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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4031, 6 February 1892, Page 2

The Rev, Robert Wood will lecture on Sunday eveningin the Presbyterian Ohurch on " Lessons from the life of 0. H, Spurgnon."

Two first offenders who were brought beforo Colonel Roberts, R.M., this morning, were discharged with a caution.

The Greytown Private Brass Band,] which is composed principally ot yeufig men, is endeavouring to arrange a Leap Year ball, A telegram from Sydney states that Stanbury has agreed to row Sullivan for the championship and £2OO or £SOO a side. The heavy rain whioh fell last night has flooded the rivers and streams in this distriot. The Ruamahunga is bank high, whilst the Waipouahas overflowed in several places, inundating surrounding properties and doing considerable damage, The water is, however, subsiding. The Premier has snubbed the Wellington Trades and Labour Counoil, In roply to the letter of that body, which claimed the ii°ht of trade uuions to bo consulted as to the appointment of labour representatives to the Legislative Council, he has jnerely acknowledged its receipt.

The loss sustained by Captain Holm» wood, of the Opaki,by the thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon wa? not as Ejreat as it would have been had not Mr.| -W. B, Buick and other neighbours generonsly come to his assistance and provided him with horses with whioh tn gather in hia Mr McGuiro, M.H.R., has returned to Hawera. Bayß the Star, from his visit to Australia, and looks all the better for his trip. Be was surprised at muoh that he saw in Yictoria, but thinks that it lacks many elements of continuous prosperity which are present in New Zealand, Our Eketahuna correspondent wrote yesterdaylmmense fires are raging near Hawera, and it is reported here that the Hawera Hotel has been burnt down,

To-day is the monthly pay-day of the Maßterton and Groyiown Permanent Investment and Building Societies, The monthly meeting of the Maatorton Town Lands Trustees, whioh was to have been held last evening, lapsed for the want of a quorum, Messrs B. P. Perry and fl. E, Eton were the only persons present. , Forty-two runs, totalling 28,000 acres, fall in in Southland Bhoitly, and will be opened up for settlement, Mr T. F. Brenohley, of the Challenge Lime Kilns at Mauriceville, claims that his insecticide and farm and garden fertilizer will destroy the Hessian fly, as well as the codhn moth, American bliriit, or scale insects, We hear that several farmers of this district intend giving the fertilizer a trial.

Several of tho unemployed on the J railway works at Eketahuna havo thrown up their work and returned to Wellington, being dtsaatisfied with the prices paid, having worked six weeks they find thoy cannot nuke wages. Enquiry iB made In Lloyd's Weekly for James Thompson, who sailed in the B,s. Triumph for Wellington, Now Zealand, on 25th September* 1883, and wrote in May, 1887, from Greytowi', Wairarapa,

"SirLauncelot" in this weok's Referee says>-The Wellington Correspondent of this paper furHishes a report of a meeting held at Kumurau, up Wairarapa way somewhere. lam afraid the Gaining and Lotteries Act has been infringed in a mild sort of way, and that the Government have been done out of their 1} per cent., while it appears that on. the list race of tho day the " walkii.g maohine" charged cent, per cent,, and got away with the whole pool, for we are told that" the totalisator could not be found after the last race"

A young and respectable-looking man called at our office yesterday and said he was in search of work. He had jusfc arrived from Australia, where the labour market is glutted, and was willing to turn his hand to anything, In course of conversation he stated that there were hundreds of Australian labourers who, having heardof the Labour Bureau, were about leaving for New Zealand. At the Nelson Jubilee Sports on Monday last three well-known Masterton athletes, W. Fellingham, A, Redmond and R. D, Thompson "scooped the pool" between thom Tbe Anniversary Handicap and Maiden Race were won by Fellingham, and the half-mile and hurdle handicaps by Redmond, who was also second in the Maiden. A protest was ontered againßfc Redinopjl for running under an assumed name, but th;s waa notsustaiued. Thompson was first in one of the heats for the big handicap and second in the vaulting with the pole.

- Another terrific thunderstorm passed over Masterton last night; The thunder was something deafening, and residents who were inclined to he pervous were almost scared out of thpir lives, A tremendous poal was heard about half past nine, winch shook every tenement in the place, and struck terror into many hearts, The lightning was also exceedingly brilliant, and once or twice lit up the wlpls town for several seconds. The members of Pearaon's ftw Jsand, who were practicing in the Theatre Royftl, became alarmed as the electric current fluttered around their instruments, and made tracks tor home as quickly as possible. At ten o'clock the main thoroughfares were deserted. The rain, whioh descended in torrents, iloodod the streets and blocked tho gutters, and was accompanied hy a howling gale, which must have done considerable damage to the crops and orchards. At an early hour thiß morning the wind dropped and the rain ceased for a time, and it is hoped that tho worst is passed. We are informod that in Albert street apd other parts of the town fences were torn toi pieces by the lightning and trees uprooted. |

A young ma» named William O'Connor, of Leonards tii'l, near Paylesford, Victoria, recently sajd he was ablo to cut and aplit seven cords or 17} tons of sfc lengths firewood, 50ft to the ton, in one day. Few bnlioved that he could do it, but he went to the bush and fulfilled his task m ten hours, perform? one of the greatest feata ever done m Australia. The first hour he cut and split one cord and a half, or 3f tons, beating the Melbourne policeman's rcO';rd by 20 minutes in time, and half a cord in wood, the policeman's record being lbr. 20 minutes. O'Connor filled a Q.R. truck, which holds Beven cords, in ten hours,'and had one load to spare. There were fourteen drays to cart the woodte the station, whioh is equal to 1? tons of 50 feet, ,

A yjeitto tho Bon Marcho would wel repay anyone yapting a Nicely Trimmed flat or a Pretty ionpef, _ of the most lovely goods ever imported'into' Masterton areuow being shown in this well-known Pnlace of

ilso jmt give yomlffice mmute and ?ast an snqiljring.optic oyer the magnificent Ladwa Dread llatftiala in a)l the, latest shades, and the very pick gf the! season's fashions, and don't forget to ask the prices. Neither should you go amy without seeing the stock oj pretty sunshades, parasoh, do., and 3ee what a grand shop the Bon Marche is for anything of the kind.' Perhaps you don't want to spend much money in this way, possibly your limit is something ta than half a sovereign or half a crown, well, ask the prices and see what Hooper and Company can do for you.

Robert 'l'aylor, an old expressman o' Wellington, w« found drowned in the harbour this morning,;.

A report haa reached the' Nelson Evening Mail that three- snakes have been seen at Richmond, near the reserT° lr - It is thought that perhaps they were brought to Kiohmond in the water, pipes. It is stated that the persons who saw them attempted to them, but the snakes eluded their would-be oaptors, As an outcome of the scare caused by the mortality amount the Watiyei on the East Coast, north of Gisbome, a fow months ago, the residents. in the district have guaranteed i2Coayearfor any medical man who will settle amongst them. This the Government has pledged itself to supplement with another £IOO a year. Up to the present, however, no doctor has been attracted by the inducement thus held out. Probably because medical men do not placo the most implicit reliance on "guarantees" given during scares. Thore is .a want of attractive solidity about these things.