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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3835, 18 June 1891, Page 2

A new shop is in the course of erection in Hall-street for Mr W. GarJßy.

It is stated that there : is a greater, demand in Masterton at the present time for houses than there has been "for a considerable time. J y

Our; Greytown contemporary suggests that the farmers of the Wairarapa combine and test the market in England for potatoes for themselves. - The hunt proposed to have been held at Masterton early next month will have to be abandoned, as the hounds are not available. The Wellington United Hunt Club appears to extend a great amount of courtesy to the Wairarapa Club ! In a maintenance case before the Court at Napier the other day, tbe applicant, who sought to compel a son to help to support her, was stated to be living with her fourth husband; A man who was bitten by a katipo spider in the Auckland province six weeks ago, has been in a hospital nearly ever since, having been discharged only a day or two ago. At the Auckland Police Court the other :d»y a boy : ten years old was charged with having been found sleeping out at night. Bis father said, they had to chain the boy to keep him at home. A Chinese named Ah Woi has been committed for trial at Timaru. He appears to be a champion pilferer, lie has been employed as a rouse-about at the Criterion Hotel for the last twelve months, and has accumulated a variety of goods to a total value cf £4O, nearly all from the hotel, and the property of the licensee and his family, and of boarders and servants. A Mauriceville resident has written to us, pointing out the necessity for improvement in the management ef affairs in connection with the vil'.e East school, and urging' householders to elect as a Committee married men—men who have.an interest in the school.;/' •,.?'?T:'. *''.-• •'' .:" ,-'. ,■•' '''•

MrT. H. Thompson, who has recently opened a saddlery and harnessmaking establishment in Masterton, has a business announcement in another column.

The quarterly sittings of the Wairarapa District Court will be commenced at Masterton on Wednesday next. Two important caseg & W down for hearing. One is a claim for damages for an overflow ot water on to private property, and the other a claim for damages on account of the death of the late Albert Spackman. There will also be a quantity of bankruptcy business.

An entertainment was to have been given in the Masterton Theatre Royal lastevening by the Georgia All-Star Minstrels, but as only about a dozen persons, principally youths, put in an appearance, it was wisely decided to reserve the exhibition of skill till the following night. Two reasons may be assigned toe the meagre attendance—the counter, attraction in the Drill. Hall, • and in* sufficient advertising. Very few people were aware until yesterday that the entertainment .was to be given. • The result of the petition against the recent Masterton Borough Licensing Committee is awaited with no small degree of interest by the pablio generally. The petition will be heard before -Colonel Roberts, R. Mm on Tuesday next. Messrs W. G. Beard and C, A*. Pownall appear for the petitioners and Messrs Hawkins and Gully to oppose. .'....

A London correspondent sajs that Mr Wilson Barrett, the popular tragedian, is planning ah early tour to Australia and Hew Zealand. He js closing the hew Olympic Theatre, the scene of many of his triumphs.

. A meeting of ratepayers of the Dry River distriot is to bV held at sMartinborough on ithi 27th inst, to coiuuderand dpicuss the proposal to raise a loan of £BSO for the purple of irrigation works and to lgyy a special rate if the work is to be proceeded with.

M* W, W. Corpe had a narrow escape I from drowning last Monday evening. He •AS attempting to cross tne Pphangjna D . *« Uw bßggy. b »t finding it: top Kiveri r -Steed tetß?» back, when deep, he endeavo . - » u d eapsteed the horse caught in a snag... " O * PB the buggy. With some difficulty ~ Corpe fortunately managed to reach the shore. He has now decided to put a wire rope across the river to enable it to be safely crossed.

Says a country correspondent of the Palmerston paper:—Where are.tbe unemployed ? A contractor here short of hands took the train the other day in quest of men. When Hearing flalcombe, an able-bodied man, one who had the appearance of being used to bush work, entered the car. Our contractor thought, here is your man, and at o&ceputthe question; but to his astonishment, the other said: " I was just going to ask you the same I came all the way down from Kai Iwi to get about twenty men toVieli bush, but haven't got one yet." This looks as if good men were scarce. r

Prof, Henry Barraclough, of Welling ton, has discovered a great remedy which is preeminent as a. cure for hard and soft Corns. It has given the greatest satisfaction to bvbryonb who has been fortunate enough to try it., It removes all 80EBNESS and pain, while it Cures. It is also a very beneficial application for bunions, removing all that intoibbable sobenbssj and reduces them amazingly. All who suffer with cobns or bunions would procure the cokn desiboyeb without a minute's, hesitation if they paly had the slightest Knowledge of its efficacy. Five days' use of-the desiboybr /which is in. oiutment form) will _be sufficient to cpnyince anyone that it is a specific. By enclosing postal note for 'ls'.'2d one bbxwillbe forwarded io any address. Henby BabBACLouap, Medical Herbalist, Pirie Street, Wellin ton- Apvr.

A largo order for books has been given by the Pahiatua Library Committee to Mr Park, statiouer, of Palmerston North. It ib stated tbat the JDobson Kennedy Dramatic Company intends re-visiting Mastertoii at an early date. Mr HopMrk, at present assistant teacher of the Featherston school, haa received the appoiutmeht of headmaster to the school at Pirinoa. "We to hear that liberal contributions are being made in Masterton towards the testimonial to be presented to the Rov Father Tom McKenna, who recently left.for Hawera. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a " complimentary" for a masonic ball to be held in the Palace Hall, Grey town, on Friday, 26th June, to celebrate the consecration of the new hall and the installation of W.M, and officers. Thelt.M.S. lonic, from Aew Zealand, arrived at London on the 14th instant, all well.

This is how they grow oats in Southland. On Waianiwa Flats, Mr Grieve has threshed 114 bushels of oats per acre, and Mr Donald 112 bushels this season. In the latter case the paddock when cropped 10 years aso yielded'loß the first year and lOC the second.

Mr Hogg, M.H.R., on Tuesday presented to the House a petition from residents of Pahiatua and the Forty-mile Bush, complaining of the inconvenience Buffered throush the alterations in the train service since the completion of the Manawatu'rorge line.

A rood reputation has already been acquired by Mr J. Tisdall, gunmaker of Lambton Quay, • Wellington, for guns, cartridges, and similar equipments of eveiy kind, and no doubt he will earn as good a name for his fiabin.xtackle and volunteering requirements which he now keeps in stock, in addition to almost every other sporting requisite. That old-established and reliable firm of grain and produce merchants, Messrs D. W. Virtue and Co., of Harbcur-st., Wellington, have acquired a new agency, that for Furness 1 Auckland Jams; These jams are a superior and genuine article packed id a particularly tasteful manner, ana they can be quoted at favourable rates. ■■. Messrs Virtue and Go. are also agents for that standard brand "of flour—the Timaru Atlas Roller Mills—the quality- of which is well-known and is highly regarded in the Wairarapa. - A specialityin the way of an absolutely tasteful preparation 'of cod-liver oil in the form of an emulsion, is advertised by Mr George Mee, the well-known Wellington chemiat.' Particulars are also given! of other winter requisites . and comforts which Mr Mee has in stock. The Treasurer,'.| of the Masterton Hospital acknowledges with, thanks the receipt of the following subscriptions in aid of the funds:-- Mr Carleton' Coote, £5; Messrs J and H Holmes, £3; proceeds Salvation Army Musical Troupe,Eketa-. huua, per Captain Robinson, £3 Os 6d. An interesting and admirably com-' piled presentment of the position, prospects, and advantages offered by the Australian Mutual Provident Society is published in the form of an advertisement in another column. Those vho are concerned in the life insurance cannot do better than study its facts and figures. It gives in a concentrated form some idea of the wonderful magnitude and success ef the operations of thiß marvellous Colonial life office, which claims to be the oldest, wealthiest, and most prosperous in Australia, - and the largest in the British Empire. When it is mentioned: that the accumulated funds of the A.M.PiSbcietyarenearly £10,000,000 sterling, all invested to yield nearly 6 per cent, and that for : the five years ended 30th December, 1890, policies have been written fcr £17,500,000 sterling, a significant idea may be conveyed of its vast transactions and its admitted influence. The special feature of the Australian Mutual Provident Society is, however, the granting of a bonus every year, and an exceedingly good one at that, as past results have proved. It U declared to be the only life office in Australasia which makes an annual declaration of its bonuses and this is a characteristic which is highly 7 regarded by insurers in it. The Masterton agents are Messrs Lowes and lorns, while at Greytown the Society is represented by Mr f. H. Wood. The canvassing agent in the Wairarapa is Mr G..W, Schroder. A man was taken into custody at Melbourne last week at Government House, where he was insisting upon seeing the Governor to pet an explanation from him "of the reason which influenced him to sentence an innocent man to death," On being asked who , the man was, he replied, dramatically, ; "lam he, where,is the Governor?'' , He stated that hearing/he bad been condemned to death he hurried up from Geelohg, engaged a hansom, and drove to Government House. The man was . locked up for medical treatment. The creditors of William Baker, a , farmer at Inglewood, decided the other day that a public examination was necessary, To one of his creditors the bankrupt had written as follows:—"In I answer to your letter of the 23rd Maioh, I never promised to let you have any money by instalments. I told y° u }$ was impossible to get money from a stone. You promised to wait till I could pay. Well, lam not able to clo it yet, i nor am I likely to be able to do so for : some time. I owe others money besides you, and 1 have a wife and family to keep. ■• Be good, wait and watch at the golden gates. Think of me while on your way to the place above—and you'll 1 get paid,"

A case of some interest to commercial men waß decided in the Wellington R.M. Court on Tuesday. Preston & Co., wine merchants, of Wellington, sued Mr G, W. Tate, solicitor, of Greytowri, for £6, the price of wines delivered to him. The defendant put in as a Bet-off a prior account between the defendant and the plaiutiffs agents at Masterton. Mr Poynon, who appeared for Preston and Co., contended that as the goods were not entrusted to the possession of the agents, and as they were not specially authorised tg sell the ppods as their own, a set-off could not be pleaded, and he quoted authorities to prove his contention. Judgment was given for plaintiffs with costs. Mr Tripp, who. appeared fpr Mr Tate, gave notice pf appeal. The wording of the old legal forms in which verdicts aie wrapped in is some* thing startling. The following, which is an ordinary Bp.ecpnen, relates to the suicide ot 'Jhadwick, who murdered the late Roderick Matheßon|~-"Thatj the said Charles Ohadwick, not being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, but lunatic and distracted, on or about the 11th day of January, 1891, one end of a certal n D ' eee °'- a * n atoned unto the limb cf a * eee * a tne bußa - a * J t , ° nui aforesaid, and the othei\ Alld thereof about his own neck did fix, tie, and fasteS, therewith then did hang, suffocate, and strangle himself, by which said banging, suffocation, and strangling he, the said Charles Ghadwick, nof being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, but lunatic and distracted, in the manner and by tbe means aforesaid, did kill himself." The irreverent reporter, who careth not for old forms, anorteth contemptuously at proclivity,transmitteththis into "Suicide by hanging while of unsound mind." SHAj.fr we see any ?• Stonewalling" in the present Parliamentary seesiao, or is tbe thing " dead as a door nail ?" Will members keep their work "steadily in view," or will they do it? In the dire event of another " Stonewall" we* would counsel members to first pay a visit to Te Aro House. We have some things that would make even a " stonewall" endurable, M'Lintock's soft purified down quilts, of whTeh wieljaye just opened a splendid : variety,'"in all sizes and qualities, from 18$ 6d to five guineas, •would be invaluable requisites. .'Our Austrian, Newwarket/ ajjd Andqlusiau railway rugs from 7s 64 to 21s should he equally in request, and after having served their temporary purpose would be of great use to members, on their xeturn journey, and would, .in their homes, be pleasing mementos of Te Aro House.

As further adjuncts to repose during the weary flow of words, we would recommend our superior blankets, as being unrivalled in the colony for either - size or value. Our. prices range from 6s lid to 50s per pair, and we can guarantee their sleep producing Dualities,- no matter whoy ••orates.'? Members of the House and their masters, thepublio, would do well te note these facts, as set form by Te Aro House,—Anvr.