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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3804, 7 May 1891, Page 2

The Mokau Co-operative Coal Mining Company, limited, was registered on Tuesday.

A meeting was held in Pahiatua last night of those interested in the formation ofa gymnasium.

Archdeacon Fancourt has been ordered a month's complete rest and change,

At the Greytown R.M. Court yester day, a man named Williamson was fined five shillings for drunkenness, and five shillings and costs for "kicking the bucket" at the police cells. The London Bellringers, who gave their final performance in New Zealand at Petone the other night, have taken £ GOC3 in their tour through this colony. The total population ot Napier,.according to the last census is 8278. Of this number 1471 arc child ren on the rollß of the Napier and Port District Schools An Exchange says : " Ours is truly Government when one Minister finds a supporter a wife, and gives her £SOO a year to keep her." An Inspection parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers will be held this eyening.

The services of Mr. Birch, Registrar of the Supreme Court at Napier, have been dispensed with. The death is announced of Dr. Magee, recently appointed Archbishop of York, aged 70. The keeper of the tollgate at the Gorge, who is a lady, does not understand a word of English. Complications of a peculiar character have in sequence arisen.

Messrs R, F. Temple & Co. draw special attention to a large and varied stock of crockeryware which mu-,t bo sold at any sacrifice to make room for new goods. Mr. A. D. Riley, the Education Board Instructor of Drawing, is at present visiting the schools in the Masterton district- His object i 3 to see the way the drawin? is taught and to demonstrate the syllabus of drawing. Ho paid a visit to the School of Design 'yesterday and examined a number of pupils.

Cable communication with the Middle Island is now partially suspended only one line via VVanganui being available. Ordinary cominertial telegrams are forwarded, but delayed messages and press wires are refnssd. Colonel Gorton has been appointed to represent the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce at the Congress to be held in London,

The Government is adopting its usual tactics with regard to the Te Aroha seat. The Hon. " Richard " has been stumping the electorate on behalf of a Liberal candidate.

Harry M'lnnes, alias Morley, was charged this morning before Colonel Koberts, R.M , with wilfully setting fire to the premises of Mr C. J. Trapp, Alfredton. Mr Pownall. appeared for tho accused. On the application uf the police the case was adjourned t ;, .l two o'clock.

The Salvation Minstrels gave a must' cal festival in Parson's Hall, Eketaliuna' on Tuesday night, in aid of the Mister ton Hospital. A fair number attended, but not so many as were expected considering the objects of ths entertainment. All the leading lights of the town were conspicuous by their abseme. The Staff-Captain intimated that the Army would open fire in Eketahuna once a week, commencing on the 20th insfc.

Ip answer to a t>sH before the curtain, Mr Collett Dobson last night came forward and gracefully thanked the pwple of Ma9terton for their patronage. He also informed them that the company would play two uiahts lonper, and in oonclusiou (referring to the frightful noises to which a certain section of the 'f nittjes" treated the audience during the intervals) said he wished to tell the ladies and gentlemen present that the hideous caterwauling would be stopped for the future.

A witness in the case in which Morley was charged with the larceny of clothing, admitted yesterday having received a suit of clothes »nd other articles as presents from the accused. The Bench expressed its surprise at the witness accepting the prebents without inquiring from whom they were obtained. Witness: "The accused stated he was a remittance man from Home." The Bench: I'Remittance man or not, you should have made inquiries." Witness; "But there are a lot of remittance men in the Upper Taueru, and I have received numbers of presents."

A boy named George JJeverell, eleven years old, a son of Mr A. Doverell, of the Survey ipeß>r£iuent, was playing in the school grounds at Auckland, with a toy cannon, and having loaded U, attempted to fire it, but the weapon did not go off. At that inoireht the school bell rang, aud the lad wishiug to bide the cannon from his teaches, and thiuking there was no danger, hurriedly put it under ins coat, hut a moment after the cannon exploded, and the charge entered his abdomen, injuring his intestines, The lad has since died. So far this season we have had extra ordinary success in our dress depirtmcnt Sales have been frequent and large, tlm testifying most completely t.o the excellence of our selection and the first-class value we are offering in autumn and winfer dress fabrics at Te Aro House.

Tife fino dispj»y we have continuously made in our windows siuce the opeuin? of the season, and the various fabricr whether ticketed or not, have been the subjects of most favorable comment, and these have been duly appreciated bj satisfactory purchases, at Te Aro House. The prices we have quoted are for sterling goods, bought direct from the manufacturers, and specially selected bv our London buyer, They are, therefore admirably suited to the requirements of both our city and country customer?, and we shall be pleased to tend patterns of them, free of cost, on application toTe Aro House.

Ix would be very easy to quote lowes prices, but these are not the test of value, (Quality for quality we claim, and rightly too, to be tho cheapest house for dress fabrics in the province. The continuous and increasing support which this department receive* is the surest proof of this at Te Aro House. It is no matter of interest to our customers ty be informed as to the number of hands we employ in £ur two dressmaking departments. Suffice .to say that our rooms are the largest and best appointed io the colony ; that we have the best available talent; that our reputation for excellence of fit, finish, 6fcyle is widely and favourably known ; and that we have two large staffs of competent assistant dressmakers able to cope with any amount of orders, at Te Aro House.— Adyt.

The Dunedin Globe relates the following : —A youug lady who had been engaged to a prosperous young manufacturer, was informed a few days before the marriage was fixed that the firm was insolvent. Not a moment was to be lost. A letter was written and posted, breaking the engagement; wheu within two hours it was discovered that the report wag entirely unfounded. The daughter with her parents rushed to the post office, and no words can describe the scene—the appeals, the tears, the wringing of hands, the united entreaties of the family to have the fatal letter restored. But alas ! all was in vain—the rule admitted no exception.

A Chinaman named Klock Yunp Gee, residing at Ballarat East (nays the Star), lias commenced legal proceedings with the view of obtaining a divorce from his wife, Jessica Klock Young. " Johnny's" petition is based mainly on the ground of desertion—Je3sica absconded with a Hindoo some time ago—but there is an addenda in the original document, which, as prepared by a Celestial interpreter, charges the woman with "too niuchee talkee with neighbours too muchee paint face and eyebr.iwa, too inuchee drink Yulepcan brandy, t-v muchee fight, too muchee snore in sleep, too muchee Doss, too muchee dleam, too muchee say, ' killum husband,' and too muchee no good." The solicitor who has been entrusted with the preparation of the case for the Divorce Court has adyised Klock Yung Gee that he must proceed only on the complaints of desertion and nedect of household duties, but the Mongolian cannot understand why the other complaints, especially that relating to the application of pigments to the face and eyebrows, are not, as in China, a warranty for lepal proceedings for Divorce in this country, A gentleman resident of Glenthorapson (says the Aitstntkisiait), who has tried various methods to eradicate the rabbits, declares that poisoned jam surpasses everything else that he has used, because it can be laid without being touched by che human hand, which the rabbits are exceedingly keen in detecting. He ladles the jam out of a jar on t<> pieces of bark, etc, .n the vicinity of the burrows. He is careful not to touch with his hands and the bunnies eat the jam generally in consequence. A very small quantity laid around one burrow oyer night produced 118 dead rabbits in the morning, whilst a larger quantity spread around another locality laid out 250 cf the pests. The following is the method in which the jam was prepared :- Fruit, 18lb ; common sugar, 121b; and strychnine, loz, were boiled together for several hours until thoroughly mixed. Thh concoction gives 12lts of strychnine to loz of jam. The rabbit will readily eat that quantity, and as 3gr are enough to kill a man it is easy to understand that 12gr is enough to kill them before they can return to their burrows.