The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4046, 24 February 1892, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1892.

Mr Arthur Olampett has taken up his residence in Wanronui, where he is teaching singing.

An inspection parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers will be held on Thursday evening, Arthur Winton Brown, who has levanted from Wellington, was yesterday declared a bankrupt,

An Injunction was granted in tho Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, restraining Messrs Dobson and Kennedy from playing " Little Lord Fauntleroy," An enterprising younj settler of the Forty-Mile Bush, having oleared his section and obtained a good burn, took the next step yesterday in tho direction of bliss unalloyed, by entering the ranks of the Benedicts, The nuptial knot was tied by the Registrar in Masterton,

A farmer of the West Coast who was recently in Masterton assured us that sheep in his district have deoroaeod in value by several shillings during the past few weeks. This is in consequence of the inferior olass of sheep placed on themfii* Our Eketahuna corrodent 'writes: —William Puryiss, butoher tor Mw3rs Tumor and Selby, met with rather a aerious accident} on Monday afternoon, It appears he was pithing a bullock when he fell from the staging, breaking his leg just below the ankle, and before being observed was considerably gored by the beast, At Melbourne recently a man named Balkind evaded the payment of Customs duties on certain goods, which arrived by the German mail boat Barmen, He was fined £IOO, which was reduced to £25, the goods to be forfeited, or six mpnths' imprisonment, He went to iBBOI,

The Lyttelton Times nays that judging by present appearances, a number of the principal brcedeis of rams in the Canterbury Province will have few or no rams to represent them at the forthcoming ram fair at Christchurch, The demand for good stud rams for the North Island having so much increased of late, and private sales having been so numerous duping .J he early part of the season, will account for the absence of theusualcomplement, Fivoflock-owners J who have always had large entries at the fa'r Ji»° e already sold the wholoof thefr rams this season an, 1 !^ 11 . inconsequence be uavepresented at Ohriatcliuiv..; An unfortunate woman walked from Launccston to Hobart recently with a s two-year-old child to see her husband, f who had been sent to gaol, She was nine 3 days doirip; the journey of 120 miles. The Benovolent Society applied for a t free pass for her fur tho return journey, a but received the callous reply from the 1 Government thai she only wanted rest, i when she could eo back the way eha J came. The Government thus condemned ! her and her child to walk • 120 miles, ) althpugh at the time they were carrying ) passengers to the Launcestrin Exhibition r for 4s 3d. Thß Benevolent Society, • with mare charity, paid her fare., 1 At Thnam the other day (reports the j local Berald) Judge Denniston felt it to be his duty to rebuke a barrister encaged in a case for appearing as a witness for his client. He characterised it as a most objectionable practice, and " as positively indecent, for a gentleman who eat at the Bar table to have to submit himself for cross-examination, and his evidence to possible comment from another at the same table. The neces- . sityfor his appearing as a witness must have been foreseen, and the case should £ave been oouduoted by someone else, The R entl6,nan reterred to admitted tfot it was and offered to withdraw.' ml * m said it was then too late, ind as the impropriety, of it was admitted they could let it drop, but ho felt it necessary to speak strongly about it, ' Our first shipments of new goods' for the Autumn and Winter suason have now come to hand by the latest mail steamers, and we have been busily employed in opening them out and preparing them fop inspection at Te Aro House, Wellington. Wo shall be happy to forward patterns of ' our new.Dreas Fabrics and other novelties i free by post to any address, on application i to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington, i Our selection of Autumn and Winter , Fashions has been made by our own buyers j -men of great ekperience, taste and judg- i ment-in the British, French and Continental markets, and may be relied on as surpassiog eveiything we have previously shown at TeArolonsot Wellington, ' Our ladies would find it to their advan- ! tage to make their ,choioe as early as ' possible, and so to have the advantage of ' getting their dresses made in good time for I the Season, at To Aro House, Wellington. 1 We will also forward our Oharte for self e measurement to anyone intimating their j wish in.this reapect to us, and will guaran- t tee to all customers the advantages of taste, ( fit, finish and prompt exeoution in our :. Celebrated Dresßmaliiag Boom at To Aro „ House, Wellington. . :. l n

. Our readers are reminded of the sale by auction by Messrs Lowes/and lorns, of that splendid building site where Mr F.O. Moore's late residence stood, which will take place on Saturday next, the 27th inst. ■•; ■■■■.■:■ .

Tho grape vines being cultivated by several settlers in the. Forty-mile Bush have been attacked by mildew, The Albion Hotel at Palmerston North, has, we understand, hem purchased by Mr J, Levy, late of Featherston. As an instance of the prion of laud along the Wellington Manawatu Company's line, it is mentioned that 60 acres of bush land only partly felled, about, half a mile from the township of Mana* kau, recently bhan,s[ed hands' at the price of £lllos an aore.

The soil in the Forty»Mile Bush is admirably adapted for fruit and vegetable growing. ■ Attho MastertouHorti" cultural Show now being held some of the finest apples and peaches ever seen in the district are exhibited by Mv James Stuckey, of To Rangitumau, whilst some giant rhubarb stalks are shown by Mrs Dorset, of Maurioeville. '"'•'' Wairarapa people should have no lack of choice of firmß from whom to pur» ohase grass seed for this season's sowing. Messrs Harcourt and Co., of Wellington, have an announcement in our advertising columns to which we would direct special attention. Good qualities oi cocksfoot and Canterbury rye-grass aro among the lines they advertise, and they will be glad to submit prices and samples or} application.

_ It is runioured (says the Express) that if Marlborough b to have the honour of getting another M.L.0., the person to be chosen will be Mr W. B. Earll, and as he is the political godfather of the member for the Wairau, no one can possibly have a prior claim. No less than eleven'thousand'sheep are being offered for sale by Messrs Lowes and loriw at.their Masterton yards to-day, whilst at the Taratahi yards tomorrow Mr J?. H. Wood offers several thousand.

Fourteen truck loads of sheep left tho Masterton railway station this morning for. the Lower Valley and Wellington. District Judge Robinson sat in Chambers on Monday for the''purpose of stating the case for appeal iu the suit Miller y Elder, recently heard at Masterton, Messrs Morison and Bunny were counsel for the respective litigants, Mr Keisenberg's string band has kindly volunteered to giyo musical selections at the horticultural show to-night.

James Lamont, whilst standing before their Worships Messrs A, Anderson and H. Aulin, at Rketahuna on Monday, to answer the charge of horse stealing, soemed to foel his position very keenly. Whilst Constable Roche was filling in the form for his bail, he fainted and fell his full length on the floor. One of tho.rnost prolific vegetables—or fruit, whichever it may bo termed—grown in the Masterton distriot, is the tomato, This fact is fully demonstrated at the show of the Horticultural Sooiety now being held, Would it not be possible to establish a Bauco factory similar to that recently established at Taradale, Hawko's Bay ? An alteration has been made in the advertisement concerning special rating to meet the cost of clearing, forming and bridging on the Fori Road, Alfred* ton Road District, which should be noted by those concerned. The meeting ot settlers will be held on Thursday, 17 th March, at Mr W, J, Saunders' woolshed, The Pahjatua Star says the member for the district ought to try and get the village settlers in tho latest settlements some. monetary assistance from the Government towards felling their bush, Some of the little clearings four or five acres in extent present a most disheartening spectaole, besides entailing a heavy loss on the selectors,

There were six entries at the horticultural show in tho tomato competition, The prijse, wliich was a sweep-stako of 275, was given for the three heaviest ripe tomatoes, and was won by Mr A, J. Rawson, whose exhibit weighed in the aggregate lib 12jozs, Mr T. Dixon's weighed 21b 4ozs, but his tomatoes were hardly ripe, and the judges considered this to be a disqualification,

Tho first meeting of creditors in the estate of David Heggie, bankrupt, is to be held to-morrow afternoon,

Two fresh businesses are to pe opened in Masterton by Chinamen, This will make five shops in the town conducted J;o Mongolians.

A curiosity was Jjhibited at the Mastorton horticultural Bhow yesterday in the shapo of a sign board paintod thirty-seven years ago by .Mr W, G. Tustiu, now of Wellington, for the lato Mr Charles Dixon, of Worksop farm, The board was painted lybjte, with the lettering in black, and has been exposed to all weathers. The effect of the continuous beating of the rain has been to completely obliterate both colors of paint, but tho lettering is raised, and is yet quite distinct, showing that the black paint preserve* the timber. The curio is, we understand, to be presented to the Masterton museum.

A well known resident of Masterton became a subscriber to the Picturesque Atlas. He denied having signed the contract for the forty-two parts, but rather than figureinthe Court reluctantly paid the Company £ls, the amount demanded on account of a bound volume, and obtained a receipt for the money. He is now intormed that a promissory note made out by him must be met at once or proceedings will be taken in the R.M. Court. The unsuspejtipg subBcriuDns confident he gay'e no promissory noto, and as hs has a cjear receipt for jfche full amount of the work, intends contesting tho' " Me '- Tlteri> ' ? strongly rosemblin? t neHe(,utio ' 1 , Bbo ß. tl the whole affair, and it is to b* ho P e " when the case is heard in Court that evidence of forgery will '.bo adduced which will ensure orirainal proceedings being taken against the offenaer,whoever he may be.

' Many curious incidents in connection with the game of cricket have from time to timeto be chronicled, but not of a nature such as tho following. On Saturday whilst A. E. Trott was bowling to 6. Stuckey in tho match; North Melbourne y, South Melbourne, commenced on the latter'spround, the ball killed a swallow, The ball, however, reached the batsman, who played it- Many ot tho fieldsmen could not, for a moment, make out what |iad happened, some thinking that the cover had come oil the ball. The swallow is now undergoing the process of stuffing, ;and will be kept by tho Northerners as a memento of the occa. aicn. The small boys around the ground, howover, quickly summed up the cir. cutnstanceaßbpingae;ood omen for th a visitors.- The match, they prophesied wasa" dead bird" for' North Melbourne,

' Every man has a duty te perform. ' Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, some- ' times otherwise, When it is a duty to '-win standing butcher's account, or pay an,.., ■ hacked for a friend to pay a bill you . "justto oblige him," m win,,. ' •■-i,.-| ts receive a visit from your mother-,* law, these are painful duties. And when our fatherly Government decide to put a duty on everything, and when a Parliamentary majority consider it a duty they owe to their country, and the electors they represent (or misrenresent as the. case may be), to ratifyand legalise such duties, why then it becomes a duty for the publio of Masterton in particular and the Wairarapa in general to smilingly pay suoh duties and quietly grin & bear it. They have, however, one duty to perform and that is to buy their Draperyand Clothing at the Bon Marcho, the cheapest and best house in Masterton for anything of the sort. The-whole duty of man is to do the best he can: for himself. JNelsonsaid, " England expeots.every man to do his duty." Hooper and Oo„ say, " They expect everyone, whether man, woman, or.child, young men and maidens, old folks and young folks to do their duties, by doing their duty and buying air they; require ! in Drapery,v.Olothing, household fur-- i nishingsi etc., attlioßon M&rche, | (