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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4143, 20 June 1892, Page 2

The Government of -Victoria has decided to reduce; the strength ;of: the militia by 1000 meh'aihHlius save £20,000 a year. ■ ......,',. ; The first prize in the Masterton tug-ol-war has been e,warded;.to the Native team, which has won two pulls and Iwb not The-final pull between the Welihmon and the Fire Brigade for second prize takes place thfe (Monday) evening. : The K.M.S. Mariposa, Nvith the San Fraaoisco mail on board, arrived, at Auckland on Saturday. Ber ! mail reachedMastertonto-day.';' ■■]']'■' Ploughing operations are now'in ;full swing in this district, and in some cases theeowing baa been finished.' ■'■< h,,: A Marlborough settler has a curiosity. in the shape of a retriever puppy born' without eyes and with only one ear,'a protuberance the shape of a foot occupy* ing the nthor Bide. Mr D. Crewe intends holding monthly stock sales at Eketahuna.

, Mr T. E. Price, photographer, who ,han been on a trip to Australia, has returned to Masterton. , „;.;

A Hawke's Bay exohange says that " for fatuous vaoouyand sheer wrongheadedness the New Zealand Times now fakes the palm.'- : ' !; ' '■ : - : '" -• ■ MrF.H.lWood will hold an import* tahtgeneralsaleathisUreytown rooms on Saturday next, Jiine 2Bthj inoldding ironmongery, drapery and a special trial consignment of high'' class 1 books? a. fall list of r ._vihiclij appears] elsewhere, i; Two' 1 heavy screw jacks,, one seven tons and the Other five, 1 will alsb be'offered.;-, y;' ; A horde of blacks attacked a camp ot three men;,on •'the/'Leopolds'JRanges; Western AußtraliaJand killed two of them, Robert Allan and Thomas Henry, The former was a New Zealander. The' balance»Bheet presented to the Masterton ; . Agricultural and; - Pastoral Association at it's meeting on' Saturday shewed the actualjeoeipts for the year to be M\ and theexpenditure £452 19s 4d. The liabilities at date amounted to only i!2o| whilst the assets were £Bl7 10s, The Association is .to be' congratulated upon tho 'exceedingly satisfactory state of its finances,

The Jurors summoned to attend the sitting ef the District Court to be held at Masterton on Wednesday next are noti6ed ! tha't their attend.inoe will not be' required. • •' ■ '

: A false alarm was sounded on the Mafltcrton fireball at about tivo' o'olock on Saturday, evening... ~...,,.,, . ;

A thorough canvas ot the district ib to be made by the officers of the Masterton A, and F. Association for special prizes for the next show. The public will, we feel sure) be ready and liberal in its response. Things are improving, For the past two monthß there has not been a single bankruptcy in the Wairarapa. . A child of a settlor on the Tiraumea road, Forty« Mile bush, was poißoned the other day by tucking matches, The usual antidotes were administered, and the child iB now out of danger. • Constable O'Leary, of Masterton, is at present on leave of absence. ; A " drunk" received the usual treatment in the Masterton B.M, Court 1 this (Monday) morning. The next annual show in connection with the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association Ib to be held on Thursday, October The charge of horse-stealing against Alexander Gillies is not to bo heard un til to-morrow morning. The remand msde at Timaru expired to-day, but bail was obtained in Maßterton until Tuesday.

The annual general mooting of mem« bers of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society will be held in Mr W. G. Beard's office, Queen-street, on Friday next at 8 p.m. The business will be to receive the report and ba'anco-sheet for tho past year and elect officers. Intending members are invited to be present. . A London correspondent says that the difficulties which surround any attempt to reform the vicious received an amusing, if rather lamentable, exemplification the other day. A zealous London clergyman, whose work lies in one of the West End slums, founded some months ago a.olub for the "doßSers" of the neighborhood, including—needless to say—several ox-convicts, whose conduot as members of tbe club was so far beyond reproach that some of them were made responsible for the maintenance of order on the premises. One night, however, tho rooms of the club were entered, and the caterer's store of tobacco was carried off, bb well as the box which contained the subscription money, destined for the payment of! lodging-house fees for those whochr.nced at the end of a day to he without the wherewithal,, As a result of subsequent enquiiy the theft was laid at the door of certain of the members, who, perhaps to keep their hands in, had "burgled" their own property—had, in fact, " cracked their ownorib." In a leading article referring to tho Eketahuna murder the Evening Post, inter alia, says i—The local constable, no doubt, did his best-probably as rauoh as could be expected from an inexperienced man-but the fact remains that a foul crime was committed, and it has not been brought home to anyone, The criminal or criminals arc still at large, free to perpetrate-similar or woree offences in the future. This reflection is certainly,, not a pleasant''one,;, and it becomes still ieasaatisfaoUiry" when it is remembered that what to all appearance was an even more dastardly crime comn mitted in the Bame neighborhood is still unavenged by the law. That such crimes asthe poisoning'of the wedding guests at Pahiatua and the stabbing of Dalton at Eketahuna should have passed undetetced, and their authors enjoy immunity from punishrae'nt/js.uotcalqu' lated tp impress the publio with much respect for those in whose hands the work of criminal investigation and the protection of the people againßt crime rests in this colony, The existint! machinery is evidently halting iu its operation and ineffective in its work,

How ib it ? Ask anyone in tho crowd, Ask your next door neighbour, Ask the nan who collects tickets on tho.railway,. M the people who dwell in Eketahuna,' Mauriceville, Tenul, Carterton, Groytown, or anywhere else." Communicate with the people living in any part of> the country.' Ask them all why they shop atL J. HOOPERS COMPANY'S, and they wiU tell you "because it suits them.' And why does it suit them? Became %get more and better in exohange for their mosey at the Bop }lprchb,than&nywhorp.el?ei and becaiisp the'convenlorices of theplnc'o jremich asnoother establishment can afford, These are the bare outlines of the reasoning that brings the people in shoals to this wonderful place of business, Visit the various departments in which the lordly oreature man finds all ho wants, and woman—lovely womanloves to linger and look at the fashion section, Here are the Boulevards of Paris and the shops of Regent and Oxford streets, London, rolled into one. Here under your eye are tho 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. To describe the advantages of buying from Hooper would fill a book, Whether you want I blankets or bonnets, tea or sugar, whether you're a chilly mortal or a hot member, a protectioni»t;;ai' freetrader, a socialist, a cilithumpian, a-positivfet, <a. none- snobj ;or a rabbit catcher, you will find no better outlet for-the money -you'lava to-spend than at Hooper and 1 Compaq's Bon'Maroho, Master-{cV-Adrt, ,■"■'".- ■"■' ■-;•".' ~

To-ttay, June 20th, is the fiftv-fifth anniyetsaiy of the accession of Queen Victoria to the Throne of England. '•";/' There is said to be a soaroity of feed in the Masterton district just now, The winter has been .very severe, and the sttftss has suffered considerably, Stock generally ia in poor condition. A few days ago a Foxton citizen was " docked" under the town pump, con* oerning whioh the local paper says : 11 The recipient of the free cold douche is keeping quiet—angelically so-being busy drying his badly treated wardrobe.' A gentleman who was in the neigh> bourhpod of Ku'm'ara; hat'week states that a thunderstorm of great violence raged there one day and that an aerolite fell and ploughed up the ground forsome distance.

, A crank, living at Brisbane, suggest* a plan to exterminate' the rabbits.-' He says that, as it has beenfoundimpossible to exterminate them by the ordinary] agenoießof man,'"aday might be appointed on whioh a united prayer, written by some of the able ministers, be offered up in the. churches to supplicate Diviue intervention," When the rabbits have been killed, the, proposer of this eminently practicable Ycheino suggests that: thoy be packed in 281b tius and sent to the starving Jews in Bussia.

In the Pahiatua E.M. Couttono day last week; James Ooleman was charged on the information of Joseph lorns witli having obtained possession of 29 head of store cattle, valued at £llß, by making false statements as to his position, etc. Mr; Gould.,for complainant, and Mr Tosswill (instructed by Mr Beard) for I accused. The facts as stated by Mr lorne, were ;-(Jn the 26th March accused purchased the cattle at his stock sale. Being a stranger, witness told him he could hot have the cattle without paying cash.. Accused then said ha was per' fectly solvent, and that if witness would let him have the cattle on a p.n. he would put them on his land afWangaone, where there was abundance of feed, and keep them ; there until the bill was met. Gave delivery -of cattle on these' statements, Accused never took them.to Mangaone at all; but took them straight into Lowes & lorns' sale yards at Masterton,. where they were sold at a less price than they origin • ally fetched, the proceeds being retained by the auctioneers to meet an overdue p.n, Mr Tosswill caid the case : was the most.trumpery'ever brought into court. It was simply an attempt to bring'the criminal law: into operation when a civil action:.would have sufficed, After ten minutes'deliberation, the Bench dismissed the .information, without prejudice. • ; iy'i