The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1888. A Horticultural Breeze.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2862, 2 April 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1888. A Horticultural Breeze.

We reported at some length in our last issue a horticultural 'breeze, a little teapot storm, extremely insignificant and trifling in itself, but one which might have burst up the Society but for tho perspicacity and firmness displayed by the president, It appears that the attention of the Society had been directed by Mr J. M. RocfcMtoi the fact that a disqualified exhmit at a recent show had received a first class prize ticket. The Committee, after investigating the facts of the case, came to the conclusion tlmt the. complaint made by Mr Rockell was well founded, and expressed regret that an occurrence of this land lmd taken place. This, under ordinary circumstances, would have been regarded as almost a matter of routine incidental to the administration of a society of this kind, but the real sensation lay in tho animus infused into the affair by other parties who stepped in and virtually conducted a prosecution, In fact, the matter appears to have been a well and carefully organised persecution, mainly got up by a local liorticulturalist of a combatiye temperament who has already distinguished himself by breaking up, either wittingly or un fittingly more than one local institution, which might yet have been existing and flourishing but for his unfortunate propensity to make mischief. In the present instance a grave charge was made in anewspaperparagraph against a certain member of the Horticultural Committee, The supposed culprit was openly named and every effort was made to fan public feeling against liini, and to prejudice the proper and legitimate enquiry instituted by Mr J. M. Kockel. Unfortunately for the mischief-makers the President ot the Horticultural Society happened to be a trained lawyer, and lie, instead of accepting insinuations, asked for evidence. The real prosecutors had virtually none to offer in support of the charge which they had in an indirect manner taken out of Mr Kockell's hands, and the matter ended by the Committee expressing regret at the manner in which Mr Papworth's name had been introduced into the affair. The Committee had been invited, not by Mr Rockell, but by the amateur prosecutors, who were fostering a side issue, to curse Mr Papworth ; but instead of doing this, they blessed him, and for once in a way the mischief-makers were foiled. It is unfortunate for our local Horticultural Society that two prominent members of its Committee should have become over this trumpery affair quite a public scandal, Wo feel quite certain that Mr Rockell, who preferred the complaint, would have been entirely satisfied with the decision of the Committee upon it, without the intervention of one or two mischief - makers. Thanks to the firmness and judgment displayed by the President no great amount of mischief lias been done; but we haye had ample experience in Masterton of the harm which gentlemen with combative dispositions can do to local institutions, and we heartily congratulate the Masterton Horticultural Society upon a lucky escape from what sye can only regard a 3 a dangerous conspiracy. The crowning iniquity of the whole affair was that! a member of the Committee, who was virtually the prosecutor-in the affair, sat and voted at the meeting which conducted the inquiry,

An artesian well, Gin bore, put down at Napier by the' Corporation, struck water at a depth of 15Uft. There is a magnificent flow, larger than from any other well in JNew Zealand.

The next outward English mail, per direct stoamer, closes at Mastertou on Thursday, sth April, at 6.30 a,in. Gisbourne must be a happy place. It is only about the same sine as Mastertou, yet it is naid to rejoice in the possession of nineteen lawyers aud twenty-one "pubs."

The dobts of Viscount Canterbury (son of the late Governor of Victoria) tot up to £43,500; assets, nil. This is even better than Lord A. Loftus.

Mr T. Keinpton, jum\, succeeds to the vacancy in the Grey town Borout'h Council, ho polling 70 votes and the defeated candidate, Mr D. P. Loasby, 60. Tho Greytown Butter and Cheese Factory Company are sending three more tons of cheese Home by the Rimutaka, which leaves on 4th April. Several deer-stalking parties have been out during the Easter Holidays at Gladstone and lower down the valley. We not yet heard what success they have met with.

One of the Greytown gold prospeetin? parties now out at the Ranges is sinking a other 'is putting in a tunnel, othenvi&K there is no, further diggings. The Canterbury eighteen made ono hundred and forty-five runs in their first innings against the English Eleven, and a telegram since received says that the English first innings closed for 75—Read not out, 43.

Sir Morell Mackenzie has. £BSOO, up to tho present time, for his at" tendance on the C-rownPrincoof Germany' The Wellington Hospital Trustees have decided to apply to the District Board for subsidies to the amount of £8340.

Information was received by Inspector Thomson on Thursday to the effect that a man named James Coulter, of Waiwetu, a farmer, had been drowned while attempting to cross the Wainui-o-mnta Itiver on Wednesday afternoon. The body has been recovered.

We here on good authority, says the Evening Press, that tho cost of repairing the damage to Hie railway line to Petone will be about £3OOO, and that the experience gained by the disaster has been to demonstrate the absurdity of attempting to straighten the lino by taking it further out into the water.

A lunar rainbow of unusual duration and brilliancy was seen at Mauriceville on Friday evemns; last. The arc at first was about a hundred degrees in extent, but as the moon's altitude increased its diminution in size, and its motion towards tho south-west were noticeable. Passing clouds occasionally broke up the bow into stripes of prismatic light, in which the colors were distinctly lisible. The phenomenon lasted for over an hour, and at ten o'clock the vertixof the rainbow was only a few degrees above the horizon.

So as not to behind in the rush for wealth, Greytown professes to have feund coal among tho ranges accessible from that township. We are aware that several times small pieces of coal hove been picked up on the hills and in the Gorge of the Waiohine River, but now Mr L. Hobman claims to have discovered an actual outcrop, and he has promised to send us samples along, fle says that his lind is on Crown Laud about, fifteen miles up tho Taulierenikau Gorge, and that the outcrop, which is only about ten feet above the water level and is in the side of a high bank, has been exposed by tho occurrence of a landslip sometime within the last few months. The seam is about thieLand it is eni^|ed The Factory Company have jtMPJHHB'|H cable advice that, the seven tMfflWfflP sentiHomoby them in the has realised £4O a ton, orsd a lb, in the London market, We hardly fancy the Company will be satisfied with the result, which, by the time freight, commission, etc., aro deducted, will, we imagine, only nett them about 3d a lb here, Mr F, H. Wood reports a fairly successful sale at the Tantahi lards, onThursday, all tho stock yarded being sold, the only drawback being that some of the lines did not come forward, owing to the extremely rough weather, The following prices were realised Store ewes 2s Id to 4s (id; mixed ewes and wethers 5s 2d ; culled wethers 4s 7d; calves 5s to 10s; yearlings lis 3d to 21s; steers and heifers (18 months) 30s; cows (store) 2os to 50s; pigs (slips)' 6s to 7s. A consignment of totara fencing posts was also sold at 30s a hundred,

A member of tho New South Wales Legislative Assembly has moved—" That there should be erected in the vicinity of Parliament House a 24ft ring, wherein quarrelsome members should be permitted to settle their parliamentary disputes in fistic fashion." The reading of the notice was received with ut burst of " Oh, oil's" from lion, members, and Mr Garrett at once took tho point whether such a notice should be permitted to be placed on the records of the •House.

A woman named Simpson met her death in a peculiar manner at lnveroll (N. S. W.). She was being con veyed f roiu Liugha to Inverell, when she saw a lare-e snake lying across the road. The horse attached to the vehicle in which she was beina driven shied, and 3he fainted. Her subsequent death is attributed to the shock she experienced on seeing the snake.

A lato cablegram mentioned that a fashionable scandal has occurred at Home, in which the name of Major Burrowes was prominently mentioned. The following paragraph throws a little light on the affair:—"An extraordinary scandal m high life has been caused by Lord Howard do Walden. It seems two medical men have had repeatedly to restrain lnm from forcing lus way, roarin? drunk, into lus wife's room whilst slio lay dangerously ill with peritonitis. One evening Major Burrowes, Lady Howard's brother, found himself obliged to knock his brother-in-law down to pet him out of the house. Lord Howard screamed ' police,' and Major Burrowes, to save trouble, allowed himself to be taken into custody. The next morning Lord Howard failed to put m an appearance, and Mr Partridge, tho magistrate, practically dismissed the case."

Shrewdness & Ability.-l)r, Soule's American Hop Bitters so freely advertised m all tho papers, secular and religious, are having a larpo sale,, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denyin? the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters nave shown great shrewdness and ability iii 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 arc advertised in our columns, are a suro cure for ague, biliousness and kidney conipaints. Thpse who use them say they cannot be too highly recommended. 'Those afiiicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic m the praise of their : curative qualities.—" Portland Argus, 1

4 serious outbreak of typhoid fever has taken place at the Broken Hill silver mines.

The heaviest dumb-bell raised by Pro • feasor Miller with one arm, weighed 2001b.

Mrs Langtry, the London actres3, now in New York, is reported seriously ill from neurak'ia of the heart, Count Herbert Bismarck is beti'otke d to a relative of the Marquis of 'Londonderry, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Twenty-five South Australian shareholders in the Broken Hill proprietary will receive 1112,920 of the declared dividend. •

The Rev. L. M. Isitt received £6O aB the nett proceeds of the complimentary concert tendered to him in Wellington recently. This is in addition to the purse of sovereigns presented to him. The following motion is to bo proposed at next meeting of the Wauganui Education Board.:-" That three months' nonce be given to the wives of teachers employed in tho same schools as their husbands." •

The Red Red Star Football Club's plain and fancy dress ball will be held in the Mastertou Drill Shed to-night. We understand that the arrangements as regards music, etc, will be first-class, and that every possible step has beon taken to secure an enjoyable evening. It is understood that the Wellington Opera House, just burnt, was, with the site, mortgaged to Mr J, Saunders and Mr T. G Macarthy for JOBCOO. The total insurances on the building and con tents were £SOOO, Tho directors of the Company meet to-morrow to consider the question of rebuilding.

llvJoe Warbrick has telegraphed to Mr S. H. Wickerson, saying that the Satire -football team .will meet at INapior oil the 7th A.pril to commence practice, and that the Wfiirarapa representative, Akitu, is to join them there. Mr Warbrick also says that he has arranged satisfactorily with the northern members of the team,

The anniversary services in connection with the Masterton Wesleyan Church were largely attended yesterday, In the evening the attendance was so numerous that it was with great difficulty sufficient seating accommodation could be provided. Both morning and evening services were conducted by the new clergyman, the Rev Mr Rouse, whose eloquent discourses created a most favorable impression. The anniversary picnic which takes place this afternoon on the parsonage grounds promises to be one of the most successful of its kind held bore for some time past. Iho old telegraph cable lying across Cook Strait between Lyell Bay and White's Bay on the opposite coast became damaged in some way durin? the recent storm. At present the wliolo of the cable work has to be done 011 two single wires, one running across the Strait to White's Bay, and the other to Wanganui. As soon as the locality of the break canbe fixed, the injured cable will have to be pulled up and repaired.

The usually stately and sedato New Zealand liuies has actually been caught making a pun in its leading columns. The other day it remarked:—''Tho rook is a stately and solemn bird, and although not altogether taciturn in habit, the fact that he never opens his beak without cause has always been recorded to his honor.-" Why the leading morning "jernal" is gettinp quito frivolous Messrs Lowes and lorns announce an unreserved sale of farm stock, imple'ments, dairy utensils, etc, at Mr T. P. Wayte s farm, Taratahi, on Tuesday, 10th April. " ■'liomas ile ridsevere ive unbut it Club have adopted black .and yell>w as the colors-of their uniform. During the past seven days, passion week services have been held daily in St. Patrick's Church, Masterton, commencing on Palm Sunday, with the distribution by the priest of palms, and concluded yesterday with the usual Easter ceremonies. At the morning service,. Johnson s Mass of tho lin maculate Conception was rendered by the choir under the coiiductorship of Mr A. R. Bunny, and in the evening an eloquent discourse wasprcachedby the Rev FatherMcKenna, followed by tho Benediction. The survice as m the nnrning, was a full choral one and Haydyn's " Angels ever brio-lit and fair " and the fantum Ergo, by Fricker, were sung by Mr J. H. Rowe.

The following letter on the subject of a visit to Masterton of the English footballers, has been received by Mi S. tl. Wickerson, Secretary of the Wairarnpa Football Union Dear Sir, Your letter of the 10th March reached me safely at Wellington, but in the hurry of things there 1 neglected replying. I am not sure how our time will be occupied at present, and hardly think our first visit here will give us timo to play your Union. If it would, we would play you a game for £7O (seventy pounds). Kindly let me know how we reach you from Wellington, also if you can entertain this, and 1 will see if the thing is possible. Yours etc., James Lilly white, Ohr-st-clnirch."

c. A worthy priest at Goulburn, Dew South Wales, has been giving hi 3 flock some rood practical advice. In a recent sermon lie forcibly urged upon them the fulfilment of a much neglected duty— to pay the printer. This portion of his discourse deserves to be printed in prominent type in every paper m the world : " How often," said the good pastor, "had the proprietors to lose heavy amounts in paper, and postage stamps ! and how often did they lose all ? To take their papers and not pay for them was positive dishonesty," Scoffers may talk glibly of the "decline of the pulpit," but while sound doctrine like this is preached the pulpit will remain a power in the land,

We have at last made an end of the sa e 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, Foil the last 10 days we have been busily employed in opening out and marking oft' a very large quantity of new goods for the autumn and winter season, which have just come to hand, ex "Coptic and Bimutaka" at TcAro House, Wellington. We can tell the public, as a kind of open secret, that we have been positively charmed at the taste displayed, and the good judgment evinced by our London buyers. We are sure tho 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' pripss are suoli 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 the autumn and winter season, We are quite certain to be visited, unci that right early, by thousands of customers, andwe believe that of each ona of the numerous visitors it may stately ijnd trnt'lifully lie st)id —"She came to look, but remained to buy," at thoWholesalo Family Drayery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington,--Apvr,