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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2379, 21 August 1886, Page 2

Fruit will be offered for sale at tho Rod House, Queen-street, to-day, at the usual cheap Saturday prices. Notice is given in another column of the removal of the Town Clerk's offico from Queen-street to tho Public Institute,

Tho Hinemoa, with the Auokland members on board, arrived in the Manakau yesterday. Mr Mitcholson, M.H.R. was thrown from a buggy while riding into town, and badly shaken and bruised, but received no serious injury.

The Wellington police received information yesterday that Mrs Kempton, wife of Mr H. W. Kempton, butcher, oi Greytown, has attempted to commit suicide by hanging.

The London .Weekly Times in reviewing a new work entitled "Twonty-ono Years' Salvation Army, under the Generalship of General Booth (London: Salvation Army Book Depot) a plainly wordod account of a remarkable movement, says: Welmveno sympathy with the curious methods of tho Salvationists,- and not much faith iii tho sincerity of some of their converts. Still less have we any patience with the way in whioh some leaders of the movement have lent themselves to further the unhealthy craving for uotoriety of people who Bhould have known better. But it is useless to ignore

.the fact that Mr Booth had boon able to create.au organization which, if it had arisen in the twelfth century instead of the nineteenth, miuht have founded a new religion. As a matter of fact; the success of Mahnmet up to the time of his death waa far less complete'than General Booth has already achioved. All this ia in qreat part, if not wholly, duo to the disgust of the ignorant but enthusiastic converts who flock to the Salvation Banner, with the hollow tespectability and hypocrisy of the conventional religion of the day. Presently, as it growß rich and prospers, the Salvationist Army will srow respectable—just as Methodism has done, and

wijl be superseded by some other band of enthusiasts. It is not a hopeful outlook, but at present the choice seems between the Gospel of culture: according ■to Matthew Arnold and Herbert Sjioncer, the dead formalism of creeds with all their vitality chilled out of them, and the tambourines of the Hallelujah Ladses! Is there 110 religion left for us capable of onco to the senses and the feelings, without sacrificing one in the attempt to cultivate the other ?

A meeting of creditors in the estate of George Dixon of Masterton,. blacksmith, was held yesterday in the old Court-room beforo Mr R. S. Stansfield, Deputy Official Assignee. Mr Bunny appeared for the Official Assignee, and Mr Beard for the debtor. There were eicfht creditors present. Tho statement showed the liabilities to unseoured oreditors £476 19s 7d, and secured £973 10s. The assets consisted of stock-in-trade at Masterton valued at £65, book debts estimated to produco £IOO, furniture £4O, property £1275, showing a oredit' balance of assets over liabilities of £24 10b sd. The principal creditors unsecured were : W Dawson & Co. £lOl 0s 6d, G. Crawford & Co. £lls 14b 2d, P. Hayman & Co, £94, M, Caselberg & Co; £2O 4s. Thero were several others ; under £2O. The creditors secured were—The Trustees Rhodes Estate, L 500; J. Muir, LOO; T. Bentley, L 200; Hi Jones, MOO, The freehold property consisted of 9J acres in Worksop Road, valued at £800; dwelling-house and section. Cole-street, £400; and the goodwill of tho leaso of blacksmith's shop, £75. In answer to Mr Bunny tho debtor said he hied in consequence of being unable to meet hi engagements. Be waa pressed by M r Dawson, of Wellington. He waß solvent whon he sold out to Mr Farmer. ' H 8 thought to be able to sell his propert and meet all bills as they became due He Bold out to Mr Farmer for £SO for the goodwill and the stock at a valuation which realisechomethintt over £4OO. He was paid in cash when he sold out about twelve months since, The money .went to moet bills that were owinp as they became due. He had paid 110 creditors during the last three months unless by contra account. The blaoksmith's business had not paid yet, but would do so He begat) at a wrong time of the year. The second mortgage on the property to Muir was executed 12 or 18 months ago it might have been longer. It -was to seouro an advance. The second .mortgage to Jones £IOO ovor the Dixon Estate be paid over to Mr Gatwith for monies he had advanoed to meet his bills. His bankbook would" Bhow how the monies he received had been disposed of. He had.not been half kept going sinoe he bad started blacksmithing. Mr Caselberg moved. That the offioial assignee wind up the estate as quickly as possible. The motion was earned and the meeting adjourned.

In the shop of Mr J, Ward, Queen Btreet may .be Been three very.beautiful specimens of white coral froip the Fiji's the largest-being the tree',coral. ■Hospital Sunday in London this'year pfpdu9«=d the handsome sum of £13,000, about £2,700 in excess of the collections for the same object in 1885, Messrs -T, Stone & Son have a few of their fruit and ornamental trees left. Orders lodged at Tayler's fruit shop will be promptly executed. , . The annual general meeting of the Masterton Agricultural and- Pastoral Association will take place at the Temple Chambers on Wednesday uext at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. The business is to receive the annual report and balance sheet, elect officera, and general., Saysthe Mauawatu (Palmerston)Timeß; —This diatrict, at least, will iiot mourn the downfall of any Ministry the Premier of which deems it accessary to delay by all possiblo means the construction of such ah important colonial work as'the Gorge line'

Messrs C. B. Hoadly and Co. held a aalo of .thoroughbred horses at Napier on Thursday. Pearl was knocked down to Mr G. P. Donnelly at 800 guineas, Soudan to Mr Allen MoLean for £IOO guineas, General Thornton to Mr W,- si. Dennott for 130 guineas, the trotting maro JNelly to Mr C. Palmer at 58 guineas, .and other horses at fair prices. The Government of New York State has signed a bill amending the law relating to imprisonment for debt. By this measure many debtors who have been in prison for several years will be liberated, as well as those who have been imprisoned for more than.six months.. This period will be the due to imprisonment for debt. The passing of the law is limit for the efforts of Brastua Wiman, a Canadian British subject, resident in New York, who haa aucceedod in bringing to a .favorable issue a movement in which numerous philanthropic Americans have failed. Owing, probably, to weather, a very poor audience mustered at the Theatre Royal last night to witness Vernou's Pictorial Mirror of the Hot Lake distriot,-Through an accident in the lighting apparatuß, the views were not shown at their best. The Bcene of the lato volcanic disturbances—before

aijd after the eruption,—the Wairqa district, pink and white torraoes, and other spots of interest in the Lake district wero however, very artistically presented. Views were also shdwn of water-courses, lakes, important buildings, etc.-, of New Zealand, including several local sceneß, The entertainment will be repeated this evening, when the pictures will be displayed at their best. M. Leon Say, presiding at the annua} mooting of the Liberty and. Property Defence League, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, urgod that there were two principles which wore the mainspring of Socioty—'individual energy and personal responsibility. Governments, however constituted,, should. respect tlieso two great social bases. Those which did so led humanity in the way of eivilisation, those who did not would eventually cause mankind to fall back into barbarism. He pointed out the dangers which might be incurred in England and Franco from the oneroachmonts of local socialism, which was the hidden vice of federalism and communal autonomy, and of State socialism, which was the vice of excessive centralisation.' He expressed liiß confidence in the continuous efforts of men who, in England as in Franca, were striving to make scientific solutions prevail over the impulses of ignorance, and who were convinced that humanity could only realise its high destinies by being faithful tp the principle conveyed in the words "ie droit prime la forco."

According to the Philadelphia correspondent of the New York %'ald, the Beet of Quakers in that part of the United States is gradually becoming a thing of the past, Alluding to thjJ fact, our contemporary says" The Quakers have been with us now for, about two hundred and fifty years, and they have nover done us any harm. Wo should be glad to tolerate their little peculiarities during another lease of life if obtained. Massachusetts thrust them out of its jurisdiction, .Virginia enacted laws against them, and Maryland'punished them as vagabounds. They maintained thoir foothold, however, and became a thriving, prosperous community. At last they have succumbed, not to force, but to fashion. Thehat and coat are now curiosities, and the rabtle fascinations of a wicked world have tempted their young liißn to becomo dudeß, and their maidonß to weave the rainbow into garments, They are nething more than a memory, but it is a very pleasant o«« "

. The Town Clerk's new office was openod to-day in the public institute, and is a deoided improvement 011 the old one, which has been occupied as a Council meeting room aud Town Clerk's Office ever since tho Municipal Corporations Act waß brought into force in July, 1877. The new Council Chambers and Clerk's Office is the room in tho Institute that was formerly used as a public reading room. About Beven feet of tho room has beeu railed off for the use of the public and deputations waiting upon tho Council, and will accommodate about thirty people. The Mayor's chair is on the south side of the room, on a raised platform, with a small polished table in front of him for his sole use. The Council table i'B of a horse shoe shape, fitted with nine drawors for the use of the Councillors, who are also provided with easy, cushioned chairs. The Clerk sits in front of the Mayor faeing'tho Council, A re« porter's table is to be fixed on the left of the Mayors seat. One side of the fire place ia fitted up with cupboards and pigeon holes,'and the recess on the other side contains the iron safe. The room has been re-sorimmed and papered throughout and tho ceiling distempered. The walls have received a coat of varnish which relieves the paper, which if anything is of too dark a shade. The furniture of the room reflects great credit upon the contractor, Mr Thomas T. Jatjo, the well-known cabinet maker of this town. There is a room on the opposite side of tho Council Chambers that is to be used for Committee meetings aud for a meeting room for public bodies. In our opinion it would be much preferable to use this room for tho every day use of the Town Clerk and to allow the Council Chamberstobeutelized for the meetings of School Committees, Town _ Landß Trustees, and other public bodies, and we commend that course to the consideration of the Council,

Venetian Blind and Revolving Shutter manu factory. All Blind? guaranteed of the vory beat doBC-ription. Price list on application to Bf. Henn Oats Henn and Hansen.) Poneke Steam Venetian Blind and Revolving Factory, Vellinitqn,—Advt.

I am going'to make a speciality ol certain lines during the next' mouths. At tho present timolam running Macintoshes and Overcoats at prices whioli defy any house in 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 Thorburn, tho Peoplo's Clothier, Willistreet Wellington.—fAnvT.]

Anyone requiring New Zealand Weed Clothing will savp money purchasing at the "Wairarapa Clothing Factory," for their suits at 19s 6d, 255, 30s, 37s 6d, 40a and 50s, and trousers and vests at 12s 6d, and trousers at 5s 9d aro honestly worth double tho money, Note the address,—Next to Empire Hotel, Masterton -Advt,

, lady Fitzherbert died at her residence,' '.Cower Hutt,. this morning, aged 70, v jyir Wyllie's weekly cartoon. issued; today has for ita subject the Chairman! of the ..Borough Works Committee' Bented as an itinerant tinker -patching up the want»-of the Corporation. \ ! At Washington on June 28th, there was presented the largest petition ever seen in Congress, It was a half-mile long and made a roll 2ft in diameter.. Itcontained-

the names of over 50,000 Knights of Labour, asking for more effective legislation against Chinese immigration,

At a meeting of the Auckland Rugby Union on Thursday', which' was largely attended, the following resolution was carried i—That the Secretary be instructed to write to the Secretary of the Wellington Union asking for an apology ,for; statements whioh appeared in; the -Wellington newspapers respecting , : the late match Auckland v. Wellington, and the umpire, Mr Cotter; also, tha ( t an apology be obtained from the Poneko Club by the Wellington-Union for their action in hanging the -Auckland umpire iu effigy. .

A minister in the' North waß taking to task one of his hearers, who was a frequent defaulter, and approaching him as an habitual absentee from-public servico., The accusod vindicated himself on the plea of a dislike to long sermons. 'Deed man,' said his reverend monitor, a little nettlod at the insinuation fclnown; out againßthimself, 'lf ye dinna mind ye may land yoursel whaur ye'll no be no be troubled by sermons either Ion? or short.' 'Wgbl, may be,' rotorted John, 'but it'll no be for want o' ministers, at any rate 1'

The Press has received news from Palmerstwh North of a levanting debtor named Chaa. Jirdou who was slightly checked iu his career yesterday. He had

lold all his furniture and collected as

money as possible, and then proceeded to Longburn to await the departure of the train to Otaki,. from whence he intended

to proceed with his wifo to Wellington, en route to Victoria.- Two summonses were issued, and immediate execution granted. ' The constable arrived at Longburn just before tlio Otaki train left, when Jordan disgorged some £3O of: the spoil, much against his will. The Premier sent the following reply t« Mr DargavilleVsuggeßtionthat a commission bo appointed to iiivostigate the Stark land purchasel shall submit) your telegram to tho Cabinet, but without evidenoe what could a commission do ? If indignant persons would only get any evidence, or tell us what the exaot point is to be investigated, we would act at once, Will they name the conspirators 1 If there has been any fraud practiced on the Government, I would do all I could to bring tho offenders to justice, but vague statements and indignation are not evidence." ■-

The following new patents have been applied forAn invention for improvements in chaff-cutters, by William Andrews and Arthur Ward Beaven, of Christchurch, engineers; an invention for prevention of down currents in chimneyflues, to be called "The Zealandia Chimney head No. 1," by David Jones of Auckland: an imvention for improvements in ■ solitaires, studs, and necktie ! fastenings, by John Edward Buchan, of Sandhurst, Victoria, outfitter; an invention for baling and pressing wool, to be called "Taylor and Bromnor's compound Single-lever Wool-press: The Bon Accord," by David Taylor and David Bremner, blaoksmiths and wheelwrights, Waverloy; an invention for a blackboard cleaner and chalk-holder, by George Tombs, of Chrietchurch; an invention for Davieß' horßO-brake, by John Davios, of South Dunediu, engineer; an invention for improvements in bits for horses, by Amedee Thornton Baron de Mouncie, of Chelsea, gentleman ; an invention for improved apparatus for the extraction of gold from finely-ground gold-bearing materials, by Alfred Miller, of Queensland, engineer.

Commercial reports very satisfactory 1 Wool still rising ! wheat going up! Tallow and leather looking well! only frozen meat depressed, and that's not particular bad I Besides, freights are being reduced, which is equivalent to a rise in prico 1 How is it, with all this iinprovoment in the market for our produce, that things are still so bad in the colonies? Are they bo vory bad? Yes, that they are! The "revenue's falling terribly! Business is as flat as a pancake? There's a cry of want of employment North, South, East, and West I What's more I hear that many folks who've managed ■to hold on through all the hard timeß are looking uncommon blue just now! The rise in the price of staples has not begun to be generally felt yet! It takes a good long time before it setß shaky people on their legs, and in the meantime it makes things appear worse than ever! I don't see how that can be ? Yes, in thiß way! The first to discern a coming rovival are the large financial companies, who have money out upon all sorts of properties and investments, and the first thing they do is to put on the screw I Then, at that rate, it's a good sign when wo hear of people boing sold up who've been holding on for years! 1 think it is decidedly! It shows that mortgagees, who saw no chance of realising beforo, and therefore left the nominal owners undisturbed, now think it's worth whilo to take possession I They are speculating for rise, in fact I Just so ! The present state of things in New Zealand reminds me forcibly of 1869 and 1870, when the timeß had been fearfully bad, and when any number of owners who'd been jogging along in a broken-down sort of fashion for years woro shut up liko asliot, only to find that if tlioy could have hung on for a few months longer, they'd. have been rich men ! All, yes, 1 recollect! There was one Bank which resolved to shut up all its debtors who could pay 10s in the £ of what they owed it, and let the rest rip 1 It did so, and the rise camo immediately afterwards, and to my knowledge one of those who'd been let rip because ho couldn't pay a stiver died a few years later wortn L 120,000! Aye, and there'll be plenty of similar case's again before long! You see if there are not 11 don't think the outlook is half so bad as tliey say.—Press Puffs.

There rauafc be a fine field for temperance missionary enterprise in Burmah, if what a correspondent of the Indian Good Templar writes from Burmah be correct" Burmah 19 a fearful place for cheap drink and heavy crime; the natives manufacture what is called Sham-sho; it is supposed to bo made from rico and lime. One may form an idea of its power when I assure you that it will dissolve a Martini-Henry bullet in thirty minutes. It burns the inside out of those who drink it, and I am afraid it will play fearful havoc among our troops before this summer is past. We are glad to hear from the same source that determined efforts aro being made by Burmah Good Templars to BuppreßS the sale of this fiery poison, and they have no doubt that Government wdl take action shortly in the matter in their own interest, If not in that of the temperance cause. Among other doubtful mercies, Burmah will be favored with a revised abkarry ruling, which is sure to moderate the strength of this dreadful poison. Much moro .to . the-point are those efforts now being taken by members of our order to have temperance pledges' widely circulated and an alliance formed against the ruinous traffic."

The allotment of the Town and Suburban sections of the' Parkville Special Settlement Association takes-place' at.tW. Temperance Hall, Ghapel Street/ tjiis evening. t ... ;' i.'; : •

(tenders are invite*! by Mr G. Watjon for additions to a nottage in Queen-street. Flans and specifications may. be. Been'at Messrs Townaend and Oowper's saddler shop. ■ • ' '

The service of song " Reclaimed" iB to be repeated in the Wesleyan, Church on Monday evening commencing at 7 o'clock. Admission is by tickets only, and may be obtained at Mr Yile's office opposite the church. Tickets not üßedpn a former occasion will be available on Monday, In reference to the Poverty Bay oi springs the following circular, dated Sydney, 9th August, 188G, has been /forwarded by Mr W. Fleming, Chairman to the South Pacific, Petroleum Company, to the.shareholdersYourJDirectorshave much pleasure in informing you that at a depth ot 1140, feet, a band of payablo oil has been reached, which Mr Weaver,

the contractor, estimates will yield (the bore being only ono foot in the sand) from 50 barrels (200 gallons) per day, -and when another six or ton feet is bored- the yield may be large, Further operation' have been suspended until the arrival of the necessary appliance? for pumpinft and tanks for storage of oil, which have been ordered from San Francisco. A 'supply of drivo-pipe is also being acquired to case the bore somb 40 feet between 1 the bottom of tho 6-in pipe and the Band strata, to shut oil caving, which has been troublosome, The oil tanks ordered: are the one usually in America, and have a total capacity of 1000 birrela (40,000 gallons), which your Directors doom sufficient to deinohatrato the pormanonoy of the supply. 'Pumpiuar. should commence early in November. The Secretary of tho Masterton-Manga-hao Special Settlement Association received, the following letter from Mr Elliott, Under. Secretary for the Minister of Lauds ' to-day" lam directed by tho Minister of Lands to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th August as to the proposal of the Masterton-Mangahao Special Settlement Association for. relinquiahiriet a portion of its blook of land, i I havfl to-day Bent you a telegram Btatiug that the Minister of Lands agrees to the following proposals, viz First, If tho Asaosiution. decides to releuquißh the badly designed soctions in southern portion of blook, tho sum of Is per aore will be allowed for 3000 acres. Second. The Association will be allowed to retaiu a strip about a mile wide along the Mangaliao River comprising the front portions of section 49 to 60 as shown on the plan of Association on the distinct understanding Government retains the right of surveying and oponing a road through all or any of these »ectionß bo as to give proper access to the Grown lands on the west of •hem.