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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3904, 30 May 1899, Page 2

In another column will be found particulars of the Alphabetical Puzzlo, which is now creating a sensation in America. A prize of £1 is offered for the correct answer. Sporting pars, stock quotations, and a rrportof the inquest at Onga Ooga will be found on the fourth page. A reheareal of ‘Ourßiys” will be heM at 8 o’clock tc-night. Mr Webster takes over the Pataogata Hotel and store from Mr Rose on Thursday. Tho Hatuma Compensation Court will sit in Wellington on Friday, the 2nd June Thursday next being a holy day of obligation, there will be Maes at St Patrick’s, at 9 a.m. Mr D. Miller, inspector of poet offices, was in Waipawa on Saturday. He is visiting the outlying offices in the district. Thomas Sco*t, widower, wharf laborer, was run over by a truck and killed while loading the Taupo, at Oamarn, yesterday. Tub matron of tho Waipawa District Hospital desires to thank Mrs Mackeraey, Mrs loitley, and Mrs Grenside for parcels of ol 1 linen. Mr J. H. Lowe, Chief Engineer of Working Railways, will shortly resign for the purpose of engaging in mission work in India. The Dunedin City Council is offering a reward of £2O for the detection of persons who deliberately give false alarms on the fire indicators. The Agricultural Department believe that the damage done by the * ear cockle’ among the wheat in the South Island has been greatly exaggerated.

Mr William Baker, one of the Burvivcrs of the Battle of Navarino, and who is now in his 94th year, has been granted an old age pensiou at New Plymouth. During the hearirg of a o.so at Auckland, it was stated that the defendant, a woman bad been married 40 years, and of this period 17 yoarp, 5 months and 3 days had baeo spent in gaol. Speaking at Waibi, last night, Mr Cadman definitely announced that be intend ed to retire from political life at the end of bis term, but would remain with Mr Seddou till next elcotioo.

The hop-growers in Takaka, one of the principal hop-growing districts of Nolbod, have formed an association to ensure a fair prioo for the article, aDd guard against the catting of prices.

The matron of the Waipawa District Hospital reports for the weak ending May 27th Patients in Hospital, M 26, F 12; admitted during week M 8, F 1 ; discharged M 3, F 4 ; died M 2, F 0. The Masterton fish hatcheries cost the Acclimatisation Society from£soo to £6OO a'year to maintain. It is praotically the only well equipped hatchery for a large portion of the colony.

There are at present some very undesirable characters in Wellington, including one or two notorious professional burglars who have just arrived there after eerving one of many sentences of imprisonment. A good way to check the growth of weeds on footpaths and elsowhere, us tried by a local r sidont, is to clean the path, then give it a coating of tar, oo top of which sprinkle a thin layer of sand. At the Taranaki Bacon Factory pigs are now coming in very freely and of much improved quality. On Wednesday there were 117 pigs killed, which is believed to be a rooord day’s killing for the North Island.

Lumpers at times are not an ill-paid body. According to Mr J. Mills, at the Conciliation Board in Dunedin, some of his men recently drew £8 15j each for a week’s work. The Board, of course, was not informed how many hours' labour that wage represented.

Mr W. Thomson, of the Railway Department, Waipuknrau, was the recipient last night of a silver mounted walking stiok from the members of the Waipukurau Football Club, of which he was a prominent member. Mr Thomson has proved himself a general favorite with all and mnob regret is expressed at bis departure. We believe he is to be stationed at Wellington.

Ribbi-s nnpoar to ba pioo'iful about Waipawa jast uov/. Ono enterprising individual has shot a number, end <va« hawking them from doer to d >or to-day. A nine year old boy who was before the Dunediu Police Court last week, and was committed to au industrial sohool. was stated to have been in the habit of sleepiog out at nights, in closets, under the lee of helgoa, and so forth, during the past six years

A oarter at Coromandel was proseonted last week for having worked his team of horses in carting chaff on a Sanday. The Benoh dismissed tbs oaie on the gronod that the work bad to be done to prevent the chaff from spoiling. A big orop of onions, for the manuring of whioh river weed was need, has been grown at Dallington. It has been sag gested that the fertilising properties of these weeds sbonld be thoroughly tested and reputed upon by the Department of Agrioultnre. Work at the new Parliament building is being pushol on rapidly in view of the opening of Parliament towards the end of next month. Tuough appearances don’t point to it, the contractors are confident they will have the building ready ia time for the legislators.

There were 2666 artisans and labourers employed on Government co-operative works during April. Of these 1434 were working under the Survey Department, 24 iu the nurseries, 1184 under the Pablic Works Department, and 24 at the Larin State Farm.

Since Febraary last, 400 cattle in Hawke’s Bay suspected of being diseased have been destroyed by order of the Stook Inspector or bis representative. Of these, nearly the whole were found to be suffering from tuberculosis or other forms of disease.

While in New Plymouth the Premier waa asked to grant a charter to a workingmen’s club. Mr Seddon told the deputation that until tho law was amended to provide for tho snpervision of clubs in the same mauner as hotels, no farther charters would be granted. The Egmont Post gives currency to a rumour that there is likely to be an attempt to form an association of the oo operativo butter and cheese factories in Taranaki alone, with a local secretary, the feeling boiog that the present system is rather unwieldy. In conscquenoe of tbe many oases of sheep stealing that have occarred from the coast and islands of the Hanraki Galf, several of the owners have proposed to form an association and to adveitiso & reward of at least £IOO for information that will lead to conviction.

Northern sportsmen complain of the soaroity of pheasants this y?ar. This is attributed to the ravages of those inveterate poacher stoats and weasels. These vermin are fast overrunning tbe country, and owing to the immense amount of cover, it is next to impossible to cope with the peat.

A native named Waitakare was brought in from Parihaka to New Plymouth a few days ago by two constable*, fur nonpayment of the dog tax. The defendant was fined in 1892, but had managed to elude tbe vigilance of the police. The alternative for non-payment of the fine is seven days’ imprisonment. Windsor Park, near Oamaru, which was latoly cat up for settlement, is being disposed of so rapidly that the looal Times declares that, at the present rate of disintegration, the estate will soon resolve itself into a numbor of farms instead of being held in one large block. The Temuka Herald says that the neighbourhood of the lakes and lagoons of the Mackenzie Country, famed for years past as favourite resorts of native wild fowl, has, as usual, this year been visited by nHmerons ardent sportsmen. The majority of those in quest of sport, however, have returned home with very meagrelyfilled bags compared with those of former years

A meeting of the citizen’s ball oommittee was held last evening, Captain Jail in the chair. It was decided to accept the services of Mr King’s string band Tbe secretary was instructed to send complimentary tickets to the Hawke’s Bay brigades. The minor arrangements in eonueotion with the ball were olio dealt with and a very euccessful ball should evoutuato on the evening of the 22ud of June,

An exemplary seotenoe in a desertion case was passed by Mr Robinson, tbe Nelson Magistrate on Tuesday, Thomas Thomas being committed to the Wellington gaol for six months for the persistent disregard of an ordur as to the maintenance of his family made five years ago. Messrs Stringer and Oreeswoll have served a writ for £SOO damages on the Sydenham Borough Council on behalf of Mrs Harper, as compensation for the death of her son, William Edward Harper, who met his death by colliding with a night soil cart which had been left standing witbont a light in a street in Sydenham. Miss Georgie Smithson, whose name is well known to theatre goers in New Zealand, died very suddenly at Maitland, Now South Wales, the other day. As she was about to appear at a performance tho fell down in a fit, and although medical assistance was immediately procured she died within a very little time. Since the purchase of the Progress Mine, Reefton, by the present company, over two years ago, £BO,OOO has been expended in developing the property. Close on £3OOO per month has been die burned in wageß A few days ago we beard of tho shareholders recoiviDg a shilling dividend.

It is not often (says the Lyttelton Times ) that a line of Hereford oattle are seen at the Addington market, bat on Wednesday twenty steers and heifers brought iu by Mr W. Sparks were all disposed of privately at prices ranging from £6 15* to £7 per bead. He also sold twenty Hereford vealers, which brought from 32e 6d to 35s each. A healthy sign in tbe labour market at Lytteltou is to be found in fact that the Lyttelton Borough Council has experi enoed considerable difficulty in getting stone breakers. Tue work of metelling the roads is, in consequence, much behind, and the Council now contemplates aoquiriDg a stone-crushing plant of its own.

Ono evening last week the unusual sight of a cyclist on fire was witnessed ia High street, Christchurch He had put his pips into bis pocket, and the red hot ashes had ignited the cloth. He was so disturbed on having his attention drawn to the fire that he fell off his bicycle, damaging it considerably in the process. The Premier claims that he haß benefited tbe farming community by entering into a contract with the Tyser line, which is to have preference in the matter of Government freights, and which line has reduced the freights on produce. This assertion, like many others made by Mr Sedddn, will not bear investigation. The rates of the Tyser line are 32s 6d for wheat, and 30* for oatp. The New Zealand Slipping Company, Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co., and Turnbull, Martin and Co., » month before tbe alleged redaction was effected by Government by its compact with the Tyser line, were advertising their rateß for wheat as 30s per ton by steamer, and 27s 6d by sailing vessel. Liberals may be able to see bow Government has benefited tbe farmers by this transaction, but it will be difficult for the farmers themselves to realise.

It was stated at an Otago munieipal meeting that oarbide of calcium would very soon be made in the colony—vis. f Westport, where there are mountains of lime, and any amount of suitable coal. Oarbide oonld then be eeld at Id a lb, tbs same as in Canada, instead of at €4 as at present. This would rednoe the ooet of ftoetyleas gas enormonily.

This is an ags of record breaking, and the latest achievement in that direction was at the Addington ealeyards when a line of 61 freezing lambs made the «nUiaally high figure of 20s per head, a prioe that has not before been paid in tbe colony for lambs in any number for export purposes. They were bred and fattened by Mr P. Clinton, of Darefield, and were by Shropshire rams oat of halfbred (English Leicester ewes.) They were purely grass fed. and were an exceptionally well finished and even lot.—Press. In his reoent soeech on tbe standard pass system the Hon Mr MacGregor is reported to have quoted to the following effect from Mr GammeTs report on the Victoria College Sobolarsbip examinations “ One thing at least is certain. No one cau peruse such examination papers as those that have been laid before me on the present oooasion witbont tbe oonviction being foroed upon him that the system of primary instruction at oarried out in these districts of tho colony is thoroughly inefficient.” On reference to tho Scholarship report we find that “ efficient ” and not “ inefficient ’’ waa tbe word used by Mr Gammell. Some days ago a cablegrim was published to the effect that the Pope had pro. olaimed 1900 as a universal jubilee yur amongst Catholics, to be marked by a special remission of sins. The Re?, Father Goggan, Roman Catholic priest at Blenheim, tikes exception to that portion of the cablegram referring to tba remission of sins, and iu a letter to the local paper oombats tbe notion that m indulgence can be given entitliog the recipient to commit sin or to remit tin dabbing tbe cablegram a slander. He says “ A plenary indulgence does not mean a remission of siu. Au indulgence cannot remit Bin nor give permission to commit sin. It can neither be boaght nor sold. It oaunot even be gained by a person in sin. In a word it is but tho sion—after siu itself is forgiven—of the temporal punishment still due to the jaitioe of God” Tho Rev Father Ainsworth tn tbe course of a sermon at Nelson, said that what was meant by the oahlsgran was that the Pope would grant special indulgences in 1900, whioh on due cootri tiou, good works, and intercession, might mitigate penances.

Upon hearing it stated iu the Welling, ton Court that the profit from the totalisator was at the rate of 10 per cent, Mr j Haseldeu, S.M., said from tbe Benoh that, in his opioion, the most effioacious way of stopping “ tote ” betting was to limit the profits of the totalisator to 5 per oent He was satisfied that this would atop “ tote ” betting. His Worship said this suggestion, if carried into effect, would mean that, by lowering the percentage of profit, the dividends paid oat would bs larger, aad likewise tbe “ tote” bettors would have to pay more, and they would not keep that up long. Mr Wilford: In my opinion the only way to kill tbs betting, is to first of all kill ths totalisator. He went on to say that the sols objeot of the Act was to give the Government a monopoly. His Worship : No; not tbe Government of tho oolony. That is tho secret of tbe feeling against ths Aot. The real effect is to give tbe monopoly to raoe olubs and tbe owners of total* lisator machines. Mr Wilford eaid thst, at all events, tbe revenue derived by the Government throughout tbe oolony from totalisator machines, at the rate of 1} per cent, in twelve montbe, would pay tbs Wellington old age peneioni for a year. After a further diioueeion tbe mdlar dropped, the Magietrate adhering to his originally-expressed opinion.