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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1787, 13 September 1884, Page 2

The Greytown Spiritualistic Investigation, Society meet in the side room of the Foresters Hall on Monday night, A meeting of the members of the Greytown Horticultural Society is called for this (Saturday) evening at 7o'clock in tlio Council Chambers.

The adjourned general meeting of the Masterton Oheas Club took place last evening, Mr Littlejohn presiding, The rules, as amended, were adopted, and the annual subscription fixed atfivo shillings. Mr P. W. MilhV writes' our own correspondent, gave ahothor of his popular entertainments in Greytown on. Thursday, night, The attendance was not so numerous as the night before bat that made no difference. He went through the programme in a style that showed what he was made of and was not to be disheartened bv a thin house. His man Tetrence O'Rielly made it very warm for for the hall piano.

The resignation of Lieutenant Daniel Cameron, of the Graytown Eifle Volunteers, has been cancelled. The Finance Committee of the Mas* terfcon Fire Brigade met last ovening, Present—Messrs Payion, Mnir, Bish and Sellar. Mr Payton was reelected Chairman and Mr Bish was appointed as Treasurer, A letter was read from Mr Dixon resigning his seaton the Finance Committee as ho lind joined the Brigade as a working member. The Secretary reported a credit balance of £53 Gs 4d; outstanding subscriptions £34 7s 6d and a liability of £3O for the new bell which was expected every day in Masterton. A. sum of £5 6s was ordered to be paid to Fireman Mills who had made the highest number of attendances during the. past year, viz., forty-six out of a possible forty'seven, .It was decided, for the ensuing year to offer a first prize of £5, a second of £3, and a third of £2 for the best attendances.. The Secretary ;was instructed to obtain estimates for the cost" of a now hoie-reel, The meeting then adjournal],

The Waipoua was fast rising this forenoon but the Ruamuhuoga «nly to a moderate extent. The snow was' fallinu fast we hear when Mr.-; Holmes left Matahiwi. '■■■'■

It will be seen in a notico 'of market prices that butter is quoted at lid to Is, and eagii at 7d. This is a considerable reduction upon rates which have prevailed of late,

Mr B, Williams having retired from the firm of Luke Sons and Williams, notice is given that the business of iron and brass founders, engineers, etc., will he continued at the Te Aro foundry under the style and firm of Luke and Sons, with a greatly increased plant,

■ In the Hcuso last night in answer to Mr Beetham the Commissioner of Telegraphs said that to extend the telegraph line., to Dreyerion, Ekefcahuna, Mauriceville 'and Pahiatua would involve an expenditure of about £4OOO. The Government could not see that the revenue would bo commeusurato and therefore did not propose to go on with fho work, The pest week up till Friday, writes our weather recorder, has been fine. Eain fell on two days. The rainfall for the weok was only 'O9O parts of an inch, Ab predicted, there were signs on Thursday night indicating a change of weather, but net of a severe nature, as the barometer was very steady, with a slight tendency to fall. Since that time the barometer has retrograded, hut on Friday night was rising again.: The mean reading for the week is 29'655 inches. For the thermometer the mean reading is 83'5 Fab. The wind has been light, and from a northerly dlreolion, The rainfall for the past twenty-four hours Ims been HI inches.

Owing to t-lio very inclomont stale ot the weather last evening there was but an indifferent house at trio Theatre Eoyal to see Fred Millis, the famous ventriloquist and mimic, Notwithstanding tho small attendance and the difficulty of making himself heard with a polting ram on the iron roof of the theatre, Millis wont through a long and varied programme in a brilliant manner, and the frequent and loud applause of the audience testified that his efforts were fully appreciated, The local hits in the second port of the bill of fare were very good, while tho dialogues and snugs by Terence O'Reilly and tho other talking figures kept _ the house in a continual state of merriment. To-night Millis appears for the last time in an entirely new programme, when we trust he will get what he certainly deserves—a bumper house.

The Gas Committee met at the Institute Instevening, Present-Messrsßapp, Hooper; Caselberg, Thompson and Muir. Mr Rapp having been voted to the chair, it was decided to üblj Mr Lowes to act as Chairman of the Provisional directory, It was resolved—That Messrs Case! berg, Payton, Hogg, and Rapp be requested to draw up a prospectus to submit to the Provisional directory. The meeting then adjourned until the' 19th inst. The Provisional Directory was extended, and now includes tho following names ; Messrs Thompson, Elkins, Hooper, Rapp, Macara, Muir, Wag?, Toohill, Caselbcrg, Perry. Lowes, Hessey, Chamberlain, Bacon, Buick, Payton. Hogg, G. Beetham, 'W, H, Beetham, and A. W. Rentill.

In the report of the committee of the Wairarapa and East Coant Pastoral Society allocating medals and private prizes, tho ' following, .corrections and additions require to bo made, viz,, gold medal for best lady's hack should appear amongst private prizos as it is the presentation of Mr R, R, Armstrong in lieu of the society's silver medal. In private prize list Mr N. Grace's three guineas for best lady's hack should be silver bracelet, value two guineas. The N Z, Loan and Mercantile Company offer a cup value 15 guineas, which will go in the following diroctien, viz,, to the lot of sheop, beim; tho total number of exhibits, the property of one owner, which, in the opinion of tho judges, bears tho most profitable fleeces of wool, combined with excellence of carcase for mutton, Black smiths of Carterton, 30s for best shod light horae. Jesse Herbert, £1 ns subsidy to Ist prize shearing nwch. Jesse Herbert, .61 as subsidy to 2nd prize shearing matoh.

Tenders are invited for the erection of schools at Daleneld and Pahiatua. Plans of the latter may be Boon at this office. Thr rope at the Manawatu Perry has been recovered from tho river-bod, and the punt will be in working order acain to-morrow,

Mr W. E. Hall, tbo well-known dental surgeon visits Masterton on the 17th inst. and may be consulted at Mr James Nicol'a residence in Chapel-street. The committee appointed for the purpose of enquiring into Hie North Island railway route are issuing summonses to a number of ; witnesßos to give evidence •before them. Harry Ellis, an old offender, was charged to-day at the R.M. Court, Masterton with (1) drunlteness, (2) disorderly conduct, and (3) obscene language. He was remanded till Monday next. The new fireball is to be swung in the Maßtevton bell tower this aftornoon, The local market for cotton wool lias an upward tendency I.

, The adjourned meeting of the Masterton and Opaki Jockey Club takes place at the Club Hotel this evening.

M. de Lesseps has found his attempt to built a canal across Panama exposed to most serious danger of failure, The work already done, costly as it is, has been lo a great extent swept away and destroyed by the spring freshlots. In his despair of remaking that line lie has turned his attention to the route through Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, Under the patronage of the French Government he has opened negotiations for the concession to him of the right to build a canal there, the idea being to abandon the Isthmus of Panama altogether.— New York Sun,

A Wise Deacon,-"Deacon Wflder, I want you to tell .me'how you kept yourself and family so well last season, when all the resj of us have been sick so much and have hart the doctors running to us so often," "Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy, I used Hop Bitters' in time, and kept my family well and.saved largo doctor's bills, Four shilling* worth of it kept us all well and able to work all the ,tiine aud I will warrant it coat you and most of your neighbours £lO to £IOO apiece to keep sick the same time. I fancy you.ll takemy medicine hereafter," See

How to Get Sick,—Esppso yourself night and day. sit too much without eserejap, work too hard without rest, doctor all the time take all the vile nostrums advertised and then you will-want to know

After several years experience in supplying .watches for the colonial.nwrkot, 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 suoh watches. It is only hj the judicious division of labor and by the manufacture of large quantities on a uniform plan, that wo are enabled to meet this want, Wo have now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever. This watch, being simple in design durable, highly finished, and accurate,£ulflls, all the requirements of a po'okel timekeeper, A written guarantee for two years will be given with each.wtfon, Sent by post, securely packed, on teceipt of Pogt Offioe order or cheoue.—(Advtl

A ring valued at.£9o has been stolen from,Mr Donald. Wallace, the well-known racehorse .owner, who was living in '.the. Oriental Hotel, Melbourne,; .;, :• , j;

June 18 being the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, which was fought on June 18, 1815, the custom of decking the colours was observed in the British Army which took part in the memorabloengagement. The subaltern doing duty with the Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards, which mounted the "Queen's Guard" and the other public duties in London in the morning carried the laurel-decked colours from Chelsea Barracks to the Guard-house at St. James' Palace, while the band of the regiment played a selection of music in the Courtyard of the Palace during the ceremony of mounting and changing of the guard. The officer of the Grenadier Guards who was relieved from duty afterwards conveyed the laurels to the Wellington Barracks, The hearso which conveyed the remains of the " Iron Duke" to their last resting place in St, Paul's Cathedral, and which is cast in gnnmetal, was decorated with laurel and immortelles.

For the year 1841 to 1889, the average death-rate for London 23-95 per thousand. The worst small-pox years were 1863, 1871, and 1877. In these three years there were 14,358 small-pox deaths yet their average general death-rale was only 23-66, instead of 23-95, The year of the highest general mortality was not the year of small-pox epidemics, In 1849 the mortality was over 30 per thousand but there/were only 521 small-pox deaths, In 1854, with a mortality of 29-4 per thousand, there were only 194 small-pcx deaths, Compare these years with 1871. In that year (notwithstanding eighteen years of compulsory vaccination) there was the worst small-pox epidemic of the century. In London alone there were 7912 deaths from it, yet the general mortality was only 24-fi per thousand. Clearly, therefore, small-pox. epidemics do not increase: the general' death rate, or justify Parliament in regarding 1 them as a great public danger requiring to be provided against by special legislation.

Dou'r die in the HOUSE, —"Rough on Eats" clears out rats, miee,beotlea, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jackabbits, gophers, 7£d-N. Z. Drug Company.