The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1884.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 16 May 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1884.

A five roomed house with four acres of land at Gladstone, is advertised for sale on easy terras, Messrs Lowes and lorns sell valuable household fu'mituro to morrow at 2 p m., in their Mastertou auction rooms. Mr I'. H, Wood holds an auction of unredeemed pledges at his Carterton sale rooms to-morrow afternoon,

Judging from the full attendance at Iho first meeting of the new Institute Committee last oveninK, and iho interest which appeared to be manifested in its proceed ings, the Institute may bo expected to " move ahead" this year.'

Tho Woodville Seniors' Association have resolved to write to tho Wairarapa East County Council, urging on them the necessity of felling the main road between Woodvilloand Paliiatua half a chain wide on each side, and pointing out that the experience in this district is that the better a road is opened out so as to enablo it to dry quickly, tho less is the cost of maintenance,

Our local contemporary says; " If Sir Julius comes up to Masterton ho will find it very diffwult to secure land on easy terms, unless he is prepared to pay a very handsome flgure. Country sections Bailable for tillage are worth from £2O to £3O per acre, while suburban lots fetch as inuoh as from 150 to ;£IOO per acre." Country sections suitablo for tillage have been sold, and are still obtainable in this ■district, at from £5 lo £lO per acre. Evon town lots have been sold at less than 1100 an acre, Our contemporary is evidently at sea on the question of property values. The usual fortnightly rneotintr, of the Land Board, held: yesterday afternoon, was attended by Messrs J. W. A. Marchant (Acting Commissioner of Crown Lands'), H. Bunny, and T. Mason, M.H.E, It was reported that since tho last meeting, : 868a.'lr. 38p. had.-been applied for, at an upset price of- £15312 a 6d. Applications we received from two deferred payment settlers for extension of time 16-enable 1 "them:to pay their instalments. • The' Chairman said both applicants had carried out the necessary improvements'on'-their, sections, and it was resolved not to press for immediate payment. Anapplication was received on behalf of Jess'o;James for leave to transfer section 33, block "IX,,' Pohangiua, to Joseph Hazell, and was granted on Iho usual conditions, The Acting-Commis-sionei* brought before -the Board tho desirableness 'of resuming permanently section 87, Pohangiua, with a view of protection from river encroachment, and the seotion was adopted. Mr J, Stuckey,. of, Eangitumau, asked for leave to purohaae a small piece of Crown land adjoining his sections, and it waß-decided to put the piece:of land up at the next potion! ■. The Boavd then adjournod, -

A rncoiiDg of tlio Maslorfcon liifles is cnnvoned for Monday evening at tho Club Hotel.-. ' ; ; '■

Tenders are. invited by Mr G, Fannin, architect, for the erection of a cottago at To Ore Ore.

The usual meeting of: the Masiertqn Bechabites' Tent was held last evening,' when, niter..transacting ordinary:routine business, oiie'-niw brother wasiinttialed, '(• '''■•■ On Monday afternoon a little girl,' daughter'of Mr E; Arnold, of Mastorton, (now absent in Wellington) was knocked down and severely bitten in tlie fall by a savage clog, the property of Mr. .Little, Upper Plain. Tho child was crossing tlio main road opposite tho Kurupuni butcher's shopwlioii tho "dog attacked hor, Tho occurrence was fortunately witnessed by Miss Muni'o, who, as soon as the dog was compelled to let go his hold, carried his victim to Mrs Arnold, who, it may bo.j imagined, was (,'really a!arniei,;as blood was .pouring profusely from the child's mouth Miss Munvo then kindly inn for Dr Beard, who found it noces's'irr lo put sevoml'stitches in the tipper lip, which was torn quite through. Wo are pleased lo be able to report that tho In t!o patient ia progressing very rapidly towards recovery, both from the wonnd and the shock. We are infurmod that Mr Little declines to kill tho dog, winch he states i 3 worth £5 to him, but as this is not Iho first occasion on which the animal has attacked children, the police should insist upon its destruction* "'. The first theoiihg of the newly elected committee of tho Masterlon Institute was held last evening. Thcw was a very satisfactory attendance of members, Messrs Beard (in the chair), Brown, Bacon, Muir, Bish, Prico, Hogg, and Maxton being present, and an apology boiiig received for the abseiwo of Mr Rodman. Tho minutes -of tho previous meeting having been confirmed, Mr Scllar was re-olccied secretary to the committee at the same remuneration as formerly. It was resolved that the ordinary meeting of the general 'committee be held on the third Tlnrsdny in each month. The following were appointed as a book committee, via, : Messrs Bacon, Beard, Brown, flish, and Hogg; and Messrs Maxton, Redman, and Muir as a house committee. Asoinmitteo. consisting of Messrs Brown, Muir, Bish, and Hogg was also appointed t) consider and ropoit upon the best iiiciuk of utilisinc tho whole of the building. On tho motion of Mr Maxton, it wai resolved lint tho Council l)ii requested to ' erect n lamp in a suitable position opfosiio Hie Institute. Mr Brown gave the following noiico uf 'motion :—" That at next meding a commitleo bo appointor! to consider tho advisability of having a museum in connection with tho Institute" The meeting then adjourned. Chas, Moore, a young butche' who left Masterlon on Tuesday last seens to havo (jot into trouble in tho Empire City. A i Wellington paper stalos that ihilomeno Mcllugli surrendered yestjrdiy to her bail on the charge of stealing a diamond ring fromlono Chas, Moore or the 13th instant. She pleaded Not Giilty, and was defended by Mr Shaw, fho prosocutor, a butcher, deposed that tatweon 10 and 11 o'clock on Tuesday night he visited tho house kept by tho. accused. Ho purchased somo beer and porter at the rate of 5s perbottle, and after the liquor had been dislussed M'Hugh admired a ring which ho Ws wearing on his finger. She took a ftmcV to it, and he allowed her to have possession of it, she promising to return it. She aid not. fulfil her promise, and he gave heninlo custody. By Mr Shaw-tie was certain that he was in M'Hugli's house ttat night. Constable Walter Williams kited that when he arrested tho accnsea she denied that sbo had taken the ring, V that the prosecutor was in her house that night. Poior Comford, who saw ho accompanied tho prosecutor to the house, gave evidince to the effect that hemeavd the girl say that if Mooro would wait until tho miming she would return too ring. Carrie Smith, a rcspeclable-looW girl depised that on the night ot Tuelday she wen; lo defendant's house in compiny with Moore. Sho went there about & o'clock, aud iemaiuod with him the whole timo ho was in the place. She didmot hear mything about a ring. His Worship sail he could not convict on such evidence, • Che prisoner was consequently discharged from custody, Mr Shaw intimated hat it was his intention to take Woceedngs for perjory against Moore. \

A waterproof coat, lost on the Taraahi road, is advertised for, \. ; We direct attention to alterations' tnd additions iu Messrs Lowes and lonis \dveriisemenls in another column,

A meeting was held at Makaraluj in tho Poverty Bay district on Wodneslay night and it was decided by n large ha■joriiy b support Sir Julius Yogel. ,J

The largest safe ever constructed ias lately been built at Liverpool at ;ho Phoenix Works of the Milner Conlpaiy, It weighs nearly 40 tons, is 18 feet squire, and at ils thinnest part is over half; a fiot thick. It is built in sections, ami iniy, with comparative easo, be taken .to piejes from Urn inside, but from the outsi lo ilis nuassail. 10. The doors are very in isshe, tho whole being composed of sted aid wronghtsiron plates. Tho safe is duigiml for the safe custody of official and fetite documents. It has been recently estimated liatin Great Britain, out of the total popihition of 20,000,000, females are in exoas of males to tho oxteut of nearly 70,000. Yet, at birth, tho males are in nnority, Within a year tho balanco turns th'aothef way, and so' continues until .tho"ferlod between 10 and 12 years of ago, whai the males aro again tho greater number,' But the ascendency is only temporary ; aid in the next fivo years the Btrengrof numbers is with the- female sex, jwho retain this position until the close. In Dublin, a girl named Thompsonwas sent to gaol for six months by Mr Bjrne, Q.G., Police Magistrate, for assaulting and threatening a daughter of " Skin-tlie-Goat," ono of the luvincibbs hat was sentenced to penal servituib al an accomplice in the Phoenix .Park iiurdirs. Aflor hearing the sentence she.rjpeAted her threat, and was told by tho Mtigistltto that at tho expiration of her iirprisUment she would havo to give bailfor ler good behaviour, or remain six oiotmis more in gaol.

Armies of rats aro ravaging port.ons jf Central America, 'fins is a fiequnt occurrence in tropical' climates, Ii pi :-' tions of Brazil these incursions re periodical, occurring about every 2u yea i. This is said to depend on the ripetingi I the seeds of the bamboo, which ocjursl I tho age of about every 20 years. Ssediig covers a period of four or life yea«, eaci bamboo producing about a peck oj see, During this period the rats in thefore t multiply in incredible numbers. Hit th s is followed by the 15 years' of bimbw growth, when it. ripens no seed, j Tht l follows the rut famine, and their qnigr • tion to tho cultivated fields desfoyhg everything edible in their path, j ; Good hjr.babies.—" We are phased ;o say that our baby was permnnentlj cur id of a protracted irregularity of thebowila by the use of Hop Bitters by its' which at the same time restoredjher to perfeot health and strength,"—the vimvi See. ' j. Bough on rats.—Cloars out rat) micoj roaehes,flies, ants, bed-bups, beetles/insects,:, skunks, jack-rabbits, gophers, 7JdDliggist?, Moses Moss & Go., Sydney, Genera/ Ageats

: The oldest Judge in Ireland is the Hon John Fitzbenry TownaoudivLL.D., oftbe Court of Admiralty, aged 72 j'tho youngest, the llight Hon Androw Marshall Porter, Master of the Bolls, aged 47. . A German gambler namod Baumann has committed -suiuide at Monte Carlo';■ ami at Nice another loser'at Monte Carlo lias attempted to drown" himself from tho lathing eatiiblisliinent, but was rescued,

_ From a calculation based .on tho statisfics.'furnished by.tho Crimean, tho DauoPrussian," the Austro-Prussian,- and the Franco-Prussian wars, it would appear that tho proportion of wounds received in different pa'rlß of the body is as follows:—. In the hoad, 14'G5 percent; in the,trunk, 18*17 per cent; in the upper extremities, 3719; in_ the lower extremities, 36'91. The statistics only apply lo cases which havo lived long enough to reoeive. surgical treatment and this will account for the very low percentage of wounds of the head; aud' the samo remark applies in hardly less dogroo to wounds of the trunk

A series of horrible atrocities is reported from New York, At Laconia, New Hampshire, a man named Thomas Salmon, on Saturday killot! a Mrs Ford with whom ho boarded, packed tho corpso in;a trunk,, and wheeled it a iniie m James Buddy's house, wherohe engaged board for himself, On Saturday night he attacked aiid killed. Untidy aud inf.inl, and :also beat and chopped Mrs Buddy, with a hatchet,, leaving her for dead.'-.He then! poured petroleum about and set thehousb on fire, Tho conflagration alarmed a neighbour, who found Mrs Ruddy outside, she having jumped through, the front window, Tho lira was extinguished. Mrs Buddy, before sho died,' was able'to.make a statement, .People scoured the country for Salmon, and captured him onSnuday afternoon. ■

An American clergyman was; the ac cepted suitor of tlio daughter of a wealthy stock raiser in Jackson County, the day of tho wedding being fixed, nnd all tho customary preliminaries scttlod, The license was ready, the trousseau also, and it seemed impossible that any unforseen circumstance could prevent the union., The day before tho wedding, however, the bride elect, with her parents' consent, went to : a neighboring town to mako a fow purchases. A young man in tlie service of her father drove her iliere, and in the course of that ride a great deal occurred. Tho young man had good lo>ks and youth on .his side, two'advantages in which tlio expectant bridegroom was warning, He spoke of his hiddon affection for the young lady, which' no one befo o had even suspected, and he pleaded Ilis cause so well that the heart of tlie maiden warmed towards him, and before they reached their destination an elopement proposed by one of the parties was accepted by tho other. Sj it camo to pass that instead of returning home they slopped at an hotel on their road, called fur a parson, and wovo mado man and wife. Tho parents of the girl, on hearing how the visit to tho villago had ended, manifested so much anger that tho young people find it prudent to keep out of their' way for the present. An ingenous Yankee has hit upon a now. advertising'expedient. lie has sent tho following circular'lo a tobacco dealer in ioston:—"Dear Sir,—l tako the liberty to writu lo yon about a novel way about advertising . that is, to have all tobacco seals and stumps, in your line of business tattooed on the person of a man who is now undergoing tho process'of being tattooed from head to foot, his back is left for this kind of advertising, if you would like to have the lower half of 1113 back for any seal or stamp or picture, you can have it for 850dols the upper part 13 for—, this man is to travel throughout the U.S. The upper part- of his back is OOOdols. I have just finished tattooing Mr Fred Hardly from head to foot, which required the time of 8 weeks, this man will be done in fiye weeks, this work is the neatest and best in this lino of business, if you would like a smaller place than that lot mo know as the back of his legs is not wholly finished yet, it will bo dono in first class stylo, This is the third man that I have tattooed all over, Mr Geo. F, Maharh 6 Bennet street, Boston, Mr F, Hardly, G8 Hammond street, Boston, and'the man that lam lo work on now Mr J. Burke, 57 Thieder South Boston, Yours reap."

The following feat in the way of expeditious bread production is reported by an American paper: At six minutes after four tho reaper stood beside the growing wheat, men being stationed overy few feet along tl:e line of grain, ready to seize an armful as it fell, and rush off with it to the threshor hard by. The mill was just 1G rotla distance. At Ihe drop of the iiat the muta sprang to work; in a minute' and a hajf a pock of wheat was in the Back and. on the hack of a horse that set off at a gallop for tho mill. Just one minute seventeen seconds later the flour was delivered to the agriculturalist's wife, and in threo minutes two seconds from the starting of the reaper the first girdle cake was eaten, whilst less than a minnto later a pan of woH-baked biscuits was passed round to tho spectators.

No less than ono hundred and forty-two of our midshipmon in tho Royal Navy aro decorated with medals for war services—a greater number than at any time since the Crimean and Chinese campaigns, The majority of these youngsters, of course! gained their decorations' for services in Egypt. Amongst others will be found such.names as Mark Kerr, son of Admiral Jjord Frederick Korr; Thomas Braudreth, son of the third Naval Lord of tho Admiralty; Maurioo.Horatio Nelson, son of. Colonel the Eon. M. Nelson; Ernest Edward Lacy; Albert Edward Poland; Edward Hewott, Younger son of the Admiral; Gordon Eraser, who was. with his uncle. Sir Auckland Colvin, at the bombardment of Alexander; Sholto Grant, Douglas, and Alfred Marescaux.

A rather fast young man, becoming enamoured of a; pretty girl, finally decided to make her a formal offer of his hand and heart—all ho was -vorth—and then he hoped to be indulged in some lover-like demonstrations, tile, lady being so far coolly indifferent in her manner towards linii. He attributed this to maidenly roservo, for it never occurred to him that she wa3 not in love with him, Ho then cautiously prefaced his declaration with a few questions, for he had no intention of " throwing himself away." Did sho love him well onnu<>h to live is a cottiigowith him ? Was she a good cook and washer 1 Did elio think it a wife's duty to make home happy?' Would she consult his fastoa and wishes concerning her associates and pursuits in life?' Was she economical? Could sho make her own clothes, &a. t Tho young lady said that before, she answered his. questions, she would assure him of some negative virtues she possessed. She never drank or smoked, never owed a bill to her tailor, or laundress; never stayed out at night playing billiards; never lounged on the pier and ogled pretty girls; neverindiilged in wine suppers. " Now," said she, rising indignantly, " I am assured by those who' know you that you do alltUose things, and' it is rather absurd for you to. expect all the virtues in me whilo you do not possess, any of- them youvself. I can never be. your wife." And she bowed him out, : and left him on the doorstep, a madder' if not a whier man, : ; -. Wells' "rough on corks,"—Ask-for Wells' " Rough on Corns." Quick re> lief, complete, permanent cure,'.' Corns waits,bunions. N.Z, Dr.ug.Co".. :

;;: The loaderipfihe Local Optionista, Sir Wilfred Lawadn, in; attdrossing a meeting held;, at Bradford, Yorkshire, for' the ipurppsoot diseasing tho teetotal question,' ;said—" Ladies and gentlemon,—l am here to-night for. the purposo of advocating local option," and to,urge sobriety. Man was bom'sober:'. therefore he should continue so I"; He was Here interrupted by a'burly. "Why not carrylout.your principle? Man was 'bom ' naked';;' accordingly ho should •'continue sn V'\ Sir Wilfrid cast a withering glance at the bold, bad man, which should 1 have,.annihilated him—but it didn't. .:},l ..,./.

: ■' The 'extraordinary., statement is made that a iax on vinegar voted by the French Chamber in 1875, has by some red tape negligence never been levied, and that M, Tirard is responsible for the loss of 18 millions to the revenue. It is lucky for him, say the Opposotion journals, that ho .is a Frenchman, and not liable, like the Finance Minister of tho Shah of Persia, to receive .400 blows on the soles of his feet, the Sovereign oomplacenlly looking on,

After several years experience in supplying watches for tho colonial market, Littlejohn and Son, 'of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a.thoroughly sound English Lever Watch at a lower price than that usually paid for such watches, It fc only by the division of labor and b'y- the'-ma'aufactttre' of large quantities on a uniform plan,-thai wo are enabled to meet this want We have now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever.-.This watch, being : simple in design durable, highly finished, aud accurate, fulfils, all tho requirements of a pocket timekeeper. A written guarantee for two years will bo given with each: w<*di, Sont by post, ~entirely packed, on receipt of' Post Office ; order or cheque.-'(AdvtV