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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2065, 11 August 1885, Page 2

The old favourites Messrs Foley and Berkley and Miss Beaufort, assisted by Miss Jennie Sutherland are announced to appear at the Theatre Royal in a special bill on Friday next, Somo one in Wellington started a report to the effect that the s.s. Doric, now on her way out to New Zealand, had been lost with all hands, and there iyas a good deal of excitoment in the town in consequence. There was no foundation for the rumor.

Mr M. Maxton, who is well-known in Masterton and throughout tho Wairarapa, and who-was till recently publisher of tho Wellington Evening Press, has started a commission agency in Wellington, and his many friends in this district will doubtless find his presenco in tho Empire City of no little convenience. A meeting of the Committee of the Wairarapa Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Society was held last night. All arrangements wero made for the show on the 18th inst. Another class was added to Poultry, viz., bust pair barndoor or mongrel fowls. A selling class was also added, the entrance fee to which was fixed at Is. The Show promises to bo a great success.

In tho Resident Magistrates Court yesterday afternoon the case of Lyons v A. Vile was concluded. Plaintiff had bought a horse at auction which defendant guaranteed staunch, and afterwards found to Im a jib, and he sought to recover the amount paid (£5) and £3 damages. A number ot witnesses were examined, including Mr J. loms, the auctioneer who sold the horse, His Worship gavo judgment far £3 damages and costs, £5

An old native namod Apiata Kuikainga died at tho pah on Tuesday, says the Napier Telegraph. It is said that ho had reached the wonderful age of 115 years, and so far as we can learn, this is correct. The natives also inform us that the'old patriarch claimed to have Been Capt Cook when he sailed past the Bay of Islands; but this we cannot vouch forj as so many natives say they remember seeing the explorer, forgetting that tho year 1777 was a long time ago. Several tangia have been held during the week, but the largest took place yesterday evening, when a large number of natives were presont. The remains will be taken to Eparaiina to-day, where they will be interred, A large number of natives are oxpected to attend the funeral.

We (Evening Press) hear en good authority that a mcinbei' qf the firm of Meiggs iB on his way to New Zefllftjjd, having left England some weeks ago, about the time when the first telegram from the railway delegates, stating the proposed arrangements with Messrs Meiggs, was sent. This confirms the opinion we have already formed, that the railway contract affair was supposed to bo as good as settled, and that it was all cut and dried in London long beforo any inlding of it was allowed ro reach the public in New Zealand. Wo venture to say that if all the ramifications of .this business could bo dicloaed, they .would rather astonish who, as Sir Julius Vogel says, are' children jn .finance." : The author of Oalamo Current? the Weekly News thus moralises:— I Hie capture jof that "festive little burglar caught a-burg-ling," to wit, the incorrigible Mr Dunn, gives rise to certain reflections which had better be honestly .ventilated than allowed to smoulder, It ijiust have been noticed by anyone with an ordinary piein.ory and common powers of obsjervatipn |i<) arrest is ever made by the enterprising policeman without begetting a paragraph headed " Clever Captureand it is very seld.om that some delicate suggestion is not thrown out of the propriety of bestowing a reward upon the vigilant and Argus-eyed X. There is at the bottom of these flourishes ayicigug view of the relationship ,of tfye "foorce''' tho public, aiid still worse, there is encouragement tp the custodians of the; peace jo pjii'Biie ft nipde of action which 1 would prove very fa public interests. Tho object of the polic.e ig tlijs preservation of tho peace. In t!)e pet: ■ form ance of that duty they owe to ,the public all the exertion of physical or mental powers that may be required of them, and they ought to seek no reward beyond the just and normal promotion in their profession. If in tho course of their operations they have fair occasion to display some extraordinary courage or, shrewdnesß„it is for the public or for those in authority to consider whether they will confer some equally extraordinary mark of appreciation.

The Stonelieuge Lodgo of Druids meets at the Temperance Hall to-night. v '. The fortnightly meeting of tKe Borough Council will take place this evening,

, The monthly meeting of the Wairarapa East County Council' is held this' afternoon. Reuben Waite, the discoverer of. the West Coast Goldfields, died, at Nelson recently. '' ' '' '• ; V ; . The price of the cottage and land sold by Messrs Lowes and loms on Saturday was £75, not £SO as stated in our issue,It is reported in political circles in Wellington that Mr Ormond is likely to move a no-confidence motion. The total number of visitors to the Industral Exhibition for the first seven days was 15,802. This includes two Saturdays, one of which was the opening day.

Messrs Lowes and loms announce an extensive stock sale for the 19th inst. The list embraces upwards of -300 head of cattle, which will .bo sold at their new yards, Renall Street. Messrs Lowes and loms announce for private sale a farm of C6O acres at Gladstone. The property is well improved, and has an eight-roomed house and various outbuildings.

It is stated that the body of George Buck, who was drowned in the Wainuioru, has been found about twenty-five miles down the river, but no particulars are to hand.

Quite a'number,of men, and several carts, have been employed during the last day. or two in removing mud from'the streets. This, together with the improved weather that has been experienced, has had a most desirable effect, and pedestrians can now get along without having to wade ankle deep in slush, An inquest was held at Nelson to-day on the body of a man named Sparks, who was found in a ditch on the Waimea road. From the evidence it appears that the man was upwards of sixty years of age, and that he had broken his neck by falling. A verdict in accordance with tho evidence was returned

■ The Oamaru Mail, noticing tho Lyttleton .Times' unblushing advocacy of'' interprovincial reciprocity," says:—"Never before before has a paper in this colony —or in any other, as far as we knowdared to utter the alarming sentiments so persistently expressed by our ' Christchurch contemperaiy, For the first time in our lives we have seen log-rolling—-—that system of state robbery which has cursed and almost ruined the colony—openly advocated in the columns of a newspaper." Last night's lobby rumour was that the resignation of the Premier—carrying with it, of course, that of the Goverment—might be looked for at any moment, says the New Zealand Times, it being alleged that Mr Stout was resolved to go on no longer in the anomalous and humilitating position which his Ministry had drifted into through his colleague's schemes. Tho rumour goes on to' say that, on this step being taken, the next proceeding would be to force the Atkinson party to take office, and then to seize the earliest opportuivty of turning them out again on some convenient pretext. By that time a new party would have been formed, and a frcshMinistry, excluding Sir Julius Vogel and Mr Larnach, but including Messrs Stout, Ballance, Montgomery, Macandrew (porhaps), and some new men, would be ready to take office, and in that case would probably command a very large majority, while the Atkinson party would be nowhere, Such was the story in circulation'last night, some even going so far as to say they were in momentary expectation of seeing Mr Stout rise to announco his resignation, We give this rumor simply as a rumor, for just so much or as little as it may be worth,

" Poor Mike," the title of tho service of Sacred Song chosen by the Masterton Choir, and to be given by them in the Theatre Royal on Thursdav, August 20th, is the story of a waif, written by the able pen of the Rev. IL Hocking, F. R, H. S., author of "Her Benny," "Chips," and other well-known pieces. The complete work—from which extracts for this •Service of Song have been taken by permission—is published by Messrs F, Warno and Co., London, and the music and words embrace the names of such well appreciated authors and composers as P. P, Bliss, R, Sowry, W. H. Doane, E, Rankin, D.D., W, Hoyle, Drßethune, W. A. Ogden, and others. The scene opens in the country in the neighborhood of Manchester, with a description of the early home of "Poor Mike," The troubles that arose through his father getting imprisoned, his trials on the death of his parents, and his weary travels, are feelingly depicted. Tho touching incidents in connection with his shipwreck, the loss of his feet from becoming frozen whilst exposed to the merciless wintry ocean, which finally resulted in his death in the hospital, are related with overwhelming pathos, appropriate hymns aocompanying'the various incidents. The choir in the hands of Mr Pearson are practising regularly, and should be perfect by the time the service of song is to be rendered.

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