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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 133, 12 April 1879, Page 2

Good Friday was celebrated at Masterton, yesterday by Rabbit shooting. Jensen & Hadley, painters of this town, have filed their schedule. Mv C. Rogers, of the Club Hotel, Cashpoint, notifies that lie can offer visitors to the Races first-class accommodation. Messrs Blakcr & Co., hold a sale of furnituic, merchandize, &c., in the Town Hall, Masterton, this afternoon. The Eev A. Halbwaclis, S.M. has a service to-morrow morning in the Town Hall, Masterton.

The appointment is gazetted of Mv E. Toomath as a School Commissioner for the Wellington District, in lieu of Mr J. C, Crawford, resigned.

Mr C. D. Izard has resigned the office of Crown Prosecutor for the Wellington Judicial District. The vacant appointment has been conferred oil Mv Izard's partner, Mr F. H. Bell. One hundred and fifty passengers booked passages at Featherston on Good Friday to come up country. For once in a way Hastwell, Macara & Co. were unable to bring all through. Five extra coaches were required, but that number could not

be spared. " A schoolmaster," writing to a Northem contemporary last week, concludes thus: " I would give the following advice to applicants for employment under the various Education Boards of the colony; Be an Episcopalian in Nelson, a Presbyterian inOtago, aWesleyim in Canterbury, sit on the rail in Wellington, and it will matter not if you be an ass in all."

Hero is a curious and yet terrrible contrast—Telegram by suezmail:—"At Sheffield the distress is said to he without parallel in the previous lustory of the town." Another item—" The young Earl of Norfolk will shortly attain his majority ; he will derive an income of £400,000 per annum from his Sheffield property alone." Can people wonder at Socialism and communistic ideas spreading ! Mrs Rhoda Parsons, aged 45, wife of a tradesman in the City of London, lias met with her death in a very singular manner. She had retired to her bed in very good health and spirits, and in the morning at seven o'clock the husband was horrified to find her dead.. The medical evidence given at an inquest, subsequently held on the body, showed that death resulted from suffocation from the nose getting flattened on the pillow. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

The Sun lias the following The lion. \V. Fox was lately delivering an address on the Temperance questions, at Milton, in Otago, when he observed that any one could join tlio New Zealand Temperance Alliance by paying a subscription of ss. A publican from the body of the hall interrupted the lecturer to ask whether they would be willing to receive subscriptions from hotelkecpers, Mr Fox replied: " Yes, we would be quite willill?; although," lie added, "it would

come from a dirty source," Who wai had there 'I

A small piece of paper, says the Post measuring about 1| inches by 1 inch was brought to this office yesterday for our inspection. The value of this littlo bit opaper was twenty thousand four lumdre< and soventy-onc pounds (£20,471)! I

was the Government stamp represents g the probate duty on a portion of the property dealt with by the will of the lat e Hon. W. H. Rhodes, and was printer specially for the occasion. It is antici. pated that another stamp of similar mag. nitude will be required when the disposal of the whole of the late Mr Rhodes' property shall be finally settled ! These are cheering windfalls for the Government.

It is with'very great regret, says the Post, that we learn that the Hon. Mr Stout has been attacked with severeillness of an internal nature. It was hoped this morning thiithis complaint would not prove serious, but towards evening his symptoms became so unfavorable that it was considered highly advisable to remove him to his home in Dunedin with all possible speed. Orders, therefore, were given to countermand the sailing of the Hinemoa for the North, and to have her in readiness to proceed to Lyttelton at once. The Hon. the Premier, witli the Hons. Col. Whitmore, and Messrs. Shcehan and Fisher, went on board the steamer at noon to give the necessary directions and make all arrangements. The Hinemoa sailed this afternoon and ia expected to arrive early to-morrow morning at Lytteltbn, when a train will be in readiness to convey Mr Stout to Dunedin, which pike he is expected to reach in good time thjp same - afternoon. Wo hope that ere lo!ng we eliall.havo the pleasure of recoijdinjg his complete recovery.

The Waimrapa Daily will not bo published on Easter Monday.

Wo learn by telegram from Tenui that the entries for the Races include 9 horses for the Maiden,:3 for the Stakes, 5 for the District Race, 4 for the Hurdles, and 10 foi the Ladies' Purse.

The oldest settler in the colony. Mi Cockburn of Rangitikei (father of Mi Cockburn of Masterton) died yesterday a' 10G years of age retaining to the last liii intellectaul powers unimpaired. The lati Mr Cockburn was born when George

111, was a young man on the throne ant: aiid was married about the beginning oi the presont century. We believe hii exact age is tolerably well son nearly 80 years of age in the Rnugitikei district being a principal witness.