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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3165, 28 March 1889, Page 2

Mr W. £aylisß has been'appointed Secretary andTreasurerottheEketahuna Railway Celebration Committee, We are requested to remind those interested of tho inspection parado of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers at the Drill' Hall this evening. Captain Hume will be present.

Mr F, H. Wood-advertlseß for sale ono timber and wool waggon, a team of tour first-class draught horses, four sets of harness, one spring trap, one ladies photon and one single seated buggy. The wbflje pan be.bought at a very low rate,

The settlers in this district who are desirous of clearing their land of busji, stumps and, and roots will do well to "*«< l a notice contained in outadvertising l t *• Oowpr's patent tree and columns o. :^ th(itllbt root destroyer. lon.. ■--3> rf »ll miuation of trees and sciuL •.J

descriptions. One pound of the conipounu "will destroy a patch of twenty to thirty large trees in a short space of time and at a trifling cost. The Groytown cemetery is, as is well known, located on a boulder bed, audi when interments take place there, the feelings ot the friends ot the friends of the departed are often harrowed by the tremendous thud with which the biir Btones drop on the coffins. The other day it is Baid, a poor Scandinavian, whose child was being buried, mate a pathetic protest against this desecration. When the words."dust to dust" were uttered,.and tho usual disohargo ot bouldera commenced, he jumped into the grave, and requested the stones to be handed down to him so.that lie could place them quietly and, reverently above the shell that held, the remains of his offspring,' The German military: budget contains an item of£l,7soforthe Ing and maintenance of carrier pigeons,

The Assessment Ooiirb will open in tho old .Court room; Masterton; at 2 o'olook to-morrow. -'

The Dunedln Benevolent Trustees have appointed ah Inspector to inquire into the circumstances of all the applicants for relief, at a Balary of 4120 per annum. .

They have qnoer ways of getting money for charity out West, One of them iB a dainty bazaar occupied by five pretty girls, and adorned with the following legend:—" Drop five dollars into the slot and the girls will throw you five kisses,"

Applications are invited for the office of oußtodion and ongine-driver to the Municipal Fire Brigade' at a salary of £25 a year. Mr (J. S. W. Dalryrnple reports. that he has completed the Bale of the ioaHe of the Te Ore Ore lulls to Mr D. Carman, the price being JU2OO, exclusive of stock. Ah onergotic business man. with a thorough knowledge of the Wairarapa district is advertised for as representative of a large retail drapery and clothing warohouse.

Tho expenses of tho Ohriatohurch Charitable Aid Board tor the last financial year were over 116,000. The amount required from tho local bodies for next year is L 8036 . The assessments on the various bodies prepared by tho United District Board for a meeting held yesterday are as follows:—Wellington City Council, L 1687; Hptfc County Council, L 337: Horowhonua County Council, L7oj Wairarapa North, L 435 j Wairarapa South, L 466; Melrose Borough Council, Lli9 Pitone Borough Council,Lßß; Mastorton Borough Council, L 99; Grey town Borough' Counoil, L3l; Carterton Borough Council L 29. At the meeting of the Education Board yesterday the Inspector of Sohools (Mr Robert Loo) presented an interim report on sovoral of the Bchools he had recently

visited, Summarised by tho Times his comments on the various Wairarapa schools were aß' folbwa:—Carterton— Order and management very good, Clareville—General management satisfactory.and much pleased with the workin? of the school,particularly with classes under headmaster, Featherston—Tho proper' stalling demanded immediate consideration, or the headmaster would bo in a helpless conditiun. Masterton—.; Staff sufficient, school in good working ordor, and was particularly pleased with the class teaching in the higher standards and with tho instruction in singing. Tlie school promised to maintain its efficiency. At Greymouth latterly a great deal of siokness has existed amonp children, mostly in the form of feverish colds, sore throats, &c. A number of deaths have occurred, some being attributed'to diphtheria. Tho attendance at tho State School haß dwindled much, parents keeping tho children at home, afraid of infection, Tho committeo yesterday closed the school indefinitely,

A mast with a block attached and board bearing the natno ot the ill-fated yacht Coquetto was washed up at Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, on Wednesday. The Carterton branch of tho Independent Order Rechabites opened their now hall last niijht with a concert. There were several friends from Greytown and other parts of the district assisting at the performance. Mr F. H. Frasor, from Wellington, occupied the chair, There was a very large audience, and the singing was very good and well appreciated. The building is 40ft x 20ft, with a Biaall ante-room at the back. The building is very noatly finished, and is a credit to the builder, and also to tho painter, The finish inside gives the building a very nice light appearance. Tho Eeohabites are to ho highly congratulated on their enterprise in getting such a building in so short a time, for they are but a young Lodge, and not over strong in membership, but thoy seem to be stron? in the needful (that is, cash). Tho building, with the ground included, cost thorn £l5O, and it is all paid for. The Chairman informed the meeting that in tho Wellington Tent of which ho was a member, there wore only about 405, and they bad nearly £3OOO to tho credit of their sick and funeral fund. The meeting was brought to a close about 10 o'clock with a hearty vote of thanks to the Chairman and the visiting friends, and by singing " God save the Queen,"

A hundred years ago a British sailor named Alexander Smith jumped overboard and Baved the life of ono of the Queen's middies, who, on reaching England, induced his relatives to place LIOO in a bauk, to accumulate at compound interest until it could bo presented to the gallant tar. He, howover, not knowing of his good fortune, shipped on board ELM.fi. Bounty, and went on the oventfulcruise, which ultimately resulted in the irregular colonisation of Pitcairn Island. Smith, who had assumed the name of John Adams, died in the odor of sanctity in 1829, and three of his grandsons are now living oir Norfolk Island, It came to their knowledge recontly that a fortune of L9G.000, the result of the investment aforesaid, awaited those who could satisfactorily identify thoir connection with Alexander Smith alias John Adams. -Tho oldest, a man of Bixty, recently visited Sydney and convinced a well-known firm of solicitors of the justice of his case, and the olaims of the three grandsons are to be vigorously pressed, The claimants are patiently awaiting further tidings in their island home. They are all men well advanced in life.

Some circumstances concerning the identity ot the unknown man who died suddenly while harvesting for Mr Board of Tuapeka West, have (says our Lawrence contemporary) been discovered through the instrumentality of a photograph found in his swag. The deceased man's name proves to have been George that about sii years ago ho held tho position of bookkeeper to a firm of merchants in Gore, Since- that time there is nothing definite known of his history; but it is supposed that he gradually drifted into the great army of sooial outcasts that float about from place to place oyer the colony. Statistics of the woik of tho Wesleyan Mission in the South Seas show that at present there are 1011 churches, 17' European missionaries, 66 native preaohers,42,3lo ohuroh members and 1607 Sabbath schools. In the course of an artiole on- the grain bag question, the Otajo Daily Timeß makes the following remarks:— "A Coterie may for somo time control prices here, but tho outside markets this year will prove too powerful for local monopoly or combination. Farmers, we think, are perfectly justified in maintaining the position they have taken up, and it is quite clear, from tho spirit which has' peryadpd the meetings held tp cpnsidef the question, that they are now quite alive to their interests, and are determined to make a stand against the, attempt at dictation as to .how they shall sell their produce. The finest stag Bhot this season waß BhowninNelsona week ago, It weighed oyer 4001b, its antlers having eleven joints/ ' ' After the downfall of JJapolepn in 1815, the French[Government oepame liable forthe amount of 7,50 million frangs. which was to be paid oyer to .'he Allies, withjn three years to reiru- :• ':!"•«.. for i% »PW of the burse the... _■ .^ ntß j 0 bp campaign, The pay.. •-<•.'»« the made in 1816 in gold, bn„,; •• "2 French were unable to raise the amount in.gold, the Allies had to be satisfied with silver-in'payment of the other instalment. The people of Paris wore naturally very muoh interested, and took no pains to conceal. their anguish at having to'part with their gold and silver coin. The subject was under discussion one day in the salon of Madame, de Stael. A young German officer who was present protested, against the Allies being compelled to take the inferior metal in payment. .'.'You had. hotter he satisfied;" interruptbd Madame de Stael-; "we paid the,first instalment in gold, the second in silver,'and, if pressed.too closely, we might pay the third in irou.";"Yery well,. Madame,", replied the German officer,'calmly,"you can pay the.third in iron, if you-ohooso,; bnlilf you try it we will give yon a receipt' mfullinlo&d.'' ; 7:

■■- An' agency ..ot.-tho .Qovomraent Life Insurance Department; will be opened abthe.Pdst Office,,EkotahuDa,- on'the first of 'April, Mr J, Jones, the; Post* maeter, will have charge of

The pope's recent presents to the Irish churches were valued at £IO,OOO. '■ Mr Stilwell, of Parawai, Thames, has produced a cuouuiber which weighs six and a quarter pounds, and is twenty-six and a-half inches in length, England has more thanhalf the cotton spindles in the world, and uses more

than half the cotton/worked by them, while English spinning is unrivalled in the excellence of its production and the cheapness of its price. ■ The Waikato Times says that the largo concessions made in the freights of minor lots of produce in favour of small fanners has been greeted with unmixed ssitisfactian everywhere, Mr Frederick Bryant (of Bryant and May, the matchmakers,) who died the other day at the comparatively early ago of-forty five, loaves personality to the value of 1272,000. This surely goes a good way towards. showing that the matoh-girl's ■ strike of last year was justifiable. When a Chinaman takes an oath instead of making him kiss the Bible they cut off the head of a roostor. The oath is considered: binding on the

rooster; The Emperor of Germany receives a

salary of £120,000; and wants it increased to a quarter of a million, For a man who has not been in the business much more' than. Bte months, the young Emporor has remarkable confidence in his ability, and a good estimate of his own personal worth. The deterioration in the physique ol the stokers in the Royal Davy having

become very marked, the Commander-in Chief at Portsmouth (Admiral Sir Edmund Commerell) has forwarded to the Admiralty a Btrong representation on the subjoot, l ; ' There are 8,000,000 more women in Great Britain than man, More than one third of all tho women of marriageable age in England are unmarried, Fully one half of the women of tho educated middle class, gentlewomen, of marriageable ages are single, Mr Isaac Selby, the Freethought lecturer, who visited this colony two or three years ago, and who got married to Mißs Tessie Chapman, also a lecturer on tho same lines, has lately become a Christian advocate. He wroto to the Protestant Standard (a Sydney paper) stating that after much thought he was of opinion that religion alone can supply the true incentive to proper liviug. His

wife has also become a convert, The article on the' Bismarck Dynasty' in the new number of the Contemporary has created a greater sensation than any magazine article since Madame Adam's 'Berlin Society' in the 'Revue des Deux Mondes." It is an attack on the German Chancellor at once deadly and ruthless, by .some one well behind the scenes, who knows all the man of iron's weakest spots. The papers are full of it and- nt speculations as lo whom tho writer may be, The Empress Frederick, Sir, Morell MoKenzie, aud Sir Robert Morier have each in turn been fixed on as the possible author. A good Btory. is going the rounds

anonta raw young Irishman recon. imported on to the staff of the Londo: Star. He was entrusted the othc evening with the not overpowcringl important duty of writing a "par' about a city smoking concert. He go along well enough whilst he had a pro gramme to- rely on, but tho names o the encores somehow got horribl; muddled, One vocalist whose effort were much appreciated, he put dowi as "rendering with rare effect tha solonm- sea song the 'Starboan Martyr'"('Stabat Mater'). The'tyueenslander' of a recent dat says:—"Two deaths from thirt occurred in the bush last week, one Bhepherd onNive Junction, tho other ai old man named Head,' who died abou 4 miles from the Tickleman mail stage Nothing has since been heard of th missing billiard-marker, Fiteherbert who started to walk from Adolaido t Charloville, He is generally behevei to be dead, as no man could go twenty four hours without water in this ho weather. Papers that belonged to hit show that ho was well connected, am had been trained for the law. «lh papers indicate that his brother i Crown Solicitor forWanganui, and th deceased was a nephew of Sir "Williar Fitzherbert, barrister, lately of Nei Zealand. Deceased's fathor, who _i dead, was a well-kuown barristor ii Devon, England. The Maori has acquired all the acute ness of the Caucasian, and can givo hi teachor points and boat him at his owr game. The Advocate shyb that a day o two since the owner of a mill situated ii Riingitikei visited the mill in the absenci of the miller whom he employed. Then he found two Maofiß, who informed hin that they bad brought two sacks o wheat for sale. He examined the wheat bought it and paid for it. -The Maori leparted and shortly afterwards th miller returned. The owner showed hii purchase, and was astonished to find h bad bought his own wheat. The Maori bad brought no wheat, but took advan ;age of the absonce of the miller to sell ae mill-owner wheat which was alreadj lis own property. To preserve the oolour of dried anc irossed flowers, a mothod has been reiommended by It. Hegler in the dmischt Bomtmhe MbimMic/le, II ionsists in dusting salioylic acid on them is they lie in the press, and renoving it again with a soft brush whon hey are dry. This "is found to preserve d hues more especially. Another netliod recommended iB to use a solution if one part of salicylio acid in fourteen mis of alcohol, by means of blotinftaper soaked in it and plaoed upon and inder the flowers, There is also anther chemical substance that would iroye- effectual—that is, boracic acid, JrSohouland recommends asan improvelent in the method of using Bulphurous cid for preserving the colour, that in he case of delicate flowers they might e placed loosely between Bhecta ot egetable parchment before immersion a tho liquid, 60 as to ■preserve, their aturalform.

According to the Times, of India, 'Advance Local Industry" is. becoming as popular cry in India as it is in New Zealand, They We out out Dundee hi cornsaok'and woolpack weaving! they aro multiplying cotton mills, reduoing the demand for English ales by the increaso of local brews, and ' are now beginning to supply their own needs in in wrapping and other coaise papers, with some hope of soon turning oiit the finest kinds. The Bombay journal while pointing with satisfaction to these advances jowards self-reliance, argues that ti rpa'ter tripph is within, reach, and is not'so diffjcu.lt of attainment as has been believed, .Thisis a profitable development of iron industries. There is iron in India in large quantities and of first rate quality and in times past Indian ironworkers produced articles in that metal which onr boasted English iron kintrs would pause to undertake with all their appliances, ~ : Qur' millinery.this season.is without controversy the finest, the most artistic the mbsi fashionable, and the most becoming and attraotivo'that'we have ever been able to show at Te Aro Houso, Wellington, Our imported Frenoh and English millinery, combined with the production of our oiyn-'department, fprm.pne of the most .nhjrfflin'g displays that has ever bjen seenin ■'•• W8 feva always been noted for thisoity. ■•■-•■•., ,jj 0W n ja our trimmed the excellent taste . -vlutoall the hats and bonhots, and as w0.,. -. ,, w6 necessary appliances and advantages .. intend to" Bnrpa'ss ourselves this season at Te Aro House, 'Wellington. .:■ There is anendless variety of shapes and styles, and amongst the moßt prominent are the admired coquettish round hats and togues, in plush felt, velvet, and cloth, in all colours, to'suit the onstutnes, Xadies should see these at pnceafld secure the first choice at Te Aro Honso, ■'■ ■ The»' Directory" hat is also a fascinating production, and. very fashionable, and we have other first-class shapes and styles, such as;"Burloigh,","Cynthia;"' 1 Mansfield/' » Columbia,'' in the •' Harlequin" combinetioiihat, atTe'AroHouse, Wellington, • _ :i Our milliner is'a-young lady of; exquisite taste and skill, and all orders entrusted to her will beexecutedstyliihlyandfaultlMily &'t TeAib How,- Wylliifgton.—AßTt. ~ •.-. : . \.-,-'-' ' ; ' '■:■' ■■'■:■;