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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4065, 17 March 1892, Page 2

The Hessian fly is making havoo with the crops in the Maungatua district. At the Fornridge school there is now a library containing 400 volumes, At the Masterton school the library contains 212 volumes. The Paluatua Horticultural Society, which was recently formed, intends holding two shows a year—in spr jng and autumn, Mr' (jibson, of Wellington, has been appointed an ' m tlle Masterton Post Office during the tempoS" absence of the Postmaster. Mr 0. A. Blackburn, who recently left Masterton, has been transferred to tho office of the Loan and Mercantile Agpncy Company at Timaru, The last train to Masterton last evening waß half an hour late in its arrival. The delay was caused by extra shunting. Mr Ellis, forsoine time sub-editor of the New SJealand Mail, published in Wellington, has been appointed editor and manager of the Mercury, published in Marton, The following players will represent Carterton in tho cricket match with Greytown on Saturday :—Beochy, Acheaon, King, Booth, Benall, Kemble, McKenzie, Beid, Lovick, Richards.— Emergency Flatchford, There are, as is usual at racing seasons a large number of spielers about Masat the present time, It would, therefore, bo wise for country visitors to keep their pockets strictly guarued, We hear already of one individual who has boen relived of a considerable suu wlnlsh m an intoxicated condition. '" Two thousand and sixty nino rams and sixty three ewes have been entered for the Canterbury Earn Fair on Friday. Last year's entries numbered 3313, The falling off is accounted for by tho withdrawal of tho'stud sheen for the North Island, • ■ ■ ■ 1 The Brisbane ' Worker •' says that a daily labor paper is being projected in Melbourne by Mr W. Freeman Kitohen. The plan is to take up' 'Commonweal' with a £5,000 company, on the ope shareholder one vote principle.. ' An experienced and enthusiastic anglei of Masterton caught no less than sixteen trout in the Waipoua River on Tuesday evening. This is one of tho best" bags" yet secured, and was the reault of a skilful manipulation of the rod bj a master hand. We may add, to place the record above suspicion, that ho did not got this information from the fisherman himself. A similar number of trout were also caught a few days before by ano.ther piscatorialisj, but they were the reward of daylight fishing. ■ This curious advertisement appeared in the columns of a London paper i—"lf the lady who pocketed the china cup from tiie little tea service set when my furniture wjs'on view at—— will return it, I shall bo obliged, and will band a donation to the funds 'supporting flie pjace of worship she makes use of." The other day p pubfishpd a message emanajing from'tho Press Assopiatjon's agent in the Wanganui Herald office, fcpjfte effect that "the.Hon £ "•"•neeaijdjesseds large meeting of, I jam.— ~-'"nalgst gypning. Hoi cluctorsat'l'uu-. '•** of thanks was well received, and a vu„„ ••« and confidence in the Government w ou carried by acolamation, An amendment of thanks only was negatived, three voting for it." According to the local papers the audience was a very small and undemonstrative one. At the close of the meeting a motion of thanks and confidence and an amendment of thanks only were duly proposed, when six persons voted for the amendment and eight for the motion, which was declared carried,

There is a lady in tho United State who promises to rival King Henry VIIJ in the number of her marital enterprises She Ims just married her seventh husbu d, who is a brother of her fifth, The first two gentlmen died, The third had been previously married, so she relinquished him to the lady with the prior claim, The fourth was. a clergym«n,and his successor was the undertaker who buried him. The sixth husband divorced her when he learned that he had had five predecessors. The seventh sought her out in order to make inquiries about some property belonging to his two brothers, BoingCO years old Bhe is believed by her friends to have arrived at almost her last matrimonial 'essay.

Work is'to be commenced at the Woodville end nf the JBketahuna-Wood- i ville railway to-morrow, t Constables Eoache and Cooper have been appointed Inspectors of Factories i for the Forty-Mile Bush district. c The Antimony Company's mino and *> property at Endeavour Inlet was offered ' by auction at Wellington yeatorday, but l failed to elioib a bid. « _ The last four days of the Wholesale J Drapery Company's, great oleanng sale commenced yesterday, and the balance of remnants has been reduced to next to nothing, to effect a thorough and absolute clearance of stook. We again remtnd our readers of the ! concert and dance to bo held in the Theatre Royal this evening. We fully expect to seo a bumper house. _ Mr Malcolm M'Neill, who early in the I sixties was engaged as a sheep farmer in I New Zealand, has just been promoted to the post of Secretary to the Board of ( Supervision in Ediuburgh, A criminal prosecution is, we under- i stand, likely to arise from the evidence ' given by witnesses in the larceny case i heard at Masterton yesterday, There ' was some pretty tall swearing on tho i part of several witnesses. , According to the census returns there atom Victoria'no fama than 20,915 persons who have reached the allotted span of life-three score and ten, The question whether a customer has any right in tho hack premises of an hotel has recently been decided iu Melbourne, It was held that a customer having been served in the bar has a let(al right to tho accommodation the house affords. A half holiday is being observed in Masterton to-day. Tho principal attractions are the races at tho Opaki and fcho picnics in the town in connection with the Good Templars and Salvation Army, Athletic sports are also being held at Eketahuna. As Constable Roacho, of Eketahuna, was describing, at the murder trial on Tuesday, his treatment of Dalton's wounds, His Honour .Tudga Richmond interrupted the witness, and asked whero he had obtained bis surgical knowledge. Tho witness replied that it ' was during tho American Civil War. His Honour, In complimenting the i Constable on his skill, took occasion to ■ refer to the advantages of such a training to policemen, and hoped that its r value would be more generally recognised, , The book-fiend is nothing if he bo not calmly self confident, His nature is as ! impervious to " the whips and scorns of i time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud t man's confcuaiely," as the rhinoscerous is j to flea bitos. The latest sample of his ( sublimeunconsoiousneßS is afforded by an agent of th "Picturesque Atlas" Com- ' pany jn a southern district, who is delivering the instalments of that much- ' advertised work, and at the same time t canvassing for subscriptions to a book i of whioh he himself is tho author, en« 1 titled, "flow I delivered the Picturesque Atlas."

It is not generally known (says the Won Stat) that under an old statute a princess betrothed to an English royal prince in the direot line of succession to the throne ,ln the event of the death of her affianced husband, is incapacitate! from contracting another marriage within live years of liij demiso. This adds further gloom to the dismal surrounding of Princess May. Acoorditig to Melbourne Punch it is rumoured that Mr W. E. Fitohett, editor of the Daily Telegraph, is about to take ap the editorship of the Review of Reviews. Mr Fitohett, who is a brother of the Bev, A, B. andDr Fitohett, of Dunedin, has been the Principal of the Ladies' Methodist College,' Melbourne, for many years, and was also very favourably known in the pulpit, Mr Sorenson says the best cows for co-operative dairying are the Jerseys, winch give the riohost milk, though the Holstoins give tho most, A meeting of members of the Mastorterton Football Club will be held at the Club Hotel on Saturday eveningnext for the purpose of electing officers for the second fifteen. W? regrcf to l eam s<>' Mr A, E. D'Arcy js suffering from anaffeotiqn of the eyes brought on through over study. Alter consulting Dr McKenzie, of Wellington, Mr D'Arcy finds it necessary to take a month's rest from office work, It is to be sincerely hoped that this rest will hayo the desired effect, We learn from the Tapanui Courier (bat the business of catching and canning rabbits is being parked yn with spirit by tho proprietors of the (Mipton an.d Southland factories. To facilitate the business aMr W. H. Batom has made arrangements to travel tho infested districts with suitable conveyances for the purpose of collecting and delivering rabbits at tho Kelso factory or to any railway siding fqr dietnift works. It is anticipated that this rnethod of' co(lecting and delivering will facilitate the work of rabbit trapping to a considerable extent, and by such means hasten on the total destruction of master bunny, A pasßengor who went on in the Monowai to 'Frisco gave a eraphio picture, while in port, of the state of things in the Sydney Domain of a night. He states that hundrodsof men, women and children, may be seen lying on the award with no better comfort than some pieces of newspaper under them and a bi.fc of bagging over thorn Passing through tho Domain one evening he heard an altercation between tp men, and stopped to hear what it was all about. One of the men said, "You mean then to jump my claim ?" " 1 do," was,the reply. The first man then rejoined, " Well, you aro'a mean fellow; why,'l've sfept'm that spot for the last s ; ix months'.?' 1 Even "in the day fip the Domain can scarcely be a'desirable place, for'.the Monowai man said a man dozed off there with the'heat, and when lfe' awokp an jis Cd hat was 'missing, jyhile another man, who was enjoying a siesta, found on awaking that his boots had been taken off his feet,—Auckland Herald'

A sad dotuestio tragedy is reported from Melbourne, William Brooks, aged thirty-one, was the father of two ohildren and his wife died eight weeks ago. This bereavement so preyed on his mind that he took to drinking excessively. He purchased some" Rough on Rata," and returned home in an intoxicated condition, He called his son Percy to him, and, having made him repeat his prayers told him m was going where the boy's met. ll "' was—he was'about to take poison, He tooi the box of" Rough on Rata" out of his pookefc, and, getting the )adtp prop'aro the draught' for hini, swallowed jt in his presenijo, and then wajkeci'to the Royal Oalf Hotel, Abbotsford, and .told the licensee what he had done, He 'was taken to tho Melbourne Hotel speedily, and attended to by Dr. Harrj.s, bu| all the measures he adopted ( were unavailing andßroojts died about six Jioiira afjter swafl'owing the poison, Evejy man has a duty to perform. Spjefciwps.it Js a phasing duty, .sometiines otiier)yisfl, ffpjt is a duty to -"- 'nn'it standing butcher'? account, or pay*. ' - oackca for » friend to pay a bill you l, *« it is a duty " justfco oblige him," or win,., to receive a visit from your mother-iu-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 ihey owe, to their country, and the electors they represent (or misrepresent as tho case may be), to ratifyand legalise such duties, why then it becomes a duty for the public of Masterton in pattioular and the ffairarapa in general to smil ingly pay Buoh duties and quietly grin & beir it. They have, however, one duty to perform and that is to buy thoir Draperyand Olnthing at the Bon Marohe the cheapest and beat house in Mateiton for anything of the sort. The whole duty of man is to do the best he can for himself, jNelsonßaid, " England exipects every man to do his duty." Hooper and 0»,, say, " They expect everyonej whether man, woman, or child young men and maidens, old folks and young folks to do their duties, by doing their duty and buying all they require in Drapery, Olothining, household-fur nisings, etc, at the Son Marohe,:

The Sunday Schools of Featherston ate holding ut large pionio in the Domain a , to-day. , q Mr William Lowos, of Masteiton, had | t rather an unpleasant experience the other day. He was driving through to to Alfredton, when his horse suddenly cvgrthmhuk( became possessed of a desire to sit in the buggy, and in endeavouring to do so is struck Mr Lowes forcibly on the leg o' »ith its hind feet. The injuries inflicted, however, were fortunately not of a sori- r ' ( ous nature, Mr Lowes escaping with a , severe bruise, : The representatives of the Waslerion „. Bifle Volunteers at the Rifle Association meeting have not disgraced themselves, Corporal Blane, besides having won " several money prizes, has a good position r( amo'ng the aggregates, and made top score at 7uo yards in the Ladies' Match, it Corporal Hoffeins kas also distinguished t| himself, The 'Tuapeka Times' understands p that Mr 8. Henry, leßsee of runs 137, t, 187 a, and 1370, Tuapeita County, has received twelve months' notice .that the l i Government intend to resume possession L of those runs for agricultural purposes. ° Twelve months ago Mr Henry acquired ri a seven years' loase of tho runs in p question. His Honor the Chief Justice sat in Banco on Tuesday for the purpose ot hearing tho caae of Elder (appellant) v Miller (respondent)-an appeal from the ti decision of Judge Bobinson, sitting in f the Distriot Court at Mastorton, In the Court below Henry E, Elder, as sdministrator of the estate of Alex. L, Elder, sought to recover £IOO for the enjoy r ment of a lease from which he had been f evicted, and £75 for compensation. I Elder was nonsuited in the District v Court, and from this decision he now appeals. Mr Morison appeared for the appellant, and Mr Skerretb for tho respondent, The result is not yet ' known, v A charming young man found his way ' to Dunedin a week back (writes the cor- ' respondent of the Cromwell Argus), and 1 as he was very presentable, of easy manners, a good conversationalist, and not at all a bad musician, he picked up hosts of frionds. No one know where he came from or whero he was going to, but as ho could judiciously hint without the semblance of making a boast, or putting • It forward oßtontatioußly that he was in " saßsiety "in London, he was taken up ( by" Baasiufcy" in Dunedin. He found his way into good houses, danced with and made love to all the pretty girls, and when possible borrowed a few shillings ' i from their brothers, He was proposed at ' > clubs, and having a knowledge of litem* : turowaswarmly welcomed by the Shake- \ I peareClub. Unfortunately for the youth i he had not sufficient ready cash to susi tain his role sufficiently long to get a i good start, and he made bis way to ■ Ashburton, hoping there to raise the • wind. A few days later his "saaßiety" , frionds learned that Herbert Cecil St. i John, alias Charles Lyndon, alias Her* t bert Oyril Maklin Judd was arrested < and sentenced to six months for stealing . tho contents of the mission boxes at a church, and taking other trifles, Clearly , Lord Wortley should have stuck to i Dunedin inatead of the country, . The Sydney Morning Herald reports: To the general publio, and even in f commercial circles, the exact measure of 1 protection afforded by what is known as b " crossing " a oheque, and the rosponsii bility attaching to persons negotiating 1 such orders, appears not to be quite understood. A cheque is often" crossed" a or drawn to" order," with a vague idea that some protection is thus afforded to I the drawer, but very few people know 7 that the law gives absolute protection to a the person taking these precautions, A i case in point has just come under our ,f notice, A business Arm of high standing . in this oity recently cashed a oheque '„ drawn to " order" and " crossod," The cheque wan passed through thebank, and it was aftorwards disir covered that it had been in !| wrong hands, and that the endorsement 6 of tho payeo was a forgery. The drawer claimed that as he had taken all reason- - able precautions by both " orossing" the ,e cheque and drawing it to " order" the ir loss niUßt iall upon the firm cashing tho ,e oheque, because the ooiia to of the person representing himself as the payee j_. were not ascertained as thoy might have ,f been. The cas3 was sent for arbitration , to & hjgh legal authority, who has dp- \[ cided 'jn favour of tl)e dr&woe, and 0 against the firm cashing the cheque, It ; t appears that there is a decision of the it English Courts which dearly fixes the responsibility of ascertaining tho bom fidts of the payee on the pjrty paying on ir such cheque.