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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3888, 17 August 1891, Page 2

Dreadnought has been acratchsd for both the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups. Twenty thousand brown trout ova were sent from the Masterton hatcheries on b riday, addressed to the New South Wales Inspector of Fisheries. Mr. McGuire, M.H, R., wants tbo duty taken off salt which is üßed by farmers for fertilising purposes.

The Manawatu Racing Club has accepted a tender for the erection of a new grand stand, the amount being £750.

Th» Masterton Rifle Volunteers holl their usual weekly parade on Thursday. Mr H. D. O'Callaghan has been appointed Secretary to the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association. There haye been five hundred and forty petitions presented to the House of Representatives already this session.

The Pahiatua Star considers it was the most ill-adyised step on the part of the County Council to move in the direction of forming a rabbit district.

Messrs L?wes and lorns announce their stock sale for Wednesday August 26th. We understand a half holiday is to be proclaimed in Masfcerton on Tue day, the 25th iiisi, the occasion of the match with the Alhambra: (Dunedin). The petition iu favour of commencing the Eketahnca-Woodvr'lle railway at the Woodvi'.Je end is being largely signed at Mangatainoka.

A fine specimen of the confectioner's art is now on view in the window of Mr James Wickons, Queon-streec, in the shape of a handsome wedding cake. A Maori chief named Wirihana, of Tahoraite, caught a severe cold. According to aboriginal custom he asked his friends to plunge h'm in coU water. This was done. He is now deceased ! A settler at Manaia, near Hawera, writing to a friend ?'i CLrteiton states that nineteen frost - : in succession have been experienced there. Such a thing has never before been known in that district.

It is a gratifying sign 'of the times, says t.ie Post, that every department in the foundry of Messrs Luke & Sons is in full swing. Indeed, the work can only with the utmost difficulty be kept under.

A new cure for consumption has been discovered by a resident of Nelson, and a patient is to be nominated by the Borough Council for treatment. The petition presented to the House by Sir John Hall on Friday in favour of women's franchise, was seventy yards Ion?, and contained the sigorture; of 7685 females over twenty-one years of age.

Forty-five ratepayers of the Woodville Road District are answerable between them for fifteen and eleven pence rates, varying in amount from one penny to one shilling, which would cost over a pound to collect.

A man named James Wilson was arrested at Wanganui on Friday on a charge of having stolen a gold ring, a watch chain, and a silver horse shoe brooch, of the value of £3, from the ! Empire Hotel, Masterton, on July 31st. The man was brought down to Masterton on Saturday, and was charged with the offence in the JR.M. Court this morning, and on the application of the police, remanded. The Sydney Morning Herald, in discussing the New Zealand Taxation Bill, characterises it as the most extreme and sweeping legislation ever seriously proposed in these colonies, and as so daring a venture that other colonies will be content to wait and learn the result.

There is said to be a scarcity of cattle in the Wairarapa at the present time. The low price cattle have fetched of late years has stopped breeding, farmers finding it much more profitable to grow sheep. Speying heifers has preatly increased, and that has helped to make the scarcity.

A stable, at the rear of Mr P. Molloy's residence, Belvedere road, Carterton, together with its contents—hay etc., — was destroyed by lire at noon on Saturday. Mr J. Bayliss was the owner, and the loss was estimated at £IOO. The builditig was insured for £SO. The origin of the fire is unknown. ' Mr 8. H, Wickerson, who is at present in Tenterfield, N.S.W., writinp to a ! friend in the Wairarapa,says:—"Singing here is at a very low ebb. When I tell i you that lam the best of the lot, you ! wont want to hear any more about it to form an opinion.'! Alas, Sid,, old fellow, you are not the only good singer who has left us! Four large panes of glass in the window of Mr. R. T. Holmes, stationer, were broken on Saturday evening last through the fractiousness of the horse of Mr. D. Heggie, carrier, which backed the expres3 right across the footpath. During the progress of the representative football match on Saturday, B. Broughton, one of the Bush players, had the small bone in his leg brokeu and his ankle sprained. He was attended to by Dr. Hosking, and was afterwards removed to the Hospital. Frank Perry, the (kipper of the team, also sustained an injury to his shoulder.

i The Taranaki Herald says a remarkable phenomenon was observed on Wednesday evening at sea. A meteor was seen to run parallel to the horizon at about 6 p.m., and immediately it disappeared, another seemed to meet it at right angles, leaving a bright column in the air, which kept visible for about fifteen minutes.

Our Feilding contemporary remarks ; —The clause in the Shop Hours Bill touching hens laying eggs before legal working hours is very drastic, and any fowl offender will be severely dealt with. Roosters indicating their locality by crowing after dark or in the gloaming, can be annexed by the nearest" Liberal" without the option of a fine.

An interesting marriage ceremony was recently performed in Dublin. The con« tracting parties were Mr Gilbert, the well known Dublin historian, and Miss Rosa Mulholland, the famous authoress, whose Irish and other stories have won for her a world-wide fame, and whose poeiical contributions are among the sweetest and purest which enrich the Irish magazine.

A marble statue of William Pitt, which has been lying in one of the Cork Corporation yards, is to be sent to the Cork School of Art. It originally stood in the old Athenceum, where it was erected at a coat of £1,000; but when that institution was sold by che Corporation the statue of Pitt was thrown into a lumber yard, where it since remained, largely owinc to political feeling being adyerse to give it a more honorable position. In his speech at the opening of Parliament, the King of Tonga said: —You all know that my Government was heavily indebted to foreign countries, and we should return thanks to God that we bave discharged these debts." The Sydney Morning Herald remarks, in this connection, that it " would be a phenomenon to find Australian statesmen joining in such ascriptious of praise for the payment of our debts, or, for the matter of that, recognising that there is any room for the existence of a pious spirit in connection with our State obligations at all. In fact, the gratitude of colonial statesmen is eyoked rather by successsin increasing the public debt."

Mr D. Crewe, who is at present in the Old Country, has written to the Pahiatua paper as follows:—The butter 1 brought over to England from Pahiatua turned out in excellent condition. Daring its transit from Pahiatua to Lyttelton to the ship's side it had no special care, for the carrier who took it to Eketahuna left it on the station platform in the broiling hot sun for nearly two hours. And after its arrival in England it was also exposed (in the case) to the sun and weather : in fact it had no ordinary care taken of it. After being opened up it kept very good for three weeks, when it was all sold. I sent some to several families and to several butter experts, and in all cases tbey pronounced it good. So you wil see if the farmers will only take ordinary care in making their butter it can be exported to England without any fear of competition. Cleanliness is doubtless . che chief point in butter making—in fact in dairying generally. You have the pasture and climate without a doubt. This butter was specially packed by me as an experiment, and now that 1 hud it has turned out all right it is my intention to secure a patent and return and give Pahiatua the benefit of ept?rin? into butter and cheese export.

Sporting men would find It greatly to their adyantage 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 ite branches ac lowest rates. Correspondence io 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 willb* attended to/r-ADvr.

The coet to the Pabiatua ratepayers of the cane Whiteombe v County Connci was £474 2s 6d. The turned oat in the Pahiatua district are said to be doing exceedingly well. One over a pound weight was caught in the Mangaramarama the other day.

Secure without delay sotre ot these bargains in White Calicoes.all at genuine Sale prices, 12yds tor 1b lid, 12yds fer 3s 6d, 12yds for 4a 6d, 12yds for 5s 6d, 12 yards for 6s 6d. Grey Calicoe - , 12yds for Is, 12yds for 2s I Id, 12yds for 3s lid, 12yds for 4s lid, 12yds for 5s lid. These ?re all genuine bargains at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wellington. Secure without delay some of thete bargains in Sheetings. Single bed Sheetings syds for 2s lld,syds for Br 6d. Doable bed Sheet-'nes syds for 3s lid, syds for 4s 6d. Crimean Sheetinps 4yds for 2s 6d, 4yds for 2s lid, 4vds for 3s 3d, 4yds for 3s 6d, 4yds for 3s lid. These are all remarkably cheap at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wellington. Secure without delay some of these bargains in Welsh flannels, 6yds for 33 lid, 6yds for 5s 6d, 6vds for 61 lid, 6yds for 7s lid, 6yds for 8s lid. Scarlet Flannels 6ydb for 2.8 lid, 6yds for 3s lid 6yds for 5s 6d, 6yds for 7s lid, 6yds for 8s lid. All sterling value, best makers and at sale prioes. The Sale ot Surplus Winter Stock.Te Aro House, Wellington. Secure some of these bargains without delay, 12yds Stout Brown Holland for 2s lid, 12yds Strong Brown Holland for 4s lid, 12yds Twilled Selic ; a for Is Od, 12yds Grey Cotton Lustres tor 2s lid, 12yds Grey Cotton Lustre for 3s lid at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock,Te Aro House, Wellington.