The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2840, 6 March 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1888.

The Greytown Cricket Club arc practicing hard in contemplation of matches with Carterton and Masterton. They probably play Carterton next Saturday. At the Christchurch station, while killing a few minutes of time he had to spate, Sir Julius Vogel indulged in tho expenditure of a penny at the patent weighing machine. His rocord 011 tho scale was lGst 91b.

The British Medical Journal, in au article discussing M. Pastour's scheme of exterminating rabbits by means of chicken cholera, considers that it would destroy birds, and that insects and snakes would consequently be largely increased.

In order to check reckless and dishonest trading, the principal Auckland and Dunedin general merchants and soft goodsmen have agreed to a scale of credit terms and discounts, and it is expected that Canterbury and other firms will shortly join this organisation for a uniform system,

Between 14,000 and 15,000 sheep left Masterton by rail during February, consigned to the Wellington freezing establishments. Wo have received an interesting pamphlet from Mr dim J, Pownall of Wellington, dealing with the rabbit pest question.

A conger eel, fifteen feet long, was hooked by the s.s. Mana's passeugers, who went for a fishing excursion fiom Wellington 011 Sunday, Mr W, O'Brien M. P., has definitely decided to visit the Australian colonies and Now Zealand at an early date, and will address meetings 011 the Irish question.

The Chairman of the Standard Insurance uompaiiy, at the annual meeting in Dunedin yesterday, stoutly urged the necessity of the various ollicos co-oper-ting to secure a fair reasonable tariff, and rescue business from the utter demoralisation which the present cutting of prices inevitably leads to, American statistics for the 1887.season show that the fastest milo galloped was by Stuyvesant, who ran tho distance 111 lmiu 40scc, which is the best time ever made in a race against horses,

The London and North-Western Rail" way is fitly described as a "kingdom in itself," employing as it does, a standing army of GO,OOO men, being perfectly self-contained, and making a revenue of j ten millions a year. | An additional outcrop of cool has been discovered on Mr W, Faulkner's property at Fernndge, and Mr J. Yates, who has I kindly brought us a sample, says that it is superior to any yet found. The soam lms been exposed by tho action of a j landslip, Tho Hrst consignment of beef for tho frozen meat export trade which has yet gone from Masterton, is to leave by next Thursday's train, It is an experimental shipment of eighteen head from Mr J. j Stuckey of Rangitauma, and Messrs W. Perry and C. Wagland are entrusted with the killing and preparation of the beef, Thorn cut) bo no doubt that-the ready facilities , offered by the present bankruptcy law to shuffle off liabilities with the least possible trouble, is largely taken advantage of by fraudulent debtors, so much so, that it is questionable whether we should not be better off without any law on the subject at all than as at present. Amendments have been suggested on the lines of the English Act of Parliament which has worked with marked success, but it is thought by some that ws could not do better than altogether repeal our existing laws, and adopt tho English law as it now stands.

Tlireo hundred and forty million francs worth of new Panama .Canal bonds have been issued. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their sale for Saturday next, in the estate,, of D, Peacook, 3 casos of sheep dip,

We are requested to remind our readers of Messrs Lowes and lorns sale at Mr M. Ryan's farm to-morrow, The list will embrace sheep, dairy cows, horses, carts, farming implements, harness, tools, household furniture, and sundries, The farm is adjaeont to Olnreville on the Gladstone Road,

Messrs Lowes & lorns announco their next stock sale at Masterton, for Wednesday, March' 14th. Their list already embracos 3700 sheop of all classes, DO cows, horses, pigs, and 20 rams.

The following tenders were received by the Feathers ton Road Board for the Protective Works at Kahautara:—A Dick (according to specifications) L 19!) 15s), (using ■ white pine stakes) LIBB ; W Benton, Llß6los, LI7G; J, Dawson, L 173, L 159; Feast & Roband, Ll7O 12s, L 124 (accepted), The latest invention is one by which it is proposed to give steamers and ships a coating of india-rubber, so that if they collide they will harmlessly rebound. An exchange asks cannot railway trains be fitted up with something in the same way?

An estate of nearly 1450 acres not far from Melbourne, and adjoining the Township of Campbellfield, was bought by Mr Duncan McPherson, oLDunedin a few years ago from various owners at prices averaging: about £2O por acre, Ho has just sold the estate for the sum of £159,401 10s, equal to £llO per aore. •The date of. departure of the San Francisco mail from New Zealand will be made one day lator after this month, leaving Dunedin and. Ohristehurcii on Saturday instead of Friday, as at present, and reaching London-, in one day less time, owing to the acceleration of the American Transcontinental JMway Service.

A writer in the Lytteyton Times says that lie regrets to know that man, for the sake of liltliy lucre, has not that consideration for his fellow man, that he should have, and in tho matter of meat supply, a number of cattle are killed from time to time suffering from cancer, and the meat goes into consumption as cheap meat. Ho adds that he is positively assured that a cancerous cow was given to some pigs as food, and the pigs died from the effects, and that it is quite a common thing for pigs to be fed 011 diseased cows and horses, and those pigs in time become hams and bacon, Cancer in the human being appears to bo rife, and the question naturally aiises, Can the disease be transmitted from a diseased cow, to tho unfortunate possessor of a cheap joint} The Westport Coal Company's output from Westport during the year 1887 wa ß 110,000 tons, against 74,000 the yea r before, and from Ureymouth 80,000 tons. Sample canoes have already been sent from the latter place to China and Mauritius, Tho work of the company is now carried on, 011 a scale which entitles it to bo considered of colonial importance. Last year the sum of nearly £70,000 was paid away in wages (the number of hands employed being between 400 and 500) and upwards of 140,000 in freights, the turnover altogether amounting to £150,000.

It is a commonly accepted opinion that rabbits will not take poison during the summer, but (says the 'Bruce Herald 1 ) a local settler has furnished proof positive that this, like many other popular boliofs, is a delusion, Mr John Reid, lesseeof tho Bush, laid some phosphorised oats last week on a bare portion of a paddock between four and five acres, and two days afterwards ho found thirty dead rabbits.' On all tho bush tracts around there were also numbers of rabbits lying dead;-' The Scotsman has published an Edinburgh Police Record, exposing Mrs Gordon Baillie, who has recently been concerning herself with Crofter emigration. The record states that Mrs Baillie is the daughter of a laundress, and has been several times wanted for defrauding tradesmen, and also that she once received a sentence of nine months at Dundee. It includes testimony by the fvev. Cameron Lees that Mr Percival Frost, of Melbourne, was Mrs Baillie's present husband. Mrs Baillie states she has taken proceedings against tho paper for defamation of character.

Recently in a London Police Court a man was chargtd with presenting a revolver at a detective aud it was explained that the crowd 011 seeing the revolver immediately skedaddled, which brought out the remark "Are we ceasiugto bo English" from the committing Magistrate. Thereupon Mr Ruskin writes, stating tfiat not only are we ceasing to be English, but have for the Inst thirty years ceased to be. He says —"Swindling was not formerly the method of English trade f nor advertising its necessity, Luxury was not ancienly the glory of English life, nor darkness and ftlfcli its inevitable conditiona. Onoe we imported from America neither meat nor manners; from France, neither art nor religion. Our British Navy did not use to light with torpedoes under water, nor our British Army with riiles from behind a hedge." Alas and alack, we are indeed in a bad way! When the "Stones of Venice" are being chucked in this promiscuous fashion among the national crockery, if there is not a general smash-up there certainly ought to be one, The New Zealand Rifle Association's meeting, at Oamaru, was brought to a close 011 Saturday evening.' The championships tell as under:—Carbine: Lieut. Ross, (Napier), Rifle; Hon Major Purnell, (Wanganui). Last year, when the conditions for both belts were tho same as they now are, Captain White won tho Rifle Belt with 478 and Gunner MoCorMale the Carbine Belt with 475. This - year 50 points more wero made by the Rifle champion and 40 by tho Carbine. Of course the improved quality of ammunition is the main cause of this, The North aud South Island Match was won by the North Island by 27 points, Private Smail's ten successive bulls eyes in the Intor Island Match was undoubtedly the score of the meeting. In tho Teams Challenge Match, the highest score was a prand total of 499, and tho Masterton Rifles came seventh with 481, just missing the lowest prize, a sixth one. There is at the present juncture in Australia a husband who hasbeensold by one woman to another. The facts are ; stated by the Christchurch Press to be as follows ;-A married man who was out of work went out to tho Antipodes a few months ago. On the vessel he made tho acquaintance of a young woman, who appears to havo formed a strong attachment for liiin, Finding that he was already in the bonds of matrimony, she suggested, it is said, that possibly the wife left at homo would sell him to her, and lie, jokingly, advised her to write and ask." She did write, and tljo \yife not only wrote that she was willing to sell but named her price—£loo, This figure was too high for the othtr woman and she replied by a bid of £2O, which was at length accepted. Tho money was sent, and with it a document drawn up in legal form, setting iorth that for the sum named the .wife relinquishes all future claim to her husband. This was signed by the wife and sent back to Australia, The latest report is that the man and tljo woman havo sinco been married,

The rainfall in Ohristehurcii during February amounted to 179 in., it raining on four days. We regret to hear that Mrs Rhodes Donald, of Auckland, formerly of Manala, is seriously ill. ;

William Ashmore, labourer, of Pahiatua, has been adjudged a bankrupt. A timber waggon is siifforin? grief and pain as we go to press, it having capsized on the Lincoln road, opposite Mr Wardell's residence. '' A meeting of farmers and others will be held, says the Ohristehurcii Press, for the purposo of forming a company to erect and work dairy factories or creameries in several districts in Canterbury. Mr P. M. Reynolds' is the sucoessfuV tenderer for the work at the Bank of New Zealand, Masterton. The thermometer at Mr W. Dougall's road in the shade at noon to-day 72 degrees. The barometer showed a fall of two tenths since last reading! The North Wairarapa Benevolent Society meets to-morrow at half-past eight o'clock, to elect two trustees, in place of Revs Paige and Fulton, who resigned. In the bankrupt estate of G. F. Mansell, painter, of Maßterton, the liabilities are £212 and the assets £65; deficiency, £157. The creditors are: Edmondson & (Jo, £32; Ei W Mills, £3O ; Hayman &Co, £6O; Martin (painter), £3O; P. and J, Isaacs, L6O. All are unsecured. Mr S, H, Wickerson, stationer and tobacconist, at the. Queen-street corner shop, has_ removed one of Mastertoh's long-standing wants by supplying a wellappointed private hairdressing room for ladies and children The entrance being .in Perry-street, and quite away from the shop, is an advantage wjll. be greatly in its favor, arid will no doubt be appreciated by customers.

The dashing equippage turned out by Mr W. Neill, of the . Prince of Wales Stables on the occasion of a recent private danco at Carterton, quite incited the envy of the people down there, and the well-appointed drag with its four evenly matched white steeds created quite : a sensation under the skilful piloting of Mr W. Iggulden, who had all the style of a member of the world renowned Four-in-liand Club, There is evidently a thief prowling round Masterton at nights, Besides a robbery at Mr E. Kibblewlnte's house, in Bannister Street, by which, oil Sunday evening, when the family were at Church an enterprising burglar relieved the owner of some thirty-five shillings, and some domestic belongings, anothor householder had the contents of his meat safe removed, and had to mournfully retire without his usual Saturday night's supper.

It has been suggested to us, and we think there is something in the idea, that an Anglers' Society could well bo formed in Masterton. Tho time has certainly arrived when our local" rodsters," whose number is now 'considerable, should take some steps to form an organisation, if only to conservetheir own interests. It is by this time almost too late to do anything this season, but still we should like to see the Society formed even now, ftnd, as a first duty, they could consider the best mesin of keeping down the prevalent poaching, either by offering a convicting reward themselves, or by getting the Acclimatisation Society to doit. They would also have plenty of time before next season's fishing to pot things in trim for opening it auspiciously, by, say an angling competition, with prizes of rods or other gear, as rewards for the assiduous and skilful.

Things cannot be so bad in Masterton after all, or else Messrs Ross and Muir, our local coach-builders, are doing moro than their Bhare of business. Yesterday they sold a handsomo mail plneton to Mr T P Lett, for use as the Royal ;Mail Express on the Masterton-Castlep'oint line, and also to Mr F Shaw, of To Ore Ore, their first-prize double buggy. They have altogether sold since the last Masterton Show no less than four, new buggies and several cither vehicles—in, fact, all they exhibited—and for cash, too. Besides this encouraging trade, we understand the firm still have quite £2OO worth of orders in hand yet unexecuted, and which they are working off as quickly as possible. Altogether, this looks very healthy, and surely may be taken as an indication of the turn of the tide, 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 awake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Dr Soulo's American Hop Bitters to make them well and smiling, Young man, remember this, " Traveller." Fees of Doctors,—The fee of doctors 13 an item that very many persons are interested in at present. We believe the schedule for 1 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 bottle of Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters taken in time would save the §I,OOO and all the year's sickness. "Post."

. Omt special price-list recently issued, and giving a few details of some of the bargains in the bankrupt stock of A. G. Price, had the cifeot, 011 Saturday, of drawing one of the largest orowds of visitors that were ever congregated within tho walls of To Aro House, Wellington.

They came ■ from all quarters, from the North, the South, the East, the Wcst-from the Hutt, Petone, Johnsonville, Porirua, the Manawatua, and Wairarapa, and from the Province of Marlborough and elsewhere. Thoy 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. Fhojj all quarters comes tho assertion of this undoubted fact, that nothing like this salo has ever transpired in the city; that for genuineness and the multitude of. unmistakable bargains it is without a rival in this city or elsewhere. ISO say we of Te Aro House, Wellington, Wii want all our friends and the public to understand that we were not able to move the wholo ;cf Price's slock at once. We brought ami are bringing it down gradually, day by day, so that there is no fear of a scarcity .of bargains. Thoy will not run out while this sale continues, and (he last customer equally with the first will go away rejoicing because of his good fortune at the sale of Price's bankrupt stock at To Aro House, Wellington. Wb cannot keep this sale going for more than ton days fronr the present date, and therefore wc would urge tho public of tho town, suburbs, and country districts, to grasp this present opportunity and empty their pookets, while supplying all their requirements at lower prices than wero ever known in New Zealand at the sale of Price's bankrupt stock at Te Aro House, Welling, ton,—Advt