The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 2,1889.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3169, 2 April 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 2,1889.

Mr H, Owen of Smith and Co., cash drapers, Masterion has found a sum of money which ho desires to return to tho owner. Applications for the offices of Clerk and Engineer to tho Pahiatua County Council, close on the 10th inst not on the 2nd as stated in our yesterday issue. Messrs M, Caselberg and Co, want two tons of cocksfoot grass seed mixed with Yorkshire fog. The highest prico will be given. A large number of settlers showed their respect to the memory of the late Stephen G. Prentice by following his remains from his late residence on the | Upper Plain to the Mastertou Cemetery yesterday.

In connection with the opening ot the Railway to Eketahuna on Monday noxc April Bth, Thero will be a luncheon in the Public Hall in that township, Tickets of admission at 7s 6d each can be obtained from the Secretary Mr W. BaylißS. The cheese factory, Greytown, will be closed in about three weeks' time, concluding what imißt be considered a most successful Beason,. Tho consumption of milk has been avoraging about 500 gallons per day, and on some days 700 have been taken in. The output of cheese amounts to noarly 40 tons, nearly all of which has been disposed of in the Australian markets. ' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following telegram from their London olnco dated March 30th : Frozon Meat iMutton—Market better; Canterbury is worth 4|d; and Wellington 4d per lb. Tallow:—There is a gooa demand; Good Mutton is worth L 25155; and beef L 24 ss, The New Zealand Herald's correspondent in Apia, writing on March 19th says:—" Soveral rumours were afloat for the last day or twe that tbo Calliope had foundered outside, and also that sho had got on a reet some distance up the coast, but all doubts were set at rest by her coming into the harbour this morning apparently all right. _ She isnow the onlv vessel in Apia, Britishers cannot help being proud of their navy after all, when they are composed of such ships as the Calliope lias proved hersidf' to to, Thoy all admit that she is a noble ship, and that she was well handled, The hurricane and its risults will perhaps be a lesson to other countries, and especially, I should think to tho United States not to send old vesseh with nearly worn outenglnostotliesoßeasat this season of the year. Tho gale was no heavier than occurs frequently on the coast of New Zealand, and I feel perfectly sure that any ono of the Union Company's boats would have steamed right out as the Calliope did. The great calamity that has secured has of courso put everything else in the ehade, and now we have to speculate on what effect it will have on tho Samoan question. The G.arijians have suffered most severely hero lately both in property and lives, and I think there is no petting over the fact that they hayo themselves to blame. If (hoy continue on Samoa will soon be a dear place to them, andldaresay the German Government now wish they had never seen it."

A gentleman who would be known at I home lis a''dissenting.minister" joined I the EpiscopallM! rather late in life, and 'was given'charge* of (t bus!) parish. During a temporary absence his pulpit was filled by a 'reverend brother who holds the degree of M. A, from the Melbourne University; and this gentleman was' surprised a few days after the B.etyice .afc recoivinga note from the bush, incumbenb'B wifo pegging that he would iiindly allow her'toM'e'the pattern of the surplice hg ypre last Sunday, she was much pleased with the effect of the colours.". An ordinary member of the public is noi expected to be up in matters of. church millinery, but that letter came very tjueerly from & clergyman's wife.

Tho regular fortnightly meeting of the Maaterton Borough Counoil takes place thißevening. .'-..' Moßsra Lowes & lorns add to their Stock Sale for Wednesday, April 10th, 3810 Ewes and 400 Lambs, also 960 sheep. ■.'.•■■ We have received from the Deparment the now time table of the Wellington Section of tho New Zealand Eailways to come into force on April Bth'. The next meeting of the Masterton Literary and Mutual Improvement Society takes place on Thursday evening nsxt. The subject chosen for debate is:—" Should tho Franchiso bo extended to women," An interesting discußßion is expected,

We understand that Mr T. W. Shaw has purchased Mr Falloon's trotting horse Wait-a-While. Tho lattor, it will be remembered, was the easy winner of the trotting race that took place at the Opaki races on St. Patrick's Day, The annual distribution of prizes in connection with the Presbyterian Sunday School took place last Sunday afternoon. The following are the recipients of the awards:—Andrew MoEwen 1, Albert McEweu 21 James McGregor 1, Edward Payton, 2; Ernest McEwen 1, John Holdaway 2, Henry Sage 2: Arthur Bmwn 1, John Smith 2, Alex,' Ross 2; William McGregor 1, Charles Holdaway2. JanotMcGregorl, Christina Monro 2; Alice Brown 1, Sarah Johnston 2, Ina McColl 2; Annie Ross 1, Martha McGregor 1; Margaret Langton 1, Mabel Johnson 2; Lizzie Ross 1, Constance Sage 2; Annie Ross 1,- Annio Lett 2, Lily Sage 2; special prizes, by Minister, for complement of marks durintr the year —Ernest McEwen, Margaret Langton; special by teacher for good conduct—Hugh Smith. | Up to the present time £892,000 have been spent upon the Melbourne Hospital. There are duly qualified medical men in Sydnoy willing to accept engagements at i' 3 a week. Do Lesseps is three years older than Gladstone, who has just passed his seventy-ninth birthday. Parisian women have carried the watch-wearinp mania to the point of hearing time-pieces as ornaments for the hair, and instead of rosettes on their ball-room slippers, The venerable Duchess of Cambridge, Queen Victuna's aunt, who is now in her ninety-second year, iB an ardent lover of music,

The Sultan never uses a plate, but takes his food usually with a spoon or his fingers directly from the little kettle in which it is cooked, General Boulanger's one idol in life is said to be his mother, She was with him in 1859 during tho ten months in which he was in danger from a wound received at Solferiuo, and which has nover healed. _ Ho spends every afternoon and evening with hor,' and if away always sends her a telegram. During the recent " Albatross" expedition in the South Pacific a modern Robinson Crusoe was discovered on a lonely island, where he had resided for years. He had a long white beard, lived in a hut made of skins, and was alarmed at thesight of human beings. He fladly left his island home with the visitors,

A few years ago a girl, fresh from the West Highlands, came on a visit to a sister she had residing in Glasgow. At tho outskirts of tho town sho stopped at a toll-bar, and began to rap sharply with her knuckles on the gate. The keeper, amused at the girl's action and curious to know what blib wanted, came out, when she yery demurely interrogated him as follows;—"Is this Glasco'!" "Yes." ".IsPeggy iu?" The Sydney Female Refuge is now reported to be almost self-supporti'ig. During tho past year the labour cf the inmates realised £4015 3s 3d,

Count Leo Tolstoi, tho Russian novelist, has givon evidonco of his versatility. He is now heading a temperance movement in Moscow.

_ M, Verleige is tho now French Consul in Sydney, The position is ono rather coveted, as in addition to social distinction, it carries a salary of £2OOO. ■ Count Herbert Bismarck is particularly popular among tho young officers of Berlin, and his bachelor dinners and other entertainments are much sought after.

Edwin, in the serpents' house at the Zoological Gardons: "See, Angelina, that larse snake is a boa-constrictor, and in South America, where he lives, he lies in wait for a victim, and winding himself around the poor person slowly hugs linn to death." Angolina; ,"Oh, how nice, I am afraid I shall never die like that," And Edwin couldn't see it,

An important improvement in clocks has been shown the British Association for the advancement of acionco by Mr W. H. Douglass, The now feature is the torsion pendulum, which, with lever and escapement, may be applied to ordinary works, and by it 3 slow rate of vibration makes practicable the convor. eioii of an eight-day clock into one requiring winding only once a year.

Much local interest has beon aroused in Vienna by the arrest of a man who committed two cruel murders ten years ago, Tho Victims woro an innkeeper and his wife, who wero found dead ono moriiing without any clue to the perpotrator of tho crime being fonnd, No suspicion was attached to the man and womau servant, \rho passed the night out of the house. On Friday the manservant, now a thriving milkman beat his housekeeper so badly that she had to be taken to a hospital, Tho dressing of the wounds was so painful that she was induced by it to reveal the story of the murder whoroupon her master was arrested.

During the past year Masonic benevolence produced an amount for tho three [English Masonic charitable institutions combined far surpassing that of any previous twelve month, and exceeding tho largest annual sum hitherto collected for them by £21,855, Tho Koyal Masonic Icstituian for Girls, which celebration of the first lOOyearsof oxistenco on June 7th, shows atotal receipt ol £49,259 4s 4d; the youngest of tho institutions, the Royal Ma6onio Benevolent Institutions for -Aged Freemasons aud widows of Froemasons, a Bum of £21,36115s Id; and the fioyul Masonic Institution fur Boys, which was 90 years old last year, the amount of £12,298 2s 6d a less sum thau either of these institutions has received in any one of the previous seven years,

An interesting feature of the Paris Exhibition will be a group of forty-nine structures intonded to give a history of tbo human.dwelling, The different typos of shelters represented will include those of tho prehistoric period, under rocks, in caves, on water and on land, and from later times those of early historic civilization, of Aryan civilization of Roman civilization in tho East and in the West, and of rudo civilizations disconnected from the goneral progress of humanity, The Chinese Japanese, Eskimo, Afri'oan, Azteo, etc The interiors, the costumes of the occupanta and the surroundings, will be those of the different opochs studied,

Our millinery this season is. without controversy the finest, the most artistic the most fashionable, and the most becoming and' attractive that we have ever been able to show at Te Aro Hou§o, Wellington, Our imported French and English millinery, combined with'the production of our own department,' form one of tlio most ohanning displayß that has over been aconin (bi« city, have always been noted for the excellent tasto shown in our trimmed hats and bonnets, aijd as we liayo all the necessary appliance's' and advantages we intend to surpass' ourselves" this season at fe Aro Hquse, Wellington. There js in endless variety of shapes and Styles,'and amongst the'raos't prqminentare the admired coquettish round hats and togues, in p'ush felt, velvet, and cloth, in all colours, to S'.iitths onetnwe?, ladies should see these at once and secure tbo first choice at Te Aro House, Wellington. The "Directory" hat is also a fascinating production, and very fashionable, and wo have other first-class shapes and styles, suoh as' " JBurloigh." .",Gy?thi&i" " Mansfield," )! .Columbia,'! m the '.''Harlequin" oombip. (ion haj-at.Te'Afo House, Wemngton;': burmiuinM iss young lady'QlMajn'ai.ti) taste and skill, and awarders entrusted'to her will be exeonted tMsbly end |