LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A number of licensing offen are bo be inquired into at the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow. Jeremiah O’Keefe, farmer, of Martinborough, was adjudged bankrupt on Saturday on the petition of a creditor. The distinction of hawng colL-cteci all rates levied in the last two years is the very satisfactory record of the New Plymouth borough. A Melbourne cable states that the price of wheat has been reduced 2d. and it now 5s lOd per bushel. Flour has been reduced 10s per ton. Owing to Friday being a court holiday (St. Patrick’s Day) the Magistrate’s Court at Masterton will sit to-morrow and on Thursday. The census of public libraries taken last year shows that there were 421 libraries in the Dominion, comprising 1,132,079 volumes. The number cf subscribers was 60.441. The Alfredton amateur athletic club’s annual sports will be held at Alfredton to-morrow (Wednesday). Cars will leave the Empire Hotel at 10.30 a.m. and there are a few seats still available. DAIRYMEN NEED NOT WORRY! Dairymen who own Domo Separators don't worry about breakages—they seldom happen! But should new parts ever be needed, they can be secured at instant notice. Big stocks of Domo spares are always available. Get details of this reliable, clean-skimmin’ machine. Cooper and Duncan,’Ltd.. Domo Guarantors, Christchur h. oLcal agents, .T. Graham and Co.. Queen st.

Speaking at Wha.kata.ne last week, the Prime Minister F.iated that if any j soldier sutler was a “trier,” he ■ was not going to be pus-hid out of k s > holding, even if hi© interest was in arreai's. The ’‘.\’.Z. Diggers" were greeted at the Opera House last evening by a 1 most appreciative audience. Tho < various items were capably rendered < and tfie encores were frequent. The new telephone lists which have just readied subscribers do not eon- < tain, the numerical index which has j always been, included in the past. By j means of this index it was possible easily to ascertain the name of a 1 subscriber from the number given. I At the Royal Institute -of Public Health in London, Dr. C. W. Saleeby, an eminent authority, asserted that hopeless cases of tuberculosis had been cured by exposing the patient ’ to direct sunlight fur four hourq a day at Leysin, in Switzerland. The preliminary meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Mrs Hugh Stanley McLaren, of Martmhorough, which was to have been b’eld in Masterton yesterday, wt«p adjourned sine die, as only one creditor wain attendance. The Meat Pool Board will meet in Wellington to-morrow to appoint a chairman and transact preliminary business. It is understood that a gentleman fully conversant with all aspects of the meat distribution business appointed London agent, with a staff of three or four to assist him. “Why has Mr Hunt, the nominee of the stock and station agents, not been appointed to Meat Control ■ Board?” was a question put to Mr I Massey by a represeniative of the Manawatu “Times, ’ and 't was a ns-1 wered as follows:—“Well, Mr Hunt is a very good man, bat he has keen opposed to the scheme. Is it fair to appoint a. man who has opposed tlm j setting up of the Boarc?”

Interviewed at Wellington, regarding the reported abandonment of the overseas settlement scheme for exservicemen and others, Mfr Massey said: “I know nothing more than has appeared in the papers. The Government has received no special advice. I suppose it will affect New Zealand as well as the other Dominions. When I left England: it was understood that the scheme would be continued, as far as New Zealand is concerned, till probably December.” An Auckland telegrafa states that Marie Hefferen, aged four, daughter of Mick Heffefeii, died in the hospital ns a result of burns. >She was playing with a little boy, who struck a match, which ignited her clothes. William Henry Hawkcn, a farmer at Manu re\ya, was found daad outside his wharc, with his head practically blown off. Deceased was aged 29, and was an ex-soldier. • A succession of six small fires—five in untenanted buildings—during the pa-st three weeks has caused an uneasy feeling in Hastings that the outbreaks were caused by the deliberate act of a person with a mania in that direction. On Sunday night there was an outbreak in. White and Company’s wood and coal yard amongst 150 bales of pressed hay. The brigade extinguished the flames before much damage was done to the shed, which was insured, but the hay, which was uninsured, was destroyed by fire, .‘moke and water.

For the purpose of encouraging earlier marriages, M. Cognacq, proprietor of a big departmental store, nas given the French Academy securities I for an income of 1,000,000 francs and has instructed the Academy to award j annually 100 prizes of 10,000 francs to parents under 50 years with a ! minimum of five children. M. Cog-' nacq and hie wife presented tne' Academy three years ago with secur- j ities yielding 2,250,000 francs for 90 annual prizes to parents with a mini-1 mum of nine children. The capita! I value of the Cognacq-gifts total 61.- 1 000,000 francs. Free beer! The great occasion of • Princess Mary's wedding day did not ' go uncelebrated in at least one part I of Auckland, states the Auckland ; “Star,’’ one hotel marking the his- I toric social event by instituting, be- | tween the hours of 5 and 6 p.m., that | popular function, “free beer.” Need- i less to say the celebration was in - | mediately popular. A number of impromptu speeches were ’nude, and I the health of the bridal couple toasted i freely. “Blimc, ” one man was heard 1 to remark afterwards, in deep chagrin. I “and I never heard about it till one minute to 6.” An important decision affecting land agents was given by Mi Justice Sim at Dunedin. Aii agent had received £5OO as a deposit on the purchase of an hotel, the safe, of which was completed. He deducted h:s commission from this amount and j paid the balance into Court. Hie Honour held that as tlie agent had . not received an authority in writing I to sell the hotel, as prov’d’J by see-! tipn 13 of the Land Agents’ Act, he was not entitled to deduct h s centmission, although he h..d effected tee sale. Judgment was, st-• >rd:nglj. given against him. Tt was stated that the Land Agents’ Assot'ation intends lodging an appeal. “A five-day week is a great luxury,” remarked Mr E. C. Cutten, . S.M., when presiding at the hearing of the laundry workers’ dispute in Auckland. ' ‘‘l would like it myself. If we all got two days free everv 1 week the world could not go round.’’ Later he remarked that a reduction ■ in wages must come; there was no use protesting. But for most people he thought that the reductions would ' be more than made up by economies which they would make in living. 1 At another stage he said that the employers who were objecting to the principle of preference to unionists were not acting logically, seeing that they dealt with the union and had worked in harmony with it throughout the period of the agreement. KURVARVANB (Regd.) The Recognised Remedy. Three im- , portant points are indicated in the treatment of Varicose Ulcers and Be 1 Legs. Supportive, Protective, and Curative. Kurvarvane possesses all , these qualities. Local agents, Gordon's Pharmacy, Masterton. Prices 4/6 ar. 1 6/6.

Owing to the rough weather experienced the three-masted schooner W-ar Lord took 18 days on the passage from Gisborne to Auckland. At the Magistrate’s Court at Wooded e before ;.ir 8. L. P Free. S M . a family of six children, belonging to Mcedville, were com’nitted tc tne Receiving Home at Wanganui, on the grounds that they were not under fit and proper control. On Saturday the Masterton banks commenced observing the new hours provided for in the Banking Amendment Act, 1922, i.e., from 9.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. (instead of 10 to 12). Quite a number of business people were “caught on the hop” and had to hold their takings over the weekend. ! Mr C. A. Humphreys, general manager of the Australian Provincial Asi surance Association, has a poor opmiort of the New Zealand railways. “Your -Main Trunk express gave me the roughest railway journey I hafe ever made in any part of the world,” he told a New Zealand “Herald” reporter. “I had previously thought the line from Perth ’to Kalgoorlie was easily the worst in the world, but I no longer give it that distinction. From Taihape, northwards, the journey was one succession of bumps and jolts. It seemed as though the train were far too heavy for the engine. 1 think the policy of reduction of services, which the Government has introduced, is a very foolish one, for it must surely result in increased running expenses, and in placing far too heavy a strain on the rolling stock. No engines of the s ize in use on the Main Trunk should have to draw the heavy trains they are now I expected to draw. The railway service is one thing upon which no visitor I could possibly congratulate New Zealand.” Seat fandaulette ear for sale. ! Mixed root firewood for sale. Two unfurnished rooms’to let. . Youth requires position in office. i Five-roomed totara house for sale. Lady’s Budge Whitworth bicycle for sale. 1 Advertiser wants to buy five-roomed | house. * j Careful tenant wants to rent four qr , five-roomed house. Eleven acres turnips and 20 acre* clover hay for sale. Grey scarf lost between Post Office and Park on Saturday night. The offices of the Masterton solicitors will be closed, on Friday next. The usual meeting of 1.0. R. Tent, No. 38, will be held to-night in Trad’s Hall at 8 o’clock. An advertiser has a first-elass Lipp i upright grand piano for sale. Apply Box 20, Masterton. •A final notice is given by the Ma;terton Borough Council to those whose rates remain unpaid. The Dalefield Football Club will hold their annual meeting on Thursday next in the Dalefield Hall at 8 p.m. The next visit of Dr. W. H. Simp- ! son, eye, ear and nose specialist, will be on Wednesday next at Hotel Midland. * . The annual meeting of the Carterton Football Club will be held in Fire Brigade Hall, Carterton, on Friday next at 7 p.m. The Masterton County Council invite tenders for the carting of metal I from the Waingawa river to bridge apjproaeh. I Mrs Kendall’s daneing classes will i commence this evening. The children’s classes will commence on Saturday I morning at 10 o’clock. I The Bishop of Melanesia (the Right j Rev. J. M. ’Stewart) will address a ■ meeting in S. Matthew’s schoolroom j to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. As i this is his flrst visit to Masterton I since his consecration it is expected j that there will be a large attendance. A service of intercession for missions I will be held in 8. Matthew’s Church, I commencing at 7.15 p.m. | The approaching races are creating great interest, and amongst the ladies | the question is ‘.‘what tfl wear!” One I way of solving the problem is to pay ! a visit to Hugo and Shearer’s showI room where many pleasing new hats, costumes, coat frocks, one-piece dresses, blouses, junipers, dust and I sports coats are now displayed. The only question that is likely to be hard to solve is what to select from thi< display of charming apparel. > A gentleman well known in the drapery world who left New Zealand ler I London in 1921 has spent over 12 months in visiting the West End leadI ing drapery emporiums, and interviewI ing ngents and attending thentn s and race meetings, so as to be right up-to-date in regard to dress. He should be in a position to know what to buy in the way of ladies’ coats. It is with pleasure the Wairarapa Farmers’ announce the opening of the very latest 'styles, fabrics and colours, in velor paletots. 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