LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 5 February 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The price of the 2)b loaf of bread has been increased iu Gisborne to sixpence. The district police will again this year undertake the collection of the agrioull ural statistics. A London cable message states that in a Rugby match, the Now Zealand Field Artillery defeated the Public Schools by 5 points to 3. While surf-bathing at Lyall Bay, Wellington, on Saturday a single man named William 'Barber, employed at the Government railway oflicos, was drowned. Last year a Business Board of Trustees was elected in Masterlon and their names duly gazetted. Since the election nothing further haw been hoard of the body. At the Featherston Police Court on Saturday, Leonard Charles Price was convicted 011 throe charges of theft, being fined 20s (in default IS hours imprisonment) 011 one charge, and ordered to pay 10s damages for a stolen hat. "That tho producers of this country should own jitnd control their own shipping"' is tho text of a remit to be submitted by the Palmoitston branch of tho Fanners' Union at the Provincial Conference to be bold in May. At tho Masterlon. Magistrate's Court yeserday a man named Walker was convicted and discharged for being drunk; for using obscene language he was fined £l, and was ordered to pay £'2 for striking a man named Sayer. Commissioner Short will bo in Masterton to-day for the purpose of arranging preliminaries in respect to tho enquiry that is to bo hold regarding tho proposal of the Masterton County Council to establish a tollgate on the Tauoru road.

I Some, of the laws in England are singular when applied. The owner of a motor car was fined one guinea for convoying a. wedding party to church. A. man who recently returned frotn Ihe I rout was not fined for having a motor, but was told ho should have walked to church for his wedding, though a car could bo legally used for his funeral. What is described as the best line of Romney rains Lo come 'into Ibe district, says the "Express," we.nl. through Eketahuna last week for Mr O. ('. Cooper's Brook lands station, They wore purchased front the Riddiford Estate and were remarkably fine sheep.

YOU CAN DEI'END ON IT that it you procure the (JENMNI 1 . SANDER EUCA f,YPTI EXTRACT von will not only lie benefited, but yon will bo safe from tho harmful effects of tho common eucalyptiioils find tho so-called "extracts." Tho importance of this is brought homo forcibly by tho report in tho Melbourne "Age," August />th, l.!Ufi, of poisoning of about 30 girls by eucalyptus lollies, which wore evidently made from tho common eueaipytns. SANDER'S EXTRACT can always be relied tvn. ft prevents meningitis and all other infectious diseases; sniffer! up the nose and throb drops on sugar. Applied to ulcers, poisoned wounds, burns, sprains, eczema, it gives prompt relief and cures permanently. Oolite, bronchitis, lung trouble, rheumatism, neuraljjia. nr<* banished by it. SANDTOR'S EXTRACT is beneficial it. so many affections that no household can afford to be without it. Specially refined and preparer! by Sander's process it has aio harmful byeffects; you run no risk with SANDER'S EXTRACT.

A W < IlillV.l (HI i.lijillHl! still- - ill' Defence Kn |»ojiil it urc (*Ollll ■: i-vuin will lie op: 11 1o tin* public, Soiin- imporl ant improvement are evidently under contemplation ;i1 the .Masterlon Park. The removal -;t the .Iciice encircling tlu» ov;i] and other little incidents give rise !o this 1011. Tlic Inst link with I lie ok! swindling days in the Bush Districts lias been severed in a final meeting a!, Mastcrton 011 Thursday ol' the Wairarapa Sawmillers' Association. i'lie Association will now go out ol < >, enee nftor the necessary legal I<>:- ula has been complhnl with. A Dunedin telegram states the body of a well-developed child was found in a dam on a station 0: Y,';iiwera South, witli marks 'which suggest that it was fho victim of loul play. The body was conveyed to ltalcluthn, where an inquest will he held to-day. In the meant ir;.' an autopsy will l?e performed. A telegram from Auckland that two young ladies, Misses S'fniedeman ami Wiltuer, narrowly tst npod while surl'liathirty on the T:/kn : puna beach. Dr. Carick Robertson rescued Miss Kchniedemau. He 'lO- - for Miss Wittner and go- :er ashore in a. heavy sea—an extremely difficult iiiid dangerous task. Miss Wittner was unconscious, and ation was restored by artificial , A) "■ mating of the PiilmcMon North branch of the Farmers' r.inkm a discussion ensued in respect to n letter from the Director of Kdii.-ation asking for nssistanue for tlx Kitchener scholarships. It, was . yoituaily derided, "That it be a ;- on.imendation to the provincial exf/ini*-. that the funds-collected by the Trimers' I'nion he set aside as an ,]- tural scholarship open to all ,i:idary schools." Am Auckland telegram states that •Joseph Thomas Christie, who ij,. ( | from custody on the Alain Tru:;.'; < xpress on Wednesday, was m-aplurod at 110011 oin Saturday. Two dctivtivcs. acting on information that Christie had been seen in one of the suhnrl*, discovered him walking on the mad! lie surrendered without a struck, and was taken to tlie Mental Hospital. He had been living 011 poultry ano vegetables obtained from M-vj-dences, which he cooked in a Maori oven.

It is announced that, owing to the necessity to exorcise extreme economy in expenditure it has born decided that all special and other grants allotted to districts for the purpose of holding district and group rifle meetings will be cancelled, and remain suspended during the eontimuanee of the war. All grants made tor the provision of prizes no id marking fees not yet expended, and ;<'r imhvay passes in this connection therefore will ho withdraw from this (late Ifi fie meetings will, however, be allowed to continue provided tint no expense to the Defence Department is caused by their being held. Thrilfc is a high virtue, but ~'l thrift is mot; saving, and much saving is not thrift at all. The world could not hiive got as -rich as it is hv thrift alone. But f or the. saving 0 V time, labour, and energy that has been achieved through efficiency of pioduction. people not onlv would hare no surplus with which to be thrifty, but I lie world would be unable to support the number of people now living upon it. The Canadian Bank of Commerce sees the other side of the picture, in these lines: "Scarcity of labour and its high cost are forcing producers to adopt bettor - ' more economical _methods of produelion." I hat is saving, indeed, and a kin.l which will bo increasingly fashionable m the world for some years i 0 come Labour will bo too costly to waste. The next Gazette calling up Ilescrvjsts under the Military Sen-ice Act for service in the Expeditionary J'oree will be issued on l!)lh Febriiai'.y. Jt will contain the names of between 000 and (5()0 men accretions to the First Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve (through coiuMiR of age, etc.) and about 150 accretions to Class A of the Second Division (married men without childn'n). It is intended to issue such (-ay,cite monthly, calling up all areretmjis its they become due. The date lor the holding of the next ballot m which Class B of the Second Division (married men with omo child will he drawn on ha« not yet >epu fixed, but it is expected the hiillot will not take pbice before April. Motor car containing Mr and •Mrs Eric Whitcoinbe, of" Kailawa, and family went over a stoop bank at Campbell's (,'ully on the road to lliuenioa, fsays an exchange, jj j s un)] _ div the wholo lot were not killed outright, as the fall was about GO feet, at the bottom of which was a creek. Mrs Whiteouibc fractured shoulder and was badly knocked about. ..Mr Whitcombe was considerably bruised and shaken and his ribs were injured. They were about two miles from home "hen the accident happened and the nearest settler was half a mile away

lu a report Mr .J. Haswell, liquidator to lho Eketahuiia-Pongaroa Motor Co.. states; Owing to the, unexpected demand made by (lie Post and telegraph I)epartmont lor over - •breach of contract ■and tcchmical errors in the allotment of shares, which enable several shareholder,s to repudiate their liabilities, (ho tot.-ii ainoimt lor distribution, whom al| outstandings arc collect o<?, will not |„. s » largo as anticipated. The whole of the plan! has boom disposed of at sa lis factory figures, dividend «f Cs Sd is being paid and a further dividend is probable. The management of the Cosy Theatre ask us to announce that the ictuin visit, ol "Madcap Madge, promised a. couple of weeks ng n w |„.„ this pretty picture was shoum at the Opera House one night only on account of (he theatre being engaged, is to take place 10-niu|if ; ,| j|„" <:osy Theatre. I'retty Olive Thomas ly ill this fascimal ing slorv. and the tact that the makers of (his ■smart him claim that the v made -i round-up of the pkk of Californian x'auly |,o make the pyjama parades ; makes t his picture most interest in-' equal to Jjillio Burke in "Petury " -ic' cording to the ".Motion iNcws mile. "Cactus Nell," (he Wrcat 'lrianglo Keystone comedv is also on the programme, and William I'nrniim in "The Battle of Hearts " a sterling |<\>x feature. ' A miK SAYKIt. Keep Chamberlain's P.,!,, Balm on ' ■ ls •''» antisopti,; liniment and causes wounds to heal in time than hy nny other 1 real men t. rsohl everywhere. lior tho best in Dairy Timvarc Factory Supplies, etc., send 1o .Albert J I'arton, Carterton.•

Purebred FMack Orpington hems arc • id\ertised for sale. 'I lie tinder of a returned soldier'a pay book is asked to leave Sniuo ab "Ago" otlic;-. Aliss K. Holloway, teacher of violin, resumes teaching 011 'Wed, I'esday. February Gth. 'he monthly meeting ol' (ho W.C.T.lWill be held in Knox Hall this altenioon. Mi H. Douglas inserts a. notice to trespassers in respect to his properties at Ma-hungu and Kaitnma, The Mastodon Patriotic Shop re"l'eii<j on Saturday, March 3rd when 'l "ill be taken by residents of Ron, a I si reej, Fpper K ., it jj Kibblewhiie road. J In. . I 1,( .A. summer sale is now 1,1 't* fiiml week, and to those conversant with the W.F.C.A. poliiv will Know that, the closing davs of a sain are remarkable for the extraordinary bargains Such bargains will be oblambie this week.*-