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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4142, 18 June 1892, Page 2

A fishmonger of Christchurch has been fined £1 for selling game without a license, The next winter entertainment in connection with St, Matthew's Church takes place on Friday, June 24th, instead of July 24th as advertised yesterday. Civilization again! A hungry Maori marohod into a Masterton boardinghouse yesterday, and having regaled himself with a god square meal, left without paying. He ia wanted.

A good number of farmers have already given in their names as members of the Masterton Farmers' Club. A meeting will bo held at an early date to adopt rules, arrange for a building in which to meet, and to transact other important business,

Colonial legislators who find a difficulty in the management of their ' ha' forma long list, from Sir Henry Parkes and Sir Graham Berrydownwards. The fault is not thought much of in our Assembly, but education is spreading amongst our young people, and therefore there was a general tittor when, as mayor of the city, an M.L.A. commenced his duty of distributing the prizes at the fjtate school thus;—To Hemma Heavens for hexcellence in hovelling hesercises, which was not diminished when he added —1 'ope I shall not have to call upon the 'ed teaoher to 'elpine in keeping horder, -Argus.

TheOtago Daily Times, referring to the regulations of the liquor traffic in Dunedin, says: point out to the Licensed Victuallers' Association is this: That such cases as that of certain hotels are rapidly educating public opinion to the point when a large majority of the people will demand the abolition of the drink trafEo in very despair of the futility of all efforts to restrain it, It is perfectly well-known that there are certain hotels in this city in which Sunday trading goes on almost openly, and that the law is habitually defied. There are far too many hotels in Dunedin, so many in fact that not a few are obliged to break tho law, and conduct their houses in an illegal manner in order to make a livelihood, We give the Association full oredit for desiring a different state of things, and it would be advisable in the whole interest of the trade if a list of 15 or 20 houses, which could well be d'speosed with, were prepared by the Victualler's Aiseciatiun and lianded to the Licensing Committee. No one is better able to judge in this matter than an association in which the brewers figure prominently. If some satisfactory vrangement ot this kind ia not come to, 'censed victuallers ran expect not'iing else than that the aguation must grow strougor and stronger, until at last the tude may find itself abolished, If the liquor trade were kept within due bounds and those heartrending evils which are produced by the Bale of intoxicating liquors, and which are the weapons, and rightly so, to tho hands of its opponents, were put an end to, thetiaffioitself,in a reasonable form, would certainly continue. Reform, we are persuaded, must come from within, or else, as so often happens, revolution will come from without.

The Dobson«Kennedy Dramatic and Comedy Company completed a highly successful soason of eight nights in Masterton last nipjit, when the Theatre Royal wsb again crowded to the doors by a most enthusiastic audience. Nover before has a company dreamt of performing in Masterton for so long a season, yet this talented combination has tho gratification of knowing that the audience was larger and more appreciative ou the eighth night than on tho first. Tho piece staged las') night was Dion Boucicault's great Irish drama "Arrah-na-Pogue." The performance was interesting from first to last, every character being sustained in more than a faithful manner. The audience was delighted with the acting, charmed with the scenery,'and thoroughly captivated by the magnificence of the costumes. More than this can hardly be said, The departure of the humorous Kennedy, the sympathetic Dobson and the talented Company by whom they are supported will be regretted by all, and their return wdl be eagerly looked forward to, The Company left for Pahiatua to- day.

How is it! Ask anyone in the crowd. Aiik your nest door neighbour. Ask the man who collects tickets on the.railway. Aek the Mieo'ple who dwell'in Eketakuna, Mauriccville, i'euui, Carterton, Greytown, or anywhere else, Communicate with the people living in any part of the country, Ask them all why they shop atl. J, HOOPKR& COMPANY'S, and they will tell you "fcecauso it suits them,' And why does It suit them? Because they got more and better in exchange for tbeir money at the' Son Marchjb than anywhere else, and because the conveniences of the place are euch as no other establishment can afford. These are the base outlines of, the reasoning that brings the people In skoals to this wonderful place of business. Visit the various departments in which the lordly creature man finds all he wants, and woman-lovely womanloves to linger and look at the fashion section, Here are the Boulevards of Paris and m (hops of Regent and Oxford streets, London, tolled into one. Here under your oye are the fashions arranged, classified, and ready for immediate use and wear, Turn into tho grocery and provision sections, These are of interest to every man jack in the community;' the Advantages .of buyingfrom Hooperwould fill abbot, .Whether you want blankets ortonnets, tea of sugar, whether you're a chilly mortal or a hot member,' a pWteclionfiti-a ' freetrader, a tocialut; a ctlitUnbpiaU, a posltiyfet, *a' nope Bucbj "or a rabbit catcher,' you will' find ho jjetfrontlet for the money you have to'epend-than at Hooper and Company's Bon March*, Muter-fon.-Advt,

The Wan-arena Farmers' 00-oporativ* Assooiation notify Ha arrival of several important ironmongery and hardware lines, ex last direot steamers.

_The Masterton dooters deny lint diphtheria is now prevalent in our midst,' but state that influenza and whouping cough are almost epidemic. _ He thermometer registered 38, Fah, in Masterton at seven o'clock this morning, How's that for cold I It is proposed to ereot a home for destitute children in Napier, and a meeting has been called of those interested in its establishment. . ■.

Application has been made .to the Wellington Education Board for the erection of a sohool at Makairo, Fortymile Bush,

Daring the month of May .the arrivals in the Colony, numbered 1057,' and the departures 102!)]' A concert in aid of the Masterton WesleyahOhurch is to be held on Thursday, June 30th. Mr T; : F. Brenchley, of Masterton, has received an order from Wanganui for a ton of his insbcticide and farm and garden fertiliser. The following resolution was oarried at the Roy. Dr. Lucas' temperance meeting in Wesley Ohurob, Wellington, on Thursday night:-" That a deputation be formed to wait upon the Hon. J, Ballance, to respectfully urge upon jhe Government, in the interests of sobtiety in general, and of the Maoris in particular, that the reoent proolamatiou whereby a licensed house may be established in the King Couotry, be immediately revoked"

Mr Simile, at his farewell performance in Napier this woek, announcod his intention of touring the principal towns of the colony at the end of tire year with a musical comedy company, in .conjunction Mth Messrs' Abbot and Gourlay. The tour will begin at Auckland about the October,

At: tha; meeting of the Mastertbn bchool Committee oh Thursday night, ono of the members said lie had an importent matter to brine; befotethe Committee. It had been repotted to him by females that disgusting sights,' and sights offensive to children, Bad. been seen m front of a certain hotel, He thought some action should be taken for the protection of the morals of tho ohilden, A lively discussion on the Bubject was cominenced, butai no resolution had been I proposed it was ruled out of order by the Chairman. The matter was then allowed'to drop. At the weekly session- of the Masterton Mutual Improvement Society, hold in the Wesleyan schoolroom last evening, essays on the following subjeots were given:-" James Garfield "; Miss Williams; "Lord Helion'" :Mmi Dukes; " The Sydenham Licensing Deoision " Rev J. Dukes; " Shakespeare as a Temperance Teaoher" Mr Johnson. At the next bbsbiod a debate will take place on the following Bubject :-la Co-operation more adapted tu promote the well being of mankind than Competition.