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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2820, 11 February 1888, Page 2

In an article in another column under th,6 leading of " Gardening notes" some valuable aflvice is given regarding the treatmentand restoration of Tennis lawns

"file Orlando is to be commissioned .early jn the year as the new Australian flagship, and the Nelson is t,o be takqp Home and dismantled.

. Yesterday was the forty-eifhthanniver-sary of Her Majesty's marriage Mr D. P. Loasby; of Grey town, lias boon elected, a conservator on the Waiohine River Board, v '

Mr A. D. Riley, the principal of tho School of Design, is in tlie Wairarapa, and intends inspecting the drawing in the public schools.

Captain Edwin wired at 12.10 p.m. today " Glass further rise; and weather much colder," " . ' At the Pahneston North Annual Ram and Ewe Fair yesterday, two rams of Mr Gaisford's breeding (Hawkes Bay) brought 111' and 9]- guineas. The Rev. D. Fulton, of the Masterton Presbyterian Church, intends" taking a three weeks' holiday trip, wo hear. It is oflicially notified that telophonic communication between Masterton, Mauriceville Village, and Mangainahoe is now open to the public. 1

Mr E. Tayler of the local Fruit Depot advertises two tons of plums, and four tons of apples at reduced prices. They are alike suitablo for eating and Jpreserv-

Notice is given that objections to lira Masterton Borough Valuation list will be heard at the Court House on Monday sth March.

We have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt from the Government printer of a copy of the statues: passed last session, ... .

The Masterton Football and Fire Brigades Committee meet to-night at the Volunteer Fire Brigade Station 'at 7.30 to arrange about the Sports on Easter Monday. ; ...

The two final events of the Masterton Lawn Tennis Tournament, and the Town v Country match, will' be played off at' the Masterton Courts probably on Friday and Saturday next,

The lowest tender for re-buildinp the General Post Office, Wellington, was R, H. Carmichael's, of Wellington, at £13,700, and it lias been accepted. The highest was that of Peter Dey, Dunedin, £IB,OOO,

_ Mr Jas. Smith, of Te Aro House, Wellington, publishes au inset with this issue, relative to the' great sale of A. G. Price's bankrupt stock, which is now on. The patronago of country customers is solicited by Te Aro House, and every attention will be paid to them.

The Masterton Philharmonic Society held a successful practice of "Trial by Jury" last night, about thirty members being present, of whom a fair proportion were ladies, Mr E. W.Porritt has been elected Honorary Secretary to tho Society

First newspaper boy—l say, Bill there's been a hawful railway accident, and ever so many people killed! Bill (joyfully): O my! Ain't that jolly! Shan't we sell our papers this evening! The County Cricket Clubs Council at Home has just decided by eleven to three, " That a batsman is out if any part of his person in a straight line with tho wickets stops a ball that would liavo hit the wicket,"

An address will be given at the Temperance Hall, Masterton, to-morrow evening at seven o'clock onJJe Wettes' last confession. Readers of literature of the class referred to will recognise in tho name quoted, one of the cutest readers of the school of rationalists, and alsti ono of the profoundest thinkers of his day. All are invited to attend.

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock sale for Thursday, February IG, 250 fat ewes, 8 fat cows, and 10 steers. Their list will now embrace 1000 fat sheep, 900 breeding ewes; 200 store wethers, 200 hoggets; 8 fat cows, 20 forward bullocis 10 steers, G calves, besides horses, pigs. We remind the public of to-night's performance at the Masterton Theatre, when the Italian Acrobatic Company makes its first appeatance in an attractive programmo of trapeze, gymnastic and horizontal ■ bar feats and also gives illustrations of living statuary with lime light effects. Other' items of an equally pleasing character are also included in the list. Tho prices are 3s, 2s, and Is;

His Worship the Mayor put in an hours hard labor this morning working his new patent scoop in the aquarium, the ex-Mayyr also had a try and the only regret of the bystanders was that Mr T. E Price did not rush out with his Camera and perpetuate for posterity the noble effort of these great men to lay the dust, At a meeting of the Now Zealand Methodist Newspaper Company, held in Christchurch on Tuesday last, the Rev. L. M. Isitt was appointed assistant editor to that journal, on the recommendation of the Wesleyan Conference, This position the Rev. gentleman will assume in April next, when he will remove from Wellington to Christchurch, to take charge of the Sydenham circuit, The Rev. Alfred Williams of Putiki, Wanganui, who is clergyman to tho Maoris there, is visiting this district and preaches at St. Matthew's Church tomorrow evening, Mr Williams also while here intends to go among the To Ore Ore, Taueru, and Papawai natives, and on Tuesday he goes out to Tupurupuru.

A young fellow came into Masterton yesterday from Kopuaranga suffering from some rather severe face wounds, and a heavy blow oil the forehead. It seems that ho was grass-seed cutting in the fields behind Mr Fabian's property there, when, through sky-larking with his mates, lie fell over a bank eight foot high and into the bed of a creek where there was only a foot of water, He,of course, struck the boulders hence the injury. The damage is painful and temporarily disfiguring, but it is not serious.

There are three gold prospecting parties now out from Masterton, They aro all 111 the locality of tho Waingawa water shed A member of one of the .expeditions came into town last night, but beyond speaking hopefully ho m not inclined at this stage to give definite information of his confederates doings, He mentioned that besides the instance which we give m an article in another column of one camp having been burnt out, those on the hills generally were almost suffocated by smoke through the bush fires,

Mr H. S. Wardell, in giving a verdict in favor of Mr N. Nathan, who sued the Island Bay Racing Club tor money (£3O) lie had invested in the totalizator, and which, his horso having lost, lie had, directly the race was run, given notice to the totalizator people not to pay out, ruled that the totalizator was not the agent of the plaintiffs, and that it was merely a stake-holder. This practically " cooks'' tho totalisator, for the law regarding stake-holders is very simple. It is to tho effect that before the stakeholder has paid over the stakes, either party to tho wager has a right to repudiate the transaction, and demand their money back, It matters not whether the event on which the wager has been laid has taken place or not, providing the money is demanded before it has been paid by the stake-holder to the third party.

Skinny Men, "Well's health renewer" restores health and vigor, cures, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility. At chemists iinij Kempthorne Prosser & Qp.', Agents,' Wellin toj), '

It is predicted that in a few years the Broken Hill silver district will be occupied by 100,000 people and that it will develops into another Ballarat.

Roberto the great Billiard player is still keeping up his remarkable form at Home and it is said that, there is not a man living but to whom he could concede half the game in 12,000 up. Experiments in sheep farming carried out by the Royal Agricultural Society at Woburn'England, have proved that wheat is a perfectly safe food for sheep, in small quantities, as well as one of tlio cheapest, now the price is low. - -• The Archery Clubs of the Southern Hemisphere, viz., Adelaide, Mauritius, and Canterbury, New Zealand, are making arrangements for a contest in April next, to determine the southern champion shot, each club shooting on its own ground in presence of an umpire, The menu for the Sydney Centennial State banquet, says an exchange, was of quite a recherche character, lnanticipa tion of the event an order was sent to England some months ago for 200 . partridges, 200 grouse, -200 soles, and 100 salmon, These delicacies, packed in ice, arrived by the steamship' Lusitania in amplo time for them to be used in coil- < nection with tlfo State banquet, ' A boy attending the Masterton school either wilfully or thoughtlessly, set fire to some grass-tussocks in an adjacent paddock yesterday afternoon. In a few minutes the lire began to spread and travel and threatened to do mischief. The teaching staff of the school aided by some of the bigger boys came to. rescue, and beat it out with school brooms and other handy • appliances, No doubt the affair will wind up this morning with a further application and admonition 'for the benefit of the unhappy wiglit who started the fire. .

. Tivo hundred and twenty thousand bushels of cocksfoot grass seed are expected to be available for seeding and shipment from the Canterbury Peninsula this year, and it is anticipated the price •realised will.be 3| alb for go'od clean seed delivered at Lyttelton, At this figure the crop is worth about £50,000. Including the four months grazing that is also got out of the land it is calculated that the grower makes a profit of 16 per cent, on his landed capital and expenses. The Garfield Seed Farm in the district referred to, owned by Mr 6. Black, Akaroa, will yield something like 1,500 s-.cks of seed this year, Europe, America, Australia, and various parts of our Colony all afford a market for this Canterbury commodity. M, Pasteur has not thrown any additional light on his scheme, although he has promised to do so, Public opinion, however, is not any more favorable to his proposal than when it was first announced. Mr P. H. Wood's Taratahi Sale next week, will be hold on Tuesday, 14th instant, instead of Thursday, owing to the latter being race day. The list is now advertised, and includes IGOO sheep of all classes, 140 head of various descriptions of cattle, and horses pigs &c, Following the French cruiser ' Fabart's 1 reconfc five days visit to Akaroa, Canter bury, which although quite a village, has a magnificent harbour, and was originally a French Settlement, H.M.S, Kelson is expected there next month. . Wild honey is very plentiful in the Forty Mile. Bush this season. . Mr J. Thompson, of Eketahuna, took a hive on Thursday last which gave the enormous yield-of no less than seven buckets. When extracted he estimates to get at least loOlbs of pure honey, and te make between four and five gallons of meade.

Misa Amy Sherwin and a complete ballad and operatic concert party are going to do New Zealand, commencing at Invercargill, on Ist March, and working' northwards.

Messrs Bacon and Bright,'of the Elcetaliuna sawmills, are one of the successful tenderers for supplying rata telegraph arms to the Government, The order is a largo one, the firm having no less than 70,000 arms to supply and deliver. A large number of tenders were receiyed from different parts of the North Island, the other tender accepted being that of an Auckland firm.

With regard to the disqualification of the horse Piako by the Stewards of the Wellington Racing Club for his running in a race at the Clubs last meeting, the Club bavo examined Mr Ingle/, who it was asserted was the real owner of the horse, Mr J, Thompson, who was disqualified as the owner of the animal, being only the nominator. The Stewards, howovcr, are not satisfied that Mr T, Ingley is the owner, and we understand that had it been proved to their satisfaction that he was the owner, he would also have been disqualified, while it was not intended to remove the disqualification from Mr Thompson in any case.—N. Z, Times,

The Mayor, with whom the idea of extending his water service is ever uppermost, has in taking up the water service pipes between Elkins' Creek and the Masterton gasworks hit upon the idea ol utilising the two man holes which are being put in at different spots between the two points named, as hose boxes for the fire engine and although the supply of water will hardly be sufficient for the steamer, thtrc will, we are informed, by this means be an ample quantity for the manual engine, The Councillors, we hear; quite admit the value of the plan, but they at the same time talk of " more unauthorised expenditure," so there's trouble ahead. Fees op Dootoks.—The fee of doctors is an item that very many persons aro interested in at present, We believe the schedule for visits is §3.00, which would tax a man confined to his bed for a year, and in need of a daily visit, over SI,OOO a yoar for medical attendance alone! And ono single bottle of Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters taken in time would save the SI,OOO and all the year's sickness. "Post."

A CKOSS BABV. Nothing is so conduoivo to ,i mans remaining a bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of a married friend, and being kept awake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters to make them well and smiling, Young man, remember this. " Traveller."

In the name of the prophet " Figs." We have just bought a Bankrupt stook of Drapery and clothing late in the possession of A, G, Pried, Hall of Commeroe Wellington, have bought it cheaply, and will give any quantity of tremendous bargains to ail customers at Te Aro House Wellington. We have removed this bankrupt stook to our own premises because we have more room, more light, and more comfort for customers at Te Aro House Wellington ■ We are altogether too busy to make out a price list but oustomers always expeot somethumping bargains from bankrupt stocks and they will most assuredly get at this sale more Astonishing ones than they have ever seen, or heard of in their lives, at Te Aro House. Wellington. ' Country residents should rush to train early and eagerly. Railway fares are now cheap enough, and_ all customers will save their fares many times by coming to this sale of Price's Bankrupt stock, at Te Aro House. Wellington. This bankrupt sale commences on Saturday Februaiy 11th at To Ai'O House, Well, ngtoi).