LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3160, 12 April 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The 1 Bread Fund collections in Dunedin total £1,750.

A boy, named George Forman, son of Mr S. Forman, of Masterton, broke one of his arms while roller skating on faturday last. ' This week the Grand Lodge of the Order of Good Templars will hold its annual session at Auckland. The Masterton Lodge will be represented by Sister Flanagan. The annual report of the Auckland Rugby Union shows that after making grants of £IBO to the various clubs there remains a credit balance on the year's operations of £ll4. The ground, fund account stands at £5,202. Mr T. Wyeth has declared the following handicaps for the quoits match at the Kopuaranga sports today : —E. Petersen scr, R. Tankersley rec 1, H. Christensen 1, H. Chamberlain 2, J. Nicholson 2, T. Chamberlain 3, A. Reader 6, A. Petersen 6.

At the Masterton Police Court, on Saturday morning, last, two first offenders were fined 5s each, by Mr Eli Smith, J.P., for having been drunk. William Hutton was fined 5s for drunkenness, and 20s for having resisted the police. Michael Janvs Dal ton was fined 103 for having been drunk, it haviner been his second offence within six months. His Excellency the Governor was on the stag trail last week, and his record equals the authority of his Acclimatisation Society license. Four days were spent by him atTe Awaite station, in the Wairarapa, and four fine heads fell to his rifle. One was a royal, one a fourteen point head, and two had thirteen points each. H,is Excellency returned to Wellington on Thursday.

There was only a fair attendance at the sacred concert given in the Town Hall, last evening by the Maetertqn South Band, the wet weather no doubt preventing a number of people from being present. The Band rendered a number of selection?, and songs were sung by Miss McGrandle and Master J. Gray. A number of singers who had promised to assist did not put in an appearance.

Owing to a printer's error the leading article on Saturday last contained a senseless sentence as follows: —"Cr Hunter in rpality charges the Borough engineer, or the ruling party in it, with being both densely ignorant of municipal affairs, and with the grossest incompetence." The word "eng ; neer" should, of course, have been'"council." The wife of a Great Eastern Railway (England) employee, named Humphries, has just civen birth to twins, making up her husband's family to one of 33! The r-viple—-when widow and widower- -married about 15 years ago, the man having at that time had a family of eight and the woman nine. During tne last 14 years the woman has given birth to 16 children. Humphries is 54 years of age. his eldest son, aged 32, being a non-commissioned officer in the Army. The following are the successful tenderers for the lease of railway refreshment rooms for three years, beginning from Ist April, 1909: — Ohakune, James Dyer; Te Kuiti, E. Langmuir; Mercer, G. E. Morgan; Marton, Atkins and Spurdle; Hawera, Mrs Evans; Patea. K. Tarrant; Te Aute, William Daniel; Woodville, Grant and Connop; Waipukurau, C. W. Seymour; Aramoho, S. Dustin; Palmerston North, J. H. Fletcher; Masterton, George Ware; Kaitoke, T. F. Thomson; Oamaru, M. Lavery; Palmerston South. A. M'Gregor; Clinton, J. P. B. Ritchie; Totara Flat, M. and J. Lamberton.

The Tauherenikau on Saturday last had its fair share of spielers. A M-asterton resident had an overcoat stolen on the course. He had his suspicions as to who had taken 't—two individuals being suspected. He was unable to trace his coat until he commenced a systematic search in the evening train to Masterton, when he recognised it hanging up in one of the carriages. He promptly claimed his property, and one of the suspected individuals then entered a strong protest against I the Mastertonian touching it. He appealed to those in the carriage to see fair play, and not allow him to be robbed of what, he said, was his property. This bluff was apparently having its effect on those in the carriage, and it looked as if the spieler would triumph until the Mastertonian calmly remarked that he would bring a constable, who was on the traiti in plain clothes, on the scene. Then the spieler and his companion disappeared.

A patrol of the Baden-Powell Boy Scouts has been formed at Pahiatua. There are now 130,000 boy scouts in Great Britain.

The Peilding "Star" says:—lt is rumoured that the Government have purchased 92 acres adjoining the Otaki Railway Station for the pur pose of erecting railway workshops in the near future.

It is computed that there are 3i million acres of land between Auckland and Gisborne yet to be opened up, according to Mr Smeeton's remarks reported at the Auckland Harbour Board's last meeting. The Hon. A. W. Hogg, Minister of Roads and Bridges, informed a Te Kuiti deputation that his Department ha<i ordered motor lorries capable of carrying 8 or 9 cubic yards of metal at a load for road construction. These lorries had broad tyres which would act as road rollers.

The "Marlborough Herald" says:"We understand that writs for slander have been issued by a wellknown medical practitioner against a Blenheim resident and his daughter. It seems that information of the slanderous statements only reached the medico on Saturday, and by 2 p.m. on Tuesday writs were issaed. The sums of £SO and £2 respectively only are claimed, so that both actions will be tried before a judge of the Supreme Court without a jury.

Towards the end of December last a Ministerial statement that Queen Wilhelmina was in the happy expectation of giving an heir to the throne was read in the Chamber at the Hague; all the Ministers were present, and the statement was received with hearty cheers. The president, M. Rdell, said he was sure that the Chamber had heard the communication with a feeling of pleasurable emotion and that all present were filled with a respect-' ful and sincere desire that, with the blessing of God, her Majesty's hopes would be realised. Subsequently, the Official Gazette published a decree enacting that the offspring of Queen Wilhelmina shall bear the name of Orange-Nassau, and shall be styled Prince (or Princess) of Orange-Nassau, and Duke (or Duchess) of Mecklemburg. The Hollanders fear that their national life is threatened if Wilhelmina does not give them an heir.

At the annual meeting of the Manaia Hack Racing Club eleven '• bookmakers were licensed at five guineas apiece. Several of these belonged to the "lcng-odds brigade," and commenced the day by laying very liberal prices about any horses inquired for, while they had an unlimited book on the principal double. Matters progressed very smoothly until the third face, when two of the bookmakers discovered that their liabilities exceeded their cash in hand, and accordingly commenced to return all clients their own money, with a promise to pay the balance as soon as they could arrange matters with their bankers. A third bookmaker failed for a considerable amount after the fifth race, as he had overlaid the double. Each of these three defaulters came in for a rough handling from their aggrieved creditors, and according to tne " WaimateWitness," the police had some difficulty in saving one of them from serious injury, while anothtr only saved himself by a bold dash cross ti.e paddocks. An application, attended by somewhat unusual circumstances was made by Evan.McCormack, a solicitor, at the Auckland Police Court on Wednesday last, before Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M. He asked that an order for the maintenance of Ruby Hunter he made against James Gardiner, executor in the, estate of the late Mr Hunter, who together with his wife (also deceased) legally adopted the child in 1902. The applicant remarked that an application was to be made to the Supreme Court under the Testators Family Maintenance Act. The child, he said, had been sent to a home after the death of her foster parents, but ou account of rnr being destitute she was taken by her natural mother and her husband. The later, however, were in indifferent circumstances, and could not afford to keep .her. The magistrate remarked that from a legal point of view the child was an orphan. Mr McCormack,: Yes, though her natural mother was alive. The defendant acquiesed in the issuing of an order, pending the proposed application to the Supreme Court. Mr Kettle accordingly mnde an order for. the payment of 10s per week, until the matter could be dealt with by the Supreme Court. An order was- given to the natural mother for the child's-custody, and having come from Taihape, a further order for £2 10s expenses was made in her favour.

A smart lad is wanted to deliver papers. A reward is offered for the recovery of a gent's plain goli band ring, lost on Saturday last. A reward is offered for the recovery of a camera, lost on Saturday last, on the Opaki loop-line or main road. The advantages obtained by the use 0/ Shaddock's Orion Ranges form the subject of a new advertisement inserted elsewhere in tnis issue. Fair Faces Fairer.—.Ladies troubled with growth of hair on face, nock or arms can permanently remove it by using "Violet Snow Cream." It acts diuecfcly 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. ".. Wood, Chemist, Masterfcon, fcr 4/ti, or send postal note direct to Hem«ley Burnet, Hair Specialist, 46 George Street, Dunedin (All parcels sent in plain wrappers), Homsley Burnet's Hair Rest/rpr Grey Hair, 4/9.