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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 141, 23 April 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Sale Yards are open foi the usual periodical sale this day.

It is notified that subscribers to the " History of the Sea " will receive their works in the course of a few clays, On Friday next Messrs lorns aud Fergusson sell the balance of stock in the estate of H, Bentley and Co.

F. H. Wood and Co. hold an unreserved sale of furniture and general merchandise at their auction rooms, Greytown, on Saturday next. If A correspondent of the Manawatu Herald says'" The drays hailing from Foxtonask£o per 100 feet for carting down timber. This i 3 thought overmuch." We should imagine it was, The Rev. Mrlnglis, the able and popular lecturer who recently visited New Zealand, has returned to his charge at St, John's' Presbyterian Church, Ballarat, and was received by his congregation in a very enthusiastic manner. The soiree held on his return was a cordial demonstration of welcome.

There is an end to all things—even to Messrs M. Caselberg and Co.'s salvage stock, which came before the public some time ago at Greytown, was then spread out at Masterton, and next travelled down to Featherston, returning up to

Carterton—getting smaller and smaller, like a comet approaching its aphelion. In Carterton it has found a terminus. On Saturday next, at 12 o'clock noon, its aphelion will be an unreserved auction for cash only, at which lunch will be provided, Eftpmatinym,

It is now stated that Mr Forwood, solicitor, ia to be appointed the second Magistrate for Wellington.

This is the 315 th anniversary of the bard's birthday. The bard we may-ex-plain was known'by the namo of Shakespeare, The Banks, however, call the day St, George's Day, in order to got a holiday. Why George, we know not, as there is no historic doubt that the bard was christened William,

Mr W, M. Easthope, Secretary pro tem. to the proposed Masterton Volunteer Company, has received the following letter from Colonel KeaderWellington, 21st Aprii, 1879, Sir,—The sorvicea of tho proposed Company at Masterton will be submitted for tho acceptance of His Excellency the Governor immediately upon his return. Tho Defence Minister's

recommendation has been obtained, and arms will be sent to you as soon as possible after acceptance.—Your obedient servant, H. S. Reader." 'The sooner

lose who havo given in their names com-

mence drilling tho better. Tho acceptance of their services is certain, and we trust they will get to work at once. At tho Resident Magistrate's Court at Featherston on Monday last, before Mr Wardcll, R.M., tho absconder 1 Wordsell was charged with stealing £4O. It appeared from tho evidence that the accused had been engaged at Masterton in Mr Mason's chemist's shop as assistant. Last

week Mr Mason noticed that his cash-box had been emptied, and after subsequent inquiry ascertained that a. £2O -hoto had been left in the prisoner's hands .for -a third party by Mr F, G. Moore. Prisoner made a most extraordinary statement in Court, and produced several religious books, from which he quoted several abstracts. He admitted his guilt, but said he was very sorry. Mr Wardell committed him to take his.trial at tho next sit-

tings of the Supreme Court. The Sydney Morning Herald supplies the Mowing interesting figuresA population of 600,000 people ought not to We a very heavy criminal expenditure, especially where the means of living are cheap mid abundant as they are in New South Wales. But our prisons now entail an annual public burden equal to 2s 2d per hoad of the population; police inspection costs a further annual sum equal to 5s 7d per head, and the administration of justice costs 3s 9d per head. Altogether, police, prisons, and the administration of justice costs the colony £408,194, or a per capita rate of lis 7d per annum for the whole population. Tho education vote for the year is to bo at the rate of 10s per head, and the various charitable institutions of the colony will absorb an additional sum equal to 4s 9d per head, while our military and naval expenditure has risen to a per capita rate of 3s 3d.

Travellers by rail arc not likely to have their peace of mind improved by rumors that persons stricken with typhoid fever, both dead and alive, are finding their way by rail to Oamaru and Dunedin. It is stated that the remains ot a person who died of typhoid fever the other day at Waimato, wero sent thence by railway to Dunedin. The train being crowded, those n charge of the body wished to have it placed in the mail van. Tho Oamaru papers have strong articles, complaining that the remains of thoso who die of an infectious disease should be carried along in a promiscuous way in railways, to the oudangerment of the living. They suggest that a by-law for prohibiting the carriage by rail of tho bodies of those who die of such diseases should bo framed and enforced judiciously in tho interests of the public health.

In Paris last summer (says the English correspondent of an American paper),l saw a friend of mine who had just come over using a pen of peculiar construction, designed with a special reference to those untidy persons, who, like myself, ink their fingers when they mite. Now, my friend is a man whose hands are as white! as lilies, with finger nails .like rosebuds in tint; noticeable hands. Catch him inking his fingers! " Why, wore did you get that nice pen!" I asked him, vista of blissful exemption from an uninked middle finger opening on my joyous expectant mind. "In Omaha," he answered. "It's the nicest thing; I used to ink my fingers before I got it!" Ho did ! He inked his finger! That was enough for me. I got the name of the merchant from whom ho bought the pen, the price of it, and enclosing the money I sent from Paris to Omaha for the pen. By the last steamer it came to me. The stationer at Omaha was out of them, but he sent to Sioux city to the man that advertises them for another lot. And now here is where the laugh comes in. The pens are an English invention, and tons of them can be bought in London if desired. At the stationer's next door I could have got what I had sent after to Sioux city, But how could I know that ? I dealt with the man that advertised.

A visitor who has just returned from the Wairarapa, writes to the New Zealand Times as followsTo a stranger your Fcatherston line is simply a marvel. It is a capital illustration of what difficulties engineering skill can cope with ; wliilo it will always remain a monument to the extravagance and recklessness of people who would pierce the Rimutaka at any cost. The line, one would think,' is and must remain a fancy line, so that it was with a good deal of surprise I observed by the traffic returns you published on Saturday that it is worked at the lowest cost of in the Colony, except the Groymouth railway and mineral line, I am informed. How long it will remain in such a favored position is a question that may well be asked, So far the expense of maintenance and repairs must have been slight, The immense wear and tear on the hillside sections has not yet made itself felt, but before the winter is out very heavy expenditure on the line may be anticipated. Most of the cuttings have as yet stood well enough, but evidently thero has been little or no rain. Another six months, however, will, I believe, tell a different talc. A great many of the cuttings between the Upper Hu!|t and Kaitoke, and for six on seven miles beyond, are in a very soft country, and the battens, well enough for rock or conglomerate, will be found to be quite insufficient. In other places where the line runs over made ground the embankments are far too steep, and if heavy rains should fall, would require a great deal of attention, The section in the Wairarapa side of the hill seems to run through hard rocky country, and no doubt will stand. There is. a great deal of dissatisfaction among the Wairarapa people at the delay in pushing on the sections now under contract. I hear that the contractor has a great deal of difficulty with his navvies. Unfortunately they are not of the saving 'class. Their wages hardly enough earned, find their way iuto the public-houses, and in addition to the time consumed in drinking bouts, there are many days lost while the men are really ill from the effects .of drink. But apart from all this, the building of the large bridge over the Waiohine 'is proceeding very slowly, and proliably Jwill be the cause of serious delay,

Mr George Burslem drove. His brake and four horses' safely over the Black Hill at Tinui on Monday last. We understand that H. Taylor and Co. have purchased the famous railway 'bus from Mr T, Hill, and will shortly, run it between Masterton and Featherston.

A lad named Brighting, when giving a performance on the wire rope at Christchurch, on Saturday, fell and broke his ankle,

A Maori woman has been committed for :ial at the Supreme Court, Auckland, for iealing a keg of whiskey, and a keg cf randy,and sundries, .

The chief Paul has returned to Auckland from tho Waikato. He states that Tawhiao and his allies are in good spirits at the piespect of the approaching meeting. A boy four years old, son of a settler at Herbert, (Oamaru,) named James Coulter, fell off a dray on Monday, and the wheel passed over his head. Death was instantaneous.

Meat in Wellington has been risen by he butchers. Mutton stands at 4d, and ieef at Gd. A man may buy a sheep for a hilling, retail it at Gd a pound, and yet lie his schedule in New Zealand.

Great joy is expressed at Hawera at the result of Mr Macandrew's interview with Te Whiti. It is considered that the whole

matter may be settled by granting liberal reserves to the natives, and small cash advances as promised by Sir Donald McLean,

Tho Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry held an indignation meeting on Saturday night, and all resigned in consequence of treatment received by Colonel Packe in opposing their application to obtain trucks to bring the Ashburton contingent to town for annual training. At the distribution of prizes at the Heathcote District School, Canterbury, a valuable prize was given to a child who walkod the greatest distanco to school during the year. The winner turned up in a sturdy little girl, eight years of age, who it was computed had walked 492 miles in the year attending school.