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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 31 March 1884, Page 2

Major Atkinson is expocted to address [he Egmont electors this week.

This is the last day on which freo press passes are available on the New Zealand railways, No less than sixteen bankruptcy cases will be before the Courts in Wellington to-day, It. is said that Sir William Fox has been asked to stand for Thorndon i

Messrs T. Hill and T. Wagg, of this town aro off by tho Tarawera to seo the Sydney races.

A general meeting of the Wairarapa Coursing Club will ho held at tho Club Hotel 011 Wednesday evening next. We believe that Mr F. Maunsell will bo returned unopposed for the seat in the East County Council, recently vacated by Mr John' Williams,

The Woodside sawmills, formorly in tho occupation of Mr A, Armstrong, wero sold on Friday last as a going concern by Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co., realising £OSO, Mr Alexander Scott Duncan being the purchaser. Wo are informed by a traveller that thero is a dangerous hole in tho main road on tho Greytown side of the Waiohiuc bridge, which needs the attention of the authorities,

The Salvation Army at Masterlon are arranging a Me lor Good Friday, Yosterday tho services were held in the Theatre Royal, pondme tho completion of tho alterations to the barracks und as usual wore extremely well attended, Yesterday morning might he heard simultaneously in Masterlon. (1) the Church bell, (2) the Masterton Volunteer hand, $) a Salvation Army serenade in the main street, The day between Saturday and Monday is becoming the liveliest in tho week in this town. .

• The police lmyo been watching for tho ox schoolmaster who assaulted his Maori wife on Friday night, but it is BUppo<ed that he managed to yet away from Mas' ten on Inst night, Ho had money at his command, and probably was able to procure assistunco to evade arrest. Tho Masterton Volunteers hold a chuioh parado yesterday. Ab they appeared in their gay new uniforms nnd wore headed by the baud, thoir progress towards ilie sacicd edifice attracted ut good deal of notice, The number of mon on parado was thirty-two. Tho service, in tho a'nsenco of tho llev W, E, Paige, was read by Mr I)\ G, Moore. Tho half-yearly meeting of llio Masterton and 0| nki Jockey Club was held at the Club Hotel on Saturday evening last, Thero was a fair attendance of members, Mr Lowe?, ihe president, being in tho chair. & letter was read from Mussts R, Welch and R. Campbell, offering to soil the Club 322 acres for a course. Tho president said a meeting might have been called at an earlier date to consider tho question of a course, but with the prospect of a bad harvest ho bad thought that it was undesirable to go into tho mailer before the present meeting. Mow, however, tint a fair harvst had been secured ho thought they were in a position to lako up about ISO acres at a moderate price. Their last race meeting was a successful one, and he considered that they would be justified in incurring mi annual liability of £7O or £'Bo a year for interest, Aftor some discussion it was resolved on the motion of MrHessey, That failing satisfactory arrangements being made with Mr H, Wolch to cominMtee should be empowered the invite applications for selling or leasing a suitable site to the club, Tlio total number nf blue ribbons issued in Vicioria to date is 22,817, and the number of new pledges taken 10,811,

'Truth' declares that tlio Queen has decided to make the rooms in Windsor Castle occupied by the late John Brown sacred to his memory by permanently closing ihcm, and that a future Eoyal determination is to place a large braes plato on tho door of his sitting-room recording bis virtues and deploring his loss.

A Victorian surveyor, Mr Easton Johnstono, was killed on Sunday, March 9, in a mcst unexpected manner. He and his survey party wero camped at tho Gerangameto Valley (near Colac), when ouo of them undertook the felling of a tree for the purpose of obtaining a hive of honey, Tho tree rebounded, and, striking the decoaced, shattered his right leg froiii hip ankle, boaides inflicting other internal injuries. Dr Elliot reached tho sufferer beforo ho died, but not in time to be of any service,

Tho "Victorian Minister of Education is so impressed with tho neccessity which exists for tho adoption of some effectual means of (jelling into tho State schools the largo unniber of children who are to bo seen playing about the streets of the suburbs in almost all directions during school hours, that he has eiven instructions for tho holding of a confe r once of the seven Truant Uflicors engaged in and around Melbourne, in the hope that they may bo able to euggoat some means of improving the present sjstera and thereby securing the attendance of the childron ia question.

Mr J. J. Jewitfc, the original publisher of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," lias sent to an American paper an account of the circumstances under which that hook appeared. He says that he might have obtained the copyright for SOdols (£10), but ultimately other terms were arranged by which the authoress got a cheque for 10,000 dols (£2000) on account within a very few days after publication, and shortly afterwards she got another for the like amount, The book first appeared in two volumes; suul of this edition no less than 320,000 copies were sold in twelve months.

The Athenanun states that a new volume of essays by George Eliot is shortly to le brought out by Messrs Blackwood and Sons. It will contain all that the author was williug to have published of her contributions to periodical literature and somo short essays which have not hitherto been printed. The republished essays were all left by George Eliot ready corrected for the press.

In consequence of the cable received from London, Owen, Schroder & Co. are now offering their splendid stock cheaper than ever, Remember 1 this sale is a bona fide one, See and believe,—[Advt], Yot; Can En Him if yon will stop all your doctoring yourself and families with expensive doctors or oure-alls that do only harm, and use Nature's simple remedies for all your ailments, you will then ba w«ll and happy and save great expense. The great est remedy for this, the great, wise and good will tell you, is Hop Bitters, See

Messrs M. Oasolberg & Go. announce that they lmvo opened up a very cboico shipment of new season's milliuiry and' dress Roods, the first show of which takes place to-day. Mr F. H, Wood is offering for private salo an 8 horso powor steam engine, flax mill machinery complete, and furm imblpnignts. Also dog cart; horses, BCiddioa/liarriGss, &c., &o.

The Taranaki Herald stales that Mr Coloman, of Messrs Bell, Coleman, and Co., is coming to Now Zealand for the purpose of introducing (lieir' refrigerating midlines, and will ship mutlon home for. the firm, In connection with the visit of Mr W. G. Marsh, secretary of the Melbourne Young Men's Christian Association, it may bo of interest to his friends to know that when Mr Marsh readies Melbourne ho will havo been away from that placo 42 days, 18 of which were spent in travelling 3820 miles, leaving 24 days for work, in wliich he addressed QO.GTI persons at 85 different meetings,—N. Z. Times.

. Mr A. Forbes and Mr A Trollopo have remarked on the profuso waslo and lavish expenditure of nasty language in tho Australian colonies. A Melbourne correspondent of tho Pivsj said it was very much impressed with the troth ot these remarks the oilier ovening when in tho company ot some two dozen men, chiefly Australian youths, who were enjoying tho cnol moonlit evening after a hard day's toil, The conversation was lively; and sometimes humorous and original; but in almost all individual instances, defaced, degraded, and rendered repulsive by ; the disgusting adjective excrescences,

A lull prompted by the Church of England Temperance Society in England, is to be introduced into the House of Commons to abolish grocers' licenses to sell spirits retail. The great family of Smiths (says London Figaro) occupy fifteen closelyprinted columns in the commercial department of the newly'published Post Office London Directory, and the Browns eight columns, Only one man in London is given as Fatt, and only ono Thin, but there are two named Stout. It is not generally known that there is in existence a charity for poor Smiths. It was left upwards of two centuries ago by an alderman of that name who bequeathed ut thousand pounds tor the relief of captives held by the Turkish pirates, and a thousand pounds for poor kinsmen. Towards the end of. last century, there . being no "captives" to relieve, an Act was passed to devote all the bequest to poor kinsmen, and a few years ago these had increased to between 400 and 500, The value of the charity is now soma £12,000 a year,

John Williams, a blacksmith, met with his death in a singular way at Plantation Creek, Queensland, on tho Bth inst. Two alligators had been caught aiul secured in a net on board a coasting steamer, and deceased was standing looking at them, when ono.of them snapped at him. He started back and fell down the hold, receiving such injuries that he died next morning,

Two thousand two hundred trains enter and leave London each day. Of these, there are only sixty-eight which do not carry third-class passengers. In Paris there arc 110 trains which do not carry third class. The correspondent of an up-country pap- r tells an amusing story about; a Chinaman. " John" was having a ride along tlio road with him in his trap, and in the course of conversation, says the writer "John addressed me as follows:—'You EnglccshmanT To which I replied, 'No.' 'You Scotsman? My reply to this being 'Yes,' John proceeded, 'Lot your countreemen this countree.' Again I had to reply ' Yes.' As I said so a smile crossed tho features of my olive-coloured companion, and played about the neatly cut corners of his mouth until it gradually advanced like a tidal wavo over tho whole of his oval countenance and with one of the ' heathen smiles that are childlike and - bland' he remarked 'Worry good men make money.'"

M. De Lesseps, the eminent French engineer, rears his children in the greatest simplicity. In diet, dress, and all habits of life, he endeavors to make their conditions as nearly natural and healthful as possible. He attributes his own retnarkablo vigor and vitality at an advanced age to the fact that his father entertained the same views respecting child rearing, and brought him up " like a young savage," at least in many respects. Ho asserts that " children of the rich aro over-fed, over-dressed, and under-exerciscd."

A seven-storeyed hotel on the American principle with 250 bed and sitting rooms is now building on the Strand opposite the new palace of justice. [Before long the new law courts will be encircled by a multitude of hotels erected on tho site of the slums that now cluster round them.

Gorged Livers. Bilious conditions, constipation, dyspepsia, headacho curod by "Wells May Apple Pills." 5d and la boxes it druggists. Moses Moss k Co., Sydnoy. General Agents for Australasia, ..

The wife of Mayor Barker, the head of the Salvation Army in Melbourne, recently presented her husband with a slaughter, and the fact is thus chronicled by the War Cry" Recent event: On Thursday, February 7, a bonnie hallelujah lass was born at 17, George street, Fitzroy, Major Barker is the happy father; Our dear friend, Mrs Barker is happy and comfortable. The baby—well, it is a fine baby, a picture for parents and grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, a model Salvation Army baby! Hallelujah."

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Two hundred years ago the only Jews in New York city were twentyseven exiles from Brazil. To-day there are 80,000, and they have thirty-one synagogues. Benefactors.—' 'When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced,.the discovery that by combining some well-known valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which would euro such a wide range of diseases that" most all other remedies could be dispensed with, "many were skeptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that great mediae Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by a 1! as benefactors," Bead

Winirb Novbwies,-Hooper & Co aro now opening up their new season's goods for the winter trado. Special novelties hrevery department, L, J. Hoopeh & Co., Bon Marche.—Advt.

The Crown Prihco of Portugal, who is but 20 years of age, converses fluently in fourteen languages, and has collected a valuable library of 40,000 volumes. Don't die ik the house.-" Hough en lists' 1 clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bags, flies, ants, insects, moles, jackrabbits, gophers. 7}d. N. Z, Drug Co.

..The New York Journal says:— ut Bonanza Flood's daughter will inherit $35,000,000. She is the sort of Flood that, if taken at' the tide, may lead her,husband on to fortune." Flies and bugs,-Beetles, insects, roaehss ants bed-bugs, fats,,mice, gophers, jack, rabbits, cleared out by " Rough on Hats7Jd Moses Moss iC'o,, Sydney, G metal Agents

If the report is true that the salt wells at Maine city each yield 400 barrels of salt per day, we fear tho Saginaw, wells will need some kind of protection against them before long.

After several yoars experience in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lainbton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English' Lever Watch at a lower price tliau that usually paid for suoh watches. It is only b) the judicious division of labor and by the manufactuio of largo quantities on a uniform plan, that wo are enabled to moot this want We havo now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea, Hunting Silver Lever. This watch, being Bimple in design durable, highly finished, and accurate, fulfils, all the requirements of a pocket timokeopei. A written , guarantee for two ytm will be given with oach watch. Sent, by post, securely packed, on receipt of Post Office ordor or cheque.—(Advt) •