The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1889.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3248, 5 July 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1889.

Notieo is given by the Maßterton Road .board of a poll of ratepayers interested in the proposal for a Loan of iSO for forming and metalling a branch road at Upper plain, The poll will be taken at the Eoad Board office on the 13 inst, . Mr 0. Smith, of the Cash Drapery Store, Queen-street Masterton, has an inset published with our present issue in reference to tlie last week of his clearing sale preparatory to removing to his new brick premises, possession of which he takes on the 18th instaht.

The Masterton Opmotary Trustees met last evening. Proaont.—Messrs Payton {in tlie chair), Galloway, Houngan, Feist, Perry and McGregor. The minutes of the previous mooting haying been confirmed a list of burial fees in arrears was considered and the custodian directed to collect these accounts directly instead of indirectly. Messrs Payton and Perry wore appointed a works committee for tho ensuing quarter, Mr James McGregor tendered his resignation as a Trusteo and on the motion of Mr Feist, it was decided to recommend the Government to appoint Mr Cowie as his successor.

The oidinary quarterly meeting of the Maatovtori Park Trustees. was held yceterday afteniojn, Present-Messrs (in tho chair) Buddingtpn, and Feist, The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed the Tivastirer reported a credit balance of £'2B 7s lid. It was resulted that a hedge be planted on tlio,,park avenue boundery of the reserve, at a cost not exceeding £5 and Messrs Payton and Moore wore appoiuted a subcommittee to seo to the same.

Several casos of disease l-nown to science as plica polonica are known to have occurred in the neighborhood of Mastertoi), one of them, that of a sirl .about twenty years of ago, having terminated fatally. The plady is in every respeota'most sineular one, and is confined to ..Poland and its neighborhood, and to persons born there. In its first stage, which lasts for several years, it is difficult to distinguish it from rheumatism, while in the second the hair becomes tangled in a most extraordinary manner, being hold together by a liauseus brown substance. It the hair is out off the poison , takes possession of one or more joints at the extremities, (which arc generally lost), and not unfrequontly of the nose. ; In fho find stage a fresh growth of hair takes p)aca| the disoa?f4-portion may thenbero 1 move'dj and the patient then re-estab-lished m Jieilth, Tjiere apnefira if) be no knopn remedy for the dlsejase, which la neither copious or infectious.

■ At tho quarterly' meeting of tlie Juvenile Court of Foresters hold last niprht the folloivin? officers were elected

for the onsuinß term. J. Parker, 0.R., B. -Tackaon 5.0. R., H, Greftthead S.W., W.' J»okß<m J.W. ■W. Marsh J.B. President Mr W, Blinkliorno,' One new tterabef was proposed.

A curious case is to come before the E.M, at Timaru shortly. Tho Timaru Herald says i—"Wo learn that an information has beon laid against a Timaru settler for tho Inroeny of a headstone, It appears that as tho stone was awaiting transit to Dunedin Cometerv, it was

stolon; the name on it was obliterated, another name substituted,'and the stone was then put up in the cemetery at Timaru. Defendant will appear at the Court nn summons."

The quarterty meotiup of the Masterton Tent, 1.0,R, was hold last night

whon tho following officers wero elected: Oil. Bro J. Wellington, D.R. Bcp E. Prangnell, Treasurer, Bro J, 0. Ingram, Secretary, Bro J. Carpenter, Levito. Bro S. Boult, Guardian, Bra W. M. Easthope. The balance sheet was submitted and adopted. It showed three new members had joined during the past quarter, and the Tont was progressing financially. In the neighborhood of Turakina an army of caterpillars, hundreds of thousands strong, was inarching across tho railway line, bound for a new field of oats,- when tho train came along. Thousands of tho creeping vermin wero crushed by tho wlieols of tho engine, and suddenly tho train came to a dead stop, On oxumination it was found that the wheels of the engine had become ao greasy that they kept on rovolving without advancing,—tbey could not grip tho rails. The guard and the engine-driver procured sand and strewed it on tho rails, and the train made a fresh start; but it was found that dunuy the stoppage caterpillars in thousands had crawled all over tho carriages, inside and out,

Professor Higgins, ex-coachman and parachutist,' has already becomo a formidable rival to Farini's young man. who will have to look to his laurels. Tho "Professor" the other day at Cheltingham took up with him a Miss Devoy, whom ho Bent sailing down from an altitude of 4500 ft. lnmsolf following from a height ef 3000 ft. Both came safely to grass. We expect now to find Baldwin announcing that he will tako up and send down his wifo and all his family. And so the contest for supremacy will go on until each has dropped all his friends, and all his relations too. " There are a few 'friends' of mine own 1 ' says "Dngonet" in tho Referco, "1 should like to drop. Thoy aro of the borrowing persuasion, and they stick closer than a brother."

A pretty nnd thoroughly practical novelty in the shape of electrical opera glass oases lias just been introduced at the Oiiterian Theatre. On the hundredth representation of tho revival of " Still Waters Run Deep," everywhere installs i and private boxes tho eyo caught sight of neat little boxes', covered with blue plush, and attached to the backs of seats conveniently to hand for sitters in

tho rows behind, The cases wore locked but nothiug was needed but a shilling dropiied into a slit to cause one to fly open and thus place an ologant little opora glass of ivory' and gilt at the disposal of the visitor. Unoe open the oase forms a handy receptable tor the glass, and when tho visitor departs all that is needed is to leave it Are it reßts, so that tho lid may bo locked again by the attendants. We may add that the glasses, though light and essentially portable are by no moans wanting in power. . Thero aro many farmers wives even to the present day, who would never dream of allowing eggs to be brought into tho iiouso or taken out after dark, this being deemed extremely unlucky. Cuthbert Bcde mentions tho case of a farmer's wifo in Rutland who received a sitting of duck's eggs from a neighbor at nine o'clock at night. '■ I cannot imagine how she could have been so foolish" said the good woman much distressed, and her visitor, upon inquiry, was told that ducks eggs brought into a house after sdnßot would noyor be hatohod, A superstition declares that if egsrs aro carriod over running water they wilbo useless for sitting purposes; while in Aberdeen there is an idea prevalent among tho country folks that should it thunder a Bhorfc timo before ohickons are hatched, they will die in the shell.

Tho same wiseacres may be credited with tho notion that tho year tho farmer's gudewife presents him with an addition to his family is a bad season for the poultry yard, "Bairns an' chuckons," say they, " dinna thrive in ae year." The probable explanation being that the gudewife, taken up with the care of her bairn, lias less time to attend to tho rearing of tho "clmokens." The following occurred last month m

froo England. Charlos Smith, it skewer maker ; James Smith and Charioß Hillaby, a flower seller, thieo youths, were charged with stealing from the grounds ot the Wandsworth Fishery association, at Wailineton-road Mitcham quantity of buttercups and cowslip; "alued 2s, the jiropeity of the associi - —F "

ion.—Harry liourne, a bailiff, stated hat on tho previona day he saw tlio iriaoners cutting the flowers, and lio hid ic'bind tho bush until they had tilled ho. three hampers (produced), Tho 'hairman: Why did you do tlmt! iVitness: So that I Bhould have Bomohing to convict on. Witness went on 0 say he told tho lads they would bo .barged with enmmittinq; daraago, As 1 matter of fact they' had damaged a icd?e to tho extont of 3s Gd. She value )f the flowers was 2s,—By the Bonch: The flowers were cultivated by a jardener in the employ of tho association, Che prisoners said they had just wilked 'rora Epsom and thought they would <et a few flowers. Kir Thomas Edridge ;old the prisoners they must have known :hat those were not the ordinary Buttercups. They would each be fined is 2d, including costs.—The father of me of the lads asked for time.—Sir Thomas: We don't givo credit lierg,— The mooey was paid; Lluyds Weekly of May 12th contains tho following:-Yestorday Dr'MaoDonald held an inquest at tho Vestry ball, Stoke Newington, on the body of i nowly-born male child, whoso body was found in the shtiibs on Woudbevry Downs on Wednesday last, PoliceConstable Bimen, 242 N. deposed to being called by a postman to a suspicious looking parcel, winch was lying beneath some shrubs. On opening it he found the body of a child, and at onco conveyed it to the station, where it was soon by the divisional doctor. Dr Jaokman stated that tho child was fully developed, and had been dead some days. He found tho sknll was extensively fractured, and a wound at the back of tho hoad. Tho causo of death was injury to the brain, caused by the fracture. Tho jury returned a verdict to that effect.—A second inquest was held at the Mermaid, Hackney, on tho body of another child whioli was found in the garden of 120, Lauriston road, South Hackney, on Thursday. Albert Williams stated that he lived next door to tho house, and kept his goat in the garden ca it was untenanted. On Thursday, when going to feed it, ho saw a parcel lying on tho ground. Ho opened the covering and found the body "of a child. Dr Gold deposed that it was a full-time child, and there was a little air in the lungs, but whether it had had a separate legal existonoe ho could not say. The jury returned an open verdict, Another case of a similar description was roported to the same coroner. On Wednesday a schoolboy, named Beach, was going along Earlsmtre-rpad, Tottenham, when be saw sum boys looking a parcpl which ho thought was a dog. When it burst open, however, it revealed the body of a newly-born female child in an advanced state of decomposition. Hamlet: "The air biles shrewdly," Horatio, " It is a nipping and an eager air, my Lord." Had the philosophic Dane lived in our day and city, ho would, with thousand of other intelligent citizens, have sought and obtained, tho true (Safeguard, nood, honest, Flannel, at To Aro House, Wellington, '' "The wind that blows 1 ' pnjl "(be air" that "bites shrewdly" would have been success- . fully Wed by selecting" Irom the"hia'ny excellent 'mates of. that ore W'had

The Payne JPnniily make their final appearance ab" the Theatre Royal this evening, ■

Further paporo on; the flax industry will be laid on tho table of tho House shortly, A sum is to be placed on tho estimate to provide telephone communication bctweon Mangamalwo and Eketahuna. Col. Roberti R,M, is appointed Sheriff for tho Wairarapa District vice Mr Von Stunner transferred.

Wo remind our readers of the Poultry Show which opens to-day in tho Driil Shed. Uur ropurt and list ot prize winilers will appear to-morrow. A special moetin? of the Standing Committee of the Wellington Diocossn Synod was held yesterday, Tho report of the Mastorton Parish Uinmisionors was discussed at considerable length and it was ultimately resolved that tho questions involved in that renort be referred to tho Diooosan Synod at its next session.

A brief telegram has been received from MrSellar, who is at piesent in Wellington, to tho effect that he saw Mr French in town yesterday. No explanations have - yet been received of tho reasons for hia somewhat singular departure from Masterton,

We are requested" to remind our readers of Messrs Lowes and lorns' sales at their rooms tomorrow. They commence at one o'clock with poultry, produce, and sundries, and at two o'clock sections of land fronting Dixon and Church-streets, a'tor which they offer tho whole of Mr Oollott's valuable nursory stock,

The Grey Elver Argus states that "A great deal ot Crown land has lately been sold in tho Wairarapa portion of the Wellington district, ono of the natural effects of moro prosperous times and accommodating land laws. There is in consequence a good deal of bush foiling, especially in tho vicinity of Dry river and Maryborough ; but bushmen aro scarce and work is retarded.

A mooting of the Wairarapa Poultry Aaaociatiun was hold last evening, when it was decided that the cup given by tho President, Mr H. H, Beetham, should bo won twioo in succession or three years at intervals, points to count first prize 5, second 4, third 3, highly commouded 2 ; and commended 5!. Tho committee also decided that a gold medal bo given with the cup, and a silver modal 'as second prizo for the greatest number of points in poultr , A first meeting of creditors in the estate of John Tuck lato of Eketahuna, now of Mastorton, Brewor, was held yesterday, In the absence of the Deputy Assignee Mr Parsons occupied the chair. Mr Bunny who represented the Deputy Assignee said no statement of assets and liabilities had been Bled by the debtor, Mr Pownall on behalf of the debtor said ho had arranged with the Doputy Aasigneo, who was now in Wellington to filo the statement on his return. Mr Beard for Mr Parsons, a creditor, examined the debtor and the meeting adjourned until the Deputy Asigneo could communicato with the creditors. The latest application of the automatic machine principle, and an undoubtedly Ingenious ono is (says Invention) that of a sighting test machine, which has been invented and patented by Mr Bruco Green, of Walton Lodge, Hampton Wick, and is being manufactured by tho Woodhouse and Rawson, - Electric Manufaturing Company. Itwill be contained in a box which will soon become a prominent feature at railway stations, &o. On placing a penny in this box, a wheel on which there is a number of lenses are fitted will enable a person desirinc to do so, to ascertain whether his or her eyesight is imperfect, and if so, what number of eyeglasses, spectacles, dko., they require. A small drawor will also be released, on opening which a card containing particulars of eye-glaßses dnwhiohthonamoand address of the person oidering has to be put, whon a suitable pair of speotaoles will be promptly be delivered at their houses. It is understood that only the very best pebbles and doublo convox glasses, in superior frames, will be supplied, and the price will be exceedingly moderate, thus doing away with a good deal of opticians, quackery, Seme of the lead ing oculists are said to bo in fayov of tho scheme, and the invention, ingenious as it is, certainly deserves success. Tho proceeding conneotcd with the election of a successor to Bishop Barry took placo in Committee, Every member was in "honor bound not to reveal the deliberations of tho conference until they mot in Synod. At a conference of thiskind(says the Telegraph) no record of the proceedings is kept; minutes are taken, but these are dostroyod immediately tho conference is ended, and whatever is said against any name proposed is not made pnblio, Should a member know anything against any one proposed as bishop, ho is 111 duty and honor bound to say it; this he can do in conference without fear of it boing known outside. Many gentlemen would strongly object to have, their names brought up for discussion, aud a record kept of those who approved of them and those who did not, and also to have their supposed or actual deficiencies for a bishop proclaimed. All this unpleasant, ness, which did occur during the election of tho last bishop, is avoided by considering tho matter in counnittoe.