SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1886.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2361, 31 July 1886, Page 2

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1886.

Notice is given in another column of the bankruptcy of James Bourke, of Masterton, laborer. Our local contemporary points out that tho promoters of the- new drill shed are scarcely justified in mortgaging it to local societies as a place of publicentertainment, aa it ia to bo built mainly at the expense of tho colony. We quite coincide in this opinion and consider Goovgio Smithson, the lossoo of tho Theatre, is heavily handicapped if the Colonial Treasurer tjtjus into tho entertainment business in opposition to her. The'Bruce Herald'informs as that at a meeting of the Presbyterian congregation of Milton last week, Mr H. Clarke read a statement relating ta the plans for tho new church, and the progress made in collecting money, The plans provide for a building 80ft for 48ft, with outer walls 50ft in height, and a Bpire 150 ft, to seat about 700. The church will be built of Port Chalmers stone (the same as the Tokmnairiro school) with Omaru stone facings. The estimated cost is £3,500, but with certain modifications suggested tho architect though that the Committee's limit of £3,000 would cover the whole cost. The alteration involves a reduction in the length of the building, which will havo the advantage of improving tho proportion. Mr James Reid reported that the success of the collectors had lieon such thatthero was every reason to believe that before two years £1,500 would be raised ; that sum, with £I,OOO from the Synod, would leava a deficiency of only £500; and that tho building would be free of dobt in two and a-half or three years. Mr M'Milan reported that about £1,300 was definitely promised, and the instalments were buintr paid with cheorfulness and regularity.

The John Grubb testimonial cnnnnittuu have decided to forward a purse of «>uo hundred sovereigns and a silver salvor t'i Sir Juliua Vogel, Postmaster-General, with a request that he will present them to Mr Grubb. The purse and salver will be accompanied by an illuminated address, and a handsome Japanese bowl, the gift of'Mr J, S. Large. The testimonial will prove to Mr Grubb, remarks the Hawkes Bay Herald, that although malicious attacks from a small but vicious section caused his removal from Napier, his worthiness as a citizen and his usefulness as a public officer were highly appreciated by the general community,

Melbourne Table Talk devotes a column or two in its last issue to what it justly calls' pests of society,' and cites a casoin which a well-dressed scamp recently endeavored to extort black-mail from a lady in Melbourne. He saw her in conversation with a gentleman in town, followed her home, and threatened to tell hoihusband that she was' carrying on' with another fellow unless she paid him £lO. The poor lady, frightened out of her life, gave the rascal 255, all the money slio had by her, and lie went away, only to return however to mako fresh demands on her purse, At length, acting on the advice of our contemporary, she did what she ought to have done in the first instance—took her husband into her confidence, and the odious spy gob his deserts, The following paragraph is from the Kaikoura Star-" Mr Alfred Saunders, we have authority for stating, has no intention, as was reported, of standing for Cheviot at the next olection. He, however, intends contesting Lincoln again, In a letter to a resident of this place Mr Saundersßayß: "Theten per cent, reduction proposal by mo was perfectly right, but the Government knew how to make me, or any other real economist, unpopular by applying it in the directions I had no idea of. I never contemplated touching the hard earned wages of day laborers, teachers, postal and telegraph and other clerks, who work most zealously for the salaries they receive. My intention was to reduce in nuinbor the swarm of clerks in Wellington, and the salaries of those that will bear pruning, But the Government did not, nor do the present Ministers like to, touch their frionds in Wellington. The dolight of each successive Government appears to be to make teachers, country clerks and wages men feel that tho army of clerks in Wellington cannot bo touched without affecting them.

The Hastings correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that it is now just twelve months ago that the chief topic of conversation with the residents of Hastings was gas. If you happened to see throe or four conversing together the betting was level money that the subject they were discussing was gas, and whether it would bo advisable to start a company of our own or accept the proposals of the Napier Company, After much talk and many meetings, it was decided to accept the offer of the Napier Gas Company, and most of the business people promised tlio company their support, and did their utmost to assist Captain Russell in the very difficult task he had to get the Gas Bill passed by the House. And now again, as the year has rolled by, and still we have no gas, the business people are again beginning to talk on the same subject, but in a different strain. They say that when they pledged their support to the Napier Company they were led to believe that the company would at once set to work to obtain the necessary plant needed to supply the required article and that this winter wo should have had our streets, shops, and business places lighted up with gas instead of kerosene. To judge by the conversation of many, they seem to think they havo been duped, and been made tools of by the said company to get them the necessary power, and that, now they feel secure "from preventing any other company from Btarting, they are simply biding their own time and convenience. This, they consider, is not treating them fairly, and many of them are now regretting they did not start a company of their own at first, and are proposing to do w now, unless the Napier Company soon show some signs of fulfilling their promises.

The Sydney Morning Herald of July 1? states that it has heard on reliable authoiity that a gentleman rosirliii" in Sydnoy has invented a weapon claimed to be immeasureably superior to anything of the liind yet in existence. It is art electric machine gun, capable to bu fired to any point of the compass with perfect accuracy, no fewer than 120 rounds in every few seconds. The gun possesses many advantages, inasmuch as it carries its own ammunition, is portable, and can be fired in any position, either from defence workß or a railway train-stationary or in motion—from the deck or aloft of ships, or from small boats. It is claimed that tho gun cannot burst like a cannon, or got out of order, and that for these reasons, together with its marvellous rapadity _ of fire, it is the greatest achievement in the military science of the nineteenth coutary. The inventor is a veteran soldier of scientific attainments, who has soen much active servico in tho Crimea and India, and has devoted some twenty years to the study of the science of warfare. Ho has also invented a new description of field gun, the bullets usod beine conical, but when fired assuming an arrow-shapo, and exploding upon striking the object, and this, the inventor claims, is capable of destroying an army at the distance of two miles. This gun possesses equal facilities for service in respect of portability with the first named. These inventions are vouched for by a distinguished general officer, who has seen the electric machine gun tired. One great advantage of the gun is that with the exception of a few articles they can be constructed in Sydney, and are comparitively inexpensive. The subject has been brought under the notice of His Excellency the Governor and Sir Alfred Stevens.

1 Hippo" in the Napior Telegraph says: —"I am informed that next month Poarl, Soudan, Gordon, Kahu, and General Thornton will be offered for sale by public auction. Pearl is too well known to unod much description. She will next season only be in her fifth year, and, as she is perfectly sound, she should be well worth keeping on the turf for another season or bo. She, in the last Napier Handicap, proved herself to be a really brilliant mare. I expect to see a keen competition for her. Soudan has on several occasion! proved himself to bo a fast horse over a short course, and, with age, I believe he will be able to stay over longer journeys; if so, he should well pay his future owner. He is a Musket, and most of them are stayers. Gordon has not shown to advantage yet, butane may improve him. Kaku is another that should bo worth another trial. Ho is only rising three years old, and is by Merlin out of Repo. General Thornton is a very handsome colt, rising three; he is by Aproment out of Nellie Moore; he is engaged in the Great Northern St. Lesrcr and Derby, the Canterbury Derby, and 'he Hawkes Bay Guineas; he is well bred enough for anything and should make a good sire after he finishes his racing career.

I am going to mako a speciality of certain lines during the next months. At the present time lam running Macintoshes and Overcoats at prices which defy any house iu the Wellington District to approach. By sending the length which you require in inches, you can be supplied with a grand Tweed Macintosh for 27/0, honestly worth £3. Give me a trial JOHN ThOHBURK, the People's Clothier, Willis! street Wellington—fAnvr,]

A new advertisement of soveral cheap lines in clothing shirtings and drapery at the Wairarapa Clothing Factory (opposite the Theatre Royal), will appear on Monday,

_ An obituary notice in our present issue records tho death, at an advanced age, of the wife of one of Masterton's early settlers, Mrs Robert Wyoth. The deceased had been ailing since Christmas, and had for sometime been confined to her bed. The funeral will take place on Monday. A laboring man named Richard Lono was locked up last night on a charge of drunkenness, tie was brought b,.foro H, A. Stratford KM, this morning, and it being a socond oll'ence he was lined 10s or 24-hours imprisonment. Ho accented the latter alternative ami is now doing a government stroke cross-cutl.in« firewood. We are requested to remind our readers that Messrs Lowes and lores will continue their sale on Monday next. The list being bo extensive, and an order to make room for future consignments, all lines must be quitted. The list embraces balance of fruit trees, furniture, produce, boots, drapery, clothing, and a quantity of sundries. MrWyllio's weekly cartoon on local public matters issued to-day represent, the Borough Council as a hansom cabs with the Town Clerk as driver. Its occupant (Or Gappor) is loaded with a number of works he is hastening oft' to undertake. The conveyance is stopped bv a constable (Or Mason) who says, " It's no übo, sir. I've strict orders not to let anything of that sort pass."

Messrs Spiers & Co. have started their contract of gas-pipo laying, and are already in Church-street. They have nine or ten good men at work on the job, and probably before the Gas Committee have fixed upon the positions for the street lamps, at the rate of.speed at which the work is now being conducted, and the time the Committoe take to make up their minds, the pipes will be laid.

Wo call attention to tlio extensive and unreserved sale of mining plant and machinery by Messrs W. McLean and Co,, that will take place in Wellington on Thursday Aug'ist sth, on the premises of the Caswell Sound Marble Company (in liquidation.) The auctioneers desire to draw special attention to this L'enuiueand unreserved sale. The terms will be liberal. They also sell afterwards the stock of a general storekeeper who is leaving. for Kimherley, particulars of which are given in the advertisement in another column.

The Tarauaki Herald says:—" During the late British elections some of the lopsided journalists who were a little gone on the Hume 'lulu question, complained bitterly of the partisan bias and political feeling which tinged the Home telegrams sent out by Reuters Agency, and some stated that the agents who compiled the messages were anti-Gladstonites of the most bitter kind. The results havo proved that Reuter's telegrams fairly represented the feeling at Home: and were unbiassed in every way, far more so than those who complained of the telegrams."

Dr Gilbert's opening lecture in tho Theatre Royal last night was listened to evident dolighfc by the large audience assembled there to hear him. He has a good delivery, and intersporses his lecture with humorous anecdotes, which, accompanied by the "twang" so peculiar to Brother Jonathan, quite tickled tho fancy of his audience. Duung the relation of an event in his life he had cause to refer to his connection with the army. Ho was interrupted by a voice from the back of the hall shouting out, " Was that in the Soudan >" He very promptly turned the tables on the interrupter, who subsided, and was only too glad to get away from the laugh against him. At tho invitation of the lecturer about a dozen persons, nominated by theaudience seated themselves on the platform, and the physiognomist read their character from their faces, and was very correct in the main with all of them, judging by the cheering given. The lecture as a whole was listened to with interest throughout. It was not only most instructive but amusing, At the conclusion he announced that he would lecture on Sunday evening at the same place, taking for his subject, " Who are the true Freethinkers f His subject will be treated from a scientific point, but the Doctor is a firm believer in Christianity. On Monday his lecture will be on "Love, courtship, and marriage," which is said to be the most amusing of his addresses. The final lecture will be delivered on Wednesday evening, and will be to men only. Dr Gilbert has rooms at the Club Hotel, where he may be consulted in regard to health and charts of character,

The lato decision of Mr Justice Gillies in the McCaslin arson case (which decrees that even if tlie wife was seen to firo the house, the husband was the responsible party if he was in the house at the time), will cause people to pause and ask where our absurd ultra-chivalry is leading us. When the ridiculous legal fiction of the husband's authority over his household was lirst propounded, the law held that 1 the husband and wife were one, and the husband was thd one.' Moreover, he was permitted touseconjugalcoercionifhis worsur half was' obstreperous.' But now that' wife beater' is a term of unmitigated reproach, and also subjects the hubby to the paiiw and penalties of the law of assault; it is time that the fiction of the husbands supremacy was exploded, unless ho is allowed to exorcise the only way in which he can enforce it. Suppose a wife mis to threaten her hubby that if he did not do as she wished, she would stuff rags under tho house, soak them with kerosene, and set fire to it, and get him seven years for arson, And suppose he was to say, 'Then the law ought to give me the power to thrash you to a jelly, and lock you up as a dangerous lunatic. But as it doos not, and it only gives me one month's imprisonment for assault, 1 will proceed to thrash a little common sense and wifehood into yuu. as the least of the two evils.' That will be the natural outcome of this abnormally ridiculous legislation. —Auckland Observer,

Anyone requiring New Zealand Tweed Clothing will save money by purchasing at the Wairarapa Clothing Factory, for their suits at 19s Gd, 255, 30s, 37s 6d, 45a and 50s, and trotisera and vests at 12s 6d> and trousers at 5s 0(1 arc honestly worth double the money. Note the adiUess,—Noxt to Empiro Hotol, Masterton —Advt. Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, &c, are quickly cured by using Baxter's celebrated "Lung Preserver." This old established, popular medicine is pleasant to tho palato, adn highly extolled by the members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions, Sold by all Patent Medicine Vendors. Sec testimonials in arlverti«oments.-|AnvT.l v eiiDtian Blind and Eevolving Shutter rannu factory. All Blinds guaranteed of the very host description. Price list on application to R. W. Henn (late Henn and Hansen.) Poneke Steam Venetian Blind and Revolving Factory, AVellin?ton.—AltvT. Feels Yqvxq Again.—"My mother was afflicted a long time with neuralgia and a dull, heavy, inactive condition of the wholo system, headache, nervouß prostration, and was almost helpless. No physicians or medicines did her any good. Three months ago she began to use Dr Soule's Hop Bicters, with such good effect that she seems and feels young again although over seventy years old."—A Lady in R. 1., U. S. A. Look ut;.