LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8280, 23 October 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The October rainfall, up till to-day, ag,gregales 2"5)1 inches.

Latest returns from the Masterton Dredge show 72ozs for 113 hours' work.

Mr J. H. Clayton, of the Taranaki Nam, has purchased the Bay of Plenty Times.

Holiday Excursion tickets are announced by the Railway Department for Thursday and Friday next for the Opaki races.

The road> from Whakatakitc-TeNui is to< be closed from noon to-morrow, during the erection of a' bridge at the- bottom of the Big Hill.

Mr J. C. Cooper will address- the electors at Rongokokako on Thursday evening next,, and at Kaiparoro on Friday evening. Ladies are specially invitecb to attend these meetings.

At to-night's " Messiah " practice, definiteproposals will be submitted from the Orchestral Society with a view to combination in the production of the oratario-at Christmas time.

News has been received iii Napier that Mr Purvis, a well-known Hawke's Bay runholder, has had a stroke of paralysis in London, and is quite- unable to attend to business.

The theory that boiling water will ignite kerosene has been demonstrated by several persons in Masterton to be a fallacy. They say there must have been a flame of some kind to start ignition. They base their deduction on actual experiment.

The painting of Lake Rotorua, by Mr E. W. Payton, which is among the collection of pictures at the exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts, in Wellington, has been purchased by Miss Helyer for £4 4s-.

A man named John Hunter, sixty-seven years of age, died in the " isolation " ward at the Masterton Hospital at three o'clock yesterday morning. The deceased was admitted to the institution several days ago, suffering from consumption of the throat. He leaves a wife and family at Nelson.

Members of the Hawke's Bay Land Board returned to town on Friday evening from a visit to the Motu.. They expressed themselves astonished at the timber to be seen. Much of it is being- sacrificed by.clearing fires. They say a mistake has been made in throwing open the land before the railway reached it, as the timber would have nearly paid for the line.

Mr Vincent C. Ransom died at Levin last week. He had been farming in the Rongotea district for many years. He was an exchairman of the Manawatu County Council, the Rongotea Co-operative Dairy Company, the Licensing Bench, and trustee and circuit steward of the Wesleyan Church. During more recent years he had been farming at Levin. He leaves a widow and a large family.

The next best mail despatch for Continent of Europe and United Kingdom will be ria San Francisco, closing at Masterton on .Wednesday, 25th October, at 4.45 o'clock, due London, 25th November. Money orders for despatch by this mail must be procured before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 2-fth October. The inward 'Frisco mail steamer "Sonoma" is due in Auckland on Monday, 30th October.

When giving evidence at an inquest in Wellington, Dr. Ewart, Medical Superintendent of Wellington Hospital (who was called as an outside witness) stated that he had administered chloroform in some ten thousand cases, and had had only two fatalities directly due to the anaesthetic and two caused by after effects. Statistics kept at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, had shown that the average fatality there was about one in every fifteen hundred cases.

According to the Electoral Act the writs for the general elections must be issued three weeks prior to the date fixed upon for the elections, and, assuming that that date will be the last Wednesday in November, the writes must therefore be issued on the Bth prox. As no names can be put upon the supplementary rolls after the issue of the writs, it behoves those who wish their names to be included upon them to apply to the registrars of the various local electorates at once.

There was a large gathering of Natives and Europeans at Kereru, on Wednesday last, on the occasion of the wedding of Mr Pataka Winiata, to Jemima Hema, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hema Te Ao.ofOtaki. Both the contracting parties are members of the Ngatiraukuwa tribe and very popular among a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Some idea of the extent of Mr Hema Te Ao's hospitality may be gathered from the fact that provision was made for entertaining in the most liberal manner, no less than eight hundred guests, all of whom sat down to breakfast in relays.

Four pellets of shot out of an ordinary helping of beef, entered inwards from the abattoirs via the family butcher, are a weighty cargo. A local man had it accidentally consigned to him recently. He announced the first pellet with a pronoun ; to the second and third he dedicated certain adjectives. When the fourth skidded between his teeth he trounced it with all the parts of speech of three languages. A little investigation of the joint discovered sixteen pellets, all within a radius of about three inches. These things lead one to wonder whether a competent jury, in possession of all the facts, vvould have brought in " Death from pole-axe " in regard to the decease of the particular beef that supplied the roast.—Dunedin 'Star.

A Maori .named. Manieratawaro, died at Te Ore Ore this morning, having reached tho extreme age of 120 years, k.tangi is being held. Members of the Wesleyan choir paid a visit to the local Hospital yesterday, and rendered a number of anthems. The patients greatly appreciated the thoughtfulness thus shown. The Rev. Wm. Thomson, organising secretary of " the trader" has accepted the Rev. L. M. Isitt's challenge to debate the No-license question. The debate will take place on Friday. The final for the trophy presented to the Masterton Quoits Club by Mr M. C. O'Connell was played on Saturday, between | Messrs J. H. Pauling and C. Sowman, the ~ former winning by eight points. '"^^f^ 1 According to a Westport paper, W. Carson ™ and J, Mcintosh, of Southland, have accepted the challenge of Casey and Pretty, of Taranaki, to saw a white pine log 22in in diameter. The stake is £100. The match takes place at Eltham. '.^BThe funeral of the late Mr Robert Henry, took place yesterday afternoon, and was • largely attended. Included in the followers were the members of the Druids Lodge of which the deceased was a member. The burial service was conducted by Rev. D. J. Murray, while the Druidic service was read by Bro. A. 0. Levien. The friends of the late Mr W. H. Apperley are invited to attend his funeral which will leave the residence of his father, Mr Jesse Apperley to-morrow, at 4"p.m. The Masterton Oddfellows' Lodge, to which he belonged, request an attendance of members at the funeral. A presentation was made at the Masterton ; Wesleyan Schoolroom, yesterday afternoon, to Miss E. Cresswell, one of the teachers, ! : who is about to leave Masterton for Nelson. : The presentation was made by Mr C. E, Daniell, on behalf of the teachers and also the scholars of Miss Cresswell's class. The gift was a silver-mounted salad bowl. An attempted robbery is reported to have ! taken place at St. Andrew's Hotel, Dannei virke, last Wednesday night,, when the room of Mr Leslie Reynolds, C.E., was entered : and ; his trunks ransacked. The thief took nothing,, but he was evidently disturbed in his- work and got away by the fire escape at the back of the building. A man has been arrested by the police. Three-of the members of the Permanent Artillery who were injured by the explosion at Fort Ballance on November 2nd last — Corporal Petersen, Gunners O'Neil and Fordyce—are being retained in the Permanent Artillery till next January,, when they are to- be brought up for a second medical examination to see if fit to remain in the service; the other two men—Gunners Slines and Sweeney—are to be discharged, and any claim they may have- for consideration will be dealt with by the Government. Some excitement was caused in Queenstreet, Masterton, about six o'clock on Saturday evening, inducing a considerable crowd of both races to gather very quickly.. What led to the incident we have not been able to- ascertain, but, apparently without provocation, an. adult Maori struck a Native boy a brutal blow on the head, felling him to the ground, where be lay in an unconscious state till he was carried into the yard of the Empire Hotel. The Natives became greatly excited,, denouncing the assailant's conduct in forcible language and with characteristic gesture. A Wellington collector has-just obtained a handbill which announces in bold type the Jb formation of the first temperance movement 'wB in New Zealand.. The date is 1836. The ™ handbill reads as follows :.—" Temperance Society.—On Wednesday, the 11th day of May inst., a Public Meeting will be held in ,-"* the Church of Kororarika,. for the purpose of establishing a Temperance Society. The attendance of all persons desirous of promoting Peace, Order, and Sobriety is most earnestly requested. The British Rosident will take the chair at 12 o'clock. Dated May 4th, 18361 Paihia: Printed at the Press of the Church Missionary Society." The well-known war correspondent and : lecturer, Captain Scott Harden, has been 1 the recipient of a valuable honour, namely, the Order of the Red Cross of Japan. The news reached him at Ceylon from a brother at home, where the Red Cross, and the order in writing accompanying it, await him. The deed for which it was awarded was merely help and refreshment accorded to a wounded Japanese soldier on the battlefield ,- but the act of humanity was seen and reported to headquarters and recognition has come from Tokio in due course —but one more sign of the completeness of organisation and genuineness of appreciation shown by the Japanese in all their actions. ' The loss under most trying and painful circumstances of his son—a boy of great WQ promise —who died from the effects of chloroform after an operation, induced the members of the Education Committee of the House of Representatives to send a joint letter of sympathy to Mr G. Hogben, In-spector-General of Schools, and his wife and family. In acknowledgement, Mr Hogben writes to Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., as follows: " Will you please accept and convey to the other members of the Education Committee my sincere thanks for the exceedingly kind letter that I received to-day. Mrs Hogben and my sons as well as myself will treasure it as a message prompted by the thoughtful human sympathy which helps to make even such unexpected and terrible sorrow easier to bear." An advertiser has stables and loose-boxes to let. An advertiser requires a lady canvasser for town work. Miss Rive desires to intimate she has just received the Christmas Number of the NewZealand Graphic. Messrs King and Henry, gun and locksmith, have received a large consignment of fishing tackle and requisites. They make an excellent display in their shop to-day. A first-class farm of Liiacres of land situated alongside the railway line adjacent to Masterton is advertised for sale. The property is an ideal one for a poultry or pig . farm or for a market garden, the soil being excellent and well watered by irrigation water races. The place has a frontage to two roads, and has a 5-roomed house, and other buildings upon it. j Mr W ; B. Chennells advertises for sale a : 7 first-class dairy farm of 152 acres, near Paraparaumu, West Coast. The owner is at present dairying on a large scale, and an opportunity is here presented for dairymen of securing one of the most up-to-date farms in the Wellington district. As the owner is leaving for England, he wishes to make a ready sale, and he is prepared to give reasonable terms to the buyer. V. If you are a farmer you cannot afford to &" be without a Benicia Disc Plough. Agent: ■ Farmers' Implement Co., Masterton.—Advt. We have the biggest assortment and best variety of Rattan Chairs ever shown to Masterton buyers. Make an early call, as they are going quickly. Furnishing Department, W.F.C.A.—Advt. Nursery Hair Lotion for uncleanliness in children's heads. A splendid preparation. a Is. H. T. Wood, Chemist and Pharmacist (by exam.), Masterton.—Advt. : - '-^^m There is never a cloud of disappointment when you place your order for a rustic cart with us. Your interests are our interests. Masterton Farmers' Implement Co.—Advt.