Untitled

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1454, 11 August 1883, Page 2

Iq the; House yesterday afternoon the Hon Major Atkinson announced, the receipt of a cable from Lord Derby ,that arrangements had been made for the r6 turn of the Irish informers by the s,s. Pathan to London, and that a full explauation will be sont by despatch shortly./ Tho Carterton School Committee. are to meet on Monday evemnß at ftj'olook in the sohoolhouße. Owing to the last monthly meeting having lapsed for want of a quorum, there is a considerable amount of worlj to bo pat through.

A public meeting is convened for Wednesday ovening at'tho Theatre Royal tn consider tlio advisability of suspending the Wairarapa East County. Tho Greytown Volunteer fir,o Brigade held their usual fortnightly pmotioe on Thursday evening which was fairly woll attended! We learn from tho New Zealand Industrial Gazette that the Wellington Meat Export Company has recoivod overtures from Blenheim, Wauganui, and Paten with regard to the establishment of branch refrigerating depots at each of thoso ports 1 Wo understand that there is every probability of the local people subscribing the necessary fundi in each case. If this news turns out to be corroct the shareholders of the company will have reason to congratulate themselves on thoir improved position, for with the extended radius of Bupply there need be no more apprehension of any difficulty in < tilling the company's ships. Tho Greytown Borough Council havo started to clear the water tables in Chapel street, and not an; too soon, as the children coming out of school found at the very gates a slough of despond, or what must have been so to the mothers who had to clean the youngsters clothes, but this hnß now been romoved. The Council has also decided to put a footway from the Post Office to the new Courthouse, whioh will add very materially to the appearance of that quarter. Mr W. Hammorioh, informs his old friends and the public that he has once more become mine host of the Greytown Hotel. The members of the Maßterton Voluntoer Band are expected to play a few choice selections' in Queen-Btroot this evening. ■

Mr J. Montgomery commonces Mr D, F. McCarthy's new store at the oorner of Binnister and Queen-streets next week.

At the Maatorton R.M. Court this Morning two aruuka named Downea and Perkins were tiaed 5a and 20s respectively by Mr W. Lowes, J. P. We bear complaints of a barbed wire in Worksop road tearing the garments of passengers, especially children. It will be romerabered that some years »g<> the Borough Coanoil compelled property ownera in Victoria street to remove a similar wire by placing-it inside of the fonoing poats.

There is a miniature Maori Parliament at Papawai, One of their standing orders

runs as follows" All members not to get drunk durinf the sittint; of the House." How many are allowed to get drunk during the said sitting the standing orders do not reveal. . Several gentleman have complained of the wretched state of parts of the Lower Valley Road between ' Morrison's Bush and Martinborough, particularly those portions opposite Mitchell's, and before coming to the Toll-gate at Waihenga. One gentleman says that it is quilo possible for un empty waggon with four horses in it to get through the mud, but anyone attempting.the passage in a buggy nr light trap should insure thoir lives heavily bofore starting. Who is responsible for this state of affairs, which is simply disgraceful. Our weather reporter writes as follows: —The past week has been fine and delightful since Monday Rain foil on tlirue days, giving a rain fall of *330 inches. I have received information that thin

winter has been the worst for many years in Canterbury for both rain and cold. Little corn got sown in the autumn, and the ground is now so wet that there will not be so much corn sown this spring as has been for years past. The barometer has been high the whole weok. Tho average mean reading is 29 815 inches; and for the thermometer it is 44 5 Full. The wind was breezy on the 4th .and Bth inits., but at other times light. It has boen frosty nearly the whole week'.

The entries for the Wellington Poultry and Dog Show have now closed, the total number recei\ed being 337, or an increase of 110 over those of "last year. This must be regarded as highly gratifying, the result,'we aro informed, being to make the show the second largest held in the colony. This is the more satiyfi -t >ry when it is considered that this is ou : j the second year of the society's existent. Following are the entries received in tho several classes oompared with the number) last year Poultry, 82; last year, 44. Pigeons, 92; last year, 12, Canaries, 48; last year, 34. Dogs, 105; last year, 128. Miscellaneous, 10; last year, 9. The wind-up of a temperance lecture in the West of Ireland the othor day. " Friends and whiskey drinkers-Arid I axes ye one and all what has been the ruin and degradation of our dear old countrie ? Whisky, boys, Whisky I What has brought About the numerous and disgraceful increases in the population ? Whißky I Whisky 1 What has filled our ditohes, our gutters, our workhouses, and our asjlums with the bodies of our unselfish and devoted countrymen? Whisky, boys, whisky j And above all, What makes ye miss the d landlords, when you lire at them?. Why, whisky, ye divils, whisky I"

The" Referee" tells a funny Btory about a lady uncommonly well known at this end of the world, to wit, Maggie Moore (Mrs J. O. Williamson.) The yarn is to the effect that Mrs J. O. Williamson's mother, an old Irishwoman, was greatly opposed to her daughter's fuothghuspirations! and so, when Maggie, having obtained an engagement as siging chani bormaid, rushed home with tho news, she was greeted with the cry: " Chambermaid, is it ? Chambermaid, bedad ? Fail, ils fitter that ye stopped at home and helped your mother than to bo emptyin' slops fur durty actors," A loconic.Renter's telegrnm from Bombay sayß!—"The monsoonLhas burst," At a certain breakfast table I wot of, these were the commentaries on the sad event. One young lady: "How shacking I" Another: " Poor follow !" The modern thief must look to his education, or otherwise he will not bo able to prosper, as grammar will soon become a necessity in the training of the polite thief. One of the larcenous rascals vulgarly known as " area snoaks" was recontly interrupted in the pursuit of his calling at the house of a West-end Ly the lady by the mistress of the house shotting downstairs " Who's there ?" The ready rnscal replied. "It's me, mother." The Udy promptly deoided that" me" had no right to call her '• mother," for hoc sons were strictly trained in grammer. Wherefore she harried downstairs, surprised the intruder in his pilferings, and hiß luckless slip in grammar cost biin- his liberty, and he is nott paying for his want of grammar,

It ia remarkable what littje bites a ' wonjan takes when eating-in tho presence of her sweetheart.; • What alitlla muuth ■he has then I She ■ nibbles ('with' 1 her ; little white teeth like some dainty squirrel eatrnp a nut. Hut wait until wash-day ol'riios. Watch her when she goes to ,hang jiip.clothes and gets in a hurry, By 'the {time that she gels the big ends of IS olothes-pbga hid in her mouth, you will bogin to think that it ii. a pretty goodsized mouth dftorall,

l)OSV DIE IN . THE HOUSB,-"Eough on Bats" clears out rats, mice,'beetles, rooohep, bed-bugs, "flies, ants, insects, moles, jack.' rabbits, gophers 7s. Moses, Moss, <4 Co., Sydney, General Agents, I

,The Emperor of Gi'i'iii.ifiy Imh issued an order, addressed to the Minister of Public Worship, expressing,, a wish to have tlio 400 th anniversary of. Dr Martin Luther's birth celebrated in all Protestant churches and schools.. This religious' festivity is to tako place on Nov. 10 and 11, and the Emperor' hopes that the celebration may be a new tie for uniting and strengthening the Protestant Church. , .

The remains of Isabella, Queen of Denmark, sister of Charles V., have been disinterred at Ghent (where they were buried in .1526),,0n 'the demand of the Danish Royal Family, for transmission to the Royal burying vault in Denmark. .

Measuring children in tramways seems at first sight rather a far-fetched idea. Such is, however, the newest regulation introduced at Munich, where frequent discussions have taken-place as to the youthful passengers. Children have hitherto beon taken at half fares, up to the age of three years, but it is now proposed to introduce a standard height, A magisterial decision has fixed this at 39in, (one metre), and measures have been- taken for supplying a measuring apparatus, for each tramcar.

There has just died at Loch Haven, Pennsylvania, at the age of 90 years, one Martin Fabel,'wlip served with the great Napoleon. Deceased participated in the battle of Leipsic and Hanau. He was the last survivor of tho 149 th Regiment, the only, other. man of. that vegiracnt'who lived to a recent.date having died a few years ago. In 1860 Fabel received a gold medal from the last companions of Napoleon while in exilo on the Isle of St Heleina. The medal is dated St Helena, May 5,1821.

The latest acquisition to the South Kensington Museum is' a splendid group of three large tapestries, representing Petrarch's" Triumphs" of Fame, of Chastity, and of Death, which were mad'e from the designs of some great Flemish artist a,d. 1507. These three tapestries, each of which measures about 30ft by 14ft, are. of wonderful boauty, and are - either marvellously preserved or have been most successfully restored. Full of lifo-sized figures, admirably drawn and composed, they reflect in every head and every bit of drapery the best part of the early sixteenth century; and the color of the whole is at once rich and exquisitely soft. They were lately shown in the exhibition of the Union Centrale des Arts Dtaoratifs, and were there seen by one of the higli officials of the Museum, who secured them from a Paris dealer for the moderate price of £2,800. A French gentleman, rescued from a ducking in the Thames, and taken to an adjacent tavern, was advised to drink a tumbler of very hot brandy-and-water, and thus addressed the waiter who was mixing it:—•'Sir, I shall thank you net to make it a fortnight," "A fortnight!" replied Joe, "hadn't you better tab it directly f "Oh, yes," said Monsieur, "•directly, to be sure, but not <a fort■night— not two week". •:<

The following extract concerning a former resident in Greytown, we copy from a, Wanganui conteniporaiy One of the moat .enterprising colonists to be met with is Mr Job Hotter, who about 18 months ago purchased the block of land, originally belonging tothe Corporation, on the south side of the river. The block comprises 1600 acres, for the most part covered with heavy bush. In its natural state much of the property was an impenetrable timber swamp, and no one who had Known it before would credit the extraordinary change which has been wrought on it in the short space of time, and that by sheer hard work. Since its purchase by Mr Cotter, 500 acres of bush have been felled, 45 men having been employed in felling for fix months; while 15 are still engaged. Mr Cotter intends felling another 200 acres this year, which, with a natural clearing of 200 acres, wijl give 900 acres of cleared land. A good burn was obtained over the felled land, which has all been'&own in grass with excellent results. The socd came away quickly and strongly, and in about two months had in some places made a growth of over twelve inches. Nothing can speak more strongly than this for the fertility of the soil, and the property is already fairly stocked with cattle, the younggrass maintaining them well, while on the other hand the fact of its being kept down by the cattle has a tendency to cultivate a firm sole and make' it stool out well. Tiewed from a distance,.the prop oity has Me appearance of a veritable oasis, the green grass on the terrace especially! showing • out well amid a forest of bush, The situation of the property is a beautiful one, com-, manding as it does the entrance to the Gorge and having an excessive frontage to tho river.. The road connepting the Palmerston-Napier wad • with the Mtzhei'bert, runs through the proporty, and about 200 yards in from the main road is a .terrace dais on . which Mr Cotter proposes to erect his homestead. Mr Cotter s work in thus reclaiming and fitting for settlement a piece of land with comparatively little to commend it in its rough state, is well worthy of a colonist, and with a few men of similar enterprise in the' district, bush settlement would make strides with lightning speed. The fact of 500 acres of bush land being felled, burned, converted in part from - an impenetrable swamp by drainage!- and placed in grazing 'condition within eighteen months, shows what can be done by the display of a . little enter-' prise. ; ,

IMo way's Ointment and Pilty,—Dangerous Chest ' complaints,—The enumerations of theso diseases is Boareely necessary, as, unfortunately, the inhabitants of these islands know them to their cost. Coughs, Isolds, influonza, bronchitis, asthma, jjleurißj inflammation of the lungs, antl . ewin con* I sumption in its early stages, are best treated by rubbing Holloway's Ointment, upon the chest and between the shoulders. It penetrates internally, checks the cold shiverings, jelleves .the over-gorged langa,-. gradually removed the oppression from tlie chest, and restores the obstructed respiration,ffthert# so fearfully. distressed. and so Vjjighlf dangerous. In treating this olass of dicqasd Holloway's Pills always b# taken .while using , his ointment i they purify the blood, promote' perspiration, and allay dangerous irritations.

The Salvation. Army are negotiating for tlio use of a public building in Masterton. .. ■' : : The President, Yice President, Secretary and one jmomber of the Debating Sooiety assembled : at .the Institute latt evening to perform.the last sad offices of respect to the deoeaifed, J cat as the funeral sermon was about to commence, it was discovered that the . deceased wasn't dead, and the proceedings were according adjourned sine die. The President, who was about to orate, was very irate at the corpse reviving and spoiling his speech. The Secretary was instructed to pass a subscription list to ihe members to oollept funds for decently interring . the 1 S^ietys"dead : or not dead. Those present immediately adjourned.

■We have received from Mr'R.' R. Armstrong tho full programme of the Wairarapa Jockey Club Spring Meeting, whioh is to be held on the 2nd November, It comprises the following events:—Spring Maiden Plate; 1 mile and a distance, 40 flovs; Handicap Steeplechase, 2| kilos, 80 sovs; Spring Cup Handicap, 1| miles, 80 sovs; Hack Back, 10 sovs; Maiden Steeplechase, 2 miles, ,40 sovs; and County Plate Handicap,' 1 mile,'so sovs, making exaotly 300 sovs in all. Nominations aro duo on October 2, weights on October 9, and acceptances and general entries on October.2s,

' The extraordinary sale of Surplus Win tor' Stock at Te.'Aro House,. Wellingtonshould be a "matter of some interest to all readers of the Waibarapa Daily for these special rcasbn»; Ist, because of the largeness of the stock,'2nd, because of the short duration of the sile, 15 days only, 3rJ, because ol the unprecedentcdly low prices. Our prico jißt, issued with this paper, should, we think, astonish everybody, and very. certain it is that a trip to the sale would be money in pocket to every Wairarapa.resident that should try it. If not able to. come, their orders, accompanied with > cash, would be as. well oxeouted as though selected pcbqnally. It simply means' 20s for 103, -or evea less in many cases, therefore try it, 0 yo residents,' and that right early. Boar in mind that we have no country businesses whatever, no' branches in any township, and no one is authorised to sell for us, oithor regularly or irrogularly. We have only om place of business in the province, and the - publio would do well to keep this fact in mind when sending their ordors, or visiting Wellington, that our sole establishment in the colony is that known as Jame j , Smith's To Aro House, Wellington.—Advt.