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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4044, 22 February 1892, Page 2

Extensive, additions are being made to the residence of Mr B. E. Gapper in : Victoria-street.

The sparrow nuisance Is increasing in the Maaterton district;.' Millions of small birds, are to be seen in the crops which are not yet harvested, and no small amount of damage has been done,

The grasshopper is nearly extirpated in the Oorowa (N.S.W.) district, owing to the cultivation of its parasite, the Tachinafly,

An exciting bolt occurred In Masterton on Saturday afternoon, when the horse attached to a dray, took fright and careered through 'Queen-street. The runaway was brought to a standBtill at Kurapuni without any damage resulting. The nest sitting of the Maaterton Borough Licensing Bench takes place on Friday, March 4th.

Constable Roache was in Maaterton on Saturday, conducting investigations with regard to the Eketahuna murder.

_ It has been deoided to hold an exhibition of dairy produce in Melbourne in November next.

The fruit crop in the Albury district (New South Wales) is not likely to be so good th's year as in previous seasons, owing to the prevalence of blight and otdium,

A man named James Lamont was arrested at Eketahuna late on Friday [ night for the larceny as a bailee of a horso, the property of John Brosna, of Mauriceyille. He was brought before a Justice on Saturday and remanded till to-daj.

The highest price given for asingle ram at the: Wellington fair was £39 18s, which amount was paid by Mr flyder. Lord Glasgow, the new Governor of New Zealand, sails for Melbourne in the Austral. •

The New South Wales Afchletio Association's meeting has been fixed for 14tf May. ■ '

The Payne family of musicians arrived at Wellington from Lyttelton on Satur* day. They have been compelled to abafidon their Wairarapa trip for the present, in order to meet other engagements,

The danger attending stilt walking was forcibly illustrated the other day when a Masterton lad fell and so injured his knee that an abscess set in. The boy is being attended by the doctor, and it is net yet known whether he may not lose his leg.

It is expected that a wrestling match will bo arranged for an early date between Talt Te Aro,'the winner of baturday night's contest, and P. Kuinmer, the champion of the Masterton district, It is rumoured that Mr A, W. Brown, whose somewhat sensational departure from Wellington was reported on Saturday, has left Sydney for Japan, It Is reported that a man engaged bushfalling in the Forty-mile Bush has had tho tidy sum of £1001) left him by the death of a relative.

A boarding-house has been opened by Mr Fnrrell at the Makakahi bridge, a few miles this side of Pahiatua.

The Pabiatua Star says the Woodvillo ram fair on Wednesday was not a threat succoas, The various auctioneers experienced considerable difficulty In disposing of any linos under the hammer, Mr White, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Hawera, who is one of thekexooutors under the will of the late MrLucena, arrived in Masterton on Saturday. The will has, we understand, since been read to the family, and there is absolutely no trround for the report that the family of Mr Luoena by his first wife has been left totally unpro« videdfor,

A wrestling match for £5 aside and the gate mpnoy, between Tait Te Ato and Simeon, two well-known Natives, oame off in the Theatre Boyal on Saturday night, and was witnessed by a large number of poople, The matoh was in two styles-Cumberland and cateh-as-catch-oan—best throe throws out of five in each, . In the first style l'ait, who appeared to be the heavier man of the two, secured three throws to' his opponent's two, and.in the second three to one. Although Simeon displayed a great amount of strength he was fairly overmatched by his opponent, whose .wrestling throughout was good, Mr Arthur Francis acted as referee, MrT. L. Thompson has been good enough to forward us a sketch plan of bis newly-invented safety firO'Screen and grate', to which we referred briefly in a paragraph in Saturday's jssue, whiph we have examined with interest. $r Thompson's invention consists simply of the adaptation of a small revolving shuttersomewhatßiinilarto the rotary blindnow so frequently used in shop windows*'to either open fireplaces or coal grates. The shutter is atlaohed' to a roller and spring, and is lowered or raised at will, The advantages of the attachment are obvious, Being made of metal, the soroen, when lowered, renders a fire safe at night or whenever the room Is quitted,, It is also useful in remedying the tendency of a chimney to em'ike, or' jo causing an expiring fire to re-kindle itself." In addition, the shutter would form a tidy soreen for a flre-plaQe when the latter is not in use, and as we judge it would be possible to decorate the outer surfaco, it could be made ornamental in'appearance, The Invention is simpfe; "seems ÜBefu), and apparently can be applied 'cheaply • it should therefore attain considerable popularity. It ia also stated to bo ah economiser of fuel, That is a feature of its benefits which could be best tested by practical experience, and whioh, possibly, has been assured by its inventor in bis experiments, Our first shipments of aewggods for the Autumn and Winter wason have now come to hand by'lhe latest mail''steamers, 'ajid we have been busily employed in opening them out and preparing them for jnspeotion at TeAro House, Wellington, " ". We shall' be happy to forward patterns of our new Dress Fabrics and other novelties frgebypost'ti) any address, on application to Jjmcs Smith, Ta to Hope, Wellington. Our section of Autumn and Wji)tor Fashions bus bsen made by pjir own buyers -men of great experience, taste and judg, mentr-in the British," FrenoJ} and Continental markets, and may be relied on as surpassing everything we have previously shown at Te Aro House, Wellington.'

I .Oar-ladies would find it to their advantage to inaka their, pjipioe as-earlj as pbssiblo, and so to have the advance of getting their dresses made in good time for the Season, at Te Aro House, Wellington, Wo will also forward ourCharte for sell measurement to anyone intimating their wlßftin this'rejDe'ot to us, and will guarantee to'all Motneflthe advantage,* of taste, fit; finish andiprbmpt leicouhoTi Celebrated Dressmaking Room' at Te Aro iHouse;Wellington, ■ ■■ ■'■■>•':}'" " v '

J5 °' bri j y ear 77,0(10 cattle, and 1,118,000 ,heep.;- : ™ D * oti ™ Campbell ttiU remains in »nd. Detective Herbert .in

.Several of.the burns on the main road between Eketahuna and Pahiatua are Sient tUr ' h6r b '° k m Sen ° rally Very heavy rain fel' in the Forty-Mile Bußh on Friday and Saturday last, the rivers being much B w6llen, No damage is, however, reported.

Mr Mefccalf, the orstwhilooanvasser for hei Picturesque Atlas, is again in Mas., terton. His mission h not known.

TheiWairarapa Observer appeared on Baturday last in an enlarged form. We congratulate our contemporary upon ill enterprise, ■

• Nearly an inoh and a half of rain fell at Carterton on Thursday night and Friday morning,

A Speoial Settlement Association, which was recently formed in Pahiatua, Ma a difficulty in securing a suitable block of land, It is expeotei that a portion of the Pukctoi Blook will be taken up, The solicitor to the Pahiatua Town Board has receiyed a communication from the Government to the effect that there is not sufficient rateable area in the Town District toallow of a borough being constituted. Mr Smith baa replied, pointing out that the Government, has made a mistake, as the area is quite ample, In the case Paharov Ross, an action brought for ejeotment, and to seoure poasßßßion of certain, land at Papawai, near Greytown, His Honor Mr Justice Eichmond has given judgment for the defendant, with coats on the lowest scale, It is estimated that during the last two months from 700 to 800 stud rams have been drafted from Canterbury' to the North Island. The demand will probably be bnek at the coming Canterbury Bam Fair.

Horticulturists are reminded that entries for the Autumn Show of the Maaterton Horticultural and Industrial Society, which commences in the Drill Sail to-morrow (Tuesday) will bo received by the Secretary, Mr W. B. Chonnells, this evening,

A Masterton farmer informs us that a field of his wheat, which has been attacked by the Hessian fly, has this year yielded only ten bushels to the aore. His yield has been decreasing year by year.

The railway extension works al Eketahuna are progressing at a satisfactory rate, The works at the Woodvilla end are suon to be commenced,

The Pahiatua Cricket Club loft to-day on a seven daya' tour. Thoy will meet teams representing Waipakurau, Waipawa, Hastings, and Napier. The Hessian fly has, it is said, made its appearance in the Lower Valley, but farmers take little notice of it,

It is considered that Wolseley's terse adytee 1 "Cromwell, I charge thee fling away ambition," could wisely have been taken to heart by Mr A. W. Brown, late of Wellington, whose abrupt departure has made many confiding friends lament, and that he had bettor by far have stuck to his grocery store, which, although he might have con» sidered it to be less honourable, had more of money in it. Yea, ambition killed poor Brown I Mathematical calculations bring things down to rather a fine point nowadays, A tenderer for a Harbor Board work recently made the amount of his tender 1228 16a 4}d. The pence and half, pence rather amused members, on whose oountenauces there appeared a broad smile,—Napier Telegraph. The now ironmongery showroom in Queen-street opened by tho Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association was illuminated on Saturday night for the first time, the display being witnessed by crowds of people. The room, the holding capacity of which is already taxed, is 14ft by 30ft, and shows everything off to advantage. In tho stove department the "Durham," " Dover," " Gypsy Queen," and other well-known makes are represented, and there is a large assortment of new makes just landed from the ship " Alice." Amongst the number are two American makes nevor seen in the district before, One of these, the" Hew Archer," is fitted up so that it burns two foot lengths of wood and is heated in a very short space of time. In ranges Luke's, Scott's and Troup's predominate, whilst in grates there is a large variety, A feature of the show is the granite ironware for' use on stoves, This ware is'light, elegant and clean, and besides being free from lead or other Injurious ingredients is ever" lasting. Of general ironmongeryfenders, lamps, saws, guns, etc—there is a good representation, and altogether the exhibition is an exoellent one.

A cricket match between teams repre* senting Mauricuvillo and Carterton was played at Mauricevillo on Saturday last, and resulted in a rather easy win for the former, The ground was in a sloppy condition, and the scoring was therefore not brilliant, In their first innings Carterton made 27 runs, of whioh Beeohoy contributed 14, and in their second 49 (Beeohey 14, Day 10), Maur-. iceville put together 24 in their first innings and 55 in their second tor the loss of five wickets, Oargill making 21, Summer 12, and Parkinson 10, not out, The visitors were entertained at a dinner after the matoh,

The following is from the Ommm Mail ;-We have been informed of a oouple of instances of marked instinct in animals in connection with the late floods worth rocordice. In the first case lour horses were upon one of the many islands in the Kakanui river, amonpst the number being a nwre with final at foot. The river was at the time in high flood, and the horses were imprisoned on the island, without a blado of otass to eat, But the old mare was equal to the occasion, for venturing cautiously into the stream she caught with her teeth sheaves of grain chat were being carried away by the flood, and carefujly drew them up on the island, thus providing food fop the whole of the animals. Time after time she went through tbo performance to the iutpse delight of a number of onlookers, The othercase isoneof adifferent nature. For some time a mare and filly have boeti grazing on an island on the Waitaki river where they were imprisoned by the flood. Whether from starvation or some other cause we oannot say, the mare died in a day or two, and though the island has bean left almost bare of feed, the filly refuses to leave it, She picks about a bit now and then for a mouthful, but ever and anon she returns to £ho body of her dead companion, over which slje stands'mournfully, a touching example of the sympathy among animals. Theso cases bring to mind another that hat been related to us of the care with which a mare protected her foal from the force of the current while fording a stream by walkidV sjoyyly alongside jt'on the upper Bide of'fhe'streaij), Of coup Imndfcds of instances of the sagacity of animals of au equally striking nature We been chronicled, but that faot does not detract from the interest attaching to the cases recorded above.