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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2552, 19 March 1887, Page 2

Ywvutu win j/iepiou. We'notice that the Borough Council of Timaturhas given his Worship the Mayor directions to call a publio meeting re the celobration of the Queen's Jubilee, It is almost time that steps were taken in this direction in Masterton if the jubilee is to bo celebrated here in a manner worthy of the occasion, Mr Drake, the well-known bookmaker and horse owner, purchased tho race horse " Pasha " shortly before the Napier Handicap was run. The prioe paid iB said to,. be £IOOO,. Kangaroo was also purchased by Mr T; Hill, (says the Hawkes Bay Herald), the figuro at which the animal chanped hands being said to bo satisfactory to buyer and i seller. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, when last heard df at Lima, whon sho played " Fedora" to an enthusiastic audience, and the receipts on the' ifirst night wero £I,BOO. Madamo Nicolini Patti had reached Mexico, and had boon receivod like a queen. Bands of music and cavalcades of horsemen escorted tho dim to her hotel, The Governor of tho city had placed his carriage at her disposal, and tho wife of the President of the Republic had sent her a magnificent bouquet. At Hotham, near Melbourne, tho wife of a laboring man named Graham died from Typhoid fever. The husband, a Roman Catholic, lib two candles and set one at the head and the other at the foot of tho bed, and he and another man watched the corpse until daylight. Early , in the morning Graham left to make ' arrangements for the funeral, Donovan remaining in charge of the body. It is supposed he went to sleep, for about nine o'clock the placo was in flames. The | firemen attended promptly, but all odorta J to rescue the corpse from the flames were futilo, and it was reduced to ashes on the iron bedstead on which it lay. Donovan had a narrow escape, and was rather badly burned. Some of the Auckland clergy (says tho Otago Daily Times) have taken the • opportunity offered by the execution of 1 Caffrey and Penn to. preich a tirade ! against secular education. It go happens that Caffrey was brought up in his early days in a' church which thunders its ! anathemas against" Godless education," while Penn was a Sunday scholar at All Saints, Ponsonby, during the incumbency of the late Rev, E. N. Bree. Tho faot is that the sad fate of these men is a warning to men of all creeds or nonebrought up under a denominational ov secular system of education —to restrain their passions and to cultivato a reverence for law, human and divine. The Paris police have put their hand on a " dummy bride." She is a young a English woman, aged 25, aud was the stock piece of an international matrimonial agency, aiming to kidnap continental batchelow. She was advertised j sometimes as an orphan, a young widow, the usual heiress, or the victim of seduction with cash to counteract lost honor. 1 The advertisement drew the intelligent foreigner to London. . A sort of a Sea- "■ bright civil marriage ceremony was gone through, when the bride bolted to Paris, the agency pocketing all fees. The " dummy " is said to have been thus ■ married twenty seven times. The police have all the documents in the - agency, and will indict all the bridegrooms. It will be the most sensational lit modern trials. t A man had hired a tricycle lately, and j after having gone a great many miles upon , his journ;y, ho discovered a flaw in tho axle, and broke down, For the expenses - 1 of sending tho vehicle home, his own ! expenses in coining back to London, and ? all the rest of it, he sued tho lender, The ) judge gavo tho verdict in his favor, sayi, ing that the lender was responsible for 3 latent as well as patent defects. e A member of the Balloon Society has 3 offered to give £IOOO as a preliminary subscription towards the equipment of an ' alternative expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha from the Congo side, and 0 Captain Cameron has been offered tho ■ command. Ho from one point and StanD ley from another ought to effect the 1 desired object between them. 1 A madman was arrested the other day l in London after having smashed some very valuable plate glass in a shop willdow. On being asked why he did it, he i said that some evil spirits were making faces at him from the inside. It was 3 ascertained that lie had spent tho whole I of the previous night on Blackheath ComJ mon, engaged in throwing snowballs at 1 the moon.

The following taken from the Hawkea Bay Herald may be of interest to our readers, including the Borough Gas Committee" The Napier Gas Company hare taken a step which proves that the directors possess great business energy and foresight. On and after the first of April the price of gas for cooking and heating purposes will be reduced to 6s per 1000 feet. This is lower than the price charged in any other part of New Zealand, and with the exception of Melbourne and Sydney, lower than in any town throughout Australasia. The company will also supply cooking stoves at •cost price,-on the deferred payment Byatem, and all stoves purchased from the company will be fitted and connected by thoir employees free of charge. Cooking and heating, by gas is vapidly coming into ■ public favor, and is said by experts to bo more satisfactory and economical than other modes. Wo have inspected the stock of Men's Boys,. and. Youth's. New' Zealand and Colonial Tweed Clothing at the Wairarapa Clothing Factory, and for quality and prices we have not seen anything in the Colony to enjualthem, and we stronglyadvise anyone requiring Clothing to. call ;at The Factory, nexjb Mason's, Gliemist, 'and bob for themselves.—Adyt. , ,

About that £35 to be given away,— To the Editpr—Sir,-Will you allow nie 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 .boys' clothing, shirts, hats, hosiery, Ac., at a great reduction in prices up till the'end of the year; and also to remind then) that every erne who buys goods to tho value .of 2s .lid gef-ajv ticket in my-£3scompetition, Think of that! By spending 2s Cd with me, you may win money enough to carry you for" a trip round New Zealand.—Johw Thoreuiin, Clothier, &c,, Willis at., Wellington,

Mr H. E. Eton of Masterton is : ap- ; pointed a public vacoinator, •• Tho Otago Rugby Union intends Bonding a football team round the Colony this season. . ' Messrs M. Caselberg & Co., announcethat thoy have a splendid sample of golden tares on sale, ■ ' • Mr E, Tayler, of the local Fruit depot, Queen Street, has a minature -apple tree growing in his shop window, laden 'with well-grown fruit. It is a perfect picture. A Gazette notice states that.dfier (bucksor stags only) man be killed within the Wellington and. Wairarapa. A.ocHinatissSociety's district. ....... The Bye-laws Committee of the Masterton Borough Council'met last evening.. After going through one section, it' Was decided to meet every Thursday .evening, until the work of revising is finished. Messrs J. Graham and Company, of the Queen-street Emporium, havo a new advertisement in the front page of special interest to householders and station ownors. The firm ainiounco that they will forward samples of their own blended teas free on application, and that they havo all kinds of grass seod in stock, Crimo has decreased to such an extent in the South of England that the authorities of Lewes, the county prison of Sussex, are said to have sent for pome fifty prisoners from another county, so that the needful operations could be carried on at tho gaol at Lewes. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock sale list for Wednesday next, 160 store ewes and 5 fat cows, A double barrel breech-loading gun and a theodolite and stand are advertised •for sale. The settling up of tho Masterton-Opaki St. Patrick's Day Meeting takes placo at the Club Hotel this evening. Mr W, Riddlo announces to thoinlmbi" tants of the Taueru and district that he has opened a bout and shoe making establishment in their midst under the management of Mr S. Neary. Junior partner—' Our travelling man ought to be discharged. Ho told ono of our customers that I am an ignorant fool.' Senior partner—'l shall speak to him and insist that no moi-u office secrets be divulged.'

The cantata " Under the Palms" drew a crowded house in Carterton last evening, there not being standing room in the large public hall, The combined vocalists of Greytown and Carterton numbering between seventy and eighty, were, nnder the leadership of the Rev J. Ward, the soloists being being Miss Searle (of Carterton) soprano; Mrs Ward, alto; Mr Gamble, tenor; Mr B. C, Black, bass, About thirty visitors from Masterton wero present and they speak very highly of the patience and "go" of the leader, who has achieved ono of the greatest musical successes in the Wairararapa. Tho choruses are spoken of as being well rendered, the childrens efforts beinpr sweet and refreshing, and servo to illustrate. what can be done when one knows how to handle the little ones, The solos, especially the baßa, were nicely sung, and the orchestra assisted materially to swell tlio efforts of tho choristers. A deputation from tho proposed Special Settlement Association of Masterton settlers consisting of Messrs Galloway and Francis, accompanied by Messrs McCardle and fioeso, members of the Land Board, waited on tho Minister of Lands this morning, with a view to acquiring a piece of land suitable for tho purposes of tho Association. After considering tho'matter, Mr Ballanco expressed liis dosireitu meet the deputation as far as possible, but said he could not finally locate a block. The mattor would, however, be favorably considered. Tlio' block asked for, or rather, preferred by the Association, is that situated between the Wellington Special Settlement Association' 3 land and the Ilawea pah on tho Forty-Milo Bush road. After interviewing tho Minister, tlio members of the Association wont to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr Marchant, who is preparing the necessary information with regard to the available Crown Lands, that might be considered suitable, and discussed the question with him. Tho proposed new Association bids fair to be a very strong one, and is essentially of a bona jiik character. No less than 130 signatures to its membership have been obtained in Masterton in two days, and this number could be easily increased to 200 in a very short time, It should bo added that the tl jck preferred by the Association has already been coveted by the flutfc Association, who hare a first eliiim thereon. Nothing further, however,''can bo done m the matter, till the next meeting of tho Land Board. A San Francisco paper Etates that the rocent murder of ft boy in York county, South Carolina, who detected negroes stealing cotton from his father's field, lias brought to.lfght an organisation among tho colored people which contemplates murder in the event of the detection of any member accused of crime. Twentysix negroes are under arrest. The inquest on the body of the murdered boy before a jury brought out all the facts, Ono of the prisoners turned State's evidence, and another admitted that ho had killed a man, who was found murdered in the county eighteen months ago. Several of the colored witnesses at the inquest swore distinctly that they had a club for the purposes of stealing cotton, provisions, whiskey, &c. The members wero to steal whatever they wanted, and if detected were sworn to kill the person who detected them, The Olub had diP ferent names, but was generally known as" Tho Rising Star Lodge; No. 24 of tho Grand United Order of National Laborers,'' aud the Political Society of North America." Tlio charter came from Charlotte,' North Carolina, and is dated December, 1884. Tho charter, however, would seem to show that the Society had only benevolent aiid fraternal objects.Among otiior things revealed at the invuest was a plot to waylay wealthy men.

A rattior extraordinary accident occurred toayoungman in the railway employ at Port Adelaide. It appears that he got some foreign substance down his throat (a piocc of chaff from wheat, I think which eo much annoyed him that ho borrowed a sliawl pin, 6 inches long, frolu his wife, and poked the knob-end down aftor the substance in hopes of qotting rid of. it; but instead of doing so he by eomo means lost liia hold of the pin and swallowed it —down, down, down it went, and finally aottled no one know where. He was taken to the- Adelaide Hospital. Nine doctors assisted to cut open his side, mid they endeavoured in vain to'find the pin. He is now at honie, and although he can do no work, suffers but little, .his principal anxiety being hb to what part of his body tho pin will show up in. A Wonderful HpNi-Mahy are the instances cited of, the astonishing fecundity, of the various species' of domesticated fowl; but the celebrated Wellington Henn (which, strange to say, is of the masculino gender) has si soul above the mere production of egps. .The manner in which he;turnß out Venetian Blinds, etc., is- the.-woiider and admiration of everybody, from tho Governor downward?, The,tiari|o of. this wonderful bird is R. W. Henn, and his well-knowji fojvlj house; is tho. Pqneke • Steam Window Blind Factory, Moleswortlwtreet, Wei? ;lington,—Advt. .

1 . Thirty-six members of the Masterton Rifle Corp left by this, morning's train for Grey town | to be inspected by Major General Sir George Wlntmore. Very little enthusiasm Was manifested over the departure. Those who met at' the Drill Shed'walked dejectedly to the Station', hot a note was played by the Band, and a few minutes before the train started, several stragglers could be seen hurrying' across the paddocks, for fear of beinplate and the prospects 'of. a£l fine before, them, ~ ; - According;fe" instructions -rfe'ceived -at •• the last meeting'of theMastertonßorough" Council, thrown; Clerk ha? comfouni--cated-with theathec.Local Bodies • in the -Wairarapa witirrrference to'thd'-lTuited Districts Oharitablo Aid Board, witli the result that on Monday-next a conference of the Treasurers of the different Bodies will be held in Masterton to consider what action, is to be taken by the deputation that is appointed to wait upon the Board at its next sitting.. " Lounger," in the Wanganui Herald writesl nevor could understand why a, door plate was wanted on a coffin at all. Aro they frightened that the remains will go astray and miscarry? We put too much style into our afrief, and tho widows and orphans have'to go short when the husband and father goes under. An ordinary, funeral and mourning for a family, of six coats not less than £75. Disconsolate widowß may well refer to the deceased as the dear departed I It is time the people rebelled against such insensate expenditure, and ceased to make a theatrical show of death." This is approximately a oorrect cast of the religious status of the world to-day. It shows two-thirds of the whole to be pagan, or including the Mahommedans and Jews as anti-Christian components of tho pagan fraction, three-quarters of the whole—not less than 1,050,000,000. The remaining fraction of 410,000,000. a little more that one half is Roman Catholic, one-quarter, nearly, Greek, and a trifle over a quarter Proteßtant.—N.Y. Independent.