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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3317, 24 September 1889, Page 2

Messrs Lowes and lorns add four coats and ten nigs to their catalogue for Wednesday' next. Mr C. A. Pownall has received his appointment as captain of tho Masterton Rifle Volunteers. The ordinary fortimditly meeting of of tho Loyal Masterton Loduo takes place at tho Oddfellows Hall, Perry St., this evening. Messrs Johnston and White notify that, pothwithstanding the late accident, their mill is still running, and they are leash purchasers of green flax m any ijuantities. Mr W. C, Cuff, who has for tho past twelve years hold tho position of agent of the Bank of New Zealand, (jreytown, has been transferred.and is succeeded by Mr John Snodgrass, of Auckland. Mr Cull's new destination is not yet made known. The annual parade of stallions under the auspices of the Masterton Agricultural Pnrtoral Society takes place at MessrsLowesand lorns'cattle yards tomorrow commencing at 2 o'clock. Mr A, Wright, of Eketahuna, has taken over Mr A. J. Chamberlain's ]ate business, Ho js well-known in Eketaituna as a good and reliable workman, and should do well. Ho opens ijext Wednesday. His advertisement appears in another column, Wo aro requested to rcmixd dealers and the public generally of Messrs Lowes and lorns'salo whioh takes place.at their yards tomorrow. Tho catalogue is a vapied one comprising sheep.bittle, piss horses and goats, and is published in full ill their usual column,

The Masterton Mutual Improvement Society yive one of their popular concerts at file Temperance Hall this ovenitif the charge for admission being the small sum of sixpence. A capital programmo is provided and published in full in our amusement column,

Since Mr Hislop's resignation, which Ins not been gazetted yet, owing to the alsenco of the the Governor, Mr Fergus has been acting as Minister of Education. Tho Premier is somewhat indisposed, and has. been confined to his house for soveral days, Tho Minister of Lands, with a view to stopping the practico of putting in half-a-dozen applications for ono Boction at land sales intends on the next occasion to put the choice sections up to auction for cash sale. Ho thinks this will check tho species of dummyisin known to bo carried on.

A/ "I told you that mathematics is lan incontrovertible science; in fact, it is lopic itself! For instance, suppose it takes a man 12 days to build this wall, then 12 mon can finish it in one day." B ; " Certainly ; therefore 288 can build it in an hour, and 17,280 in a minute, and if 1,036,800 men set to work, the wall will be built up in a second—i.e., before a single brick can be got into its place." Among the recentgifts to tho Auckland Museum, are some malo and female specimens ot a rare spojics of petrel, by Mr Bell, of the Kerniadecs. Ho has also psesentcd a specimen of a envious kind of landrail, almost wingless, found in islets off Sunday Island. The puzzle is how tin's almost windless bird readied Sunday LJand, and no light can he thrown uppn that problem. Mr Bell states that ho has seen sparrows, linnets and larks on tho Kormadecs which have como from Now Zealand, and when at sea.halfbctwoon this colony and the group, he had seen the ordinary hawk in flight. Ho states that the Bniall birds which come to the island soon get cleared off either by the rats or wild cats,

Til-morrow, at 10 a.m. and during the day, wo shall allow some very choice summer (best fairies, just received by direct steamer, at Te Aro House, Wellington, Among these will bo found some very beautiful designs hi silk embroidered Indian cvhmn roh% both in black and colours, and ranging from Siis to 77e the full dress, lit To iVvo House, Wellington,

To-moorow. also, wo shall display an unusually rcehcrek solection of the fashiouMe bordered dress fitbria. These are all of Frenoh manufacture, are very elaborate and stylish in design, and will make up most effectively. Prices, of these range from 2!« 64 to 6is 6d, at Te Aro-House, Wfllington, To-moffow, we shall also show a very select choice flf §sif-.floured dmi materials with trimmings to w/a/c//, in f becked and floral designs, from 42s to 69s (id the full dress length, at Te Aro House, Wellington, Also, some beautiful and attrgctivo Frcncli suitings, 41in wide, in every variety of colour ami design, at prices varying fr?m2os to 51s Gd for the full dress length at l'e Arg House, Wellington.-Advt, Every lady'in the city should visit out warehouse to-mbrrbw, and see all our beautiful checked arid stripped fine wop materials, all of the nowest colourings, and in both single and double widths, from 21s to 57s Gd tho fall dress length, at To Aro House, Wellington.

TlieKketaliuiinjßoadßonrdgivesnotice of its intuiition to make a Bpecial dnk to strike a rata to repay £250 borrowed under tiie Loans to Local Bodies Act for formation of the ltoad, also for ropaymont of £3OOO borrowed for road formation in Wellinßtgn No ] Block, and £750 lor formation, | metalling and bridges, Mangaune and Tawataia Roads.

Messrs Cade and Harasun having leased the Upper Plain planing ami moulding mills, notify through cur columns that they are prepared to deliver all classes of timber, both rough and at lowest current rates. Tliey_ have also leased the threshing machine, and during tho season will be able to undiirtako threshing in any part of the district at curront rates.

Tho Taueru Quandrille Assembly hold a (lance at Mossra Rodham's woolshed, on Friday September 27th. Tickets to gentlemen are 2s (id and ladies are fro. JMroshmeuls will be provided ad W). and without extra charge. The committee aro ondeavouring to arrange for a conveyance to run from Mastertou and return the same night for tho convenience of their friends here who wish to attend.

In Russia silent cavalry movements have been embodied in tho regulations For squadrons and regiments. Thoy consist solely of marches and charges of direction, all signal; being given by the sword of the commander, which is first raised to attract attention.

Tho proverbial wit o f the Irish jarvoy is oftentimes mixed with an uudorcurrent ot stern reality that is as touching as it is eloquent. Driving through Sackvillo street, Dublin, the tho other day on an nutaido car, the wretched appearance of tho horso suddenly struck a visitor. Ho said. "Pat, you ought to bo taken up for cruelty to animals, driving such an old screw as th'il" " Begor, sur," was tho quick reply, "if 1 didn't dhrivo that, I'd be taken up fur cruelty to a wifo and six children,''

Tho amount paid for Press messages to tho Government last year was £10,28* 13s sd, or an increaso of £i%i lis 7d on tho previous year. Tlub ought, to disabuso the minds of those persons who think tho telegrams reach the newspapers at tho same cheap rate as tho rain or the sunshine como to the earth.

The Chnstchurch Board of Education the other day received a deputation of master printers, who asked that school books compiled and printed in the colony should bo used by Board schools in preference to imported ones. Tho Board decided that so far as was consistent with the proper education of the children of North Canterbury tliey will afford tho utmost possible assistance and support tho object set forth; at the same time it was suggested that the association should approach the Minister of Education on tho subjoot, so as to scenro uniformity in the quality of tho | books.

In tho Supreme Court Emily Doraot sued tho New Zealand Insurance Company to recover tho sum LloO, tho amount of insurance in that office on a dwelling owned by plaintiff at Kopuaranga, and destroyed by fire on 24th February hst. Plaintiff also claimed the sum ot L2OO from the National Fire Insurance Company,, insured on the saino building. For tho defence it was claimed that no particulars of loss had been given, and that tho value of tho building was less than tho amount claimed. The Wow Zealand office also claimed that the conditions on tho policy had been broken as plaintiff had not 6tatod what other insurances were on tbn building. The hearing was adjourned until to-day, It is claimed that two professors conneotcd with the Pastas Institute have discovered tho generative microbe of diphthcriii, and that a preventive of this disoaso by means of vaccine virus is expected to follow, Should this expectation bo realised, tho discovery and its successful application will certainly take rank among tho most important triumphs in tho realm of medical science. Tho prevalence of diphtheria, especially in the principal cities, and tho very large proportion of fatal cases, is little dreamed of excepting by those who are giving special attention to tho subjcot,. In Booklyn, New York, for instance, there woroiu 1888, 048 deaths from diphtheria which probably represented 3000 cases. —Scientific American. There has been an idea lor many years past ot connecting tho Waikato witl] the Piako by making the Mangawha'ta creek navigable near Taupiri, and cutting a canal from thence into the Pinko, which would roquiro to bo straightened for three or four miles. So far as rough levels hayo beuu taken, tho Waikato river is about ffifeet higher than the Pinko, bo that thorn would bo no diffi\ eulty in diverting a portion of its waters. It is claimed that the canal, in addition tq givin? the Waikato (he benefit of water carriage to Auckland for all its produce, would also drain tho whole of the Agricultural Company's block. At present tho railway freight of coal to Auckland from the coal mines is about 7s 6d per ton, whilo water carriage would bo about 23 Gd or 3s. Mr Cheat, the well-known surveyor contemplates shortly exploring the route of the canal, and taking the lovels. Tho heaviest part of tho work would bo tho cutting through a saddle of country over 1000 feet high fur about 120 chains. A curious personal incident in the Eton and Harrow match at Lu.ru/s \'i that Mr Jackson, tljn captain of tho Harrow eleven, is tho son of tho Financial Seoretary to tho Treasury, who promised Jiim £5 for every wicket ho bowls, as well as a guinea for every run ho makes. Last year ho took eleven wickets and made two largo Bcoros, and consequently received about £l5O This year he takes somowhat less owing to tho fact that ho only batted once, His runs were 08 in number' realising £7l Bs, and he secured fivo wickets,' thereby winning a further £25, or grand total of« Bs.

An Eastern potoutato asked a group of his courtiers whom they thought tho greatest man, himself or his father. At Urac he could not elicit a reply to so dangerous a question. At last a wily old courtier said: " Your father, sire; for, though you are equal to your father in all other respects, in this ho is suporior to you—that' he had a greater squ than any you havo," Ho was promoted on the Bpot..

I have seen a clergyman with glovos on in the pulpit (wntoa London correspondent), but tho Rev Charles Berry, of Qucon-stroet Chapel, Wolverhampton -the man who was elected to succeed Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and refused tho appointmont —is, I should think, the only minister in England who wears a fjowor in Ins coat while he is preaching ? Mr Berry is dercribed as a '• MjiiarelyJnu'lfc figure, rather under tho middle height, with hair and heard somewhat closely out | no pulpit robe of any kind, and with a flower in his button-hole; as one first seen him in the pulpit, one would take him to be.an everyday full of business layman who had got there by chance." In his teaching Mr Berry belongs to the advanced Bohool of Congregationalism; ho seems, to careless hearers, perfectly orthodox ; but it would not bo difficult for anyone with a keen scent to pick holes in his teaching. But ho has an immense crowd of followers and admirers in Wolverhampton, where he is doing work as great as is done by Spurgeon m his special field in London.

Good news from Wellington, and quite true, you can get a splendid harmonium from L 5, piano or organ from Lls, organ with divided octave couplars all in solid black walnut cases from Ll7, This beats all the cheapest houses in town. Piauostuned for 7s, or by the year four visits LI, travelling eposes added, All kinds of musical jnslruinonfe? tuned, cleaned, and repaired new reeds put in accgrdepn?, concertinas, harmoniums, and organs | also liljorai exchanges made.' Any instrument may be purchased ou the timo payment system'from 2s Cd per week. Call and exchange your old piano for a new one at J l . J." Pinny's Musical Instrument Depot,' Manners-street, Wellington. Sole agent'of the'celebrated Worcester ortf»ns.)-ADVi,

The quarterly sitting of the District Court begins in Mnstorton to-morrow, Judge Robinson will preside. Throe now members are to be proposed at the next meeting of the Foresters in Carterton, and funds are coming in well! The Marquis of Normandy Court is rapidly going ahead, At tho meeting of the Mastorton Road Board on Saturday tho following tendors were accepted; -Felling bush on 310 chains or 31 acres, Nor'Jicroft's road, W. Woolf, £2 pov acre; 151 chains Stuckey's ruad, Rangitumau, Knofli, &[ m fid i 40 chains Miki Miki, W. Woolf .E4O; 12 chains Mild Mini, John Duckett £lO.

An association formed, in Wellington to securo a block of land in thu Fortymilo Bush for a special settlement has declined to accept a block at 30s per aero, offered to them by Government deeming tho price too high. By tho time tlieyhavo paid tor bush telling and clearing,ratcd themselves to raise money to repay special loans obtained to make the roads through tho block, and have paid tho ordinary County & Road Board rates with tho additional poor rate to be put on next year they will find it a preat deal too dear.