The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3946, 23 October 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891.

Shearing operations commenced in this district several weeks ago, and some of the fleeces that were scattered abroad on Wairarapa pastures at the beginning of the present month are already on their way to London. We may remark in passing that some things are done a little mort smartly now-a~days than was dreamed of say ten years ago. It is quite possible that within twelve months some of these same fleeces, in a different form, after a voyage round the world, will be exposed for sale in one of our Queen Street warehouses. The steamship "Kaikoura," to sail from Wellington at the end of this month, will take a quantity of newly-shorn Wairarapa wool, which, in the ordinary course, will be sold in London next January, and may very well find its way to the Yorkshire mills in the following month. However, let us return to our muttons. Pastoralists have had a remarkably favourable season, and may safely reckon this year as the largest - in the aggregate —and one of the best clips ever grown jq the district. Grass was unusually plentiful fchrpughout the cppntry last autumn. The dry winter, and the absence of any prolonged spell of rough weather early in spring, have tended to keep flocks in good condition. It is true that more than usually severe frosts were experienced during the winter, and the growth of grass was checked—if not entirely suspended—for a considerable time on the colder pastures. Possibly, however, that was not altogether an unmixed evil. In the abcsnoe pf young grass sheep are forced to turn their attention mors largely to herbage of older growth, which, if not so palatable, is gertajnjy less relaxing in its effects. Lambing from all accounts has been exceptionnlly good, and, though there has been a considerable amount oi niQr(;ahty. difficult to account for, among strong and healthy ewes previous to lambing, the mortality among lambs themselves has been relatively small. So far as the market for our staple product is concerned, prospects, if not altogether encouraging, appear to be fairly good, The fluctuations j n the price of wool, especially OEOssbred | wool, for the pist three years have been confined within very njoderate limits, and although there was a drop at the beginning of the September sales in London, cable advices indicated a better feeling towards the close of the series. It appears to be generally admitted that stock of raw material in second hands are light This, of course, tends to strengthen the position of the market. On the other hand reports of the state of the trade are not altogether satisfactory.

Henry Leslie was fined fivi ahillinga for drunkenness in the Masterton K.M. Court this morniny

The "Wanganui Derby, run yesterday, was won by Fraternity, Rosefeldt being second and Fairchild third.

A severe frost was experienced in Masterton this morning, which did not pass away till after six o'clock. The names of three old soldiers in the Pahiatua district have been referred to the Government for consideration.

The increase of sheep in the North Wairarapa County for the past year was 41,737. The Methodist Church at Pahiatua was broken into last Sunday. About thirty hymn-books were thrown out of the windows, whilst the large Bible wan stolen.

At Wanganui the influenza is reported to be very serious, a large number of people being down with the complaint. The local doctors' hands are in consequence full.

It was incidentally stated in .Napier R.M. Court the other morning by a man in the witness bos, that he had his furniture and household effects auctioned three years ago by a gentleman not now in Napier, and so great were the charges and expenses, that all he got eut of it was 14s (id !

The Hawke's Bay Herald s\ys: —Mr C. H.Morton sends us a specimen of a newly-hatched chicken which illustrates what nature can do when she is in a sportive mood. This chicken has three perfect beaks, three eyes, five toes on each toot, and its brain* contained in a thin sack outside the skull.

A correspondent of the Post, writes:— '•A large number of tradesmen of all classes, especially bootmakers and compositors, some of the very bett workmen in New Zealand, are leaving by the Jubilee and Waihora for Sydney tn»ruorrow or Saturday, as they find it impossible to exist here on temporary work, and that of a peculiar nature. What is our so-called Liberal Government about ?

Mr Prangnell of Queen street,met with a nasty accident on Tuesday last, through a heavy piece of timber lamming his foot in such a manner thai the ankle was severely sprained. Fortunately no bones were broken, and with a week or ten days rest we hope to see Mr Prangnell about again as usual. In the meantime we are requested to state that all orders left at Mr Prangnell's house will be punctually attended to. The .following team has been selected to represent Master ton in a cricket match to be played against Carter ton on the Park Oval to-morrow:— Whatman, Perry, Pownall, Malcolm, Leeks, Jackson, Parkinson, Richards, Walker, D'Arcy and Cargill. Players are requested to be on the ground at one o'clock sharp. Butter made from the cream separator is being sold in Pahiatua at a penny per pound higher than any othe..

A man went home the other night and f iund his house locked up. After infinite trouble he managed to gain entrance through a back window, and then discovered on the parlour table a note from his wife reading, "I have gone out. You will find the key on the side of the step."

On October 2nd Mr Wheeler had a pen of five fat Romney wether hoggets shorn, which cut 42|lbs of wool. They were grass fed only, and had been shorn as hoggets on January 6th, thus averaging BJlbs in less than nine months— Advocate.

Tho Tuapeka Times is responsible for the following:—Mr W. A. Murray, the defeated candidate for Waikato, carried round through the electorate a Highland bagpipe, with which, for lack of anything better, he tried to charm the electors, though vainly as the result proved, into his views. At one settlement he oauie out on the platform kilted and accoutred in wondrous fashion, to the utter amazement of the audience, wbo were mostly Maori men and women. Never before, living as they were on the confines of civilisation, had they seen so grotesque a figure or so wild a rig out. After a preliminary walk up and down the platform, while adjusting and shaking the pipes up into good screaming order, the candidate suddenly wheeled round on his audience and blew » wild screech on his instrument. The effect on the nativei was electrical. They jumped to the door a tangled mass of blankets and struggling, shrieking, half-naked men and women, and in a minute or two the building was cleared of all buc a few Scotch settlers, who agreed to dispense with the speech and take their polities out of the national instrument.

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