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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3907, 8 September 1891, Page 2

The market prices for produce is Sydney afc the raesjnt time are as follows —New Zealand potatoes, quiet at £llss; butter, dairy made, Is 3d; factory, Is fid, The smoke concert in connection with the Masterton Football Club Is to be held in the Prince of Wales Hotel on Wednesday evening instead of in the @lub, Hotsl as already announced. In consequence of the jncrease of tragic on th* Wejlington-Masjberton I railway, and in view of the forth<»mirijr ~>t season, extensive additions are to ww. '-♦>»« goods "hgdajt £he looa) be made 1u... w - -«rk ia already in railway station. The,,. ' hand. I It is rumoured that steps are to be taken to test the validity of the local option poll recently taken in connection with the Masterton Licensing District. A notice headed, " Wanted, a member for Waikato," appears in the Auckland papers. The friends in Masterton ot Mr E. H. Waddington will be pleased to hear that his father, Dr Waddington, of Te Aroha, who has of late been seriously ill, is now convalescent. He baa been removed to Aackland, where he is receiving the best medical attention. The next English and Australian mail should reach Masterton to-morrow, (Wednesday) evening.

The writ far the return of a member for Waikato is returnable on the 10th of Octobsr.

There are about ten sheep-shearing machines fitted up in sheds in the province ot Hawke's Bay.

Notice is eiven that the Public examination of William Brannlgan will take place on September 23rd, 1891. According; to the Hawke's Bay Herald the great question at present is—" Who runs the Government, Fish or Ballance ?"

The monthly meeting of the Trustees of the Masterton Hospital will be held this afternoon.

Over 600 rabbits per day are being pnt through at the Dunback Babbit Factory. Christopher Johnston hsß been fined £IOO, at Melbourne, or six months in gaol for smuggling cigars. Patrick Frawley, of Danevirke, has been committed for trial on a charge of impersonation at the last general election.

A special meeting of the Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., is to be held this evening to make arrangements for the anniversary of the Order. The Dobson->Kennedy Dramatic and Comedy Company has, we understand, been reconstructed during its stay in Masterton.

William Cook, who was arrested at Masterton on Friday, has been ordered by the Resident Magistrate of Wellington to contribute five shillings a week towards the maintenance of his two children. The football match between the Wellington and Wairarapa representatives has been definitely abandoned. The proriuce of Hawke's Bay is finding a ready sale in the New South Wales market, and good prices are being obtained.

The cause of the death of Mr Hugh O'Connor, of Greytown, which occurred at Wellington on Saturday, was blood poisoning. The last meet of the season in connection with the United Hunt Club is to be held in the Wairarapa on the 26th inat. The result of the report of Mr E. H. Beere, surveyor, who recently inspected and measured off the work done by the unemployed at Makuri, will not hi known for some days. ' The Arbor Day Ball to be held in Greytown on the 18th inst. is goiug to be a big success. The lime light will be thrown on the dancers from the gallery. Brakes will run from Martinboroneh and Masterton to,, convey the dancers to the hall. Special attention is being paid to the floor, the music, and the supper. Gentlemen requiring fancy dresses would do wed to communicate with the secretaries as soon as possible. A well know Dunedia minister, on Sunday, in praying for Divine blessing on the State, asked for an"ontpeuring of wisdom en the members of Parliament thut they might cease wrangling and indulging in useless personalities." -

As showing the development of the dairy industry, in the Waikato, Mr Reynolds stated ra.a speech at Waikato that his firm paid £IO,OOO a year for milk alone at Hamilton, apart from expenditure on their other dairy and butter factories.

Egeson's " three years' drought" is now a standing joke in Sydney and other parts of the colony. The " drought " has meant some months of almost incessant rain.

Labour would appear to be scarce in the Tokomairiro district. The ' Bruce Herald,' says that during the past day or two Mr P. M'Gill, the well known miller, wanted a dozen or so hands for working a threshing mill, but was unable to get them.

The Catholic Times says :—"We want William Jukes to go borne and goto bed—and stop there. We want a Speaker of the House of Representatives, not a daisy-decked invertebrate shepherd." At a recent meeting of the Council of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Sooiety it was resolve! to adhere to the date fixed for the opening of the fishing season, viz., Ist October. The Ashburton Society have arranged to open their season on the 22nd September. A man named Beattie, who was suffering from an attack ot the D.T.'s, and had been behaving in a strange and violent manner at Halcombefor a day or two previous to his arrest, was, on Wednesday, taken through by train to Wanganui in charge of the police to be put under restraint. It is said that Beattie has lately come Into possession of some money, and for some weeks past has been spending it pretty treely in Palmerston and Wanganui.— Advocate. The late Rev. A Reid (says a writer in the Auckland Herald) had ail the shrewd'* n«ws and logical turn of mind of his Scottish nationality. There is a good story told of how he chose his first wife, which was chuaoteristic of the man. He was, nearly halt a century ago, a school teacher in Bath, and one day, while looking at some works he desired to purchase in a stationer's shop, a young lady entered on a similar quest. She inquired from the bookseller if he had got "Locke of the Understanding." Mr Reid, who heard her enquiry, came to the conclusion that a young lady who was anxious to read light literature of that description must be possessed of a very good understanding, and he made a note of the incident. When the Rev. Mr Reid desired to be ordained the usuaj question was put to him as to whether he had any engage* ment of a matrimonial character. He replied, " No,.biit|fchat he was making sjjfont observations J" It became a stand? ing joke with his fellow stnden&s when any one of them was looking round for a suitable partner in life to state that "ho was making silent observations." It goes without saying that the young lady who was looking for " Locke on the Understanding" subsequently became Mrs Reid.

A young gentleman who lately left his home, having exhausted his credit, Jejsgraphed to his parents:—' • Your son was killed this morning by a falling chimney. What shall b/o 4q wijh remains 1" In reply, a cheque ?was sent for £2O, with the request to "Bury them." The young gentleman pocketed the money and had an elaborate spree.

An Invercargill telegram says : Messrs McNaim and Co., of Glasgo/r, writing'iu July, state that they are selling New Zealand cheese at 52s to 54s per cut, as against 48s and 44s for new Canadian and Doited States. They say t —•' This must prove to you and your friends in the colony jn the trade that New Zealanl chWa barf established itself in Spotch markets, and taken a yerv t prominent position"here. 1$ seems to us a feather in our cap to make a penny per lb moie for cheese that oomes 15,000 miles than for cheese that comes 3000 miles. New Zealand cheese is really now being ?r? f «w4 to Home cheese, because it is rip, eshows guC2 me "« and is weU flavored."

Just now there is plenty of pleasure in the South Wairarapa. At Martin' borough several amateurs are getting up a vaiiety entertainment for a local object. It comes off this week. Following this will be a ball aiven by the ladies to the bachelors of that district. Next Friday ifigljLt a soiree take* place at Morrison's Bifsh, and at Feaiiherston next Monday a concert' is to be given \ ri ! a'td of the there. ' j HoopeF an 4 Company announce the -«v»I of their first shipments fqr |he an.. " >*h is.now being opened up at season whit,- Kvery department the Bon Marche. - " *«« latest will be fully stocked with an uw .. fashions audchanuing millinery, .fcnglisn and French flowers, hats and bonnets, fashionable mantles and jacket, the newest styles, designs and materials fop dresses, new prints, mushns, delains, new laces, ribbons, gloves, parasols, **•» **• . ~.., The Bon Marche has always held the reputation for the nicest assortment of new goods at the opening of the season, and Hooperjand Compan; are determined to offer the public such a choice this season as will eclipse everything in the istrict.

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers hold their weekly parade in the Drill Hall on Thursday next.

We understand that Constable R. J> Malcolm, who is now on leave of absence, is resigning from the police farce, and intends following the legal profession in Masterton.

The Wanganui andOamaru Licensing Committee have refused all applications for extension of licenses from 10 to 11 o'clock.

The Auxiliary Fleet arrived at Sydney on Saturday, but was accorded no official reception. What it was before the mad was stirred up with a long pole— the Public Trust Office! What it is now— the Public Dtstnut Office ! A special n>eeting of the Masterton Borough Council will be held this evening.

Mrs McKeneie, an old resident of Whangarei, near Auckland, and mother of Mr J. A. Mcßanzie, of Masterton, died somewhat suddenly on Sunday night. The Government of Victoria are preparing a Bill totally prohibiting the importation of opium except for medical purposes. The measure is based upon the lines of the Califoruian Act.

The whole of the capital required for the resuscitated Batik of Van Diemen's Land has practically been subscribed. For being drunk in a pablio place, Thomas Bennon was convicted in the Masterton B. M. Court this morning, and discharged on the payment of costs. A correspondent of a Wellington paper wishes to know how we as a nation are to advance in civilization, whilst the minds of our young men and yeung women are boing poisoned by the disgnsting pictures imported with cigarettes. News from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea states that a trader named Gnnderson has been murdered and his store looted by natives ot the first* mentioned island. At New Guinea the report was current, but not confirmed, that two missionaries and a natiye teacher have been killed. We understand that invitations are to be extended by the agent for the Picturesque Atlas Company in Masterton to defaulting subscribers for an "at home " to be held at the next sittings of the Kesident Magistrate's Couit. The invitations are neatly printed on blue paper-

Our local contemporary makes a pretence of denying that he pilfers news from our columns. He cannot do so absolutely, because the' charges are susceptible of proof. It would have been more honeston his part.underthe circumstances, to have been silent. He brings, howe/er, the following countercharge against us, viz., that we appropriated a paragraph of his with reference to Sergt. Hannan and flushed (sic) it over the colony. We did neither the one thing nor the other, and assert that both statements are absolutely untruthful. We might suggest that it is our local contemporary, and not his paragraph, that requires fliuhinq I The Wairarapa Standard yesterday published statistics of the number of sheep and bales of wool sent from the Wairarapa railway stations for the past eleyen years, and sajs more wool was trucked from the Masterton station during that period than f-orn any other in the Colony, Featherston coming next. It also states that the traffic on the whole lino amounted to £B6O per mile, which is in excess of any other Government line-

The extensive new warehouse and stores in Wellington which are being prepared for the Direct Importing Companyare to be opened on or about the 19th Septeroper. Apart from the building, which is the finest of its kind in the city, the firm will have a magnificent ttockof new Sprint; goods and of general personal and household furnishings of every kind. In drapery, special arrangements have been made to secure the latest and most fashionable lines to be obtained in Europe, and the inauguration display will, it is anticipated, be a revelation to the shopping public. Referring to the recent mass meeting on the reclaimed land, a correspondent of a Wellington paper says:—There was some amount ot common sense in the first speakers, who had a grievance, whether imaginary or otherwise, and it was not till those representatives of the peaple, Messrs Kelly and Hogg, arose in their wrath and majesty, that the sluice gates of rant were fairly opened. Could I suggest, sir, through your columns, the advisability of the honest electors of Mastertsn putting a ring in the nose of their honourable member to prevent him rooting in the mud of political abuse and scattering it around the precincts of the House into which he has unfortunately strayed, "Fellow gentlemen," said this orator—" no, I will not insult you by calling you gentlemen—fellow-men " fellow goslings he should have called us, if he expected us to believe the rubbish which he vomited forth with astounding self-complacency for the next half hour.