SECOND EDITION

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

SECOND EDITION

Professor Channing, the well known phrenologist .and palmist, is at the present time in Gisborne, where he is doing a bif business.

Several cans of brown tr mfc were sent last week to New Plymouth from the Masterton ponds. According to Dr Newman the Hon Seddou has spoken this session up to the end of last month 65 yards of Hansard, and has been 195 times in possession of the floor.

MrJ.R. Oox, the Iriah M.P., delivered a lecture on " Irish Eviction Scenes" In Wellington on Saturday night. The representative football match bstween Wanganui and Manawatu, played on Saturday, resulted in a win for the latter by ten points to nil. Kow Kee, the Chinese grocer of Maa~ terton, has set a good example by presenting the patients of the Masterton Hospital with fruit, etc. The following resolutions were passed at the meeting at Oreytown on Saturday to consider the question of exchange on cheques;—l. That exchange upon country cheques by the Banks hinders industry and commerce, 2. That the following should be the Bank exchange districts in the colony : Auokland, Hawkes Bay, Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury. Nelson, West I and, Otago, and Southland and that exchange be only chawed between those districts and not within them 3. That petitions to the Banks be circulated in the different districts in order to assist in giving weigh* to the oponion of this meeting. We understand from the Herald that the members of the Wanganui Licensing Committee have been served with a notice of motion with respect to their right to sit and adjudicate as members of the Licensing Committee, on the ground that three of thorn were p'edged tt close a certain number of public houses and that at least one of the members was not qualified, ho not being at the time a ratepayer of the Borough. The motion will be hoard in Wellington on the 30th September, nnd the result will no doubt be awaited with interest.

Shortly after eight o'olook laat evening, smoke was observed to be issuing from the phosphorus Btore of Messrs M. Caselberg and Co. in Cole street, and on an entrance to the buildinj? being effected it was discovered that th« water from one of the cases having evaporated the phosphorus had ignited. Foitunately the fire was observed iu its mcipiopcy and was promptly extinguished. A curiosity in the shapoof a "pukaka" (or swamp hen) With variolated plumage, has been presented to tho Mastercon Museum by Mr Montague Meredith, cf Riversdale. The bird has been stuffed and mounted iu a very superior manner by Mr A. J. Jacobs, of Carterton, whose tame as a taxidermist in the district in becoming well known. The " pukaka " is now on view at the Council Chambers.

A correspondent from Pahiatua writes to the Times an to the great progress made in the Pahiatua distriot during the last fire years. During that tim<t, he says, the population has increased from 250 to 2500, and some 100,000 acres have been disposed of by the Government. Settlers in that favoured dts» trict enjoy special advantages, including ■election of any form of tenure, which they could nevor have under any cor« porate body's jurisdiction. These facts, he argues, are in favour of the Crown refusing corporate bodies the right to take up more lands, but that they should settle their own lands.

Yesterday was quite a gala day in Carterton. In the morning the Friendly Societies marched through the town to the Catholic Church, where they were kindly welcomed by Father MacKenna and a most appropriate cermon delivered. The Presbyterian pulpit was occupied in the morning by Mr J. Knott, the temperance lecturer, and in the afternoon and evening he conducted service in the Wesleyan Church. After the schools were dismissed the children, to about 200, all met at the public sohool ground and marched through the town, carrying the temperance flags and at intervals made a halt, when a short address was given by Mr Knott. After the evening service in the Wesleyan Church, Mr Knott conducted a Gospel Temperance meeting in the Presbyterian Church, large congregations aiiembliup on each occision. The Masterton branch of the School of Design having unfortunately ceased operations, a large room in the Institute building is rendered vacant. We would suggest to the Council the advisability of establishing a museum, and devoting this room, which is quite adequate, to the displaying of exhibits. A laree collection of curiosities is now in the hands of Mr Brown, Town Clerk, and with the assistance which has been pro* mised by Sir James Hector, there is no reason why a museum which would be a credit to the town should not be established. We teel sure that Bhould the Borough Council adopt our suggestion, the necessary fittings will be gladly contributed by the public, the Town Lands Trustees will render valuable financial assistance, and the institution will be a success.

We take the following from the London Daily Telegraph of July 20th:— New Zealand butter and honey seem bent upon gaining the same sort cf patronage in this country aa has already been received by the mutton and tho wines of the Antipodes. A correspondent in this ronneotion calls our attention to «he desirability of promoting emigration to the Waikato district, where men with practical knowledge of farming, and industrious families to help them, can make the desert blossom like the rose. A prize at a local horticultural show was given for the best collection of produce from a single farm. It was won by a settler, who exhibited, among numerous other products, wheat, barley, oats, watermelons, butter, cheese, bacon, home-made bread, grapes, green tobacco, plums, wool, and home-made candles. The land out of which all this has bean raised was ten years ago an "uninyiting swamp." And it is still possible io pur-, chase land in New Zetland at ten shillings the acre, or to rent an acre at sixpence per annum! Australia & New Zealand bid fair to become in course of time a kind of " home farm " to London.