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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2405, 21 September 1886, Page 2

Twojbankruptcies have occurred in tho district, the Pahiatua Star saya, withm tbe past few days, and a well-known penerous gentleman of this town lias unconsciously become a creditor in both estates. Three pounds in each instance was borrowed to help in business matters but it has now been discovered that the money was obtained to enable the parties to get "white-washed" at Masterton. The next man that requires a loan from the above gentleman had better take out a policy in some Accident Assurance Company, for twelve months in a hospital is bound to follow, A meeting of creditors in the estate of John Whit more, baker, of Pahiatua, was held in tho Courthouse, Masterton, yesterday. MrR. Stansfield, the Deputy Assignee, presided, and Messrs A. Yulo, Naylor, and P. Dawson wero present. The statements filed shewed liabilities £lO5 lis ]od, the principal creditors being, A. Birnio £3O, P, Dawson £25, W. Treivoek £ls, T. Miller £l7, C. Siau £l6, Sedcole and Yule £olss, M. Nicholson £8 10b, J» Gregory £B, T. Nesbit £5 4s. Ellison and Duncan, Napier, secured for £l2O. Assets: Stock £IG, book debts £SG, horse, harness, etc., £24, lands of secured creditors £105; total £2Ol, surplus £3510 a, It was resolved that tho meeting be adjourned to Pahiatua for the examination of the debtor, the creditors | undertaking to defray the expenses of the change of vonue.

All English exchange speaks of a painful sensation that has been caused by the inquest on a late patient at tho Surrey County Asylum, "Wandsworth. Three lunatic patients swore that, two of the attendants repeatedly stamped on or kicked tho deceased in the ribs and stomach, and the doctors, who had supposed that the man had fallon down in a fit, discovered that death was due to tho rupture of a blond vessel in the abdomen. Of course the evidence of lunatics must bo received with caution, but the Superintendent of the Asylum declared that ho considered the evidence of the witnesses reliable, so far as their mental condition was eoncorned, and, as the Coronor remarked, tho post-mortem confirmed the evidence given. The jury wore not sufficiently assured to give a positive verdict, but the case is one which tho Public Prosecutor should thoroughly investigate with a view to further action, No class of men are so unprotected aB the imuates of lunatic asylums.

The respectability of the English pulpit —oven at tho City Temple-seems a little too much for tho Rev. Henry Ward Beocher; at any rate he is much tamer over hero than he appears to be in his own couhtry. Presently, perhaps, ho will speak out like himself when ho getß on to tho platform, His sermon on the occasion was hardly worth paying to listen to. He oxpounded on conversion, taking the not very novel view that men are not converted all" at once, but regenerated gradually, and dwelt at somo length on tho character of Nicodemus, whose timidity Mr Beocher evidently thinks Iris been exaggerated. In these days of pew-auctions and payments to hear the Gospel preached, the doctrine of slow conversion is naturally likoly to commend itself to preachers who are at a premium, but it is hard on the unregenerato and shallow pockets. They must go with the poor to have the Gospel preached to them, if thoy can find out whero.

The Rochester and Chatham journal gives particulars of a very distressing accident which recently happened at tho Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Most of the workshops were closed for the customary half-holiday on Saturday afternoon, but in one of the forges of the Royal Gun Factory, a party of men wore specially employed in casting a great ingot of steel for the construction of a 68 ton gun. The mould was a cylinder standing on end in a pit of about 10ft square, and the iron floor of tho pit formed the bottom of the mould. Into this waß poured about eight tons of molten steel from a patent gas furnace, and the casting would have been perfect if the usual period of two hours had been allowed for its growing cool. But it appears, unfortunately, tlnit the workpeople were anxious to complete their day's work, and in one hour after the metal had been run, a man named Daniel Moriarty descended into tho pit to block up the mould casing, preparatory to its boing removed. Tho steel had, however, barely set on the outside, and as soon as the cylinder was raised from the lloor the liquid steel poured out in a fearful deluge, Moriarty attempted to reach the ladder by which he had descended, but was instantly caught and overwhelmed by the flood before his horrified couipanionscouldmove to his help. Mr Edmonds, the manager, was immediately called, but no part or trace of the man could be observed in the seething well, and tho metal was visibly cooling on the surface, threatening to encase tho remains of its victim in a solid block of steel. Inspector Cavell, of the. Koyal Arsenal police, ureod that at least a portion of the body should bo recovered, if only for tho sake of an inquest, and Mr Edmonds and his men wont zealously to work with iron rods and hooks and ladols, and, notwithstanding the painful heat, succeeded in extracting a shapeless mass of human cinder, which Dr Wilson, who was in attendance, pronounced to be the interior of the trunk. Tho head and limbs could not be found, but after tho steel block had cooled and solidified some • ghastly fragments were seen projecting from the unyielding surface, An adjourned meeting of creditors in. the estate of George Duncan & Sons was held yesterday to receive the report of the Deputy Assignee upon the position of the estate, There were presented Messrs Chamberlain, Caselberg, Tabuteau, Dalrymple and H. H. Smith. The statement showod: (iash sales L 92 14s lid; gross sales by auction L 343 5s Gd; book debts L 17216 Od, making a total of L 548 18s 2d. Expenditure swages, 6. Duncan Ll3 lOd, Shrodor LMOs, E. Duncan Lll, W, Jack LI 10s, Stamps, &c,, L2, Commission on sale LIV 3a (id, clerking, lotting, &c,, L4l2s fid. advertising in five papers Ll3slob.; balanne L 475 IGb 2d. Tho Deputy Assignee said the highost offer they had received by tonder had been Cs 9d in the L, and tho sales by auction had realized equal to double that amount. The liabilities in the estate amounted to LISOO already proved. In reference to the book debts tho Official Assignee Baid they had only sj far got LI 13 out of what was oxpocted to realize LllOO No pressure had as yet boon brought to bear upon those indebted to the estate but a preliminary notice had been sent out giving 30 days grace. That timo had expired. Mr Caselberg moved that the creditors be paid a first dividend at the rate of 5s in ;the£. He was afraid the estate w»uld •not pay more than 10s in the £ judging from the list of book debts. • Mr Chamberlain seconded tho motion, which was carried. It was resolved to instruct tho Official Assignee to take legal proceedings ■to recover outstanding accounts. Messrs Dalrymple and Chamberlain were appointed a committee to go through tho list with the Official Assignee, and pick out a batch of names for summonsing. The Assignee was instructed to convene a meeting within two months time and report progress. In the meantime ao action was to be taken to realizo on the property. 'Venotian Blind and Revolving Shutter manufactory. AU Blind* guaranteed of the very boat description. Price list on application to it, W. Henn (late Henn and Hansen.) Poneke Steam Venetian Blind and Revolving Factory, Wellington,—AiiVT,

The District Court opens in Masterton | at 10 a.m. to-morrow, •

A meeting of the Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club is convened for Saturday eyoning next at tho Club Hotel to receive the draft programme, and consider' aiiy other general' business that may be brought forward.' Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock sale to-morrow 100 wetliers, Upon reference to their advertisement it will be seen that their list' includes some 70 head of cattle, 500 sheep, draft horses, hacks, pigs, implements, poultry, etc Messrs Lora and lorns are the purchasers of the cottage lately occupied by Mrs Morris, and snld by order of the Town Lands Trustees for removal. The firm of Messrs Barker and Williams are transferrins! the building in sections to the cattle sale yards of Messrs Lowes and lorns, whew it will be re-erected and made into a convenient dwelling house for their custodian.

In our report of Saturday's horso parade in yuatorday'a issue, we omitted to mention Mr VV, O, Williams new introduction into the Wairarapa, viz., " Tim Whtffiov," by Tim Whiffler Parachute. Tims successes nu tho. Now Zealand turf are matters of history among the racing men of the colony, and as ho possesses strains of Yattenden and Rous' Emigrant blood, his introduction into this district will be a great improvement to our already good blood stock.

By a notice in another column it will bo seon that the partnership oxistinir between Messrs Beard and Gray, solicitors, of Masterton, Carterton, and Greytown, has been dissolved by effluxion of tune, The offices will remain in the Bame places, and. the business will in future bo carried on by Mr W. G. Board. Tho (iroytown office will be in charge of Mr Geoi'go G. Knight, solicitor. We understand that Mr Gray is about to enter into partnership with Mr A. E. Campbell, and that the new firm will practice in Wellington. Poultry growers have many -difficulties to contend with in roaring prize birds, not tho leaßt being from the midnight marauds of quadrupeds. Oats, dugs, rats, and those recently imported vermin stoats and weasals, are all bird fanciers. We wore shown last week a poultry run which on three sides is fenced with' rabbit-proof netting, and on the fourth side with a paling fonce. One would imagine with such precautions, fowls would be comparatively safo, at least from the attacks of large animals, What wo saw dispelled this idea, The palings, judging by tho teeth marks had been bitten through and torn off in splinters by dogs, until holes in the various compartments were made large enough to admit the animals, and then a wholesale destruction of valuable prizo birds had taken place. The sufferer now at night shuts up his poultry in safety, but very considerately leaves a tempting piece of steak nicely spread over with "Rough on rats" for the benefit of visitors. The Epuni footballers who visited Masterton last Saturday week, and tried conclusions with the second fifteen of the Masterton Club, loft behind them a legacy that may perhaps bo a source of trouble to both clubs. It appears that a drag went, to tho railway station to meet the train, into which the visiting team got and wore driven to tho town, and also to tlm station after the match, and when tho fare was demanded thoy referred the driver to the Masterton Football Club. As the latter body did not order the conveyance, and tho demand to the visiting team for payment has been referred back to the Mastorton Club, tho drag proprietor threatens to take legal proceedings against Jhe secretary of the Epuni F.C. for the recovery of tho amount of the fares,

On Monday last Mr William Paxman, the President of the Australasian Mission of tho Latter Day Saints arrived in Greytown. Ho has only lately arrived from Utah, the city of tho Saints, and is on a tour through .New Zealand, laboring on bolialf of the Church he is iudentiiied with. Wherever opportunity presents he will expound the articles of their faith, though tho mission for tho time being is conducted principally among tho Maoris. Mr Paxinan informs us that there are 28 elders of the Church in New Zealand, and that they are laboring' most successfully among the Native raco. The reformation in life and the abstinence from drink andother vices is most marked. Elders Newby and Davies are carrying on the work in the Wairarapa, and on Sunday last there was a conference at Te Ore Ore, when the work was reveiwed and stops taken to carry it on with renewed activity, In the course of conversation our representative asked Mr Paxman if tho suggestion mado by Elder Greenwood before the conforence in Utah that the Saints should buy up the King country and migrate to New Zealand was entertained. Mr Paxman replied that ho was not aware of such a proposal having boon mado, and in tho course of tho remarks which followed he said there was not the slightest probability of the Saints yielding to the persecutions which they were subjected to in America, and therefore. they did not think of removing from the Salt Lake.— Standard.

We are in receipt of the new issue of the Sydney Bulletin, that journalistic pheno menon which lias sprung up and become Mrcat in sp short a space of timo that' the wise ones are at a luss what to make of it, and in the new dress it is a very great improvement on anything that has preceded it, Tho Bulletin is preeminently the Democratic paper of Australia,'and has a stall second to no paper in this country It strives to exclude from its artistically condensed columns all matter which is not of general human interest. Alert, pushing, and aggressive -the very type of the civilisation of to-day. The Bulletin of Heaton, George Wood,s and Traill is dead, and in its placo stands the Bulletin of J. Miley Harding, William McLeod, and J. P. Archibald. The proprietors Jiave recently gone to very great exponas in importing new printing machines, approved appliances and processes for wood and photo-engraving, and superior printing-ink and papor, in order to keep the paper a long way ahead of anything olse produced in Australia. Mr Phil. May who recently came out from England (where he was employed on such papers as St Stephen's Review and Society) under special engagement to the Bulletin, shares with the well-known Mr Livingstone Hopkins tho work of supplying illustrations; and the literary staff recently added to by the engagement of New English and Australian writers, now includes the foremost litterateurs of the old world and the now. The Bulletin is thoroughly Australian, and consistently Democratic in its treatment of all the leading questions of the day j is strongly opposed to the emigration of the Chinese; and advocates an unsectarian progressive policy for Australia. With its present literary, artistic, and mechanical staff, it is certain that the Sydney Bulletin will largely add to tho previous success which it has deservedly attaiued.

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Th? ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Botouvh Council takes place this evening/ The Secular Temperance 'Society' announce their usual weekly meeting to morrow evening at the Temperance Hall; A programme of addresses, musical selections, vocal solos, and duets have, teen arranged for the occasion. ' ■ • Mr Richard J. Fitton has removed his offices from the Temple Chambors to the building lately occupied by Messrs R. Brown & Co. at tho Council Chambers Queen-street, The future meetings and business of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Society and the Masterton Farmers' Club will be conducted in Mr Fitton's new offices,

The usual weekly meeting of the Wairarapa Gospel Temperance Union will be held,this evening at the Presbyterian Church, Masterton. Among the attractions of the programme is an address by Professor Locksteadt, of Berlin, who has gained a reputation for lecturing in Europe. A strange and true.'-tale of " Drunken Niff and his dogs" is also on the list, besides musical and vocal selections.

The following team has been selected to represent Masterton in the football match with To Ore Ore on Saturday afternoon nextßack, D'Arcy ; half backs, E. Pelling, E, Polling ; quarters, R. Thompson, Cliff, McKenzie; wmgs, Hounslow, O'Connor; forwards, Whatman, Welch, J. and C, Bannister, Kibblowhite, Beechey, W, Day. Emergencies, forward Symonds, back A. Thompson. The ball will be kicked off at 3.30 sharp. A charge of (id will be made at the gate, to go towards paying for the ground. Indigestion.—The main causo of nervousness is indigestion, and that is caused by weakness of the stomach. No one can have sound nerves and good health without using American Co's Hop Bitters to strengthen tho stomach, purify the blood, and keep tho liver and kidneys active,, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of the system. See,