The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY. MARCH 17, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2850, 17 March 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY. MARCH 17, 1888.

The diminutiye Maori baby in the Lower Valley, the Standard says, died about a fortnight since.

The Alfredton Domain Board has been brought under the operation of the Public Bodies' Powers Act.

The coalmine meeting last night lapsed, the extromely stormy weather preventing an attendance of tho public, Another meeting at an early date will be arranged for. The new central block of the Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum, near Christohurch, includes for the enjoyment of the patients, a combined organ gallery and concert hall, vrith a fitage 64 feet by 20 feet, Tho same apartment is ordinarily used as a dining room. In the matches played thiß season in Australia, Shrewsbury's batting average was 68. W. Read comes next with an avcrago of 55. Bowling averages—Lohmann and Afctwell, 10; Briggsand Turner, 13 per wicket. AVe remind those who take an interest in glovo contests, of the fight to o finish at the Theatre Royal, Masterton to-night, between Schwasu and Smith of Sydney, The prices are 3s, 2s, and Is.

Some little amusement was caused in Court, says the Manawatu Daily Times, by tho reply to a question mado by a witness in a horse He was asked by the counsel what he was, (having reference to his occupation) when the intelligent witness promptly replied "An Irishman, uorr." Tho announcement, as might be expected, caused considerable laughter, Sir Robert Walter Carden, who recently died in London, had a proprietory intereat in the Times newspapor before he was born. Iho story is dramatic in its way. His father was a barrister in gocd practice, and married Jemima Walker, daughter of the first, and sister of the second John Walker, proprietors of the Times. This paper had but lately changed its style and title, having been aforetime known as the Daily Universal Register. At the wedding breakfast of Mr Garden and Miss Walker, the father of the bride rose and proudly endowed her, as a marriage gift, with a column of advertisements in the young and rising journal, The particular column was the third, or as it'is sometimes called now, the ,l a?ony column," and it is said that the family lawyer, who was present, but' had not been consulted in this important matter, was not so well pleased with Mr Walker's impulsive generosity. Whatever the column in question was worth at that time, its commercial value must have vastly increased as tho years rolled on, and little Master Robert camo into the world proprietor of an undeveloped gold mine.

The 'Graphic' of January 21, in an ar' ticle chronicling the startin? of two more evening journals in London, says that there can be no doubt, speaking generically, that the evening Press has made groat strides of late years. Judging from our recollection of thirty years ago, the evening printy pf those days were rather dull and Bpirifclepa pijbljcationa. Railways and electricity have revolutionised this as well as many other departments of industry. liondon was once the, fountain head,of news, and papers had to be published early In order jthafc ppovinci als might get tljeij) before jtji.oy went to bed, But now as regards prjority of news, all the country, indeed all' the European Continent, is practially on a level. The result i;s that the importance of the evening journal increases, When also we remember that the morning is the time for work and the evenin? for leisure, it is quite possible that in the twentieth century the big papers will not appear till the afternoon, the appetite of the morning readers being slaked by a four-page sjirejfcof small dimensions, containing a of the most striking items of the previoiiH day-'g intelligencejust as much, in fact, as a man ciln com; fortably get through during his twenty minutes' or half-hour's journey to buai--1)868.

Tho thermometer at Mr W, Dougall's read in the shade at noon to-day 63 degrees. The barometer was rising. A one hundred aoro improved farm, six miles from Masterton, is advertised to bu let or for sale.

At the Masterton Presbyterian Sunday School, Andrew McEwon has been awarded tho prize for being the best boy, and Minnie Holdaway for being the best girl. P. R, Slavin has challenged F. Schwass, ot Carterton for £lO, and undertakes to knock the latter out of time in four rounds or forfeit that sum. No reply has been received from Schwass yet.

The Ministers at the Masterton Wesleyan and Presbyterian churches exchange pulpits to-morrow evening, in ordor that the lattor may have an opportunity of hearing tho Rev. Mr Buttle before he leaves this district.

St. Matthew's Church of England Sunday School is holding its annual treat today in the school grounds. The children aro to haye dinner, then they are to be amused by various games, and the featiyity winds up with a tea in the evening. It is reported that the fascine work at the Waingawa bridge has been washed away within the last few days, and that tho embankment is suffering in consequence. Anything approaching a flood in the river wquld now jeopardise tho end of the bridge. The Birdling Brook Oreok, says the Lyttleton Times, ;still continues to throw finny monsters, to tho delight of the anglers. One night; -last week four beautiful trout were caught, weighing altogether Gl| lb. These, large fish are doing an amount of damage to the smaller ones, and it is to be hoped many more will be caught before the season closes. Mr J. Bennett's. guage at Otalraao registers recent rainfalls as under: — March Ist '!); 2nd '5 ; 11th '6 ; 12th 3;

13th, '36 ; 15th, 4; 16th "4; and for the 24 houri ending nino o'clock thiß morning, there had been a fall of '47 of an inch, thus making a total record from Ist March to 17th March of I*l4 inches. At a ' special meeting of the Mauriceville Road Board which was hold on Wednesday, the 14th instant, the following tenders were received for contract No 21. Messrs Donald and Westbrook, first section £1 16s per chain, second section £2 5s per chain (accepted) Leslie Dorset, first section £2 per chain, second section £2 7s (id per chain. Henry Stevens, first section 12'23 chains 125, second section £3 per chain. The Taranaki Herald says that IMb the intention of Mr T. Oldfield, who has purchased the Te Henui ironsand works, to have a trial smelting of the sand with the agency of charcoal and kiln-dried wood as soon aB convenient. Aftowhii,heintends to £(o Home with the man who lias chargo of the smelting and demonstrate to capitalists the smelting process, and what the working of it would probably return commercially, in order that he can get capitalists to put money in the venture. A correspondent of the Field writing from Jamaica, says On' the seoond day of the Kingston Races, in the Selling Stakes, on the horses coming to the post, the bit of one of the starters—Mr M. C. Morgan's ch h Manitoba—by some unaccountable means slipped out of thehorse's mouth, and away ho bounded at full speed. The boy, not losing his presence of mind, gradually reached forward, and, by layiug himself along the horse's neck, managed, by the time the half-mile post was reached to replace the snaffle, and, ri?hting himself, pulled and brought back his horse! and subsequently won the race. The feat was all the more difficult as Manitoba stands about sixteen hands and is a lengthy animal. To meet those gentlemen who may demand the return of their totalisator investments after the decision of the event upon which they havo speculated, the Lyttelton Times states that Messrs Mason and Roberts have had a number of placards printed, string in effect that Mr .4- —havinp demanded the retafi of his totalisator investments, amounting to L-, the dividend will be paid less the amount. There were two or three informal applications for the roturn of money at the Dunedin meeting, but the sight of this card, and the prospect of their names appearing as those of the meanest of defaulters, was sufficient to deter the disappointed backers from pushing their claims further. Maine news,—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for aguo, biliousness and kidney compaints. Those who use them say they cannot bo 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.'

Shrewdness & Abuity.—Dr, Soule's American Hop Bitters so freely advertised in all tho papers, secular and religious, are having a larpe sale, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denyin? the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters have shown groat shrewdness and ability in compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every one's observation.—' Examiner and Chronicle.'

What is a "plum?" Well, we suppose every man, woman, child, and even lisping infants could answer that question without a moment's hesitancy. Still there are other "plums" than those grown on trees, There arc such in tho drapery trade, and by the term is understood anything deliciously, refreshingly, and charmingly cheap, so cheap and plumlike as to make mouths water and handsoutstretched to grasp them. Such 'plums' there are still in abundance in Price's bankrupt stook sale, at To Aro House Wellington. What are "jobs?" Certainly no rotations to the Eastern Patriarch; not a piece of work or anything to be done. The word, originally derivod from tho French, means a "mouthful." 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 Prioe's bankrupt stock sale, Te Aro House, Wellington. What is meant by "full swing ?" This is a very vulgar term, and used only by those who ought to know better. It does not refer, as ono 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 To Aro House sale of Price's bankrupt stook Wellington. To these "plums," these "jobs," now In "full swing," otherwise rapidly selling, we invite the attention of tho public, Many a 'plum" and "job" have been secured by thousands of customers during the progress of this remarkable sale, and many more arc only waiting to be appropriated by visitors to the sale of Price's bankrupt stook, at Te Aro House Wellington.—Advt,'