The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3818, 23 May 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1891.

Fob the Town Lands Trust election five candidates are nominated to fill two vacancies. It is understood that Messrs Feist and Danieli- come. forward to strengthen educational interests on the Trust, but apart from this they are likely from their known probity of character and business reputation to receive a considerable measure of support, We incline to the opinion that this year there is ; likely to be less friction between the Trust and the School Committee than last, and that it is not necessary to decide the present election upon the Educational question. We have not been in the habit of supporf'ng Mr Renall as a candidatejfor local offices, but it "is only right that we should admit that he does possess a special claim to consideration at a Town Lands Trust election, and if he himself is anxious to retain the seat which he has been occupying on that body we hold that his wish should be respected. There are two other oandidates.both good men of business, so that the voters on the Town Lands Trust roll have a wide choice and there is not the slightest occasion to make the election a party one, Mesßrs Dalrymple and Gapper are probably independent candidates, and if they should npt happen to be returned it will probably be because 'others with perhaps' still stronger claims are arrayed Against them.

' There is a somewhat mixed and incongruous list of candidates put up for the Licensing Commission in this Bjovough. Such an eleven surely never took Jtbe geld before ! There is the temperance element, the publican element, the professional element, and one or two other elements which we may guess at and wonder at, Dut which at this stage we cannot perhaps prudently diagnose. There is plenty of material for a good fight, if it be that fightiug is intended, for there have been rumors that the Teropera ace party purposed to put forward

certain dougLty and uncompromising champions, but we scarcely find in the list of candidates the Goliaths whom we were led to believe were to take the field. As yet the public pulse is not stirred, and it does not seem to be expected that a conflict of any magnitude is imminent. Holding the view that elective licensing commissions have been in the past a rank failure in Masterton, and that they are not unlikely to continue to be so in the future, and having too been wont to observe that a well conducted hotel receives little encouragement and a badly conducted house gets no discouragement at the hands of a borough licensing commission, we confess that we do not take a very lively interest in the present contest or expect any beneficial result from it. We watch with amused interest the formation of certain little rings to float some license which ought never for a single moment to be entertained, and we bear curious yarns of timid publicans holding a candle to the devil, and we do not doubt but that the little games which are being played will, with the men who are at the back of them, be winning hazards. • The flaxmill of Mr T. P. Williams at Foxton has been destroyed by fire. An eclipse of the moon occurs at an early hour to-morrow (Sunday) morning, the total eclinse being between 5.20 and 6.40 o clock.'

The remains of the late Charles White were followed to the grave yesterday afternoon by a large concourse of old residents of the district,

A correspondent at Pahiatua writes: —"I am sure the unemployed will soon be sick of the Makuri, as they are working in mud almost up to their necks." The tenders of Kennedy and Co., at £37 and £35 15s respectively, have been accepted by the Alfredton Road Board for contracts on Pah Valley road and Mangaone Valley road?

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers assemble for church parade at ten o'clock to-morrow (Sunday) morning. The Masterton Select Quadrille Assembly will meet for a " long night" in the Drill Hall on Monday evening next.

Mr Corrie Johnston, evangelist, delivers farewell addresses In the Theatre Royal to-mcrrow afternoon and evening.

Five thousand tailors in London have struck work as a protest aeainst the long hours they have to work and the insanitary condition of the workshops. Sportists are reminded that various trotting matches take place on the Masterton-Opaki course on Monday morning next.

Messrs A. Anderson, T. 3ayliss, F. J, Bright, J. Carter, J. H. Harding, F. M'Anulty, W. Murdoch, W. .7, Saunders and B. Syverson were nominated yesterday for seats on the Alfredton Licensing Committee.

The performance ot "Hand and Gloye" in the Theatre Royal on Monday evening next should be a great success. The piece has been in active rehearsal for some time past, and Mr E, Briggs, the well-known scenic artist, has spared no pains in making 'the scenery the best that has ever adorned a Masterton stage. We expect to see the efforts of Mr Barnard to cater for the amusement of the public rewarded with a crowded house.

It will be stratifying to the friends in Masterton of Mr Archer Hosking, who is now a student in tbe Edinburgh University, to know that ho has been mentioned in the class lists for the winter session of 1890-91 in the Faculty of Medicine. Besides taking honours in Chemistry and Practical Chemistry, he took first olass honours as a first year student in Praetioal Anatomy.

Mrs Mary Lowell, a Mew York lady, has solved the problem of kindling the kitchen fire by electricity without the necessity of leaving one's warm bed. A wire connection between the bpdrooni and the kitchen fire, n bit of platinum placed where the wires meet in tr v grate, a Ecrap of "lightning paper," some tissue paper, and a sprinkling coals—such is the apparatus "vvhLZi enables the ingenious American housewife to light her fire by pressiog a button at the bedside

The hour was 5 a.rn.tbe morning was dark and dreary, and nothing could be heard but the dismal howling of the wind, the bark of a half-frozen dog, and the significant crow of a neighbouring rooster. At this unseemly hour, a reaidept of Masjerton was awakened from his peaceful slumberd by a "ound, a rapping, a mysterious banging at his window pane. A voice could fjo hoard, above the hdwlfn? winds proclaiming in pathetic tones, "I want to sleep ! I want to sleep!" After vainly endeavouring to gam admission for half an hotur or more, the visitor took up his swag and left for the adjoining house, in apparent disgust. Hearing the same sounds and cries (omanafcing this quaitei, the occupant of No 1 house, aroused as a tiaer- sprang froin his bed. and m his garments of white proceeded with all possible baste to the assistance of his. neighbour. What was his chagrin, however, on placing his hand on the shoulder of the visitor and attempting to forcibly eject him, at finding that he was purely and simplj the village sweep. Needless to say,. apologies followed. The words "sleep" and "sweep" had, singularly enough, been confounded. The occupant of No L house, returning to his room, cursed his fate, but acknowledged that he had been severely "hail."

Despite bad times Mr R. Hermann of the Cuba street Photogriphic Gallery opposite Te Aro Bouse, Wellington, seems tD be dome a -thriving business, and no smal number of those who visit him to have their likenesses taken are country residents. Mr Hermann is admitted to be a capital artist with special knowledge of photographic chemistry, and both in operating and in restouching he has produced some excellent work. It is to this he owes his liberal patronage, and also to the muder ate prices ho charges when the excellent quality of his productions is taken into account. — Extract.

L. J. Hooper Co., ot the Bon Marche warehouse, notify the largest and most complete stuck of general drapery and clothiDg in the Wairarapa. The firm have always held the premier position for keeping the most fashionable and best classes of goods procurable, together with moderate prices ; and this Beason their reputation will be fully sustained. Any of our readers requiring fashionable drapery cr clothing should visit th"e Bon Marche. The following; goods are now open for inspection:— French and English millinery, trimmed hats' and bonnets, birds, feathers, ladies' and children's ulsters, ladies' jacketß and mantles, corsets and underclothing, new dress goods in the follow ing volyeteens, flaked cheviots, cheviot checks. Dress' tweeds, real Scotch homespuns, diagonal cloths, cashmeres, foulle serges and Estamines. yVinijr' gloyes and hosiery in all t.ie best makes, furs and fur trimmings &c, Dressmaking on the premises by first class modestes. L.J Hooper an * Co he Bon Marche.