LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 31 October 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The gate and stand takings at the Carterton Show yesterday amounted to £353 ss, against £302 last year. The first day’s takings were £4O 18s, against £36 12s. The fat sheep and lambs sold at the Carterton Show on Wednesday realised about £5OO, or an average of £2 4s per head. Tho commission on the sale goes to the Society. A valuable Southdown ram belonging to Mr Jas. Knight (Feilding) con. traded pneumonia on the way to tho Wairarapa Show, and died on the night of it’s arrival. The Main Trunk express from Auckland to Wellington yesterday morning was delayed between Erna and Pukako owing to a breakdown in the engine. The cause of the aocident was a broken shaft. The engine pulled up with a jerk, and four or five sleepers Were torn up. The passengers received a severe shake, but no serious damage was done. The train was delayed five hours.

Another big eel, weighing 191bs, was caught in Donald’s creek, Greytown, on Saturday, says the “Standard.” This is the second monster caught there within a fortnight.

A poll at Greytown for a loan of £1206 to construct bridges over Abbott's creek and Cox's creek resulted in 48 votes for and 9 against. Only 57 out of a roil of 363 took sufficient interest to vote.

Colonel Mitchell, secretary of the Wellington Show Committee, informed an “Age’’ reporter yesterday that an interim balance sheet disclosed a profit of £l7OO on the first show.

Species of the mountain Ranunculus, though removed from their native home in the Tararuas, are flowering prolifically in the rock garden in the Mastorton Park. The plants have been in the park now for 12 months and look strong and healthy in their new abode.

Mr J. R. Hughes, Borough Engineer at Palmerston North, is working on a town planing scheme, by which it is intended that the end of blind streets be in the shape of am oval, with a grass plot and a shrubbery in the centre, and the road running round it.

A performance that is probably unique in show annals of New Zealand has been established by Captain Glossop, the champion hack at the Carterton show. He has won the ladies’ hack competition on that ground six times, the first time being in 1914.

At the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, Henry Harris Tunnidiffe, who had previously been found guilty on three charges of theft, pleaded guilty to failure to account for £4 10s 6d, duo to the Stewart Timber Co. He was remanded for sentence.

The_ first Wellington city footpaths to be bitumen-surfaced arc those in front of the Theatre De Luxe in Kent Terrace and Majoribanks street. It is stated that bitumen hot-mix makes an ideal walking surface, having more resilience than concrete, but slabs of the latter material are preferred in cases where disturbances are likely to occur owing to the presence of water

or gas mains. A Wellington city councillor who has returned from the Municipal Conference at Auckland said he came away with the impression that it was rushed through at too great a speed, and that many important questions involved in remits could have been given a great deal more earnest consideration with profit to the whole of the Dominion. “Occasionally there are subjects that want thinking out, and which may be elucidated hy an airing, but very little of that sort of thing took place,” he said.

A noticeable feature at the Wairarapa show was the unusual lack of applause from the grandstand. The ring exhibits were of a high order, as most of the competitors were en route to the Royal Show. In spite of much skilful horsemanship the stand expressed only feeble interest; the ladies’ championship jump elicited a few thrilled murmurs, but the large crowd seemed to be afraid of expressing itself. It takes many weeks to prepare a horse for a modern show, and lack of appreciation is apt to damp the enthusiasm of the most ardent exhibitor.

Dodge car for sale. Spring lamb on sale at Gerrand’s. Advertiser wishes to rent house with view to purchase. The A.P.F. advertise a special photo offer of four positions at prices ’hat should appeal. See wanted columns. The Druids’ Social Committee advertise that they are holding a dance in the Exchange Hall next Saturday. A reminder is given of the annual sale of Polled Angus bulls on account of Mr H. T. Hume, to be held to-day. Sale will commence at 11.30 a.m. Owners and trainers are reminded that nominations for the Ashhurst-Po-hangina Racing Club’s meeting close to-night at 9 o ’clock. The- telegraph office closes at 8 p.m At the request of a number of Mastorton breeders Mr Arthur Tocker, Tauherenikau, has made arrangements with Mr R. Falloon, Masterton, to travel the 3-yeariold Clydesdale stallion “Baron Index’’ in the Masterton district this season. The Masterton Auctioneering Company advertise an auction sale of cars and trucks at the Masterton Implement Co. garage, Perry street, to-day at 2 p.m. All the ears and trucks are in good order, and are sold by order of the liquidator and official assignee. BANDEB AND SONS’ EUCALYPTI EXTRACT. The unequalled remedy for eolds, influenza, bronchitis, lung troubles, neuralgia, diarrhoea, rheumatism, SANDER’S EXTRACT, the surest protection from all infectious fever, diphtheria, meningitis. SANDEB ’S EXTRACT, the great healer of wounds, burns, ulcers, sprains, skin diseases. SANDER’S EXTRACT proved at Supreme Court in Victoria to contain antiseptic and healing substances not present in other eucalyptus preparations, hence the superior and unique curative power. SANDER’S EXTRACT is free from irritating and heart-depressing ingredients of the common eucalyptus oils and the so-called extracts, sad is safe and beneficial for internal, as well as for external use. Insist on ths GENUINE BANDER’S EXTRACT. PILES—" INSTANT RELIEF.” “Your treatment is wonderful. It gave instant relief, and the first lot cured me.” Thus concisely writes a Feilding resident. He adds “Yow don’t know how thankful I am that I notced your advertisement. ’ ’ Pile sufferers will appreciate exactly why letters to the Zann Proprietary stress gratitude so strongly. The Zann Double Absorption Treatment banishes blind, bleeding, itching, internal and protruding piles, and benefits when operations are impossible. Send for free booklet. Zann Proprietary, Box 952, Wellington. Booklet* and stock of "Zan” can be obtained from J. V. Gordon, Chemist, Queen street, Maeterton.