The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1889

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3374, 30 November 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 1889

Messrs Lowes and lonia announce a sale of stuck at Eketahunaon Dec, 11, The Right Reverend the Primate of New Zealand will hold confirmation services at St. Matthew's Church tomorrow. Tko Kumurau Hack Race Meeting for liorseß that have nover won any races uther than hack races will be run on " Yallancos Flat" on Now Year's day. Messrs Loives & lorns add to their stuck sale for "SYedncaday next, 40 oweß and lambs, Visitors to Wellington are invited to call and inspect Mr (J. AV, Button's Christinas novoltios for school prizes, gifts and presentations for the Christmas and New Year, a catalogue of which is published olsewheru. The settlement of accounts and prizes in connection with the recent Horticultural and Industrial Show will take place at the ollico oftlio Secretary, Mr W. B. Chennells on Monday next. December 2, from three to five and seven to eight p.m. The prayer delivered at tho opening of the Dunodin Exhibition is designated by the .Napier Telegraph the "Bread and Whisker" supplication in consequence of a paragraph in it referring to Now Zealand as " a land of wheat and barley," Tne programme qt' tiio Wairanjpa Caledonian Society's sports to be held mi the Park Oval on Now Years Day is published m another column. It will be uotiee/J that the number o! events has been curtailed and ii|-s,un,c instances the prices are considerably increased. In 18?0 the net indebtedness of tho colony was 47,381,08?. The nimpl charge was £897,083, 'ilia amount oiriu; per head was i'29l4s 7d. In 1888 the net indebtedness was £86,971,771. Tlio annual charge X' 1,803,111 ; and tho debt pc>- IfUiid A'6o 17s lid. The outstanding loans of loityl bodies amounted in 1831 to f tui ja 1888, £5,812,801), " " ' A paragraph appeared soiuottipm p ago announcing tlie death of a Profess;. 1 ' fliig in Melbourno. This was generally thought to be Signor Otto Hitg, the medical clairvoyant, but it was not so. Signor Ililg has bepo reyentjy suffering from sovere illnoss in Melbourne, lint is now rapidly recovering, and, accompanied by his wifo and famil*', intends leaving for tliiscnlony on 10th December ro visit the Hot Lakes, tie .conies tin Bluff, and will return Itero sometinio in February.—Post. A Wcstorn(iournalist thus describes on electric fence 30 miles long in Arkansas " On one side of t/io fence stood aonio dozen or fifteen Btee-s, and on th« other stood one alone. Ho undertook to break through and go ovor to the majority. Ho had no idea ho was tackling a buzz sa-tt' when ho struck that smooth wire fence. Well, air, ho jumped like he was hit at onco with torjfcy million hornets, and, with his tail coiled over his buck, he wheeled and only struck the ground in high places. Then the liftfen made a dash to join and follmvhiii), One by one they rubbed that electric fence, and as fast as they did the> ' jumped, bawled, kicked, wheeled, and sailed on as though they had urgent business at the North Pole, and only had a few hours in which to make it. That electric fence is a stunner -is the eighth and greatest wonder of the Iforld. Not one of tlieso cattle was hurt, bjjv iict one of them will «o near tho lence ajalii^'Wron. liood news trom Wollinfjto'liiiml quite true, youcau get a splendid harmoi)itim from L 5, piano or organ from LIS, organ with divided octave couplars all in solid black walnut cases fnm IAI. This beats all tho .cheapest houses in town,. I'ianostifued for7s, at by the year four visits LI, travelling expenses i added.' All kinds of musical instruments i tuned, cleaned, and repaired, new feeds ' put in acoordcaiiß, Coucortjnas, liar- I moniums, and organs; also liberal exchanges made, Any instrument may be , purchased on tho time payment system j from 2s fld per week. Call and ex- ( change your old piano for a now one at j F.J Pinny's Musical Instrument JJopot, , Manners-street, 'Wellington. (Sole j agent of the 'celebrated Worcester \ organs,)—i

A copy cf Genera! Gordon's last ] jumwl has been prcsentod to,,the Auckland Freo Library by Sir ttcoiijo Groy. Mt Dennis MeMullen, in another column, returns tlinnks to hia neighbors mid utliora, who rendered him assistance at and sinco tho firu at liib t residence. The Auckland Aniatour Olub 'havo t decided to hold tost races on .Friday next in ordor to ascortiin if it is well to 0 send a tcmn to the Dunedin Championship Mcctliij,'. li At the U.M Court, Wollini'ton, yestor- J day, Frank Masters, with several aliases was committed for trial for criminally r assaulting a girl eiylit years of age, | Wo aro glad to learn upon enquiry £ this morning that Mr Henry oweu is rapidly tecoverinc; from the severe ill- , n® with which ho was recontly nttacked. '

j Tho schooner Floetwing, en route ! irom tliu Loyalty Group to Lyttleton, 1 I with » cargo of oranges, has put into c Auckland fur repairs, the vnasol having « been somewhat damaged in heavy t weathor off tho i'oor Riught Islands. Mr Turnbull, M.H.R, for Timavu, ] at present at Christcliurch, had a re- t lapso about a weok ago. An inquiry ] tlm moriiing shows him to bo m a vory critical condition. ( It is rumoured that a libol action is ' likely to bo brought against our lootl contemporary, for certain unwarrantable I aspersions recently cast oil tlio character ' of well-known resideuts in connection ] with tho Mayoral oloction, I Hr flobbs, M.H.E., has returned to Kawakawa from a visit to Puhipuhi. i Ho expresses a favorable opinion of tho j field as it quartz-bearing (•no, and says j that unless the Government soon de j clare it open, the field will bo rushed, tie is urging tho Bay of Islands County Council to utiiko a road to tho mines. Mr R, Monk, M, H, It, for Waitomata, addressed his constituents on Thursday uipht at Devonpoit, and received a vote of thanks. He spoke principally on tho necessity for economy m public expenditure, and tlio formation of a public spirit amonnst young New Zealandei's; Mr J, Bennett favors us with the following record of rainfall at Otahoitu. November, 1889, l.Ooin, on 1 days. November, 1888, (i.44in, on 17 days. November, 1887,3.8iin, on 15 days. The average rainfall for November for tho previous eight years was about 4 Jin. Tho large extent of bush felled'in this neigbourhoiid notably on the properties of Messrs Wardell, Hosking, Uemott and Percy's lias evidently a serious eifect on tho climate, It is a strango physiological lact that handsome mou and pretty women are usually " Summer children," and came into the world with tho flowers and sunshine about them, Nearly every ono of tho world's famous boatilies of to-day lias a summer birthday.

A veterans' cricket club, whoso members arc nil over 50 years of age, and who adopt the quaint " top-hat" stylo of attire of thirty or forty years ago, 13 being started in Ohristchurch, A match Wellington v Christcluirch will be arrangod between tlio " old boys" this SUllSOll, It is said that tho Secretary of War at Washington recently becaino so greatly impressed with tlio value of an original invention (an instrument known as the "hitch-lock") that at his special request it was hurried through tho patent office Its importance lies in tho use to which the Government can apply it. Attached to a telegraph line, any electric messapo can be sent ovor the wires to its destination without being heard at intervening stations, and Government socrets cannot ho interpreted, Jn the newly-made tea platations of Assam a red spider lias suddenly shown itself, and threatens serious injury to tho plants unless some wash can bo tound that will kill the spider and leave 110 taste on the leaf. \ bee-fann near liecton, in Canada, covers four acres, and tho owner, iu 11 favourable year, secures no less than 75,000 lb of honey from his 19,000,000 littlo workers Tho whulo of the si'wa«o of Paris will soon be used fir tho purpose of market gardening, Gmevilliera now absorbs and purities a third of the Paris sewage water, Aohires and Mery will soon utilise the rest. The Admiralty steamer Egeria whioli has beon 011 a sounding cruise in the South Bea Islands lias arrived at Sypnoy from Tonga. It is the intention of the Admiralty to linvo liur refitted mid alio she will resume her survey in about two months. She reports that between Fiji and Maviratura Islands tho deepest sounding ovor reaching by a British was obtained. In that locality a depth of4s3ofathoms iveie recorded, Tho following is a true story about a collio who took a hansom. Ho was lost 111 Oxford street, so after having spent somo time iu looking for him, his mistress went homo, and what was her surprise when she arrived to Beo him in

tho hall. Tlio butler told her the story, and it was this ;~Aftor tho dog hud been lost, he saw an empty hansom, which he got into, and tho cabby could not act him out, for ho showed his teeth Cabby culled a policeman, who could not move him either, but with some difficulty they read the name and address on his collar, :>i|d settled it would bo best to drive him to his home; When lie urriyod thp cabby rang the hell and asked for-his fare (which he of cuurso got), and then the butler opened the doors, and tlio dog jumped out as if nuthiiu' had happened.

Every one must have ohseived what are usually called the whiskers on the oat's upper ljp. Tho qso of those iu a state nf-nattire is very important, They are organs of touch. Thoy are attached to a bed of close "lands under the skin; and each of the3e long and stiff hairs is connected with tho nerves of the lips The slightest contact of theso whiskers with any surrounding object is thus felt jngst distinctly by the animal, although the hairs tlicmsdrfs are insensible, They stand out on each side in the lion as well as in the common cat; so that from point to point they are equal to the width of the animal's body. If wo imagine, therefore, a lion stealing through a covert of wood in an imperfect )ji/l|t, we shall at once see tho uso of those long hairs,, They iudijate to him, through the nicest fooling, any obstaclo which njay present itso]f to the ps.CT of his body; thoy prevent tho rustle of boughs and leaves, which would I'ivo warning to hjs prey if he were to attempt to pass through too closoabushi and th||s in conjunction with the soft cushions of his loot, and fur upon which lie treads (the retraotile claws never coining in contact with the ground), they enable him to move towards his victim with a 6tilhiess greater even than that of the suako,, that glides along the grass, and is not perceived till it \$ coiled round its prey.

Our milliijiiy showroom lias .been the sccno of muuli activity unce the season commenced, ami has been'thronged froni day to day by ladies who knew that the most cjogent, becoming and graceful fashions wore to be hod at tlio WlioJoeolc I'amily Drapery Warehouse, Jp Aro House, Wellington. '

We have an oxoellcnt choice of triimncd hals, In white, orearo, black, and all colours; wo have every fashionable variety of shape, and every lady who but gives aglanco at our millinery window will too that for genuine taste and moderate prices wo aro without compeers, at To Aro House, ttulli^'ou. Weliavc;»b ail W'llipcc pi flower trails from la to 7s Dd; of flower sprays' 'rotf Da to -la (|dj jf imnwunted flowers of aU kiuaa Indeed as regard (low;; pcraliy, we have the largest and most fashionable stock, in the city, at Te Aro House, Wcliing'tQii, We have a lot of unlrimmed picnio hats, sn&iiiiJly imported for this purpose and fur garden wear, fr/mj 2id to 2s each, and a nice lotpf'tliesiimodes.oripjjqn', trimmed, at2s Udai)u7s lid each, atTcAioHoijte', Wellington. ' ' ' " Altogether, fm millinery department, just now, is very attractive, ami would amply repay a visit of inspection.' Wo .oaii isxftcuto all orders promptly and most artistically, a!jdgua.ra|)tso.wjiat is obtained nowhere eko in' Hie city, complete salislae. tion, at tho Wholesale Family Eirapeiy Warehouse, To are House, Wellington— Apvj,