The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1887. THE WAIPOUA MENACE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2723, 12 October 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1887. THE WAIPOUA MENACE.

Yesterday, Masterton was again threatened by its old enemy, the Waipoua, and another slice of the town bank of the stream was cut away. Eighteen months ago, we called attention to the fact that the town was going inch by inch and foot by foot down the stream, As yet, fortunately, but small slices of Masterton have been taken, but who can say with confidence that ate some big rain, a great slice of the town may not be sacrificed. A little more than two years ago, the Borough Council did good work en the river bank by planting willow stakes. This work has borne good fruit so far, and the only regret is that the Council did not put in more willows and. protect them till they were established. Laat year the Council devoted a good deal of time and attention to obtaining reports from professional and amatour engineers on the question, but unfortunately jt did nothing beyond.talking about what ought .to be done. It took upon itself the responsibility of dealing with the enoroacpment of the river, .but failed to give -'effect to the good intentions-it professed. A little judicious willow planting last year would probably have saved the small slice of the town cut away yesterday. We entreated the. Council last year to permit the Overseer and working staff to do a,little work en the river bank for a day or jwo,' but the Council [apparently hesitated whether to accomplish Borne bjg engineering feat or to do nothing.' Municipal impeeuniosity probably decided it to adopt the latter course, The necessity for protecting the town from the encroachments of the Waipoua will not be altogether lost .sight of, so long as the stream periodically carves away shoes of the borough... We still venture to hope that the Borough Council mil do its duty by the town in tuis.niatter, and endeavor toperformalittle willow planting every season, so'/that ultimately the inroads of the / erratic stream will be checked by a very inexpensive and efficient expedient.. -

The ordinary monthly mooting of -the Maßterton Hospital Trustees takes place to-mbrrowaftenwon at the Institute. ■y Messrs Lowes and. lorns announoo a sale-of ■ furniture', produce and sundries for Saturday next. •.The Concert in aid of the Masterten Hospital funds is announced for Friday, November 11th, in the Theatre Royal,

The midday train from Wellington yesterday was delayed owing to a slip on the lino between the Summit and Kaitoke. The train left Masterton for the roturn journey ab4,3o,an hour and a half late, and the evening train.fromWellinetoD was twenty minutes behind.time on arriving at Mastorfcon. We are informed that another slip has happened on the hill, but it is not likely to cause any serious delay in the- traffic. The midday train to'day t?as half, an hour late. Mr Howard Vincent is still.laboring on behalf of the colonies, and.. has drawn, up a valuable paper showing the amount of trade between Gteat ; Britain' and- tHe various Greater Britains.'.. The' entire Volume of mutual Imperio-iolonial trade he estimates" at between two hundred and fifty and three' hundred million, pounds sterling, .which he distributes, as follows:. India, £103,300,000; New South Wales, 132,000,000'; - Victoria, £31,000.000; Canada, £21,000,000 ;■ Straits Settlements, .' £16,000,000; New'- Zealand;. £14,000,000 j 8. 'Australia,' £1'2,000,000; Cape Colony and Queensland, .each £10,000,000; and. -Ceylon about £7,000,000. : : ... ;

Thore are three members of the House of.Commons;whd had seats in it wlion the Queen ascended the throne., The oldest is the Right Hon. Charles Polham Tilliersj-MP. for tho Southern-Division of Wolverhampton, who has just reached the age of 85. The '•'father" of the House, Mr Christopher Talbot, however, (member for Mid-Glamorganshire) took hii.seat in ' 1830, five yoars before Mr Yilljera j while; Mr Gladstone, the third of tlie trio, entered Parliament in 183? aB member for Newark. ; The first two have nevor had to.change their seats (except for the. slight local chanpes niado necessary by. the Franchise Act,) but Mr Gladstone has changed his four times. When the'; Dairy of Royal Movement" was published it was pointed out in tho preface that Her Majesty has" witnessed the funeral of every Premier who has sat under her except Mr Gladstone." That was before Mr Salisbury's appointmont. Tho kitchen or room opening from the kitohenis not the.fittest place in the house for sotting milk, It may be warm on the raok, or on the shelf next to the ce : ling, But foul air, when warm, rises, and cream haß a Btrong affinity for odours If tho milk is coolor than the atmosphere in the room, the temporaturo having gono down during tho night when the fire was low or out, it will surely take in the kitchen odours. These are notimproved if there is smoking in the' kitchen as thero often is. How.can good flavoured butter be made of cream raised in this way? It is much better, if no other room is to be had, to make uso of some of the modern dovices for raising cream with the inilk shut in from all possible contact with tho air in the room. Then churn in tho sweetest place in the house, even if it is the parlour.—Farmer's Circular.

In August last, a case of poisoning wa s reported to the police as having happened to a family by the name of Pcteraou at Matamwa. It appears that on the 7th of that month, Mr and Mrs Peterson and family after partaking of gome soup, in which meat, carrots,' turnips, and flourballs wore mixed, became ill,' and were seized with attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea. A few days after, tiio family, after eating some bread made from the same flour were again seized with illness, and the youngest ohild novor recovered, and diod on tho 20th of August. The medical':man—Dr Bey—'who attended it, gave a certificate that death was owing to scarletina. At tho same timo he attributed the illness of the family to their partaking of decayed vegetable matter, A portion of tho flour and bread was sent to Mr Skey, Govern*ment'Analyst, who has just forwarded his report to the police, which states that he found no poison in either the bread or flour, but that in the latter he found some acans farina, and that the bread was vory heavy, neither of which he considered as thoroughly wholesome. On flanlan, the ex-champion oarsman of the world, arriving in Sydney on the 22nd ult., his reception was anything but flattering. In commenting on the fact, the Evening News says;—"Of all his friends in the city, thore were only two who deemed it necessary to afford any sort of a welcome to a visitor whose first arrival in tho colony was marked ,by much the same kind of demonstration which attends tho progress of a prince, But then he was champion of the world : now he is not. Defeat makes all the difference, Not a single representative of any of the rowing clubs, none of the leading oarsmen, nor in faot any leading athletes or sportsmen, were present this morning, and if the intention was to discredit our namo for national hospitality, and to point out that the man who comes to pull for the championship is unwelcome, the intension was a success." Fortune favors the bravo! Prince Ferdinand's glad he stuck to his postl The elections on Sunday were in his favor I On Sunday I Do they hold their elections on Sunday in Bulgaria ? What heathen they must be! Not at all! Tho bettor the day the bottor tho doed 1 In Greek-Oatholio countries they always hold great public functions on Sunday, and it seems to work very woll! Is'u't it very wicked? Where do they expect to go to, if they break tho Sabbath like that? Oh, they'll chance that I They have pretty good authority for it, you knowl The world was oreated on a Sunday morning 1 Ah, by tho bye, ho it was I I'd forgotten that 1 Sunday, tho Ist Jan. 4004, 8.C., wasn't it ? Still, it wouldglve a teniblo shock to public opinion here if a Sunday were fixed for polling day I Why, Stout wouldn't even allow a Volunteer Review to take place on Good Friday 1 Fancy having a general election on Sunday 1 My stars, wouldn't there bo a rumpus among the goodygoodie's 1 Yes, Monday's a better day 1 That gives the candidates and their committees all Sunday to tiok over their rolls and lay in a stook of boer and dollars, and hunt up the doubtfuls and prime them for the morrow! BtamboolofFs had bettor luck than Stout-Vogoloff I He's come back with a thumping majority! Yes, but you see, he didn't appeal to tho people from the decision of the people's representatives! Ho appealed to them from tho arbitary dictum of a foreign power.— Presß Puffs. We have at length opened out our firs, shipments of summer dross fabrics in all the most fashionable shades, inducting some lovely tints in grey and gobelin, and in soft woollen and silk mixed fabrioe, foule, beige, lawn tennis coßtume oloths, and a *Lusand other varieties too numerous to recapitulate. Our lady friends imißt needs come and enjoy the display at Te Aro House, Wellington. We have some very handsome ohecked and striped woollens with plain to match, and a variety of very beautiful' embroidered robes, the very sight of. which lingers in insatiable desire' to purohase these elegant atristio marvels at Te Avo Houbo, Wellington, Already many of our lady friends have made their first purchases, and our dressmakers are busily employed in fashioning these into "things of joy and beauty" against the festivities of the coming session of the House of Eepresentatives. It would be wise on the part of all ladies if they would' : give thoir orders as early as possible to the dressmaking departments' at Te AroyHouse, Wellington.':-: ;?Not that there need be any fear of disappointment this season. We have two • excel* lent dressmaking rooms, and oan in both guarantee style, fit and promptitude,'at Te Aro House, Wellington. To any ladies unable to visit our warehouse we shall be most happy to forward Buoh patterns as are desired, andcomplete measuremoDtichßtts, from Te Aro Hous«, Wellington

Mr G. Fannin, architect, invites tonlers for repairs to promises in Queen street.

:■ Jas. Brown and Co., have received instructions to sell on Saturday next, entirely without reserve, a large quantity of furniture and sundries seized for rent. Owing to,the absence of Judge Davy, the District Court sitting at Masterton was postponed from ten o'clock this.morning, to this afternoon at 2 p clock. In the Legislative Council yesterday, the Hon. -the Speaker took the chair,-, at 2.% A' message W received from Bis; Excellency 'the. Governor, and 'was : : pre l ■seated to the Hpn.'.the.Speak.er'by.Sir.t. Whitak'er.' 'ln'• it His Excellency' announced that he had. found it.incon : venient to deliver! the speech- from-, the Throne at two o'clock that day, as promised by the Commissioners, but at two o'clock to-day^Wednesday).'he would in person deolare.his reasons for calling j Parliament'together. ■ .-.The, Council then adjourned till.t'wo o'clock'tb : day.

: In the Wellington Supremo Court, the case of Fulton v. McOardle and Stewart, a claim of £550, the amount of a promissory note given; in connection with the Bale, of the Pahiutua Star by E. A. Haggen to Alexander Black, was concluded on Monday afternoon, The jury, after about half-au-hour's deliberation, brought in ,a vordict for £550, with interest at 8 per cent., and-judgment was accordingly entered up for' plaintiff, with costs on the highest scale!-. Leave was given to the counsel for the defence to move to sot aside the. verdict, arid oiitor judgment for the defendants, or •move for a new trial, : -- ; ■'

Yesterday afternoon as a horse attached to "Captain" Jones' waggonette was quietly _ nibbling the grass in the Masterton Railway Station yard,' the blinkers slipped offits head, and on the Captain trying to readjust them, the animal started off ataffentle 'trot towards the gate, and had gone about 75 yards when someono, in trying to Btop it, caused it to sworve off the road and roll into a drain, where it immediately expired. Heart diseaso was supposed to be the cause of its sudden death. The vehicle was slightly damaged.