The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1889.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3124, 8 February 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1889.

At the annual meeting of the Napier Gas Company, yesterday, a ten per cent dividend was declared and £1224 placed to reservo and carried forward. Amongst tho expenses in connection with producing "Patience" for two nights at the Masterton Theatre Royal, may be mentioned the extraordinary sum of L 8 charged as a Royalty. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company notify that their next wool sales will take place at Wellington on Wednesday, February 13th, commencing at 3 o'clock. An address and presentation ot plate will be made to Mr W. T. Grundy at the Temperanco Hall, Masterton, to-morrow Saturday, at i p.m., by his Worship the Mayor, on behalf of a number of residents of the.town. Not long since we recorded the weight of some enormous cauliflowers "rown by Mr F. W, Parker, of Masterton. We have now been shown some splendid apples grown in the same garden, a couple of which would make a pudding for any ordinary family.

Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains notify that it is positively the last fortnight of thoir great Sale of the bankrupt stock of W, Clark and Co., Drapers, LambtonQuay, Wellington, The goods are being sold at half price and there is a good assortment in every department. In 1878 (says a Home paper) wo had in the United Kingdom 20,683,078 sheep over a year old, and 11, 887,040 under that age. Since then'we have lost 2,708,120, or more than 13 per cent, of the entire sheep, and 804,176, or less than 3 per cent of the lambs. It is estimated by the Defenco Department that there are 154,00(1 males in the colony betweon tho ages of 15 and 55. Making ample allowance for invalids and youths, it is considered that there are more thau 100,000 persons capable of bearing arms in case of necessity. The number of volunteers in the colony is about 10,000. ..,.

j Attention has been directod to tho superior germinating power of Banks Poninsula seed, duo to die peculiar suitability of the soil and climate to the : growth of cocksfoot in its perfection. ! Mr W, H. Hennins, of the Wharf Store, Akaroa, notifies in our advertising columns that he is prepared to submit samples with quotations, on application by letter or telegram, By ordering direct from the district in which the cocksfoot is grown, farmers and others will ensure receiving tho freshest seed, and of the greatest perminatmg power,' . A large audience again greeted "Patience" at the second performance last evening. The opera from start to finish wont smoothly, several members of the company being somewhat more at home in their respective parts than en the oponing night. The leading vocalists were one and all in good y'oioe, and elicited enthusiastic encores and floral tributes from the house. Among the most successful items were tho duet by Mrs 6. Hooper and Miss Gaby " He was a little boy" apd the M Go to him,'and t say to hinV' part song by Miss Young ' and Mr Nobb) Campbell whjch obtained a double encofe, ' There used to be a popular superstition in France that it was principally in Loudon during the month of November people jumped off high places, or into a deep river, or pursued other "conclus/flps infinite" of uneasy ways to die. But the tables seem to be turning. Puriug tho past year France has had seven thousand nine hundred and sereuty-two suicides! one-fifth of llieiii $ and around Paris; Of these one thou'sand pine hundred and seventy-five were traced to aberration.' ono thousand SRd tweiity-eight to."piiy;sica{ suffering onji'otijy four thousand and eighty-three & waiujamd fej;r of it, Domestic trouble •":'» «te|fpjjsin : werjs tjw chief jn.oral anu :■- ■lpye'f.qjW !? causes. i»u... -''-'fliioyw m ffflptytwojiundred, anu j. ■ •-■MwgUfi ."[§ seyCn. A visit to thoPario:.' "- - •.:•"• at any time a rather suggestive cuiu , mentaryon,the supposed gaiety of the French metropolis. It is questioned whether London could beat the. record. even in November'.' "V"' i

- The Australian- juvenile giant' tolly, now. on exhibition at Duiicdin, are. cer--taiuly all in sizo'and •.woight.'.ttat;-their. Wends'claim them', to be.' data, a fifteen year old girl, weighs 28sfc olb; Tom, ten years, levels the beam at Wat 21b; while Anna, eight years, could put : weigh Tom Sayers in hi; fightiiii? condition. Those reinarkablo native's .of bunyip-land are healthy looking, and by" no means so unpleasant to look upon as might be supposed by those who havo had experience of fat people, in shows, Th 6 young Snells are certainly fat, but th'oy are big every way,

During the inquiry before the House of-Lords Oommitteo on the sweating system, in connection with tho loading and unloading of vessols in London Docks, one witness said that in one weok 500 Englishmen emigrated from Tilbury. Docks and 700 foreigners camo in. A sturdy and intelligent dock-labourer who expressod himself fluently,' and strongly said he received 2s 3d on Wednesday, w'lichwas the first money ho had received since last Friday. He was at the Loudon Dpckgato from 8.30 to 11.30, when something like 850 men were waiting for employment. There was always a terriffic scramble, and it was a. common occurrence for men to be killed

in the struggle. Ho had been hurt by other men scrambling on his shoulders. This was a scandal and a digrace to a socalled civilised country.

The Vivians (Bays tho Bulletin), who had previously been holding a gravy spoon up to Nature in some remote corner of the marvellous city, swooped down upon the Molbourne Opera House last week, and shook their gory locks in " East Lynne, 1 ' innid suppressed shrieks of horror from such bucolic pilgrims as didn't know any bettor. The periodical .visitations of,the Vivians and" East. Lynne" arc among '. the most awosome calamities which overtake our modern civilisation,, for a drama doomed to drag any company through, the dust ol healthy contempt is " interpreted'' by a company doomed to do ditto with any drama. Qualified exceptions can be made in the cases of Mr W. G. Carey and ■ a Miss Tennyson—the latter a seeming raw beginnor, who might

develope into an actress if she is a raw beginner, and begins all oyer again, " Current Cash" followed, and was supplanted in its turn by ■" Queen's Evidence. 1 ' The Investors' Institute has had on ex-

hibition four advances in cycles. Foremostis the "Oarsman" tricyle, m winch the Rev. J. M. Taylor has effectually transferred to the road the power of the oarsman, The second is'a 'remarkable adoption of the rudder principle by Mr Wilson, by which the steering wheel always has the tendency of bringing itself into line with the driving wheel. Sergoant Watkins produced a fully equipped military bicycle, furnished with a pedal which can be put down by the feet of tho cyclist, whereby Ids machine is a once brought to rest in standing

position on the road. The fourth is a Olarger machine, shown by Mr Rodermachor, equipped for military service, the

feature of which is the abandonment of chain-gearing, and tho substitution of a bar pedal motion unassailable by mud and

) In a valedictory letter to tho newspapers announcing her departure to the Holy land, Miss Von Pinkelstein says:

I need rest after nine months talking and travelling, and I long once more to see Jerusalem before it is completely taken possession of by hordes of excursionists, almost as terrible in their depredations as the armed host of Titus. Already, as I loam through your cablegrams, tho Sultan of Turkey has granted a-firman for the construction of a railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and beforo long tho holy city, so full of precious memories to Jew, Christian and Moslem alike, and until not? sanctified by the sighs and prayers of devout pilgrims from the uttermost parts of the earth, will be desecrated by special trains of Philistines, and the meditations of the Christian as ho is whirled across those holy fields, will be rudely, broken in upon by the railway porter's cry, " Arimathea I Train stops ten minutes for refreshments."

A correspondent to the Ghristchurch Press writes: Several young men who left Greymouth for Melbourno a few mouths ago, under the impression that hy so doing they would better theiusolves have returned to the coast, wiser but poorer in pocket, regretting they should have heon so ill-advised or tempted to throw up tlioir occupations hore for the sake of taking part in a "wild chase," as thoytermit, They arrived at Melbourne only to find hundreds boforo thorn in search of employment. As their means were only limited they lost no time in using every endeavor to obtain work, Week after week passed without success, their funds grew less, and in their extremity they were prepared to do anything to gain a livelihood. • Some took to manual labor while others accepted a small weekly wage in remote homesteads, but with the thermometer registering 112 in the shade our robust New Zeitlanders soon succumbed, and were perforce compelled to give ic up as a bad job and return with all haste to tho colony they were in such a hurry to leave only a few months before, All who can by any means get away are returning, deploring the day they left, as Melbourne is overdone in every branch of business or occupation.

A sensation was caused in Adelaide recently by the report of a providential escape of a number ofleading politicians ot the Colony from death, or af least from serious injury. The Commissioner of Crown Lauds, Mr J. Coles, who is residing with his family at Glenelg during the summer, left Adelaide for tho Bay in his own vehicle, accompanied by the Chief Secretary (Air Ramsay), tho Minister of Education (Mr Johnston) Messrs Dashwood and Maul, (M.L.AA) and Mr Bakor, (of tho Queensland Mortga?o Company).' Mr Coles was driving a pair of spirited horses, whioh he had brought down from Kapunda. He did not observo at first the Glenelg train coming down the jotky road, but when he Baw that it was utterly impossible to cross the line without being run over by the train, with siugular presence of mind he drove seaward, applying the whip smartly. Tho horses started on a imllop in front of the engine. Had an attempt been made to cross the line, the vehicle would certainly have been smashed to pieces, As it was, the escape was almost miraculous, the fore part of the engine being within a foot of the vehicle as it turned by the galloping horses. Ono of the occupants states that if the train had been one second earlier, or the vehicle had, been a second, longer in turning, nothing could haye saved the party from 'destruction. Directly ■ the. engine-driver saw the pusition of affairs ho put down the brakes, and the train was brought to a standstill in a few yards.

Eeferring to Professor Black's adventures in the titifield, at Stewart's Island, the correspondent of the Otago Daily .'JCimes says |—"The Professor-says he has never spent a happier timo in all his life than he has spent during the past four or five weeks on Stewart's Island, and the excitement all along has been intense, It was just something like taking part in a great cricket or football match, and lie has had the satisfaction of coining out of the' pontesf victorious, There were some fifty mop watching his party, yet he succeeded ni eluding them all. As wo'left the ruqiinfiain and journeyed'down the.steep and -muddy track through the bush, we indulged in conversation"on generaltopioVanclthe Professor also gave nuT further/ interestins details of his adventures, but; I:\vill not write them down here at the risk of wearying-my' renders witji 'an over lengthy: report; ;I can only place on record my admiration of the great ainount of enthusiasm whicklhe Professor puts into ''his wo'rki and .of his indomitable pliiok and nerseverence in carrying it to a supoQßßfuf issue, Np one, I am sure, who rends this narrative will grudge him the wibll-earned .reward wh'iohjt.is confidently' expjectecf lie will as'the result of i)i^grpatexe,'rtion.s l , I'foijndljiln a, Cj)len.djd ajjd- thuugh iu ■"""jthird ykiy laii}fluito cojiflfjeut hisihij"". ■■': ; -■'■:i <l >tiwlW'»!lP#y. thatontheworni*..- ; -'•''•-'v| ; .wuoare outstrip many.youugatheletco still in their twenties," . V , l

'. :App]jeationß:are;iuvitod'forthe bice .'of working; foreman/: by .the i Masterton Borough Obunoil. -S;f:,i f %■.':; • /•. ' Wo understand that'lihe. ladies of the "Patience.' 1 ' giving a' dance;to. celebrate tho .success' of the performance early.next weok. ';.- -..'.v. \i ■ Tenders close toUriorrbwat op.m; at the residence of Mr Henry-Elder, Langdale for' 145 chains of metalling, Mangapakeha-Uriti Boad. "' .. _ The greater portion of the machine binder twine used in this distriot this season has been of colonial manufacture supplied- by Messrs Eeid and Gray through'their local agents Messrs Lowes andlorus, '."'.'' • ■"' ,'. .

We are indebted.-'to Lowos for the following particulars U the Palmerston North Earn Fain-Eanis'bf all classes are selling well, 'Lincolns are most in demand, the prices ranging from three and ahalf to six guineas for flock rams. . ' :

At the foi'thcominp' Masterton Bam Fair MrF. H. Wood notifies that he will sell by auctionon the Show Grounds on account of Mr P. O. Threlkeld of Canterbury, forty purebred shearling Lincoln Earns and twenty Leicesters.

We understand that the committoe of the Philharmonic Society have resolved not to go on with a repetition of" Pinafore," but carry out their original intention of performing 'Pirates of Penzance,' rehearsals of which will'start on Wednesday next. Henry Mills.who was charged before Mr Ton Stunner E.M. this 'morning tvith attempting to commit suicide by. cutting his throat loaves by this afternoon train for Wellington in the company of Constable Eoach, The wound, which although wido aud deep was not dangerous was sewn up .by Constable Bbach. Tho prisoner will be brought up for sentence on the 15th inst. Constant comfort comes to us from th United States with regard to the increased consumption of animal food and we have no reason yet. to fear the competition of American mutton,,lt appears that lamb and mutton are so popular in New York that it takes two milliou head to supply the city and its neighbourhood.

A number of Town Lands Trust leaseholds will be submitted to auction by Messrs Lowes & loms to-morrow, Saturday, The lots are three sub-' divisions of town acre No 87, on Queenstreet and Chapel-stat, near, the Waipoua; two desirable freehold properties in Ohapel-stteot, and one in Cole-straet, each, having substantial residences will also be submitted, The same'firm will afterwards hold their usual sale of general goods, furniture, produce and poultry, A word of caution is addressed to Volunteers in the Riyieiv, which points out that, should thoy make themselves liable for foreign service, they will, when called upon, forfeit any life policies thoy may hold. In view of thoir recent decision as to non-liability for embodiment, the danger pointed out is hardly likely to ocour, but probably oven. Homo dofenos would affect policyholders. The point (adds a Home paper) is certainly an important one, as Government cannot be expected to pay premiums on soldier's lives, '■

The revival of trade in JJnglaud aud at tho samo time the falling offin American competition have done much to improve the Irish markets. Cattle fetch a much higher price thau they have done some years'yast, Fork realises from 45s to 55a per owt, butter lOd to Is Id per lb. and young pigs about 20s each. Flax, tho growing of which is a great industry in Ulster, has also improved in price. A good article will bring as much as u'Os per cwt, as against 45s for last year. The flax crop this year was fairly good on the whole, and in some districts exceptionally fine, but it is observable that where the q'uautity was greatest the quality was not quite up to the average. The oat crop has been good, and hay abundant, The only real falling off has been in potatoes, which in soma partß were a completo failure, and in fewcases is the yield more than half what it was in any year since 1881, Tin's partial failure of the potato crop is owing entirely to the excessive rainfall of last summer, which was considered to bo one of the wettest ever known in Ireland, Fortunately for the farmers the harvest wCather was fine, and they were enabled to get then' crops well saved, and particularly the hay crop, which at one time seemed to be in danger of sustaining very serious injury. We have decided to have'a sale of overplus Surplus Summer Stock, commencing on Friday, February Ist, at Te Aro House, Wellington, >

That there will bo bargains, as there always have been at our sales.goes without saying, and though the exigencies of State, according to our present rulers, demand an almost crushing taxition on drapery goods, yet wo shall not be debarred from offering .to tho public suoh marvels of cheapness as may not occur again for years at 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 caliceoS, in boys' and youths' clothing there is an abundant \arletyofsomeof the cheapest lots overseen in the city, sufficient to convince every unprejudiced mind that the proper place, the best place, and the only place to secure undeniable bargains is Te Aro Houslf, Wellingto, The sale will only last 14 days, and will come to an end on Saturday, February 16th and iu conducting it we mean to bo "short sharp and decisive" at Te Aro House, Wellington, We should certainly recommend a visit to tins sale on tho part of all housekeepers, hotelkeepers, stationholders and heads of familes, Money will be saved by visiting the sale of overplus Stock at Te Aro House Wellington. .