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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1696, 28 May 1884, Page 2

Mr C, Diedeiich of the Upper Plain advertises lor sde the goodwill of the leiaehold of fifteen acres ot land on the Upper Plain road feucod and sub-divided with a four rcouied cottage and other improvements,

Mr Villiett has intimated to Sir Julius Vujjt'l that liei:i willing toresmu lus Sinn more seat if H.r Julius consents to stand for that constituency. Lut thought that 110 opuosuiuu to Vogel would be offered. Owing to mi accidental breakage to our machine wo missed the afternoon train yesterday afternoon with our first edition, and tmut apologise to our subscribers in the Lower valley for the delay. Notice is given that Chapel-street from Reimll-street to Russell-street will bo stnppoil for traffic from the 29th mst till tliO completion of alterations now about to be undertaken in tins street. The programme at St. Matthew's Winter Evening's Entertainment tomorrow evening includes piano solos by Mrs Paige Miss Atkinson arid Miss Beard, glens by the choir, Bongs by Mrs 0. li'reeth and Messrs Moore, Gaut, lkpp. Gilmer, and Chirk, vocal duet by Mrs Palmoraon and Miss Atkinson, reading by Mr Beard, and sailors' hornpipe by Mr W. H. Beetham. A Maaterton tradesman informed us lh.it ho recently lost a £2OO order for the Tiuui District through the impassable siate of the road from Mastertoti to that settlement. If the county survives we may expect, in the course of one or two years, to have a good winter road connecting the East Coast district with Mastenon.

A new scale of fees ia the Resident Magistrate's Court will come imo operation i.u the Ist of Juue. There are several alterations in the lists, BOtnn of them being very considerably increasod. In the scale fur the Magistrate's Courts the fees upon cases not exceeding 15 have been omitted from the scale, and are fixed for not exceeding £lO. The lees payable under the Licensing Act have been also considerably increasod.

At the meeting of the Maatertm Lodge of Oddfellows hold last evening tho question ro celebrating the anniversary in the usual way was postponed till next mooting of the Lodge, and the resolution re purchasing a piece of land was also adjourned until the same date, as, owing to the paucity of attendance'through a number of the brothers being out of tho district those present would not accept the responsibili y of deciding the question. Bro. Kihblewhi.e, G.M., gave notice that he would propose two persons to become members ot the Lodge, and Bro.'Lowenthal, N Gr., also gave notice to propose a member noxt lodge night, This Lodge is agaiu coming to the front with regard to membership for, it will be remembered, there were t.vu uiowbers elected at the last meeting. " Right here in Milwaukee Bay. about thirty years ago (said the truthful man cj Milwaukee) a friend and myself had started out for a hah on the pier, and had taken our uuns alom> to shoot ducks Well,, we hadn't been ihore long before I in some way lost my powder horn overboard, and it sank in 30ft ol water. There it lay on the bottom in plnin aijjht. My friend eaid lie would dive for it. I noticed he didn't tike off his powder horn, and before I could call attention to it he was in the water. I waited about twenty minutes." "TW.ty minutes 1" they all exclaimed, "'[hat'a the exact time, my friends. I held my watch in my hand and limed, After twenty minutes I began to get a litttle nervous, and looked over tho side of the boat, and what do yon think I saw I" " I suppose your friend lay on the bottom of tho lake drowned," ventured one, " i\o, you are wrong. Here is where be showed his presonce of mind and thieving disposition! There he sit on the bottom of tho lake, pouring powder out of my horn into his own and whistling, That's what I consider a remarkable incident ot a man's presence of mind." No reply was made by any of the listeners, but each one got up, looking suspiciously at the story teller, and loft him alone, master of the situation,

Hough on rats.-Clears out rata, mica roaches, Hies, ants, bed-bups, beetles, insects skunkß,jack-rabbits, g>plier t , 7JdDruggists, Moses Aiosj & Co,, Sydney, General Agent It is Worn a Trial.-" I was troubled 8 far many years with kidney complaint gravel, &c., my blood becamo thin, I was dull and inactive, could hardly crawl about, was anold worn-out man all over, and ora ! d get nothing to help me until I got Hop Bitters and now my blood aud kidneys are all right, aud I am as aotive as a man of thirty ul though 1 am seventy-two, and-1 have no doubt it will do as well for others of my ago It is worth the trial."—(Father.). Notice '

Flies and BUGS,-Beetles, insects, roachss ants _ bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack' rabbits, cleared out by " Edugh ou Bats, 7Sd. Moses Moss &Co,, Sydney, General Agents ..'■■-,

AN APOTHECARY SHOP IS MADE OF THE SIOMACH by those who swallow, with avidity overv prescription commended to their lps. The result is the system is not only Irretrievably ruined but reallv elllcaciousreniedicslosetheir virtue. Ifpeop.e would onlyexorcißonurojudgomcut than credulity and have less jaith than circumspection about thorn, they would confldo only in those measures that assertthoir own supremacy. They would takonothing into the system but what, liko UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS, vindicates its yaluobyite

Tenders are invited for the cartage of Iho Borough of Masterton,

Tenders aro kvilod by tho Masterton Road Hoard for a 23ft spaa bridge on the Opakt-ikngituinau road. Tho following nominal ions were made on Monday for tno Pahiatua Road Dis trior-:—David Orewe, John Criuip,'John Hall, Henry Sedcole. A poll will take place on Monday next, three, members only bt-inji requited.

At the Wellington Magistrates Court yesterday..morning..JTj\ ederick Cooper, a compojitor in the Government Pruning Office mn fined £o and costs for a breacu »f Printers and Newspaper Heuisiration Act, 1808, by printing and circulating a squib about the Thorndon olecion with-; out attaching an imprint thereto, '■

Wahanui, the Ngaiamaniapoto chief has arrived at Wanganui, and comes on to Wellington; He wil remain through the session as he is anxious to see how it is workod.

Tho Governor has declined to iuterfere with the sentence of death passed on O'Donoghue, tho Ilokitiki murderer, and the primmer will therefore be etecuted.

Two soamen belonging to tho "Victory wero fined at AVelliugion yesterday, io arid £lO for assaultiug the chief engineer of.ihe S'eamer. ■

The New Zealand Li an and Mercantile Agency Company's report for the produce markets of New Zealand, for the month ending May 22, contains the following : Wool—The prices during the second Beries of the year were disappointing being generally 5 t,er cent 'titidei' the dosing rates of the previous sales, except for Bno cross breds, which opened at a Blight advance, la Dunedin the wheat market continues depressed. Prime milling, taken in small iparcels as requirod, realises 3s 6d, bags weighed in. In oats a large business has trausoiied during the mnntli, and the demand continues good, chiefly for first class bright samples of stout milling, and short feed for shipment at 2j 2d for tbe former and 2j io.2d l|d for the latter, bags weighed in. A monorate demand has beeu experienced for barley, but mals-era decline to give over 4s for prime mailing; growers on the other hind, are holding out for better prices. The business done in this quality is consequently restricted, A considerable business has been effected in medium, which commands 3s Gl to 3s 9d. The milling ranges from 2s Gd to 3s 3d.

Lady Burdett-Couits owns the smallest pony in the world; he is five years old, and stands 13in high.

Antananarivo has now its own newspaper—the,'Ny Gazeiy Malagasy'—which is gut up entirely by natives. GreenlauJers number 10,000, and they have neither, soidior, policeman, nor mayidtrate—only Bchoolmasiers, In Araerioa artesian wells can be bored, with the perfected machinery used there, at the rate of 1000 ft in two or three weeks.

Great numbers of fea fowl are now killed by flying against tlu telegraph wires along the British coasts during stormy weather.

Arabi Pasha, who is now in exilo in Ceylon, receives an allowance of £so'a month from the English Government. Madiimo Atabi is not with her husband, as aho prefers to live in Ejjypt,

A place of recrea'ion, intended to give pleasure to and elevate the working class is to be erected in thoeast end of L mdon hundred and fifty thousand dollars will bo expended on the building. A slock and sta'ion agent, driving in the country one day, observed a no ice beside a fence, " Beware of the dog I" There not being any signs of a ; dog, the agent wrote ou the board, " Ware be the dog?" A Polish lunch was served at the late cooking exposition iu Vienna which had twenty eight courses. Bear steak wis offered fresh every day, and one cook made die greatest effort in his life In preparing lion's fleah for the table, A scientific journal tells us that a little bird, a rod-tail, will catch 900 flies in an hour, If any red-tail who sees this i< out of employment, it can find a very good situation at remunerative wages by calling at this office.

An old railroad man says the middle oar of a train, and the middle of the car on tho righihand side is the safest spot for the passenger. Eailroad authorities ought to provide more then one of these favored suots on eich train; the supply is altogether too light. About two hundred German emigraatn who recenily went to America have returned to Berlin utterly disappointed in their expectations of things on the other side of the Atlamie From Berlin they were forward© 1 to their old homes. The only member of the Victorian bar who sports the blue ribbon is Mr \V. M. K. Vale, the most intemperate speaker and worst tempered member of Patliament ever known in Victoria, Another ribbon order of a different sort is badly wanted The death is announced of Miss Sheriff once a famous operatic singer, who took part in the musical honors accorded to Sir Walter Scott on one of bis visits to London, Miss Sheiiff had reiredfrom the stigo and the platform forty years ago.

A youth last summer in London, while undergoing the awful ordeal, a civil service examination, was asked to mention "some of the chief benefactors of the human race " It was very hot weather, and tho uuhesi'ating reply was—" Bass and All8op,". Arrangements have been made for the .establishment ot a large Swedish farm at Brandon, Manitoba. Experienced farmers from Sweden are to be placed on the farm and i' is hoped that their bucobjr will lead to the increased immigalion of their countrymen.

A woman may call till she breaks a blood vessel before she gets her Tommy out of bed. We know a very delicat'e mother of a family who used to take three hours gentle exercise at that business every morning, but when the old man goes to the foot of the stairs and shouts " Tom I" Tommy takes his breakfast with the rest of the family.

Moiheb Swan's worm strup.—lnfalible tasteless, harmlea cathario; for feverish, ness, restlessness, worms, constipation. Is Moses, Moss & Co., druggists, Sydney, General Agents,.

Not a BEVKitAuE.-"They are not a beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, contaiuing no poisonous drugs, They do not tear down an already debilitated system, but build it up, One bottle contains more real hop strength than a barrel of ordinary beer Phys-olins presoribe Evening Express, on Hop Bitters. Read,

After several years experience in supplying watches for the 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 is only bj the judicious division of labor and bythemanufactueof large quantities on a uniform plan; that woare enabfe'd to meet this want We, have now the pleasure of iritroduoing our Six Guinea Hunting 'Silver Lever. This watch, being simple in design' durable, highly finished, arid aoourate.fulfilu, all the requirements of a pocket timekeeper, A < written guarantee' for two years will be' given with each Sent by -post, eourely paoked,'.on receipt of Post Office order or cheque,—(Anvil........ ...-.':.•:-- •'