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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2835, 29 February 1888, Page 2

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In the Wellington match at tho N. Z. Hide Association's meeting, Uamaru, Captain Donald was the only Wairarapa prize-taker. He received £2, with a score of 55 points, The hiehesfc score in this match was 59 and the lowest 52. Wo understand that the Government have granted the £3,000 loan for metalling and lessening tho grades on the Taueru to Tenui road, provided the poll which is taken favours the proposed expenditure. Government has finally decided to reduce the amount of capitation payable to Volunteer corps, It is considered premature at present to state the amount of the reduction, The suggestion of an "unco guid" friend of the owner that the name of Miss Wocdford should be changed on her relegation to the stud to Mrs Woodrord reminds the Sydney Bulletin of a moral man upMudgee way who onca won a Maiden Plate with a mare called Zulu. Four months after he returned the prize money to the race secretary with a note saying he regretted to find his mare was not a maiden at the time she won the stakes as she had just foaled, but he was totally innocent of any intention to deceive when he entered her, He was on his wedding trip, and finding that the pastor of the city wheie they stayed over Sunday was an old college friend, called and was invited to assist in the services, but didn't correct his friend's impression that he was travelling for his health, So in the closing prayer, friend pastor says:—"And we pray for our young friend who was ministered to us this morning that Thou wilt look upon him in mercy, aud speedily relieve him of the affliction which has lately come upon him." The " affliction " nearly swallowed her handkerchief,

The London correspondent of the 'Argus' writes:—" An agitation has arisen on behalf of the prize beasts who, at this season of the year, are made to stand in butchers' shops—tho living among the dead—with rosettes upon their foreheads, It is stated that the smell of tho blood is abhorrent to them, and gives them the most evident distress. If it be so, the practice, which has nothing to recommend it, should at onco be discontinued, for he that can seo unmoved a poor brute in pain is sure to be cruel to his fellow creatures, Wherever in Ireland there has been the maiming of cattle—against which Mr Michael Davitt has, to his honor, lifted up his voice in such -just and fiery indignation—there have also been the most foul and cowardly crimes committed against mankind."

Melbourne Table Talk ia responsible for this item:—Among the many Austrajr ian ladies who arc at present lionising in London is Miss Mildway, of New Zealand, a large property holder in that colony; and who is attracting considerable atten tion wherever she goes, owing to the possession of a flowing auburn beard tjpged with grey. Recently she divided the attention oi' a crowded audience with Miss Mary Anderson, whose performance she attended. According to a correspondent, Miss Mildway is one of the sights of London just now. She is not in her pnmiere jcne/iessc, but is highly accomplished and still good looking. That she must be remarkably strong-minded goes without saying. Amongst the letters to the Daily Telegraph ill reference to the supposed cryptogram concealed in the text attributing Shakespeare's plays to Bacon, is one by Lady Martin. "Js there the faintest indication," she asks,' in any of Bacon's writings that his mind had dwelt upon what is best and purest in womanhood, or • that he could have portrayed the qualities which constitute her caprice, her strength, her self-saovifice, her constancy?, Anything to suggest that he could have conceived an Imogen, a Juliet, a Rosalind, a Cordelia, the shrewish Katharina, or the rit'ht noble and queenly Katherine of Aragon? What a series is here! -and they are'but a few of his magnificent eallery—so varied in character and in circumstances, with aurroundiugs so widely diversified, yet .with the samo essential charm of exquisite womanhood which has enshrined them in the hearts and in the minds of the men and women of his own and all other lands."

Tho Masterton Gasworks foreman has been authorieed to sell refuse ashes at Is a load. •

The Thermometer at Mr W. DougaU'B read in the shade at noon to-day 72 degrees, with a steady barometer,

In the Auckland match at the Oamaru Rifle Meeting yesterday, Wilton, of Masterton, made 74. This was too low to secure an award. The highest score was 81, and the lowest 73.

A very attractive inset is published with this issue. Although really an advertisement on the part of Te Aro House, this supplement contains a lot of interesting reading matter, and is a new departure in advertising which should be very popular.

Mr J, F. Robinson, the new Borough Gasworks foreman, is expected to arrive in Masterton irom Christohurch to-day. He commences duty to-morrow. Regarding the Native Football Team which is now in process of formation, tho following telegram received by Mr S. H. Wickerson, yesterday, will be of interest: -" Woodville, 28th February.-Find no coach till'to-morrow. Will go on to Wellington. Ycry sorry. Wire you there. (Signed)— Joe Warbbick." Nearly half the wool from the Australasian Colonies imported into London last year was carried by steamers, thus' indicating- that sailing sliips, although they will still secure a limited and certain class of freight, are, to an extent, being superseded. • We notice that the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company asrain heads the list of wool importers into the Home market. • In 1887, that firm exported from the colonies 60, 121 bales of wool, 20, 525 by Sanderson Murray and Co. being the next highest.

Mr F.H, Wood makes considerable additions to his list for to-morrow's (Thursday's) stock sale in both sheep and cattle. This sale now includes over two thousand sheep and one hundred and twenty head ot cattle, all classes being well represented, besides horses, and pigs, 4c. Advantage has been taken of a rise in the value of freehold property in Melbourne, to dispose of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's land and buildings in Collins-street, the principal streec of that city, for the sum of £'200,000, thus realising a profit of £BO,OOO on their cost.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon, John Yauson was brought before Mr Von Stunner on a charge of drunkenness and indecency in the public street - For the first offence he was fined 10s or 24 hours, and for the second he received a sentence of two months'imprisonment,

It is interesting to notice that since the New Zealand frozen meat export trade commenced m 1882, tho highest prico paid for mutton was in February 1833, when it realised, in London, 8d a pound, at a time when prime Scotch mutton ms selling at lOd per lb. After that the price gradually dropped.until, at the end of last year, it got as low a3 3|d. Tho present quotations for prime N. Z. mutton aro 4-Jd according to the latest cablegram.

We have to acknowledge, with thanks the receipt from Mr J. B. Keith, the local agent of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, a copy of tho firm's annual report and balance sheet for 1887. We observe that despite recent bad times, the Company has managed to keep up its regular payment of (including bonus) a fifteen per cent dividend. Some idea, too, may "be famed of the large extent of the Company's operations, when it is mentioned that it has no less than the immenso sum of £4,000,000, invested in mortgage in various localities.

In an article in' another column we give a description of an interesting collection of oil painting which is now on view in Masterton. These works of art are from the brush of Mr J. Gaut, an artist who has been residing in our township for some time and are well worthy of inspec tion. The studio which is in the old Bank of New South Wales, Queen street, will be open to the public, from 10 a.m. to 12 and from 3 to 0 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday). Mr Gaut intends, leaving Masterton at the end of the week, for some other locality suitablo from its natural.surrouudings to the pursuit of his art,

The fast locomotives used on tho " two hour" trains of tho Pennsylvanian Railroad Company, between New York and Philadelphia, have 0 ft 8-in wheels, 18 inch cylinders, and 24-inch stroke, The engines do a milo in 50 seconds-at least so the Scientific American reports.

It was Sala, wo think, who said that New Zealand had no climate, it only had samples of weather. The statement had its exemplification on Thurday last, says the Taratnki Herald, when at the Bluff the thermometer registered 40 degress, at Napier 72, and at the Thames 74. A Southern editor has read tho Now Zealand Herald's" Notes on Wanganui" very carelessly, and tells us that the following epiraph appears on a tombstone in the Wanganui cemetery; Here lies the landlord of the Lion, Who rests his bones in hopes of Zion; Resigned unto the heavenly will, His son keeps on the business still,

A very gratifying incident occurred this morning, in connection with the recent fire at Mr D. E. Toohill's hotel. Mr W, Sellar, acting for the New Zealand Insurance Company, Mr T. Mackay, for the Liverpool, London, and Globe, and Mr J. Jorns for the national, met Captain Muir and presented him with a cheque for. £lO, as a mutual donation to the Masterton Volunteer Fire Brigade's funds, for their prompt and vigorous service on the occasion in question. Captain Muir, on behalf of the Brigade, suitably expressed thanks, and said '.that such generous acknowledgnient of tho men's efforts would do.muoh to encourage them,and could not but tend towards efficiency.

From a recent number of the Journal of Gas Lighting we take take the following:—"The fifth ordinary.meeting of the Australian Electric Light, Power, and Storage Company has just been held, and the Chairman took the opportunity of making a clean breast of the facts of the history and position of the undertaking. He said that of the £120,000 which was really all the Company's original capital, excluding vendors' and form ders' shareSj not less than £38,000 absolutely dissappeared during the first year of the company's existence. Of this amount- £45,000 was paid for patents, besides SO,OOO worth of shares. Then the company lost L 5590 upon the purchase of the option of tho Sellon-Volkmav accumulators, arid the 'advertising trip of Sir J. Vogel cost the concern over £5,000,' without any result whatever. This is the way in which electric companies spent their money in the good old times of five years ago." " Buchu-Paiba."

Quick, complete cure, all annoyin Kidney, Bladder, and Uninary diseases. At Chemists & Druggists. Kempthome Prosser & Co., Agents, Wellington. "Rough on to. Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits, sparrows, gophers, At chemists and druggists,

Mr Colin Winchester makes an announcement regarding the price of broad, the 21b loaf being 3|d and the 41b one 7d.

The gas manufactured at the Masterton Gasworks during February averaged 10,952 cubic feat- to the ton, This result is very creditable to Mr Jas. Reorden, the Acting Foreman, as itia considerably abovo what has formerly been got out of the same coal.

The Laing-Slavin match is now riot: likely to come off. Mr J. R. Riley,' Slavin's backer, sent to v Wanganui £IOO by way of a deposit, but neither Laing nor his backer put in an appearance, The New Zealand champion is apparently not over-burdened with courage. Sir George Grey has at last found a purchaser for his lovely island homo of Kawau, and for the sum of a Victorian capitalist will make N his home in that picturesque spot, "it is stated that Sir George Grey is about to pay a visit to England. Hehasbeenin failing health for some time past, At the Borough Gas Committee meeting last night, after considerable discussion regarding the accounts for pipelaying in connection {with the gasometer water supply, and some allegations that the expenditure was an unauthorised one, it was eventually decided to recommend the Council to pay the amounts. We understand that the Borough Gas Committee have officially expressed great satisfaction at the manner ia which Mr James Reorden, the acting foreman has performed his duties, both in improving the general appearance of the gasworks, and also in obtaining admirablo results. In the Lyttelton Orphanage the appropriate motto "Wilful Waste make 3 Woeful Want" surmounts the wall in the large dining,room, and the good old maxim that '.'Cleanliness is next to Godliness " is found in the lavatory,

Mr P. H. Wood held a stock sale at Mr J. Wilkerson's farm, Waihakeke, yesterday. There was a fair demand for aheep. The following pricea were realized : Lambs in the wool, 4a Id to 5s Gd; ewes, 4a to 5a 2d : fat aheep, mixed, Cb 6d; store wethers, 2 aud 4 tooth, 5a 6d; stack-of hay, £23. The funeral of Mr Angua McMaster, nhioh took place yesterday ut Tuliitarata, Lower Valley, was very largely attended indeed, and there must have been fully time hundred persons present from all parts of the district, quite fifty of whom were Maories. The procession, as it wound up the hill, at the top of which the burial ground ia situated, waa mournfully picturesque, eight stalwart Natives, in their own peculiar mourning costume, lending a wierd solemnity to the last sacred rite.

To the clever and imaginative Colonial story writer—if there were any clever aud imaginative colonial story writers, which unfortunately there are not-an incident which happened recently in the Parramatta Hospital, says an exchange, might afford material for a thrilling novel somewhat on the lines of "Under Two Flap." An inquest was held m the district Hospital upon tho body of a man named Robert Matthews. Matthews had been a marine on board of H.M.S. Nelson, was an Englishman, aud at the time of hia death was about forty years of age. On a dark night he waa driving a cart along a road in Parramatta. Tho cart overturned and the wheel passed over the man's body, crushing and fatally injuring him. Upon the point of death he would give no information as to who he was, stating only that he had run away from honie, and did not wish his friends to know where he was. The name by which he wa3 known had ovidentiy been assumed. With his story untold, he died, Unlike the hero of tho novel, there had been no supremely beautiful woman or " little one" of Africa to bring him back to his old life, whatever it was,

'lhe North Ota«o Times reports that a few days ago a singular hailstorm occured in the Ofcepopo district, sweeping across the property ofMessrs A. andG.Patterson. The Btorm, from the. description given, must have been ono of the sovorest and most destructive ever known in the district. Mr Patterson informs us that about C.30 p. in ho observed what he supposed to be arain or hail squall pass over a portion of the property, The following morning at 10 o'clock be visited the place, and to his astonishment found that a strip ot oats, 400 yards wide and half a mile long, had been so completely threshed out that it would not pay for the twine to bind it. The ground was covered to a depth of 2in, with a solid coating of ice, and some parts, in the water runs on the sidlings, whero the hail, or lumps of ice, had rolled down, there were solid beds of ice three feet thick, Mr fatteraon states that he haa no idea as to what size the hailstones may have beeii, but judging by appearances he would say they must have been good sized lumps of ice, The quantity which fell must have been immense, when it is considered that after sixteen hours it was still two inches in depth on the level ground.

A CROSS BABY. Nothing is so conducive to a man s remaining a bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of a married friend, and being kept awako for live or six hours by the crying of a cross baby, All cross and crying babies need only Dr Soule's American flop Bitters to make them well and smiling, Young man, remember this. '' Traveller." _ Fees of Doctors.—The fee of doctors is an item that very many persons are interested in at present. Wo 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 §I,OOO a year for medical attendance alone! And one single bottlo of Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters taken in time would save the'§ J ,000 and all the year's sickness, "Post," . Ouk special price-list recently issued, and giving a few. details of some of the bargains in the bankrupt stook of A. G. Price, had the effect, on Saturday, of drawing one of the largest crowds of visitors that were ever pongregated within the walls- of Te Aro House, Wellington..

They came from all quarters, from the North, tho South, the East, the West-from the Hutt, Petone, Johnsonville, Poriraa," the Manawatua, and Wairarapa, and from the 'Province of Marlborough and elsewhere, They came in shoals, not to look only, but to buy, and buy they did, wisely, discriminatingly, and cheaply, at the wonderful sale of Price's bankrupt stock at Te Aro House, Wellington. Euom all quarters comes the assertion of this undoubted fact, that nothing like this sale has eyer transpired in the city; that for genuineness and the multitude of unmistakable bargains it is without a rival in this city or elsewhere. So say we of Te Aro House, Wellington.

We want all our frieuds and the public to understand that we were not able to move the whole of Price's stock at once. We brought and aro bringing it down gradually, day by day, so that there is no fear of a scarcity qi bargains. They will not run out while this sale continues, and the last customed' equally with the first will go away rejoicing because of his good fortune at' the sale of Price's bankrupt stock at Te Aro House, Wellington.

We cannot keep'this sale "going for more than ten days "from the present date, and therefore we would urge the public of the town, suburbs, and country districts, to grasp this present opportunity and empty their pockets, while supplying all their requirements at lower prices than were ever known in New Zealand at the sale of Price's bankrupt stock at To Avg Hou?o, Wellingtop,—Apvt