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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3871, 28 July 1891, Page 2

The net proceeds of the social gather, ing held in St Matthew's schoolroom on Friday evenin? last were £2O.

The Feilding Star Bays there are at the present time no* unemployed in that prosperous district. A fine six roomed residence is in course of erection in HalKstreet for Mr. T. E. Price.

The gallery in the Theatre Eoyal is to bi reserved for ladies at the public meeting t» be held to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. On the Committee for the Grsytown Private Band plain and fancy dress ball there are only one hundred and eighty names !

Stanbury has decided not to row any more matches in the Colonies until after his visit to America.

Canon Barlow has been consecrated Eishop ot Northern Queensland, This is the first Colonial Clergyman consecrated.

Mr. D. Smith, bootmaker, of Masterton, bas removed to premises ia Qaeen street adjoining Welch's blacksmith shop, and opposite the Prince of Wales Hotel.

The formation of a jeu monte club is mooted iu Masterton. The game is a lively one—it is more enticing than tennis, more fashionable than football, and more pleasant than polo.

On the West Coast there has been hardly any rain for the past five weeks. Sluicing operations have In consequence been discontinued.

The Secretary of the Masterton Football Club received the following telegram from the Secretary of the Wellington Club yesterday:—"Regret no possibility of meeting you on Satur-> day," A boy named Richardson was experimenting with gunpowder at JackeytownHe ignited a match and an explosion followed in which the lad's hair and eyebrows were removed. Fortunately his eyes escaped injury. A cow eats lOOlbs of green food every 24 hours. Four sheep liye on an acre of moderate land in summer and two in winter. A horse consumes the produce of 5 or 6 acres In oats and hay, and in farming every horse consumes I.6th of what he cultivates. Messrs Lowes and lorns remind our readers of their fortnightly stock Sale to-morrow (Wednesday). Ihe catalogue comprises fat and store wethers, fat and store ewes, ewes in lamb, 2 tooth wethers, lambs, fat and store bullocks, dairy and other stock.

A well known Bomtace of Masterton has discovered a rather noyel idea for advertising. On the left corner of bis business enyelopes he attaches a stamp on which appears, ala Emperor of Germany, a faithful likeness ot hiß own sweet self. If this does not draw, what in the name of poodness will 1 Mr F. Simeon has arrived in Masterton and opened in the establishment in Queen Stieet next to the Bon Marche, with a large and varied assortment tf books, stationery, etc. Judging from the low prices quoted to our representative the publio will be afforded an opportunity for purchasing literature, fancy goods, etc, which seldom occurs. A pleasant surprise (says the Clarence Advocate) came to Mr John Hunter, of Apple-tree Flat, Copmanhurst, in the shape of a message that half-a-million of money was awaiting his acceptance in New York, it being satisfactorily proved that he is the direct descendant of an American millionaire who died aome two years age. Mr John Hunter intends to >7proceed to Now York and secure the money, when he will rotucu again to the land of his adoption.

There are funny things told about yard sheep in the district (says the Fielding Star). One mob known as " a mixed lot" has been so often ' 'gone through" and " mouthed," that whenever they are put in a pen they begin to sort themselves into groups, consisting of two-tooth, four-tooth, six-tooth and crawlers. A veracious anecdotißt said that when he was looking at them the other day, he saw the four-tooth ones butting and showing a rather good looking member out, when the latter quietly opened its lipa and showed that the jaw was now ornameated with four teeth. The candidate was duly admitted.

A shocking and mysterious fatality was reported to the Prahran police on the evening of the 13th inst as having occurred on the Union-street level crossing, Windsor, at about 6 o'clock. The victim was a young woman named Elizabeth Dunstan, who, while passing over the crossing with a companion, supposed to be her sister, lost her life. The signalman asked them to hurry. One cried out that they were " all right," until the train passed, but as it approached, the deceased, according to her companion, clasped her hand, and, saying •• good bye," threw herself in front of the train. On the other hand, the signalman's statement, as taken by the police, was that both girls ran towards the train, and while one got clear of it the other was run over and killed. Her ripht arm was nearly severed, and the left side ot her head smashed. A bootmaker who was summoned in Auckland for the support of his illegitimate child, havmer allowed the arrears to accumulate, pleaded Not Guilty, and stated he was called out by the Bootmakers' Union, but was now getting £2 per week. Dr Giles said—That simply means you give up your situation in which you were earning good wages. •Vhat necessity was there for you to give it up ? Witness—l was called out by the Federal Council. Mr Giles— VVe have nothing to do with that. The law does not recognise any authority of any body ot men over you. Tou are a free agent, and therefore cannot exouse yourself on that ground. Defendant said that, being a member of the Union he had to come out when called upon. Or Giles said he could not admit, and never would admit, that'a person who gave up his wcrk when earning wages, and thereby anticipated himself from meeting his engagements, should throw the blame upon somebody else. Ultimately Dr Giles adjourned the case for a month, in order to see whether defendant paid in the in term in.

A matter of some interest, we should like to say of all absorbing interest, to the settlers in those localities through which this paper circulates is not the meeting of our Houses of Parliament, not the political questions therein discussed, not the bearing of the Labor patty, the off»-i'tion or the Ministerialist, but the gflLLsale of surplus Winter Stock, on Friday, July 3lst, at Te Arouauuse, Wellington. Country residents, thousands of whom have visited our previous sales and who went away rejoicing with empty purses but with large parce's, have every reason to remember them with pleasure. Now, another of these " old time" Sties of Surplus Winter Stock will wait the push of customers from tho country on Friday, the 31st July, and up to Saturday, August ISth, at Te Aro House. Wellington. There will be no mistake about the lownens of the prices, many goods are at half price, and some even less than that. The Surplus Stock in every department has received its marching orders and march it shall if there is any money in the Colony, and prices can effect it at the Te Aro House sale of Surplus Winter Stock.

If a visit to this Surplus Stock Sale is not practicable, do the next best thing, send on your orders with the cash, We will execute them fdi|hfully and quickly and forward them promptly. To help you to do this we will forward our price list free by post, it so desired, from Te Aro House, Wellington.

A coroner's jury, empanelled to ascertain the cause of death of a notorious drunkard, brought in a verdict of "Death by hanging—ronnd a rum shop.'» Sheep are being worried in a wholesale manner by Maori dogs in the Lower Valley. We hear of one farmer who lost no less than fifty of his flock in one night. Mr Duncan, who comes from the neighborhood, and ought to know, says that the Canterbury rabbit fence which has cost the colony ao much money, is not worth a brass farthing. The rabbits, he says, are slowly but steadily crossing it, and are to be found 12 or 15 miles beyond it, and only * practical man can stop their progress. Sporting men would find it greatly to their advantage by orrespondin? with A. J. Jacobs, the professional Taxidermist from London. Birds, fish, animals and reptiles preserved and mounted in the highest Btyle. 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. 80 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.