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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2365, 5 August 1886, Page 2

The Roslyn Tram Company by a large majority has refused to sanction tho running of Sunday cars. Tho usual fortnightly meeting of the. Loyal United Friends takes place this evening at the Templo Chambers. MrF. W. Temple, of the Indian Tea Warehouse, announces the arrival of the first consignment of new Soason's tea ex Tamsui. ' In the Dunedin Divorce Court yesterday, the Judge decided that the petitioner's attendance was not required in the case of Mills v. Mills and Forrier, and granted a deem nisi with costs against tho co-respondent. At the last meeting of the Trustees of the Benevolent Institution, Mr Wardell intimated he had received the handsome donation of £25 towards the charitable aid fund from MrE. Yuile, a gentleman well known in sporting oircles in this colony. We have roceived a letter signed "Tenderer," reflecting on the quality of certain material supplied by a contractor, It would bB obviously improper to publish a communication of this kind without the full name of the writer being appended to it. We have received from the secretary. Mt H. H. Wolters, the programme of the Poultry, Pigoon, and Canary show to be held under the auspices of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society at Carterton on Friday, August 13. Tho prizes are somewhat similar to the resent show held hoie. Entries will be received at this office by Mr W. McKenzie, Secretary of the Wairarapa Poultry Association.

A six-roomed house in Palmorston North owned by MrT, Sutton, and occupied by himself and family was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The ocoupantß had a narrow escape for their lives', and littlo or nothing was saved. The fire is supposed to have originated by a spark from the kitchen fire whioh had been lift burning. The insurance on the house i 5 £IOO iu the South British, and the contents were insured for £IOO in tho Phcanix.

■ The following cases were heard before H. A. Stratford, R.M. at Greytown:—A, Young, tailor, Greytown, vE, H. Grigg, journalist, late of Carterton, claim £5. Mr Gray for plaintiff. The plaintiff, being sworn said he considered that 10s of the amount Bued for as money lent, was mora of a debt of honor, but the remainder. £4los, was for a suit of blue serge clothoß supplied to the .defendant in July, 1884, The loan was transacted in September, 1880. Judgment was entered for amount claimed with profess tonal fees and cost of court. A. Young v Knight, claim £Bl3s (id. Judgment by default for amount claimed with costs.

The example, of Communal Socialism in the matter of rite insuranoo, which is ox-, hibited by some Swies vilWe6 (6ays an English paper), may heieafter find imitation among greater nations. The communal authorities, instead of treating insurance against fire, as a concern for each householder's individual providence And thrift, insure all buildings - the church, house, Btables and sheds—within thoparißh. Thus the commune of Versico, in Canton. Tivino —to give ,an example—haß just passed a voto .for the insurance of the whole village. The Cost will be cheerfully met by a slight inorease in tho local Belf-taxation. One single policy is drawn out for the whole place.

The Panama Evoning Telegram reports that a line of soundings has been recently completed across the South Pacifio Ocean from New Zealand to the straits of Magellan by command of the United States Navy. Tho greatest depth which was found is 3002 fathoms, near Chatham Island. Tho discovery is another disproof of the opinion so provalent until the soundings nl tho Challenger, tho Tuacarora, and Gazelle, that the Pacific is a very shallow ocean. In the southern district of the Pacific is an extended plateau bounded on the north by a lino running throngh the islands of New Zea-. land. Friendly,. Cook, Austral, Easter, and Juan Fernandez, the ridge of .which theßo islands are the summits connecting with tho coasts of Chili and Patagonia. The greatest general depression of this plateau below sea level and the average depths of the ocean it encloses is about 1800 fathoms. Chatham Island, near which Commander Barker is reported to have fouud 3002 fathoms, lies within three hundrod miles of Now Zealand. It would thus appear that tho South Pacific basin very gradually rises from NewZealand towards-the Patagonian coast. This is another evidence that the bed of tho Pacifio is more uniform, with fewer abrupt ohangos of level, than that of the Atlantic—n fact whioh lias some bearing upon tho future of Pacific telegraph oable enterprise.

A writer to the Evening Star-com-plains of the cruelty. of the present mode of destroying rabbits by means of poißonod grain, which ho is informed causes a lingering death, accompanied all the time by agony that expressei itself in the pioroing piteous cries, of aoutest ajjony. He asks, "Has not the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals nothing to say upon this matter? Or will not our worthy knihgted Premier get his Government to offer a big reward for tho discovery of a more humane 1 method, and. let his amendment of the Rabbit Act take the form of making suoh cruelty as the present law requires a punishable offence ? Or is tho loss of a peopled wealth a more' serious concern than the loss of its humanity. A lettor hats been received by Mrs Levy from her husband, who left by the Hauroto, The letter has not been made public, but as far as can be gathered it is. one of an extraordinary description, reading more like the page of a novel. It is understood he reiterates what was; containei in the anonymous letter to the Sydnoy police, and goed on to say "That he was followed about by a strange man whose very glance was sufficsent to mak» him tremble. He Was in a strang« condition even after his arrival in Sydney, and it is said that he endeavored to find his mother, who was over in Sydney, but his memory appeared to be completely gone, and he could not recollect anything either as to how he had got to Sydney or as to the address of his mother. The letter is couched in affectionate terms, and it says that no one who knew him could think him guilty of wilfully deserting his family. Tho Auckland Presbytery on Tuesday definitely decided not to grant the Rev. J. M. Killen's application to practice law in conjunction with his work as a minister. The Rev. A M'Kinney was appointed Moderator of the Presbytery. The resignation of the Rev. A. M'Lean of Waipu, on aocount of ill-health was accepted. At the adjourned meeting' next day the Rev. Mr Somorville remarked that the Rev. Mr. M'Lean's health would have been better had he taken his. advicoaud got married; all he. wanted was a wife to take care of him. (Laughter). ■

I- .Messrs Luwes & lonis' nwttfurtiiitthtly .sto'ck'salfe im Wednesday next will em* brace TO head of cattle, 200 ewes in lamb, horses, pigs, &c. ' At the meeting of the Loyal Masterton Lodge, 1.Q.0.F., M.U., held on Tuesday, Bro. Jago, P.G., gave notice that a$ the next meeting he would move that the sum of £5 be given to the Masterton Hospifol. New announcements by Messrs L. J. Hooper mid Co. appear on our Brat and third pages, and a perusal of them will show tint the firm is still unking further reductions mid until Bfoiuk-tiikiiig they intend submitting the balance of their stock of drapery and clothing at these reduced rates. A telegram from Dunodiu says that the Lake County Council have passed a resolution, that unless the Clerk produce* the missing notd bunk within twenty days he will ho criminally prosecuted. Legal proceedings are also to bo taken to recover £95 eolluoted as rate*, unless it is paid forthwith. An important decision was i/iven in the Appeal Court, Wellington, last week. The Napier Borough "ouncil passed a by-law prohibiting processions by the Salvation Army. The latter, however, ignored ; it, and the Council prosecuted them, but the Resident Magistrate held that the by-law was ultra vim. The Council appealed, and a decision was, now given to the effect that" Such processions were subject to the municipal bylaw.'" Tho appeal was therefore allowed, with £5 5s costs. With to-day's paper we issue a circular from Mr P. Dickson (late Price and Dickson) in which he shows what can be done with 20s at 'his drauory establishment. The oircular contains a copy of goods bought to that amount by a certain Mrs Murphy, a perusal of which will show that she got value for her money. A press telegram from Dunedin records a shocking fatality at Hamilton, Central Otago, yesterday, resulting in tho death of Thomas Newton and John Ogilvio. They were starting on a journey in a spring cart when the horse' bolted. Newton was thrown out at once, falling on his head, and breaking his neck, death being instantaneous. Ogilvio stuck' to the cart for some time, but was jerked out also, and when eximinod it was.found that the bones of his ohosfc were fractured, and some of the Wood vessels reptured. He died in a few minutes, Newton had only heen married five weeks.

In showing, during a recent lecture on " Quart? Reefs," how quarts got into the reefs, Professor Black said that crevices wore formed in tho ordinary rocks through shrinkage or volcanic action, and the miners in the Lake district had told him tifuiie of the oloits, .'which was of gveat depth, existing in Mount Pisa. Jt ivas only some four.or.tivo feet wide, but tho minors were afraid to jump over it because the dark' depths below frightened tliem. Sometimes they hurled into it great boulders, and, listening..-for tho sound, they oould hear the rock bounding and rattling and thundoriny, away dowa below them, the sounds getting fainter and fainter, till by and by it diod away altogether in such a manner that they were convinced it had died—not because the stone reached the bottom, but because It hadgot down so far that the sound could not be returned to them.— North Ofcago Times. A meeting of the Committee of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society was held in tho Club Bote! last night. The President, Mr W. G, Beard, occupied the Chair, and. Btated the business of the meeting which was in the first place, to 'consider an offer by Captain Donald, on behalf of tho Volunteer Corps, that if the Society would grant the sum of £39 towards building a, drill shed the Trustees of tho shed would entor into an agreement. to give the Society the uso of the buildingin whioh to hold their shows twice a year fur the full term of the lease-about 20 years. Mr Parsons moved and Mr Collotte seconded, that tho offer of Mr Douald be accepted. After some discussion as to ways and means tho'motion was put and carried'. It was then resolved that the sum of LlO bo paid as soon as funds permitted. Messrs W. G. Beard, E, Tayler, T. Parsons, and A. Elkins volunteered to guarantee the money. Messrs Taylor, Parsonß, Elkins, and W. H. Beotham were appointed Trustees on behalf of the Society to enter into tho proposed arrangement with the Volunteers, power being granted them that would enable them to make charges to the Society for tho use ot the building for show purposes until tho whole of the money advanced had been refunded. The following wore appointed a Committee to revise the programme and to report to a future moetim?:—Messrs T.' Gardner, E. Collotte G. M. Park, E. Tayler, and T, Osborne, It was resolvod that the date of tho Spring Show should be fixed for Thursday, November 25th. The meeting then adjourned to August 18th. In the course of an interview with James Atherton, a tiger trainer who was showing in London lately, a revelation was mado to tho Pall Mall Gazette's reporter of the reason that some dogs that aro greatly fancied, do not win in coursing matches. "I've been thirty years in the business," said the showmau, "and there are very few dodges with whioh lam not- acquainted. There are dodges in everything—even in dog racing. There are somo men who will never bet on a horse-race, but will place their money freely on a dog. ' Dogs,' they say,' nover cheat, whereas a jockey can do what he likes with a horse.' That sounds reasonable but it, is not true all tho same, for their can be as much cheating with dogs as with . horses. It's done by loading the front feet of your dog. You have a small frog of lead which fits into the hollow of the dog's front paw. The thin strips of lead are doubled over between the dog's claws, and are concealed by the hair. The result is that the whole of the lead is quite invisible, and one who did not know anything about it might take the dog's paw in his hand and look at it casually without detecting the little weight. But it tells on tho dog's running ; and you may bo tolerably certain that whenever a dog which has done marvellous things is unaccountably beaten there has been some trickery of the kind practised. It is very difficult to detect, and those who do it.know how to put the money on."

Venetian Blind and Revolving Shutter m&nu factory, All Blinds guaranteed of the very best description. Price list on application to R. W. Henn(lateHennand Hansen.) Ponoke Steam Venetian Blind and Rovolving Factory, W'ellinirton.—Atwt. Anyone requiring New Zealand Tweed Clothing will save money by purchasing at tho Wairsrapa Clothing Factory, for their euits at 19i 6d, 255, 30s, 37s 6d, 45s and 60s, and tronsers and vests at 12s 6d, and trousers at 5s Od are honestly worth double the money. Note the address—Next to Empire Hotel, Masterton '—Advt. Coughs, Coins, Bbonomtis, 4a, aro quickly curod by using Baxter's celebratotl "Lung Prcservor." This old established, popular medicine is pleasant to the palate, adn highly extolled by the members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions. Sold by all Patent Medicine Vendors. See testimonials in advertiaomente.—fAnvr.l 1 am going to make a speciality of certain lines during tho next months. At the present timolam running Macintoshes and Overcoats at prices which defy any hou6eio the Wellington District to approach. Byißendiag the length whioh you require in inches, you can bo supplied with a grand Tweed Macintosh for 27/6, honestly worth £3. Give me a trial John Thobbckn, the People's fllothior, Willis. street Wellington.—[Advt,]

Hlfl Excellency the Governor liav by order in Gounoil, amended the terms and conditions of the Land Act, 1883, to suit a special settlement to be formed by members of the police .and armed -con* Btabulary, We are requested to remind our readers of Messrs'Lowes and lorns sale for Sn{« urday next when they commence, with horses, produce, poultry, etc., after which one of the largest catalogues of new and second-hand furniture will be put through, and parties furnishing will have a good opportunity of getting goods at their own prices. .. Thcro was a very good attendance at Dr Gilbert's lecture on sexual physiology last night, considering the weather, There was an amount of practical information given; and if young men would only follow the advice tendered them' they would bo the better for it. Dr Gilbert gives a coutinuanco of his lecture on "Who are the true freethinkers," to-, morrow night at the Theatre Royal. Messrs Kibblewhite and Cameron, blacksmiths, of Masterton, have inventod an improved wire strainer that should bo a great acquisition to persons requiring a machine in wire fencing that combines strength with lightness. The machino in quoßbion is very compact, does not weigh more than lib, and, being made of steel, will stand all the strain required in the worn it is intended for. Its many qualities should recommend it to the fencers of the district.