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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3904, 4 September 1891, Page 2

It is estimated that the loss en potatoes in Canterbury this year through low prices will not be less than L 30.000. Tenders are invited by the Maurlcevilleßoad Board for formation and metalling. A loan is to be raised bv the Eketahuna Road Board for the formation, of one mile on the Central Mangaone road east. There is a teacher in the Wanganui district who opens his sehool regularly with prayer and loses no opportunity of affording relieious instruction. Troub e is brewing over the matter, Still " reverence" U the one thing needed to be taught in our schools ! Whitebait hsve already made their appearance in large numbers at Foxton, and the Natives have secured some £?ood hauls. The death is announced in "Wellington, at the age of 83, of Mr Charles Knight, F 8.5., who was for some years Auditor General of this colony. The deceased was father of Mrs W. G. Beard, of Masterton.

A child named Kate Travers has been lost from Napier. It is BUpposed she has been devoured by a shark. An inset, notifying the extension of Mr. E. Pearce's great clearing sale of hoots and shoes, sppears in our issue of to-day.

A promenade concert and dance in connection with the Eketahuna Football Club is to be held on September 22nd. Captain Logan, of the s.s. Manapouri, which recently grounded near Melbourne, has sent in his resignation to the Union Company. The following, which appeared in yesterday's issue «f our local contemporary, is intended for a joke:—Scene—The House of Representatives. Wednesday. Mr Houston, M.H.E., is speaking. Mr Buchanan: I can't hear, Mr Houston (seriously): That's not my fault, sir. (Roars of laughter.) The Knights cf Labour of Carterton have, we understand, invited a couple of M.H.E.'s of the Liberal party to address a public meeting at that place at ar. early date.

Huias are said to be very numerous in the Makuri township, Foity-Mile Bush, and their peculiar cry may be heard every morning.

A cordial factory is about to be opened at Pahiatna by Mr Motley. The Dudley Arms Hotel at Mangatainoka has been taken over by Captain J. M. Richardson, late of the Empire city.

A sale of sections in the Mangarama* rama Village Settlement was held by the Commissioner of Crown Lands yesterday.

The War Cry is being boomed by the Salvationists. No less than three copies of this week's number have reached us by wiy of exchange.

One of the Alhambra footballers who recently visited Wellington has lost his situation through absenting himself from work.

A footballer named Harris had his collarbone broken whilst playing in a match at Palmerston on Wednesday. A Russian cruiser fired on and captured an American sealer carrying on its calling in Behring Sea. We are sorry to hear that Mr James Ewinpton still lies seriously til, and that under the most favourable circumstances it will be some weeks before he will be able to resume work.

Mr Hogg, M.H.R., wants to know whether the Government intend to cive effect this session to the recommendation of the Petitions Committee in reference

to the petition ot B. R. Meredith, of Wairarapa. It is announced that Freeman, winner of the Grand National Steeplechase in New Zealand, has been purchased on behalf of T. Corrigan, the well-known cross country horsemao of Victoria, for 350 guineas. The Woodville paper says ;—" The Masterton Licensing Election is apain informal, and the Governor will appoint." This is the product of a very fertile imagination. We might point out that it was the election of the Mas ■ terton Borough Licensing Committee which was recently upset. The Governor is appointing Commissioners for the Masterton District. The tradesmen of Masterton have, wc

undei stand, been very liberal in their donations of special prizes for the forthcoming show of tho Mastertun Pastoral and Agricultural Society.

Seven thousand young trout were forwarded to Pahiatua on Wednesday by Mr, Ayson, curator of the Masterton fish ponds. Two thousand were sent today to Martinborough and two thousand to Mungaroa. The settlers of Ballance, the premier settlement of the Forty-Mile Bush, are thanking their stars they have bad roads, for they hare not in consequence been the victims of the Picturesque Atlas fiend. Great dissatisfaction is expressed by anglers in Masterton at the action of the Acclimatization Society m removing the largest of the fish from the various streams for breeding purposes.

A man named William Cook was

arrested at the Royal Hotel, Ma»terton, last evening, on a warrant charging him with failing to support his wife and family, who reside in Wellington. The accused was brought before Colonel Roberts, R.M., this morning, and reman* ded to the Empire City. In tho Wellington R.M. Court yesterday the Empire Loan Company sued Mr. T. Carswell, of .Masterton, for L4o2s 6d on a promissory note. Decis<on was reserved for a week on a nonsuit point raked by Mr. Pownall. Judgment was given for the plaintiffs in a case in which the Empire Loan Company claimed Lls 18s 6d from Messrs Evernden and Tattersall. ' Our local contemporary says : " The action of the Upper House In mutilating and practically destroying the reform measures that are being submitted to that chamber, is beins: keenly watched, and it is believed that the creation of new peers from the Liberal ranks will have to be resorted to in order to avoid a

political deadlock. The Ministry and their party are determined that their measures shall not be frustrated." How many supporters of the Ministry have been promised months ago seats in the Legislative Council ? Mr Edwin Harrow, a well-known eccentric character in Auckland, recently filed his scedule, and the first meeting of creditors was held on Friday, the

28th ultimo. The proceedings were a

perfect burlesque, and were commenced with the grace "For what we are going to receive" unctuously repeated by a creditor. Mr John Abbott was Chairman, and was presented by the debtor with a bunch of violets, the only thing he said he could give without defrauding hia creditors; The debtor's statement commenced as follows: "Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us," etc. Ultimately a creditor present expressed the opinion that if Mr Harrow had had a wife he would now have been solvent, and a learned discussion ensued on what j nationality Mr Harrow's wife should be if the meeting passed a resolution, as suggested, to eive him a cloan receipt when he produced his marriage certificate. Finally, upon the motion of Dr Walker, seconded by Mr Adam Porter, it waß resolved, "That when Mr Harrow took a wife—black, white, or piebald—he bo released from his present liabilities," and the meeting then dispersed, A sad story of a spendthrift and a drunkard comes from Melbourne. Dr Youl held an inquest at the Melbourne Gaol concerning the death of a man named William Ellis, fifty one years of a?e, who died in the gaol. The story of the deceased was a particularly sad one, as told in the evidence. Formerly a farmer Ellis had sold out hia holding for something between JE2OOO and LBOOO, and had come to Melbourne to see and enjoy life. He spent his money freely, and he drank to excess. The result was the usual one. His little fortune vanished, and Mis fell into the hands of the police.forbeingdrunk and disorderly. He was brought before the Court and as he seemed much in need of medical treatment he was committed to the gaol hospital. On the 10th he was still unable to appear in Court, and was again remaaded until the 17th, but the last remand was longer than was necessary, for early on the morning of the 12th he died from a weak heart and a constitution broken down by alcohol. Such was the verdict of the jury.

Hooper and Company announce the arrival of their first shipments for the season which is now being opened up at the Bon Marche. Every department will be fully stocked with all the lateat fashions andcharming millinery, English and French flowers, hats and bonnets, faabionablc mantles and jackets, the newest styles, designs and materials for dresses, new prints, muslins, delains, new laces, ribbons, gloves, paraßols, &c., 4c. The Bon Marche has always held the reputation for the nicest assortment of new goods at the opening of the season, and Hooper and Company are determined to offer the public such a choice this season as will eclipse everything in the i district.

Thirty employes on the Midland railway, Western Anstrrlia, recently struck work, their grievance being that they received no pay for overtime.

A beautiful meteor was observed from Masterton about sevei> o'clock last eyening. In its pyrotechnic grandeur the falling matter was much admired. The weekly pwade of the Masterton Kifle Volunteers was held in the Drill Hall last evening. The men were put through their facings by Finn.

An old man of seyenty-three years blew out his brains with a revolver at Fitzroy, Melbourne. He desired to get married again, very much against the wish of his two daughters and son. No reason is asigned tor the deed. The Kaitangata Borouph Council, we learn from a southern exchange, has just accepted a tender from the tlntha Leader to do its advertising for nothing ' and thinks the paper ought to feel much obliged for the condescension.

James Chalmers and John Brown were out in a boat duck shooting on the Illawarra lake, Sydney, on Saturday. As a flock of ducks approached, both laid down in the boat, Brown having the gun. Suddenly, just as Brown drew the trigger, (. halmers raised his head and received the whole charge, death being instantaneous

Some days %go a band of natives at* tacked the homestead of a settler named Waldeck, living 200 miles east of Greenought, Western Australia. Waldeck Was absent at the time. A native threw a weapon which narrowly missed striking one of Waldeck's children, whereupon Mrs Waldeck fired a blank cartridge at him and the natives decamped.

A remarkable wedding took place recently at Cold Ashby. Northamptonshire, the contracting parties being Thomas Cawley (rged seventy-six) and Saiah Clifton (aged Beven;y-seven). Their banns were published in the church fifty-six years ago,but from some cause they separated, marrying different persons. The wife of the one and the husband of the other dying, they came together once more.

A burglar wanted to make off «ith a doctor's horse and bu?gy at Melbourne recently. It was a dark night, and the midnight prowler had iust succeeded in harnessing the horse when he was discovered. A. scuffle ensued between a constable and the burglar, in which the latter fared badly, and he was attended by the doctor whom he had hoped to plunder. The fruit trees in the varisus orchards in this district are just now full of blossoms, and orchardiata look forward to a good season.

Messrs Lowes and lorns remind our readers of their unreserved sale of superior household furniture and effects to-aiorrow, the property of a resident who is leaving the district. An extraordinary monstrosity was born at Otumoetai last week on the farm of Mr H. Capp, where a cow gave birth to a calf totally destitute of legs. The animal's bead quarters appear to be deficient eyen of the interior construction of the hip bones, whereas the fcrenuarters are complete, and seem to indicate the presence of shoulder bladja. The head is placed in a peculiar position, being so bent backward on the neck that the nose points upwards and the eyes look almost backwards. In appaarance, the animal, from thesmallness in the hinder portion, very much resembles a seal with its bead thrown up. The little animal is still alive, and with the assistance of a feeding bottle, seems to take life pretty comfortably in spite of its somewhat unfortunate circumstances. We believe Mr Capp has not yet decided what to do with his natural curiosity.— Bay of Plenty Times. We have to go from home for news. The following interesting paragraph is tasen fiom an English paper : —A moveable banking office proves a profitable adjunct to a bank in Palmerstun, New Zealand. It is a carriage which travels along the railway line, and halts at the way stations in the Manawatu district. The occupant is a bank clerk who is

authorised to receive money, pay it out, cash cheques, etc. lie carries his cash in a satchel swung round his neck, and is well armed-