PASTORAL SOCIETY ENTRIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 20 October 1883, Page 2

PASTORAL SOCIETY ENTRIES.

This following are the entries received for the forthcoming show, with the corresponding numbers for last year . ..-• 1882 1883 Horses ,„ 94 S? ulB 130 89. ™ M P ' ... 149 231 JW> -. ... .... ... 12 5 £ Ol % 18 15 D °gs 44 24 Produce, implements, and colonial industries ... 79 72 Shearing matoh 3 10 Total ... ... .„ 529 539 It will be seen that with the exception of Bheep there is an all-round falling off this season. Possibly an advanoe in qualities maycomponsateforthelessenedquantiliefl. The Sooiety will we trust before next year be strong enough to morease awards for general entries so as to make their numbers progressive. "Three years ago (tn 1880) the horae entries were 148, cattle 102, sheep 152, pigs 16, poultry 18, dogs 58,produce,implementB, and colonial industries 89, and shearing match f, Hiving an aggregate of 585 against this year's 530, It is evident that an effort should be mado to arrest the continuous decrease of exhibits in certain classes.

Mr 6. W. Schroder's'new advertisement will appear in Monday's issue./. :" Owing to the inclemency of'the weather the complimentary concert to-ljfr Lundqviat, advertised to be held at Featherston last ovonmg, fell through. It is proposed to come off in about a month from date, , ; ' Mr Cleghorn, who has ,just 'completed the new ■courthouso iii Mastertbn, has received instructions to move, the old building into conjunction with it. The latter will be used as a bailiff's apartment and store room. There aro 530 entries for the Pastoral and Agricultural Show to be held on November Ist, Compared with last year there is a large increase-in the number of sheep entered, while the aggregate entries are about the same, The much needed porch at the Carterton Post and Telegraph- Offioes is now being erected, and the addition though trifling, will prove a boon to the'many whose business takes them there. The partitions which are to be placed upon the desk is also an appreciable improvement, The Wairarapa Jockey Club's Spri n Meeting privileges are to be sold at Greytown by Mr F. H. Wood this day at 3 p.m. With the additional attraction of two steeplechases, being aided by excursion trains from Masterton and Wellington, and following the show day, this meeting is sure to be successful. Last year, with a. howling southeaster to contend against, the Spring Meeting was an undoubted auccess,' and this year, with nne weather, the largest crowd that has yet. assembled at Tanherenikau is expeoted. r

; On Wednesday night the Waiobine overflowed its banks, and on Thursday the road from the Maori Pah towards toeytown was very rough, travelling, caused by the water having swept all the pavel off, and leaving only the bare metal. At intervals an odd rail and sundry pieces of timber were to be found left on tho road, showing that when mere was enough water across the road to float the rails, the surrounding paddocks being lower,must'have boen well submerged. At one spot the river has been steadily encroaching for a long time, and it 13 now within a few chains of i the road with the current selling right in to the gap We presume that when repairing this encroachment means an expenditure of several hundreds of pounds somebody will find out that it wants doing. At present a few pounds spent m good fascines, well staked down with willows laid underneath, would mend the mischief, But until the river again threatens the traffic, nothing will bo done, and that is the way our money goes, The annual meeting of IhoGreyfown lure Brigade was held at tho'engine shod on Thursday evening, but the attendance was not so large as was expected. The minutes of the last meeting wero read and confirmed. The following officers weroeleetedi-Captain, Mr J. Bailhe; Lieut, Mr J. Maguire; Sub-Lieutenant, Mr A. L. Webster; Branchman, Mr A, Bowers; Assistant Branchman, Mr J, Ryan. Some routine business concluded the meeting. The Post reports that the Governor's departure for Nelson still stands postponed owing to his Excellency's continued indisposition, It is also understood that Mr Bryco will pay another visit to the King country at an early date, and it is rumored that some important new davelopmenis of policy in regard,to native ailairs are impending. We notice that Cole street is in »state of ilood on the north aide throueh the accumulation of surface water caused probably by stopped up culverts, .■ . On our fourth page to-day ;we give our readers tho following interesting articles; - Renewal of Ku-Klux Outrages," "A . New York Tragedy,'"'TheEomance of ' the Mulcahey Family," " Mulohing Fruit Trees'; « Dr Holub'a Exhibition, and ' Bobbing the Dead," ■■■'*' •'

The Masterton Swimming Olub at its annual meeting last night, matt V very good commencement. A good working Committee has been elected, and'at once set to work to arrange (he proceedings of the olub for the ensuing seasonal,Wo understand a strong effort ffjli..be-4nade this season to build a convenient-ktbinK shod for the use of members, Club. Our weather reporter writes as-follows: -Anything but pleasant ii it to describe the weather of the past week, alt commenced with B howers, and one of them' on the Saturday was not very comfortable lobem. Rain fell heavy andifuriouo, then snow and hail mixed with, it It was6ne on Sunday morning, but'what about the afternoon? I pity those who were in the hailstorm, for I conceive thev had a tingling after the storm was over on the exposed part of their faces, It was Gneafterwardsuntil Wednesday, when achanae for dampness set in, cumulating with a steady downpour on the whole of Friday. It has rained on fivo days, giving a rainfall of 1.020 inoh for the week The barometer has gradually risen from 28.65 inches to 29.54 inches on the 17th •' it then foil to 29-47 inches; then it rose rapidly to 29 94 inches on Friday morning, The mean reading for the thermometer is 63 Fah. The wind has been strong at times, and very chanceAble, moving rapidly from N. to S W and baokto.N., then to S.W, again, a sure sign of extreme ohanges—from a gale to a calm, arid from fine to wet. It is presumed it is not often in this month that ram, hail, snow, thunder, lightning, nnd strong wind occur to the/same extent hs they 1 have done in the' pjisi week. The above 1 tfturni are'W {he'week endin» October 19th; The rainfall between 8 o dock. a ,m, on Friday till yesterday morning at 8 o'clook was 2*430 Inches, being the heayiest rainfall recorded by mo during the past eighteen months at AWerlon,

Theresultoftho large auotion sale v 6i oity properties yesterday by Me6srsT. K; Macdonard and Co., was, savs.tbe Time* .eminently, satisfactory, as it'Bliowetl'W blrisively that land and buildings Here, as •in Aabkland, Ohriatohurch -and Dunedin havflaw'ellknownandlnoreasing.valoe.TKfl aggregate amount realised by the sale was; about £24,000, about £SOOO worth of property being withdrawn, There was a considerable number of purchasers, all of them, we believe, being looal men L .What was sold fetched, we understand, £6OOO morethaU'wasesiraated. ' '•■■) \

The following telegram was received by the secretary of the Marine Department from the Collector of Customs at Ohriatohurch:-Captain Jensen, of tho sohooner Herald, reportßbeingin company with a ketch' between Benmore and Flaxbourne, both making bad weather, and about noon she disappeared. The Herald bore off in the direction and passed four hatches and broken bulwarks, but no crew. This was on the 13th Oct. A ketch passed Banks .Peninsula on Thursday,, the 11th,. name unknown. This will probably be the sa«e. .

The Wujrarapa Acclimatisation Society announce in another column a bonus of eighteenpenceper head on all shag's killed in the Wairarapa Valley,; aho that 15,000 young trout are. now on sale at the low price of ten shillings per. hundred. The monthly meeting of the Institute Committee was held on Thursday the 18th October. : Present -Messrs W. H. Beetham (in the chair), A. E. S. Carr, W. G. Beard, W. Rapp, and W. M. Easthope, The treasurer reporteef'a credit balance of 14s 4d, Oo'rreapondenoe was received re new books shipped per s. s, Thames. .It was resolved to record;a'-, vote of thanks'to Mr'.T. E. Price, Btatjbner, for allowing the oommittce to use his name in ordering t'h'e''bo ; dis, thus enabling the Institute to reoeive the beneßfc of the usual. trade discounts. ~A letter was read from B. Bennett, advising the committee that ho would act r as caretaker on Sundays for the sum* of ! £'s per annum, The committee decided to appoint him at the salary named.•■ Ah account of Mr R. R Ohinchen's for £i 1i Was passed for payment, ind the meeting closed. ;•

An editor in Georgia isays: " Gold found in thirty-six countries in this State, silver in tlireo; diamonds in tflenty-six, and whiskey in all of them; and tho last gets away with all the rest."

A terrible tragedy has occurred at Oharleroi, in Belgium, A young clerk, at a bank there had been arrested for having forged and cashed a cheque for 20,000 francs on the bank. An uncle of his—a cierk in the same bank-^-was so much affected by the event' that lie resolved to commit, suicide, with his wife and two children. They first tried to open their veins, and then to suffocate themselves; and, finally, they threw themselves into the cistern, One of the children, a little boy, escaped,■. and called the neighbors, The wife was found dead, and her daughter, mortally wounded, while the man, who; was saved, has disappeared, and it is feared that he has drowned himself, ■ It is proposed in Dresden to collect all old steel, pens and sell them for the, benefit of the education of poor dren. It appears that these pens are made out of the best steel, which can be used for the preparation of witch springs, fine knives, and even.in the' manufacture of ink. In steel-pen works even the chips of ..steel are gathered aud madeuso of, Yet many millions of pens are wasted every year by young and old. . :

The Women's Christian Tempefarice Union has just dedicated the first' sidewalk free icewater fountain in New. York, It is an ornamental object, variously inscribed, and fed by pipes running through an ice-box under the" kerbstone packed with 3001b of ice.

The postraits on the new postage, stamps that came into use.in America on October 1 aroi-1-cent, Franklin; 2-cent, Jackson; 3-cent, Washington; 5-cent, Garfield; 6-cent, Lincoln";' 7cent, Scanton; 10-eent, Jefferson; 12cent, Clay; 15-cent, Scott; 30-cent, Hamilton; 90-cent, Perry.

Tho French gun factory at Fives, near Lille has just finished a camion which presents some pecularities' of proportion and shape, but whoso chief novelty is a compact wrapping of fine wire wound around'it as tightly as possible by an engine constructed for the purpose, Preliminary, tests have shown that the resisting strength of the' gun metal is more largely increased by this device than it could be from an equal weight of similar metal cast with the tube itself: but whether or not the wire will stand the strain of continued use can only be decided by the severer tests which are now about to be ap-> plied

_ The politest man in Boston lias beei>, discovered. He was hurrying along a street the other night, when anotherman, also in a violent haste, rushed out of an alley-way, and 'the ko collided with great force. The second man looked mad, when.the polite.man, taking off his hat, said; "My dear sir, I don't know which of us is the blame for this violent, encounter, but I am:into great a hurry to investigate. If I ran into you I beg your pardon; if you ran into me, don't mention it"— and he tore away at redoubled speei

The free use of intoxicants in Moscow during the coronation fetes calls Jo mind a story of the late Alexander 11. and thelatoColonel Galitzin, The latter officer ono day came reeling out of a restaurant disgracefully drunk. The Czar w.as passing, saw him, and ordered his arre'sfc. W,hen the offender was

brought before him, Alexander' 11. made some tfridignant remarks, and declared his determination to makenn example of him. " Put yourself in my place,",Jie cried, "suppose that you were the Emperor, and that you met an officer of your guard iithe state I see you now, what would you>say to him 1" "Sire," answered the qplonel, who seems to have retained some portion of his wits, "if I were emperor I would not address a single remark to' such a. brute." He heard no mOra about the' matter. "- - , .

In the conrse of a brewing season ■Bass and Co. send away 800,000 barrels of pale ale, the ,value of which is estimated at £2,400,000'. Tho firm employs about their premiss 225(? men and boys, and the' weekly Cages' amoimt to £2550 ; ' there are 185 managers and (Jerk's, the weekly aver-, age of whose salaries is £760. The malt tax and license duty paid to the Government is estimated at dfer 1280,000 per annum.

■'. Tlie;Rev, Joseph Oook.told a Chicago audience that..;'.'.we must take American journalism and reform it, and if we do not, break itineok and choke Its sensaThe papers have work of reform (says the Nqmstown;:.Hewld) by discontinuim? the. reports of Cook's leotures. JECo probably didn't mean that.

A village dootor going to visit a patient took his gun with him that he might wing any game he encountered in crossing the fields. A peasant, meeting him asked him where he was going. "To see a patient/' was the answer. ■ "What then," said the peasant, "do you really fear,to' mils him in the ordinary, way that you tike your gun with you}" " Horn's it that Wilkins and his wife live so happily together? Why/they're been, married two and twenty years and have never had a row." "Oh, that's a very simple matter. She is out the whole day washing, and he is a night watchman and out all nifht.

,■ Ram>:& Haee's2s BMm unequalled for purity and flavor. Try it I—Advt. Visitors to-Masterlon from the Empire City are loud in their expressions of astonishment at.the splendid displays of drapers' and milliners' goods to bo seen in the. windows of our various business establish-' meats. Mr G. W. Sanson's, .Hall of Commerce, receives special notice, and his stock of Parisian and other spring novelties |8 pronounced by persons whokve m all the fashionable oitiss'of the world to be the most recherche, ever seen in a oolonial'store.—Advt. ..WeLm',;,,"Rough-or CoiHra."—Ask for ■Wells'.;''i-Bpugh on Corns." Quick, re'lief, complete,' permanent cure. Contß, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss & Co„Sydney, General Agents. • Flies and Boos, beetles, ißseots.roaohes ants,_ bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack rabbits, cleared out by "Bough on Rats,' Moses. Mosfl & Co., Sydney, General Agents.

'Tho Spring importations of Mantles, Jackls, and Cokum, per steamer Doric, are the latest outcome's of fashion, and quite cast into tho shade anything previously shown at To Aro House. The Ma is a handsome dolman in the new Ottoman dota trimmed' with ohenille fringe, lace, and gimp. The Lydia is a charming visite .111 black cashmere, fully trimmed with lace fringe and jet ornaments. TheTWfo is an exquisite dolman, of extra length,' in broche silk, and is richly trimmed with fringe and jet pusemeneiie,:: The Zoraidt is a very •handsomely-trimmed dolman in Ottoman silk, bf the' newest and most fashionable .shape, The Robina, in soleil cloth, is a perfect gem of a visits, and is trimmed with laco and passementerie. A host of ladies' capes in cashmere, Ottoman cloth, brocke and Ottoman silks, chenille and silk netted, will repay an early inspection. About 200 choice costumes for ladies and children, and in satcon, cashmere, checked Nuns'cloth, Ac, are now being exhibited at Te Aro House, Cuba-street, Wellington,-[ADvr.]