LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 13605, 1 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There were no' bankruptcies recorded in the Wairarapa last month. Tho financial membership of the Masterton Racing Club now totals 314. A prohibition order was issued against Martin Kerins at the Masterton Police Court this morning. About 500 men are entering the CI Camp this week. They are First Division men, mostly drawn in the later ballots. The CI Camp Band, which is to give concerts in Masterton on Saturday and Sunday, will arrive In Masterton by the 11.30 o'clock Wellington train on Saturday. In tho Magistrate's Court in Christchurch yesterday (states a Press Association telegram), Arthur Richard Cole, charged with failing to account for various sums totalling £70, received on behalf of the Red Cross Fund, pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. THE HOLY LAND. Corporal G. Pagett, of the sth Wellington Mounted Rifles, writes from Palestine to a chum in New Zealand (Mr W. Chambers, of 14 Belfast St.. Wellington), asking that two bottles'of Fluenzol be posted to him. He says hs always finds that Fluenzol keeps him well while on active service. Don't for get your soldier ..*■;•"•

A London cable states that tin. has roached £388 10s "per ton, a further record. Thor is an epidemic of diphtheria in Masterton, and five fresh cases were admitted to the hospital yesterday. The ladies' auxiliary of the V.M.C.A, are arranging a eocial for Friday even, iiig. The proceeds are in aid of the local funds. Tho 43rd Reinforcements, A, B, C, D and F Companies, late 42nd Reinforcements, will commence , their final leave on Wednesday, August 7th. An epigram by Mr J. W. Deem, at the Settlers' Association at Toko last week: "A salted gold-mine is a proposition) but a salted mangle crop is a goldmine! " "Your Worship, I would like to pay this debt, but I am in a very crook position; I suffer from rheumatism and cannot work when, the weather is bad," said a defendant in a debt case in the Masterton. Court this morning. Defendant offered to pay 2s 0d a week off tho debt, but the Court ordered him to pay 5s a week.

Tho Mayor of Wellington, Mr J. P. Luke, M.P., has sent the following communication to the Minister of Mines (the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald):— '' Considerable discontent of public that the price charged for small coal is same as whole coal. In pre-war days small coal if sent to ports was vended at a much lower rate than whole. The public are glad to obtain any coal that the state of war permits, but resent the pro. sent imposition of price for law-value stuff. I shall be glad if you will make a public statement on the matter." As an instance ef the profiteering that is being carried on in New Zealand at the present day, Captain Colbeck (Morrinsville), at the Fanners' Union Conference,- spoko of a cargo of benzine which arrived in Auckland, valued at, say, £10,000. A small syndicate of Auckland business men went to the owners and said: "We" will give you £12,000 for the cargo right out." Tho offer was accepted, and the benzine was passed on to the public at about £20,----000. This was the sort of thing the union should be out to' stop, and it was quite a different thing from controlling prices in the ordinary sense. A Press Association telegram reports that Mr Rawson, S.M., gave reserved judgment in tho case against the Jugoslavs tried at Taumarunui, arising out of their refusal to perform' work required of them. Each defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sen•teiK'c if called'upon within three mouths if he fails to undertake such work required by the direction of the Commissioner or the Court. The Magistrate added that he considered that it was in the interests of the country that they should carry out a national service rather than that they should be sent to gaol. • 1 Says the Cbristchiireli Sun: Men who have recently returned from the Old Land emphatically assert that there are more New Zcalanders at Home than are required for the purpose, and they speak of additional entrenching- bat-, talions and other companies of New Zcalanders mixed up -with the Tommies, ■whose services as individual colonial units are not recognised. We hear nothing of them. All this means a great expense to the Dominion, and when we also hear of the anomalies existing in our methods' of medical inspection—men being classed as fit and sent Home only to be either returned or doing odd jobs in the Old Land that could easily be done by individual soldiers, we are firmly convinced that the Dominion is wasting hundreds of thousands annually in these various misapplied directions.

One oi ! the most important questions that came before the conference of the New Zealand Harbours Association yesterday was that of the employment of waterside labour. For a long time prist the Wellington Harbour Board has desired to control all the labour of the waterside. The present system is that the board takes , cargo from the ships' slings and employs the necessary labour to handle it on tho wharves and in the stores. The board does not employ men to go into ships' holds to handle the cargo. Mr C. E. Daniell made a vigorous appeal to delegates to allow harbour boards to make this experiment. He said the shipping companies of the country had no proper interest in the handling of goods put on their ships. He believed that the "workers on the wharf were honest - and were willing to be led in the right direction. The workers were not thieves, and they would do their best. He did ask delegates to realise that the step proposed was one in the right direction. The proposal was carried by 17 votes to 16. In connection -with the representations made by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to have a steamer placed on the Auckland-Australia, service in place of the Wimmera, the Hon. Arthur M. Myers (Minister in Charge of Munitions and supplies) informed a report- : er yesterday that he had advised the Auckland Chamber of Commerce by ■ telegram that advice had been received that the Shipping Controller, Australia, had refused to permit the HuddartParker Company to replace the Wimmera by a cargo boat, as desired. Conse. quently the New Zealand Government had given the matter up with the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, "and meantime, after consultation with Mr Bond, general traffic manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, who is at present in Wellington, arrangements have been made for the Union Company to run the Tarawera several trips between Sydney and Auckland. In addition, special arrangements have been made for the Atua to call at Auckland in August and September, en route Fiji to Sydney, thus relieving the immediate position, after which the matter will be further reviewed. If you are troubled with that distracting complaint—Toothache— you will derive immediate relief from Barraclough's Magic Nervine. No bad after-effects with WADE'S WORM FIGS. Wonderful Worm Worriei's. Price 1/6. Corcoran (Cutter of Correct Clothes' is not content with cutting clothes thai ii ve comfort. He has installed a new method that enables you to buy clothe* in comfort—here's how: Whilst Lβ Vlasterton, call at our store; have youi measure, fitting, style and detail caro filled. By this method you receive ex •ictly what you require; when you re luire it. This method leaves no loop iole for forgetting or mistakes. (Be nember, a call places you under no ob igation to order at any time). Saving /our measure, etc., enables you to seleci rhe particular pattern you like from » ariety of our thoroughbred material we post on request. TMb jjive» you the opportunity of careful" eelec ion, testing and comparison, at you> eisure, in your own home, and ss ye» vhe cost and trouble of a visit to town in the meantime, inspect the values ir our window (opposite Bank of Ne-n Zealand). They will open your eyei o the values possible under'intelligent usine»j3 methods. Note-the addreee Corcoran, Correct Clothing Store, opp. Bank of New Zealand. * . ,

Mr Combs , lecture will be held in the Municipal Hall to-night. A Whangarci telegram statee that tho IS-months-old son of Daniel Payne, of Parahaki, strayed from his homo on Tuesday morning, and was found in an adjacent creek at 5 p.m. MrD. E. Parton, telegraphic engineer, of Masterton, has offered, with the assistance of tho Technical School students of the electricity and magnetism class, to undertake and supervise the installation of the 801 l indicator system in tho Soldiers' Club. A committee of ladies have undertaken the charge of the Patriotic Shop on Saturday next, August 3rd, the proceeds of which are to be in aid of the Church Army Fund for the Wairarapa Hut. Those in sympathy with this cause are invited to leave donations at the Patriotic Shop on Friday, or Saturday next. There was a good attendance at tho Masterton Salvation Army Hall last night to listen to the reerital of travel given by Commandant Cook. Subsequently tea and Cornish pasties were passed round. Commandant Cook expressed his hearty thanks to Mesdames Ingram and Judd, who came and made such a large number of pasties, also to Mrs Berriman for similar good work.

Tho Harbour Boards' Conference at Wellington to-day passed a resolution deploring the unsympathetic attitude of the Railway Department towards Harbour Boards, which is causing loss of national efficiency owing to the lack of co-ordination, between sea and land transport services. The conference requested the Government to readjust the policy of the Railway Department. The only days on which rain did not fall- in Masterton during the month of July were the 6th, 9th, i2th, I3th and 27th, leaving twenty-six .lays on which rain fell. The total rain tall was 6.28 inches, compared with 5.21 inches for the corresponding month last year, wh<*n rain fell on ineteen days. The rainfall for the past seven months has been 23.41 inches, compared with 24.34 inches for the same period laat year. "We met a number of Yanks who had just come across to England, ,, writes a New Zealand soldier to his relatives. "Wo were walking along the street and a Yank came up and wanted to know where we came from, and,when we said 'New Zealand/, he wanted to know where that was, and then he turned round and said, 'You fellows must have picked up the English lingo pretty quick. . He must have thought wo were niggers or something. '' , How's this (asks the Huirangi correspondent oi! tho Taranaki Herald) for a schoolboy's essay on "A Cow?":—"I have got. one already name called Daisy; every morning when I stand up she is ready for to be milked. She is kind to her family and* us always. When she wsiiits milk for her family she jumps the i'ojice, and we don't get some milk that day.* Next day we milk her to the factory. .She is a red cow and test 4.6 with white spots and long home and, tail and a brindle calf name called Monica, and is for sail for two pound when she don't want enny more milk. Keeping a lot of cows is called derrying, and if we keep too many cows we have to pay inkum tax." The following are the results of tha lifth and sixth cup shoots fired by members of the Masterton Defence Miniature Riflo Club:—A Class. —H. Price 67 and 64; E. 0. Mills, 68, 66; V. E. Donald, 67, 63; J. E. Calwcll, 64, —; ,1. Johnson, OS), 65; V. Pinkney, 68, 62; E. Swanson, 67, 62j A. V. Swanson, 65, 65; E. Bell, 64, 67; U. Wellington, 66, 64; C. Kilgour, 66, 62; W. Winslade, 68, 6S; H. Johnson, 64, 60; J. W. Newell, 60, 61. B Class.—F. Giddhigs, 67 and 65; D. Wilton, 66, 67; L. Ford, 64, 61; J. Wagg, 67, 59; H. Butcher, 58, —; A. BiJlington, 49, 61; F. Wellington, 68, 69; G. Truscott, 57, —; A. P. Smith, 03, 64; E. C. Mills, 64, 64; W. Eichards, 64, —; 11. Winslade, 65, 59; J. Compton, 63, 61; V. Spackman, 65, 59.

The story of "How Canada Has Crushed the Drink Trade ,, will be told in the Municipal Hall on Monday evening by Messrs J. Simpson, Toronto, president of the Trades and Labour Council; George Bell, M.P. for British Columbia in the Canadian Parliament; and W. D. Bay ley, Professor of Economies and History in the University of Winnipeg, i An advertiser wants to buy a secondhand motor ear. An experienced dressmaker advertises for work by the day. Mr E. Jones advertises for four calves, lost from Kuripuni. One or two furnished or unfurnished rooms are advertised to let. An advertiser has two or three unfurnished rooms to let. Furnished rooms are required, or would purchase a furnished house. A reward is offered to the finder of a leather hat, lost between Master ton and Carterton. Mr and Mrs B. Brooks and Mrs K. Brooks, of Mauriceville, elsewhere insert a thanks notice. Mr D. Allen, Macara street, advertises for sale cauliflower, lettuce 3 cab. bage and onion plants. A list of competitions in connection with the Patriotic Bhop for Bideford Day appears on the front page. The Masterton County Council elsewhere insert an advertisement in reference to the fourth anniversary of the declaration of war. Mr Jas. Sillars, of the Creoch Poultry Pens, 59 Cornwall street, Masterton, advertises for sale sittings of White and Brown Leghorns, White Eocks and Black Orpingtons. The birds are from purebred utility stock —good for eggs, good for show. Sittings are five shillings, and any infertiles will be replaced. For the farmer who wants a comfortable, hard-wearing boot, we recommend our Chrome and Crupp Shooters— 355, 40s, 455, and 60s. —Carpenter and Evans (late J Carpenter), Masterton.* No Home should be without a Knitting machine these days, but let it be one of the leading British Models, which are the ideal machines , on the market today. They are not difficult to learn, and the children of 9 or 10 years, and even blind people become quite experts with these Knitters. ~ They are very j simple. One pair of ribbed socks can <be made in 25 minutes. Think of the time you spend when you do the work by hand. These knitters will knit anything and any kind of garment or fancy article which can be knitted by hand. They are inexpensive. Write for particulars.—Oscar Hewett & Co., Limited, 56 Cuba Street, Wellington. * If you in bed lie sick and sad, Becaus-e you're influenza bad Or if a wheezy, chesty cold {Jpon your lungs has taken hold. To keep the cold from getting worse, You'll need but little from your piirse; Kelief with promptness..you'll assure, By taking Woods , Great Peppermint Cure. Insist on getting genuine NAZOL— it's worth while. No cold is NAZOL-, proof—and no cough or cold remedy is so money-saving as genuine NAZOL;