The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1883. HAWKERS, BEWARE!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1330, 17 March 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1883. HAWKERS, BEWARE!

Messrs Bish and Lowes, J.P.'s, made yesterday a severe example of one of the hawking fraternity, who was, as it vm<,: caught red-handed in cheating a Two months' imprisonment with hard labor should be a warning to deceives of. this character, and Masterton is to be congratulated on possessing Justices of the Peace who have the courage to punish with a strong hand clear cases of fraud, A sentimental sympathy with offenders is bo frequently displayed in the administration of justice that it is positively refreshii);' <'■.. rjjord a conviction of this character, Mercy to a criminal in many instances means cruelty towards the public. Hawkers want watching. Some of them ate good men and true, but others are wolves in sheep's clothing, If it were safe for us to say a word of reproof to the feminine sex we would point out that it is lovely woman's fondness for bargaining on which hawkers live and thrive, These : gentryare not in a position to sell goods as cheaply: as a respectable storekeeper, and they are very frequently compelled to resort to artifice in order to dispose of their itock-in-trade. Prom time immemorial the.hawker has tried his utmost to outwit the goodwife, and the latter has done her best to practise upon the former; In this game, no doubt, despite thei proverbial astuteness of the fair sex, the professional expert would as a rule, come out the winner. Our attention was drawn yesterday to another hawker who also deserves, but is very unlikely to get two months hard labor. We allude to a vendor of" SbH alive, oh I" who distributed to the public of Mwterton some bundles of apparently fresh, but really unwholesome fish, At one house where one of these bundles was cooked and eaten, strong symptoms of "animal poisoning" were manifest immediately after the repast. No doubt the poisonous process was repeated to a greater or less extent at every house where the cargo was distributed. If a hawker deserves two months for cheating a woman out of a few shillings, what does he not merit for poisoning a score of families] It may of course be possible that the particular hawker in question was not aware'that that the fish he was vending were unwholesome but it is hard to'believe that a man who .deals in this particular line is : ignorant of the condition of his stock-in-trade, With two instances like these of the result of dealing with itinerant vendors occurring in one day in this town, wedeemitour duty to caution the public against hawkers.

A telephone station has been opened at Macetowri, County Me. The office hocrs are from, 9 a.m. till B p.nt, and elosed on Sundays and public holidays. Our weather reporter writes ai' lollowa: The week has past and yet we are blooming from Hißierton; therefore it may be presumed the professor has, at least this time, prophesied : j»6.t the oorre'ct thing, and for.the well-being of ourselves it may be hoped he will.always,', be disappointed in theae, predicted etorms wliibh. are to blow ships out of the m, and man into ill- On ill aides we behold grass growing quickly, leaving, no doubt, an abundant supply' of green props for winter use. Rain has fallen.on four days, giving a "total rainfall' of 1.277 inches. The biromelM in the early part of- the week fluctuated ranch, On the 12th inat.it was down to 29.16 inches, and on "the.-13th.ili row again; to 29.90 .inches, the'.' mean reading being 29.676 inohos. For the therinometdr it is 61.5 Fab,»consequently, the heat ji' pre pleasant to endure, The; wjnd was strong with heavy rain on the 18th; since then it bjs been light-.

'The Mnsterum Thoatio Royal is now roady for ihu performance of " Pinafore" on Monday evening. The building has beeti froah decorated throughout, and presents s very handsome appearance. ? We are requested by MrE. Collotte to Btaie that he is not the nurseryman who sold the gladiolus reforred 10 by a recent correspondent.

The Masterton Football Club's annual meeting is oonvened for Wednesday evening next at 8 o'clock, We are again coming aoross the fed' letter days of the calender, To diyis a Bank holiday m honor of St, Patrick, and to-morrow is Palm Sunday. Persons desirous of obtaining seolions on Dixon's eeiate at reasonable prioes and favorable terras, are requested, by adver tisement, to apply to B. Brown and Co., Masterton.

It is rumored that the "Rising Sun 1 ' is to be re-built in Greytown. Messrs Fabian lire also about to ereot a new

hotel. We sonrcely believe that the local Licensing Committee will sanction the opening of two more " pubs" in that township, "Clayson, on the block" is taking advantage of the abundant fruit harvest >o convert ohoice crops into jams, jellies, and marmalades for the coming winter season. He has forwarded us a sample of his apple jelly prepared in nest glass jars, and which for beautiful color and delicacy of flavor is likely to bo unrivalled by any imported or locally manufactured competitor,

The following interesting extracts will be found on our fourth pngo:-" An Amorous Lawyer," " An Original way to Advance the Cause," " Resting Long at N00n,"." Josh Billings on Hens,".." Kissing the wrong Man,"" Prince Bismarck," and paragraphs.

Tho entertainment announced for. Monday and Tuesday evenings in tho Masterton Theatre Royal is being looked forward to asagreat treat by nuny who have so frequently Seen thenoticesof the famous' Pinafore' satire, mid been unable to go to Wel- ; lington to gratify the curiosity thus raised. This piece and also "Les Cloches deOorneville" have been received everywhere with the greatest enthusiasm, and the talented company who are to appear at Masterton on Monday evening have been lemarkably successful in their rendering of the two pieces before crowded audiences in all the principal cities of New Zealand.

There was a good attendance at the meeting of the Masterton Debating Society to listen to Mr E, Quick's lecture on Animal Magnestism. The lecturer explained that this was his first appearance on a public platform, and that he should confine his address to extracts from leading writers on the subject. He gave a number of selections from standard works shewing the value of magnetism as a curative agent, and his audience' listened to them with attention, After (his he placed his daughter in a mesmerio sleep, and nave later on practical illustrations of the magnetiopower. Thechairwasooeup ed by Mr Broadbeut, and the proceedings throughout the evening were orderly ak well as'lnteresting. At the conclusion of the lecture a cordiai vote of thauks was passed to Mr Quick fur his lecture. An Australian paper states that it is by no means rare to see girls smoking pipes in the streets at jjallurat

A notice in the Gazette ot Ist March alters the designation of all Naval Brigades in the colony to that of Naval Artillery, The Rangiaohia Highway District receives a loan for main roads of .£l5O under the Roadß Construction Act.

. Mr Angelo Forrest, it is said, intends to stay in Wellington, his health bein« better there than in other parts of the colony.

The visit of the ex-Empress.Eugenie to Paris lasted three days, and created a great sensation. More than 2000 persons left (javds at her hotel.

Two English men of war, the Espeigle, six guns, and the Diamond, 14 guns, passed through the IWeuux straits on Saturday afternoon, bound eastward.

The necessary connections have been completfd, wher.ebv 132 subscribers are nod' in ciMiiiiiiiniontion with the Telephone Exchatii.M> The Ihlhsi intuitu ions to give in their » iieniom aio tho National Bank and the B-iik A Australasia.

An un iß<ial unification appears in the last Gaz'tc i'f a "call" 'of one shilling per £IOO tiniler the Government Officers Guarntit-H Act, 1870, to nuke Good the followin.'defalcations:—E C. Wilkinßon, £442 7- 91; J A. Crawford, i'ss 3s 9d;. C,O.HuvrelU7l2i late'y on the Wan.'tinui Rivor, \ party of ''gentlemen interested in the acclimatisation of memhers of the finny tribe found hundreds offish whichthey believed to be California)! salmon or Irniit. On oatehinv a specimen, however, they found it to I'P New Ze»lu'd mullei,

"Ilm'etn see a woman wrh ringVin her en a,' 1 exclaimed llio good deacon; "they ain't natural If it was intended for wiiiupn in wear them, she would have been both with boles in her ears, The first woman didn't wear earrini>s, I'll bo ba bound I" " No," remarked the little man in the corner, "nor nothing else," The discussion was brought to an abrupt close, and the houso adjourned without delay. ■

The London correspondent r.f the Evening Post t?rites:—To show tie present briskness of the New Zealand passenger trade, it may be mentioned that W. A«hby and Co. took £IOOO in passenger money during the first .14. days if this month, Most of this went to the P. and 0. Company, but had the s,s British King, which Bailed on the 22nd, been a comfortable boat, Captain ABhly would have been only too gU.I to advise travellers to patronise her. She is, however, quite a second class vessel, and has filled neither with cargo nor passengers. The NewZeland Shipping Company says Bhe oosls them £4 an hour, Sundays and week days. Everybody considers a great mistake has been made in commencing! the direct trade with such a ship as the British Sing. The cargo which last month kept pouring in for all New Zealand pons 'hna been checked,' it is supposed by cable messages. .There is now plenty of room in all ships on, the bet'h, i

The results aohieved by M. Pasteur's discover; for inoculating live stock as a preventive ngainst disease, have been embodied in a paper read by him at the last meeting, off the Academic des Sciences, The department of the Eure-et-Loire is one in whioh.splenic fever has always been very prevalent, and after the cimcluaive results of the experiments which were made eighteen months ago near Paris/ the farmers of the Beauco determined to try M, Pasteur's remedy, In the course of the pist year nearly 80,000 sheep, 'between 4000 and 5000 head of cattle, and 500 horses have been vaccinated with good effects. The veterinarias of theEureet-Loirehave vaccinated during the year 4562 head nf cattle, and there have only been eleven deaths, the late of mortality '.being thus reduced fruii 7.03 per cent,, at which it stood a year ago to 0.24 per cent, Horses were not vaccina'ted tn so general' an extent as cattle and sheep, but out of the 524 subjeoted to it #D)y three died,

Oxford has again dofoated Cambridge in the Univoraity Bik Kaco. This race iB the fortieth'lln> liuh been rowed by the rivel UniversHies, and of "those forty Oxford has «ou 22 .Cambridge 17, and one (that of 1877) was a dead beat.

It iB the opinion of an eminent French writer that sooiety strangles itself in Franco tegularly once in, fifteen; years. Another revolution in Professor Wi'sgim' storm has not eventuated. The htef'il ilea of March have passed with notlnug moro important than a welcome down-pour of rain, welcome to the parched country and welcome to thodrapors, who hope to sell their stock of garments suited for such weather. We are quite willing to help our customers to provide i against a "rainy day," by offering our l"i>arapro Secco" cloak, whiohis a most useful and" necessary garment, thoroughly waterproof, and very light in weight, to bo had in Navy blue and black and in all sizes, Eaohcloik is provided with a neat satohol of the same material to carry it when not required to be worn. Wo would also invite inspectors of some rsally choice fur lined and circular brocho cloaks, edged with fur and lined with miilted t>ilk. We have a few 1 charming imitation and real soil skin jackets in length from 36 to 45 inches that have | ouly to he seen to be cot eted at Tames Smith's JTeAro Houso Wellington.-[Advt.]