The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3122, 6 February 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889.

The Jamiesons, owners of the lrox, are building a large sloop at Queenstown, to contest /or the American Cup, The vessel will be called the Shamrock. The heat has. been very intense in Melbourne of late, and the typhoid epidemic has spread with alarming rapidity. It is estimated that there will bo not less than (ivo hundred deaths from this zymotic disease before the summer is ended.

The printing trade of Melbourne is reported to bo dull just now and it is estimated thcro are. one hundred and twenty compositors out of work. A great many hands are leaving for tho minor towns in Bearcli of employment.

New York boasts of a club which is especially intended for electricians. Electric lights are nil ovor the building, and in tho principal rooms they are so numerous and so brilliant as to be almost dazzling. The rooms are warmed by electricity. Tho doors open and close by electricity when the members put their feet on a particular spot; boots are polished by electric brushes, indeed everything that can be done by electricity is so done. John Best, a man now advanced in years, was indicted at Nottingham assizes for bigamy. It appeared he married a woman named Patrick, at Duffield, Derbyshire, in 1853, but alter living with her less than 12 months, desorted her, aud in 18G1 married a Nottingham woman named Whiles. Best and Whiles lived together for 22 years, and fivo children were born'to them. Quito recently, howovcr, he ran away to live with another woman, mid when proceedings were instituted against him to maintain Whiles, lie disclaimed responsibility on the ground that the second marriage was bigamous, his first wifo boing alive whon ho married Whiles. Investigation proving his statement true criminal proceedings wero instituted against him, and Mr Justice Cave sentenced him to five years' penal servitude, saying it was the worst case he had heard for a very long time.

While service was proceeding in the Islington Congregational chapel, Upper--1 street, on Sunday night, there was a ! sudden and shrill blast from- a ' horn, and a voice exclaitniug, "Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand." At once the proacher (Rev. Robert Berry, stopped) and the offender, a man of 2li or 28 years of age, with fair hair, whiskers, and moustache, who had sackcloth about his loins, beneath an outer coat, and carried a ram's horn, was arrested. The poor follow was taken to the police station and charged, and he Beemed to think his sapity was doubted by his repeated protestations that he was perfectly sano, but that 110 had a divine mission to fulfil, Indeed, he warned the divisional surgeon that if he declared him insane the wrath of the Almighty would assuredly descend upon him. He was removed to the parish infirmary, Mental malady assumes at times strange forms. A case hi point is that of tho unfortunate young lady Juliaßeelo who resided with her parents at New York, aud who reoently destroyed hersolf by poison. The deceased who was handsome, well-growi), and twenty seven years of age, had since seventeen been afflicted with a fixed idea which nothing could shake—namely that she was a creature monstrous to behold, horrible in her ugliness, and a disgrace to humanity. In vain hor mirror was placed before hor eyes by . her anxious parents. The poor girl turned shudderlngly away from-it, and any attempt to force her to look at herself provoked a nervous crisis. Suitors for her hand had presented. themselves merely to-bo rewctfid bythip unhappy monomaniac, MM) sliranl frojn tji.e tliought of marriage |l es *«he wight 'bmrnw other of monsters of disgust anda'v;*.!*s■ prf. 1 After living for ton yeara rf'y™ haunting her, alio committed su.J.'M leaving behind her ft letter, for lien distressed parents 'explaining that; sho. felt it to bo her duty, to rid sooiety of a being bo deformed and so frightful to look upon as herself.""

A perfectly-quiet trap horse is advertised forsalo in our columns.: Partiou-' lata can bo obtained at this office.'. . On Saturday Kith hist,, the Championship cricket matches: mil be continued by the Sputh Wairarapa fifteen playing the Masterton first eleven at'Mastertou;and the Star fifteen playing the Carterton first eleven at Carterton.lf the games are incomplete, they are expected to becontinuod on the following Satiirday,. /<; . _ '. The Masterton Amateur Operatic Company held their final rehearsal ot" " Patience" at the Theatre' Royal last evening, and, judging by their proficiency, the public will have a treat to-night, when .the play is produced. The sconery is very effective and a credit to the artist, Mr A. M. Bradbury, who has also had the whole fitting up of the stage. A full house may confidently be expected. An interesting discovery has been made during the excayatioiiß of the Athens Acropolis. A tablet was dug up on whioh was painted a warrior, with helmet, shield, and spear, Near .the fignrowas an archaic inscription. Archaeologists fitf the dato in the fifth century before Christ. News has been received to the effect that bloody intertribal lights are racing, among the natives of the Solomon group. In ono instance thirty men, women, and clnldron were roaseaored, The coastal tribes are fighting-with the natives of the interior, who are raiding the formor and carrying oil] cattle, &c. The loss of life is considerable, and cannibalism is rampant.

As a farmer was engaged recently in dig?iiif( a mere on his land, heunearthed two silver coins, whioh proved to bo a halfcrown and a shilling of the time of | Charles 1. It is 'thought the more strange that the coins 'should be found at Peak Forest churches, which old and now, were dedicated to King Charles the Martyr. It is stated that an old farmer in the village, on beiug informed i>f the find, said, " that if they kept on digging they would find a skeleton," for, he sapely observed ''if farming were as bad in the old days as it is now, a man who had lost 3s 6d, would either find it or perish in the attempt.

A singular case has been 'investigated at the Sheffield Police Uourt. A German of gentlemanly appearance, who calls himself Count von Knobluck, wascharged with committing ft. breach of the peace, by forcibly entering the house of a lady named Mrs Vicarage, It appears that, he was twice in one evening turned out of complainant's houso by the police, and his solicitor stated that he had refused to bo prevented from visiting the complainant, saying, "lovo ought not to be bound," and that" I want my sweetheart." Hb had also caused the banns of marriage between himself and tho complainant to be published at the Sheffield parish church, and had procured the insertion in Sheffield newspapers of an announcement of their bethrothal, Complainant, in cross-examination, said sho was introduced to tho defendant by hor brotlibr-in-law, when staying at Oleothorpes, a few years ago, and at one timo she believed him to be a «onuine German liarou, but he had nover been invited to the houso in which sho lived with her mother in Sheflield, and sho was married to Mr Vicarage six weeks before. It further appoared that Mrs Vicarage had received several extraordinary letters from tho defendant, in one uf which he said, "for goodness sake' nuke me to be imprisoned ; I am not a safo party at all. I cannot bear the torture ar.y longor;" and in another, " as tho moou this-year lias an influence on my system 1 will have that excursion to East Africa." Mr Wilson, tho defendant's solicitor, said his client was in love not with any particular individual, but with the whole family. Ho preferred to be in gaol rather than not visit the complainant. Hehad found tho defendant a scientific mail of preat capacity. It was only when the moon was at the full that ho was not responsible for his actions, and according to his own statement he was not insane, but only mad nbout the ladies. He was bound over in two sureties to keep the peace,

Tho Duchess of Sutherland, who died recently, was for many years the greatest, haughtiest, and most influential of (ill tho gmrnks flumes of London society, To be asked to Trenthain or Dunroom during those spondthrilt years, when the hospitalities of Levcson-Govcrs wece almost regal in their magnificence, was a cachet of social position, for which many a Yankuo millionaire would have sacrificed thousands, But the Duchess (she was f/ic Duchesa then), entertained only tho elect of the elect. Of late years she grew "serious," and lived mostly in seclusion.. There wore differences, too, between herself and the Duke. Her Grace found it hard to forgive his Graced smnowhat ostentatious gallantries, and his Grace hated her Graco's numerous pet Anglican priests. Both were in reality very fond of one another, but they drifted apart, as married couples at their exalted positions so easily can.

A Paris contributor k tho Melbourne Argus writes " Lately, however, through the intervention of tho Duchesse d'RizGsand the Marquis de Bretnuil, much to tho disgust of theDucd'Aumale an alliance has been made between Boulanger and the Comte de Paris, who during the past three months, lias been the cashier of the Boulangist party, and 1 who has put several millions of francsat the disposal of tho adventurer. Tho secret understanding is supposed to be that after the election, Boulanser having obtained, as he probably will do a majority in the Cliainber, will propose and carry tho restoration of tho monarchy for the benefit of the Comte de Paris The sequel would thon be the ennobling of Boulanger with the title of Duo do Tunis, and as his divorce will have been announced by that, time, his marriage with the sporting Duchesse d'Kizos, with whom he lias becomo very thick. The plain fact remains undisputed, that tho Monarchists havo received ordors from their 'king' to march with Boulanger; the Imperialists hayo received tho same order from Prince Victor, who, unfortunately, has no money to offer as the Comte de Paris has j and so the matter stands.- All this sounds very much' like a fantastic fairy tale, but still it isso; we have neither oxaworatcd nor attenuated but simply recorded such facts as are accessible, such impressions as are unavoidable, such provisions as are formulated by all ohservers. France is disorganised so far as the governmental machine is concerned, and as has always been the case, since 1789. It lies with the peasant population to say ivhat tho future shall be. Next spring the rural voto will decide between- Republio, Monarchy, and Boulangerism, There will be duped apd dupers beyond a doubt but if one may risk a prediction, the Monarchists will doubtlefs be the biggest dupes, for the cry of 'Vive Boulauger!' has never meaut, and never will mean, ' Vive Phillipe d'Orleans 1' It means simply what it says—' Vivo Boulanger!' ■ 'A lady correspondent .writes—"No one knows lyhero the Princess of Wales gets her hair from. She has worn artificial liair for son)e time, but the secret of its manufacture has been sacredly kept. She gives her orders for her new fringe toher various maids—never to tho same one consecuively—and they get their Eoyal mistress those pretty fringes which students of hor photos mpst have nbticed as so consistent in style. The style of hairdressing for 1889 is already 011 the block,but it is scarcely completed yet. There will be a narrow fringe on the forehead, and a narrow continuation of coils will run from the top of the head low down 011 to tho neck. The hair will not bo hidden by the hat then as it is now. Short hair suits very few. women, and it cerainly gOBS very ill with: tho ■ large romantic hats worn this Bummer. To becomingly wear her hair short a-lady should have a Bmall skull and ears set well back on the head, The ranks of hairdressers 'ajre f,aerated chiefly from -ladies' maids but li{r ™ie§tt. told me he. employed two colonel's 'daughters, gnd ft young of title compelled tq, earit fer bread'hadteeii.'usjuP' l - ® ve " ha jf; dressing ha 3 its romanCiS. m Iruentt has a coiitracfc with ft French, convent forallthe WrofitsjnwatM- ' -

MrW. T, Stead-will'Bluntlyhvo ready for publication a . volume . on "Government by .Joutnolinm," a work which ho begun when confined in Holloway Gaol, i A shilling ie intrinsically only worth lOfd; tlio profit accruing is allowed to the Roynl Mintin'consideration ot its obligation co issue new silver coins for worn and light oiies.

The testimonial presented to Sir Bache I Cunnrd in Leicestershire on Nov. 1, for having managodi one of the County hunts for many, years, was'a solid silver' fox woi»'iingßlflozs. ' . The statute of Gordon in Trafalgar square represents the hero at Khartoum, looking for tho help that never came, The left arm is placed across the chest and supports the right arm and the right palm supports the chin. For tlw Dune'dln Exhibition Mr l'wopeny has secured the complete Victorian educational exhibit, similar to that at the Melbourne' Exhibition, and also portion of the French educational exhibit, which lias been presented to the Victorian Government, - The late Miss S. E. Joy, a Wiltshire lady, during her lifetime, carried on a society for suppressinc cruelty to animals by united prayer, has bequeathed £I,OOO to continue its work after her death. The validity of this request was questiortfid before Mr Justice Chitty, who has decided that the so-called Bocioty ended at the' death of the testatrix, and that the legacy was void. A shocking trapezo accident occurred on December 12 in a cafit chantant, called the Orphenin, at Ufen, the town on the opposite side hi tho. Danube to Pesth. "Mademoiselle Clairette" was giving a performance on the trapeze, in which she holds by the teeth her little boy of five years old, when suddenly the rope ?ave way, and mother and child were precipitated to the ground, the formor tailing heavily- upon the lattor, .There was" a fearfnl outcry among the audience,' On picking'up the child it was found, amongst injuries, to have lost nn eye, whilst the mother is aufforing from concussion of tho brain, An examination of the apparatus showed that the hooks of the trapezo were badly fastened.

Tho report of the committee appointed by the London shareholders in the New Zealand Shipping Company .has been issued in London. Fair Play, in criticising the document, says that it discloses tho position of the company as being favorable from'a financial point of view; but it animadverts iu the strongest terms upon the recklessness with which its affairs havo been administered by tho colonial Board. It goes so far as to say that directors of companies in England have found themselves m the Old Bailey for conduct less outrageous than that whioh has been pursued by the Now Zealand Board'of this company. It declares that'tlio only safety for the future lies in tho whole management being transferred to' London,

At the Devon assizes, Mary Griffin, aged twelve and a-half jws, was charged with tho murder of William Alfred Uelafiold, a»ed four years, at Plymouth, on the 9th of June. Tho littloboy left homo on the day in question to go to play. He was observed to enter the citadel iu company with a girl, and shortly afterwards he was seen to fall from one of the ombrasures into the ditch surrounding the citadel. He was at once picked up by a soldier, who found that he was partly undressed. As he was being removed to the citadel to be attended to, a girl was seen to leavo the place. The boy died shortly afterwards. Tho accused was admitted to a home in Plymouth, but after staying a few weoks she ran away. On returning she told tho lady superintendent that sho tried to kill herself, and sho was examined by a doctor, to whom she mado a statement that she it was who took tho boy to the'citadel, removed his clothes, and pushed him over in order to kill him. She subsequently repeated this statement to the police, Mr H. E. Duke, who appeared for the prisoner, asked the jury to consider her mental capabilities, and suggested that tho boy fell out of the ombrasure by accident. The jury . acquitted „the prisoner, and his Lordship observed that they wero a vory merciful ju^y,

A young man of gentlemanly appearance, described as woll educated, who gave the name of Arthur Gordon Lennox, and who claimed to be connected with an anstrocratic family, pleaded guilty at Chester assizes to bigamy and to attempted suicide. He denied a third indictment of false protenees which was not proceeded with,' The prisonor, who was 32 years of ago, married 011 September 5, 1886, a Miss Sellick at St. James', Westminster, under the name of Arthur Gordon Lennox. After their child was bom Jlrs Lennox, finding that her husband had 110 means whatever, left him and returned to her relations, Accused was next heard of at Clifton, Bristol, and married a Miss Emma Ford, 011 April 16, under the name of Arthur Algernon Lennox, and she too had to leave him because of his want of means. He next turned up at Congleton, Cheshire, where 110 was alleged to have obtained food aud lodgings by false pretences, and arrested when 110 attempted to take his life.—Mr Marshall, for the defence, pleaded that tho prisoner had been singularly unfortunate, and that he had been very kind to Miss Ford, who was called to corroborate this, Prisoner was sentenced to a .fortnight's hard labour for tho attompted suicide, and to nine months' hard labour for the bigamy, the sentences to run concurrently, Two rough-looking men named Bon Walls and .1, Lawrence were' charged on remand at Mhrlborough-street policecourt, oil' Friday, with attempting to commit buiylary at No, 2, Clifford-3treet the warehouse of Messrs Johns and Pegg, tailors, about midnightou November 29. Constable Benny, 129, C, disturbed tho two men who were endeavoring to effect ah - entrance to tho house through the ara» door, and kept them behind the railings until help arrived, notwithstanding the savago onslaught that was made upon him with crowbars and other formidable weapons, Ever since that time lie has been on the sick list owing to his injuries, and is still unable to rcsitmo duty. 'Previous convictions wero proved against both the prisoners,'and they were both committed ior trial. Mr Newton, addressing Detective inspector Stroud, said a gentleman had sent him a cheque fur 10(, by way of recognition of the bravery and intelligence of the service rendered by Constable Benny. He had groat pleasure in handing the Inspector the amount, winch no doubt would havo to go through the usual course. He (the Magistrate) also highly approved of the behaviour of the constable, and thanked the gentleman for his present. Ho marked the sheet as, follows; —I highly commend the alacrity aud vigilance ' displayed by Police-constable Benny,"

We have decided to havo a sale of overplus Surplus Summer Stock, commencing on Friday, February Ist, at To Aro House, Wellington, ' That there will be bargains, as there always have beea at our pales,gijes without saying, and though the exigencies of State, according to our present rulers, demand an almost crushing,taxation 011 drapery goods, yet we sjiall not bo debarred from offering to the public such marvels of cheapness as may not occur again for years nt Te Aro House, Wellington, ■ The balance of our Summer Stock in all departments is marked at prices to sell quickly. In washing and other dress fabrics in mantles and costumes, in millinery and underclothing, in carpets and calicees, in boys' and youths' clothing tliore is an abundant .variety of some of the blieapist lots ever seen in the city,'sufficient to convinceevery unprejudiced mind " that the proper place, the best placo, and the only place to secure undeniable bargains is ' Te Aro House, Wellingto, . The sale will only last U days, and will cemo to an end on' Saturday, February 16th aud in conducting it we mean to bo "short sharp and deoisive". at To Aro' .Houbc, Wellington. We should certainly recommend a visit to this sale on the part of all housokeapers, hotelkeepers, statjonholders and heads of familes. ■ Money will be Wed by visiting tho salo of overplus ■ Stock at Te'Aro Home Wellington. .

A list of Wairarapa Agoticiea of the National Mutual Life' Assdomtion. of Australasia is published; in ;another colnmn,

It is estimated that Japan has produced : last year., close upori two hundred milliotrpounds weight of tea. ~ Mr Wnlpole, Inspector of tho South . British Fire Insurance Company is now inWasterton. He will no doubt look at Mr Kenall's Water Scheme and' the Jubilee; engine and i -bo able; to give a report thereon. .: Persons desiring employment -as flax cutters are requested to apply sharp to Mr R. H. ILllioUe, Prinoe of Wales' Hotel, Mastertou,An experienced" scutcher is also'wgnted. Messrs Koss andilnir have-just.' completed the first' flax press of colonial make. It has been tested and proved* to be thoroughy satisfactory to the owner Mr jToogood of Featherston,' to: whose order it was specially built., '■Augur" is responsible for the following;-" Irene, who won the Trial Stakes at O'oraki, New south Wales, is" said to bo the biggest-throughbred nuire lu training in Australia, She. stands 17 hands 2in., is four years old,'aud..is . by Darebin from Ipomoa, by,Circa^ian\", The R,M S. Zealahdia, from . San Franoisco, with the English and American mails, arrived in Auckland, at 9 o'clock last night. The vessel brings the following dates London', December 2Cth ; San Franrisco, January 15th. Her news from Samoa is':'to the 23rd inst., and, therefore, is. not. later than -that brought fly fhe Wainui.. In the window of Mr W, Dougall'a jewellers shop,. Queen-street 'Maafcetton; is exhibited a beautifully illuminated ' address to Mr, W, T. Grundy, late head-master of the Mastertori • School, and a silver and oak set, comprising a liqueur stand, cruet, salad bowl, cake basket and knifo,' and biscuit barrel, On a silver shield is the following inscription " Presented to W. T, Grundy Esq., Headmaster of the State School, together with , an address by the residents of Masterton,,on his promotion to Wellington. January, 188!)." The ad-' dress i 6 very neatly engrossed by Messrs Bock and Cousins, and contains sixty signatures, The formal presentation takes place on Saturday next, "I was once,says Mr James Payii, "staying in a country-horn where an eminent portrait-painter,' the lato Sir George Hayter, came down to. paint his host and hostess.- One evening, aftor dinner the knight who was a' humourist in his way, persuaded a good-natured fellow guest,wlic was very bald to submit himself to his pencil. On tho back of his head he drew a human countenance with what hair thero was there set of charmingly as whiskers, He became literally a doable-faced man; and,, when we put on his coat hindside before, and led him into the drawing-room backwards, lie madeamorestrickuigimpression on tho ladies than. lie had ever dono before—that is previously." Although a Devon Bteor was awarded tie champion prize at the Smithfield Show (says tho Pall Mall Gazette), taking also the breed prize and cup for the best bull, the most wonderful animal in tho hall is the little crossbred heifer which stood reserved for the chief honors, She wins the cup for best crossbred animal, also cup for the best female, and many preferred her for the best position of all. She is the moat marvellous specimen of early maturity yet seen, and is the first animal under two years old that has'over been so near the championship. Her ago.is ono year eight months one week and five days old and sho is brod by a polled Aberdeen Angus, out of a dam by ashorthom, but, from cross shorthorn cow. Her weight is just over 13£cwt, and she is splendid in shapo and flesh. Mr J. J, Column, M.P., bought her as a breeder for 1150, In a certain American town the announcement lnd been made that in the evening a burning building would bo used to demonstrato the fire-oxtinguishinp capabilities of tho " modern wonder band grenades." In tho meantime a sort of shanty was erected in the square. Darkness came, aud so did the stranger with his bottles. After a lecture on the merits of the grenades, ho proceeded to set fire to the shanty. Tho flames leaped up before thore was any serious ignition of tho wood; the kuight of the grenade threw off his coat) and let the bottles fly. As each one crashed against the boards, the flames leaped higher and higher and the lire burnedmore fiercely I Faster ilew the grenades and larger grow tho conflagration, tilltho grenades at hand and the astonished thrower were exhausted. The "shanty" was soon a a pile of ashes, and tho discomfited vendor of grenades retired amid shouts and joer3 far from consolatory. And to this day he has never learned who drew the corks of his gienades, and, pouring out the contents, substituted kerosene.