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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2495, 8 January 1887, Page 2

This is the monthly, pay day of the Masterton Permanent Investment and Buildinp Society. Tho annual Bam Fair of tho Wairarapa Pastoral and; Agricultural ABBociation is announced for Tuesday, February 15th,

It is rumoured that night-hawks are engaged in' spearing trout In the Waipoua,The Acclimatisation Society should : look to this I

A general meeting of the Masterton-, Opaki Jockey Club takes place thia evening at tho Club Hotel, to Consider the autumn programme, , v;. : , James McDonnell, who was found dead behind the Taratahi Hotel, Wairarapa, had a will in his pocket, leaving all his worldly possessions; after the payment of just debts, to Father Treaoey, of Mastertori. . • .

The Traffio 'agent of the Wellington District Railway Department has promised to comply with the request -made by the Amalgamated Friendly Societies for suitable trains to serve the sports on Anniversary Day.

Messrs Bethune and Hunter have recei\ed the following telegram from Meßsrs Dalgoty and Co. (Limited):— London; 4th.—Wool—The tendency, is decidedly upward. Priceß show a rise of \i to |d on most qualities; .

Tho election of five members for the now Akiteo Road Board takes, place at the Akiteo Forry.House on Wednesday next January 12th. The' gentlemen nominated are Messrs J W. Baker, J. G. Cox J. Stewart Handyside, John Hat vey, W. Liverton, and Edgar Mason, Nominations for the whole of the handicaps (except the Consolation) at the Amalgamated Fnendly Societies Sports on the 22nd, close on Wednesday next, Tho Secretary, Mr W, McKeiizie, will be in attendance at the Daily Office until 9.30 p.m. on that day. Great interest is being, displayed in tho sports,. which is likely to prove one of the largest gatherings yet assembled in the district, The Fire Brigade competition is, exciting, much interest and will be one of the features of the day, The Committee are working assiduously, and should it prove a fine day the success ot the. meeting \» assured. The hurdle race in the-pro-gramme is a handicap, While we (Melbourne Argus) have no intention at present of endeavoring to indicate the probable course of the market at the opening series of 1887, we may mention two circumstaucea which cannot fail '-to be noticed by those who have closely watched the statistics of the wool sales for many years, One is the quantity, held over—32,ooo bales, or, as_ ono authority states, 35,000 bales-is inuch larger than has ever in receut times been carried over from the end of one year to the commencement of another. It is true that much larger quantities have been carried over from oue series to another, and notably from September-October 1885, to November 1885, when 72,000 were brought forward, but the rule in the wool-trade has hitherto been that each' year closes.with comparatively small 1 stocks in importers' hands. To this rule, however, the present iB an exception, The other feature to which we allude is the short interval between the close of the December and the opening of the .lanbary series, the interval in tins case boing loss than six weeks, At the same time it must be borno in mind, that it is. impossible tor the arrivals for the January sale's to be excessively, large. ; The Independence Beige relates the following interesting story illustrative of tho eccentricities' ot Englishmen :—Two gentlemen, Mr Stanhope ahd.Mr Colvipi ! werq recently.having a panic of cards at the Jpckoy.-Club,' ;The ; stakes were important, >.The loaer was to give tho winner.."a-ibreakfastßUclrasno one had ever had." Mr Stanhope lost, He invited his adversary to ; oome and see him onjtho following day at -Hyde Park for the famous breakfast. At'the appointed hotlr Mr Colvin; betook himself to the rendezvous; where he fouiid Mr Stanhope awaiting him near an inflated balloon, in tho car of which, was an apuaut preparing rfor a voyage. . .The two gentlemen .took their seats, and wero presently joined by a ojok, who ...was... all: .breathless.with running and carrying hep utensils, Mr Stanhope invited'her jo' bring her portable stove into the, car, This done, he shouted " Leave g£i" and the balloon majestically ascended. Tho cook, r ;,who' had not counted on this"renal:flight, shrieked with terror;,-. But Mr Stanhope, as calm as a veteran' sea-captain in a storm, cut her acreania short with " r No,w cook these two beefsteaks, and be paref uf above all things that no spark escapes from the stove, or the balloon will ex> plode," The frishtened cook set liers'e)f r to the task, and Mr Stanhope, turning to Mr Oolvin, rnore dead than alive, flair},;! "jhaye kept my word, this will he the dearest breakfast eitjjer you or I ever had.'' Therms 1300 tj) pay for tho bajjoon and £2OO indemnity iqx the fjopje," • •

At the North Shore, Auckland' vfater' js said to be selling at bucket, -{'f:^ ! ,Mrß;-P.:J.^Hanseri v that;they are;th'e only manufacturers of umbrellas iri r t,he oity.of Wellington. |'ii;,;i. '-Tenders are invited ; for the erection of 260.chains.of!Wire, ; netting,ai9il8Q > chains of fencing -to be'repaired 'at'Boylandsi'?:'.;-. . Thß New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the'following telegram from their London office, dated sth inßt.:—"Wool—The ; x|uantili]r sold by private treaty since, last sales iB 1500 bales.:. .The Continental demand is .good."- ~:.-:'". ••'■■•■•'■'; •■■• Notwithstanding Mr Renall's opinion on the subject, tho ordinary meeting.of the ]\laste r rton.Borough .Council will be. holdion Tuesday 'evening next.The Masteiton Masonic Lodge, 1430, E.O;,'rne'et'.on Monday eveniug next, 10th iußt.,: .Thistle ; iiodge, ; C 47, 5.0., oh Wednesday evening, 12tli inst., in the Masonio Hall, Bannister Street.: On Monday evening next the' concert of the season will take place in the Masterton Drill Hall,'in which a galaxy of. Wellington amateurs will take part, The programme.: embracesi vocal 'and inattu-iaiental'-genia-frora'-' both,modern.and auoient composers, _ and being ,in i the Hands: of :isuph'' bompeterit"!interpreters, visitors to the concert- will ,be rewarded wjth a gflfiuine rausicEltreat. The prices of admission have been fixed;to suit everyone, so ;that nothing has been left undone tpsecur^a'bumper house,., The following applications for patents .tyye been received ;'H. W. Potter, of ■ltivercargill; for an adjustable spring sash balance':'; F.' T. Redman, of Masterton, for the manufacture and use'of prepared paper hi tho construction of pipe organs; 6. Allman, of Dunodin, master mariner.for. arrahtoinatic nautical'7danger-indicat-ing dial. t , ' . "'' ~. .

An extraordinary tale is told regarding the battle of Merman., When the plan for the battle of Irikerman was prepared, the Emperor Nicholas wa3 so pleased with it that he'showed a copy of it to Gouut Minister, then Prussian military aataclie at St, Petersburg. .The latter .transmitted it to Berlin. wheii,by dint of many guineas:lt: fell info the: possession of the English Embassy. Lurd AugustusLoftus cipherer! the contents of the plan to Lohdon,;whence : it was despatched to. Lord Raglan juat in time to check the advance of the Russip troops.

;• A petitimv, signed by'one hundred and thirty-nine burgeßses, representing two hundred and thirty-three votes, praying for the division of the Borough into three wards, accompanied the Council petition to the Governor yesterday. We under Btand that the'first petition sent down, mid acted .upon,by the Governor, has been reduced upon caßual scrutiny from one hundred and fifty-six to one hundred and twenty-eight names, representing ono hundred and eighty-six votes, and it is expected tliatwhen the official scrutiny is made, a larger per centage of- the names will be struck off. : ' '

' Last evening, about9o'clock,.as Mr John Morris,, jun., was driving his mother and Mrs A. Burnett from the Akura saw mill towards Masterton, in a one horse trap, tho animal shied at a grey liorse grazing along the roadside, and bolted off the road. In attempting to get the run away on to the metal, the trap was capsized and the occupants pitohed'out, Mrs Morris fracturing her,wrist, and Mrs Burnett, . besides, boing .considerably bruised, spraining one of her ankles, the driver escaping unhurt, The party had a moßt miraculous escape, as the trap was and smashed to pieces, the horse obm; pletely turned ovor, but escaping unhurt. /

The Press says:. On. Monday next the railway line to. Mangamahoe, a station. four miles beyond' Maurioeville, will be opened for traffic The coacheß from 'Woodville will in future make this station the terminus instead of Mauriceville, as at present. The Railway Department also intend, on and after Mondav next, to oombino passenper traffio with a goods traiu that at present runs to and from Masterton to Mauriceville once daily, but will then go as far as Mangamahoe, and will there connect with a coach from Eketahuna, so that settlers in that district will have an opportunity of transacting their business in. Masterton daily.

In addressing the jury in the case, of Henry Offor, charged with embezzlement, yesterday afternoon,'Mr Jellicoe, counsel for tho prisoner, made the following trenchant remarks as to the commercial morality apparently now prevalent in Wellington. He said th,it the wholo machinery of tho law had been brought to bear in this case to convict an unfortunate journeyman baker of embezzling a few shillings from his employer, whilst mercantile' men with influence were allowed to walk about the streets and compound.each others felonies. He also said that it was asserted by certain classes in VVellington thatcommon jurors sympathised, with crime, This allegation he absolutely repudiated, adding that if it were true, however, it would not be surprising when the,middle classes looked to the upper classes for their example. Every day in Wellington the latter were found compounding each others felonies. —Press.

_ Cremation, it seems, has been of necessity resorted to of late by the managers of that very humane institution, the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs, at Battersea. The policy pursued by Charles Warren in his most laudable desiro to .stamp out hydrophobia has caused a great influx of dogs into the home, and to a -considerable proportion of this crowd of applicants for shelter and protection, it has unhappily been necessary to administer sooner or later a final quietus. Most inconveniently for the Institution, at this very time, "the contractor at Enfield, to whom -the dead bodies of dogs have beeii previously consigned, has refused to take any more, the inhabitants of that parish havingobjected to the use of more than a certain amount of manure pro, duced from'deoaaßeil-dogß. In these circumstances, a crematory has boeu established at Battersea, and is in good working order. This melanoholyaddition to the equipments of the establishmerit is, however, coptly, and' the committee appeal to the friends of dogs to assist thorn in defraying the special outlay- to which they have been put. ~

A Wondebfol HsNN.-Mfthy are tho in ; Btancoscited of the astonishing fecundity of the various speolea of domeatioatad'fowl; but the celebrated Wellington Henh (whioli, strange to My, is. of the masoulino gender) has a soul above the mora production of eggs. The manner in whioh" ho tarns out Venetian Blinds, etc, is' tho wonder and admiration of ovorybody from .the Governor downwards, .The name of this wonderful bird is R, W, Henn, and his wellknown fowl-houso is tho Foneke Steam Window Blind Factory, Moleßworth-street, Wellington/ -ADVT ""■' ,:•■. ..

'About that be given Away.To tlie Editor~Sii<f Will you allow me through your columns to let ( the people ol the Wairarapa inow that I am going to sell all-my stock, consisting; M men's, youth's, and boys' clothing, shirts, hats, hosiery, &c„ at a great rediictioifin prices up till the end of theydar; and also to rfemind'them that eyeryjone whei buy? goods to the value of 2s Gd gek a ticket in ray : £35cotilpetition, 'Think of that! By Bpending 2s Cd with me, you may win money enough to carry you; for a tri|i round New Zealand.—Johnt Thorburn,' Clotlijer, <k, Willis

, Sarah '.:. Ann McLennan, lata hofcal.kfl'epef,vbf has filed a' 'declarajiori'; of insolvency. ■', ;, i-The shopkeepers of Masfcertohi will' be pleased'to learn that Mr. Jame's-Eoss,will .tad the Borough water-cart over to the 06uncii;.by Wednesday next. ;3; '.[ .-.' ;,., Wftliear that Mr Jack Ben'.'lias'pur.' chased a section of land, in Miriam-street adjoining the gas-works, and intends erecting a residence there at once. The timber is being placed on the ground to«, , Th? following list may be interesting as showing the market prices. .of grain in London onNoyemberl4th,, 1741, Per quarter—Wheat, 24s to 275; Rye, 'l6s to : 17s;, barley, 14s to 18s: oats, 12a to 14s; peas, 20a to 28s; hog peas,' 17s' to 19a; horsebeans, 18s,to 225; pale malt, 17s to 19s"; tares, 18s to 20s; old hops, 35s to 303 per hundred; new hops, 40 to 433 ditto. "'- !i ; . .

'Harvest operations will coraraence/in earnest on the Upper Plain noxt Monday, when','Messrs'T. and-IS.-'Chamberlains crops will receive the attention of the harvesters: : Mr T. E. Chamberlain has about thirty acres of oats, and .the same quantity of wheat to get in, and Mr E. E. Chamberlain baa eighty-nve aores of oats,, -twenty-eight of - wheat, besides, ■beans.and small orops, It is expected to turn out.wellj both as regards quality and quantity; " L hi answer to a correspondent who writes'askbtr us whether Mr motion was carried that the Borough be divided. into four wards at the public raeeting.held on November 17, we beg to state, that the motion referred' to was never put; but an amendment upon the motion by. tho Mayor, seconded by Cr tapper was negatived by twenty-five to eleven. A motion was carried at the same meeting that a poll be taken on the proposals for ward divisions.

A general meeting of members of the Taratahi-Carterton Horticultural and Poultry Association was held at the Institute last night, Mr W. Booth, President, in the chair. After the minutes of the 'previous'meeting .'-were'read and confirmed olid theofficers elected for the ensiling year, tho sub-committee presented the rules, which j after being read and considered, were passed. ' The catalogue for exhibits for the autumn show waß also submitted to the. meeting and :approwd'of, and it was resolved to hold the autunin show on Thursday 3rd March, 1887, and a good working Committee was formed to carry out the proceedings. v Mr Dawson has.made wodthe leakages in the gasometer tank, and' everything will be sufficiently hardened to admit ot tlie water being turned in on Monday morning. The leak was caused through some of the brickwork and cement, being broken away in fitting the gasometer, aud the safety plug holes nob being properly filled up. The' fires in the retort furnaces will be started to-day, and providing the tank is secure, and a short casting arrives from Wellington on Monday to allow the final connection to be made, theEngineor states that he will be ready for turning the. iwa on by the middle of next week. The Dixon estate, which is the must progressive, part, of-the Borough has received an impetus in the building line frdin the energetic manner in which -My Evendenhasijpneto work elrice he has acquired several sections m Hessey-aud Bannister Btr,eets.' He ha 3 ralready-jfoiji* house's occupied, is now arranging for'th'eere'otion, of thr^e v jnore, one''of .which,-; a' seven.;roomed,dwelling',' 'was framed up yesterday;'-Mr Peacock,-who has been, entrusted with Mr Everiden'B .work, is, finishing the houses :thorou2[lily workmanlike manner. "-'

, MessrsLowes & lorns,make further .additions to their stock saleto"be Held at : their 'yards: next."'' :The ! ohtries • are Cnumerous,, ■ and, fembrace fat and store aethers and ewes, cattle of 'all-classes,-.draught, and hack horses, &c„ &o. The same" firm, also announce a sale at their,rooms on Saturday next on behalf of 'the. Public "Works Department of "waggons,' drays, horseß, harnessi &0., which will be entirely without reserve, and also on the same day the privileges m connection with the Amalgamated Friendly Societies' sports, new and secondhand furniture, produce, etc.

Who will be the Liberal Primo Minister of the future ? (asks the Pall Mall Gazette). There is no hereditary succession in our political kingdom, but ono Primo Minister before ho dies may nominate another, and twice during the last few months has Mr Gladstone publicly selected Lordßosebery for this honor. "Lord Rosebery," Mr Gladstone declares, ■" is a man of whom you will hear even more than you have heard,, and in him theLiboral party of this country will see the mau'of the.future." This Manchester selection is made the more conspicuous bv Mr Gladstone's further announcement that " he did not speak without reflection for if he said it lightly he-would be doing injustice not less to Lord Rosebery than to them." The man of the future is 30Mr Gladstone did not become Prime Minister; till he was 58, so that Lord Rosebery has still,plenty of time to justify his leader's choice, and, considering what a long way on the road he has already gone, no one will be disposed to quarrel with Mr Gladstone's prophecy.