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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 685, 5 February 1881, Page 2

This is the monthly pay day of the Masterton Building Society . Mr R. H. Ohinchen announces in another column the latest Serial volumes just arrived at his establishment. On Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday next return tickets will'be issued to Wellington on the railway at single fares, Mr Jhomas Price in another column thanks the Carterton Volunter Fire Brigade for their prompt and efficient assistance at the recent fire on Arnold's line. The American Congress has passed a Bill 1 admitting women who have practised three years in tho State Courts to practice as lawyers before the Supreme Court, Scotch lairds have got a better crop to stand by than ivlicit. Some of the moors have been let as such prices than it is calculated each brace of birds will cost the De Baundry d'Asson has sent a challenge' to Gsnibetta, who as President of the Chamber of Deputies was obliged to reprimand and temporarily expel him from the Chamber on account of his violent arid/unparliamentary language. It is rmoored that a young man in the Ballarat-' telegraph office has : been in secret/eague with a well-known sharebroker to give him private information as tp me purport of messages passing on the

Sitting Bull swears that: ho will.fight the Med States troops for ever", and die rather, than surrender.;;, .However; he doubtless will be surrounded and captured this winterby General Miles. •■■;. Last mbntK and a lank containing 600 gallphsof sene, were consumed siding of the New^Swith* .Company's works, .... .., ..... :; .,.,. ;.AllihoJllinoiaiState-hMfls'ihive; be_Esrr; called in,- aud-iilCefesTwiU'ceasQ after January Ist, Tho Btate will;then;be.out. • debt aiid have IOO.OOOdoIs in 'This is one result of' "the Re; . publican, administration in the State. •' The ■"•Red--Cross" Fruit-preserving Company, at South Jitira r .have last yearput up 20,000 cases- of-jams, exclusive of large-quantities of-jollhis,'-bottled fruits,, pickles, sauces, and vinegars, All the fruit preserved is colonial grown, M. "Lertoard, who ; has been exploring in Africa, has discoveredpn the banks of the Niger anlanfc which bears grapes;' which he proposes to send to France'-to fake the place of the vines which are being devasted by the phylloxera, The inhalation of air charged with ammonia vapors as a remedy for whooping cough, has been tried in France with success. One of tho methods ot application employed is boiling string ammonia in the room where the patient is, It is not everybody who knows that the name of Lord Cowper is pronounced Coopor, that Majoribiinks is Marchbanks, that Cholmondsly is Chumley, that Belvior, is Beevor, and that Bicester is Bister. Everybody, however, acquainted with the local or personal usage would confirm with it. Tho Post surest that the now Minister should be selected froin among Wellington members. Messrs Beetham, Brandon, Bunny, Walter Johnson, Levin and. Mason, are it states available, and it would only be a matter of justice to this district for the new Minister to be selected. from thong this number. Our contempary is quite eight in putting Mr Beetham'at the head of the list, He is certainly the best of the batch. Professor Guiseppe Novi, the discoverer of Vicus Palatino-and the site of Oasiliuo, has found in the Roman Compagna, alongside the Via Gabinia, the cemetery of the famous Pago of Diana, consisting of tombs with inscriptions, lonic columus, Corinthian cornices, statues, terracotta ornaments, &c. He has also laid bare the Via Diana, buried under 9ft. of hard clay. The road is composed of large shapely stones with. footways of volcanic turfs.

: The new .Burials Act was recently brought into operation at Eowortb, 'John t Wesley's birthplace, in' circumstances which deserve notice. An.agecLUom, : Catholic died, and the. Rev Gabon Gi den, of Orottie, in accordance with tl wishes of the deceased's relatives, tot steps to have her buried according to h a faith. Although the notioo' requirf i. under the Acthadnot been strictly give a the Vicar, the Hon, and Rev Mr Dunda , at once' consented, and the intermei ' took place, It is : 32o.years since a Romt 6 Catholic priest 'officiated at a funeral 11 Epworth churchyard, ' ~ I Election day in San Francisco deserv a word cf notice", as being' "the- vei = quitest and most orderly day of the yea '• says the American correspondent of tb e Auckland Herald. No liquor is allowc e to be sold, and as, you walk along tl i- streets there is nothing'to be Been exce[ j; closed Bhups and a group of quiet men i ' every second corner with a little table o which lay' the election tickets. Yo '" wonder where the -voting is going qn whe '' a free appears at a small window, and yo l- see men walking'quTetly and oriobtru e sively through an open door, where in e room used for the occasion the votes ,ar ~ recorded. No drunkenness, no sound; i is as though a hiiste national'funeral wai in process of celebration. In fact thi election law of this state is the best in tht s United States, and-the polling in the 0 different wards is an-immense improve' e ment on the grand hustings system. s The BallaratStar gives particulars of, ■' the supposed tappingof the electric wire i by an official °f 'ho Telegraph Office. It i- is alleged that he entered into an • arrangement with a well-known broker dp ~ tho Corner to supply him with intercepted and other messages, for which he was to be duly recompensed.' This very serious '" charge was freely circulated, and it was - said i liat good proof could be brought for' I, ward to substantiate'its'.truth'.-.. It wa's .1 also stated that the accused officialadmiti • having received money from the' broker j but says it was given to him ,as a loan Suspicion was at first excited by thi v alleged fact that the broker was in th ' habit of handing over as much asLl at e timo on receipt of a telegram. ■ It h.ai :1 been remarked on previous, occasions tha f matters of public inierest; passing alon , the lines had bten made knoyVii'toiriend „ and others within .a"; rernflrkably-.• ■ Bho time from when the message had been r 1 ceived.■' '. ' A well-known Viennese dentist has g " into sad trouble through his ungovernal passion for experiment. Some time a f he made the acquaintance of a young lac t the aspect of whose teeth inspired-h i with a vehement desire to improve 1 assistant's acquaintance with practi dental Burgery' by giving the latter an < portunity to extract a few of them- - 1 therefore pursuaded. the young lady ' question to undergo a " brief and pa 5 less" operation, on the ground that 1 ) otherwise : irreproachable beauty.vi [ marred by certain defective teeth; wh . ho proposed not only to. remove, .but replace.gratuitously by artificial onei conspicuous whiteness -and brillian 1 Having obtained her consent to this ' rangement, he administered laughing to her, and whilst she was under the fluenqe. of that anesthetic,-his assist: with admirable skill and prpmpti.tu drew sixteen of her teeth. When Bhe i covered her senses she was soraewf startled fry the unexpected extent of b losses; but, being a sensible girl, forbo wasting regrets upon the irreparable, at limited the expression of her feelings to civil demand for the promised teet These, however, upon reflection, the dei tist, declined to supply, observing thi "she might be.very well satisfied wit having had so many teeth extracted.fi nothing." .The patient failing to appr hend the justice of this rejoinder, hi brought her plaint befpre.the cumpeter authorities; and an Austrian tribunal wi ere long be called upon to. decide whethi or not a surgeon-dentist is justified ,i emptying an unconscious-maiden's mout of its teeth in the interest of science an for the instruction of his assistant, Strangers paying. a visit to and u[ country settlers arriving in Maate.rton ar often at a.loss to know which is -th cheapest and best house to purchase al kinds of General Drapery, Millinery Clothing, &c, Schroder, Hooper & Co, Hall of Commerce, offer special advah tagesin this line which cannot be me with elsewhere, their stock being' th largest and best assorted in the Waira rapa. Their prices are lower then am house in Wellington, their goods are' a new and of the most durable clhss, and they sell cheap and for cash, .This establishment, is situated directly, opposite the Club Hotel, Remember,the. addressSchroder, Hooper & Co., directly opposite the Club Hotel. Read their I 'advertise-;: merit on the front page of thia .paper,— A»vt),