The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4058, 9 March 1892, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1892.

The thermometer registered 161*6 in tho sun on the 18th February at the Adelaide observatory. The annual meeting of tho New Zealand Alliance was held yesterday, Sir William Fox presiding. The Treasurer stated the deficit to be £sl, Asbestos of good quality is eaid to haye boen found in Mr P. Hood's coalpit near Gore, A meeting of Alfredton settlers, to consider the Pori road loan of £2500, is to hf.ld in Mr W. J. Saunders' woohhed on March 17th at 9 a,m, A special order made by the Alfredton Road-Board, increasing the number of members to seven, the additional member to bo returned ior the Tawataia ward, and rcsomding the present method of conducting elections, is to be confirmed at a meeting to be held on April 2nd. A four-acre Bection has been offered by Mr Boldaway, of Ballance, as a Bite for tho co-operative factory proposed to be established there, Mr Alexander Fraser, manager of the Masterton Blacksmith and 'Wheelwright Manufacturing Co,, has applied for letters patent for an improved for breaking horses to harness, A reward of ten shillings is offered to any person returning a black and tan collie bitch, lost near the Mangakuta pah, to Mr W. Neill of the Prince of Wales' Stables. To-night at the Opera House, "Wellington, Mr Walter Bentley appears in Tom Taylor's charming comedy "Still Waters Run Deep." To-morrow Lord Thg Bydney Mail reports a very peculiar instance pf fright on a breeding sow at the Riama Shiw. & boar was shot in her presence, The bullet enfere.d the forehead, and brains protruded from' the wounds. Throe of the sow's litter j)pfo similar marks or wounds and died birth, The body of a woman, recently found in the Torrens Lake, Adetyhje, was identified by several persons as Jth»t of a Mrs M'Phane, but i.t now transpires that Mrs M'Shane is alive and well. In connection with,the gaje of Mount Baker, North East Pukctoi, Oroua, Coal Creek North, and Waimanno Blocks,tba Land Board has decided that where simultaneous applications are made for the same piece of land, priority of application will be determined by ballot, each applicant being strictly confined to the piece of land included in his application, Af Wednesday's meeting of the Wanganui Cbarjtabfo Aid Board correspondence with Hie Kopth Wpirafapa Benevolent Society, referring to 'fo Williams family, waa read, The chairman explained that he had consulted the Board's solicitor, and upon his advice instructed the secretary to discontinue relief fipop receipt of that letter and send in their account to Ijiat day, The Board will contest any further clap in connection with the said family. Owners of racing hacks are reminded that nominations for tho following events jn ftp Woodvillo District Jockey Club's (jloje with tho Secretary, Mr ■\y. Nicholson, .oil Ka.fcuiday jjext, the J2th inst :-Majden Jjandjcap' Hjpnity, govs; Handicap Hurdles,. 40 soys; W-PJ-Of' SwvJic&P; fO.soyp j Members' iiscp, }5 govs'j FJyipg Handicap, cava j fiiglwigj(t. goyii. An attempt !J to be made to, start & dairy factory at, or near, Hawem, in the Forty-Mile Bush, in time for next season, fioo.d-si.zed trout have been seen in tins Mfttiyahao rfvef stn,d other streams in the Forty-Mils Bush, Jt is ojjly a few years since fish were liberated in tfrese parts. MrH, Croad, at one time overseer fop fee Borough of Masterton, is now dairy farming ji) |ihe Ballanco Special Settlement,A Viptorja separator was recently obtained by him, and a hprse motor has been ordered from the South with which to drive tho machine. . The total membership of the four special settlement associations formed in Pahiatua within the past few weeks is 151, made up as follows:—No 1, &6;-No 2,42; No 8,33 j and Waiwera .Association 20.

The. English oricketors defeated on eighteen of Tasmania by an innings ar.d J A man named James Nash, 62 years i of age, fell from the breastwork at Quay street, Auckland, on to a outter moored there, and was so badly injured that ho died. An exchange states that tho Nelson j Jam Factory has been so swamped with truit this season that growers are only , paid three farthings per lb. for plnms : delivered at the factory._ There is room for another jam factory in the locality, | rhe Maaterton team to compete at tho Ohnatchurch Fire Brigade Demonstra" tlun is composed of Foreman Pragnell (in charge), Assistant Foreman Bragginß, Branehnmn Ewington, and Firemen Murray and Bruuton. Fireman D, Stone is to act as delegate. Tho team .leaves Maaterton on Friday morning. The casual laborers under thoTaratahiCarterton Road Board are in future to be paid at tho rate of 6s 6d per day. The Admiral Farm at East Taratahi, formerly owned by Mr .T. Drew, has bo'eu sold. Mr John Rayner bought 400 acres and Mr John Reynolds 500 acres. William MoPartland, labourer, of Carterton, lias been declared a bankrupt, It is stated that Archdeacon M'Lean, now of Greymouth, will probably be appointed to the ministry of St Luke's Oliurch, Greytown, the JRev E, H. Wyatt having resigned as incumbent. The Archdeacon is spoken of as a good organiser and speaker, and beilig anxious to leave Greymouth, the Prk , mate has offered him the vacancy. Mr F. H. Wood's next TarataHi stock i sale, to be held to-morrow (Thursday), will be an important one, as, in addition to )arge entries of sheep, a lot of pure, bred grade cattle, bred by Mr D. McMaster, will bo Bold, thus giving farmers and breeders a splendid chance ot securing some of the best stock in the , distriot, As coach and carriage builders the Masterton Blacksmith and Wheelwright Manufacturing Company aro gaining for themselves quite a reputation. About a dozen vehicles are now in the course ot construction, inclucUngphaetons, buggies, dogcarts, eto,, and the Company have found it necessary to incrnase their staff to fulfil the orders in hand. Mr John Farrelly, of Pahiatua, invites tenders for the erection of a dwelling ! house at Makakahi. Specifications, > plans, etc,, may be seen at. Sullivan's i Hotel, Pahiatua, where tenders will be I received up to Monday, the 14th inst. The jury list for the Borough of Masterton has been compiled and is open for inspection at the Courthouse, Objections - are to be heard before the Resident Magistrate on April Ist. The only daughter of Mr Matthew 0, ' Wilde, of the Taratahi, died on Sunday at tho age of twenty-one years. She ' attended a danoing party on Friday night and was taken ill on Saturday. ■ In one day fiiteen hundred applicants " registered themselves as seoking employ" ment at the Government Labour Bureau, j Sydney. - The Dobson-Kennedy Company were sued in Wellington yesterday by Mr E, T, Gillon, agent and attorney of the , Dramatic Authors' Society, for £9 17s, the amount of fees to the Sooiety for the performance' of cortain plays. His Worship nonsuited tho plaintiff, as there was nodirogC eyidence of tho per- - forraance of the plays.

Ten prizo sheep were brought out by tho Doric, consigned to Messrs Levin & Co., of Wellington. Mr A, W, Murray, of Piako, who formerly represented Bruce in the House of Representatives, has been missing since Tuesday, Ho went to visit a' section of land he had bought in the swamp near Churchill, and has not been 1 since heard of, At the annual mooting of the Oamaru Branch' ol tho Shearers' Union, a resolution was unanimously passed affirming the desirability of the amalgav mation of tho branches in New Zealand into one Central Union, with . Looal Committees, MrMacDonald, delegate from New South Wales, addressed the meeting, and stated that the Presidency of the N.Z. Union had been offered to Mr J. Kelly, M.H.R. for Invercargill, and rns now under consideration, Delegates were appointed to attond the projjpeotiyo conference re the amalgamation of branches.

Matthew Patterson, a farmer of Ashburton, has been sentenced to two months' hard labour for assaulting his brother Robert, by knookin? him down from behind, and kicking him savagely when down, rendering him unconscious, The affair took place during a regular family rojy, in which the mother, an aged woman, was assaulted by a vjsitor, According to the Lyttelton Times .it is probable that a yoluntoer encampment will beheld when the new commandant (Captain Fox) arrlyes in the colony. . The Manawatu Times says i—Within the past week or two a large number of southern settlers have visited this district for tho purpose of acquiring land for settlement, and it may b? expected that a considerable number of land transactions will be recorded shortly,

Mr "W'hiteley King, Secretary of the Pustoralists' Union of New South Wales, advises that; applications for shearing pens in that colony aro ooming forward in great numbed from New Zealand. The (Jnion is now making arrangements by which it is hoped pens will be secured in a rotation of sheds fo: all New Zea« landers who were in the employ of the Union who satisfactorily completed their arrangements last season, A painful accident occurred to Mrs W. Praguelli of Maslertoii, yesterday. She had just entered the door ol the stable when ono of tho horsrs kicked out and struck her on the leg just above the kjiee. Although the bono was not fractured, the fqrep of fhe kick left a nasty bruise f'rora 'wbich fhe {ufferei' will not recovor for some \veeks, Df Be f ird was lulled in and djd everything possible to allpyiate the pajn, While put af) Newton Lees (be other d»y our attention was directed by Mr W. ilorga'n to a pretty little olim&ing plant, the physianthus albenj, and in the profusion of flowerß was found a large number of moths, soma of them alfve, but the greater proportion dead. It appears that the flower eeoretes honey in two glands or ''jaws," within the corolla or bell of the flower. The moth in quest after food inserts its tonpue or protapis between these'' jaws,"whichimmediately ploge, jfjfd fatohing the tongue, the moth is held' prisorieiVpMQt .espape. and dies in this natural "moth trap," In view of the foot that the codlin moth pect is becoming so serious an obstacle to tho extension of onr apple export, such a simple and efficacious remedy is well jvortji cultivating by all fruit-growers, "•Wangajii Herald. Every man has a oity |0 |)et?orjfl, Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, sometimes otherwise. When it is a duty to pay a Ion? standing butohor's account, or to pay a bill you backed for a friend I' justjo obltee him," oi* when it is a duty io receive a visi|ffom your mother inlaw.'tliese are painfulMies-Apd when oiir fatherly Government fleoido to p.ijt jj, duty on thjiig, a,nd when a paf-, iiamcpfary •{«!$« #a. duty liiev owp to ,\Mf mty,. M W electors tbey represent (of tarpiweflti as the oase may bo), to such duties, why then It beoomesai dijty for the public of Mnaterfcon ! n MWOiUM and the Walrai'&pfl In general" to smn' jngly pay Blich duties and quietly grin & !i W r }t. 1 Tjjey f(aye.j}ojyeyer, oneduty to per/ormanfl thap }§ ty fyijy thoip Draperyand Clothing at the Bon Ifar'che, the cheapest and best house in Materton, for anything of the sort. The whole duty of man is to do the best he can. for jliiflsplf, jNelsonsaid, " England expects every rouxx to -.dp his duty." Hooper and Co., say, 11 Tiipy epect everyone, whether man, woman, or child young men and maidens, old folks and young folka to do their duties, by doing their duty and buying all they require ■n Drapery, .Olothining, household furisbings, eto,, at the Bon Marche ( - J:

. The Fwk Jubilee Singers aro likely to be round this way agaic. before long. Thoy huve been reorganised in Africa, and have introduced one or two novelties • m tho vocal line. They are at present in Tasmania, and after doing Australia, they aro coming to New Zealand. _ As mosquitoes are becoming a nuisance in Masterton it will be interesting to Know that these ferocious little inseota will not remain in a house where a piano is being played. We are asked' further by a contemporary to believe tliat it is only the female mosquitoe thit bitos peoplo and animals and diawa' blood. , I f thia bo ho, there must be a great proportion of spinsters among the insects ' unless polygamy flourishes, for nine out of ton mosquitoes in our experience are ! both able and anxious to Jiite. Wo are inclined to doubt the statement that the male" skoeteris a vegetarianThe Napier Telegraph saysA barrister in the Supreme Court in commenting upon the fact that drunkenness was the chief cause of crime, said if ho was not a criminal advocate he would bo a temperance reformer. However, he rocoenisod that teefcotalism would do away with his business, so he remained a barrister. The other day, saya the Manawatu Tiroes, Messrs Sorenson Bros, who were engaged sowin? grass seed in the Union Co-operative Company's property at Tokomaru, discovered a skeleton about two miles from tho railway station, towards the range. About five years ago a sportsman from Wellinpfcon was lost near the block, and although search parties were organised he was never found, It is conjectured that tho remains may be those of the missing man, A lad employed in Sydney driving a milk cart went on to Canterbury race course with a few shillings in his pocket. He picked the winner of the first race, and on that day " everything he touched turned to money," He pliyed his money up at the "double or quits" business, and won each time. When the last race was run he found his pockets full, and his winnings totalled £OOO. The odds are that if he keeps on bettinp, in a few weeks time he will again be yelling " milk-ho," and will be as free from money as frogs are from feathers. If one only knew when to stop I A writer in the Anglican Church Magazine onco tound in a collier's cottage in Staffordshire a coffin used as a bread and cheese cupboard. Notwithstanding his wife's remonstrance, he told tho story of the coffin as follows '■ Eighteen years ago," he said, " 1 ordered that coffin. The wife and me used to have a good many words, One | day she said, " I'll nivver be content till I see tbee in thy coffin." Well, lass,' I 1 said,' if that'll content thee, it'll soon be 1 done,' Next day I gave directions to have the thing made. In a few days it came home to the wife's horror. I got 1 into it and said,' Now, lass, art thee i content ?' She begun to ory, and wanted 1 the ' horrid thing 1 taken away. But that I wouldn't allow. In the end she get accustomed to seein' it, and as we 1 wanted to turn it to some uce, we had ' some shelves put in and made it into a i bread and cheese oupboard, We have novec quarrelled sinoo it camo,"