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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3917, 19 September 1891, Page 2

The Wellington correspondent of the Lyttelton Times state# that the bar trade at Bellamy's is moderately good. A meeting of those interested in the formation of a cricket Club at Eketahuna i? to be held iu Felling's Hotel this e*ening. A pjfull, and some neck joints, a jawbone spj(fc in two, and some ribs were found on the property of Donald Grant, Kainga, Manawafcu* on Thursday. The re.ncins were found while stumping, j and were discovered in a white pine stump. The skull was embedded in a hole about three feet from the (ground. Tiie hole was onl/ fourteen inches wide at the opening, and hai be6n filled with bones and the entrance firmly jammed with the skull. The tree had been cut down about nine years ago.

! A repoit having reached Fiji that the Salvation Army was about to found a branch in the islands, the Wesleyan missionaries there have addressed a letter to tho "army "authorities in Sydney showing how uncecessaiy and undesirable tucli a step is. The missionaries state that out of a popu'ation of 112,000, no less than 104,000 persons regularly atter.d the Wesleyan services.

Wo arc glad to hear that Mrs A. W. Hug« has taken a dec'ded turn for the better.

A number of Masterton residents proceeded to Dreyerton last (Friday) evenin;;, where a pleisant dance was held. The Standard says that the lambing throughout the South Wairarapa is bey«' ond all anticipations. The warm weather has greatly favoured the ewes, acd the percentage wil be larger than usual.

The Wellington Harbour Board has decided to m»ke additions to the railway wharf at a cost of about £50,000. The Melbourne Argus devote 3 a Ions; article to the Bryce episode, in which it attributes the blame to the Speaker, and declares that had ho shown firmness in dealing with the question of privilege the whole affair wuuld have been avoided. The best method of dealing with that I iniquitous exohange which has of late been placed on cheques by the banking institutions w?M be discussed at a meeting to be held at Grey town to day. The Southland Times states that by the ariival of the Invercargill from Coal Islaud news is to hand of the finding of a nino-ounoe nugget by a young digger named Haberfield, son of Mr J. HaberGeld, of Greenhills. A council of war is to be held by the victims of the Picturesque Atlas in the Temperanoo Hall this afternoon. A special address to youne men is to be given by the Rev. R. Wood in the Masterton Presbyterian Church tomorrow (Sunday) evening. A much larger area has been put down in wheat tbis year in the Masterton district than usual. This is in consequence of the high rates which have of late been ruling for wheat. The stuats snd weasels liberated by the Wairarapa North Rabbit Board are migrating. A stoat was recently seen in Palmerston North, and now a weasel has been caught in Christchurch.

A pet merino wether, bred and reared by Mr Walter Macfarlane, of Kaiwarra, was sold on Thursday, says the Lyttelt.in Times, at the Addington market for 31s 6d, the highest pnee yet realised in those yards for a Bheep of this description.

The Auckland Acclimatisation Society have communicated with the Sydney Acclimatisation Society, asking them to forward prawns, also with Mr Hugh Craic, San Francisco, to forward Californian lobsters, with a view to introduc* ing them into New Zealand waters.

The circumstances surrounding the origin of the fire at Meier & Co.'a sawmill at Harwell having aroused the suspicions of the police, an inquiry is to be held at 10. a.m on Thursday next. The usual weekly session of t'.ie Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society of Masterton was held last night, there being a good attendance. The "Journal " for the mouth was read, and a yery enjoyable evening was Bpent. As showing the vitality of the ordiuary footballer, (remarks the North Otago Times), and his eyident freedom fro.a pain, we may mention that one of the Timaru players in a game last Thursday had two ribs broken but continued to play throughout. Mr Shrimski's efforts to legislate on the subject of minimising the accidents arising from football would be thrown away on a person of this kind. Nothing but an earthquake would put him down.

Mr B. W. Yorke has just returned from a trip through the North Island, and speaks very highly of what he saw ae to the wonderful capabilities of some of the districts for dairying purposes, especially Waneanui and Taranaki. He states that he has secured the whole of the output of seven factories in the latter district for the coming season, estimated to average one thousand boxes per fortnight. Mr York itatc* that in the Taranaki district the grass is Jnxuriant, and water abundant, and that Taranaki alone will within the uext ten years be exporting dairy produce to the value of £2,000,000 sterling.—Christchurch Press. Doctors and druggists receive some curious requests occasionally, but it may be doubted if one made lo a Napier chemist the other day can be easily surpassed. A well known amateur "sport" went to him and asked for some rock salt, when, upon enquiry, it proved io be for the purpose of creating an artificial thirst I The eater of what Mrs Lot was made of said that trequencly whenhaving a "wee drappie" with friends he found great difficulty in swallowing it, and, strange to say, did not enjoy it In the leatt. He had discovered that if he kept a little rock salt in his mout'j he could assimilata his liqucr without any difficu'ty. The astonished purveyor of chemicals smole an irrepressible smile and remarked "that in all his experience the difficulty had generally been just the opposite with most men, but to oblige a friend who ," but here the thirst maker took his salt and departed.

We stated some time ago that Messrs Luke and Sons, the Wellington makers of ranees, cooking stoves, etc., were working night and day to keep pace with the orders. We are pleased to heir that thesb ranges hold first place in the estimation of settlers in thisdistrit. Mr Daniell, who makes a special line of cooking stoves, etc., informs us that he Bells four of Luke's to one of any other make, and that they invariably give satisfaction. This is testimony that any maker might be proud of.

| The Res : dent Magistrate at Wellington heard evidence yesterday morning in a curious case which w ill shortly engage the the attention of the Masterton Court. The plaintiff, Mr J. J. Smith, o f the Wairarapa Star, sues Mr T. C. Williams for the purpose of recovering the sum of £9 9s, the price of inserting as an advertisement, a letter published by the defendant as an advertisement in the New Zealand Times, Plaintiff had inserted the letter in the Star on the strength of a footnote which read "Wairarapa Star and others please copy." Defendant yesterday tendered the evidence of Charles Stubbs, accountant, rnd Thomas Morrison, journalist, for the purpose of showing the custom in regard to such matters. Both witnesses were of opinion that it was not custonarv to charge for copying a letter under such circumstances. Mr Morrison interpreted the footnote "copy if you please," as r pplied to the case of notices of births, deaths, and marriages, and he thought the plaintiff should not have taken the footnote as an instruction. Mr Coates, instructed by Mr Pownall, of Masterton, appeared on behalf of the plaintiff, and MrH. D. Beil was for the defendant.

Some strong language was used at a creditors' meeting in Napier the other day. One tradesman twitted the bankrupt with taking a oontract at a low price in order to get m»ney to pay his la« yer to enable him to file his schedule. He also hinted at extravagance on the part of the bankrupt, sayinz that eomn working men with large families went in for sardines, lobsters, jams, and othbr delicacies which they could not afford, while others in receipt of more waee3, perhaps, Jived more economically, paid their way, and were better off. The bankrupt denied the insinuation, and retorted that his questioner was talking "beautiful rot." This brpyght foifch a reply that the debtor was a so and so (the words really used would not look nice in print), and then the Assignee stepped in and called the meeting to order.

JaniC* Smith,proprietor of the wellknown Te Aro House, Wellington, has for several months past been in heart of the world's metropolis, London, superintending the buying for our present spring season at Te Aro Hauso, Wellington. Patterns of any of the spring gooos J of every description will be forwarded on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. It will no doubt be expected by all the readers of this paper that there will bo a most manifest improvement ii) our shipments, that all goods will be bought well, that is at the lowest cash prices ; that all goods will be the best ot their class and that all will be in accord with the prevailing fashions of the season. The display we are now making of spring fashions at Te Aro House, Wellington, is most amply and fully corroborative of these views.