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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1700, 2 June 1884, Page 2

The Ashburlon Woollen Faotory h in the market, and are now resorting to the expedient of issuing 2000 preferential

The Oouraiug parly left Mlßterton this morning for its head quarters at tho Lake Ferry Hotel. It is not quite bo numerous as tho one which took the field last year, but every member of it is a keen BDorteman.

We direot attention to an announcein another column of Moate and Co's tea and coffee importers of Wellington, and who have agents throughout the whole of the Wairarapa.

Sir Norman Campbell, of Eaikonra, has boon': oh a visit tn Taranaki' with respoot.to purchasing several blocks of land lying; six miles East of Straifordr between7o,ooo t0.80,000 aores, fori eyndioate of English farmers -who are looking out for a distriot to settle in.

On Saturday evening, about ten o'clock, thore was some excitement at the, Club Hotel. One of tho central chimiiica of the. block suddenly belched: into flame. • Tho fireball was rung, and a big crowd assembled all in a moment. Some volunteers speedily chocked the flame at the mouth of tho Quo by pouring water down it, but this popular: but mistaken method of extinguishing fire in a chimney drove volumes of smoke into the house and created an -impression that the buildinu itself was on fire. Fortunately all was well with the building, !md the exoitement subsided as quickly as it rose. The Masterton Fire .Brigade responded to tho call of the bell with its customary promptness. ' -

Lowes and lorna had a good attendance at their land salo on Saturday last, all the properties advertisod selling except the Waipoua wool scouring business, which was passed in at i'29o, Six or seven acres of bushland between Chapel 6tree\ and the Upper Plain were sold to Mr Cavannagh at £2B per acre; a amall piece of land on the banks of theWaingawa river to B. P, Perry at J10; a small allotment tor a residential site in Chapel street was bought by Mr Loe, £1& i an allotmout in Worksop road containing la lr 21p, tbR. an allotment, No 4, fronting Dixon street, of la Or 24p, ao Mr James Maoara, £175. Afterwards a quantity of brakes, harness, 1 wool, and machinery in the. eßtate of Harvey land Sons,, were sold at good prices

The handsomest shop in Wellington now is " Thomdon Houso," the name of Mr J, T, Steole's now drapery establishment on Lambton Quay, opposite the Polce Station. The premise's, writes a contemporary, which were previously occupied by Messrs R. Gardner and Co., and known aa Yiotoria Buildings, have undergone numerous alterations and improvements, and Mr Steele removed into them on Thursday from the old shop, a few doors further along the Quay, which he hos occupied for the past seven years, On entering the building, the front of whioh is being adorned with an, ornamental verandah, the principle apartment is found to be both spacious and;handsomely fitted, measuring 4Btt by 33ft. Que side of this is devoted to men's and boys' clothing, and the other jompnses the fancy and hosiery departments. The total depth of the building is llfift, and the whole of the rooms, of whioh there are very many, are pwperly appointed for carrying on the millinery and drapery business. The general fittings have been admirably carried out by Mr B. B. Haughton, and the gas fittings have been supplied by Messrs BaDinger BrOB., who havo given overy satisfaction in the work.

A meeting of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Wellington was'heklat the Diocesan Eooni, Mulgrave street, on Thursday afternoon last. The following mombers wore present:—The Bev T. Fanoourt, the Bishop's newly appointed Commissary (in the chair; the Yen Arohdeacon Stock, Revs E. Coffee and R. .1. Thorpe, Messra C. P. Powles, C. D. Zohrab, and W. France. The Secretary reported the payments of assessments to 31st March last to bo in arrear to the extent of £289 Gs Gd, of which £123 13 8d was owing by the Hutt Parish, and £59 Is 8d by Carterton. The unpaid stipends due at the same date amounted £286 Is 4d. With reference to the Hutt liability, a letter from the churchwardens of that parish was read stating that the vestry had decided to bring the matter under the notice of the parishioners at the next annnal meeting. A very stag opinion was expressed as to the liability of districts for payment of assessments, it being impossible to retain tho services of the clorgy iu the districts where such payments arc not made. The resigmtion of Mr 0. E, Martin, who has left the colony, was rocoived, The vacancy was filled by the election ot the Hon 0, J, Pharaxyu, M.L.C. Tho meoting then adjourned,

Mr Macandrew has a poor opinion of New Zealand legislation. In his address to his consiiiuents the other day hois reported to have said that there' were siinie IGO Bills introduced, one half of which found their way into the statute* book, and the other half into the wastepaper basket. Ido not know that New Zealand would have been much the loser if the whole ICO had gone in the latter dereolion. If we go ou at the same rata of law making that we have been doing durin? the past thirty years, this will in time become a charming country for lawyers and. judges. As it is it is an absolulo impossibility for any man to carry a smail fraction of tho statutes of New Zealand in his head, even shuuld that head bo covered by any quantity of horse hair. I sometimes think what a grand thing it would bo were another Napoleon to arrive who would sweep tho whole of our New Zealand statues into tho fire-putting somo simple intelligible codo m their stead—such for example as the Ten Coramaudments. It is to be feared, however, that the elements of common Bonse will have to become more prevalent than it is before any suoh idea call 1)0 generally entertained. It is, I "think Oarlyle whosaya " that thero are in Great Britain thirty million of people-mostly fools." Probably the latter part of the assertion would apply equally well to us in Now Zealand, otherwise wo should be 'in a vastly hotter condition (ban at present, Gentlemen, those of you who read tho newspapers have been so satiated whh speeches on public affairs for some time past, and the political situation has been so fully and correctly expounded by the various members of the Opposition, that I do not propose to occupy your timo at any length by repeating what others have said, or by giving you a dry digest of the proceedings of last session. What I should rather desire is that we should havo a frco and unreserved interchange; of opinion on some of the leading que;* .tipiiß that" concern the future of this Colony, andthat you should oocupy more of the time of the meeting than myself—that our meeting should be mure cohversa'ional than otherwise,

The late Speaker of the House of Cnmmone, Sic Henry Brand, was, according to costom, offered a peerage on retiring; he declined it because he ia heir to the old barony of Dacre, and isunwilling to merge it in a new one. But he accepts the yearly pension of £2OOO. ■'• ■

Nearly 221,000,000 lottery tichets ware Sonll n yeal ' in Ital ?< on wJ>w* MJUO,OOO were staked, being at the rate ot 2s for each of the 29,000,000 inhabitants. 0n1y44 winning were above 1400 eaoh, the highest two being one of £8,120, made it Turin, and' the other of £2OOO, •wHapleß; -*>;■ - ■■■- •'-• : ■-■•'-'

The Treasurer of tho Masterton Hoßi pltal acknowledges the receipt of £8 from the Kakumingi atation per Mr J..0." YaU larico. ' .' : ''' ■:,';' •'■'' :: £":

Mr I. : G,. : Price of Newtown,' a well known breeder of prize ;floudans, idveriissß young birds from, icelobfated "'raina which have carried off trophies at London, Birmingham, and Paris, •■'■ A man named Alex, Glasse, employed by Messrs Williams and Barker -at Gladatone fell from' a building'on Wednesdaylnst, breaking his collarbone and severely bruising His back. He waa brought back to_ hia hbmd:ml : MaHt6rfoD, where .his injuries are progressing fiivqrably;to\vardß ! recovery under the care of Dr Beard; ; v

At Annesdale on Monday last a young man named Quinh fell-to the ground while in.search of pigeons. The; gun he held in his hand exploded and shattered one of bis fingers, bo that it had to-be' amputated, the operation being successfully performed by Dr Beard.

" The Rev. L. M. Isitt contributes the following letter to the N.Z.Tunes ;-Sir, -In your issue of Thursday an account appears of Alleged Spiritual Manifestations in. the Wairarapa." I write:in reference to a paragraph;headed "Two clergymen puzzled," Oii the evening I was at Mr Nation's house; I did not see the slightest evidence ef spirit force. The table that Mr Young and myself endeavored to hold was a.small round card table,, standing upon a thin central leg with three claws. Mr VYouPg and myself grasped the leg, while two young ladies bad their four bands resting upon the top of the table, following its every movement. With a table of this kind the leverage thus given is suoh that, without apparent effort on the part of those whose 1 hands aro on its surface, the 'table oan bo easily moved, despite the efforts of those who bold the leg, This I have since proved by experiment, and your readers can easily prove it themselves. Now, I do net say that the young ladies moved the table. I simply state that they could kavo done so without our - detecting whether their hands merely followed or occasioned the movement; and, this boing the case; submit that, to adduce evidence of thiß sind, is to beg the whole question ; that, iu fact, it is no evidence at all. Mr Nation has kindly offered me another op* portuniiy of testing the reality of these manifestations, of which I shall avail myself; and, while I need real proof, I shall be. prompt to acknowledge the slightest indisputable manifestation of spirit force as the first to reward a so far useless search that has. extended over a period of eight or nine yerrs. At present I cannot sip myself a puzzled parson, but am, yours in- the body, Leonard M, Ism', Masterton, May 30,1884,

The phylloxera is mrking great havoc in the \ineyards on the Douro, Portugal, whore the .crop of last year is alleged to be deficient by 40,000 pipes, Many of the cultivators a'o said to bo abandoning their holdings in despair, and emigrating to.the Brazil.

The followiug ages have, on tho authority of BkiV.ed agriculturists, been attained by trees:—Vew,i32oo.yeara; i sohul3ooriia, 3000; cedar, 2000; oak,' 1500;' sprace,l2oo i h'mo, 110);: Oriental plane, 1000; walnut, 1000; olive and cypress',' 880'j orange, 630; maple, 500; ; elm, 300. ; ;; ~ ,:•;,:. , The Italian Government has bponed a competition for a monument to Garibaldi on the Janiculus, where he established his headquarters in 184!). The chief prize is 20,000 to, and there are fivo ofchors of 3000 lircs each. ■ Tho Methodists in Cincinnati, Ohio, have raised 6500 dollars for the.erection in: Salt Lake City, U.T., of a women's home.to shelter needy women, more especially those seeking refuge from tho bondage and albo disgrace of polygamy.'. A very recent retain gives tbe cost of the Tichlorne prosecution os L 60,074. Ofj this sum over L 10.009 was spent in printing and ttatiOnery, and nearly L4OOO in shorthand nofcfiß. The lawyers had no diificu'ty in accounting for tho remaindor,

There is a great deal of enterprise in America. The manager of a cattle Bhow in lowa, finding that a murderer was to be hanged the weok of their show, tried to i»rrange to have the hanging take place on tl eir grounds as one of the att.-aotions.

Last, year 750,846 kangaroos, 330,109 wallabies, and 7,195 dogs were killed, under tho auspices of stock and pastoral boards in New South Wales.

The Daphne, which oapsized when being lauuohed on the Clyde, when 160 lives were sacrificed, has become' d comploto wreck off Millport, hiving got stranded on the rocks. The main walls of tho Mormon Temple in Salt Lake wore recent'y completed, They are of solid granito, 85ft high,' and 10ft thick, and : were begun 28 years ago, The cost thus far has been 4,500,000 dols.

Don't die is the house.—"Bough sn Kats" dears out rats, mice, beotles, roaches, bed-bags, flic's,, ants,', iuaeots, moles, jackrabbits, gophers, 7Jd—N.Z, Drag Company, After several years, oxpenence in supplying watches for tho oolouial market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English a lower price than that usually paid.for suoh watches. It is only bj the judicious division of labor and bytliemanufactu.eof largo quantitiesou a uniform plan, that wo are enabled to meet this want We havo now the' pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lover. This watch, being simp'e in design durable, highly finished, and accurate, fulfils, all the requirements of a pocket timekeeper, A written guarantee for two years will be given with oich w»ioh. Sent by poit, enurely packed, on tecoipt of Post Office order or cheque,-lAbvtl