home Industries section, Mrs Mace exhibited a shawi which she made in a fortnight specially for the Show, and which was a splendid sample of such work. The gross receipts in connection with the Horticultural Show at Masterton yesterday were about £7O, of which £4O was door money. As about £35 of the £SB prizo money has been donated, the Society should have a substantial credit balance as a result of the Show.

I Thefiilowing team will represent . the Masterton Tennis Club in a match \ against the Carterton Club, on Satur- , day next, at Masterton :~S. R. i Gawith, A. R. Sclanders, N. D. ; Bunting, F. H. Elcoate, J. G. Bee, H. W. Rishworth, N. H. James, E. J. M-ran:s, A. Bewley and H. H. Pavitt; emergency, H. M. Boddington. Members of the Masterton Post ; Office staff held a hundred yards ' handicap flat race on the Parle last ' evening. The race was run in two heats with the following result:— First heat: A. Cowper ', J. berry 2, T. McMaster 3. Second heat: J. McMa-ter 1, V. Richards 2, T. Miller 3. In the final J. Berry was first, and A. Cowper second. ■■ The Education Act passed last session empowered education boards to ; appoint probationers who will eventjallv teeome teachers. The Wellington E iucation Board has among ' othn-s appo nted the following pro- | lation ra: —Mr Charles Gordon, iDlefied; Miss E. Hughes, Eketa'huna; Miss I. Tonics, Featherston; ! Miss G. Crewe, Fahiatua; Miss M. ■Johnston, Carterton; Miss M. Ste- : ven?, Greytown. j Mrs Taplin, while driving in a I vehicle last evening,, met with an , accident at the c>r er of Perry and Chapel streets. In order t'j allow a 'motor car to pas.* the vehicle was ■ brought to a standstill. Just as the \ motor car passed the horse suddenly i moved forward, and Mrs Taplin, together with a baby she was holding, j was thrown out of the back of the I vehicle on to the road. Mrs Taplin j received a severe shaking, and whs J much bruised, but the baby escaped I injury.

The monthly meeting of the Lansdowne School Committee was held last evening. There were presentMessrs P. L. H'-llings (chairman), P. M. Coriipton, C. C. Ross, J. C. Ewington, W. Harris and PL E. Gosnell (secretary). The Education Board notified the committee through the chairman that it was unable to comply with the committee's request to er:ct a close boarded fence above the river-bed at the rear uf the School grounds. It was decided unanimously to grant the use of the school on Sunday mornings to the Anglican Church for Sunday School purposes. Permission was given to the Knox Church Sunday School authorities to place an organ in the scho 1. The appointment of janitor was next discussed. Eight applications were received for the position, and after thesa had been fully gone into Mr J. F. Pulford was appointed caretaker of the school and outbuildings at a remuneration of £24 per year. WHY IS SANDER & SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACI 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 recently reported from the use of one of these concoctions and in an action at law a witness testified that ho suffered the most cruel irritation from the application to an ulcer 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 asts 35 ye i irs, to be a preparation of enuine merife, viz: THE GENUINE SANDER AND SONS PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Greytown Gun Club will fire a return match with Featherston on Saturday. The vital statistics recorded at Greytown during the month of February are as follow: —Births, three; deaths, one; marriages, nil. The Town Hall has been bioked for March 29th and 30th by Maskylene and Devant's "Mysteries" Company. A Press Association telegram states that a sailors' box and sometimber and planks have been washed up on the beach at Amberley. The box when found was open, and on the lid were the initials C. D. Possibly they belonged to the Rio Loge.

Crown lands to the extent of 221,513 acres are to be throw., open for sale or selection during the present month. Of this, over 8,000 acres will be available in the Wellington district, 1,253 in Auckland, 9,156 in Hawke's Bay, 772 in Westland, and most of the remainder 202,122 acres, in Otago, with a small area in Nelson. When speaking to an Ashburton "Guardian" reporter about the nomenclature of the Dominion, Mr Robert M'Nab, in pointing out that the original names given by the early explorers had been thrown aside, mentioned that only two—Cape Maria Van Diemen and Three Kings—of the numerous names given to coastal features by Tasman had been retained. He instanced several cases in which later day names had been given, specially referring to Cape Egmont, which, if Tasman had been fairly treated, would have been known as Cape Peter Boureers.

The dearth of domestic servants would appear to have become a permanent inconvenience. A labour agent in Dunedin informed the "Otago Daily Times" that he could do with a "shipload." He would find no difficulty in placing fifty to-mor-row, and for every twelve persons who were in quest of domestics there was only one to be had. Wages had never been better, but that seemed to make no difference. The common desire among young women nowadays was to find some employment which meant working on six days in the week, and not seven, and in which they knew when they had to start and when they had to cease. Potato disease (says the "Clutha Leader") has made its appearance in most of the crops it, this district. When the disease made its appearance a few years ago, the practice was to remove all the haulms and burn them; this by instruction of the department. It was found that this did not save the crop, that potatoes that were left alone were just as sound, more so in fact, than those that had the "shaws" carefully gathered. N-nv, as a rule, the crop is left alone, and when digging time comes the tubers are found to be in a better order than where the shaws had been all gathered. This is published as the opinion of a well known successful potato grower in the district.

With the flames roaring above them, 500 persons quietly marched out of the Herald Square Theatre, New York, recently, into a raging snowstorm while the orchestra played cheerful music. It was not till nearly the end of the performance —a popular musical comedy —that a fire in the front part of the building was discovered. The manager at once directed the fireproof curtain to be lowered and the orchestra to proceed as though the performance was at an end. The audience reached the street a few moments before the roof fell. Behind the curtain panic reigned supreme. Miss Bessie McCoy and a dozen other girls fainted on the stage and had to be carried out. They and fifty other members of the company, who rushed into the snowstorm in their stage costumes, lost all their belongings. The sile of postcards, which has assumed such enormous dimensions of recent years, shows nu signs of falling off, except to some extent in regard to those cards which display actresses and actors in various poses. Trie view postcard is evidently the favourite purchase just now. and as many are sol i at the present time as ever was the case. The postcard, for choice that depicting some local view, is now the popular means of communication betweei. one person and another, a fact to which postcard salesmen testify, and litter-writing has with many people quite dropped )ut of pra:ti:p. As an indication of the actual sale of postcard?, the proprietor of one large establishment in Dunedin informed a pressman that 144,000 view postcards had been disposed of readily in two months and a half.

The best block of limestone country in Te iiuti h offered for sale by Messrs C. C. Ros* and Co., land agents. Masterton. Tenders are invited for tlv» leasing per acre, for a teroi of five years, of the Hawkhurst property, Opaki. consisting of 530 acres. Employers interested in ..the drivers' dispute are invited to meet at the Dominion Hall, Church street, on Friday evening next, to discuss proposals for an agreement with the Drivers' Union. At the Post Office Auction Mart, on Saturday next, at 2 p.m., Mr M. 0. Aronsten will sell a contractor's plant, consisting of spring cart, harness, picks, shovels, seed sower and other lines. Also a good line of weaner pigs, poultry, etc. Fair Faces Faißke.—Ladies troubled with growth of hair on face, neck or anus can permanently remove it by using "Violet Snow Cream." It acts directly on the hair roots, and destroys their life. "Violet Snow Cream" is splendid for Blackheads, Wrinkles, Sunburn, etc., and is a guaranteed cure for superfluous hair. Obtainable from H. T. Wood, Chemist, Masterton, for 4/6, or send postal note direct to Hem'dey Burnet, Hair Specialist, 46 George Street, Uunedin (All parcels sent in plain wrappers). Hemsley Burnet's Hair Kestr rpr tor Grey Hair, 4/9. You make preparations for a rainy clay, then why not for a cold or attack of influenza? You don't need to make costly pre-paration's--merely invest Is (id in a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy. For sale by all chemists and storekeepers. The name of AYLMEE'S, Willis-st. Wellington, is synonymous with perfection m the art of Millinery. Ladies write for a selection on approval. Designs by every mail from the leading London and Paris houses.