LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7845, 10 September 1904, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the Mayor having to go to Wellington on Tuesday, it has been decided to hold the ordinary meeting of the Council on Monday night. The special meeting of the Council will also be held that evening, commencing at 7.00, instead of at 5 p.m. as originally intended.

Tne Kurupuni Mutual Improvement Society held its usual meeting last evening, when there was a record attendance. The subject was a Parliamentary election, the candidates being Mr Frank Staples and Mr B. E. Church. Both speakers gave their views on political questions, Mr Staples supporting the Government, and Mr Church opposing. The voting resulted in the election of the Opposition candidate.

The Clerk of the Stratford County Council has forwarded the following resolution (passed at a meeting held on August 24th) to the Masterton County Council: "That this Council strongly protests against the recent utterances of the Eight Hon. the Premier, in intimating that ho intended extending the Local Bodies Franchise, and this Council is of opinion that the present voting power should not in any way be interfered with; and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Premier, Messrs Symes and Jennings, M's.H.R., and all County Councils in the Colony." At the meeting of the Council, on Thursday, it was decided to support the action of the Stratford County Council.

FREE FROM EVERY BLEMISH, Is the skin, scalp and hair preserved, purified and beautified by Cuticura Soap. It removes the cause of disfiguring eruptions, loss of hair, and baby blemishes, viz.: The clogged, irritated, inflamed, or sluggish condition of the pores. No other soap ever compounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying and beautifying, the skin, scalp, and hands, for sanative, antiseptic purposes t and for the toilet, baih, and nursery.

The registered rainfall in Masterton, at mf 9 o'clock, this morning, for the previous twenty-four hours, was forty-five points.

A meeting of the Trustees of the North Wairarapa Building Society will be held on Wednesday next, at 3.30 p.m.

A London massage states that the South African cricket team won thirteen matches and lost three. The tour [resulted in a loss of £2000.

At the Masfcerton S.M. Cjurfc, this morning, a Native was fined £1 for being drunk while in charge of a horse. Mr Eli Smith, J. P., occupied the Bench.

Mr E. Brown (Town Clerk) has received a telegram from Mr J. A. Gilruth, notifying the Minister's approval of the proposed abattoir site, at Kakare.

Tobias Miller, herbalist, of Masterton, was this day adjudged bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors will ba held in the Masterton Courthouse, on Monday, September 19th, at 12 noon. -^ A sale of work in aid of the Melane3iao Mission will be held in St. Matthew's Schoolroom on Wednesday next. The ball will be opan from 2 till 5, and 7 till 10 p.m.

Among the votes passed by Parliament unaltered, last evening, ia the House, were: Inebriates' Homes, £8524; Charitable Department, £3527; Working Railways Department, £1,465,000.

A Sydney message states that the certificate of Captain Barber of the barque Western Australia, which was recently wrecked, was suspended for nine months.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Masterton branch of the N.Z. Farmers' Union will be held in Messi-3 Liwes and lorns , farmers' rooms on Saturday next, at 2.30 p.m.

The matron of the Masterton Hospital desires to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of illustrated papers from Miss Harris and Mr J. Arthur, and a!so pie melons from Mr C. Tootles.

In the House, last evening, the Hon. J. McGowan said he had reason to believe that the gold output of the Colony for the next year would greater than that of last year. «■» A cable message states that Burgese, the Paris champion swimmer, starting from Dover swam twenty-two mites, covering fifteen, towards Cape Maristcr, in eight and a-half hours. Heavy seas compelled the abandonment of his project to swim the Channel.

It is reported that a piece of ambergris about 15in in length, and weighing 20oz, has been found on the Orakawa beach, near Waihi, by Mr F. O'Grady, a local resident. The substance has, it is stated, been tested, and pronounced to be genuine.

The Albion Football Club's annual social and dance is to take place on Thursday evening nest in the Masterton Drill Hall: Elaborate preparations are being made for the fixture, which promises to eclipse any other yet held by the Club.

A meeting of members of the Albion Football Club is called for Tuesday next, for the purpose of awarding trophies for the present season. Third-class players will meet in the Foresters' Hall (rear entrance) at 7.80 p.m., and others members in the Empire Hotel, at 8 p.m. .Ar Writes the Hawera Star, in reference to the thirty-sixth anniversary of the fight at Tβ Ngutuo-te-Manu, at which Major Yon Tempsky was killed : —" So far as we are aware Messrs James Livingston and John Flynn are the only Europeans now in the district who took part in the fight."

The subscriptions to the Masterton Presbyterian Building Fund are coming in freely. One of the Sunday school teachers sent a promise of £5 to the committee the other day, and offers help iv other ways. A prominent worker in the congregation, now in Wellington, sends a cheque and good wishes. The list has now reached considerably over

Cr Eton has eiven notice to the Town Clerk that he intends to move at the next meeting of the Council that the Council rescind the resolution passed at the last meeting, adopting the report of the Works Committee in the matter of tho offer made by the trustees of the Jean's Estate, and that such offer come up for re-cousideration.

In the House of Bepresentatives, last evening, Mr T. E. Taylor (Christchurch) quoted cases of asylum attendants, were so poorly paid that they were com«flp pelled to let their life insurance policies lapse. He again adversely criticised the administration of the Sunnyside Asylum. Mr T. Mackenzie (Waikouaiti) said that many of the asylums in the Colony were such cheerless and gloomy place 3 that it would drive oue insane to look at them.

When the vote for the Mines Department, £21,166, was before the House, last evening, Mr J. H. Withefortl (City of Auckland) urged that a firstclass geologist was wanted. The Hon. J. McGowan, replied that the selection was under consideration. Mr A. W. Hogg (Masterton) hoped that those born in New Zealand would not be disqualified from receiving ihe appointment of geologist, and he objected to the practice which obtained of always appointing experts from outside the colony.

At the conclusion of the pianoforte and vocal recital in the Town Hall, last evening, just prior to dispersing, Mr Harold Beauchamp, of Wellington, Chairman of Directors of the Wellington Piano Company, Limited, thanked the audience for their taugiblc appreciation of the programme submitted. He gavjgL the Company's reasons for giving a frJJ* entertainment of the kind, and drew special attention to the three principal makes offered to the public by the Company—Bluthner, Challen and Rogers. He took the opportunity of mentioning that Messrs McLeod and Young, who had baen instrumental in. arranging this recital, were the local agents for the Company, and all particulars could be obtained from them.

The McCormick Big 4 Mower is an allpurpose mowing machine, for it is designed both for general cutting and for rough and stumpy lands. Farmers' Implement Co., Masterton.—Advt. BRIiF, BUT POSITIVE. Mr Alexander Miller, the well-known builder, of Roslyn, is not lavish with words. He saye what he has to say briefly and to the point, Writing under date 19th May, Mr Miller says :—" I suffered from rheumatism in my head for two months, and was cured by Rbeumo in two or three days. I can recommend it to anyone suffering from the same complaint." It is a voiume in a nutshell. Two agony cured in two dais! "I can reeoSj|Br mend it," says Mr Miller. You can him. Rheumo is sold by all chemists and storekeepers at 2s 6d and 4s 6d per bottle. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Wholesale Agents.—Adyt,

The latest returns from the Hessey ■dredge gives 13oz 17dwt.

The proposed Parliamentary trip to Mokau has been postponed till this day fortnight, on account of the weather.

The report of the Bank of Australasia recommends a dividend of twelve per cent.

Mr George Hescot, representing the "N.Z. Farmer and the N.Z. Field, two excellently got-up farmers' papers, is at present in Mastcrton.

A fire, by which two five-roomed houses in Napier were destroyed, yesterday, was caused by a cat jumping on a table and over turning a lamp.

The third term of the classes in conTcction with the Masterton Technical commences on Monday next. The syllabus is published elsewhere.

The bazaar in aid of the Taucru Church Fund has been postponed till a future ■date, due notice of which will be given through our columns.

Three men have been committed for trial, at Feilding, in connection with the fire discovered in the stables in that town prior to the destruction of the Denbigh Hotel, last Thursday week.

Today a total eclipse of the sun occurred, "but was not visible in New Zealand or Australia. It would be seen as a partial eclipse in all the Pacific Islands east of New Guinea.

Mr J. Smith, fruiterer, of Queen-street, Mastcrton, showed us to-day, some Caliiornian pears, imported by him, with the leaves still adhering to the stalk. It seems a long way to send pears, and for them to arrive in a sound and saleable ■condition.

Mr Bennett Pascal Perry, an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital, aged 58 .years, died at an early hour yesterday morning from pneumonia. Deceased had been a resident of the Manawatu district for the past sixteen years and was a brother of Mr F. Perry, of Fitzherbert.

An Auckland message states that the Auckland Racing Club will divide among ■charities the sutn of £160, being the balance of monies not returned on the last Winter Steeplechase. Many ticketholders had evidently destroyed their tickets, and were thus unable to claim their investments.

An outcome of the recant hockey fracas at Day's Bay is the laying an information against Mr H. P. Rawson (who was President of the Hockey Association up till a few days ago) on a charge of having refused to leave the hockey ground at Day's Bay when ordered to dD so by an official of the A'sjciation.

A purchaser is wanted for a good sheep farm of 500 acre?. This property is well divided and has two good streams which are well stocked with trout. It is. on a metalled roa3, and within 13 miles of a good market. Further particulars about the place may be obtained from Mr AY. B. s Dyer, Chapel-street, who will be glad to drive any would-be purchasers out to see it.

The three bulk stores burned down in Wellington, last night, contained a quantity of highly intlammable matter. lacluded in the Colonial Oil Company's building were 8000 cases of kerosene, 500 of benzine, 1200 of low test kerosene and a large consignment of naphtha. Messrs Johnston and Co.'s premises contained a large delivery of woDl-packs, gas-meters, sheep dip, salt and some kerosene.

A very pretty and quist wedding was solemnised at the residence of the bride's parents, 52 Dixon-strcst, Wellington, on Wednesday, the contracting parties being the sixth daughter of Mr Geo Haskell and the fourth son of Mr J. Mine?, of Feilding. The caretuony was performed by the Eev. W. Elliot, of Wellington. "The bride, who was given away by her father, looked charming in a costume of cream voile, trimmed with white silk and a crowning wreath of orange blossom. Miss Evelyn Hasksll, sister of the bride, as bridesmaid, looked pretty in a similar costume. Mr D. Mines, brother of the bridegroom, acted in the capacity of best man. After the breakfast, the happy couple left on their honeymoon trip for Feilding and Hawera. A dance wa3 given in the evening and kept up till the early hours of tne morning. The presents were nuimrous aid handsome. Messrs Galwey and Logan waited on the Borough Couacil Park Committee, last night, as a deputation from the Masterton Cricket Club. They explained that their Club had written to the Thursday Clubs, with a view of jointly approaching the Couacil; but, a3 replies had not yet been received from all the latter Clubs, it was deemed advisable, owing to the lateness of the season, to wait upon the Committee that evening. They also explained that their Club represented Saturday cricket, in Magtertoa, controlled by the Wairarapa Cricket Association, which arranged interpravincial representative matches. They .asked that the Council take immediate steps to have the Oval put in order for cricket. It was eventually arranged that the Mastertcn Club be allowed the sole use of one-half of the Oval for the season, at a rental of £12 103, the Coancil to keep the grass cut, and the caretaker to keep the ground entirely under hi 3 control, allocate pitches, and to state when play was allowable.

A housemaid's or plain cook'd position i 3 adve.'tiaed for in another column.

Jtak. An experienced groom, with good refer ■V'ences, requires a stallion for the season.

A steady man, able to handle sheep and undertake general farm work, is required by an advertiser.

Me3ST3 King and Co., civil engineers and authorised surveyors, insert a professional notice in another column.

Mr Albert Webb, tailor, announces having opened up his new spring and Bummer goods, and requests patrons to ■foook their orders before the rush sets in.

A consignment of fresh fruit, from & California, embracing plums and pears, has f teen received at Smith's fruit shop, Queenstreet. New potatoes and rhubarb, as well as all fruits in season, are on hand.

H. T. Wood, pharmaceutical chemist (by exam.) Eead advertisement on page 3.—Advi.

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