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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3968, 20 November 1891, Page 2

Green beetles are being us«d with great success by Masterton anglers just now. Trout have a great fancy for them.

The racin? record of Bridson. the New Zealander, who won the amateur sculling race on the Lower Yarra a few days a<»o, was 31 firsts. 7 secmds, 2 thirds, and one fourth.

A new use for the natural enemy has been found m this district. We have been infor.med by a bu ß b contractor that ra»3 an<J mice are beiug wholesale by stoats and weasels, which abound in large number? in the vicinity of the camp. The evange'istic eervicoa whiph haye been held in tta Masterton Presbyteriau Church daring the past wesk haye been highly successful. The congregations have been large throu«hou', and tb« proceedings marked with considerable enthusiasm.

Ensign Cutler is conducting three days' special meetinss in Masterton in connection with the Salvation Arrry. A tea is to be held this evenin?. The Masterton T<odgo of Foresters, C«urt Loyal Enterprise, is being repro. sented at the district meeting at Wollpgton by Mr R. E. Horublow. to a contemporary a deputation from jLhjj ffuuteryjlle Small Farm Association proc*pds t# Sjfelljngton a in a few days to arrange with the 'Mjnistpj about a block of land.

Haymaking is already proceeding in some parts of this district, the harvest being larger than for many years past. The f ollawjnr cases were heard in the Morton R. M. Coujrt be/ore Colonel Roberts yesterday afternoon;—E.liojt and Loasby v, S. Parkes, claim', £p £s on a diahonored cheque : Dixon V Grig?, claim, £l2 15s 3d. In both cases; judgment was given for the plaintiffs. '

The Westport Coal Compauy hare let a contract for driring a tunnel 666 ft on their Granite Creek property. IHhor work is prcoeedit.g towards developing this valuable portion of the Company's property. Constable and Mrs Cooper, of Pahiatua, with their four children and servant are victims to influenza. Ten members of the staff of our Woodville contemporary are down with la grippe. And yet the world revolves and the paper is published. | The new telegraph forms are said to be j the product of local industry, and to be made of tussock grass. We imagined so.

Arrangements are bein? made by the Pahiatua Cricket Club to play a match at Masterton at an early datfe. Mr D. Mclnnes, of Pahiatua, had two of his fingers nearly severed whilst working a circular saw on Monday.

A man named Thomas Marshall wasrendered unconscious tho other day by being struck on the forehead by the limb of a tree whilst bnshfelling a Hawera, Forty-Mile Bush. One hundred butter boxes have just been received at the Ballanee Special Settlement from New Plymouth. A second consignment of two hundred boxes is to arrive in a few days.

The attendance at the Masterton infant school has been seriously affected by sickness during the past month.

The Masterton school Committee has resolved to request the Education Board to import its School books and retail them to Committees at cost price. Mr R. S. Stansfield, the popular district managor of the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, is at present in Masterton arranging business in connection with the institution which he represents.

The Self Denial week of the Salvation Army realised £IO,OOO. The New Zealand contribution was £ISOO.

Our local contemporary seems a little dense over the Park question. The proposal mede by Messrs Payton and Feist was to free the Park to tho public by putting the toll keeper at the oval instead ot at the entrance gate. The public would then haye free admission to the bodyjof the Park on holidays, a privilege which they do not now enjoy. The Payne family of musicians are now on a tour of the whole of the colony. \fter reaching Invorcargill they work their way bask to the north, and hepe to reach Masterton about March next.

The Hugo Buffalo Minstrels appear in the Masterton Theatre Royal on Monday and Tuesday next. Mr Sutcliffe, the advance agent, is now billing the town.

Another serpent stoiy has reached us. A cable message just received from Sydney states that a sea monster 30ft lone, with a head shaped like a dog's, pursued a diver at Newcastle. He was hauled to the surface before it could overtake him, *nd two men afterwards tpeared it but let it escape. We are asked by our local contemporary to explain the circumstances that led up to the squabble oyer the lettin? of tho Park on Boxing Day. No explanation is necessary as at tho special meeting called to consider the question it was demonstrated that the Secretaty let the Park under a regulation of the Trustees, and that this regulation had been strictly carried out. Of course our contemporary coloured and misrepresented the affair.but wa are not bound to explain or excuse his lachesAn experiment in the manner of growing vines is being tried by a settler of the Rangitikel district. It is customary to train the vines oyer trellis-work, but he has conceived the idea that it would be a great saving of labour and expense if they could be got to grow in the same manner as gooseberry trees and the like, without any support. In this he has been fairly successful, the vines having a very healthy appearance.

There was so much influenza in Parramatfa lately that (according to the Sydney Morning Herald) the local Friendly Societies' dispensary was fairly besieged with paople waiting to have their prescriptions dispensed—in fact the medicine was prepared in a wholesale mannar in a large tub. A gentleman lately from Birmingham, England, supplies us with the fo'lowing: —Just before leaving he visited the business premises of the New Zoalai.d Frozen Meat Company, situated in the Bullr-ring, High Street. It was six o'clock in the morning, and the large shop was filled with frozen mutton, about 1100 carcases he was told. Eight hands were employed. At eleven o'clock at night ha again called, and there was scarcely a scrap of meat left. Hundreds of people flocked in and out of the shop during the day. The reason tor such a steady sale was obvious ; where Englioh .neat cost from lOd to lid per lb New Zealand could be obtained from 4d to 6d. The people like the frozen meat, and in a city like Birmingham, where there are thousands of factory people, tho industry is considered a great boon and freely patronised. —Hawera Star.

An American ladyhayinp written that the bo?t bathing costume is in puris natu'ralibus, most of the New York drapers were rushed for that kind of stuff, but had to confess that they did not sell it.

For some time past the sacrifice of child life in Melbourne has been shock", iiu'ly great, scarcely a week having passed without the discovery of one or more p?reels containing dead bodies of newly born infants who had been smothered and castaway into the reserve or into the Yarra. A very useful apparatus for ecpnomising labour in repairing telegraph wires has just been invented by Mr .T, A. M'Kenzie, telegraph lineman, of Mas: terton. The apparatus has been shown to Dr Lemon, Superintendent of Telegraphs, who ppeaks very highly of it, and will have it protected throughout the colonies*

Victor BedingfiVld was originally a compositor on the staff of a Napier paper, but havintr "found the Lord" he became a Salvationist. He was promoted to the rank of captain, and was causing yuUe a sensation in various pirts of the colony as a prpacher, when in an evil moment he "W al >d ejoped with a '.'lassie." He'is now «i_Sey York fixate, 'America, where he is proprietor and editor of two newspapers. A correspondent eiuiuiring about a'preventive and remedy for blight in orchards. In reply we may inform him that the preparation ordinarily known as Little's Sheop Dm has beep very successfully used in Masterton within the past few weeks. We might also add that from now to the middle of December is the season when »c*le bl'f lit can be inostsuccessiully attacked. This is the time during which thn insect hatches and leaves the scaly shell, but as the hatching usually spreads over several weeks, the trees should be sprayed two Q{ three times at iutervals. Jixeellen?' results "hav* followed the application of"Little's bUght specific (remaps better known as Little's Sheep Dip), wtyck wa* expensively used in other districts lasl year. Rut wither Shis' speci6c nor any o|the'r should be \ oo sfroiuj. whjls'fc the blossom and settjng frujfc areon the tpeo. Litre's was originally tried as a s.oju-r ti»n of 6& parts ut( the r/aj;cr to opo of the fluid. But it it is noy recommended at Ito 100 or Ito 120, which is hapmlessß fcj the trees and strong enough tt kill the insects. The local agents for the speclnu are Messrs M. Daselberg and Co.

1 L J. Hooper and Co are now Bhowwg the most fashionable and largest assert*. ment of now spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Milli - ncry, Trimmed, and Untrimaied Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, <£c. Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy PM tS - panties, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi ' We are Knowing splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, Ac. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of nev dress materials in the W&irarapa. All the leading shades, de> Sinn?, flfJin=. 4£<* materials for the season, single and doujle The "Fancy pepartJiient \s full ef the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribb.ops trillings, collaro cuffs and parasols,ete,

A smart boy is advertised for by Mr Kow Kee, of Queen St.

A cricket match between teams representing Eketahuna and Pahiatua is to be played to-morrow (Saturday). It is reported that Commandant Herbert Maxwell will succeed Lord Onslow as Governor of New Zealand. Mias bacon announces that she i prepared to receive pupils on all subject" in fancy work at one shilling per lesson"

An information for perjury has been laid by Messrs Bowerm an Bros, aeainst Mr Eli Strawbridge, of Carterton, in connection with the Picturesque Atlas case recently heard. A special parade of the Masterton ftifle Volunteers is to be held on Thursday next as a farewell to Lieut. A. G, Thompson. The weekly parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers was held last evening, Captain Pownall in command. It was announced that a Church parade would be held on Sunday next.

Colonel Roberts is the latest victim to influenza. He was suable in consequence to attend to Court business to-day.

Mary Mulcahy, of Masterton, haß been committed to the Mount View Lunatic Asylum on the medieal certificate of Drs Hoiking and Beard.

Shearing operations are now in fall swing on the various stations in the Masterton district, and the clips are said to be remarkably good. Large quantities of wool leave the Masterton Railway Station every day for Wellington.

The spring shew oi the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society is to be held on Wednesday next. The season has been an excellent one for vegetables and flowers, whilst fruit is rather earlier than usual, and there is likely to be a good exhibition in this class. Altogether the show should be an nnprece* tented success.

A young schoolboy was bathing at Mechanics' Bay, Auckland, and was soma distance from the shore, when he saw the fin of a shark not far away, and commenced to scream nut. Mr William Joiner, a young man employed as machineit in the New Zealaud Herald newspaper prinking office, happened to bo in the vicinity. He called out to thu lad to keep his courage up, and strike boldly for the shore. Joiner simply divested himself ot his coat and vest, and opening his large jack knife placed it between his teeth, and swam straight out to face tho shark, passing the boy, who was swimming to the shore. The shark, abandoning the boy, made for Joiner, but to attack him had to turn on his back, when Joiner stabbed the monster in the belly with his knife. A second time the shark went for him, but as it turned he coolly selected his point of attack, and iobbed the knife into one of its eyes. The shark sheered off, and appeared co sink in deep water, and it was seen no more, and Joiner returned to the shore to receive the thanks of the grateful boy, whose life he had saved. There the matter ended, so far as Joiner was concerned, but, says the Herald, no braver deed in rescuing human life has been done in Auckland harbour, and even yet it is not too lite to give Joiner the Society's medal which he richly deserves. Joiner is one of the 6nest long swimmers in Auckland, and has on several occasions swam across the harbour and back again.