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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 397, 24 February 1880, Page 2

We are glad to learn this morning that County East has got its share of the Government grant-in-aid for the North Island. £2,000 has been placed at the disposal of the Council to expend as it thinks fit on the road to Castle Point.

The outgoing mail, via San Francisco, olose in the Wairarapa on Saturday next, A meeting of the Town Land Trust is convened for to-morrow evening, to hear objections to the voters' list,

The Autumn Show of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow. The Hall will be open from 2 to G, and from 7 to 10 o'clock, the Volunteer Band playing during the evening.

We remind our readers of the auction sales to bo held on Thursday next, on the Pastoral Society's grounds, at Carterton, by Tilly Browne. & Co, 100 Lincoln Rams, J. M. Girdlestone, 238 Ootswold, Lincoln,and Leicester do., and F. H. Wood & Co,, of 155 Lincoln and Romney Marsh Bams,

At tlie wool auctions at London on Friday last 8800 bales were catalogued. There was a firm and active demand,

How doth the little busy bee? Still they come ! Joseph Baigent, of Woodside, Wairarapa West, storekeeper, has filed a declaration of insolvency. First meeting, 25th instant, at Supreme Court House, Wellington.

Deering's string "binder was exhibited at work on a crop of wheat, on Mr Toßh's farm at Balolutha last Saturday afternoon in the presence of a number of settlers, who were highly satisfied with the machine. •

The comet was distinctly seen in Tasmania on the 2nd inst.

A costume cricket match is about to be played at Wellington,

An excellent show of fruit and vegetables may be anticipated at the Horticul.tural Show in the Town Ball, Masterton, to-morrow..

. Mr. Jame3 Macara announces return tickets for Cobb ■ & 00.,'5. coachesJroJn. from Featherston to the Wanganiii races at single fares, available for ten days for the return journey.

The cost of the teaching staff of the London Board schools was £ 16a lOd for each child in average attendance in 1873: 74; last year it reached £2 2s sd,

A London telegram in a Wellington paper reports that a man named Hannay, a Glasgow chemist, has succeeded in manufacturing artificial diamonds said to be equal in all respects to the real gems. The new Queen Christina of Spain, is to receive a curious present from an inhabitant of Madrid. This is nothing leas than a pair of stockings made from orange peel.

The total wool production of the world in 1878 wag about 1,496,500,0001b. This when scoured would yield about 252,000,0001b of clean wool, the clip for 1878 was smaller than for 1877 by 10,000,0001b.

A writer in the Wesleyan Standard is responsible for the statement that there is a small religious sect near Portland who put a leteral construction upon some figurative expressions of Scripture, and, consequently, indulge in some absurd practices. Regarding themselvis rs the Lord's sheep, they imitate the ories of sheep, and b-a-a in their religious assemblies. The reports of the Berliner Chemißcen Gesellschaft of October 13,1879, contains anote on the production of tetramethyldiamidodiphenylmethan and naphthyldimethylamidophenylsulphon. If the latter is heated with nitric acid pentanitrodimethylanilin and nitronaphtlialinsulphite are produced. The Scientific American thereupon remarkslfthissortofthingiskeptup chemistry willsoonberesolvedintooneword.

The Union Company's steamer Albion, which arrived at Nelson on Thursday last, brought over from Melbourne, says the N.Z. Times, ten head of prize heifers to the order of Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co,, of Wellington. The cattle were transhipped to the Waitaki, and arrived here on Saturday- morning. They appeared in splendid condition, and should prove a valuable acquisition for breeding purposes,

A Wellington paper says:—Another case of mysterious disappearance lias occurred in this city. At an early hour this morning a young girl named Isabella Foster, who for some time past has been employed as a domestic by Mr A. R. Hislop, left the house, leaving a letter on tho table for Mrs Hislop. The letter was of such a nature that as the girl had not returned by midday, Mr Hislop thought it would be well to report the matter to tho police. It is supposed that something lias happened to the girl, as she had been in depressed spirits lately.

The Ashburton Mail in preaching a seasonable homily to the farmers, observes that " the seasons aro boubtful, and so are the crops, but liens, and mortgages, and promissory notes are certain. Under the best of circumstances they are expensive modes of obtaining accommodation, and they carry away the profits, Let our farmers avoid discounts and legal instruments as they would the red rust or the Colorado beetle, and a prosperous future probably awaits them. Let them go on, placing themselves at the mercy oi every storekeepers or banker who chooses to advance upon their crops and holdings, and they may depend upon it that when the next crash comes they will go down with it,

A number of the, leading tobacconists in Dunedin recently waited upon the Hon, R. Olliver, for the purpose of representing that the provision of the new Tobacco Act which necessitates the stamping of all tobacco retailed, was calculated affect the trado prejudicially. The Minister, in reply, explained that the Act was passed to encourage the establishment of a tobacco manufactory, and it could not possibly have been conceived that any of its provisions would act in the way represented. The circumstances which the Act were intended to provide for had not yet arisen, and therefore it was not likely that it could be construed strictly. He advised the deputation, as being in a position to know the requirements of the trade, to make suggestions on the subject that would be likely to aid the revenue and at the same time not prejudice the interests of the trade ; and he promised that such suggestions would receive attention at the hands of the Government.

" The Qualifications of Electors Act, 1879," provides that every man of the age of 21 or upwards, owner of a freehold of the value of £25,, which he has owned for six months, or if he has resided in the colony twelve months, and in the electoral district for which he claims a vote six months, is entitled to be registered as an elector. The day on which the registration, officer places the name of any person on the electoral roll will be deemed the day of registration, No alien or person tainted with crime, or convicted of treason, felony, or infamous offence, will be allowed to register his name until aftet he has undergone the sentence or punishment, Maoris are not allowed to be on the roll except they are ratepayers, or have land to the value of £25. By this Act it will be seen that anyone, whether owner of property or not, wh"o' has been twelvemonths in the colony, and half that time in any one place, will have the privilege of being at once placed on the roll and enabled to vote at the election of a member of the House of Representatives.

Farmers down south would seem to know something about the growing of oats, if the following story may be believed A correspondent of a Christchurch paperj while walking through a crop of wheat at Kyle, came across an oat-plant which attracted his attention from its immense size, On pulling it up, it was found to have grown from one seed, which had fill, ed out to the extent of twenty-two distinct straws, each bearing an immense head of grain. On counting the seeds contained in several, it was found that they numbered from 500 to 650 in each straw. Taking the lowest number as an average, this would give 6,600 grains of oats from one seed; andgoing a little further it will be seen that if an acre of such oats were grown,giving a square foot to each plant, the result would be 287,476,000 grains, which, allowing 10,000 grains to a lb. weight, would give 478 bushels to the acre, which, at 2s 6d per bushel, gives £59158.