The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885. THE PROPOSED BANQUET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1884, 10 January 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885. THE PROPOSED BANQUET.

It is only old settlers in this district who have by experience been familiarised with the difficulties which wait on those who banquet great men in the Wairarapa. Nothing seems more easy and" pleasant' than, to get up a dinner to a distinguished visitor, but thos6 who bavo undertaken offices of this kind know to their cost the pains and penalties which follow such undertakings. In connection "with, a celebrated banquet is it not on record that for a space of three years periodical contributions were levied on all

who had handled a knife and fork in

the august presence, and it is perhaps no wonder that people even now turn sick and shudder when banquets are spoken of and refuse to incur any responsibility in connection therewith. Then there are other -little'difficulties. ; 'to which-the promoters of the present •banquet are being introduced. 'We are indebted for the idea of cultivating friendly relations "with Mi- Ballance "to Mr B. S. Hawkins, and'the.'idea'is an excellent one, He communicated it to

his twelve apostles, the Yice-Presidents and delegates of the County Settlers' Association, and they approved of it; What should have been done then would have been for the Association to

have-taken the bull" by the horns and given a banquet under its own auspices, but unfortunately tho delegates called in-the aid of local bodies and here the trouble commenced. His Worship tho Mayor, very-properly explained that withiiv'' To,Borougli of. Masterton" he .could not." play- second' fi'ildle to even a President of a County Settlers Association, and finally it was deeided that the Association should abnegate the proud

lead it had taken.and.throw the enterprise open to the local bodies of the town and district. We trust the latter will, see their way clear to take the matter up and pull together to make the thing a success, As .we said before it wilUnswer the purpose - of Master-' ton to cultivate friendly relations with Mr Ballance, and it- may be possible to make a new departure by getting the affair up in such a manner that no subsequent financial. difficulties shall mar the glory'of it. '

An Autumn Steeplechase Meeting is contemplated by the Feathers ton Racing Club... Professor Huxley is 'about to open a shop at Masterton in the Theatre Royal buildings. The programme of the Ram and Ewe Fair to be held at Carterton on February the 25th, is published in our advertising columns to-day. Apples at one penny per pound are advertised for sale at L. Jones' Fruit Shop. Cases of tho same may also be had there at 3s. Our Farmers' Club ought to get a field trial df reapers and binders, as there area great number of. new. machines' lately brought into the district. The Government having conceded three holidays to the railway employees, now decline to allow them a day fpr their annual picnic or a free train to convey them to it. The team of the Masterton Fire Brigade proceeded to Greytown to-day to practice their engine, it being the same as the one to be used in the Dunedil) competition. We have received from ifr T, Barnard tho Secretary of the Totara Lodge, a complimentary ticket for the conceit which takes pla?o in Carterton on the 14th inst., in connection with tlje local Druids.

It is said Major Campbell mercifully declines to give the number of votes recorded for unsuccessful candidates at the late election for the Central . Insurance Board.

Yesterday was the nomination day in Greytown for a Councillor to fill the vacancy caused by Or Udy's promotion to •tho Mayoral chair, when Messrs Muirand Trptjtei' were nominated. The election takes plage m Tjjyrsday next, the 15th. During the last nine njonths fourteen declarations of jnsolyency jjayo been filed in Masterton representing the. following occupationsbookseller, horsebreaker, tanner, • storekeeper, butcher, blacksmith, caterer, livery stablekeeper, carpenter, miller, ex-publican, cabinet maker, baker, andfarmer. A meeting .of ;the Finance Committee of theMastertonFire Brigade was held last eyening, Presentr-Messrs Payton (chairman), fiaselberg, Sellar, Muir, and Keester. Tho Treasurer reported a credit balance of £lll4s lOd, 'A sijm of £ls was voted towards the expense's qf the: representatives' of the! Brigade who are about to visit Dunedin/' •

' A Wellington paper is.'iiiformed that R. S. Waterhouse, for whoso: apprehension s warrant lias been out some time, has made his way to New South Wales, having beer recently seen in Sydney. The police Inhere; have,- we. believe, been eomiiiuhicat?d with .on the! subject.'-The warranl issued here has been so issued at ths instance of Mr Alex. McDougall, anc charges Waterhouse .with converting te his own use, without authority to do so! on the 29th Becemtyjiygertain certificatei or orders for- the.delivery fjeyentj cases and one. quarter-cask. of whisky. fOl safe custody, . A reply has bpen rweiyed by the Woodville Special Settlement Asjopwtion to their application for a selection in the Maharahara block, The..Minister states that as it has been opened up by roads surveyed for settlement under other conditions, he cannot grant their request, On receipt of the reply 10,000 acres in the Mangahao were applied for. It is said that another association is being formed to take up an area in the Amutoroa block, . The adjourned meeting of the Greytown Borough Council took place on Thursday night. Present—His Worship the Mayor, and Crs Gallagher, Loasby, Maxton, and Beard. The minutes of the proyious meeting were read and confirmed. The works and finance committees reports were adopted as' read. Correspondence was read from the Colonial Secretary acknowledging the receipt of notification of Mr Udy's return' as' Mayor, The following notice of motion was given-That the Inspector of Nuisances receive three months' notice that his services be dispensed with, • It was resolved that the Inspector of Nuisances be instructed to write to the owner of a' section facing the main road to have the same fenced within fourteen days or the same would be done at his expense, The meeting then adjourned; Diptheria is still to be foundin Feathers; ton. We deeply regret writes the Standard to have to record that Mr Joseph Cunely has lost two of his children within a week. On Tuesday the family were engaged at the cemetary paying the last sad rites to one of tho deceased children when a messenger was dispatched to bear the sad tidings to Mr Gundy and his friends that another child had succumbed to the malady. Profound sympathy is felt in Featherston for Mr and Mrs Cundy. It'is also distressing to relate that a third little child of the same family is at present in a very critical state. . K&pp & Hare arc instructed to sell a? mill prices the following goods: Mosgiel Clothing and Hosiery, .Kaiapqi Clothing, Auckland Clothing, and Wellington; Clothing. We iutend to.'olear ourlarge 'stock at immeuse reduoticns, and offer a bonus of 2s in the f odsh to all purchasers to the value of £l, Don't forget the address.—Anvi.

NEOLECTIB OFTEN AS FERTILE A CAUSE OF SUFFERING as the disease itself. Human nature, warned as it s by repeated examples, Is prono to forget (he salutary l«song they inculcate and apt to lose b; deferment, the good It may recleve from prompt and decisive action. When the means a e within our grasp, it is almost sinful to aUow tholr escape, and hose who overlook the virtues of UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS must stand forerr«r BeU-crlminated and

An Auckland telegram states that Mr Pilbrow will take Welcome Jack, Clarence and Mitrailleuse to Sydney. Tenders are invited by the Mastorton ' Road Board for painting; .the bridge recently erected near Brancepeth.; . •■■ meeting of members of the:-, Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club takes place ■ ■this ovening at the Club Hotel. , Mr P.- Cockevy brought down from the iaueru yestei^ay^Mr-D; Pnight,.who ; ¥as recentlyinjured'by a spill from a'hbrse.in that neighborhood, The following is the latest local conundrum:—"When is a gold medal not a gold medal ?" Answer: " When it is issuedby the WairarapaPastoral Society j" ■ It is asserted that some medals have recently been tested in Mastorton with very unsatisfactory results," lii the region which lies- between Masterton and Bowlands resides a bold distiller, who defies the officers of tho law to detect his illicit practices, The other day a police'officer paid a surprise, visit, made a careful exploration of his domicide, but without avail, On his departure, thia. local whiskey brewer offered his visitor a ■ flask containing spirits which were far .. stronger than any imported -article, • A few days later a suspicious looking copper worm came up from Wellington for this individual, and a detective followed the worm to its destination in the Taueru. There he hunted about for some twelve hours, while the bolddistiller watched him and chaffed him on his inability to And out where the "still, waters" were concealed. 1 . . .. Forty-two per cent of . .the surface of Russia is covered with forest. Tho number of. different kinds of postage stamps which have hitherto' been 'issued all over the world is estimated in

•ound numbers at 6,000, The Bancrofts are about to withdraw

from the Haymarket Theatre,. London) and to retire into' private life. If is. said that Mr Bancroft has accumulated as much as £150,000. A Milwaukee girl has obtained 3,000 dols. in a breach of promise ; case for "expenses incurred in preparing the wedding, andfor great mentalanguish suffered;" 2,999,25 dols. for expenses, arid ;six bits for mental anguish. '• V: " A forgery to to" extent of 22,000 florins in counterfeit Bank of England notes was lately detected in Vienna, The note? were passed by tyro Englishmen twp leading private banks of the city, A minora' Protection Bill, will be shortly introduced into tho,House of Oomnlons on the lines of tho Criminal Law Amendment Bill. proposed-last session. The main object of the bill is the protection of young girls. . Commander' Bradford,' who led the party at; the bombardment of Alexandria wliich : 3wam 'ash6re and spiked the guns of Fort Meks, lias ?ga;n distinguished him. self at .Padstow- by swimming §!}t to sea and rescuing a. lady,from drowning, ' According to the Railway Age, tho first railway line ever built in .America was that from the granite quarries at Puincy, Massachussets, to the Neponset River, and iva.s three miles in length. It was commenced in 182Q and completed in 1827. On November 2nd, , in celebration of the anniversary Qf the battle of Mentana a number of old Garibaldians, headed by Signor Menotti Garibaldi, wept in pi'Q: cession to the place of interment of those who fell in that engagement, in'order to deposit floral wroaths upon the tombs, A correspondent of the Ohroniol'e oalculates that the annual loss by shipwreck amongst the vessels belonging to tho United Kingdom is, on an average, one vessel in 4(1, and the anuual loss of property engaged therein £1 in every £42. A . manuscript of Charles V-,. in an antique leather case, delighted the bibliophiles. of Paris, and ypu) considered a bargain at 4000 dols. jt .fy 1 ' 11 ? tp be a fraud, but the workmanship is $q clever that at an auction sale it brought COO dols as a curiosity. There are 136,000 fishermen in Franoe. The coast fisheries provide employment for only 53,000 of this great force, so that 83,000 French fisherman make their livelihood out of foreign waters. The ' va% .of • fish captured in 1883 was £4,289,075,'' Sjf which more ■ than £3,000,000 lyas drawn ijfom outside their own waters. About four fisherman ojjt of 'every 1000 are drowned during the'year. There is not a single cat within tho .limits .of.Leadville, • Colorado, Oats have • been imported there by the hundred, and in all varieties of size and color; but not one has ever survived the second week of residence, However, as there are no rats ■ and mice in Leadville, there is no real 1 need of cats, and there absence makes little difference. The thin atmosphere at 1 that altitude (ten thousand- two hundred feet) is as fatal to the vermin as to their foe.

The Boston Globe fcell.s a story of heroism ar\d its iwara, \yhich lift? the average of jpjan w.Qrtlj jipwards, - It is pf a working wpman of Bos- 1 ton, Mrs Lizzio Olopney, whp, at the risk of her own life, seized the bridle of a runaway horse, one dark sitQrmy eyejpg last April, and clui)g to it, in spite of bruises, wounds and a broken rib, until she had rosouod from imminent death a little five-year-old boy, the only occupant of the buggy attached to the runaway. She showed herself a true heroine by belittling her exploit and seeking to avoid giving her name to the father of the' rescued child. This latter proved himself equally worthy of the occasion, by presenting her with a ]iai)c|sQme medal, since she would accept no gift of ironey, pd, unknown to her, placing a thousand dqllars to her credit in a savings bank. Sickness and domestic troubles have overtaken tho brave woman since, and the generous toward, of which she has just been informed, camp very timely to her.

A correspondent of a Lfln4P I J paper writes"We women haye got tired of finding ourselves tattooed every time we undress for bed, with an exact reproduction of the hosiery pattern which we have been wearing during the day, or, worse still, dyed jet from' knees to toes, The novelty stocking is the one that laces up, like an .qld-faslugned prunella gaiter, except' tliat the lino of string and eyehole embracemerit is not from ancle to heel, but from under the knee to the upper bulge of the calf. The scheme ought to be approved by. the dress reformeJs, because .it abolishes the garter, with its impediment to a free circulatiou of the blood,'and the supporters dependent from the waist with this annoying tension. I hardly expected to ever feel angelio, but when I went out with a pair of laced stockings on, the absence of all sense of garterial restraint imparted a sense of winged flight, and it seemed to me that my feet were off the pavement most of the time."

Flies and Bugs,—Beetles, insects, roaches ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, jophers jackrabbits,.cleared out by."Hough on .Kats'. 7Jd,' Moses Mob's and Co.j' Sydney, General; Agontg.

Cored op Dbksisg,-'JA young triend of mine was cured of an insatiable thirst for liquor, that had so prostrated his • system that he was unable to do any business. He was entirely cured by hopbitters, It allayed all that burning thirst, took' away the-: appetite for hquor r mad® bis nerves steady and he has remained a sober and steady matt for two years, and he has no desire to return to his cups."—From aleading R,R. Offioial. Bead.

The Masterton cricket olub has received a challenge from Featherston to play a game on Saturday.

• Edward Etopkins the young Jockey who was'injured on New Years Day at the Island Bay races, is progressing favorably towards recovery.

In compliance with a requisition from residents and ratepayers His Worship the Mayor convenes a meeting for Wednesday. 14th hist., at. p.m., in the upper room of to .-Institute, to consider the gas question, ■'

It is etiquette now for Maoris to wear a blue pin or'ribbon in Masterton, The youthful native sports the emblem on .every possible occasion, but.as he.pijsses. a public house he wears also a dejected look, which shows that regret still lingers in his manly bosom, • 'A "Masterton musician has recently captured a young hawk, and is endeavor:, ing to' teach the bird to say " The Watch on the Rhine," and contemplates presenting the bird, when sufficiently educated, to the;Masfcerton museum. We fcffl?y,our.. musicfd'friend would havg a better chance of success if he trained one of our numer-ous-local cats instead." . About a dozen members of the Phoenix Lodge, 1.0. G.T., attended the monster temperance meeting of natives at the Pah, ; Te Ore Ore, yesterday, where they were cordially welcomed by the Deputy Grand W.O.T, of • New Zealand, Bro, Hori Ropiha, who showed them his credentials and gave the sips and pass words in due form. He was dressed in full regalia and. is a fine,' intelligent-looking native, and' in a black suit and "bell-topper" looks every inch a gentleman! His language and manners are simple, and his bearing l graceful.- ■ -He informed his visitors that, about 500 natives-had signed the Temper- • ance pledge through his instrumentality, and about 150. Wairarapa' names were expected to be added. He attempted to instil into the minds of the Maoris some-idea of the magnitude of Britain's greatness. He spoke of Lord Derby and many other notables, and and alluded in glowing' terms of the shipping and trade of England. Hori Ropilia shook hands with each visitor from the Masterton lodge on leaving, and tfyey wished him every Success in his endeavors tq spread the 9'ause of temperance throughout the tribes. Well's " noma on Corns". Ask for Well's "Rough on Corns." 7id, Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions, Mosp, Moss & Co,, Sydney,

General Ayents,—Advt. Thiok heads.—Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions-/* Wells' May Apple Fills"- antibilious, oathartio, 6d and la. N. 1, Drug Co.