EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3942, 19 October 1891, Page 2

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

The Russian Loan.

Arrest of Students At Siev.

(United Press Association). Paris, October 16

The Kussian loan of 20 million sterling has beeu subscribed sevenfold in France alone. Baron Hirscl) was one of the largest subscribers. St Petersburg, October 15.

Five hundred students who took part in the recent outbreak against the Czar have been arrested.

Home, October 16.

The Vatican is angry at the recent pilgrimage incident, declaring that it was instigated by the Government in the hopes that it would lead to the expulsion or murder ot the Pope.

Berlio, October 16.

It is thought possible the length of term ot military service will be reduced. Several battalions, composed of men enrolled only for twq years, have been created.

SECOND EDITION

The tender of Messrs M. Williams and Co., for additions to Mr Lucena'a house, at Homebusb, should have been £787, and not £787 as published by as on Saturday,

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock sale tor Wednesday next 15 head of mixed cattle.

The first consignment of this season's wool was sent from tho Masterton railway station on Saturday. Influensa has again made its appearance in Masterton. and we hear of several oases where families have been attacked.

The Misterton Salvationists sent away to. day their contribution to the self> deuial fund amounting to seventeen pounds,

It is just a quarter of a centur"? Since Mr J. J. Freeth, of Masterton, entered upon his cuties as Clerk of tho Oourt in this district'. " ' ' ■ '

An English mail per B. M. S, Dorio arriyed in Masterton to«day. ' The B.M.S, Dorio arrived at Wellington at 7.30 a.m. yesterday from London, Plymouth, Teneriffe, Capetown, and Hobart, after a passage of 42 days 2 heurs 33 minutes, her actual' steaming time for the voyage being 40 days 17 hours 67 minutes. She brought 24 first. 21 second, and 69 third class passengers, of whom 10 first, 9 second, and 48 steerage were for Wellington, She brought 2000 tons of cargo, 800 of which is lor Wellinrton. The usual number of concerts and entertainments were held on the voyage, and lectures were delivered by the Bev. Dr B9van, of Mel* bourne, and Mr Budyarrl Kipling, the well known novelist, which were highly appreciated. The following players of the Masterton Cricket Club have been selected to go in to practice for the match against Carterton on Saturday, the 24th : Whatman, Pownall, Leeks, Igguiden, Perry, Malcolm, Richards. Parkinson, Boatey, JJ'-Arpy, Walker. Oargill, Moore, Bremnqr, J-Lansen, Wickens,'Jackson, and Pond.

Last year, says a Victorian exchange, ffbeu the locusts were making themselves troublesome in this cojony, attention was direqted to the deadly effeots of the larkspur plant on these insects, as well as on grasshoppers and rabbits, but some diffidence was felt in regard to the extensive cultivation of the plant on account oi its possible effect on stock. The solution of the question as to whether the plant would be injurious to J stock was remitted to the Government

• -—AUffUt and sgrrcultural chemist, but before these officers u.u SJ™™* to the matter the Veterinary Association stepped in and claimed to bo the proper body to carry out such an investigation. The Association, however,. i«+Ud.-. tp perform its self-allojited task, : and this was probably because information was not forthcoming that after due enquiry it had been found in America that so far as stock was concerned larkspur was harmless. Under these circumstances it is considered that the cultivation of the plant may be safely recommended.

The weekly parade of the Mastorton Rifle Velunteera will bo held on Thurt* day next. A poll of those rat9payers interested in the proposal to raise aloan of LlOOfor widening and improving tho road from the railway station at Eketahuna to thi main road will be taken on Monday, 26th October. - Says the Lyttelton Time's':—The latest information received by the police hero of Jonathan Roberta 1 movements was that somewhere about a year ago he wag seen in Lima, Peru. Previous to that he was recognised by three perrons in London. The police have no knowledge of Roberta eyer haying any sort of military training, in New Zealand at all events, and are inclined to be sceptical as to the statement that he has risen to high rank in the Chilian revolutionary army.

The employees of Brancepeth station presented Mr Herbert laitt with a handsome gold watch and chain on Saturday last, as a token of the high esteem in whioh he is hold. Mr Isitt has for many years been employed on Branwpeih station. jp. According to the Cape A rfyis, during his voyage iu the Soot, GetiereMbnth expressed a desire to enter into ffflwily intercourse with his fellow passengers, and on the 4th August, after a preliminary discourse on the quartar~deok, the General delivered a stirring speech in the first-class saloon to fully 200 patten* ;ers. The chair was taken by Lord Oarnngton, who, in introducing General Booth to his hearers, gave a pathetio picture of the long-sustained sufferings of the poor In our Meat cities, and complimented him on the remedial mea« sure proposed. He gave an interesting acoount of a visit he and the Prince of Wales paid to a slum neighbourhood in St. Pancras, "in the disguise of sanitary officers." The landlord of the promises guided them into a room, flrelass and furnitureless, where a mether and her children lived, the children being naked. The guide asked the mother where the third was. " I don't know. 1 have not seen it since I was in Court a fortnight ago," replied the mother, evidently quite unconcerned as to the fate of her off* spring. " What on earth are we to do," asked the landlord, " with people »f thia sort 1" General Booth, said Lord Carrington, had set himself to answer that question.

Mr Matthew Burnett has, says] the London correspondent of the Star, now thoroughly recovered from his recent severe indisposition, and is apain busily engagnd in the temperance work of whioh he has been so ardent a champion throughout Australasia. Latterly Mr Burnett has spent his energy in the east end of London, and has won very gratU fying results. He is now preparing tot a lecture tour in the provinces prior to visiting the Antipodes once more; Between 1863 and 1890 Mr Burnett ut credited with having delivered over twelve thousand addresses, and he has given the pledge to nearly 180,000 persons including sixty Maori chiefs in New Zealand, with 2000 of their tribes. A number of valuable sheep, and a pedigree bull and heifer (Ayrshire) ar« rived at Wellington by the R.M.B. Doric from London yesterday morning. The sheep eomprise Linoolns, Southdown*, Hampshire Downs, Shropshire Downs, and Gotswolds. Twenty of them are consigned to Mr John Rayner, the well* known sheep breeder of the Wairarapa, sovonteen to the Australian Land Co., eleven to Mr Purvis Russell, of Napier, and four to Mr Wilson of Waverley. Mr Baynor's consignment includes two Southdown rams for Mr J. Stuckey, of the Wairarapa, and five Ootawold rami for Mr J. L. Bacon, of this city, while his own portion consists of six Lincoln ewei and two rams, two Hampshire Down ewes, and one Hampshire Down ram. Mr Rayner's shipment is a valuable one, as muoh as a hundred guineas each having been given for the majority. Three of the sheep died on the voyage out, but the remainder are in splendid condition. The cattle are being imported by Mr McFarlane, a well-known Southern far* mer. In accordance with the regulations, the animals will be quarantined for ninety days before they are allowed to land.—Times. w

Jj J. Hooper »nd Co are now showing, the moat fashionable and largest assort* ment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and Frenoh Millinery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, A. Stylish and Pretty Jackets/Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, &o.

We are showing a splendid stook of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, Ac. We hold the best assortment and largest stook ot new dress materials in the Wairarapa- All the leading shades, del signs, satins, and materials for ok season, single and double widths. The Fanoy Department is full of the atest novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons, trillings, collars, oufls, and parasols, to dto.