The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1888. Unexplained Fires.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3036, 24 October 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1888. Unexplained Fires.

Mb PnmzYN has contributed a letter to tho N.Z. Times in which lie relates a characteristic incident where a friend of his observed stablo litter ignited by a horse treading ou a wax vesta, and argues tliat fires from accidents of this ltinil aro common occurrences. He contends that wero safety matches generally used by.the public, and tho popular vesta dis' carded, fires would Bo less frequent and insurance companies would reduce tlioir rates. We are glad to see public attention called to. the insecurity of the match commonly used in most colonial households, and believe ■ that very many heads of families are wont to regard this article with considerable distrust, One phase of the match question upon which Mr Pharazyn has not touched,is the very general uso of these fire raisirs by children. The commercial vesta is carried about by thousands of urchins in tlie community, sometimes as a plaything which has tho attractive clement of danger, and at others us a means by wliiob a little mischiefmay be effected. Another well-known risk arises from tho phosphoric appetites of the übiquitous rat. The comparative cheapness of the vesta makes housekeepers careless about.it. Tiino was when the paper box of matches was sold in tho Wairarapa at twopence, and people were a little careful.in expending its contents, but now 'that a corresponding box ig.pracurablo for a halfpenny, and sixpence will buy a dozen boxes, people keep small stocks of them all over their houses, children .help themselves,'.- and tho übiquitous siiioker tfoes liis part by dropping them all over tho 'premises with carelessandiffeijeuce.. The vesta match is a colonial institution, aud will not be easily .driven out of circulation iii a. community like this, If, as is surmised,.a largo percentage of unexplained' fires originate with the vesta; it will be 'the duty of the public to follow Mr Pharazyn's : oxaniple and'resort,;to,. the ; exclusive use of safety matches. Perhaps the Colonial Treasurer might be induced to help the safety match to supersede the dangerous vesta by. abolishing all duties on the former and doubling arid trebling'tlie impost on the latter, We are suffering somewhat severely |n country districts from excessive iuaui'an.eo premiums, and every legitimate effort shojiid b,e, mjide to. bring them down. If the vesta lias to go in order to obtain a reduction of premium's, by all means lot war bo waged upoji it..

' A'Jioadcd pnrk-phautourwith pule and ilfoftsiciimpieto;.: Taratilu slock "sale on Thursday, V Carterton will bo phiyedat Cartorton on Sutunlfty- iiext, ■ commencing at 2 p.m.

At avmeeting' of the .council of. tho Balloon Society, bold at St; Jaiiios Hall, London, Captain Catnpbull in tliov chair, •Dr. Hastings promised to give aprizo of. 100 guineas for tho most perfect method bfsolidifvihg gas so as to enable an aeronaut to dispenso with ballast. 7 ; •i I'Joe, I was tho .fiWt'fellow to; liavo, the smallpox in our precinct last winter. 1 ' "Is that so, Bill? AVliat did ,you do? Keptit quiet, no doubt," " Oh, no] I didn't. I communicated it to nearly everybody in tho block. .Thoro is nothing mean about me. , Tho'Rev, CqlwellPrico,: a coloured I Methodist minister of Kansas City, aged 50, hns just married Mrs Wylie Bell, aged 78. .This is.Mrs Boll's fourth •matrimonial venture, and she wore' tho : Wed•* ding drosß that was given her BO years ago for her first marriage., i " - . Tho ro»ular fortiiiptlitly stock sale at Taratahi hikes pla<?o to-morrow, Thursday, when Mr F. H, Wood will offer 800 slieop, 114 head of cattle, horses, vehicles, and sundries. Poople all over tho district are enquiring when the Mastorton Pastoral Show is to tako place. The Committee appears a little somnolent; nineteen peoplebut of twenty in Miwteiton know, all about tho Carterton Show, but nothing about their own exhibition. •

•Anoxchaugesays: Tho fltgawapurua nativo, iluru, lias been.settled with in the dispute about the Ngawapurua lands required for public "work purposes. It is stated that the' Government have given him a personal; solatium -of £BO, and liavo agreed to purchase from. liiin seventy-five acres of tho island cut by the river' encroachment, though what good tho land will bo to'them nobody knows, • "

M, Maranbas—a French authority—states that in oxa'uiing the, history ofthioe thousand criminals "undergoin? sentences of various' lengths, ho fmnld that of the vagabonds and beggars 79 per cent were confirmed' drunkards; of assassins and incendiaries SO to 57 per cent; of thieves and swindlers 71 per cent; and of those convicted of violence to the pei'Bou 88 per cent.

It 80oms that Mr Plimsoll still interests himself in the question of over loading. He has, we hoar, just set off on ii trip to tho' North Cape in ono of Messrs Wilsiin's steamships, the Domino. Mr Plimsoll's object is to enquire into tho truth of tho allegations that, us tho result of the adoption of the English load-line, the carrying trade in timber has been to a largo extent transferred to Norwegian bottoms, Hasty persons aro calculating that because tho Australians get eighty per cent of tho gate money taken in their matolies, these cricket tours aro very remunerative. As a matter of fact this hits nover been tho case. The most money got by any colonhl team went to tho eleven -known ns" Murdoch's," but oven th'en i'B3o was theti'tnl sum riiade by each member Of tho eleven, and off that thoro woro heavy expenses to pay. Golden Wyandottes are being introduced to this colony:—Says Friday's Lyttleton Times: Two pullets and a rooster of this new and valuable breed of fowls,'with a trio of light Brahmas, arrived by tho steamer Wanaka yesterday, tran shipped from the mail steamer' from San Francisco. Tho birds ivero looking healthy, in spite of tho dirty condition of tlioir coops, Thoy wore imported by tho Eov F. W. lsitt, of Invorciivgill, • There has been a big split up in the Masterfon liille Volunteer corps, and the band has resigned in a body. Lieut. Hooper who is in ' charge of thn material, refused to deliver up the musio etc, to the band when-thoy domanded it, Since then, wo are informed, the room in which fit; was

kept has boon forcibly entered, aud the contents removed. , Wo also hear that tho members have made overtures to Mr •Pearson with a view, to the amalgamation i/f the respective bands/. " Apropos of tho , great, waterfall discovered by Mr Sutherland, the scientific anchorite of Milford Souiid, it may be mentioned that hitherto tho reputation, of being the highest waterfall in the world has been allotted to tho one in Mariposa county, California. Other famous waterfalls are tho Oreo Falls at

Monto Ban; Gav-rnia (Pyrenees), Staubbach (Switzerland), 1000 ft,' Maneivan (Nonvay)i'Niagara,'and Missouri,. In the notes published by us last Friday (adds tho (Jtago- Daily Times), Mr T. Mackenzie, expresses- the opinion that tho Sutherland Fall is betweon '2oooft and -SOOOft high, liowen Full, tho highest hitherto know in New Zealand, is 640 ft. It is hoped that tho new discovery-may partially atono in the minds of tourists for the lamented loss of the Pink aud White Terraces by the Taiawera oruptlon of 1886. The Lyttelton Times records tho following unexplained phenomena. Mr C, P. Beiuloll, tho manager of tho Cashmere Estate, tells tho following tale, which will no doubt be of interest to all the dwellers of this land of mild earth; quakesi '"During the past'few'days Mr lieadell's son and two men have been fencing on the summit of tho hill overlooking tho Dyer's Pass road. Three days a«o thoy w'wo startlod'by two loud roports in the vicinity! which thoy say almost exactly resembled ■ tho noise which would bo made by big jels or spurts of Bteam, Nothing, however ci'ijld be seen which would in any way account for the noise, nor was thoro any odour of escaping gas, They did not, ilftor all,'pay much attention to the matter, but on the following evening, just as thoy were leaving'work, the. noise was repeated, this timO three reports neing heard, There is, so far, no explanation, '■■■■■ "

' A ro'«arkable instance of memory has come to the notice of the. correspondent of the Now. York Critic., Its possessor is a lady member of Dr. Howard Crosby's church in New York. 'Without. having taken a single note, sho will, when. sho goe« home, write out,every word of her pastor's sermon, and, ho tells mo, she never makes amistako of a "tho" or an "and"—that .overy sentence not only enibodies hislidoii,- biit gives it in his exact language. For twenty-five,years this been performing'these feats of memory, and during ■ that time she has written over 2000 sormons. Tho manuscript-of some of them-she has had bound, and presented to Dr. Crosby. They mako forty .large volumes. But this is not all; of Jier . devoted. labours; she had written out, also from memoiy, all of his lectures, and she had classified bis opinions on all tho'subjects upon which ho lias spoken during these years, and has mado an elaborate . series of indexes to theni.' JJTot a wOrd is omitted. Even wheii the preacher drops into 'Greok,:Latiiy or.Hobrow, elio follows him, fur she is proficiei>|; in each of these languages. Certainly a remarkable woman. ;

As a very striking difference, says a southern exchange, bptweei) tjje old iiofeß.of tho liank of Now Zealand pd the more repent, ;issuo has caused some

perhaps flver-pautioiis trafleaincn fo consider the latter to bo npijrio'uj,' a briof description of these may be useful,.. The recent issue is somewhat nearer a square than the old one's, and- the ornamental devices are differently placed,. ' On the fyco of tho note the numbers are printed on tho fight Ipiid upper and left hand kiwor.cotnew'of the promiso to pay, instead of as in ( The extreme' corners of' tho. 'ijbte " are pajijfied alternately, by the "fipufe 1 and wpi'd' "fno,'.',,', pn'.the ■ Joftj iniddlo Imiii :'is altogether.jan. ipi^oßation, v while, thfs is ■bnliii)n.ifl':liy ! ' ; an 'enlarged copy of. the 'group pf ??aons,; formerly oft the left liiihi sid6; : %bwp'.j|o :Noiy land landsco,pei^WhiCh : bago trees, alakowitha .Bupw» capped mountain, &c. This last, somewhat enlarged, i 3 now transforred to the back (w; t|iejjipteo»Tho \vprkmatiship of the new note is of efiual exoellence with that of tho^'old^ne<f.i)l;

./A gold ring wiufnund in the -stomach of h grilse.'caiiglit daj. ' ' 1 ■: .of tho Jf-M. Fire.Brigado annual dolnonstratiun to be held on: tl|o AVorlisopißoad Football Ground on tho DtliNoveinber appear, m-our. advenising tolumna.

Paris is cnid to have a statue of Shnkospere. -It is" by Fournier, and will stand at the anglo- formed by the Ayjiimo do Mcsoino and, tho Boulevard Elaussiuann.

:Mr,- ;10patriek-h(is' sold :his.'famguß Clydesdale colt, Princo of Albion, to Mr Gilmour, of Montgravoi for £3OOO, 'which; is .by far tho; highest ■ price over paid for a draught horso. v'' A Congress of Florists! is now m session in this city, It is reported atone of their'moetings that as mauy as 80,000 rosobuds are sold in New York every day in tho season. .•

It is said that betwoon three and four thousand piiundoof caffeine are annually liiado m Germany from damaged tea which has been rojocted by the British Customs housos. ■

Mr I. Pike advertises that his;wellmown 'clydesdale, Sir Colin-Campbell itaiid at Brooklyno, tilndstone, this sea-.

A meeting of soino of tho old members of tlie.Taratalii.Cartortbn Jockey Club was held at tho' Marquis Hotel on Saturday night last; whon it .was resolved to reinstate-the Club, and Mr 'J. H. Canavan was elected becret iry : The following team will represent the Star Cricket Club in their match, with the second eleven of the Masierton Club mi Saturday next :-E. Minifie, W, E. Welch, A, Welch, ,T. Hawko, W, Grantham, Wickena, Itoyler, H. .Welch, I'\ Grantham, C. Ewington, Holford, Einerneiicii|s—Pafker, Kichards, Russell,, v The entries: for the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral'and Agricultural Show amount to- five hunted and fifteen. ,'Horses,-one hundred "and fourteen ; cattle sixtv eight 5 and slwep two hundred and-'oighu Judging by the number of entries which exceed last year by ninety-three, and the increased effort put forth liy the Committee, 'the Show Uiis year should pruve a decided success and it .is to be hoped tho Society will bo rewarded with' favorable weathor. I Volunteers are- reminded, of the inspection parade to-morrow evening in the Drill Hall.- The following members of tho Mastorton llifle Volunteers are requested to turn out for practice in view ot the approaching match with the City Rifles. Lieut Thompson, Sergt Woods and Klbblewhito, G'orpl. MoLachlan, Vols G. and C. Bontley, G, Bland. VV. A, Wilton, R. McKenzie,'C. Hoffi ns, G. Schultz, 4. Hoar. Practices will be held on Saturday, Wednesday next, and the following Saturday, The acting Executive Commissioners for the .YiolbourneExhibitou liavo received from Sir Jamos Hector tho following cable message relating to awards at tho train shows:—"Awards—Oats: i Meek, Oamaru, 1; New Zealand Loan mid Mercantile, 2. Barley; Now Zea- , land and Australian Land Company, 1 and 2. Tares: Foil, Pictoii, 1; Grigg, Longbeath, 2. .Rye grass: Sutton, Thornbury, 1 j New Zealand and A'us i tmlian Law! Company, 2, Cuoksfoot: McKeeven, Normanby, 1.. Potatoes: Matthew Holms, Oamaru, 1."

Our Carterton correspondent writes: —" A vei-y heavy shock of earthquake was felt hero last night at 8,15, direction South-West to North-East. It was the heaviest that has bbeti felt here for some years. I liavo l.ot heard that .any damage was caused by it." From Greytown we learn that at 8 20, p.m. yesterday a sharp earthquake was felt there. Before and after I he phenomena the sky was cloudy with hardly ato visible, Tho weather.was very mild and calm. A low rumbling sound came from the north, followed by . a tremendous momentary vibration' apparently from South' to North succeeded by a con*, tinu 'its earth trembling for about ft uiiliute after the shook, . " Atticus," in the Leader, tells the following: -Many years ago 1 told a story in this column of a station ladj ,who, wishing to leave his service, pricked himself with a pin in two places in the leg, 1 aud said he had been bitten by a suake. : The lad's hopo was that he wo.tld be sent off to tho hospital, from which he could easily escape.' But tho-.Bquattor was a humane man, aud a bit of a bush doctor to bbofc, With the assistance of some of tho station hands ho got tho lad down, aud in spito of his' prayers,' struggles, and imprecations cut several slices of flesh away, cauterising tho wound with a lliit iron; ; und afterwards' pouring io gunpowder, which was ignited with a red hot poker. Tlie victim was then made to swallow ii quart of whiskey, and at eyery appearance of drowsiness was either horsowhippe ; or with a rope round ilia waist was chucked into the icy cold waters of the Upper Goulbourn. The boy by a miracle, recovered from both the pin pricks and tho euro, and left the station, as it was tbouuht a cripple for life. For vears 1 heard nothing of him, bub meeting the humanosquattor at the Exhibition the other day, I had a yarn ovovhissnako bito treatment,. "Ever hoarof.the youim ncampsince?" 1 asked. '■ Hear of him 1" lie said with an indignant snort, 11 Do you know that in spito of all I tried to do fur that fellow, ho had,the ineratitu'lo to come back and select.a piece of land that whs iJiooye of tho. station, It cost mo hundreds of pounds to buy that young fraud out I" if ever there was a case of rotributive justice this was one. Yesterday morning Mr J. Montgomery who lives on tho Manaia, found a horse grazing' in front of his * house, Tho animal had-on a saddle and bridle aud was covered with mud and water. There wns_ no appearance of an owner, and, fearing it was a case of drowning, Mr Montgomery brought the horse into Mastorton to tho police, reporting at tho same timo that ho had noticed a man riding past his placo going at tho rate of knots at an eauiyhour in the morning in tho direction of tho Taratahi plains, ■ Constable O'Connor immediately went off to tho Whingawa, and searched up and down for miles, but tailed to find tho missing horseman. Other members of tho force alid : si veral private poople assisted in .tho soaroh which proved in vain, At about 7o'clock in tho evening ii" boosey" lnokiner individual accosted Constable Salmon,' Have yor seen a stray horse knockin' around here mister." The officor. stared at his interrogator and exclaimed "What I Are you'tho man who's supposed to.be dead? Wo've befcn 'soarokiiig 'fbr you're dead body all day and you've sot tlie cheek to turn up hero half drunk. You'ro a pretty" felluv and doservo locking Up:" Further enquiry elicited the fact that tlie man had borrowed a horse to go tea 'job 'of ploughing,- Before starting on his . journey he got pretty well primed with alcohol, and to make np for lost tiino ho went full speed to his job. • Tlie intelligent quadruped earned him' safely to the Taratahi swamp, and there deposited him gently in the mud where he passed a few hours in peaceful slumber. On awakening he failed to realize his pqsition and retpiod to 'Masterton, whore, by the aid of a few nobblers and careful enquiries he discovered his horse was in the.caro of the police! and having recovered tho poor beast lie departed mournfully. A strange tnlo of a goldplate with in • scriptions falling frpm Heaven,-printed in Tamil and Telegu, is in circulation in India,--Tins mysterious talo, says the Hindoo Patriot, is aa follows :~A plate, whioli was mado, of the most; beautiful gold, with - the .followinginscription, accidentally fell down from Heaven, on tho Templo bf 'Casi;Vißwanatli, at Benares : ' "From the month of Noveriiberi 1888,-God himself, will rule as Emperor over, Hindustan, i incarnating hinM in human form., - From t|m time thoro will bo justice all over the ■ world, and tho Munis—tliat is, sages—will bo m a yory prosperous icpiiditioiij andi will bo; worshipped by. the people. - On, the 6th of Marchj IbSS). at Aswaui Naksot, the sun wlU;tiSe' on thfi ,455.n Mbiia Xunea. 1 The day.';,will,, increase y liiild: the' higb't, wilf and-.tlie" ; ; night;. 10- hours', . All "the diseasos.of menwill: bo age of 1 men', 5 , which- is; at i present esfablished,atloojyearß:-will ; in, futum i)Vj2sjreatfl,-- ,J

vPrmio buttei ia" being .retailed lH Gliriskchurcli.BtSd per poundrJ ::v/ : ihA 171b eel ivns~caught iti tlio Avon at Oh isti hurch recoutly. > , ;>fXlio Waipawa exhibition opona on Dacumber 6th. ' Tho flux industry ia flourishing juat now ui the Wairaiapa, giving employment to a larga number of hands: At tliu present quotation fur flax in England this.industry, should provo remunerative lioro.

It has beon officially-announced in Brussels" that' the forces of the Con no State havo (main tuken possession of the Stanley Fall station.' ■

A dog .was .sent - over Tho Niagara rapids"jn;Hcask:recontly, ; The passage' was made in fourtoeu minutes.-Thedog, although ajittlo:'short, of breath, was unharmed, : -h

General Letjitiino has"been .oleotod President of Hayti. General Salomon, tho' late Preaidenti has loft the island on board H.M.B, Canada.

A smart shook of earthquake.vas ex-, porienced in Mastortonaiid the surrounding districts at a quarter past .eight last night. It lasted some ten seconds, and tho direction was from east to west. ' Mr G. Dixon. M.P. accompanied by his son, arrived in Masterton last evenin!; and took up his quarters iit'the Club Hotel. This morning lie'proceedod to. Manawa promising to niiike a Boinoivhat longer stay in this town upon his return from his station. - ; - ;

Threo German officers havo during the present year been killed in riding at horse ; raccs in the .neighbourhood of Berlin; Another accident under similar circumstances occurred tho. otlior day to an officer, and lie was seriously injured,

' Abraham Fioldinp, who has just boen discharged from tho M stertou Hospital after buing an inmate thereof for abont eighteen weeks,' wishes through' our coliiinnß to return thanks to tho Trustees of that establishment, to Dr llosking, for the skill hO displayed in his case, also to' the custodian, Mr Williams, for his uniform kindness and attention, and to Mr and Mrs Gwynne, the assistants. This is the case, it will be remembered, that was brought from Braneepeth somo four inontliß since, where the young man was shot through both thighs, and was lying out nil night on the hills. It was feared that an amputation would be necessary, but that has been avoided by the skilfal treatment of the hospital surgeon, Dr Hosking, . _ Captain H, McLoflan, informs our representative, says tho Lyttelton Timcß, of something of the early life of'tlie late Mr J, H, Hall, tho actor, Ho Bays;— " In the year 1858, while Captain MoLelta was oliief officer of tho brig Mary Grant, which was owned by a Sydney firm of sh'powuors,' and just previous to leaviug tho Port of Valparaiso, Hall was shipped as an A.8., he having just loft an American ship called tho Rover's Brido. Captain McLellan states that Hall was cue of the smartest men in the forcastlo, and, besides being the leading hand in working the sails, fo., he was a great favorite with all on board on account of the ainusemoiit ho afforded them in'all weathers by his singing and step-dancing, Ho stayed with tho ship 1 for six months, and when Captain McLellan again met him ho was in Newcastle, and he had then boen some months on ; the stage." Mr J. L. Hall carno to Auckland with a dramatio Company in 1856. From the hob.—There is perhaps no tonic offered to the people that possesses as much real intrinsio value as Dr, Soule's American Hop Bjtters. Just at this season of the year, when tho stomach needs an appetiser, or the blood needs purifying, tlio cheapest and best remedy is Dr. Soulo's Araoricaii Hop Bitters. An ounce of prevention is worth a'pound of cure; don't wait until you are prostrated by a disease that may take months for you to recover in.— Boston Globe. v ' Woman's Wisdom.-" She insists that it is of more importance that herfamily shall be kept in full health, than thar she should have all tho fashionable dresses and styles of the "times': ;; She therefore sees to it that eaoh member of 1 her family is supplied with, enough of f Dr. Soulo's Americaii Hop- Bitters at the > first appearance of ill-health, to prevent . a fit of sickness with it's'attendant ; expense, care and anxiety. Allwomen ■ should exerciso their wisdom in this way, ' ' —Now Haven Palladine. Swrts months since W'o made arrange- ( inen'B with three, of the largest Briish : cotton' ma-jiifactrrers ti Bujiply us oxclu- , sivcly with certain specially selected makes of c >li:;oeH, wliich: Iron our long cxperienca we know to bo spcoially adapted for the requirements of the public, These have ' now nirived at Te Aro House, Wellington. Wo .confidently recimnvud these • as 1 being the best makes ever introduced into 1 the district or the Colony, and :>s agu irau--1 tee nf valmj, every uioco and dozen ha# i stamped on it our trado mark, viz., a view i ot the Wholesale Family Drapery Ware- ! honsoi -To Aro■ H onsft,■ W 'ih'.'y compriFe a variety of makrs, fine, mciliuiii, and heavy, aro all pure, toft [ (ini>b, and are.well " adapted for the thnusand and one pnriioses ito wiiieh e.ilicoes ' ero put. For the coiivenibnco of sale they are principally made up i.i 12 yard lengths and the numi.ers and prices are a< follows at Te Ar» I'oitso, Wolliugton, i Wid'lis. 32 and 36 inoliea, lumber's on! pr:c:B per dozcu yards, Jl, 3s 6 1 ; J2. . -is 6:1, 5s 6iJB, fis 6d, 6s, h | J4,5s 6 '6b 6d; J5,7s !)d; J6, 8* 6d;Al, 4s Gd, 5r61; A2, 65911 A3. 6b7d;A4. Bi(id; i Ml, 3i Git, 4s fid j MS! 5> 5b 6d j M3,656d; i M47s9d,.uttho Wholesale family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro, House, Welling, ton, -Anvr.