Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4079, 2 April 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1892.

Beino the extended hue of the Wairabafa Daily, with which it is IDENTICAL,

We notice that our friends of Greyitoivji are still keeping their Arbor Day in view, and evidently iutend to still further beautify their town by tree-planting. We hope, in the in terest of this pleasant hopeful work, that they are not following the practice of the Railway Department. That Department has planted along th line a vast number of ornaments' and useful trees right through the Valley and up to the edge of the Forty-Mile Bush. So far, this is very good. These trees should be a sheltsr, a source of beauty, and possibly a soppp .of fevpnue in the future. But, unfortunately, tj}p fp.ct has nqt been recognised that to sipaply plant $ tree is not to ensure its growth. To leave these tender youngsters to struggle unaided against a hard, sun-dried soil anjl (jje stifling encroachment of grass and weeds ip t,p condemn the majority to death .or a stunted growth, £1)8 trouble and expense of putting tlieifl in will be wasted by this course, The cuttipg away of the rank grass and the surface hojoing, flf a yard radius, twice a year, would e.ns/ire a vigorous growth, and would iesp tjie | risk of destruction by fire. Nor is; tin? l.aj«F leouired for more tliap the; first three pr W yepp nftef planting, as a young tree so treated will by tb.at time hold its own. If this were don® | the start, the surrounding earth would lie ! 008e ' BIDSn^ armed with alight hot ? D( 1 reaphook would run over a large numbel' m tt day's work. As it is now, there has been hardly any growth by those which have to far survived, flpd the prospect of our having a grand shady line of sentinels from one end of the Valley to the other is poor indeed.

The Baweia people are going In for an artesian water supply. The Dunedin Star says The members of the first fifteen of the Alhambras will have to go into active training at once with a view to their engagement 'with the orack Masteit m.Olub at Eaflter Play goers are reminded of performance to be given by the popular Bright Lights .Company in the Theatre Royal this evening. The enjtertajumen]b is thoroughly and ia well .jyorfh witnessing. To-day is the monthly pay-day of th,e Mssterton and Greyfcowii Permanent Investment and Building Societies, A pumpkin , weighing eighty«thr?e pounds, crown by Mrs Grant, of Glad stoup, was on view at the uuetion mart of Meßßi'B Lowes & lorni ye.terday.

.A little eon nf Mr Melliah, of Feathers'* ton, broke his arm on Tuesday last in climbing a tree. ' ' 'Mr O,'A, Cunningham has been appointed in Inspector of Stock under the Sheep Act. Dr J, C, Smith is appointed a publio vacmator tor the district of Greytown,

Serjeant Henry M'Ardle is appointed Inspector of Weights and Measures for the Counties of Wairarapa North and South and Pahiatua, and the Boroughs of Masteiton, Greytown, and Carterton. The imports of Victoria last year were valued at £21,111,0C3, and the exports at £16.006,001). Thero is said to be an increased de* mand for yyung cattle in the Feildiug districtj ani prices continue to harden, On Thursday afternoon Messrs Ouningham, Badhain &00,, of Wellington, offered for sale the farm at Cross' Creek, the homestead of the late Mr Lot Cross, which comprises 6do acres freehold land and 164 acres on perpetual lease. The property was passed in at £3 an acre, and is now undor offer privately. The chrysanthemum show in connection with the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society h to be held on Wednesday, the 27th . April. The 11 mums" are already iu bloom in some paita of the town, Hotice to make returns under the Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891, is made by the Commissioner of Taxes, Mr Chas. M. Crombie. The .Wellington Agricultural and Pattoral Association hna accopted.twenby acres of land offered at Fetone by Mr Euiok fur a show ground. The Masteiton Lodge of Foresters has mado a special prant to one of its members, who has been receiving; sick pay fot some months, tu enable him to vhitthe seaside. This is an act of charity which cannot be too highly commended. The following new inspectors in the Wairaiapa under the Factories Act are gdzettodCharles Cooper, Pahiatua; Charles liowden, Maryborough | F. O. Smith, Foatheraton; Josuph Ecolelon, , Greytown; fiobort Darby, Carterton; and Maurice Roche, Eketahuna.

The London correspondent of a Sou- , them paper, writing on 20th February, j saysMr Buohanan, M.H.R., has gone north for a brief trip. Since his arrival in England he has been making extensive enquiries into tho frozen meat and daiiy produce trades. Mr 0. J. Pharozyn, of the Wairarapa, '| has left on a trip to London. His many | friends will wish him a safe and pleasant j voyage. .Mr G. W. Woodroffe has colleoted £l6 < in aid of tho erection ol a publio drinking i fountain in Masterton. The Town Lands Trust have been asked te contribute the j remaining sum required—about 120, The Masterton Town Lands Trustees i are indebted to the executors in the | estate of the late Mrs M'Keuzie in the j sum of J>2oo. When this amount is J paid the Trust will have very little to its credit in the Bank, Mr W. E Gidwill has been elected ; President of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Mr John G. Moore, son ot Mr T. Moore, of Carterton, was on Thursday married to Mies Emma S. Westou, a sister of Mr T. A. Weston of that town. The Rev. W. Ballaohey performed the ceremony and the bridesmaids were Missßlackeit, of llangiora, and Miss Moure, a sister of the bridegroom. The Napier' Herald 1 of March 28th, in noticing a disturbance in a brothel, asserts that " nearly a - dozen youths wero iouud in tho house, all more or less uuder the influence of liquor. The age of the oldest did not appear to bo more than 18 or 1!) years." A Mr Millman died at Hastings, Hawk'e's Bay, on .Saturday, as the result of an accident, and it was stated that ho had a policy in an Accident Insurance office for £3OO, It has since been discovered that the policy expired at noon on the 2oth instant, and as Mr Millman did not die until a few minutes past 12, his relatives will gain no beneftt. under the policy, The Otago Daily fraics says;—Aoort respondent at Lake Te Anau last week sunt us an aooount of a strange phenom* enon which he had witnessed at that lake. 'Our readers will probably remember that he gave a description of a noise resem* bling the explosion of a bombshell, whioh I was followed by a sharp shock. About • twenty minutes afterwards he observed & number of streaks of brilliant colour running in parallel lines across the lakr, ! and Bhining in tho rays of the settL' ■: sun like burnished copper. He founthat the colour was produced by a fine ' yellpw dj}at,aportion of which he secure 1 and sont to us for onalysjs, Wo'have had tho ''analysis" made, and fjho dust proves-tobe the spores of the common ' bracken tern (Pltris aquilina). We learn j from two or jthroe sources that it is a common autumn phenomenon to find , largo areas on the Btirfaoe ot Te Anaq and other lakes covered ffith these fern 6poroa. Like other fine kindß of organio , dust,-they will remain dry oven whon in contact with water for many hours,' and " with a light wind in a particular quarter r no doubt the broad area of dust could ) easily be separated and ranged in parallel I lines iii the manner described by our correspondent, The explosion he refers to may IIW been due to a meteoric ' stone.

The Union s,s, Company of Hew Zealand lias laid up ten steamers, >ind is cot template adding another to the list, The cause is (says the N.Z. Times) simply that tho Australian trade lias shrunk before the produce of the very line season they have just had all over the continent. t!rain, chaff, dairy produce ate all very abundant. That is very nearly what may be termed a "stopper." Undor ordinary oircumstancesour people might tyave had the enterprise to test the iptjvb (jiialifioß of ojir produce and the Australian. Jiujt tjje'extraordjuary Australian .tariffs effectually'W any such course. The! fine season has proved conclusively that Britain, not Australia, is the best customer for our superabundant produce. The- Pederationists though); ptherwise, but the season has proveil'the yery flupttiativa character of the market' thby ojss4''ik . In |)ad siiasuns the- Austrijjiajis nfust imribrh foods from us; 'in gpoi seasons they cannot, and they are . determined they wfll net, v. v '

Always read the nowspflper, and jkecpl thorouyiiy posted' id regard to the tran-j saotionsof the mjrld. Be who is without a; jieu-epaper is cut of from his species, in t'lpe jja y.s of tejegrapfls pi steam, Many imppriant invention's and in)groy|Bniejit§ jn eypry h;anph of trade are bejng made, and he Who dpfl't ponaiflt t)u newspapers will rery soon And himself out in the pold strangers that don't road this paragraph •"ill hardly know that li, J, Hooper ana Co. of the Bon "l'"! I ' l ' B the cheapest and teat drapery establishment, anu up> their new season's shipments oi the latest novelties in English ' and French ' millinery, djess . goods, • eto Co, arc known to them as well as Howrockses Xiesideiits have an advantage as Hooper & and Crewdsons oalicoes, which the firm kee a big stock of, Still there are times when resides jyflukl be out in the cold if they did. not consult'tho papers. For instance Messrs Hooper and Company have a sp'ecia line they they know is going to give 40s in the £ in value to those who purchase it, They let theirfriends know through the columns of the press; some read it, some don't. Those they do have an advantage over those that don't. Ladies' and children',), ulsters, jaokets, furJinfd cloaks, r velvets, ■ and plushes, fur goods, umbrellas, new hosiery and gloves Special makes in clothing just opened from the Mosgiel, Myn,: Kaiapoi, Petone, and Onehunga mills, Blankets and flaimelsi'ruga, ghask ap3lWiety of boy's olothipg' manufactured' 'to their owl order from good durable tweeds! Tailoring is a specialty 'jilh tljefjrm. 'Th? aJdrjss to those who don't Ijnow the® f which'ifyery few in New is L, I Hooper & v 0„ Bon darche, Masterton. and any order so addressed will be promptly executed.