LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8281, 24 October 1905, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is a year, to-day, since the Dogger Bank

outrage,

President Roosevelt will be forty-seven years old on Thursday.

Judge Ward will retire on a pension of £600 per annum as from April Ist, 1906.

The outward 'Frisco mail will close at Mastertou at 1.45 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.

Mr J. C. Cooper addresses the electors at Brooks' Hall, Mauriceville East, on Saturday evening next.

A meeting of the Masterton Cemetery Trustees will be held in the Technical School, on Friday next, at half-past three.

It will be eleven years, on Saturday, since the wreck of the steamer " Wairarapa" on Miner's Head, Great Barrier, when 137 lives were lost.

A man named John Johnston, aged sixtyfive, died at the Masterton Hospital this morning, from bronchitis and heart failure. The deceased was admitted to the institution yesterday.

The names of Messrs J. B. Keith, T. G. Mason, E. H. Waddington, and G. C. Summerell should have been included in the Council of the Chamber of Commerce in the report which appeared in Saturday's issue. E. G. Monk, booking clerk at the Dunedin Railway Station, was arrested yesterday on a charge of embezzlement. It is understood that a considerable sum is involved, although the present charge is only in regard to£l.

Among the workers of England who testify dissatisfaction with their lot none have more of the public sympathy than the railway signalmen, whose wages range from 4id to Sd per hour. Their isolated position and their great responsibility are strong arguments in favour of their condition being improved.

A rather remarkable bankruptcy occurred last month near London. The debtor, proprietor of hotels in suburbs and in London, attributed his misfortune to " the wave of Temperance " that had passed over England. His liabilities amounted to £177,886, of which only £4000 were unsecured. He added that the slump in the liquor traffic had been continuous since the Boer war.

An Auckland cafe proprietor named Franchi was charged in the Police Court yesterday, with having worked three assistants more than fifty-two hours weekly, and with having failed co allow them a weekly half-holiday. The assistants deposed that they worked seven days a week. A shopman said his hours one weeK totalled 116J-. Two waitresses said they worked ninety-six hours, their wages being 12s and 8s respectively. Mr Dyer, the Stipendiary Magistrate characterised the case as " white slavery," and fined Franchi 30s on each of eleven informations, with costs, the total amount of fines being nearly £30.

Mr G. R. Irvine has just finished the black and white picture presented by him to the V.M.C.A., at the opening of the new buildings. The subject is an original one and most appropriate. It represents a woman in " in a dark hour," winding her way along a narrow track on the face of a dangerous precipice. Above her is a towering cliff, while below is the angry, swirling torrent into which she would plunge, were she to lose her foothold. The subject of the picture is correctly represented by the inscription attached—the last verse of the Te Deum—" Oh Lord, in thee have I trusted ;• Let me never be confounded." The painting is a very creditable production, and several local art connoisseurs who have inspected it speak in terms of appreciation both of the subject and of the manner of its illustration.

The Matron of the Masterton desires to thank Mr A. H. Johnston, of Lansdowne, for a gift of trout for the patients. •

The death is announced of Mr Edward Langton, one of the stalwarts of the Freetrade movement in Australia. He was a financier of great ability, and held office as Treasurer in one of the Service (Victorian) Ministries.

A governess named Kalhe Schmidt is to be prosecuted for lese majeste because she wrote her name in a visitors' book at an hotel at Gross-Lichterfelde immed iately beneath the signature of the King of Saxony and the two Princesses.

The Wimmera, on her last voyage, made a smart passage from the Bluff. Her passengers who availed themselves of the train from Hobart caught theLoonganaatLaunceston and reached Melbourne in three and ahalf days from the Bluff.

It is senerally understood that Mr P. S Hay, Superintending Engineer to the Public * Works Department, will succeed Mr W. Hales, as Engineer-in-Chief for the on the latter's retirement at the end of the""" financial year. Mr Hay has been in the public service since 1875.

As a result of 61 hours'continuous pumping, about 1000 gallons of petroleum have been secured from the bore at Moturoa (New Plymouth), equal to nearly 10 barrels per day. The water is decreasing, and the oil increasing. Experts estimate that the flow of the latter is now equal to 20 barrels per day.

The frame of the barque, County of Ayr (which went on the rocks near Shag Point, Otago), largely stripped of her plates and dismasted, is now visible from the shore. Cargo is being washed ashore near the mouth of the Shag River. It is reported that a four-masted steamer was seen on the same place three weeks ago.

Mrs Teresa Richardson, who has returned to Liverpool after fifteen months' hospital experience among Japanese soldiers, was the only English lady admitted to the Red Cross Society at Tokio. No female nurses were allowed to go to the actual front says Mrs Richardson, the hospital duties being undertaken there solely by males. Mrs Richardson's previous experience enabled her to undertake work of a special nature. and she became known among the woundedeß as " our English mother." She was loud in her praise of the Japanese hospital system and methods.

Mr Blatchford (better known as an English popular writer over the signature of " Nunquam ") in a chatty article in a London paper speaks very convincingly of vegetarianism as the true diet for mankind. He says since he has become a vegetarian he has lost the keen craving for tobacco that he had hitherto experienced. Similarly the taste for wine has left him. Hock and Burgundy, once favourite beverages, now taste to him like physic. "Nunquam" thinks the solution of the Temperance problem and of many hygienic mysteries is to be found in a vegetable diet.

The fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council Works, Finance aurl Gas Committee was heldj, last evening. There were present—the Mayor (chairman), Crs. E. McEiven, E. G. Eton, J. H. Pauling and J. C. Evvington. It was decided to recommend the Council to let two cottages in Hope-street for a term of years by public tender, the Works Committee to be empowered to arrange conditions and call for tenders. The application from Messrs Hodgkinson and Gardner, to have the water-main extended to their properties in Elizabeth-street—relegated to the Committee by the Council —was referred to Engineer, with an instruction to carry out'flf the work. Wages accounts amounting to £97 11s 3d were recommended for payment.

Messrs Rebay and Co., caterers, of Masterton, will supply the luncheon at the Carterton Show, and the firm are now busy preparing for the fixture. A splendid " menu " will be put before patrons, and the Lower Valley show authorities are likely to be well satisfied with the efforts put forward by the Masterton firm. A cook-laundress is advertised for. Wages £1. Messrs Jenkinson and Co., Ltd., require a good bicycle mechanic. A cook-laundress is required by Mrs Hugh G. Williams, Lansdowne. Two carpenters are required by Mr J. Agnew, builder, Eketahuna. Mr A. Kitto will make a gaslight display at his Queen-street premises this evening. Mr J. lorns notifies that trespassers on his property will be prosecuted and dogs shot. A purse, lost between Carterton and Masterton, is advertised for. A reward is offered. The Mayor of Masterton invites burgesses to observe Thursday next as a holiday from 12 o'clock noon. Two very desirable cottage properties are advertised for sale, on account of the owner leaving Masterton, by Mr W. B. Chennells. Hipkins' hairdressing saloon is now one of the best in Masterton, and he has spared no expense in getting the services of thoroughly competent tradesmen to look after it. Three of the latest American chairs are set up in the saloon, which is provided with every other modern convenience.

Miss Wrigley, ladies' hairdresser and hairworker, whose premises are opposite the Scotch Church, Queen-street, Masterton, has on view in her shop window one of the bestassorted stocks of hairwork and hair ornaments to be found in the Colony. She is prepared to take orders for making wigs, toupees, switches, knotted partings, fringes, etc. Miss Wrigley will wait upon ladies at their own homes when required.

Messrs J. A. Lyttle and Sons, of the Masterton Cycle Works, have imported direct from the manufacturers four of the latest Minerva motor bicycles, together with a large assortment of general motor sundries. The machines were landed from the Kumara a few days ago, and will be in Mastei'ton during the week. They will be put together by the firm's engineer and exhibited in their . Queen-street premises. These machines JHL were purchased for spot cash, and Lyttle and Son will be able to retail them at decidedly reasonable prices.

Messrs Hecksher and Co., Ltd., auctioneers, land and estate agents, have a long list of properties for sale, ranging in area from the quarter-acre building site up to the 2000-acre pastoral run. The firm intend to push their land agency business by running it on up-to-date lines, and acting shortly as agents only. On page 8 of this issue the company inserts particulars of a few properties which are for urgent sale, and which, at the price, are bargains. Fresh properties will be advertised periodically, and those having properties for sale are asked to send in particulars. The company has money to lend, in any sums, at reasonable rates.

Every dog-cart turned out of the Wainirapa Farmers' Implement Company recommends itself and influences orders on our behalf. It is built right and runs right. Masterton Farmers' Implement Company, Manufacturers.—Advt.

The handsomely carved writing tables and elegantly designed sideboards and cabinets now being shown in the Furnishing <M> Department, W.F.C.A., are a revelation.— ■'""■ Advt.

The McCormick Rake gathers all the hay. Agent: Farmers' Implement Co., Master-ton.—-Advt.

Complaints have been made that a number of horses are nightly turned loose in Colombo-road, much to the clanger of pre--destrians, and thej(annoyance of residents in the locality whose properties are being damaged by the animals.

The Grand Hotel in Wellington is to be ■eight stories high. To make all the parts of this great hotel easily accessible, elevators will be provided by which guests and their paraphernalia may in a few moments gain apartments, even on the top storey. Every floor is being constructed of " breeze concrete," which, while comparatively light in texture, is considered the best check to a fire spreading from floor to floor.