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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2548, 14 March 1887, Page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Apency Company report that the first of the series of London wool sales for.the current year opened on.the 25th January, the available arrivals aggregating 267,797 bales. There was a good attendance both of Home and Foreign buyers, and, under spirited competition values for Australian produce marked the following advance as compared with December closing rates:- Australian Merino, greasy Jdatld per lb; Australian Merino, scoured, Id at IJd per lb; Fine cross-bred, scoured, washed, or greasy, My, $d at Id per lb;' Coarse cross-bred, scoured, washed, or greasy, fully Id. The above result has confirmed the anticipation as to thecourse.of the market; based upon recent' transactions upon private treaty, and the maintenance of values at the Antwerp auotioils, which terminated on the 22nd A considerable amount of onqmryias.bjsen experienced on continental account "for preserved meats, but owing to the scar* ojty'ofthe supplies of the descriptions wanted the amount ofbusiness transacted baa been small. ' Almost the'.' entire available stock of 61b tins of boiled beef and mutton have been absorbed by buyers and 'for' the .few parcels remaining on hand enhanced rates are now demanded. Compressed corned beef haa also'begun to participate in the. general recovery; the leading American fanning establish' j ments having at length raised the' quota-'; tioiis to the extent of say Jd per lb; The' Home Trade has meanwhile remained inactive. We quote:—Boiled- mutton 21btinsfidat5|dper'lb; 4lb tins sdat 6J; O'lb tinß 6* at s*. Boiled beof21b tins, fid at 5Jd per lb; 4 lb tins, fed ats|d ;6 lb tins, 5d at 6jd. Importations into London during' the fortnight ended 22nd January amounted to 800 cases from Australia, 200 from New Zealand, and 2,472 from America.- .' During the recent Birmingham;; jession (saysvthe Birmingham Mail) aj witness was' giving ovidenoe in a watch-JBnatohing caße,ai)d excited considerab!e;;.diversjon restating that he .gave the- police the "subscriptions"of, the thieves?-;..,'!0h,' you gave the 'subscription' of th<jmidid yoiij" remarked the Recorder, a larKifiE! round the comers of his nioiitli, .'.fandiwhat where these''subscriptions) 1 '" yer Honor, 1 ' said thb witness,' ilmejlfng a rat, and anxious to correct '.■hfrasplf, "Jmeanthejr 'prementions.'" i This was making confusion worse confounded. Scratching his head,, as if for the right word, the* -witnessed ■'gudfonly appeared to find it, and at once shouted ''Their prescriptions, 1 mean; it was their prescriptions I gave tojthe polioe." Very mercifully the Recorder excused 'hi»irow,(«fth«riortuf«,

' The Masterton Masonic Lodgo, E.C., meet this evening in the Bannister-street Hall. At a meeting of the newly elected licensing committee of the Alfredtou district, held in tho Eketahuna Road Board Office on the Oth inst,, Mr W. W. McOardle was elected chairman of the committee. Sportsmen,.who are looking forward to having some good pigeon shooting when tho Beason opens, are complaining of the manner in which the Maories are destroying the birds, If they are allowed to continue their wholesale destruction, pigeons will.bo soiroe when thelegitmate time arrives for killing them. A'wild horse from Tenui, which has boen sent down to be operated upon by Mr fiickton, the Iocs! horta'tamer. broke away from the Prince of. Wales. stables this morning, and causedn little excitement in Queen street- by )tsvup-ooiiritry antics, before fiiokton finally got it under control. The football season opened in Muter* ton on Saturday afternoon with n practice by the Red Star Club The weather was warm and the ground hard, but these two-drawbacks ( did not prevent about twenty enthusiasts from enjoying' an heur's play. We understand the Masterton Club will hold its annual meetingat an early date. No time should be lost in arranging the Queen's Birthday matches. The members of St. Mark's Masonio Lodge, E.G., Carterton, have decided to celebratethe consecration of theirnew lodge room on the occasion of theannual installation of the W.M, and Inveßtitureof officers, which takes place in May next. Bro. J. Durbey is the new W.M. elect. Being such an important event, there is sure to to be a large gathering of tho craft from all parts of the district, and as the Lodge has arranged to hold a Masonic Ball on the Bame evening, it is looked forward to as marking an era in the advancement of Freemasonry in the Wairarapa.

The Masterton Salvationists are going, in for picnioing on Sfe Patricks Day.'' ,| The Church bells .of Wellington were silent yesterday owing to cases of severe illness at each end of the city, says the Times, -. .. I The Customs duties collected ■at Wel-r lington during last week amounted to 13125*78 3{|; and the beer duty td£6lßs;-. Mr John Watson .has heen- gazetted registrar of marriages, births,' and deathV and vaccination inspector forthe district of Oastlepoint. _ ''''' ;" '"'.''• V Messrs. towee and. ; lorns.announce.an extensive stock imuVat'their yards'''for WediMay/Makh !& Tha list already includes 20Q head "of cattle, 14Q0.sheVp7 60 piga, and lOhorsee. We regret to learn that Mr IT, Junes sen., one of the oMeat, settlers, in..this district' !b dangerously ill aud nut expected to recover, ' '- - • '■• J ■'•■■' -v > Mr J. W. Robinson, architect, of Wellington, plaintiff in the libel action i Jlooinson v. -Dunediln Evening Star,, a olaim for £60,000, has left for Dunedin .to attend the Bitting of the.Court at' which his action- will ,be heard. ' . Informations havejboen laid against Mr Jamas O'Shea, of Wellington, for unlawfully arid knowingly by false preterioes. .obtaining from Mr David Robinßon, of Wellington, securities, to the value of £159 15b. ' : , Tho young man 'Hillßon was brought before Mr Von Sturmer thin morning in the Masterton Court, land on the recommendation of the : medical examiners was difloharged, We learn that Mr, Whitt; 'has, offered Nillson employment as a cabinet-maker and as he has found lodg- > tags with some of his countrymen he may get over his temporary dorarigement. llie Rev. J Ward, of Groytown, occupied the pulpit of the Wesleyan Ohurohi Maßterton, yesterday morning and evenine, and preached to large congregations. Messrs Lowes and Iqrns add to their stuck sale for Wednesday next a line of 200 good ewes and 200 good lambs. The list will now comprise COO fat sheep, 1000 good breeding owes, 200 2-tooth wethers, 500 lambs, and 37 rams, A performing bear, whose antics drew large crowds of young and old, caused quite a flutter of oxcitementin Masterton on Saturday aftornoon. The animal was in company with tbree able bodied foreigners, and the manner in which the quartette swallowed alcoholic liquor would have made tho heart of a Temperanco lecturer feel sad. Bruin seemed to have such a fondness for beer, and got into fluch au incapable connitiou, that it was expected that the police would "run him in."

A special despatch from Big Springe, Texas' to the New York Herald, on 30th November Bays:— " A most darin? robbery was committed at Merita, the first siding en the line of the Texaa and Pacific Railway, ten miles west of hero, at midnight, last night, The only inhabitants of the plaee are a gang of fifty Chinese section hands and a white foreman, At about midnight the Chinamen mere waited upon by fifty masked men, who demanded their money. Upon refusing to, give up their hard-earned cash they were one at a time hung up by their queues until they, gave up their money. The robbers, thinking they had not got all the money in the camp, returned and tortured one of the Chinamen by holding him up on a hot stove until his comrades gave up the balance of their money—some 600dol. in all. One Celoßtial had Ms queue out off, and was obhewiao horribly tortured; • JNo ■ arrests have bean made," ~„.•-. The Aucklnd Bell speaks' its minds on the Connolly!case:—" The case shows ;tho dangers'to which medical men aro exposod, and against which they require to be on'thoir'gaurd. Woman—angel.as she is when eho is good—when she is bad l is a regular hellhound; and we do not' know a'punishment that would be- bad enough for a orjme suoh' as this. Scores of instances occur were a man is helplessly at Ihe mercy of & wretohof a woman if her brains are equal to her wickedness; and .with suoh safeguards is woman surrounded that to travehlonoiu a ; railway 1 compartment with an unknown woman ir regarded by many as about, as safe as travelling with a keg of dynamite. The weakness of the gentler box is very rightly guarded by the strong arm of the law, but thoir'is a real danger in the paramount value that is given to a woman's statement when she is pleased to Bay that she has been insulted, and no other has been present but the accused to give evidence in the case. It is on this account that this trumped up charge against Dr. Connolly should bo searched to the bottom, and that the severest penalty that the law allows should be imposed on the wretched outcast from the streets of Wellington,, whose marriage with a sailor appears to have been but a cloak to hidethehell that was burning within her." _ A Wonderful Henn.—Many are the instances cited of the astonishing fecundity of the various species of domesticated fowl; but the celebrated Wellington Henh (which, strange to say, is of the masculine gender) has a ,aoul above. tho mere production of egjs. The manner in which he turns out Venetian Blinds, etc., is the wonder and admiration of everybody, from tho Governor downwards. The namo of this wonderful bird is R. W. Hew, and his well-known fowlhouse is the Poneke Stoara Window Blind Factory, Molesworth-street, Wellington.— Advt.

We have inspected the stock of Men's Boys', and Youth's New Zealand and Colonial Tweed Clothing at the Wairarapa Clothing Faotory, and for quality and prices we have not ?een anything 'in the Colony to equal we strongly adviseanyonere'quiring!Clothing. to oall at The Factory, next MaWs,' Chemist', and tee for themselves.-ADyft About that itfb io be oiviN awat;— To the Editor-Sir, Will you allow.me through your columns to let the! people ofthe Wairarapa knbw that I am going to sell all my stock, consisting of men's; youth's, and- boys' clothing, shirts, hats,' hosiery, Ac, at a great rbduction in price's up till the ond of, the year; and also to remind them~ that' every one who buys goods to the 'vajiiV-'of 2s 6d gets a ticket mmy£3scompetition. Think of that! By spending 2s Odiwith me, you may win money enough to-'carry you for a trip round New Zoalaria.-JoHK Thobburh, Olothier. &c„ Wjlliß Bt.,Wellln?ton. ,