The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1887.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 251, 29 January 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1887.

A Bomowhat llscht but steady fall of rain last night has done a world of good in this neighborhood. ; .John Brce was 'committed for trial yesterday by Mr Von Sturmer, KM,, on the charge of robbing from a native. MrG. Boetham, M.H.R., meats the , electors at Mauriceville this evening. • -Mr E. Arnold, .the well known peranr bulator purveyor, of Willia street, jub" lisheß a notice to mothers in our wanted column,

Captain Edwin wires " EvcL'y indication of muchrain." Notico is givon that Mr J. C, Ingram is alono authorised to collect feeß on behalf of the Masterton Cemetery Trust. Mr W. J. Gandy, tho produce salesman of Groy street, Wellington, announces that he has a first class cellar for Btoring butter. We understand that ordinary criminal summonses 1119 likely to lie served on Hum and his friends for their action in removing tlio toll house. Mr P. F. Tancred'a horse, Premier, arrived in the Wairarapa yestorday from the Eaneitikei district, where he has just finisheda most successful [season at tho stud.. Mr L. Wilson, of Woodville, aud formerly of Carterton, has filed a decltration of insolvency. Messrs Lowes and lorns hold a sale of horses on February 12bh. Tho number to be disposed of will be upwards of fifty and embraces all classes. As this sale is entirely unreserved it should attract the notice of graziers, farmers and doalers, A dividend drawn by a Maori yosterday on Smooth, amountin? to £2O Bs, was transferred from his coat pockot to that of one of the taleut on the racecourse before he got to tho Grand Stand refreshment booth, whero ho was going to stand treat on the strength of his winnings, > The police confiscated tho bottled beer yesterday, from the Grand Stand .refreshment room of the Wairarapa Jockey Club meeting, boing of opinion that Mr, F, D. Polling, who contracted for tho Stewards lunch, (beer included), rendered liimsolf liablo under tho Licensing Act for sly grog sellinp. Tho result of their action will be watched with intorest by race privilege buyers. The London Insuranco Roviow, of a recent doto, contains an article on tho competition of fire insurance companies in New Zealand, and on tho tariff of tho New Zealand Insumnco Companies' Association, The tone of tho article may bo gathered from the following passa?e "We claim that tho insurance companies have Jlist as much right as the publicans or the cheesemongers to fix the prices of their goods, and thoso who do not like to pay this price can either do without indemnity, go elsewhere, or start an insuranco office of tlieit own." The bush lire to the west of Masterton on Thursday last was we learn at one time a sorious menace to the settlers in its neighborhood, Thesmoko and heat weroso intense that Mr G. Dagg and several other settlers had to clear out of their houses, It threatened to Bpread to the Upper Plain, but fortunately tho wind checked its progress in that direction. Messrs Cade & Excell's Saw Mill was also in danger,- and many of tho farm hands on the Upper Plain left their work jin order to assist those whose properties were endangered by.the enemy, A common result of too frequent applications tif electricity is the paralysis of the affected parts, A quack in Portland, Oregon, has been professing to be a , magnotic healer, and standing on plates connected with a concealed battery, lie has been Bhooting the healing current through liia patients by tho laying on of hands. This wonderful healer has come to grief, not through the action of tho Portland police, but through Nature's own action, for ho has boen paralysed by tho continuous electrical action, and he is now paying the penalty of his trickery.— Electrician, j The Plain and fancy dresa soiree in the Theatre Royal last evening, under tho n com mi tteo of ladies, who School room enlargement fund proved as we anticipated a great snccess. The financial results of it are like y to bo satisfactory, and as a social reunion, it was all that could be desired. The arrangements made for the comfort of visitors' were perfect, and all present expressed thornb olveßm ore thau satis Ged. There were many gay and 'characteristic costumes among those who donned fancy dresses, and in the gallery a large number of spectators watched the brilliant scene with considerable interest. i The c'uteneas of the female Maori was more than a match for the whole army of speelers 011 the Greytown raco course yesterday. An unsuspecting waihiuo had a ticket on Smooth, and with the prosIpectsof a O 'ood dividend in 1 her minds eye she was rather jubilant, She was soon beset by these sharpers, and all kinds of ruses were adopted to get her to show tho magic pasteboard, but they were of no avail, for she laughingly slapped hor pocket, and offered to bet thorn 10 to 1 she had got it. •' Finding that the game %as, too chary, tho " boys" loft tho maiden and pocketed tlio tickets they had ready to palm off, if they had only got possession of tlio right ono. The musical residents in this district will be glad to learn that tho celebrated Fisk Jubileo Singers have arranged to givo two ot their unique and imitable ' concorts in tho Theatre Royal, Masterton, on Saturday, Fobruary sth, and the following Monday. The story of these Minstrels is one that is familiar to many of our readers, hut it will bear repetition, and in our- %t issuo wo will givo a summary of it. It is perhaps a sutlicient recommendation to those who do not know it to say that they havo been honored by Hor Majesty the Queen, who listenod to them with interest on tho occasion of their visit to England, Tho programme they present is a .varied one, in which sacred and secular-pieces alternate. 1 ■ . A 'Wonderful Henk.—Many tiro the instances cited, of tho aatonishiii;! fecundity of tho various'species of domestlife' fowl; but theVolcbratcd WcllißgtonHKN'K(wiiijli, strange to say, is of tho masculino gentler) has" a soul above the mere production of eggs. Tho manner in which ho turns out Venotian Blinds, etc., is tlio wonder and admiration of everybody from the Governor downwards, the name of tlii3 wonderful bird isR, W, IMn, and life.-well-known fowl-house is thor°noke Steam Window Blind Factory, Molesworth-street, Wellington. -An, ' 1 About that £3510 be given aw.— jjffo the Editor-Sir, Will you allow me through your columns to let the people of the Wairarapa know that I am going to Bell all my stock, consisting of men's, youth's, and b.oys' clothing, shirts,' hats, hosiery, &c., at a reduction in prices up till the end of the year and also to temind them that every one who buys k goods to the value of 2b 6d gets a ticket in my £35 competition. .Think of that! By spending 2s 6d with me, you may win money eMUgh to carry you for a trip round Wn Zealand,-John Thorbuen, Clothier, &o„ Willis st„Wellington,