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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3966, 18 November 1891, Page 2

The monthly or the He -J;erton School Committee wil 1 . beheidto.-morrow (Thursday) evening Influx JZ-: is very prevalent in the bash camps at the present t'we, and bush wovk J* almost at a standstill. Jn one camp alone twelye out of sixteen men arc confined to their bunks! The pontiffs were nnnsuUcd in the case Bowerniia Bros v Eli SOrawbridcre, heard st CLiterran yesterday. This wai a claim for the ba'ance owing on the Picturesque Atlas. Mr Skerret appeared tor the pJuint'Ts and Mr Beard for the defendant.

It may, peibap-, be news to our lor al contemporary that no one b: s ever proposed to clo e the Mi -terton Park ..0 the pirb'ic! Ho hmts t'i;'t Mr FV'sfc has done this, but cannot he puif his colleague, Mr Powua'l without spreading fc'se rumour* about the oi/he ■ cand date ? Upon the occ.tsio'i of a recant t. n'<i at Ta'capau, a native bee me so oveieome with gr'ef, &c. (rod eiueci."y w\ih the " ka.") that she w-ntod to brne her troubles jto an end by throwing herself down in fro 't of f.'ie tra'n, bat the driver see : n<r her intent - *on ii Bliffi.c".eut | tiira wa-. ab'e to stop the ei nne, and Lhe woman't iriend's • awed her 01. The Taranaki Her Id corapL'ns that po'it*. al He in New Plymouth has for many years been dorn ant. Some people donVknnw when tbey are well off. His Ex •el'eucy t e Governor (Lord P"siow) has been endeavoi ii:g to popi - iarise New Zealand i.ozsn me-t by otrdui": it to l?'s friends at IJ.o»re.

No le'.s f-nn t'x of a rer'r- ; n hotel : n Ma. tu ton aie down vk'i influerza.

The Dob on-Kennedy Drair«tic and Comedy Company ?re now pl-iy'i" in Pp'merston Nurth. Me b of the members of the Company have recovered from the*.* receut accident,

A tournament betwoen the Masterton and Carterton Lawn Tennis Cluiawlll probably be played on Saturday next.

Sister John Berchinanns, a daughi er of Mr A. Peters, the well-known coach proprietor of the Forty-m'le Bush, has died in St Joseph'b Convent, Napier. Dairy cows, hei f ers, calves, horses, etc., will be offered by Mr F. H. Wood at his fortiv?htly sale at the Taratahi tomorrow.

In consequence of inform?tion rei-eived irom India, Mr Eudyard Kipling cut short his Australian tour and sailed for India.

AWoodvillesettlev was recently sued for debt, but before his cane was: clled on he became a lunatic. This is the latest method for liquidating hab'lities.

Mr J. D. Waller, of PahiaSua, is about to take a ttip Home. He has in consequence resigned hn teat on the Town Board.

Lord KnuMioid, Colonial Secretin y, baa expressed his appreciation of the courtesy and ab'lity with which Sir F. Dillon Bell has invariably conducted his business as Agent-General for New Zealand.

A fai'met* of Katwaiwai, Lower Valley, has Inst two vaJunb'e draught horses withiu a week from some unexplained cause.

Messrs Eurnoit and Syms have been nominated lor the Mayoralty of Wood* yilJo.

Robert Cole was charged at Featherston on Monday with furious riding. The defendant said he was riding a mare and before he got Bested in the paddle she made off, so that he cuuld not pu'l her up. The case was dismissed.

A number of settlers of this district proceeded to Wellington to-day to witness the third annuel show of the

Wellington Agvicultutal and Pastoral Association. A much larger number will, however, lotve to-morrow, when a Bpeeu>l train service will be laid on.

The annual Distiicfc Meeting in connection with the Wealeyan Church was commenced at Wellington yesktrday morninjr. - The Bev W. Bowse was appointed assistant-Secretary. Arrangements were made for the trial sermon and examinntion of Mr T. J- Smith (Home MißS'orary at Eketahuna) who is a candidate for the ministry. An Eketahuna resident informs us that the meeting s.-id to have taken place recently in that township to arrange for a further feed'.n? of ministerial lions was not, as alleged, » public gathering. A few ministerial adirirera met in private conclave, but no invitation wa-s extended to the settlers generally in that neighbourhood. Mr Westby Perceval, the New General for New Zealand, it a grandson of Mr Perceval, who, as Prime Minister of England, was shot dead about eighty years ago by a Russian when entorin* the JHouso of Commons.

One of those things one had better

have left unsaid was riven utterance to in the most innocent way by the defendant in a judgment summons ca»e heard in th<> Duned'n Resident Magistrate's Court, on Wednesday morning. Said he, addressing Mr Rutherford, " I am like jour Worship ; I am too old for work, and I ain a cripple."

A printing press aud type have been taken from Paerora by the natives to the Maori Parliament in the Kins country. They state that it is for the purpose of printing and publishing a Maori Hansard.

At a recent meeting of the Warepa | Farmers' Club the following ex- j traordinary resolutions were carried : (I) Prohibition of rabbit poisoning nesr j rabbit tinning factories, and that lej,vdation be introduced to compel rabbit preserving factory owners to Rive a fair p.ice for rabbit skins; (2) that* separate Executive Government be established for the North and South Wards ; (3) that tho co-oper»t ; ve system of employment init'ated by Government is an unwarrantable interference with the labour market; (4) that asent* should bold trusts like auctioneers; and (5) that property should be granted more voting power.

A peculiar case of ass-ault came before Colonel Roberts at Feathorston on Monday. Mary E. Broderaon, a lady of some notoriety in the place, charged a man named Hermer with having struck her on the shoulders with a shovel and "sat on her chest." It appeared that the defendant whs getting gravel near the plaintiff's house, when the latter came up and endeavored to 'gsin possession of a shovel, remarkin? " I've ?ot you now". In the struggle which ensued the nose of the plaintiff became somewhat displaced, and her optics, it is aaid, were closed far repairs. The de> fendant, on the other hand, cams off with a few kicks and scratches The Bench dismibsed the case.

We, Herald, have hoard of an inntance of feinitr'no pluck that will take a lot of beating. A Thaniei rebidenr, a woman of pboufc 25 years of a»e, paid a visit; to Wellington to see a sister. Owing to k nrscalcuHticn, and to the fact that her sister was poor, the viator found herself in ihe position of having to stay m WeiJiust ">n, beg the price of a passage b?ck, or twmp her way home. She chose the lait course, and reached Napier at the end o? the week. Sho did the distance irom Ni'pier U> Taupo in a Uttfo oyer two and a halt days, and presumably'ib now isafe at home at the Thames. The charitdbly disposed in MasfeorLon shou.'d not be leu ?w,iy by every wind t>l do;I L-ine. ortojolicdat -the region of their pockets by the appe?ls of eveiy person who comes alon» with a sub icripiion Hit. We might mention fciwt a couple »>' persons travelling through the colonies collecti'.'g money for an orphanage ae Mesopot. mia were recently charged at theOboma (Victoria) Poljce Court with obU'njnrj money under fa'so pretenpes. The talented P?yneFan'i]y, wb'ch appears 'n the Mastcrton Tl>e..iva Royal tomorrow (Thursday) eveuia", ?& referred to as follows by an escr-ange :—lt is d;iscult to i. y wh?t the Payae Family '• cannot do in the way »i musical e*pva.s<tn lu'" B °i° Miisc'oST °«"' n & R<X-d, ard tfat ir part i* 1 »W abe - T , h( \ ke ',; n«to of lha entertaiuirent w?o 7 e »s»»uc«c in "the pa*t tonpr, "Tho Bel's" (biri) and we have raroly hea»d f-om human voic<3T a more realistic and ple..Bi.)g tat : on of the cJan<» of bells, the recoil* ance dyhv> awry gradar'ly aaa fa'ntly, like, to use a poetical expression, an whisper

An entire family of fiva fffswnj were roasted uC death in a Cliicagp tenemeiijt house, burned tu the grouud on September ICh. Gn the f yeuing ol September 27th f n oil c - n , standm*? on a siop t-vack at Novoh Dakota, was Wt i» nation by a swiichin ; fc.a'o, a>d starting down the grade, col'idea with the engine ofanidcorjaiirraiiock train with tew Wo ln ln an instuat the o'l was all ablaze and the en ,'"ie ploughed a fieiy mi>>s. T')o EiJjgineer, fireman and brakem..n were soon e.nyelQp<\d »> flames end literally roasted to death.

Mr Becker, a tfouthbrook farmer, has a cow which is suckling api», He had, according to a Tiuiaru paper, » mob of oc p'2» i'Jn.jinP' in the same paddock w't'i the cows, and somehow this strrnge f. ; ead. hip wn struck up, before he new of it te shi.'ied the pigs, and was pi'zz'ed by the uner ineßS of one ot the cows, when a boy told him she must bo freLting after thn pis, which he had seen suckin,' her. Mr Becker put the pig brck in the field, and the cow and it run toneetone another, delighted at fie rerunjon.

L J, and. Co are now snowies the most fashionable ftnd largest' acsorU meat of new sp.ing goods ever sbowa i- 1 the district. Eng'ish aid French Milli nery, Trimmed, and Ur trimmed Hats and Bonnets Flowers, and Feathers, Ao. Stvlish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Cape 3, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, &e. We are showing a splendid stock of Fasbio-ia'jle Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zepby.s, {• e. Webo'dthe best awtraeni and largest slock of nev dress materials' in the WaLara t >a.' All the teiftx\% shades des'sus, satins, and materials for the mason, (ingle and double widths. The Fancy Department is full ei the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons frill'ngs, coPara, cuSs and parasols, eto.

The latest yiefcim. to the prevailing epidemic in Masterton is Serjrt. Hannan, A cecond lecture on "Fiji and the Fijidus," with optical lantern enter* tainment, will be given by the Rev S. Gibson in the Mastorton Temperance Hall on Moaday evening next. Mr and ! Mrs Gibson will dress in the attire of a Fijian bride and briderroom, and will sing in Fijian. The-R.M.S. Arawa arrived from London via way ports early this morn:n;z. Her dates are—Plymouth October 3rd, Teneritfe Bth, Cape 24th, and Bobart noon on the ISth lost. She brings IS3 passengers for N. Z- ports and 17t0 tons of cargo. BirF. D. and Lady Bell are among the passengers. A meeting of those Interested in form- ] ias; a Good Templar Lodge at Kuripuni was hold iu the Kuripuni Sunday school room last evening, MrW.L. Johnstone, District Deputy, presiding. Apologies and subscriptions towards the expense of opening were received from several who were unavoidably absent. The objects of the order haying been fully explaiucd, it was resolved that the District Deputy be authorised to procure the charter and supplies at once. The meeting was adjourned unt'l Tuesday next, subscriptions towards the expenses cf the formation of the Lodse being raised jn the room.