The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4039, 16 February 1892, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1892.

Wirth Bros' Mammoth Circus opened a second New Zealand tour at Invercareill last mailt. The circus will probably reach the North Island in a few weeks. One hundred and thirty-five British vessels, with cargoes amounting to 107,414 tons, were entered inwards at the several ports of New Zealand during the quarter ending 31st December. After an absence of nearly, ten years, the Kev J. Dukes is about resuming services at Tenui. He will preach there uext Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, The Launceston Fruit Board has instructed its inspector to take proceedings agaiust all fruit growers who fail to at once gather all infected fruit according to the provisions of the Codlin Moth Act and regulations, Mr Cotterill, who has for some time been accountant in the Masterton branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has received notice of his transfer to Napier. An unreserved sale of household furniture and effects is advertised by Mr F. H. Wood to be held on Saturday, 27th February, at Greytown, The Hawke's Bay Herald says Francis, of Masterton, who won the Caledonian Handicap and handicap Hurdles at the Takapausportsi was too leniently treated i by the handicappers. The Now Zealand Times has been fold to the promoters of the new Liberal paper for £4500, exclusive of book debts, About £7OOO has been subscribed so far, of which Sir Walter Buller it is said provides £2OOO. Tho paper will now be run exclusively in the interests of the Democratic faction. Liberal wages, liberal terms, and liberal ideas will be the prevailing features of the paper, and it is anticipated that an enormous rush of liboral literary men, compositors, and liberal "devils" will set m for Wellington, We shall see how the Liberals fare with their new plaything.

The Cromwell Arguahas good reasons for saying that, in the event of the commonages beingtaken over by the Government and sold as pastoral hconses, they will not be each sold in one lot. The idea of the Minister of Lands is to cut them up into 2,000 acre blocks, The Kailway Commissioners have not received any roporfc on the damage to tho Southern line, but the cost of repairs and loss of traffic will make it very difficult, if not impossible, to pull up the arrears this year, The fine weathor of the past few days has enabled farmers in this district to make good progress with the harvest, In many cases operations are now concluded. Most of the wheat hns been stacked since the late severe storm,

Shortly hoforo 12 o'clock yesterday morning, a fire broke out in tho scutch' ing shed of the Featherstnn flax mill. In a tew minutes the building was gutted and the united efforts of willing _ helpers were turned to saving the building containing the engine, etc., adjoining, which wore successful. The shed which was totally destroyed, contained a scutcher, press, eto, and two tons of dressed fiax, besides other fibre in various stages of manufacture. Messrs Seed Bros., the proprietors, will be heavy losers by the catastrophe, and o number of hands will be thrown out of employment. The fire was first observed m tho scutcher, and although a plentiful supply of water was at hand the flames had obtained too firm a hold to be extinguished. The Government has not appointed any Commissioner for the Chicago Ex» hibition. In faot there is a hitch about the representation of the Colony. Some of the Committoe want the Government to buy the exhibits outright, but this the Minister of Public Works flatly refuses to do. If the majority of the Committees take this line he would probably throw the matter up altogether, but if satisfactory arrangements can be made he proposes to ask Parliament for a vote of £SOOO.

JSpel De Loon, late canvasser for the Melbourne Age, who was well-known in Duncdm in tlie early sixties, liaß been committed for trial on charges of embe?< zlement. The evidence called for the prosecution was to the effect-that the accused, who had been in the employ ot the Ago for tyeiitylve years as a can yaeser and collector, had earped about £I,OOO a year during |the last fivo years, Until July last his accounts were always found to be accurately kept, but subsequent to that date he retained certain of the moneys of the firm which be had collected, particularly £42 12s fid, £4O 10a, and £49105, received for his em* ployer from the Victorian Permanent Building Society, Messrs Lewis and Whitty, and the Melbourne Permanent Building Society. On the 7th January he confessed his criminality, blaming " tho bookmakers" for his trouble, and setting down the total amount as £639 13s 2d, This proved to be understated, the full total ; being £719. One of tho 'ffitnesßes said that Mrs De tpon told him that she and lier children bad been ia a state of destitution for months past,'

Thef Greytown Brass Band intend visiting Masterton on Sunday next and playing in the publio park, Over eight hundred rams have been entered for the rain fair to be held in Wooilville on Wednesday, Stops are being taken to establish a butter factory in the Grey Valley, Quite a number of Masterton residents were at the local railway station yesterday to get a glimpse of the two men arrested at Eketahunaon suspicion ut having murdered the man JDalton, Mr A, E. G. Rhodes, M.H.R, was on Wednesday Inst married to Miss R. Moorhouse, of Waiinato. •J^ r Arthur Fink, well known in tho nairarapa, has taken over tho Nelson Hotel, formerly kept by Mr McGee, in Nelson. The Earl and Countess of Glasgow and family will probably sail' for New Zealand early in March. Cardinal Moran is mentioned as the probable successor to Cardinal Mannine. Nineteen and a quarter inches of rain recently foil at Townsville (Q.) in twentyi-four hours,

The fortnightly noeting of the Masterton Borough Oouncil will be held this (Tuesday) evening,

It is staled that the co-operative system under which the Eketahuna railway extension is being worked, has not panned out as it should. We hear of at least one split in the camp. The next English and European mail doses at the Masterton Post Officoon Thursday morning. Nearly three and a quarter million carcasßeg of frozen mutton were landed in England this year from New Zealaud, River Plate, and, Australia, Of this prodigious quantity New Zealand is responsible for 1.890,708, the Plate oonU'ibuting 1,000,000, and Australia only 334,000, Mr Ernest Rawson, of the Masterton branoh of the Bank of Australasia, has been transferred to Wanganui. He is to be succeeded by Mr Cox, of Napior. The complimentary benefit tendered by the amateurs of Masterton to Mrs J. D. Foley, who reoettly met with an un--fortunate accident, takes place in the Theatre Royal this (Tuesday) evening. All the leading amateurs of the town are assisting and the entertainment should be a capital one. The following is the perionncl of the re-conatructed Victorian Cabinet: Premier and Colonial Treasurer, tho Hon, Mr Sliicls; Commissioner of Crown Landa and Chief Secretary, the Hon. Mr M'Lean; Attorney-General and Post-master-General, the Hon. Mr Duffy; Commissioner of Trade and Cnstoms and Minister of Justice, tho Hon. Mr Turner ; Minister of Agriculture, the Hon, Mr Graham j Minister for Railways, the Hon. Mr Wheeler; Minister for Public Instruction, the Hon. Mr Peacock; Minister of Defence, the Hon, Mr Davis; Minister of Mines, the Hon. Mr Outtrim.

A man named Herbert Cecil St John, alias Charles Lyndon, alias Herbert Cyril Maklin Judd, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at M. burton lor the larceny 6f musio from a boarding-house and the contents of the mission boxes from the Baptist Church. The prisonor pretended to be travelling as a theatrical agent, We believe [bis artist was recently in Masterton. He went about tuning pianos, and was rather a clever person altogether, One of his iaucy tricks was to gain admission to tho Gentlemen's Club by a bit of scheming and there to plead with several of the members of the Club to lend him halfa>crown.

Mr H. Baker and other settlers in the Mangahao petitioned for a grant towards the construction of the Tutaekara Road, and have received the following reply "1 am directed by the Minister of Lands to acknowledge the Receipt of your petition to tho Hon. the Premier urging that aid should be granted towards the cost of constructing the Tutaekara Road, In reply 1 am to inform you that the Hon. Mr McKenzie resets his inability to comply with your request, as no funds are available for the work, and it is considered that further roadmaking in your district should be constructed out of "Thirds." Woresret to record the somewhat sudden death of Mr W. L. Luceua, which occurred at his Eomobush rest* denoe between tenand eleven o'clock last night. Mr Lucena had been in indifferent health for some months, suffering from insomnia caused by business worry, but his illness had uot been of such a nature as to cause anxiety amongst his friends, Yesterday morning, however, he was compelled to retarn tc his bed, and medical assistance was called in, Dr Beard did all in his power to afford relief, butrapid effusion of the brain had set in and Mr Lucena, after sleeping all day, passed peacefully away as above stated, He leaves a widow andten children, most of whom are grown up, to mourn his loss, Tho deceased, who has resided in the Wairarapafor many years, was 62 years of age.

Mr David Wilson, the Victorian Government dairy expert, will leavo Melbourne for New Zealandabout the middle of February. During a month's tour in this colony he will endeavour to gather information concerning the system of cheese-making adopted here- Very little attention is given to cheese-making by Victorian farmers, and the quality of the artiole produced there is not of a kind to command a ready sale. In nutter making, on the other hand, New Zealand is bthind Victoria in the export business, and the visit of Mr Wilson will afford the New Zealand Government an opportunity of ascertaining his opinions on the dairying industry generally, i raid made on a Chinese gambling den at Emmaville (New South Wales) on Wednesday developed into something closely approaching a rios. The attacking party consisted of three constables and eight civilians, About thirty Chinese were gambling'when. the police broke in, and the Ohinose,' recognising that they had been detected, jttaoked the police with picks, nhoyels,knives, and anything they could lay their lands on j and it was only after a desperate fis;ht that tho constables managed to take seven to the lock-up. Nine 'Jhinose are laid up wall broken heads, ■: The Chinese banker not away with the handcuffs on. Fully 20Q Chinese followed the police and prisoners to the lock-up, shoutingand gesticulating With'almost demonajo vigoup.

Mr Arthur Beverjey writes to tho Otago Daily Times" An onormous cluster of spots is ac present visible on the sun, tho largest 1 have overseen. It extends over a space about 120,000 miles by 80,000 miles, or one-seventh by one* tenth of the sun's diameter. In the middle of /he cluster is an oval penumbra, 70,000 by 80,000 miles, within which are two very dark spots, nearly round, and with diameters 14.000 and 12,000 miles respectively, It lies to tho south of the sun's equator, and will be near the middle of the diso on Saturday, It is easily seen by looking through a bit of smoked glass."

The Summer Sale, commencing on Saturday, January 30th, and. intended lor the disposal of tho balance of the Season's Bjock, promises to Jje oije of the most such cessfal.ever'held at Te Aro House, Welling, ton, ' ' The Summer Rale will present to visitors a wonderful array of bargains in all departments. We do not believe in the policy ot parrying oyer goods from ono season tp another. Wowqul,4 rather olpar tiiepi out every season, Henoe*the reasofl for tho unmistakable Wg£}ina tliaf will fig afl'ned at the Supimer Sale, Te Aro House, Wellington: , The Summer Sale offers puhpisnt|ol reasons why oountry residents should pay an early visit to Te Aro House, By 50 doing, they would have an opportunity of purchasing some of thegreatest bargains ever heardof in tho drapery trade in New Zealand. We would remind the pubho that this Summer Salo is limited to 15 days only, and the last day will- be Saturday, February 13th, All orders, if accc mpanied with the cash, will be instantly attended to aud promptly forwarded from Te Aro House,