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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 282, 6 October 1879, Page 2

Mr Edward Tooraath is gazetted as a Justice of the Peace. . A telegraph station is now open at Owaka, Catlins' River, County cf Olutha. We direct attention to Mr F, W, Hales' new advertisement in another column. We call attention to Mr E.- W. Mills' advertisement, which will be found in our front page. We remind our readers of the Oddfellows' soiree at Greytown 011 Wednesday evening next, Mr G. Bentley requests that all members of the Masterton Quadrille Club in arrears pay up at once. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Wairarapa Hospital takes place at Greytown on Friday next, at 8 p.m. Mr G. M. R. Drummond, of Whareama, advertises for twelve shearers at the current rates, Shearing to commence on the 18th inst,

F. H. Wood & Co. unnounce for sale on the Bth instant (Wednesday noxt), at the Featherston sale yards, fifteen head of fat cuttle, ifcc, The Greytown Riflo Volunteers hold their usual monthly inspection parade tomorrow evening, after which the annual meeting will be held. We have received from Mr H. Wilton, nurseryman, a very fine sample of rhubarb, the first we have seen in Masterton ready for use this season. • Mr H. Bunny, M.H.R., is gazetted by the Governor in Council as a Governor of the Wellington College, vice the Hon, W. Gisborne, resigned, A general meeting of the members of the Union Club takes place to-morrow evening at eight o'clock. We believe there is to be a supper at ten o'clock. In the Gazette of the 25th September, Messrs Duncan McGregor and Samuel E. Gapper are appointed members of the Masterton Public Park Trust.

Mr C. W. Brown, the Provincial Grand Master of the Wellington District of Oddfellows, M.U., will be at the special meeting advertised to take place this evening at the Lodge Room, Empire Hotel, On Saturday last Messrs lorns and Fergusson held a sale of furniture in Perrystreet, and Mr H. T. Browne made his debut in the Town Hall. Considering the wretched weather, both sales were faiily attended and moderately satisfactory prices were realised. On Saturday evening the town was en-

livened by the Masterton Band turning out in a brake lent to them for the occasion. The Band may be congratulated on

ts attainment of the new instruments

■vhicli have just come to hand through the igenoy of Mr T. E. Price, of the Educa;ional Depository. The members are making rapid progress, and we noticed imongst them a lot of new talent, which will go a great way to make the Band a success, and a credit to the town.

Messrs Hastwell, Macara & Co. have succeeded in recovering the mails lost in the Mangatainoke eight clays ago, Immediately after the accident Mr Macara proceeded to the spot to instigate a search for them. The coach was found lodged in snags about a mile below the crossing place, and it will not be possible to extricate it till the river is low. Some Maories fetched from it the cushions and other small articles, but reported that no mails were there," Mr Macara therefore commenced searching the river down stream for a considerable distance, but without success, Two or three days later another visit to the embedded vehicle revealed the missing packages. They had been rolled up tightly in one bag and placed in the boot, Hence their being overlooked by the Maories. We are happy to say that they have sustained but little injury, and congratulate Messrs Hastwell, Macara & Co. on their success in regaining them.

The latest fashion at Home at balls is that ladies are given books of cheques on which is printed, " Good for the —th dance." These are filled out, signed,and given to intended partners, who presont them at the proper time for redemption. A St. Petersburg telegram says that, according to news from Orenburg, Hakim Khan Turi is striving to raise a revolt in Kasligar, in order to regain his father's throne. He has marched troops to the Chinese frontier, and Tsin Ssan Ssoonhas sent troops ag'-.iust him, and is making preparations at many points against the Kashgaiians, as well as for a march upon Kuldja. During last session an honoiable member took the House into his confidence, and said, " When I entered this 'ouse it was under a strong stimulant." The hearty "Hear, hear," that arose from all parts of the 'ouse cut him short, and showed that his fellow legislators thought it very likely.

A German satirical weekly journal shows Lord Beaconsfield in Zululand talking with a German, and examining arms of English manufacture. "Is it possible," says the German, "that England sells arms to the Zulus while she is fighting them]" "On the contrary, my dear sir," replies Beaconsfield," we sell tliein arms first, and then declare war.' We have no other way of encouraging home manufactures."

According to the Whitehall Review Sir Bartle Frere has ordered a cross to be erected in memory of Melville and Coghill on the spot where the bodies of those brave officers were found after the Isandula disaster. The monument is in the form of a cross, and bears the following m cription— 1 " In memory of Lieutenant and Adjutant Teignmouth Melville and Lieutenant Neville J. A. Coghill,lst Battalion 24th Regiment, who died on this spot, 22ud Janaary, 187!), to save the Queen's colors of their regiment'" On the observe are the words—" For Queen and country. Jesu, Mercy."

The Empress Eugenie visited oil July 19 the tomb of the late Prince Imperial in St. Mary's Chapel, Chislehurst, her intention not being known even to her most confidential attendants until the actual moment. The Empress, wearing a deep black veil, entered the chapel alone, and advanced up the nave where the remains of the Prince are temporarily deposited, and there, kneeling by the side of the coilin, she remained for more than half-an-liour. No one was admitted to the building during the visit, at the conclusion of which the Empress returned to Camden House,

Carbonate of baryta lias been found to bo a most efficient poison for rats and similar vermin. Indeed, at a special series of trials by the Zooteclinical Institute, in connection with the .Royal Agricultural College at Praskaw, this substance was found to be moie efficacious than any other. It occurs as a heavy white powder, devoid of taste or smell. In theProskaw experiment it was mixed with four times its weight of barley meal, and pellets of the paste were introduced into the holes of the rats, house mice, and field mice. A small quantity proven fatal, It appears to cause immediate and complete paralysis of the hind extremities, so that it may be assumed that mice eating of it in their holes will die within them, and so not prove destructive in their turn to domesticated animals that might otherwise devour the carcasses. It was found in practice that neither fowls nor pigeons would touch the paste, either in its soft state or when hardened by the sun; so that its employment is probably free from danger to the occupants of the poultry yard. Some rabbits, on the other hand, that got access to the paste, ate heartily of it, and paid the penalty with their lives. Next to the carbonate of baryta paste, the ordinary phosphorus paste proved most destructive, and this, it was found by experiment, is more attractive to the mice in a soft form than when hardened into pills. But it is considerably dearer than the baryta preparation, an important factor in the calculations of the farmer who has to wage war against rodents on an extensive scale.

The New York Herald says:—Six countries in Europe will this year be compelled to buy three hundred million bushels of wheat, and France and England will need'three-fourths of this quantity, The operations this year will tend to greatly stimulate the cultivation of wheat lands, and there is an unsettled district in Northern Texas which, it is believed, could supply alone as much as Europe needs this year.