The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1884. POMOLOGY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 15 April 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1884. POMOLOGY.

The Melding Star recently urged set'tiers, in anticipation of the completion of the WellmgtoiwVlamuvfttu Railway, to cultivate fruit trees in order to be able to supply the Wellington market. Before our own railway was opened wo had a sort of an id n a in the Wairarapa that we might keep the Empire City in apples and peaches. . Long-years liave since passed, and wo have found that instead of stocking the Wellington fruit shops we have still to be stocked by them. That fruit growing is profitable is generally admitted, and it is almost a puzzle that more has not been attempted in such a pursuit. We believe that there is a fair prospect of the Wairarapa fruit growers being in another year or two in a position to supply local requirements, but it will evidently be many years before they will bo able to produce a surplus yield for Wellington, There is at le?st one large orchard in tins neighborhoodMr McUakdle's- which will go a long way towards supplying Masterton, and there are a few smaller ones to supplement it. Fruit-growing requires a considerable outlay of capital, the returns from it not being very appreciable for the first few years. This, of course, only applies to the larger fruits, the smaller ones, such a goosberrics, raspberries, and currants, bringing in quicker returns. Unless some settler of large means should make fruitgrowing a hobby in this district, it will bo some time yet before it can be regarded as a leading local industry; and yet with our favorable soil and climate it ought to take this position. The problem of establishing "pomology" as as a local industry might be solved by co-operation. We believe a company with a capital of a few thousand pounds would, after a while, yield very good dividends if it went systematically to work to grow lame and small fruits, as well as fruit trees, for the market, New Zealanders are a fruit-eating people, and even it the local supply were to exceed the demand there would be the jam export trade to fall back upon, which would sweep off all surplus stocks, For some fruits, apples in particular, this district will hold its own against any in the e'olony, as far as soil and climate is concerned. The season for planting fruit trees is about to begin, and if our Settlers' Association, which has already expressed an interest in this subject, can induce residents either singly or collectively to plant trees, we may yet some day vie with Manawatu settlers in supplying the Wellington market.

Mr H. J, Percy advertises two hundred bags of grass seed foe sale.

A drunk named Cunningham was lined five shillings this momma by Mr Wardeil B.M.

The ordinary fortnightly mooting of the Masterton Oddfellows' lodge 'takes place this evoning,

The first of the new bogie carriages has boon placed on tho Wellington and Mas terton railway, and ran up to this terminus resierday, The annual meeting of Ilio Masterton Town Lauds Trust takes place this ovening, The report to bo presented appears in another column,

All immense amount of pigeon shooting was accomplished yesterday in tin's naighhorhood. Few sporismen returned without a hau1.....

Mr Clayson is about to re-appear on (lie block, but this time lie announces himself as the baker of Perry's Block and tenders are iuvited in another column for the removal of a building and Iho erection of a bakehouse and oven in that locality. Ml' Fellingham arrived in Masterton yesterday from the Wellington Hospital, whore he has endurod a long and tedious illness following upon the surgical operation for which he went lo town, He is still very weak and requires the greatest care and attention, bat we trust in the coursoofafewweeks to' be able to see him got back to his old business establishment in Queen-street.

Messrs Lowes k lorns add to their sale for to-pjonow a line of 10 store pigs and a quantity of leather, The sale list will bo as follow :—IOOO crossbred ewes, 1000 orossbred lambs, 600.hvo.tooth ewes, 500 two tooth wethers, 500 Merino wothers, 250 fat wethers, 50 Romney ewes, pack saddle, tools, and sundries. The following lines give the names of all the njonarchs of Englrnd since the conquest :-Two Williams, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Dick,, John, flal, three Hals quick, two Edwards,-Lick, tea Harrys, and a Ned, Mary, Bess, Jameß, and Charles, who lost his head, Charles, James, Will, Anne, four Georges and a Will, and Queen Victoria who is still reigning. EACH OFTHEFBUR SEASONS brings in. its train some hurt to the human Bj'stcm. Spring is prone to stir up the biliarv soorctions. Summer to ovcrrato the frame and. superinduce lassitude:' Tho dcivs of Autumn are known to be deleterious, and tho inclemency and sudden sovero changes of winter, trj the best constitutions.l'lt.is. therefore both politic and prudent, to keep oh hand, invariably, a good supply of UDOLPHO.WOIjra SCHIEDAM AROMATIC BCMAPrS,

Tho most exciting topic of conversation in U\o anions of the Fronch Jockey Club at this iniimont is Iho admitted fact that Count Frederick do Lagrange, in.apite of liia largo winnings on tho turf in Franco and in England, died over four millions of franca in debt, The sale of all; his property will fail to' meet this enormous demand. Count de Lagrange owed Mr Jonnin«s, his Newmarket trainer, some £2OOO when he died. In 1881, there wore, in India 88,456 true Britishers, of- v/hom 68,7G0 were soldiers; and from theso figures it Is obvious that the pure,' 1 alien population" as it is called by Babu orators, is not increasing very rapidly. The statistics of these British subjects reveal some curious fads, Thoro were, for instance, 13,948 married men and only 7943 married mmiioii in tho country.on the night when the census was taken. ' Where the other 0005 wives where (loos not appear,. The celebrated brood-' mare Ciller Ou, bred in 1858, bud to he shot early this year, having become crippled with tho rheumatism, As a two year old she ran twelve tunes, winning thrice. She won Doncastor St Leger, by a head from lOUtledititn, who siartidnt 0 to 4, the winner going out at 1000 to 15, bhe won Iho Northumberland Plate twice. During her career she won no loss than thirty" four Queen's Plates, Caller On was by Stockwoll out of Haricot. ;

Some very interesting old playbills were secured hy Mr E, AY. Cole at the sale of Mr Garner's effects, and are'now on view in the secondhand department of his book arcade in liourke-at,, Melbourne The earliest dates back as far as 1758, and contains the announcement of Sheridan's final performance of the part of Shylnck in the "Merchant of Venice." The others are dated 1707, 1774, 1781, 1798, 1810, coming down to 1819, Tlia casts comprise tho names of England's greatest I'ranDdians, including Garrick, Kemble, Mncready,. W Farren, Fawcett, Miss Terry, and Mrs Philip?, One of the billa is printed on satiu, and announcesa bom. fit to Mrs Garrick, at Liveipiol, in 1810, The collection if not unique, is certainly a rare one, and will, no doubt, bo inspacted with groat pleasure hy old play goers. An excellent collection of the portraits of old and modern actorj is also on view beside the playbil's. A charming story wai told to Mr Con way by ,in intimate friend of the novelist. One wintry day, Hawthorne received his official notification that his services would no longer be required, "With honvinossof heart he repaired to his humblo home, His young wife recognised tho change and : stood watching for tho silenco lo be broken. At length he faltered—" lam removed from oliico." Then she.left iho room. Sho returned with fuel and

kindled a briuht. firo with hor own hands, Next sho brought pen, paper, ink, and set them before him. Then sho touched tho sad man on the shoulder, and,.as he turned'to tho beaming face, said—•'.Now you can write your book." Tho cloud bleared away, Tho lost office looked like a cage from which ho had escaped. " The Scarlet Letter was written, and a marvell ous success rewarded tho author and his stout hearted wife, She was a woman worth loving,

The latest idea in tho fashionablo world of New York that is noticed in the newspapers is that of thistlo costumo, It was worn by a lady who, at a recent fancy dress ball in New tork, appearod in a

costume resembling a silver-lined cloud, with which she wore grey silk stockings, embroidered with tiny silver thistles, grey satin sandals, on which her monogram appeared in steel boadwork, and groy

Sueclo Snxc gloves, on which the device of thistles was again apparent in delicate liand'painting, Silvor thistles wore worn in ,her dark hair, and bunches of the pugnacious plant, gone to seed, fastened back the tamo iulils of her dress, which was of silver grey tulle over silver satin.

An Adelaide paper reprints an extraoi'" dinary playbill sent to it from Calcutta : "New scenery and mechanical effects I" " Special engagement of India's charming tragedienne," and "Limelight effects," " Wonderful new programme! Popular Shakespomn play in another language! Macbeth! by CalcultaDramatic Company, at Natiodal The.itre, G Beadon street, Saturday, the 19th January, 1884, at!) p in. First grand rendering of immortal Shakespeare's world renowned tragedy, 1 Macbeth.' The work of a rising genius!I! Macbeth, the author himself; Lady Macbeth, Miss Jagutlarini, Witches! Witches! Witchea 1 0. C. Gosh, manager.

The followiug may bo taken for what it is worth: Mr Henry George, the agitator, on coming out the other night after ho had delivered one of his lectures on the equal distribution and nationalisation ol property, had his pocket picked of his watch. On finding it out ho made a groat rotv, shouting, ■' Someone has stolon my witch!" One of his late audienco hearing him, quietly said, " No, not stolen, only nationalised I" The resolution passod at the late annual meeting of tho Canterbury Rugby Union were to the following effect :—'• That clubs connected with tho Union be recommended to plav in two forty-five, minute spells, and to score points on the basis of two points' for a try, four for a goal kicked from the field, and five for a goal from a try;" also, "That no man shall play for tho first fifteen of moro than one club during the season—this rulo not to apply to ilio Canterbury College, Christ's College, and Boys' High School Clubs,"

Loudon Truth says ; "Tho amount of building going on in great Britian is an overyday maltor of "conversation, but I doubt if many people realiso how large that amount is, Forty years ago wo built -10,000 new houses a year in Great Britian; now we build moro than 80,000. During tho last forty yoars wo have. erected two and a quarter million houses, which are estimated to be worth double' tho amount of the National debt," A Dakota schoolmistress sued three young men for breach of promise. Cumsel for one of the defendants moved for a nonsuit, on tho ground that she was too promiscuous. The Court seemed disposed to grant the motion, whereupon the plaintiff asked—"Judge, did you ever go duck shooting?" His Honor's eyes lighted up with the prido of a sportsman as he answered—" Well, I should say so, and many's the time that I've brought down a dozen at a shot." "I knew it," oagerly added the fair plaintiff; that's just the caso with me. Judge, A flock of these fellows besieged me, and I .winged three of them." The motion for a nonsuit was denied. £IOO fitWABD.-Tlioy cure air diseases o'f the stomach, bowels, blood, liver, nerves, and kidneys, and £IOO will be paid for a caso they will not cure or holp, or for anything impure or injurious found in them.— Hop Bitters. Tost it, Bead

After several years oxpenenco in supplying watches for the colonial, market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English Lover Watch at a lower price than that usually paid for such watches. It is only bj tho judicious division of labor and by the manufactuie of large quantities on a uniform plan, that we are enabled to meet this want We havo now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever. This watch, being simple in design durable, highly finished, and aocurate,fulfils, all the requirements of a pocket timekeeper, A written-guarantee for two years will be given with each watch.' Sent by r; po'st, securely.packed, on receipt > of Post Office I order or cheque.-(Advt) J

Two Japanese',; wrestlers who hayq: given exhibitions in the St Charles Thea» :: tre, quarrelled with each' other bti'6 evening at their rooms in tho Lae House on ' Camp , Street, opposite Lafayette Square, and, at midnight they ejected thepijlier members,of the' : troqpe;looked tho- door of,;their rooin,;':artd|-without seconds, judges, timers,' or anybody else, went at it, For at least au hour the struggle, which must have been a terrific ono, lasted. Not a Bound save now and then: the dull" thud of.a heavy .body Jailing on the floor, -ov a snarl similar lo that of aii onr'aged bulldog, could be heard to donoto that anything unusual was going on. At the end of an hour one of the wrestlers-opened tho door and presented a most woeful appearance. He was a muss of scratches and bruises from head to foot and his clothing was in taltors. Ho was tho victor, Ilia opponent was found on the lloor with blood'streaming from his mouth, his lip being badly cut. His eyes were closed and terribly swollen, and it was necessary to convoy him to the hospital. A romantic story, and a true ono, is told by a lady ju3t now residing not far from Marat, but who is about to return to England, Thirty years ago she was sought in marriago by a suitor whose addresses were by no means displeasing to her, hut her mother being a widow, and she the only one of the family living with lict, sho declined his offer of marriage rather than leave her parent, Tho young fellow emigrated to New Zealand, and entering into squatting pursuits, becarno very wealthy, and ho married, Tli6 lady not long ago came to Victoria to live with a married sister, and to help to educate her nieces, as sho had some, means of hor own Since she came out hero the young fellow (now in his fifties) having lost his first wife, went to England to seek his first love 1 He learned that alio, was still, unniariied, and the lady is going back to England, at Ins earnest request, to enter into tho marriage that thirty years ago, out of filial regard for her mother, sho declined, :

The. original' telegram. sent by Sir Gamot Wolscley to tho Queen after the battle of Telol Kabir is Riven in the Queen's new book. It says: " Arabi's strongly entrenched position was moat bravely and gallantly stormed by the Guards and Line. ~ , Enemy completely routed, and his loss has been very heavy ; idso regret to Bay we have Buffered severly, Duko of Oonmuglit is well, and behaved admirably, leading lira brigade to tho nt'nclt." Seeing that the Guards did not " storm the entrenched position"—that wo did not. " suffer severely," and thai tho Duke of Connaught did not lead his brigade to tho attackone'wonders where Sir Garnet could have have acquired bis information/ Ho certainly could not have' witnessed tho battle. Her Majesty (Observes •'Truth") might have been spared her anxiety had she known what Baker's rout had since disclosed—[hat Egyptians when attacked do not even defend themsolvcs, but, lio down and scream m abject torron Tho " Vagabond," has revisited Pantridge, and gives a long description of the .changes that have occurred since he was there beforo-in tho character of a notetaking cine), In the course of his sketch ho remarks: —Another dear friend of raino, Father Dowling, has long siuco loft Australia He is now working in the slums of Limerick with the Redemptionist Fathers. I laugh when I remember how I ondoavored to dose the young chaplain, Ho was auspicious of my identity, and would come into the gaol surgery trying to entrap me with conversations on literature., with quotations fronr tho classics. But I was as stupid as anyone assuming 10 bo a chemist could be. As an excuso to interview mo, Fathor Bowling professed to be suffering from a complication of diseases. Dr Reed prescribed for him, but the medicino.did no good, The chaplain had to come again to tho surgery, "Could you not make mo up something?" he asked. A little tonic, Father, is all you require," I answered. " A little mixture of magnesia, tincture of cardamums, and ginger." I prepared this whilst tho priest tried to pump me as before. Then lie went upstairs to seo Harry Power, and no draught was ever slung quicker than the one I then compounded. I laughed to myself as I handed tho substituted bottle to Father Dowling. " That will keep this meddlesome priest from troubling mo for-a week or two," 1 thought. ■ But ho never turned' a hair, having, as ho afterwards told me when we became friends, emptied the contents of the bottle over the stones in the uelirchyai'd.

At Geurgivo, a straggling Danubian town in Roumania I bad hired a threehorso drosky to take mo ironi that place along the batiks of tho Danube an far as Zinmitxa, We started full of enthusiasm for the front, The weather was clear, but inteusly cold., so much so that our furs thick as they were seeniod quite unequal to tho occasion, and wo were obliged to swing our arms, and legs about in the wildest contortions to keep Jack Frost at a distance.' If it be the custom of Grand Dukes to thus assert themselves, or if Russian generals are given to such antics I know not j bat true it is that wo attracted direct attention from the Turkish outworks near Rutschuck, two shells beiiHi sent unpleasantly near us. Tho liorsoH became unmanageable, and got so helplessly mixed and cnlanglodthat oounv moments elapsed before we were again on tho way. Our stoppage had given tho gunnors a steadier aim, Anotherall-t'jo'familiarbonm,aprolonged screech, and then tho crash of a 'shell, which seemed to lilt us from our seats, and throw us and our already soared stoeds into, if possible, groater confusion' lhau before, .This lnsl.shot had tho effect of so startling tho horses, that having at first plunged to a considerable extent, they started off in headlong flight, soon taking us round a corner, and so out of sight of the enemy, Arriving at Zinnitza we decided on remaining there for the night, and crossing by the now historic bridge of boats into Bulgaria in tho morning. This being the case, I wont in quest of some necessaries which I wanted from any portmanteau that had served as a back to my seat on the drosky during our journey. Imagine my astonishment to find it smashed,-and ilio contents mulched iuio a confused mass within ! The aboil had struck home rather closer than I at thot ; mo had any notion of-my life haying been saved by that well-paolced valise. All that remains is now much treasured by my'wife who has astonished more lhau one servant ; at the cares she takes of" that there old' portmanter, as she wouldn't be seen a-carryin'on no acpquut. "-Adventures of a,\Var Correspondent.

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