The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4050, 29 February 1892, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1892.

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers held a successful shooting praclice at the Opaki butts oh Saturday afternoon, Mr Soreuaen, the Govornmonb dairv expert, iB visiting tho Forty-Mile Bush this weok. The Pahiatua cricketers lost the match played with Hawke's Bay County on Thursday,by thirty-nine runs, A verdict of LIOO was given against the Qisborne Borough Council in a suit against them for damages sustained through falling over a heap of stones in the road»way. There is said to be an abundance of grass on the East Coast this season, more than there has been for many years past, Cattle and sheep are, as a result, in splendid condition. The Govornment of South Australia has been furnished by the New Zealand Government with full information regarding the working of the Bureau of Industries, The sum of £3003 83 2d was expended by the North Wairarapa Rabbit Board during the year 1M in importing stoats and weasels. The Palmerston North Football Club proposes making a trip to the Wairarapa at Easter if satisfactory arrangements can be made. flayes and Brillianso's circus arrived in Masterton to-day from Dketahuns, and pitched their tent in tho vacant section opposite the Empire Hotel, It is expected that there will be a large crowd to witness the performance of to« night, Tho Kev, J, 0. Andrew, of lea Station, East Coas, intends importing a shipment of moiijgiipae from India. The jioigoose is said to be more destru.ctiye than ferrets to rabbits. Jt the meeting of the Babbit Board on Saturday last, A letter was read lroin Mr J. C, Collins, of Fiji, offering to supply these animals at 16s each, t.o.b.

The Pndur-Secretary for Defence has written to Major Dpald, (fating that the. Department cannofi re<;of?nfso tjjo Rifle Club proposed to he formed at % Opajti, owing to its proximity fo Mast terton, where a Volunteer Corps exists, Complications have, be says, already arison, and are likely to do so again if a Club is formed at the Opaki, It will therefore be necessary for those shootists who wish to compete at the forthcoming JRifle Association meeting to join tho Taueru Rifle Hpr.v.est ihajiksgiving services were lipid jff the pstejtpn Wesleyan Ohuroh yesterday, at ivhic'h tn'e.cbflgrggations, "pth morning and evening, lime. Church woo BUitablydeco; rated for the occasion, !' 10 P U 'P'J dressed with fruits of the season 12* ™ e gasaliera hung with fruit and vegetables. Appropriate hymns wero sung by the choir, which, by the w&y, is now the strongest choir in town, and the services altogether wore highly interesting. In the evening the Key. Mr Dukes took his text from Acts 14-17, and referred at some length to the goodness of the Great Creator in having provided rain as well as sunshine. •

The members of the North Wairarapa Mbit Board have tendered their resignation to His Excellency the Governor as follows; "Vfe tho under? signed members of the Board of Trustees elected for the North, Waira« rapa Babbit District, a district constituted under the provisions of "The Babbit Nuisance Act, 1886," hereby beg to tender our resignations os such members.' : ; It appears expedient to abolish the said district, as the ipaiorjfy of the ratepayers in tho said district are in favour of abolishing the same. We hereby request that your Excellency will be goc4 enough to'grant an OrdewnCouncil declaring .'the said district abolishod."

The garden of a resident in Bannisterstreet was entered .the oHiei* evening and a fine lot of' ripe tomatoes removed. 1 ■" v .<

Good work is being done in the rabbit infested parts of this district, by the natural enemy. The other day a ferret was placed in a burrow by Mr Fred, Moore, Plat Point, together with a leg of mutton. A few minutes afterwards the squeal of a rabbit waß heard, and it was discoyered that the ferret had left the mutton and was making his meal off the rabbit. Stoats and weasels have also been seen killin? on many occasions. • Mrs Nation, mother of Mr W. 0, Nation, of Greytown, yesterday celebrated her eightieth birthday. The' old lady, notwithstanding that she. has endured'all the hardships concomitant with the pioneer settlemeiitof the colony, is still hale and hearty, and retains her mental : faculties to a wonderful degree. She can, it is ; said, thread a needle without the assistance of spectacles. At the Bale by auction of Mr W, C. Buchanan's ewes, held by Mr F, H. Wood on Thursday last at tho Taratahi, there was a pen of eleven pure bred stud ewes.Eventually they were knookeddown to Mr A. Stempa,ofthis town, at 23s each. The owes are aged, but Mr Stempa will be able from them to lay the foundation of a good stud flock, and we congratulate him.on his purchase. A meeting of settlers was held at Gladatone on Friday iiight last to consider tho advisability of bridging the Taueru and Ruamahuntra. rivers at Te Whiti and thus bringing the settlers of the Coast into more direct commnnlca' tion with Masterton; Tho convenor of the meeting was Mr W. Wardell. •. No definite action ff&s taken owing to the meagre attendance, but ii was'decided to hold another, meeting at a future date, when the matter will be fully disoußsed, The following resolution was passed at the meeting of the North Wairarapa Rabbit Board held on Saturday last: — That the surplus funds of the Board be paid over to Mr F. G. Moore and Inspector Drummoiid as joint trustees, to bB placed to their credit at tho Bank of New Zealand at Masterton, the said funds to be expended by them in purchasing ferrets, to be distributed as nearly as possible pro rate amongst tho ratepayers of the district, any expenses incurred to be paid out of the abovementioned funds,

; At the Wellington R.M. Court on | Friday, Mrs Amelia Johnston, Apparently i not more than 30 years of age, appeared | in support of a summons which she had , obtained, calling upon Eobert Sutherland, described as a stationholder at Olianga, Cashpoint, to pay £213 10s, accrued arrears on an order made in • 1832 by tbe lat6 Mr Hardcastle, R.M. at Wanganui. Mr E. P. Bunny appeared for Mrs Johnston, and Mr Brown at- ( tended on behalf of Sutherland, who did not appear. The plaintiffs statement ' was that lato in the " seventies" the married Sutherland, who. deserted her , after she had borne him two boys. In ■ 1882 she put hor case betore Mr Hard' ■ castle, R, M., and Sutherland was ordered to pay 5s per week for each ohild, Some ' time afterwards, she was informed that Sutherland was dead, and in full belief that such was the case she contracted a marriage with a man named Johnston, 1 who lias since died, A few weoks ago > she learned chat her first husband was 1 still living, and thereupon ahe began the present proceedings, Mrs Johnston 1 further stated that prior to being in- • formed that Sutherland was dead she ■ took steps to obtain a divorco from him. 1 The citation pas actually served, but the proceedings wore abandoned, simply beoausesha understood Sutherland had died. But, strange to say, while the • suit was still In the initiatory state in tliu Supreme Court,, the Police Court ' officials were refusing to receivo monoys : from Sutherland pending the decision of the petition for divorce, Mr Brown, on i behalf of the defendant, applied for an adjournment of the oase till the 18th ■ prox., in order to enable him to produce , certain witnesses who might reiute Mrs Johnston's statement, The application 1 was graiited on the payment of the costs of the day.. Alexander M'Orow, a butcher, has 1 been arrested in Now South Wales on a charge of murdering his wife, The body of the deceased was found on Blaokfriars Estate, a vacant piece of ground near the Redfera railway station shortly before midnight on Friday, and the prisoner was discovered not far from the sceho of the murder, He was in a weak i condition, and was bleeding freely from a wound in the neek, The police at once removed him to the hospital, where the wounds, which are nokof aserious naturo, were dressed, and he then confessed that in a fit of jealousy he had out his wife's throat and then tried to cut his own. The couple had been married twenty-eight years, and had a family of thirteen children, ouly six of whoa are living, Latterly, owing to the intemper* ate habits of the husband, tho wife had been working as a servant in one of the city restaurants. This action on her part incensed the husband, and ho tried to induce her to return and live' with him; but she had been so often deceived by hia promises to reform that she de* chned to do so, He then persuaded her to go for a walk with him on Friday night, and when they got to the Blackfriars Estate, which is a lonely place, he attacked her so suddenly that she had no time to make any resistance or oall for help, M'Crow states that when he went out with his wife he had no intention to murder her, and that ho had the butcher's knife with which the deed was done with him simply because he intended to go to work at Mossmanßay early op Saturday morning. .Telepathy ig just now attracting some interest ra New Zealand, and some one signing himself T.P, writes as follows to tho Hawko's Bay Herald Sir,—About 14 years ago I was walking with a Scandinavian friend (Mr H • -—) in Wellington, and we had a long con« venation as to the possibility of projecting thoughts for loriu distances from one brain to another. 1 have for many yearß known it to be possible to do so when two persons are very intimate and in sympathy of mind, but I thought that it was also neceesary that they should be (iloiso fo one' a'nofher, 1 Mr H——■ thought diferpntly! Since thon he Has married a clever Beryojis lij'dy. H ( e is a thickset powerful lighthaired" man,' and she small, actiye, and blackhaired, On several occasions this lady has sent intimations to herhusband for him to leave Blenheim and come to hor assistance in Wellington, and to my certain knowledge he has go/fe to her by the nest steamer. She keopf) a few boardsrs, am) on one occasion a boarder 'wa? drinking anj} actinfr improperly in the hojuse, The lady became yery excited and withoutany tele.gram or letter fcein/j senjr-in fact it m too late in the evening tg jdo sg, ani} he was some distauoe away inthe bush—he was made aware of her exoitemenfc, The nervous condition of the sensitive wife was so powerfully thrown on to the stronger mind of the husband that he felt certain that Something was wron?at liomo, and the idea so fully possessed him tliatlo mtyljowd Ito Btoamer and arrived in Wei|ihjjtioii t|}B ctyy after. Similar things-have at other friger "PMjf'fod Our first shipments of new goods' f°t Autumn and Winter season have now come to jiai)4 by tbe latest mail steamers, and we have beet) busily employed In opening them out and preparing Jtwii) jjwjjjspeotion at Te Aro House, Wellington, We shall be happy to forward patterns of our new Dress Fabrics and other novelties freebypost toonj/addresß, on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington, Our selection of Autumn and Winter Fashions has been made by our own buyers -men of great experience, taste and judg-ment-rib the British,- Frenoh and Continental pjarkets,_ and may be relied on . shown at Te" Oar ladies would find it to their advaiii' ' ta&o to make their choice as early as possible, and so to have the advantage of I getting their dresses made in good time for ut the Season, at Te Aro House, .Wellington. We will also forward our Charto for sell ' measurement tp anyone intimating their I wish in tliia respect to as, aijdyil) < tee to all customers the advantages of taste ( fit, finiah and prompt execution in oyr . Colobrated Dressmaking Room .at Teiro , House, Wellington, . ; >

; AetingiSerganti js&nnan, who'was recently in charge of the Mastertnn police station, has, smce hia transfet_co Stafford, been promoted to the rank of firstolaßß Sergeant, ■ The annual pastoral letter from Archbishop Redwood was read by the Rev. lather M'Kenna to the congregation of St. Patrick's Cliurch, Wnstertou, yesterda;. The Archbishop, aruungstother things, deplores the growth and spread of Socialism, and urges Catholics to use every means in their power to suppress this scourge to society and religion. The following team of cricketers will represent Masterton in a match vith Greytownto be played on Saturday next at Masterton Whatman, rownall, Maloolm, Perry, jggulden, Hanson, Richards, Cargill, Parkinson, Haigh and Boagey. We understand that- Mr Edward Kibblewhite, late of Masterton and Lower Taueru, intends starting in business at Eketahuna as a blacksmith. . The Masterton Road Board has resolved to draw the attention of the Mimstor for Lands to the necessity of proceeding at once with the survey of the Weraiti road. A faot often remarked by many is that when a dividend is paid out from the totalisator either a Ohinaman, Maori or a non-sporting man is Buije to have a Met, At the Hawera races recently £74 3swas paid, and as usual a Chinaman from the West Coast had.scut up a pound telling one of his countrymen to put it on any horse he liked, which he did, with the result that he won £74 3s. Pearson's Pnyate Brass Band oiiter« tained several hundred lovers of music in Hall street on Saturday night, when an excellent alfresco ooncert was provided. At a meeting of •• the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association to be held on Wednesday next, the question of the incorporation of the Association will be discussed and the report of the subcommittee appointed to deal with the sites for a show ground received. _ Another old resident of tlio Wairarapa in the.person of Mrs Robinson, passed away at Carterton on Friday last, in her sixty-tires year, Mrs P.obinson was the relict of the late Mr Robert Robinson, who came to tho colony in the'year 1841, in the ship Arab, fahe had been ailing for some months, but had only been confined to her bed for a few weeks.