The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2997, 7 September 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1888.

In another column the public are re-' quested to look out for Bambors Clearing sale of boots. Mr O, Frederickaen, • contractor, Hawera road, Pahiatua, advertises for forty good axe men. Mr J. Carpenter imported from England an assortment of Hyacinths from which he succeeded in raising as fino a collection as could bo found in Masterton and thoy formed quite a picture arranged in a diamond shaped bed in front of his residence in Dixon-Street, Late last night or early thb mornin? the ruthless hand of the destroyer laid waste the garden and stripped the bed

of all tho flowers. What were not stolen were trampled upon and destroyed. We understand tho matter has been placed in the hands of the police. The Town Hall, Grcytown, was the scene of a most onjoyable Leap Year Ball last night (Thurday),, given under the auspices of the ladies of that township, and it proved to be, without doubt, tho success of the season, The room was traced with quite Bixty couples, a

fair number attending ' from

neighboring townships, while tho gallery was filled with, on-lookers, anxious to gain a glimpse at tho rather novel mode of procedure, Mrs M, Trotman [acted as Secretary to a stamp Committee of ladies, who prayed themselves most assiduduß in ministering to the enjoyment of tholr guests, and Mrs Cameron and Misses Reed and A. Udy fulfilled the onerous duties of M.O.'s to per[faction. ■'■ During the-evening a beau was selected from amone the gentlemen, and was called upon to out' a lovely Leap Year Cake. The hall was handsomely decorated with flags, evergreen?, and fancy work; all fixed with/admirable taste, and appropriate to the occasion. The motto" Welcome to our Leap Year Ball," was artistically displayed in largo gold letters in front of the stage. The music and refreshments wore, as a matter of course, all that could be desired. Dancing was kept up with considerable spirit until close on dawn this morning, when all departed for their homes, no doubt regretting that Leap Year comes but once in four years. Mr Bondix Hallenstoiu, writing to tho Daily Times, expresses the opinion that those who are now going to Melbourne will in twelve months bo worse off than if they had remained here. He adds;— "Victoria, though in many respects a much inferior country to New Zealand, has 'hitherjto. been more, prosperous, through having adopted a. niqro'economical policy, and orio more conducive to tho policies of: a young country.' But the present feverish prosperity of Melbourne \ -if prosperity it can be called—will as: ' sure as I am" now penning these'hues, ' leave that city in a state of prostration ' from which" if will not recover formariy j a long day; and" the bulk of those who at this stage go to Melbourne, will , not be in time to reap; sufficient of the good things to compensate for,the misery to follow. L-d6'nptexpect,^not'do^r wiah for a' boom' such asthey now have iuMelbpurneV but I have no hesitation : in saying that here we are making' far : better'.'tfiiies, Settlement ,i> gradually ' increasing, all.■puV-'nw- prpducta are ■ steadily rising, ".interest is, low, while; ajribulturaland pasbral landa.areap^ • proaching prices at; which they'can:Be" i pfofitaDlyowupied, 1 ';;;;■ ■.':■;<. i-!;?

For having a tui unlawfully injiis possession, a Doy ( who had killed it with a shanghai, was fined 6s and costs at the Dunedinß.M, Court. ut; MrJno. Young, requests us to state that his Ironmongery establishment in Queen street is not as some supposo, a temporary enterprise, but that his arrangements are permanont, and the business doing m this district is suicient to warrant their continuance.

■- Seven Chinese left Auckland by the Whatnpoa, which sailed south yesterday; they proceed to Chinai Sunie thirty; or forty more would have gone had they been able to secure passages;'; ';.• ',' •■'-. ;We.; are requested !to remind our Kftdeira of Messrs Lbwoa and: lorns' sale of Mr! Berry's furniture, which takes; place at the auction mart to-morrow at two o'olook, and iu addition to the lines mentioned in the advertisement will bo two sets Venetian blinds, curtain pole aud rings, Bhop lamps, clocks etc, The goods are now on view, and the mart will be lit up this evening to afford parties desirous of purchasing an opportunity to inspect, The Timaru Times says:-" Business 1b business, but it hits people in a tender place to have to pay several shillings a ton more for native coal because the miners of air Australian coal field have knocked off work. .This gives the proprietors of our native, coal a wider field of; business and therofore greater profits, arid one naturally thinks they ought to be cqnteut with that. Those proprietors havo been liberally-'assisted by their fellow- colonists, with" railways and liarbor works and a tax oii imported; coal, and its seems too Bharp practice to tako advantage of this, opportunity to put another tax upon the people for their own directs We shall not hear of the proprietors raising their miners' wapos, Tho inoreaso/ in price will all. gc into their.owriipockets." •..'■'.. ■;•. A meeting of delegates from tho different districts of Naw Zealand was held at the Atheneum, Wellington, on -Monday and continued the following day for, the purpose of considering the rules and regulations of the proposed New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, Thore wore, present representatives from West Coast South Island, Otago, Marlborougli.Canterbury, West Coast, Wellington District, Wanganui, Taranaki, Gisbomo district, flawkcsßay, Woodville, FortyMile Bush, and Wairarapa. Mr James McKorrow, Survoyor-Gcuoral presided, Iu the evening the first general meeting was held at which Mr McKorrow was appiontcd President of the Institute, Mr Percy Smith, of Auokland, assistant Surveyor-General, and Mr Barr of Dunedin were appointed Vice-presidents and Messrs Kochfort of Napior, Fulton Wellington, Barron Wellington, J. W. JA. Marchant Wellington, O'Donohoo, | Wellington, and Gordon West Cuast, '"iddle Island, a Council, and Mr T.

Ward was appointed Hon. Treasurer, Besides these a delegate from each District is expected to attend Council Meetings, It is tho intention to get the Institute incorporated as soon aa possible. Close upon three hundred members have been enrolled up to date.

At the Ecsident Magistrate's Court Timaru, yesterday, a man namet Patrick-O'Connor, a young laborer married, who leases a few acres of lam

about twenty miles from Timatu, in a rather out of (he way place was charged with being; in possession of a number of utensils and apparatus, suited or intended for tho process of distillation. Vparty'of police made a descent on the lofendant's proporty at daylight on the norning. of the 30th ult,, and. caught lefendant (who had been alarmed by he arrival of the driver of the vehioln t the house) in the act of hiding sundry rticles in a creek. A number of rough übs, including a rough vat with a false lottom, suited far a mash tub, a thorlometer, hydrometer.and a quantity of rushed oats were found on the place, tost of them in a nil shed, which with ie utenßils were smeared with -efuse, and smelt v 'tronwij r

Traill refuse, and smelt very strong spirits, A technical dofetioe was oflt that the word " utensils", must be re. strictly and by the light of the previou terms, which would limit its meaning.ti i still-head or worm, neither of whicl vas found.- Mr Brewer, Collector-bl Juatoms at Umaru, who was called as an ipert, had, however, sworn that the at with the false bottom could be used irno other purpose than browin? c stillation, and on this evidence an e wholo ' circumstances the Oroi ;ed for a ™»" ! -" TheK

asked for a conviction -ne Reside Magistrate convicted and fined dofem LIOO, or in default twelve month imprisonment. Mr Hay, for the defenc ant, tjavo notice that he would tak proceedings to upset the conviction, . H.M.S, Medea, the type selected foi the five protected oruiaere.now being built for the Australasian Squadron, in I substitution of the Archer** typo at first

decided on, was launched at Catham Dockyard on June 9. The Medea was designed by Mr White, Director of Naval Architecture, and is described as a twin screw steel vessel, uuarraored, carrying bh Gin breech-loading, guns placed in sponsons built out from the sides of tho hull, one on each side at each end, and one on each side amidships. The protection is 3in deck plating of the usual arched type; andthe engines, developing QjOOO indicated horse-power, will give the vessel the fine Bpeed of 20 knotß an hour. Besides the above armament,she will carry 'ten quick-firing guns protected by shields, The conning-tower is the only armored portion, In length the Medea is 265 ft betweon the perpendiculars, 41ft extromo breadth, and l(ift Cin depth of hull, Her displacement is 2,800 tons. Her draught will be 15ft 3in forward and 17ft 9in aft. Her coal capacity is 100 tons, equal to steaming 8,000 knots. She was commenced on sth April last year, having thus occupied only fourteen months in construction. The Magicienne, the Medusa, the Melpomene, and the Marathon, four other vessels of the same class, are in course of construction or fitting for the Imperial Navy. ' " Women JNeveb THiNK."-If the crabbed old bachelor who tittered this uttered this sentiment could but witness the intense thought,' deep study, and thorough investigation of women' in determining the best medicines to keep their families well, and would note their sagacity and wisdom In selecting Dr Soulo's American Hop Bitters as the best, aud demonstrating It by keeping their families in perpetual health, at a mere nominal expense, lie would be forced to acknowledge that such sentiments are baseless and false. Picayune.

"I Don't Wast That Stiot,"-Ib what a ladyof Boston said to. her husband whon he brought home some medicine to, cure her of sick headache and neuralgia, which had made hor miserable for fourteen years, At the first attack] thereafter it was administered to her with such good results, that she continued its use till cured, and was so enthusiastic in its praise, that buo induced twenty-two of tho best families in her circle to adopt it as thoir regular family medicine. That "stuff" is'Dr Soulo's American Hop Bitters. Standard.

Hivwonow finished our annual stock taking, and having' been also busily em ployod during tho past ten days in opening out bur first importation of spring goods, wo are prepared to show tho good people of Wellington and Wairarapa an exceedingly choice, elegant; and select assortment at tho Wholesale Family Drapery. Warehouse, loAroHpuse,Wcllingtqn'. Wearecnnvinced'that our new prints, zephyrs, and dress goods, .of every des cription, will outrival anything that can possibly bo'shown in the city, and we have tho authority pf competent exports for this statement. .Mother as regards designs, qualities, or prices the public will find that we are really Al, a);Te Aro Wellington!.. ■".-.' ';■',. And not only in these goods, but in mantles, costumes,', millinery, and all other seasonable goods 'our buyer proved himself to be far in advance of his compeers and the advantages of his taste and jodgmeat'iUdoubtless'be appisciated'bythe eteMy throng ot oostorhers 'im expect to seo at Te Ar,o .House', Wellington,... : -': ;■. : f Our first grand Bhow will take.; plafco on Thursday next, 6th when; the. pablio mil have an opportunity pf witnessing one>.6f the 'mostinique, fMhionablo ever held in this at : theJTiolesale Family Drtyoryjtirekw^

. We call attention to Mr P.H.'Wwtf oxtensiye sale of merohandise, drapery, and furniture at lus Greytown auotion rooms to morrow. *■ v Messrs LoWei & lorns sell at their rooms to-morrow a lino of thirty fanoy, pigeons, t ' Messrs Lowest lorns wuh to intimate tliab'they noil at their rooms to morrow a line of splendid drapery, olothmn eto Tho Domnston minors hive voted £SO to the support of the Newcastle Htnkers, and will make further trrante

' The resignation of Lieutenant Willie Moore, oi- the, Oatterton, Rifle Volunteers hat b'eon accepted and gazetted, y. At Invercartfll'a statement is current that negotiations have commenced for the purchase of. the Southland sawmills

I tho Melbourne syndicate who floated 10 Kauri..Company, - : .. '

A presentation was ; made' to, Dr Di G, Johnson, of." Carterton,' by the local Ambulance Association on Wednesdayknight. It consisted of a silver inkotand suitably - inscribed,' and an I address in recognitionof his services to the Association/: 'Prizes' were awarded for successful papers. Dr. Smith, .the examiner,; awarded tho ;firsfc.prize to Miss Telford, the and the third to Mils Meyriok. ,' The mining "exhibits from the goldfields of Auckland districts, collected tp be forwarded to the Melbourne Exhi-

bition, 'were shipped toMolbourn'eby the Manap our} yesterday.;: Thirty-seven mines send exhibits, which rcompris'o goldvand Bilvet bearingquartVofrioh quality, and whioh have been classified for show. '■■ : -;U';.s" : ''' ;! .-, ■"v'- : ':'.-.V-'-.':■■'*

Locket, the mute whose death at: the Auokland Stud: Company's-estate was I announced yesterday; was by Thunder-.: bolt—j-Keopsake, and was bred in v-1862,-beinf imported to New Zealand in 1878,, The most notable of her progeny were Necklace, Bangle, Thunderbolt, and | Necklet, all by Musket. . A patent has been appled for by Duncan Taylor LaivcS, of Auckland, clerk, for a violet copying ink, to.be called " The Excelsior Copying Ink,"by which oyor 25 copies can bo obtained from an original writing arid/ by Albert Dornwell, of Duncilin, butobor, for the preservation of animal products, poultry, fish, and auch liko substances, and getting the same ready for export, and also transporting them by the same means, ' We have to acknowledge the receipt of Mo6BtsT, Kennedy Macdonald'e Landed Property Guide for tho current month, which contains more than the usual amount of interesting matter, It states there has been a fairly, active demand for both city, suburban arid-country properties during the past few months. After reference to the orowded stato of the metropolis, the report states the increased price of stock and produce has given country settlers new hope and courage. There is every disposition to purchaso suitable properties at reasonable prices. The limited liability companies who are now the sheep farmers and " mortgagees in possession' 1 of vast areas of pastoral and agricultoral lands, solely occupied by sheep and cattle, must.be forced to sub-divide their great estates into small blocks, and sell them at a reasonable price to the multitudes of practical men that are only too anxious to acquire both pastoral and agricultural properties of moderate area, The developmentof thecountry as a whole must not be retarded by the existence of great finance companies, who might under wise management have proved a

blessing, but who are "now proving, in very truth, a curse to the Colony.