Untitled

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3163, 26 March 1889, Page 2

The Wellington General Post Office will be ready for occupation in a month's time. The city of Wellington will bo lighted with electricity by the 24th of May, the Queon's Birthday. It is Btated that the "littlo bill" for the Te Kooti episode will hot be so large as was anticipated, cortainly will not exceed L2OOO. Tho. savings effected on various de'eupo votes will covor the liability. Nearly the wholo of tho liabilities in connection with tho affair have been already paid. A correspondent at Canterbury writes: A curious trade has sprung up in East Kent in old and worn-out hones. They are exported to Holland, there killed, 'and from their flesh a popular article (supposed to bo concentrated beef extract) is made. Mules are also inactive requoßt, Either in Franco or Belgium duty is payable on liorses or donkeys, but mules are exempt. Hencearis.es a' good .export trade, .An old mule whioh the owner parted with for 50s in "Ashford market a fortnight ago wbb resold for 116 to an exporting aaent, who disposed of it for L22at Flushing. Mr John .Woods, a member of the yiotorian Parliament, has 'a . pretty method in hjs oratory, 'He".recently likened the yfctprjan MJnjstry Jo pawnbrokers—" because their stock-jn-tr.ade consisted almost entirely of Unredeemed \ pledges, \:i:':. / .ii]

Messrs Lowes nnd lorns add to tuoir Stock Sale for Wednesday next, 140 fat I sheep, BO good lambs,

Mr" T. Proctor's new'adyertiß6Bdent in reference to autumn"andwinter drapery, millinery, and clothing, appears in another column. Visitors to' Carterton will do well to call there and see the latest fashions.

Colonel Hume will inspect the Masterton VolunteorCorpß on Thursday, next at the Drill Hall. Messrs Lowes and lerns announcoa foneral sale of furniture,' produce, poultry, otc,, for Saturday next, Also, 70 lots books, periodicals, etc, Tho regular fortnightly meeting of the Loyal. Mastorton Lodge, of Oddfellows takes place this ovening. Mr H. Broom, tailor, notifies his removal from Perry-street into those more central premises adjoining Messrs Lowes and lom's auction room, Quoonstreet.

A new skating rink is about to be ereoted on tho corner of Smith and Queen-streets, Masterton, opposite the StarHotol.

Mr John Bessoy'informs ns that the consignment of 2500 bushels of oats forwarded by him from Masterton to Sydney as a speculation, Lave realised 3s per bushel, leaving him a net return of2sßd. ■

Mr Robinson, R.M., of Wellington, arrived in Masterton by the mid-day train in order to sit as judge at the District Court to-morrow. It is probable the sitting'of the Court will ocoupy three days as the business is heavy,

The business at the'Carterton B.M. Court to-day: only consisted of a fow debt cases which wore all disposed of outside of the Court.

Mrs Sage notifies in another column that she has removed her Berlin wool, and fancy, repository to the premises opposite theOlub Hotel, Queen St. lately occupied by H. Owen & Co, and trusts that her old customors and the public generally will give hor a call.

Messrs Loweß and lorns add to their sale to-morrow 400 ewes, 140 fat sheep, ank 200 lambs. We understand that the Government have instructed the Crown Land and survey Department to prepare a series of exhaustive returns respecting the special settlements, showing holdings of original settlers, alterations- which v have taken placo, quantity of land cleared, nature and extent of crops, amount of advances, extent of rondwork done, aud costs etc. It is stated that, the preparation of the

return will take a month or two, Brisbane has sont homo LSDO as a firsl instalment of tho fund to help Mr Fame!] M.P.

The flour mills of the United States number about 10,000, In the year ended June 1887, thoy were estimated to havo turned out about 73,250,000 barrels, of whioh over 11.500,000 barrels were exported and 61,750,000 barrels consumed at home.

Three persons identified a body found in a back court at Glasgow as that ol Hugh Duyle. Doyle; however turned up alive and well, having beon discovered by Beveral sorrowing friends in alodgine house where he was in the habit of staying.

On.Tuesday a woman named Rebecca Sibbald, residing at Queou's Ferry, attained tho age of 101 years her age being attested by the parish register, where she was bom in 1787. Slio k hale and hearty and has full use of her faculties,

We are requested to remind our readers, and buyers of stock of Messrs Lowes and lorns Btoct salo which takes place at their yards to-morrow, Tho list will embrace some 10,000 sheep of all classes, 100 head cattle, being fat, storesetc, pigs, horse's, vohiclea etc, besides a special line of 1500 mixed sheep, horses, cattle, etc

Emin Pasha is a German surgeon, his real namo being Eduard Schm'tzier. He adopted tho name of Emm, "the faithful one," on joining tho Egyptian service, He was born in the Prussian province of Silesia, on March 28,1840. He was the son of Ludwig Schm'tzier, and Pauline his wife. The-family were all Protestants, and occupioJ a good position amongst tho merchant classes of tho district, which is famous for its industry activity, Emin Pasha took service under tho Khedive, and was Go' vemorofthe Lako Eegions province of what wa3 once tho Egyptian Soudan. Emin has been cutoff from communication with the civilised world since the Mahdist rising, but has kept together a garrison sufficient to hold his province. Hischiof station isWadelai, on Lake Albert Nyama, and he has two steamers on tho lake. The Rov. Mr Gulliver, who has been lecturing in St. Paul's for the last throe Sundays on ''lteligon and Science," has been somewhat suddenly shut down upon by his ecclesiastical superiors. I don't so much wonder at this as at the fact that with his known opinions he was evor allowed to begin. If Mr Gnlliyor had hired a hall :.nd delivered these lectures, it, would have been all right, but it is most surprising to find them uttered from the pulpit of St. Paul's, from whence a very different kind of mental gustenanceis usually administered. While the Bishop and tho Rev. Mr Nelson wero absent at Dunedin settling various matters of temporal concern for .thochurch, the Hook at Auokland.wero being told that the Pentateuch was not written tor a thousand years after Moses and various other things of that sort, which, although familiar to all who have read the works of German scholars, and thoso who have followed them, were startling novelties tu many of us. Will the Eev, Mr Nelson set himself to undo the mischief he has permitted 1 -N.Z, Herald.

, A good story is told apropos of tho high valuos to which Melbourne city' properties attained during the late "boom," and which in no small degree has been contributed to by jtho use of elevators, Tho latter have rendered convenient for business purposes buildings of nino and ten storeys,'where but a few years ago it was the rare exception to find a. business house in Melbourno with rnoro than fhreo or four storeys. One immensely high building is in course of erection at present on the site previously occupied by a bank, at the corner of Swanson-Street and Flinderslane. Tho elevator which is to be used in the, edifice \t of a kind requiring for. the working of the piston a well as deep as the lift will run high. Tho other day a well-known city olorr/yman waa passing tho soene of the operations, aud observ-. ing tho shaft that had been sunk in the centre of the foundations he said to a I bystander, " What in tho world is that hole for?" " Well, sir/'was the reply, " do you know that they gavo L 1,900 a foot for this.land, and now they're obliged to go up to heavon and down to hell to make it pay," In reference to the offer which has been made to the Government for the right to advertise on tho back of postagestamps, a correspondent suggests that the Government s'lould tliem, solves use .the face of the stamps as a means of advertising New Zealand. His proposal is that in place of the present Queen's head and filagreo fancy work, thero should be printed on the face of the stamp a legond to tho following, ofleot: —"For full Information about New Zealand, intending, emigrants are requested to send Bixpepce in stamps to the Agent General'fop New Zealand, London, or to tho Minister for .Lands, Wellington, New Zealand," There would be ample room for this announcement on an ordinary postage stamp, fie says, in support of this suggestion that it would cost the Government -nothing, the .advertisement,woiild ciroulato ovor the whole world,'to the immense advantage of the Gt'lonv, and that, being such an ! origipa! idea- it y/6Uld- be commented i upon everywhere, : and would: attract attention 'to'the■ colony as a go-ahead place determined riot to 'hide 'its Ijglit under a buabel,, Ghe objeblioli jp'the proposal is that tho" defacing" of the stamp- would in. many oases render the printing 'illegible, and .besides it is doubtful whether the Government would ii&ve'rh'e sn)r|ge to depart so far from red-tape tia'ditidns and 'prejudices as to put tie eiijjpiibii in jrewtico," r.'

..'■..-Tenders are invited by the Maaterton' Borough Council fortho- f6rmation and metalling of twenty-three'ohauu of road in.Short-street;-''" ~

"The Auditor-General is at present' in Masterton engaged in adjusting accounts between the Oountiei of Wairarapa North and Pahiatua.

At a meeting of the Wairarapa Cricket Association,. held at Carterton last eveninc;, it was decided that the Masterton Club should forfeit the match in dispute with the Carterton Club.

Members of the .'Maaterton Cricket 31ub are. requested to turn up for praoIce every eyeninc this week,

A well-attended meeting of the delegates of the Wairarapa Cricket Association was held at the White Hart Hotel, Carterton, yostecday evening. It was decided that the Championship matches should bB completed, and the following was the result of the drawing. Carterton Ist v. Masterton Ist at Maaterton on Saturday next, the 30th rust., at J0.30 a.m. j Star (15) v. Cartoiton (15) at Carterton on Saturday next, time of starting to be arranged between the Becrotaries of each club,

The busineaa of the Residont Magistrates Court, Masterton, will haw to be conducted in the Old Court Boom provided tho District Sitting extends over the regular Court day, the samo will, wo presume, apply to the Assessment' Court under the Property Tax Act which is to sit on Friday next. Mr J, C. Martin, who has been appointed by the Now Zealand University examiner in criminal law, is the Crown Prosecutor at Uhristchuroh.

Miss Braddon, whose novels have made her familiar to every one, is a tall active-minded woman of fifty-two, with cray hair and a ruddy complexion. She is the daughter of a solicitor, and has a country home in the heart of the New Forest. She' is an expprt horsewoman, writes throe novels a year and ib married to her publisher. Miss Byland, t.bo Birmingham philan-1 throphiat, who was buritd at Sherborne, Warwickshire, leaves £3(i,OUO to charities, chiefly in Birmingham, including .£25,00 for a new general hospital. She leaves her vast estates- except one portion, which, with £30,000, is given to Mr Frederick Kylaud— to Mir Alston Smith of Birmingham. The legacies to relatives amount to £30,000, and tho residuary estate to £300,000, beside the onormuuß freehold estate and ground rents which aro made over to Mr Smith whn is to take tho name and arms of Byland. Mrs Chevasse is to have' £40,000.

In " Recollections of Georgo Stephenson," which have appeared in the newcastle WeeWy_ Chronicle, "Ono who knew him," writes:—"Stephenson had a morbid hatred of allfiuery, especially the foppery customary among 'fast' youth. This.ho always called 'peacock finery.' For himself he \yould wear no finery of auy sort, neither breast pin, watch chain ( nor ring. His watch was certainly no finery. When tho writer was with lum, it was a largo silver ono of the finest kind, and was guarded by a formidable breadth of black ribbon This he said was' a good un to go.' He carried this dislike of foppishness to such an extreme Hint when n Mrs Fitatrerald, to * whose husband Georgo Stephenson had opened up n fortune in a colliery he possessod, presented him a diamond pin he declined to wear it, slicking to his brass friend faithfully, When called at his own table a ' lucky man,' he disputed it, saying; that it was .persoveranco and senso which gave him Bucceas, but presently added—' Perhaps lam ; no one succeeds without it; only givo mo tho credit to believe that I have done good work for it.' When away from home, invitations to take up his quarters at this or that gentleman's residence came in plenty, but 'Old George' never accepted any save when town accommodation was too far away, The best hotel accommodation was always choson, and I think he was wise in this matter." •

Our last extract from Mas O'Rell's "Jottings on American Society' has reference to the Irish in Amorica:— Contemporary America (he says) seems to me to be poverncd by tho Irish, The Germans, tho Scandinavians, all those crowds of foreigners that year by year, flock to tho New World'to find a livelihood, and which America gradually assimilates, go West to fell forests and reclaim the land. But tho Irish pitch their tento for the most part in the largo cities, where they congregate together and take up politics. The city of New York, which has been Buccossfully in tho'powor of tho Dutch, the English, aud the Yankees, is to-day the real capital of Ireland, The English are al»ays wondering why Americans are all hi favour of Home Rule for Ireland, and ready to back up the cause with their dollars. ' Why, I will tell you. Tho good American hopes that when lieland is restored to tho Irish, all the Irish will co home.

Philadelphia has the honor 'jf possessing in the person of Mr George W. Childs, one of the greatest philantlirophists of tho age. He never Beems weary of doing good. • • Himself having risen from poverty to jreafc wealth through his own effurts, uno <>:! his great delights is to assist young atra»gloH to riso. Thin spirit is nowhere better shown than in his treatment of the staff of correspondents, reporters, Mil clerks on his newspaper, the PublioLudger, who are paid higher salaries than any in the country. Eaoh morning on, his arrival at his office his cashier hands him a "wad"of fivo, two, and one dollar notes, and with these beside him he sits and dispenses charity to all and sundry for two hours, the- only qualification needed being'poverty nnd intellectual effort to succeed. How many young mou and young women Mr Childs has given a hand to only they aud perhaps he, know. But it is improbable that he himself kuows, tor ho "takosi no note of circumstance." Every yoarat Chiistmas time, ho gives a handsome present ot money to eaoh person in his .employ, a pro wfaper ceutago -on tho salary he receives. It is said that on the occasion this last Ohrißtmas Day, ho distributed among his employees noarly £BOOO,

The death is announced at the ago of 11, of tho famous American musio publisher, Mr Oliver Ditson, He was born in Boston, U.S., of Scottish parents. His father was a prominent shipowner, but his firm failed. After his parent's bankruptcy, young Oliver, at theageof 12, found himself stranded, and accordingly apprenticed himself to a second-hand bookseller. Ho afterwards learned printing, and at 31, in patnership with one Parker (whose shares ho aftorwards bought out), ho started a small musio shop. Entirely unaidod by capital—he nover borrowed a penny in Ins life-he gradually worked up the business, and at the poriod of his decease it boasted an annual turnover of £400,000, aud hits cataloguo oom prised 100,000 pieces of sheet music, bosides 2500 books. Out of his largo fortuno ho leaves over 110,000 among about 20 American charities, besides £SOOO to form a fund for poor and needy musicians,

.Our millinery this season is without oontrovorsy the finest,'the most artistic tho most fashionable, and tho most becoming and attractive that we have over been ablo to show at-Te Aro House, Wellington, Our imported Freuob and English' millinery," combined with the production of our own department, form one of the most charming displays that has eyer been seonin this city, /\ye have always been noted for t))o excellent taste shown in out trimmed hats : ami bonnets, and as wo haye all the necessary appliances and advantages we intend to surpass ourselves this season at Te Aro House,-Wellington. Thero'is an endless variety of shapes and styles, and amongst the most prominent are the admired coquettish round /hats and togues", in plush felt, velvet, and olotb, in all colours, to suit the onstumeii. Ladies should seo tbeso at once and secure the first choice at To Aro Honse, Wellington. Tho" Direotory" hat is also afasoinating production, and very fashionable, and'we hays ether fin Mass shapes and styles, such as"'"'Bul'leighi» "f'pfhthia,"» Mansfield," "Columbia,"in the•'Harlequin!!combination hat, at TJe Aro House, Wellington, ' Our milliner is a young lady of exquisite taste and skill, and all orders entrusted to her will be exeouted stylishly and faultlessly, 'A Te Aro House, Wellington.—,4nvi. :'■