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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3164, 27 March 1889, Page 2

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their sale for Saturday next, a few choloe lines m furniture. The curator of the Acclimatisation Society received yesterday a small caso of Looh Leven ova, being a portion of the Aorangi shipment. The number is estimated at about 10,000, but on unpacking about a filth of tho eggs were found to be dead.

The following team -will represent the Star Cricket Club in their matoh against Carterton at Carterton on' Saturday March 80: J. Wiekens, W. Welob, G, Welch, T. Hawke, A. Welch, A. Richards, H. Weloh, P. O'Connor, W. holford, A. Boulcott, A. Matthews, 0. Bentley, S. Minifie, E, Kibblewhite, S. Sinclair. Emergencies—E. Welch, W. Day, H, Broom. Players are requested to meet at E. Kibblewhite's at 11,80 sharp, on Saturday. Mr Skene reports on the labor Market, Dunedin, as follows.—The harvest rush being over, winter engagements have begun as under, Ploughmen, 20s and 17s -Od shepherd, L 55 and LOO couples, LOS, L7O to LBO, grooms and gardeners, 15b, 20s, 255, station cooks, 20s and 255, buslimen, 6s- and 6s per cord, storo hands (country), 20s, milkers, 10,12 and 16s, The building trade is reviving fast.

For some time past a eood deal of correspondence hasbeen going on in Christ: churoh papers with reference to the probable price of wheat,it being held that the Californian supply will enter largely into the settlement of the point! On this subject Mr Stead writes to a Christchurch paper as follows:—On Monday I cabled to San Francisco'firm asking how much of the 1888 crop of Californian wheat was still available for export, and also atwhat price they could offer a' cargo of 10,000 quarters o.i.f, Sydney, "On Thursday 1 received the reply that 250,000 tons of wheat were still available tor export, and quoting 3jjsl)d per 6001bs for a cargo of 9000 quarters No.l standard Californian wheat o.i.f. to Sydney. This price, as may be seen, is rather under 4s .8} per bushel 1 of COlbs,' Backs iholjided, for deliyory jn Sydney harbourIt is evident, therefore, 'that your hypothesis that there js no appreciate quantity of wheat left on the west coast of America, and epnseijuently 'that the wants of Australia cannot be supplied from that bouiw,' in misleading,'' '

. Tlio firobell rang out yesterday for a burning flue in Queen-street. ■ Mr F, H. Wood adds to his Taratahi stock Bale 800 ewes, 200 wethers, and 200 lambs; also ono single-seated bugcy. Mr M. Malier, at present goods olerk at the Wellinpton. railway station, has been appointed stationmaster at Eketahuna,

Witnessesin bankruptcy caaes, whero applications were approved,'were to-day excused from attending the District;. Court until Thursday, The case Bly v. Briggs, Hefc down for hearing at the District Court this morning was allowed to stand over till 10 o'clock May morning.

• We remind those intercßtod of Mr F. H, Wood' stook Sale which take's plnco at Taratahi on Thursday 25th inst. - The catalogue contains upwards of two thousand sheep, several head of cattle, horses and sundries.

Mr E. Kibblewhite received a telegram this morning, stating that his father, a well-known settlor, was dead. The late Mr.E. Kibblewhite was in his seventyeighth year, and for some timo past has been a resident of Fielding, It is reported that writs have been served upon Detective Oliryslal and Inspector Thompson at the instance of James Hay of Invercargill, claiming i£soo damages for wrongful arrest and illegal imprisonment, Mr Jelliooe oouducts the case on behalf of Hay, At the auction sale of grain at Dunedin yesterday the bidding was not brisk, and millers did not bid for any lots where bags as extra was the condition, Danish sparrowbill oats realised 2s 7d; black do, 2s 4Jd and 2s 6jd, Wheat was Bold at 4s Jd, 4s 4Jd, 4s 3d, and 4s 4d. Potatoes 1410s; butter,,BJd. On the opening of the District Court, Masterton, this morning, as soon as His Honor District Judge Robinson had taken his seat, Mr Beard, on behalf of tlio Bar, congratulated Hi 3 Honor on his appointment as District Judge, Mr Robinson replied in suitable terms.

A bald-headed patriarch remarked this morning, jnst before'the District Court 1 opened at Masterton, " It's a pity my i father hadn't a little money to give me ] some dog's Latin and dead men's brains. ■ 1 could have flourished a wig then." The many friends of Mr \V. J. Prentice, senior, of the Upper Plain, will : regret to learn that he is lying in a ; critical state. For a considerable period Mr Prentico has boen invalided," but this morning he took a very bad turn which necessitated the attendance of the Masterton members of bis family at his bedside, Mr A. Henderson our well-known local watchmaker and jeweller is at present blisily engagod opening up a magnificent assortment of jewellry suitable for Easter gifts: His front window is resplendent with tlio display, which includes gold and silver ware' of the newest and choicest designs', and will well repay inspection. A most enthusiastic meeting wa3 held at Mr Parson's Eketahuna Hotel on Monday evening last, for the purpose of taking steps to celebrate the opening, of the railway to that township on the Bth bfAjiril. An influential committee was" appointed to atrango a luncheon and carry out other preliminaries necessary for the successful celebration of the opening of the lino to Eketahuna, Mr Danaher Btarted tlio ball rolling by putting his name down for £25 towards the funds. Other large subscriptions have been promised and the Eketahuna folks are Banguine of providing one of the best railway celebrations that has ever taken place between their township and Wellington, Mr F. H, Wood reports of his Stock sale held at Martinboroupli yesterday as follows The very rough weather, prevented several linos of sheep, which had been entered from coming forward, and also very considerably affected the attendance of the buyers. A largo number of cattle were yarded, but the demand was limited and only a few changed hands,.. In sheep, store ewes, realized from 3s for culls to 83 9d for good, the latter price being obtained for a very fine line of Lincoln ewes, from the Tulutarata Station. A draught filly 2 years, by Drydale, fetched fls 10s, chestnut filly, 15 months, by Uglyßuok was sold for £l2, the purchaser- of the latter refusing £5 on his bargain directly afterwards, Spring trap £7los and £lO, the latter for a new one, well made and finished in good style, _ A meeting was held on Monday evening at Eketahuna for the purposß of discussiug the proposed now railway time table drawn out by the railway traffic manager, and which waß not considered satirfactory by the great bulk of settlers in the Eketahuna and Alfredton districts. Several persons present spoke hi favor of running tho train right through to Martortoniu timo to catch the early morning train to Wellington. This the traffic manager, Mr Dawson, who was present, agreed to, on condition that the through service only connocted once a week., Mr Dawson regretted that' the Department could not Bee'their way to run oftpner than once a week right through to_ Wellington owing to the heavy expense it would incur in keeping an extra staff of men at Eketahuna. Alter farther discussion it was decided to accept the traffio manager's oifer to run a special every Saturday morning from Eketahuna to connect with the Masterton 7.10 a.m. train for Wellington. Votes ' of thanks having been accorded ■ to Ine chairman (Mr Von Reden),and ' Mr Dawson, tho meeting terminated. At the monthly meeting of tho Masterton Lodge E.G. held on 25th iuat.the question of, the tormation of a Grand Lodge. of New Zealand was brought forward, and as there was a large amount ot correspondence to be gone through ; on the. subject, Bro. Secretary Gr. S. W. Dalrymple moved, and Bro Senior Warden D. Guild seconded the, following resolution, which was carried unanimously. " That the Past Masters of this . Lodge be a Committee to consider the , question of tho formation of a Grand Lodge for New' Zealand! and that the Worshipful Masters'and Past Masters of the Wairarapa lodges be invited to' \ attend, Bro Chaplain the Kov W. 'E. Paige to be convenor." This action was taken by the Masterton Lodge owing to it being the sonior Lodge of the Valley. 1 ;The feeling that the time had come for the establishment of a Grand Lodge for , New Zealand is pretty general amongst , the masonic body of this district. Tho Ptev. H. E. Haweis, tho eccentric but eloquent pastor of St. James's Westmoreland street, London, has been makingthe hair of his more orthodox and conventional brethren Btand 011 end with horror anent the character of his sermons "latterly. The series he de-, hvered on 1 Robert Elsmere' were, from all afcouuts, humorous enough, but they would Bound positively staid beside the racy, discourse on ' Kindness to Animals' (more particularly cats) 1 which the reverend gentleman preached on a recent Sunday morning. Laughter 1 convulsed the congregation frequently—not mere tittering, but hearty "ha, ha's"—and Mr Haweis seems to have been in nowise disconcerted thereby, The pastor's next subject will be 1 Kindi ness to Horses and Dogs.'

The Board of Education on March 16, came to a sort of tacit agreement that in the changes of teachers as far as possible consistent with the general efficiency of the education system, town teachers should do their turn of duty iu in the country, and.oountry teachers on the other hand, siiould have a chance of participating in the benofits and advantages of. town Hfe. , The discussion arose out of the application of a young lady, who 'had' been _ only three months in the country, desiring to bo removed book to town again, while it was stated another young lady had been " exiled" to the country for four ' years without a transfer. There are evidently some peculiar spjßojmens of J.P.'s in Australia, The following is reported to be a decision lately given iii one of'the provincial .Courts of Victoria in;an assault case:— " We find that he struck shfy.atid she struck lie. - We dismisses the oases, and gives'no oogts to nobody.'' ' 'A ' cake; of gold weighing '4oozs. has recently been found at the Golden Gate info*,' Withian, Tawga^ia.

Three Englishmen: now have statues in Fraiice: Lord Brougham at Cannes, Jenner at Boulogne-sur-Mor, and Shakepeare at Paris.

Things are out sp find now in the New South Wales Supreme Court that the sheriff's coachman acta aB a court attendant, and the -usual. oliioials • have been beon superseded by day •wages men. A new substitute for jutebagging is a chooolate-colourod material made of tho needles of the Southern pine trees. It ia'claimed that this does not take fire easily and is very tough. Honduras' women have just been granted the right to compound prescriptions and practice pharmacy in general with the one condition thatthoy pass the examination required of male druggists, A rich Hungarian, M. Stephen Peabody, who' lately died, is being called the Hungarian. Peabody, because he bequeathed the sum of 280,00011s for educational purposes to the Hungarian Government,

. It was stated at the Melbourne Polico Court the other day that Malay seamen were in the habit of chewing hemproot saturated with opium until it sometimes rendered them temporarily mad. Recently at Jarro, a ohild named Niel four years of age, was pulling himself up by a stone mantelshelf, when the structure gave way, crushing the little fellow so severely as to cause his death. J'A little knowledge is a dangerous Thing."—And what's the little darling's name?" "Well—you isee he's our eighth ohild—so we've had him christened 'Octopus 1'" • " Mizpah" signifies a watch tower, and ]ta use on li ring or other article preserved as a memento is intended as the equivalent of the passage, " The Lord watch between mo and thee when we are absent from, one another." (Genesis mi, 49.(

Mrs, Sherman, wife of the distinguished General Sherman of the United States Army, died a few days ago in New York, bhe was an ardent Catholic, and among the most active lay workers of that faith ihAmerioa. ' -

The late Alderman Mosorop, exMayor of Bolton, a' well-known Wesley an, has bequeathed L 15,000 to the Wesleyan Connectional funds, The infirmary at Bolton also benefits, to the eitent of L 5,000. In referring to somo of tho penal clauses in the Bankruptcy Aot the other day, Judge Richmond said that he had aat days and days hearing cases all for nothing, finding in the end that no punishment' could be awarded. The fault was through the legislature adopting olauses which had been tried at Home and had signally failed. A coach and team of horses had been driven through them by English lawyers, and he did not know why colonial legislators hud adopted them at all,—News. . The Suez Canal is V2 miles in length, while.its average width is about 880 ft., and its depth from 20 to SGft. It commences on the Mediterranean at Port Said, proceods on to Kantara, traverses the lake Aba-Ballah, enters Lako Timsoh at Ismailm; it next passes through the fitter Lukes, and ends at Suez on tho Red Sea.

France drew from Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Roumanla 240 million gallons of wine during the past eleven months of 1888, independently of 1,760,000 gallons imported from Algeria. The vine-growing industry in the African colony is rapidly expanding. There are now upwards of 218,000 acres under cultivation for this purposo, an augmentation of 24,000 acres on the area devoted to viticulture in 1887.

At the Dunedin Exhibition ceremeny someone in the crowd asked Sir Wm, Jervois to "speak up." Sir William replied '• 1 am sorry the. gentleman cannot hear me, but in the words of my friend, Lord Westbury, I should have thought his ears wore long enough to hear me at any distance." Laughter on the part of the audience and silence on the part of Sir William's interrupter followed this retort. -v . •

The Convalescent Home at Dover, which has keen conducted by Miss Rusher for upwards of thirty"years, has been made over in trust to Messrs J. B, Nichols, 6. Vaußhan, and W. H. Ohinn, for the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, the South London District, of which society will appoint a committee of management, The Home lias accommodation for eighty convalescents, and with an endowment fund of L 750 represents a gilt of more than 1,3,000. _ A curious and interesting collection of Chinese ornaments has just been pre. aented to the Auckland City Council, for the art. collection of the Free Public Library, by Mrs Ellon Browning. The list comprises the following Five ladies' silver hairpins, one gentleman's silver gilt piu, three pairs ladies' earhups in (relief), one ladies' silver 1 earring (spider web pattern), small jade and silver dress ornament. The Dean of Eoohester has aroused the anger of the teetotallers by preaching in Rochester Cathedral in support of temperance. Dean Hole condemned the sin of intemperance as gravely and as sincerely, as the most fanatical teetotaller could desire, But he did not insult the intelligence and malign the character of his hearers by assuring them that every one of them who took a glass of vine or a glass of beer was therefore on the high road to the besotted condition of the habitual drunkard. Doubtless Dean Hole himself takes an occasional glass of wine, and knows that moderation is more temperate than teetotnlisra. At any rate he could not bring himself to assert that drinking any quantity of alcoholio drink, however small, and under what circumstances soever, must always be an unmixed evil; and nothing short of this will satisfy the' teetotallers. Dean Hole's method of putting down intemperance is the only sensible one, and the only one likely to be successful.—Exchange. A delightful story is told of Thomas Poole by Mrs Sandford in her newly published anecdotes of that worthy and his friends. When "a, person uf stupe local importance, and with certain claims to respect and difference," which every "everybody recognised, took it .into his head to hold forth in. Boole's presence —perhaps out of pure love ot irritating a fellow-creature-in authoritative disparagement of Coloridge and Wordsworth, Poole boiled over, and told the reviler. in a most emphatic manner, that he was a fool. Poole was sorry for it afterwards. "Did I call him a fool ? How very wrong of mo 1 How very wrong I .Would it do any good to apologise? lam sure if it would give him any satisfaction I would apologise in a moment." So he returned—"! am sure, sir, lam very sorry I was rude to you just now. 1 apQlogise mostaincerely. I wish I wasn't'so hasty. It was extremely wronp of me. But—tut—bnt" —(with a great gulp, as if he were all but choking)—"how could you be such a d—d fool ?" The story long survived as a joke against Poole. Our millinery this Beason is without controversy the finest, the most artistic, the most fashionable, and' the most becoming and attractive that we have ever been able to Bhow at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our imported Frenoh and English millinery, combined with tho production of our own department, form one ot the most charming displays that has ever been sccnin this oity. We have always been noted for the excellent taste shown in our trimmed hats and bonnets, and as we have all the neoes'sary appliances and advantages we intend to: surpass ourselves this season at Te Aro House, Wellington. . There is an endless variety of shapes and styles, and amongst the most prominent arc the admired coquettish round bats and togues, in plush felt, velvet, x and oloth, in all colours, to, suit the' onstumes. Ladies should see these at once and seoure the first choice at Te Aro Hoiso, Wellington. The" Direotory" hat is also a fasoinatiiig production, and very, fashionable, and wo have other first-class shades and styles, such as "Burleigh," "'Cynthia, I 'Mansfield," " Columbia," in the •! Harlequin" com|>inaliqn hat, at .Te Aro House, Wellingtpn, 1 Onr milliner'is a young lady of exquisite taste and skill, and all orders entrusted to her pill be exeoutod stylishly and faultlessly it Te Htfus's, WdftflgWnf-tori:.