The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2859, 28 March 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1888.

The lunatic who has indited a letter to the Editor sigoed '' Sally Waters," is warned not to repeat the offence. TheEpunihrst fifteen will meet the Rival Football Club at Carterton on Easter Monday. Inspector Shearman, it is stated, is summarily retired '.from tho police force with neither pension nor compensation. Lieut,-Colonel McDonnell is going to extend his lecturing tour to Napier, and he visits that town early in April. The Hon. Walter Johnston lias purchased Mr Thomas Fraser's property ot a thousand acres at Awahun near Fielding, where ho will build and permanently reside.

On Good Friday and Easter Monday, the Masterton Telegraph office will bo open each day to the public from 9 to 10 in the morning, and from 7 to 8 in the evenin?.

Those interested in the development of our mineral resources, are reminded of tho coal mine meeting to-night at Mr Thos. Mackay's office. From enquiry this morning, we learn that Willie Johnston, who had his arm broken on Saturday, is progressing favorably, and the setting of the limb may therefore be looked upon as successful.

Tho various inspectors have been instructed to take proceedings against all flockowners who are in arrear with their sheep rates. These taxes were due in September last, aiid there are still a good many unpaid in various parts of the Colony. Schwass has yet a chance of redeeming himself. The redoubtable W. Smith of Carterton, desirous of emulating Slavin, offers to fight the man with the lowlevel heart for Lls a side and gate money, Schwass, so far, is silent,

The further hearing of the divorce case, Fry v. Fry, has, owing to the nonattendance of witnesses, been adjourned sine die. Mr Justice Richmond pointed out that as the witnesses had been subpo3iiaed and had been offered their conduct money to attend, counsel calling them could proceed against them for contempt of Court.

If last night is to be taken as a sample of the coming winter, we are likely to have a particularly severe season. The Tararua Ranges were well covered with snow, and, in Masterton, the thermometer during the night went as low as 36 degrees, or only four degrees above freezing point, and this, so early, is phenomenal. At the Wairarapa South County Council meeting held yesterday, tho proposal for a division of the road district, as applied for by the Lower Valley residents, was affirmed, and there will thus in future be a Lower Valley Road Board in addition to the Feathcrston Road Board, with a mutual boundary at the Ruamahanga river.

We have received from Mr Chas, J, Pownall, of Wellington, pamphlets and plans illustrating his patent rabbit paddock trap system. From a perusal of the letter-press, we gather that Mr Pownall's proposal is to entice the rabbits into specially • constructed paddocks, the means of egress being fitted with his traps, which at appropriate times are closed, and the rabbits in tho interior are beaten up into a smaller enclosure, wliero they are despatched with sticks, etc; they are then removed, and the next day's bait of corn and green food laid to tempt other victims, A theatrical manager in Germany, says the " Daily News," does not aeem to be quite so absolute a master in his own house as his brethren are in England. The dramatic critic of a paper published in Aix-la-Chapelle recently lodged a complaint against the manager of a theatre in that city on the ground that the complainant had been compelled to leave the theatre, though he had paid for his seat, Dissatisfaction with the critic's observations on the pieces produced and the mode of producing them seems to have beon the immediate cause of this summary step; but the Aix Magistrates have not only ordered repayment of the price of the ticket, with costs, as a County Court Jutfge would doubtless do here, but have \M down the principle that a theatrical manager has no power to withdraw tho right to admission from anyone who has paid for a place, and whose conduct within the precints of the house is UQf/dieQid.eiiy,

Two or three winter cows are adverised for in our wanted columns.

The tenders required for road formalion, metalling, and bridge building by ill e Upper Taueru Boad Board are to be unit in by Monday 9th April, and not !nd April as previously stated. At Mangamahoe lust nipht thbre was a severe frost and this morning ico was fr« 30 seen in plenty There was also a rail storm just outside Masterton, in the lirection of Waingawa,

Mr Geo. Fannin invites tenders for the erection of a house in Perry-street, Masterton.

Mr 0. P, Pownall, who with Mr Fitzgerald, is aetiag for tho plaintiff, informs us that in the case of Manihera and C. J. Jury v W. Witton, claim £2OO, damages to property, judgment has been given for the plaintiff.

The Red Star Football Club have arranged to hold their first annual plain and fancy dress Ball in the Masterton Drill Hall, on the evening of Easter Monday, 2nd April. The services of a first-class String Band have been secured, and as the arrangements are in the hands of an efficient Committee, a very successful gathering will doubtless result.

Mr John Young, the Wellington ironmonger, advertises a new and extensive selection of guns, powder, shot, sporting materials and ammunition generally. We understand that Mr Young is now doing about the best trade, in these lines of anyone in Wellington, for the public are beginning to recognise the advantage of buying from a man who imports direct from the makers, and can therefore sell at the lowest prices. We notice that Messrs Baker Bros,, the well-known and highly-esteemed firm of Wellington estate and financial agents, have now added auctioneering to their previously extensive business. Tho steady and prosperous growth of this firm has aimost been phenomenal. In 1878 Mr C. A, Baker started operations by opening an office tor debt collecting &c. Business gradually but surely increased, and other branches and agencies were added to it, necessitating the taking into the firm, of Messrs Jas. Baker, Horace Baker and W, Ward Baker, and, from a single apartment in tho Star Chambers, the operations developed until now they require a complete suite of offices in that building. More recently, Messrs Baker Bros, found it necessary to establish a London agency, and there Mr Frederick Larkins, late partner in the firm of Win. McArthurandOo.. acts for them. Later on we understand, they contemplate opening branches in the four centres of New Zealand, and then it is expected that a fifth brother, now at college, will join them. The (inn's first auction salo in Wellington will, wo are informed, lie one of the largest ever held there, and and it is their intention to dispose of in this way properties only, and not at any time to auction furniture or merchandise. We wish Messrs Baker Bros, the every success which their undoubtedly superior business qualifications entitle them to,

The Rev W, Rouse who was to leave Wannate yesterday for Masterton, had a brilliant and well-arranged valedictory and social meeting accorded him on Thursday evening last. The ladies and gentlemen ot tlio Wesleyan congregation provided a tea and organised a concert and public meeting which was held after-

wards during the evening. Addresses were read and handed to Mr Rouse, from the congregation, the Band ot Hope, and Literary Society, of which Mr Rouse was President. The addresses conveyed the kindest expressionsofregardfor Mr Rouse, Mrs Rouse, and fainily,and regret that he was so soon compelled to remove to another circuit, • The following funny doßorintion of a strayed horse is a verbatim copy of a communication sent to the Glen Innes Examiner, for publication by a new arrival from the Fatherland: -Run'd avay, or vas schtrayed, my large plack horse, l(i auds hie. He's got two plack legs—2 .pehind and 2 pefore. He's plack all ofer his pody, but he's got some vito hairs on his pack vera the schkin vas rub off; but 1 greashed 'em, and the vite spots is plack again. He drot and he kanter, and sometimes he valk, and veil ho valk all his veet go vun pefore the uther. Ho has ears upon his both alike, put one is placker than the oder, and a leotle pit larger. He has two eyes—one is put out, and de oder is on de side of his head, and von you go I o the other side he vill not see you; von he eats he gets a leetle pit piggcr. He has a lout; tail vhich hangs pehind, but 1 cut it short the oder day, and now it is not so long vot it vas. He's shude all round, put his behind shues coined off, and now he has only gut shues on pefore. If anypody find, a pound for him. I fetch him to put him out, TheN.Z.Referee mentions that a novel method of propelling a bicycle has been witnessed in the streets of Christchurch during the week. Mr C. Woledgo, who had evidently seen the cartoons in the last Christmas number of the Cyclist, had rigged a small j ; .b sail to the handle bar of his machine, and was gently glid iog along with a fair wind at about "a six-knot an hour" pace. There is one advantage in this means of loc motion, and that is, instead of if. requiring a 101b pressure on the treadles to "get up steam ;■) or 4is all that is necessary. The rider found that the sail acts best with a

side wind, tho machine going right up to it. 1 should not besurprised to see the "sailing" machine become much sought after.

Shrewdness & Ability.-Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters so freely advertised in all the papers, secular and religious, are having a large sale, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denyinp 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.— 1 Examiner and Chronicle' 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. Tnose afflicted should give them a fair trial, and will bec»mo thereby enthusiastic in the praise of thou curutive qualities.—" Portland Argu s>

We have at last made an end of the sal 3 of Price's bankrupt stock. Henceforth it will be nothing more than a memory very pleasant for satisfied customers to think of, and memorable enough to warrant notice as one of the wonderful events of the year 1888, at Te Aro House, Wellington, Fob the last 10 days we have been busily employed in opening out and marking off it very large quantity of now goods for tho autumn and winter season, which have juat come to hand, ex "Coptic and Eimutaka" at TeAro House, Wellington.

We can tell the public, as a'ldnd of open secret, that we have been positively charmed at tho taste displayed, and the good judgment evinced by our London buyers, We are sure the ladies generally will be as well pleased as we are, the more especially as the selection is not only in exquisite taste, in extensive variety, but the prices are such as must tempt the million to throng the counters of Te Aro House, Wellington,

We cannot now find time to enumerate any of the novelties which we are now showing for tho autumn and winter season.' We are quite certain to bo visited, mid that right early, by thousands of customers, and we believe that of each one of the numerous visitors it may safely and truthfully be said —"She came to look, but remained to buy," at the Wholesale Family Drapery Wnrehouso, Te Aro Hwse, Wellington,-AfiYT,

The thermometer at Mr W. Dougall's read in the shade at noon to-day 45 degrees, The barometer was steady.

The examination of candidates for the legal profession is now going on in Wellington. The law examinations were concluded last week, and those in general knowledge are at present proceeding. The dismantling of the ship Pleione has been accomplished. The vessel is now high and dry, and is embedded a little deeper owing to the silt of the sand up about hoi. Tho Colonial Mutual Life Society have sent their agent, Mr \J, Clarke, to visit this district, and the latter will be glad to interview any person wishing to insure He will fully explain the special feature of the' Toutino' system,

We remind farmers and stockownera of Mr F. H. Wood's sale at the Taratahi yards to-morrow. The list includes fat ewes, Romney 6WP3, lambs, ewes and wethers, mixed sheep, bullocks, steers and heifers, and forty really first class dairy cows, some in milk and others to calve early.

A brilliant orator and man of letters speaking in the English House of Commons said;—" If 1 desired to leave to remote posterity some memorial of existing British civilisation, I would prefer, not our docks, not our railways, not our public buildings, not even the palaco in which wo hold our sittings; I would prefer a file of The 'Times."

Mods- Dumas, proprietor of the Restaurant Irancaiso is supposed to have bolted to San Francisco. Before he went, however, he left a lntter, in which he states that the day book is to be given to his creditors; that he goes away without money, abandoning everything to his creditors, and that if he had not been pressed he would have paid everybody, He " God help me and my children." L2OO are supposed to be his liabilities.

In tlio cricket match at Ohristchurch, yesterday's play saw the Uhristchurch eighteen all nut in their first innings for 145 runs. The English eleven then went in and had made 41 runs fur the loss of one wicket, (Shrewsbury's) when, owing to bad weather, the game was adjourned until to-day. The two highest scorers for Canterbury were Barnes c, Lohraan 39, and Crawshaw c Shrewsbury, 30. The next were Keeves 13andDunlopnofcout, 12.

Tlie Ameer of Afghanistan lias, it is said, conceived a profound admiration for the "Great Highland Bagpipe," and has requested that 200 pipes should bo sent out to Gabul. But what, asks the London correspondent of the Liverpool Post, are the instruments without the pipers? No doubt the \iueer will want a number of piperaalso, and here, therefore, is a fine chance for any Highlander in distress who knows how to play the bag pipes. In Cabul they will not be vcy particular as to the music, provided that plenty ot sound is produced.

We understand that the Governmen have informed Mr Thos. Mackay, who wrote to them for information on the subject, that a royalty of sixpence a ton is usually charged for coal taken from situated on Crown Lands. They also offer to lend a diamond prospecting drill on very reasonable terms, provided it shall be returned in good order, freight each way being paid by Hie borrower. This information will be placed before tins coal meeting to-night. Account sales just received in Master. f on of a shipment of Wairarapa butter sold in Lon don in February, show' a gross price of 70s a cwt tin re. This can hardly be termed a good return, but it is, however, move satisfactory to the exporter than acceptance of the low prices ruling when he shipped wouldhaye been, The parcel in question was what would be termed second-class butter, and it is really only the first-class artielo which can be expected to arrive in such a condition as to secure anything like a good price.

Regarding the New Zealand delegate to attend the rabbit Conference in New South Wales the Evening Press' Dunedin Correspondent wires as follow:—A.. D, Rell, of Waihemo, has agreed 10 go to Sydney on behalf of this colony for six weeks without any rumuneration. It would be difficult to find anyone better uniting the practical and theoretical knowledge required. Mr A, D, liell, sou of the Agent-General, is probably the best chemist in the colony, his attainments in this respect being unusal, while, as a runholder of many years experience in a rabbit infected country, he knows what are the practical requirements of the situation.

The Treasurer of the Masterton Hos pital acknowledges receipt of the following subscriptions to the funds:—Employees of Olendonald Station per Messrs (Jockburn Hood and Walker, L 5 10s; Messrs W. G, Beard L 3 3s; Jame n Macara L2 2s; P W Temple L22s; J C Bnddington LI Is; A R Bunny LI Is; J Graham LI Is; Joseph Payton LI Is; Peter Dickson LI Is; C F Gawith H Is; Wm, Lowes LI Is; J, loms LI Is; T E Price LI Is; J B Keith LI Is; H H Smith LI Is; Walter Perry LI Is; A A Elkins LI Is; Boss and Muir LI la; Edwin Feist LI Is; Brown and Rogers LI Is; employees of do LI Is; Eev T McKenna Ll Is; Rev J McßennaLl Is; Messrs R M Galloway Ll ; W T Grundy Ll;,Tames Elliotte 103(id ; E McEwen 10s (id; Williams and Barker 10s Gd Haii3 Peterson 10s Gd ; Wm Dougall 10s Gd ; James Thompson 10s Gd ; George Heron 10s •D E Toohill 10s; J Blewitt 10s ; Joseph Williams 10a ; Wm. McKenzie 10s.

The Times, as published in 1788, was not an entirely new publication for tho Daily Universal Register, which had been published regularly for three years previously, ha-1 been absorbed by it. The paper was at first by no means a success, and the founder, printer,' conductor, and first editor-Mr John Walter —was not even a journalist by profession —he was an undor-vmter at Lloyd's, and in his fiftieth year, But he was a strong, sterling character, and of invincible enorgy. A few years before he had joined forces with one Henry Johnson, a compositor, who ititertained new and original views on :he subject of printing, For the ordinary single types with which words are laboriously "composed," Johnson held that "logotypes," or whole words cast in a block, should bo substituted. The enthusiastic Walter took up the 'iigotype," delusion, and for years the Daily Onivorsal Register, and afterwards The Times were, as a sub-heading shows, printed logographically. Much jealousy and opposition to the process were encountered, and in the very first issue of The Times, Mr Walter thanks those who have stood by him in his endeavours to improve the art of printing by this method, The system ultimately proved a failure, and was abandoned.