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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4027, 4 February 1892, Page 2

Tenders are invited for cuttinic and carting flax.

A telephone exchango is being established at Palmenton North. Sufficient subscribers have already beon obtained. Mobs, de Hey, instructor in physical drill to the Wellington Jiducatinu Board, is again in the Wairarapa. He will probably reach Masterton noxt week.

Canterbury settlers are, it is said, alarmed at the prospect of a shortage of shoep.

_ The Feilding Star saye it would bo intf resting if enoh newspaper published the namo of suoh theatrical cflinpanioa, leoturers, professors, etc, who had "skippsd the gutter "without paying their advertising accounts, Mastortonhas,for the past couple of days, been enveloped in smoke from surrounding bush fires. MrT. L.Buiok, M.H.R, addresses a public meeting in Palmerston North this evening on the objects of the National Liberal Federation. The tour of Mr Buick through the Jiorth Island has

been anything but successful. ■ The Woodville paper 3ays a petition has been put in circulation urging the constructionoftheVoodville-Eketahuna line from the WoodviUo end. Copies of the petition have be}n sent to Manga» tainoko for signatures. An inset from Messrs 0. Smith & Co., announcing the continuation of their groat clearing sale, appears in our issue of to-day, The mattresses for the Masterton police cells, which Mr Hogg, M.H.R., arranged aome months ago to provide, have not yet Tho promises of the Government appear to be like piocrusts.

Two or three hundred numbers of the Picturesque Atlas, returned by subscribers who repudiate their liability, are now stowod away in a cupboard in Mr T Thompson's JKmpire Hotel. The visitors to the ram fair of tho Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral

Association were provided with rolreshnients by Mr Edward Searle, of tho Stai Hotel,, Needless to aay the booth wai well patronised,

' The bjscuit poisoning case at Pahiatua is being investigated hy Detective Herbert and Constable Cooper. The conclusion has been arrived at that there was poison in the ginger used by Mrs Marsh in the making of cakes, The : report of the analyst his not, however, been received, The condition of New.-Zealand has, it appears, been used by book ageuts for canvassing purposes. Mr Booty Fal* loon stated in the R. M. Court yesterday afternoon that when Metcalf, the agent of tho Picturesque Atlas, called upon him he mentioned that the work wis being published for the purpose of removing, if possible, the idea which prevailed at Home that New Zealand was gojug (o the bad,

The Napier News Hayß;—it is poai tively lamentable that no interest seems lobesh'jwu in the matter of taking, of Steps to stamp out the codlin moth in this province, The apple crop this year is: simply ruined, and all becauso nothing in the shape of combined effort has been made to deal with the scourgo,., Thero Is no use in one or two orchardists making efforts. One neglectful creapuro can breed onough tosuppjy all his neighbours. Legislation is the onjy thing for it, and we hope to see some of our members moving in the matter next session,

. certain medico tells this tale of his recent experionqa. He wasoalled to «eo i a man who was seriously ill and very! weak. He ordered him champagne and oyßters, but when he oalled the next day the man was dead. I/id you give him tbo champagne and oysters I ordered? ha asked of the widow, "Wo-o-osir," bHb wbbed," We cpuldn't afford it, but we gave him trie nparesj; ya could." "Yes, what was that?" "(JinjjerW and pippies.' 1

The following paragraph appeared under the heading of" Msstertun News" in the Woodville paper on Tuesday, and is accredited to the Press Association :- " An interesting discussion is going on in the local papers over the nay in which drugs are supplied to the Hospital. The nianacemoU ia accused of gross partiality in'dispensing ite patronage.'" We may state—and we are in a position to know—that this information was not supplied by the Masterton agent of the Press Association, and is on the face of it utterly misleading.

The Australian Poultry and Dog Gazette says :-When we recorded lately the wonderful feat of Mr Moylan's hen in Joying an egg weighing about half a pinind we fancied wo had atruok ujioii a champion, but aro now undeceived. Mr Jas. McCarthy,'of Morpetfi, has » hen which considerably astonished her owner and undoubtedly herself a few days ago by layinir four e?ga in the short apace of three hours, and would have produced more if her owner bad not asked her to stop, we suppose. Each egg was perfect in size, and was of the ordinary size'u their 'producer had laiJ on the days prevjqus, teal poultry have a big task before them" i] shey Jpa't this perform* atioß, and Mt McCarthy tsko ad» vantage of it by' floating the hen into a company.

In the Masterton B.M, Ceurt yosterday afternoon, before Colonel Roberts, R.M., several further Picturesque Atlas cases Were fyejrth In the case Boweiman Bros. v. Jbhn&tfiDbelj, claim £lolos, the defendant dented on o'ajjh paving, signed the contract, and thej)la|ntiffs wore nonsuited, with oosts.. .The. next case heard waß one in which Benry Fallcoti.was sued.for £lO 10j for forty two parts of tneAtlcs. The defendant would not swear that be had not sigoed the 'contract, but expressed the firm belief that he had not. Motcalf had represented tjiatthc work was tube a Now Zealand op, that it :Was to be published in monthly number? at five shillings a number, and jthat the aV fendant could'take ope or niprenunjbert, John. E|ley, who was present'when Metoalf interviewed Fa)loon, cor» roborated the evidence of -the. defendant and stated that to his kaowledge one paper only hod been signed, and that vory much resembled the patron's list, T. D. Thompson deposed that a parcel had been relumed to the Empiro Hotel by tho defendant, which had been tendered to the agent of Messrs Bowerman Bros, Mr Beard submitted that judgment must bo given for the defendant on the grounds of misrepro* seritation. Mr Pownall replied at soma length, after which Hib Worship reserved hisdeojeion, A page Jjowerman Broß. v. Jonn Vile, Bern., claim £lO J.os, wai thon called on, 'Mr Board asked for an adjournment on tjje grounds that the defendant was suffering from influenza. The aolioitor for the plaintiffii objected, and the case was therefore proceeded with, the evidence being similar to that in 'the previous cases. Mr Beard intimated that ho would take'steps to movafora new trial if he considered, ncoosaary, shoujd judgment be given agiinst the plaint jff. Hif Wprahip re« served hlsdeciawn, • '

AyisittQtbs BflnMatfbe would wel repay anyone wanting a {My Trimmed fiat or a Pretty Sonnet, Ssje of tjje; mo&fc'lwJy goods erer imported into) Masterfcon are now being PUD in this well'kno»nP»toof]?aßhloi) ( Also jni give youmlffim nnwtea and cast an enquiring optic over the magnificent Ladies' Dress Materials in all the latent Bhadeß, and the very pick of .the' season's lajhjons, ani * don't f^S ß ' *° the 'pMes, Mtkr shodd you, go 9py }|>#M teeiflj)'.</» «(«* o) pretty sunshades, puraioh, e(c„ and m what a grand shop the Bon Matohe is for anything of the kind. Perhaps you don't want to spend much mousy in ttiU'wßr, possibly your limit is^uiejhrog leM t " an hs,f * B °V* reign or half »orowv 'wall* 'jjfcjrflje pneeaand see what Hooper and Company oandoforyou.

Truant KrogJaeobson,better known SV" True Blue, Vwai fined £1 and oosts in the Masterton R,M, Court -this morning tor assaulting Mrs dole, wife nf Mr H. Cole, fishmonger. .Colonelßoberts,R.M., proceeded to Eketahuna to-day, whore a special sitting of the R.M. Court is to be held to hear the Picturesque Atlas cases!.'s The aettlorß of the Forty-Mile Bush intend going in for sheep-breeding on a large sotfe..At the Masterton rain ■ fair yesterday' the prinolpal buyers-were from the bush distnots.

The San Francisco mail arrived in I Masterton last night, ond was distributed over tho counter of the local Post Office [this morning,

There is* scarcity of plums in the Masterton district this-year, One. orobardist informs us that he hat several tons loss this season than he had last.

Tho Palace Hall at Oreytown has. been offered for a town hall, reading rooiu, library arid Borough office for the sum of £BOO. The consideration of the offer has been deferred by the .Borough I Council for a month.

The Post siys that one or two of the few Ministerial papers are already crowing about thu surplus the Treasurer is likely to have en the present financial policy. They conveniently iguore the fact that the financial policy of the present year is not that of the Ministry but the policy of tbeii predecessors, based on the Propeity Tax as n principal factor.'Tho new taxatuurdoea not oomeinto operation until next year, and the results of the present year therefore have no bearing at all on the Government poliby, If there is a surplus this year it will prove tho Property Tax a safe dependence. It is to be hoped the Land and Income Tax ! will prove equally reliable. . it a meeting of the Licensing Coramittee for the Castlepoint Licensing Dutriot,.heJd intho Public Hall, Tinui. on Friday last, Mr Handysido mt duly elected Chairman for the ensuing period of three yeara, The Constable's report for the quarter ending 31st Dooembor last, was read and considered, and the meeting adjourned.

A large amount ot land is to be placed upon the market next month by tho Wellington Land Board uuder the optional lystein of elocttott. There will be 13,700 acres of the Waimirino Block, of which none has yet been offered to the public, though some portions have been set aside for settlement purposes. In other parts of the province) distiiot there will be 5350 iu the Mount Baker Block, near Eketahuna, 10,000 acres in the Puketoi district, and 0000 acres between Qroua anffPphaugina.