The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1886.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2397, 11 September 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1886.

Notice is given in another column of of the Bankruptcy of Hugh MoMaster of Gladstone, sheep farmer. Tho Treasurer of the Masterton Hospital acknowledges the receipt of £2 8s Id from the Club Hotel Box.

Tlui Wairarapa Clothing Factory lias an announcement in our advertising columns and r long list of prices worthy of perusal. Mr Jno. tfoung, tho woll-known Wellington ironmonger, has been returned by a large majority as representative of the Cook Ward in tho Wellington City Council.

A meeting of the goneral committee of the Wairarapa Agricultural and Pastoral Society takes place on Monday, when the programme will bo arrangod for the annual show which is to be held on tho 25th November.

Miss Georgia Smithson is drawing good housos in Wellington, whore, assisted by Mr flollowiiy, she is entertaining tho Empire City people with hor lightning changes, for whioh she has justly entitled herself to be named the Female Maccabe. Miss Smithson's seasov. closes in Wollington to-night. A man was ill-requited in Paris on Monday for an act of courage. Another man had thrown himself into the SaintMartin Canal to commit suicide and was drowning when a stranger leaped into the' water and brought him safely to the bank. The by-standers dragged the stranger much against hii will to the police-station in order that his act of courage should be recorded, when the officer on duty recognised in him a working clockmaker named Collinaire who was wanted by the police for extortingmoney by passing himself off as a detective.

A preliminary meeting of persons interested in forming a Secular Temperance Union is convened for this evening at tho Temperance Hall at 7 o'clock. Th« promoters of the movement think there is a field for labor amongst those who object to go to church to take tho Temg.oranco pledge. They aho think of introducing a Bystom of time

pledges, three, nix, and twelvo months instead of for life, to bo ronowod periodically, All who are interested in- tho Tomperancc movement are cordially invited to attend, and are earnestly requested to aid the movement; s

Mr Elkinr, has undertaken to provide pißeona for the Gun Club match at Mmtertoa.'on Thursday week.

On Tuesday evening last the Pahiatua Town Board held its first mooting,-, all the members being present. Mr John fishes w«8 elected chairman, and Mr A. W. Sedcole was appointed clerk pro tern. The clerk was instructed to obtain the necessary books, stationery, Acts of Parliament, and other information. The Board then adjourned until Saturday, 18th inst at 7 p. in,

A Ballarat paper reports that at Olunes a clergyman has adopted the plan of taking up the collection himself. Occasionally, for the sake of examplo, he hands back the threepenny to the donor: —"Take it back, sir, aud may the Lord have meroy on your poor niggardly soul," Scats in that church are to let, 1 fancy, They have adopted a better plan in Detroit, The handsomest girls in tho congregation are sent round with tho platos. The success of this system in improving the contributions of the young men is said to bo immense, aud one wondors it has novor boon thought of bofore. At a public meeting held in the school room, Pahiatua, on Thursday ovoning last, to receive the report of Committio appointed to investigate the cost, etc., of the Templars Hall, Mr A. W. Sedcole stated the result appraised tho value at £250, It was resolved that the report bo received, Messrs Miller and Sodcolo stated that they would not accept a lower valuation than the actual cost already incurred, and that thoy had'the promise of upwards of L2OO to be taken in shares at the prico named L 290. It was resolved that a committee bo appointed to work up the matter, and float a company to be called the Pahiatua Town Hall Company (Limited) in £1 sharos,

Mr 0. M. Gray, of Christchuvch, Ims compiled tlio following statistics of the Drink Bill. Ho says"ln 1869 the population numbered 247,249, and the drink bill to £2,541,507. Last year tlio population totalled, in round numbers, 000,000, and tlio drink bill amounted to £2,289,514. In ordor, however, to show the immense falling off in tlio amount spent on intoxicating liquorj, it only remains for us to adopt the>population basis and then see how the matter stands. Taking the oxpoadituro per head ef the population—for every man, woman and child—and the sum approximates aB followslßC9, £lolos por head; 1885, £3 lGs per head; difference, £ol4s. This, result seems almost too good to bo true, nevertheless. Tho figures are correctly quoted and carofully rovised, and will stand tlio test of the strictest scrutiny." Auckland Weekly News.

A dozen or liftoen years ago (say 3 the Auckland Herald) thore was not a single important drapery or millinery establishment in the eity which had not its clientele ohntsido workers. Women, often of refinement of culture, who had seen better days, but to whom the increase of domestic responsibilities or revorse of circumstances made it of the utmost importance, were able to supplement the family exchequer by' a pound or thirty shillings or a couple of pounds a week, by obtaining plain Bowing from tho stores. Let anyone inquire at these shops now, and ho will find that that clientele has vanished into thin air. Not that thoy have ceased to bo, or tlint the same or even greater necoasity does not exist in hundreds of homes, but from the fact that the stores lmve none of this former kind of work to give, for tho simple reason that the work is so largely performed by the various forms of sewing circles, consisting of ladies who, having neither pressure of duties nor pressure or want at home, assemble nnd spond their leisure hours in a kind of religious dilettantism in a perpetual round of stitch and gossip, gossip and stitch, making clothing for their holy fairs. Some of tho clerks of County Councils, and of Town Boards, are in the habit of forwarding rato demands and rato roceipts in an open envelope thereby thinking that a penny stamp covers the postage. In every case In which this has been done the Post Ollico has, says the Daily Telegraph, charged the recipients an extra twoponce. It should he known that only printud matter, or Press matter for publication, and marked as such, can be forwarded in an open envelope. Rate demands and receipts contain a good deal of manuscript, and so are classed as ordinary letters, This rule makes it rather hard on Town Boards whose rates on quarter-acre sections often amount to less than fourpence, for the postage moro than swallows up tho amount of a rate,

The following new patents are applied 1 for; A lamp for burning tallow, by William George White, of Foxton, enpjinofittor; " The Eureka Buttor-package," by Arthur Moffin, of New Plymouth, cabinet-maker; an improved water- ( heater, by John Knowlson, of Victoria, plumber; au improved helioi/raphic procosh fro re-producing drawings, writings, &c., in black upon a white ground, by Felix Ratte, minor, ilo«iat, and Leon Jaubert, engraver, botn of Sydney; a machine for mixing tea, to be called " The Exoelaior Duplex Tea-mixor," by William Gilbert, of Dunedin, tea merchant ; an improved coal-shoot, for loading vessols or other receptacles, by James Brimblo, jun,, of Greymouth, tinsmith ; "Theo,o. (Comfort and Oonvonionce) Spring Mattress or Bed," by William Henshaw, of Napier, upholsterer; a motion to bo applied to windmills to enable tlwm to do rotary work, to be known as " K, Thomas & Soil's Patent Rotary Motion to bu applied to windmills" by liicliard Thomas and Edward Thomas,' Invercargill, engineers; for closing doors gates, Ac,, to bu called "Goodwin and D'rylank's Torsion Spring," for securing cart-doors in a flimplo and offcctual manner, to be called "Goodwin and Dryland's Cart-door Susponder," for liorao draught, to be called "Goodwin and Dryland's Patent Draught for carts and carriages," for embossed steps, to be called "Goodwin and Dryland's Embossed Stops," for distributing the weight carried in carts, &c., equally on the springs, to be called "Goodwin and Dry. land's Equalising Bar, all by Thomas Goodwin and Edwin Dryland, of Auckland, coachbuilders; for cleaning knives and forks and sharpening knives, named "the Combination Knife and Porkcleaner," by Samuel Blomfield, of Auckland, carpenter; for patent tins for the packing and preservation of condiments and tinned goods, such as fruits, meats, jish, butter, jellies, Ac., to be called "The Alexander Patent Tins," by Alexander Harvey, of Auckland, farmer; for the production of hydrogen and carbonic oxide by injecting steam into red-hot charcoal or otlior carbonaceous matter, to be called "Broadbcnt's Patent Gas-producer," by John James Broadbent, of Auckland, analytical chemist; for holding sacks and wool-packs open and suspended while in prooesß of being filled, and allowing them to be easily detached from the appliance i when filled, to be called " The Diamond 1 Sack-holder," by Robert Sharpe Galbraith, of Tauranga, civil engineer; for "Spurdlo's Patent Double-action Fastener for tailboards and all kinds of carriage doors," by Samuel-Oliver Spurdle," of Waitara, coaehbuilder; for improvements in travelling cranes, by Alfred Upton Alcock, of Melbourne, gentleman; for improvements in pocket sewing machines, being a communication from abroad, by Sally Adolf Rosenthal, of Berlin, ■ in, the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, engineer; 1 for an improved wiro-strainer, by John : Flynn, of Victoria, teacher. i . '/ '

Messrs Brorrn and Borers, the cobtfactora fur the alteration of the Institute building,i, have just hauded over the job, having completed it, to the satisfaction of the architect.

The trysting place of the Wairarapa Gun Club's Masterton match, on September 23rd, has been fixed on the grounds of Mr F. H, Wood, opposite the Master-' ton Hospital. We draw attention to a new advertiseof the Mew Zealand Clothing Factory in our leador column, ' It is of interest to the heads of families and guardians, and the public generally. Under the head of missing friends infm" mation is asked at the Postofflce as to the whereabouts ot the following persons William Perrin, Geji'ge Arrow Palmer, John H, Craggs, Margaret Martin, Denis MuKonna,

Messrs Lowes and lorns report tho sale mi behalf of tho Official Assignee of the lease, goodwill, and blackamithing business for a satisfactory figure. Mr G. Dixon, will, we understand, continue to occupy the premises,

A series of native dances wcro given in the Town Hall, Groytown, says the Standard, on Wednesday night, but the audience was not large, probably owing to tho prices being 3s, 2s, and Is, There were ten performers, dressed in mats and dccoratod with feathers, who went through their exorcises in the usual grotesque style. To those who have never seen anything of the kind, the " troupe" are worsh going to see, _ The Franklin Institute, at their Novol- ' ties Exhibition, promised to award " a grand incdal of honor to tho invention or discovery shown at the'exhibition which shall be held to contribute 'most largely to the welfare of mankind." After considerable delay, the Board of Examiners liavo recommended that the medal be awardod to Mr T. S. C. Lowo of Norris-' town, Pennsylvania, " for his substantial improvements in the manufacture of water-ms, and for his numerous improvements in methods and applianco for the utilisation of water-gas as a fuel for domestic and industrial purposes, and as an illuminating agent.

The outcome of Mr Burnett's visit to this Wairarapa district Las not boon the formation of one United Society of Temperance members as was hoped by him. That each district would undertake it own work and appoint its own President and officers those who have had experience with similar agita' timis in the Wairarapa in times past pretty well knew, and whon the people of Masterton formed a Temperance Union although they callo 1 it a Wairarapa Gospel Temperance Union, they showed by their electing a committee and officers solely from Masterton that they considered it purely a local affair It was not to be supposed that the other townships would snil under Masterton colours entirely, neither appear they willing to adhere to sectarianism as the following copy of the Feathnraton Temporanco and Blue Ribbon Association's pledge card will show" 1, tlio uudersigned, do pledge my word and honor to abstain from all intoxicating liquors as a boverage, and that I will by example and precept, and all honorable moans induco others to abstain. Signed ." "'This is to certify that the person, whose signature appears above, voluntarily signed the Temperance pledge in connection with Mr Matthew Burnett, tho social reformer's visit to Featherston. Witness

Upon the value of hops, Dr Taylor writes to the Argus as follows Moßt housowivna and nurses are acquainted with the soporific properties of" hop pillows" for sleepless patients. Tlio soothing qualities were believed to reside in the resin of the femalo flowers of the plant, and tho especial property was named Mope ins. A German chemist, Dr Landeborg, has recontly discovered that hopeine is identical with morphine, Now,we don't employ hops along with malt (in our occassional use of these things for browing) for the sake only of either Riving alo ii bitterness or of increasing its power to keep. The fact is, hops aro a stimulant, The teetotaller may not know this when they drink and praise the quality of his •' Hepetta" beer, but it is true, For the same roason we can understand why " Hop Bitters' 1 are popular—thoy aro stimulating. This may als) he tho reason for the mora drowsy character of tho intoxication produced by malt liquors as comparod with wines. Moreover, it will be noticed that whou anybody substitutes other beverages for beer he generally profors bitter substitutes, Speaking of hops (and my remarks are in both casoß suggested by papers which appeared in the last number of the Chemical Society's Journal), I note that experiments indicate the valuable character of tho foliago of this plant as fodder. Professor Weill finds that it closoly approximates in its food value to meadow hay, clover, and ryegrass; whilst as regards its percentage of nitrogenous nutritive material, it is almost equal to wheat or ryo bran. Indeed, Protessor Wein proved that hop stems and leaves aro superior to ordinary green fodders. Tho practice of cooking the young and undeveloped shoots of hops (jußtas people do asparagus) has long been known to a select and privileged fow. If tho leavos aro not developed, it is possible that oven an experimenter for the first time will prefer them to asparagus. It is almost curtain hu will when he has acquired a tasto for them, I mention this because in the selection of hop foliage for cattle fodder everything depends on the condition of tho plants, The stems get fibrous and woody as thev grow older, and in such a state they are quite innutritious, Ab hops will often grow luxuriantly where clover, hay, ryo, and other ordinary fodder plants will not, 1 consider this diecovory of the food value of tho hop plant as boing highly important, and I don't know of any feeders to whom it is of more importance than those of the Australian colonies.".

Indigestion.—The main cause of nervousness is indigestion, and that is caused by weakness of the stomach. No one can have sound norves and good health without using American Co's flop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify tho blood, and keep the liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of the system. See.

Never Return.—lt is said that one out of every four invalids who go to foreign countries to recover health never return, except as a corpse. Tho undertakers, next to the hotel-keopers, have the most profitable business. The excossive mortality may be provented and patients aaved and cured under the caro of friends and loved ones at home if they will but uso American Co's Hop Bitterß in time. Read