THE SHOW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3353, 5 November 1889, Page 2

THE SHOW.

This morning opsned with a rather cloudy sky for the Show Day, but judging, jrom appearances and the weather glass it is more likely to turn to heat than rain. Wo paid an early visit to the Show grounds, and found exhibits were coming forward in a prompt and satisfactory manner. The Show without doubt will be a good one, and tho attendance of those who go to see and be seen will be very great. The officers of the Association are all at their posts, froui the President, Mr Lowes, to the acting

secretary, Mr Fitton, and everything , s working remarkably smoothly. The , town is pretty full of visitors, conspicuous amongst them being the , red coated native corps from Papawai, who are hero to fire tho return match with the local rifle corp3 at the Masterton butts, The stored are open for a few hours this morning for the convenience of customers from the country, by noon, however, they will all be closed to give employes and principles an opportunity to be present at this favorite annual gathering. In addition to the cattle show, a bazaar in connection with the Wesleyan Church is being held in the Temperance Hall, Chapel-street, to bo followed by a.promenade concert in the evening The skating at the Tboatro Royal also should prove attractive, as the pleasant pastimo will bo enlivened with strains of music from Mr Pearson's band. Private pleasure parties and picnics will also tend to make the day a thoroughly ehjoyable holiday, How he lost lus Left Arm. When Prince Albert Victor goes to India his bear-leader will be Sir E. Bradford, who is chief of the political department iu the India Office. Sit Edward is a man of remarkable nerve, and the story of the tiger which robbed him of his left arm is one of the most thrilling tales in tho annals of sport, He was out tiger-shooting with a friend in Eajpootana. His companion left him on the bank of a river, ensconced behind a tree, and went lower down to beat the tiger's quarters, Presently out came the brute, and Sir Edward fired, wounding it badly. Unluckily his second barrel missed fire—it was in the days of muzzleloaders—owing to a leaf of the tree getting between the hammer and the cap., The next moment tho tiger was upon him, and there was nothing for it but to bolt down the bank. He reached the water which was only two feet deep, but the tiger was too quick. Now came the feat ot courage. Sir Edward deliberately thrust his arm into the beasts mouth, so as to save his head, and he lay there for what must lurre seemed an age, while the tiger literally munched his ' arm right up to the shoulder. Then, faint with its wounds, and feeling a little sick, it let go, and Sir Edward, who had kept perfectly cool, gradually ; crawled away, keeping his eye steadily on his terrible foo. By tho time he had put about thirty yards between them his friend came up and shot the animal dead. The wounded man was put in a cart without springs, and sent seventy miles to find a surgeon. There are few sportsmen who over ; showed so much pluck or had such n l narrow escape. Sir Edward is a . K.C.S.L, and a great favourite with ; the Queen. ' Going over Niagara Falls. Carlisle D. Graham, who has won the honour of being the first man to pass over Niagara Falls and escape alive, is a cooper, and he made his trip on September 1, in a barrel of his owii manufacture, m which he had previously passed safety through the whirlpool and the Devil's Eapids below the Falls. Ho says of his experiences;—"l went down the hovseshoerapids so quickly that Iwas hardly prepared. Tho first thing! know seemed to be going into a deep abyss, and then I got a crack on the head such as a policeman might give to a drunken man. Then I didn't know much. I was tossed about like a feather. I could not get much air, and did not 1 dare to change my position. I had braced myself up with the aid of the straps, so that I was sure I should not strike my head again, I cannot tell just when I did go over tho. falls, for the awful shaking-up stupefied me, I felt happy, .like a maiuvliQ is passing into a painless death by drowning, Thoro was a sense of danger mixed with the pleasure, and tho sensation was ploasanter than those I experienced now after accomplishing, the feat. There were many shocks on the trip, but none so great as the first one, and tho mere act of going over the Falls did not mako itself particularly felt. I was not entitely obliyious, but felt helpless and voiceless, There was tho terrible roar iu my ears; I tried to speak aloud iu the barrel to break it, hut 1 could not. It was simply awful, yet 1 felt contented and resigned'. I cannot qqw understand how it was, I knew I really was over Niagara Falls when the barrel went into the eddies, I was almost insensible, They rapped the barrel and shouted to me. I ceuld hear them talk to me, and tried to answer but I could not. Finally they broke open the barrel.' I did not faiflt, but f do not kqow what happened' fqr a. while. I shall never' jepeat the attempt; once is enough." Ho had been in tho barrel fifty minutes, and was considerably bruised, but not seriously injured.

gaby shqfs appear tq be becoming all the' rage, One has just been opened in Brisbane, The Paliamentary reportins; staff in Sydney celebrated the close of the session by a dinner,