The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3941, 17 October 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1891.

Affiliated to the Canterbury College is a school of agriculture, situated at Lincoln, where, on a farm of six hundr?.d odd acres, some forty or fifty youths between the ages of fifteen and seventeen are trained at a cost of loity pounds per annum for each ont of them. The school covers a wide course of instruction, including practical agriculture, chemistry, land surveying, botany, mechanics, mathematics, veterinary science, entomology and mensuration. Whether it is essential that the farmer of the future should master all these subjects, we know not, but it is quite certain that a youug man who, like the son of » well-known Masterton resident, has obtained certificates of competency in these varied subjects, has a distinct advantage over the home-bred youth, whose training has been a drudgery, unmitigated by the possession of that scientific attainment which ennobles the pursuit of agriculture by raising it to the dignity of a skilled profession. Wellington aspires to obtain a university, but if the Empire City would surrender this scheme in favour of an agricultural school affiliated to its College, it would confer a boon on the country for which the latter would In tjrateful. We do not thank Wellington for its Agricultnral Show because it is the outcome of a domestic quarrel in the Wairarapa and is in the main supported at the cost of this district. We might even venture to point out that while the country in many respects confers distinct advantages on the city it never occurs to the latter thatit might reciprocate by doing something for its benefit. Thougli dependent upon agriculture and pastoral productions, the men who throng Lambtpn G;uay and Willis street know little and care j less about the technical educational requirements of the country. In Christchurch the need of such instruction jn agriculture has been recognised and suppled, and this town in this respect has a better titJ,o to be regarded S* an Empire "City "flbanj Wellington can claim.

The buijdjng trade in Grey town is in full swing. Several nay buildings are bein? erected and additions and alterations are being made to others. We hear that there is evei/ probability of a flour mill being erected at the south end of Grey town shortly. A boxing contest for £25 a side, between Arthur Francis and Bob girkwood takes place in the Theatre Eoyal this evening. The latest act of the larrikins of Mar* ton is to tie the mouth of a porker, so that it could not canse alarm, and let it down the chimney of a well-known resident. I

We learn from the Hawera Star that Mr Carey," ui Taonuj, hi writing to a I friend in Normanby, says:—V Wo are 1 losing a great number of ewes in*' tjiia' district this year, myself among the rest, but ouly those I had at Longburn on cocksfoot. Amongst those that I had up here, on rye grass chiefly, I have not lost a single ewe." >

The North Otago Times is responsible for the statement that Mr Neil Fleming, °* Oamaru.has been offered a seat in the Legislative Council. The Queensland Parliament has been unable to agree as to what is an indecent advertisement, and has dropped the Bill dealing with that question. " The Masterton Town Lands Trust," writes our local contemporary, " appear to be flush cf funds, judging from the iaot that the Trustees have furnished one of their cottages with a Colonial oven just twice as big as the tenant require*. And thereby hanps a tale." What will our contemporary say when he learns that [ the same profligate body has authorised a new doorknob for tho back entrance to the same house without inviting tenders for the same ?

The mortality amongst sheep in the Feilding District is said to have reached thirty per cent of tho ewes. Mr W. McLean, Vetrrlnaiy Surgeon, who was recently sent there to investigate the matter, cannot dissover the c»use of the mortality, although he is inclined to think it is influenza.

The actual population of the new electoral district of Masterton is 9,020. The township of Woodville is now included in the Waipawa district.

Mr B. Grinders, dentist, notifies that he may now be consulted at the residence recently occupied by Mr A. A. White, in Church Street.

Mr W, Freeman Kitchen, who lately edited the Globe newspaper in Dunedin, is said to have followed in the footsteps of David Christie Murray and taken to tho stage. MrJ.M. Nairn, a member of the Trehair-Osborne Concert Company, is an artist of no mean ability. During his stay in Masterton he has taken sketches of several interesting spots. Mr Harcoinb has been appointed Re* turning Officer to the North Wairarapa Rabbit Board. The services of Mr C. .T. Freeth, as Maori interpreter, are to be secured by the North Wairarapa Kabbit Board where necessary.

Mr Lomas, of the Mines Department, is at present in Masterton, and intends reporting upon the probability or otherwise ot payable deposits of coal being found on the Fernridge. It is reported that owing to age and illness the Right Rev Dr. Hadfield eontemplates an early relinquishment of hi* offices as Bishop of Wellington and Primate of New Zealand.

Great damage is said to have been done by sparrows in tbe Woodville district this season.

The annual meeting of members of the Wairarapa Hunt Club will be held at Featheraton on Saturday next. It now transpires that a public holi day www proclaimed at Carterton last year on the occasion of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Society's show. A half holiday has also been proclaimed this year. One hundred nominations have been received by the Hawke'a Bay Jockey Club for the Hawke's Bay Guineas of 1893,

We understand that Mr R. Coekburn has refused a farther offer of £4O (by Mr Stempa) for a nine months' old foal sired by Mr Geo. Watson's celebrated draught Nil Desperandum. A petition is said to be in circulation in this district with the object oi doing away with the Babbit Board. A number of settlers object to the importation of the natural enemy. The Woodville Examiner says:—Con* fidence is now thoroughly revived in Woodville town land, as a good many sections are chancing hands and prices seem to be hardening. For the erection of additions to a house at Homebush for Mr Lucena, the following tenders have been received:— C. E. Darnell, L 722 (accepted); John Montgomery, L 765 ; M. Williams & Co L 787 16s. The house, when altered, will be one of the moat handsome structures in the neighborhood of Masterton. The contract will be carried out under the supervision of Mr U. Tilleard ftatusch, architect.

I The case of the Hawke's Bay Babbit Board against the Hon J. D. Ormond commenced on Thursday and closed yesterday, the information being dismissed with costs. Great interest was taken in the proceedings, embracing as they did the history of the rabbits in the southern portion of Hawke's Bay District for the last two years. The Resident Magistrate considered Mr Ormond had taiten necessary steps on the receipt of notice, Mr Ormond refused costs, stating that his only object was to clear himself from the aspersions cast on him by the Inspector,

At a recent sale of blood stock in Christchurch, Albury, a three-year-old colt by Master Agnes, was patsed in under the hammer at 235 (guineas, when many others could not attract buyers at a fourth of that amount. The Weekly Press and Referee makes the following remarks:—•' Albury is wonderfully well made, well ribbed up, with plenty of bone and substance, and should do a lot towards keeping green in stud annals the fame of Master Agnes, who was, we have always thought, the best hurdle racer New Zealand could ever boast of." Mr W. Corlett may well be proud of Master Agnes,

A firm hold throughout the length and breadth of Now Zealand has now been gained by the Aubert Bsmedies, and their efficacy in ordinary cases of illness has been irrefutably established, Even with the most severe manifestations of liver and kidney complaints.and of apparently chronic asthma and bron» chial affections, they are calculated to speedily remove the troublesome symptoms. Their success in this direction is plainly vouchsafed for in the striking testimonies we publish in another column. There is a feature of these certificates, too, which is as convincing as it is unusual, and that is the fact of their all being openly signed by the persons who have received benefit. This at once is an evidence of good faith which must carry weight. The success of " Marupa" a* a cure for whooping cough is so well known as to need no further remark, while as a general tonic " Karana "is almost equal in repute. We commend a perusal of the experience of othors as published elsewhere in this issue, to those who are suffering from any torra of ill-health. Mr T. G. Mason, chemist, ot Queen Street, Maston, keeps the Aubert Remedies in stock, and they can also be obtained from druggists in almost every other part of New Zealand and Australia, so widespread has become the demand for them. There need be no hesitation in giving the preparations a trial, for they are guaranteed by the manufacturers to be purely herbal, and to be most carefully compounded in strict accordance with the recipe and instructions of the Reverend Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, whose wonderful cures with them in the Wanganui and Napiej Districts for some years bask haro been a subject of thankful wonder, and have secured her mush gratitude in acknowledgment of her devoted skill. Mother Aubert has made a special of the curative propejtjespf New Zealand her..:, &u4 >t is the remarkably sycjwsjful application of her discoveries that has led £o tho remedies being placed in the open market with such gratif»u>g results.

Boys' summer clothing just received at the Wholesale Faimly Drapery Warehouse, TeAro Bouse. The following are all made to our special order:- Ifoys' White Drill "Sailor" Suits. Gilt Buttons .»nd trimmed Blue Braid, from 4/9 each at Te Aro House, Wellington. Boys' Cream Drill "Sailor" Suits, Collars trimmed Blue Braid, Gilt Buttons, from 5/6 each at Te Aro House, Wellington. Bovs' Drab Drill Sailor Sufts, Collars (trimmed Blue aud White Braid, Gilt Buttons, from 6/6 each at Te Aro House, Wellington. Boys' Blue Serge Sailor Suits, White Braided Collar. White Flannel Fronts, Arm Badges, Lanyards, dec., from 6/9 e«tch at Te Aro Uoase, Wellington. Boy's' Blrfe Serge gaijor Suits, Collars trimmed Red Braid, with White Sing-' lets and Lanyards, Beautiful Bad»e on the Arm, from 12/6 each at Te Aro House, Wellington.

An interesting indication of the man* ner in which sheep multiply reaches us from Rangitikei, where the progeny of a ewe eleven years of ago is said to number no less than sixty-three. An eel weighing eight pounds was caught in a Masterton stream the other day. On being opened it was found to contain a trout one and a half pounds in weight. The first butter of the season is bain g sent Home by the Taiuui from Auckland, Napier and Gisborne. There are about 2000 cases and kegs. A block of land known as the Upper Makuri-Puketoi, containing 12,000 acres, jis to be surveyed and thrown open for ! at'lection before the end of the present 1 year.

The axle of Yonnp'a coach broke at the Hawera cutting, Forty-Mile Bush, on Wednesday, and the passengers, Captain Baldwin (of the New Zealand Times), Mr J. D. Foley, and Mr and Mrs xoung were considerably scared, though unhurt.

A woman named Scirsbrook attempted to poison her-elt and her .three children with strychnine at Melbourne. One child is dead, but the others are likely to recover. The woman is insane

Over 500 school children at Collin?* wood, (Melbourne) are prostrated with influenza- Dr Mclnerney has discovered a remarkable cure for the disease, and in every instance it has been tried it has proved successful. The cure consists of small doses of one-sixteenth and one-twentieth of a grain of perchloride of mercury in distilled water, given eyery two hours until the normal temperature is regained, when an ordinary tortio restores to health. j The second entertainment of the Trahair- Osborne Concert Company, giyen in tho Theatre Royal last evening, was thoroughly successful. The attendance of the public, however, was not by any means what it should have been. The feature of the entertainment was the singing of Miss Osborne and Miss Johnson, both of whom were enthustically encored. The rest of the vocalists were also in good voice, and a moat enjoyable evening was spent. The company proceeds to Palliatua to-day, where we trust they will meet with the reception they deserve.

Mr C. E. Bremner has prepared a plan of the proposed scheme for the irrigation of the Upper Plain. In a letter to Mr £. Meredith he says :—The results of my survey shew the proposal to be quite practicable, and if the advantages ef settlers interested are prospectively such as to justify their embarking on the larger outlay of testing the cost of carrying out the undertaking, T will endeavour to put tbe necessary survey in hand so as to ensure its completion with the least possible delay. Mr W. W. Oorpe, of Makino, who is well known in Masterton and Carterton, is referred to ad follqws by the Wood, ville paper :—Mr Corpe, of Makino, is one of those enterprising settlers who do the country more good than all the drones put together. In addition to his extensive milling and limber business, he has inaugurated a butter factory at Makino which has proved a boon to the settlers of the district. Last season he shipped home 2000 of butter, and this season he expects to largely increase the quantity. He pays 6d cash for the butter collected from all round, which is Id more than last season, and but for his ; enterprise butter in the Feilding dia- | trict would have been down to 8 Jd. He | works the butter up, packs, and ships it. 'Lastseason Mr Corps's profits ran into | over four firures. So valuable an enterprise deserves a good reward.