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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3256, 15 July 1889, Page 2

[ It may he regarded as certain that the Governor and family will spend a month or two in Auckland during the summer, It is stated that the misunderstandin" re (iovernment House will not at all dotor him from doing ao,

Tho return exoursion from Welhugton readied Masterton at about three o'clock on Sunday morning. Tho night waa bitterly cold, and on tho Rimuttika about two inches of snow had, fallen, Nearly ono bundled passengers for the Wairarapa wore on board. The Wellington Steeplechase meeting was postponed until to-day,

Under tho provisions of tho Shipping and Seamen's Act, his Excollency tho Govomor has reduced tho suspension of Captain Kemp, of s.s. Australia from thrco months to one. Captain Komp'a coriticato had been suspehcicd in connection with tho collision in Rwigituto channel, Auckland. Our Whakataki corrospondentwrites: —We had very hoavy rain last evening and Saturday. The mail brake could not got through, the Whakataki croeka bein» so high. The mail came throush on a pack horse, but could not get'across the mouth tor Castlepoiut. It is clearing up a little now and tho creek going clown very quickly. Is'nt it time that the exemplary editor of the N.Z. Times had his reward by boini! promoted to a higher sphere ? Tho following extract, referring to a recent death in tho Empire city, from his last issue shows that m the language of the ring he is fit.—" His lifo had its fovors, but tho Supremo anodyne has been administered, and he is now pluming for a hi»hor flight." Tauranga is surely entitled to take the palm for general healthiness. Some

years a?o Dr Henry had to quit as he found it too healthy to mako a living in, and now, tho one solitary medical practitioner, Dr-Moir, has had to follow suit. Dr Moir settled in Tauranga five or six years ago, but had to leave, being unable fo mako a living in such an unconscionably healthy locality.. No loss than thrco chimiiics caught firo in Mastorton on Saturday night, tho first was in Dixon-street soon after six, another occurred iu Hall-stcoet about 9 o'clock, and at a later hour a third broko" out in Kurupuni, It was a bitterly cold night requiring extra large fires to warm the rooms, and doubtless this accounted for tho tableaux, . • Good news from Wellington, and quite true, you can got a splendid harmonium from L 5, piano or organ from Llo, organ with divided octavo couplars all in solid black walnut cases from LIT.. This beats all the cheapest houses in town. Pianos tuned for 7s, or by tho year four visits LI, travelling exponses added, All kinds of musical instruments tuned, cleaned, and repaired new rcedsputinaccordcoiiSjCunccrtinns, harmoniums, aud oreans; also liberal exchanges made. Any instrument may be purchased on the time payment system from 2s Cd per week, Call and exchange your old piano for a new one atF. J. Penny's Musical Instrument Depot, Mannors-stroct, Wellington. (Sole agent of the celebrated Worcestor organs.) Tho bridge across tho Firth of Forth, to take tho place of tlio one whose destruction caused tho death of an ontiro trainload of passengors some years sinco, is now nearly completed. Sevoral thousand men havo been employed on tho structure whose size can bo partially imagined from the fact that the ironwork presents twelve acra of surfa'co to be painted and % force of ono hundred men will be kopt constantly employed keeping the brideo iu repair. The rails are laid in doep troughs of iron, so that it iB absolutely impossible for tlie train to be derailed under any ordinary circumatances, Ilie topmost point of tho bridge is 370 ft above the water.

A Thuringiau Uhlan, named Pfeiffer, who was missing after- the battle of Worth, and had not since been heard of, has now, after a lapse of 10 years (a Berlin telegram says) written to his parents, Tho letter came to Erfurt concealed in a bag of coffee, Pfeifler stated that he had often written, but that ho supposed tho French authorities in Algiers had destroyed all his letters, as he had nover received an answer. This

singular case has been placed before tho German Government which is said to havo communicated with the Fronch Government on tho suVject,

At Aitken, Minnesota, on April 2nd, at 4.45 o'clock, n became so dark that lights were necessary in business houses aad tho air to filled with mo\i as blacl

and ditty as though it had been tram^ into the earth, Six ouncoa of snow :. and one-fourth of an ounce of dirt ai sand ivem found in the bottom of a disi The dirt was very fine, something lik emory, and contained praticles that hac a metallic lustra. Tin's dirty snow, full to the doplii of half an inch. Tho atmosphere at the time presented a peculiar groouish tingo. Thero was a littlo wind blowing from the north-west, though tliero Beemcd to bo considerable wind higher in tho air. Solid chunks of ice and sand are reported to ha« been picked up in various places.

Apropos- of our Railway Board the opinion of Chief Commissioner Speight (Victoria), who has just returned to duty after visiting England and America, ought to bo worth listening to. He was told that tho Government of this colony had vainly offered £'3,000 a year to a lint class English export, and lie asked pointedly if that was a likoly fact. Be replied that it would bo a difficult matter to secure at a salary of i! 8,000 a man who had mature experience on English railways and whoso position was determined by his experience there. No doubt a man could be obtained to accr-pt the post at tho remuneration offered, but it was quite another question as to whether or not tho appointment would prove ad"antagcoi,3 to the colony, He mentioned that while journeying through tho United States his attention was specially directed to tho methods ot transporting fruit, dairy produce and othor perishables ou tho railways there. He was prepared to recommend a system of traffic in Victoria which would vastly increase tho productive area of dairies, and afford the greatest facilities to farmers to increase the prosperity of the country districts. The American boudoir carriages should also bo adopted for transcontinental travel In Australia.

A correspondent of the 'Southland News,' who pent Home two frozen lambs per the Solombria, forwards to that journal tho following extracts from the letter of one of the persons to whom the presont wassent;—"My butcher 'turned up his nose' at being asked to send some one to cut up the carcaso into quarters. We might have done it bore, but 1 intended to make presents, and wanted it done nicely. At last ho consented to bring down tho poor unoffending lamb, and cut it in the shop, and did he not then cliajigo his tune about it ? flowever, all is well that ends well, and this fine gentleman and his assistants declared they had never seen such fino meat in their lives. Two of ray friends, who each received a quarter, woro delighted with it, and wrote to say what good rich meat it was. My experience in coolant* improyed before I had dono with my share. It requires to hang some time aftor it has thawed, at least two or three days, and then the taste is more dolicate. If you please, servants hero would wot taste a morsol of New Z6aland meat, nor the working classes, if they knew ithut when no remarks aro mado it is sure to be praised. 1 must say some of the Australian beef I saw in tho Leadenhall market was not at all tempting—it was so coarse—not the least like tho nice little Southland lambs.' Tho ono that wont to Dublin was pronounced "vory good," and was partaken of at the anniversary of the recipient's wedding.

We havo an extensive range oi English and Colonial Manufacture, the former at prices unaffected by the enormous increase of duty and the latter regardless of the advance that Colonial makers have put on their productions. In a word, we shall soil ur Flannels of all makers for last yearas (/rices at To Aro Housc.Wcllington,

Hainlet: "The air biles shrewdly." Horatio, " It is a nipp'ng and an eager air, my Ijord." ' Had tho philosophic Bano lived' in our day and city, he wouhl, with, thousand of other intelligent citizens, have seusht and obtained, the true Safeguard, aopd, hornet: Flannel, at Aro House, Wellington, . "The wind that Wows" and "U)e air" that "bites shrewdly" would havo been suocess, fully defied by selecting from the majiy excellent makes of Flannel that'aro o had Te Aro House, Wellingtou.

■ Tiro Treasurer of the Mastcrtoii Hospital aoknowlcdgea'receipb of £8 5s from employees of tho Rev. J. 0. Andrew, lea. The ordinary, meeting of the Loyal Maslertou Lodce 1.0.0. F. M.U., takes place to-morrow night at tho Oddfellows Hall, Perry-street, Mr Henry Hughes, M,1,M.8„M.5,A. Patent Agent and consulting enginorr, has a notice in our columns of considerable intoroat to patentees, Wo are pleased to bo ablo to record that Mr John Morrison of Blairlogie has undergone a successful operation at the hands of l)ra Martin and Collins in Wellington and iB now in a. fair way to recovery.

Tho Theatre Royal fixtures are advertised in our amusement column, There is a ladies invitation night on Tuesday, which will doubtless' be very popular, and Professor Wyburdis announced for Thursday, Tho Good Templars their usual monthly concert this evetnug, commencing at 7.30 in tho Tomperinco Hall, An excellent programme is provided and a cordial invitation is extended to the public generally.

Notico is given in another column that if tho cart left on the premises at tho back of Mrs Morris, shop, Quoon-St., is .not claimed within seven days tho samo will be sold to defray expenses, Wo remind t|io»e interested of the annual parish mooting in St. Matthew's Schoolroom at 8 o'clock this evening. The business is to receivo the accounts of the past financial year, to clcot n churchwarden and vestrymen,- and general.

Wo havo received from the Secretary, Mr E, W. Dorset, the prize schedule of the Wairarapa Pastoral and Agricultural Society, The animal show takes place on the Society's grounds, Carterton, on Wednesday October 30th, entries close October 19th.

We aro requested to remind our rcadoraof Messrs Lowos and loins' sale at Eketahuna to-morrow, on account of Mrs Oollotto. Tho list will embrace every description of household furniture and a few choice dairy cows. As tho Engineer, Mr Bremnor, anticipated, the recent heavy raina have caused the fillim/a ou part of Britt's contract, Masterton to Waimata road, (recently taken over by tho County) to subside, and tho road is dangerous for heavy traffic. It is advisable therefore for carriers and others to avoid sending heayily laden waggons along this ronte until fino weather sets in. In the meantime, wo understand, the old route is opon.

Les3 than three hundred years ago porcelain was hardly known m Europe, and was worth its weight in gold. Wooden dishes woro iu use every day, with perhaps a silver dish for Sunday, for those who could afford it. The first pots and plates were brick-red. A white dish cost years and yeara of search, study, trial and experiment. Tho first piccos of procelain woro from China, early iu the fifteenth century, and attracted ereat attention

Mr Jno. Young's final notico appears in another column, From it wo gather that his clearing aalo of ironmongery closes iu a fow days. Until t/iou hie premises will be opened for business from 10 to 12 a.m. and 2to i p.m daily so as to onablo his employees to takn stock and pack the goods left for transit to i Wellington, Anything not sold at ' present may bo secured at an exceptionally low figuro for cash,

The Rev. T. De "Witt Talmage has a simple and easy plan for converting tho world to Christianity. It is for each Christian to secure one convert and each one of tho converted to do the flo calculates that if this is done every year for a docado tho 1,400,000,000 people of the earth could be brought into the Christian fold, and that the close of this contury will witness the dawn of .tho millennium.

Professor Thomas, of Auckland, has offered tho Education Board sixty prizes for competition amongst the pupils attending the public schools in the Auckland district, with tho object of encouraging tho teaching of agricultural science in the public schools, Ho is to prepare tho syllabus of subjects with tho aid of tho inspectors, and prepare tho examination papors, the examinatiou to form part of the regular school examination; I and he is to award tho prices, The Board accepted the offer, John Tuck, Browor, came up for examination beforo the Deputy Official Assignee this afternoon. The dobtor was represented by Mr Pownnll, thero boinc no creditors present. In tho course of his examination the debtor stated ho was formerly proprietor of the Ekotahuna Hotel, which place he exchanged with Mr Thomas Parsons for the brewery. The latter and Mr Macara held a lien over the hotel, but she debtor had paid off £2OO of tho mortgage to Mr Parsons. The brewery and plant was valued £1,200. Ho had not given Mr Parsons any security for the balance owing.

lii another column Mrs Corbett acknowledges the receipt from the New Zealand Insurance Company of a cheque in payment of a claim for compensation for damages by flvo at her premises recently. In connection'therewith, Mr Burton Boys, the. local agent, ou behalf of tho Company, presented Miss Counio Oorbetc with a haudsoino workbox as a reward for the singular promptitude and presence of mind which she displayed on discovering tho conflagration. This recognition, it will bo remembered, was well earned by tho careful and judicious stops taken by this young girl to prevent any nnncccssary'alarin and at tho same time stop the firo from spreading.

Our readers will remember tho case of young Blinlihome, who, whilst driving a team from Masterton to Blairlogic, was kicked by the shaft horse and had his leg broken in two places. Whilst in this disabled state he crawled to tho team and liberated tho horses after leading the waggon off the road to prevent accidents to passing traffic. In recognition of the bravery displayed by Blinkhorne on this occasion it has been decided by a number of ladies and gentlemen to give a concert at tho Tauoru on Saturday next for the benefit of Blinkhorne who is still an inmate of the Masterton Hospital. Tho committee appointed to carry it out have secured the assistance. of Borne of our Masterton Amateurs and apart from the principal object of the gathering it is expected they will presont to the public a programmo that will command a large share of public patronage,

At Wesley Church, Taranaki-street yesterday morning the Rev J. Berry' dolivered a most touching address on the death of the lato Dr West. Tho congregation passed the following resolution -"Tho congregation worshipping in Wesley Church desiro to express their sense-ofthe great loss, which common Christantity of our city and Colony sustains in the death of the Rev Dr West. They wonld oxpress thoir prayerful sympathy with the family bereaved of its head and tho Church of its pastor, The occasional services tendered by our deceased brother through the pulpit and platform durirg many years have been greatly valued by this congregation and we grieve to think that on earth we shall see his face and hear his voice no more. While thus expressing our sorrow, we give thanks to God for the memory of a noblo life, onriched by rare gifts, beautified by divine grace, and freely consecrated to tho glory of God and the good of man."

Animal Wool is the material devised by nature for animal covering, and possesses as the simplest experiments will prove, the valauble quality of not attracting or retaining the noxious, mal-odorous matters which the animal body exhales. Moreover, being a slow conductor of heat. Animal Wool docs not chill, even when damp. Therefore, overy ono should secure a selection of our puro flannels at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Our Flannels whether of English or Colonia,! Manufacture ore oil pure wool froms the best looms. The manufacturers have a jyoikearaed reputation to maintain and our ovm prestigo has keen won by selling the best goods at the lowest possible prices. We have no liking for "rubbish" of any sort, least of all in Flannels. Wo offer nothing but what is of sterling value at Te Aro Housei Wellington,