The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1886.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2277, 22 April 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1886.

Over our leading column will be found the alteration in tho Mail. Service'for Good Friday and tide..". : "-;'' ..Tenders are wanted; for fencing at Weraiti, Enquiries are to be made of Mr F.Lee, manager, on tho ground,. 6r ; at this office. '\V-aV; -. Tho annual statutory meeting :.o'f:. tho Cashpoint Road Board and of the rate* payers will be held at tho Road-Board, office, Tinui, on Saturday,-■May^lst.v'iiW.V Tho Feathorston school'cadets;.';have arranged for a soiroe on the 24fch-,.May. Theyonngstors are actively engaged:in the sale of tickets, '-■ 'S-:^,^ ;. B;: ! A section of land, suitable.for a b'usiriess site, situate in Queen-street, is advertised in our columns, Further, particulars may bo obtained at this ::■;■ We call attention to the advertisement of Mr F. W, Cottrell Customs, Shipping,mid Forwarding agent, Featherston-Street Wellington, which contains a list-of charges for. forwarding parcels to all parts of Great Britain'and the colonies. ;■;■/■' •: Another proof of the ox'collenfc quality of tho Taratahi plain for root crops is to be seen in the splendid turnip patch on Mrß. P. Perry's land. The crop in question abuts on the main road, and extends towards tho homestead, and does hot fail .to attract the notice of passers

Wo draw attention to an advertisement in another column of a property for sale in .the Forty-Mile Bush, containing about five acres of land, part Section 117, Block XIV, Mangaone, The land js near the terminus of tho railway, .and js suitable for a site for a hotel and store. Particulars may be obtained from Mr D,. Grey, Solicitor, Waipatva. The celebrated fruit trees from Mr W. E. Ivory's Raneiura' Nursery can bo obtained from Messrs Stone and Sons, of the Waipoua Nursery, this year as in former years, Mr Stone has" supplied a great, many orchards with trees from the Rangiora .district, and he has received evidence in all caees of their having turned out well.

It is reported on all sides that Mr Stout is politically played out at Dunedin, and ho does not stand a chance of re-election for his old constituency. ■ One of hla objects in coming here next Wednesday, Bays the Napier Telegraph, is to feel the pulse of this constituency. He'h'as been grossly mislead if he supposes that Napier is likely to throw oyer one of its own residents for a political adventurer who is held as " no prophet in his own country," It would be a pretty state of things if tho middle Island which is already over represented in Parliament, is to supply us with representatives from amongst it own discarded members.

1 ho Peatheraton eontigont ot volunteers start for the Wanganui encampment via Wellington to-day. Only nine members can get away. We fear tho-total from, the. Wairarapa South will not bo a very large one,

; The Salvation Army hold a field day in Mr Woodrooto's paddock at tho bottom of Bannister-stat to-morrow. Lieutenant Bishop, who - arrives to-day from Fielding, will take part in the proceedings. On Sunday Miss Brownlio will give a report upon the Female Rescue Homes, tho formation of which she has undertaken in. tho Colony. Easter Monday will be celebrated by the Army with a tea in the barracks, to be followed by a big meeting. .

The Waingawa River is likely to cause some trouble this winter, unless speedily attended to, judging by the present appearance of it near the main road, After leaving the south- bank at the Railway Bridge, it shoots almost straight across, threatening to break' through the low ground between tho bridge and tho bluo-gum bank, on the' Masterton side. A portion of tho, bankclose' to the approach of the road bridge has been carried away, the fascine? from -which are to be seen lying about therivor bed. The effect-of the first fresh in tho river will be watched for with anxiety by the travellers on the road between Masterton and Carterton.

Wednesday's Auckland Herald has the following--"Yesterday, while Colonel Lyon, Major Shephard, Captains Payne and George, were on a visit to the Mount E:len rifle-range, they were met by Cap tain Whitney, who invited them to test some of the' new cartridges which he has manufactured, and he brought upwards of 100 rounds on the ground. There was a hesitancy at first, in consequence of tho failure of the first cartridges, but after Captain Whitney had led off with several shots successfully, Captains Payno and George proceeded to fire off the remaining cartridges, and they wore found to he apparently fully equal to those issued by the Government.* They were tested both in firing from the lying-down position and also from a fixed rest. In the latter case tho elevation proved to bo remarkably accurate, showing tho oven strength of the cartridge. They exploded properly, and when the cartridge-cases wore extracted they proved to be fully equal to the Government pattom, and there was no fouling in the breeoh. Captain Whitney has mado a great improvement in those cartridges over those which were tostcd at Wanganui, by putting on a back hand of brass ovor the back part of the cartridge, where the weakness was discovered in previous tests, and they now moro closely assimilate to tho English made cartridge: but the powder seemed tobo somewhat stronttor than that contained in the imported ammunition. Wo understand that Captain Whitney intends to ask the Auckland Rifle Association to use his cartridges at the forthcoming meet - of the Association on Good Friday." - The ingenuity of the American inventor is truly remarkable. Thus, an educated aenUoman of French descent, residing at Gallipolis, 0., who has beon an invalid for years, is oredited with the following invention, which he has patented. It is a calculating machine in the fornvof a pair of scales which announce with unerring accuracy the value of any number of tons,. pounds or ounces at any price. For instance a ham is placed on the scales, It weighs 12Jib., and the price is 12J cents per lb. A sliding weight is moved along the'scalebeam, until the ham is balanced. ■ In tho notch where this weight stops will be found the worth of tho meat in dollars and cents to a fraction. .Again, suppose a grocer is asked for 50lb of toa. Tho price is 78 cents, One indicator is set at fifty, the amount wanted, the othernt .seventy-, eighivtho-priyo offlie tea,"" Tea is poured into tho scoop until the scale js balanced, when the quantity of tea i 3 found to bo correct as if several minutes' time had been cousuni6d in making the calculation. It is not stated how these extraordinary results are achieued,

. The Timaru Herald writes':—"Among the sufferers by the Taiaroadisaster is Mr G. G. Fitzgerald, editor of this journal, whoso wife perished in the wreck. The deceased lady was on her way from Wellington to join her husband in this town,, with every expectation of resuming the domestic happiness which characterised their past married life, Mr Fitzgerald, in anticipation of his wife's arrival, furnished a comfortable cottage, and made other preparations for her reception. The dwelling bears the designation of Tararua Cottage, and in furnishing it Mr Fitzgerald called to recollection the heartrending calamity caused by the wreck of that steamer five years ago, and cherished a hope that no such disaster would occur to his wife. It was, however, a transir tory hope, and when the telegrams announcing the .wreck and the loss of his beloved partner camo to hand, the shock was all but unbearable, as may well be conceived. Mrs Fitzgerald was a* most' estimable lady, and highly esteemed by all who had the pleasuro of her acquaintance, and these woro very many The whole of her luggage having been lost, her husband possesses no .memento of her, with the exception of two letters lately received from her from Wellington, and this circumstance, of itself, intensifies his griof, He loft yestorday by the Express to LyUelton, and sailed last evening in the Rotorua for Wellington, for the purpose of proceeding to. tliesoone of the disaster, in the hopo .that his body may be recovered. If it should, it is his intention to bury it in Wellington, His nephew, Mr Fitzgerald, son of the Comptroller-General of Accounts, proooedcd to tire Kaikouras 'yesterday, and will meet his uncle there. The cat saved from the wreck was a pet of Mr Fitzgoralds, and will be restored to her husband,

George W. Cable, the American novelist, is said to be the most absorbed of literary workers. He really' acts his dialogues while writing them—prancing about the room, addressing imaginary persons, smiling, frowning, making love to and denouncing the creatures of his imagination. An intimate friend of the novelist says that the usually quiet Cable would be taken as a howling lunatic by anyone who might peep through the window of his study. The depictor of Creole life is another believer in the theory that labor is more powerful than genius. Like Pope, he makes corrections after his -manuscripts are in the hands of the printer. Once he tplegraphed to Ilia publisher to change a sentence which he found, capable gf 'improvement, It may be here remarked, for the benefit of aspiring young writers, that this extreme oaro about the little dotails of phraseology is a characteristic of all the men whose works do not sink into obscurity a few months after birth, A flowing style appears spontaneous to the reader, but only those who have worked in the field of letters themselves know the erasures, the turning of sentences and clauses, and the many rewritings that evolve fcho delights of the printed page,

Messrs L. J. Hoopor & Go,, of the Bon Marche, received their first instalment; of autumn and winter goods on Saturday, these goods have been imported direct from the manufacturers in England and Scotland, and are now being marked off at prices that will compare with any wholesale house in the colony.—Advs\

Woife's Schnapps is the most oglebratod tonic and stimulaufc of this or any age. Bo certain you obtain Wolfe's.

The Salvation Army avo establishing a Home for fallen women in. Wellington. Michael Daly Was brought Wore tho Mayor and W, fl. Beetham, charged with indecent offence, .yesterday, and sen fenced to one months imprisonment,

, A public meeting is called for Tuesday, 27th inst., in tho-Theatre Royal at 8 p.m. for the election of a School' Committee for tho ensuing year. Tho Wairarapa East County Council invito tenders for repairs to protective works at the southern approach to the Waingawa bridge. Tenders close.at noon on Monday next. Announcements fur tlio- election of warders for the Whaveama and Manricevillo Road Districts, appears in anothor column.

We understand that in passing through Ekefcahuna' the Premier gave several settlers there a positive assurance that the extension to Eketahuna would be put on the Public Works Estimates next session,

Hans Hansen died last night in the Masterton Hospital from the effects of' a fractured spine. Deceased was a mitted to the Hospital some eight months since. It was known t'i be a hopeless ca-'e from the fiisfc. Deceased was a native of Sweden. He. had no relatives in the colony. His father and brothers aro living in America. His Honor Judge Davy gavo his decision in re George Bowles, reported by us in the proceedings of the "District Court yesterday. An ordor was made for the substitution of tho name of the official assignee for Mary Ann Bowles in the'eonveyance made to her in trust by George Bowles, subject to a certain mortgage. Costs were granted against Mrs Bowles. The Standard reports that a man named George Osborne who wag working on the ballast quarry on the railway, near tho Peatherston Railway station, met with a serious accident last evening by .a faH of earth, Osborne was getting out Bhinglo from the quarry when a quantity of earth fell upon his left leg, fracturing it near the ancle. The injured man was conveyed to his home in Mr Oakly's cart, and Dr Bey of Grey town, was sent for. Messrs Lowes and lorns report a numerous attendance at thoir fortnightly stock sale yesterday. Tho yards were fairly filled with sheep and cattle. Of the latter stock they report tho market, decidedly quiet, The,, prices of sheep are without quotable alteration. Wethers and young ewes are still in demand at a slight advanco upon last quotations, while old. ewes and culls aro practicably unsaleable Some good horses came forward and realised satisfactory prices, hacks, from £G to £25; ligjit harness norses, from £8 to £ls, The sale was concluded by disposing of a largo entry of pigs which realised from 0s to 35s each. Tho general olection for. tho Featherston Road District to be held on the 4th of May is exciting rather more interest than usual. Messrs Kimberley, Geo. Knapp, and F. Monckton have beon nominated for the Greytown ward, Mr Donald, the present Chairman, and oldest member of the Board, is likely to havo an opponent ill Mr C. Elgar, and tho Wharekaka seat will bo contested. It is assumed that if Messrs Tully for No. 8, Harris for No. 7, McDnugall for No. (i, W. E. Bidwill for No. 5, and Matthews for No. 4 consent to bo nominated, they will bo returned unopposed. Wo remind our readers of tho entertainment to be given in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening, The first part will consist of a vocal and instrumental concert, among which will be a zither duet, and a quintette consisting of zither, flute, two violins, and double bass. Tho orchestra will be supplied by,tlm Master-.. ..ton String band, The "pieco do resis'tane'e" will be the sparkling commedetta, "Mr Cruncher's domestic" the cast of characters of which appear in our amuse-' mout column. The Masterton private baud havo kindly promised hi play several selections outside the Theatre previous to the performance. The Now Zealand Times is of the opinion that Mr Stratford is a stickler for properties, on the following grounds, Constablo Sleight appeared in tho witness box in plain clothes yestorday. "A constablo off duty, I suppose ?" inquired the' Resident Magistrate of Inspector Browne, Constable Sleight was about to explain, when Mr Stratford interposed; but Inspector Browne satisfied him that the constable had been sent for hurriedly, and that he had been off duty." " What is your name Tasked the Resident Magistrate, "Charles Sleight," replied tho constablo. A few moments afterward Mr Stratford turned to the witness and said, " Constable, when the Bench asks you your name, you should reply, 'Charles Sleight, your worship,' more especially as you are a police constable, and ought to know."

Mr Stratford, R.M., alluijed in; very strong terms yesterday, says the Evening Press, to the defective aooustic properties of the Magistrate's Court, and suggested that the legal profession should represent to Mr Wardell the necessity for altering the present position of the dock and witness' box. He held that it was paramount Importance not only that the Bench should cloarly hear every word that was spoken, but also that the accused should as clearly hear what tho witnesses and counsel said. At present, he said, the sounds represented sucli'a whirl of noise, so irritating and confusion, that a long sitting made him quite ill, and he could easily account for Mr Wardell, or any other magistrate subjected to the strain for any length of time, becoming thoroughly knocked up. Au improvement could be offected, he thought, by placing the witness box on the opposite side to where it now is, and removing tho dock to the pqsition now occupied by tho witness box. Something, at ajiy rate ought to he done, as the difficulty of hearing what was said, and the consequent worry was simply intolerable, and speaking for himself he oould not stand it for any length of time. Mr Travel's, iun,, agreed with Mr Stratford's remarks, and sugges ted that ho should refuse to sit until an alteration was made for the better, either j-by drapery, sounding boards, or tho rearrangement proposed. The Department of Justice would then do something no doubt to lessen the grievance which was of old standing,

The Masterton Oetnetry Trustees meet this afternoon to open and deal with tenders for roadways and footpaths. '. In tho Supaome Court, Frank McDowell v James McDowell, plaintiff was awarded £75 damages with costs apaiiisfc defendant, The Masterton Football ,Club has been authorised to make a charge for admission to the football matches at the Park Oral onSaturday and Monday next. The triennial election of six persons as members of the Alfredton Road Board is notified to take place on .-Friday may 7th. Nominations close at noon on the Ist day of-May at the Office of the Board, Alfredton. "■.'"'