TAUERU.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3405, 9 January 1890, Page 2

TAUERU.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Things at Taueru are very quiet as ! usual; people are busy getting in their crops, wliioh are looking splendid. Ml 1 Vallanco, of Kahnmiugi, Las a paddock of oats higher than the fence, which should give a heavy yield, and the same gentloman has a paddock of turnips, the best I have scon in (ho district. Tho ground is rather foul, but I think that has boon an advantage, as it lias protected them from tholate hot sun and wind, The Kumurau races were a rather tame affair; there wero about from fifty to sixty pooplo 011 the ground, Everything went off very quietly, but tho- promoters managed to make it hang out till it was nearly dark, before tho cousohtion came off, and then there was a protost to bo entertained of course.

It camo on to rain lightly about midday, on New Year's Day, at Taueru, and increased to heavy showers in tho afternoon, and at about half past three o'clock tlioro was a very sevoro hailstorm, which lasted a quarter of an hour, and the grouud was white with hailstones about tho size'of tares. .

Tliorawiua little thing happened at Taueru 111 the afternoon of Now Year's Day which might havo proved serious, if not fatal, There was a young gentloman and lady left the Taueru Hotel at about six o'clock to go to Masterton, Whether it was looso driving or the horso shying is not known, but the buggy fouled the loft wing, at tho entrance of tho Taueru bridge, pitched tho young lady out, and dni considerable damage to the buggy. Iheard that tho lady ivas a littlo hurt but not seriously. Drivers from town want to keep a sharp look out, if only a one horso affair, 011 theso pot-hook roads about hero,

It set in to rain heavily last night, (Tuesday), about eight o'clock, and has been raining a steady downpour through tho night to the time of writing, and has every appearance of continuing. It will be unfortunate for the farmers who kv:: ,7.'.'::ir crops down and not secured,,as it come 011 very suddenly, but it was what was wanted vory muoli, as thore is any quantity of long grass everywhere, which was getting very dry and , vory dangerous in case olftre, and this rain will do moro good than harm, if we don't get too much of it,

Landholders arc still going for the rabbits. There ara .very few to be aeon just now, and it is only a question of time before you will havo to go a long distance to get one, if tlicy aro worried as at prostnt. It was good policy on the iixccutivo not to allow those foxes to land. What! Are sheep owners tired. of seeing old slieep dead, and want io' see what, a lot of dead lambs would look like!

Murder Will Out. ' From Our Eketahuna Correspondent. " Bo sure your sins will find yon out," is an ancient provorb, which, however, seems to work very well in these modern times, and wight be aptly applied to little mattors.wliioh .we' would; ratherwero kept (M, as well as.the more grave offcpcesyclept, sins. Apropos of the same is the followiug little story: -Two young gentlemenof a romantic turn of mind, then and now rosident in the Wairarapa, conceived the idea of a colonial i tour, not to be done in the ordinary white .man stylo, hut to be carried oiit on strictly. "Buffalo Bill" lines, sucb as boil your own billy, sleep in a tent, shoot wild cattle, and ■ smoke short olays. i! It was decided to travel iiia biiggy, (tho same being conven-

ienf, if not" Wild West}and six months provisions boing laid iu, a happy start was made from tho Lower Valley. About dusk they arrivod at a likely spot about three miles from Eketnhuna, Here the camp was pitched, a fire lit all round to keep off. wild beasts,, and the horse safely tethered (as they thought) iu a hollow a littlo way off. A night of not unalloyed bliss wa3 spent by our two - r friends, for the ground was damp, and the vigilant tnosqiiito bbth .ready and willing. Morning uawiied | and they rose from-tbeir' downy' | couch somewhat stiff 07^ oramped. ■ No 1 proceeded to \bra the/billy <.\\i whilst No 2 went in quest of their ' 1 ! mettlesome mustang, He was gone but a few moments, when he carae back pale and breathless.; Leaning against a i'emu he wiped the pdrspir- ■ ■ ' ation from his brow. " Speak I what- is cronlt ?" said So 1 in a sepulchral whisper, " Dead," ho answered, quite ~'sKlf f.: r \ 'im. Rosihanto ,lias i goriej'off; tho, /J j liooks." Several queries as to the ' probable cause 'of decease were put by No. 1 to his companion, who continued glaring savagely at nothing. \ At last he said," the blankety-blaiik-' --Jj blank old brute has been and lmng - himself," It was a fact, and they wore in a terrible, fix. They had tothercd the horso m Bomo peculiar' fashion of thoir own, and lie had, in the night, somehow managed to stranglo himself. It was awkward, very, First; there was the horse, his loss was' a big item, but that could ' be got over. Not so, however, tho unlimited chaff of their numerous' ' friends, This was the bittor pill. For three solid lioura they held a consultation, and eventually hit upon ; the following course. ' 1 To at onoe burn the stoed. then proceed to Eketahuna aud go home by rail, one 1 of thorn to go home and go to bed for a day or two; tho Otlier to procure another nag and go back for the buggy; then they' would both show up and gas about the trip. Tho programme waß faithfully carried out, and wero it not for one little thing the dreadful secret might have gone down to the grave unreyeaW. Tho little thing was this-we were in the 1 noxt compartment of the railway carriago and they did not know it! New Zealand Trout,

A fortnight ago (writes " Telernaolius" in tlio Argus) I saw 10 trout * lying together in the vestibule of tho Grand Hotel Dunedin, They had been sent down from Lake Hayes, /fc and they averaged 121b each, We admired (hem in that undressed condition, and a little later we made a closer acquaintance, and acquired that most precisus of all possessions a new and true friend in a well-cooked trout. Bat let me say here don'tgo to the lakes in the hope of sport, 'i'liq lake fish will not rise to any bait. They are all taken in nets. The spore ■ . is on the rivers. Now Zealand ought to do uiuch with these magnificent and now well stocked fishing fields ; nor is she destitute of wealth of this sort in her ocean waters. Look at models there of moki and trevalla,,, and schnapper and sole, and flounder and wonderfulfrostfißh, not to speak, of ling, and groper, and barracouta, and such liko common stuff. The sea teems with fine fish, folks say." It is a trite old commonplace, I know, and, as nsual, meaningless. One does not , observe, much difference in this wiiy between the seas of New Zoaland and Australia., But doubtless .. i there are many good fish, and' the £ ' possibility of a largo export trade. I® was begun a couple of years ago, anifjy £11,927 was returned to the fishermen who sought to trade • with their neighbors, This sum might be doubled, trebled, indeed,; multiplied anyhow, if full advantage were taken of all opportunities; for, putting tho sea product aside, what mavvellous scopo is there in the fresh waters of tho islands! A fleet of twenty steamers. is regularly employed throughout tho entire season in conveying the produota of the salmon fisheries of the West, of Ireland to the English ports. " They have no salmon in Now Zealand," you say, and I answer," May be not; but tho \ trout aro very good; in Melbourno, indeed, held so good that the engineer • of our boat tells me ho took oyer fivo. on a recent trip;' and sold them easily enough for £-110s." Those who desiro to buy trout will certainly agree that it is good enough.

Miscellaneous It is estimated-by ;Mr Webl>, ; of*'. Crowe, that ftie quantity of steel removed from tho rails throughout the London and North-Western system by wear and oxidation, is about 15001b im hour, or 18 tons a day! « ■lt is the fjpculinr. disiiiictioii ofr. India that it has been tho Theatro of four gioat religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Christianity. The first tliroo have eacli had many centuries of opportunity, ur.d yet Christianity has done more for the elovation of, Indian society in the last" fifty years tlmn ' during all tho long ages of their domination, It fulls to the lot of few coachmen , to die worth : between' f9OOO arid .610,000, as has happened in the ease of the late Mr Henry Charles Westover, who occupied that position in the Prince of Wales' household. *Vhen people succeed, their friends for the most part find tbeui out, if it . .is only to borrow monoy of them. M thoy fail, their fiionds cease to scpfijjh for them; or, if they find them tliey hide them away and liecp thorn hiddon.—Walter Besant. Tim Argentino Govornmenthaa instructed its agent in Paris to offer facilities for emigration to the Jews, who are being expelled wholesale from Russia. Several.thousands of people who are under orders to quit Bessarabia have accepted engagements to go and eoloniso lands in ■ tho Argentine territory. A shipful . of start in a few f~ days from Istnailia. y*.-'

When in Constantinople, it is said, the Sultan presented the Emperor William with tho famous sabro of the Sultan Mnrad IV,, which originally bolonged to tho Emperor ' Frederick of Hapsbuvg, who reigned during the early part of the fourteenth century, It is a cross-handled sword ~ of great length with a handle and - sheath of solid silver superbly chased, Tho Damascus blade is engraved with German inscriptions, and the Imperii^ Eagle is carved upon tho lmntMl! ; In tho sixteenth' century the sabre,: •'?' which was ah heirloom in the Haps- V '" S: bnrg family, was given by. the Emperor Mathias to!;'M, j]qbnt,;Hunyadi of that day, who. was kiileti in battle when fighting;; against tho Turks - who enptured tho weapon, and for more than thros hundred years it has , been a prominent object in the Imp- i erial Armoury at<Constptiiiople. . - Aiother munificent gift of land lias been,madeto,tho.inhat>iliiHtßofLondon;: It was announced at the meeting ./ of Hie County Council held at Guil dball

PaPiNovcniticr 12 that fc'iv Svdnoy arerlow hud written making an Offer to (ho public of his charming estiUo at llighgate, consisting of twenty-niim acres of undulating around amply adorned with trees . Boino of them old cedars of Lolianon . autl. having au acre and a half of laleo supplied with spring water, The estate is freohold, with tlin exception of two acres and a half, and to purchase the interest in this land also Sir Sydney Waterloo promises to • ftiy over to the. Loiulon County Council ■■ Jg'! sum of £6,000. The letter to Lord _ in which the "onerous donor statea with respect 'o ■ thia cstato —on which, by the way ho at one time resided —is remarkable for its simplo dignity and genuine feeling. " Commencing t'ie work ot my life aaa London apprentice, to • a mechanical trade, I was during the wholo seven years ot my apprenticeship," saya Sir Sydney, " constantly associated with men of tho weekly wage class," The knowledge thus gained of tho ways and wants ot tho artisan class has convinced him of.tho benelits which may be conferred on workmen by making their homes and elien air life as pleasant and as healthWas possible. Most people will lie amazed to learn that if Her Majesty called all tlio ( policemen of England, with thoir officers, to ft review, an army nf nearly ; <O,OOO men would pass before her. Of simple constables (hero are 80,000 ( of delectivo officers Gil, there arc 8890 sergeants, 1513 inspectors, 530 sicmntehdoms, and 107 borough '! The cost of the police { last year was £8,727,012 being a net increasoof £16,10!) compared with S 1886-7. Hero is a conversation which took . place in a suburban church jinent ' certain pending repairs in the organ:—"Thoy tell mo," said tho rector, "that the woodwork is J greatly afflicted by dry rot, and that . it will oxtond to other parts of the church," "Why, bless your heart, sir," said the builder, a constant a attendantat tho services, and speaking purely in a business sense, "tho dry ( rotin the organ is nothing to tho dry rot in tho pulpit, and it'B been getting worse ever since you came." A very simple method of inducing sleep iu casts of persistent insomnia, £ and one thai has succeeded where many drugs hive failed, is simply to n moderate amount of TOrni liquid food before the patient goes to bed. This diverts Iho blood

from the brain to the abdominal omms, and tukes away the corebral fßitement that precludes sloop. news Irom Wellington, and quite true, youcan get a splendid harmonium from Lo, piano or orjjan from LIS, organ with divided octave couplars all in solid black walnut casus fnni J,17. This beats all the cheapest homes in town. Pianos timed for 7s, or by the year four visits LI, travelling expenses added.' All kinds of musical instruments tuned, cloaned, and repaired, now reeds put in accordeans, Concertina?, harmoniums, and organs; also liberal exchanges made, Any instrument may bo purchased on the time payment system from 2s fid por week, Call and exchanjo your old piano for a new one at F. J Pinny's Musical Instrument Depot, Manners-streot, Wellington, (Sole agent of the 'celebrated Worcester OigilllS.)— AfIVT