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Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 2550, 18 March 1887, Page 2

Tho Red Star footballers rolled up in force yeßterday afternoon on their ground in Worksop Road, and having genuino football wither, put in about two hours' hard play, showing hotter form than was to be expected so early in thesoason, The teacher may do much in the way of training his pupils to be mannerly; but certainly the first and principal lessons ought to begin at home. Children should he taught how to enter a room, how to Rpeak without making everyone deaf around them, to Bhow respect to the aged, to sit down gracefully, never to slam doors, and to, answer questions dearly and distinctly and without pertness.' When children are trajned to be polite at home, they will bo uniformly poHte'alpad, and their, good influence %jjl be perpetuated jn the outside world.

JosepWaokson, the old A.C. man who was sentenced to four months for larceny, was taken down to Wellington this morniner by Constable O'Connor. % following team will play for Masterton in a match with Opaki on the Park Oval to-morrow afternoon :-Bremner, Symonda, Wickens, D'Arcy, Hirschberg, Wardoll, Booth, Buttlo, Williams, Jackson, Dyer. We are requested to remind ourroaders of Messrs Lowes and lorns' sales tomorrow. •. They hold their usual sale of furniture, produce, poultry, and then a' very extensive Bale of jewellry and effects from a GHriatchurch pawnbroker. A rumor was circulated about Masterton this morning that' Henry White, who is now awaiting his trial for arson, made a confession to the police. We have made enquiries and find there is no truth whatever in the report. Sergeant Price reports that the town was very quiet last night, considering the large number of strangers and others that wore.knocking about Masterton. They all appeared to bo fatigued with the day's amusement and retired early to their respective domiciles. Wo understand that Mr T. Writdoy, the new lesseo of the Theatre Royal, intends having gas laid on in tho building without delay, This will be a groat improvement to the Theatre, and we might suggest that some means be adopted by which tho back seats could be fastened, so that the entertainments may not bo marred by the continual clatter of falling timber. • Tho amateur entertainment at the Theatre Royal laefc evening in aid of the. park oval fund drew a large and appreciative audionce, The programme after some inexcusable delay opened with an appropriate selection of Irish melodies, played with great accuracy by Pearson's Band, and a racy operatic sketch entitled " Blind Beggars," in which Cecil Rivorton and Mr H. A. Gaskill by really clever acting kept tho audience laughing for half an hour. The concert section of tho entertainment was then opened by Mr S. H. Wickerson, whose rendering of " Bright aB the Stars," was a success, A duet which followed from Mrs Clifton and Miss Maud Wardell, "Sweet Sister Fay," was evidently regarded as the vocal gem of the evening, and was enthusiastically encored. The entertainment was varied at this stage by a brief but enjoyable reading illustrative of Yankee humor, by Mr W. G, Beard. Mr Gaskill then brought down the house with a song in character, "Tho Pew Opener," and a quintette in which Mrs Clifton, Miss Watson, and Messrs Coleman, Gant, and SeymorTaicred took part was eseeedingly well received. Mr R. C. Coleman's song " Across the River," and Mrs Clifton's ballad, "Shall I name the Day," were loudly applauded, and an indescribable ditty callod" Joshua." by MrH. Williams with banjo accompaniment, evoked an imperative encore. The second part of tho entertainment consisted of a farce called "Iu Statu Quo," which front off remarkably well. The fun of tho piece was mainly sustained by Mr J. H. Kibblewhite, who dnlineated a cockney servant with a success seldom obtained by an amateur, and by Cecil Riverton, who as Blrs Piper was the life and soul of tho pieco. The part of Dr Stonecrop was creditably sustained by an amateur actor who made his first appearanco in this piece, and Mr A. M. Bradbury did justice to the leading character of the play, Miss Rosio Beaufort was perfect in her part of "Kate Solina." Tho accompaniments throughout tho evening wero played by Miss Corbett and Mrs Paige. Wo understand that tho entertainment will result in a substantial addition to tho funds for which it was organised.

Not long ago a fatally who resided in St.Paul removed lo North Dakota. Its meruberß include a little boy who can yet count his years on the fingers of both hands. One day, after they had resided in their uow home a short lime, the little fellow, who had been gazinp out on the treeless prairie around, approached his mother vory soberly and asked :.—' Mamma, do they have trees in Heaven?' 'Yes, dear,' replied the mother, ' they have oyory-thinst nice in Heaven. ' 'Then, Mamma, Baid the little fellow easterly, ' let's sell out here and move to He&ven right away.' A cider mill is running at Cambridge (Waikato) this year, and a correspondent of the Auckland Herald remarks concerning it. The starting of this mill

has been a great boon to the fruit grower as his apples, evon of an inferior kind, find a ready sale at the rate of £5 per ton, The price given is low, but even that is hotter than giving them to the pips, Still, if, as Mr Jarrett has stated, he lias abstracted as much as 11 gallons of cider from 130tt>3 of apples, as a certain quantity of water has, of course, to be added to the juice, cider mills should be able to afford a larger price for apples, The cider should certainly be worth as much as beer, and 22s worth of cider from a little less than 53 is the old game of the middleman's proportion of profits. This, however is a matter that will rectify itselt as fruit-growers get their own local mills and competition steps in. First-class cider mills, as used now in Devonshire, can, it is said, be imported for about £25."

A curious case was decided in Auckland last' week, The Fisheries Act makes October to January inclusive a close season for mud oysters, and December to March inclusive a close season for rock oysters. A fisherman was summoned for having in his possesion thirty-Bix bags of rock oysters, from Mongonul in February, and his defence was that they were neither rock nor mud oysters, as they were collected from mangroves and the roots of trees, An expert witness was called, one Oheeseman, curator to the Auckland museum, and he. was sure there were but two kinds of oysters in the north, the : rock and the mud, and, did not alter the charaoter of a rock, oyster that it was .found on the root of a tree; still, he would not say that the oystors seized were shore oysters in tho meahinp of the Act, The case was dismissed, A similar case was dismissed at Mongonui, on a charge of taking the oysters. The legislature evidently was not aware that some oysters are arboreal |

About that i'3b' to ?b givbn away.To the Editor-Sir, Will yon allow rao through your columns to lot the people of the. Wairarapa know that I am going to sell all my stock, consisting of men's, youth's, and boys' clothing, shirts, hats, hosiery, &c, at a great reduction in pricefl up till the end of the year; and also to remind them, that eyery one who buys goods to tho value of 2s 6d gets a ticket in my£3scompetition. Think of that! By spending 2s Cd with me, yoii may win money enough to carry you for round New Zealand.—John Thorburnj Clothier, Ao., Willis sl.WdHrirton. A Woneerful Hen.v.—Many are the instancescited of theastonishing fecundity of the various species of domesticated fowl; but tho celebrated Wellington Henn (which, strange to say, is of the masculino gender) has a soul above the mere produotion-of eges.- The manner in which he turns put Venetian Blinds, etc., is the wonder, and admiration of everybody,- from tho Governor downwards. . The namo of this wonderful bird is E.'W. Henn, and his well-known fowlhouse in thortfoneke Steam Window Blind E.aclpry, Molesworth-streot, Wellington,—Advt,

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock Bale for Wednesday next a line of 600' fat crossbred wethers and 14 two-year-old heifers, Wo hear that the Masterton Wosleyan Choir havo in rehearsal a musical composition entitled "Robinson Crusoe," which they intend rendering before the public at an early date. Tho exoursion train left Wellington yesterday morning with about two hundred passengers, Of this number about fifty were for Masterton and northorh stations. The, proposed salvation picnic did not come off yesterday owing to the unfavorable weather. -The soldiers and friends spent a' jolly, time, however, in the barracks during the day. They arV "totally-Bated" said a man on the racecourse yesterday, referring to a couple who were enjoying a quiet sleep near the machine, oblivi ns of the excitement around. Ho one smiled, and the punster plunged a-pound on an outsider —and lost. A dance was held in tho Town Hall, Greytown, last night. There were about fifty couples present, and dancing was spiritedly sustained until two o'clock this morning. Allen Herd the jockey who was injured at Opaki yesterday, when Oribba?e broke its back, is confined to his bed. Herd foolishly rodo in a race aftor meeting with the accident, which apparently aggravated his injuries.: We have .inspected the stock of Men's Boys, and' Youth's New Zealand and Colonial Twood Clothing at tho Wairarapa Clothing Factory, and for quality and prices we have not seen anything in the Colony to eqnalthem, and wo strongly advise anyone requiring Clothing to call at The Factory, noxt Mason's, Chemist, and see for themselves.—Advi,