R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3238, 24 June 1889, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

: MAsrEUTON-MONDAY.:: ; ■."-.•.' (BeforeCol.Roberts,'R.M), : : MasWrtonßoad Board vW. Falconer., of Rates L14,2s 2d. Judgment, by is consent for the amount with costs LI m Is.;- .•■'■•■.,. ' ;: : ,V-.- v '" ; Same v Ueo.Maiining. Rates L 9 m Is Id. L 3. was paid, on account; is Judgment for balance LG Is Id, costs m 16s: L ','.••'.- „:::■;' ; ■'-- ■':" e'g Same v Wm, 0. WiUiaraa. Bates jd 18s 2d, Judgment tor'; plaintiff; by lo default, with 8s costs. ".'-•'•'•;•,.. •. Inspector Ingram v 0. Gurote. le Defendant was sentenced to 21 hours or imprisonment, in defanlt of payment ie of tho fine inflioted on 21st inst, for a. failing to register dog. • - Je . ■ "" ' : —r 5 NEWS BT CiJBLE. as ENGLISH . . , London, June ill, [} 3 ','. Truth" says it is leaking out that ' 1(! Lord Salisbury's "agreement with l u Germany regarding tho occupation of al Africawasanactoffolly. This opinion "■ is based on disclosures made by the ?jj German press in consequence of a 111 proposal from the British trading y< companies to extend, their sphere of y operations in. Africa, The papers - indicated are exceedingly angry at the et proposal, and declare that the proposed )n extension of operations is a violation J y of the treaty which binds Great Britain '. to refrain from acquiring any dominion ns in the south-west of. Africa west of ;el the 20th decree of lontitude or north la of the 22nd degree of latitude. This a partially closes Africa, to British "j enterprise, 01 Three British tourists on a.visit to Macedonia werearrested and detained a ! in prison for three days. 111 It is understood that the Colonial )n Office is again pressing Sir Henry Loob . es Governor of Victoria, now visitins; 111 England on .leave, to. accept the .1! Govornor-ship of Cape Colony. i It is 1(1 stated that, in the event of Sir Henry m t accepting the post, Sir. William M Robinson will not succeed him as Gov--16 ernor of Victoria, hut that he will bo f8 provided for in some other colony. m Australian. iy Sydney,' Juno 22, 10 Mr Deasy, one of the Irish delegate? '" who complained that his letters had been opened by tho Post Office officials B ' denies that there is any truth in ar tho statement that the letters were 18 opened by his prospojtivo mother-in- , law. The Govornmenl have therefore 111 appointed a Royal Commission to enquire into tho matter. 13 Melbouhke, June 22, , a The epidemics, ■ dipthoria and ' typhoid favor, are now subsiding. |y ■-" Wairarapa South County tt Council e Tho adjourned meeting of tho Council waß hold on Saturday. Present—Ore W.. Booth (in the 3 chair), W. C. Bucbaimu, A. i ' a Matthews, W. Oundy, J, Martin, W. ,_ Wrattau.andH. Braitkwaite, The i } ' minutes of the previous meeting were i j rend and confirmed. The Treasurer I [ reported a credit balance in the bank < 2 of £B7los. The outward correspou- \ dence was read from letter book and s I approved. 1 0 Crßuobanan explained the position t ' he had taken in reference to the i resolHtion passed at the last meeting i of the Gouucil re the preservation of c cortain mountainous lands from salo. i A letter was read from the Chief j Commissioners re same, stating that s j the Land Board could not accede to a tho request of the Council. Prom t j the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board t 3 stating that tho- Board approved of c } the resolution of the Hutt County a _ Council re the amendment of the ( [ licensing laws, From Mr J, J, f [ Frceth accepting the offer made re li j expenses attending licensing Com' e j mitteo meetings. From Cr H. R. h , Bunny, apologising for his.absenoe, ii , Cr Buchanan explained the reasons n . as received from the Chief Commis- si missioner re ,the dalay in offering t. 1 lands for sale as per circular received. The circular was ordered to belaid r on the. table. Or Martin drew the attention of the Council to the ti difficulty in which some natives of ci the Lower. Valley wero placed re m fencing their lands as they did not 1c know exactly the road boundaries, ol Cr Martin moved, and Or Buchanan tc seconded that a surveyor be employed w to lay off the proper' lines of road and w the pegs be put in. Carried. Cr b< Braithwaite moved and Cr Cundy ca seconded that" this Council endorse tr the action of the Hutt County Council it re the amendment-of the licensing st laws. Gamed. The accounts as co audited by the Government. Auditor fo were duly approved, and also the pi statement of receipts and expenditure m for the financial year. Some diV th oussion ensued on the position of be the Council (financially), .when it th was resolved that further discussion fle on "the ■matter, be .left till next fai meeting, and also jhe.matter of the mi payment'; of .-clerk of licensing mi committees. Tho clork'.was instructed th to write to tho' Selwyn County ■. Clerk foi re the success of poisoned grain for tri the small bird nuisance. ; . O o: . ■■'■' -.";■ ~.-• :•'"'<■ -v ■,'■': '■ -r.. ev ■■. bKINNY MEN v . tj t ."Well's ; healtb.;,»newor".-' restore 'a.health and'yigoif, ; cures' Dyspep ia, Ira' - pbtence,'Soiua} ; D'*ility.-: At chemists ?S and druggists. 'Eemptnoriio,'Proßser& fi\ OoA?ents, V7ellin?ton, :■ jp\

t AJfredton Road Boad /■ ) . r <A.-meeting of tho Boad Board wbsvcheldj Juuo 28th, Present—Mettera lebbell, '(Clinn mati),_(lios3, Burton, v B|i Smitb. The minutes of the I. previous meeting?: were reftdi confirmed. 'lnwards i fromHolmesWaraen stating , Was unwell nod regretting: being;/un-IB i able to'be!prt , Bent;'"l , rora!ibe.: ol9ik-^. of the Muatcvton, Hoad Board stating i that the-Alfredton Koa'd'Board "had; I c;ot .authority to.colleot and sue for all as:: ■ rates, 1 ■ 3?roin. Macquarie >Brothers..--i requesting - that section lsl:roay liiS.v..'put in L Macqiiari&'s name in the roll for special late on Ihuraua Valley Boad loan, Granted, t Mr Knight waited'on the Board, i ro payment'.of, balance."of .contract It was decided.to make out a for £SO and pay balance next meeting. -:. .- i It wajrhretarranged to hand balance;:.': i to Mr H; Biirton.,' (■with;;tli6; oxcep- i-. : tion of extias and deposit) to be paid t i on completion of.work,' but afterwards i altered, It was rcsolvod lliat Mr D, - : Macquarie and Mr 11. -Burton be pi appointed finally to pass : the work. Mr Burion . moved And Mr Cross ■ i seconded that Mr Philips' offer . accepted and that he bo - paid £5. , down, L 42 m. six months time and-,:.! i the balauce in twelve months.''Tho ■ ■ Clerk stated he had seen Mr Philips and convt'icd the" intention of ! Burton to move the above resolution/® and Mi Philips stated that ho required L2O down, (1i27 m six' mouths and tlio balance in 12 months, '• but he would require: interest, and I ', also that he would fence one side of the road before next meeting; (present meeting), if possible, and- put the ; bridge in order' as far ;-as ■ ho. •. was able, and, :tbrow.~'tl)B road .; open or as 1 soon after as possible. Mr Phillips waited on tho Boatdv t and said he would not accept the offer made and passed by tlie - Board, and v ■ that if the Board would pay hun i'oO down and £5 be could the Board • a title to the road at once, the Board to pay for fell cost of deeds; he also - mude various offers and-stated that the Board would have to repair the budge themsdves, After some considerable discusWou : ' '<■ tlio chairman stated that lie would' move as under at the next meeting; • That Mr Benton's motion bo rescinded . and that Mr Phillips be paid So down and £SO be pa|d into Mr Beard's bands to le banded over to Mr Phillips on completion of transfer a£». the road, and that the balance of bn paid in twelve months, to bear interest-at the rate of fivo per cent. Mr Phillips expressed himself.satis' fied with; these conditions, and withdrew.'. It was That the Clerk write to Mr Beard stating|tho Board's • intention to forward him iSi) next meeting, to be held in hand for Mr Phillips to~ be paid on completion of the deeds;.: - Resolved That the new office be insured for £SO with the New Zealaud Insurance Company, and that they be informed that it will probably be used ..for public ' gatherings.' The'balance of correspondence was held over until next meeting. Mr Wm, Good waited upon the Board re holding service in the - Boad Board office, The . Chairman sa|(l it would be as.woll to wait ■ until 1 the Board had removed to arid settled down in the uew.oflico, as at present the Board had not' sufficient - accommodation for their vari<(JlL ; documents and papers, stated that Mr \Vm. Brannigan bad now got the land sold by him to Mr. : fl.Loxton, and requested that,his name be substituted in. the rolls in- the place of the" latter.—Granted. Two special rates were madfl for repayment of loans pn Ihuraua Valley Boad, to be confirmed the meeting after next. Messrs Eli Smith, and_H,,Benton wore appointed to sign oheques. Payments passed LSO.l2s 7d, Noxt meeting on Jupo>2s.;■ Petticoat Garb■Odo year ai»o. (says the Atlanta Constitution) the towii of Oskaloosa, in Kansas, made itself the laughing stock of the State by electing a lady ' mayor and a council of ladies. The first thing the new officials did was to . enforce tlio Sunday law. They allowed hotels, livery stables, harbors' shops, and drug stores to keep opan, but stopped the sale of cigUrs, tobacco, bread, and ice cream, Next the bad boys wore looked aftor, A ]iroclaniatidn was issued ordering all boys under the age of eighteen to keep off the stretfb alter eight o'clock at night, tbat squirting tobacco juice over the sidewalk came under the head of (personal liberty and could not'bo f interfered with, they tried moratifif suasion, and a committeo visited every '- tobacco chewer in town. This course was completely successful, and there was no further trouble about the sidewalk. For many years very little attention had been paid, to the' streets, and the property owners were unwilling to be taxed for now pavements. The lady mayor and her council decided that they would have . : good streets and sidewalks. They passed ordinances, made contracts, superintended tlio work iu person, * and successfully fought the injunctionS arid other suits brought against tli6m by property owners in the courts. Now that they have survived ■ a year of petticoat rule the citizens of Oskaloosa are not inclined to mako fun.of it,. They say that their town ' prospered, and. has. made an - enviable reputation for. good , morals, law, and order. In this particular instance tlio female suffrage experiment in Kansas "has turned out v/dfe satisfactorily, But one swallow dpr r.ot make a summov, The English Turf, _ About two years ago an oxaspera. Sing, soft-headed boy brought a loloisal fortune into the .Ring. I levor pitiedhim much; I only j onged to see him placed in tiio hands 'H >f a good schoolmaster who know how > q uso a birch. The piteous wretch, s vithhis fatuous airs of smartness, ' vas exactly the kind of game that the " wokmakers cared to fly at; ho was ajoled and stimulated) ho was rapped at overy turn j the vultures lapped round him, and there was no trong, wise man to give the booby ounsel, and to drag , him by main oice from bis fate. There was no ity for tho boy's: youth ; he was a anrk for every obscure bird of prey bat haunts tho turf j respectable etting men gavo him fair play, hough ihoy exacted their pound of ' esh; the birds of night gave him no ' HV play at all. In a few slUtt lonths he had poured a quarter * lillion into the bursting .pockets of bo Bing, and he was at last -'posted" >r the paltry sum of £1,400. Tho - .agio farce wsa not enacted in a : jrner j a hundred journal!, piiatid rery act as it was played ; the viom never received that one hearty" ogging which might have saevd him, 14 tho_ curtain was at last mg down on a snug, /gunning ' ■oup of bookmakers; » .deservedly '

|?j ruined speocltHrifc,; and 'aViinob of „ ihdifferenl lookers on. ;!S6 urihntely t oifcniuaLantial were the;.newspapers thai womay, say that!'alKEnglaiid , saw a giwantio robbery beiiig com- " milted, and no man, on tho turf or _oflj intorfere'd'by so much as a sign, '' Deoidcdly the ethics ot tho turf offer * an odd study for the moralist; and, ■in passing, I may say that the T national ethics Are also a littlo queer, We rum a tradesman who lets two men play a game of billiards for sixpence oh licensed premises, and we allow a silly hoy to be rooked of a -, quaiter of a million in nine months, Wt'u although tho robbery is ns well known |P l ' as if it were advertised oi'er tho whole ]&*" - front page of the Times day by day,— s&> ' James ltuiiciman in Ihe-Contempor- %<' &\* Criminal Hypnotism. &— : . • Until tho awful possibilities of *j,'r mesmerism or hypnotism (as it is -j 1 '" - now called) are brought home to the k'< British public through its being used ?.J ii for some appalling oriminal purpose, we are not likely to hear ol legislation j ou tho snbjeot in this happy laud, i. In France, however, whore hypnotist seances have recently. become as common as spiritualist seances used ;} at one time to be in England, stops are oven now being taken to bring ♦"professors" -of this dangerous art nnder surveillance amFcontrol. The immediate cause of the move was a disagreeable discovery at Marseilles to the effect that between thirty and i forty .youngsiers (dorks and officii 1 boys) were, acting' under hypnotic suggestion, in the habit of robbing then; masters of small sums and handing over the money to the mesmerist. The lads selected by this worthy " professor" bore good character, and tho sums" sneaked" were so small (though amounting to a nice sum in the aggregate) that for a ; considerable time none of the thefts wcro found out. When discovery did presently eventuate in ono or two boys went to prison uncoui- ; plainingly, and the • mesmerist must have thought he was perfectly safe, Unfortunately the father of one of / r .the lads caught in the act was struck m*> by his son's strange terror ou coming ~ out of gaol, and took him to a doctor, The medico, luckily, happened to be a shrewd, observant man, and almost at once hit upon the ■ truth, Ho pretended to engage the lad to make A ._up his books, and then left money afctbout and had hiin watched. It took J six weeks to unravel the whole conspiracy, and even now the authorities are uncertain, whether ' . they have discovered all the mes- ■ morist's victims, He seemed to • possess many of the lads, body and soul, and from these information could only be extracted with tho \ greatest difficulty, The Mayor of ' Marseilles has forbidden publio j exhibition of hypnotism henceforward, and it is probable other French municipalities will follow suit. In England, however, hypnotists are I likely to work their sweet will for

some time to come, Hamlet': "The air biles shrewdly." Horatio, " It is a nipping anil an eager air, my Lord," Had the philosophic Done lived in our day and city, ha would, with thousand of other intelligent citizens, have sought and obtained, the true Safeguard, oood, honeet, Flannel, at To Aro House, Wellington. , . ' ''The wind that blows" and "the air',' that • "bites shrewdly" would have been success. ' ' defied by solecting from tho many jHictllent makes o( Flannel that arc to had ' Vj at Te Aro House, Wellington. \ ' ===================