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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3168, 1 April 1889, Page 2

During the last fortnight the Greytown bakers bavo beon delivering head at 3d tho 21b loaf. Mr C. F. Daniell'i tender for Mr Macara's brick building in Queen-strest, has been accepted. Messrs Lowes & lorns add to their stock sale for 10th April, 1000 sheep, comprising 400 owes, 400 lambs, and 200 wethers. Applications for the offices of Clerk and Engineer to the Pahiatua County Council, olose to-morrow, Tuesday; .'AprifZnd, Mrs If. Hodgins, of the Queon-Btrcet Fruit Depot announces that sho has on Bale a choice and varied assortment of fruits and veretables, Mr Joseph Bennett reports:—Rainfall at (Jtahuao, March 1889-1 '76 in on 17 davß; average temperature 59*23; March 1888—3-42 on 16 days, Messrs L, J, Hooper and Co. of tho Bon Marohe, aro now showing their first instalment of autumn and winter goods. An inspection of the latest novelties and fashions is invited. Tho Theatre Royal fixtures for the week appear in anotbor column. In addition to the afternoon and evening rinkiug it will be seen that the early morning and forenoon sessions are announced.

Two "drunks" were brought before Mr A. W. Kenall, J.P, this morning, one, a first offondor, was fined Bb, the other, JnhnCumniings, commonly called " Punch" was fined 10s or 24 hours. On Friday evening Messars M. Casolberg and Co. had their window lit up for spcoial display, which attracted a large number of admirers, Miss E, Ryan notifies in our wanted column that blio has commenced business m Masterton as a dress and mantle maker, Miss Ryan brings excellent recommendations and ivo have no doubt sho will come in for a fair share of support from the ladies of Masterton and

district. We hear that Mr T. Cottor, of Silver Stream, who has for some months past been suffering from cancer in the month, in the hope of being cured by "German Clinrlio' 1 tho Sydney cancer curer, has, accompanied by his father, Mr Pierce Cotter, left Wellington for that part last Saturday. Some of the Sunday Schools at Greymouth were closed yesterday for the same reason as tho Stato School was closed. It turns out that the majority of the cases of sickness among children is not diplitboria but sore throat with glandular swelling that yields to ordinary caro and simple treatment. Mr John Taplin takes the opportunity

through our columns to tender thanks to the settlers between Masterton and Castlepoint, and informs them that hois rumrnig a goods brakebetwoen those districts once a week, arriving at Tinui every monday, Goods or orders can be left at Messrs Casdberg & Co Masterton,Messrs J Nathan & Co Tinui, or Mr J Young's Boardin? Houso. Not a little difficulty was experienced iu getting together a quorum of the Wairarapa Hospital Board on Saturday last. At 12.30 tho appointed time Mr Cundy, Mr Dagg, and tho Secretary, Mr Higgms, and two reporters were present, but as no one else had put in an appearance half an hour later the party dispersed for lunch, and it was taken for granted that thore would be no meeting, The Secretary, howevor, puthis shoulder to the wheel and towards three o'clock three more local members wero got togethor, The business, which as will bo soon by the report elsewhere, was very light, was speedily disposedof.

The drapory windows in Queen-street on Saturday night proved of nioro than usual interest to the (air sex in consoquonco of the rich and attractive display of winter goods and novelties for the

season. Wo noticed striped dress materinl of colonial make predominated, stripsd ribbons also being fashionable. Circular cluaks, to a great extent, supursede ladies ulstors. Fur-lined cloaks and plusb jackets still hold sway. Also fur and wool boas, collars, and fur trimmings. Broad leather belts appear amongst the new fashions, There is not much difference in wings and flowers, and in millinory, material is not so much altered as shapes. The shops wore all well illumicatod, and the night being bright and clear full advantage was taken by the ladies to inspect the new fashions.

Mr Andrew Chimsidc, Werribeo Park Victoria has offered to the Government the formation of a half battery of cavalry on the same lines as the Nordenfoldt battery formed by Sir \V. J, Clarke. The offer has been accepted. A short time back a man wrotoa letter to the Ballarat Courier about the cruel treatment to which several goats wero subjected by a band of larrikins, and signed it "One of tho Sufferers," Acommitteo of the Roslyn Council, dealing with the subject of charitable aid, gavo it as thpir opinion that to give relief in'one particular oasja was equivalent to offering a premium pnimmorality.

A remarkablo illustration of hemp hoist with his own petard recurred the other day to a Mr Thomas Bewley, a shipbuilder, of Dublin. His firm, it appears, hold a patent for making hydrogen gas, stored in iion chambers, or bottles, Mr Bewloy was carrying his patent, fully charged, under his arm, when the bottlo exploded, and he was was killed on the spot. One of his arms was discovered in an adjacent room. Sineular to say, tho explosion drove the victim's gold watch right into his body. The woeß of Ja Ja, the dusky monarch of tho lioocy river, who is now living at tljo oxnonse of the British Ga/ornment ill the Wpst Indies, were a favourito topic w ! th sontiinoiitalists,who have been in the habit of talking of him as a sovertiicn who had the misfortuno to bo more enlightened than his fellows. Ja Ja according to a sketch of Captain Varney is a cannibal a joiirmcf to boot. Once when at breakfast with Oaptam Vamoy op jioard his ship, Ja Ja confessed to a weakness for a Jittle boy's ankle, which he riigardedaa the finest .dish that could ho set before a king. His delicate senso of refinement was, however not confined to gastronomy. When ho built a bouse he buried a live slavo under each corner post, just by way of letting peoplo know how wealthy and influential he was,

A very valuable presort ,o( mannjoripthas been mado to Dr Hookeu, by tho daughter of tho Rev. Samuol Marsden, the founder of tho first mission to New Zealand in 1814. Dr Hocken (the Utago Daily Times says) has for many yeirs Jjeon an ardent collector of Native curiosities, and all books connected with the history of New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific, and is eaid to haye by far the best cplleotion in the Außtralian ironies. On communicating with Mr Mara/Jen's family, the manuscript referred to has been kindly placed at his command, It is a bpx of considerable size, containing a journal which. Marsden carefully kept from bis prrjyal in Sydney, iu 1793 to the year of his death, 1837. The box also contains his correspondence during that long period, and among other things full accounts of hi? voyages to New Zealand Between JBl4 nnrj 1836, and of his work in establishing .the mission, Dr Hocken, fearing accident by fire, lias' applied to the QjiyenjuienJ tp assist hjm by printing theßomanuscfipfß. jn which case .lie hasoffered to undertake, free of phrage: the editing and separation of any that

A Chinaman hcia been arrested fur debauohihg 25 white girls at Milwaukie, Wißconßin. ' Sir Thomas M'lllwraith is called Governor of Queensland in a recent issue of the London Times. The members nt the Sydenham and /Addington "Working Men's Club, Christchurch, are about to start a Co-operative Society. i Mr John Dillon, M.P., sailed from London fur Australia on 6th March. A large number of enthusiasts friends pravo him a send-off, A' movemeiit has been started for establishing a National Portrait Gallery fur New South Wales, The Government is tobo urgod to support tho project. A permanont library composed solely of books written by women is to be established in Paris. Though nearly a million Lebol rifles have been turned out in France, the Government workshops are still turning out 3000 a day more. Agreeable to the wishes ot the German Emperor, the thoatres liavo resolved to abolish all French : theatrical terms which have crept into the language

Over I^l,ooo— to the exact, 111,873foot passengers crossed, London Bridge on the 23rd \ilt-, and 15,000 vohioles. A staff of Commissionaires found this out for the journal possessing the title of Answers. ; The United States has informed Germany that the demand for the gr.osccution and punishment;;;'of. Fraciaco correspondent, MrSivleinp cannot be complied with, '■'' ':''. Viscount Mandoville, eldest son of the Duke ot Manchester,.failed on the 6th March for £120,000. 'Ho is married to an American lady. Miss Yznaga. Hii bankruptcy is attributed to gambling and living in excess of his income.

Letters at New York on 6th March from the Congo, say that Stanley, the explorer, had started to rejoin Emin "Paslia,nnd would not return by way of tho Congo. Ho had suffered treachery from Tippoo Tib, whose chiof object is

to pick up alnves. They tried a now expenmont at a church in Rockland, Maine, (in a recent Sabbath, by sending four young ladies round with contribution boxes, It is said that not a young man iu the congregation neglected to chip in.

A London paper says the art of the goldsmith is disappearing, owing to the cheapness of dianionas. The value ut jewellery no* depends upon the precious stonea it contains, rather than upon the beauty of workmanship. A farmer at Ashburton, whon giving in his return for tho agricultural statistics, estimate! his crop of oats to turn out from 30 to 35 bushels per aoro, while the actual result as shown by the thresli«r proved to be 70 bushels, or more than double the estimated yield, At the inquest ou the remains of a boy named Sydney Stono, aged 9 years, who was' drowned at "Waterloo, New South Wales, it was stated that a big boy throw a bottle into tho waterlwlo where Stone was bathing and told him to dive for it The little fellow did so, and lost his life,

Honry George has ben interviewed in London. He Bays that President Cleveland's vetoes of ponsion Bills was one of the causes of his defeat, and that another was hia Civil Service Reform policy, through which the President had lost the support of the real workers of tho party. . A despatch from Vienm stys:—Nineteen Nnznrenea have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment of from three to sixteen months for inciting tho pcoplo to refuse to perform military service, In their defence they declared that the Christian faith forbade the carrying of arms. The Duke of Sutherland has built a cottage on the beautiful grounds skirting Lake Butler, about two miles ironi Tarpon, Fla,, called it Sutherland Manor, and is now living in it with Bomu friends and a retinue of servants, Some ladie3 of Pam have formed a Morning League. Its purpose is to reform the hours of social gathering, which are now detrimental to health, The members of the league suggest that all balls shall commi'nco at nmoimd end at midnight, Dinner parties are to be discouraged 'and luncheons to be given instead,

The most uncanny-looking of all tho four footed brutes who guard royaltj is a hugo Mvonian mastiff, who waß presented years ago by General von Gutty to the Sultan. He has a head like a black bull-dog's, a lower jaw which projoots two inches, and a couplo of over-hanging eye-teeth, which aro regular tusks. There is evidently to bo no doubt about tho Protestantism of tho Prince of Wales' daughters, as their religious I training is confided to Mr Toignuiouth Shore. The principal vel ; gious instructor of the Qie.'ii's chtdrou mi Dr Norman M'Leod, and his geniality tempered the severity of the logical studies very pleasantly. It has boon discovorcd that a bloody voudetta prevails among the Sicilian colony in New Orleans. There are several thousand of these pcoplo in that city, and the feud, of which there havo already been many victims, was brought from Italy. Bodies have been found by keen scented dogs in the swamps on the borders of Lake Pontchartrain and also in oilier out-of-the-way places, Many persons havo disappeared of whom no ao-

count can be given, A calculation has recently been made that there aro employed 5000 men in connection with the various packs of hounds kept for hunting in England, If this becorreot.there must bo involved an annual oxpondituro. of L 400.000, This is, however, only the direct expenditure, for in addition there must be added tho personal outlay on tho part of hunters, which must considerably exceed thenum named, If we say that the total expenditure is a million of money, thoro will be no over-statomont, This is not a largo sum to disseminate over the country, but it Is by no moans to bo despisod.audwero it not for hunting there is every probability that it would fall to tho commercial classes, or the parasities of sooiety, rather than to the rural (population, There is a reverse side, in the picture, m that farmers suffer a great loss from the depredations of foxes, hut we havo no means of oiiloulating what these losses are.

A sociil gathering under the auspices oi tho Canterbury Typographical Association was held in Christchurch on Saturday; March 16, and was very successful. At a mooting oi the Thames Borough Council on Match 21, it was decided to take the necessary fegal steps to havo the present three licensing committees amalgamated. Tho Queensland Geologist has recommended several localities in tho vicinity of Brisbaue as sites for artesian bores, but ho is of opinion that a comprehensive system of gravitation supply must ultimately bo adopted. The report of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society ot Australasia shows the Society to bo worth £31,851 13s 6d, and tho number of lodges under tha jurisdiction ofthe Grind Lodge CO, with an enrolmanl of 5010 financial and 411 unSnanoial members.

Our millinery this season Is without controversy the finest, tho most artistic tho most fashionable, and the most becoming and attractive that we havo ever been'able to show at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our imported Fre :ch and English millinery, combined with tho production of our own department, form one of the moßt oharming displays that has ever beon seenin this pity. Aye have always been noted for the excellent'taste shown in our trimmed hats and bonnets, and as wo have all the necessary- appliances and advantages we 'intend to surpass' ourselves this'season at fe Arp House, Wellington. ' There is.an endless variety q! shapes and styles,' arid amongst the most prominent are the'admired''coquettish''round hats' and toaues, in plush 'felt, velvet, and oloth, in all colours, to suit the onstuiiios, Ladies should see these at once and secure the first choice at To Aro House, Wellington. - Tho" Directory" hat is also a fascinating production, and very ?ashionable,-and wc have other first-class shapes.aud styles, such ga "Burleigh," "Cynthia,"" Mansfiold," >' Columbia," in the ■' Harlequin" combination bat.'kt Te'irii Houso, Wellington. '"Our'mill'iheris'a exquisite taste'and skill, arid- aU'ordera entruSted'to iSsjk'bß tolfttW

The Town and Country Journal publishes what purports'to be a portrait of To Kooki, with hiß war paint on. Looking at it, ono dues not wonder that tho Poverty Bay Bottlere objeoted to tho warrior's presence in the district. "Will the Queen refuse to recognise tho new Duchess of Marlborough?" is a question uiuoh canvassed in society just now. The formal notice to the effect that Her Grace proposes to be presented at the first Drawing loom has been .-forwarded to the lord. Chamberlain without provoking any respunso, but it is early yet to say there won't be one, After declining to sanction the presentation of. the innocent and much-injured Lady Bktndford, it would certainly seem quaint if Her Majostyndmitted the Duchess to court.

- Mr J. C, Loan explains how a phutographio image of the sun may be scouted in a very Bimple manner. While experimenting in a darkened room with a ray of sunlight,'his attention was directed to pinhole pictures, which led him to the belief that startling results can be obtained in photographs of the sun of moon. In a room darkoned by blocking up the wiudows with thick paper, make a small hole in the paper with a darning needle so as to admit a ray of direct sunlight, If tt piece of white paper is held in tho path of the rav, twelve inches from tho hole, there will be on it an image of the sun one-eighth of an inch in diameter; at four feet the image is ot one-half inch, at eight feet of one inch, and so on,—Court Journal.

to the Canadian Manufnc. finer, a new scheme of utilising the sawdust, of the Ottawa River for tho purpoio of fuel is proposed. It is claimed that by a system .of grinding tho refuse into a uniform fineness, mixing it with tar from the gas house and cumpressing the substance into cakes, a fuel can be made in every way superior to soft coal for opon fires, Sawdust rolls were cumrnou forty years ago in England niid Scotland, and were considered far ahead of peat and grate fires. Tho ouat cf manufacturing this kind of fuel is merely nominal, and it is expected that it can be sold at a very much lower price than euffc coal, The formation of a company to give the echeme practical

effect in mooted. Speaking of engaceinunfc ring 3, a French authority makes the following remarks:—"Tho first of the presents

which mußt be given to an affisinoed brido ought to be the engagement ring; this ring must for ever be Kept by her, it is the first openly allowed gage ol lovo. It should be in perfect tnste, anc

at the same time not inconvenient to the owner. I would not choose tho ruby, it is too showy, loud, and indiscreet; my taste inclines towards tho sapphire and the diamond, of which the one dues not go well without the other,, i should not choose a large sapphire surrounded by diamonds; 1 should ask our jeweller-artists to intorlace in happy combination the sapphire and the diamond. The turquoise is also a tasteful stow, but when it ia constantly worn it has thu immense disadvantage of changing its colour, and to this change most ladies attach a sad and sentimental superstition, It should, therefore, not bo

ohosen for tho first present which is to be worn and cherished while lifo lasts, and which is to remain from the days of youth when everything olso is changed," Mr Reos is in Scotland at the present time, lecturing at Glasgow. He intends to deliver anothor lecture in Manchester in a day or two, upon the Co-onetative Unionisation Bchome. It is not likely that an attempt will be made to raise iho capital requind for his Company on the Stock Exchange, But the prospectus is being circulated widely annngst the different Co operative Societies throughout the kingdom, and it is thought that they will interest themselves financially in the scheme, The pioneers of the movement go out in the A orangi, They are'—Mr John Howard Mullins, Mr Dodd and Mr and Mrs Birrell and familv, They will settle near Gisbonrne. Another and larger par;y will go out in Marob. ■ Well's Hair Baifan. If gray, restores origiual color And elegant dressing, softens and- beautifies No oil not grease., A Tonic Restorative stops hair coming out; strengthens cleanses, heals scalp. Skinny Mnjr "Well's health renewer" estbres health and vigor, cures Dyspep ia, Impotence, Soxual Dibility. At chemists { and druggists. Kempthorno, ProsaerA Co, 4pents, Wellington.