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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3162, 25 March 1889, Page 2

The Theatre Royal fixtures for this week are published in the usual column. Mr F. H. Wood adds to tho oatalogue of his Maryborough stock sale twontyr five fat forwardbijilocty.threo purebred Lincoln rams, and five ram tabs J also a ladies'phaoton, now. A twelve aoro paddock of oats, grown by Bannister Bros, on the Akura, Masterton, has just threshed out 981 bushels, equal to 82 bushels to the acre. A larger paddook in the vicinity averaged 63'bi#§)s. . An elderly named Thompson, custodian of the. yflclKi-flpronce, is missing Wellington, He slept qn board, and' 5 l"», <«ngy was found bottom-up on the !wh onSaturdav morning, he is supposed to!;? drowAoa. Tho police were searching for him day without success,

The Martinborough stock sale takes place on Tuesday March 26th(to-niorrow) Mr F. H. Wood's catalogue contains in additiou to numerous lines in sheep and cattle assorted, several draught and hack horses, a purebred Shorthorn Bull, tip oarts and phceton. The sale is announced for I o'clock.

Mr A. Elkins is to be congratulated upon the success he met with at the Wellington Do? Show last week. His dogs are awarded and commended in six instances, .In retrievers his Nero took first prize-and Bob was highly commended; in greyhounds his Darkie and Lucy each took a second, and his slut Gip took first In the bull-dog breed. In the class for any breed. Mr Elkins 1 Lionj. a cross between a mastiff and bull, was highly commended. We note another Masterton exhibitor, Mr R. S, Herschberg, took a prize in field spaniels with bw dog Bango<

We learn on reliable authority that the Railway lino to Eketahuna willopen on Monday, April Bth. ' i ' Tho. .Masterton Lodge 1430, ;E.C,, meet at the Masonio Hall, Bannister Street this evening.. 'Messrs L, J. Hooper & Oo advertise for a first class bodyhand for the dressmaking, Mr;F. T, Redman of Indo-Ohina tea celebrity advertises for a supply of fresh butter, The Masterton Riflo Volunteer representatives returned home from Blenheim this morning.

A line of 40 head of mixed cattle is added to Mr F. H. Wood's Martinboroueh sale.

The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zealand is to be held on the 80th of April, Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.H.R., has promised tho Wairarapa Rugby Football Union a silver cup for competition amongst the Senior Clubs.. There is an extensive' list of stock adyertised for Mr F. H. Wood's stock sale at Taratahi on Thursday nose, and further entries are now added.

An important find of rich ore is reported on the Champion Company's property at Tin Oreek, l'e Arolia. This mine belongs to an English syndicate.

Tho football match between the Poneko aud Rival Clubs, Wellington, on Saturday aiternoon, was won by the former by three points to nil, Tlie following Licensing Committees havo been elected, Alfredton, Messrs T, Bayliss, F.Dowaett, J. E, Ellison, E, Morris. Castlepoiit, Messrs J, S. Handyaiie, J. F. Maunsell, A, B. Murray, and A. Nicholls. . Tenders are invited for the ereotion of a house at Manaia for Mr W. T. Grundy Flans and specifications can be seen at the office of the architect, Mr H. J. Hoigh.

A lire occured early on Sunday morning at Mr B, Levy's, Clothiers shop, Willis-street Wellington, by which almost the whole of his stock valued at LI,OOO, was destroyed. It was insured in the Phoenix office for LBOO. The premises wero owned by Mr Leary. Messrs. Lowos and lorns report at their opening Bale at Eketahuna:—Cattle were well represented and all with the oxception of one lot selling, Sheep were short of entries, all Belling. Horsei, , dull of sale. Fat sheep making 7b to Bs, old ewes 2s Gd, lambs ss, rams 20s. Store bullocks, .S3 10a; small, 60s; fat heifers, £2 6s to £2 10s; 18-months, 80s, Horses, £6 10s, A lot of drapery and sundries at the hall concluded the sale. tVo understand that some settlers have decided that they will put up no Iwi'ger with the flood which Doge Renall sent down amongst them, and that at the next meeting of the Council formal complaints against the watery plague will be lodged. The' Council are in a cleft stick I Like tho foolish virpin of old they ''swearing they'd ne'er con sent—consented." Thoy have baoked Dope Beuall's bill, drawn on the Waipoua, and they are in no hurry for a settling day. Six riclu, containing about 140 tons of hay, the proporty ot Mr A. Elkins were destroyed by fire on Sunday after noon. The provender was insured in the Liverpool, London, and Qlobo office, the amount covering about a third of the loss. It is reported that smoke and flames were seen issuing from the centre of one of the stacks, and when the stack fell in the others quickly ignited, and were destroyed before anything could be done to save them,

The District Court will bo opened on Wednesday, March 27. at Masterton by District Judge H. W. Robinson. Tho oases for hearing arc Bly v. tfrigg, claim £l9B 9j damages arising out ot the Hull land sale transaction at Paliiatua. G, W, Phillips.v. Alfredton Road Board, claim for damages by trespass and loss of slock &c. J. Bentley v. D. Donald, Claim £l6O damages through loss of tenancy of drill hall and skating rink, The last two aro jury cases. In bankruptcy, discharges will be applied for in tho following cases W, Whitton, R. H, Elliotts, Fabian Bros, J. L, Thompson, F.D. Polling and M. A. Felling. E King and W. Whitt will come up for public examination.

As the delegates of the Masterton Football Clubs were proceeding to Carterton on Saturday evening to attend the meeting of the Football Union, they met with an accident which fortunately did not turn out very aerious. The night was pitch dark, and as they got to the turn near Clareville the horses got off the road, and the drag got into the ditch at tho side, throwing tlie whole of the occupants out. Mr W. Iggulden, who was driving, stuck to tho roins, and prevented the horses bolting. Most of the occupants of the vehicle escaped with very little ■ hurt, but Mr Iggulder. had his shoulder badly bruised, and Mr E. M. V. Whatman was stunned for a time. A wheel passed over Mr A. D'Aroy's log, fortunately only bruising it. The drag righted itself, and tho delegates proceeded on their way without further mishap, and took part in the moeting. The Catholic Young Men's Social Club Sydney, recently presented Cardinal Morau with a gold chalice and aut of church plate. The Amalgamated Miners' Association ot Victoria haye adopted a proposition from tlioNew South Wales delegates to provide for tho election of a jhiet council to deal with all large question affect [he welfare [of any colonial district.

The Australian, the first of the new steamers built by the Messageries Maritimes Company, is expected to arrive in Melbourne in October. The company anticipate being able to deliver the mailß in 28 days from London, Mr Tiflereau, a learned son of sunny France, claims to have disouvored the art of manufacturing gold by combining silver and copper in the rightpruportion under the action of the sunlight (nothing said of moonshine) and a little mtrio, acid.

Mrs lilizabeth J. Hereford, a Texas poetess,who had recently issued a volume of poems entitled "Rebel Rhymes," is said to be a lineal decendant of Sir Walter Scott. Some of Mrs Hereford's yerse has been considered beautiful. The R.ey, Isaao Hardcastlo Palfreyman of Hobart, has been committed fpr trial for performing the marriage ceremony at nine o'clock at night, that being con trary to the Act of 1853. At tho Timaru Assessment Court, the reductions mado were chiefly on hotel properties, owners or lossees of which declared that there had been vast depreciation in their business. A pros.ocution has been commenced against the South Canterbury Rcfrieerating Company for breach of the Stamp Act in connection' with-a policy of marine insurance, the premium on which was L 66,

Recently an important sale of greyhounds took place in London. Remarkably high prices were realised. Mr Dent's U dogs realised 1897 puineas, and Mr Hibbort's 5 dogs 644 guineas. Onfldogi'Fijllerton," fetched the unprecedented figure ?5.0 guineas, Tlie Premier of Viotbria hopes when political affairs in New South Wales aJ? u ® e their normal condition he will he able ttPpeKL'ad© the Government to join with the other colonics in obtaining the advice of 'an English officer of distinction on the subject of lederal defence,. It js not generally known that Count Herbert Bismarck pas op the eve of being engaged to an English lady, The Chancellor, however, forbade the bannß. He was determined that bis son should not marry a foreigner, and the Count, like Gibbon, " sighed aB a lover, and obeyed as a son.". The .Turin beauty show has boen a great popular success, whatever it-may. have left to be desired from the artistic point of view. The show was held in ,the Scribe Theatre, aijd was ijunjerously attended. The first priao was taken by a Viennese, the second by an Italian, the third bya Parisienno, and the fourthby 4" lady of Lyons. 1 ' Tho award ot the judge's, is not universally accepted as tho kit.

The Russian aoldierwhen on the march has an allowance of oil as part of his rations; and not only are spirits absolutely forbidden, but, if it is found he has recently partaken of them, lie is at onoe ordered out of the ranks.

'•The great Vance, the vocalist who died in England the other day, was worth juat L 4. " The profession" are raisins LSOO wherewith to educate his two little boys, Upwards of three hundred pobnds have already been subcribed,

The longest railway-bridge span in the United States is now the cantilever span in l'oughkeepsie-bridpe, 548 ft. This is said to be the widest completed railway span in the world. The Fortli-bridge will have spans of 1700 ft. The Rohri span of. the Indus-bridge at Sukkur will be 820 ft. Sunflower seeds aro a valuable food for horses and cows as well as for poultry, An occasional half-pint placed in a horse's or cow's feed will prove of great benefit in regulating the bowels and making digestion more active, not to mention actual increase of flesh. A half-pint twice a day for two or three weekß is said to be a good treatment for heaves.

A Eill of .very great importance, has been laid before the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements. It is ostensibly designed to deal with Chinese associations, but practically it in in tended to suppress all Chinese secret societies, which have been a pent all over the' Malay Peninsula, and have led to assassination, resistance to authority, and public disturbances. The bill proposes to give the local government fuller powers of controlling and suppressing what'are knowu as secret societies.

For an example of grovelling servility of the most adject kind, commend me (says Truth) to tho Primate s speech at Lambeth Palace last Monday, when he° almost wept with joy to think that the Fiince of Wales should have condescended to shake bauds with some working men; and he fervently thanked H.11.E1. for his kindness in fulsome phrase, The Prince must have been both amused and disgusted by this exhibition of aroliiepiscopal imbecility.

An old inhabitant of Bartholomew Close, Lund on, has just passed away at the advanced age of 108 years. James Thatcher had tor nauy years lived in the city, which says something for the healthiness of the famed square mile. In his early years—in tho reign of George lll—he followed a seafaring life, His memory and sight were good up to the last, and he was not compelled to keep his bed till a week or two before his death.

- A private of dragoons on furlough in Liverpool got into company with some young men " on Change," one being the son of a well-known merchant. The party had high jinks, and in tho height of their hilarity tho dragoon and the young gentlemen changed clothes. Soon afterwards the dragoon disappeared, and with him a gold watch and chain and LlO in cash. Tho truant did not return and the gentleman went home. Tho police were put on the scent and the dragoon was discovered. TheLlO had vanished, but tho watch and chain were recovered.

What Captain Goodman, of the sch oouer Keiiilwort.il. which srrived at Sydney lately from Gisbone, firmly believes to he a reef or shoal, is reported by him as follows"Oil February 25th, at noon, a lielit breeze form N.E. blowing, sea quite smooth, with long heavy swell, sightpd what appeared to bo a shoal or reef, extending for quite half a mile. Wont up aloft and saw it most distinctly. It teas distant about live miles, and appeared to run in an E. and West direction. The position of tho ship approximately (lynpitude boing doubtful owing to wrong rate of chronumeter) was by observation 34,16 8,, 162.41 B.

Earl Derby, (says the Timaru Times) speaking on the necessity for encouraging emigration from Enf land, says there are 400,000 new mouths added every year to those already in England which require to be fed. There is fobd enough for them all, the improvement of machinery, and the enemies of commerce ensure that nt any rate for the present. It has become the custom to refine snpplies except on condition the recipient does something for it. "By the sweat of thy brow shall thou oat bread" is truer to-day than over it was before, for there is not- enough for all to do, as things art* mismanaged now, "He who will not work neither shall he eat" may be a wholesome rule; but modern civilization adds to that; He who would worn but cannot get it to do, neither shall he eat. Under these circumstances tho "labour test" is a fraud, a delusion. Nineteenth Century civilisation has much misery to answer fur, and the only atonemeut that can bo niado for it is the discovery of means for its immediate amelioration and its future prevention, A bullock' caused some oonfusion on Wednesday in St. Hill Street, says the Wanganal Yeoman, just as a funeral waß passing. It is impossible to describe the Bcone that took place. There was a large number .of women and children about and they made a scramble in all directions without exactly knowing where to go. One lady dropped her baby ovor a fenoe and then got over horself, others rushed for tho nearest gates, and some comical sceneß were witncßßed, The boys scattered quickly, and some were knocked down but not hurt, and tlley soon took up their places in the procession as though nothing had happened ; One lady also tumbled ovor, and a perambulator just escaped overturning, but one girl named Annie Smith was caught and toaaed gracefully on the animal's back when she descended without harm to the ground. The beaat next rushed into Silas Wall's yard where for a few minutes the noise was as though Bedlam had been let looso, what with dogs, men and boys. After a time, however, things quietened down, and as far the funeral was concerned thoso m front had no idea of the excitement that was taking place behind,

Wo (Ghristchurch Press), Jearii that It is now au accepted fact that the rams of the English Leicester breed are coming every dav into increased demand in the North Island. Experience is rapidly proving that thia class of sheep is the most suitable for producing fat lambs tor freezing, as early maturity in the wethers is combined with their valuable wonl-|reducing qualities, Mr P. C, Threlkeld, of Inglowood, Elaxton, as one of our leading Canterbury breeders, has, it is stated, this year in hand some pretty larxo orders from the Wellington district, at prices higher than have provailed for somo jears past. Tho B!awktis Bay herald of a reoent date says: —" By the Te Anau on Saturday a splendid Lincoln ram arrived from Lyttolton for Mr Jaraes Collinß, Homewood, from the flock of Mr P. 0, Threlkeld, Canterbury. The animal is a great credit to the breeder, and should, with good luck, be a gold niii]o tp bis not? and outerprising owner, Mr Coljins greatly attributes the sucoeas of his sheep to rams from the same Hook, and looks. for jirand results from his new acquisition. Our milllinery this season is without controversy tho tat, the most artistic, tho ost fashionable,, and the most beooming and attractive that we have been able to hhow at Te Aro House, Wellington,

pup imported French and English millinery, combined with tjie production of our own ileparlraei|t, froiij' ona'of f lio most ohrmins displays that hu ever beeii peon in this city, Wo havo always been noted for the oxeollent taste shown in our trimmed hats and bonnets, and as wo hare all the necessary appliances and advantages wo intend to surpass ourselves this Beason, at To Alt) House, Wellington. There is an efidlw? variety of shapes and styles, s)<t amongst tlio most prominent are tho admired fiqijuettish round hats and toques, in plush, felt, find oloth,in all colours, to Buit the costijmos; Ijidjep should see these at once, and socu'ro % first choice at Te Aro House, 'Wellingtop.

Tho "Directory" bat is also a fascinating production, and very fashionable, and we have other first-class, shapes and styles such as "Burleigh," "Cynthia," "Mans-' field," "Columbia" in the "Harlequin" pojnbjuation bat, at Te Arp House, Wwling top'. , Our milliner j3 a young tyly of exquisite taste' and skill, and all orders eitrusted. to her will be executed stylishly and faultlessly at Te Aro Houw, WelßogWa.—Awr.