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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3969, 21 November 1891, Page 2

A situation is wanted by a good general farm hand, A boxing conto t for £5 a Bide and the . gate mon«y, between Bob Matthews, the light-weiyht charnpr-u, and Lob Kirkwood, ot Sydney, comes off in the Theatre Rojml this eveuinir. Any person having dc'ubts as to the genuineness of the i right will have their money returned. An interesting lecture on " Fiji and the Fijians," is to be delivered in the Temperance Hall on Mo> day eveningby the Rev. S. ,1. Gibson. The address will be illustrated by magic lantern views, and Mr and Mrs Gibson will dress in the attire of a Fijian bride and bridegroom Mr G. Easki 11. of Mastertoti, was the successful tenderer for the painting of the Eketahuna Hotsl. Thsßev W. Bowse will conduct services in the Eketahuna Wesleyan Church to-morrow (Sunday). Messrs G. M. and K. Edwards have been nominated for the mayoralty of Palmerston North, General Booth thinks that who:: the details of his social scheme are a little ' more developed he will be known as a " rag and bono merchant." A special jury has been granted frr the hearing in Wellington of the iibel I case, Evison y. Thornton and Hunncbs. I

Mrs Anastasia Kin?, ait inmate of the Masterton hospital, died yesterd?y, i Influenza is still spreading in Master- ' ton. The latest victim is Mr W. Hetty, • the Borough Overseer. The Levels Road Board report good results from sending a man round the district with a spring oart to distiibute poison for small birds. The following welcome communication has been received by the Secretary of the Masterton Hospital:—" Please accept the enclosed sum oi £2 for the hospital. The donor sends it in thankfulness for the enjoyuient of good he ilth. Amen." It is estimated that 7000 people were present at the Wellington show on Thursday, although £l5O only was taken the ?ates. Several robberies were committed on the Rotomahana on her last voyage from Melbourne to Tasmania. A sensational affair occurred near Albury, when the driver and fireman of a train had a narrow escape from death The engine was fired at with ball cartridges. Two bullets struck the engine within two feet of where the men were standing. The affair is a complete mystery. The rVanganui Herald advances as amongst the possible reasons for Lord Onslow's resignation "the proposed additions to the Legislative Council, which he cannot consistently refuse to make in view of his compliance with the request of Sir Hatry Atkinson to call a number of new members to that Chamber during the last days of the late Ministry." The Bush Advocate states that the Tiratu and Piri Piri Blocks will be put up in the market in small holdings at an early date, and when so setded will give an immense impetus to Danovirke. The Hon Mr Pharazzn, who has been so unmercifully handled by file Liberal Press on account ot his Christchurch speech, was nominated to tke Upper iJouso by Sir Robert Stout and the Hon John Ballance, the present Premier. Willliam Hunt, who was remanded to Wellington some days ago for curative treatment, as he was sufiermg severely from drink, was brought before Mr Pownall, J.P., yesterday. He was convicted for drunkenness, and discharged on the payment of £l, the cost of his maintenance in Wellington. A large number of bushfellers are now in Masterton, making enquiries as to the whereabouts of the contractor, who has mysteriously disappeared. Religious Intolerance does not obtain in Nelson. The Rev. Mr Isitt, of the Wesleyan Church, recently went on a . holiday, and his pulpit was filled by the Church of England clergyman. Between £6OO and £7OO left Oaunru for Melbourne Cup Consultations, and about £IOO came hack in prizes. i The Victoria Hotel at Feathorston is being taken over by Mr Bilton, butcher. A present Manawatu resident was pitsawing timber at Pigeon Bay, Canterbury, 46 years ago, receiving 35s per 100 feet Our Greytown and Carterton friends will be surprised to hear that Mr Reeves has been appointed Clerk of the Court ■ at Eketahuna and that Mr Reeyes is not a constable. When the Payne family were at Woodville a child in the audience commenced to cry. The mother was requested to leave the building. She did t so. The Company have since been severely handled through the local paper for daring to protect the audience against the yells of a sleepy youngster. Intelligence has been received from the Gilbert Group of very severe weather, accompanied by tidal wares. In one Island eighty natives were drowned, ana ■ many habitations demolished. No details have yet been received. A horrible murder has been perpetrated at Wnlclia, in Victoria, the victim 1 being a Chinaman named Harry King, f a fruiterer, who had the reputation of 3 being quiet and inoffensive. He was | l found in bed with his head terribly bat--3 tered in. The police have arrested a anotbor Chinese nanird Jimmy long on . suspicion of being concerned in the mur- . der. Accused had numerous marks of 1 blood on hia clothing. A shocking accident happened to a | coal lumper named John McKmley at ' Sydney, while under the influence of t liquor. He was visiting the hcuse of a 3 friend named Cecelia M'Court, and took 3 the latter's child out on the balcony. 3 He became unsteady whilst he had the child in his arms, and fell over the balcony head foremost He was killed on 3 the spc t, and the child was taken to the 3 hospital in a dying condition. . An advertisement in the Wanganui ' Chronicle gravely asserts that the iin« 3 ported sire Leolinus was the dam of f Punga were were, Katipo.Tetford, Krupp, i Brigadier, Tranter, and Crackahot. 3 Another advertiser in the same paper ■ speaks disdainfully of the legs of horses } of the Musket strain, and claims that " the stock of Painter, on the contrary, ' are " blessed with everlasting legs." 1 What's the good of everlasting legs if the rest of the body is perishable ? At the beginning of the week two 3 large mobs of at >re c.tttle of all aires, - numbering in all over 750 head, from ( Whangara (between Gisborne and , Tolora Bay) crossed the Wairoa Bridge ' en route for the bush districts, Hawku's . Bay. Mr Tuckwell was in charge, we ' beliete. On Thursday a mob of 1600 1 shorn sheep, two and four tooth, from i Mr John Couper's station, under the ■ charge of MrWm. MoCullock, crossed L the bridge on their way to the Manawatu , district ; and the same day Mr Love with another mob of sheep, 1000 innumfrom the Pourerere station, Hawke's 1 Bay, passed over the structure, their destination being Mr St. Ledger's ho'.d- ---> ing, Tiniroto. Stock driying appears to , have oemmenced early this season.— i Guardian. ' A specially commissioned represen 1 tative of the Ofago Daily Times, who is ' now travelling in the Notth It-land t» . report upon its farming cipaHhties, I writes as follows :—The West Coast of , the North island especially presents a i splendid opening for practical men who are skilled in flocks and holds, and in ' the detail of breeding, general mauage--1 ineiit and fattening of stock. Visitors ■ from the South, looking after land s either for themselves or for their sons, are to be met with almost everywhere in the Wellington and Taranaki provincial districts just now. Some curious samples of streaked wool, the results of experiments made by Mr W. A. Murray, of Cupeedee, near Hallctt, Vkith the object of getting a breed ot black sheep, are now to beseeu in Melbourne. The expeiiments were began in 188G, and in the first place Mr Murray selected blacV ewes from flocks of pure merinos, where sheep of this colour were usually destroyed. It was not till 1889 that enough ewes were secured. Mr Murray's other aim was to get a ram with one ni-ire generation of black. In 1893, Dense Darky was obtlined by the blick ram Satan out of a black ewe ; and this year a dozen lambs, qoite black, except for a white star, have been secured by Densj Darky. Last year the wool from this rani was perfectly black, but this year it has undergone a curious change, being black at the tip and streaked with grey and white further down. Several experts, t<> whom the wool has been submitted, say they have never seen anything i similar to it. i L J. Hooper and Co are now showing i the most fashionable and largest assert* < meat of new spring goods ever shown in . the district. English and French Milli- ! nery, Trimmed, and Untrimaied Hats and i Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &c. I Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy - c Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi j Jackets, Ac. . We are showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambricß, i Zephyrs, ifrc. 1 We hold the best assortment and largest , stock of nev dress materials in the . Wairarapa. All the leading shades, de- ' signs, satins, and materials for the season, I ■ingle and doable widths. I The Fancy Department is full of tke j best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbon fallings, coilars cuffs and parasols,etc, ' , I

A Canterbury paper says:—We learn that Messrs J. R. and R. R. Kirkhaui, of Biscathorpe House, Lincoln, have just shipped for New Zealand a valuable selection of 10 Lincoln rams, sold to Mr J. JS. Williams; 7 Lincoln rams and 10 Lincoln ewes, ~Bold to Mr Thomas Brydone ; and 1 ram and four ewes, sola to J. Rayner. All these sheep are sold for New Zealand, an J were disposed o f at high prices. They are considered to be the very best of Lincolns that have ever been sent to New Zeakod from any Lincoln breeder. Altogether there are 18 rams and 14 ewes. Three of these ' rams were sold at £IOO each. A curious grievance of Canadian milk consumers has just been dealt with by tho public analyist at tbe Guelph Agricultural College, in Ontario. Jt had been asserted, on apparently good authority, that owinp to the natural tendency of cream to rise to the surface, those itinerant milkmen who draw the supply for each customer through a tap at the bottom of the can must serve the first customers with milk deficient in fat. On the other hand, when they dip, as some do, at the top of the can, the N fir»t served gets an unduly rich fluid, while the last coiners are put off with what is no better than skim milk. In order to teat these views the board have waylaid the principal milk distributors on their rounds at various hours, and taken samples, wh'.ch have been subjected to careful analysis- The result has proved that top milk and bottom milk are practically the same. Professor Dean explains this by tbe fact that the jolting of the wtggon is sufficient to keep the cream fairly distributed. T.ie Liberal organ in Napier, the Evening News, is in a bad way. It has maintained a struggling existence for some seven years, but was reorganised as a Limited Liability Company a year or so ago. At a meeting of shareholders on Tuesday evening, it was shown by the balance sheet that there was an actual loss of £750 on the first year's work, but £250 of this was due to the expenses of floating the company and other non -recut ring charges. The actual loss was stated at £SOO, and it was added that since the date of the balance-sheet expenses had been reduce 1 no that the loss was now only a nominal one per week. It was admitted that unless fresh capital was procured to meet pressing liabilities, the paper could not be carried on. The sum named was £IOOO, A resolution was arrived at that unless this was raised within a fortnight the company should be wound up voluntarily. The News in its issue of Wednesday makes a vigorous struggle for life, and in its leadin? columns appeals to *' every lover of liberty and every sympathiser with the cause of Liberalism to contribute to tho fund now being raised for the furtherance of the scheme which, if carried out, is to place the paper out of the reach of its enemies.". It says £250 was already guaranteed, but that if " within a fortnight, the necessary sum be not subscribed tho paper must cease publication." The News during its troubled career has been smartly written, and a consistent advocate of Liberal views. But even smart writing and Party advocacy will not suffice to make a newspaper a commercial success in a town which " is over-papered "as Napier is; and where it has to compete with old, firmly established, and well conducted journals. — Eoening Pod. The Melbourne correspondent of the Otago Daily Times writes :—The young telegraph operator, Robert Campbell, who had the ramrod o' an old fashioned pistol driven right through his brain, entering at tbe left cheek and passing through the eyeball, has been discharged cured from tho Melbourne Hospital Nine inches of the ramrod were com- ' pletely through the skull, and stuck up above the hair, but the other inch and a half remained in the head, Campbell 1 retained his nerye and his consciousness, ' and five hours later in tho day, walked into the casualty room of the Melbourne Hospital with all his faculties still unimpaired. Several offers haye been made to Campbell (who loses the sight of his ■ eye, it may be mentioned) by showmen, , but failing success with him they have tried to secure the ramrod. In this they were too late, as Dr Charles Ryan had obtained possession of it and will keep it as a memento of a most remarkable ' patient. California will exhibit »t Chicago the widest plank in the world. It is , 16 fret wide, and is now at the depot ' at Humboldt awaiting shipment.