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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3203, 13 May 1889, Page 2

Malietoa, the Samoan Sovereign received only '£4 a month salary. . Tho Sisters of Charity in Sydney have sustained a loss in tho death of MotherJtectress O'Brien. It is said that blight is attacking the gorso in and around Ficton, and the settlersare jubilant accordingly. A free library, for the use of sailors trading along ttie coast, has been established at Gisborne by Mr Witty. The public debt of Australia, which has been, piled up only within' tho last 80 yeats now exceeds £160,000,000, The first VVesloyan Church erected in Wanganui has been pulled down. It had latterly been used aB a stable. Damage to the amount of many thousands of pounds is believed to have been caused by the floods in South Australia. A parcel of publications, issued by the Cobden Club, is to be sent to the Auckland Free Library by Mr 11. H. Gibson, Hew Plymouth, The lthodes family have offered to rebuild a portion of the Christchurch cathedral spire destroyed by the earth" quake in September last. The Rev. John O'Coilnell,, rector in Limerick, was struck with apoplexy while serving in the confessional, and died in a few hours.

A curiously shaped nugget, recently obtained from one of the claims at Mahakipawa, has what appears to be Hcbrow characters traced upon it.

At the. Board of Education, Timaru, on May 2nd, it was decided to draw the lino at rinking among the uses to wliioh schoolrooms may be put in the evenings,

In the case of Wilkinson v. Johnston, Judge Williams decided that an undischarged bankrupt was bound to find seciu'ity for costs, and ordered accordingly.

Mr Goschen acknowledge the receipts of £2OOO for unpaid income tax from a single conscience-stricken. defaulter. Who is tho un-knoirn Croesus ? ■

The statistics of Now England prove that seven out of everj ten women left widows under the ago of thirty-five marry again within two years.

The cigarette is blamed for a great many things, best if those who indulce in the simple pastime of consuming it would only be sure that the wrapper is not injurious to health they need not be troubled about the tobacco part it it. A New York oculist has—Hospital tells us-disoovered a disease of tho eye which he traces directly to oigarette smoking. The "cigarette eyo" is characterised by dimness, and a filmliko gathoring over its surface, Madame Carnot, of France, has Bet tho example among tho ladies of the Presidential Court of woaring lillies of Hie valley on all occasions, • and theso flowers are now regarded as the emblem of the Carnot regime. The latest addition to the family of Emperor William of Germany is reported to be very feeble and to haveinherited a malformation of thelelt arm similar to that of his father.

LordEandolph Churchill is said to have now but three actual followers in the House of Commons, and it is hinted that the only way ho can : avoid political extinction i 3 by joining the Liberal party. A horrible accident occurred at a fencing club in Vienna, A fencer, making a heavy lunge, smashed his adversary's wire rnaak and drove tlie foil completely through his eyo into tho braiu, killing him almost instantly. The usual notification has boen lodged at Lord Chamberlain's office that tbo Duchess of Marlborouge seeks to be presented at the noxt Drawing-room. The matter is excitinc some interesS in Court circles,

A copy of a scientific work, entitled " Le Fue," written Marat long before he took up politics, has been discovered, on the title page of which is a dedication to Queon .Marie Antionotto. The 'volume

ia supposed to bo unique.' New York has about eighty thousand Italian residents. The great majority are poor, and fully as honest as their neighbours, the impresaion that they are a peculiarly lawless class not being borne out by the police statistics. General Burko is one of tlie most prominent among the old Fenians now in the States. "Irishmen here,", says he, "have lost all confidence in Parliamentary agitation to redress Irish wrongs, Mr Neal Dow, the author of the Maine Liquor Law, has just deolined to servo as Mayor of Portland on the ground that ho may go to Europe tliiß year. Mr Dow is a good examplo of the value of the principles he advqeates, for he is already 85 years age, A relic of the past, ard of troublous

times of stern conflict, has recently finally disappeared. The Confederate casemated rain Merrimao, whioh played so prominent a part in the American Civil War, has been broken up, and her remains sold for old iron. ■ The Spanish Government has neked

the Governments of Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Franco, and other nations which have treaties of commerce with Spain to consent to modifications in the existing tariff duties on foreign alcohols. The Wellington fire brigade at its meeting on Monday night decided to invite tho association to hold the next conference and demonstration in Wellington.

The Christchurch Young Men's Christian Association are not at all in a

flourishing condition, Tho general secretary (Mr Smcaton) has resigned because of lack of funds.

The freehold of tbe land on whioh the Melbourne Bijou Theatre. stood waß 1 bought by the .Rev Mr Brewster many years age for L3O. 'He uow receives LI,BOO a year jn rental. ! At Kenepuru, Marlborough, tlio skeleton of a paraqqet that is supposed to haye fallen iiito ' a nest of bees, and was stune to death by those insects or pothered in the honey hp been found, . A raid is being made on the tptalpsor shops in Brisbane. It is sported that almost every tobacconist in the city had a totalisator. The matter has been taken ijp by private detective?. Thp aption which was entered by (he Bishop of Sydney against the Govern, ment tor the recovery of 12713 19s Gd, due to the Ohurch of England in Australia under the Church and Schools Act, has been settled by consent.. " Kouoh OK OOKSS, Ask for Well's "Rough'ou Corns," A complete, permanent cure.' Quick relief and corns and bunions, At all chemist and Druggists, , 1 . Will's Fair Bai?am. If. gray, restores original color And legant dressing; softens and beautifies No oil nor grease.. A Tonio Restorative stops hair coining out ; strengthens cleanses, heals n<slp,

A new Bpeoiea ; of. ohrjrcanthemum, named Mutter Cyril, has been produced at Oamaru. ; It is light mahogany in colour, Bhading off to various hues of brown towards the centre, ' ■ Me6sra Lowes and lorns announoo their next Stook Bale for the 22nd inst, The preliminary entries for Mr F. H. Wood's Stock Sale at the Taratahi Yards on Thursday,! 23rd May, appear in today's issue. ...

Twelve of Messrs Joseph & Phillips' well-known springing Ayrshire Heifers will be sold at Mr P. H. Wood's next Taratabi Stook Sale.

Mr Coker announces the events for the week at the Maßterton Theatre Royal in our amuse Bent column, _■ John Yansen was fined 5s this morning, for a breach of theJLicensing Aot, by Colonel Roberts,

The centonnial anniversary of the constitution of the' National Assembly of Franca ra celebrated by a number of French residents m Wellington at' the French Consulate onSunday. It is proposed in New Plymouth to start the manufacture of condensed milk. The plant, it is said, would cost £2OOO, and a company with a capital of £IO,OOO is talked of . The price proposed to be given to farmers for milk is 2Jd to 4d per gallon, .The annual meeting of the Oamaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held ou Saturday, The 'balance sheet showed a credit balance ot over £I2S, and the report stated that the attendance nt the last show was larger than previously. ■ A society of ladies has been formed at Dunedin under the euphonious Maori title, Ladies'Te Tau-Eunanga (meaning, we understand, a " meetinp-houae for song"), The first concert was held on April 24, and was a great Buccess. At the conclusion of the Canterbury volunteer camp, Lieutenant-Colonel Lean issued an order conveying to all ranks his grateful recognition of their cheerful co-operation and excellent behaviour.-

Ladies and gentlemen willing to as' slat the Masterton School Committee in carrying out a picnio for the school children on Friday 24th-May, are requested to Bend their names to Mr W l . Sollar, secretary. The Salvation Army Barracks, Maßterton, were lit up with gas yesterday for the first time. The officers returned thanks to' the donors of the fittings, which were subscribed for by friends outside of the Army proper. There were twenty-four murders committed in Melbourne last year, or nearly one a fortnight, and the victims in no less than nineteen instances wereinfants strangled or smothered by their own mothers.

. The Government have consented to grant the loan of £6OO applied for by tho Kangibikei County Council for the Water-shed road, in the district beyond Huntei'ville, The security is a rate on perpetual lease. Mr Dillon is six feet and more in height, thin and weak in frame, and pale almost to sallowness, while his strange appearance fs heightened by his deepset coal-black evos, and the dark short beard, which covers almost all his face. On the morning of April 28 there was quite a sharp frost at Christchurch, ice fully one-eigth of an inch thick being found on water exposed in an' iron bucket. Coming after the heavy rain of Saturday evening, the frost told severely on vegetation.

, Messrs Lowes and lorns report at thoir sale of Messrs Williams and Barker's property and plant on Saturday, the attendance was large and all lots sold. The first offered were three allotments of i)3ft eaoh, fronting Queen St. which realised £3 2s per foot,Mr Barker being tho purchaser. The lot of Town acre No 78 with plant and machinery was started at £450 and quickly ran up £6OO at which figure it was knooked down to MrUapper, Cottage and land near tho Park realised £2s6,Mrs Williams being the and sundries also sold fairly well, the total Bale making upwards of £IBOO, Abathor'at Wanganui [took cramp while in the river, tie managed to turn ou his back, and drifted ashore. When asked what he was. thinking about when ho thought he wss likely to drown, ho said he was wondering whether his mother would get his life insurance.

> Messrs M'Carvio and Miller, o i Arrowtown, have sent a circular letter 1 to the British Admiralty and twentyI seven Governments calling attention to I a siinplo life-saving apparatus, suggested by the recent disaster at Samoa, i They say;—" Tho apparatus consists of a kite to be flown from tho wreck, with i a line stvoni? enough to haul a rope i ashore from the vessel in order to i establish communications with tho shoro. For this purpose there should be a variety of kites, somo inkdo of i calico, and Bome of duck, andofauch i sizea as to suit tho force of the wind. The kites should be waterproofed with self-luminous paint, so as to be visible in the dark, and carry a small grapnel,' attached to the tail of the kite by a wire, and in tho arms of the grapnel some highly inflammable .-substance should be placed, to be lit when required to attraot notice. A pooket also may be provided in the kite to take ashore any. message or instruction from those aboard the wreok. The grapnel is to seryo the purpose of getting a hold on the ground after the kite is lowered, which is to be effected when it is iairly over tho shore by sending up weighted 'messengers.' The kite is, perhaps, best flown from a reel or bobbin provided with a brake, and tho line should have distant marks at, say, every 100 ft j the whole apparatus to be so constructed that it way be screwed to the Jbul works or any other point of vantage on board, and should be always rCady for use at a moment's notice. Wo respectfully claim for our suggestion that it is life-Baying without jeopardising life, and thus supersedes_the lifeboat; that it is simple in its application* as any man can dy a kite; that the whole apparatus is inexpensive, even if every vessel were to carry twenty Biich kites; that in case of a wreck happening off a precipitous coast a kite may bB made to top most of the cliffs met with; that should a vessel stand on an uninhabited coast a man from on board might, under favorable oiroumstaneos, get ashore by means of a kite j that it is much more certain to pet a kite ashore from the veaßel than a rookot from Bhore aboard the-vessel, and it may be added that wrecks occur only on a lee shore, the wind in such cases always standing in- : and.'' - i

Deaf.-A Person oured of Doafnes and noises in the head of 30 years standing by a Simple Remedy, will sen s a description of it feee to any person who applies to Nicholson, 176 Williamstreet, Melbourne.

Evidences of the' march of progress are evinced in these days by tho attempt so worthily made to bring the great body of consumers into all but direct contaot with tbe noted manufacturers of Britain and the Continent, through tbe medium of tho - proprietor of tho celebrated To Aro House, Wellington,

'Notcontent with having erected one of Largest, most Convenient and Magnificent Family Drapery Warehouses to be found this side of ihe Equator, and whioh attraotß as it should large concourses of Customers, he' seels still further to influence"^the piiblio by sending his' representatives through the v variqus oountry 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 Eailwav Company's Lines that may be nearest to the customer's residence, and thus country purchasers will bo plaoed on tho same footing as those resident in tho City, and enjoy all the advantages connected with dealing, directly with the Importer, James' Smith, Te Aro House Wellington,-Adtt, ' is now in' thiß district and will call upon all and sundry with patterns of Beasonable' Dress and other Fabrics, Household Drapery, Tweeds, Coating, &o. He will take orders of Dressmaking, Tailoring, and everything connected with the jdrapery trade, and. the Pioprietor trusts that every oourtesy will be extended to fiim with large numbers of orders to he executed at To Aro House, \Yellipgtqn,