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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3964, 16 November 1891, Page 2

During the first qnarier of the present yeaf jiine prosecutions for failing to destroy roiibils irj the Masrertou district were entered by inspector J, W. Smith. Fines amounting to £9 were inflicted. Tho travelling expenses of Colonel Rob«rts, R M., for the year 1890-91, amounted po £|o7 4s. The now hotel for Wellington—the Hotel de Garvey—situated on Mount Cook, is likely t.> cost £'150,000 when completed. Fourteen hundred and forty-three removals were made on the New Zealand Railways between January Ist, 188!), and, January Ist, 1891. j | The services in St Matthew's Church, Muiitertcu, were conducted yesterday by the Rev A, M. Bradbury, of Wellington. In the afternoon a children's service was held, which was largely attended. A charge of larceny as a bailee of two watches, laid by William Shaw against Charles Broadbent, was die missed in the Masterton It. HI. Court this morning, the informant not putting ia an appearance.

At a meeting of the Wairarapa Ualedoman Society held on Saturday evening, the programme as submitted by the Secretary was ad< pted with the addition of a sack race and a sailor's hornpipe.

The cost of pulling down the engine sheds at Woodville, and re-erecting the same at Danevirke, was £354. The total sheep tax in the North Island amounts to £6,588, and the cost of the Sheep Department £12,704. A Masonic lodge, under charter from the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, has been opened at Oiaki.

Mr J. Washington, of Mr D. McLaughlan'd corner shop, notifies that to meet the convenience of customers another competent assistant has been engaged for the hairdressing department. Three chairs are now available at this establishment.

MissSiddells, who is veil known in Masterton, has purchased the Ashurst Hotel from Mr Charles Tate.

Mr Aitken, telegraphist at Masterton, who is laid up influenza, has been relieved by Mr Edser, of Wellington. The Canterbury Cup, run at Christchurch on Saturday, was won by Free - dom, Lebel being second and Crackshot third.

A meetingof those interested in forming a Lodge of Good Templare at Kurupunl will be held at the Kurupuni Sunday Schoolroom to-morrow (Tuesday) evening.

Subscriptions are being solicited in this district by a patriarchal looking individual towards a fund for the erection of a church and school at Nineveh.

During the month of October sixty deaths from influenza occurred in New South Wales*

Two hundred and twenty of the two hundred and forty-<seven signatures required far the constitution of the Eketahuna Road District into wards are said to haye been obtained.

A correspondent writes : —Sir—ls It not a thing to be deplored that in a town like Masterton, a town where the licensing laws are supposed to be rigidly enforced and veneration in the highe«t degree, obtains an individual in a helpless condition of intoxication should be allowed to roa.n the streets on Sunday, surrounded by children of tender years? This, sir, is what was witnessed in , Masterton yesterday. A Pahiatua correspondent writes:— During the last week there have been several extensive bushfire3 in this district, two or three of which darkened the sky so much that it looked like some great thunderstorm in the distance. The first of a series of evangelistic services was held in the Mastorton Presbyterian Church last evening, when the pulpit was occupied by the Rev Mr Shirer, of Wellington. Tho congregation was large, and tho proceedings marked with great earnestness and enthusiasm. The services are to be continued this evening.

A shed at Gladstone, belonging to Mr F. Roe, carrier, has been totally destroyed by fire, with its contents, consisting of chaff and harness. The building is insured in the South British office for £7O. The origin of the tire is unknown. A pedestrian party has just returned to Carterton from a three days' trip to Mount Holdsworth. There is a welldefined track to the summit. The party had a glimpse of the South Island They saw a few wild cattle, kakas, and pigeons near the upper camp. Mountain daisies and ranunculus were in bloom. A large party is goine; at Christmas, when the edelweiss will be in flower and the weather more settled.

The Woodville correspondent of the Wellington Fust states that the interest in the proceedings at the late Woodyille banquet were maintained until a late hour, " scarcely one person leaving until the finish." This can be easily understood when it is pointed out that the correspondent in question is a newlyappointed Liberal Justice of the Peace! A telegram from Brisbane, dated October 23, says "A. Sohan, au old resident and sheep overseer at Peak Down Station, committed suicide at Claremontlast night by uutting bis throat. He had had, it is said, a domestic quarrel, owing to his wife joining the Salvation Army against his wishes, and while under the influence of liquor he perpetrated the deed in the presence of his daughters, one of whom gave him the knife under the impression that he wanted to cut tobacco."

We were told a day or two since, by a gentleman in whom we can place the utmost reliance; that when in Wanganui lately be gathered from the conversation of some Maoris that a disease exists among some of the Natives, which they believe to be leprosy. It was said that in some instances where persons were suffering from the disease Hie flesh on their limbs was rotten and dropped off in pieces. We heard at the same time that there was a case at the Onepihi Pah of a somewhat similar character. Some of the Natives of the pah, believing the case to be one of leprosy, refuse to come near the afflicted woman. We cannot youch tor the truth of these statements, but we got the information in such a manner that we believe it to be correct, and we regard the matter of such importance as to require a prompt investigation.—Advocate.

The Truck Act, one of the labour measures passed by the Government last session, is likely, as was pointed out by the Opposition during the debate on the Bill, to cause a deal of trouble in Wan«anui and other districts in the Nortel Island where bush-felling contracts are goiug on. Ou several large estates (says the Chronicle) we are informed that the owners have already given notice that they cannot for the futuie either provide or go security for stores as heretofore. The consequence is that the men are in due straits, having neither money or credit to obtain provisions whilst carry, injr out their contracts.

The Temuka Leader contains a long account of the eccentric and dangerous doings of au unknown individual whom it says has "Jack the Ripperproclivities." He appears to have taken up his residence in the Geraldine bush, whence he emerges occasionally to terrify women and school children. Sometimes ho display* a knife, and on one occasion he brandished the weapon and Sold a school girl that he was going to cut all the little d a' heads off, and if she went back home again along the road he would kill her with his knife. She pluckiiy replied . " I'll go through the paddock to njy lather, and get the police for ycm.'' Constable Wjlloughby is on the warpath.

A most horrible case of cruelty to a child by its mother has oocae to light in one of the lowest streets of the Montmartrc quarter oE Pans, The local Oommissaire do Police, informed of ths circumstances by an auonyinous letter, at once proceeded to the house of tho female in question, a charwoman, aijd demanded to see her son, a boy of eight. The mother, thus taken lay surprise, was obliged to conduct the officer to a sort of filthy cupboard, not fit for a dog kennel, he found tho wretched little mortal w """. . , , " his hauds tied completely nakeu, .. tightly to his )ec3. The boy was worn a skeleton, his head was a mass of sores, and his body was literally bUuk and blue with bruises.' He had- also been mutilated in a manner too horrible for description. The woman, who was iuaneJiajLely arrested, acknowledged that she had maltreated the child in this shocking manner in order to please her lover, who had takei a dislike to the boy. Boys' Blue Serge Sailor knits, White Braided Collar, White tlanuej Fronts, Arm Badges, Lanyards, &c., from 0/9 tMch at Te Aro Wellington. Boys' Blue Serge Sailor Suits, Collars trimmed Red Braid, with White Singlets and Lanyards, Beautiful Badge on the Arm, from 12/0 each at Te Aro H ->use, Wellington. 13oys summer clothingjust received at the Wholesale Tainily Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro rEouse. The following are all made to our special order Boys' White Drill "Sailor" Suits, Gilt Buttons <<iid trimmed Blue Br.nd, from 4/9 each at Te Aro House. Wellington.

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The weekly parade of the Masterton Eiflo Voluntsers will be held on Thursday next. The rain ol the past few days has had a most vivifying effect upon the crops of this district, which now present the best of prospects for a good harvest

It is said that a special settlement block in the Forty-Mile Bush is already practically in the hands of two men, one of whom was the promoter of the settlement. What will the Premier and Minister of Lands say to this ?—Examiner.

The evil of too subdivisions is, says an exchange, again evidenced at Mauriceyille, where ihe sections ran about 40 acres of inferior laud. The effect has been that the settlers and their families have been unable to stick to their homes and have to seek fresh fields. So the work of consolidation goes on.

Dr. JBevd proceeded yesterday to T'inui, where the influenza epidemic is said to be spreading with alarming rapidity.

The annual Show of the "Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held on the Hutt Park racecourse on Wednesday and Thursday next. The Examiner says :—Mr Bayliss, of Eketahuna, on behalf of several intend* mg settlers there, has applied to the Government for the balance of the Mount Baker Block, consisting of 2150 acres. The block consists of Splendid land, but as the applicants desire to have the right of purchase and as the Minister of Lands refuses to concede this, it is probable the Association will fall through. Two gentlemen who lately lived at Korioi, rode from there to Lichfield, Waikato, says the Auckland Star, for some distance along the road o f the central route. They report the land—from 50 to 80 miles—through which they passed as utterly worthless, and the must abominable they had ever seen. On arriving at Lichfield they took train to Auokland, and in passing through some of the worst land in the Waikato, they described the latter as a nerfect paradise compared with the land through which they passed on the central route.

There are some temperance enthusiasts in Carterton. One of thein suggests in fcho local paper that (1) All retail houses be closed afc 9 o'clock, also tho billiard rooms. (2) No female be allowed to serve behind the bar. (3) Any person found intoxicated be taken into custody and compelled under a penalty to give an account of where and who served him withthe last drinks, the said landlord to be summoned to appear to the charge, and if found guilty to forfeit his license and close the house, else to quit the premises in a given time, and th 9 new applicant to be subject to' the approval of tho Licensing Committee. (4) The police ba provided with furnished quarters, and their ter.n of residence limited to three months within tho town or borougl. (5) Their duty should be to Bee these regulations strictly carried out, also to procure samples of spirits, etc., to be subject to an analization at any time. An impudent theft was committed in Masterton on Saturday afternoon. Cyril P. Stanton, a rather respectable-looking individual who follows thj calling of a piano-tuner, visited the house of MrW. 0. Beetbam in Perry-street and requested to see the master. The servant who answered the door informed the stranger that the master was not about, but that the mistress was in the garden. Stanton replied that he would like to see the mistress, whereupon he was invited into tho sitting room. The servant went for Mrs Beetham, but on the latter putting in an appearance she found that the visitor had taken his departure. On looking round it was discovered that Mr Beeth&m's overcoat had also gone- The matter was reported to the police, and the overcoat was found to have been pawned at Mr Shaw's second-hand shop for fivo shillings. The accused was arrested in the Club Hotel in the evoning by Sergeant Hannan on a charge of larceny. He was placed in the cellß, but finding the heat rather oppressive requested to be allowed a few moments outside. No sooner had he s'ot outside the cells than he made a rush for liberty. Through the Court-yard, into Hall Stieet and straight for Wngloy's bush he ran, followed closely by Constable May and Sergeant Hannan, The prisoner had rather an advantage over Constable May, who wore an overcoat, but the latter was fleet of foot and ran his man to earth soon after entering Wrigley's bush. The accused was brought before the Court this morning, charged with the larceny of a coat.

The advertising agent is a smart man, and he seldom meets with his match. It is related of an officer of the Salvation Army in England that being at a very '' hard Bhop,'' wherp it seemed impossible to get people into the barracks, he beguiled hi 3 spare moments painting texts on the blank walls and hoardings of the town. On one occasion ho toiled laboriously, but affectionately over the words, " What must I do to be saved ?" intending on the morrow to return and add the answer t3 the question. It so happened that an advertising agent passed the hoarding later in the evening, and seizing the opportunity for scoring a good point, anticipated che Array man by painting underneath the text the words, " Use 's Fruit Sglt." The captain returned on the morrow, pondered awhile, and then painted underneath the further injunction, " And set thine house in order, for thou ehalt surely die I" On his return that way the advertising man Jread the words that had been added to his, and then out with his brush and finished the sentence thus, " Dye with Judson's Liquids which produce beautiful colours."