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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 22 August 1883, Page 2

Tlio usual wookly ontertainraent held at tho Forcstors' Hall, Greytowri6nMon« day ovening was again a great success fully three hundred persons being prosent. The Carterton contingent added very materially to the ■■ attractiveness of the pronraniine, Mrs Samuel and.Mrs Seed both giving songs, for which they were encored. The latter also gave a, pianoforte bolo in an excellent .maimer, and played a duot with Mr'Wilson,*who also sang a song with bis usual ability. .Mr Cellar sang " Nancy Leu,", and .encore " The British Lion,". Sir T; also sang " A sung ori,-ioeuljtopibalh': -Mr King,»viaitor from Wellington, recitation which caused considerable amusement. Mr Black was vociferously .■encored for his rendering, of." Th'i'Ai'ab's Farewell," A song and chorus, was given by Mesdatues Welch and Messrs Udy, Nation, and Thorntbn l '. li:, ;Thß latter gentleman gave ''The'BeKiliof Nblbou." Mr Thornton has an, excellent bass voice but he ought to'ciiooße'.those songs which are suitable to his voice, Mr "W. Udy.also sang a song, the name of which wo could not catch. 'Mr Nation gave a humorous reading, Mr "Wood occupied the chair, and opeced the pro-' j ceedings by a sensible speech. The Greytown Brass Band gave an excellent selection of naiisib before the entertainment, .■'.- ;•■• '.'!".'■.

A very pleasing ceremony took-place' at the raeoting of the Loyal Maslertoh Lodge last evening in the ahape'of a presentation to Past Grand Brotber'J;-H, Gorbett, who is leaving the district. The presentation WBB made by Bro Dilryniple, P. 3., and consisted of a handsome tea and coffee service, to be suitably engraved. In making ihe.presentation Btoftalrymple alluded.to.the impetus Brp ; Oorbett had giron to Oddfelloiv»hip wheii hVca'rrieio Mastertob; in fact, had he not put'his ■shoulder to the wheel in the itayhe;.did, .the Lodge would probably have-• lapied; TIIO present was not of greatvalue.butto knew Bro Corbett would think mtire'of the spirit that-prompted it than of its intrinsic worth. He had very muoh pleasure in handing the service: jo.:Brri Corbett on behalf ..of the Lodi>f>. Bro Oorbett lodge' in. ! -iflltable ; terms and expressed th 6 great pleasure it gave him to receive the gift:- •>After severalbrothren: had made a feVcomplimentary remarks on the manner in which [BroCorbett had attended the dutiesof his Lodge, the business blosed,

• Mr Wardall jails at'.;Oarlert'iri;to-dfiiyi The : charge, against Mr T. ; Qole; ; jfill heard at'this sjtting. •:?.' (£. ••■s:? We understiijid that Xlv J. H. ; Q6rbetJi> Jate of the ...Empire Hotel,.has purchased ,)atid in'(be Miatua distriot, and qbhtemv plates settling there.withJiis family. ■'"

The adjourned meeting of the'subsovibors to the Wairurapa Institute will bo hold on Thursday erening at 8 p.m. ; The. Wellington Poultry,; Pigeon, Canary, and Dog Show opens in the .Drill Shed; to-morrow, A large number of visitors from this district are likely to avail themselvGfl of 'the special facilities offered /-by the railway department; for ■this event, /'■ Vv ■ '■■'.

The-' following: by : a 'Greenock';Tow)i .Councillor shews that the Bluo Ribbon Army is not held in.high esteem in that, town :—The Greenock Town': Council on Monday. dißcussbd Mr M'Lagan'a Local Veto Bill, and declined by .a cast ing voto to come to any resolution upon it. 'The.principal objector to the measure expressed his opinion that "as,a rule, all the : thorough-going swindlers,' bogus batik; directors, and other clever scoundrels were teetotallersor vegetarians, or something of that sort." -,- Theroia still extant in the Post Office appartment at Washington a small folio ledger of more than three quires of paper, upon which Franklin, when Postmaster-' General kept all his accounts for two years. ,'

During the last two years not.a single sovereign 'or half-sovereign 'has been minted at the Royal Mint on Towey Hill, •During ,1882 the Bank ,of England received from the Molbou'rno and Sydney 1 branches of the Royal Mint gold coins to.' the extent of andin 1881, 11,100,000.. . A fire at the Standard.Oil .Company's : works,' in New Jersey City ; United States, ban resulted in a lossb estimated at 1,600,000d015. The burnt' out space spreads for 1200 yards along the harbour front. Twelve tanks, five store-bouses, three docks, and seven vessels were destroyed, One hundred and sixty female clerks are employed in tho Bank of France. Their salary, to begin with, is sixty cents a duy, which, after a year or two, is increased to 3nodolß annually. They sit in rooms apartfrom the.men, are superintended by officials of their own sex, and iheir work is very satisfactory. ; England, with 27,000,000 of inhabitants, has only 140,000 residents of foreign birth; Germany, with 45,000,000, only 270,000; while France, with 87,400,000, has more than 1,000,000. In France

there has been an increase of 200,000 in the laßt fivo years, Sir Henry Thompson has written a loiter to the Lancet about cigarette smoking. He points out that in the East a cigarette without a mouthpiece is rarely smoked more than halfway through, and thus very little of tho offensive oil of the tobacco reaches tho smoker's mouth. Here, where tobacco is dear, he suggests that a holdor should always bo used ; and he Bays that he himself in vented one, which opened transversely in tho middle, disclosing a small cavity which is filled with cotton wool to catch the oil, " Smoked simply," Sir Henry continues, "and with, cotton wool interposed, I do not hesitate to regard the cigarette as the loast potent, and therefore the least injurious, form of smoking tobacco."' The Wellington correspondent of the " Otago Daily Times" has the following about the doings of the Select Committee; on the alleged Otago dummyisra:—"l understand: there is 'atopic proof, both documentary and oral,-'that dummyism .has boon practised, The inquiry hitherto has been limited. to Cottesbfook station belonging to Gellibrand.and Co. Their nunager (Mr Pogson) has afforded st'roni* 'evidence.- Tho stock on the block is the •firm's; the advances for periodical payments to the ..Government ' aro in.ii.de -by. the firm, who: 'take promisV sory notes to secure the iJßamo; the improvements are paid by the firm; tho. dummies are themselves employed by the firm j and the grazing is. let by written agreement to the firm by the dummies for 15 years," A Dunediuite who recently set out on ; a tour-round the world writes from -Fiji; —"lgot a.billet the first week I landed, | on a sugar plantation forty miles upf ""the Eewa Diver, a» storekeeper and hospital attendant" We have about 200 coolies— Fijinns arid Islanders—and three white men to keep them in order. Thore is no fresh meat obtainable here; but we. get tinned rrieat, and make up oh bread, biscuits, • and fruit. Yams, bananas, oranges-,'pineapples, etc., are to bo had fur the plucking. I can't, say Iliko tho life. My hut is alive with mosquitoes; lizards a foot long, and ratß; and their company is not pleasant, .We have had rain all the while I have been here, The Natives are very lively at night with war f dauces, in which they keep wonderful time. The women and girls spend the day in bathing in the river. The less ■clothesyou put on here the more you aro in the fashion. We drink a lot of Fiji grog, made thus: Two niggors sit down and chew tho root into a palp, and then put it in a basin of water and work it about with their hands till tho mixture becomes.the culor of pea soup; then the ; pulp is taken out, and the drink is ready for use. It's not bad stuff if a fellow didn't soo the making of it."

A Bristol correspondent says:—An extraordinary case of shooting has occured at Bristol. Mr J. Shaw, of Sydney Villa, Allington 7roajlvß.edininster, was entertaining some friends to supper on Tuesday night, when one of them introduced a of Llie'pavby'picked up the weapOn,a,nd began to play with the revolver went off, and > the, contents' entered the head of one tlie gnests, a;young man named Kichard Groves; He was removed to the hospital,, where he died yesterday. Mr Shaw was brought before the magistrates on the charge of manslaughter, and reman-' M "

■.-.Have you heard that MrN.has: received.the honor of knighthood 1' : ' Yes"; I had it from. his own lips the other day..', 'And did you ask_.him' how he came to liave this distinction conferred upon him?' 'I took gbod' care, to do nothing of. the kind. ■ Why f -' Because I have my reasons for suspecting that he dosen't know himself.'

.-•■ A lecture < on-, the -effect ■ of reading and writing on the-eyesight of 'ytounjf .'children was recently given '■aißerhe by ..Professor .'Pfjugei''. The lecturer first called .attention to the portentous fact that'more than one-half of 45,000 children lately' .in-Germany were found Li- deieb-" iiye vision.-. Iji s6m.e,schoolß. the .pip? ; pori)ibn : of ifo shortsighted was.a|high as 70 to 80 *pei*'. cent, whilst fifw Heidelberg every iad.-iii' ;.the..:;.scbppl,, had-bad eyesight. .This iamfentable state-of things-arose- front insufficiently-lighted schoolrooms, bad print, and bad paper, the method'of writing in ;: .vogue, and ill-contrived' desk)) and forms. How to Get Weli/,—Which jb answered in.tae words-Take Hop Bitters 1 Ileud!

chemist and druggist, sVrenHoTed'.t6jhis new-premises -next to '!&s;• Hooper and Go,, Bon Marohd. • : , ttdrjitahi: Dairf ,Gppany v; .Th9inaS : Giol|'tfaß tli'smisaed by' the E,Mi; s£■ -Carterton to-day. We that the deficiency having been made good ilhe VJJireotpra did not deem it desitable-to'pfoceed'with the case.

A considerable number of settlers inspected Mr Elkins' collection of exhibits at the Club Hotel this' morning, prior to their vdegartufc for. the Wellington Show by ;ljiißi''|fter|oo|'B train, In pigeons, this exb.ibiWr-iB likely to carry all before than twenty-one pens... .In poultry we notioed excellent ipe'ns of .dark and■ ''light.; brihmaß, silver andgolden-pencilied'Hav.burgs;dorkings, game, Polish, black Spanish, and other Several classes of ducks. Mrllkme'eolleotionconstitute ■-a:Bbow;ip^benißelyeß ( . .'Tender* ate invited for the. erection of i courthouse and stable at Carterton,

TShe..oiu'er.fon grand festival will 1.0 one of the most successful affairs evtrueld;in : -that town; judging from the programme ißSiied. and the energetic way proceeding with the affair, tikes, place "otf the. 6th September, an.d-will consist ofa plain and fancy drees soiree, in whioh'the dances will bevariedwithjjrand tableaux, Maypole dance?,' &o,yforming a spectacular display never bofore witnessed in CarV; •■■"'■..

In another column Mr T. Ray offers for sale the:whole pf.uis v racinu Btud, it being his intention to'retire from the turf, It ( js hardjyv-neoeasary Jo say he will be riiiised)- "He '■'has 'been I '' identified with racing matterH-inaherWairarapa ever since there w«£. anything to race,, and to " run a|'straight as Tom Ray' 1 had become a proverb,, pearly all; the horses he is now subrmlling'for sale have scored triumphs on the different courses of the Wairar<pß,:fromf The Diver who heads the list, down to old Nai Nai, who was a favorite nearly a-generation ago. We refer our readers to tho advertisement which appesfra in another oolurnn. We have no doubt a ready Bale will bo effected of the lot. v .;

The Queen of Madagascar is said to spertd;h"alf an Hour or an hour regularly every :morningiii-prayer and reading "the Bible! -* ;•'■',. Wo remind drapery purchaser that 6 W; Schroder intends shortly drawing his immense clearing sale to 1 a close. Ladies and gentlemen having patronized tho Hall ot Commerce during the present sale, ofthorquility of their purchasofl, which, together with moderate prices, have given every satisfaction. Qreat reductions will bo made to cash purchasers this day and the following week.—Advi..

•Poverty l ANrisnmniNG,—!' I was dragged down with debtjpoyorty, and suffering for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctoring, which did thorn no good. I was completely discouraged, until .one year a?p, by, the advice ff my pastor, 1 pucured Hop'-Bittorsjuid commenced their use, and in one mouth we were all well, and none of us havo seen a sick day since; and.:lwant.to.say:to all poor men, you qan •keep your, families well a year with Hop Bitters for less than one doctor's visit will cost. I Mow it."—A Workino Man. Head 'Thick heads, heavy stomachs, bilious conditions.—Well's May Apple Pills"—antibilious, catharsic; 5s and Is. Moses, Moss &-Co.,' Sydney, Goneril Agent*. , ; The extraordinary sale of Surplus Winter Stook at TeyAro' Houso, Wellingtonshould, be a matter of some, interest to all • roadera' : of 'the WaibAkapa Daily for these, special reason*, Ist, because of the largeness of', the stock, 2nd, because of the short duration oi tho Bile, 15 days'only, 3rd, because.of the unprecelo\v prices'; Our prico list, issued with this paper, sKould,'we think, astonish oyerybbfly,''- and, ;very certain it .is that-a trip.toihe'salo-would'be money in pocket 'ttfUveryvWairarapiirosidont that should try jt,. |f nob üblo to come, their orders,, accomprfniba'with'-cash, wbuid'be as well ; executed-as thoagjise.leotod personally. It simply"iheank 20s for 10s, or oven less in try it, O ye residents, and that right parly. Bear in mind that we have no country businesses whatever, no branches w" any. township,: aud no one is to sell for us, either regularly or irregularly. :/We have, only one place of bminds iji, the], province,',and the public 'wbu'ld' : do'"wcll 'to keep this fact in mind when sending their orders, or visiting Wellington", that our solo establishment in the oolony'; w.;th'at' known as Jamb-i Smith's Te Aro ftouse. Wellington.—Advt.