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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3967, 19 November 1891, Page 2

M~ A, McHutchon has been appointed assessor under the property tax for the Castlepoint Registration District.

Sir Walter Buller and two sons are at present on a visit to Masterton, and are staying at the Club Hotel.

A boy two years old, named Hay, swallowed some vitriol which hia father had been using for wool-scouring at Christchurch on Friday. He died.

Mr R. A. Wakelin has oeen elected Mayor of Greytown for another term without opposition.

Ensign and Mrs Cutler, of the Labour Bureau of the Salvatisn Army, visit the Masterton corp3 to-morrow. A tea meeting is to be held in connection with their visit.

The Featherston volunteer corps has been disbanded, owing to a disruption amongst the officers, and a rifle club has been formed in the district, which already numbers about 50 members. Mr John Btdwill, of Temaire, has been chosen captain. The weekly parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteors will be held this (Thursday) evening. The Payne Family, which appears in tho Masterton Theatre Royal this evening, is sure to be greeted with a crowded house. Persons wishing to secure agood seit should therefore be early

The receipt! of the Masterton Agricultural and i'astoral Association for the past year were £527, being i>los more than those of the previous year. Mr William M'Cardle, second son of Mr VV. W. M'Cardlo, who is well-Known in Masterton, has been, married to Miss Lottie Sedcole, <•{ Pahiatua.

A number of Picturesque cases are to be heard at the next sitting of the R.M. Court at Eketahuna. The member for Masterton has done some of his friends a good turn by getting comfortable mattrasses fixed up in the Masterton police cells. Mr S.Drew, who has been sharebroking at the Tusmnnian silver mines for some months, returned to Masterton last evening. He reports that although things are at the present time very quiet at the fields, there is every probability of a change for the better occurring m a few weeks.

Owing to glanders, two horses in Sell's Circus, which lately arriyed at Sydney from the United States, have been destroyed, and the reßt of the animals have besn quarantined. The show will pro.bably return to tho United States immediately. Woman, lovely woman ! At Napier the other day Mrs Petterson charged Mrs Blom with cruelly assaulting her cow by throwing stones ai it. Mrs Blom snid she did not throw scones, she merely threw an old tin. Mrs Blom subsequently charged Mrs Petterson with assaulting her by throwing a bucket of water over her person. Both charges wore dismissed.

A shocking suicide is reported from East Richmond, Melbourne, where a flingle woman named Eliza Harper, aged thirty five years, cut her throat in a fearful manner with a pair of scissors. Deceased was a victim to mehncholia, brought about by a disappointment in love.

Mr Thomas Fergus, M.H.8., is at present on a tour through the Australasian colonies. Having yisited Tasmania and Victoria, he has now left for Western Australia, where he intends visiting the recently discovered gold fields, and will subsequently visit the Broken Hill fields. Mr Alfred Tennyson Dickens, fourth son of the great novelist, Charles Dickens, has been lecturing to the Melbourne public on his faiber, the personal reminiscences Imparting a special interest on the lecture.

Sarah Whiting, the wife of a railway guard at Adelaide, put an end to her life m a moat determined manner. She iiad fastened a gun to her foot and a etring to the trigger. Death was instantaneous.

The sum of £lO has been raised in Masterton during ttie past year in aid of the Wosleyau Home Mission fund. At the Wesleyan District meeting yesterday it was rwnlved to recommend that. Conference appoint a home niissionary to be stationed at Featherston, so as to leave the Rov W. Rowse at liberty to devote part of his time t* the Maoris of the Wairarapa, and to grant £SO towards his support. More treasures in the Woodvillo district. This time gold has been (said to have been) found at Kumeroa. We (Hawke's Bay Herald) are not informed who lost it, or whether it was found m that form which has been called "salt." Gold has been found so many times in Hawke's Bay, however, that the thins; is getting a little monotonous. Should a company be formed (and there seems no reason for finding gold unless a company is to be floated) we may have something more to say about it. There was a falling off in the attend * ance at the Melbourne Cup this year" In 1889 the number present was 85,000. in 1890, 82,000, and this year, it is said, the attendance could not have exceeded 80,000 people at the stmost. 2ho railway traffic, although very heavy,was conducted with precision and dispatch, ninety-five trains being dippatched from Spencer street to the course. A train left every minute.

The great Menagerie Hippodrcne and Circus of Messrs Sells Bros., which is to be on board the next mail steamer from San Francisco en rente for Australia, is said to be one of the largest of its kind in America. The two advance agents by the last 'Frisco steamer had with them bill posters. The show is to come to New Zealand in April next, opening in Invercargill.

The annual 'ports in connection with the Tenui Athletic Club are to b« held at Tenui ou Now Year's Day. Mr T. Stilborn has kindly given the use of his paddocks, and Mrs Owen has secured the booth. At a public meeting on Moaday evening a Strang and influential Committee were elected. Subscriptions ars Gombg in fast, and numerous tradespeople are giving valuable prizes, so the meeting promises to be the most successful ever held there. The annual ball will b» held in the evening. The usual meeting of the PhoenLt Lodge, 1.0. G.T., was held in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday even - in? at 7.30, Bro G. L. Braggins, C.T., presiding. One candidate was initiated, and two proposed for membership. The of officers and committees for the past quarter'fchoyed the Lodge to be in a good financial positiori. The following officers were du.'y installed for tfe ensuing quarter, viz—C.T. Bro Win. Lenz; V.T., Bro T, W. Shute ; Sec, Bro.GeoWyeiih ; F.S., Bro Humphrey O'Leary ;Chap., Bro W. Squires; M., Bro L. C. Job'ofctorijJS. j Bro J. Wiekens; P.C.T. Bro G. L. ft was unanimously resolved that the hearty thanks of the Lodge be conveyed to the Wairarapa Daily and S!ar for their kjnd notice of Lodsre matters published from tioop to tjnie.. The Lodge closed in due form at p. m,

A young woman named Bailey, residing with her husband at Young (New Suuth W n J es), died from fright a few days aoo under painful circumstances. On the Saturday previous, white engaged hanging clothes on a line in a paddopk adjoining her residence, shecatre unexpectedly upon a large snake coiled near a stump, She was so terrified as to be almost unable to move, but as the reptile came towards her she ran into the house and, becoiring very ill, sent for the neighbours, her husband being absent from home. She grew worse, and medical aid but the urifortnate wo man premature birth to a child, became delirious, and continued go until Saturday last, when ehe died.

L J. Hooper and Co are now showicg the most fashionable and largest assort" mepi of rsw spring goods ever shown in thV'disiri&t. Ejfgtfjh ftnd French Millinery, Trimmed, and UnCrimmed /flits' iff4 j tfonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, 4rc. !

Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy .Cftfcas, Jfantles,' Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, i'ti.. We are showing a epfendjd stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, Ac. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of nev dress materials in the Wairarapa. All the leading shades, designs, satins, and materials for the season, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is full of the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons trillings, collars cuffs and parasols, etc.

The plaintiff in a case which was to have been heard in the Master-ton R.M. Couit this morning was stated by his I counsel to be a victim to influenza. The case was ordered to stand down. ' There are 901 entries for the annual show of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association this year, against 923 last year. A match married v. single is to be played on the Park Oval on Saturday by the Masterton Cricket Club. The following are the respective teams; —Married—Harrison, Iggulden, Moore, Brem • ner, Malcolm, Leeks, Wickens, Hare, Jackson, Williams, Haigh and Walker. Single—Perry, Pownall, Cart;tll, Richards, Boagey, D'Arcy, Whatman, Parkinson, Eton, Emmett and Manning. John Daly, an old and decrepid individual, who appeared to be suffering from lumbago or chronic rheumatism, pleaded guilty in the Masterton R.M. Court this morning to having no lawful visible means of support. He was sentenced to seven days' hard labor in the Wellington Ternce Gaol. The annual show of the (Jreytown Horticultural and Industrial Society is ro be held to-morrow (Kriday). I A number of Picturesque Atlas cases (were heard at Qreytown yesterday, judgment being given in each caso in I favour of the plaintiffs. | The only case heard in the Masterton R.M. Court this morning was a claim on a judgment summons, 5. W, Leahy v. R. Allen. The defendant was ordered to pay the amount within ten days, or go to gaol for seven days.