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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3808, 12 May 1891, Page 2

Seventeen hundred cases of apples sent Home by tho Aorangi brought from 8s to Ha.

The Dobson-Rennedy Company took £l5O from Rlasterton as the result of its late yisit. This is not so bad I The Rev. J. Paterson, of Wellington, delivers a lecture in Martinborough on the 18th inst., on " Home Life." An exchange says:—An hotel near Carterton, wbich has been destroyed by fire, was the property of the Wairarapa South County Council. Did tha Councillors use It as a County spec or for private fuddle ? A sale of drapery is being held in premises next to the Bank of Außsrala? sia, Queen St, Mastertqn. < The Masterton School Committee will decide at a meeting to be held to-night for whom it will record its vote in the Education JJoard election/

Messrs Lowes and I«srna add to their stock sale for May 20th. 600 lambs in the wool.

The population of the Borough of Masterton waa stated by our local contemporary on Saturday to be 3094. These figures are not orrect, and were not obtained from an official source. A London milkman fell head first into a can of milk the other day, and nearly ditid of water on the brain before h. 9 could be rescued.

Mr Thomas Bracken, writing to an Auckland contemporary, says that literary men have not received that encouragement in JNew Zealand to which they are entitled. The Union Company proposes rssuming its cheap winter excursions during the coming winter.

A burglary took place at the National Bank at Euroa (Victoria) recently, but the thieves only secured a threepenny piece and two revolvers. A Dunedin telegram to a contemporary states that Fox Brothers, at Cnffel, obtained between 1100 and 1200 ounces of gold for eight weeks' continuous washing.

A Christchurch farmer, who has been staying at .Ashur.it, remarked that the Manawatu will be the best grazing land ot the future, and will carry nearly double the amount of stock per acre that the South Island can.

A free reading room was open at Danevirke for six months, and the total donations received from those who used it amounted to one half-penny. The book fiend is on the warpath at Port Chalmeis, delivering his vans. One old resident refused delivery, and the parcel being left at his door it was thrown into the street. At the funeral of the late Sir John Robertson on Sunday, wreaths were placed on the coffin,, from all Ministries in the colonies, including New Zealand. The correspondent of the Lyttelton Times hears that retrenchments are not yet over, there being still a few spots in the service, chiefly at distances from the centre —at the outlying branches, in fact —which are said to look promising for the pruning knife. Despite statements to the contrary, we have reason to believe work is plentiful in the Forty-mile Bush just now. A contemporary says the hotels and accommodation houses are thronged with working men looking vainly for employment. He knows, however, as well as we do, that a hotel is no place to look for employment! During the hearing of the Aoranpi case in the Native Land Court at Palmerstou North, an ancient Maori was questioned as to his age. He replied to the effect that that was an indefinite quantity, but he remembered the time when the ■Bailors deserted Captain Cook's ship! After this his veracity was unquestioned.

The remains of the lato William Croft were interred in the Masterton cemetery yesterday afternoon, a large Lumber of relations and friends—including twenty-five members of the Foresters' Order in mourning regalia—paying a last tribute of respect to the deceased. The ceremony at the grave was performed by the tfev. J. Dukes in au impressive manner, the Foresters' service being read by Chief Ranger Bro R. E. Homblow.

Among the Congo negroes, when a man wishes a wife he secures one and keeps her on probation a year. If her temper and deportment are satisfactory he, at tho end of the year, formally marries her. But should she prove an incumbrance he sends her back to the parental roof.

The Poverty Bay Herald says that, in the matter ot retrenchment, the members of the Government have lost thoir heads, and d« not know where to stop. "The Government have caused more dissstisfaction throughout the country in their endeavor to save a year than was created by their predecessor, who retrenched to five-fold the amount."

Tho latest census &to.ry is that of a boarder about_to leave, volunteering to fill his landlady's census paper. Havinp obtained particulars concerning all in the house, he retired to his room and described his hostess as " 55, divorced, hashmaker, idiotic, native of Kilkenny, and a fanatical Roman Catholic." A very swell master hairdresser, who resided in the establishment, was put down as a "shearer, -1 and a civil servant who thinks no small beer of himself, was described as "Boots and generally usetul." The fraud was ouly discovered when the census collector arrived and started to check the returns.

Hero 13 tt prodigiously tall story we tak6 from an Argentine paper :" A gentleman in Rosario was once attacked by Pampa Indians. There were seven of thorn, and hg had only his six-shooter, with five shots from wlijch jje succeeded in laying low the same number of his assailants. He had then one charge left, aud the remaining two men were advancing. Quick as thought he opened his packet knife, beld it up in front of the pistol barrel with the sh?rp edge of the blade towards him. and fired. The knife split the bullet m halves, eaph half killing one of his foes, and the hero thus saved his scalp. This is his own account of the affair."

The Hobart Mercury, referring t<> Sir George Grey's action at the Federal Conference Bays :—" Men like Sir Geo. Grey, who have got beyond the practical age, and who have grown positive in their various fads and assumptions, do a great deal of damage, since many persons are not able to distinguish between the honor due tu past services, and the weight that should be given to present opinions."

A Sydney paper says:—The Salvation Army readily forgives, but it always remembers. Keeping in mind the vecent Victorian press censures on the work of the Prison Gate Brigade, a refrain has bpen added to the repertoire of at leist one contingent, whoße soldiers now shout lustily— Uver there, over there, Oyer there, over there, There will be no daily papers over there; The devil cannot rage Through the Argus and the Age,

There will be no daily papers over there A local rival .congratulates the Army on their accurate grasp of the situation!

Despite bad times Mr R Herrmann, of the Cuba street Photographic Gallety, opposite Te Aro Rouse, "Wellington, seems to be doing a thriving business, and no small number of those who visit him to have their likenesses taken are country residents. lUr Hermann is admitted to be a capable artist with special knowledge of photographic chemistry, and both ut operating and in re touching he his produced some excellent work. It is to this that he owes his liberal patronage, and also to the iroderate prices he charges when the excellent quality of his productions is taken into account.— Extract. \

Lames m the country desirous of knowing the best place to purchase underclothing and baby linen should at once communicate their wants to Tc Aro House, Wellington. We have an unrivalled stocu of ladies' underlinen in nightdresses, chemises, drawers, combinations, and all our garments are guaranteed to be extra lock stitched or hand sewn, and include such popular makes as "Hirbernia" and "Stirling" at Te Aro Houspv Wellington. Opn assortment of ladies' corsets is unparelled in the province. Wc keep only tne best and most approved makes. To select from we have a stock of nearly 2000 (two thousand) pairs, and these range from the very smallest to the very largest out-size at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Wk have received from the best Home manufacturers a large supply of excellent babyliuen, and are prepared to forward on application to any address (carriage paid) eight (8) articles of thoroughly good material and work for One Gumea. This should be a very convenient method—one of each garment as pattern. All our babylinen and underclothing is personally selected by an experienced lady assistant at Te Aro House, Wellington. We have also an excellent assortment of ladies' jnjdervests in Merino, Wosl, Natural Wool, Silk, All birders will be promptly : executed/and when cash is sent with the orders, toll be sent carriage paid to any addiess from TeAro House, Wellington.

The Borough of Redfern (N.S.W.) is to be lighted by electricity. Mr Bruce's admirers in the Egniont electorate intend to present him with a library. One of the principal engineers at the Tasnianian Silyer Mines is a son of Mr Butement, brewer, of Masterton. The Wellington United Hunt Club intends holding a steeplechase meeting at the Hutt at the end of the season for all qualified hunters.

The warm north-westerly rain which fell yesterday caused a flood in the vatious rivers in this district, overflows occurring in several places. A public meeting to enable the candidates for seats on the Masterton Borough Council to address the electors, will be held in the Theatre Royal this (Tuesday; evening.

A Manawatu paper states that while burning off at Parua recently Mr Miller found in the hollows of 60tne trees seven skeletons, a greenstone ear-ring, three greenstone axes, one stone sinker, and other relics. The placehadevidently been an old Maori burial ground. A Wanganui paper says :—"Roughly speaking, the whole of the prain, hay, and grass seed on this coast has been ruined. The losses on potatoes are >*reat, and peas have done badly. This season has proved the heaviest loss fanners have ever experienced on this coast, and a severe blow to the labourers who depend on harvest wages." The Estimates were being discussed in the Victorian Parliament, and a ?ood deal of dissatisf.ict.iuii had been expressed about the coats paid tu Messrs Little and Brown, who acted as solicitors fur the Crowu in a certain case, Aftsr the Estimates, the next business was a Game Protection Bill. Some one objected that ainuu«sc the birds to be protected there was no mention of the lawyer-bird. "Never heard of it. What is a lawyerbird ?" asked the Minister in charge of the Bill, who was rather in a fog. " I can toll you," promptly replied one of the members. " Its little and brown, and has a remarkably long bill. You need not trouble to include it—it can protect itself."

In the course of a recent lecture on the late Mr Brad laugh, Mrs Beaant narrated an episode of his career which, she said, had net been made known during his lifetime. Mr Bradlaugh, always an active sympathiser with t!>e Irish, was associated with the Fenian movement of half a generation back, and at a meeting of the leaders the word "treachery" was muttered about. Mr Bradlaugh quietly drew his revolver, and, carelessly toying with i;, said in a pointed manner : "The man who betrays me had better say his prayers directly he comes out of the v-itness box." It wa3 significant, added Mrs Besant, that Bradlaugh was not included among those against whom the informer Collet gave evidence.