LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 July 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The following is the Masterton County list of subscriptions to the Massey Memorial' fund:—Messrs W: Dalziell and C. E. Cockburn-HoodHhapland each £lO, W. I. Armstrong, O. 11. Beetham £5 fis,. J. L. Summers, H. H. Summers, J. Waaka, W. H. Gordon, R. Wilson, W. P. O’BTien, H. J. Wardell, C. J. Bennett £1 each, J. Coulson ss; total £3B 15s.

For the first time on record an earthquake has repaired a building instead ci wrecking it. The Victoria Museum in Ottawa had “settled” unequally, and serious cracks appeared in the walls. A recent earthquake solidified the foundations, shook the building together, closed the cracks, and now the building is as sound as ever. A similar earthquake at St. Paul’s w'ouli have saved at least a quarter of a million, much anxiety, and many men’s time, but economical earthquakes are rare. Not even Pisa can organise su:h a miracle. ,

A “Dally Times” representative was vesterday shown over the establishment of Mr A. E. Winzenberg, photographer. The process of photography from the taking of the photo to the turning out of the finished article was clearly explained by Mt Winzenberg. The plant used is the most, up-to-date in the Wellington Province, and there are but few in Australasia to equal, it. Much of the mechanism used in the production of photos has been improved upon by Mr Winzenberg himself. . Every possible convenience, labour-saving devices, andi high-grade machines have been introduced by Mr Winzenberg in order to ensure first-class work and speedy production. A visit to the studio is a half-hour most instructively spent.

The New Zealand Racing Conference wrote to the meeting of the Masterton Racing Club last night, asking the club to use every effort to urge the member for the district to do his utmost during the present session to effect) a reduction in taxation. The Minister of Internal Affairs had signified his intention to bring down legislation providing that the totalisator tax for smaller clubs be reduced to 11 per cent, in lieu of 21 per cent on the first £20,000, the money thus accruing to be spent on improvements. To be of benefit to all clubs, this reduction .should be on the first £20,000 invested on each day’s racing. Other measures suggested were: (1) Provision for telegraphing money for investment on the totalisator to secretaries of clubs; thus the investor would escape the limited prices and barred horses of the bookmakers; (2) the removal of the absurdity of prohibiting the publication of dividends, which, assisted the breaker of the law; (3) provision for the double totalisator; (4) the reinstatement of the old freights on the carriage of racehorses, and (5) provision of a 1 per cent sinking fund for clubs out of the dividend tax to meet the cost of totalisator machines. —Agreed to.

By the Pakeha oon August Bth a large and valuable shipment of stud sheep and cattle is being forwarded from the Bluff to South America. Some of the sheep were purchased at the Wairarapa Stud Sheep Breeders’ annual sale, and the balance were selected last week. The shipment is said to be the most valuable that has ever left the Dominion. The Wairarapa sheep, which comprise the bigger portion of the shipment, include a number of prize-win-ners at the . Royal, Wanganui, Feilding and Dannevirke shows. All of the Lincolns were selected from Wairarapa flocks, in place of South Island and West Coast flocks, formerly drawn upon foT this breed. The sheep were selected from the following flocks: —Romneys.—S one-shear rams, bred by Mr Q. Donald (Featherston; 6 do., Mr J. E. Hewitt (Mangamaire); 20 one-shear ewes, in lamb to Royal Show. champion ram, bred by Mr J. E. Hewitt. ' Lincolns. —4 one-shear rams, bred by Messrs William Perry and son (Penrose): 2 do., Mr William Rayiier (“The Cliffs”); 1 do., Mr W. Howard Booth (Carterton);, 12 do., Mr Drummond McMaster (Featherston); 6 do.,..Messrs Percy Bros. ,(‘ ‘ Thorndon Park. ’’) _ It is hoped to have the stock on exhibition at Buenos during the Argentine Rural Society’s Show, opening on August 14th.

KAY’S ‘ 'LINSEED COMPOUND ' for Coughs and Cold?. Qf proven efficacy for chest complaints.*

On the appointment of churchwardens for St. .John’s Church at Chelmsford, the vicar, Rev. F. R. Burnett, informed the vestry that there is a law still on the Statute Book, and therefore, still in force, which states that as soon of the church bell stops ringing for service it is the duty of the churchwardens to go round the publiehouses and turn out the people they find there! The principal duties of the wardens, the vicar added, were outside the church.

The Rev. S. Roberts, vicar of Christ Church, Barnet, suggested at the annual meeting that , some people resented the way some sidesmen performed their duties. “Perhaps they don’t actually put their arms round the ladies’ waists when showing them into their scats,” he said, “but they need to be very careful, as that sort of thing is not’liked. ” The vicar also complained that scat holders did not look very nice at people whom they found occupying their seats. He suggested that all seats be free at Sunday evening services.

A hermit of the Tipperary mountains, Michael Connolly, known locally as “Johnny of the Hills,” was the subject of an inquest, at which it was stated that he lived alone in the open for twenty-five years, often slept out covered with snow—and wakened up a fresh man, was found dead in a small structure covered with heather, into which a police officer had to creep on hands and knees. “If ever there was steel in a human frame, this was an instance,” commented the coroner. Death from natural causes was the verdict.

Six Harrow schoolboys have been expelled, and a seventh has voluntarily withdrawn. This is the sequel the police raid in March on the 43 Club, one of London’s night clubs. _ Three Harrow boys, who figured prominently, on the school rolls, were found tue:e. The Head is satisfied that only fmr others, in addition to those found in t..e 43 Club, had attended clubs from time to time. Unfortunately, three of the youths were seniors, and responsible boys in their respective houses, and the Head, therefore, deemed it necessary to take the drastic course of “sending *hcm down.” One of tlie.se boys was regarded as among the cleverest in the school, besides being an exceptionally good athlete.

Having pitted his will-power against cancer for two years, so well -that at times friends hoped that he 1 was conquering the disease, Mr James L. Norton, well known in motor cycle circles since the pioneer days, has died at his. residence at Birmingham. When specialists predicted ithat. he could'not live beyond November, 1923, Mr Norton brought his will power to bear against the disease, saying that if it was humanly possible he would beat it. . .He was out walking and attended, to technical drawings early in January. Then, when the disease began to gain the upper hand, friends and sympathisers brought their w'ill-power to bear with his every evening in a co-operative endeavour to keep him alive. Revolutionary disturbances in Bulgaria may have their effects on my lady’s perfumes, says the Daily Chronicle, for the Balkan State is th« chief source of supply of the most precious of scents, attar of roses. No one who has not visited the region around Kasanik can imagine the sights and scents of 80 square miles or so devoted entirely to .rose growing. The industry was a legacy from the Turks, who found the soil peculiarly favourable to the cultivation, of roses Tor attar, the demand for "which was great among * the harem ladies of Constantinople. The more enterprising Bulgars have extended and improved the rose farms and made the world their market.

At a meeting' of the St. Edward’s Parochial Church Council at Romford, a. member of the congregation asked why certain cushions had been removed from the seats. The churchwarden replied that some had been removocs. because they had been allowed to get into such a dilapidated condition. The vicar, Rev. H. C. Robins, saw no reason why some people should have cushions while others went without them. Mr Huxham said that if people provided cushions they should provide them for the full length of the seat in the interests of the unfortunate individual who came at the junction of the cushion and the hard seat. ' (Laughter.) The vicar: It would certainly show a more sociable spirit to provide a full-length one, but I hope as they wear out they will not be renewed. There will be no plush seats in Heaven. Some of them might not be able to get one. at all. (Laughter.)

The announcement that Lord Cromwell was to sell Sprotborough, the ancestral home of the Copleys, called to mind a delicious anecdote of the late 18th century (said the Daily Chronicle). In 1793 the Marquis of Abercorn, the same who required his housemaids to wear white gloves when making his bed, married his cousin, Lady Cecil Hamilton. Six years later she ran away with Captain Joseph Copley, afterwards third Baronet of Sprotborough. All arrangements had been made to. carry out the elopement in the traditional post the. Marquis, getting wind of it, sent his erring wife a message to the effect that such a proceeding would not be consonant with the- dignity of “a Marchioness of Abercorn, and that lie had therefore arranged for a family coach to be put her disposal. And in that she drove to her mother’s house and then to her lover’s lodgings!

Many animals see more than we do in the night, although in hunting for their prey they are guided .largely by their keen sense of smell. Their keenness of sight in the darkness is still a mystery, but new experiments have partly explained it. The night owl has no sense of smell, and his hunt for mice and birds is guided by his eyes alone. Photographs have been taken through the eyes of an owl, a lioness, a bear and a tiger, and from the spectrum photographs a professor has discovered that the great eagle owl and the tiger have eyes which pass through much more of what we call ultra-violet light than does the human eye. The eves of all the animals tested, except those of the ox, allow more of this light to pass than the human eye does, so that here is the difference which may account for the cat seeing, as we say, in the dark.. Other experiments seem to show that it is the very, deep red rays which enable animals to see at night. The rays are known to exist in the dimmest light at evening time. What probably happens is that the retina of the eye of night prowlers is affected by rays of all colours far more strongly than the human eve, and that its sensitiveness is so great that the feeblest rays of even a. dark night are sufficient to enable it to hunt its prey.

Be on guard against influenza. Take “NAZOL” the ready for use and money-saving remedy, 60 doses 1/6.

Dependable worm remedy—WADE’B WORM FIGS. Children like. them.

A Sydney cable states that the first prize in the “Help the Consumptives” art union was won by Mrs J. R. Sanders, of the South Island, New Zealand.

No mail cars arrived in Alasterton from Castlepoint to-day, slips on the road and the river being up making it impossible for the cars to get through. During the month of June, 1925, the estates of the following deceased persons were accepted for administration by the Public Trustee: —Martha Jane Bettclani, Margaret Brannigan, Jasper Charles Ingram, Leonard David Penn Atatheson.

“It is- not like the old days,” remarked a resident of Palmerston North dolefully to a Manawatu Times reporter as the two sat waiting patiently for their turn in a barber’s <-aloon yesterday. Two of the chairs were occupied by young women who were having their shingled locks treated, and who were marking, by their preferment, the succession of a new order of-things.

The average amount of rates per head, of the'population was in 1913-14 £1 18s: lid, and in 1924-25 £3 13s lid, Stated the Minister of Health, in reply to a question in the House of Commons. In a number of areas last year the rates exceeded 20s in the £, including: Poplar, East Ham, West Ham, Merthyr Tydfil, Sudbury, Thornaby-on-Tees, Neath, Leyton, Walthamstow, Aberdare, Belli goer, Glyncorwg, Maesteg, Mountain Ash, Ogmore and Pontypridd. A woman passenger joined the Auckland express yesterday at Te Kuiti, being booked for Marion, but on the journey between T© Kuiti and laumarunui gave birth to a child, a daughter. Every possible care and attention was given the mother and child on the train, and at Taumarunui they were handed oyer to medical care and attention. Both are reported to be doing well. Naturally the event created considerable interest among the passengers. Jt was understood that this was the tenth child in the family. Advice received from the Marine Department last evening recalls the mysterious lights which were witnessed off the West Coast at Titalii Bay during the storm on the night of Monday, June 15th, in consequence of which the Government steamer Tutanekai went out at 11 p.m. to search the coast. The Marine Department were advised late yesterday afternoon that a portion of a hatch covering, marked F.V. 111., also a small boat broken in half, were found on Papanui Beach, between Titahi Bay and Alakara Beach. It was too dark to go out and investigate or to descend from the rocky.heights, but Captain Kane, of the Department, left to-day for the spot. The discovery was made by a Johnsonville resident.

The new type of omnibus built in the Transvaal for travel by either rail or ordinary road is described asrunning over the road-rail with the front axle supported by. a rail bogie, the- bogie being on the rail and the driving wheels on wheel ways. The 36-horse-power water-cooled engine can run on the South African motor spirit known as Natal-ite, or on producer-gas. The Parker gas producer is used, with charcoal as the fuel, a charge of 401bs sufficing for the round trip on the experimental line of 40 miles. The rear wheels- have twin giant pneumatic tyres, the front tyres being solid. The speed may vary from 18 to 20 miles an hour, ‘and loads may be pulled up trades of 1 in 20. This novel vehicle gers, mail or freight, or can make specan leave the track to deliver passencial trips beyond the railway to any desired point.—Science Siftings'. ' Hay for sale. " Bottles wanted. Housemaid t seeks situation. Dance in Foresters’ Hall to-night. Druids’ Dance in Exchange Hall tonight. Advertiser wishes to rent small house.

Young lady wants board in private family. Foresters’ Lodge Christmas tree dance on Monday night.

Messrs Hugo and Shearer, Ltd., ad vertise special bargains for Monday.

Messrs. Hubbard Bros, insert change of advertisement elsewhere in this issue.

A notice of interest to ladies is published oir page one by Nicol and Co., Ltd., costumiers. Tenders invited for installation _ of septie tank and alterations to latrines at Pongaroa school. 'Specifications at “Daily Times.” A reminder is given of the concert to be held in St. Matthew’s Parish Hall this evening, commencing at 7 o’clock. Special items will be given by Miss Zelma Carroll, also the well known Mr Harry Hall and Company. All dancing enthusiasts are invited to attend the dance being held by the fiadies ’ Guild in the Church of Epiphany schoolroom, Short street, on Thursday evening. Good music, floor and supper is being provided. Dancing commences at 8 o’clock, and the admission charge is 2s 6d each. At 'the Methodist Church on Sunday the Rev. Wm. Beckett will preach in the morning on being “Rich Toward God,” and in the evening on “The Soul’is Awakening.” The choir will sing, and after church there will be a social half-hour to which strangers and newcomers are cordially invited. “Get off the Mark,” and lose no time in the race for the astounding bargains offering at Murray’s Great “Talk of the Town” Sale. All stocks are ruthlessly slaughtered in price, and the values are certainly rare—they’re startling the Masterton shoppers. * To celebrate the opening of his drapery and mercery business in the Central Arcade Buildings, Queen street (down the Arcade), Mr. 11. F. Dibley (iate manager of the Masterton branch of the Manchester Clearing House) will commence a great ■ opening sale at 9 o’clock on Monday morning.- Big discounts will be offered on all drapery, Manchester goods and mercery. The public are cordially invited to visit the new shop and see the great bargains that will be offered during the great opening sale.

In to-day’s paper, the Railway Department advertise holiday excursion fares and train arrangements, to Wellington and Trentham in connection with the Wellington races, to be held at Trentham in good time for the first The Wairarapa morning train arrives at Trentham in god time for the. first race each day, and a return special passenger “train leaves Trentham at 4.35 p.m. each evening, as soon as the races are finished, for Masterton. There are not many of our readers who -will turn lightly from genuine bargains and the W.F.C.A. Winter Sale is one of those events which justifies the'word “sale.” A special command has gone out to every department that stocKs must be redueed Oefore the end of the company’s financial year, July 31st, so that now is the time to buy! advertisement 'elsewhere in this issue.' '' " '

A grand picture and musical tainment will be held in the-'-- -Opera; House on Monday, July 13th, for thebenefit of the widow and '.seven young children of the late A. T; Dickason. Particulars will be advertised latcr.-

The family of the late Mr A. J. Bird, of Wanganui, have applied kjteher Minister for permission to carry art union which was in progress at tlietime of his death, the proceeds to be devoted to the cancer fighting fund* which it is hoped will be considerably augmented thereby.

Captain Conor O’Brien, the daring Irish yachtsman and adventurer, wh® visited New Zealand last year in his 12-ton cruising yacht, Saoirsq, has arrived safe and sound at his home ins. Dublin. The. above information was contained in a cablegram received in. Auckland from London this- week. Thus: a perilous and remarkable cruise oIT nearly 40,000 miles has been brought toe a close, the time occupied having been, slightly more than two years.