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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3877, 4 August 1891, Page 2

A dividend of ten per cent has been I declared by Messrs Nelson Bros. i The next English and European mail, < via Rio, will close at the Masterton Post 1 Office on Friday next. < Twenty-three pounds an acre was j paid for rurnl land at Ashburton the other day. There aro one hundred and eighty ' registered dogs in the Borough of Mas- ( terton at the present time. . The fortnightly meeting of the Mas- ( terton Borough Council will bo held this evening. Mr F. H. Wood has been appointed agent for the' Dresden Pianos, and will keep several of the Company's instruments on view at his auction room hi Greytown. Messrs Lowes and lorns announce a great sale at their rooms on Saturday next, of new and secondhand furniture, clothing, saddlery, early soed potatoes, cape barley, poultry, etc, Mr C. E. Daniell, tho well-known builder and ironmonger of Masterton, intends erecting a shop in Queen-street for the display of builders' ironmongery and other goods. It is reported on ?ood authority that Messrs xoung and Peters are again to haye opposition in the coaching line between Eketahuna and Pahiatua, when the public will be treated to a little excitement, and cheap trips will be the order of the day, The debate on the temperance question by the champions of Prohibition and Moderation, which takes place in the Theatre Royal this evening;, is likely to prove exceedingly interesting. The discussion is to be opened by Mr A. Walker, who is to speak for half an hour. Mr T. W. Glover replies at the same length. The remainder of the speakers are to be restricted to quarter of an hour each, and Mr Walker is to conclude the proceedings with a brief reply. Mr A. A.White, of Masterton, took one first prize and six seconds with his game poultry at the Auckland Poultry and Canary Association's show. The first prize was awarded to a pile cockerel, and the seconds to black red' ' cock, black red hen, duckwing cock, black red pullet, pile hen, and duckwing i cockerel. Either the poultry In Auck- . land was exceptionally good, or the i judges displayed an extraordinary amouut of partiality, for Mr White's black red cock and hen have been exhibited at nearly every show in the Colony, and have never before been beaten.

The Pahiatua Minstrel Troupe, accompanied by the Pahiatua Brass Band, gave an entertainment in the Eketabuna Town Hall on Saturday evening, and had a very poor house considering the object or the entertainment. All the songs were well received and several encores were demanded, Mr Foden accompanying on the piano. At the close of the entertainment a dance was held till 12 o'clock. The music was supplied by Messrs Foden and Meades.

Messrs Hounslow and Hoar, cabinet'" makers and upholsterers, of Queen street, Masterton, have been making rapid strides in their business of late. They have now on view in their show windows s raio very handsome inlaid furniture, comprising chests of drawers, toilet tables fitted with drawers and mirrors, writing tables and a telescope dining table. As this work has all been executed to order, those desirous of inspecting should take an early opportunity ofdoiug so. We recently mentioned that some weeks ago Mr W. E. Woods, chemist, of Wellington, had dispatched some fresh butter which had been dressed with his pateuc Tropical Antiseptic Fluid, by the s.s. Tekapo, to undergo the round trip to Australia and back. On Saturday the consignment of butter returned, and on being opened in the presence of our Wellington representative it was found to be as fresh aud as palatable as on the day it left, being without the least sign of tamt or blemish. Mr David Christie Murray, who has just returned to London from Australia, has an article in the Contemporary Review on the Antipodean press, which he asserts is the best and noblest in the world. The leading journals of Melbourne and Sydney, he says, are perfect models, unsurpassed in extent and variety of news, liberality, enterprise, sound adhesion to principle, excellence of sub editorial management, and force, justice, and picturesqueness in the expression of opinions. The principal newspapers published in Adelaide, Brisbane, and JNew Zealand are journals which Mr Murray considers no city in the world need be ashamed of. Ihe early appearance in Wellington of Mr J. C. Williamson's Juvenile Uper* Company will be a musical attraction sufficient, no d'jubt, to draw many of jur visitors down to the Opera House. The Compiny is at present playing in Dunedin to good houses, after which it opens in Christchurch, where it remains until about 2nd September, and then comeß on to Wellington. The performances are highly spoken of. The music is pood, the dresses are rich, and the scenery is fine, while among the selection of operas to be preduced are such popular ones as "The Mikado" and "La Mascotte." Mr L. J. Lohr is the Company's herald, a tact in itself at once a voucher, as he never runs an inferior thing. Speaking of Mr Lohr reminds us of the following amusing little story of him which recently appeared in the Sydney Bulletin, Thus it reads : " Lohr has been playing it very low down on the Maordanders. While ahead of M?dame Patey he came across the photograph of three infants—triplets— ranged ina row. The happy father had had them photographed with an idea of claiming the ' Queen's bounty,' Since Lohr was in Maoriland last he has become a happy father, and naturally there are many enquiries as to the youngster and its ma. Lohr has had the Maori triplets transferred to a Sydney photographer's card, and whenever anv Maori pressmen enquire after the baby he pulls the card out from ..he pocket case, and with the beaming smile of a happy father says, • Baby ! why, man, there's three of 'em.' The ' genial one' is looked upon with awe and respect in consequence. As the Maoris say, he is a ' tangata kaha.'" Wow is the winter of our discontent made glorious Bummer by purchasing the extraordinary bargains in blankets, flannels, dress goods, and thousands of other lines at Hooper's gigantic sale now on. During the next few days we shall offer still further inducements to the public to secure some of the many bargains at our gigantic sale, by further reducing every description of win;er clothing. L. J. Hooper and Co. are determined t« reduce before stock-taking (which is new in full swing) their stock of men's and boy's clothing, shirts, bats, socks, braces, belts, undershirts, and underpants, ties, overcoats, mackintoshes, etc. They expect to clear out about one half of the present stock before the end of the sale. So look out tor bargains at | Hooper's.

The new Huxunuiorangi Hotel at Gladstone is just about completed. John Lear, ofGreytown, gentleman, has been adjudicated a bankrupt! A young man of Masterton sustained a slight injury whilst dismounting from his horse yesterday. As he appeared to |be in a dazed condition he was tiken to the police station and attended to by Sergeant Han nan. The local paper says:—We are glad to know that the recent appearance of typhoid fever in Pahiatua was only of a temporary nature, and we are truly thankful that it has left us without robbing us of any of our townspeople. Thus the Standard :—a settler up Masterton way was convicted of having rabbits upon his property and fined 20s. He immediately resigned all his public appointments and withdrew within himself. If a friend met him in the street and said "How d'ye do?" he replied as he passed on, "Don't speak to me, please ; I'm a convicted criminal." We are infoimed that a number of valuable dogs have of late been destroyed in the Mauriceville district by some malicious individual laying poißon on the main thoroughfares. It is to be hoped the residents of that part will exercise the utmost vigilanco to bring to justice the perpetrator of such a cowardly I act.

A Masterton correspondent to the Post, referring to the Shop Hours Bill, says:— Most wise and most liberal Government of Now Zealand, the country expected from you liberty, and /cu give instead a cross between Eussian despotism and motherly care. Make your hay while the sun shines, for your sun will surely set at the next elections, and your places will be filled by liberalminded men, who, in this instance, have the sense to see the Opposition are allowing you to pass this measure in order that you may make yourselves ridiculous. Mr Rudolph S, Hirschberg, who has for some years held the position of accountant in the Bank of Australasia at Masterton, has been transferred to Stratford, in the Taranaki district, where he is to open a branch of the Bank. The loss of Mr Hirschberg will be keenly felt in football and other sporting circles, with which he has identified himself during his stay in Masterton. As an officer of the Bank he has gained many friends by his uniform "jourtesy and attontion to business. Whilst his transfer will necessarily mean promotion, his departure will be regretted in social as well as in sporting and business circles. A. woman namod Gar-.liae Neill was arrested in Masterton yesterday by | Sergeant Hannan on a charge of having committed a series of petty larcenies. On her house bfiiHg searched, about a dozen pairs of boots, a large quantity of underclothing, and articles of almost every

description were discovered, proving conclusively that a systematic theft has been going on for some time. Some of the boots, which wer<s identified by business ir>6n in the town, were admitted to have been stolen twelve months ago. The accused was charged with the offence before Mr J. Gardiner, J.P.. this morning, and remanded for three days. We call the attention of those who are suffering from thosa troublesome little companions, " corns," to Professor Henry Barraclough's special intimation in our wanted column. Personally we can speak well of the Oorn Destroyer, aB quite a number ot instances of its successful application in this district have been brought under our notice. It not only eradicates ordinary coma but is 1 just as successful with soft corns, and its use is tree from either pain or inconvenience. The remedy is a genuino one, and is the result of eight years' experi- ' ment. Professor Barracloutrh has re- \ frained from introducing it until it has . been perfected, and now he does so with ' the honest conviction that it is, as he 1 says, " the best in the colony." The ' principal local agents are Mr J. Washington at Masterton, Mr W. J. Berrill at > Carterton, and Messrs M. Caselberg and J Co. at Grey town. Those in the smaller f townships are named in Professor Barraclough's new advertisement.

Several attempts were made to create a disturbance in the Theatre Royal last evening, but although the Chairman frequently threatened to eject the disturbers, such an extreme course was not adopted. At the conclusion of the meeting the Chairman stated that he had been reluctant to havo disturbing individuals excluded, remembering as he so well did the experience of Dr Binney. This reverond was on one occasion interrupted by a young man at the rear of the church, who persisted in making interjections. Pausing for a moment in the middle of his 3emon, Dr Binney addressed the young man personally and requested him to leave the church. JSo notice was, however,taken of the request, and the young man continued to interrupt. At the close of the service several of the congregation waited upon the reverend gentleman and informed him that he had made a great mistake in reproving the young man. " Why so ? " exclaimed the doctor. " Because," was the reply, "he is a born idiot 1 " There is not likely to be another disturbance in a meeting over which the Key. Mr Wood presides, A matter of acme 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 and polcies therem discussed, not the attitude and bearing of the Labor party, the opposition or the Ministerialist, but the great sale of surplus Winter Stock, commencing on Friday, July Blst, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Country residents, thousands of whom have visited our previous sales and who went away rejoicing with empty purses but with largo p&rce's, have every reason to remember them with pleasure. Now, another of • these " old time" Sales of Surplus Winter Stock will wait the push of customers from the country on Friday, the 31st July, and up to Saturday, August 15th, at Te Aro House Wellington. There will be no mistake about the owness 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 faithfully 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.