LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8206, 31 July 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Aliens Bill has been read a second time in the House of Lords.

Mr W. Shaw, of Otaki, had lambs from his pure-bred Southdown ewes over two months ago- exceptionally early.

There are seventy hon. members attached to the Wanganui Fire Brigade, who contribute one guinea each towards the funds of the Brigade.

At the Y. M. C. A. Literary and Debating Society's meeting to-night, Mr A. Nicol will give an address on " Rambles in Scotland." Mr Jas. Robertson will preside.

Toads have been found so useful that they are sold in France by the dozen for stocking gardens to free the ground from many injurious insects.

The rainfall for the month of July totalled 2.45 inches as against 2.85 inches for the corresponding month of 1904. August, last year, gave a return of 4.71 inches.

Mr John Campbell, of St. Andrews, who was announced as a candidate for the Waitaki electorate at next election, died at Timaru on Wednesday, from ulceration of the stomach.

The Westport branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants lately paid to men who took part in the 1890 strike portion of the wages which they lost at that time.

Stamps for the Halcombe Invalid are acknowledged from Nessie, Richard, and Mabel Chappell, and Freda L. E. Redman. A fair-sized parcel goes forward to-morrow

thought not so large as former ones,

Dewsbury (England) rates are 9s 4d in the £. To keep down expenses councillors are asked to pay their own expenses in making the annual visit of inspection to the waterworks.

For the purpose of demonstrating the skill of British workmen, a Stockport bricklayer has issued a challenge for the bricklaying championship of the world. He undertakes to lay 2900 bricks in eight hours.

A New York message states that Hoch, " the Chicago Bluebeard," sentenced to death for wife murder, was proceeding to the scaffold when he was reprieved for a month, owing to lady friends guaranteeing funds to secure him a new trial.

Indicative of the mildness of the season, many spring flowers are blooming in Christchurch. Geraniums and chrysanthemums are blooming side by side at Sumner, and there are even a few roses. Generally farm work is well forward.

It seems likely that the Dairying Department's expert staff is to be still further weakened. It is reported that Mr Dickie intends to resign his position as a grader and instructor, in order to take up the representation of a private linn in Wellington.

After six years of experimenting, a Los Angelos, Cal., florist has produced a green carnation. The flower is like other carnations except that its petals are tinged with vivid green, which radiates from the centre to the edge in deep stripes. He refuses to disclose his method.

According to Mr Gilruth, Chief Government Veterinarian, about 90 per cent, of the sheep in New Zealand that are over six months old are more or less affected with hydatids. The disease is spread through the agency of dogs, which, being fed largely on'offal, transmit the infection to the grass in paddocks.

Early on Saturday morning in Auckland a man was seen to snatch a case of jewellery from a Queen-street shop and run. A chase ensued, and resulted in the arrest of Francis Mitchell, and the articles, valued at £23 were recovered. At the Police Court the accused pleaded guilty, and was sent to the Supreme Court for sentence.

A recent visitor to the Arrow (Otago) states that business in the township is duller than it has been for the past twenty years, a position due to slump in the raining industry. Work in a number of claims has either temporarily ceased or been abandoned altogether, and he holds out little prospect of bright conditions obtaining for some time to come.

Mr Felix Schuster, the well-known banker, declares that an easy money market is likely to continue, with a general tendency to greater ease. Owing to the low rates, England's indebtedness to the Continent has been considerably reduced, and will continue to decrease. On the other hand, there is a large amount of Japanese investments in London in 6hort - dated securities, as payment, possibly to manufacturers instead of cash. The increasing output of gold in South Africa is producing a steady accumulation in all continental centres, except in Russian.

At the recent meeting of the Agricultural Conference, Mr J. D. Ritchie (Secretary for Agriculture) referred to the fact of disease in pigs becoming more prevalent. Diseased pigs were coming on to the Wellington market, and on several occasions the officers of the department had actually had to go into butchers' shops and condemn pork. He mentioned also that under the Slaughtering and Inspection Act it was proposed to limit the killing of sheep for barter or sale to two per week for each farmer. Butchers had said that some farmers were goinground and doing a larger trade than they (the butchers) were doing.

The Australian cricketers are playing Sussex, at Brighton, to-day.

There have been no "bankruptcies in the Masterton district, duiing the month ending to-day. There were none in July last year.

It is the intention of the Wellington Corporation to take immediate action to abate the nuisance caused by hawkers in the streets ot the city.

A first offender was fined five shillings, in default twenty-hours imprisonment, for drunkenness at the Masterton Police Court this morning. Mr G. Heron, J. P., occupied the Bench.

Mr A. Henderson, watchmaker and jeweller, has donated to the V.M.C.A., for their new social hall, an eight day, 12indial, clock. He has also offered to have the clock wound weekly free of charge.

Several Manchester capitalists interested in the cotton trade are about to start weaving mills in the neighbourhood of Bombay. Large number of looms have already been despatched there from Lancashire. In the Carterton district there are seven Old Age Pensioners, in the Masterton district eighty-five. In Masterton fifty-one are males and thirty-four females. The latter include two members of the Maori race.

The dead body of a man was found in the bush at Upper Hutt yesterday. No information is to hand as to the identity of the deceased or the probable cause of his death. The police have gone out to take charge of the body.

Every effort is being made, says the Minister for Justice, to discover the cause of recent fires at Feilding, which point to incendiarism. The District Inspector and a detective have been specially engaged assisting the local police in their endeavours to elucidate the matter.

A mounted messenger reached Masterton at 4.45 o'clock this morning, to take out a doctor to a settler's wife residing beyond Mauriceville, who had been taken suddenly ill. The man had riden the eighteen miles in a little over an hour. His steed seemed considerably distressed in consequence.

The disease among the Natives (writes the Mangonui correspondent of an Auckland paper) still continues, and ten deaths have now occurred. Dr. Pomare is attending to «Br the matter. Mr Winstanley, the Government sanitary inspector, reports that the Natives affected are in a state of extreme poverty.

At a meeting of office bearers of the Masterton Wesleyan Church, held on Thursday last, it was unanimously decided to ask the Rev. D J. Murray to remain at Masterton for the fifth year, beginning from April next. Rev. Murray has since declined the invitation owing to his already having accepted a call from Mornington, South Island.

The prospects of floating Messrs Chamberlain Bros. , baking and flour milling business into a company are decidedly good. The manager has received encouraging promises of support from business men and farmers alike, and it is confidentially anticipated that the company will be floated as soon as the necessary preliminaries have been completed.

For the four weeks ended 54th June the railway revenue of the Colony amounted to £161,400, as against £152,823 for the corresponding period last year. The expenditure was £119,302, as against £108,510. Of the revenue £41,C64 was yielded by the Weliington-Napier-New Plymouth line. On this section 187,515 passenger tickets were issued in the period mentioned. At the Moturoa petroleum bore there been a continuous flow of oil since it was struck some weeks ago. "You have as good an oil-field here as in any part of the world," said the manager, at a recent meeting of shareholders of the Moturoa Company. The company is to consider a report on the-advisableness of forming a larger organisation to develop the resources of the bore.

Writes a London correspondent:—Mr and Mrs E. O'Rorke, who came to the Mother Country by the last trip of the P. and 0. s.s. China, are at present on a visit to Mrs R. Heaton Rhodes, at Tunbridge Wells. Mr O'Rorke, however, is on the look-out for a suitable residence in the Midlands, where he hopes to settle down before the hunting season, and for a considerable time, although he will probably pay a short visit to New Zealand next year.

The team to represent the Maslerton Golf Club in their matches, at Masterton, against the Featherston Club. on Saturday next, August sth, and Dannevirke Club on Tuesday, August Bth, will be chosen from the following players : D. Donald, V. E. Donald, H. H. Donald, A. B. Lawrence, J. A. Sellar, W. H. Robieson, C. C. Cox, G. Cromie, W. P. James, W. H. L. Galwey, L. A. Aylmer, N. D. Bunting and G. C. Summerell. The competitions were postponed on Saturday on on account of the unfavourable weather.

A special meeting of the Masterton Cemetery Trust was held at the Cemetery, this morning. There were present: Messrs E. Feist, W. Sellar and A. Stempa. It was decided to call tenders for erecting ninechains of 6ft close-boarded fence along the boundary between the Cemetery and the Trust ten acres, and to ask the Borough Council to contribute half the cost. Also decided to issue fourteen days notice to relatives calling upon them to repair fences around certain enclosures and otherwise put them in order, or the work would be done by the Trust at their expense. Instructions were given to the custodian to trim some trees and remove others.

A two-months-old daughter of Mr J. Grant, of Akura, was found dead yesterday morning. The child was put to bed in a perambulator at ten o'clock on Saturday night, and was attended to again by its mother at about midnight. Dr Ross was sent for when the child was found dead but he was unable to certify as to the cause of death. An inquesf was held this morning, when Dr Ross, who had made a post mortem examination, stated that the child, which was poorly nourished, had died from asphyxia or heart failure. The mother stated that she had been feeding the child on Neave's food and had not correctly followed the directions with regard to quantities The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

A good general servant is advertised for. A good general servant is required by Mrs Sharp, " Nairung," Worksop-road.

An advertiser requires a furnished double bedroom or bedroom and sitting room.

Mr A. Henderson, jeweller, Queen-street, has a fine assortment of opera glasses, which he is prepared to hire out for the Tittell Brune season. Early application is necessary.

" Linoarnish," the labour-saving and perfect linoleum.polish, makes a beautiful and lasting gloss. Furnishing Department W.F.C.A., agents for Masterton. —Advt.

We are agents for P. and D. Duncan, Ltd., of Christchurch. Their ploughs are general favourites throughout the Wairarapa district. We sell one a day. Mastertox Farmers' Implement Company.—Advt. Let others sing of Prince and King,

For mine's a theme that's greater ; I sing that great that wondrous thing !

King Cough's Exterminator ! No victor in triumphal car

Shows conquests half as sure, For greater for the triumphs are Of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.— Advt. ~■.''■■■■

A large brick residence is to be erected in Perry-street for Dr. AY. S. Ross. The contract has been let to Messrs Coradine and Whittaker.

Mrs H, A. Whelch, draper, has generously offered to give the V.M.C.A. the linoleum required for the reading room of the new building.

Complaint was made to the Masterton police, this morning, that stumps were being blasted on a section in Bannisterstreet, dangerously near to neighbouring houses. As this is in contravention of the Borough by-law, and the permission of the Council has not been obtained, a prosecution will probably follow.

When responding to the toast of " The Future Prosperity of Wanganui," at the Fire Brigade banquet, Mr J. H. Keesing, who had been jokingly announced by the chairman as the Government candidate, "went on to say that, in his opinion, the man who stood for a seat in Parliament, either as a supporter or an opponent of the Government was not a lit and proper representative. If he had no individuality and independence of spirit he was unworthy of the support of the electors.

In view of the fact that it was recently obliged to release a cookery instructress from the terms of her engagement (after importing her from England), because she had married, the Auckland Education Board lias now decided that such incidents sha'l not occur again, at least not at its expense. The Board decided to stipulate in all future ■agreements with instructresses that they must remain single for a period of at least three years, or forfeit a sum of £50. [The best plan might be to have the amount previously deposited. Three years is a pretty long period of probation !j