The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3836, 19 June 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1891.

Having recovered from his recent illness, Dr Hosting intimates that he has resumed his practice in Masterton. Three ladies'phaetons, at £ls, £25, and £3O respectively, ape offered for .private sale by Mr F, Hi Wood, auctioneer.

. The funeral of the late James Holmes, of Gladstone, took place yesterday, the remains being-Interred in the Carterton cemetery.

A light engine recently collided with an incoming goods train at Eveleigh tunnel, New South Wales, and Bertram, the driver of the goods train, was killed, while several others were slightly injured.

The Telegraph Department is about to establish an official post and telegraph Office at Pahiatua. The Department might also see its way clear to connect Eketahuna with Pahiatua. The Pahiatua Star states there are four cases of typhoid at Pahiatua, and that Mr Benzie has joined Mr Price in the Union Hotel.

The Gear Freezing .Company purchased last .week 90sheep from Mr Eergusson, and 300 from Mr J, McLennan (principally two-tooth wethers) at J 5s placed in the trucks at Halcombe.— Advocate.

The Georgia All-Star Minstrels gave an entertainment in the Masterton Theatre Royal last (Thursday) evening. The attendance was only meagre, but the performance was fairly rood. The company proceeds through the Fortymile Bush to-day.

The man Boss, alias Voss, who was arrested ftt Eketahuna on Tuesday on a charge of having obtained forty-four head of cattle from Frank Bismarck, of Waitapu, by false pretences, was brought before the B.M. at Wellington yesterday, and remanded to Fielding. The Christchurch Press, has taken on itself to lecture the Colonial young men and women on their vices, and this is a sample of the kind of defaulting it, publishes ; -We have , said ...that. our young men <tre economical, aha so they are; exceedingly so, sea role. Bather top much soauitbst, though we.mußfc admit that economy is one ot those drab coloured virtues - which often lay the foundation of a good deal of happiness or, at any rate, freedom from. care in afterlife- Still we should like to see our young men occasionally indulge themselves in-small penerosity. The birthdays of their lady friends so lone 48 they are young enough to care to have their birthdays numbered, mirfit sometimes be marked by pretty little; attention in tht) shape if gifts of flowers or nicnacks. Our glided youths might sometimes' without 'imperilling - their future prosperity, make hopeless bets of gloves with young ladies to whom the price pf a pair of gloves is a consideration, TheTimaru Herald says that Mr G, H. Moore'c Glenpiark estate, 75,000 acres,; in Canterbury, is now in the market, except the homestead and SOOO acres about it, if pot disposed of as a »holej within the next three months, jfc will be laid off in lots of from 5 to 5000 acies, and submitted to public competition after next shearing.

£ Mrc J^Symes-has been .appointed -cleaner 'to thfc Mastiettoii publieicffiol. :

i The Tararua ranges," clad' ml iheir j winter Raiment, presented J a^lr-mostj this morning. & A'pigeon matchr is to be hied at Messrs Lowes and lorns' yards on Saturday nest in connection with the Wairarapa North Gun Club. «j-The,Hon.Mr ? .Bolleston,haa- : asked .in, the House whether steps are being taken for dealing, with tho growing evil of/the Galifornian thistle.;

. At a meeting of the held in Wellington on Wednesday, a young salmon caught in the Aparima riyer was exhibited by Sir James Hector.' The sitting'"of the 'ttstrict Court, which was to have been held at Masterton on , Wednesday next, has A: been adjourned till Tuesday, 7th July.

A deputation from the Pahiatua County Council waited upon the Minister for Lands yesterday with reference to the maintenance of the Gorge road. The Minister promised to give the matter consideration. The Minister for Lands has promised a Pahiatua deputation to amend the Land Act so as to enable local bodies to obtain thirds from perpetual leaseholders after they have capitalised. At a meeting held at Mr J. Washington's last evening, ib was decided to form a drum and fife band in Masterton. Mr J. Candy was chosen conductor. A'l overdue rates in the 'Borough of Masterton not paid by Saturday will be sued for without further notice.

An accident happened to a four-year-old Bon of Mr £. Eagle, of Carterton, on Tuesday afternoon. She lad had got under a cart, when ther horse started, and the wheel passed over' his' arm/ breaking it above the elbow. The little sufferer was attended to by Dr Johnston. .-:•■•. ;•

An upright prand piano was selected from the Dresden Pianoforte Warehouse by Madame Patey for her Wellington concerts, and the decided preference her accomplished pianiste, MißsWoodj had foi the instrument is : cordiaHy expreiaed in a letter which appears in our advertising columns. ..,.'"

The weekly parade of the' Maaterton Rifle Volunteers was held in the, Drill Hall last evening. Thirty •seven answered to the roll-call, and were commanded by Leiuts. Thompson and Hooper. The men"i^ere' t heir facings by Finn.

So great was the succsss of the annual ball in connection Rifle Volunteers last year.that a'meeting of the Committee to consider the advisability bfenlargirig the hall for the gathering to be held next month. As, however, it was considered there was not sufficient time to effect the necessary alterations, the matter was held in abeyance till next-year! ''*;■ '■■ Adiscovery of an alarming nature was made at Victoria Barracks on the 6th inst, when a Sergeant of irfillery found in a dark passsge a rifle. lashed; to the, railing of the staircase and a cord from the trigger attached/to the /door/of a room close by, in which about a dozen men of the battery slept. - The opening of this door would have fired the rifle, which pointed straight to the doorway of the room in which two sergeants slept. Though inquiries have been made, no explanation has yet been given of the serious affair. . . , ~ -.- , . ~ , •

Mrlnkster, of Normaiiby, an'advocate of farmers' co-operaticns, thus writes to ;he Wanganui Herald :-r'Were.farraers justified in paying, six per cent, for selling their cattle, sheep and' horses, when the work can be as well done through the Egraont Farmers' Union - at two percent? Were farmers justified in paying the retail; price ■ for -farm implements when-the same- implements can be got through the Farmers' Union at ten per cent, less ? Were fanners justified in paying Is per lb, for clover seed when seed of as good quality can be got through the Farmers' Union at 8d per lb ? Were farmers justified in paying lid for sending Home their wool when by sending through the Union at ]Jd per lb. as good a price can be got ? A number of exuberant persons, male and female, in a certain Melbqurne suburb, decided to" give''a, surprise; party in the house of a mutual friend the other evening. They arrived to find that another surprise party had got in ahead of them and- was in -possession of the house, fle was a bailiff. Some of them then began to see that their visit might be construed as an Indelicate intrusion on the privacy of domestic life, but two or three felt the imbecility of their position so keenly that they clubbed together and actually bought out the bailiff and held their party in the house after all. Their host was geniality personified, ana; entertained them royally on their own provisions and liquor till dawn, with velvet foot, came stealing o'er the eastern hills, and brought the milk-man whooping on his rounds. It was only discovered by accident a few days afterwards that the whole thing was a "plant," The impecunious one had_ got wind of their intentions, and induced an acquaintance, not known to any of the party, to personify a bailiff, which he did with great success, as previously stated. The Melbourne Argu» reports a remarkable occurrence at the City Court. A woman of--the' vagrant '{ class* Margaret Pierce, who was sentenced to' twelve months' imprisonment for vagrancy, on hearing her-sentence, smiled and bowed her thanks to the Magistrates, and then turned quietly towards the watch-house cells with a constable. Just as she got outside the Court, however, she turned savagely on the constable, and seizing Three tancy pin hair adornments which she had secreted in the folds of her dress, she made several stabs; at. bit. chest: with them. The constable prevented her from doing him any misoluef, and finding herself foiled, the woman-threw herself on the ground and kicked and screemed hysterically.- She cursed the police and the Bench and everybody in general, but soon, having quite worn herself out, she submitted to be locked up without further trouble.

The London, correspondent of .the Dunedin- StarfwriteV;—'' Certain rumors which nave reached here to the Effect that Mr Ballance is seriously considering the possibility of replaoing Sir Francis Dillon Bell with Mr W. Li Reea are, 1 trust, inaccurate. I should not mention them but for the circumstantiality of my informant at Wellington, who says that Mr Bees has undetraken, should he be appointed, to alter things in London considerably. * Divil doubt It 1' says I. If Mr. Ballar.ce desires to .bring the tottering credit of the colony down with a crash he cannot do better than entrust the responsibilities of the London office to a haremoßoarum 'financier and politician like Mr Bees."

The appeal of the Bishops of the Anglican Church in America . for unity appears to be taking effect. During the twelve months endin? with Advent,lß9o, no less than GO ministers seceded from fheir denominatians and sought ordination in the Church; Methodists 14, Congregational 12, Presbyterian 10, Baptist 5, Lutheran 4, ~ Unitarian 2, Romanist 2, Salvation Army Officers 2, Second Advent 1, Reformed Kpiseopal 1, Moravian 1, .Reformed 5, and 1 uncatalogued; > display of new winter good is being made this day at the Bon Marche, Messrs Hopper and Co. haying just received another shipment of *35 cases and bales, consisting of all the latest designs in Millinery, Mantles, Jacketo, Ulsters, Cloaks, Dress Goods, Furs, Bibbons, Rain Cloaks, Parasols, Flowers, Feathers, the Kaiapoi, Roßlyn.Mosgiel.'Wellihgtoh arid Ohchunga mills, Men's, .Youths', and Boys' Clothing, Overcoata, Knicke'r Underclothing;, Pants, Shirts,' Socksv Blankets, Shawls, Surgerings, Tweeds, Flannels, Bhirfinga, Dress Tweeds, &c , &c. These goods are how being shown at L. 'J. Hooper and Co's Bon Marche. We direct special attention to our Hosiery, Gloves, Haberdashery and Manchester departments. We are no, to'be beaten in'the polony for Calicoes' Sheetings, Linings, Shirtings, Table Damask?, and all household furnishings, and onr Hosiery and Gloves are irqm the best known matters. L, J. Hooper and Co., Bon March"

=%A MtibaalAssembly' §t\ thtfvKnfehts of Labour is being'"formed mvfingland.

: A nut-get *of gold, worth '£2soj>yraa discovered ty/o feet from the/surface on Thurajdaylair, at^eddetbufnf

Shearers who have given in their|names for Queensland are requested to be at the office of the agent for the Pastoralists Union (Mr Henry Wright's), Wellington, on Monday next,, to sign apreementis, and be ready to star j on Tuesday

The Committee of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society met at the office of the President last evening, when the' catalogue was revisedand it was decided to hold the spring show on November 25th. Great interest is being >taken of jphfysanthe-' mums in View of llie show'to be held in the Autumn. ■

"The"'Hon. the Postmaster-General has been pleased to grant a weekly halfholiday to all tetter carriers throughout New Zealand, commencing on 27th inst. The Masterton letter carrier will take his half-holiday every Saturday. Persons expecting letters usually delivered by the letter carrier on that afternoon cau haye the same on appliaation at the Post Office delivery counter. Sporting men would find It greatly to thier advantage by c >rrespondin? with A.J. Jacobs, the professional Taxidermist from London. Birds, fish, animals and reptiles preserved and .mounted in the highest style. Every description of skins preserved or tanned and made into rugs, etc Work done in all its branches ao lowest rates.' Correspon dence in all parts of the globe. 30 years' experience. All work guaranteed. Highest price given, or work done in exchange for huias, crows, New Zealand quail, and other birds. N. Z. birds wanted in any quantity. Orders left at Mr/Williams,' tobacconist,'Masterton, or Mr. Catt's, hairdresser, Carterton, will be attended to.— Advt.