The Wairarapa Daily. THUSRDAY, APRIL 9, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3781, 9 April 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THUSRDAY, APRIL 9, 1891.

Tenders are iuvited for the erection of five miles of wire netting. An eight roomed house is advertised to let in Cole street.

A sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Carterton, on Tuesday afternoon at 4.50. .

The native population between Hicks Bay and Marahea, the northern and southern boundaries of the Waiapu Country, is estimated at 2220. The annual neeting of the Masterton Mutual Improvement Society will be held this evening. It is hoped at this is the opening of the winter session there will be a larpe attendance of members.

A Company is beinc formed Christ' church to carry on the business of clover and grass seed growing and exporting. The Palmerston Knights of Labor have passed a series of resolutions and will forward them to the Government and the member for the district, Theyaßkfora remission of Customs duties on the neces saries of life, the repeal of the Property Tax and the imposition of a Land Tax based on land values.

At the annual general meeting of subscribers to the Carfceiton Library, which was held on Tuesday night, the Committee had the pleasure of informing the subscribers that they (the Committee) had added about £lO worth of new books to the Library during the past year and had still a good credit balance to begin the new year with. As there was no immediate necessity for any more new books, the Committee resolved to purchase a water tank and also have a ladder fixed to the building to enable anyone to get on to the roof iti an emergency of fire. The library committee are to be congratulated on the success of the institution. Those who when in Wellington are in search of furniture,household requisites, or in fact of almost any requirements, cannot do better th<»n inspect the extremely large and comprehensive stock in Mr Archibald Colquhoun's store in Cuba Street. The "Te Aro Exehai.ge," as Mr Colquhoun terms his premises, contains everything from a pin to a piano. The latter indeed ib th°i latesS line there, and Mr Colquhoun sells rood instruments at all prices from fifteen pounds upwards. Organs are also in stock.

Weare glad to learn that our sportsmen and others can now have stagsheads and birds mounted in the highest style, as John Jacobs, the professional preserver of birds, flsh, and animals, has arrived here from London. Highest price eiven for huias, crows, New Zealand quail, and other birds, stags heads and skins. Feathers cleaned, dyed and curled, fur skms tanned and dressed, rabbit skins made into sues, block's horns polished and mounted in the highest style. Orpep left at Mr F> Meenken's, close tp Bank of New Zealand, Carterton, or Mr Oatt's, Hair "Dresser,— Aptx.

Efforts are being made to form a Glee Club at Grey town. Not a dwelling house can be got in Woodville just now for love or money. A white pine tree felled in the Rangitikei district haß produced 7,000 feet of timber.

Another action for slander is pending in Foxton, the particulars of which are said to be of a very interesting character. It issaid that business in the liquor traffic in Woodville since the completion of the Gorge line ha 3 been very tanie. The burgesses of Wanganui have had the good sense to abolish the wards of that Borough. The Hon E. Seddon is referred to by the Kangitikei Advocate as " The Minister for Public Banquets," No less than 50,000 sheep have, up to date, been slaughtered and frozen by the Longburn Freezing Company, i The Manawatu Times learns on good [ authority that the present population of | the borough of Palmerston is considerI ably over 4000.

The Feilding paper says that the Duke of Manchester will shortly pay a visit to that town. The prosperity of Fcilding is assured !

The other day a shark was caught near Oamaru, and on being opened was fou.id to have inside—nineyoungaharks, a kerosene tin and a barrel stave for the little one 3 to play with. Two boys named Bertram Tofts and Charles F ress havo been arrested in Wellington on a charge of breakin? and entering no less than four dwellings and removing various aiticles therefrom.

A woman named Eose Hurst died at Perth, Western Australia, recently from the effects of carbolic acid, which the drank while intoxicated, under the impression that it was porter. The Hon. J, G. Ward, PostmasterGeneral, must have the lungs of a bereaved cow. It is related that he, attended a Fire Brigade Conference banquet the other day and gave a song entitled "There's bound to be a row," and the concussion from the explosion of his notes knocked some of the delegates silly. The locust plague in Victoria is eaid to dwarf the rabbit plague into insignificance. Legislation on the subject is asked for,

So great is the produce of fruit in Echuca, Victoria, that the market is glutted, and the prices offering are so low that the producers prefer letting it rot, or feeding pigs with it. Yesterday Mr Corpe, of Makino, seut away his last consignment of butter for the season. Since Octobor Mr Corpe has put down at his Makino factory, and sent to London, 1066 cases and 543 kegs of butter, weighing in all 44 tons. Seventy men are now at work on the co-operative principle in making the railway between Westport. and Mohikinui. One of their number, writing to the local paper issues this warning: " If you go and burst yourselves to make 12s or more a day you will find that some of the upper class M's.H.H. will want to know of the Ministry why jobs were given to you at such a price as to enable you to make such wageß." As a train was passing the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the other day, a man threw himself on the line just in front of the engine, and before the dtwer could pull up, the train had crushed his head. The man proved to be John Dunn, I aged 24. In his pocket was a scrap of paper, on which was written, " Goodbye to the world; lam full of it." When the Oreti arrived at New Plymouth from Wellington on Tuesday evening it was discovered a mad woman was on board, and that her name wan Saph Ann Durant, a resident in Wellington, who had stowed herself oil board the steamer, When discovered on the passage a great deal of excitement was caused, as the woman tried to throw herself overboard. She took her clothes and boots off and pitched them overboard and did many mad acts, so the captain ordered her to bo confined below. On arriving a constable was sent for, and he had great difhculty in taking •'ha woman to New Plymouth. She waß charged at the Police Court with being a lunatic, and was remanded for medical examination.

News from the Solomon Islands states that fllr Howard, manager of Stevens' party, of Dunedin, has been murdered at the Fiji Islands. While two boats containing recruits were proceeding to a French schooner lying off Fiji Island, the recruits capsized the boats in the surf and swam ashore. They then barbarously murdered the boatß crews as they landed, and it is believed that the bodies of the unfortuuate men were afterwards cooked and eaten.

We regret to record the death at Homebuph last night of Annie, the eldest daughter of Mr J. L. Byrn, bailiff for this district. Miss Byrn, who was only seventeen years of age, had been suffering for some weeks from inflammation of the lun.s, and although everything possible was done for her by Dr Beard, she gradually grew weaker and passed away peace* fully as above stated. Mr and Mrs Byrn will have the sympathy of a large circle of fiiends in their sad bereavement.

The TVaikato Times says :—From all parts of the colony we learn that the potato crop for this season is likely to |be a very light one. In the north great damage was inflicted by the heavj#and continual rains experienced duriug the best part of the growing season. In the eoutb, all growing crops, including potatoes, suffered from drought, and are reported light everywhere. In the Waikato district, we believe a smaller area of potatoes than usual has been grown, and of these many crops have more or less damaged, and will nut keep. For good sound potatoes, fit to et°re away, there appears to be the prospect of goed paying prices. The following expressions contained in the leading article of a New Zealand Tory paper have been published by a Liberal journal:— " Nauseating nonsense," "debasedand twisted," "crack his skull or cut his throat," " mean scoundrel," "paltry prig," "accessory to assassination, 1 ' '• perjurer," " meanest and most contemptible dog," " de- 1 baunctied devil,"" exposed quack," " prince of prigs," " snivelling hound," "despicable dog," The only excuse that can be given for the use of these expressions is that the writer was referring to some supposed "Liberal." Under these circumstances it is excusable.

The Tailoring department at the Bon Marche is assHmingenormous dimensions The quantity of clothing turned out in this department requires to bestssn to be credited. The make and fit is equal to some of the best Went End tiilors, the linings and trimmings are also of the best quality. The prices vary from 40s to 90s the suit according to the quality of tweed selected. A visit to Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co.'s warehouse will repay the trouble. Over two thousand patterns of tweed all shown to select from.

The public are invited to inspect the New Shipments ot winter goods just opening up at the Bon Marche. Messrs. L. J. Hooper and Co notify the arrival of a large quantity of novelties for the Coming W inter Season. This firm has always held the first place in this town for Fashionable Drapery, Millinery, etc, and no doubt their importations this eason will surpass any of their previous ones. Special notice is directed to the Ladies' Shew Room, which is crowded with the Latest Fashions. Further Particulars will appear in a future issue of this paper. The Dress and Mantle departmen to the Hon Maiohe is a sight to lovers of fashion very seldom met with. All the newest designs and materials in Dress Goods are now being exhibited together with trimmings etc to match. A visit to their Spacious and well Lighted Warehouse is solicited by L. J. Hooper and Co., Drapers and Clothiers, Masterton. A first class Dressmaker with a large staff of assistants is kept on premises to meet fcho requirements of the ladies. Good fit and jstyle at moderate prices guaranteed.

A dweliing with seven room 3 and wash house, stable etc., is advertised for sale-

While the Governor was addressing the Uriwera Natives at Ruatoki, one of them kept expressing his aDproval of what was said by exclaiming, "Good man, the Queen." "Mercutio" gets off the following story about an information laid against a cei tain party whom it was sought to bind over to keep the peace :—The informant swore that the defendant had threatened to kick him to hell and further, and then followed the legal phraseology of the information, which this deponent verily believes he will do, unless restrained !

The prisoners in the Deadwoud Gaol, Dakoti, U.S.A., have a newspaper circulating amongst them, to which they are the contributors. The paper, which is printed weekley, often contains inter • esting information concerning the lives of the prisoners. The subscription is half a pound of tobacco. Two suicides, under almost similar circumstances, are reported in Australian papers. A.t Melbourne, a young man, twenty-four years of awaited the arrival of a tram, and then threw himself in front of it, death beiug instantaneous. At Adelaide, a young woman committed a similar deed. Both left messages saying they were tired of life. A brutal outrage is reported from Rocky Hall, near Candelo, N. fc>. W. An old man, named Mark South-veil, was drinking in company with two young men, named Thompson and Byan, and after they had got him almost intoxicated, they saturated his clothes with rum and set lire to them. Ho waß so dreadfully burned that his life is despaired of. Down in Otago there is discontent in cjnneotion with the recent Easter encampment, and over a very simple matter. The officers, it appears, had comfortable railway carriages to ride in when foing with their men to thtf encampment, but the uien themselves were packed in covered trucks. As the weather was bleak the contrast between the treatment of men and officers was emphasised, and as a result many of the Volunteers are now of opinion that —we quote from a letter in a contemporary—"the whole thing is a ridiculous blooming fraud." One census enumeratorin the Feilding district has not found his billet a rosy one. According to the local paper several ladies took him for a book agent, and in one instance a girl "let slip the dogs" at him and chased him off the premises beciuae she mistook him for one of these, while another, a strong minded woman, grimly asked him to wait outside on the fence till her husband came back with the gun, when she would teach the unlucky census man not to trouble honest people. He told a friend that he never felt so near kingdom come in his life before,and he prayed fervently.

From a late visitor to Vict wia we learn that things were never worse in " Marvellous Melbourne" during the last quarter of a century, Houses "to let" are to be seen in all parts of the suburbs, and city rents have fallen very low. A suite of offices in Collins-street which were let for £BOO per aunura, have just been let for less than a quarter of that Bum and as other leases fall in equally large reductions will have to be submitted to. One pile of buildings which, with the land, cost a quarter of a million, do pot return more than a quarter per cent on the cost of the building alone ! The Dunodin Globe reports :—A "black fish," which a certain old salt who was there said was intermediate in size between a porpoise and a whale (but which, we may remark, is nearer the former than the'latter), was caught in the Bay on Monday. Ben Davis, junr., pierced the iish while it was swiuim ins about in the water towards Kensington. It was then secured and towed up to the boafcslied, with a wholo flotilla of rowing boats following as if it was a naval funeral. When hnded, it was found to be eleven feet long and six feet in circumference—a big, oily, awkward monster, of a size very unusual in our harbour waters. An incident worth recording occurred to a member on this coast (says the Rangitikei Advocate). Meeting some Knights of Labor, who were members of a special settlement association, they began to speak about the new regulations. After reviling the t-'overiiment in no measured terms for taking from the settler the right of freehold they pointed out the further inequality of the Government retaining tlie township iu their own hands and reaping all the profit. The ecwient of their confidence chimed in, "Yes, that is a most outrageous proposal; the Government enhance the value of their land by gettiug yoa to settle in the district and then reap the profit which ought to be yours." "Exactly so," was tliereply. "But,"themembercontinued, "don't forget that ycu preached that very doctrine at the election time, when you opposed me, and naturally the Government thought that they were carrying out your views. I'm glad, however, that you have altered your opinion." Suoh is human nature. An American journal gives the following advice : Travelling will do you some good. It will teach you that you amount to precious little and that there are hordes of fair women and brave men in the same boat. In your own home or office you may splurge around as though the sun could not rise without your sanction, but when you travel you will find that yor have a very soft place under yoor hat, and that the sad old earth can get round |on sohedule time without you. You will find that there are dozens of other towns that can do your town up after giving it points ; that therp are other men who know as much more than you do that you could not even make out the debus and crediti of their thoughts. And when you are lucky enough, or have sense enough, to quit travelling, you will hoist your feet upon your own mantle, sit by your own fireside, and cheerfully admit that one unlucky trr seller named Payne had a great head, and that there reallv s no place like it.