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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3597, 26 August 1890, Page 2

Wo extremely regret t» hear that Mrs M, Caselbcrg died at her Wellington reaidonoe this murning, The deceased for n long tirno past has been in ill health, and change "of. climate 'and. of Bctene have in vaiu been tried to relieyo an obscure malady which socms to have baffled the best medical skill.-Great sympathy will be folt with Mr M, Orifielborg and his many sons" and daughters in the bereavement which has, befallen thorn, As many, of our readers aro aware, they, constitute one of the most united and affectionate family circles in this district, an| tlio loss of the wife and mother will bo deeply felt. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon, and the promises of Messrs Caselberg and Co. will be closed on that datq frqtn 3 to 6 p.m.

Mr D,. Guild,'of Te Ore Ore, invites tenders for bushfalling, Mr ' Thomas Alfred Howell, of Pahidtua, was on Saturday last adjudged a bankrupt. Messrs Lowes and loins add to their stook sale list for to morrow, 40 hend of mixed cattle, and 4 splendid sheep dogs used to all kinds of work. The Queen Street firebell rang out an alarm at 8.,45 last evening, the cause of whioh was a burning flue in the promises of MrWMI, draper. The wife ot Mr W. J. Neal, a reside,i of Hawke's Bay, gave oirtli on tho 20th inst. to three daughters, all doing well Nil despemitdnm! ; It is reported that a writ is about to be. served on the Eketahuna Licensing Bench.

A young man named Sunnex had hi shoulder dislocated in the football match North VVairarapa v South, played at Uarterton on Satuiday. The FeildmgSfai'caleulates the value o! 10,(100 acres of Now Zealand land held by private owners at 20s per acre. -Tiie truptrtv Tax Commissioner fixes it at £84.000,000, however, and no doubt £100,000,000 would be nearer the true value. Messrs Lowes and loms hold their fortnightly itock salo to morrow, the list for whioh will embrace 30 large forward steers, 70 kead inixed cattle", 10 head fat cattle, 8 dairy oows, mos'ly near calving, 100 woolley hoggets, 10 pigs, 4 sheep dogs, horses, vehicles, etc.

Tho insuranoe companies interested in the niissing barque Assayo held a meeting at Wellington on Saturday last, when it wasdeoided to pay all claims on cargo to morrow. Mr Hutchison was yesterday serye d with a -.writ m which L3OOO is claimed by Sir P Whitakor for allegod libel. It is oxpected the case may be heard at Wanganui. The tinning of rabbits Is becoming large and profitable industry in the Marlborough district, and hundreds of cases of the " vermin" are being exported.

Mr Angus Fraser, of Homebiish anuouncea that the stallions."Baron 1 and "Daniell O'Connell" are for sale oi lease, .

The principal want in Eketahuna just' now is places of residence. Tliero were, about twenty enquiries'for houses last' week. It would surely pay Mr T 0 Williams and others who hold the sections in the town to build on them instead of letting them remain as at Dres9.it, There would bo little difficulty in letting them, The following figures show the biisiless dono at the Wairara'pa Savings Banks!—Maatoiton, IBOBH, tvithdrawals 30390. Carterton, deposits £2907, rithdrawals, £2420. Greytmrn, deposits !2448 ' , \4rawak,r""' ~

—, withdrawals, £2104. Foatherston, uepoaits £2OIO, withdrawals,' 12026, MnrtinWough, deposits, 1,705, withdrawals L 5119, This is for theyeai 148#/. V-/ '' ■ , .

Visitors to. the drag hunt to-day will not have'the advantage given Wellington' rceidenta on Saturday, fur it is actually said a special train "followed the hunt.' 1 Tho train would doubtless have a livoly timo of it. Tenders for tho erection of buildings, &e,, for tho Ma.storton Blacksmith and Wheelwright Manufacturing Co., tsloso with tho Seoretaiy to day. . The thoroughbred imported stallion Prairio Bird, the excellent pcdigroe of whioh appears in our advertising columns, is announced to travel the Wairarapa district this Beason.

lhe first of a series of Christian fellowship meetings will be held in the WesloyanUhuroh, Eketahuna, commencing on Tuesday, August 20, at 1 p.m. All accounts duo to Mrs T 0 Raynei (nta Mrs Corbott, confectioner, etc) are requested to be paid to Mr W Sellar, whose receipt will be a sufficient discharge,

Arohdeacon Stock ant] Mrs Stcck leavo JMand for Wellington in October, Letters by the last mail state that Uioy are in the best of health, ■

' Typo,' the printers' trado journal. sayslt is worthy of note that while overy union newspaper in New Zealand takes an independent view of tho labor question, the ' labor organs', without exception are produced in 'rat' offices, .

The demand for labour in this district at tho prosent time is vory great, and it ia almost impossible to procure bush hands. One property owner alone informs us that ho is prepared to take on two hundred men at one shilling, per hour, but cannot pet In another column will be found an advertisement from MrT 0 Rayner(late in tho employ of Messrs M Casiilbergand Co, o! this town.) Mr lUyrier.we trust will be well patronized in his now undertaking ho having won many friends in the Wairarapa. Mrs Bayner (nia Mrs Corbott) who Borne time ago had a good experience in the fame line of business, in keopin? the Empire in Mastcrtuu, is sure to-attract many of her old customers, and her competency as a hostess ■is wellknown, ■

A -tragedy-occurred-at langham House, Parliament-place, Enst Melbourne, .on. August 14th, The house was kept by.-Edith Jubb, a widow, 85 years of ago, who had been there fivo weeks, She went to the ijouse with a man named Alfred Turner, with whom Rhe had previously beeu liviug in East lUelbourno, At 10 -p,m, throe shots were heard and the poople in the house on going to ascertain the pause discovered the woman lyincr dead in the bedroom, and Turner dressed in pyjamas standing in the room. A doctor was sent for and pronounced life to bo extinct. Turner tola him the woman fFrst turned out the gas, and then fired at him with a revolver, and then shot herself in the mouth, and also :n tho left eyo. Ho had a bruise on tho torelieard. The doctor states it may have been cpged by being struck by a piece of plaster? The police lodged Ijira in the lockup on a ohargeofivilful updor Hemuants.—These remnants oousist of navy serges, coloured amazons, foules, tweeds, homespuns, meltons, beiges, fancy olieoks, fanoy stripes, snowflakes, cashmeres, veilings, merinoes, • black cashmeres, and nierinoos, with a variety striped velvets, plushes, velveteens, broohc silks, Ae., at To. Aro House, Wellington. Remnants.-The length of theso remnants vary lj yards to 5 yards in silk, velvets, £o, and from syds to 8 yards in all other materials, most of them are very suitable for children's wear, and many of them in combination would make up into very excellent and fashionable ladieß' dresses, at To Aro House. ' Bdmna&tß,—Prices taken at random from our remnant counter show the following reductions :'-3s 9d-for ls9d, 5a -Cd for 2a lid, 7s 3d for 3s 9d, 9s 6d lor 4s lid, 8s 3d f(jt S)d, Jls for 'Si, 12a Gd' for Cs Gd, 16s for 5s 94i' at'© Ar> floiise, Wellington. Keiinantg.VQtner prices are—2? Cd for Is, 3sßd for Is lid, 5s Gd for ?s 3d, 5s lid to te Gd,' 7s 9d 'for 2s lid, 7s lid for 3s lid, 113 fiilfir''}!! WjorCslld, 18s. Gd for 7s 6d, 2;»f ir 7s 9d, £0 These are but a few'of the specimens of reductions takdn '■ haplvtard' from our remnant counted at the 1 Wholesale Familv Drapery Warehouse, To Afo We, Wellington,.:AsVr, :

Wo nro aurry to hear that Mr Aitken' telegraphist, .is confined to his bed, beini? the victim of an attack of la grippe *; v v.. ■ .-.

Mr James Brown, of the Waiirnrapa Observer office, has boon appointed Secretary of the Taratahi Dairy Oompany, Limited, Oar tor tun The Education Board's roproaontativeßi Messrs Beetham and Buolianan, MHIVs, visited Mataruwa and DaloDold yeatorday m connection with school matters.' _ It is Baid that trout aro very plontifu just now in tho streams of this distriot, and when tho season opens some big hauls may be ?xpocted, ' A vendor of livo fish had father an unpleasant experience at tho watering place in llenall's creok l yeatorday. It appears that he had driven his horao in to give him a dnnk, without any- consideration for the depth of the water. The roanlt was that when he desired to leave his cart was inoxtricable, and all attempts to reach the shore woro .in vain, The only course open was therefore to unhitch his horse',. This he did,

but nut without first immersing himself in tho water.. The • unhappy - fellow, after a good dei.l of bother, managed to get out his cart, and returned to his

home haunts a wetter and a wiser man. The usual weekly session of the Phcenir Lodge, 10 Gl', was held in the Temperance Hall on Monday evening, Bro P Wilton presiding, i Various items of business were dealt with. A brother was reported as having met with a Berioua accident, and the Sick Committee wero requested to attend to him. A committee for tho purpose reported having presented a book entitled." Sunbeams of Health and Temperance" to our young friend Miss Powell iii rc6oguiti"ii of the valuable servicessho has rendered at the concerts. Ahearty vote of thanks was iwoorded to 6rv M L Johnstone for inscribing the book, The programme for the evening—every member sin?, read, rocite, or pay a fine' was well respondod to, and a moat enjoyable meeting was brought to a close at 9.30 pm, One of the grandest looking horses m the Wairatapa this season is the draught Stallion "iNil Di sperandum'' owned by Mr G Watson. Nil Desperandum isby Nc Surrender (whose stuck > are 'all celo' bmkd as prize takers in their class), and although only a baby, he is such a size we are informed by Mr Watson that hit

nrni and iirth measurements alreadyjbeat the champion. The. Hon Matthew

Holmes has pronounced him lo be the finest colt of his size in N.Z., and yalues liiui at £IOOO, At last year's] shows both in Carterton and Masterton ho was

very favourably commented on by the jndges and admitted to be the right kind of horse to improve. the broed of draughts in tho Wairarapa having plenty of bone and hair of the right sort, and such being a reinarkablo size,. An exceedingly successful entertainment was held in the Lyoeum Hall, Carterton, last night, It was in aid of the school funds, and tho children took 1 part in the programme. Tho attendance ] was larger than har been the case at any i entertainment in Carterton for a long time back. The audience were packed like red herrings, and the hall had abont as much ventilation as the famous •'Black Hole of Calcutta." The windows were tho only means of obtaining au exchange of air, and most of these would not open, Theso bodily discomforts, howover, did not soem to materially prevent the numerous assemblage thoroughly enjoying the admirable programme provided. It comprised over twenty items, as will be seen by tho following recapitulation of it-: Piano duett, Mr and' Mrs c Seed; ehildrens' chorus, ''Hurrah for Merry England 1 '; Song,Mr Moncrieff; Song, " Laddie," Mrs 0 L Barnard ; recitation, "Pilgrims Fathers," Master (J Gustofsen ; piano duett, " tho Gipsy Countess," Misses Armstrong and Allen; song," Polly," Miss Ussher J children's colo and chorns, •' Little Sistor's Gone to Sleep," ; solo, Miss Teal; recitation, " The Spider and tho Fly," Master Sunkell; whistle duett, Messrs G and 8 Parker j Playmates concerted 'piece by school children; piano duett. Miss Bunny and Mr Archer Bunny; children's chorus," The Mighty Horseman"; song, Mr Flot; recitation, " The Spanish Champion," Master Allon; Ballad, Mrs Seed.; Children's song and chorus" The Wishing Cap" j solo, Miss A Broadbent, comiosong, Mr Moncrieff; piano duett; '* God. Bless Prince of Wales, Miss Armstrong and Master Proctor; Glee, Carterton Gloe Club; recitation, " The little old man in the wood ; song, Mr G Parker;" God Save the Queen," sohool 1 ohildren. Ooa readers will bo pleased to learn that Messrs L, J. Hooper and Co start this morning ouo of their half yearly clearing sales. The whole of the stock in the Bon Marche is reduced to prices that must tempt every one wanting drapery, millinery and olottiinji, to purchase large parcels during this great sale, The great sale of drapery and clothing is now being held at the Bon Marohe. Messrs 1 L, J Hooper and Co have determined to i reduce their stook to about half the present • value, Bargains in every department will be offered during the next few days, Pommses ot tho Drapery, Millinery and beys clothing should not {ail to attend at onco tho great solo imw going on at the Bon Marohe, every article is reduced, Cost prioenot being considered the stook must be reduced before stook taking.