Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4072, 25 March 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1892.

Being the extended title or the Wairarafa Daily, with which jt is IDENTICAL.

The Parkvale school ffas examined by Inspector Fleming on Tuesday last, the result being satisfactory, ! A large number of natives of the Mas- ! terton district who are victims to sciatica, 1 rheumatism, and other diseases have left for Napier, where it is alleged there 1 exists a Negro prophet who can cure all ' afflictions to which the human rleßh is ' heir. In the case in which Kawana Ropia sued the Ureytown Bonwh Counoil for £2O, tjw value of a horse sold out of the poblio pound, judgmept was reserved by Colonel Bob'ert.9, H. 61. The Melbourne detectives believe that Williams, the Windsor murderer, was the person who Btola several boxes ojf sovereigns f roin the R, M.S. Iberia three 1 years ago, he being the engineer on board at the time. ... \ The cpdlin moth is steadily spreading in the Sawke's Bay district, and, is wprkiug its way sou'th^ard. Tlie twentieth anniversary of tiiti landing of the fjwt Scanollnaylan ppfctlers ! at Mauriceyille will be celebrated pn Friday, fith April. On that date a rand ball will be hold in the Choral a, n 7"" k -Mauricwilje, The arrangeHall) Jia o . ',..«« jjb j„tl, 9 bands ments for the gathen.. 0 * l °'" .£," ty .m of a strong committee, and the au». no doubt ba a thorough success. Ticket's may now ba procured from the Seoretaiy, Mr 1. P. W. Jensen, or members of the Committee. ; A Chinaman who ought, to„know (he docs not reside in Masterton) reports that in China when a " man of high de* greo" dios, his body is embalmed by being packed in tea, which, ib stewards boxed up aijain, and a private mark placed m the box informs Chinamen that this übo has been made of the tea, and'that it is consequently fit only for export to benighted foreigners. Great Scott I What dead leper is in our teapot to-day? '"". . ";. ■ The 00-oporative and Farmers' Alliance of Now Zealand (Ltd.) is now receiving produce of all descriptions to be sold locally or ehtpped. to the most favorable markets, The premises on Waterloo Quay are particularly well adapted for storing flax and cereals, being eo situated that goods can be ware housed direct from the railway trucks. The perfectly-arranged ventilution is also well suited to the storage of dairy produce and large quantities are being received overy day, The Alliance is steadily extending, its influence and operations. A mooting was held in the.Eketahuna Weßleyan Church last Tuesdaj evening to make arrangements for the annual Sunday school picnic to be held on Easter Monday. It was decided to hold the pienjo in Mr Jones' paddock, and to wjno up fljth.a publjj) meeting'in. the Church, to be interspersed by singing and recitations by the pbildroi), The anniversary services will be held on Edster Sunday, when the children will sing hymns suitable; to the occasion. Bushfallinghas' started on several sections in the Forty-Mile Bush, Mr Kilsby, of Hawera, has just let 400 acres in two'contpaotj, and Messrs Bassett & Co.'made a'start yesterday on Jslmir con« Jractf. .Intensely cpk] weather, accompanied by heavy showers of rain, baa been expsriencod in the Forty-Mile Bush, during the past couple of days, and all hopes of burning the remaining felled bush are abandoned for this season, A conowUnd dance is to be held in th'e frown 'flalJ, afc Eketahuna, next Triday week Maid ot Mr'O.yu'rVis/now in the Masterton Hospital), wh\>'"brokb his leg while butohering'for Messrs'Turnor.& Cp, Ae'the ladies of the district have taken it jn band, nodoiibttheaffair wiij oe a great success, and we hone to fee a bumper house, '.'''

'• TheONapier Park-Stakes/i!un yesterday, 'was won by Bay Bell.- Huerfana i being-..second and., Queen of Trumps third.'; -■';'.! :' '■' ~ ■■■:'( \ 4; pleasant' change in the" weather i occurred in Masterton this morning, when asharp frost was experienced. That the Forty Mile Bush district is ! thriving, the fact' that no less than three thousand lambs and closo upon, one thousand' two-tooth sheep have recently beon purchased in the neigh* bourhnod of Pahiatua eloquently demonstrates. The draft passed through Masterton today i;n its way to Feathcrston, Mr A. Yule of that locality, it is understood, being the purchaser, of thia choice little flock. This probably ia the largest lot of lambs which has ever come down from the Bush.. The following team will represent tho Eketahuna Rifle Club in, the match to be fired with the Wor Taueru Club tomorrow (Saturday) .at the tlketahumi range:—T. Pareona, F, Bright,, A. H Herbert, F. D, Telling, J: Polling, G - Blahe.W.Woolf.WlG.Watarßon, M" Burke, andiy. A. Rowse (Captain), Martini-Henri rifles will be used There is a great deal of dissatisfaction 1 as to the way in which the railway works at'.Mangataiuoka: have been let. The Minister fnrTublic Works made it pretty clear in his n'ddrem at Pahiatua that men in the district (especially married) bad only to apply.to the Engineer in charge of tho works to bo put on. At the very time the Minister was speaking the whole of tho work was let, and that principally to'gangs f rora' Wellington. Three boys panied-Walthers, Gardner; and Bagley, left their hemes at the Mangatainoko.. Special Settlement ;oh Sunday last and liayo not since returned. , The police are after them., \ A movement is on foot amongst the' storekeepers of Pahiatua to close their places of busitioaa at 6 p.m. Messrs Job, Graham and Co., general merchants and buyers, of farm and dairy produce, announce the arrival of , new goods., Several special shipments are now landing at Wellington. Some very choice roll bacon, cured by the well . known expeit, Mr Phillips, of Featherston, late of Masterton, is also on Bale at Messrs Graham's Queon street score. A/«c lititt'lc of the handwriting of Williams the murderer, as taken by us from a Melbourne paper, may be Been in , the window of -Mr J. Williams, tobacco- , nist,. i The acceptances for the' Woodville District Jockey Club's. Autumn Hack Race.Meeting close'at Woodville at nine o'clock to-night with Mr Wm. Hicholabn, the Beoretaiyi It will interest residents of Maßterton t to know that one of the articles of the Knights of Labour constitution reads thus! "No local ur other assembly orj member shall directly give, sell, or have any ale, beer, or intoxicating liquors of ' any kind at any meeting, party, sociable ball, picnic or entertainment whatover appertaining to the Order. Any member found violating this lajr shall be suspended for not less than six mouths or oxpolled," ■■ '..'■.-'■ i The display of autumn and winter, goods made by Messrs L. J. Hoopor' & ' Co. at their Bon Marchi warehouse last evening was witnessed by orowds of 1 people, The large plate glass windows ' were beautifully dressed, and a magnifi- * cent show was made, in ono dapart- . ipenf was exhjbited all the latest novelties' in niillinor-y.and dross materials, aud 3 in the other, hien's youths' and boys' ■ clothing and hosiery. The doorway of tho establishment was dressed with various descriptions of woollen goods; t carpetsj'etcandon'tho whole the d'S: play compared favorably with anything before made,

A sheep of immense' proportions was killed on Friday by Mr T. Edwards, of Sandon. The animal was a six-tooth wether by a Lincoln ram out of a Romnoy Marsh eno, and being dressed, fib for freezing if necessary, turned the scoleat 2161b5. Internally there was' not a great quantity of superfluous if.it, but externally it was over six inches thick in some parts. The sheep was bred by Mr M'Nab (of Sandon), and 1b possibly nnoof the heaviest sheep killed on the WestCdasL ',' The wife• of ,the''-'negro comedian, Charles Hugo,; is suing for divoroo (say's the Mataura Ensign). During their married life, Charlie and Miss Priscilla Verne have varied the monotony of a nigger entertainment by throwing stage furniture at each other, Charles occasionally taking the lead with a head -bursting drunkt]irown in just for luck; and now man's, guardian angel has got tired of tbereciprogatory furnishing business' and wantß to run against a stray lump of domestic peace. A'contributor to a country paper re* marks;-" Rather an animated correspondence has been going.on this week on the subject ot frozen mutton in a widely circulated, daily journal. If turns rather on the question how " John Bull" is to reoognise frozm mutton when he gets it, which is pretty often now, and this aimpfy because!' John Bull", is now past all his prejudice, and merely wants to have Antipodean raeat at Anjiipodf.at) pricey, plus freight, <sc. ] a|n pleased, jii une sense, fco observe that those taking up this matter do not seem vorj confidant of being able to formulate any infallible means for telling the difference, ind, indeed, this is by no means an easy thing to do. lam sorry to say that still,,as of old, the trade suffers ffprntho nnscrupulo;««. who sell New Zealand.mutton for gepine can b.e |i.o doubt but that some E**«» have reaped a harvest |n tl|i« way," A correspondent of the Pahjatua paper' says i—Among tbo ridiculous statements- raado at the. Knights; of r'-'ir social by the 'member for MasHogg, was one that must have amused as wu"!! n Mni)oyeil some of our old aett'era, It was aodS. Mr J. Hall's residence. Mr Hogg said when he visited this district some years ago you could "put your three fingers through the cracks in the wall; which is moßt absurd, as the 'said hoUBe was papered, and anyone" would experience a deal of trouble to look' through the cracks even now, ten' years since the time.spoken'of, Our. member also stated thai Mr Hall kept an accoinmoda.; tion house, which is likewise incorrect, Mr Hall, in the early days.(when there was hardly another house in the bush! simply mado all visitors welcome; ana it must be a source of annoyance to him to have people who partook of his hospitality announcing from the public platform that his private dwelling house was a boarding house. Notwithstanding all Mr Hogg's early experiences (which, by the way, are very limited, so far. as Pahiatuais concerned) he has not learned that ft bush settler does tebl a little pride in his workmanship, arid dooa not like to have people who have.had their feet under -his table (which was always well loaded) holding forth at a Hovemriient demonstration as if he had been asked to pay his Is 6d before he left the room. Every man has a duty to perform, Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, sometimes otherwise., When it is a duty to pay a long standing butcher's account, or to pay a bill you backed for a friend " justto oblicre him," wwhen it lsaduty to receive a visit from your mother-in-law, these are painful duties. And when our fatherly Government decide to put a duty on everything, apd when a Parliamentary majotlty .opDßideriji.a fluty owe to ' their and the electors thoy represent (or misrepresent as the case may be), to ratify and legalise auch duties, why then it becomes a duty for the public of Maaferton in particular apljthe Wairaraua .in genera) to ariiil irigly pay'Bilch duties and quietly grin & belt it. -They tav\hdWer, as. duty to perform and' thfWfi 'toy: Utt Pf ap/sry and Olflthing it the Bon Marohe the cheapest apd besthousgip Materton I for anything of the sort. ■ Tha wholp; duty of man is to do the best ha oan : for himself;.. jNelson'saidj " En?land', expeota every man to do hls'/duty." •Hoopffi and C 0.,, aay, -," They .expect evbryoiei'whfether man, woman,orchild, young oOTdlks- and young folks to do their duties, bf doing theirdutyand 'mying all-they require in Drapery, Clothing, household fur . nisings, eto„ aj, the IJon M&n)w,' : •

It is intended to establish;salt works at Raogitotalaland (Aucklaiid). THequatte'itly-sitliog ! pf the District Court iat.Mastetton waa'coiicluded fa. day(Friday). .< ■;•■•-..' Mr Ji Stanton, farmer, of Kaiapoi, has a hen whiah has laid on egg weighing 3f ounces. . ... An inspection parade of the Maßterton Rifle Volunteors was held last night, Captain Pownall being in command. Tlw men were inspected by the Goramanding Officer and were afterwards instructed by Seigeant-Majoi Finn. Mr Duncan Livm°»tone, of Masterton, had;ratheran unpleasant experience near Mauricefille the other day. Ho was driving a hone and dray up the long side cuttinjr, when the whole, concern went over the embankment and rolled to tiut'bottom.'; Livingstone had his arm broken, and was removed to the Mas-' terton Hospital, Tho horse did not suffer seriously, and only the shaft of the dray was broken, "" ' " '"' ' ' At the Chamber of Commerce meeting at Palmeraton on Thursday last the following discussion took place with referenco to the Paluiewton Road. Mr Mowbray said he had boen in' conversation with a member of the Fitzherbert Road Board, and the latter stated'' that this Board was very anxious to have the road carried out, and would not like to' see cold water thrown upon the agitation now being made for its construe tion. The line road was within 1 \ miles of the boundary of their district, part of which was a good dray road, and the remaindor a 6ft track. The Board could not see why it should be called upon to provide the large i amount of £2OOO, as the district was already taxed , by aloan of £llOO for this work The ; hulk of the work wbb on tho Pahiatua '' side, one of the bridges required being almost in tho township,