The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1890. Cheap Trips by Rail.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 15 May 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1890. Cheap Trips by Rail.

We understand that special fares and «tia].e train for tho Wellington Opera season will be granted during the Queen's Birthday week. This time 'i \$ lllfolj that the pheapesji class of wwhl iefet-that hitherto available for one day only t will be made to extond over two dap, with a late ttain on the second night, It will also probably be arrauge'd to have two different operas ou consecutive nights, so that visitors from the country may hear more than one piece, Wo have always considered that one-day excursions, with a return trjp at three o'clock in the morning, included Jo ( o muoji exhausting travel, and were'too'great'a ta? on pn.durance to leave any margin for pleasure, and we aro gratified to contemplate that there is some prospect of a more programme in the future, for we hardly tbji)!:' the old limited tickets will he' again jrcrtj} -to, except yery occasionally, after Jh'e iwio-days trip has been tried. Of Course, thpr'fl will still probably be occasional single day pxeursions in the summer, but then we hope there

will bo tI)Q more liberal ones as well, | :It is presume} tUali pujoposing, for I instance, the excursion rates arfl for Fr i a Saturday, travellers will I be able to gd down by imytramon either of-these days' Jtwwtarato any train up to the late train oil l™ second night. We should olso like to see some other day than Saturday occasionally favoured with cheap oxcursion fares. There ar'o always a certain number—a very considerable proportion—who oanuot go on that day, and then those who do go are unable to do any business in Wellington, for all tbe merchants and offices, including the Govern' raent Institutions, are closed. We think that any otbor day than Saturday (which has already reduced fares) might, with wisdom sometimes be sekcted for-cheap trains, for farmers can go practically any-day, and'those who are not farmers oannot gfl-oil-Saturday. Wo understand that if, as there is some likelihood, the celebration of the Queen's Birthday is fixed for Monday, the coming railway privileges will apply to Monday and Tuesday,

Tub report of tbe,Mastcrtqn Town, Lands Trustees published in our last issue, is on the whole avery satiafuotory record. The Trustees are to be congratulated upon thepassageof the new Act under- which they are.now workiug, and which: may be regarded as a fiual provision of securing the future successful administration of its affairs, In carrying through this important measure it is only right that the business tact and ability of Mr Lowes, the Chairman of the Trust, should be recognised. He assisted very materially the settlement of sundry vexed points which had been made bones of contention

for a censiderable period. Tho Trustees during the past year have made a very fair allocation of the funds at their disposal aa grants in aid of our soliools, of the Public Library, Public Park, School of Design, and Fire Brigade, and the assistance given to these institutions is fully appreciated by tho public who have, confidence in the impartial and business-like manner in which the Trustees have'conducted their business,

Tho Masterton Riflo Volunteers parade to-night, Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their sale for to-morrow, bedsteads, and sundries. The first meeting of the newly-elected SchoolCommifcteewill bo held this evening, at 7,30 p.m. Mr F. H. Wood makes an addition of six forward steors, to. his next Taratahi Stock Sale. A meeting of tho General' Committee of tho Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held at the Club Hotel on Weduesday neit, the 21st inst., to i'edoive the balaiico sheet &c, ■ ,

An unsuccessful attempt to rob the Kaiwarra Post Office was made during Sunday night last, Efforta.are being made in Wellington to secure the postponement of the celebration ot Queen's Birthday till Monday, the 26th'inst, Mr Joseph Hodder, an old settler of the Lower Valley, died at Featherston yeatorday. The funeral is announced to take place to-inorrow (Friday), ThoMinisterof Lands and Agriculture in Victoria, the Hon J. L. Dow, is to be charged,- .with othor directors of ..the PreiiiierPemianentß'iildingAssociatbn, with conspiring to defraud, and in consequenco has resigned his office, The Cabinet, however, baa refused to acoept his resignation,

In order to comply with the provisions of the Rabbit Nuisance Act,; notioa is given in another column that owners must commence a yeueral puisoning of

teir properties not later than June Ist Messrs Lowes and lorns sell at thoi

rooms to-morrow, instead of- Saturday, the privileges. in couuectioii with tho raco meeting at Opaki on tho 2(ith, also furniture, guus, produce, and sundries. We understand that there is m Pahiatna at' the present time _ ono singular individual of indomitable cojwsje, who follows tho varied calling of saddler, bootmaker, barber, watchmaker, and goueral storekeeper. The two great industries now being vigorously developed inland m New South Walee are the manufacture of

dairy produce, butter, cheese, and bacon, : and tho exportof killed beef and mutton, And not n man .identified with either enterprise talks or thinks of protection. The ship Eleanor Vernon arrived at Auoklaud from Wellington yesterday, When olf Kast Capo in a galo, on Monday morning, OharloaPahl, boatswain, fell olf tho jibboom and was drowned, He had ken seiitouUo'fur} the flying ]ib.' Tho ship tacked about for an hour and a half, but no traco of tho body could be fouud > It does not tako any large measure of ability to Matt anew religion in these days, A man named Scliweiufurth, of Illinois, callß himself tlioSaviuur,aud is fathering in a fine revenue from tithefl furnished by bis dupes, Tho follow lias not even the Bhruwdness of Joe Smith, the founder of Mormonism, for ho has devised no new creed,' and he cannot preach anything but a commonplace' sermon. Ho has plenty of audacity, however, and this is the main requisite > Mr A; Faulkner, a settler in the Wei • lingtonfto 2 Special Settlement, near Eketahuna, had a rather unpleasant experience a few days ago, He had invited a couple of gentlemen to come up from Wellington for a few days shootin?, and kavingset his houso in order to receive company, he proceeded to Ekotabuna to meet his friends. On returning, I however, to where his residenco s/wtiM /iare teen (a spot Borne ten miles in the heart of the forest) lie found to his disgust that it had vanished in smoke, A ciuoless | bush whacker,who had taken bush leave,

Aud occupied Mrif'aulkner's tvhare in his absence, had thoughtlessly left a totara log on the fire, which duubtlosß had cast a spark into some loose chaff near at hand and. thus caused the disaster.

A special meeting of the Masterton Oonjetery .Trustees was held at the Institute last evening to consider the advisability pi erecting ut mortuary

ohape), pore wore present Messrs Payroll (chairman), Ferry, Bunny, Galloway, Hourigan, and Feist. The chairipn stated that.the sub-committeo appointed to consider the project reported in its fayor, The RevW.E.

Paige had kindly lent them n plan of a suiiablo structure which he had obtained from Ohristchurch, but ho understood from Mr Bunny that there was a legal difficulty in the way, Mr Bunny, expressed an opinion that the Act, though it gaye them power to maintain and preserve buildjngs, and to permit denominations 'to. erect mortuary chapels, did not'allow'them to-build such a structure directly, 'Mr Porry expressed a as'lo'whiithej: the Act was Joncliisiye oil this point, but oh''tl}o rootjon of Mr. Foist' if'TO decjaed that (ri y(py of the legal doubt as to the powers of tjie Trustees no further action bo. taken at prosont, A vote "of thanks was passed to the Rey W. E.f Paige for the assistance he h«d>;giv6n the Cominitteo, and it was arranged, on tho suggestion of Mr Bunny, that a special meeting should bo held on the cemetery ground at an early dale to fix up a orogramiiio of shrub plauM' for this season, • ■ A new aio'is Ijoing jijade in tho States j which combines the advantages of'tho, old English thiii-bladed'hatchet, and of: the thiek-bladed American axOj or should wo say it avoids tho mo3t obyious disadvantage in each of them, The hatchet i| a good cnttor, hut a poor splitter, and ts}' fatter .reduces its cutting powers, is it does riot 'force off ohips. The American ax'o has replaced tho English because it does not foroe of thp cliipsj leaving a face free 'for the next cutting' blow, Butit is a "sticker;" oyeryo'no' knows how 'firm a ijrip soft wood can take'on'its wedge-like bladfl. 'Jho ney axo has a thin'cutting blade, wjtji a narrow wodgo up tho middle of each 6u}o, ; to bij'rst off the phi ps, , The makew say practipai lumbernjei) are aoißg in for it as» free and easier tool than tile* Q^m> li as we)l and docs not stick.

Wendell Bautn, seoretary o,- tnar l unique organieation, the Bridgeport (Conn.) Suicide Club, has fulfilled the membership agreement by himself. The history' of this astonishing Sooiety is one of intense interest tu the students of morbid psychology. Four years ago, five citizens of Bridgeport, j all Germans; met one day when'all were low-spirited, an/), half in jest, organised the Suicide Olub. The agreement ™ that one member of the Club should end his life that year, one tbe.nejft, and so on, until'all were gone. The agree.niont has thus far been- faithfully kept, When the annual meeting was held in January, there were only ttvo members to attend it, thb aeorefcary and president, It was proposed at this, meeting by the Secretory tlmttho President should maKe away with himself during the year, and bythePreaidei'tthatthe Sooretary du likewise. The President of the Club is now'tho ouiy mouibor left, and another yswwilHliwifh«li?opßliiß9Jtl),

Oiving to the interruption of the cable our-usual budget of foreign news has not reached us

Wo understand that Mr G.Beothanii M.H.IJr,, will address the electors in Mastortpn about tho ond of this month, It will be soon from a telograin appearing in anotlior column that Henry George fears that ho will be nnnblo to pay a visit to Now Zualand,;altliough he lias received liberal offers from Wei lington, - . Tho Resident' Magistrate will sit tomorrow to hear objections to and finally revisa tho Slockownora' List under the North Wairavana Rabbit Board.

Mrs Cole, of tho Quoen-Btreot Fish Depot, announces that She desires to purcliaso a thousand rabbits per week. Bunny may thereforo expect f. lively time 1 Goo! littlo Nnpier boys amuse themselves by taking, shanghais to Sunday sctiool, Mid when outside in exercising tlwiuwlvos rajardlow of tho dinger to other people. „ Tho Waikato Times describes Sir R Stout as a democrat, yet a lover of the baubles nf an effetoaristooraoy-a Freethinker with a mixture of Puritan, and almost certain to end as a strong Tory and Conservative Churchman. Tho remains of the lad George .lies-

sell, who was killed at Te Ore Ore on Tuesday, wero interred in tho Masterton , Cemetery this morning. ( The annual general meeting of tho • Cartorton Lawn Tonnis Club, to receive i a statement of accounts and to appoint ; a now committoa, will be: held on. Wed-1 nosday evoning, 21st May, 1890, at 8 o'clock. The election of a member for No. 3 sub-division of tho Masterton Road Board tukos • place to-morrow. Tho oandidatos are Messrs Stuclwy and M'Lcod, A handsome past-master's jewel was presented to Bro N. Grace by St Mark's Lodge of Freemasons at theirinstallation at Carterton on Tuesday last,. The doooration was prooured from MrO. L. •Barnard, the local jeweller. A poll for the election of two members of the Masterton Town Lands Trustees m place of Mossra Eton and Lowes, who rotiro by rotation but are elligible for ro-oloction, will be token on Thursday,

29th May, Nominations closo on Wednesday, 21st inat. An offer was received yesterday by a Wair&rapa ilaxmillor from a well-known inorchant in Wellington to purchase any quantity of well-drosaed • iihro at LIG per ton, f.o.b. Wellington railway

Ftation, This indicates an advance urice of L2 per ton within tho past foi night,

We have heard PumoroußOomplaints of late about tho depredations of the youth ot this town, but the most recent uppears to be of a decidedly moro mischovious character than the re3t, It

appears that tho fences crossing the turnip fields on Landsdowne have been wilfully and maliciously destroyed, A reward of £o, which is offered by Mesjts Williams and Beetham, will | possibly result in the discovery of the miscreants,

Herbert Brooks, who is just rocovci

ing from a broken leg in the Greytown North Hospital, slipped and foil 01 tho verandah yesterday afternoon, breaking his Ice; again in the same plaoo. The log was set by Drßay, a33ißted by Dr Tho Feilding Star Bay's:—"The inanaper of tho Oroua Downs estate has received the returns of a shipment of 993 frozen aheap which was Bent Homo by the Tongariro, Tho receipts canw to £1253 Is lOd, the charges beiny £658 193 lid, leavino a margin of | £594 2s Sd, or a net price of 123 per head on 903 shoep in tho paddootc immediately after shearing, St Mark'B Church, Carterton, inohoos, iot; a gift auction as a means of providing funds fur re-paying its loan, has certainly chosen the most attractive form of church withering, atid with Mr.F E Wgud as the auctioneer on Friday, 20th June, there blioulcl be a large attendance and good business in the Assembly Booms, Carterton, on tho occasion. The ladios also hold a sale of work in the samo Oonuoction,and altogether quito a variety of attractions is offered to induce thoso willing to lend a helping hand to attend, St Mark's Lodge of Froomaaona, Carterton, has now a very lino ohamber organ, generously presented lo it as an inconditioual gift by Brothor E, L. Wakelin, Tho instrument, which is one of remarkably sweet tone, and of exceedingly handsome appearance, is by Cornish, the well-known Amoucan manufacturer, The Carterton Masons are-to bo con?ratulat°-d upon their acquirement, and it says'much for the unselfish interest which Mr Wakelin takes in Masonry, when ho makes his lodge the recipient ol so valuable aprescnt, Tho organ possesses a grand pipo top, twenty stops, sub bass, two qotayo couplors, and contains Bye sots of roeds, It is 1 counterpart qf tho one jn St, Luke's Churoh, Greytown, and it wis used for the first "timo at t|;e annual installation laat Tuesday eveiiihf, A blood curdling, marrow freezing, hair stiffening story of "anameless something," which hovered around a party of benighted bushinen, tp their no bmall discomfort, during the storm last Monday, a related" as follows:—Thrco tried and trusty settlers, out in aearcli of grayed cattle', were overtaken by darkness in a yei'y thick bush in the Wellington settlement. They were of course accompanied by their'dogs, one of which was a warrior of pure bull breed, who had nover before been known to stop at anything less than a traction engine, It was too wet to make a firo, and dogs and men were lying down togethor anxiously waitinp for tho coming day, in misory better imagined than described. Suddenly a most unearthly yoll rosounded thrown the trees, and in anothor moment a huge shadow loo'med up and w'as-'eonO. The cojd perspiration' started from eaoli mans bjrow, when again '.Ms ghostlike creaturo o'ave'flnsfl'f itlfiinefiilijo'teS;' 1 ' Presently thoy recovered' Bufticioqt preßO]ige t>f mind to remember tho dogs,' and with many cries to " hold it I" they set them on tho intruders tracks. Tho dogs apparently came up withthe unknown monster, but woro unablo to " hold it" for after one niore dreadful yell they.all relumed, looking very much upset, even the fighting bull pup with his tail low down. And all that low night they stayed in foafand trembling, expecting every njomemY to be thou', last. The niysteif Wthat'whon i|!qrnins did dawn, not a thing W'to be Soon, not even tjio signs of a recent scuffle, Whatever could it have been? is now Tee Qoeen's BihiUDAY.—Ladies, no doubt, will soon think of preparing for the ball (hat will bo given iiv honour- of flor ifaosty'sbjrlhday, 'and we' li'avo'muoh pleasure in oalling attention tq giir recently imported and chbico assortment oiuialeri-il^ suitable for balls and evening wiiar,' at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, To Aro Houso. ' 'Tjies'b comprise Jullcs, nets by the yard, ' embnji'derea tulles jn'aWs lengths, eyerjing colours in cashmeres, veilings, and also; hi pjeryeilleaux faille' nioiro and other alb, 6f alltkeso are"just now .making a grand display,. atT"e Arij House. "■ SpEipßßithaSfiOinelimes boon fouud difficult lo lilSt!)!) tbe various requisites for raakiiiit iip tUeso drews, qiid so to pbvialo :|| l « dilgiiHy we havoimcortcda pmb'qr gf complete uiini^?' l^sße3 1 witlHilneoeGsary linings and trimmings id m% among whioh will bo found thoso that appeal? >» the next paragraph. To Aro Houso, EsimtoißEnED veilings in vienx rose, eaul do nil, white, coral, sky, pink and cream; tosoa nets, will) laoo and ribbons in gold, 1 heiiolfopVeau de nil, enoalyptus green, pale blue, &o, &\; salmon veiling, embroidered, 1 in silver; heliotrope veiling,' embroidered in gold; Brunei's nets, in'old rose, cardinal', i proempink'*o.,' variously embellished; .'a . graud assortment of French tulles in blaok and in all the hiost (ajhionablo colours at , Te Aro'iHouso.' ' , And then jve have an excellent flection of evening glovei, hosiory.'fans, wrap's,' with soine very choice and attractive opera 1 cloaks In ellkß and plush, really beautiful 1 goods. I/adjes should before purchasing 1 make an early and 'complete inspeolion 1 of what we are now showing in materials i for balls and ovouingdress, at tho Whole- ' salo Family Drapery Warehouse, To Aro gousev-ApYii ';•■,.

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their sain for 21st 100 fat ewes. The definitions ul tho now olectoral districts wero gazetted yesterday. William Henry Morris, ot Greytown, was to-day adjudged a bankrn pt, Wo are requested to-remind the public that tho rink will be opon this eyeuing, Efforts are,we understand, to be. made

to secure a visit to Masterton from Mr ■ Vatley, the evangolist. The significant sign of Mr Shaw, pawnbroker, was attached to bis premises to-day, being tho first over ereoted in Masterton, • The morning train from Wellington r 5 still frequently late in its arrival at Masterton, and thore is tho usual amount of grumbling on the part of those who waste about a quarter of an hour waiting for their letters and their newspapers. We made a trip to Wellington the othor day, and then ascertained by our own observation the cause of the delay, The fault is in tho morning down train. It arrives late at the crossing place, and the up train is consequently delayed waiting for it. This down train is a combined passenger and freight train, and lately its heavy care;o, moro particularly in shoep and cattle has caused its delay. There is on the one hand not a law e enough passenger traffic to justify a ■ separate passenger train,' not on the 1 other quite sufficient regular cattle trade to maintain a distinct cattle trainthat is'if any regard is paid to economical > working, As this. is. so, ivo are afraid i that if tho public still growl, the Railway ; Department will feel itself bound to " amend the time table so that the trams I can run to time, and as this means making the morning train from Masterj ton to Wellington leave here a quartet 1 of an hourearlier, the alteration will not j bean unmixed blessing, t .