Eketahuna Road Board.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3524, 31 May 1890, Page 2

Eketahuna Road Board.

On Friday evening lastaapeoial meeting of the liketahuna Boad Board was held. Present—Messrs Neilson (in the chair), Fogden, and Dowset. 'lbe meeting was called re MrMonagan'B land. MrKingattended the Board to explain the winding of the road and special reserve. Sketches of the boundary were procured by Mr King, who explained that the land was not of much value to any one. It appeared than Mona> gan' agreed to accept the road line, but now refused to do so and wanted £ different line, taking in part of the quarry reserve. It was proposed tt forward to Mr Monagan the sketch of road lines and quarry reserve, showing the road agreed te. The Clerk explained that he'had written to Mr Monagan on the subject, slibwing.that Mr Timminß /wanted pari of the creek through his reserve. CORREBrONDENOE. From Mr Barron, explaining that he was unable to get on with his contract as he had made a mistake in his.estimates, and applying to have his deposit refunded. The Board deoidedattnelastgeneral meeting to call for fresh tenders for the contract. The meeting then adjourned till Friday next.

A Cannibal Bishop.

Everyone knows the story of the Frenchman who, while sitting with his face close to the opou window of an English railway car, heard a sudden shout of "Look out," and popping out his head accordingly, received a tremendous bump on the forehoad from a projecting, pole of a scaffolding which tho train was just passing, whereupon monsieur exclaimed, indignantly; "Inglisman big fool. He says" Look outF when he mean 'look in,' A similar misconception occurred during the ssige of Sebastopol, when an English Guardsman was "brought up" for having given a severe thrashing to a French grenadier, the Englishman's only explanation being that " ho would 'ave it, so f just 'ad to give it him." It appeared on inquiry that the Guardsman had accoßted the other in what he supposed to be French, and that the puzzled Frenchmen had exclaimed in bewilderment:" Comment ?" (How) which John Bull mistook for" come on," " Come on yourself, then," he roared, " it you will 'ave it," and forthwith the fistioufls began in earnest. But more startling than all was the mistake made by a Queen of Denmark during her visit to the Danish, colony of Iceland, where'the good old' bisbop exerted himself to the utmost to show her everything that was worth seeing. The Queen paid many compliments to her hosj, and having learned that lie was a family man; graoiously inquired how many children he had. Now it happened that the Danish word for children was almost identical with the lcelandio word for sheep, so the worthy bishop—whose knowledge of Danish was not so complete as' it might' have been-tinderstood her Majesty to ask how many sheep ho ; owned, and promptly answered, "Two hundred." "Two hundred ohildren 1" cried theQueen.aetounded. "How can you possibly maintain suoh a number?" "Easily enough, please yourMajesty,"repliedthehjperborew prelate, with a cheerful smile, ,"In the summer I turn them out upon tlie hillsto graze, and when winter comes I kill and eat them t"—David Ker.

Remarkable Story of the Sea-

A remirkablo story of tlie sea comes from St, Malo, tlio narrator being an ancient mariner named Bauolie, whose painful experiences in a small boat on the ocean ought to be a warrant forthetiiithofhis tale, Bauche had signed articles with the captairi of a vessel called the Matilda, in which he sailed to Martinique, While in the harbour 1 of St. Pierre in a boat with the cabin-boy one'day he was driven ooeanward by a gale of wind, and 1 was knooking about on the waves for 1 a week before he was rescued by a ; Norwegian barque. After the first ' night at sea Bauche says that the, ' cabin boy became partly delirious, f water was filling the boat every in. 1 stant, and inorderto prevent the dying 1 lad from being drowned in it, the oldi • sailor made paila of the legs of his 1 pantaloons, and was thus enabled to 1 keep the bottom of the little craft tolerably dry. Ho had also to deprive himself of his shirt, whioh he utilised as a flag of distress, On the third day tho oabm-boy died, aud hardly was the breath out of his • body before seven or eight | ferooious black sharks bogan to circle • round the'boat, whioh they sometimes almost touched, Rather than i deliver up the dead body to the ■ monsters of the deep, Baucho kept • until it became decomposed, Being > afraid of illness, heat length threw it overboard, after having said his ' prayers over it, and the prey waß _ speedily seized by the sharks, who ' disappeared with it, and did not show up again for about twenty-four hours or so, Bauche now felt so utterly miserable .that he was thinking of throwing himself overboard, 1 when lie was dissuaded, from his intention by the re-appearance of the sharks, who; after eying' him ravenously for .'some time, actually began" to gambol before him, as if in antici-, patidn of a good feed off his body. " I did not want to be eaten alive," remarked Bauche, in his narration of his perilous adventures, "so I remained where I was and, waited assistance." On the seventh day the sailor lost consciousness, fell down in the boat, and was rescued in an insensible.condition by Captain Paderserii/ofthe'Wladimir. fcibj mouth the Norwegian sailors loun'd i what they fijst thought wap an. old i quid of tobacco, but which proved to! be_ part of the bom handle of his' knife, whioh Bauche was crunching to stave off hunger when he became uncouscious. The rescued' Bailor after having, been taken to New Orleans, obtained a passage home to f . 'Malo. Only the other day he pfentdown to the port toTSSeT' 'sold shipmates of the Matliilde, who had been wrecked off the coist h Newfoundland,; wpier they had wade another voyage sinoe Bauohe nifsjipeared at .Martinique. - The 9 .'''..'

orew of the M&childe had been reseued off the banks of the Labrador by an English vessel. They had long, of nonrse, given up Bauohe and the cabin-boy as lost m mid-ocean, and great was their surprise when they beheld tho former in the flesh, and as hale and hearty as if he had never been without food on.the deep for full seven days in an .open boat, »nd in perilous contiguity to the teeth'of the tigers of the ocean; , . : ,

The Mysterious Drowning Case. ■ The/body of the young woman which was found near the St Hilda' pier on the 23rd nit, has now been definitely identified aa that of Mrs J.E. Roberts. Mr Sicklemore, a dentist in Lauceston, telegraphed to the Police M Victoria asking them to forward a set Of false teeth which were found in the deceased woman's mouth, as ho had made some teeth for Mrs Roberts. The chief commissioner of police at otice complied with the request, and forwarded the teeth to Lauceston. Mr Sioklemore was absent when the teeth' arrived tut Miss Clayton, a sister, of. Mrs Roberts, identified the teeth as those of her Bister. After the experience of this case the ohief commissioner of police has decided to take a photogragh of every body brought into the morgue, and to that: end he has purchased a camera and has made arrangements to have the constable who is in charge instrncted in the art of photography. -

Riyals« "This," said the nian who was travelling in the train, as ha opened his bag and took out a bottle, "is a mixture called Dr Jenkinson's Indispensable, I never travel without it. It is the best and moat agreeable tonio now on the market by all odds." "I am not so sum about that," replied tlie man who was occupying' the seat with him. "I have here," and he opened his own valise, and took out a bottle," a tonio called Pr Rybold'a Extraot, which I have used for several years, and consider it the very best preparation made. No man ought never to —-" " I have no doubt it is a fairly good medicine in its way," broke in the other," but if you had ever tasted Dr JenkmsorVs Indispensable you would throw that stuff of yourg away." " I know all about Dr Jenkinson's nostrum, Bir, I know exactly what? i.t'B made of."

•'"You do, hey?" " Yes, sir; and I know Dr Rybold'B Extract is made from preoisely the same formula, only from pure mater* mis, instead of the vile and adulterated ingredients old Jenkinson uses." " It's made from the same formula is it!"

"Exactly the same," "Youlying old.ignoramus, how do you know what it's made of ?"

" How do I know, you insulting old scoundrel?l'mDrftybold,air 1" " lam glad I have found you out, you infernal villiara, lam Dr Jen* kmson!"

MISOELLANjEpUS,..;',. The Shah of Persia has added six new. wives to bis household. Ob, . Shah. ' ' Canada expends abont'£2so,ooo a year npoh a force fof the defoiica of the country. We have ,at last solved thomyslery why tailors put buttons on the cuffs of coat slewes. It is to tear out over, coat linings to get themselves a job' Berlin and Vienna dressmakers announce that :they will no longer follow the Paris fashions, They intend henceforth" to exercise their own originality." A remarkable case of reputed longevity is announced from Stanis. laus, California. An indian there has just died who is deolared to have reached the age of 150. Nearsightedness is overrunning the Prenoh people as muoh as the Germans. Among the senior boys in tho different French colleges more than forty-six per cent are nearsighted. The sliding railway, which was in une at_ the Paris Exnibitlon, is to be tried in England, An experimental ■• length of about a mile is to be - laid down Bt Noasden, The. difficulty. ■ arising from the freezing ef the water on the track would, it was thought, not be serious in countries like Eog- ..- and and France,