LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10194, 22 March 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. .The Rev. C. Clark, the "water diviner," pays a visit to the Mastertbn district next week.. - . <

r ., in the Supreme Court at Sydney, a. json recovered £ 1000 from his father .for an.assaiilt...;causing the 'loss.

The next meeting of the Wairanipa" Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will be held on April sth."

Mr E. Eagle, ,junr., of Belvedere, lias presented a handsome oil painting to the South Wairarapa Poultry Association, which will be the second prize in the art union. , . . ' Owing to the opening of the golf season on- Saturday next the annual cricket match, Banks and Insurance v. Law, and Stock and Station agents, will not take place. No fewer than seven breaches of the Licensing Act are to be heard before the Magistrate at Masterton on Friday. Of these there are five charges of keeping liquor for sale. Rain fell in Wellington yesterday morning, but Masterton and the Wairarapa did not receive a drop. Practically no rain has fallen in Masterton since February 25th. There is, however, an abundance of grass in the district. ;■• It is seldom that a female "tramp" i,s scon on the roads in New Zealand.A woman, carrying a good-sized swag, however, arrived in Masterton from 'the south. She stated that she Tiad walked from a Lower Valley station and was looking for a position as cook. Sho certainly deserves to get it. The English and arithmetic class, —hHi wns opened at the Masterton Teeimical School on Monday night, was <iHr"idcd by forty-sis scholars. The. bookkeeping class was opened last right with an attendance of thirtynine, and all the other classes are filling up satisfactorily. • At a meeting of the junior members of the Excelsior Hockey Club, held in Masterton last evening, Mi- W. Parker was appointed captain of the A team, and Mr W. Hornblow vice-captain. The captain, vice-captain, arid Mr H. Williams tvere appointed: a selection committee. § ''■ ; j '. . :.-■'■ A meeting of the Auckland Shipmasters' Association endorsed the action of the Merchants' Shipping Guild in approaching the Minister for Marine in the matter, of the reinstatement of Captain Attwood, master of the Elingamito. ■■".■.'" .The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie informed.a Dunedin Sjar representative that; the tourist traffic this year had been a record everywhere. At the Chmfcluirch office alone the Department had ■ sold over £9OOO worth of tourists' tickets. Settlement is proceeding rapidly in and around Murchison, says the Col-, onist, and bush is being felled in all directions. Along the By Her. road there have -been quite, a number < of; successful "burns," and fencing operations are in full swing. The police raided an alleged slygrog establishment in Masterton yes- 1 terday and obtained one bottle of beer. Informations were laid against the owner of the house, Richard Haviland and Emily Haviland in respect of this liquor. The cases will be heard on Friday. What promises to be an important gold discovery has been made in the Owen district, about ten miles from Owen Junction. The reef, which contains gold, silver and lead, is said to be forty feet in width, and has been traced for a distance of one mile. Samples crushed have given highlysatisfactory yields, and further prospecting is to be undertaken. The Masterton Homing Pitreon Club flew a teams' '. race from Wellington yesterday. There were ten teams of three birds each entered, which were liberated at 6 a.m. in very favourable weather conditions. The following was' the result:—J. Dixon's team, Ihr 'Slmin SOsecs, 1; A. Miller, Ihr 32min 2; W. Bowling, lEr 34min, 3."

The sTib-committee of the- Wairnrapa, Hospital and Charitable Aid Board export to meet Dr. VaJintine and Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.P., at Giieytown at aii early date, for the'purpose of getting the plans for the home } for incurables, the cost of which Mr Buchanan will defray, approved by those gentlemen.

A branch of the Woodlands Hunt Club has been formed at Dannevirke. A branch of tho "Overseas Club" lias been formed at Palmerston North. A civil sitting of tho Masterton Magistrate's Court will be held by Mr L. G. Reid. to-morrow.

The Napier Chamber of Commerce has invited the Hon. R. McKenzie (Minister for Public Works) to discuss the Napier and East Coast railway and other matters.

At the Masterton Police Court on Friday, fifteen cases will come up for hearing. They include a number of by-law cases, and several charges of sly-grog sellimr. In no previous season have the small birds been so destructive to fruit in Southland as they have proved this year, and apple crops which promise to be light owing to the drought, will be materially curtailed from this cause. The Canadian thistle is becoming a pest in Invercargill streets. The town engineer reports that the weed is breaking up the asphalt badly in Mary Street, East Invercargill. It*is proposed to spread a layer of salt over the thistles prior to putting down new asphalt. . What was probably a unique cateV was brought off at a cricket match <)t Hobart. A batsman hit a ball into, the slips. 'After.hitting a man onjpthe head and rendering him partially insensible, the ball bounced back into the hands of the wicket-keeper, whose catch dismissed the batsman. } A resident of the Poverty Bay dis-' tn'ct, who is at present in Masterton, j informed a representative of the Age \ yesterday that there are millions of acres of mixed bush along the route of the East Coast railway which are waiting, for the sawmills. There is enough •good, native, land along the line tonro- | vide•'■•'homes for thousands of settlei;s. A lecture on "Imperial Federation" will l>e given by Mr A. S. Malcolm, M.P., on Monday. March 27th. in the Masterton Town Hall. The Mayor. Mr J. M. Coradine, will preside. As "the question is one of considerable interest just now, thero should be a good attendance of the public. A mob of frolicsome dogs, uear the Masterton Post Office corner yesterday, dashed across the road, and in doing so one of them struck the front wheel of a bicycle on which a gentleman was riding, with the that .tlie; rider \vas sent spinning 'to the hard l'bad. Fortunately, excepting to his dignity, the. rider;sustained iio-serious injury. '"' '':'

.'■.• In.:£ke-co,nrso of an address given .at. Mal^mlibmv^vlait'w^T'l^r f j- T;m- ? Hornsby is reported to have ' said:-—' "There is but one Opposition paper that has condemned the 'Black' pamphlet, and that is the Wairarapa Age. The paper twitted me about not making the acknowledgment,, but tKe matter-slipped my memory, and to do the editor of that journal justice, I make this statement now." : ,

Sly-grog sellers; must resiort to ne-> devices to successfiilly carry on trade and avoid detection, says the "Auckland Star." Apparently a novel effort was made at Taumarunui to escape the vigilance of the police. A young man was arrested a few days ago, and he was found in possession of three dozen bottles of. whisky. He was posing as a commercial traveller, and was carrying the liquor in brand-new'leather sample bags.

Mr D. G. Brown, Wairarapa agent for tlm Bradbury motor cycle, received the following telegram from Wellington last, evening:—"Result of Motor Reliability Trials: Bradbury won the petrol consumption test,-the hill climb on formula., secured the non-stop run,: and also won the fastest hill climb competition."- *''•■•; . .

•"-.■•''Where are the Dead?*' is the heading, of a lengthy leading article in an Australian religious paper, with copies of which New Zealand townships are being deluged just now through the post. In-many dreary columns the writer, with weary reiteration, condemns all religious opinions differing from his own on the momentous subject of after-death states, and concludes by saying that the. dead are not alive anywhere—thev "are simplv dead."

Apparently potato*? are not the only vegetables to be ruinously attacked by insect life within...-.North Otago's droughty area. The Oamaru Mail was shown a broad pierced bean through the shell with a caterpillar snugly esconsed in a bed which it had hollowed for itself on the bean inside. Such instances of destruction are, we are assured, quite common in that part of the district from whence the bean came.

With regard to the Otekaike and Totara State settlers the Otago Land Board has decided to recommend relief, which will be more satisfactory and helpful to the settlers than the concession for which they themselves asked. The Board has resolved on this course because of the continued dry weather which has made the condition of the tenants worse than it was when they first asked relief.

Mr J. Longstaff, who is at present on a visit to Masterton, informed a representative of the Age yesterday that the whaling industry is still being conducted from the Bay of Islands, where he now" resides. A whaler named "Bertie" Cook had a very successful catch of hump-back wliales this year, and he has now gone to the Campbell Islands, where he hopes to secure a number of sperm whales. Mr Cook has a vessel -specially fitted up for whaling, and is provided with' a breachloading gun from which harpoons tipped with etxplosives are projected. When the harpoon penetrates a whale, the tip explodes and kills the fish.

YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND. That by using the commercial eucalyptus oil which is now bought up at 6d per lb weight and bottled, and on account of the large profit, pushed, you are exposing yourself to all the dangers to which the use of turpentine will expose you—irritation of kidneys, intestinal trach, and mucous membranes, 'By insisting on Ca GENUINE S-NDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT you not only avoid these pitfalls, but you have a stimulating, safe and effective medicament, the result of a special aftd careful maowfacturr, -I'Atrial -wily of once convince. Quality in small slose distinguishes it from the bulky and dangerous products. ' Remember— SANDER'S EXTRACT embevdies the result of .50 years' experience and special study, and it doe/.*/ what is promised r it heala and c*fres without injuring the constitution, as the oils of the market freqren/fely do. Therefore, protw* vomaelf by rejecting oßvr* basics.

About a thousand sheep from tho Napier district have recently been brought into South Taranaki.

Napier bakers have been fined asmuch as £5 and costs for selling shortweight bread.

The business people of Eketahuna; will probably observe Easter Saturday; as a public holiday.

The Eketahuna Exp-ess thir l;." it right that if things are not what they seem, they should be discussed. Tt does not, however, ask, "What's wrong with Eketahuna?"

The Marten branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union has appointed n committee to arrange a ploughing match and a show of horse teams.

Somewhere about 150,000 sheep have been railed away from Otago within the past two months as a result of drought. The district is also poorer by not less than 1000 head of cattle.

A West Coast paper states that owing to the slackness of work at the State mine since Christmas, a good number of men have left the district, and gone in search of work elsewhere. The district is suffering a slight slump and money is tight. The scholars of Knox Sunday School, Masterten..assisted by the church choir and friends, are rehearsing special music for the school anniversary, which takes place on April 9th*. The music is exceptionally good and tuneful, being a collection written by H. E. Nichol, Mus. Bart., Oxford.. The visual weekly practice of the choir will this week be held in the hall, when all members and helpers are specially asked to be present. ■•■■;')•: '•.:'■*" The benefit concert, for the purposo of raising funds to assist Miss Thelma ; Petersen to prosecute her musical studies abroad, is to be Held in the j Masterton' r Town Hall this evening. An excellent programme has been arranged, and it is hoped that the object of the concert, apart from the programme, will commend itself to a large section of the community. , The A.M..P. Society -elsewhere insert a lost policy notice. An advertiser wishes to lease 500 to 1000 acres grazing country. An owner is wanted for a bicycle * found in Masterton yesterday, j Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., adJ vertise opening entries for their stock sale at Taratahi on April 3rd. .:Members a-nd prospective;^;nienibers. of the Boxihg'Clufcare re- ■': \ |9^edjtQ, : , Dixon Street, on Tuesday next,"2Bth - m&t.,. when instruction will commence,,;,, i, S; .™t9%M&> ;good advertised^foiif may be seen at Mr D. BrownVcycle shop, Queen Street. A meeting of the, Masterton Labourv will be held at eight o'clock this evening in the Druid's Hall (old Fire Brigade station), .when'-all'interested are requested to attend.* • / A most attractive display is at present, being. made by/Mr A. Hendry at his shop in Queen-Street.' One of"the spacious windows is devoted exclusively to the display of a fine array of the latest and most fashionable ties and collars (included in the latter being the "Brooklands" special double collar). The other window contains a fine display of new season's hats, caps, and shirts. The goods are all of the latest, and are well worth inspection. .Mr F. J. Bright, who is -well and favourably known throughout the Masterton an'd Forty-Mile Bush districts, has purchased the Club Hotel billiard saloon, Queen Street, so - successfully earned on by Mr F. Xangstene. The saloon is furnished; on the most up-to-date lines, and four tables are always available. The friends of Mr Bright will wish him success in his new venture.

Mr H. Hadley reports record business in connection with his great annual clearing sale, which is now on Bargains are being offered in every department, at-prices-that" must appeal to the thrifty purchaser. Town and country residents who have not yet paid a visit to the store are invited to participate in the bargains now bring offered.

Messrs D. Finhyson and Son anthe arrival of a big consi/m- ■ include all the latest and most durable lines in men's women's, and ehildTi tDieUtS - A line of 12s 6d to 14s 6d is included in the consignment The, nfcw goods also SL a\ lucii attention is drawn.

It is over eight.years since Mr M. J. baUaher established his general carrying business in Mastertori,and during that time he has established a connection that is decidedly .creditable. In addition to this Mr Gallaher is the local agent for the New Zealand Carrying Co. and also for Messrs Munt, Cottrell and Co., Ltd., of Wellington. A specialty is made of the packing storing and removal of furniture at the most reasonable rates. All orders left with Mr R. Pook, Queen Street, will be promptly attended to.

A meeting of the ratepayers iVebn- , vened by the Mayor to.consider iShe proposal of the , Council to borrow £si>oo by way of special loan for tho purpose of acquiring, land to make a - new road from Queen Street to Chapel ,- J Street. The meeting is to take placW" . m the Council Chambers on the lUh April. ■ ' /