WELLINGTON CITY RIFLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1187, 23 September 1882, Page 2

WELLINGTON CITY RIFLES.

The Masterton Volunteers had tin unusually full muster of members on parade last evening. After being inspected by Cautain Donah!, the (lurps was marched to the Railway station to receive the Wei'itißlon City Rifle team. The Band on this fee ssiiin iippenvd for tho first time since its reorganisation, and made an exiremely creditahlo disrlay. After ihe arrival of the trait, tho Wellington visitors were entertained with a supper at the Club Hotel, and a very enjoyable evento" Was spent by both visitors and boats! This morning the local 'busses conveyed 'he two teams down to the butts at Manaia for tho rifle match, The weathor was slightly to» breezy for accurate shooting. The following ava the scores, tho victory heing won by Mastorlou with three points. The match has been the and closet competition of tho kind that has yet taken place in this district.

City Rifles, 200 400 500 Capt, Crowe ... 21 11 10-42 Sub-Lieut. Ballinget 19 16 18-53 Sergt. Halo ... 20 15 13-48 Corp, Henn ... 19 17, 9-45 Vol. Balliiiger ' 17 17 16-60 Vol, Randall ... 23 21 20-C4 Vol. Chuck ... 21 22. 14-57 Vol. Ross ... 21 14 13-48 Vol. Bright ... 14 13 8-35 Vol. Burton ... 14 20 15-49

Masterton, 200 400 500 Tl. Capt. Donald 20 17 19-56 Sergt. Wilton... 20 12 17—49 Sorgt, Wood ... Hi 15 5-3G Corp. Matthews 16 19 11-46 Corp. Anltetell 20 18 17-55 Corp. McLachlnn 18 18 13-49 Corn. G. Bentley 20 17 12-49 Pt'iv, C. Benlley 20 li 8-47 Priv, F. Kummer 19 15 14-47 W. A, D'Arcy 22 19 19-60

TATTOOING REVIVED. • A great oxeitement is at present going on in - certain portions of the Emt Const district on the subject of tattooing. That ancient practice, which the missionaries ulwavs set thoir {noes against as n symbol of tlio heathenism they were laboring to abolish (says ,t correspondent of the Auckland Herald) is now being revived as regards fenwln heauty only, Ihe sterner portion of Maori humanity ia fairly converted fi'nm heathenism on this point. The operating artist (save the mark) charges two pounds for each violim thus defaced by a process of »low torture. Not merely young girls, but adult married women are operated upon, The chin and lips are the parts tattooed. The prpeess consists in hewing in to the ilesli with a small boiie'ehiSelj and in tho furrows thus formed depositing a stuiivnf blue color, ' When the chin is only operated upon, . the. effect'is not so ruinnns to hesniy, but the dyeing of the lips destroys the red color, and substitutes a ghastly blue. Nothing perhaps could better show the irreclaimable, and unciyilisuble, and un-Europcanable condition in which this hideous relic of savagery proves tho poor Maori to be still enhanced. There is a law to protect from defacement the current coin of the realm; surely our legislators might interfere for the protection of the '• human face divine," .

The Brisbane Courier relates a noteworthy escape from drowning. Ernest Capner, a boy under six years of nge is attending school at Baldhills, Pine River. On Friday last, September Ist, at'midday, he t with another boy, feeling thirsty and finding no water in the school lanks went to try and obtain aomo from a well belonging to a neighbor some short dia. tance from the school. In straining o»er Ihowell, which is over 16 feet deep, Capner tumbled in head foremost, and, there being several feet of water in the well, he went under. His comrade ran back to school much af. fronted, but made no report of the accident, and young Capner was not misaed, Sumo lime after he walked into school; looking rather scared and somewhat damp,; and told his story. After rising to the top of the water he laid hold (if»chance piece of floanna timber and eoiting to thesido of,tho well—which fortunately fur liim.: was slabbed crosswiße,~o imbed by dint of fin«er and toe to the tup, and so escaped. For a boy of Capner's age tins was a somewhat remarkable 'achievement, ; requiring courage and resolution, and plenty of both.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING MEL. BOURNE, , (Argus) Arrangements are being made for lighting up r- portion-of Bourke street with electric light. Cast-iron pipes have been laid from Elizabeth street 10 Stephen street, and two cables containing four and six wires respectively tire being placed * therein as expeditiously as possible, but operations ham been considerably delayed by the recent wet weather. The Australian Electric Light Company has laid the pipes underground, and-the street will bo illuminated by means of arc lights placed on the ordinary gas lampposts, the City. Corporation having "granted every facility for the experiment.. The Company will supply some six or eight lamps and maintain them free of charge for a state period, after which the Corporation can enter into an arrangement for their permanent use if desired, TheopWhouie is now supplied nightly with the electric light by the Company, 97 Swan lamps liavi ng been placed in! the atjdiyjrium. Fifty out of that number forui tWVentre cluster, the remainder being distributed over the dress-circle, stalls, and other parts of the house. There are two cir- / cuits, the switches being stationed on tha vrf stage, close behind the proscenium, where the officer in charge has full control. In the front of the dress-circle and other parts of the house on which the light from the centre, cluster falls tile inceiidescent lamps are turned out altogether during the intervals, but by the simple application of a key by the officer in charge behind the scenes they cau be turned up instantaneously. With gas complele extinction' could never be gained without having recourse to matches or other means of ignition when the lights were again required. The Roya', Victoria, and Eastern Arches will be the next public buildings illuminated with the electric light, and the Company's present resources will be taxed to the utmost to fulfil the orders already on hand, FIRIN', BEDADI ' The following description of the collapse of ihe last armed rising in Ireland is extracted i'rom the Forluiahtly Review. After describing how 800 Irishmen, armed with Enfield Rifles, were drawn up in a formidable position on a steep hill side, the. writer proceeds i-A pig wag cooking, and all was festive and hopeful, when the morning light displayed cur after car of peelers and red soldiers below. Swiftly the British line was formed —two companies of foot, a handful of constabulary, and a few country gentleman on horseback. Up they went, but the Reipublicans were -in position fully extended behind their cover, the distances ha' l been marked with flags, and the rifles were loaded and capped, " Fsix," sayu Harney Martin to a friend from Brot'.na, "it's little like a rebellion I feel at nil, There's the chapel bell riugin' below, an' the people goto' to wk like Christians, an' sorra o differ (difference) I see from yisierday, I'm in the same frieze coat un' the same old hat, an' shure I see no stalls of tho Irish Republic at all, at all, only the little green flag an' the little chap with the sword, an' us here like a lot of 'wanderin' rabbits waitin' for the polias to shoot us; an' shure here's out of it 1" The leader eyed the approaching hoßt, and, without looking behind or to the right or tho leit of him, began the morning duties. " Steady—at three hundred yards—prepare lo lire! Nowthree hundred yards—no mail fiiea till I aiye the word. Aim. law- steady—" A minute passed; tho Boldiers reached the fatal spot. "Fire !" Notabitofit. No t . sound broke the stillness of the morning air. " Fire I" reiterated Ihe " little chap with tho swordand he turned wildly to look along his line. Alas, ihe ditch was empty, ano Jim Blake, officer's orderly, "amongst tho faithless faithful only found," responded, "If it's Erin* ye mane, bedad they're all firin'—over' the hill behind, f»r sorra a wan of theiii's left." It was true; the battlo was over. The peasantry had grasped at facts, recognised the logic of circumstance, and preserved themselves, if not Ireland. The burning (jneation «f ■ the day is whether a loan is really necessary for Masterlon. One thing wo know is now necessary, and lhat is that tho publie should know where to purchase the best and cheapest Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Ironmongery, and Grocery, and that is Rapp k Hure'B, Emporium,—Anvr. A. LINDSAYT TO Storekeepers and Station-managers— A. LINDSAY, having now completed his plant for the manufacture of all kiurls of Boots and Shoes, is now prepared to make Men's Best Watertights, pepged, at 14s—riveted, 13s per pair for oideis of six pair® and upwards, for cash only. A. LINDSAY, Bootmaker, Lambton Quay, and Cuba-st,, Cash Boot Mart, Wellington. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. WAIUARAPA AND EAST COAST. PASTORAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. CARTERTON. Wednesday, Ist November, 1882., 1? will hold a sale by auction I. > of EXHIBITS at the aboyo show, at 4 p.m. on day of show. And his usual STOCK SALE on the day following tho Show, via., THURSDAY, 2nd inst., at 2 p.m., on the Show Grounds and Yards. Entries for both Bales are invited; F. H. WOOD, i 1184 Auctioneer,