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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 20 March 1884, Page 2

Mr J, Brown, watchmaker, in Manners-street Wellington, publishes a notice in our wanted column..

Dr Sinclair the celebrated Specialist on the teeth and month visits Masterton on Wednesday the 9tb of April.

f In another column Mr H. Lawson advertises some very cheap lines in the drapery and clothing department,, the sale of whioh is only to last another two or three weeks.

We notice that our enterprising firm' M, Casolberg& Co., are acting up to their motto of " Progress," They are calling for tenders through Mr G. Fannin, architect, for the erection of a brick buttery, which their ever expanding dairy connection has now rendered a necessity. ; . .

St, Luke's Vestry, Carterton, ismakirig, a special effort to liquidate its debt to its' former pastor-the Eev. Mr Western.

At Mr F. H, Wood's sale of pigs at the Taratahi Dairy Faotory on Tuesday, the following prices were realised;— Porkers from 12s to 30a; bacon pigs, 30s to 60s; sows with litters, LB to L 6. < Mr F. H. Wood reports the sale often acres of land on tbo Belvedere road, Carterton, the property of Mr Long, for 1350, including buildings. The purchaser is Mr H. S. Mason. Thirteen and a half acres of land in the Belvedere estate were sold at £1 per acre, and twen ly one acres at £0 per acre.

Miss Kate Lee, of the Salvation Army,

Maßterton, is frequently referred to as " Captain" Kate Lee. We are informed that her rank is simply that of a "full private," and that she is quite satisfied with the humbler designation. No doubt the public think that if she is'nt an officer she ought to be one. The school now conducted in-the Masterton barracks is a private undertaking of her own.

At the west end of Ihe restaurant in the Calcutta Exhibiton is«rofrigerating

room, "It is not intended," says the Englishman, " for meat or any such ' corpus vile'; it is intended for visitors,

who, when they become heated and tired from Bight seeing, can rest and recruit themselves bodily and physically in a temperature of 55 degrees. The walls are being hung with appropriate subjects, such as 'The Snowy Range,' 'Spitzbergen in the Winter,' and 'The Home of 'the Laplander. 1 The service of the table

will be in frosted glass, and visitors will greet each other in glacial tones of conventional politeness."

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Maslcrtou School Committee was held last evening. Present-Messrs Boddington (chairman}, Woodroofe, Johnston, Galloway, Bish, and Payton. The minutes of tho previous meeting having been read and confirmed, tho treasurer reported a credit balance of £il Gs 7/d. Correspondence was read from tho Board, notifying the appointment ot Miss Grace Walton as a probationer pupil teacher. Tho committee confirmed the appointment. Tho head master reported that the number of children on the roll was 540; average attendance, 387; highest attendance, 427; lowest attendance, 310. The low attendance was consequent, in his opinion, on an epidemic that had recently prevailed. Mr Woodroofe attributed the low average to the fact that the Catholic School took 75 children, and Miss Kate Lee's school 20 children. The chairman and Mr Johnston confirmed from persona] observation the statement of the head master. It was reported that High School fees amounting to £lB 10s had been received for the current quarter, and ihat a sum of £6 5s was owing for them. The following accounts were passed for payment .'—Smith and flog.', £2Bs9d; Mrs Shepherd, £2los ;G. M. Wood,£loaoi; S. Kingdon, 15s Gd; and J. Payton and Co., £1 7s 6d. Mr Woodroofe then rose to move the motion of which he had given notice; " That the number of holidays in the year shall not exceed 82, including Saturdays." Mr Payton pointed out that'the committee had no power to pass such a resolution. After Borne discussion, the chairman ruled the motion out of order, but allowed the mover lo alter lt.so that it would merely be a recommendation. Mr Woodroofe, in moving the amendment, accused the Legislature and the Government of a crime in depriving children of so many days instruction in the year. Mr Bish soconded tho motion pro forma, Children ne said might get too many holidays, but he believed that the committee had no authority to deal with the.question. Mr Woodroofe's motion was thrown out by the casting vote of the ohairman, Mr Woodroofe protesting against the chairman exercising such a vote. A question by Mr Woodroofe as to school expendi turo in scientific apparatus concluded the debato, Messrs Lowes and Payton were appointed visiting members for the ensuing month.

\ Who has not heard of Delmonico's, the celebrated and ultra fashionablo restaurant in New York city? So asks" Silver < Pen," of the Auckland Herald, and continues ;-A few weeks ago Charles. Delmonico disappeared. The theories Bet afloat ivoro numerous, and the last account was that lie had eloped with a lady to whom he used to send flowers in such abundance that it might have been reasonably supposed ho was going daft He would call at a florist's and ask the price of all ihe flowers. ■ He had for answer" £Bi " "Well, inako ihem up prettily, and send to etreet; and Mr Delmonico would pay down the money. Ho would send from more than .one store perhaps the same quantity, and (bat lady must have felt happy in her flowerdecked home. But on the 14th instant the sad news came that Delmonico's body had been found in New Jersey. The rich restaurant keeper had wandored from home—it is now said, under the effects of whiskey ; but the death was pitiful, since he was within half.a mile of rich friends. But he succumbed to the cold, and was frozen to death where he had sunk down, A man, passing him some distance from the place in a' waggon, refused to give him a lift, though Delmonico pleaded for help. The creature was "afraid of tramps," and left his fellow man to perish. Such are the last accounts of the death of the world renowned Charles Delmonico. A Scolding Womak.—The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law, are now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women scold when they are ill. instead of blaming them we should prescribe Hop Bitters, The entire system will undergo a genial, pleasant change, The nerves mil be quieted 'and acerbity of word and thought will give; place to amiability and affection. Healthy women ' do not scold or.fwt,'/,<Bead I 1

It ia reported that among the...last batoh of converts mndo by the local Sulfation Army detachment in a well known ex publican, Mr Booth, E.M., of Gisborne, has dis-missed-a oharge of Sunday trading, as the liquor sold w»s•'shandy-gaff," which js riot mentioned in the Act. :;' : : ■■■!s

■ Mr Donald Donald has a plantation'of hops at Solway, Anyone who would feel interested in seeing it had better take an oarly opportunity, as' hop picking' will commence within the next tew days; Mr Donald has grown his vinos as an experiment, and will bs quite willing to give his neighbors the benefit of his'experience - ■

;. On Tuesday afternoon, Messrs J. H, Bethuno & Co. held an auction at their rooms before an exceptionolly large attendance. Wild Fell station, Wbareama, the property of Mr John Moore, juu.,- was withdrawn at the reserved price, £3250; ; Mr Larkworthy, the London manager of the Bank of New Zealand, sent a frozen lamb to Mr Gladstono for the Ministerial dinner held in February (writes the ■Marlborough Express), and some time previously Mr Larkworthy sent a oouple of Limbs to the Prince of Wales. In order to further advertise New Zealand mutton it lias been arranged to have six frozen meat dinners tit the forthcoming Health Exhibition m London,

The Auckland Star says:—The consignment of Shropshire Downs rams by the Brenbilda were landed from' that vessel on February 26, and have attracted Irgreat deal of attention. It is to' the eiitorpriso of the Auckland Stud ■ and Pedigree Stock Company that the .introduction of these' sheep are due.. They, pave been recommended by the most reliable London butchering authorities as the best class with which to cross the sheep of this oniony to ensure good flesh making and wool growing animals. They have now been imported with the object of crossing the breeds, and the result of the experiment will be swaited with no small amount of interest by our sheep farmers.

Wa received the following telegram from the Press Association yesterday : " A thorough trial was made yesterday of Smith and Stenhouse's rabbit exterminators, They were tried in a number of various ways, but in no instance with success,, only two rabb'.ts being killed." In reference to the foregoing MrStenhouse writes to the Marlborough Daily Times:—Sir.—The result of the test of Stenhouse and Smith's maohines at Kaikoura has rather astonished me, for the Bimple reason that Inspector Poster, who, of course, ia quite inexperienced in the use of the machines, could not pos» sibly test them, thoroughly in one day, especially as an inexperienced man could not do justice to the merits of the exterminator under a week. The Association telegram mentions that two rabbitß were killed, and even that shows that the exterminator must have been effective considering the short time the fumes were allowed to act. : How oould 20 or 30 burrows be fumigated and dug out in the brief time Mr Poster devoted to his test ? For instanco, the burrows would have to be closed up for a day after the 'machines were taken away, to allow the fumes to penetrate thoroughly into all the side pockets, Besides a " thorough" trial would meau experimenting on all kinds of country, viz,, sandy, clayey, and on watercourse, And surely no one of common sense would undertake lo do that in a day, On March 4,1 telegraphed to Mr Foster: "Have decided to test machines at Kaikoura with you, Wil leave here on Saturday. Will this arrangement suit you ?"' Mr Poster replied on the 6th; " Shall be at Kaikoura from 10th to 14th." The floods prevenled my leaving for Kaikoura, and as ihe test would be of vilal importance to me, and I wanted to be presont, I asked Mi' Foster to postpone the trial to another date.

A publisher, calling attention to the fact that during the year 1883 no less than 349 works of fiction were published in England, says that readers do not .increase in proportion to the number of novels published. On the contrary, during the past two or threo years the .number of'readers of circulating library novels lias been steadily and largely decreasing, This, lie says, is probably to be accounted for mainly by the excess of fiction in other directions. Novel readers who used to resort to the libraries, now get their full supply in the daily, weekly, and monthly journals. While delving in the courtyard of the Cloister of Cordeliers in Paris to prepare for the Ecole Patrivuo, some workmen discovered some cinerary urns pierced with round holes and con taining human ashes, Theyare found to date back to the Roman period, France is rapidly reaching the condition in which the birth's are only just sufficient to supply the waste caused by death. In 1882, as compared with 1881, there were 10,000 more deaths, and 1500 fewer marriages. Sixty years ago,, under the Restoration, Prance would have doubled its population in 112 years, at the present rate the doubling would occur in 267 yearsj but for the steady immigration of an enormous body of foreigners into the country every year. A '• fiery cross" has been raised over St Agatha's Church in Philadelphia, resting on the steeple top, 185 feet above the pavement. The cross is madeieutirely of metal and glass, and is twelve feet in height, with an armspread of six feet..:-The, frame is of irbn, highly ■■ornamented and gilded, and holds encased one-quarter inch plate glass,, ten inches wide, making the cross to all appearances a glass one with gilt edges. Inside the cross a gas pipe, with a number of burners, is connected with a pipe carried up through the steeple, and the lighting will be by electricity. The great cross of fire will be visible for miles at night, and during the day will doubtless reflect the sunlight with brilliant effect. The design is taken from one of the great Venetian Churches. There is one like it on the church of "Mary, Star of-the Sea," in Brooklyn, New York, The following information about American colleges is given by the Independent:—Harvard College was named after John Harvard, who, in 1638 left 1 .0 the college £779 and a library of over 300 books; Williams College was named after Colonel Ephraira Williams, a soldier of the old French war ; Dartmouth College was named after Lord Dartmouth, who subscribed a large amount, and who was President of the first Board of Trustees; Brown University received its name from Nicholas Brown, who/was a graduate of the college, went into l business, became very wealthy, and endowed the college very largely; Bowdoin College was named after Governor Bowdoin, of Main; Yale College was named after Eiihu Yale, who made very liberal donations/to the-college,

One of the hind wheels of a buggy con' tainihg two young ladies, came off in Perry street this morning. Fortunately they were travelling slowly, otherwise there would probably have been a serious mishap.' '

::, Mess|| W. Harvey arid J, Perry, of the Masterton Football Olub, have been Med by the Wellington Union if they can go to-Australia with the New Zealand Football team in the event of their being selected. It is expected that the team will leave New Zealand about the end of May next. ' A revolting'story comes from Vienna of a man named' Schenok, who appears to have thriven for several years on Bystematised murder, flis victims were servant girls, whom he decoyed from their situations on promises of marriage, and when he had got possession of their savings be made away with them, The plan he usually followed was to bring them to some deserted place in the mountains, or by a river, where his design was easily accomplished. The case in • connection with which he has been arrested is of a singularly horrible ohavaoter. He enticed two sfsters to a country place near'Tienna, and he succeeded in murdering one of them, who had drawn her fortune of 2000 florins from the bank at his suggestion. He was actually completing his plans for disposing of the other sister, who had but half that sum, when' suspicion was aroused, It is said that.tho police have information of the mysterious disappearance of 14 servant's dnripg.the past two years, whose money'Sphenock will be found: W.havo obtained from, the banks. His brother,seems;td : !ba,implicated with him in these/ deeds, whioh for coldblooded : villany ; 'are. ; hardly excelled in the history of crime?-,. ,<;.■•. Don't die in ihehouse.—"Bough en Bats" clears out rats,' mice, beetles,- roaches, bed-bugs, flies,. ants t r msedts, moles, jack rabbits, gophers, 7j|d-. 1 N.Z.DrugCo. At this season—just the close of summer and with winter near at hand—there is always considerable activity, amongst the drapers, many of them are stock-taking, and most of them selling the balance of their summer stock to make:, room for winter goods. Some few .while stock-taking find that from the amount ot patronage they have received during the' Bummer .season they are .enabled to sell, the balance .'of their stock far cheaper than any.competitors in the same line, itifaot Messrs Owen, Schroder & Co., Hall of Commerce,, opposite" the, Olub Hotel at Masterton are at the present' moment offering a splendid selection of drapery at English oost price.—Advt. Winter NovßMiEs.-HooFEa & Co are now opening up their new season's goods for the winter trade. Speoial novelties in every department, L J. Hoopeh & Co., Bon Marohe\—Advt, '<

After several years experience in supplying watches for. the colonial market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English Lever Watch at a lower price than that usually paid for. such watches. It i is only b) the judicious division of labor and by the manufacture of' large quantities on a uniform plan, that we are enabled to meet this want We have now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunt'ng Silver Lever. Ibis watch, being simple in design durable, highly finished, and accurate, fulfils, a'l the requirements of a pocket timekeeper A written guarantee for two years will be given with each watch; 'Sent by post, securely packed, on recoipt of Post Office order or cheque.—(AdvtV '