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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2807, 26 January 1888, Page 2

Captain Edwin wired at 12.51 p.m. today :-" Indications show glass falling after' twelve to twenty-four hours from now, and northerly winds," Mr Von Stunner, R, M,, returned to Masterton by this mornings train. He has, as before mentioned, been visiting Auckland during the Christmas and New Year vacation, Mr Jas. Macara's tender for the Manttamahoe tollgate has been accepted by the Wairarapa North County Council, and also that of Mr John Wyeth for the Ngawapurua gate. Particulars appear in another column, The Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society advertise, that their ' annuaLAutumn Show will be hold on 1 Thursday, 23rd February, proximo. Entries can be Mr \V, B. Chonnells, the Secvetary. from whom all particulars are to be obtained The wind and rain are retarding harvesting very much. A good sharp shower that would thoroughly irrigate everything and then be followed by a spoil of fine weather, would do some good, but the present kind of off and on weather will only damage the gram that is already lying cut or in stook. Messrs Chamberlain Bros, have grown at the Akura, a mixed crop of oats and wheit, and have, wo understand, been cutting up both straw and grain for chaff. This plan is adopted to some extent' in America, but there they have machinery for separating the two grains in threshing.

The stoaniers Tainui and RuapehV arrived at Plymouth from New' Zealand on 23rd January. ': ■■'-■■■ .Over four thousand bales of .wool have ; been despatched' from the Masierton: Railway Station this season. --;■. ■:; | ■ Mr Rowe, of Ohristchurch, has taken j all the. pis; prizes at the Sydney Centennial Agricultural Show, Messrs Lowob awl lorn add to their stock sale, a line of sixteen 3-year-old cattle, , The Thermometer at Mr W. Dougall's , read in the shade at noon to-day' 59 degrees. The Barometer fell after midnight, but has since risen again two-tenths. The Wnirarapa, North County Council advertises the result of the poll at Bideford, which resulted in a decision favourable to thq borrowing" of £540 for metalling the Te Ore Ore-Bideford road, . The piano to be used at the concert on Friday evening by the celebrated artistos MissDaviosandMrWyim McLean will be a new Mignon piano kindly lent for the occasion by the agents. Messrs J, Brown & Co. The fireworks display on the Basin Reserve, Wellington, .last night, was witnessed by about 10,000 people. The discharge, which was in every way a success, was followed by a heavy shower of rain a by no means unusual effect when by any similar cause the amosphere is disturbed. The wheat crops in the Wairarapa are being threshed rather early. At Home they are not thought nearly so good, unless they have well matured in stook, and have also been in the 'stack for several months. Horo, there is a stronger reason for this courae .being followed, the certainty of high winds making it necessary to cut this grain while it is still rather green. Threshing out in the field is certainly an advantage from a labour saving point of view, but tho ultimate result is a lower valued corn, mid a' corresponding loss. Dr. Hosking informed us this morning that young France was doing quite as well as could be expected, and that in about ten days he anticipates that the patient after being supported with plaster of Paris bandages, will be in a condition to bear removal to Wellington. Special provision will have to be made to render tho railway journey as little exhausting as possible, and wo hope that the Railway authorities, will see their way when the application is made, to place a saloon carriage at the doctor's disposal Messrs Froeman R, Jackson & Co. report on their Johnsonville stock sale'hafc in spite of tho small entry of beef, prices receded Is the lOOlbs. The bullocks were light to fair in weight, the quality being good The quotations are given below. Sheep were at last sales prices. Pigswero yarded in the usual number, aud fell in value about Is to 2s per head, excepting small stores which maintained their prices. Cattle-Bullocks, £4 10s to £slos, averaging £4l9a 3d; cows L 3 10s, to L3l2s 6d; fat calves, lis to 15s oach. Beef is quoted at lis the lOOlbs. Sheep-Wethers 8s 5d to 8s Cd; fat ewes 6s to 7s; fat lambs, (is 5d to7sld; Pigs-Porkers 14s to 16s; larger sorts 18s to 225; small stores 6s 3d to Bs,

There are several particularly fine crops of wheat in the Canterbury province this year, Two lots of wheat in the Ashburton Forks district look especially well, the grain standing about. 4ft 6in high, and being unusually heavily headed with ears of com of a beautifully rich, healthy-looking color. Neither paddock has a faulty or light patch. The wheat is Hunter's white, and it is estimated to thresh out at the very least sixty bushels to the acre of a splendid sample of grain. Tho owner has stated that tho last tbo the same two paddocks were in wheat the yield was sixty-throe bushels per acre, and the present crop has a very much more promising appearance. At the resident Magistrate's Court this morning beforo Mr A. W. Renall, J.P., John Thompson, alias '• Yorkie,", again made his appearance and was charged first with being drunk, and disorderly, and on a second information with bem? idlo and disorderly, and with having no lawful means of support, As Yorkie had already run up a score of three " drunk " convictions in one month, he was sentenced on' the first charge to one month's hard labor, and on the second to two months' similar occupation, the sentence to be cumulative, Thompson seems to have been a regular nuisance in the place, and his condition was dirty m the extreme, during the three months he is a boarder in tho Government Hotel, he will no doubt be dug out from the accumulation of ages, and then after a good hot tubbing, a free use of disinfectants, and the usual gaol clip, Yorkie will be a little more like a respoctable member of Society and will bo in a fit state to again como into the outer world.

Uur Gardening Notoß of last Saturday seem to have affected tho men on the Upper Plain Road, for after resting a day or two they have now commenced to do a little gardening on this much abused thoroughfare, probably with a view to growing a late crop of turnips or something of that kind. We can only once raoro pationtly point out to them that the moat necessary work required is that the loose ston«s should be raked off. When thev have done even this, those who use the road will not so much object to tho men returning again to their prosenfc amusement of weeding and general titivntion of things. The hedge or ornamental shrubbery which grows between the road and the permanent fenco certainly needs attention, but it could easily stand over until the more needful repairs are done, Mrs Partington says.-Don t keep any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the human cistern; but put your trust inDrSoule's American Hop Bitters, which will euro general dilapidation; costivo habits, and all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a severe oxtracfc of yphoid fever. They are the »c' pirn nmnoi medicines. " Boston Globe." TWO OEOANS. - Regulate first the stomach, second the liver, especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly, and you will remove at least nine-teen-twentieths of all the ilia that mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate. DrSoule's American Hop Bitters is tho only.thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two organs " Maine I armor ' Wanted all ladies to seo our last shipment for the so ison of while embroidered muslin robes, very choice,- from 25s t 6d to 425, at To Aro House, Wellington. Wanted, aye wanted all the young ladies of the <% to visit our showroom and select fom tho most beautiful assortment in the ■•ity i heir hats for tho season at To Aro Houpo, Wellington Wasted, all mothers to see our pionic hats fnr the girh from 2d to Gd each, and nnr '••oy*' straw hats from 3d to Is oacli, at Te An House, Welliug'on. Wanted, aye wanted, 500 customers for ladies'summer costumes from 3s 6d to 60s, and summer mantles and jackets of every description from 2s lid to 4 guineas, at Te Aro House, Wellington, Wastrd, everyone to see and buy 4button ki.l gloves, superior quality, usual piico-Sa lid, for Is lid. As 500 pairs of theio hiue already been sold, no time should he Inst in scouring them at To Aro House, Wellington. Wanted, ayo wanted, purcliasora for a special lot of Orion ul and other laces at about half their usual price, viz, 2Jd, 3Jd, 5Jd and 6£d per yard. There is bound to be rush for these at Te Aro flouse.-Apyi,