LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9212, 3 November 1908, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Latter to the editor ou price of bread will appear to-morrow. Tho Worksop Dredge lias declared a divideud of Is per share, payable tomorrow. The ambulance was requisitioned on three occasions yesterday for trie conveyance of patients to the hospital. Tho New Zealand Railways Department advertise excursion fares and special trains in connection with the King's Birthday. About one o'clock on Monday morning, an earthquake shock was distinctly felt by several Mastert'ou residents, who were woke up out of their sleep by the visitation. Lifo in the City ou page 2; hospital humour and pathos, ou page 3; a convert to No-License, an interview with Mr John Hossey, Che steamer Hawea, and South Wairarapa news on page f>; Wairarapa South County Council on pago 7. A splendid exhibit, consisting of two Hereford yearling bulls, reared at Waugaehu, were taken to Palmerston tills morning by Mr James McGregor, who is enterprising enough to challenge perhaps the best cattle in New Zealand at the Manawatu Show. Two first-offending inebriates were brought before Mr J. Hessey at tho Mastcrton Police Court, this morning. One was lined ss, in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment, and the other, a female,, was convicted and discharged. At the Magistrate's Court, Daunevirke, Mr W. P. James commented upon the practice adopted by some local bodies in employing a solicitor to appear in rate cases. Ho pointed out that there could be no defence to a claim for rates if tho defendant's name was on the roll, and it was only "piling ou the agony" to employ a solicitor, aud so run up tho cost. An important conference of NoLk'eusa Le;>«ue workers will be held in the V.M.C.A. Rooms to-morrow, at JO a.m. The afternoon and evening sessions will commence at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. respectively. All workers in the No-License movement are requested to attend. On page (i will be found an interview with Mr John Hessey, in which he gives his reasons for his conversion to No-License, and deals with the effect of No-License in towns <n the South Island where it has been in existence for some years, judged by actual observation and close and careful inquiry. The residence of Mr D. Sutherland, at Bumside, Lower Valley, was totally destroyed by fire early ou Saturday afternoon. The only person on the premises at the time was the cook, wfio succeeded in saving a few personal effects. The house aud furniture were insured with the National Company for £450. Tiie Catalogue Committee of the Masterton Horticultural Society met last evening, and completed the flower and vegetable section of the prize list for the March Show. The Ladies' Sub-Committee has yet to meet to draw up the classes in the cookery and fancy-work section. The whole catalogue will then be submitted to the General Committee for adoption. The Society has engaged the services of Mr W. Kemp, who is conducting an active canvass for new members. Kuox Young People's Association will open the lawn tennis season ou Saturday next, on the lawn in front of the Manse, which lias been converted into a tenuis court. The Club has a very large membership, and has been established for the purpose of keeping members of the Association together during the summer mouths. The court should be iv good playing order after the weather settles, aud altogether a successful season is assured. The Masterton Ladies' Swimming Club has decided to purchase a gold watch as a Club trophy for a handicap race at the Public Bath, the distance to be decided later. The Committee anticipates a good entry for such a valuable trophy, aud the race will be got oif in heats, to be swum at intervals. The first heat will be decided on December 3rd, the second aud subsequent heats about a mouth later, and the final at the Club Carnival in February. The following notification from an old Wairarapa journal will be read with interest at the present day:— "Wairarapa Cavalry Ball and Supper —The annual ball of the Troop will be held at Mrs Tone's Hotel, Masterton, ou Weduesday, 28th September. Dancing will commence atß p.m., and supper at 11. Members are requested to attend. Each member is also requested to bring a partner. By order of the committee.— Rhodes Donald, Secretary, Sept. 13, '70." Further details have been received by the Marine Department describing the wreckage recently picked up to the southward of Cape Maria. It comprises part of a door, 3ft Sin in length, made of soft wood, painted white with brown facings. A blue ensign is painted on the white background. The letters "L OC" are crudely cut into the lower part'of'the door. Ou her return trip to Wellington, the Hinemoa will bring the wreckage to Wellington for the Marine Department.

Au invitation has been received by the Mastertou Bowliug Club from the Carterton Bowling Club to be present at the latter Club's opening of the seasou on Thursday. All members of the Masterton Club who intend taking advantage of the invitation are requested to notify the Secretary as soon as possible. The Mastertou Club has also received an invitation to send some players to Pahiatua on King's Birthday. On that day four rinks from the Hutt Bowling Club will visit Masterton and play friendly matches with the local Club. The visitors will arrive by the 10 a.m. train.

An esteemed contributor sends us the following recipe for treating garden crops that have been smitten by frost:—" Water by itself," he writes, "is no good at all. Hut get M worth ■of Condy's crystals aud dissolve in ten gallons of water. Spray the solution with a watering-can after a night's frost, and the crop will not suffer to any extent. I have tried it and speak from experience. I also soak my seed potatoes in the same solution, letting them dry before planting, and the results have proved satisfactory. I don't only spray after a frost, but occasionally as the growth progresses, and I have found doing so decidedly beneficial. With a watering-can ym can spray a fair sized patch in a very short time, and the time and labour are well expended—at least, such has been my experience."

, A. sixth vat is shortly fed be installed in the Nireaba Cheese Factory. Owingto the abuse of the credit system, the "'bakers of > Danuevirke have combined to sell bread for cash only. The foundation stone of the new Presbyterian Church at Eketahuua will be laid on Thursday next. J. S. Holmes, .of Tiraumea, will perefc form the ceremony. At last meeting of tho Bush Districts A. and P. Association, it was reported that iv the Woodville district £57 14s in oasli aud over £20 iv trophies had been promised for the next Show. Eight-new members were elected. For tlie mouth just ended, the Ballauce Co-operative Dairy Company paid to its suppliers the sum of £4500. which was at the rate of lid per lb of butter-fat. The aggregate is the Company's record one for the month of October. A newly-formed Company lias purchased , the Weber-Waione Dairy Factory, which had been closed for a year. One penny per pound more will be paid for butter-fat by this firm than by the former owuers. The manager is Mr T. Hopcroft, who for three yjars was butter-maker at tho large Okaiawa Factory (Taraualii), owned by the late Mr T. L. Joll. The newly-formed V.M.C.A. Tennis Club lias obtained the use of teuu'S courts iv Chapel-street formerljH| occupied by the Victoria Tennis Club^ 7 aud the season will be formally opened by the President (Mr P. L. Rollings) ou Thursday. Mr W. Kemp has recently put the grounds iv order. Reference to the cost of living was made by Mr J. C. Thomson, president of the OtagO' Employers' Association, when delivering his annual address last Friday. Ho said that "the standard of living iv New Zealand is far too high. We number articles of food as necessaries which are not necessaries at all. We speud money on trams, outings, and variety entertainments. The bulk of our economy is bad and wasteful." It is rumoured that the Government are about to take a portion of the Te Parae estate, containing between five thousand and six thousand acres, for close settlement. Mr Richardson, a member of the Land Purchase Board, and Mr J. Fraser, Government Valuer, are on a visit to the property to-day, and Mr Barrou, another member of the Board, is expected to look over the portion of the estate which it is believed will be taken. t^ The usual exodus of settlers this district to the Mauawatu Show, which opens at Paluierstou North tomorrow, commenced this morning, when a good many left by the early train. A large number intend leaviug by this afternoon's and to-morrow morning's trains. This' district's stock will be well represented iv the big Show's pens. The majority of the exhibits were despatched this morning. Aucklaud had the highest average mean temperature in September with 54. Gdeg. in the shade, aud New Plymouth ranked second with 54. kieg., aud Gisborne third with G3.Brleg. The lowest average mean temperature was experienced at Inglewood, 48 7deg. ; Mastertou's average was 4i).9deg. The highest average maximum was Gisborue's, (>3.sdeg., and the lowest average minimum Masterton's, 37.0----deg. Mastertou also had the highest range between mean maximum and mean minimum for the mouth— namely, 22. ldeg. At a meeting of creditors in a bankrupt estate at Christchurch on Friday morning, a creditor remarked that he thought it was undesirable that the names of creditors should be published in the newspapers. Adit meetings in Wellington aud WangflP nui recommendations had been passed urging that the practice should be stopped, and he thought the step was a wise one. Mr Evans (the official assignee) expressed similar views. Personally he did not see that any benefit could be derived from publishing the names. It was resolved that it bo a recommendation to the Christchurch newspapers that the names be not published in future. An accident that happened to a horse at Otaki was brought under the notice of a Post representative. The animai, taking fright, bolted, and in its career collided with the shaft of a gig, with the result that theeud, some twenty-seven inches in length, and bearing the leather aud metal fittings, entered the thigh of the unfortunate beast, aud pierced right through to the rump. The shaft suapped, and the horse did an eightmile bolt, during which time the broken piece of shaft worked its way partly out, but through the horse continuing to gallop was driven some distance into the side. In consequence, a very deep wound was made. The horse was treated by a local veterii|g| ary, aud the piece of shaft taken It is now making a wonderful recovery. Just over a hundred passengers will travel to Auckland on the through North Islaud Main Trunk Railway train which leaves Wellington on Thursday evening in connection with the opening' celebratious. They comprise the Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones (Minister of Public Works and Railways), other representatives of tho Legislature, local bodies, aud tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce. The train leaves at 10 p.m. on Thursday, and arrives at the Mangonui-a-te-ao Bridge, the scene of the ceremony, about B.SO a.m. Auckland will be reached about 6 p.m., the Aucklaud train, which will bring northern visitors to the central section to view the driving of the last spike, running back to Aucklaud within half-au-hour of the Wellington special. Aucklaud merchants express themselves as quite confident that they will more than hold their own with Wellington in the trade war along the Main Trunk line. One prominent merchant remarked that Auckland was able to compote with Wellington in commerce, aud even to beat JM| along the Main Trunk, and he nßr stanced the fact that at Gisborno Auckland merchants were under-sell-ing Wellington merchants, and securing the trade. When the time came for a reckoning up it would be found that Aucklaud had more than held its own, and, in spite of the refuted "smartness" of Wellington commercial travellers, the Auckland houses were going to secure the business:They did not fear all the competition or all the agents that Wellington could put, in the field. ; Ever since the world began, man has been contriving instruments for the reproduction of sound. Nature's sweetest music—the sighing of wind through reeds, the laughter of a brook, or the lapping of waves, these have caused men to stop and ponder. We see the result in such instruments as the violin, the harp, the flute. But the most effective of all, perhaps, is the piano. Imprisoned within its four walls, hide the magic works, which breathe forth enchanting Broadwood, the Roniscli, the Lipp the Steinway, is a supreme delight. The Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., Wellintgon, who are agents for these, and indeed every instrument of high repute, will gladly tell you about their easy time-payment system, which makes it simple for everyone to possess this king of instruments —the piano. Local representative, Mr T.B.Hunter.*

The Gisborue Borough Council has been struggling with tho trouble of tho stray dog, aud it has boeu decided to establish a dog pound. A scale of foos has boeu arranged, and dogs unclaimed within Sfaveu days of being pounded are to be sold or destroyed. Last week's frost at Otaki did moro dauiago than was at first thought. §io potato crops were tho most (acted, aud the loss to growers will t>B very heavy. The Chinese gardeners are paying as high as £8 per aero rent, aud in many iustauces they will loso fully half their crops. In his last report on tho Laugdale .settlement, Wairarapa, tho Laud Board Ranger reported that twonty-sevou holdings had been inspected, aud only two settlers had defaulted as to rositloueo. Improvements of the value of £14,082 had boon offected, or £7481.1 more than the Board actually required. Farmors throughout South Cantorbury are enjoying perhaps tho most favourable Spring' over experienced. A farmer ou the Rosowill Settlement says the place has never looked so well. Food is very ploutifnl aud crops are making magnificent growth. It is not often that weasels are seen in Wellington city (says the Post), aud it is unusual for a cat to kill a weasel if it does soo one. But a cat killed a weasel iv the Botauical «:irdons, and the unusual aud uuwelIne visitor is to be stuffed aud placed the New town Museum. An admirer of the cat suggests that it should bo subsidised, as weasels aro said to bo fairly numerous iv the Gardons. According to a report in a Honolulu paper, of September 15th, tliero is a likelihood of the 'Frisco service beiug resumed iv January next. The report says:—The Oceanic steamships Sierra, Sonoma, aud Ventura will again take iv Honolulu, aud resume the Australian run in January of next year. This information is given by oue interested who arrived from the mainland in tho Alameda, aud who is here for business iv connection with the resumption of the service. Ou Saturday morning at the Dunedin Police Court two women wore charged with a series of thefts from drapery shops. Tho articles which formed the subject of the charges were a lady's costume aud a drill shirt from tho Drapery Supply Association. a pair of trousers from the Cash Trading Company, a pair of boots from Harry Skinner's,aud two drill blouses, a teapot, a shirt, aud piece of plate ipmsome person unknown. The po■P'.e stated that both were under tho influence of liquor wlieu arrested. Accused were romauded to see if some arrangement could be made with the Salvatiou Army Home. The Rev. Mr Whitehonse, Anglican clergymau of Ashburton, will deliver a lecture iv Mastertou on Thursday evening next (November sth) on "Tho Truth About Ashburton aud NoLicense." In an address at Ohristchurcli recently Mr Whiteiiouse said: "I defy anyone to show me a home iv Ashburtou where liquor outers to-day where it did not outer iv liceusiug days. (Applause). lean point to many homes iuto which it does not go, but where it went previous to NoLiceuse. " Mr Whitehonse -opposed No-Liceuso before it was carried, but since he has witnessed its splendid results he has become oue of the strongest advocates of the reform. A go-cart, in good order, is advertised for sale. Miss Fowler, of Lansdowun. requires au experienced general servant. A good bodice haud, who must uuderstaud coat making, is advertised for. The Wellington branch of the W.F. C.A. hive received au order to aiipply Government House with Sutflower seeds. W. B. Cheuuelis, agout for the Public Trustee, invites tenders, to close ou Saturday, November "21st, for the lease for ten years from Ist December next of the property kuown as "Buruside," Opaki, in the estate of the late Mr Frank Buick. Iv reminding our readers of the clearing sale to be held by the Loan aud Mercantile, on account of Mr B. Yates, Upper Plain, ou Thursday, we are requested to refute the sfcatemeent that the pony, gig and harness included iv the list has been disposed of privately. Such rumour has no •foundation whatever, and the lot in question will be offered aud sold. A number of thermos bofcUes have recently been opened up by Mr J. V. Gordon, chemist. The thermos bottle is a wonderfully clever invention, in which hot and cold liquids can be kept without change of temperature for a considerable time. Boiling water poured into the bottle will remain at boiling poiut for twenty-four hours, and at the end of a week would be still quite hot. The thermos bottle is a boon to motorists and travellers, and is also very handy for keeping jß|fants' food in at night. The best and cheapest furniture obtainable in the Wairarapa is procured from the Furnishing Dept, W.F C.A * Wonderful Value—Beautiful Weaves. — These four words tell the whole story of the remarkable success achieved by our Dress Goods Department during the past season. The prestige and the leadership that is our store's right has been honestly merited and we have seen to it and will stand in no danger of forfeiture during the coming season. We are now sh wing our complete stocks of Dress Goods, Muslins, Prints, etc., and invite all to inspect them at Hooper's, 127, Queenstreet, Masterton.* Wood's Corn Solvent, a very valuable remedy for removal of corns, warts, and bunions. Price Is. H. T. Wood, Pharmacist and Chemist (by exam.), Masterton.*