The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1884.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 18 June 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1884.

Tomorrow, Mr F. H. Wood holds a stock sale at flaminerioh's Yards, at Grey town,

The iSalvation Army have not very favorable weather for their big tea meeting this evening,

The Masterton School Committee hold their usual monthly meeting this evening. Masterton shareholders in the Wellingi ton Woollen Company oan obtain proxy forms by calling at this office. Lowes & lorns' stock sale for the 25th include three good milch, cows'and one trap horse and lmrnoss. Further entries are invited,

The Governor has, a 9 wo anticipated, granted the Premier a dissolution, The battleground now will be charged from the floor of the House to the constitu* encics.

Lowes and lorna have for sale on easy terms a valuable run of 2000 acres, situated at the Upper Taueru, which is well sheltered and stocked. The Volunteer Soiree Committoo met on Monday evening, and they report a balance in hand whioh they intend handing over to the Volunteer Company's account, and also passed a hearty vole ot thanks to Mrs Wagg who so kindly lent them her piano tor the occasion, We notico that Mr Lawson, late of Hawera, has opened out in Mr Wood's auciion _ rooms, Carterton, with a largo and varied stock of drapery.

Id spits of inclement weather Profassor Hugo bad a crowded house last evening for Ida lecture on "foreheads." Hij address was listened to with interest by an appreciative audience, and some excellent examinations of individual subjects concluded the programme. The Professor announced that he would give a lecture on"eyos" tonight, the proceeds of which would be devoted to the funds of the Masterton Hospital, Yesterday Messrs Littlejohn and Sons opened in their.new premises on Perry's blook. Queen-Btreet, a well stocked jewellers and watchmakers establishment, which is a decided addition to the many handsome shops in the town, The work of decorating these new promises was intrusted to Mr G. Coker, and both the design and finish of the shop front is generally admired as being effeotivo and in good taste, . .

A remarkable proof of tho wonderful olairvoynnt powors of Signor Hiig was witnessed yesterday, by the representatives of the Mastertpn press and Mr "W. W. McOardle. A stranger was introduced to Signor Hiig who desired a diagnoses This wab Mr G, A, Bowser, the poundkeeper of this town, a man who has been almost a shadow on the earth for "the past three years, who was compelled by sickness to abandon his trade as a wool dresser, and who Iwb spsnt his last sixpence on doctors and medicine. The diagnosis given by the Signor was a very exhausiivo one, Every organ, every bone, and every tissue in the body was brought under review, the patient confirming the truth of every remark made by the Clairvoyant, Bowser was suffering from a complication of disorders, but tlie results of the clairvoyant diagnosis was to reveal that under English and Wellington doctora he had been physicked for throe years for a complaint from which ho was free,-and that the real'nature of his disease had remained undetected, Poor Bowser, who, for a long time past has regarded himself, as a hopeless oase, was very miioli affected to find .that there was advance for him yet to recover and return to his old occupation as a wooldrosser. The impression made on those.who witnessed the soene. as well as on Bowser, was, that the poor fellow's condition had been aggravated for years for the want of the knowledge of his real state whioh the clairvoyant power of Signor Hiig so speedily revealed. A leading doctor in the town had been invited to be present, and it is a pity that, he missed such an opportunity of testing theSignor's powers.;'We believe, however, that the medical profession in the Wairarapa are beginning to recognise and admit the special and marvellous power of, Signor Hiig, , . ■ /'.:;:

The Mastmon Borouah Council haa taken a very proper oourae by inviting Captain Muir to attend at its next meeting and bring before it any grievances which the Fire Brigade desire to be adjusted. > A rowdy member of the larrikin element, who whs oreating a disturbance at the Masterfcon Salvation Ajmy' bartaokß laßt evening, hnd to be removed by main force. During a souffle which onaued, he assaulted a member of the Army, We understand that he will be required to appear before the Resident Magistrate at the next sittings of the Court, ; : '•'■■■ We regret to learn that a child of Mr R. K. Kendrick, of Castlepoint, recently Maiding jn Masterton, has succumbed to soarlet fever.

The ieasgjand goodwill of the Eketa' buna hotel} with store attached, are offered for salein'our advertising colomnß. The returns for the East Coast olection are as follows:—Ormond-locke, -72: Gannon, 39; Bees, 27, Mohaka-Locke, 8; Gannon; 7; Rees; 0. Total forLooke, 439;EeeB, 239; Gannon, 274 Thereturns from Tologa Bay and other places are yet to come, but cannot affect the return. A large orowd assembled in tho street, and Mr Locke thanked them from the balcony of the Masonic Hotel, and called for three cheers for the other candidates. Wo are sincerely glad that Sir George Grey's blustering sergeant is defeated. His effort to keep Sir Julius Vo»el out of tho House la futile, and he himself is uu in the cold. ■,' ■... The only iokes women like to read are those which reflect ridicule on men. Yes I on taking up a paper a woman invariably turns to the marriage column.

An lowo man has figured out that the do&a of that State oat enough annually to feed 100,000 workmen, and cost 9,000,000 dollars, couming the sheep they kill. ''They say" that the Dean of Bangor preaching recently before Sir Stafford Northcote, in the Cathedral, took for his text '• remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom," The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildaro, at their wedding in England a few days since, introduced something novel into the routine of marriage ceiomonies, for the bridegroom eleoted to be unattended, so.there was no best man, but to make up for his absence, perhaps, there were eleven bridesmaids, The town of Norwich, in England, has a newspaper 170 years old—the Mercury -which was started, or is supposed to have been started, in 1714. From the year 1727 tho file in the offioe of the pro prietnr is complete. Reprints of the issues in 1727 aro being made,

A marriage teok plaie in February, the officiating clergyman at which (the Rev, B. Edwards) is 96 years of ago, and he has held his living (the Rectory of Ashill, Norfolk), for 71 years—a tenure of one parish probably unequalled in the history of the Church,

The number of tickets colleoted by a first class railroad, in the oourse of the year, says the Spriegßeld (Mass.) Republican, ia something stupendous. Five tons of these trifling paper slips accumulate in theß.slonand Albany railroad office in Springfield yearly, and yield a snug sum when sold for paper stook. The Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, and 37 of his relatives, fill GO places, and have received £797,000 of public money. Not bad this for one family, And yet the son of the present jilarl, who represents Winchester, recently hnd tho assurance to tell the electors there that tho days of jobbery and favoritism had passed away! A biography of James Hogg, Ettriok Shepherd, will be published shortly! It is the work of his daughter,: Mrs Gardener, and one notable feature in it will be a letter written by the father of Mr Ruskin, in which he complains that his son (than a lad of sixteen) wastes Ms time in soribbling and yet manifests no marked signs of originality. <

The Cremation Society of Berlin iow nambers 305 members, no less than U6 having joined the society during 1833. The cremation movement is also proKressing favourably at Hamberg, Koriigaberg, Drendham, Breslau, and Wisebadw. At Gotha, 45 bodies were cremaed during 1883, which is about double .ihe number of those burned in any of :he four proceeding years. i

Natural gas is now looked upon ai a perment product of the United much that some firms who do not hapjon to be in the located near the springs Ire constructing special oars with tanks,'in which the gas, 20,000 cutio feet at' a time, will be transferred to their worki.

Some gum treeß in Adelaide streits navo had to bo cut down owing to L ravages of the goat moth (oossus) tie larvm of which were Derforatmg the wcod so extensively as to mako it dangerous to pass beneath the limbs, ovon in cab weather. \

The late Thomas Knowles, momberof the British Parliament was the son of la common pitman, 1 and at nine years dd himself worked as a collier's boy for hilf a orown a woek. Ho died at fifty-niru wealthy .popular, a prominent memb'ir of the House of Commons, and one of the most influential men in Lancashire.!' In 1882 the largest number of patent ever known in a single year was takm out in the United Kingdom, namely, 6241, In January of this year, as the result tf the new laws, 2288 applications were rl oeived for new patents. i " The most extensively dressed man [ ever aaw," says a captain of the navi 'mi an African Chief on the Gold Coast; His wives had anointed hira thorough!/ with palm oil, and then powdered hiii from head to foot with gold dust. Yoti never Baw a man got up bo' utterlj' 1 regardless of expense." '

TThe Oomlease de Charabord has presented several sets of black velvet vestments, magnifioently embroiderel with silver, to the monks of Castagovnizza under whose chapel the coffin of hjr husband was placed, Doctors Gave Him Uf.-"Is it possible that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, acd cured by so simple a remedy?" I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, ard with nothing but flop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die," "well a dayl If that is sol will po this minute rid get some for my poorGeorgo, .Iknowhops RTegood" Real The largest and best stook of men's poi. poise bide haitPsewn walking boots, especially adapted for winter wear, are to be seen at Rapp & Hare's, Emporium, (aovi).

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