A circular has been sent by the Audit Department to the various local bodies in the district, advising members to be vigilant so as to prevent embezzlement, etc. The Eketahuna Road Board gives notice of its intention to strike a special rate tor the erection of a suspension bridge at Hawera road. Our Eketahuna correspondent writes: —"The Salvation Army meeting on Sunday laßt was well attended. Captain Rattray, who made biß first appearance, seems to be quite a lnaaical genius.
Under such a leader a 6 him tha Armj pupht to prosper in this little township." A Rescue Home will be opened in Auckland on the 22nd inst. by the Salvation Army. This makes four Rescue Homes that the Army has in this Colony, During last year, of 250 cases passed through the various Homes, from 70 to 75 per cent proved satisfactory. The Army has now 43 Rescue Homes in various parts of the world, with a staff of 210 officers, dealing with 2000 cases per arnum.
The Standard expresses the hope that the time/ia not far distant when the settlers of the Wairarapa will enter the fruit export trade. There are fourteen flax mills at work in ai(d around Foxton at the present tiragfi
JPhe amount of trout ova collected at the, Masterton hatcheries this year is ,580,000, being 150,000 in excess of last /ear.
Parallel rows of willows are being planted on the south bank of the Waiohine river for protective works. They have a new title for " Sheol" in the big Auckland "Weekly. It is called there, " the down grade of Socialism."
The Shareholders' Committee of the National Bank of New Zealand advises that the number of directors should be reduced to six; that ro fresh colonial appointments should be made: that non-paying branches should be abandoned ; and that salaries should be reduced.
The country round Gerilderie (N S.W.) is reported to be an immense sea. Sixty thousand travelling shsep have been stuck up by the floods, and it i& feared they must perish. A boy named Matthews, 12 years of age, shot himself dead with a revolver in Melbourne because his mother Bcolded him.
The latest intelligence regarding the health of the Eev. C. Spurgeon is that he is decidedly improving. The fortnightly meeting of the Master ton Boroagh Council is to be held thi s evening.
Mr Ay son, the curator of the Wellington and Wairarapa A cclimatisation Society's fish hatchery, collected between 5000 and 10,000 ova at Belmont yesterday, a very good haul considering the lateness of the season.
A well-known sharebroker of Sydney, Mr Pybus, has levanted. The defalcations are said to be nearly £30,000. The Te Aute College football team paid a surprise visit to the Theatre Royal Skating Rink last night, -and oreated no end of amusemont by their antics.
The case of Whitcombe v the fahiatua County Council, a claim for £514 13s for loss of land taken for public works, is to be heard before the Compensation Court at Wellington next Tuesday.
We remind our readers of the social gathering and sale of work to be held in St Matthew's schoolroom -on Fridny evening next. A feature of the entertainment will be the production of "0 uderella" by a number of well trained children.
Serious complaints are made against the South African Company for neglecting to provide proper equipment for the Mashonaland expedition. The country is alleged to be full of giaves, 59 deaths having occurred at Bundi alone. At Fort Victoria 152 out of 160 police there are on the sick list. | The poll taken at Martinborough in the Otaraia riding last week upon the proposal to raise a loan of £BSO under the Loans to Local Bodies Act for the purpose of constructing a water race for irrigation purposes on the lands of Messrs Joseph and Phillips was in favor of the scheme. The number of ratepayers on the roll in this special rating district is one, and the whole ol thu one voted. At the annual meeting of Parishioners ol St. Matthew's Church last evening, the Bev. W. E. Paige stated that the report that the Masterton parish was one of two defaulters in the diocese was incorrect. The fact was that a mistake had occurred in the transmitting of the Usual instalment. The pamhoners, he pointed out, were in no way to blame. Mr Joseph Ivess, ot newspaper plant" ing notoriety, has commenced the issue of The Partes Mxaminer. Parke3 is an up-country town in New South Wales, and Mr lvess' new venture is to be published bi-weekly. Shearer* from thin district who have with Henry Wright, of Wellington, to proceed to Sydney, are notified by advertisement that the steamer has been delayed and will not leave until Monday, 27th inst, on which date all who have given in their names must be at Mr. Wright's office. Wo understand that this will be che last opportunity for shearers to go to Australia this season. Perplexed station-oivncr of the future to gorgeous new arrival in lavender kid gloves: "Can 1 do anything'for you, Sir.' 1 Gurgeom new arrival "Yes ! You can conduct me to the shearers' drawing room, I have been appointed by the Government bureau to operate In your shed. I trust your sheep are clean and gentle."
An American paper, in discussing the facilities for divorce given in some of the States, mentions " the charming compli* cations which once arcse in the manage of a divorce with two girls who married a widower with two boys and had a second family by her new husband. It is said that when a terrible rumpus was heard in her nursery one day the nervous husband shouted upstairs, ' Whatever is the matter? And the little wife answered sweetly over the bannister : It's only my children and your children having a row with our children, dear." General Booth is expected to leave London this month on his tour of inspection round the world. He will touch at Cape Colony, and then proceed to Aus tralia via Hobart. He is due at Auckland on or about October 20th, and as at present arranged will conduct meetings at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The duration of his stay in New Zealand will be about three weeks. On his way bask to England he will inspect the Indian Salvation Army.
A remarkably narrow escape from drowning is reported by the Oamam Mail. Three lads, John Grant and James and Allan Milmine, attempted to cross the Waitaki on Saturday, the river being comparatively low, for a day's hare .sho'jcing in Canterbury, The two brothers were on one horse. About half-way across one of- the streams the horse slipped and rolled over. Grant endeavoured to get near the brothers, bus his hoise refused. Meanwhile, James, the eldest brother got clear of the horse, caught hold of his brother and tried to clea* him an well. This he had great difficulty in doing, as the lad kept a firm grip of the animal under water. He however, succeeded at last, and with one hand he kept the boy's head aboye water, and managed to get him safe to land.
Hamlet : " The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold. Horatio: It is a nippine and an eager air, my Lord." Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1.
As in the time of the Royal Dane and Courtly Horatio, so of late, to use a very common expression, the weather has been "bitterly cold." For the present Winter Season there have been imported thousands of yards ot the best Flannels and bales upon bales ot Excellent Blanketß at To Aro House, Wellington.
Of Flaunels we have at presenta 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 9£d to 3/- per yard, at Te Aro House, Wellington. We are noted throughout the Proyince for the Excellent Value are give in Flannels, in that customers may rely on getting their orders executed moat advantageously at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our usual stock of blankets is between
600 and 700 pairs in both the best English and Colonial makes. We buy f at first hand in the English markets.from the very best manutactureis, and at the lowest cash terms, and our Colonial blankets are picked with great care from the best mills. We are thus 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 i 3 therebj caused, we would notify that all orders and business letters ahor'd be addressed only to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellint'^on,
The Otago Daily Times states that the cost of repairing the Cook's Strait Cable during the past five years has been £11,504.
A recipient [of charitable relief from the Masterton Benevolent Society is to be seen in the street almost every day under the influence of drink. The Society should invest : gate this case. Sporting men would find it greatly to hfiir adyan tage by c )rrespondin? with A. J. Jacobs, the professional Taxider, mis? from London. Birds, fish, animals and reptiles preseryed and mounted in the highest style. Every description of sfiins preserved or tanned and mn-'e into rugs, etc. Work done in all its branches ao lowest rates. Correspon dence in all parts of the globe. SO 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, OarWton, will be attended to. -Advt.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3863, 21 July 1891, Page 2
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