LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8036, 7 January 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The inward 'Frisco mail steamer, Ventura, will be due in Auckland on Monday.

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance completes its third year on the 30th inst., and will then have two years more to run.

Tho mail via San Francisco which left Napier on December 14th arrived at San Francisco on 2nd January at 6 a. m.

An Otaki resident is exhibiting a dock grown on his property, the root of which measures six feet.

The new law dispensing with juries at coroners' inquests, with certain exceptions, has come into force in New South Wales.

The livery stable keepers of Palmerston North have combined under a penalty of ;£3O, to raise the price of feed and stabling.

Rev. John Ross has been nominated by the Rangitikei and other School Committees for the Wanganui Education Board vacancy caused by Mr E. Newman's retirement. The Hon. W. Corncross has also beeu nominated.

Mrs John Morgan died at Durietown, Wanganui, on Thursday, at the age of 72. The deceased lady has spent over half a century in the colony being a passenger by the first vessel which arrived in New Plymouth. Mr and Mrs Morgan celebrated their golden wedding only about a year ago, having been married in 1853.

The Russian calendar contains 132 holy days, upon which the peasant is strictly forbidden by law to do any work. Ignorant, struggling against fearful odds with disease, working hopelessly an impoverished soil, crushed with taxes, halfstarved, the Church yet forces the poor peasant to remain in idleness more than two and a-half days each week, that she may wrest a few kopecks from him when he comes to her services.

Combined steam motors and railway cars have been adopted for passenger traffic on two or three of the railways in the South of England, and it is claimed for them that they are much less expensive to maintain than the ordinary locomotive and carriage. They carry between 50 and 60 passengers, and a failquantity of luggage or parcels. They are well adapted for short branch lines, where th 6 passenger traffic is light and fairly regular.

A man aged 53 years, who was ehrimp fishing, attempted to swim Ross Creek at Townsville, Queensland, with a drag net fastened round his chest, the net being hung with leaden weights, and carrying his son Charles, aged 7, on his back. The man became exhausted half way across, and threw the boy off. The screams of the child attracted assistance, and he was rescued, but the father was drowned.

With reference to the Athenree School affair, in which two boys stole and planted a quantity of presents, maps, etc., and obstinately refused to give information where they were planted, it now transpires (says a Waihi correspondent) that, after further punishment, the boys gave in and disclosed the hiding place, and all the articles were found under Tuapiri Bridge, two raites from the school, with the exception of the keys of the cupboard.

" I had a cow that was rapidly losing flesh and would have sold her for thirty shillings last May. After a course of treatment with your "Kossolian Blood Salt," she milked well all tbe summer. Please send me another canister." The above is the opiuion ot Mr Thomas Lund, a farmer, and it expresses the opinion that all farmers hold of Day, Son, and Hewitt's medicines, Mr W. B. Dyer, Chapel-street, will be glad to fill any orders.

SOFT, WHITE HANDS IN A SINGLE NIGHT. Soak the hands on retiring, in a strong, hot lather of Cuticura Soap. Dry thoroughly, and anoint freely with Cuticura Ointment, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. Wear, during the night, old, loose, kid gloves. For red, rough, chapped, and discoloured hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, shapeles nails with painful finger ends, this treatment is simple wonderful.

There is an estimated shortage in the colony's potato crop this year.of 5500 tons.

Several passengers from Gladstone arrived in Masterton, on shopping intent, yesterday, by Mr Goodall's brake.

The colonial mails which left Melbourne per R. M.S. China on 30th November, via Brindisi, arrived in London on the night of 30tb December, two days early.

Intending competitors are reminded that the entries for the running events at the Gladstone Sports close on the\__ llth inst. £52 is being offered in prize money.

A fund started in Nelson with the object of raising sufficient money to build a hospital for consumptives has reached a total of about and further money is expected from the out districts:

Judge Mair, and a surveyor from the Native Lands Department, will visit Masterton on Monday for the purpose of inspecting the Te Ore Ore Maori settlement, concerning the application to have the same declared a township.

Lord Charles Beresford is not without readiness of retort. His father, who began life as a clergyman, was a keen sportsman, and all his sons followed in his footsteps. A friend of the family, who did not approve of this kind of education for a clergyman's son, approached the youthful Charles, and said severely, "Do you suppose that the Apostleß shot on the Sabbath Day?" "jPerhaps not," was the quick response, "jbut I am quite certain they fished."

A party of five Sisters of Nazareth, under the charge of Mother de Payrie, arrived in Wellington from England by the lonic. The head quarters of the Nazareth Order are at Hammersmith (London), and in addition to work amongst the poor, the Order assists orphans and destitute children. The party which arrived yesterday is to work in the Christchurch Roman Crtholic diocese, and will form the first branch of the Order in New Zealand.

The Banks Meat Company, Ltd, Wellington, of which Mr I. Sykes is Managing Director, have donated to the Masterton A. and P. Association a prize of the value of £3 3s for a bullock best suited for shop sale purposes, to be judged when killed and dressed. The Association has also awarded a prize of £3 3s for a bullock best suited for shop sale, so be judged alive, and the prize awarded by the judge on Show day, the object being for comparative purposes when the carcases are killed and dressed.

The ordinary meeting of the Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., was held in the Foresters' Hall, last evening, Bro. T. B. Braggins, C.R., presiding. Bro, D. H. Godfrey forwarded a contribution, and Bro. W. J. Hodges wrote stating that he was now residing at Cross' Creek. A clearance was granted to Bro. E. Darley, who has gone to live at Pahiatua. One candidate was proposed for membership, and two were initiated into the Order. The officers for the ensuing term were duly installed by the CR.

The floral fete which is being inaugurated for the purpose of raising funds to assist in furnishing the new hospital is being enthusiastically taken up. A large Ladies' Committee has already been formed, and this evening at Messrs Gawith and Logan's office, Queen-street, at 8 o'clock, a meeting will be held to form a Men's Committee to assist the movement. Already numerous offers have been made, but it is specially desired that the Committee shall be a representative one, and that all classes of the community will be present this evening.

The Forty Mile Bush Fat Stock Association are experiencing a very successful season. Tbey have prospects of doing a very big trade, three times as much as the whole of la3t year's transactions being already assured. The President (Mr H. D. Buchanan, of Kumeroa) is now in treaty with a Manchester firm, and, if the negotiation* are successful, tbe bulk, if not the whole, of the year's output will be shipped to Manchester direct. Prices considerably in advance of those obtainable in the Colony, or from any other source, will thus be obtained.

Two sweet young things, resplendent amid the daintiness of frills and flounces, tripped into a Palmerston North shop on Wednesday and asked demurely for sixpenn'orth of toilet requisites. Whilst the man behind the counter hastened to comply with the request, his charming customers, with a deftness characteristic of their calling, annexed sundry small goods to the value of 20s from the counter. Five minutes after a bellicose shopkeeper was hot upon the trail of the frills and flounces, and an interesting inview on a boardinghouse doorstep, followed by indignation, tears, and eventually cash reparation, closed an unpleasant incident.— Times.

The following gentlemen have signified their willingness to act as judges in the various classes at the Masterton A. and P. Association's forthcoming Show: —Thoroughbred and light horses, Messrs J. R. McDonald (Levin) and W. F. M. Buckley (Christchurch); draughts, Mr Jas. Small (Tinwald, Canterbury); Jersey cattle, Mr J. W. McCrea (Halcombe); Ayrshires, Mr R. Baird (Oamaru); fat cattle and sheep, Mr J. Hurst (Cust, Canterbury); English and Border Leicesters, Mr Jas. Reid (Darfield, Canterbury); Romneys, Mr D. Manson (Outram, Otago); Southdowns, Mr Henry Overton (Fendalton, Canterbury); Shropshires, Mr Hugh Campbell (Havelock North); dogs, Mr Paul Hunter (Porangahau) ; pigs, Mr W. R. May (Richmond, Nelson); agricultural produce, Mr E. N. Barraud (Palmerston North); bread and knitting, Me3dames W. McKenzie and J. Strang, A good general servant is required by Mrs Hooper.

Mr C. E. Daniell requires two smart boys for machine work.

Two unfurnished front rooms are advertised to be let.

The W.F.C.A., Ltd., have received their season's supply of fruit preserving jars in all sizes.

There is published in this issue a notification referring to St. Francis Xavier's Seaside Academy for Young Ladies, a delightfully-situated establishment at Seatoun, near the Wellington Heads, and which is as much famed for its health-giving surroundings as for the high-class and comprehensive education bestowed. The new term commences on 6th February. Further information is obtained in the advertisement.

The • MoCormick Binder does all it is advertised to do.—Advt.

The Perfect Sewing Machine Oil. This will be found a free and lasting lubricant, in every way suitable for all high-class operative machinery. 1/-. —H. T. Wood, Chemist and Pharmacist (by exam.), Masterton.—Advt.

Mr H. T. Wood, chemist, of Masterton, will shortly open a branch in Eketahuna.

The registered rainfall in Masterton, at 9 o'clock this morning; for the previous twenty-four hours, was two points. No special precautions are considered necessary at the New Zealand ports in connection with the outbreak of plague 'in Australia. Crews and passengers will undergo ordinary examination. The " fiui" at Otaki, in honour of the Hon. Huia Onslow, was remarkable for the fact that the laud question and the Porirua Trust were the most prominent subjects of the speeches. The Hon. Huia received but casual notice.

The Rev. William Fancourt, son of -the Yen. Archdeacon Fancourt, of Wellington, was recently ordained in Liverpool, and is now. curate of St. Jude's, in that city. His father, who- was in England at the time, was present at the ordination.

Archdeacon Fancourt met in England two friends formerly in Wellington—the Rev. J. Still, at one time of St. Paul's, and the Rev. W. C. Waters, for many years vicar of St. Peter's. Both are now in Norfolk. The Rev. J. Still, who has been made a rural Dean, is in charge of •the large parish of Heatherset, whilst the Rev. W. C. Waters has a cure near Sandringham.

Miss M. O'Brien, of Martinborough, who was to have sung at the Caledonian concert on Monday evening last, but who failed to put in an appearance, has written to Mr Thos. Duncan explaining that at the last moment the afternoon <;oach from Martinborough was cancelled, and she was therefore unable to catch the train at Featherston.

The New Zealand State Fire Insurance became a trading Institution on the 4th -inst. Agencies in all the principal centres of population have been established, and satisfactory arrangements have been made for re-insurance, there is no good reason why it should not prove a financial success. Much of course, will ■depend upon the Department's dealings with its clients ; but as the manager, Mr. Brindley, has given an assurance that insurers will receive most liberal treatment, doubt is removed on that score. Mr W. M. Easthope is the Agent in Masterton -for the State Fire Insurance Department.