LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14143, 14 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The estate of Mr A. Tver, has been acquired by the Government for soldier settlement purpogssg . , *!T

Messrs C. Playle and S. Nicholls, of Maryborough, have purchased the homestead block of Messrs J. H. August and Son, at. Matarawa.

Tho monthly meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association was held on Saturday afternoon, Mr J. McKillop occupying the chair.

At the meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday, it was decided that the sheep and draught horse judging competitions be held on the lirts day of the Masterton Show.

There was a large attendance at the Opera House on Saturday night, when, the Allan Wilkie pGppipany staged, “The Rotters.” The acting was of a high order, and the audience throughly enjoyed the performance. It was decided by the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday to forward a remit to the Agricultural Conference urging Comity Councils, Agricultural Associations, and kindred societies to renew their efforts in connection with carrying out agricultural experiments. • According to a London cable, Madame Melba is to give a wireless telephone concert- on Tuesday from the Marconi station at Chelmsford. It is expected that her voice will reach. Madrid, Borne, Stockholm, and Warsaw. The songs will include ah air from ‘ 1 La Bohemo” and “Home, Sweet Home.”

A Press Association wire from Auckland reports that in the Supreme Court to-day, George Kelly, guilty of an , indecent assault on a child, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Alfred Hill, for an assault on a male, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by four years’ reformative treatment. Joseph Varela, for an indecent act, committed on a little girl, was' ordered to undergo four years’ reformative treatment. John Alfred Murdoch was sentenced to .12 months’ hard*labour and Charles Niven to four years’ reformative treatment, for breaking and entering and assault with, intent to commit a theft. The Wellington.Orphans’ Club entertained the Governor-General on Saturdav evening. Colonel Esson, Chief Orphan, in welcoming the guest of honour, said their joy was tempered with regret that he would shortly bo leaving to return to England. He placed the chairman’s chain of office on Lord Liverpool's shoulders. In thanking Orphans for placing him in such an elevated position. Lord Liverpool said that notwithstanding lie would ’overnor-General for three and -- half months longer, he was being allowed to take a little holiday before retiring. He hoped he would one day be able to return to New Zealand, and jhev could depend that if that wore the case, he would claim hosoitality at the hands of the Orphans’ Club. Masterton Husbands seem to have taken a fresh lease of life since their because “NO BTJBBING” Laundry Help washes all clothes clean without rubbing or injury.

It. is stated that Mr W. McKenzie, of Masterton, has purchased the Admiral Run.

A Masterton soldier, A. J. Oldliold, drew a section of 693 acres in the Ohuka land ballot at Wairoa last week.

Five resignations of membership were accepted at the meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday afternoon. A (‘use of diphtheria was brought from Eketahuna yesterday to the Masterton hospital. A case reported .. at Lansdownc was also admitted to the institution. *

A Press message from Tc.Kuiti state's that advice has been received from the Minister of Education that a grant of £8845 has been approved for muchneeded additions to the infant departmen tot' the To Kniti School. The Wairarapa Returned Soldiers’ Association has been advised that General Bird wood does not desire any engagements at' night, as he wishes his evenings free to transact business, and has informed the Mayor of Masterton to this effect.

The Australian chaplain, Father O'Donnell, who was acquitted on a charge of sedition in Ireland, has been paid £BSO by the Army Council, being his expenses in connection with his trial by court martial. Father O’Donnell is returning'to Australia next month. The Masterton Courthouse presented an appearance similar to a- drapery showroom tliis morning during the hearing of a case, in which a woman was charged with stealing a quantity of household linen and ladies’ underclothing. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Automobile Association on Thursday it. was resolved to communicate with t lie General Manager of Railways, requesting that the Maurieeville approach to the overhead bridge near Maurieeville station be improved, as at the present lime it was most dangerous. The Association suggested that the approach be widened.

“I think we should make an. effort to secure more young judges at- the Show,” said Mr G. E. Allen at the monthly meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday afternoon. “1 can hardly recall a new name among Ihe judges during the past tourteen years, and I think it is quite time that we made an effort to secure some young judges.” lie pertinently asked what' was going to happen when all the. old judges disappeared. Commencing from June 3, 1920, the postage on letters pqstcd in the United Kingdom, addressed to all places abroad included in the Imperial postage system, was raised to 2d for the first ounce and Id for each additional ounce. Postagerates for His Majesty's ships and troops abroad remain unaltered fro the present, but an early" increase is in contemplation. * The treasurer reported a debit balance of' £2410 0s (id. The receipts for ■the .month totalled £232 3s fid, and the expenditure £4OB 10s 2d.The N.Z. Friesian Association wrote offering a gold medal for the most points in the Friesirtn classes at the next Show, providing there is at least 20 entries, and also a prize of £3 3s for tho best Friesian bullock. It was decided to add a class for a pair of dry draught mares in work.

Having jived, as a Jiermit for many years E,dward Richard Pittis has died at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight,, aged 82. He was born, lived all his life, ami died In the small house, and had neve,r, ridden in a tfain or crossed the mainland. He seldonjj worked, charitable neighbours. giving him food and clothing. Most of hit* days he spent on the seashore’ and rowing about in an old boat. In the evening he played the violin, with -several cats (his sole companions) seated on a table as an audience.

‘ * Romnejts are not the only sheep in the North Island,” said Mr Duncan McGyegor at the meeting of the General Committee 'of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday afternoon, during a discussion relative to using Romney Marsh sheep in the sheep-judging competitions at the Masterton Show-. “Every breeder nearly is going in for Soiithdovvns now in connection, with the fat lamb trgde, and I thinlc we ought to use Southdowns in the sheep-judg-ing competitions at the Show.”

An increased birth-rate in marriages between dews and Lutheran Germans in Hamburg is described by 11. 10. May, in the “.Journal of Heredity.” Taking several hundred marriages of each class contracted in Hamburg in 1900, he found the following results in the birth records of 1901 and 1902: —Both partners Jewish, 9.0 births per 100 marriag(CH'; Troth partners Lutherans, 11.7; husband Jewish, 14.0; wife Jewish 19.0. It is, of course, questionable whether the numbers involved are large enough to have any real significance in relation to fecundity. Professor May thinks they are and that the explanation is economic, rather than biological, the mixed marriages in his opinion representing cases where money was an important factor, and these households therefore being better able to afford children.

A crippled woman, walking with a crutch, who went through a form of marriage with another man twjelve years after her husband became insane and was taken to an asylum, wag charged at West Ham with bigamy.. She is Ada Florence English (41), and William Norton (45), platelayer, whom she' “married ’ ’was charged with aiding and abetting. It was stated that Mrs English was married in 1901, and three years later her husband became insane. Ir. 1916 ( ' she “married” Norton. A detective 'said he visited the house where accused lived, and told them of the ehi*ge. : Mrs English said; “it is true. I did not think I was doiiig any harm. It was 12 years after my husband was’ removed to the asylum i married Norton, and since then have been the happiest days of my life:” Norton said':“I knew her husband was in the asylum and that he would never come. out. again as his was a' hopeless case. That is why we got married. I did not think I was doing wrong. She was a good mother to my seven children, and is a good wife to me.” Both were remanded on bail.

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The Prime Minister was advised by telegraph on Saturday that he had >vou the .second prize in the Auckland Art Society’s Art Union.

Literally speaking, rivers in Okhotsk district have golden bottoms, says a bulletin in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Three men working in a primitive fashion in the winter wash out easily up to live funts ((iftoz t/'oy) of gold .a day. The Okhotsk deposits contain many nuggets. Nu ,r "ots weighing one-half funt are not rare. Last winter one zolotnftk (O.i:!71o7oz troy) of gold cost 20 roubles; at the present it cost 100 roubles. Tu spite of the rich deposits in this district, many concessions are not being exploited. An American firm explored the mine purchased from Stepanov, and is energetically preparing to work it.

A wife who said that after her marriage her husband took her to his mother and made her act as a servant told a pathetic story at Tottenham Police Court. Summoning her husband for neglecting to maintain' .lier, she asked the court to grant, her a separation order with alimony. She told the court, that on their marriage tlirOe years ago they went to live at his parents’ homo. She consented to help his mother in the home, but before long she was regarded as the servant. She added that for eight weeks her hubaml did not speak to her. He gave her a week, 35s of which was for his mother for board and lodging. Often'she was left with' less than Is for herself. Food was given to her in exchange for her service's. The magistrate granted the wife a separation order, and ordered the husband to pay his wife iios a week.

If, s ays the Auckland Star., it is true that the Prime Minister applied to the Union Company for free,: passes for Parliamentarians, he. did something that was as improper as it was astonishing. We Would not have believed it of MV Al'asscv. Could he not see' that it was highly undesirable that the Prime Minister should ask for, and that the people’s representatives should aeeept, a gift? Whatever Air Massey’s responsibilities may be, the fact is that the passes have been granted by the company. We agree entirely with the Canterbury Chamber of Commence, that as a matter of principle .under no circumstances should any member of the Legislature as such be placed under private or personal obligation to the proprietor or proprietors of any private business carried on in Jieiv Zealand. A reminder that money, like everything else, is becoming dearer, was brought to the notice of the Lyttelton Harbour Board last week on a proposal from a special committee that the board should immediately take steps to borrow for harbour improvements in instalments as required the sum of £.150,000 at r>i per cent for -idi years, with a sinking fund of. .1 per cent. When the report was received the chairman (Air H. B. Sorensen) said that 5j per cent was inadequate, the Tramway Board having found it necessary to give ;')•!■ per. cent. It would be wiser to ask the Government for permission to pay 5J per cent, rather than go for. a loan and court h failure. Air F. Horrell said that he would like to know whether the Tramway Board had permission to borrow beyond' of per cent. “Oh, yes,” said:,'the chairman, “and we will get it.” The. clause was passed with the rate of interest at SJ. pe,r cent.

A new and embarrassing form of hotel theft has of late • very .*greatly; in-* creased as itho direct result of the enormous rise In the price of hohl accessory (says the LoritlM? Dally Mail). Tlie thieves arrive with large dressing cases or kit bhgs and engage good rooms, from which they presently, disappear, faking as much as they can' of the bedlmen, towels, and other apThe most perverse sou-', venfr-hunte.r jdocs not take soap or toilet glasses, or complete tea sets, which are among the favoured objects of these raiders. Nor are the clothes of other guests spared, aiul there have even been cases of women’s frocks vanishing in hotels. This is not very pleasant for the honest hotel guest, who, for his own protection, may be compelled to ask for an inventory of the contents when he takes his room and a quittance when he leaves it, There (loos not seem any other obvious remedy. '

A noval method of settling matrimonial troubles has been adopted by the Rev. W. ! B,ruitk, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Liverpool, a village in New York State, and his wife. As a result Mr and Brs Brunk have separated, and a financial provision has been made, and accepted by the wife, all on the recommendation of a selected jury of three neighbours; When the trouble . came Mr Brunk and his wife went to .the village magistrate, not as an official, but as a friend, and asked him to appoint a committee of three to consider a way out of. their difficulties. They, agreed to bind themselves to the committee's decision. The magistrate named a committee which decided that it would be best for Mr Brunk and his wife to separate. It awarded the wife £4OO and the custody of the youngest child. The decision satisfied the* wife, who left for her brother’s home in Florida with her child, while Mr Brunk and the two elder children remain in the parsonage. A meeting of ste'wards of the Tar>-tahi-C’artorton Racing Club was heal, on Saturday. W. H. Corlett, trainer, waited, on the stewards and [Jointed oat the injustice arising through the. training permits being chargeable for the season. Ho [minted out that occasion often arose when he would only have a horse on the track for a few weeks, but still he was called upon to pay the full ‘permit fee of 30s. Tie suggested that the club should issue quarterly permits.' The secretary stated that only in the case of a horse breaking down could it be replaced under the one permit. The stewards recognised the injustice, and, on the motion of Mr T. Eaton, it was decided to issue quarterly permits, 10s for the first three months, 20,s for six months, and 30s for the year, the first quarter to start on August Ist. Mr C. Herd was appointed to represent the club at the annual meeting of the Country Racing Clubs’ Association,, to be held at Wellington on Tuesday, July 13th. A trainer’s certificate was granted to H. R. Jensen, of Park road, Catrcrton, • Why pay dearly for Baking Powder when SHARLAND’S—thc best that can be produced —costs )c«s than othrs Ask vour grocer."

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His last hour had come —or, aUleastjf he thought so. Painfully, the'suppose ed dying man opened • his eyes, and turned to the lawyer standing by his bedside. “I wish again to explain tar you,” he gasped feebly, “about thowilliug of my property.” The man of law laid his hand reassuringly on his client’s shoulder. “There, there!’*; he said, “That will be all right. Yon ‘ leave it to me! ” The sufferer sighed, i “Yes, I suppose that’s the best <thing to do,” he murmured; “you’ll ggFifc anyway.” J

The Mayor of ALasterton (Air W. 11. Jackson) has been requested to convene a meeting of parents and others interested to make arrangements to suitably recognise the long service rendered to the cause of education in Afasterton by Mr Richard Brown, who lias just retired from the chairmanship of the Afasterton District High School Committee. Accordingly invites those interested in movement to meet in the lecture room afc the Municipal Buildings) on Wednesday night, at 7.30 o’clock, to discuss the matter.

in e.-Vibeetion with tenement cases, i£ v as m 1 'Loned that the duty now cast iron the magistrates was to decide upon which side the hardship lay. One Auckland solicitor, as he walked into Court with the owner and tenant side by side, remarked: “1 am sorry f for both of you, because you are suej* decent chaps.” One owner had bought another house rather than turn out an old tenant,' then found he could not get possession of the newly-purchased house. A lady said she had tried to get a two-roomed fisli shop that, was; empty, but was too late. Had she secured it a.family of six were going to (•’•ow'd into it. A working man said he had ; nine children, and found, he would not be let into an g/ipty house if he found one. Air Ptfiyntori, tlie magistrate thereupon dryly remarked: “No! Children I suppose, ace not wanted now.”

It was at a supper party after the theatre. The maiden aunt, who wastin' guest of the evening, Was charmedwith everything, the gaiety of restaurant and especially the mu»lf Presently she asked a hoveling vCTber to find out the title of the piece the orchestra -was, playing. Other dailies claimed him for the moment, and he returned auntie’s attention had' been distracted and she had completely forgotten her request. When tier diligent waiter bent towards her and whispered a furtive message, in her ear she ripe oiled in shoeked amazement; and then;cried aloud, “How dare you, sir- How dare you! ” And it took ; him quite a while to explain to the rest of the party that he had nierelfy said to. her, “You Made Me E»V© You—l Didn’t Want to Do It.* V To-morrow is gas discount day. A* good plain cook is advertised for. A large room is advertised to let_ A lost gold brooch Is advertised for. Choice pot plants are advertised for sale. . . .

Two men are required to work as Septic Tank.

An apprentice for plastering trader is required. '-v •. . A reward is offered for the rt'B uf a boy Vovercoat. " ' I '

A piquo; and detachable pianola are 1 advertised! for sale.; J ' , A daneq will be held in the Alikiiniid Hall-on Friday, June 18th, ... Alessrs (If. If. .Perry, and Co, insert a | change advertisement on pa-go.‘S. I A ladle's lost umbrella is advertised [ for, and window blind is advertised as found. ■ " y ,:-\ . -, Thomas and Co., Albert Street, at®- ■ now selling Phillips’ thick rubber soles at 5s (id a pair.' * • ■ ,•*. ; j'■ Some lovely water colours are now on view at “The Gift House,” opposite Kuox Church. f i.. ' -• Aii advertiser wishes to purchase a . quantity of second-hand timber and . galvanised iron. » , 'Tho Oddfellows’ Lodge meets tonight. The business will include the? nomination of officers. A pram, Singer hand machine,. Swedish primus, and double and single beds are advertised for safe, ) The Featherston County Council not- 1 ify that only light traffic will be able to use the .Valley road’ iii the vicinity iof Patakanui on; June loth aud-dfifitb, ; pending culvert repairs Owing to: the premises of the WJ?’..C.A. Stock Dept., having been sold/to Air E. G. Eton, who intends-to occiipy the building as a pharmacy, Afr A.,Hendry will this week transfer his clothing and mercery business to temporary promises at the Club Hotel Corner. ; The Afasterton Railway Social Clubwill hold a grand masquerade plain* and fancy dress dance in the Munleij>al Hall on Thursday, July , Ist. Themusic will be, supplied’ by McKenzie’s; orchestra. Prizes are to be given for the most original costume. Those attending without masks must obtain oneat the door before entering the hall. Wright, Stepheuson and Co., -Ltd., rm eon junction with the Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Assn., Ltd., have been? favoured with instructions front Afrs A~ A. Pike (who has sold her property). Swamp Road, Carterton, to hold l ~sm important sale of 80 first-class cows, horses, farm implements, ete. ' tieulars advertised.