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Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue IX, 29 August 1887, Page 2

1 A little boy, three years nf age, son of ( Mr H. T. Beck of Greytown, met with a ] serious nccidont on' Friday. The little i fellow was playing with his brother and , unwittingly backed into a bucket of | ; scalding water that had been placed on < the ground for washing purposes at the | rear of the house. Dr Smith is atlend- [' ing the little sufferer who, although very badly scalded on the lower part of the ! body, is progressing as favorably as can J r be expected under the circumstances. Tlio Napior News says " Tho truth ; may as well kn stated at once, that Mr , Mo Cardie is not a Government candidate. If ho has not the political manliness to . take his true position, lb is hore assigned i to him. There is the very best authority ; for stating in this place that the Governi ment will have nothing to do with Mr ; Mc Cardlo; that they do not recognise him , as appearing in their interest; and that, as I a candidate, they repudiate him utterly i and entirely. In the minds of all true - Liberals this should be sufficient to dispose ; of the claims of Mr Mc Oardle at once." .- We are not surprised wo always thought ; Mr MoCardle was too good a man to i remain abreast of politicians of the stamp r of W. C. Smith and J. Ivess. ! Mr W, W. Carlile, who is well known > to be the Hawkes Bay Herald's occasional * correspondent, writes as follows to that B paper ;—There is no Government that r puts its heel on the neck of the working f manlike a working man's Government. The Stout-Ballance reytmc looks like ! reducing the working classes to the verge of starvation. Heavy bush, lam told, is being felled at 18s per acre, a price at' which it jb almost certain that not even . tuokcr can be made. The worst for them is that even if wages rise elsewhere they can hardly rise in this neighborhood The Government in their village settle- . ments have created a class attached to the soil who cannot migrate into any ~ district where labor is. more abundant . without throwing up all that they possess , here, A correspondent in an American paper writes that a reaotion has set in against the barbed wire fence, the manufacture of y which haß grown to be one of the greatest >t industries in the country. The reason of i the reaction is the discovery by the farmg era that in substituting of the wire for the ._ old fashioned fences and hedges thoy „' have driven away the myriads of little ft birds which used to eat up the worms and similar pests so destructive to the farmers a crops. These birds need the shelter and c cover of the hedges which formerly iep«, it arated the tilled fields. Even if th'i) fence i- was.of wood, a: thick growth of hedge or 0 long grass prew up at its base, which 0 made a retreat for the birds. But with the clean mathematical division made by J the barbed wire, the fields became as , s smooth as a tennis lawn, and the unshelti- ered birds are forced to migrate, In if their absence the woruiß thrive and they if become legion. The cabbage worm has n completely destroyed the crop of a whole 0 season in Long Island.

i ."'Mistaken will often ooour in toe best regulated families," and so it is that to Buit '■ the convenience of shippers we have a con? 0 s'ignment of glassware, that were not wanted g bofore Christmas, TeAro House. Wellington, j ■:. As, however, they'are here, the pblio .will reap the benefit;,of the, error, aria will £ :havo.anoppbtu'nity'oima l kirig a (refc.'seleo- , l- tionin'acMrdahce)vitr).thd amount of their ; l t purchases, and on a. similar, scftle' to tbe J Jubilee bonus m the'mouth of June last, ,;. During thbpresphtmohth they can be had at ,c TeAroHouao." ' :;T M> ■",'. I 6 The scale is announced in another column, • la and is sufficiently liberal to" attract a large n amount of attention. - The articles are all of ■ as useful as well as an ornamental flesorip,e tion", and no doubt will be much appreciated '* and sought after by purchasers at ITe Aro - House, Wellington!;. j a We need hardly say that to those who .. contemplate setting up housekeeping this " opportunity will be invaluable, while those . ■" who wish to replenish their stock of house- -. hold glassware at once adapted for ordinary. Iq 'use, and, ealonlated to be ornaments to any ! well-laid table, will seize a chance that does ,e not oour every day, at To Aro Hdaae, Wei. h Ungtoai-Aw.

1 Wo have recoived,,a letter signed a t " freethinker in this neighborhood," but £ the writer of it'does not forward his j name as a guarantee, of good faith-, The football match at Matarawa on • Saturday-between the local toam and the Greytown Wanderers resulted in a draw, neither side scoring. The ■ game was a ,1 hard fought one. .: . _ ~■ ■: - ' The Greytbwn Borough Council, at their' meeting on, Monday ti.extf Septem- •' ber sth, : ,will consider the matter/of "the > bridgeietweeh'Greytown and Matarawa, aeroa'a the Walohine river. ' ■ / The firet election of Councillors for the new borough of Woodville have been de'<. clared voia, owing to a non-electpr:having,. signed two of the nomination- papers. The new elections are'to take place on September 19. Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains .have a new advertisement over the leader in to-day's issue, setting forth that the first, instalment of spring and summer novelties are now on view in the windows of their establishment, Lambton Quay, Wellington.' The Returning Officer for the Masterton District, Mr S. Von Sturmer, notifies that the nomination of candidates for the Masterton Electorate takes place on September 19th, at the Courthouse, Masterton, and the poll on September 26th. > A. list of the polling places is also published' in another column. Mr F. Cooper the well known Wellington Seedsman and Florist, whose seeds have gained universal calls attention by an advertisement on the trout page to his largo and varied assortment, of agricultural, garden and flower seeds, ; Mr Cooper sends his small garden seeds free by post to his country customers and makes a considerable reduction when large orders are griven. [ Another candidate has announced him- ' self for the Woonville electorate, making [ four aspirants for the seat. The new can- ■ didate—Mr M. T. McGrath-atanda in : the interests of "true liberalism" after the . manner of Mr Gladstone and Sir Ge«rge J Grey, and among' 1 other'things advocates borrowing £5,000*000 to complete existing Railways and Road systems. We remind our readers of the entertainment to be given in the Masterton ' Theatre Royal thiß evening, when the i Australian Yokes Family will make their - appearance. As a guarantee that a firstr class performance will be given wo need l only mention that the company includes , Buch well-known artists as Messrs John L. flail, Gus Lynch, Charles Waud, the clever Perman Family, and Miss Laura 9 Roberts. r From the Examiner we learn that Mr '• S yon Sturmer, R.M.. gave, an important e judgment at the Woodville R.M. Court a sittings last week in the case "Townsend a v. Siau. It appears that in November last year, a Mr Harper gave a lien on ~ certain crops to Mr Townsend, This lien was to bo paid in May last, but.was

; not paid. Subsequently the crops were i sold by Mr Siau at auction. His Wort , ship held that notice had been giveu by c , tho registration of the lion, and under \ ~ the Ghattols Security Act, defendant was , liable. Judgment was given for amount ' claimed, loss the amount paid into Court. , , We remind those interested of the sale i by auctiou commencing at 11 a.m. Wed- , [ nesday August 31st of the ontire stock-in- , J 1 trado of Mr W. Bell, storekeeper, Ekota- ■ 1 huna, As Mr Bell is giving up business I the whole of the stock of drapery, ■ grocery, ironmongery and general goods will . be disposed of without the slightest re- j f serve, also the shop fixtures and the v household furniture and effects. This '

will be a grand opportunity for up country settlers to secure bargains, the ' goods all being new and of the present ] seasons selections. Messrs Jas; Brown • and Co are the auctioneers. At a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Wellington Diocesan Synod held on Friday, the Secretary reported that the receipts for the past month had beeu '£llo, and expenditure £108; assessments due from parishes and parochial districts to tho general church fund up to the 30th June were in arrear up to that date to the amount of L 417, and there were LBO in the Bank. If the assessments were paid in full, there should be a surplus of nearly 150 for the year, but the L 136 deficiency in tho Masterton parish rendered this almost hopeless. The President said the case of the Masterton parish would need the special attention of the Synod. The arrears in the several parishes, &c, were reported to be as follows :—Masterton L 138; Whareama L2; Karori, L 32; Johnsonville, L 2 5- Greytowr. L 18; Martinborough L 8; Carterton L 27 ; Oroua L2O; Sandon L 6; Martin L 5 ; Wanganui Parochial District L3B; Hawera, LG7.

The Pahiatua Hotel narrowly escaped a serious conflagration on Tuesday night, which was happily averted by the presence of mind of two little girls Katie Stewart and Hannah McKay, daughter and neice of the landlord, both of whom are only about seven years of age. Mrs Stewart had put her youngest son to bed, leaving a candle burning, which the little fellow managed to get. on to the bed, setting fire to the counterpane. The fire was making considerable progress when the two"girls.in question wont into the room, and they immediately ran to the bar U acquaint Mr Stewart of the affair. He, being very busy at the time, seems to have misunderstood them', and thinking it was agirlish freak told them to go to bed. They immediately went back to the bedroom, and with the aid of a large sponqe filled with water managed to put the lire out. A big hole had been burnt in the counterpane, and as all the other inmates happened to be in other- parts of the building.at, the time, there is no telling what might have happened had it not for the ■ courage displayed' by these little girls. They certainly have earned a substantial recognition at ..the liands of the Insurance Company.—PahiattiaStsr. . The seeds in Mr A. G. Price's pumpkin at the Hall of commerce, Cuba. Street Wellington in connection with the art union were counted on Saturday night, when it was found that 12ticketholders had guessed the exact number, viz,, 467. The names of the fortunate ticketholders will be published in a future issue.