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The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1891

A " band of hope "isto be formed this week in connection with the Masterton Presbyterian Church. Mr E. Harris, of the Opaki, notifies that the coaching stallion Black Maire will travel between Mauriceville and Opaki this season. It is reported in Melbourne that 600 camels are to be imported to crush out the carriers' union in New South Wales. The building trade in Feildingand the neighbourhood is, according to the local paper, very brisk juat now, and the sawmillers find a difficulty in overtaking the demand for first-class timber. We need scarcely remind our readers of the performance of "lolai.the" in the Theatre Royal this evening by the Greytowu amateurs. The opera is in itself charming, whilst the music is exceedingly pretty. Says the Feilding Star:—ln Wellington it is pretty to seo the Labor Members walking about wearing white vests and kid gloves. Of course they show more apparel than these, but those mentioned are the most striking ai tides. The Age says:—The serpent would never dream now of tempting £yo with an apple. He would dangle a bonnet, a tea gown or sat of diamonds before her fascinated eyes. At a meeting of subscribers to the Picturesque Atlas held in Masterton on Saturday, a strong "defence league" was formed, and it was resolved to retain Messrs Pownall and Beard as counsel in case of litigation. A cauliflower grown by Mr Sweet, of the Feilding district, was 20 inches in diameter and turned the scale at 251bs. How's that for sweet 1

The friends of Mr Jamas Ewington will be glad to learn that he has so far recoyered from his illness as to be able to leave his room.

Notice is given of the intention of the Wairarapa North County Council to raise a loan of £IOO for widening the road leading from the entrance to the railway reserve at Eketahuna to the junction with the main road. Danish butter is 15s higher in London than at the same time last year, and the prospects of the New Zealand article are excellent. Much of the New Zealand cheese imported is being retailed as American a't Liverpool, realising the best prices as American.

The Dunedin Star's Parliamentary reporter sayß; —The lepal profession has every reason to regard the Hon W. H. Reynolds as a particularly bloodthirsty individual. When speaking on the Law Practitioners Bill the other night, he remarked that if he had his way he would hang half the existing lawyers and quarter the other moiety. The pulpit of the Masterton Wesleyan Church was occupied lastnight by the Rev S. J. Gibson, a missionary from Fiji. The congregation was large, and ' the discourse listened to with the greatest attention. To-night the rey. gentleman will deliver a lecture on "Fiji and the Fijians." A large number of Masterton residents proceeded to Te Ore Ore on Sunday to witness the Maori "wake" which was being held over the graves of the recently depmed.The proceedings were of the usual melancholy nature, and were continued throughout the day. A little diversion was caused by the rather unseemly con duct of an arab steed, which stretched itself full length upon the ground, and, as if anxious to be recognised in the " tangi, : ' made a most determined effort to "pee out." The appearance of a Masterton veterinaiy surgeon on the scene, however, blasted all hopes in this direction.

A very interesting discourse was delivered by the Rev. R. Wood iD the local Presbyterian Church last evening on the evils of betting and gambling. The test was taken from Jeremiah 17-10. The rev. genUeman dwelt at considerable length upon the vices attending the two evils referred to, and stated that they were on the alarming increase in the colonies. He maintained that the weekly newspapers in the colony were a powerful propagandist of both betting and gambling, and urgid that etlurts should be made te purify their columns. In concluding he urged upon all to use their best efforts in the direction of suppressing these evils, which were de • moralising in their effects, and a curse to the land.

The Dohion-Kennedy Company will in all probability re visit Masterton in a few weeks' time, when "Hans the Boatman" will be produced. V*e hear of a certain angler in Masterton who landed twenty-three trout yesterday from the Waipoua. The cricket peason was opened in the Wairarapa on Saturday, when a scratch match was played at Featherston. The mortuary erected by the Masterton Borough Council is now almost completed. It is stated that this is the beat year for lambing which has ever been experienced in the Pahiatua district. A Masterton farmer assures ua that abettor season than the present for crop h*s not been experienced for six years'. Asbestos has been found near Duaky Sound. It is worth £62 per ton. A very severe earthquake was felt in different parts of South Australia on Friday night. The August number of Typo has reached us, and is, as usual, full of interesting reading matter. The Hon. John Bryce receiyed a tremendous ovation on arriving at New Plymouth on Friday night. He was presented with an address by the Mayor, assuring him of the deep sympathy of the settlers at a vote of censure having been passed upon him by a majority of the House.

An editor thus apologises to a critic : —"We are sorry you don't like our paper. We publish it simply to please you. We should ask you to come and edit it, only, if we did, some iniquitous idiot might write and tell you how mush better he could do it himself, and that would annoy a nervous person like you."

An extraordinary religious revival is reported to have occurred at Geelong j (Victoria) during last week. At a, service held on Friday the enthusiasm was so great that persons were almost delirious with laughing and weeping ferrour. The collection amounted to £ISOO. Some of th.9 congregation gave their watches, while others gave jewellery of every description In some oases title deeds of property were given. The costume football match played on the Worksop road ground on Saturday last in aid of the funds of the Masterton Cricket Club was only a moderate success. About a dozen players, attired in grotesque costumes, put in an appearance, and the services of outsiders had to be called into requisition to raise a game. The monotony was, however, relieved by a heavy shower of rain, the effect of which on the spectators was very marked.

A painful accident occurred to Mr Denis M'Mulien, of this town, on Saturday last, under somewhat peculiar circumstances. It appears he was "larking" with a fellow-carrier at the railway station when his foot slipped, and falling he sustained a fracture of his leg. Be was re mo red to the Masterton Hospital, where he is now progressing as favorably as can be expected. According to the Star a Manchester block man wont to Sydney. When he came back h. 6 said—" New South Wales be hanged. No wood, no water, no work, no grub. Give me New Zealand, plenty of wood, plentj of water, plenty of work, plenty of grub—but d the Government.'' Same of the small settlements in the bush are not in such a flourishing condition as they used to be, land having deteriorated in value, and the population diminished somewhat. At Ormondville, we believe, there are a large number of empty dwellings for which no occupants can be found, and owners, thinking that they will not get tenants, have taken the iron off their houses for other purposes. At the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Spence, of Monikie, Forfarshire, in July last, there were present their five sons and their wives, two daughters and their husbands, forty-three grandchildren and five treat grandchildren. In addition to these a sixth son, a third daughter, and a grandchild from New Zealand had crossed the ocean to honor the old couple. The gathering was interesting colonially because Mr James Spence, a Canterbury farmer, took advantage of the occasion to " crack up " New Zealand in a very practical style. An exchange says: —An amusing story is told anent the recent detention of the s.s. Jubilee at Sydney through the breaking of her crank shaft. The accident was kept dark for some days, the general idea among the public being that the steamer was going into dock merely for cleaning. The Union Company, anticipating that she would leave at the ordinary time, laid on a steamer to act as nurse as usual, and issued tickets at cheap rates. The representative of the Jubilee thereupon bought a large number of these tickets at JJOs i apiece. Soon afterwards it became known that tho Jubilee would not laaice the trip at all, and the Union Company, it is said, raised the price of 30s tickets to 4:3. Then the Jubilee man sold his tickets at 100 per cent, profit, and felt consoled for the loss of his vessel's trip. It is not perhaps generally known, says the Otagn Daily Times, that it was practically through accidental means that the Canterbury Plains were selected tor Church of England settlement in the colonisation of New Zealand. The fact was mentioned by Dr Hocken in the course of his " Jflarly History " lecture, delivered before the Otapo Institute. The lecturer narrated how Captain Thomas, who had been deputed to select the land for the settlement, chartered the cutter Fly, of 20 tons, at Wellington, and how, after having inspected Canterbury, he purposed visiting whit since became known as Southland, to satisfy himself as to the suitability of that portion of the colony for the settlement. He twice essayed to make a start in the frail cutter, but in the face of the south west gale the vessel could not make any headway, and Captain Thomas, accepting that as an omen, selected Canterbury. Upon that small circumstance, Dr Hocken remarked, was decided such an important result, and but for it Southland would probably haye been chosen tor the settlement

A meeting convened by Mr Coleman Phillips to consider the vexatious imposition by the Banks of exchange on local cheques, was held at Mr F.H. Wood's Greytown rooms on Saturday, and was well attended by representative settlers. Mr (J. Phillips was voted to the chair. After considerable discussion and the unanimous expression of opinion that the system was petty and vexatious in the extreme, tending to retard progress and interfere with the freedom of commerce, it was resolved, as an initiatory or preliminary step, before approaching the Banks on the subject, to have petitions printed and circulated throughout the Wairarapa, to be subsequently presented to tho general managers of the various Banks, praying them to confine the exchange system to cheques collected outside of the various proyincial districts and not within them. The following gentlemen were appointed a committee to see to the distribution and collection of the petitions, viz, Messrs C. Phillips, G. Jackson, H. Braithwaite, Dr Spratt, H. Udy, W. O. Williams, P. H. Wood. A second meeting is to be held in a month's time. The appearance looks externally and internally of our widely known Family Drapery Warehouse is now extremely brilliant. With the advent of the Spring Season comes an Entire Change of Fashions. The dark, sombre tints of winter are now completely effaced by the light, cheerful, beautiful new colors that distinguish the present season's fashions at Te Aro House, Wellington.

A\ advantage to customers not possessed by any small traders anywhere is the immense range of choice in every description of fabric and fashion to be always seen at Te Aro House, Wellington. Visitors to ou» Warehouse will view with wonderment our vast piles of every description of Spring and Summer Dress Fabrics consisting of Beiges, Natural Homespun, Art Diagoneh, French Corduroj, French and Scotch Cheviots, Savouy Suitings, Camel Hair Tweeds, Jacquard Vigoneaux, Twilled and Plain Beiges, French Delaines, Printed Bengalines and Foulards, Flora, and Striped Bensjalines, Silk Grenadines, Summer Serges and Foules, &c, &0., at Te Abo House, Wellington.

C. J. Trapp, of Alfredton, storekeeper, was to-day adjudged a bankrupt

The form in which the appeal case. Spackman v, Wairarapa North County Council, shall take, is to be decided by Judtre Robinson at the sitting of the District Court to be held in Masterton this week.

The physique of the children attending the Masterton infant school is said to have greatly improved of late, owing to the diligent attention paid to the instructions of M. de Mey in calisthenic matters.

The petitioner in the Divorce esse Dunn v. Cross, which ie reported elsewhere, was at one time a school teacher in Cole-street, Masterton, whilst the respondeat was in the employ of R. Y. Smith, also of this town.

A meeting was held in Mr Anderson's Hall, Eketabuna, on Friday evening, to receive and consider the County Engineer's report re the most advisable way of draining the township. Mr Von Koden occupied the chair and read the report, about 20 gentlemen being present The direction suggested as being the most practicable one was from the corner of the Alfrelton Road along the main street to the Police Station and to flow into the main dram opposite Jones' Store : the distance being 32 chains, and the cost for wood £133 4s, and the cost tor stone pipes £177. The Chairman said there were thirteen ratepayers interested, and if they could only get seven signatures it would be sufficient to have the sanction tor a loan. It was agreed that a petition be arranged and that Messrs Aulin and Toohill canvas for signatures for a loan of £2OO to carry out the work. It was also agreed that stone pipes be used instead jof wood A vote of thanks to the Chairman brought the meeting to a close.

"General" Booth received an immense ovation on his arrival in Melbourne, and thousands were unable to gain admissiou to the Exhibition building, where the reception wan held.

The Bon Marche has always held the reputation for the nicest assortment of new eoods at the opening of the season, and Hooper and Compan; are determined to offer the public such a choice this season as will eclipse everything In the district.

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 latest fashions and charming millinery, English and French flowers, hats and bonnets, fashionable mantles and jackets, the newest styles, designs and materials for dresses, new prints, muslins, detains, new laces, ribbons, gloves, parasols, &c, &c

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3918, 21 September 1891, Page 2

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The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1891 Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3918, 21 September 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1891 Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3918, 21 September 1891, Page 2

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