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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1654, 7 April 1884, Page 2

The Premier speaks to his constituents tbia evening. The uaiial fortnightly sitting of the R, M, Uoutt at Peatheraion falls due to day, Parliament meets for the despatch of DUtineßi oil' June 6th. Last year it opened )D June 14th, ' ; . (

_ A serioa ot revival sorvicoa takes place in the Proabytei'ian Ghurcl>, Masterton. this wook. Tho first commences this evening.

A special meeting of tho Phoenix Lodge 1.0. G.T. will be held this evening to consider the advisability of erecting a new hall on tho reserve site in Dixon-st.

Tondersaro invited in another column, by the Wellington and Manawatti Railway Company,.for another railway sloeper contract,

An adjourned meeting of creditors in tho estate of O'Malley and Popperell takes placo at tho Supremo Court, Wellington, to-day,

Mr Walter E, Hall, Dentist (registered by tho Medical Council of London), announces tjiat hd purposes shortly visiting tho Wnirarapa/ Hia advertisement is in another column.

The Union and Working Men's Club, i,early opposite the Theatro, is now opened for board and residence by Mr P. Christianson, late of Perry, st, , . All accounts due for or against ttie late Mr S, E, Chamberlain must be sent in before Saturday next, the 12th instant to Mrs Elizabeth Chamberlain.

Mr F. Cooper, the well-known seedsman of tho Empire City, has removed to a new brick building three doors below his old premises, and exactly opposite the Arcade, Manners street,

We hear that Messrs Feist and Perry aro the retiring members in the Town Lauds Trust at the coming election. ' ' Somo half-dozen members -of the Masterton Mo corps have, put ddivn .their names to go down to the Easter oilcampment, but it is not expected that any very larjo number of the men will be able to take part in it, Mr Wardell will be unable to hold his usual fortnightly sitting 111 Masterton on Thursday next, as he will be in Wellington 011 that date, but has, we understand arranged to lake the case against Mr Ellers at ton o'clock to morrow morning. The Salvation Army at Masterlon held a successful ' blue ribbon meeting 1 on Satuiday evening, its harmony being somewhat disturbed by an unsought for testimony from the notorious Ellors. On Sunday _ morning, too, the assistance of tho police was in requisition to avert rowdyism, A correspondent in another column calls atteniion to a brawl in Queen street which took place on Saturday evening at a late hour, between two largo parties of navvies who had been dnjoying themselves. We unders'and that there was a good deal of bad language, but that no blood was shed in connection with the affair,

The following repot t in Saturday's Post suggests how colonial companies are formed and candidates for Parliimentary honors are trained :-"Thos, Dwan, ■auctioneer, deposed that at the solicitation of Cook ho allowed himself to be appointed a dirootor of the compuny, He received fifty paid-up shares in order to qualify himself, and acled as a director for a month or two. After some weeks.he got a letter demanding £3710s for calls, and ho then repudiated all oonnection with tho company," A mooting of tho shareholders of the ICuripuni Public Hall Company was con* vened on Saturday evening last under nn impression that five persons could carry out tho business intended to lie brought forward, which upon studying the Act was found to be incorrect, and consequently could not be done. It was therefore decided to wait and take other steps and if necessary call another meeting by sisoveu day's notice, when each director would endeavor to get one or more shareholders to accompany him to the meeting, so as to be enabled to carry out the affairs in accordance with the provisions of the Joint Stock Companies Act- under which the Company is formed,

A prize of two guineas wag recently offered by the Journal ot Education (England) for the best list of the " ton greatest living Englishmen of letters." Five hundred and twenty two lists were accepted which showed that Tennyson is (he moat popular English author, .being mentioned in 501; Buskin comes next" being mentioned in 462; and Mathew Arnold third, with 453 mentions, Thon came the following in order of .their names: Browning, Froude, Swinbourne, E. A, freeman, Spencer, Cardinal, John Morloy, William Moris, Huxley, Gladstone, Leoky, Parrar, Professor Stephen, Lewis Morris, William Black, Shorthouse, Blackmore, Max Muller, Justin M'Oarthy, and George McDonald, Mallock strange to say, was mentioned by only eleven. Iu the nart of the Hungarian capital lying just across the Danube from Pestl;, a whole family has baen poisoned , by, : an escape of gas, which had penetrated into the house from a disused pipe buried under the rnins of another house at somo distance. When everybody in the house became ill the doctor was sent for, and he said symptoms of gas poisoning were apparent, but., as no gas was used in the houso ho was unable to account for it, and left alter administering some medi« cino. The patients wero relieved and went to bed, but next morning five of them were found dead and four others in a hopeless condition. Only a nurse and a child who happened to have tlieir faces buried in the. bedclothes have recovered 1 . One of Iho victims was the grandmother of the children, who had come the night before on hearing of the illness of the family,

The great family of Smiths (says London Figaro) occupy fifteen closely printed 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 one ns Thin, but there are two 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 a thousand pounds for the relief nf captives held by Turkish pirates, and a thousand pounds to poor kinsmon. Towards tho end of last centure, 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 800. The value of tho charity is now some £12,000 a year. _" Fortunes made in busines" is the title of an elaborate work of about 700 pages which is being prepared for the press. It purposes to he a series of origmal sketches by various writers, selected from recent events in the history ooff f industry and commerce, and will be mainly biographical and anecdotic, In about two months there will be published an aiisvver'to Max O'Kell's "John Bull and his Island," in the shape of a description of France and a characterisation of the French people as they are, from the pen of Mr Brinsley Richards, author of" Seven Years at Eton," " Sic Stafford Northcote's Eton Days," &o Mr Richards was for several years a resident in Paris, being connected with tho French diplomatic service,

: The popularity of the Chinese Am« bassador at Folkstone is quits unprecedented, It was some sort of triumph for that watering place when he selected it, butit was never thought that he could be more than a summer visitor. But the' Marquis Tseng—so far aa an ambassabor. oan be a permanency—is one. His " lares'' and fi ponatea," and, what is more, his oookß and bis babies, are settled down at the honso as Susees gardens,

Residents of Masterton fond of the gracoful and exhilarating exercise of linking will have an opportunity of indulging in that reoroatiori on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the Theatre Eoyal, Mr Chas, Benzie has made arrangements for the use of the building, and has a large'supply of improved roller skates, a specimen ififc which lies at this office for inspection.

At the Eoaident Magistrate's Court on Friday, during an argument .011 the advisability of adjourning several oases, Mr Shaw said it was a serious injustice, not only to members of the. legal profession but to suitors generally, that no magistrate was appointed to preside permanently. at tho Bench. Mr Travers said that the-Government officers who sat snug in their offices had very little idea of tho duties of the Wellington magistrate. Mr Wardell, who occupied the Bench, said that ho was as much in a fog about tho arrangements of.the department as when ho first came to towu, It really is a glaring injustice that a Court having as much business before it as the Resident Magistrate's Court should not have a magistrate who could preside from week to week during Mr Hardoastle's absence, -NZ. Times, ,

The story of tho breakdown of the White Star steamer Celtic, a ' day after leaving New York is not without its pathos, For eleven long days had the Celtic boen rocking on the booad Atlantic when a horrid dread follupon the passenThe whiskey and brandy wero running short, On the eleventh night drinks had 11 be curtailed; the smoking room steward, with tears in his eyes, bogged of his customers. to reduce their orders for 'cocktaiis, 1 and to- try and cultivate a taste for bottled boor; and the thirsty passengers began to otter that officer heavy premiums for extra drinks. But drooping hoarts revived on the twelfth morning, when the good, ship Britannio, also of tho White Star Lino, camo to the rescue of her sister vessol, and, previous to taking her in tow, sent off a boat with a further supply of whiskey and brandy. A great shout went up to heaven from tho parched throats of the Celiie's passengers IS the little boat cams alongside of them. They were saved!

The Poll Mall Gazette bas tha following: — l ' One Cossack killed and two wounded.' This legendary formula, with which the Russian generals were onco supposed to conclude all their telegrams is hopelessly thrown into the shade by the list of tho casualties sustained by the Hovas at tho recent bombardment of Mahanovo. The Trench bad fired two hundred shells into tile town, but the official report of their proceedings sums up tho result as " one pig killed and one wounded," Two hundred shells to hill one pig! There is a -literary skill displayed in this concise statement which smacks of Western civilisation. Tho missionaries ought to feel very proud ot their pupils, Meanwhile we may lake it that whether they killed one pig at Mahanoyo or half a dozen the artillery practice with which the French are wiling away tlioir time on the coast of Madagascar is far from brilliant.

The tables wore properly turned on two "gentlemen" who figured as Sundaytrading informers at the Kew (Victoria) Police Court on a recent occasion, and this is how the ease is stated in a Melbourne exchange just to band. We give it for tho benefit ot any who may contemplate following the same " honorable" occupation in this colony:—Thoy brought tl charge of Sunday trading against a local publican. In cross examination, however, they admitted that before being served thoy were aslied if they were bona fide travellers, to which query they answered 1 yea,' Tho caoe was of course dismissed. This was bad enough for the gentlemen going in for the new profession of' informer' but worse remained behind, The two informers were iihmediatolv charged by the publican with a breach of the Licensing Act in falsely representing themselves as bona fide travellers. The case was proved, and the informers wore each fined £5, or in default a month's imprisonment No one will complain at turning of the tables, for however desirable it may be to punish the slightest infringement of tha law, it is monstrous to think that tho informers should actually tell lies to procure the breach of the Act, The business of an informer in Melbourne appears to bo like the burlesque policeman's lot—' not a happy one.'

All-American young lady was on the shove of the Bay of Naples, enjoying herself, and a blue kerosene barrel came floating along, a barrel such as is used to ship kerosene from America, The girl looked at tho messenger: from home, got to thinking of her native land, and became so homesick that she started for home by the first ship. This loyalty to home, love of one's native land, is in all hearts, When away from home, the sight of the most com-mon-place thing from tli6 dear place of nativity, seems sweet indeed. Tho Milwaukee lady who was in Mexico and saw , a canvas ham hanging in front of a store, labelled with the name of a ■ Milwaukee firm, and wanted to hug the ham, and cried as she passed • it, was made homesick by the sight, The Milwaukee woman in California who wanted to get down on her knees in front of a Milwaukee beer sign, in front of a saloon, illustrated her loyalty to home. The Chicago lady, visiting in New York, who found a news-boy selling her favorite western paper, and felt so happy that she wanted to take him in her . arms and squeeze him, is another illustration of how a thing from home of however little consequence breaks a person all up. But it seems, laughable to those who do not understand-it, to see a person go into ecstacies over a kerosene barrel, or a ham or a beer sign, or a newspaper from home. They do not understand it, unless they have been there, 'Thick deads.—Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions— 11 Wells' May Apple KM'-anti-bilious, cathartic,. Set and la. N. Z. Drag

"Dame Fortune," she is generally called, but they whom she has not smiled upon are apt to leave off the V in her title when speaking of tho said lady.

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You Can Be Ham* if you 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 be well and happy and save great expense. The greatest remedy for this, the great, wise and' good will tell you, is Hop Bitters. See ■ , THE STARTLING AUGMENTATION OF OASES of kidney diseases recently developed, ring out a tocsin of alarm to all who have even slightly sufiered with these ins dious .complaints. This signal should bo heeded, and precautions taken against thoir attack, by a speedy resort topurely diuretic and tonic remedies, Of these none aro so effective;-Bp.sjile, so certain, so generally vSNuSuIF "S" SOHIEDAM AKO -