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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 10 April 1884, Page 2

We direct attention to Messrs Kirkcaland Stains advertisement on our front page of their autumn and wintor shipmonts,

Messrs 6. and W, Smart, who purvey oysters aud other dainties, opposite the Theatre Royal, Wollington, offer their Wnirarapa constituents through our cohirflDß luscious new season's ohipments of bivalres.

Owing to the incleraonoyof the weather on Tuesday last/ tho riflo match arranged for between the Groylown School Cadets, and those of Featheraton, had to bo postponed.

We call attention to aunouuconionts in our advertising columns by Messrs Eeid and Meiklejon, tho well known ship brokers, merchants, and commission agents, of Wellington, referring to various engines and maohiues for which they aro the colonial agents, and to Trent's coffeo and stimulating boverago, which by its purity and flavor has won five soparato gold modal awards, ■■*' ■ The inquosfc hold on the fire that ocourrod a few weeks ago, when an unoccupied house belonging to Mr Walter Hoddcr was burnt to tho ground, returned a verdict that the origin of the fire was a most mysterious one, hut they had no evidonco to show how it originated.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Featherston Town Board was held on Monday last. Present-Messrs Reynolds (chairman), Gundy, Burt, Donald, and Hodder. Tho minutes of the previous meeting was road and confirmed. The following accounts were passod for payment :-W. Abbott. M 10s 9d; Bell, £5 Hi 7d; Keys, £4 Os 3d; Licensing Committee, £G ; Tait,' 13s Sd, The poundkeopoi's report was read and adopted, and a cheque received for M *}s Gd. The Ranger's report was received and fees to the amount of 10s handed in. The Dog Registrar reported 'havin? registered 28 dogs during the month, and fees received JS 14s Gd.' Correspondence was road from tho Domain Board asking for a grant of £lO in aid of building a shed for picnic parties; from the Clerk of the RalieghTown District re dual voting ; from Clerk of the Wairarapa West County Council acknowledging receipt of consent of tho Featherston Town Board to take over the main road; from the Property Tfts Department re Crown Lands; from Crown Landß Office ro application for reservo for pound purposes, It was resolved that £lO be voted to tfie Domain Board as applied for to assist building a shed' It was also resolved that after ths 30th of April stock be not allowed to graze outfitter 5 p.m. The meeting adjourned until Monday next, 14th

The ordinary timo table will be suspended on the railway to-morrow. The Mastevton Road Board meots on Saturday next. The Blue Ribbon Army at Carterton holds a picnic on Easter Monday.'. The Salvation Army in Masterton hold apicnio in Billington's paddock to morrow which, with fino weathor, must bo a success,

The Wesleyan community in Masterton will hold their customary toameeting tomorrow in the Schoolroom, and conclude it by an oveuing mooting in the Church, at which ministers and friends will deliver addresses.

■ A meeting of the Masterton Cemetery Trust convoned yesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum, Tho only members presnt wora Messrs Bunny and Payton. Notice is'given that tho offertories'on Easter Day at St Matthew's Church will be haudod over to the incumbent In accordance with tho regulations of the Diocesan Synod. A meeting of tho oroditors of Mr R, H. Ohtnchon is convened for the 16th instant, at 3 p,m., in tho Supreme Court Buildings, Wellington,-to consider the bankrupt's application for maintenance allowance, ponding the sitting of the local Oouit of Bankruptcy, ; Mr Benzie's skates were fairly well patronised in the Theatre Royal last night. Among tho rinkors wore some experts in vory good form, a few novices, whose trial trips along tho floor wore somewhat exciting, and other' wary wobblors' who managed without distinguishing themselves by Ihoir prowoss to avoid tumbles. We hope to see more present this overling to patronise this healthy and exhilarating pastime. The first of St. Matthew's winter entortainmonls for tbo ensuing soason is announced for Thursday the 17th inst,, when a full programme will bo prosented, in which, amongst others, the following ladies and gentlemen will take part, viz., Misses Beard, Nicol, Morison, and Holroyd, Mcsdames Paige and Freotb, and Mossrs Mooro, Wickerson, Bapp, and Gilmer. On this occasion a novelty in tho shapo of Mrs Jarley's livo waxworks will be introduced, ' In the prosont dull state of trade, writes our Groytown contemporary, when evory one is complaining, it is gratifying to know that wo are not rotrogading, This is manifest in Greytown at tho present timo in the building trade. Tho Rev Mr Knoll is orecting a commodious house for his family on tho Kuratawlnti road; Mr Hillinr, tho jowollor, is build" ing a shop and dwelling house next tho Council Chambers; Mr J, Lewis, tho photographer, has erected a small studio in front of his dwelling house; Mr Hornblow is effocting improvements in the building adjoiniug Dr Boy's and in* tends putting in a good shop front, and now the Trust is callins; for tenders tor the orecliou of a supper room for tho Town Hall,

A. short time ago a geutleman was about to loave Constantinople for London, and having among his luggage a very valuable copy of the Koran in manuscript some 500 ygars old, and for which as much as £OOOO was said to havo boon offered. It would have probably found its way into ono of tho European museums had not an inoiiisilivo Customhouse officer discovorod and claimod it as Stato property.

A dariug robbery was perpetrated the other day in a grocer's shop at Altonal. A stranger asked the apprentice, who was alono in the shop, for a pound of troaolo. When the young man asked what ho should put it in, the strangor took off his hat and told him to put it into that The unsuspecting apprentice smilingly complied ; but ho had scarcely filled the hat when it was suddonly clapped on his head. Tho strangor then proceeded to clear out the till, and, snatching up a few parcels of groceries lying on tho counter, "made tracks." The poor apprentice, who had great difficulty in golting rid of tho hat and tho sticky matter which covered his faco, shouted for help, but the robbor had by this time got clear away,

A football player in England had hii arm broken bv a blow from the ball,

Tho Duke of Edinburgh is writing an oporota, tho Libretto being by BretHarte.

The making of clay smoking pipes has been commenced at Ballavat. The Duko of Manchester once more purposes visiting Australia.

Ivan Llanos y Keats, Keats' nephew, son of Keats' only sister Fanny, is oaming some, roputo as a painter in Madrid.

The needle production of the world is 200,000,000 per week, and yet bachelors have shirts with tho buttons off, In Arabia the locust is an article of diot for man and horse. Boiied thoy are said to taste liko green whoat, Tho body of Professor Giovagnoli has boon cremated at Rorno. The operation was perfectly successful in forty-fivo minutes,

London has 105 disused churchyards, which are slowly beint? adopted for purposes of recreation, Thirty four of them liavo been fully completed. Hcad-constablo Doylo and five other Orangemen hive been committod for trial at St Jolm's, Newfoundland, for murdor during the lato Catholic and Orange riots at Harbour Grace.

In the English death rate there has been a rise in Ibo mean duration of lifo among males, averaging two years, and in females a gain of three yoars and a half,

A. tree standing perpendicularly has been discovered at a depth of 280 foet in boring an artesian well nt Son Barnardino California, Great pieces of wood, which appeared to be sycamore, wore brought up. In round numbers, the duty collected by ilia roraiuo officers in the United Kingdom on spirits amounts in ono year to £20,000,000, on beor to £3,000,003 or £1,000,000 on tobacco £8,000,000; but littlo more than £1,000,000 is paid as duty on wines of all kinds from all countries.

Intelligence received from Now Caledonia announces that a young man, tho son of Iho French superintendent of the station at Copiah, has boon carried off by the inhabitants of the island of Aoba, and eaten. The despatch boat Bruat was seul against tho cannibalhj, and baa returned with some of them as hostages. At Guy's Hospital a number of beds wore somo time ago sot apart for the reception of " paying palionts," and in January iho system of payment was extended for the first timo to all out-patients. They are required to pay the sum of 3d on receiving medicine or surgical bandagos, and Gd if a fortnight's medicine be supplied. The oiily exception is a case of extreme emergency or puverty. Recently at a wakoiu Ireland, the floor gave way, and mourners and corpse wore mingled in a badly-damaged mass at tho bottom of a well below the cellar. Pink-eye (says the Herald) a vimilent diseaso which has diminished tho stock in America, hasbroknn out in Rockhampton. A horse imported from Sydney is affected, A bill has been passed in New York making overhead telegraph wires illegal. Two years and a half are allowed to get rid of those already in oxistonco,

The Pope contemplates malting a new diocese at Oooktown, North Quoouslaiid,

It is proposed at Antwerp to bring thoro during the Universal Exhibition in 1885 the Great Eastern as abating' resturantand hotel, ~; .

One hundred priests at Ancona, Italy; have hold meetings with a view to-organ- ■ ise a strike in tho event of tho failure.of their efforts to have the amount paid for saying mass increased, In Edinburgh a circle of Christian ladies go every Sunday afternoon to the houses of tho poor in the alleys and oloscs, and take care of the children while the wearied mothers go to ohuroh. -In Germany oach town mußt now keep a record of all the hard drinkers, and the city medical men are bound to report those who habitually imbibe to exoess, so that tho authorities may subject them to a strict course of trentmout. A clock was set going at Brussols some time ago, which continuod togofor nine months, and had not run down when last heard of. An up draught is obtained in a shaft by exposing it to tho sun. This draught turns a fan, which winds up the weight of the olock till it roaches the top. It then works a brake which stops the fan until tho weight has gone down a little, when tho fan is freo to rcopramenco,

Exclusivo of the catch in Manitoba, in the north-west Provinces, the total value tlia catch of tho Canadian fisheries in 1882 was £3,804,818. Of this about £400,000 came to Great Britain, and nearly £500,000 went to the United States. The Ealilnon trado of British Columbia, which is j:apablo of indefinite development, is increasing. Tho total number of cases of canned salmon last year amounted; to 255,061, and ovor 6000 barrels of salted salmon wore also packed. . i - Victorian civil servants whose incomes oxcoeded M) 0 per annum had the right to travel over the railway lino 3 free ( a pretty sample of the work of democracy. Almost tho first act of the Kailway Commissioners was to knock the privilege on tho head,

A Southwurk, London, bootmaker, has sued tho rector of St, Saviour's Church, in that borough, for §SOO for sorvices rendered during his election to the chaplaincy, and the disclosures made are remarkable. Ho packed the church on Sundays when his candidate preached, and kept people away when the other candidato preached. The Baden Chamber has voted 00,000 m for tho preservation of Heidelberg, one of the finest and best known historical monuments in Germany, Mr '.George Macdonald |has been oditing with critical notes and an introductory essay, tho text of the first folio edition; of Hamlet.

English, tho pantaloon last Christmas at the' Brighton Theatre, was convulsing his audience with laughtor while his wife was being burned to death at Portsmouth, The Queen's new book contains eight portraits, her own first, followed by John Brown, and thai: follows, as a Yankee says " the other moinbora of tho Royal Family. 11 Tho Oobar pooplo petitioned the N.S.W. Government in reference to the drought, That it is sorious may be from tho fact that the first signature was James Hcnncssy! It is hoped that this year will aeo tho publication of a now volumn by M, Victor Hugo, entitled Les justes Cokes, which was written about twelvo years ago as a sort of continuation of InsAnneo Terrible.

About two years ago the Queen Greeted a vory pretty Swiss chalet in Ballochbuie Forest, near Balmoral. It has never yet been occupied by Her Majesty, and she has only visited it onco or twice in order drink tea there. The Queen iias sont orders to her head forester at Balmoral to havo the chalet taken to pieces for the purpose of showing it at the International Forestry Exhibition in Edinburgh, Madame Wo'kcnstein, a well-known Nihilist who was recently arrested, is said to be one of tho sisters of a lady celebrated for her beauty who has for some time been engaged iu the Kihilist propaganda, She is also suspected of having carried on a correspondence with Prince Krapotkine. One of her sisters lias already been transported to Siberia, and a second is at present under examination.

Some interesting statistics were giyen by the Chairman of the London Tramways Company at a recent meeting of the shareholders. In 1878, when the faro was 2d tor any distance travelled, the number of passengers carried was little more than ten millions, and the Company were earning no dividend, The introduction of the penny fares had considerably moro than doubled the number of passengers in five years, and the Company was able to secure a good dividend, William Nenglo, one of the bicylists who identified' Joe' Brady as being in the Phcenix Park on the evening the secretaries were assassinated, writes to the Dublin newspapers complaining that ever since he gave evidence he has been subjected to a system of persecution at the bauds of his neighbors, and has several times been severely beaten.

The Pope, it is said, has been informed that an English lady who has for some years allowed his Holiness £4OOO per annum, and who died recently, has bequeated to his Holiness a sum of £50,000.

The China papers comment on the circumstance that, " owing to the deplorable condition of tlie money market," consequent upon the unsettled state of political afEiirs and the probability of war, several Chinese bankers have committed suicide by taking large doses of opium. Their despair is stated to have been due in part to the severity of the law towards defaulting debtors in a country where Bankruptcy Acts are unknown.

You Can _Be Happy if you will stop all your doctoring yourself aud families with expensive doctors or euro-alls that do only harm, and use Nature's simple remedies for all your ailments, you will thon ba wll and happy and savo great expense, Tho great est remedy for this, tho great, wise and gcod will tell you, is Hop Bitters, See IloUoway's Oinlmcnl and Pilk,~i\ Cure for Abscesses, Piles, Fistula, and Sores of every description.—Tho very satisfactory results arising from the uso of this invaluable ointment, when the patients have been suffering from any of tho above disorders, have induced the Medical Profession to introduce it into the hospitals and their private practice, and in many instances whore the snffererwas considered incurable, Holloway's Ointment, in conjunction with his Pills, have relieved the most desperate oases, They aro also unequalled for the enre of scrofula, scurvy, and all diseases of tho skin, and tho < cures they effect aro not merely pirtial and temporary, for by their purifying powers they bring about a marvellous'and complete change in the wholo system, cnablhs it, with renovated powers, to resist the approach of all futtnrc attacks of smilan"- nies,

. {Mr Hugh W. Jackson, of Kopuaranga, caution persons';:against shooting on his property-at Avondole, hear tho Oarap, without his permission, He also requests that any cattle running on hie land bo removed after;thia>dit'e.

Messrs;; made their first trip to!the 1 railway,station oyeslerday with their" new, ,'bjiß, a most gorgeous veliiolß which has' juft beon turned out at the workshop;,of Messrs Muir & Dixon, the premier coach builders of tho Warn* rapa. ; It has. beet) designed to carry forty is drawn by'.three horses running abtoast in tho shafts, or can be drawn by two with a pole. It appears to. run very lightly, and to fully answer the expectations of its proprietors. In external embellishments it is a marvel of the decorator's art, and its interior, fittings are. of. the' most comfortable descriptions. Travellers to Masterton will have no reason to complain of 'bus accommodation whilei'iTlie Eoyal Mail' and ' The Favorite' are on the road,

It is proposed at' Antwerp to bring there during the Universal Exhibition in 1885 the Great Eastorn as a floating restaurant rnd hotel,

After several years experience in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejolm and Son, of Lambtoii Quay, Wellington, havo. observed the nqed for a thoroughly sound English Lever Vatoh at a lower price than that usually paid for such watches. It is only bj the judicious division of labor and by the manufacture of 'largo quantities on a uniform plan, that'we aro onabkd to meet this want We havo now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever. This watch, Ijoing simplo in design durable, highly finished, and aocurato, fulfils, all tho requirements dlap'ijpko't timekeeper. A written : 'guarantee'f(r two-years will be given with each waich. Sent by post, securely packed, on roaipt of Post Office order or cheque.—(Advt\

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