The Wairarapa Daily WEDNESDAY. MAY 27, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3820, 27 May 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily WEDNESDAY. MAY 27, 1891.

Mary M'Carthy, an inmate of the Adelaide Destitute Asylum, died last week, aged 106 years. A bookseller who went bankrupt in Auckland stated that to meet pressing accounts he had to raise loans at sixty per cent! A Gisborne paper terms a number of leadint- men in the district an " aggregation of asses." Two thousand acreß of bush are to be felled this year in the Mahuka district, beyond the Mania. Duritig the quarter ending March las the Melbourne Police Court dealt with 13,000 oases for-drunkenness. • In South Australia, the percentage of lunatics in asylums to population is 1 in 140. There is a solitary aboriginal on the Wagga Wagga census. How civilisation has rocked a race in the lap of death. It is said that effi ris are being made i to bring about a conference of masters and servants inall trades during the next session of Parliament. i At the annual meeting of the Alfredton t Road Board held on Tuesday, Mr W ' M Eebbell was elected Chairman for the < ensuing year. 1 The election of members tc fill two vacancies on the Master-ton Town Lands , Trust takes place to-morrow (Thursday). The candidates are Messrs Dakymple, Feist, Oapper, and llenall. Grace Graham, of Caffrey-Penn < notoriety, was the other day one of those < in the exodus from New Zealand. i Messrs. Johhn . Smith and John \ Bowstead have been nommated for the Tiraumea Ward in the Alfredton Road ( District. l Sergeant M'Ardle, who is not unknown , in Masterton, recently walked from , Waipawa to Kaikora, a distance of five j miles, in fifty minutes. This is not so j bad for an old 'un. { Steps are being taken* in the direction c of reserving a piece of land in the t Alfredton district for a burial ground. The Maharahara Copper Minim; 1 Company, which has not long been in s existence, is about to be wound up- c A meeting of Wesleyan Ministers in - Sydney, recently, viewed with alarm * the existence of athletic clubs in the J city, and announced their intention to ' take steps for their suppression. B A South Melbourne non-union baker f, is suing three of the Operative' Bakers' y Society for £2OOO damages, for trying, g with other people, to induce customers j not to trade with him. n The fifth annual report of the Master* 1< ton Municipal Fire Brigade - contains jg the following;— "I would for the third cl time respectfully call the attention of h the Council to the sad want of uniforms, cl The Eunpuni branch of the Brigade is h without any, whilst those in use at the ft Masterton station are' completely wo n g 3ut and afford no protection to the bo Jy b jf a fireman at a hot fire. I would urge ij the want on the Council, as a matter of cl •reat importance to the Brigade.''- Ji

Fr«k Oliver, for hazing looked upon the wine when it was red, was fined five ahilhnga or forty eight hours in the R.M. Court this morning; The strength of the Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade is five officers and thirty-three firemen, ot whom three officers and eighteen firemen are stationed at Masterton, and two officers and fifteen firemen at Kuripuni. The four inspectors appointed by the Wairarapa North Rabbit Board to supervibe the work ot poisoning, commenced theirtour of inspection on Monday. Mr H. M. Stanley, the explorer, with Mrs Stanley, leaves London for Australia in September. The tour will be under the management of Mr R. S. Smythe.

The second term of the Wellington Girl's High School commences to-day. It has been discoyered that General Booth, of the Salvation Army, has been speculating, and has lost £2OOO by the bankruptcy of a stockbroker. The tender of Mr J. Montgomery has been accepted for there-building of Mr J. Sexton's hotel at Gladstone.

Mr J. Charlton, piano tuner, is again in Masterton, and requests us to state that orders left with Mr R. T. Holmes will be promptly attended to. His Worship the Mayor has been appointed delegate of the Masterton Borough Council at the Municipal Conference to be held in Wellington on June 15th.

Sir George Grey has returned to Sydney. He has nothing at present to say with regard to the request of 'Her Majesty the Queen to see him, but .he contemplates a visit to England to see his relative, the Earl of Stamford. The Wairarapa South County Council have resolved to forward the following resolution to the Government:—"That in the opinion of this as the native lands are-aasaeoTthroagh the Court and certificates issued they should %6 Hable'Co be rated tb.6 same aa lands occupied by Europeans." Mr H. R. Bunny, Chairman of the Wairarapa South County Council, sustained a nasty aoc : dent a few days ago. He was returning home when his horse shied, and he was thrown heavily to the ground. He was unconsoious for-some time, but is now on a fair way to recoveiy.

The meeting of those interested in the (To-operative and Farmers' Alliance, held at Greytown on Monday, was no: as successful as it might have been, only eight persons being present. Th 3 objects of the Alliance were referred to at length by Mr Coleman Phillips, the convenor, and Mr Jardine, proi isional director.

In the R. M. Court this morning, before Mr. B. Boys, J.P., Frank S. Monk pleaded guilty to beine drunk and violently resisting the police. On the first charge he was lined 5s or fortyeitght hours, and on the second £1 or seven days,

In reply to a New Zealand Herald interviewer, Madame Patey said that the voices in Australia are wonderful; there are as good voices as any where in the world, but art could not progress whflo the prices for concerts were so 1017 that it would not pay artists to come from England to Australia. There are singers in Australia with splendid voices, bnfc Wftuting training, and they cannot afford to go home tor it, and it will nut pay people to coins put who wbu'd teach them.

The number of calls on the Municipal Fire Brigade during the past year for fires within the Borough was forty-one, compared with forty for the previous year, These are classified as followss Fires in buildings, twelve; chimney flreß, twenty; bueh and grass fires where property was Endangered six; false alarms, .three. The value of the property that caught tire was £5265 the insurauce on which was £2240. The value of property destroyed amounted tp £2973. The losses of the insurauce companies amounted to £953, A saving of £2392 to tbp ratepayers and £1287 to the insurance companies is thus shown.

Constable JR. J- Malcolm, who has beea in Masterton for a few weeks only, "but who has made himself dfservedly popular with all classes of the community during his short stay, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington, and leaves for tbat city to-morrow. JUe will be replaced by Constable Melane. The loss of Constable Malcolm will be keenly felt by the football and gym - nasium clubs, of which hg was a prominent member. A handsome occasional .suite, of six pieces, is now on view in the furniture warehouse of Messrs Hounslow & Hoar, Queen-street. The suite is composed of a settee and six chairs, each piece being covered with silk lavender tapestry, figured and bordered with terra cotta plush. The frames are of rirau, and the whole of the work has been turned out by the firm. There is also 'on view a well-mounted full Scotch chest, the drawer fronts being inlaid with walnut, totara knot-and pine.

A fearful accident occurred at Palmer Island, a township on the Clarence River, on Saturday afternoon. Three youths' were handling some fireworks in a store when a specimen known as a " iumpina jack," bred off and flew into an open barrel of gunpowder standing close at hand. A terrific explosion followed, the store beine shat£errd to pieces, jvhile the young fellows received fearful injuries. One of them named Black has since died.

An extraordinary escape from a fatal accident occurred at HuonviUe, Tagmania, recently. A teacher of the State School was .fittinp pistol bullets one of his pupils had brought him into a loaded pistol, when it exploded. A ball struck A lad named Sydney Voss on the left side, just under the heart. The boy was taken to Bohart, where a surgeon operated, and found fhe ball in the muscles of the back. The dogjor is of opinion that the ball went through t|)g body, as no circuitous route is traceable. Young Voss is now recovering. A rathe? good story comes from Hasting». Captain Holds worth and a Maori convert to the Salvation Army are now touring the North Island, and vera a£ Hastings a few nights ago, After the customary street parade a halt was made, and the usual testimonies were given. The Captain, in mixed Maori and English called upon bis dusky friend to give his testimony, when the latter replied, "What the h-^—you sail that? That's I no Maori; that's pigeon English'," A/tei this outburst of feeling the Army had recourse to united prayer.—Napier Mews

Despite bad times Mr R. Hermann of the Cuba street Photogriphic Gallery opposite Te Art) Bouse, Wellington, Beeraa t:> be doing a thriving business, and no smal number of those who yisjt him to have their likenesses taken are country residents. Mr Hermann ia admitted to be a capital attist with special knowledge of' photographic chemistry, and both in operating and in re-touching he has produced some excellent work. It is to this, he owes his liberal patronage, and also to the muder ate prices he charges when the excellent quality of bis productions is taken into account.— Extract.

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. The population of New South Wales is 1,153,000.

The Hon Mr. tfcKenzie goes South on Friday, and addresses his constituents on Monday night at talinereton South. He intends replying to certain charges made against his retrenchment policy and the administration of his Department.

The Maoriß of Gisborne are a church going lot, but they are not noted for punc;ualiry. It is a common thing in each of the churches —denomination dees not concern the Maori —for a number of aboriginals to troop in. They try (says the Standard) to make their foefall as light as the pussy-cat's, and t'..3 measure of their success can best be gauged by assuming for the nonce that the pussy cat has sledge-hammer shoes on. If the intelligent Maori happenß to arrive before the sermon he gets veary before the preacher has half done, a».a straddles out to seek fresh air. At the Anglican Church on Sunday night a blind Maori was led in, and formed one of the congregation. The poor fellow seemed to tike great interest in the proceedings, but his whispered comments were audible to more than him to whom they were addressed. The Oaraaru Mail says :-1 he agent for the "Picturesque Atlas" is now in town completing the delivery of that notorious publication. The agent trustß that the public will possess their souls in patience while he endeavors to make delivery with all celeiity possible, and strongly deprecates the. practice of subscribers besieging his hotel in order to obtain early copies. In many places he has been compelled to quietly leave parcels of the work on doorsteps or put them through windows, i.i order to avoid the enthusiastic and hearty welcoming embraces of subscribers. He is of a moaest end retiring nature, and such ardent rejoicings simply unnerve and embarrass him." Intelligence has been received from Samoa of a murder on one of the German plantations a few miles from Apia, a foreign labor boy having been killed by someSamoans whom he was endeavouring to prevent robbing the plantation. '