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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2503, 18 January 1887, Page 2

Our" local contemporary contrasts the state of the police force in Masterton under Sergeant MoArdle with its present condition under Sergeant Price, We have not. like our contemporary been peeping behind the scenes but we know that the town is more orderly and better looked after now and that Sergeant Price has the respect and confidence of the community, Sergeant Price's only fault, webelieve is that he is not an Irishman, but this is considered by some an unpardonable sin in a.police officer, In another column a table is published of cheap excursion tickets for Anniversaiy Day, on the Wellington and Mangamahoe railway, The Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Sports d■ logates met la*t evening at tho Foresters' Hall, and made further mentsfor Saturday's gathering, Everything promises a most successful day's sport, It may not generally bo remembered that this year is not only the Royal jubilee, but is also the jubilee of the electric telegraph in England. The first praotical electrio telegraph was worked between Euston Station aud Cambon Town on July 26th, 1837, Says the Manawatu Daily Times" Tho Palmerston Cricket Club has had an. unbroken record of success thw season/and now its members pant for greater things, We understand that ah effort' iß' being made to arrange a matoh with the GreyUvn Club for tho day after Good Friday, aud to play the Midland Club at Welhn?ton ou Easter Monday." From a return just published the Ministerial expenses for the year appear to have been at follows :r-Travelling allow-' anco, £1323; travelling expenses, £777 ; expenses of attendants, £711; Ministerial residents, repairs, maintenance, aud furniture, £894. The; Minister of Mines, £791) j Native Minister. £495; aiid «ir J - Vogel, £483; were the moat expensive travellers, and the Premier's and Sir J. Vogel's houses cost the largest amount to maintain.

TheWaipawa Mail says :—Thoso who attend race meetings are sometimes, called oyer the coale for so doing. At a neglibonug townßbip, a worthy pastor lectured his congregation severely for to Kaikoura, Tbera they were, Betting and gambling, whioh waa very wioked The only way in whioh some sort of retribution could be made wa6 by contributing to the ohuroh more liberally, and this the worthy pastor trusted that bio flock would do. And they did. ' A painful sensation has boen excited in a largo cir. loin Melbourne socioty by the unexpected death of the wife of one of the leading merchants, who had not long before entered upon the occupation of one of the largest mansions in the southeastern suburbs of..Melbourne, ere"cted, furnished and derated at a lavish outlay.. Tuodece'sedladyw sjuEt recovering from her confinement, with every prospect of a speedy restoration to health, when sho was visited by her .-'medical attendant fresh from the fulfilment of his professional duties at one of the Melbourne hospitals. He carried with him 'the gorms of fever, and his unfo tunate patient lost her life in consequence.

A lit le incident escaped publicity on New Qear's Day which is worthy oi being put on record, as an iiißance of the dangerous rapidity with which our railway trains travel. The excursion train was dashing up from Kaikora like a flying Dutchman when a lady passenger's h t blew off. A gallant individual jumped off he platform of the carraige, picked up the hat, and jumped on board again, with a coolness worthy of the greatness of the feat. Of course our allusii mto the "rapidity of travelling ut "sarkastik." New Zealand railways have not earned the reputation of-being fast travellers, They are only ÜBed' in Jiotweat'w as» matter'of convenience, when time is really- no object. : ' When the bustling New Zealand business man is in a hurry he doesn't navel by train.. fjg walks,-. WaipawaMail, ■ ■'-■>■' ' - The.Christchurch Telegraph of thel4th says:—" The definite-arrangements have now been completed for the''turning.of the first sod of the Midland .Railway-at Brunrierton on January 24th. The Minister for Public Works (Hon. E. Richardsod) will perform the ceretnouy. ■ Mr E, Brodie floare, Doputy-Chairman of Director's, Mr Alan Scott, and the members of the Local-Board of Advioe will be precept It is feared that but few Ohristohuroh people will be able to s 'o-over.for the ceremony,'but,we are assured that any who face the journey will be heartily welcome. However, well wishers of the railway on this side will have an opportunity of teking-pkH m a. ceremony of a ■Bimilarnpreaino, Very distant date,, when a commencement is made at Spring' field." r'\-::':■■■

, Puffin the Press 3ayjß i-Gladstone is | buttering up Randolph Ghurehiif, j)ighy! i wmmendjng his • proposal to enforce economy! Aye, he'f at his old game! That'bajwayo his plan-l An long.aß Lib opponents are in a majority' and are united, ho lies low, bit the moment there's a split, he's ready to take asiie, ;an*i he doesn't caie which, so as to widen the breach,: and slip into pcwcir between jthtm 1, 1 hope Randolph won't a.cep' a gutter from Mm, and won't have anything ;to do with frin) J Trust. Randolph for ■knowing! .what he's abi.ujt J IJeJII very, likely 'bike "Be of .Gladstone,to lorqeihe Sa isbury Ministry t > have some'bowe a of compassion for the taxpayers ) Ho's ; perfectly riiiht I The British Governmejit'B the most extravagant in th* world, and hinas would be far easier if they'd .moderate their expenditure I Same here, th I Oh jes, there's no mistake about

Arewavd is offered by Messrs Lowes and lurns for the recovery of some mixed crossbred sheep that are lost. ■>

Tho Wairarapa Gospel Temperance Union hold their usual weekly meeting in the Temperance Hall, Musterton, this evening.

' The members of: the Loyal Masterton Lodge, 1.0.0 F., are reminded of the visit of the district officers at the meatiug ibis evening.

Yesterday afternoon.the fire bell rung' out : a r continuous ' : 'ariiV- 'vigorous pea I ,'' which Boon brought out the Fire Brigades with ensihes and hose reek. The alarm was caused through Mr La Roche, of Cole stivet/buinihg acme rubbish on his back premises, ■ The Rev. J.: Ewbank, viciir 'of ChristohurolvCockermoiith, England, has' applied to the Magistrate there foi protection for persons who came to his! church to be married,. The throwing of rice and other things had, he said, got to such a pitch as to amount to assault, and persons were driven to ths.registrai.tu bo married. The Magistrate said the police would give [ protection on notice being given.. Tho Island Bay Club has submitted its summer programme to 'the Wellington Racing Club for approval. > There waß no' other course open as the latter, club had signified. of ;l race ' : hoi«os 'competing at Island Bay that'they would be disqualified unleaß, the-.programme was submitted, and.to avoid' unpleasantness this-was done. It is'almost time the Metropolitan Club question wai Bottled in Wellington. . ■Russia practices fraud as a means of conquest, and professes it as a religion. She lies scientifically and compels the acceptance of her lies by those whose interest and whose duty it is in proclaiming -the truth. It is saying very little to assert that no troaty which she has signed is worth the paper on which it is written, She nevor undertakes an obligation without making the promise tho very means of evading tho fulfilment.—Vanity Fair. , A meeting of the Wairarapa Gun Club' Committee ps held at the Foresters' Armß Hotel, Greytown, on Saturday night, Mr B. Kimberley in tho ch ir. It was re-olved that a pigeon, match should bo held at Carterton some day during month, and that the Carterton m-mbers be asked upon what date it would be most suitable for them to hold the meeting, aud at the fame timo to ask the Carterton members to provide «s mny pigeons as possible. It was resolved to instruct the Secretary to wire to Blenheim for pigeons,—Standard, Tho Post aays: "We are glad to be able to state that tho New Zealand Banks this morning reduced their rates of interest at fixed deposits. For a long time past trade has been .hampered and speculation discouraged by the very high price paid' for money by tho Banks. When capitalists could t>et 6 per cent, for twelve months deposits they were not likely to travel much further afield for investments, Acting now in conjunction with-most of the Australian Banks, tho rteß have been reduced to a maximum of 5 per cent, on twelve months deposits, ' and.the result v,ill no doubt bo to direct ■ a considerable amount of capital into other ohannels, to tho great benefit of ' the community.

Dickens has beon much oriticiaed for his apparent acceptance of the fact of human spontaneous combustion, but Sir W, Gull lately testified to a surprising case before the committee of the House of Lords' on intemperance, A large, bloated man,; who was suffering fr6m difficult} of breathing and great distension of the various system, died at Guy's Hospital.'. At the post- mortem on the following day there was no sign of decomposition,'and the body was.belioved to be distended with pas: "When punctures were made into the skin,'* said Sir \\% liana, " and a lighted match applied, the the gas wh'oh- escaped burned with the 'ordinary flame of carburetfced hydrogen. As many as a dozon of these small flames were burning at the same time,

The Evening Press' Ohristchurch ; correspondent telegraphs the following extraordinary case;-" The excessively hot weather of late has been the cause of the death of a youth, 15 years of age, named Frederick Vosß, who resided at Taitapu. In the early part of this month Voss was engged driving a grasß-cutter, and on Thursday he complained that he was Buffering froin some severe pains, the cause of which ho was unable to state. As he appeared to be very bad indeed, he was on the following day taken to Dr Pres on, who pronounced his case to be I'iieof severe sunstroke, lock-jaw, and inflammation of the spine, The lad's Bufferings were intense although every thing possible, was done to allev ate them, These. pains continued till they wero ended by his death a week after the occurence. The poor boy was a favorite withhiscompanions as well as his parents, ■ Dr Preston regarded the case asa most extreme one, in fact it stands miprcce-i dented in his career as a medical man.

" Bishop Moorh use on drinking," is the heading to a pa agraph in au English paper ot a recent date. Tho Bishop's experience, he says, is that of'thodsii;ds, and though perhaps, not what' the teetotal section-of:-he'community would w sh. f(n, 't is still: prcg ant ,'wifh a great do il of truth both to abstainers and those who übo ale ho kliquors. He is reporte'l to have sai I th t many ye rs ago he signed a "conditional pledge." *nd kept it. for about two years, .when he broke down utterly. His doctor told him he must either giv.i up hof bis work, .or take Hoine. light stimulant* with his princip-il meal",. To-g'vo up half his work .was not to. be thought of, and he tried the s imu-ants, and never had -he symptoms ajain. He supposed' ha was os-i of the thousands who hud not the power of flißily digesting great masses iif food, and. cju'd riot engage inactive mental labor' Without nervous exc tement. okuion. doing the greater part of'the intelcotmi work of _ England belonged, to the same class,, ami it would be monstrous for these men either to commit suicide or eive, up.half thrir work, e'o they we're bound totals the stiraum He, however, observed a r'gid rule, .never to dnnk' flooholio liquor except at; meal tiniea. The latter sentence i« one' that many moderate drinkers would do well to bear in mind.,,. '..;'.. ':.'"'

„ABOOT THAT £3b,TO Blj 6IVEN c AWA?.— To the.Editor-Sir, Will you allow" ; me through your columhß'to let the people of the Wairarapa k'now that I ~»m-going to sell all triy stock, consisting of men's, yoiJth's,'and- bop'clothipg,.shirts,,hats, hosiery, '&<!., at a great rpduptiojfi in prices, up till the end of" the year "{'rind also to remind them that every one who buys gcfoct3.tr> the' value of ", 2& (id get* a ticket in my &3o competition, 1 ' T)iiiik"b'f.'t'hiit I :By Bpeuding 2b Od with me, youiiay wiii money onough to carry you foT a trip round New Zeaiand.v-Joiw .Thorburn, Clothier, eta, Willis st.'. Wellington. '

! A Wonderful HENN.-Many are tho instances cited of the astonishing fecundity of the various speqies of domesticated fowl;,but tjie celebrated Wellington Hexn (whi ih, strange to say, |» of the masculine gender) has a soul above thsmerepro'ductioi) of eggs', - The manner in which he turhß but Venetian Blinds, etc, is the wonder and admiration''irf'crajfWdy'frojn the Governor downwards. The'name of this wonderful bird is R. W,,Henn,'and-his well;, known fowl-house a the Forieke Steam Window Blind Factory, Molesworth-atreet, Wellington, -Advt

' Messrs John Graham & Co; 'publish an abridged stock list in the front page of today's issue which will repay. perusal by heads of families. V- : .

\ Constable Salmon, of We' iugton. has been t ansferred to Masterton in place of Constable Gleeson,

Mr Guilder Gunderson, of MiiuriceriiJe, notifies that he will retire from the shopkeeping business on February Ist, and requests that all accounts be paid by that date;

By advertisement in another column it will'beßeenthat.hignor'Otto : Hug, the medical clairvoyant will visit Mas erton on.January 29th and 31st, and Greytown and Featherston tho fdhwing week.

Constable Salmon brought a man named John Reid alias Breed from. Wellington to-day,' charged with breaking into a Maori whare on the East Coast on December 11th' 1884. Reid was arrested by Conßtablo Manning at Palmerston North on Tuesday last* He will be brought before Mr Von Sturmer in the R.M.J Court to-morrow morning. J Bush fires are raging around Carterton aud at one time yesterJay there was great danger of Mr Ray's property suffering from the flames: as the. tire had entered the standing bush from the rear. The huge trees blazing formed after dark a magnificent yet awful picture, The hills at the back have'now been ou fire several days, and at present there seems email hopes of extinguishing' the raging demon until exhausted by its own rava?oß. Protection has led in America as it will wherever it it applied, to an intolerable, system of class legislation, well desoribed by General Turubull, of Chicago, as "building .up mountainous monopolies under the impudent impostures that they are useful in extending the area of industrial employment, which nourishes a whole poor house of infant industries out of the public and pretends that it is a wise and prudent policy to nurse,and sustain these infants at the public expense until that impossible time, which never comes, when'they shall be able aiid willing to support thomselves. It is a perierse quality of these infants that they can nover come of age." '• ■ -

From one end of New Zealand to the othor, mushroom racing clubs have sprung up, and are fattening upon the profits derived from "the machine." The amount of time devoted to attendiiip tliefl'o meetings means' a serious loss of profitable labor, and the immense sums of money fritted aw iy at them cannot but bo prejudicial to the best interests of the colony, The tliine has grown by "leaps arid bounds" into an, intolerable evil, and one which the legislature should not lose a single moment in rectifying. The metropolitan clubs conduet racing on proper lines, and sternly repress swindling, In their hands the totalisator is safe from abuse, but it is not so guarded at the, gate'money meetings, which are now held almost weekly in some part of the colony, and-where gross frauds on the people are openly practised. People of

the most enthusiastic spotting proclivities are crying out apainat the immense increase -of racinp in tho .colony, and are openly predicting the early repeal of the law under which the use of the totalisator is permitted in New Zealand— Wanganui Herald.

• There is great excitement- among; the Te Ore Ore Natives just • now over tho visit of the Maori prophet Ihaka,/from Waikawa, Qtaki, witli his- two assistants Rauraati and To Hapimana. It. appears that' a'-..grandchild of.Marakaia's, at Tjwaoa, Te Ore Ore, has for a. long time past been iaufforing from an illness, and was attended by Dr Beard... ..As the patient did not exhibit such satisfactory signs of* progress.as the natives wished, theohildwassenttolhaka afcUtaki, who is looked.•upon as a great "mediqine man ' by the Maoris. ; He informed them tho child was getting on as well as oould be expected, and.ordered it;took to the Wairarapa again", where it died last week. The object of the prophet's visit, is to console with the parents, and <to: point out the workers or witchcraft in • the Te Ore Ore. pah.' Se'haß given it as his opinion -that' thedeah of the child was caused through the paints quarrelling after ho had worked bis .spell,' which would have the effeet of undoing anything he may have worked for the benefit of the patient, About thirty Otiiki natives

prrived by the midday train today, and, judging by the extensive preparations made for the feasting, will have a jolly time at the pah, The feed is to take place in the " big meeting house," everything being on the European style, minus the tables. Plates,kniv> sand forks, &c„ of the most modern patto n have been procured, and the whife arid gold tea services that will be used, shows that the natives are taking " leaps and bounds" towards civilisation.

In the case of arson against .lames H, Gibbons at Oiehunga, the jury were looked up all Sunday, as the defence was not concluded, Mr Campbell in opening the defence, Baid that th u ca<o was one i'fthJmo.ft lemaikable that had ever been presented to an : Auckland jury. It was usual, in, these cuses, to put in some proof of motive; but, in the present instance, a man was charged with a heinouß offence w'th an utter absence of motive or pressure to commit crime. He would produce the manager of the National Bank to show that Gibbons was not in distressed circumstances at the time, but had deposited with them by the awed,' deeds of property''to, the value of fully £3001), Another witness, Duuwoodie, would state that the fire was nut a gain to GihWons, but a decided loss. There hid been an attempt to show that some of the p-'operty alleged to be destroyed had been previously removed from the building; but in that respe t the caße for-the prosecution had utterly failed. With the exception of Kerebs' and hjs wife's; the evidence for the prosecution was absolutely, valueless- -The evidence of the Kerebs certainly contained some facts, ,but he could give no dates or time,' In his own ,e; idem-e Kerebs admitted that he sometimes told lies, and the question was when rould he be believed.. Then .the principal witnesses enntradioted each other; Kerebs' stated, that one conversation took place on tho. verandah, while his .wife affirmed: that it took place at the gate, Kerens also, stated that on the morning ot tHe five' Glbbins wax fully dressed, evenlto hiving on a paper-collar. Now th# was .an:; utter fabrication, for it wnuld'Wftrdjfed" that accused .was wearing a.dajlc shirt, and it would be shown that his neck was open ,and exposed. He w mid*; ask them .to measure'''the value '"of 3 the* testimony given by Kerens on the'welP' •known rule that the number of circumstances adduced do not add'to'tho weight' of the testimonv unless they are such as may be contradicted. ■ It woii'd'also be shown that Gibbons was not'well insured at %, time of the fircv "rid thnthWend of 000, he was only" I ..lnsured fur £4BO. With regard to the wonderful firs-.raising scheme, he would show that 't''e invention was oof such an a skilled mechanic would havo used, but was more likelv in be the production of ;a novice. • Re would, also show that months ltpf* re Kerebs had Bpoken about tW very' system, He should also prove that Kerebs himself had been seen prowling round at 11 o'olnpk that night, and it would be for the jury to consider the probability that Kerebs himself fired tVmil for the purpose of obtaining a reward from the insurance corapany,~Post, ;'.