The Wairarapa Daily WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1889.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3342, 23 October 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1889.

A Bachelors' Ball is announced to take place at the Tcmiievance llall,Masterton on Wednesday, October 30tli. Tickets may.be obtaiued Iron, the Hon. Secretary Mr 13. Darlcy. Mr F H Wood adds to his Turatalii slock sale catalogue, forty ewes and two springing cows. The sale takes place to-morrow and the list comprising cattle sheep horses, and pigs, will he found in Mr Wood's usual column. Tho Payne Family of Musicians will givo their farewell performance at Masterton about the Ist November. They have had a phenominal success throughout their tour since their appearance at this town. The Palmerston North correspondent of the Post reports that Mrs T. G. Williams, of Wellington, had a very narrow escape from serious injury last evening. She was driving to her daughter's residence at To Mailai, when something startled the horse, and he completely capsit.cd tho trap. Mrs Williams was severely cut and bruised, but was able to bo taken home after a brief rest.

A mile walking watch against time came oil at tho Eketahuna town hall on Monday night. There ivero four entries W. Waterson, Knight, Olsen and F, White. Waterson won by ISsccs, his time bcinf Drain 18sccs. Wis stylo is good,and he should, with practice, mata a fast walker. Knight also walks well. Olsen (who mado his nniden effort) was rather inclined to break. He came in second. I l '. White started at a fjreat pace but burst up at the half mile. The timo throughout was bad, but this was owing to the smallncss of the ring it being under 40 yards. Roman Catholicism is not faring well in Italy. The procession of the Blessed Sacrament in Turin was jeered and once stoned, and tor the tirst timo the military did nut present arms, an honour which is always paid by the troops of the Ottoman Empiro.

Iu compliance with the recent decision of tlio London County Council to augment the Metropolitan Piro Brigade, as a consequence of the special report of Captain Shaw, the chief officer is about to take on more than 100 smart sailors who want berths on shore. By the mail strainer from San Francisco there arrived the wives and families of tho won imported some time ago from tho United States for the' Onuhunga Ironworks. There arrived by the steamer also a furnace-man and next steamer will brin» another sheet roller.

Frau Arthur Scliulz, a well-known acKress, at tlio Fursl Theatre, Yionna, comniited suicide by shouting herself with a revolver on the stage of the theatre directly after the final fall of the curtain, The unfortumiselady, who was 49 years of age, committed the rash act through a love attachment. A " theatrophone" is shortly to bo placed 011 the Paris Boulevards, and has filreiidy been shown to Mr Edison. It is nil adaptation of the telephone, by which anyone can be put into coininimication with a certain theatre, and listen to the performance for five minutes on paying the modest sum of livepence. Niagara Falls arc continually changing shape, owing to the force of the water weiring aivay the rocky bed. It is almost a misnomer to call the Canadian portion the " Horseshoe Fall," and now so large a section of rock Ims suddenly given way in tlio exact centre of the cataract that the alteration is very remarkable. Florence Nightingale is sixty-nine years of ago and an invalid, but she has Vrittpn a letter of sympathy for tlio Johnston RiilFejcre with her own hand. She seldom leaves hen hopse nowadays, but slie keeps uu a lively interest in ajl that is oning on,and she attends to an enormous correspondence from all parts of the world.

Tjie agitation fgr equalisation of the sexes soim'tijiies t,i]fes curious forms, and Piccadily lias just boon considerably startled by the sight and wild of a young lady driving a four-indiand along d(. foil tilt, with the groom on tlio back of tjio cpaeii blowing the horn with ail !ii! might, John L, Sullivan has received the £4OOO stakes in tlio Kilrain light, aleoi liichnrd K. Fox's belt, representing the worlds championship, Sullivan will retain only £2OOO, the remainder goinsr to reimburse his backers, a half to the Illustrated News, a quarter to Jim Wakcly and a quarter to Charley Johnson; Henry Percy Mole is only twentythree years old. But the Newcastle magistrates have committed hint tor trial on the charge of causing the death of liis wife by ill-treating her.

The Empress of Austria has been so ajsiduo.us in studying modem Greek that slio tyill be ablo when at Corltf to converse with tjie Jjshorpien and their wives in their oivii tonguo. borne JJuddhist priests, going on a missionary expedition from Northern India to China, took with them thedried leaves and also some cuttings of an indigenous shrub, which was said to hayc the power of correcting any ipjnrious properties in the brackish jvatcv they might meet with 011 the way. Tho decoction thus made pleased the missionaries so well fliat they continupd as a matter of tasto, to drink it after they liad reached China, aju] introduced it to their converts. They sef about planting the precio.us shrub, and although it did not thrive so well in China as 111 its native Assam, becoming smaller both in stein md leaf, it was so well liked that it soon formed $9 M')< dotion of the favourite boveragq of all China, Thence it was brought to Europe to be drunk and desired by pooplo of ovory degree. And it is only of late years that Assam tea has come into tho European market, to bo looked on rather suspiciously as tho rival of its up degenerated Chinese daughter,

Averaging tho cases for ttm last few years, it is found that 1000 men psr annum are discharged from tlio British «niy for misconduct.

Tho Shah of Persia was bo impressod with the music of tho bngpipos in Scotland tlwt he sent an ordor for a set to on Edinburgh firm, and for a compotont player to be sent to his Majesty's capital It is reported that he took lessons id tlio Highland iling while in Scotland.

When the Earl nf Bradford was brought before Lord Loughborough to bo examined upon application for a statute of lunacy against him, tlio Chancellor wked him,. "How many legs has a sheep?" "Does your lordship mean,' 1 answered Bradford, " a liyo sheep or a dead one?' 1 "Is it not the same thing!" said the Chancellor. " No, my lord, 11 said Lord Bradford, " thorois much difiorenco. A livo shcop lias four, a dead one but two. There are but two legs of mutton; tho others are shoulders." There was a well attended meeting of tho Masterton Anglers' Society at Mr J Williams' shop l:\st-mglit, Mr W II licetham was present and explained the reason why partof thoMakora was closed. He said it was done for the benefit of the anplers and for tho purposo of stocking the large rivers of the district. A discussion took placo and a docisicin was arrived at that it would bo better to form a branch in Masterton of tho Wellington mid Waitsrapa Acclimatisation Society rathor than promote a separate organisation. Information has boon received of an attempt at blackmail perpetrated on a widowladyresidingatManaia, Masterton. From what wo can gather it appears a tramp, who was evidently posted up in his work called at the house of tho iady referred to on Sunday evening when she was all alone and demanded a pound from her, which she refused. Tho man, however, would not take ''no " for an auswnr, and bo pressed liis demand that tho lady reluctantly was compelled to give him a few shillings before he would depart.. Tho house being isolated there was 110 chance of obtaining assistance, and the mail gut off scot freo with his booty, A big do2 will reply to the enquiries of the next sturdy beggar. That useful institution "the town clock, has again beon placed in position and set going by the owner, Mr W Dougall, for tho benefit of the public at large, after undergoing improvements and alterations at the hands of tho contractor, Mr G Haskell. The old painted bacea have been removed, and aro replacedwithgroundglass.Theliguresontho now dials aro very clearly written anil perfectly true, and are a credit to our local artist, Mr J). S. Papwortli, The only thing that is wanted to muko this boon to the public complete is that tho clock should bo illuminated in the evenings, It is too much to ask Mr Dout'all to bo at this expense, but the burgesses might well apply to the Council to bo at the expense ut supplying theighting medium, as the cost of tho small quantity of gas that would be consumed would bo but trilling to that body. \lO understand Mr Dougall 13 perfectly willing to allow tho clock to bo . illuminated

I say! The Chairman of tho Agricultural and Pastoral Show is complaining of tho apathy of the local press! Why 1 What aro we to do ? Wo put in the advertisements they sent. It nut our fault! Oh I But they want to be cracked up in tho leaders I But there's nothing to crack yet 1 We'll do 'em-full justice when we get tho entries and when the show's on I Yes 1 but the local press doseu't allow enllwsiain! The local press has a double function; fcliey represent as well as lead public opinion! I see! \ou mean tho show nover was heartily taken up! That's about it. Peoplo don't want to see tho chairman, who's been lugged into it, dropped, but otherwise thoro is no doubt that the whole thing was considered uncalled for and premature! Got up chiefly by tho South Wairarapa people, who had quarrelled with North Waiiarapa, eh ? Yes I And only a small section ot them ! Look at the names of tho men at tho last committee meeting, that's tho best evidence of the sincerity and onthusiasm of tho promoters, That's the sort of support given to the Chairman, Its littlo wonder tho outside public are not enthusiastic! Ah! Stuckey and Bidwcll and Brady and Crawford are all very good men,but whore aro tho great names, the big sheep farmers and stockowners of tho province! Quito so ! Depend on it the local Press aro never behind hand in supporting a really good useful movement ! Tho step is taken and we shall do our utmost to support it and aid its success, but its best to be honest, and the honest truth is tlmt the apathy is with tho stockowners of the Province. It is tlwy, not tho Pivss of Wellington, that are to blame, if blame is to be awarded to any.—Press Cigarettes.

" Its a wise child that knows its own father,' 1 but every Maori piccaninny knows its own pith. The average consumption of water iu Glasgow during tlio whole of last year was 40,000,000 gal per day, or nearly 50 gal per head per day. Paris, following the example of London, is about to build an underground railway lino. Kate Drcxel, who has devoted her lifo to the education of negroes, has endowed a Catholic college for negroes at Columbia.

As showing the improved state of affairs in Auckland, it may be mentioned that the number of persons who have gone in nrrear 111 the building socities is steadily decreasing, and that the payments are nowroiiiarknbly well kept up. The Victorian Minister for Education says that colony is now beginning to feel the growth of population, which was marked last year by there being an increase of 10,000 more pupils on the rolls, and 5000 more in average attendance. Lord Salisbury is dead against' byelections. He has just vetoed tliu resignation of a member who assured him he had a safe seat and a good " successor." The longest stretch across London is from Brentford to Stratford-le-bow, a distanco of 21 miles, That is to say, London inclusive of suburbs, without a break of houses, ; \s a result of the destruction of forests in Russia the Caspian Sea is prccoptibly receding, and now the Czar's oOicera are after the wood choppers with a sharp stick,

A npvelty in the application of olec, tricity to musical inctt uineuts lias lately appeared in Germany, by which a movopicnt of electro-magnets ohanges the timbre of the tone, A Swiss inventor lias perfected a method ol making artificial boards, and is advocating their use in building, Tlicy are made of a mixture of plaster of Paris and reeds pressed into sliapo by hydraulic process, The material has the advantage of incombustibility and lightness, and will resist the warping action of climatic changes. An extraordinary case of hydrophobia lniß occurred at Ohapeltown, near Sheffield. An ironmonger named James Parkin died after several days' acute suffering, but there is 110 evidence of his evor having been bitten by cither a dog or a cat, and the doctor's opinion is that the malady was caused, by a cut on deceased's face, sustained whilst shaving, being licked by a do". All the new makes snd'coloip in ribbons we have in profusion.' Wide ribbons for millnery, (lie nowest widths for neckwear, in hipi-tdtpl, faille, sqtin striped, mire dripd, mid kock, and ill all the new colours, such assaliuon, cream, liiscaii, mil itc iiil,mosses, viev-c rose, serpent, ic. Eongeo sash ribbons, ill buttorpup, terra cotta, cardinal, rpossos, maropn, cream, reseda, gold, aijd white. Wide striped sashes, in colours to match dresses. Black moire sashes, and nil the fashionable colours in coloured moire sashes.' Rciil torchon laces, new patterns; millinery types,' Swiss 'eiiitirojjjfitai lpces', areoplw'ncs, prepes, 'tulles, jfe, lilies' lciitliep belts, ii)' black' and art shades. Dress buttqns, in ivory anil melid, to match every shade of clresis fabrics. Fashionable I'Pircctpire' 1 and "Lorraine 1 ' fronts; also, ijnen fronts,'with cuffs to match-a decideij novelty, it Art) fioiiije, tyeljjnijtfjtL" ' Witj l)aye a yery gfgnd assprtmppt pf su|] ; ahfides to shojf tf) t]iq ladies' ot'WgUington, ani comprising'the very latest ''novelties" in silk, in'nipss, yieiix rose, ierra cutty, rpsedft, cjiptlipqt, '&0,; shot, in red, gold, grey, navy, brqwii, ik Tho style generally approved is a gri)cpfii modification of the "En tout cas" or "Husband beater." C9II At Ato House, Wellington,-Apvi,

To keep knives and forks in good condition when not in use, dust tho blades and prongs with finely powdered quicklimo, aud keep them wrapped in flannel, :/

In tho Divorce Court, Wellington, yestorday,,tbe petitioners were granted a decree nisi in the cases John Carlsen v Elizabeth Edith 'Carlson, and Mary Elizabeth Loughurst v Charles Lonjhurst.

With roferonca to tho tragic death in London of William Henry Lewis, who committed suicide aftor being swindled out of hia money, tho Colonial Mutual Life Assuranco Society's representative at Dunedin states that he has ascertained definitely that his policy for 11000 was in force at the time, and it is almost certain the money has been paid over by this time.

A resident in Chnpal-dtrcct, Masterton, who has a fancy for bee keeping found his honey highly flavored with raspberry last year and could not account for it. His garden in which he keeps his hives is immediately in tho rear of Mr J, Dixon's cordial factory, and as n largo quantity of raspberry syrup has mysteriously disappeared from Mr Dixon's factory, it may well be surmised iiow the honey t'ot its peculiar flavor. This Euasou Mr Dixon's factory lias awn been visited by these robbers who have carried a.vay over a bucketful of peppermiiit, No doubt somebody will find his honey has this year a different flavor, and he will not be slow to account for it, Mr Dixon has tried all he knows to keep the bees away from his tempting sweets but without succcts. Burning sulphur was only effective as long as tho fumes lasted.

Some difficulty is being experienced by Australia representatives at tho Dunedin Exhibition as to whethor their exhibits of wine are admitted duty free. The vignorons were given to understand thoy would bo admitted freo when invited to take part, and that for a nominal charge they would have the right to sell wines in the building. The Goyemment have not yet intimated that theso conditions will be carried out, and if any attempt is made to evade the responsibility the matter will bo a serious one for the vignerons.

Central Asia will suou boast of luwing tho electric li»lit, Kussian ongiueers being busy with installations at Bukhara, by order of the Emir. (ioocl news Irom Wellington, and quito true, youcan get a splendid harmonium from L 5, piano or organ from Lls. organ with divided octave couplars all in solid black walnut casus frjm Ll7, This bents .ill the cheapest houses in town. Pianos timed for 7s, or by tho year four visits LI, travelling expenses added; All kinds of musical instruments tuned, cleaned, and repaired, new reeds put in accordeans, Concertinas, harmoniums, and organs; also liberal exchanges made. Any instrument may be purchased on the time payment system from '2s Gd per week. Call and oxchange your old piano for a new one at F. J. Pinny's Musical Instrument Depot, Manners-street, Wellington. (Solo agent of the celebrated Worcester organs.)—auvt