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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2999, 10 September 1888, Page 2

■ Messrs J. 0. Boddington and Arthur R, Bunny have been re-lected, unopposed, as Directors of the Masterton Building Society. The British Trades Congress- has passed a resolutions urging the necessity of [immediate reform in the land laws and incroased labour representation in Parliament.

The following horses have been scratched For V.R.C, Derby-Ven-tura, Molyneux, Heathcote; for the Melbourno Oup-Venture, Tho Maaterton Liberal Association havo held a meeting, and selected candidates for the Municipal election, The list has not _ as yet been officially reported, but it is rumored that they Include the names of Messrs Tomple, Marsh, Eton, and Lealiy, Messrs Benjamin Smith & Co,, Land and Commission Agents, of Wellington, have a business announcement on our third page, in which they offer for sale a number of valuable Wairarapa properties, which should be an inducement to speculators, The Mayor of Woodville-has been Vjted a sum of LSO for his four years services to the town,; Ho doubt ho has been worth the five shillings a week that has been so tardily paid to him, but what becomes of the Mayoral dignity when such a pittance is accepted, _ The fixtures for the week are published in the Theatre Royal column. We are requested to state that the Children's Carnival takes place on Friday week instead of Friday next as stated in our local. '.••••

Mr Henry \V elcli, has been appointed canvasser and. collector for the Waitarapa Standard for Masterton and "surrounding districts. ' Messrs Lowes Morns add to their stock sale for Wednesday next 100 store wethers^ William Wylie, bookseller, of Willisstreet, Wellington, was adjudged. a bankrupt on Saturday, A meeting of his creditors will be held on .Friday next. ■Mr John Thorburn, tho well-known clothier and outfitter of Wellington, lias an interesting advertisement in another column, to which wo draw the attention of our readers, A owe at Miki Miki, who understands 1 the exigencies of the frozen meat business, has just done her part by giving birth to four lambs, three of which are living, bulr the fourth will never see England in the At a meotin? held in Wellington on Friday, for tho winding up of the Wellington Special Sottlement as an Association, It was resolved that immediate steps should be taken to secede from the Eketahuna Road Board and that in tho meantime the accrued thirds should be' impounded, In another column Mr George Beethain M.H.R. for North Wairarapa notifies that he is about to leave New Zealand on a visit to the Old Country, and hopes to return in time , for the opening of thonextsession ofParliament. He regrets that in consequence of this he will not be ab'e to moot his constituents during tho present recess. Speaking of tlje Agricultural and Pastoral Association, a writer "to a ChristcliurcH conteraporaxysuggests that prizes should bo offorcd oyery year on subjects benefiting the farmer as 'distinguished froip the grazier or run holder. 'He expresses tho b.elief that it yould be a most useful and at the sjune fimo a poplar thing tp offer every year a "substantial pri?B for the bgst pi.apagedfarm, Miss Moore, who has arrived in Masterton from Wellington, .with. Pflmerpus testimonials, intends staying here fopsijc weeks for the purpose of giving instructions in dancing. She has received many promisos of support, and commences in the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening next with a goodly number of pupils. Those wishing to perfect themselves in dancine, and obtain a knowledge of the nejy cotillon should take advantage of this^isitqfpis Moore's to bounder her.instr.nofion|i A [remarkable disco,very has just been made near'Whitohaven'ra''rcgard 'to a robbery flf #,500 worth of jewellery. Ajew,elpasg'wjisjtaiibyal.adyijrho was travelling on tho FurneSjs IJailwayaeveral yc'ara jigo, but np cluo could bo obtained at .tha tliiie,- J|)t fflir p; family quarrel the Btolen jewels would probably n'ofhave been brought to light, Recently there died noar Whitehaven a porson who was formerly employed on the Furaess Railway, 1 and who, it is now reported stole tho jewels, On his death his daughters quarrelled about the division Af '.thietojdu jswejloiyj the result being that' jtiie "jjoliio 'of the matter jii.d investigated thoVffiito' A portion of tile jewfiljeryfejs'lifready bfien recoverrd, and the police Bf§ s]} pyrsjiing their enquiries. The London correspondent of tho Manchester Courier writes:—"Mrs Langtry, I learn from a private letter, has ppded her season, and returned to &{; /rgip Son Francisco, but she will' go )j'ack iipediatoly to California, where she ipjsn^ spending the summer in-farming and hunting. The estate whioli tho "Jersey Lily' has recently purchased is called Langpry Farmsf and not Sandringham, It in a yalleyfof .the beautiful' Howell MpplfWS. MrGebhardt' has bought the adjoining farms, arid between them they own the yglley.' ,On .the "Langtry farms gf cattlo, 500 swine, thirty worf hmmi-m other thoroughbred stock,'-and. barns", granaries, and winepresses. try 1 1? ppy thS; most ractress in tlio fe)? £in>bitioh ia to hecome manageress -offl- nieiropoi itan: tlieafieV Hot' llfo, sho Bays,, is to bo- divided botfeen thfi stago n'nd the wnclie,. i

; it -It is fqtmd'by oaloulilion'tliat at ; B2B yards a man hua the appearand of; one' fourthj snd at 556, one-fifth, --'

The usual wc»kly dance of tho Mastcrfon Football OlubQuadrille Assembly will be held to-morrow evening,- ■

We remind thoso. interested .of the meeting in the ruom adjoining Mr Eeese's boot shop. to-nie;hb for tho purpose of forming a cricket club.

Mr F, H, Wood adds to the catalogue of his Taratahi stook sale ten fat heifers and several hacks. . ;:V :

Mr John Buckoridge advertises that well-known thoroughbred sire File Hercules, and also the fashionably bred draupht stallion Prince Albert to travel tho Wairarapa this season. Bothpedigrecß aro-published in our advertising columns, and will ivell repay the perusal of breeders. '.

The Quoen is about to carry out extonslve improveineptsi at Birkhall, her place on. the - Muick, near Bsllater, whioh she purchased a few yoars ago, with its estate" of six thousand acres, from the Prince of Wales/for whom it was bought by the Prince Consort. : ■. An Interesting ■ * experiment.; was, recently "made by aDr Durand in reference to the relative power of imagination in the two sexes. He gave to 100 of his hospital patients a dose of sweetened water,' and, shortly afterwards entered the_ room: apparently 'greatly' agitated; saying he had by .mistake 'administered a powerful emetio. • In a few minutes four-fifths of the'subjeote were affected by the emetic, and .were mainly nion, while everyone of those not affooted were women.

VChokebore' - 'writing to a Christchurch contemporary on tho question of the destruction of hares says;—A .month ago . I saw a hawk; swoop down on a full grown haro on/a farm in South Canterbury, and strike her a : blow on the head. No cover being handy puss gamely Bhowcd fight, sitting erect, and making all sorts of attempts to beat her antagonist off.- Her efforts, however, were of very little use, and She must speedily have been killed, had I not closed such an unequal combat by stopping tho hawk with a'oharge ot No 2. Again I have seen a hawk' chase a hare formiles, repeatedly drive her from the shelter of a friendly tussock, lift her from the ground and drop her again time after time, and finally, poor puss being quite exhausted, finish the run with a blow on tho head. In tho months of January and February hawks are very destructive to leverets, and to this destruction is in a great measure duo the increasing scarcity of hares all ovor Canterbury. I think, therefore that my readers will agree with me that the Acclimatisation societies should set a price on tho head of every hawk, for there cannot be a doubt that their numbers want greatly reducing, They are wary birds, but they have their failing, which is to lwver about plantations from the cover of which thoy can easily be shot.

Professor Hutton in his paper on tho goldfields of New Zealand read before the Philosophical Institute Christchurch, on Thursday last, after remarking upon the scientific researches says;—ln Cornwall there was exactly the same formation _as in New Zealand—slate and granite; but whilst ■ they only found gold here, they found copper and tin in Cornwall and no gold. This they could ijot explain, So far as gold in Canterbury was concoraed; none would be found, in his opinion, until the Alps were removed. Practically he might say ovory goldfieldwas discovered by the prospector, because. Governments did not call in the help of the geologist until the gold was found,' Thus, though the geologist was some kind of use, he was unable to prophesy where a goldfield would be found, as the prospector got in before him, This was what had always taken place, and would continue to do so.

Canterbury people honour Otargo lake trout, and forget that in the Canterbury lakes trout rivalling those of Wakatipu and Wanaka aro found, Fow anglers visit Lake .Coleridge, though it is within a hundred miles of Ohristchurch. I don't suppose they would get big. baskets of .fish if they did go, not even if they spent the season there, that is if they fished with' rod and line in the legitimate mannor. Lake Coleridge holds many a noble trout, fish that would grace the table with the greatest epicure, and should do so for they aro as easy to oatch as those in southern lakes, easier perhaps, for I was once told how a shepherd in less than five minutes, with the help of his stick and dog. caught five fine trout weighing from 81b to 121b each. One or two creeks empty themselves into the lake and the water In these creeks is generally still. On summer days the trout leave the lake to bask in the warmth of the shallow waters: The shepherd observed this arid one day he crept to the mouth of ono of these creeks stepped into the water, made a splash and as I said .in less than five minutes, he and his dog landed nearly 601b of fish, At a recent horticultural mooting flowers were'exhibited in a glass filled with water, and fitted with a wide and flat stopper. • To tho stopper the flowers wore attached, and then oarefully introduced into tho water in the globei the stopper completely filling the mouth of the globe, and being wide enough to stand safely., By turning the whole arrangement so that it stood on tho stopper,, the flowers wero lsftcompletely surrounded by water. Tho water magnified tho flowers, and a pleasing optical illusion is tho result, Flowers thus immersed will keep twice as long as those in tho air. . W. and A. Ballinger, of tho Wellington Guards, wero practising with tho Nowtown Rifles, when some grand scoring was made, W, Bollinger making 98 points out of a possible 105, makinp the possible' at tho 500 yds 'range. Appended are the scores W. Ballingor, 32 at 200 yds. |rat 300 yds, 35 at 600; Total, 98, A, Ballingor, 30 at 200 yds, 27 at 3(joyds, 20 at BpOyds j Total, 8(1.. !'Women crabbed ql'd bachelor wl}o uttered this uttered this gentiri]enj; cqijld but fitness the iptense thought, deep st|idy and thorough investigating' qf wQpn in determining tho best medicines to keep their families well, and would note their sagacity and wisdom in selecting Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters as the best, and demonstrating it by keeping their, families in perpetual health, at a moro nominal expense, lie/would be forced to acknowledge that such sentiments are baseless and false. Picayune. "I Don't Want That Stuff,"—ls what a lady of Boston said to her husband when he brought home some medi-. cine ,to cure hor of sick headache and neuralgia,'\yhich|iadmade.'lier : raiserable for fourteen. years;.<%fc'tho first attack thoreaftor'if 'iji'as administered to her with' such, good results, that 'she continned its use tfU cure 4,. apd m so enthusiastic in its praise,. that - she inducod twenty-two of the best families in her circle- to adopt it as thoir regular family medicine. That '-'stuff" is Dr Soule'a American Hop Bittei-s. Standard.

Haying now finished our annndl stock' taking,aml'havrag been also busily em ployed during tli'o past ten days in opening but our firet importation of Bpring goods, we areptejparod-to show thfl gopd people of JVellinglbn"_and exceedingly #ijth elegant, 'select jissprfuient at th? ifaperv Warehouse, To Aro House, Wellington, Wearooonyinoed that our now' prints zephyrs, and dfess goods, of ovory des cription, will outrival anything that can possibly.be shown in the city, and we have the authority oi competent experts for this foment. Whether as regards designs,' qual)W,-!)r -gricßa the public will find that we »re rgally AJ, &tfld too E6]i§s, :Weli lihctou;• , And not only in theso goods, but in mantles, costumes,-, millinery, andall other seasonable goodß our buyer .has proved hjmgelf to be far in advance of his compeers andtho advatilagy o£ taste and indg. ment will doubtless be appreciated- by' the steady throng of customers we expect to see at;To Axo .House, Wellington. . 1 >_ Our first grand showmll'Me place on Thursday-next, 6tlf September,; whenithe ptablft toII- BSye'&fa bjj&ttuiiijsy oi wityejsr •in'g one '- of the I'moit uniqn'ei'; fasliioiaßle OT^.beld ;^itWSi^ity^ Family Drapoiy "\y Te Aro House,

NEWS BY'CABLE, London, September 6, The . Novo Vremya,- published in St wliole of the tribes in the northern portion of Afghanistan are in open rovolt, ; and, have recognised as their, leader the rebel IsiiaD Elian.'. The statement lacks confirmation and it' is believed to be dubious.

" At a' banquet given by the Sutlers' Company, Lord Charles, Beresford in the' course; of- his speech, declared thai it >was essential in the interests of England, that there should bo a reorganisation of the Admiralty,. Infoimation has been received that the. island of Cuba, in the West •Indies, has been visited by a oyolone, and serious damage is reported. , Lord ,; Hardwicke is desirous of obtaining an appoiiitment to one of • _ Cantos, September 0. _ The passing of the Chinese exclusion Bill by the American' Congress created great excitemen fe r in this city, and serious . riots broke out. ...The residence of' the American Minister was attacked', by Chinese. The authorities took prompt' measure to quell the disturbance.

; Loxdon, September G. It is rumoured thatPrihcess'Louise the eldest daughter of the Prince ol Wales, is to be married to tho Cza'reVrfch. ; - . • I

' '. • Caicciia, Septembei"6. ■ An : expedition; is - to bo' sent to Agror VaDey to avenge the murders Battye,' - Captain' Urmston, who were killed in June last! expedition will leave here on Ist October, and will consist of five batallions of British infantry, two batteries, of artillery and eleven, regiments of native infantry,