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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2839, 5 March 1888, Page 2

We are glad to learn that an influential committee of- citizens is being formed to make arrangements for. a complimentary farewell concert to the Eev. L. M. Isitt, to be held in the Opera House, Wellington, on the 23rd inst. His Excellency the Governor will be present, and Sir Harry Atkinson has undertaken the duty of presenting Mr Isitt with an illuminated address. It is a new idea for Episcopalians to be getting up & testimonial to a denominational minister,%t t)jen this particular Wesleyaji parson has forged a friendly link among all the churches of the Empire City, so that His Excellency the Governor, the Premier, and all the great men of the city have learnt a lesson him, aadare about to acknowledge, in a handsome manner, the efforts made by tins minister to serve, not only hie own people, but all poj>le.

_ The Amy Sherwin concert company arrived at the Bluff'on Monday last, and begins a tour through New Zealand,

Tenders are to be callod for the re? erection of the Town Hall at Carterton, the Insurance Company interested having decided to put it up again,.

The Grey town Butter and Cheese Company shipped twelve tons of ohecse to the English market by the lonic which eft Wellington last Saturday. The Salvation Army are going to give the Maoris a turn shortly, aud two officers who have just learnt'tho Native language are to be sent to the King Country at an early date to open the campaign, Mr. W.A.P. Sutton, who was formerly a sheep inspector in this district is now at Ashburton in Canterbury, md in reply to tho inquiry of a Masterton resident who was passing through he said that he was getting on very well there. An old identity, Mr J. M, Masters, better known as " Johnny Goodladdie," will be remembered by many Masterton settlers, He is now, we hear, a shining light in the Dunedin Salvation Army, where he has become sainted under the

title of "Holy John.' We are glad to learn that Mr J. GFawcottwho twelve' years ago was proprietor of a Masterton newspaper, has now steady wages as a -compositor on the Otago Daily Times, and is a prominent Salvationist in ' Dunedin. For a time

rior to this, Mr Fawcett was in rather iecarious circumstances'

The Cheese-Factory at.Greytown is | beginning to feel the effect of the dry season by a diminished milk supply, Formerly about eleven Hundred gallons of milk used to be brought in every day by the suppliers; now only about eight hundred gallons are coming to hand, and the quantity is daily getting less. . The Itev Mr Beard, preached at St Luke's Church,. Greytown, yesterday evening; He is on a visit to. Greytown for a few days. Mr Beard's visit to New Zealand, is, we understand, drawing to a close, and accompanied by Miss BeardJ he leaves for England in about a fortnight. St Patrick's Day, 17th March, this year comes on a Saturday, and there has been some discussion among tradesmen as to whether it should be made a whole holiday or not, the Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Sports Committee ran round a petition; with the result that the shop keepers have decided to close the entire day, and the Mayor is to be asked to declare it a public holiday.

The ladies of the Lancaster Park Tennis Club at Ohristchurch, have issued four or five hundred invitations for a semipublic fete to be held in the park next Wednesday. Besides lawn tennis, croquet, and other diversions there is to bo a cricket match, ladies against gentlemen. The gentlemen are to bowl lefthanded, bat left handed, and field lefthanded, and are to play with broomsticks, while the ladies will have bats,

One flock owner, at'least, in the Manawatu district has (says the Advocate) had a lively experience of speculation in the frozen meat trade, Re cently he received tho gratifying or rather mortifying intelligence that he had netted the handsome (1) sum of 19s from a consignment of 170 sheep. An English paper reports that the Queen has sent a lotter to the Prince of Wales referring in very decided term s to his patronageofSullivanthepugilist, It is also stated that a telegraphic account of the recent fight, Smith and Kilrain, intended for His Royal Highness was in error sent over the Queen's private wire to Windsor, Her Majesty however, did not Bee the telegram, In the steamer by which the Rev, Father McKenna's brother came up from the South on Friday, there was the following strong array of "The Cloth I 'The Rev. Mr Nancarr#w, the Rev. Mr Reid, the Rev. Mr Lewis, the Rev. Mr Morley and one or two others besides Mr McKenna, ( himself, a fellow priest, and an odd Episcopalean minister. There,were also.on b»ard two prominent members ot the Salvation Army; - And yet . there was a •fine passage,, and the steamer arrived safely.- Wonders will never cease, • Nine bankruptcies have, so far, been registered in Wellington, since the beginning of the year,—four in January, and five in February. During the same two months of last year fifteen bankruptcies took place. It seems that the Marlborough people are taking a\ery common-sense view of the rabbit trouble, and are trying to con-, vert a nuisance into a source of profit. We learn from a Blenheim paper that Mr G. A. Garling, Manse-road, has entered

into a contract with the Marlborough Meat Export Company for supplying 1000 to 1500 rabbits daily to the Factory, Mr Garling, who has already engaged 30 rabbitevs, expects to deliver 2000 per day during tho next few mouths.

A Humane Society is evidently required in Greytown, There is a family of boys there who could well give torturers of the middle ages points, and yet beat them. On i'riday last, these limbs of Satan hanged a dog to a tree for half an hour, cut him down, dragged him by the legs a quarter of a mile, and then finally piled boulders on his apparently lifeless body. The next day (Saturday), with surprise, not unmingled >vith delight at the prospect of further "fun," they found that the still • faithful animal had managed to revive, and crawl up to their house—lus only home. They then ultimately (Jespatched the poor creature with a rusty axe. TJk> same fiends, on a former occasion, shot a bullet iqto a dog, and then, as they expressed it, watched " it kick," for half-an-hour before they thought fit to batter out its brains, and end its misery, These are children who attend our National 80)10,0)3, and upon whose education, superior to that of all. civilized nations, we pride ourselves. Heaven preserve us if it is coming to this.! Give us back the untutoured savage—aye, the cannibal—lie, at least, 4oes not torture dumb animals. Ugh! Such revolting cruelty is positively sickening, " Gold-mining fervour at Greytown has by no'means died out. The original party are at present up theTauheremkau Govgo, and another organisation is up the Waiolune Gorge. The latter, so as to have an opinion apart from f)r Heotor's sent a parcel of stone down to Profpsjqr Black, of Dunedin, to be tested. He is supposed to be the most able mineralogist in Ifew Zealand. The party state that the Professor wired them last week saying:—" Stone very good; send twentyfive pounds more." The same men havo also arranged a meeting for next Wednesday gyejiing, when they will consider a proposal to etpploy a few miners for a fixed time to put a drive into the reefs, and thus do a little more than the mere surface prospecting, which so far has been the only research indulged in. Last night a quantity of stone selected by the qrjgif)|) prospeotors arrived in Greytown 1 from the ranges, aijd we had the oppor' ' tunity of inspecting jt. The quartz certainly was not much to look at, hyfc ' its possessors said that it was" all ri(,ht," and they promised to send, _ after a daylight and microscopic examination of it, 1 an am sample on to the Wairarapa 1 Daiiy omoe, so ttyat Masterton prospect tors and others could tee what m being' brought .in at the (jreytown end'.' ;1

Tho stakes for next. Friday's Tinui Hack Race meeting have beoii increased J by ten pounds, £1 having been added to < each event. ' . Messrs M. Caselberg & Co. announce that they are prepared to make suits to , measure from Colonial arid imported ; Tweeds at 39s Gd. The next English mail, direct by the i " Aorangi",cloßes at Masterton on Thurs- | day, Bth March, at 6.30 a.m. i The Wanganui Chronicle states that 1 the Earl of Dundas.and his son have 1 been staying in that town, leaving thero for Wellington oii Saturday. . " (In a High School of 1900 A D.) Principal" Who was first in war, Brst in pence, and first in the hearts of his countrymen Chorus by the entire School, standing, and with uncovered lioads: "John Lawrence Sullivan I' American paper. ' The Greytown people are arranging to give a farewell tea to the Rev. J, Ward and Mrs Ward, of the Wesleyan Church, before they leave in accordance with the circuit change, Mr. Geo. Johnston'announces that his Queen Street Store (late Mr E, Feist's) will be closed on Tuesday, oth March, ' for re-marking goods, and that .it will open oil Wodneaday, 7th instant, for a month's great clearing sale. Students deßirous of joining the Ma a ' terton branch of the School of Design are invited to send their names to Mr T. E Price. Subjects of- instruction and par-, tieulars of fees are published in another column) •: : y Messrs Lowes and. lorns announce series of sales for Saturday next, commenoirig with the Bale of tho rights and - privileges in connection with the Master-ton-Opaki Jockey Club's St. Patrick's Day meeting, after that a lot of dressed i timber, furniture, "produce, poultry, and general sundries. 1 Greytown is truly going ahead. As an i instance of this a just-coucluded land . transaction may be quoted. Tfie Free- | masons of Greytown Borne time since purchased a half acre section fronting Main ! street. They have recently sold a quarter ( of it, but with half the entire frontage, t for as much as tlxcy gave for the whole i piece. The installation of Brother the Hon ■ Sir Barry Albert Atkinson, K.C.M.G. i as District Grand Master of the North I island E. 0. <of Freemasons will take i place at Wellington some time during , May, when a large gathering of Freer masons not only from this colony but j from all parts of Australia is expeoted. Mr McCardle's many friends will regret t to learn that his homestead at Pahiatua , has been destroyed by fire. A telegraphio ) report of the sad catastrophe appears in . another column,

The Forestors of Greytown are at pres" ent negotiating for the purchase of a piece of ground in Mara street of that township, with the intention of removing their Hall, which at present stands in West street, and is off the chief thoroughfare, on to a more prominent site, Mr H. C. Sidney,who was in New Zealand with the Leitch Dramatic Company, lias arranged for the purchase of a powerfully dramatised vorsion of Zola's novel " Germinal" with a view to its production. Miss Alice Norton will play the' heroine, says the Weekly Press,

Three new councillors are to bo elected on tho North Wairarapa County Council, owing to the constitution of the Akiteo Riding, two to represent the Castlepoint Riding, and one for the Akiteo. An official notification appears in another column.

The erection of several now buildings in Greytown is now pending the settlement of some trouble which has arisen regarding the title of the vacant aore adjoining and to the North of the Club Hotel. Some time since it was desired to erect some shops on this site and as soon as the difficulty is arranged, visitors to Greytown may expect to Bee an almost continuous block from MrF, H, Wood's Auction Room to the Club Hotel,

. It is cheerful to read in these hungry daya .(says tba Liverpool Weekly Pojfc) that one steamer brought on Saturday from ISew Zealand 35,000 carcases of mutton. But what becomes of it all? Yon may go to a thousand butcher shops and not be able to buy a pound of ISew Zealand mutton. It is sold as prime Euglish mutton at high prices, which must be an exhilarating item of news to the English farmers.

The manager of the Hew Plymouth Co" operative Society has received a letter from the manager of the Go-operative Society in Manchester, England, refering to some butter shipped there from New Plymouth. The writor says:—"Your butters are only suitable to take place of third cooks', or, say, good confectionary quality, and will not on the average realise more than 75s to 80s per cwt, for the next two years or afterward unless some change takeß place. A CROSS BABY. Nothing is so conducive to a man 1 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 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. We believe the schedule for visits is 53,00, 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! Afjd one single buttle of Dr Soule's American IJop Bitters takeu in time would save the §I,OOO and al) the year's sickness. "Post."

_ Oun special price-list recently issued, and giving a few cfetails of some of the bargains il! tlfo bankrupt stock of A. G. Price, had the efleot, oi) Saturday, of driving one of the largest orowds. of visitors that wor& ever congregated within the walls of To Avo House, Wellington,

They came from all quarters, from the North, the South, the East, the West—from the Hutt, Petone, Johnsonville, Porirua, the Mftnawatua, and Wairarapa, and from the Province'of Marlborough and elsewhere, They carao in shoals, not to look only,, but to buy, and buy they did, wisely, discriminatingly, ttffd cheaply, at the wonderful sale of Price's bankrupt stock at To Aro House, Wellington.

I'nosi ij.ll quarters qomes the assertiqn qf this undoubted fad that nothing like {hi§ jale has ever transplred'in the b'ityi that for genuineness and the multitude of unmistakable bargains Jt is without a rival in this city "or elsewhere, So say we of Te Aro House, Wellington, , We want all our'friends and,the public to understand that we were not able to movo he wholo of Price's stook at once. We brought and are bringing it down gradually, day by day, ao that there is no fear of a scarcity of bargains. They will not run out while this sale continues, and the last oustomer 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 oannot keep this sale going for more tjjftn ten days from the present date, ant} therefore w isQqty i]rge tho publio of tho town, suburbs, and 'coun|ry dfstriots, to, grasp this present opportunity and empty their pookets, while supplying all their requirements at lower prioes than wore ever known in New Zealand at the sale of Price'B .bankrupt etook at Te Aro House, Welling-ftn.-ADYT

thermometer at Mr W. Dougall's read in tlio shade at noon to-day_ ?3 degrees, with barometer allowing Blight tendency to fall. Dr. Albert Martin, son of the Hon, John Martin, is now on his way out to New Zealand via Melbourne. ' Iu connection with the French War Office Scandal, M. Wilson has been found guilty of trafficking in the sale of decorations and has been sentenced to pay a fine of 3000 francs, two years imprisonment, and the deprivation of all civil rights for five years after the expiration'of his term of imprisonment.

At the Masterton Assessment Court this morning, before Mr Von Sturmer, the following reductions were allowed to objectors, by consentW. Gillespie L' 26 to L 23; D. McMillan LU to L 7 , J. Ewington L4sto L 37; J, P. Oowie L 25 to L 23; 0. MoKillop Lll to L 7; and L 8 to L 6 ; J. Macara Ll9 to Ll7 ; L4B to L4O ; and L6B to Mr S. H. Wickerson has to-day received the following telegram from Mr Joe Warbrick, who is organising the Maori Football team Will reaoh Masterton to-night, Kindly arrange for Akitu and others meet mo to-morrow morning without fail, or to night.". At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning the criminal business con-, sisted of one" drunk", J. H. Kane, who was fined 5s or eight hours imprisonment, arid three offenders who were charged with.being illegally on premises. The first two, F, ; W. Sehofleld and F. King,, two destitute individuals, were heard- by. Mr R; M. Galloway at about midnight while fixing up a camping place in the interior of tho, Wesleyan Sunday School in. Hall-street, into which they had entered for rofugo. He gavo information to the police whe went down and arrested them Mr von Sturmer, recognising that tho inen were thero with no; ovil intent, but more to obtain a night's lodging, dismissed them with a caution. ' The third prisoner, Thos. King, a Maori lad, was found in;Mr Juno's house, in Hall-street, at half past four o'clock ou Sunday morn ing Mr Juno heard a noise, and going to an adjoining room found the Native asleep, he having come in through a window. ■ TV informant not wishing to proceed further, the police did not press the case, and the boy was discharged with a caution. '■ Mr A. 1). Riley, director of the School of Art, is at present in Masterton and has arranged for the local branch of the School of Design to be re-opened in the first week of April, under the conduct of an instructress who ha» recently arrived from England and who holds South Kensington certificates. Mr Riley, it may be mentioned, is at present engaged in the Wairarapa in giving a course of ten lectures on subjects connected with art. This series, of which only the first lecture has been .eiveu, is being delivered in the Greytown school, one on each Saturday, at 10 a.m., and they are open to anybody who cares to attend. Next year a similar course will probably be delivered in Masterton.