The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1885.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2000, 27 May 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1885.

While eg"s are selling at Is Cd per dozen in Mastcrton, dealers in Wellington are charging 2s fid, There must be a big profit made somewhere. Argument in the second caso of Regina v W. Waring Taylor in the Appeal Court at Wellington was concluded yesterday morning, judgment being reserved. This being the last case the Court adjourned until Friday, when judgments will be delivered.

Mr Robert Graham, formerly Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, and a colonist since 1842, died yesterday morning at Auckland, of pleurisy and bronchitis. He had been ailing for a fortnight. Barton, of the Auckland Cricket Club, scored 003 runs' during the season in eleven innings, and being not out once, has an average of sixty runs per inning. It was through Barton's instrumentality that the Australian cricketers wore defeated at Wanganui, the match there being the only one they lost in New Zealand,

How a marriage was delayed is thus related by a correspondent:—The nuptial knot was to be tied on the following day, but the bridegroom expectant went to his office late at night, and there found that instructions had arrived by the late train which made it imperative for him to proceed to a place some fifty miles distant without delay. The duty was not a pleasant one under the circumstances, but it was faithfully performed before more personal interests were considered. The bride took a practical view of the matter, and did not lament over the unavoidable delay, but when the appointed time Game attended at the altar as if no change had ever been made.

Two gentlemen who were trout fishing in the Wainuiomata recently, had a curious experience. They saw several blue ducks, and not content with the dainties they were piling up in their baskets, their mouths watered for the flesh of the denizen of the' mountain torrent. Having no gun, they threw stones at them, and succeeded in hitting one of them on the head, The prize was duly landed, and one of the men proceeded immediately to pick all the feathers off its body, after which he put it into his basket. The two then proceeded with their fishing, occasionally indulging in a bit of an argument as to how they were going to cook the stranger. Presently one or them landed a fish, and when he opened the basket to put it in, the duck flew away,

Mr A, J. Rawson invites tenders for concrete work and road formation,

A special meeting of the parishioners of St Matthews will be held to night.

• Messrs Chamberlain Bros, invite tenders for foiling 100 acres bush at the-Mild Miki.

A match will be played between the second fifteen of the. Red .Star Football Club and a fifteen of the School Club on the Park Oval to-morrow afternoon. The Czar's cook,. who is said b have been as great a celebrity in Russia as Her Majesty's servant John Brown was in England, died recently. An agitation is being made in the Manawatu district with a view to reducing the rates of insurance, which are said to bo higher thero than elsewhere. Mr F' H. Wood holds his monthly sale in Ray's.yards, Taratahi, to-morrow afternoon,. The catalogue is an extensive ono and includes sheep, horses, cattle, etc. Bob Derrett, Who left on May Bth, with tho Hon W. Robinson's horses for Sydney, has had o.ne hundred and twentytwo mounts during the season just closing, and was successful on no less than fiftytwo occasions.

Mr F. H. Wood will hold an important sale of fruit trees, shrubs and other plants at his Masterton rooms, on Saturday, June 6th, The stock comes from the well known Tividal Nursery of Mr D. Barratt. There will also bo a considerable quantity of roses and other shrubs and trees from Mr Collotte's well known Kurupuni nursery. The cold southerly rain which prevailed all day yesterday ceased during the night, and was succeeded by an easterly wind with frost—a most unusual occurence, The Tararua range has now assumed its usual winter mantle, being thickly covered with snow.

A poll for the election of a member of theWairarapa East County Council to represent the Castlepoint Riding will be taken at Tinui on Tuesday, June 2nd. Messrs Handyside, R. Maunsell and R, R. Meredith have been nominated.

Cable news inform us that the suga 1 ' crop of the world is likely to be 450,000 tons short this year, and that prices in England have in consequence jumped up £7 per ton, Cqnspiers in New Zealand have in prospect njofc pn}y an increased market price, but also an additiqnal c}uty, which, it is said, the Government proposes, to impose, At fcJio Baldwin Entertainments in Wellington, somcono asked Mrs Baldwin who was going to win the interprovinoial football match, and she replied that Christchurch would. One or two believers in clairvoyance put firm faith in the prediction and invested heavily on it, with the result that they had to pay, According to a decision given by Mr Churdon, R.M., at Waipu, the holder of a club license may sell liquor to any pera.pi), whether he be a member of the club or not, so lpng as the sale is not for his own profit. If'this 'is a eprrect interpretation of the law, the sooner it $ altered the better.

Mr Fuller, the advance agent for Professpr_and Madame Baldwin arrived by the mid-day train to-day to complete the arrangements for the appearance of the Company at the Theatre Royal which were commenced by Messrs Foley and Berkley. The various feats of mind reading and clairvoyance of these artists has secured for them crowded houses wherever they hayo appeared, and they have invaribly lefjb fclie'h- audience marye})* ing at their wonderful skill.'

The following is a list of buildings at present in course of erection in Masterton: |{r F, H, Wood's auction rooms, Mr Nicholl'spajnter's &]|pn, Messrs Wickerson and Wagland's pew l}»tpj}o£'g § J (Q n m & additions to the Public School, ajf hi Queen Strqpt; Mr Casofberg's 'new residence mid two seven ropmed cottages in Worksop road ; two cottages in'Mak'or/i road; a large two winged residence and ft six roomed cottage in Columbia road, and two cottages on Sentry's estate, Tenders are also out for two four roomed cottages.

On Wednesday, the 6th of May, writes an exchange, * the Adelaide volunteers yerein camp for the purpose of having a sham fight with some other corps of the South Aastralian force, and an attack was expected to be made that night, Proyjdentially the attack was not made or there would have been a frightful loss of life, for to the volunteers in camp there had been served out 14,000ba1l cartridges, which, by a mistake of some staff officer, had been substituted for blank ammunition. Whether the Adelaide volunteers are really such fools as' hot to know the difference between ball and blank oar'tridges, or a real or a sham enemy, is not explained, A contributor to the Argus, who is •'•' dojng" dho M Lakes district pf the North Island, writes:-" One pf the peculiarities of the place was that yg'u passed from scenes of fairy beauty like the terraces at once into regions of the utmost horror, 'the abomination of desolation.' The names piven to some of the places—'Sodom and Gomorrah,' "The Valley of the Shadow of Death'—are significant and appropriate. The quaking pools of boiling mud, the geysers suddenly throwing columns of boiling water far into the air, the miniature mild volcanoes, the sulphur pits, the steam holes, the withering vegetation, coloured red by the sulphur fumes, combined to give the j latter place a truly terrible appearance. It was Sunday, and some asked ijate (the guide) where she would hold service. 1 Here, at the Devil's Hole,' she roplied; and as we gazed at the horrible boiling mud and 'burning marl," seething in fury and rushing up apparently from the nethermost hell, we agreed that the name was-merited, and thought with R,, that Milton and Dante must have been here before us. We no longer doubted the story Dr. C. had told us of his friend, whose only vice, in his own estimation, was profanity, ant} who, offer, gazing into the dreadful pit for some moments, said •' By —, I'll swear no more'."

Jf the worthy member for Kumara were to take a look through Masterton lie would probably say that there is not" a nouse, a nut, or a Habitation" to be procured in it at the present time, and so far as the facts go he would be quite correct, for neither a dwelling house nor a shop can be found empty at the present time, And this in spite of the fact that the building trade has been very brisk for some time past, and that houses are in course of erection in all parts of the town, Such a state of things occasionally causes inconvenience, but it is generally, and, we think, rightly, taken as a sign of progress and prosperity. With but few interruptions Masterton lias, from the time it was worth calling a township, been in the same state. New buildings would p up in all directions, and the most sanguine would perhaps be under the impression that when they were finished they would meet all the requirements of the place; but it was always found that 'there was more to be done to keep pace wieh the increase of population and the business which it brought. Twelve years have sufficed to raise the number of inhabitants from under 300 to about 3000, without the assistance of a goldfield's rush, and with nothing but its own resources to back it, With the rapid extension of settlement we may expect to see a similar phenomenal growth for many years to come,

Owing to the length of the catalogue, Mr F. H. Wood's first sale in his new auction mart in Queen Street will commence at Ip. in. sharp on Saturday. All the articles will be offered without reserve.

Several Wellington volunteers amused themselves by firing their rifles out of the carriage windows on the Hutt railway line, on the Queen's Birthday, and they will be called upon to explain the reason for their exuberance of feeling in the Resident Magistrates Court, . It lias now transpired that the "deputation" to the Minister of Public Works to protest against any.altoration being made in the railway time table consisted' of Messrs W, 0, Buchanan, M.H.R.,'and W, Booth. The Press Association as well as the Wellington papers were apparently misinformed as to the nature of the interview.

A peculiar piece of information is conveyed in a Sydney'cablegram which we publish elsewhere. According to tho message,NewZealand:willsendß,representative to convey congratulations on behalf of the colony to the returning New South Wales contingent. Some foolish things are occasionally done by the best of Governments, but we venture to say that -this would be the very height *of absurdity, The news ivill probably prove to be a canard.

The Levuka correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald' writes:—"A stranger from the marine depths recently made an appearance on the heaving bosom of the mighty deep, and suffered capture at the hands of a Polynesian, who jumped from a schooner's bulwarks and secured what, if in full vigor might have proved an awkward customer, It is like a .riband, with a large head and enormous ieye, -without scales, but armed with dorsal spines, and a hern 12in long protruding from the back of its head, The creature has a mouth full of very sharp teeth. Its length was 7ft, 2in was its dorsal breadth, 4|in depth right down to near the tail, which was not bigger than a sprat's, Fijians differ as to whether it is known here, but the Solomon Islanders recognise it as an old acquaintance inhabiting the deeper waters, When dying it changed its colors royally, as does the handsome dolphin," Heilbron's German .Worm Cakes and Fitzgerald's Koromiko Extract are Pa tented—Anvr, Thick iimns-Heavy Btomaclis, bilious conditions—"'Wells' May Apple Pills"—antibjH(>us, cathartic, Gil and Is. N. Z, Drug Co.