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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 692, 14 February 1881, Page 2

To-day is the festival of St Valentine, the patron Saint of postal departments. The usual monthly mooting of the Institute Committee will be held to-morrow evening. The Wainuioru Rabbit Trustees met on Saturday last, Qur report will appear tomorrow. It is anticipated that the Property Tax for the current year will realise from £27AoWto£p,p. ' Mr Porter, for some years past l)as been accountant at the Tfank of flew Zealand, at 6reytown,has ) w,e understand, been promoted.to Hapier.. ... . The Rev Mr Stewart, has, we understand, beenjappointed to the Presbyterian congregations in the Lower Valley. He will preaoh at Masterton on Sunday next. Messrs Anderson, Booth, Moore, Fitzgerald, Parker, Smith, Fairbrother, Caliper, Bairstow, and:Bowles, are gazetted' at Trusts of the Carterton Cemetery.- •■ ■The prospectus o.f the Wellington and. Manawatof-KailWay Company Mk been published.'; ;• 'Mr "|iunn : the! list of *"' •';' ■•T,:-!pje" New eighty aci^inthe:bedoftKeS%b^mkavif:

;; tinie; in • Tvliichr ' Jockey Oiub Handicap a' typographical error inxSaturday ! |, issue, stated to.be'! 3 raini'3o sees.;" ikihoiildjV .ofapurse; haye been f' 3:min. 39 seqß,",^ "A' man : named Norria paid the _ penalty of fuVioQ3 ; riding yesterday.; ; "£Hisfhorae; slipped oil the Wiiipoui Bridge, and rolled'over him. The'rider was' much bruißeS, : but no ;bones are,we'.believe,, broken. Ho is now an -inmate of the MaHterton Hospital.j ';" ,', ...' ; . ' ,' .

J; lorns & Ooi's'stock sale on Saturday was very successful, the whole of, the. stock yarded Belling, althnugli jhe prices realised, as against those of last'yearjjwerej very low, Yearlings brought 35s each, "two-year-olds £3 2s (id; calves 16a, dairy cows, some time calved, brought from 4 to B guineas each, mixed cattle £3 per head, horses were not much in demand, The sale of horses belonging to Mr Kimberly, at Grey town, by Meaara F. H. Wood & Co,, was very poorly attended, and the prices realised very low, " The Baron" only bringing 24 guineas, and "War" £ls, A colt by Aiinanias mbought for £26, Mr John Cotter being the purchaser of all three. Several hacks and draught horses were sffered, but brought indifferent prices.

The Hon Major Atkinson left for New Plymouth by the Hawea on Wednesday last. He is still suffering from a Bprained knee, and wo are sorry to say it will be some time before the joint is restored to its normal condition.

The anti-Land League sentiment is being fostered by Government, and considerable progress made in the formation of associations to combat the Leaguers,

The project of a International Congress of Orthographors, which was mooted in the spring of this year, received sufficient suppoßt from scholars in England and on the Continent to render it very probable that the first Oongress will meet in the autumn of 1881,

The Paris correspondent of the" Daily News" says the partnership of the French Rothschilds, which expired on the Ist of October, has been renewed. It is to end in 1965. Tho capital of the house is fixed at two millions sterling. Baron's Alphonse, Gustave, and Edmond Rothschild are each to furnish one third, The registration of the deed of partnership cost 62,000f.

The authorised Religious Orders of France possess 68 acres of ground, valued at 420,934,978 francs, of which the value in rent represents 17,331,143 francs. The non-authorised congregations hold 90 acres, valued at 581,427,674. francs, of which the value in rent is 23,052,933 francs. The authorised congregations occupy six acres, valued at 131,111,306 francs, and rented at 5,572,459 francs j showing a total of 152 acres of ground, valued at 712,538,980 francs, owned or rented by the congregations.

The Turkish newspapers not' unnaturally take a malicious pleasure in rehearsing the evil deeds of other nations, " Was there not a Governor Eyre once in Jamaica," asks one "of these .journals, "celebrated for his hangings? and in Russian Poland was there not Mouravieff, surnamed the Ifangnianf' _ The/'Osmnnli," not contemporary criminals, has extended its researches to the wars of the Rosbb and the Reformation. "Historians say," it tells its readers, " that the atrocities committed in the wars of York and Lancaster were worthy of the most savage tribes in Africa j it pan J)ardjy be believed that'they took place in free England." Crook-backed Richard is not forgotten ; but MrFroude will be grieved to hear that his Tudor hero furnishes the " Osmanli" with the most forcible illustration of the depravity of the English. It describes-how the love of a King for a damsel sufficed to oliange the State relij gion qf Great Brftajp j it dwells upon the evil fato of his many wives, and it sums up its account of his reign as follows . "Thenumber of the victims of Henry VIII. reached the enormous number of 72,000 souls. As for the wealth confiscated, that was incalculable. Henry VIII. falsified the currency to inoreaso to the utmost the riches by which he was able to indSlge his favorite vices, At last he repudiated his debts and became bankrupt!" This' interesting and amusing compilation of " facts 'from Euglfslf ljistory" is brought to'a close by the saying of Walpoje that'every'.member of Parliament had I)is'price, Tlias are % sing of former generations InyokjiJ to condone the misdeeds of to-day,

The, following interesting anecdote of Thomas Oarlyle and the original manu Bcript of the "Frenoh Revolution" is from a correspondent of The Times:—"ln No 877 of Chambers' Journal, 1880, page 665, it is correotly statod that the manuscript of the 'French Revolution' was Carelessly, burnt. But it is further stated' 'that'Oarlyhj told a Mr Thomas Aird that he considered' ,the second, effort better than ,the first. Thisls" just the contrary, of Carlyie's accpiint made some'four years since to the writer pf this .note. Sitting one evening in the drawing-room of the house in Great Chelsea, jjplf and Oarlyle wore in eonvaraation upon general subjects, when I remarked, ' I have heard that the manuscript' of the "French Revolution" was destroyed before going,to the printers, Waß that so? Carlyle':' J, ;Ay, ay, it was so.' Myself : ' What' did',you do under the circumstanpes?' .Oarlyle," 'For three days Mid nights I could heitljef e|t nor sleep, but was loft a daft mart,'* Myself r/.'gut: what did you do at last?. ' Well, I just went away into the country; and here he burst out into a fit of loud laughter, and tlien said,'l did nothing for three months. but read Marryat's novels;' and after a serious pause he remarked, ,'I set to and wrote it all over again j' buVjii 'a melancholy tone concluded, ' I dinna tbinkjt'a thg game | no, I dinna think it's the same.'"

Referring to the recently-announced determination of the Government to survey a township in Rotorua, the Melbourne Argus says:—A tract of country so.peculiarly'endwed by nature with strange, picturesque' aspect and extraordinary conditions oa'n 'hardly fail to attain a social future as 1 unique' as its natural formation. With its hot springs of many kinds, its sulphur baths, which have been so long resorted to by Maoris, for curative'purposes, and its interesting natural features of so many diverse attractions, .the region appears to 6e predpsth)ed to be the great sanatorium of Australasia, What ia required is, first, that the whole region possessing these remarkable elmjrao'eristjps should'be reserved ;by the States "for jpublio uses', and should not, by means' of any' arrangements with the natives, or in any other,f&y, fallowed to pass into the hands of private persons.

'•' Atlas,' 1 it) the World, gives the following 'lingular incident jn connection with the .carrying oijt of th§ 'Aqtniralty regulationsi—At a sale of miscellaneous Blores in one of the .Royal dockyards,, a boiler in good condition realised a fair prico .';. but when its purojiaser •claimed it he waa that it had''to. ;be ;rauti-; lated or; partiallyldestroyed^in 'accord jspce i twKich".was':?faiiiM:in: (fbnsequehcoi of Jits explodedipn ;bpard|aj :.bM;|besgh^

K A;dueyias>been; fought, in France be-:. -twpDn MftGassier, the author of a drama entitled"Jjiatez," andM. Miramon, thV. son of ;the:Mexican general of that name, 'ori;,ao.csunt;;pf -certain • allusionslto ~h|Bfather.conla'ified'in the drama inq'uestioh.; ;M.;Miramon was "~A~very oxtfaofaiiiafyrpetition for - difvorco reoentiy. cam©'before the courts in. set forth that, his wife died iri=February)Mi, leaving eight children j that- hia 1 mother-m-law took great interett children' and 1 that feeling that,' she|was : hearer; and dearer to his 'ohildren' i than' any pother human being, arid was bound them by. the ties of common affectionyhe, in Sep l tember of the.Bame year, married his mother-in-law j it never occurring to him, or to her that' there^was any technical objection, to their takings the, step;.- '['■ Two months afterwards he was horrified by accidentally discovering, not only that he had committed; an illegal aot, but one unsanctioned by the Church of which he was a member/ He therefore petitioned theOoiirfc to pronounce the marriage null and void, and'declare oomplainnnt and defendant free from the supposed obliga-, tion and its consequences, No opposition being made on the lady's part, the Court decreed accordingly, and the too hastily contracted union was deolared formally dissolved. Y , '• >. ■

Strangers paying a visit to and upcountry settlers arriving in Masterton are often at a loss to .know which; -is the cheapest and best house to purchase, all kinds of General Drapery, Millinery, Clothing, &q, Schroder, Hooper & Co., Ball of Commerce, offer special advantages in this line which cannot be met with elsewhere,- their stock being the largest and best assorted-in 'the Waira.ra'pa. Their prices are lower';'then any house in Wellington, their goods are ail new and of the most durable class, and they Bell 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 advertise'/, ment on the front page of this paper.— Advt).