The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3929, 3 October 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891.

Another raid has taken place against land holders for failing to destroy rabbits, and it may be truly said that the penalties inflicted upon them are due to misfortune rather than to fault. Of course the Inspectors have no option under the Act but to prosecute whenever they find the pest increasing, but the real cause of the mischief is the weather. We have had a dry winter and a dry spring, and this aridity has been eminently favourable to the breeding of rabbits. Possiblj it may have been also favour-, able to the increase and multiplication of the natural enemy. If so there is a chance that in a short time the stoat and weasel will relieve settlers from the onus of Court prosecutions. The present condition of affairs is unsatisfactory all round, and the best hope of the anomalies incidental to the working of the Aot being straightened out, is the success of the natural enemy.

The Feilding Star reports a horribly mean outrage. The editor says:—Today a widow complained to us that the flowers planted on her husband's grave at the Feilding cemetory have been stolen, and the urn, placed at the head of the grave, broken.

Attention is directed to a special announcement from Mr W. A. Rowse,of the Eketahuna Drapery Store. All the latest novelties and newest designs in spring and summer poods having just arrived, a visit of inspection is invited. The Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association has adopted a suggestion made through our columns some days ago, and is offering a prize for a lojf sawing competition at its annual show.

Asheepfarmer of Martinborough has discovered on mustering for ducking purposes that from 20C0 ewes he has 2,5C0 lambs. The half-yearly grant towards the library loan was made by the Mastertin Town Lands Trustees at the meeting last night.

Messrs Lowes and lorns would remind dairymen, and all who wish for a good dairy cow or firsi class dairy utensils, of their sale of Mr F. Shaw's stock and plant on the farm at Te Ore Ore, on Tuesday, the 6th mat., commencing at 1 o'clock sharp.

A traiu became derailed at Newcastle (K.S.W.) and capsized. The fireman, Cockroft, who came from lnvercargill, was killed.

From statistics juet published it is shown that Wellington is the healthiest capital in the ColoniesToiday is the. monthly pay-day of the Masterton and Greytown Permanent Building Societies

A meeting of ratepayers of Greytowu has been called for Thursday next to consider che advisability of borrowing £450 to erect a new library and Council Chambers.

Mr W. Biker, of Hessey street, notifies that he is prepared to supply firewood in any lengths.

The Masterton amateurs have commenced their rehearsal of " Paul Pry," and a strong cast of characters is expected. The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Masterton Blacksmith and Wheelwright Manufacturing Compauy is to be held this afternoon. Mr Ginders, dentist, has taken rooms temporarily in the building next the Waipoua, and will be prepared to receive patients on Monday next. The Hon R. J. Seddon, accompanied by his private secretary and MissSeddon, arrived in Masterton last night, and put up at ihe Club Hotel. A member (it the staff of a contemporary, alter long and most profound cogitation, has evolved the following: " Why is the present House of Representatives like a bankrupt's ledger? Because the Balance is on the wrong side." Arthur Clampett, alias Sullivan, was fined five shillings or twenty four hours at Wellington yesterday for being drunk and incapable. Clampett—giddy old Clampett I—wished the Magistrate tc belieye that he had been drugged and was in a dying condition when picked up. But that was altogether too chin. The old lady—if it is an old lady—who writes Parliamentary Notes for Mr. Bal lance's paper, the fVanganui. herald, is a vindictive female and—if she will pardons us, and if she won't -a vulgar old person, whether in petticoats or pantaloons. So says the Catholic Times, The programme for the summer meeting of the Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club is to be drawn up ttt a meeting of stewards to- night, and will afterwards be submitted to a general meeting of the Club. We are in receipt of the catalogue for the forthcoming show of the Masterton Agricultural and Pabtoral Association, together with a list of donations towards the prize list. The latter shows that the public has generously responded to the appeals for assistance, having subscribed special prizes to the value of over £l5O. The catalogue embraces every description of pastoral and agricultural produce, and a show superior to anything ever before held in the district is anticipated. The exercising of individual effort on the part of the members of the Association will ensure this result.

The following resolution was passed at the meeting of the Masterton Town Lands Trustees last evening:—"That a grant of £6O, in two equal instalments of £3O each, be made to the Masterton School Committee for the ordinary requirements, such requirements not to include repairs to school buildinpß, sheds, or any * other property oi the Education Board, and that the funds of the Trust will not permit of any further grant during the current year."

A very pleasant ball was held at Gladatone last evening to wind up the dancing season in that district. The new Town Hall was the scene of gaiety, and ova? fifty couples, some traily dressed in fancy costumes, tripped the licht fantastic till daybreak the following morn. A number of visitors were present from Masterton, and Keisenberg's String Band suppliei excellent music. Gladstone is certainly to be complimented upon the excellent Town Hall its residents have lately erected, the conveniences and floor for dancing purposes being equalled by very few other places in tho Wairarapa.

The new display of photography made by Messrs Wri«gles worth and Binns, of the Willis Street Studio, Wellington, is not ouly, it is safe to say, oae of the best exhibitions of artistic reproduction to be seen anywhere, either in the Colony or out of it, but it consists entirely of pictures taken since the firm's recent reduction of pricei. They have, indeed, successfully negotiated the difficult task of combining firstclass work with astonishingly low prices in a most satisfactory manner. Our Wellington representative, whom we asked to inspect the studio and report for our readers' benefit, says that it is utterly impossible for him to attempt a description of the wealth of artistic portraiture which surrounds a visitor to Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns' studio. For originality in conception, taste in the selection of backgrounds and surroundings,- skill in the operating room, and careful finish, each picture is a marvel of perfection, and one wonders whether photography has not now reached its highest level But this, indeed, is a question which cannot be solved until Messrs Wrlgglesworth and Binns decide to make still another and later exposition of the apparently unlimited resources of their art. In the meantime, we can honestly recommend visitors to Wellington to make a point of seeing the present exhibition. The studio has been thronged every day recently, and much deserving praise has been expressed. One feature of the present display is the remarkable rang 3 of style and freedom from that stiffness which is associated with too close an adherenoe to castiron rules of posture. Here is absence of rigidity, and the figures seem natural and animated. Some raost beautiful pictures are the result, as anyone who sees them must admit,

The appearance looks externally and internally of our widely known Family Drapery Warehouse ia now extremely brilliant. With the advent of the Spring Season comeß 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 Ako House, AVeilington. Ax advantage to customers not possessed by any small traders anywhere is the Immense range of choice in evcy description of fabric and fashion to be alwayß seen at Te Aro House, Wellington. Visitoks to iou* Warehouse will view with wonderment our vast piles of every description of Spring and Summer Dress Fabrics consisting of Jacqi'ard Beiges, Natural Homespun, Art Diagonels, French" Corduroj, French and Scotch Cheviots, Savouy Suitings, Camel Hair Tweeds, Jacquard Vigoneaux, Twilled and Plain Beiges, French Delaines, Printed Bengalees and Foulards, Flora, and Striped Bengalines, Silk Grenadines. Summer Sorges and Foules, &c. Ac, a t Te Abo Hovae, Wellington. '

For failing to destroy the rabbits on his property at the Opaki, Mr. F. H. "Wrigley was this morning fined £1 4s and 16s costs.

A trial shipment of pigs was recently sent from Marton to Greymouth. A young man is reported to hare had his finger bitten off by a pig at Matarawa the other day, whilst attempting to capture the aaimal.

The other night the performers at a Martin borough concert were the recipients of showers t>f conversation lozenges in lieu of flowers, of which there is * scarcity in those parts. On one of the lozenges, which was picked up by a bashful young maiden, were the words " Kiss me quick and go." An inquest into the circumstances atteudine the fire by which the sawmill plant of Messrs Meier &Co was destroyed was held at Hastwellyesterday before Mr A. Anderson, J. P., Coroner. Mr Treadwell, of Wellington, appeared on behalf of the insurance companies, and Mr Beard for Messrs Meier & Go, Constable Roche watching the proceedings on behalf ol the police. After the taking of evidence, a verdict was returned that the building was wilfully set on fire by some person «r persons unknown.

Seeing several parcels of the Picturesque Atlas about Greytown on verandahs and about back doors on Thursday, the Standard enquired and found that three of this company were in town and were delivering another lot. One gentleman thought he had received and paid for his whack months ago. He was surprised to find himself in the presence of two mt-n who dumped down a parcl of Atlases and presented a bill for £lO. The Greytown resident would not touch the books and they were dropped at his back door, where they now are. He would not take possession and declined to have any worils about it with the agents. We recommend all persons who have any doubts about thoir liabilities to do likewise. A meeting of all interested in this matter is cilled for this evening at 8 o'clock at the Couiicil Ghanibnrs. It is the wish of several that no delivery be 1 taken of this work until a decision has been arrived at this evening-

L. J. Hooper and Co. arc now showing the most fashionable and largest assortment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Milli nery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, Ac.

Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Capos, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, Ac.

We are showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, &c. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of nevr dress materials in the Wairarapa* All the leading shades, designs, satins, and materials for the season, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is full of the atest novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons, frillings, collars, cuffs, and parasols, &c, Arc.