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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3199, 8 May 1889, Page 2

In.addition to other developments shewing the advance of Eketahuna, we hear that tho enterprising host of the Eketahuna hotel, Mr Thorny Parsons, is takintt Btepa to lay off a racecourse on bis own and adjoining properties, The monthly meeting of the Hospital Trustees takes place to-morrow. The resignation by Sir Julius Vogel of his seatjin the House of Representatives for Ohiistchurch North has been received by the Speaker and duly gazetted.

Various additions are made to Mr P. H. Wood's advertisement of to-morrow, (Thursday's) Stock Sale at the Taratahi yards. Messrs Y. and W. Wardell notify tliroui'h our columns, that bushmen will ba required in Juno to fall a thousand acres of bush on To Whiti, m lots, There is a rumour that it is intention of tlio defeated candidate k the recent Road Board election at Gladstone to try and upset tlio election on the ground that the roll was an illegal one. Mr J. F,' Ward the well-known esperfc piano tuner of Wellington is now in Masterton, whore he will remain for afew days. Orders can be left with Mr T. B. Price, staiioner.

Mr Howlett late storekeeper of Palliatua writes to us denying that he has gone to Sydney, «s reported in a Wairarapa paper. The statement was not circulated by us, The annual installation of the W.M. and investiture of officers of St. Mark's Lodge, Carterton, takes place on Tuesday next, Bio, N. Grace is the W.M. elect,

Mrs Collotte, wife of a settler at Hastwell,' was to-day committed to the Aeylum_at Wellington, bb a lunatic, on the 'certificate of Drs Milne. and Johns'.on. - Messrs M. Caselberg and W, H. Beetham, occupied the Bench.

The Government ha 3 one gallow and whenever an execution is to take place the ghastly structure is shipped from one place .to another. At some future timo the edifico will probably find a place in a musourn, witha label sotting forth that -so many people have been launched into eternity by its means. Just now it has been sent from Welling

ton. to Napier for the oxecutiun ol HaeraTe Peno.

A thousand cans of preserved rabbits have just arrived in Wellington from Blenheim foe shipment to England. "Would it not pay to preserve rabbits- in the Wairarana 1 There would certainly be no difficulty just now in getting the quantity required.

The annual meeting of the Mnstorton Municipal Firo Brirado was held last ni»ht, Captain Barker presiding. Owns; to the absence of the Secretary, Mi W. W, Holford, the balanco-sheet of the sports held in November could not be brought before the meeting. The follow, officers were oleoted for'the ensuing yearLieutouant, D. Pickering, Foro. man, J. Check, Assistant Foreman, J. Fait, Secretary, H. Marsh, Treasurer, W, Prangneli, Branchmen, J. Tait, F. Bacon, \V. Prangneli, E. Prangneli Votes of thanks to tho returning officors were passed. The next practice of the Eketahuna Football Club takes place in Mr Parson's paddock on Saturday. The practice giotind has been cleared of all lugs and with very little more expense this enterprising Club will be in possession of a ground almost equal to that of Masterton.

Gilbort, and Sullivan's comic opera " The Pirateß uf Fenzance,"i) anuounced to be produced at the Theatre Royal on Thursday and Friday, Juno 6th and 7th at the Theatre Eoyal, by the Mastcrton Philharmonic Society. The dates have been fixed with a view to giving country visitors moonlight nights on their return home.

A Masterton laundry has been started on the premises at tho corner of Hope and Obapel-atreets. The- proprietor notifies that all work sept to his establishment will be dono with care and despatch under an experienced laundress and will be ohnrged for at reduced rates, Orders may he left at Messrs Minifie & Co.'s grocery store. ; ;■ A vagrant named WiJlianiß appeared before the Benevolent Society Wellington on Tuesday in oharge of a constable and was asked whether he would accept work in the corporation yard or go to gaol He replied that' he would rather go to gaol as he would h well fed and cet a good bed there. • We are requested to remind our readers of Messrs Lowes and lorns' sale of Messrs Williams and Barker's business which takes place on Saturday next, tho catalogue will embrace the freehold -of town acre 78, fronting Queon and Chapel-streets j also, house and land in Cricket and Dixon-streets. Plant, machinory, timber, tools, horses, vehicles, harness and sundries,

An anxious inquirer asks: " Where Would you advise me to ?o to learn how to play the piano J' l To the'woods, deal —to the deep, .dark, damp, dangerous woods,

Pew renting in Dr. Tahhago'a. Tabef; nacle at Brooklyn is a good business. There aie 601; pews in the church holding from four to twclvo persons each,; The annual #ilo the other evoning netted more than £l,2oo,'and tho premiums a.Httlo qver.£l,2oQ, > Services for the deaf are held in the Church Institute at Sheffield. The preacher speaks into a bell-shaped receptable, from whiahtubes convey the sound ol his voice to the ear of each person present . , ' • -

His Excellency Lord Onslow, says the Post, has accepted the invitation of the Hon. John Martin to enjoy some deer stalking 'in the Waira'rapa; and, ac companied by bis Private Secretary andA.D.0., will leave with Mr Martin by special train for Featherston at,9.80 tomorrow (Wednesday) niomin?. From Featherston the party will drive to Mr Martin's'station at flungaroa; ,and' the remainder of the day and all Thursday will' fie .devoted to sport._ The 'party return's.to'town'by..special train]'on' FridayV '' ..■"'••'" ■■■' : ; ' ; . '.-," •." Kopoh oh Kats, ' Clears but rats,'mice, roaches .flies,: skunk's' jack-rabbits, sparrows, gophers, 'A phemuteanddruecitts, ' ■..;■',

- .The EketahuhaPdstball:iblub;liay^ : Sent a ohajlepgfl to'ihiPahlattfaOliibto. play a ujatoh' on Queen's Bir{!ida£Jj ; M .Thei'inquest on ihebody of we.unfortunate man Harria was held yesterday at Mr S. George's Hotel; Alfrcdtou, when a verdict, of accidental death was returned, ' ' ■■".:.

The funeral of thelate William Harris, ( who was acoidently: killed while bush- < ■falling on-Monday last at JJfredton, , took place yesterday and was' attended ; by a large number of Bottlers. The Bervico ; was conducted by Mr W; Bayta", j MrT, Parsons notifies through our [ columns that at the next sitting of the Licensing Commissioners' he will apply for a publicans license for the Eketahuna ' Hotel. ;, The reßtilt of the polling for the return of two wardens for No 8 Ward Taratalli Road Board, is H. R. Bunny CO, N.Grace 42, and J. A. Renall 34. Wo remind those interested of Mr F. H. Wood's Stock Sale at Taratalli on Thursday, May 9th. The catalogue contains over a thousand sheep and lambs, assorted, twenty cows, and heiters, twenty-five mixed cattlo, ten fat bullocks, one spring trap, and several draught horses, hacks and buggy horses. An important announcement by Messrß Kiikcaldie & Stains, wholesale and family drapers, furnishers and outfitters, of Lambton Quay and Tt George's Hall, Wellington, appears in our current issue, and will well repay a perusal. They are now showing specialities for the autumn and winter season. The annual meeting of Ratepayers of the Mauriceville Road District was held on the Oth May 188!) at the Road Board Offlco. When the Balance 'sheet for ' year ending 31st March 1889 was read and adopted on the motion of Mr C. Tait.' The working expenses of the Board shuwcd slightly less than 6 per cent of the expenditure. ' At the Featheraton Road Board meeti ing lust Saturday, the Clerk, stated that it was found necessary to have a union Bcrew for the work of strengthen--1 ing the Waihenga Bridge. The Board ' had none on hand and they could not be ' obtained without expense and delay. J He wrote to Mr Dawson contractor of 1 Masterton, who piomptly- Bent two, " This showed that Mr Dawson bore the 1 Board no animosity, nlthough the Board were at law with him. The Chairman

f said the thanks of tho Board wore due 8 toMr Dawson. i A circular has been received from the Sydenham Borough Conncil containg a i proposition of Oolunial. importance. ,' The cooperation of the Masterton ! Borough Counoil is sought. It was hud before the special meeting of the Council last night tor the purpose of I giving it publicity, and at the ordinary J meeting next Tuesday it will becon- * sidered, The following is tho resolution contained in the circular referred n to :—"That in the opinion of this Counit oil it is desirable, in the intorsßt of the o ratepayers, that the Government'should d endeavor to pass during the nest session uf Parliament, a Batepayers Mutual n Insurance Bill empowering local bodies, iV upon the eecurity of their rates, to | r insure against loss by fire, the pror perties within their respective boundaries." The proposition is very vague, and the question is of such an extensive ■" range that it is not likely the local ,s Council will bind itself in any .way '' unless some well-digested plan is sub- '' mitted. Thes.s, Coptic from Plymouth, via r. Capetown and Hobart, arrived at Port 's Chalmers on Tuesday, morning. She

brings 1784 tons of cargo, 61 passengers, 7 bags mails, and 20 cases parcel post Captain Burton;N.Z.H, is still in command, in her other officers thoro has been a slight change, Mr Kempton, her late chief officer, has been trans- ' terred to the R.M.S. Celtic, and M Underworth of the Celtic has taken his place; Dr M'Asoar succeeds Dr Humphrey, and Mr Hayes comes in place of Mr Thornton as fourth officer. Tho Coptic landed 55 passengers and 184 tons cargo at Hobart. She left Plymouth at 9.37 p.m. on tho 23rd March, an,d Toneriffe at C.50 p.ai on the 28th; had light winds until crossing the Equator on 4th April, long. 10.10; thenco fresh head winds to Capetown, at 2 »;ra. on the 14th ; left again at 10.47 a.m. same day. Encountered strong N.E. gale for two days, followed by N. \V. wind with occasional snow storms, and arrived at Hobart at 8.1)0 p.m. on 2nd May; left nt 1,1.55_a.m. on 3rd, and had strong westerly winds'with high sea to arrival. ". Every French Bank has a photograph of every, employee, The fifty-three municipal free libraries in France lent out last year 1,020,000 books, besides which 168,000 volumus were consulted or read on the spot. Out of every hundred bookß borrowed fortyeight were novels, Dr Belney, of Melbourne, has intimated to the Mayor of Canterbury (his nativo city) his desire to found a Free Library and Working Men's Institute there, and a committee has boon formed for the purpose of carrying the proposal into effect.

. A widowor brought home his second wife, aged about 60, ami told his children she was the new mother ho had promised them, After taking a squnro look at the now mother, little Charley said ;" Pa, you have been fooled, She ain't new at all I"

A law suit of a somewhat extraordinary nature iB just now occupying attention at Sydney. It appears that an operatic prima donna I erased longer to pad her silks. Her manager declares that since she took tho notion the attendance has gradually dwindled away, and he has now sued her'in the Supremo Court for net wearing sawdust in her stockings.

Arrangements for hoisting people to thbtop of Eiffel's Tower, which will bo raised to its thousaud feet by March 31st, aro to consist ot two lifts to carry Bfty to one hundred person's oach to the first platform, Two others will aacend from the ground floor to the Becond platform, 112 metres high, in a minute, Thoy will stop at the first platform to tako up or leave passengers. The complete ascent will take four minutes, and it will be possible to take to the top 750 visitors an hour.

This morningVMay 1) an awful discovery was made at the railway crossing on tho Tamumu-road, just below the Waipawa railway station, where the headless body of John Murphy was found. Murphy was formerly a constable in thiß district, and lately has been batman and billiard-marker at the Empire Hotel (Scrimeeour's), He had been drinking rather heavily, of late, and yesterday he was seen by several parties walking on the railway line in a moody state, and after events go to show that ho must have then been contemplating the rash and terrible aofc of suloide. Murphy, who was dressed m,dark clothing, must have gone to the railway crossing and laid at full length, with his head on the outside rail, -His body was quito clear of the rails, and. it was no doubt on account of the darkness of the night that the unfortunate man was not observed bj the engine-driver. Thi) head was completely smashed up. At the inquest to-day, before Mr Juhusoh, oaroner, the jury brought in a verdict of "Found dead on the railway line, but how deceased came there, there was no evidence to show,'-' Hawkeß Bay Herald..

The following novel calculations have been made by Mr John Cook, District Secretary of the West Cumberland District lodge of Good Templars, for the purpose of enabling'the public to gain a better conception of the large amount expended each year in drink, Laßt year's drink bill, as taken from Parliamentary returns was £124,(111,489. This amount would give £8 7s por head to the estimated population of the nation j and £l6 IBs for each averago family, Its weight in sovereigns would be 976 tons, while it i would cover a space of 628 acres with soveerigm laid edge to edge. If the coins were plaeed face to face thoy would reach miles or make a golden cord reaching from Carlisle to Liverpool or Manchester. Placed edge to edue thoy .would extend a distance of-1720 miles, o count these coins at one sqyereign per secondj'wo'uld.itake (our years' less a fortnight.' For eacji letter in Ihe Bible the amount last year expended in liquor is aeib duTrn at £3418s 9d.

;, More oraristes; leinqns,, bananas 1 : figs, ahd;raisihs are consumed'in :the United StateVthan in any dth'er;couutry;4u the .worlds.'■ ■'■'■■'."V"' ■-'■"■ : s[y-'y f The proceediiigß of Mr Justice Lyholi are always worth notice.' An"-American writer notes that in the United States no fewer than 144 persons, without undergoing any form of-trial,-suffered capital punishment; at the.hands of the mob in the course of last year; in the year before the number so put to doatb was During the'. Bamo two years the legal executions amounted to eightyseven and seventy-nine respectively. It appears, therefore, that so far as the extreme penalty is concerned, the mob | does nearly doubleas much business as the Courts, It must not bo supposedthat lyuching flourishes only in the rough and ready South. Among the names of States whose citizens indulge in this summary mode of punishment are those of Illinois, Galitomia, Michigan, Nebraska, and several of the Territories* v.

Evidences of the march of progress are evinced in these days by the attempt so worthily made to bring the great body o! consumers into all but: direct contact with the noted manufacturers of Britain and the Continent, through the medium of the proprietor of the celebrated Te Are Bouse, Wellington, Not oontent with having erected one of Largest, most Convenient and Magnificent Family Drapery Warehouses to - be found this side of the Equator, and which attracts as it should large concourses of Customers, he seeks' still .further to influence the public by sending his representatives through the various country districts, to make known to the residents the manifest advantages of dealing with Te Aro House, Wellington. All parcels will be sent, carriage paid, to any station on the Government, and Manawatu Railway Company's Lines that may he nearest to the customer's. residence, and thus country purchasers will be placed on the same footing as those resident in the City, and enjoy all the advantages 'connected with dealing direotly with, the Impoit'or, James Smith, Te Aro House WeUinßton.-ADVT, ' A representative is now in this district and will call upon all and sundry with patterns of Seasonable Dress- and other J?abricß, Household Drapery, -Tweeds, Coating, &o. lie will take orders of Dressmaking, Tailoring, and everything connected with the drapery trade, and the Proprietor trusts that every courtesy will be extended to him witftjargo nurabera oi orders to be executed at Te Aro House, Wellington,