LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 November 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A thunders tor*n passed over Master ton yesterday evening:, and was followed by a very heavy downpour of rain.

A considerable number of shearers liavo been applying for stands at the local labour ngencies during the past few days. A Mastertonian wlio returned yesterday from Wellington stated, that hundreds of people now go about tlu> city armed with revolvers-. * The Prime Minister yesterday received offers from 2000 more men to go to Wellington to act as special constables, or to work the ships.

The Wellington Tailors' Union has voted £oo to the strike fund,.and the members of the union have agreed to contribute per cent, of their wages to the same object. The cricket match arranged to be played yesterday between the Hockey Cricket Club and a team of' Druids from Carterton did not eventuate, owing to the unfavourable weather. A meeting of ladies is to be held in Masterton on MoncTay, November 17th, to arrange for the provision of refreshments! at the exhibition to lie held in connection with the Technical School.

A service of prayer and intercession in connection with the industrial dispute was held in Knox Church, Masterton, yesterday afternoon, and was attended by the various clergymen and others. Communication between Gisbom© and Napier, which was threatened a-s a result of the strike, is being maintained by the Tangaroa, which is carrying passengers and mails fro-n one place to the other. A telegram- from Christchurch states that the Canterbury A. and P. Committee has decided that no alteration be made in the Cap week arrangements. It is now certain, that the whole programme will be undertaken.

Sufficient applications liave now been received at tho local office oif the Labour Department for workers' homes at tho Kuripuni settlement. It is understood that tenders for the erection of the houses » ho called in tliS course of a few clays.

We are informed that the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company Anticipates no trouble in paying slippliers for their milk. Tjie Grevtown Company did not pay out last week, and the shareholders agreed to go without .payment until the cheese is shipped.

A number off dairy farmers in tho Lower Valley left • their homes yesterday in order to proceed to Wellington to load produce on to the ships. The unique"'.sight was witnessed of the wires arid daughters of dairy farmers driving milk-carts to the factories.

Conversing'with an Age representative yesterday, a Native of the Masterton district said he considered it was tho duty of every Maori possessing a. farm to .stand by his European neighbours arid endeavour to maintain law and order, as well as help to ship the country's produce.

The National Hank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 7 P er centum. The chairman,- in a speech, .said he did not expect in the near future to see money at its forner low levels, as any surplus was likely to be absorbed by Governmental aud municipal demands for piiblic works. The strike is responsible for much argument, and one can hardly pass a street corner without hearing lively debates for and against the strike. On more than one occasion discussion lias become Very animated, and recourse to fisticuffs lias been narrowly averted, generally by the intervention of friends.

A correspondent informs The Dominion that Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., addressed a meeting of special constables! at iMaunt Cook on Wednesday night, and that as a result of this, fifty members formed a union of waterside workers, and decided to register under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act.

An application for exemption from military training on the grounds of religious belief by a youth who said he was a Christadelphian, was refused by Magistrate McCarthy at Dannevirke yesterday, on the grounds that Ohristadelphians did not condemn military training and service as part of their religious .system.—-Press Association.

A visitor to Masterton yesterday from Otaki said the farmers in that district were greatly excited over the strike. The main industry on the "West Coast is dairying, and as long as the strike continues, the far/ners are unablo to get their produce away. As many aro small farmers, they feel the pinch very considerably if they do not receive their usual monthly cheques. The strike was the cause of a little bloodshed in Pahiatua on Tuesday afternoon. According to the Herald, a well-known citizen was engaged in conversation in Main Street about the strike, with another resident of the town, when a stranger, a middle-aged man, apparently a Bed Fed. or a st.riko sympathiser, happened- to be passing and overheard the citizen in question remark that the shooting in Wellington the previous night was done by the strikers. The passerby at once exclaimed: "Yrxu're a b — liar!" The citizen extended his open J land across the other's face. The .Red Fed. then attempted to strike the citizen, whereupon the latter replied with couple of blows, his assailant falling into the gutter, i When he recovered himself he made off with a crimson flow the nose as Hic result of the encounter.

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Shearing operations havo commenced ijx the Eketahuna district. A Sydney Sun cable states that Barry, the dianpion sculler, declines to visit Australia-.

Masterton bakers' have been receiving consignments of flour during the last few day.v from Wanganui. A on so of chit-ken-pox at Martinborough was reported to the health authorities at Masterton yesterday.

The amend ments ma-do by the Legislative Council to the Land Bill were agreed to by tlio House of Representatives last night. A Marton telegram states that a verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on the body of William Brandt, a labourer who was killed by a fall of timber.

The manager of the Carterton gasworks has made arrangements for a regular supply of cofa-1 to the local gas works should the present supply become exhausted beforo the strike terminates.

The special committee set up at a special general meeting of members and friends of the Y.M.C.A. will present their report at a general meeting in the rooms in Masterton this evening.

The Railways Construction Act Amendment Bill and Railways Authorisation Bill were introduced by Governor's message in the House of Representatives yesterday, and read a first time.

A Nelson telegram states that A. i C. Armstrong,' hairdresser, of Motueka, was found dead in his saloon early yesterday -norning with a bullet wound in the head. He had evidently committed suicide. No cause is assigned for the act. A Maori lad named Te Hiwi, while playing with a detonator at the Manakau School on Tuesday, had two fingers blown off one of his hands, and a third digit injured. He also suffered an injury tot one of his legs. The lad was taken to the Otaki Hospital.

The Masterton Homing Pigeon Club, despatched fifty-five birds to Frankton Junction for liberation yesterday. The birds, however, were delayed in the journey north, and will not be liberated until to-dav. Thirty birds were hampered last night for liberation from Taumarunui to-mor-

The party of five Maori members of the Latter Day Saints' persuasion, which left Auckland in May last bj; the Niagara on a visit to Utaji, returned yesterday by the Willochra I from San Francisco,- and left by the Main Trunk express, en route to Dannevirke, where they are to be tendered a reception. Mr Eli Smith, J.P., of Masterton, was a vi.titor to Wellington on Wednesday. He left the city to catch the afternoon train for home,, but was confronted by a mass of the moainted constables'. He ■ tried all sorts of' means to! get through, but failed, and had to return to the city and wait for a train yesterday morningMr D. K. Logan, speaking at the annual re-union of tho Wairarapa Cricket Association, said it was as well that during the coming season Masterton Crick# Association was not to be interfered with by outsdie teams. Mr Logan said he. was not parochial, but he was convinced that there was sufficient talent in Masterton to produce gOod cricket. He hoped that this season would mark a new era in Masterton cricket, and saw BO reason why cricket in this town .should not come up ta that of oilier towns in the Dominion.

The gamo of cricket in Master ton should be advanced considerably as the result of the animal re-union of the Wairarapa Cricket Association, which took place in the Chib Hotel, Masterton, last evening. There was a representative attendance, presided over by Mr A. Henderson, and the kindred sports of the district were well represented. The speeches made during the evening should do much to help the game of cricket in the Wairarapa, as each speaker spoke in eloquent terms of the advantage to be gained from townsmen joining in the "good old game." The folio;wing toast list was honoured Cricket. Mr A. Henderson; Cricket Supporters, Mr T. Jordan; Carlton Cricket Club, Mr C. Perrv, responded to by Messrs F. P. Welch, E. Welch and W. Flaws; Masterton Cricket Club, Mr E. Welch, responded to by Mr D. K. Logan; Kindred Sports, Mr Fail-brother, responded to by Messrs Tggulden and N. James; The Ladies, Mr T. O'Dowd, responded to by Mr H. Miller. Vocal items weire reiv deved by the following, and greatly appreciated: Messrs Elcoiate, James, Payitt, Tggulden, H. Miller, E. Borrows, T. O'Dowd. Altogether tho function was a great success, assisted greatly by the fine supper provided by Host Crass.

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