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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2844, 10 March 1888, Page 2

Mr J. ft. Mackay, of the Kuripuni Cash Store and Bakery publishes an amended and very low price list of groceries and other uonds. Mr. J. Saunders' well known horse, The Shall, fell dead while running m the Flying Stakes at the Wanganui meeting on Thursday. The Rev. Mr Beard preaches in S*. Matthews Church, Masterton, to-morrow evening for the last time prior to leaving for England, He sails on Friday next, via Sydney.

DrSpratt, Dr Bey, Hi» Worship tin* Mayor, Messrs R, W. Tate and Porritt are the new Licensing Committee for the Greytown Borough. Mr Porritt haß been again elected chairman. The train from Mauriceville was considerably dehyed at that s'ation this morning owing to some sheep having to be loaded at the last moment, instead uf having iieeii put on board at an earlier hour.

In a cricket match which was played yesterday at Ohriatchurch between a team of ladies on one side, who played with' bats, and.a team of gentlemen, who batted with broomsticks and only used the left hand, the fair sex went in first, and made 114 in their first innings. Their opponents only Bcored 81, and as the match was to be decided on the first innings, the ladies wou bv 33 runs.

An odd thing, among many, says an African traveller, was the fact that whoreever i.i Dahomey we met with a flock of chickens about the cabins the cocks wore a muzzle, wliicd di l not prevent them from eating, but did from crowing This was by order of the King, who did not like a cock-crow, not being, perhaps, an early riser, aud being disturbed with his three hundred and seventy wives too early, A very successful rehearsal of "Trial by Jury" was held last night by the Philharmonic Society, there being about thirty five performing members present. It might here be mentioned that although the practices aro held in the Church of Jinglatid School room the scciety is not representative of any particular denominaation. It is a purely musical organisation on the ordinary lines and the Committee will be triad of all additional members, honorary or working, Those who are growing t-imatoes in Musterton complain greatly of the ravages of caterpillers. These pests, too, are prov> itig yery destructive to roses and other flowering plants. Ono gentleman who is a cultivator to nome considerable extent, informs us that one day recently lie removed no less than live hundred caterpillers from his vegetables and plants and that a regular and careful overhaul by hand is the only really affective way of at all keeping the nuisance under. An adjourned meeting of creditors in mm esUte of Alex Mao Hardy (bankrupt), was held yesterday at Carterton. The bankrupt had furnished • a statement of recjipts and expenditure since the last mooting. The Deputy Assignee laid this before the ct'ditors and also informed them that he had ascertained that the estate would realise about 2s in the £, providing the creditors were willing to accept the offer of £lO made for the bank- 1 nipt s interest in soine acres of land. Thero vera also a heifer, a foal, and two pigs valuud at £'s. • After some desultory conyerßatioii;among the creditors: the bankfiijit was iisked whether he could not givo a guarantee for £lO outside the estate, and after a good deal of pressing he' promised to do it, It was then resolved to adjourn until Monday morning next, to allow the debtor time to consider the matter, and try to raise the amount among his friends.

A most extraordinary case has just been invi : jtigaf«[| by the East London Coroner, It seems that a commercial traveller named Moses Raphael, of 100 St. Paul's road, Bow, was taken ill, and was removed to the London Hospital. His death took place on the next .day, and at the inquest Dr. Doyle, who had the man under his care, said thai on openill" the head he found a penholder and nib about three inches long attached to the right orbital plate. It must have been there for a considerable time, as the bone had part'ally grown over it. The .only way that it was possible for the pen and holder to get t» the brain was by passing through the eye or up the nostril*. Deceased's widow stated that her .huabai d bad never complaied of any «c. cident, hut that lately he had suffered from pains in his head. Dr Doyle said that it was a mystery how a pen and holder of such Bize could get into tjie brain without the man's knowledge. It was the iijoQt. singular case he h°ad ever heart} qf, An ojieii verdict mwre< tqrnec),

Mr Edwin Fuist notifies that accounts duo to him may be paid to Mr ft; Johnston hia successor.

It is reported that. Colonel Johnston is giiiug to leave Wairarapa and diapnao of his property at (Jlarovillo.

Flags on a number of business premises in Masterton are flying at half mast to-day, in respectful recognition of the death of the Emperor of Germany, one, the national flag, on Mr P. Dickson's is especially noticeable. The Waingawa Bridge it very shaky and the flooring badly next replacing, if accidents are to be avoided.

The tlwrm imiter at Mr W. Dougall's read in the shade at noon yesterday 76 degrees and to-day it registered U decrees. The baromotershows a steady fall.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantil® Agency Company hold their last woo sale of the season at Wellington on Friday 16th March. .Entries can be made either there or with Mr J. 8. Keith the Masterton. Agont. . The Railway Department advertises alterations in the, ordinary time-table which take effect; from Monday, 12th instant.

Entry forms for the coming Masterton' Sports, on Easter Monday, may; be obtained by. intoliding competitors from Mr F. D. Polling; the Secretary: -. The license fee for deer, stalking in the Wellington province is £1 per season. The following, held licenses last year.— F. A'rkwright, W. G. Beard, \V. 0 Buchanan, A. ftray; J. S. Handyside, A. McKenzie, Total. 6. ; .

The rivers in the Wairarapa valley are exceptionally low at present, even the RuaiiiaKunga, "which has perhaps aa little water in asit has.} This :shn<W tfiatthe long-existing dry 'weather;has extended to the hills besides parching up the pl»ihß.; '

It is novr stated that the Btories ?oiuß about relative to the Princo of Wales' iiiteryiow with Sullivan are purely apocryphal. H. R. H merely put in a cuauJ apDß.mncß at a veini-private fencing club, of which he is a member, and at which the beefv Yankeehad been engaged to do a little "sparring," Honeither shr.ok hands with the prize-fighter n»r addressed a direct word to him. Those whokne.r H. R H's rigid notions of etiquette disbelieved the from the first, It has since been pretty thoroughly contradicted,

Tho Masterton District Licensing ; Bench met this morning. Present,—W, ' Everett (Chairman), R. M. Galloway, J. Wrigley, J. W, Lang, and G. Guilderson. The only application under the Act was that of Thos Power, praying for a transfer of the license of the Manga- ' mahoe Railway Refreshment Rooms from R. H Elliott# to himself. The I police report was read, and it spoke favorably of the transfer and of the eonduct of the other licensed house in the ! district - the Mulgrave Hotel. The ; application was therefore granted, and after passing accounts the meeting adjourned, A patient in the Masterton Hospital : named Charles Gurotte, an Italian, ciuaod rather a disturbance then this morning, He had been admitted owing to having broken his. leg, but under the kindly oare of Mr and Mrs Adcock, of the hospital, he seems .to have made rapid progress, but, so far from being grateful, ha to-day signalised his convalescence by,. as the custodian says, threatening to '' knife" him. Gurotte denies this, but ho at any rate appears to have been very violent an:l to have shown a disposition to fell some one with his crutch. His language; too, was most objectionable. Dr Hosking and the police were sent for, and although at first it was intended to prosecute the obstreperous and ungrate- .. ful man, it was ultimately decided that, seeing that he had previously been ill, the case would be met by the offender's Bummary:dismissal from the institution. At the R. M. Court this morning, before Messrs W. H, Beetham and W. Lowes, J.P.'b, James "Hunt was charge ! with robbing the clothesline of: Mrs Richard Woodham, of articles to the value of £1 2s, on the evening of Wednesday last. The evidence showed that Mrs Wordham hung out her clothes ac about 4 pm. on the day in question, that her daughter at about half-past seven m the prisoner, whom she afterwards identified in the presence of the police, leaving the premises with a bundle under hia arm, and that the police from information received, searched for, and found-tho missing clothes " planted" in the vicinity of the Waipoua Bridge. The prisoner, who had followed in the rear during thu search, was thou arrested, and at first said he was absent from Masterton on Wednesday afternoon, but afterwards admitted to tho police that he was in the town on that day, an admission which the witnesses called by Sergeant Price proved was c irrecfc Questioned by the prisoner, Constable Salmon said that two boarding-house keeners who had informed him that a man was offering clothes for sale, had afterwards failed to recognize the prisoner as being the man who had sobiought the articles to them. The accused, nhen asked if he had anything to say, denied the charge, and endeavored to show that there were discrepancies in the evidence for the prosecution, The Bench considered that the case had been proved, and sentenced Hunt to one month's imprisonment, with lurd labor. It is reported that after all there is every chanoe of Schwass, of Carterton, meeting Murphy in a glove contest at Masterton, and that the match will probably come off on the Monday after next, in the Theatre. It appears that Schwass' previous non-acceptance of the challenge arose simply through his not hearing of it cwingto being engaged on a bush contract in the baok country. Directly the news reached him he at once sent word to Masterton that he would be up either to-day or Monday to make arrange,nonts for the match. With regard to the foregoing, we may say that as soon as the rumour reached us, we interviewed Mr Tims. Thompson, thefurmer stake-holder. He, however,[says.that he has heard nothing of Schwass' intentions, and that, moreover. Murphy's present whereabouts are not known, and he is supposed to have gone to Sydney. Maine news.—Dr, Soule's American Hop Bitters,, which are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for ague, biliousness and kidney compaints. Those who use them, say they cannot be too highly recommended, Those afflicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in the praise of their curative qualities.—" Portland Argus.' SmtEWDNE'is. & Ability.—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters so freely advertised in all tlw papers, secular and religious, are having a larpe salo, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denyin? the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters 1 have shown great shrewdness and ability 1 jq compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to . every one's observation,—' Examiner and Chronicle.' "Rqugh on Rats.

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