TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2846, 13 March 1888, Page 2

TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1888.

A good double-barrelled, breech-load-ing gun, with choke bore, and rebounding locks, is advertised for sale at tho low price of £5,

A few orumbsfrom the wealth of the Broken Hill silver mines are finding their way to New Zealand. Some of the.lucky ones are intelligently spending their money in visiting the hot lakes, Next Beason theKingsclere stable, with which is identified H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, will have the first call of Tom Cannon and his two sons' services. The retaining fee is LISOO.

Tho usual Taratahi Stock Sale will be held on Thursday next, and Mr F. H. Wood, in,thia xbsuc, publishes the list of entries received up to date. Fifteen hundred sheep and a fair assortment of cattle &c,, are included in it.

There seem to be some pretty cool individuals in Wanganui. The Yeoman thus writes:—Persons who stand in nervous dread of bees will doubtless take courage from the fact that a man on the Quay this morning allowed a Bwarm to settle on his hat. When they hail all collected there, lie removed his head gear and secured them.

The appointment of Mr M. Gutolberg aa a Justice of the Peace iB likely to be generally approved. He is unquestion* Ably entitled to the distinction, and what iB perhaps more to the purpose he possesses exceptionally good qualifications for becoming a useful and reliable Magistrate.

Kerosene is now recommended as a sure preventive of the codlin moth. Tho eniulsion is made in the following manner: Half an ounce of common soap dissolved in half a pint of wnter at boiling point, to which is added a pint of kerosene, when the mixture is stirred until a creamy fluid is produced. This is then mixed with two gallons of water slightly warm, when it is ready for application cither with the garden syringe or a paint brush. There isa deadlock between the Presbyterian body at Woodville and. their minister, according to the Examiner. The Committee want a horse they lent him, and for which he was to be held responsible, and he wants his salary of Ll4 due, which they haye not paid, pending the recovery of the horse. The minister has now struck work, and says he won't preach a sermon till his salary is paid,and the committee say they won't pay another pound till he returns the horse. • Thanks to the apropos demise of an elderly relative, who left Lady Augustus Loftus ft sufficient sum of money so strictly tied up that her lord's creditors could not get at it, the late Governor of New South Wales seems in a fair way to escape from his bankruptcy troubles. Lady Augustus has agreed to part with L 2,000 in cash, which will ..be ditided amongst the creditors, and altogether, it is expected the estate will yield ija ifi, the LI. .

Before sailing for Buenos Ayres, Mame. Adelina Patti agreed with a well known impressario that, if the long sea voyage caused her 110 serious inconvenience, she would sign for a short concert tour through the Australian colonies in 1889, Dread of the long sea passage, writes" a Home correspondent, has been the real obstacle to la diva visiting your part of theworld hitherto. Unless times improve, it is, from what the Dunedin Star's Homo letter.says, probable that the Shaw, Saville-Albion steamers will betaken off the New Zealand station and run between Vancouver and Australia.

It is understood, oayß a Home letter, that the Queen has at present under consideration the advisability of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught visiting Australia during the Melbourne Exhibition season. Their Royal Highnesses themselves are most anxious she should consent 1 to the plan, but nothing has definitely been dene up to date. The proposed tour would bo inclusive of trips to Tasmania and New Zealand.

New South Wales aper.ds £0 per annum on strong drjnk, and it i? suggested that if it wants a change of name it should call itself Tho Great Thirst Land. In Great Britain tho expenditure is only £3 (fa 10d per head. The statement of the Governor of the Darlinghurst Gaol in New South Wales, that 02 or 93 per cent of the cases entrusted to his custody have arisen from drink, coincides with the opinion often expressed by Cardinal Manning that drink iathe causoof nearly all the crime with which civilM natures have to contend,

The Taranaki Iron Company have sold the building and plant at the Henni, known as the lro'nsahd Works, to Mr T. Old 6 eld for

It is said that only on three occasions since 1851 have swallows been known to visit New Zealand.

Humour has it that a sensational di' rorce case is 'on the kpis in Palmes ton.

Sir John Gorat, remarks a Home letter, is so much better that the Government may after all. decided to appoint hint to the Governorship of Cape Colony or New Zealand.

On (Saturday last a slight shock of earth-quake was felt at MaUriceville about 9.4 p.m. The direction was from South to North. MrH. B. Latham notifies that he will supply corned beef in Masterton at ten shillings per hundred pounds. As an evidence of the cold, what looked

like snow, but'whioh .probably waß really hail, was visible this morning on the Tararua Ranges. Mr H. S.AVardell is detained in Masterton by an indisposition affecting the vocal organs, and has, so far, been unable to resume his official daties in Wellington this week,

A very gratifylncj.offer was received' at the Yeatry meeting of St. Matthew's Church last night. A Masterton gentleman wrote generously expressing his willingness to give £SO towards liquidating'the. Church of England 'Parish debt, provided the Church-goers theipselves idded to it by collecting £265 before 30th June next. The Vestry decided to take active steps in an endeavour to raise the necessary sum to entitle an acceptance of the rift,

A. shook of earthquake m felt at EkO' tahuna on Saturday evening last at about 9 o'clock, its direction being east to west. A Maaterton resident who was there, sayß that the shock was a decidedly severe one and that its vibrations were as violent as those of any quake felt in the district for two or three years past.

The plan of a neat and very suitable graud stand for the Maaterton Park Oval has been gratuitously prepared by Mr John Kill?, Architect, and may bo seen at the Wairarapa Daily Office. It is a two storied structure, the lower portion being set apart as a refreshment room, a a store room and an office, while the upper floor is reserved as the place of vantage from which the sightsaro to be seen. The funds for the erection of this much needed improvement are to be collected by way of subscriptions, aided by subsidies from the Park Trust, the Friendly Societies and the Caledonian Society, ' all of which it is anticipated will be forthcoming. • We are glad to notice that Mr H. B. Latham is doinp much in encouragement of a local industry. He advertises that he is prepared to boil' down sheep for. runholders, at Messrs Williams and Beetham's Waingawa works, and also that he will kill freezing beef at the lowest rates. As regards the first notification, it may be said that the Waingawa plant is eminently adapted for turning out first class tallow, and the former output has been of undeniable quality. With reference to slaughtering beet, the fact of the works being very suitable and convenient places Mr Latham in a position to transact business on the very lowest terms and he should do well in his undertaking. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Masterton, yesterday, after we went to press, the following cases were disposed ofOarnell ,and. Brannigan v Henry Burling^—Claim L 8 Is, carriage of stores &c.. Evidence taken and judgment reserved until ICth March, at 10 a.m. Hutchison and Le Valiant v Mrs \\. L. Dorset,—Claim Lls 16s sd. Ordered that the grass seed be sold, and the sum of L2 18s 9d (the set off) bo deducted from the proceeds and handed to Mrs Dorset, the balance of the three-sevenths of the proceeds of the rye grass to be also handed over to Mrs Dorset, or, the plaintiffs to pay Mrs Dorset Lslßs 9d, they to receive the cocksfoot soed and four-sevenths of the rye grass, Henry Burling y Henry Cornell and. William Brannigan, | Claim Ll3 Is 8d for hire pf bullocks and gear. Eyjdence taken and judgment reserved until 16th March at 10 a.m.

We understand that several_ rather important questions aro expected to be raised at the general meeting of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society to-morrow evening. First, there is'that very much delayed and very important revision of the catalogue from beginning to end, and also the introduction of a special home work class. It is, as well, to be decided whether the Society will hold its Spring Show on the same day aB the Agricultural Show, for although the latter helps to draw a good attendance, the date is too early. Then, there is a proposal that if it is held at the same time as tho Pastoral Show, to extend it over two days instead of one as at present. A rumour, too. says that the elements for a warm discussion will be provided by a member who- intends asking the reason? for the last two shows being failures from a tyorticqltqral point of view, and also why, after the judpes at the recent show had disqualified a plant, tho Committee, or someono elso, put a first prize ticket on it. London correspondent, writes as follows;—" London and all the large towns here are going hosing mad, Sullivan sn4 Ashfcon refleiyed LfjOO weekly for their show at tlw WestminsterApusrium j Smith and Kilrain followed at LI;000 weekly, with a percentage added if receipts expeeded a certain sum. Mr Jem Smith was a bricklayer's laborer, living off ftp City road, London; now he is a 'swell' sqrropdeb by knights of high degree. Sullivan ja now training at 'John Bvjlla' Hotel at Windsor, kept by 'chippy Norton. Thia is the man who it is said took over forty roughs from Birmingham when Smith met Greenfield in France. They eventually stopped the fight by pulling out knives and pistols when Smith was beating Greenfield easily, Thd result was a drawn fight,

On the Waimate Estate there are this year, says the Lyttelton Times, about 2500 acreß in crop, including 300 acres of superior barley, which will yield 45 bushels all over. The wheat on the land near Willow Bridge is exceptionally good, and in one field the atooks are so thick that a horse and cart could not be driven through the paddock in any part. A field of oats now being cut is a magnificent crop. It stands straight and averages seven feet in length all over. The heads are very prolific, and the grain well filled. It should thresh between 70 and 80 bushels per acre. A large area of wheat is let for cutting by contract, and sometimes as many as 360 hands have found employment in the harvest fields on the Waimate Estate. This year, by reason of the employment of so much machinery, the number falls short of 200. It fs stated in the life of the late M. Samuel Morley that there is at the present time in the employ of the Nottingham Houso an old man named .John Derrick, a silk framework knitter, who made the Queen's stockings for her coronation, and who, at the age of 84, made .stookinga of an absolutely identical description for her J utile,

■ In Blenheim last Sunday, in the absence of the usual collecting plate, one of the office-bearers of a church took up the collection in tna '• bell-topper." Messrs Lowes and lorns add to thei r stock Bale fer to-morrow 100 4-tooth Ewes, 100 Fat Ewes, 100 Lambs aud 10 Rams, v There was an unusually heavy day at the Christchurch Resident Masfiatrate a Court one morning last week, there being no has than 190 cases set down for hearing. Lillywhite's team of English cricketers have taken passages for Home by Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Coptic, to leave Lyttelton on 31st inst. Sir Geo.. Grey's liberality seems unbounded. The Auckland Evening Bell says that ho has notified the Town Clerk there, that he will shortly forward from Kawau four cases of pictures and curios for the Art Gallery. Mr A. L. Whytej of Carterton has purchased the two refreshment booths at next Saturday's.Opaki Races, and besides providing every kind of light refreshment he will,with his usual well-known ability, cater a first-class luncheon.

The Government hare called upon the members of the Westport Harbor Board to resign, and an official board, says the Evening Press, will shortly be appointed by Gazette.

It will be interesting to lovers of the "leather'' to know that Mr A. G. Stewart, the well-known representative Wairarapa footballer, has joined the happy band' of benedicts. He passed through Masterton this morning with his bride, en route for Whareama. In the recent cricket match at Christchurch betweon a team of ladies and a team .of gentlemen, several of the former went, out for what, the scorer delicately termed "Dress Before wicket." When the men went out for similarlystopping the progress Of the ball, -he had lessregard for the player's feelings and bluntly put it "leg beforewieket."

"We start a new novel this week," said the editor to the printers' foreman—"lt is by alady."' 'Telephone down to the type-, founders for twelve tons of italic," thundered the foreman, "and serve out French dictionaries to the compositors! Sho won't say anything in plain English if sho van helpit." Active steps are now to be taken to develop the Fernridge coal deposits, and a public meeting is called for Friday evening next at Mr Thos Mackay's office to consider projects which will be submitted. We understand that among them, it is proposed to form a company for the purpose of prospecting and opening up the seams with the object of leading up to the practical working of a mine.

Miss Braddon'a new novel is entitled ' Tho Fatal Three,' and contains an incident in the first chapter sufficiently exciting to stimulate the interest of even the must languid reader. It has just commenced to run through papers in Great Britain, the States, and India.

Last Thursday's rain floods at Wcstport were very disastrous. The Buller road was completely wrecked; several bndgos were sent adrift; a house was washed »way;o'Brien,a surface-man,wasdrowned; and it is estimated that an expenditure of £SOOO and three months work will be necessary to render the main road fit for wheeled traffic. The County Council is penniless, and will have to lay the matter before the Government,

The following new names have just been added to the Justice ofjPeace roll, for the Wellington Province:—M, Oaselberg (Masterton) Fred.Moore(Glonburn, E, C.) E. S, Maunsell (Greytown) George Allen, Robert AldwOrth (Hunterville), J.L. Bacon, 0. A, Baker, 0. W. Brown (Nai-Nai), William Cook (Johnsonville), F.H. Fraser, Thomas Gale, 0. J, A, Haselden, J. H, Heaton, Kirton (fe'eilding), J. Kitchen, Dr Maciutire (Palmerston), James Mackay (Fie'dinp), John Maginnity, J. C. Mo Kerrow, Edward Newman (Turakina), John O'Meara, James Pearce, (Pahnutanui), 0. T. Richardson, H. L, Sherwill (Feilding), A, R. Fulton.

Messrs Lowes aud lorns hold their fortnightly stock sale at their Renall-st, yards to-morrow, when they sell upwards of 5,000 sheep, embracing fat and store wethers, fat and store ewes, breeding mi of fill ages, lambs, shorn and unihorn, Lincoln'and Romney Marsh rams, fat and store cattle, some 100 head dairy cows, pigs, and a lot of horses.

If it is true, as oretain (partially interested) persons aver, that ftew Zealand kauri answers betterthan any other class of timber for deck fittinss, patterns, etc., the prospects of the export New Zealand timber trade are undoubtedly looking up. It is certainly something, writes a London correspondent, that it has been found worth while to load the Aurora, which sailed for Glasgow the other day, entirely with kauri. Up to the present, the timber has been sent to Glasgow in small quantities from London and Liverpool, but the increase in the demand tempted Messers Guthrie and Co. to try a direct shipment,

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. Thoso afflicted should givo them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in the praise of their curative qualities,—" Portland Argus,' Shrewdness & Ability,-Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters so freely advertised in all the papers, secular and religious, are having a larpe sale, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is 110 denying the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters have shown great shrewdness and ability in compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every one's observation,-' Examiner and Chronicle.'

What is ft "plum?" Well, we suppose every man, woman, ohild, and even lisping infants could answer that question without a moment's hesitancy. Still there are other "plums" than those grown on trees. There are such in the drapery trade, and by the term is understood anything delioiously, refreshingly, and charmingly cheap, so cheap as plumlike to make mouths water and hands outstretched to garsp them. Of such "plums" there are still an abundance in Price's bankrupt stock sale, at Te Aro House Wellington.' Weat aro "jobs?" Certainly no relations to the Eastern Patriarch; not a piece of work or any thing to be done. The word, originally derived from the French, means a "mouth-, ful." Drapers use it to mean goods sold considerably under regular prices. Plenty of these "jobs," and rare ones at that, are still to be had at Price's bankrupt stock sale; Te Aro House Wellington. ■ What is ment by "full swing?" This is a very vulgar term, and used only by those who ought to know better. It does not refer, as one might naturally suppose, to the accompaniments of a circus or a fair. "Full swing," in drapers' minds, means rattling, pushing, driving business, such as has been going on for the last month, and still continues, at the Te Aro House sale of Price's bankrupt stock Wellington. To these "plums," these "jobs," now in •'full swing," otnerwise rapidly selling, we invite the attention of the public. Many a !plum !, 'anJ "job" been secured by thousands' of customers' during tjje progress of this remarkable sale, and many noreare orjly waiting to be appropriated by visitors tp ihe'sjle ol Price's bankrupt stock, at Te Aro House Wellington,--Apti.

' The thermometer, at Mr W,' Dougall's read in the Bhade at noon to day BG degrees. The barometer had commenced to rise again. A petition against glove fights.signed by 463 womon was presented to the Wanganui Borough Council last night.' The Council decided, inliceusing public buildings to prohibit such exhibitions. Bush-falling for next season's burning has already commenced in the Ekotahuna district, At present only two residents there have started operations, but others will shortly follow suit. Of course sap is now up the trees and although sappy trees are supposed to rot sooner when down, taken all round it is better not to fall so early if good burns are desired. We presume those who start so soon, are desirous of foiling as much as possible and hopeto gain in tho area cleared in compensation for a slightly inferior burn. In one of our Southern exchanges two cases are mentioned of letters having been enclosed with packages sent under tho parcels post system, thus rendering tho parcels liable to surcharge of double letter rate of postage, in one of the cases the recipient had to pay £1 10s, and in the other 19s 4d on delivery. The only writing that may be enclosed in a parcel is an invoice of its contents,

A London paper, called the People, in a recent issue, has- the following para graph,—"A caretaker was wanted the other day for a Christchurch (New Zealland) school, and' among the mighty list of applicants for a 30s a week billet were a quack doctor, a Chinaman, a Maori, an engineer, a policeman, an 'honorablo, 1 an heir to a peerage, alawyer, three widows* a curate, aii. undertaker, and an exconvict/. y :

With regard to. thfe interesting question of the possibility of. importing fruit-. with profit into. England from the Australian colonies,says the Home letter of the Press,' a flood of light has been let on the subject by one of the " bulletins" which are now issued from' Kew Gardens. . It appears that the heavy charges imposed by consignees swallow up all - chances of profit. For instance, a contemporary

meutions the case of a shipper who sent to the Indian and Colonial Exhibition fifty cases of fruit, which realised £55 3s However, commission, &c., on sale by. the Commissioners came to £33 15b 4d, and freight aud incidental expenses to 11 14s. The cases cost L2loa. This left to tlie colonial dealer Lll 3s Bd, or only about 4s Gd per bushel,