The Wairarapa Daily TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3857, 14 July 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1891.

Messrs Joyce, Tanner, Carncross and Buick, M.h.R.'s, are on a visit to the Taranaki district. They rubbed noses on Sunday with the chiefs Te Whiti and Tohu at Farihaka. The West Coast Farmer.' Society is being pushed forward, but the amalgamation with the Wellington Alliance is not yet completed. The provisional directory and other officers have been appointed. The Committee appointed by the Wairarapa North County Council to decide what steps should be taken in the Spackman case, met yesterday afternoon and resolved to state a case for appeal in the Wellington Supreme Court. The licensing laws are stricty enforced in Melbourne, Fur Sunday trading recently a licenaee was fined £lO, while two others were malcted in fines of £5 for having their bar doors open during prohibited hours. We understand that the Ngatikahuknrawbitia (pardon the French!) tribe of Natives intend to appeal to Parliament against the action of the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court in refusing their application for a re-investigation of the title to the Nra,waka-a-kupe block, Wairarapa, 62,000 acres in extent. The Railway Commissioners have peculiar little ways of their own for transacting business. One of these ways is to advise a servant of his transfer at five o'clock one eveuing, and have him on the way to his next appointment by first train on the following morning. This has beea the experience of a clerk at the Masterton Railway Station, but it is not aa experience which everybody would enioy. Fanoy one of the Commissioners putting together his goods and chattels and taking his departure with such notice! A young man named Charles Volheim, twenty-one years of age, was aires«ed in Mtsterton yesterday on a charge of illicit intercourse with a girl named JJeere, who is under the statutory a?e —fourteen years. The girl had recently gone into service with a family at Kuripuni, and as she made it a practice of leaving the house after everytody else had retired, the suspicions of her mistress were aroused, with the result that on being closely questioned she admitted having been with tbe accused. The offence is allege*! to have been committed on Sunday night. Volheim was brought before a couple of Justices to-day, and on the application of the police remanded till Friday. More shearers are required tor Australia, and we direct attention to the advertisement of Mr, Hemy Wi*ght, 24, Lambton Quay, in another column for fifty shearers for Sydney, and offering a free passage over, one pound per hundred, and three or four months' work guaranteed. Shearers who go p.- *»e back here for our own shearing. make a cheque. ouJ *<* »«- £«*• themselves with references ;. roln J*™ shed as to capability, for Mr. Wriguu ' satisfaction. The passage back has been arranged for at 50». We learn that the former lot ot men sent to (jneens!and by Mr. Wright arrived at Rockl ampton on Saturday all well, and commenced work at once. Sporting men would find It greatly to their advantage by orrespohiins' withj A. J. Jacobs, the professional Taxider-1 mist 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. Corraspon ience in all parts of the globe. 80 pears' experience. All work guaranteed. Highest price given, or work done in sxchange for huias, crows. New Zealand juail, and other birds. N. Z. birds wanted in any quantity. Orders left at Mr. WiUiams,' tobacconist, Masterton, x Mr. Catt's, hairdresser, Carlwrton, will be attended to,—Advt.

John Dale, an old man 51 yean of age, shot himself at C&stlenw'ne. He leaves d a wife and family. " fie is known to to nave been drinkfrg heavily of late," b says the report. The Marlborough Meat Works shipped n 82G cases of boiled rabbit aadl7bal.es t of rabbit, rkins in transit for the s.s. a Arawa for London. 8 The Taranaki Herald learns thrt a number of local exporters st New Plymouch are contemplating the erection of j. a small refrigerating plant, which is to ( be put up in a building for the storage of c butter, etc. The Oamaru Mail says:—The rainfall a in Oamaru for the month of Jane was 0.34." Jane must be very August. ] Mr D. Snrfch notifies that he hair started budnes3 ai a boot and shoe c maker in Hall street, opposite Wright's boarding-house, and will be glad to x receive and execute o'ders. j In Wellington there are 94 Smiths, 39 , Browns, 26 Jones, 18 Robinsons, 25 i Scotfcs, and 23 Martins. 'The others are j nowhere. The first annual ball in connection , with the Eketahuna Bine Clrb Is to be j held in the Town Hall on Friday rest. , An "at Home" is to be he'd by the ' Masteifcon Mrsonic Lodge, N.Z.C., in ' the Voluntecv drll hall this ] which pronrsei to be veiy successful. Visit'rg brethren from all parts oJ the ; district are to be present. A man who was committed to prison for drunkenness, complained cf a friend ' for not bailing him out. —" Bail you out," cried the friend, " why I couldn't have pumped you out I" It is stated that the Minister for Lands intends to bring in a Bill this session removing the control of primary education reserves from the school commissioners and handing it over to the land boards.—Otago Daily Times. A Bettler living near the Manaia lately picked up a sheep which was cast on a neighbor's farm, and found that though it could still walk, the hawks had picked out both its eyes. He himself run three hoggets now on his farm with only one eye each, the hawk* having picked out the other eye while the unfortunate sheep were cast. Mr E. M. Smith M H.B..has inserted an advertisement in the Taranaki Herald to the fact that he is compelled, in selfdefence, to ask the .New Plymouth electors, and the public generally, not to believe the newspaper reports of his sayings and doings in Parliament, but to be guided by Hansard, and Hansard only. The Auckland Star has curious notions respecting the profits to be derived from at>heep run. Referring to»Mr Purveß Bussell's station, i« says that gentleman is drawing £50,000 a year from his property. According to the sheep returns, Mr Bussell has 39,000 sheep, which, at the very liberal allowance of : £3OO per thousand, only gives £11,700 a year. , The Dunedin Globe is informed that , efforts are being made to secure a monster petition from the women of the colony in favour of female franchise. 1 Already 3,000 names have been -forwarded to both Houses of Parliament from Dunedin, and more will follow. A public meeting is to be held towards the . end of next week, with both lady and gentlemen speakers, at which resolutions favouring the movement will be sub. ' mitted- Every effort is being made to make the meeting a thoroughly repre sentative one. We may expect to hear of a * 'big poisoning case* at Poverty Bay. We cut ; the following advertisement from a local paper at Gisborne:—"Warning. Lost.—Yesterday Afternoon, between Gisborne and Whataupoko, Bag containing two poisoned hams, being ' specially strongly poisoned for a bait for killing rats. The person finding same e to destroy at once, as eating any portion means instant death. The owner will be ' greatly relieved and thankful to hear they are found. Address, —'Poison,' Office of this paper."

A spendthrift father, better known than trusted, and who had a son of the same kidney, threatened, after a serious quarrel, to " cut Irian off with a shilling." " Cutaway," was the severs rejoinder; but where are you to get the shilling." Still tins mode of punishment is popular with testators. In the will of one, Mr George, »f Lambeth, who died in 1772, there are these words:—" Elizabeth George, my wife, is of that perverse and obstinate disposition that nothing can reclaim her; the strength of Samson, the knowledge of Homer, the prudence of Augustus, the cunning ofPyrrhus, the patience of Job, the subtlety of Hannibal, and the watchralnea3 of Hermegenes would not have subdued her. .... Therefore, I leave you one shilling only." The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse te'ls a good tale (says the Melbourne bun) at tha expense of a pressman who interviewed him in one of the cities he visited. It seemed that the reporter told off for the duty had carefully listed the questions he proposed asking. Then he passed them over to a brother scribe, asking him if he could suggest anything moce. Thh son of nerdition added one other query when his brother-recording angel was not looking, and then handed the naper back with: "No ; I think that covers everything." When the interview commenced, the Kev. Mark, , seeing his interrogator was examining from a list, said: "Oh ! I see yo« have a schedule, Well, give it to me, and 1 will till it m; that will be shorter work." So he did; but coming to the last query he pulled up and enquired, in a voice of thunder: " what do you mean by this sir ? " And there, with growing horror, the unhappy reporter saw the addendum: "do you happen to have the price of a drink about your clothes ? " The Lake County Press gives the following instance of the sagacity and faithfulness of the dog :—" A well-known loccl character had, as is his habit, become very drunk, and in that state attempted to return a'; night to his home, a couple of mi'es from town. The dog went to the hut, whioh had another occupant, and succeeded in inducing the latter to accompany it along the road until the inebriate was discovered lying en a sheet of ice, and to which his clothing h?d become frozen. The inebriate was assisted to the hut, and, though very much affected by the cold, was made as comfortable as possible. It is more than probable that the man would have died but for his timely rescue. It wou'd therefore seem that he on ed his life to the dog. Hamlet: " The air bites shrewd'y ;it is very cold. Horatio: It is a nippinp and an eager air, my Lord." Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1. As in the time of the Royal Dane and Court'y Horatio, bo of late, to use a very common expression, the weather has been "bitterlycold." For the present Winter Season there have been imported thousands of yards ot the best Flannels and bales upon bales ot Excellent B'ankets at Te Aro House, Wellington. Of Flannels we have at present a stock of about 20,000 (twenty thousand) yards, in all the best English and Colonial makes, in white, Shetland, Orkney, scarlet and fancy colors, and the prices range from 9W to 3/- per yard, at Te House, Wellington. *We are throughout the Province for the Snellen; ?"*** *• «**» in Flannels, in that customers nl*7 self aa getting their orders executed vaCZj advantageously at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our usual stock of blankets is between 600 and 700 pairs iD both the beet English and Colonial makes. We buy at first hand in the' English markets.from the very best and at the lowest cash terms, and our Colonial blankets are picked with great care from the best mills. We are was able to sell our blankets cheaper than nine tenths of the trade in the Colony can do. Our prices range from 6s lid to 50s per pair at Te Aro House, Wellington. As orders sometimes come addressed to hands in our employ, and delay is therebj caused, we would notify that 'all orders and business letters shor'd be addressed only to James Smith, Te Axo House, Wellinr'en.

The hint thrown out by a corresponent in our columns yesterday has been iken, and the Borough staff is engaged >*daj- scraping the thoroughfares. While a roan was ploughing his farm ear Timauu the other day he fonrd a iiriy guinea gold watch lost n ; oe years go. The paddock bad been cropped sverol times during the nine years. A Sydney tram motor ran down a dtcher's ca*t. The injured owner rougbt an action against the Railway lommiss'oners for compensation. He laimed £3OOO, but only got £*.s Q. What won't drink do ? A young man trolled on to the railway line at Glen dbya (Vic.) much the worse for drink, le fell asleep on the line, pnd a train an over him. Verdict: " Accidental eath." A young woman visited a museum of atural history, and for the first time in ler life saw a human skeleton. "Dear ae," she exclaimed, "how mortifying it i to think that oue will look li'ce that 1 t makes me ashamed to be seen !" Some jurymen at Ne'son who were mable to a<»ree on a verdict were ocked up for the night, and blankets vere provided them from Nelson gaol, rhey now complain that the bedding was •All alive 01" There is nothing lice mnishment to make jurymen agree. Mi3s Nellie Payne, a member of the Payne family o* musicians, whose death vas reported some time ajo and afcersmds contradicted, died at Moonta 'S, A.) on June 3rd from consumption. She went there twelve months ago in the hope that the mild climate would do be? good. She was n'oetaen years of ige.—Duned'n Star. It is a dangerous and costly practice to cany firearms. A young man at Richmond was charged with the offence, and gave as an excuse that he had been in the habit of carrying a revolver for years. On this occasion he was accosted by lour men, one ot whom made a tug at his watch chain, and he fired the revolver in the air which had the desired effect, viz., frightening them. The yarn was too thin, and he was fined j£l. A splendid score wis made at (Jerri* gong (N.S.W.) on the 17th by a local volunteer named Dav'd Sharpe, wbo made 69 out of a possible 70 points at 500 and 603 yards. At SCO yards he made the possible, and his third snot at 600 yards was only half an inch away from the major point. "Bustles" are said to be out of date, but judging from the fact that at a dance not a thousand mile 3 from Fei'ding, a bundle of papers—viz., two Evening Posts, one New Zealand Mail, one Advocate and one Marlborough Express, stuffed in an oaimeal bag, was observed to fall from the dress of a youn;» lady while engaged in a dance, we should say they were becoming' fashionable again. A sad story. A middle-aged woman in the Melbourne Hospital was admitted suffering from bronchial asthma. Her symptoms were mild, and her admission was only granted on account of the pitiful tale she told of poverty, sickness, and want. When unobserved, she seized a table knife and made a horrible gash in her throat. She still lives, but is in a c.itical condition. A veiy tragio affair happened at Al bury the other day. An intoxicated man drove a hone and into the rivei Murray. The night was very dark, heavy rain was falling, anithe river was roaring along at a terrific speed in full flood. Although a Frenchman, who was camping near the spot, called out, nc heed was taken of the warning, and man, n orse, and buggy were swept away A gigantic sale of Drapery and Clothing is no a being held at Hooper'i Drapery and Clothing Establishment (the Bon Marche). The whole of theii magnificent stock of Millinery, Dress Goods, Blankets, Flannels, Sheeting, Calicoes, .Linoleums, Carpets, Hosiery, Gloves, etc, etc, Mens and Boys Clothinj Hats, Shirts, etc, etc, will be submittec to the public at extraordinary low pricei previous to their annual stocktaking, which h about to take place. This shoulc be an opportunity that hawkers, storekeepers, heads of families and other should not let pass without securini some of the many bargains that will bi offered. Messrs. Hooper & Co., of the Foi Marche Drapery Warehouse, are wel known for giving the pubhc the veri best value in all kinds of Drapery an< Clothing in Masterton. and the oppor tunity that they are now offering a their gigantic Sale should be a grea boon to purchasers. This sale commen ces on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock and we anticipate seeing a great rußl durin? that and followins, days for thi many bargains.