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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2072, 19 August 1885, Page 2

Messrs Drummond and Co., advertise in our wanted Columns, for a good piece of land suitable for a small farm, with or without improvements. The representative of Messrs .Jones and Ashdown, tailors, of Lambton-Quay, Wellington, will be at the Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton, to-morrow. We are requested to remind members of the Masterton Choir of the practice to-night at the Temperance Hall, this being the final rehearsal of " Poor Mike" before giving it to the public. A full attendance of members is requested. MrSymons, who represents the Dresden Pianoforte Company, Dunedin, is at present in Masterton, and is prepared to sell pianos for cash or on the deferred payment system, for from £25 to £l5O. He has with him photos and catalogues of instruments by different makers/and also catalogues of music. Messrs Drummond and Co,, the wellknown surveyors, announce in another column that they are prepared to undertake survey and engineering work of all descriptions, as well as commissions for the sale or purchaso of land. A member of the extensive staff will also execute oil paintings of various subjects, and mount birds in the most artistic style. Several specimens that maybe seen in tho office are well worthy of inspection.

The following is a portion of the report in the Evening Press of the special services hold by the Salvation Army in Wellington, to welcome Marshall Booth; -"The Salvation Army movement, the Marshall explained, was tho outcome of the problem General Booth had set himself to solve some twenty years ago, when going down one of the worst slums of London: the problem being, how to reach the ears of the masses paßsing to and fro, so as to reach their hearts, and to get them to seek and to find salvation He (the Marshal) could say, thank God • that problem had been solved," The col lections for the day amounted £ls 9s.'! The conclusion is somewhat matter-of. fact, but apparently to the point.

" William Robins voluntarily appeared at the R.M. Qourt.fco ftnaweracharge laid, by J. 0. Ingram,' lnapoctor of Nuisances, of allowing his chimney to take fire, and was muloted in a penalty of 5s escaping coats. ,

• An injunction has been issued by: the Supreme Court in Wellington against the defendant in the case of Flookton vFielder, restraining him from using, the' term "Flockon,"it being calculated to injure plaintiffs business.

A bushfaller, named John Kilpatrick, who was engaged on Jackson'B contract at the Tluoru, bushfelhng, was brought into Masterton yesterday morning suffering from a. severe wound caused by a ■limb of a tree falling on him. ' He was promptly attended to by. Dr Hosking, and, with the exception of a considerable loss of blood, he is progressing favorably. MrF. H. Wood's monthly stock sale, at Ray's yards, which takes place to-morrow, is of considerable importance, as the stock to be yarded is numerous and of various descriptions.. It includes sheep and ■cattle of all descriptions, draught arid buggy horses, and pigs, as well as a number ot farm implements. The sale begins at one p.m. , The selling clause in connection with yesterday's Poultry Show, did not prove entirely satisfactory, in all cases. One gentleman had a pair of fowls to which he affixed a value of three guineas, which he thought was high enough to keep away purchasers, Much to his disgust, he found that he was mistaken, and that he had to part with them. It should be stated that the pen took first prize in one of the best filled classes, Tlie death is announced in Loudon papers, at tho. age of 67, of Mr William Sandys Wright Vnux, M. A., F.R. S., who, according to Men of the Time," has long been connected with the British Museum, He was a man of more than ordinary literary attainments, and among other works published a paper "Qn the origin of tlie'Maori race." A son of the deceased is a journalist residing in Wellington. An extraordinary accident befel Mr Partridge of Palinerston on Wednesday night last, says the Examiner. He was driving a cait through the Gorge, and when about half way through, the horse, dray, and all went over the bank. Mr Axup, in the employ of Messrs Oarlile and Saxby, was fortunately coming through at the time, and seeing a dog barking at the spot, he called out, when Partridge answered that his leg was broken. Mr Axup went down the embankment, and having got the injured man on the roadway, he came on to Mr Ross's, where a trap was secured, but no horse being handy, the trap was taken by manual power to the spot, and Partridge placed in it and'brought on to the Club Hotel, whore he was attended to by Dr Fussell, The leg was not broken, but the muscles were found to be displaced, and afew bruises had been sustained, but on Thursday morning Partridge, whose escape was a miraculous one, was able to return to Palmerston. The dray was smashed to pieces, but the horse was not much injured, Coiiglis, Golds, Bronchitis, <sc.,' are quickly cured by using Baxter's celebrated "Lung Preserver,"' This oldestablished, popular nvedicino, is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by the members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions, Sold by all Patent Medicine Vendors, See testimonials in advertisements,—Advt,