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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3971, 24 November 1891, Page 2

A .young Maori roan named Tungi, twenty years of age, died at Greytown •ju Sunday night trom consumption. A peculiar assault rase is to be heard at the next sitting of the R.M. Court at Afahterton, An employee Jb charied with having maliciously assaulted his mottor by striking him over the head with a bottleThe compulsory clauses of the Education Act are to be strictly enforced at Carterton owing to Mie falling off in the iittendiinct at the i>chool. Five Ucttlemont Associations wcru formed at Marton on Haturday night. Twenty-three men were provided with eu.])loymt)Ut liml week through thw cuntril otlioo of the human of Industrie* in various parts of the YVairaiapa and Manawatu districts. Influenza is spending in the city and suburbs of Christcliurch, but it appears to be of a mild typo. At tho annual meeting in Melbourne of the Kauri Timber Company, tho Chairman sweeping condemned the extravagance and laxity of adiniuistra* ti.in and want of cohesion of the N«w Zealand maiißgement, which would be ruinous if allowed to continue, consequen'ly he had directed the closing of the mills, altliuuich such a step was not absolutely necessary. Regarding tha financial position of the company, though there had been a loss of £'44.000 on the year's transactions, they had. after deducting debts, assets amounting to £040,000, equal to £1 13s b"d for every pound invested, and about LI 3f lOd for eyery pound of paid-up capital. The report was adopted.

The fortnightly meeting of the Mas terton Borough Council will be held this evening.

Considerable interest is being mani" tested in Master! on in the Mayoral election which takes place to-morrow (Wednesday) Both candidates are as siduousiy at work, and the betting on tho result is about eren.

Up to tho 11th ult. over 500 cases of smallpox had occurred in Mauritius. Two-thirds of the children of Liverpool die before they attain the ago of five yenrß.

The Riverton Hospital Board draw the line at pauper Chinamen and womrn who associate with them. They must pay £4 in advance if they desire admission to the hospital. Tho Dcfer.ee department has issned a ciroular notifying '-hat the rate of capitation for adults for the current year »ril! be £ .'per man tor all corps. The average rain fall at Mount Zephan, Tasmania, is 100 inches a year, lhey don't require to make experiments in rain producing there.

A Timaru visitor at Christchurch races is said to have renewed L3OO as dividends on one race on the 9th inst.

Shcep-shearin? machinery is being extensively employed this season in Hawke's Bay, and U said to be giving every satisfaction. A Salvationist in South Melbourne has been fined 20s, or three days, for refusing to move on from tho front of a house where there was sickness.

A Waitahuna residentlast week caught an eel weighing 91bs in the Waitahuna river. In i's stomach were two young rabbits. Whether the rabbits were in for a swim, or tho eel taking a walk, is not related.

Tho Hawke's Bay Herald says there are in the Parliamentary library abominations which havebein purchased out of the taxes for prurient politicians to read and which cannot even claim to be well meaning, although it is fashionable to speak of them as " classics."

The Clutha Leader underetinda that those of the unemployed who were allowed to remain at work on the Catlin's River railway have been instructed to finir.h off the cuttings in hand by the end of the n\< nth with a vit>w to their re moval to the Otago Central, it is presumed.

To show the demand that oxists at present for land Hi South Canterbury (says tho Ashburton Guardian) wo may state that for two small sections in the Ash wick river flat sold the other day, there were 30 applications each, or 60 in all. A stoat was caught in a rabbit trap at Gladstone (Southland) a few days »go. It was 21 inches in length and in good condition. Previous to being trapped it . was seen running about amongst some Plymouth Rock chickens, without showing any desire to icjure them. The 'Tuapeka Times' is responsible for the statement that a prominent member of the local Har has fallen heir through the death of a relative at Home to a large sum of money and landed property of considerable value. A tramp was arrested, taken before an Australian justice and sentenced to three months. His worship, tn explaining the sentence, remarked that while there was no evidence that the prisoner li.;J been guilty of any crime, he thought it prudent to commit him, as he had the wild haggard look of a man about to (tart a newspaper.

A story has been told that at a masked ball recently held in a certain town on the West Coast a youth of ingenuous countenance was flirting with a tall lady in a pink domino, when to his immense amazement, and the great amusement ef those in the vicinity of the pair, the voice from behind tho mask said : " Why, Bobby, wherever did you learn such awful things." The pink domino happened to be his mother. What followed is not related.

Says the Waimate Wifcnesa:—But very few people properly know or appreciate the advantages or power of advertising, A man called at our office yesterday to advertise for a lost dog, which had strayed away from him during the sports on Monday last. Such, however, was the wonderful power of advertising that the dog walked into the office whilst we were writing out the advertisement. While fishing at the boulder bank, Picton, recently., two fishermeu caught a fine specimen of the taniwha shark sixteen teet long, and with jaws wide enongh to taae in a mail of even more than the average size. This sea monster became entangled in the net, and was thus captured. Its jaws contained a fine lot of teeth, which will fetch a satisfactory figure. 'there are some curiosities amongst the applications for patents published in the Gazette. One inventor (Mr Scott,

of Invercargill) purposes to utilise flax dust for the treatment of burns and

scalds; another has devised a clock ' • for starting, handicapping, and timing races" , and a third has " a bedroom watch, for indicating the time at which a lodger desires to be awakened, and the name of the refreshment he requires." William Cuthbert, of Oamaru, desires protection fi>r a reciprocating toothed aawframe stonecutter.

A correspondent in the Oamaru Mail, signing himself " A Disappointed Scab," comments on the assertion that 70 re • turning shearers are bringing back £(1000 by asserting that bo suon as the union and the pastoralists came to an agreement the Maor'landers were sacked, and Ihoir expenses were not paid an promised, but they were charged 20s a week for tucker. Ho says : —" This is how your New Zealand 'scabs' were treated m every case. Then, I ask, how is it possible that 70 left Queensland with £(5000," It is stated in a Lisbon commercial journal that phormmm tenets., or .NewZealand flax, is now being extensively cultivated lr. the Azores Island under management of a company consisting of two Portuguese and an Englishman. One of the former is holder ot a concession from the Government of a monopoly for the manufacture of the article throughout Portugal and all Portuguese possessions. The concession the Conrpany is to buy for all payable in shares.

A notable addition to the Shire line of traders between tfew Zealaud and England has just been made in the shape of the Elginshire, 6000 tons, which has just been launched, and will make her maiden trip to the colony shortly. In connection with this it may be noted that a Canterbury boy, Mr P. G. Hart, eon of Mr G. R. Hart, of Christchurch, will in all probability receive the appoint* ment of chief officer.

.Recently the body of a man was found in the Murray near Swan Hill. The man had previously stated that he came from Melbourne to escape influenza. It is now confidently stated that the body is that of Henry Power, the notorious bushren?er, who was discharged from Pentndge about six years ago, after serving a sentence of twenty years. Power disappeared from Melbourne a few weeks ago, but as he had engaged to go with the '* hulk Success," now at Sydney, his friends thought ha was on board, whilst the Success people supposed hint with his half»3ister at Oak - loigh. Power wore a satin waistcoat and comforter, and daik clothes, when last seen, and similar clothing on the body found in the Murray coupled with his diaippearanc?, le«d to the assumption that he is dead. Lx J. Hooper and Co are now showing the moKt fashionable and largest assort" meat of new spring goods ever shown in the dintrict. English and French Mill! nery, Trimmed, and Untrimaied Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &c. Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, Ac. We are showing a splendid 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, dosigns, satins, and materials for the season, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is full of the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons frillings, collars cufla and parasols, otc,

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock sole for Wednesday, December 2nd, 80 fat ewes.

Colonel Roberts, R.M., is still seriously indisposed, and is not likely to be able to resume his official duties for some days. A batch of seventeen Picturesque Atlas cases were to haye been heard in the K.M. Couit this afternoon before Justices of the Peace.

A girl thirteen years of age was married at Foxton last week by the cousent of her parents. The local paper point* out that by common law girls of twelve may marry.

A nasty accident occurred yesterday afternoon to Mr James Petrie, the wellkuown expressman of Masterton. He was, it appears, proceeding along Chapel Btreo.\ when by some means or other he was thrown from his express, sustnninj a fraeture of the arm, a dislocated shoulder, and a number of cats and bruises. He was removed to the Mas terton Hospital, whore hie injuries were attended to by Dr Hasking. The lecture by the Rev !$. J. Oibson in the Temperance Hall last evemnsr, entitled " Fiji aud Fijians," was both interesting and instruct!re. The Rev gentleman referred at considerable length and in a very entertaining manner to the life and custom of the Fijians, illustrating his remarks with some oxeellcnt magic lantern vicivs. Mr and Mrs Gibson were attired in the costume of a Fijian bride aud bridegroom, and the latter sang a very pretty Fijian song. Altogether a cry enjoyable evening was spent by those who hid the good fortune to be present.

A horrible suicide was eommi'.ted at Palmerston North on Saturday. An old resident named John Wi'liam Franklin, who had beer, drinking heavily, got up early in tho morning and started sawing at his throat with a table knife. He infl ; c'.ed a fearful gash from which the blood flowed freely. He afterwards got- hold of a pocket knife and a toma-1 hawk, and attempted to stab himself in the breast with the knife, and knock his head with tho hamm-jr eud of the tomahawk, finishinit up by ramming a stick down the gaping wound iu his throat. Hediedin fifteen minutes. The spring show of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society to be held in the Drill Hall to-morrow (Wednesday) promises to be a great ■success, A number of entries are expected from tho Forty-Mile Buth, whilst the Masterton competitors will not be behind iu either the quantity or quality of their productions. Besides the ordinary exhibits, MrT h. Price intends making a display of photographs, the collection of minerals presented to the Masterton Museum by Mr Drew will bo shown, and tli?re will be a nurnOer of other special attractions. The show will be open to the public from 3 till 10 p.m.

In two or three weeks' time the Public Works Department will be ready to let small contracts for the construction of the Eketahuna end of the WoodyilleEketahuna railway. Ab< ut three miles of the line ean be forme I before any question as to route ark; s. This portion will be let to applicants for employment in gangs oi 12 or 2 ', at about the rates per chain or per yard for formation, cuttiog, or drainate as is ordinarily paid to contractors. We are informed *hat the wages earned by exunemployed at this kind of work average about 6s per day, and on the West Coast, where the contracts h;\v6 been taken by ■killed miners accustomed to the use of pick and shovel, as much as 10s per day has been made.— Post.

Tho sea serpent was seen off the coast of Aberdeen some six weeks after it was seen off the New Zealand coast, but the colonial serpent sinks into insignificance compared with its Scottish rival. Mr Alexander M'Lean, Stornoway, one of the crew of the boat Rose and Thistle, writes as follows to a Home paper : " Our crew saw a monster rise from the sea when 50 miles off Kiunaird Jtiaad the other day, which struck terror into their hearts. This was about six o'clock in the evening. . . . Rising straight up from the water *as a large body somewhat resembling the fore part of a horse, and net leas than four times the height of our mast, dark looking in colour, with large green eyes, which seemed to shine liko green fire, with a mouth lull of white teeth, which in the declining sun shone like a wall. We were all stmck with fright, and put the boat up in the wind, when we were so near that we could discern the lower parts of the animal's body, which were so near the surface and which must have been at least 600 ft Ion?, and if not a great deU longer. We sailed homewards for an hour before it disappeared from our sitht."

•'1 am told" (writes tho London correspondent of the Auckland Herald) "that more than one New Zealander ha* becon.epiominent during thesanguinary struggle in Chili. Noi many years ago a young fellow named Campbell, after attaining some little local notoriety in Dunedin, I believe, left New Zealand, and after wandering about for some time settled down to commercial pursuits in the United States. He was sent to open a house in Callao, and ere long obtained the controlling interest in it. During the war heexhibitedijreat daring as blockade runner, and in one week made 30.000 dollars by carrying arms and provisions to Iquique. 1 am told he was offered £50,000 if he would land a number of Balmaceda's officers, who had crossed the frontier to escape capture, again on territory controlled by the Dictator. I do not know if he accepted the hazardousenterprise, but tho temptation was certainly great."