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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4059, 10 March 1892, Page 2

Some little stir was caused in the main street of Maaterton yesterday afternoon by a blazing chimney, A few wet sacks had the desired effect. By the destruction of the Hawke's Bay Timber Company's Tamaki Mill on Friday last, thirty men are thrown out of employment. An international tug-of-war, on the model of the one lately pulled ofl in Melbourne, is being get up in Christchurch, The late Mr Thomas J3. Bitchings, of Wairongo, East Coast, was well known in Hawke's .Bay, and was conneoted by marriage with soveral families ■ at Waipawa, About £IOO has been colleoted in Wellington for assisting to defray the ex« penses of tho Athletic Team which is about to visit the Old Country. The Wanganui Herald urges that the Wanganui Cup should again be raised to £IOOO, and the date for running the raco fixed midway between the Dunedin and flawko's Bay Clubs' meetings. The levels are being taken for a water supply in Greytown, .When this work is finished a puhlio meeting will bo called by the Mayor. Tho reputation of Masterton as a pleasant place of abode has been injured by it statement recently given currency to that, Hcldsd to winged butchers and bloodsuckers, there is a strange invasion of fleas in tho town, The Greytown paper facetiously remarks that a large quantity of insect powder has been brought to Masterton from the Co-opera-tive Association Stores, Tho monthly • meeting of the Eketahuna School Committee was held on Monday evening, there being present Messrs Baylies (Chairman), Timmins, Mansell and Polling. The offer of Mr and Mrs Rubicl: to remove the niglitsoii for 10b per yiar and clean the school for 10s a accepted. It was resolyod that in future the children buy tlioir own : pons and penholders, the materials toJ>e procured by the Committco. It was decided to ask that the Board's carpenter be authorised to effect the necessary repairs, The two pupil teachers were recommended to the Board. An account for 0s was passed for paynient'and the meeting adjourned A singular death has occurred at Mary' borough, Victoria. Catherine Waddoll> after partaking of some beor bottled at theCastlemaine Standard Brewory, died in agony, and a postmortem examination revealed tho fact that she had been' poisoned by strychnine. As the poison was found in solution it is supposed that it was in tiie bottle before the ale was put in, and that the bjttlo did not go, through the proper cleansing process,; At the meeting of the Southland Land Board on Tuesday, Mr J. B. Basstian appeared to answer an a%ation of .Ranger Campbell that he was acting as a dummy in connection with 1400 sores of land which ho took up at Centre Hill on perpetual lease. He admitted that ho did nut reside on the land, but said the improvements, which the Hanger valued at £2O, cost him 1120. The Chief Commissioner stated that the Act required £3OO worth of improvements fiom the licenseo by July next, if he resided on the land, and double that amount if ho did not; sn that on his own showing lm was far behind. The licensee said he did not know so much was required, aud affirmed that he took up the land for his own benefit, The Board resolved to hold a special enquiry on the 15th inst, At the adjourned meeting of tho Hew Great Eastern Silver Mining Company of Tasmania, held on the 15th February, Mesßra W, Murdock (in the chair), E, Mace, E, O, Maej, Water|ionse ( and abont 40 shareholders were present, and 35,000 shares were represented. Mi E, C. Mace was appointed Manager, and Messrs Murdock,Ed.Maee, Watorhouse, Harrison, and Gellihrand, Directors, with power, to acid one to their number from New Zealand. The Commercial was selected as tho Company's Bank, Messrs'Elliston and Featheratone solich tors, and Messrs A, T. Bell and J, Harcourt auditors, Rules were adopted and confirmed, and subsequently a Directors meeting waa'held, ffh'on Mr Haslett'was appointed mino manager, Mr Haplett, < the report we quote irom states, hails from New Zealand, and has been at ban for three years; and a priyute correspondent writes, " We are lucky to got such a nun," Mr Hasletfs instructions »ro to thoroughly inspect the flection, run ' the lodes from the 11 Crown"and " Wes;ern," and after doin? sufficient costeen- i ng to provo the course of tho lode, to | ook out a site for main shaft and per- , nanent works, Our informant also adds: , —" They have a good Board of Directors whole interests are to see the miue ' worked well, and no exertions will be 1 ■pared to make the Eastern a success," 1 ■Every man has a duty to perform. ] Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, some- i imes otherwise, Wlion it is a duty to >ay a lone; standing butcher's account, oi 0 pay a bill you backed for a friend 1 justto obli?e him," or when it is aduty o receive a visit from your mother inaw, these are painful duties, And when mr fatherly Government decide to put duty on everything, and when a Parlamentary majority consider it a duty hey owe to their country, and the lectors they represent (or misrepresent s the case may be), to ratifyand legalise uch duties, why then it becomes a duty )r tho public of Masterton in partionlar nd the Wairarana in general to smil )gly pay such duties and quietly grin & ear it. They have, however, one duty ) perform and that is to buy their •raperyand Clothing at the Bon Marolie, 16 cheapest and bost house in Materton ir anything of the- sort. The whole ity of man is to do the best he can for iraself. JNolsonsaid, " Enpland ex;cts every man to do bis duty." 'ooper and Co'., .say, ".They expect 'oryone,.whether man, woman, or child mng men and maidens, old folks and mug folks to do their duties, by doing ;eir duty ond buying all they require Drapery, Clothining, household (ur> lingii, etc,, atthoßon Marche, ,

The Advocate reports that diphtheria hns again broken out at Bulls. ,An itißpeotion' parade of . the Masterton Bifle Volunteers will be held this evonius;. - The calendar at the Greytown P.M. Court yesterday was a light one. In the case W, Brunton v. Ohag Grigs, judgment was given by default ior £2 ils Od, with 9s coats. The crime of aheep atealinp i« reported to_ be common in. the Rangitikoi District, whileseveral farmers in this part of the country have had their nocks lessened inamysteriouß manner, _ A dejected looking individual who had takou.in rather much cargo was accommodated in the Government restaurant last He was treated in the usual manner in the R.M. Court thiß morning. While the convictions for drunkenness innAiL y lßst y° at numbered B's per lUUU.the number convicted in Hapier alone was 53 per thousand, or nearly nmo times the percentage for the whole or the colony, representing twoiii every eleven of the adult population. Ashearer correspondent of the Sydney Bulletin says;-" Prior to the advent of the Maoriland blackleg shearors on the Darling (N.S.W.) fleas and Scotch greys wore unknown on that river. Now the huts on several stations swarm with the vermin. There can bo no doubt as to their being of Maori origin, for as they move about over the floors, tables, and bunks, they can be seen rubbing their noses together,"-Cum pmiio salis! Great heat haß been experienced in Broken Hill district, and the' water is again exhausted. Supplies are being sent by trains. Philip H, Letchford, a book canvas* ser, was up at the Wellington R.M, Court yesterday on two charges of forg. ing and uttering the names of imaginary subscribers to orders for works issued by Messrs Stuart 4 Co., book publishers. Mr Coatea appeared in defence. On the application of Ramsay, the accused was remanded until next Tuesday. Bail was allowed, in his own recognizance of £IOO. and two sureties of £SO each, It was stated that other charges were pending against the accused. A boating accident has occurred in " e , tmi : A puff Of wind caught the sails, capsizing the boat, and the five occupants, all boys, were thrown into the wator. One of them, nsined Bed' dole, was a good swimmer, and Jonoß, tho youth who had been sailing the boat, turned his attention to the others. Duncan died almost at once. Parry and Wittenkom struck out with Jones, uho gave all the assistance possible to tho : b j ß j i S oon got frightened.. Uoddols, who is ten years old, swam after a plank, which was aorro distance away, gave it to Jones to assist him, and thonmade for the shoro, but after awimming a great distance, was picked np by a boat almost unconscious, Jones continued to sssist the two other boys till he was quito exhausted, and the boys sank. J ones was on the point of drown'nß ™en a small steamer picked him up. All the boys were uudor fourteen years The Chinese are proverbially cute (says the Brunner Jlews) over money matters, A number of them the other' day booked at a certain station for Greymouth j between them they carried a comrade on a stretcher, whom they care« fully deposited on the floor of the carrmge, taking the precaution to haye him well covered over. The guard made enquiries respecting the invalid. "Oh, him. welly sick, welly sick," they replied in a ononis; buttho hard-hearted guard felt a bit dubious on the subject, and on lifting the cover, instead of finding a "welly sick Chinaman," he discovered he was a "welly dead pne"—a corpse in fact I There is a special charge made for carrying corpses by rail, and m this particular instance it amounted probably to about Ovßt