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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 292, 17 October 1879, Page 2

Tenders are invited for metalling 20 chains on the Castlepoint Road, It. & J, Brown, in another column announce several houses, &c, to let. Notice of the appointment of Messrs Muir and Gapper, as Fire Inspectors for the Borough of Mastorton, appeava in another column. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Wairarupa Hospital takes place at Greytown this evening, The Masterton Volunteers parade this evening in the Town Hall, Afterwards a special meeting of members will be held. Miss Best announces evening classes for French and Drawing in connection with her Ladies' School, in Cole-street. The curious in Osteology can see a magnificent specimen of a wild boar's head at Mr Foilding's shop in Queenstreet. An election for a Warden of No. 2 Ward, Castlepoint Highway district, is fixed at Tinui, fur Nov. 3rd. _ The Castlepoint Highway Board advertises for a competent man to take charge of road-work. f The matron of the Masterton Hospital having decided to leave the establishment, a married couple is advertised for, salary £IOO per annum, We reported that a boy stole oft' with a horse belonging to Mr T, McCarthy, the other day. The horse has been found at Palmerston, but the boy has not as yet been traced. Perhaps a detective will be sent after him and the lad will then be certain to escape, Mr John Melvin Campbell, Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, London, gives notice of his intention to have his name placed in the medical register of the colony, Robert Burns, son of the eldest son of the poet, has just died in' the Dumfries hospital, He was once a schoolmaster, but has spent most of his later years in the poor-house,

For fair Parliamentary reporting, commend us to the Wellington Evening Chronicle. When one of its own party gets up in the House, he is always represented as making a masterly speech or a trenchant address, but when a gentleman on the other side gets up, our contemporary characterizes his utterance as a long harangue or a virulent speech. It is related of the ex-Khedive, Ismail Pasha-who, by the way is not to take up liis definite residence at Naples, but at Monaco, really a fit one for him—that for the past few years he lived in constant apprehension of being poisoned; so that, although exceedingly gourmand, he only partook of food prepared by his own mother, and conveyed to him in a box, of which she and he alone kept the keys. For the same reason he only used linen washed in the harem, and preserved in the same way. The legend has it thai whenever he went on a tour his favorite wives only allowed him two or three shirts m the famous box, so that he would be sure to return without delay, This would go a long way to show that he was at least a good husband, if he was nothing else.

Tne Scotch have discovered a curious grievance, If an Englishman proposes to consume in a year a quarter of barley converted inlo malt and then into beer, the Government charges him about £lss for so doing. The unfortunate Scotchman wishes to convert the same amount of barley into whisky is charged by the Government £9. Why does the Government, say indignant Scotchmen, thus impose a tax upon them of £7 15s for a mere difference in the method of cook-

Drunkenness in Sweden and Norway is cured in the following manner. The drunkard is put in prison, and his only nourishment is bread soaked in wine. During the first day the prisoner receives the bread and wine with much pleasure. On the second day the food is not so acceptable. After that he takes his food with great repugnance. In general, eight or ten clays of this treatment suffices to produce such a disgust of liquor that the unhappy man is compelled to absolute abstinence. After leaving prison, his drunkenness is radically cured, with an occasional exception, and the odour of liquor produces an invincible repulsion.

It may be of interest to know how they arranged marriages a hundred years ago. An old paper has the following description bearing upon the subject:-" Married, in June. 1760, Mr William Donkin, a considerable farmer of Great Tossin (near Rothbury), in the county of Northumberland, to Miss Eleanor Shotten, an agreeable young gentlewoman of the sameplace. The entertainment was very grand, there being no less than 120 quarters of lamb, 44 quarters of veal, 20 quarters of mutton, and a great quantity of beef, 12 hams, with a suitable number of chickens, &c, which was concluded with 8 half, ankers of brandy, made into punch, 12 dozen of cider, a great many gallons of wine, and ninety bushels of barley made into beer. The company consisted of 550 ladies and gentlemen, who concluded with the music of 25 fiddlers and pipers, and the whole was conducted with the utmost order and unanimity.

The Cadet meeting in the Town Hall last evening was well attended, Captain Ruck, M.R.V., presided, and enrolled 53 names. Prank Bagge was elected Lieutenant, and Wm. D'Arcy sub-Lieutenant. They will parade this evening at half-past seven, when non-commissioned officers will be elected. We trust to see the Corps set to work now at drilling, and become an ornament to the Borough. On Wednesday last, in the House of Representatives, Mr Beetham was understood to say that he had a notice on the paper affecting the member, Mr Tawhia, taking his seat and voting in the House, as it was alleged that he was a Government servant at the time of his election, in which case he was subject to certain pains and penalties, Tho Hon P. Whitaker is the bearer of a petition from Coromandel charging the late Government with mal-administration, partiality and extravagance, and demanding an inquiry, Had a vacancy occurred, Mr Whitaker would have been elected for the Thames, and great satisfaction is felt at his being called to the Upper House and consenting to take office with the Government.

If is stated the vacancy caused by the retirement of Dr Rockstrow from the Manawatu Coronership has been filled by the appointment of Mr Piers E, Warburton, of. Shenstone Farm, Palmerston, The appointment of a layman to the office of Coroner (observes the Manawatu Herald) 'will doubtless be regarded by the general public with satisfaction, It sometimes happens that it is very desirable to hold an inquiry into a case where a medical man has been employed; and if that medical man happens to be the Coroner for the district, it must be sorely against his wish to hold a judicial investigation into one of his own cases,

Affairs in Queensland are not very encouraging to those seeking employment. A Victorian named J. Wi'laon, who had left Melbourne under the belief that it was in a worse condition than other places, writes recounting his experiences in Queensland while seeking work. He says: "I was fortunate to meet an'old fr end, and spelling my horses for a couple of weeks, will return to Tonwoombia, sell them, and return to Victoria, never again to leave it, for bettor is it to live on one meal a day there than have high wages here, for what with continual floods and incessant travelling, swarms of mosquitos and sandflies, to say nothing of the heat and other vexations to winch one is liable in this semi-tropical, wet, lonely, scrubby horrible hole, life is a burden, nf I, for one, am very weary, and would be very glad to part with as soon as possible. Employment is quite as hard to get in any part of Queensland as elsewhere, and let me advise no one to come here on chanco, or they will most bitterly rue the day they did so. Wages are not so high in proportion to the coat of living as in Victoria, low as they are there, and one is likely to lose his health through fever, &c, For myself, I have not earned sixpence since I left yonr colony, after spending so much of what I there managed to save; and what to do, or where to go, to earn an honest living, I am quite bewildered to imagine. I am not alone, there are hundreds like me. What is to become of us God only knows.