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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 3 May 1884, Page 2

■ This -ia themonthly pay dny of the Mastorton Building Society. .Miss Ewitig notifies in anotheu column that aho is; prepared to * receive orders for painting fioffors on satin, copied either fromVoleograpliH or .natural objocts. A Bftmplpf IWlss Ewing's work may,be seen in the "drape," displayed .in Mr T, E,' Pnco'a window, in this specimen it will be obaerved that' both the flowers and foliage, are remarkable for the harmonious blehding of colors aud ; tho artistic fidelity exhibited both in the composition and tho execution of the design,

The Stewards' Report of the Wairarapa Jockey Club for the season 1883-4, is as follows:—Your Stewards have again' tho. pleasure of presenting a satisfactory Balance Sheet at the termination of tho season's operations. At both meeting there was an increase in the value of tho stakes given; the Spring programme exceeded that of the previous jear by BG, being against £204 for 1882 and £13!) for 1881; for tl.o Autumn Meeting the' stakes- amounted to £O2l, against £1583 for 1882 nud 1502 for 1881, being an-increaoo of £lOl for tlio Spring and *ll9 for the Autumn in two seasons. Together the prizes paid away at tho Spripg and Autumn meetings amount lo i : j Inst year's total was SB7. For both Meetings the receipts from all sources were, Spring i'3o2 17s Gd, Auiumu A'7B7 9s 3d, total £1,150 Gj 9d. Tho expenditure for both Meetings, including balanco olaiined by Mr A. Wilkinson, gives £1,163, the deficiency upon the Spring Meeting exceeding the profit upon tho Autumn by about £lO, which, all things considered, ia a vory gratifying result. The Balance Sheet contains full purlieu lara of the receipts and expenditure, the income (including £14418s balance from lajst year) being. £1470, an advance of £143 on that of 1882-83, and there is now n cash balance lo the credit of the Club of £181; There was-a moderate attendauce last evening at tho Theatre Royal, tho nuwbor present, all told, being' probably under two hundred. The extreme coldness of the weather was probably against a full house. The programme was more successful than on the pieceeding ovoning. Thero was less crowding and coiifusion, and Richardson's Show business was seen and heard lo better advantage, and was consequently more highly aupreciated. The dancing of the children was, as oa the previous eveuiug, very much admired, The ladios in charge of the fayre were diligent in tho the cause for which they worked, and most 'ut'.entivo. to .their duties. We trust Mr Tom Donnelly's old English Fayre scenery will be care fully packed away and reproduced on some future occasion, it is evident that tho ladies.of Mastertonl the Druids, the amateurs, and the youngsters can produce a very pleasing entertainment for the public, and with the experience gained by this week's "fayre, 1 they may, on some future occasion, do still greater things. As a first atleriijjt the " Olde Eoglisli Fayre 11 just held, must bo pronounced to be a decided success.

Moat middle aged men will remember the "furore" which Anderson tho Wizard of the North "creatod in England some five and twenty years ago, and will bo prepared to cordially welcome his son, Professor Anderson, who is about to visit Maatorton, and whe is said to be " a chip off the old block," The Wellington Press Is unanimous jin according to Professor Anderson the place of honor as the best prestidigitator who liai visited New Zealand, and Leruso Maude Anderson is also spoken of in the highest terms, Mnsterton is fortunate at this dull season of the year in securing, through tho enterprise of Mr G, Coker, the pvesonce of these talented artistes. On the first evening of Professor Andovaon's 'appearance in Mastodon, two eleotrifyiug tricks will be as follows First, tho decapitation of his wife's head, Tho Professor has a novel and instructing method of terminating a engugal controversy in his own favor, and second tho Indian basket trick, in which tlio same lady is apparently disposed of in a sanguinary manner I hat is said to thrill the most ljmphatic audience,

Some African missionaries aro in a stato of considerable indignation just now They havo discovered that England exports brass and cast-iron gods to a far greater value every year than all the Bibles and.tracts which leave her shores. Tho good men would like to see the supply of gods cut off. The Gazetter contains an announce" meut aboutthe coroner's district in Wales, Some of tho names will make interesting reading to peoplo who havo a little spare time. Here aro a few—Manmoel Islilawrcoed and Uchlawrcoed, Llangaitock-Vibon-Avol, LlalivihangelYestern Lowem, Kilgwrry, Mynddsllwyn .Myndvdilmaen,

Here is an extract irom the American Hour Mrs Lang try's house is No, 120, West Thirteenth-street, uear Sixthavo'nuo. Vefour, of Paris, is her chief, do ouisine. Her. butler is six feet three inches in height, Her coachmen and footman dress in livery ot white cloth, with sable capes and cuffs. Bugs presented by the Khedive of Egypt are noticeable in all parts of the house. Examples of oak carvings by Yerbrugen,' of Antwerp, whose work enriches tho St. Gudule Cathedral of Brussels, are seen in the drawing'room. Her dinner service is from desigus. by. Millais; and there is a sterling silver teapot, among her choicest treasures, which was presented to her by her company on Christmas Day last, which bears the inscription, ' Presented to Lillian Langtry by her loving and loyal company, Christmas, 1883,

During tho performance of a thrilling play in Norfolk, Conn, week before last, a well known physician of the town, who seldom entered a.theatre, was among the audience,.' JVhejt the part cimo where the heroine swallowed tho poison, is dying, and her lover and • frienda aro wringing their hands and Crying helplessly—- '• What can be done the. doctor was aeon to be laboring under considerable' excitement, At last the terrible scene was too much for him, and, forgetting where he was, ho jumped to his feet and shouted—" Give her coffee, you fools; give her coffee I" Then a friendly hand pulled him back into his seat, and tho surprised aotors went on with the play, -The foregoing reminds many of an incident which occurred in the California Theatre in San Francisco many years ago. The auction scene in " The Octoroon" was being played, and when | the auctioneer was about to knock down (the octoroon for $25,000, a well-known citizen, somewhat wrought up by wine as well an the cloverness of tho acting, brought down the -house by springing excitedly to his feet, and in thundortones, shouting—" Fifty thousand dollars,"

The New York City Government employs 1000 snow shovellers. Thick heads.—Heavy Btomachs, bilious conditions—" Wells' May Apple Pills"—anti* bilious, cathartio. fid and Is, N. Z, D;jg Co. Wisfi raw,—"For tsn years my uli'e was confined to her bed with such a complication of ailments that no doctor could tell what wei the matter,or cure her, and I nied up a 1 small fortune in humlm? stuff. Six months ago I Saw an American flag with Bop BiKers on it, and! thought I \vou'd b a fool onco more. I tried it, bat my folly proved to bo. wisdom, Two bottles cured her she is now as well and stronj Many man's n.'.fe, and it coat me only two Mars," fl W Detroit. Mfoh, Bead

At a. recent classification of llio im« inonse colleolion of "documents totaling lo American affairs in the ai;chive3 of 'tlie Snvilleo, unpublished papers on Christopher Golumbua have been discovered. . Mr Francis, Day,, the accomplished author of .'a memoir.on the fishes.of India has undertaken a Similar work relating to tisheaooff f Great Britain and Ireland.

English naval and military papers are deploring a scarcity of men for the Royal navy. It is recorded that the stock of men is so low that two ships, fitting out, roquiring 800 men, would oxhauat all the available material. Tho authorities will havo to give Jack better pay, and more liberty,.to make the service popular '

An English writer thinks it a pity that English orators art) not permitted by oiiquetto "to swbar at nno another. This reminds us of a speech of an old stager, who referring to the hitternoss of certain ladies, brought down the house by saying, " If the devil had been a woman, what a devil of a woman ho would havo been 1"

A correspondent who recently paid a visit.to a disinct "probably moro airy and more delinhtful than Clare Market" writes:—"l was much struck with the partiality which these poor wretches will display for pets, In one miaorablo room there were father, motlior, six children, a table, tw3 chairs, and—a dog. ther, lather, motlior, six children, lines bundles of bedding, a table and a—rabbit In a third, two attenuated femalo visagflfl horrors—human beings by Courtesy—6 cat and a —kitten, In these three rqoms there was not a crust of bread. Query for editorial sagacity: were tho doc,' the rabbit, tins cat and kitten being kepi for cooking purposes,

The English Druggist bus discovered ihat the devastations of French vineyards by the phylloxera do not affect the French wine industry in tho least; the French, ii remarks, aro great chemists, and what their vineyards do not proiuce or the phylloxera destroy, they mato up by the manufacture of artificial wine from glucose, potatoes, rotten apples, dried prunes, dates, figs, raisins, currants, and even red beets, It has .lately been discovered that ihe flowers of tho bassia tree, which grows io India, and will yield in good seasons six or Geveu hundred pounds of dried flowers, form, in connection with water and sugar, an excellent base for manufacture of artificial wine During tho past two months over two hundred and fifty thousand bales of basd.-i hlnssoms have been imported inio Paris.

The United States are not burdened rail a large standing airny mid luree army estimates. But the heavy surplus of revenue is tempting to the running-up of a pension list that already rivals some of tlio large European army budgets in its figures, Tlio pension agents, indeed, have struck something better than " ile." By circulating far and wide "blank petitions" and other suggestive documents they have reached multitudes of patriots whom now, after two-and-twenty years, they liavo led to the discovery tkfthoy were so badly wounded in the the war for die Union that, tho country ought to help to support them. In tlio present financial yoar" over 38,000 persons," says a trustworthy American correspondent, " have succeeded in gotting pensivnß," and the amount paid for pensions during last year was over twolvo millions sterling, Nearly a third of a million men, womon, and children are said to be already on the pension rolls, and tho number is increasing by about twenty thousand a year. A big thing, that 1 And if it to true that six hundred million dollars liavo already been paid ont ior pensions, and the roll is still so rapidly increasing, it is a reasonable conclusion that another gonera'ion or two will sea tho moneys paid out on tho pension roll double all tho military cost of tlio rebellion. ' ; A dark brown filly with white hmd feet, shod, is adyertised as in the Masterton Borough pound.

Our London telegram to-day announces that the British M.P. objects to cremation, and that dynamite is a scaro to Canadians

Mr T. E. Price, : our enterprising photographer, succeeded yesterday in taking a picturo of the groupe of ladies who presided at the Old English Fayra. His Worship tho Mayor ycatorclny morningfined im elderly named John Thompson the statutory five shillings, Iho culprit having - been run in as "a drunk" by Constable Hartnet, In addition to the 9000 carcases which iho Soar Meat Company are freezing for steamer British King,, wo are informed that they will freeze 4000 for the steamer Aorangi which leaves Wellington direct for London,

A peculiar accident happouod to Mc F, T. Reduian, the Town Clerk's assistant, yesterday. Two frolicsome dogs were chasing each other up and down in front of tho Council Chambers, and during-one of their mad careers Mr ltedmah stopped from the door on to the footpath itume-' tliately in front of them. They collided against hitii with such force as to raise his feet high in the air, his head violently striking the footpath, Tho concussion completely stunned him for several seconds. Ee was carried into the Conn"! oil Chambers and quickly recovered conscimnness, but ho is likely to experience thi results of the shaking for several days to como.

The Customs revonue for the colony last month was £109,819 4s 5d Tho amount collected at the four principal centres being: Auckland, .£23,528 2s 2d; Wellington, £16,292 lGa Id; Lyttelton and Christchurch, £17,840 o.i 8d; Dunedin, £29,420 Is Bd. For March last the total was £115,*799 5s 3d, and for April, 1883, It was 1121,080 8s 3d, Theßeor duty for last month was £4,960 10s 10d.' The principal amounts being—Auckland, £loßßl3s 2d; Wellington. 12s fid ; Christchurch, £IOSO 10a 1(M; Dunodlu, £llOO 15s Od. . For March last it was £174218s 4d, and for April, 1883, it was 15052 7s Bd. ■.

Can't peeach oood,—No man can do n, good job of work, preach a good sermon, try a.lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or writo a good article wlien he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unstrung nerves, a«d none should make the attempt in such a condition when it'can bs so easily removed by a little Hop Bitters.' Look for

A dandy , in the North had legs so attenuated ' that the- authorities had him arrested because he had no visible means of support.

Eouaii on eats.—Clears out rata, mice, .roaches,flies,ants,'bed-buys, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers, 7Jd Druggists. Moses Moss & Co,, Sydney, General Agents A little book just published is entitled " How to Talk." A copy should be placed in the bands of every barbeiv in the land. ./ After several years experience in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and Sod, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a thoroughly Bound English Lever Watch at a lower price than that usually paid for Euch watches, It is oa'.y bj the judicious division of labor and by the manufaotuie of large quantities on a uniform plan, that we are enabled to meet this want . Wo have noiy the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lover. This waich, being simple in design durable, highly finished, and accurate,fulfils, all tho requirements of a pocket timekeeper, A written guarantee for two years will be given with each w*<;<}h. Sent by post,! securely packed, on receipt of Post Office order or cheque,—[Anvil