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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1749, 31 July 1884, Page 2

'•Fred MiHis" was on his way to the t, railway station at Wellington ibis morning, when the vehicle in which he war e driving came to grief, and he miseed the a traini His opening performance, coneev g quently, is postponed till to-morrow ;• evening. '*■ At the inquest held on the body of the \ unfortunate man, J. Savage, found on Ibe P Caßtle Point beaoh. the jury returned, ~ writes a local correspondent,' a verdiot , e of " Aooidentally drownflU" It was supposed that he was stunned on the rooks in falling from his horse, which was ,j addicted to shying, and as the tide was high all the time, it, no doubt, was the ' cause of his being drowned, A very ingenious contrivance, called [ Gray'Bpatent standards,hasbeen invented 'j and patented in .this colony by Messrs Eeid & Grey, agricultural implement <• makers, of.Dunedin, says the New Zean land Times. The Standards are extremely simple, and useful in the ercotion of temporary fences for feeding sheep on } ( turnips, and also for fixing barbed wires [y and wire netting, It jb certainly the moßt simple and yet effective of anything of the kind brought under our notice The invention consists of a simple clip staple that fits on posts and confines the s> wire to its place. Its aotions are instan" taneouß; a fence can be erected after the !? posts are in the ground almost as fast as a iij it i '

Sir P. Dillon Bell has expressed Mai illingnesa to be reappointed Aijent? eneral for a further term'of two yeara. .[ Sir Julius Vogel's health is improving, id Dr Grace, his trainer, expebts him to j''fit" when.Parliament meets. The only case at- the R,M. Court, e,3!.|efßtpn > ;.yesteraa'y ) wasjhat. of a rttflkyflrho had - prenoUßly-undflrgone"*' rboessof sobering in a cell "for two days, with an additional hour as The late Mr J. M. Girdlestone, while 1 Masterton, had hia life insured for !500, but we regret to learn, in the iterests of his widow and family, that he llowed his policy to lapse. Mr George Thomaß, of Panama atveo*,. Wellington, announces that he has landed x mail Btearaer Tamsui, six hundred and wenty-Gve boxes and one hundred and wenty-five half ohests of this year's teas. "Chic" was repeated lo a good house ,t the Theatre Royal last evening, and Messrs Foley & Berkeley infused their ronted firo and fun -into the piece, Tolight they open in Carterton, The Standard hears that one -of the iriginal forty acre sections at Kuratiwhiti, tear Greytown, occupied by Mr John lume, has changed hands for ■ the subitantial sum' of £I2OO, Mr George Jones, if the Foresters' Arms, being the interprising purchaser. We have been asked to express an ipinion upon the International .Newsmper Agency, oonduoted by Mr H."P.; Subbard, of New' Haven, Conn;! H.-rU.! We have for some lime past being doing, business with this Agenoy, and'have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the straightforward manner in which its Dperations are conduoted. Punctuality and despatch have characterised all its dealings which have come under our notice, The Masterton Volunteers hold an inspection parade thiß evening, Private advices received from London state that Captain Benson, who was wellknown in connection with the old Panama Steam Service, died on May 22nd after a short illness, ,A word of. warning is needful to people' allowing olothes to hang out on lines at night time, We learn that last night a Masterton resident had his line stripped by a'riooturnal marauder in'search of clean linen,; '■•'■:•',-' . We find, writes the Canterbury Pressi that there were no less than. fourteen candidates at the last elections who did noc poll more than twenty votes; three ol these only polled one vote each, and'il may be presumed that was their own, Three more only polled two votes, Thia i* reducing candidature to a faroe, A feminine correspondent informs in that a certain eminent Professor has left Masterton without discharging his washing bill, and desiresus to warn other shirt starchera against trusting men of genius, We believe that the Professor will again be in Masterton in tho course of a fen days, and if he has. overlooked- a little account ot this charaoter, will, we fee' certain settle up to the satisfaction of oui correspondent. The Napier Telegraph, referring to thi fatal accident to Mr Girdlestone, state: that the deceased borrowed Mr Villiers gun to shoot bitterns!, A man namei Groves saw him afterwards walking alonj the bass of the hill not far from when the targets are, He saw the gun go ofl and Mr Girdlestone go over. The mat Groves considers it was an acoident, Hi went over and found him dead, with the gun hanging on the wire fence,,., M Girdleßtone was getting through' thi fence, and the shot penetrated the righ breast, At the Resident Magistrate's Com yesterday, W. F. Roydhouse, the regis tered proprietor of the Evening Press, newspaper published in Wellington wa proceeded against on sumraonß belore M Wardell, R.M., for an infringement c the Copyright Act, The Bpecifio ac complained of was alleged to have bee ban committed on the Bth July last, th plaintiff Mr Earnest Collins, the Nei Zealand agent for Reuter's Compan asserting that the defendant hn published cablegrams in his paper whic hadlf&ppeared in the New Zealand Time on the;Bth inßtant, and within ei^htee hoursfrdm the time thoy were receive by Reuters agency in Wellington, Afti evidence-had been ukou at some lengt Mr Shaw, for the defence, addressed tl Bench, and remarked that if the Bene ruled agaihst him he intended to appea In fact itiitd been agreed by himself an his learned;triend on the other side thi that the 'pise jnould go up for appea The questio'h .fas fraught with grave cor sequences ro journalists, and he hope that only a small penalty, if a conviotic were decided Upon, would be indictee The question would be argued in banco an early date aR to whether the plaint] had the right.to :levy..hlackmnil or'ne upon any whioh might 1 started in the colony.—The Bench Co sidered that the defendant had iei guilty of an infringment of the Copyrigl Aot, and Imposed a fine of 20s with oosl [ —Mr Shaw gave notice of appeal. An important discovery has been mat by two French scientists M. M, Mignt and Tauard, which may prove of mm 1 practical '-importance. They d monostrated by experiments that if han infected by trichina; are exposed to a co • of2odeg.:.c.entrigrade below.'zero fori ' 'hour" the parasites are' - complete . destroyed, It is proposed that all han ~ 'andbaoonimported intoFrahce from tl United States and Germany Bhall'be su mittSdto the abovia-process; so as 1 .protect the obhsu'mers from trichinosis. 1 : . ' ■ • -■■■ '"-. ' •'.. t . The' Vienna correspondent; of & Loadi paper says a Mormon missionary }i J been sentenced to a months imprisonme 1 He tried to propagate the Mormon fail ; and baptised a man and a woman in t 3 Danube Canal in auoh oold water that t man took to flight and the woman faints The telephone has been suoceßßiul j used in Franco to oommunicate betwei . two vessels one of whioh was tosring tl , other. The wire was carried along one ; the howaers, and the circuit waa complet 1 through the copper on the bottom of t 1 shipß and the water, Conversation w carried on distinctly ) ■ The largest and best stock of men's pi j poise hide hand-sewn walking boots, "1 ( penally adapted for winter wear,' aro' to t seen at Rapp & Hare's Emporium, (Adv 1 After several years experience in supplyi 1 watohes for the colonial market, Littlejo] i and Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellingto 3 have observed the need for a thorough i sound English Lever Watoh at ; a lower pri than that usually paid for such watohes, is only bj the judioioua division of labor ai ' by the manufacture of large quantities on I uniform plan, that we are enabled, to me i this want, We have now the pleasure" t introducing our Six Guinea Hunting tiilv . Lever. This watch, being, simple in desi j durable, highly finished, and accurato,fulfi [ all the requirements of a pocket timekeepi , A written guarantee for two years will j given with eaoh w»<-gh. Sent by poi securely paoked, on receipt of Post Offi order or cheque.—(Advtl A Lm's Wish.-' 'Oh how I do wish 1 1 skin was as clear and soft as yours," said > lady to a friend. "You can easily make , so," answered the friend, " How ?" inqmr , the first lady. "By using Hop Bites, th t makes pure rich blood and blooming healt ) It did tor me, as you observe," Read.

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