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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4146, 23 June 1892, Page 2

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers hold thoir weekly parade this (Thursday) evening. .-..;,.

Mr D. S. Papworth's new flour mill at Greytown is now at work, and the samples of. flour it is .turning out are said to be of splendid quality.

The •'fficial Assignee's costs to date in connection with the bankruptcy of Joseph and Emma Ingley amount to about £4O. The asset* in the estate arerail. The caßebßs now been before the Otiurt for nearly three years. The Dunedin Star, in a recent Issue, assured its readers that Otaki wan in the Auckland provluce. The destitute woman who arrived in Masterton on Monday night has been forwarded on to Palmerston, where it is stated certain relations of her late husband reside.

The Woodviile paper auffiesfa that the Maugahaodistriot, which now has a good populatioo, be connected with Pahiatua by telephone. .--- A little girl at Ormondville. drank a quantity of carbolioaoid the other day, but being quiokly dosed with an emetic, sustained no serious injury. ' . ' " The adjourned Bitting of the Masterton Borough Lidensing Bench will be held on Tuesday next, when the application for a renewal of the license of the Star Hotel will be further, heard. .:.... ..

A boundary rider met his death in a deplorable fashion near Jerilderie.. He was a recent arrival in the colony; and was employed at Bynya Station, de had not returned as usual to the station, and when search was made he was found lying dead in the mud in one of the tanks. His horse was tied up to.a fence close by, aud there were a number ot sheep also stuck in the mud,. It is supposed that the deceased went' into the swamp to extricate theßheep, became exhausted and could not get out, He had been stuck in the mud for nearly thirty hours,

A country farmer,:not 100 miles frora Milton, Otago, got bis leg hurt, The doctor who camo to see him ordered a dozen leeches, The following day, when ho called to see his patient, he asked the man's wife how he got on with the leocheß? "Oh," she answered, "I biled ae half and fried the ither half, He was gey squeamish at the.biledanes, but the fried anes gaed doon nae see bad."— 'Globe/ ~.•■.

In the Bydney District Court a suit has been brought by a child of four years named albert Andrews for £ 2OO damages against John Saunders for a bite from a fox terrier.dog, The case on behalf of the plaintiff is that whilst the child was going a message it was attacked and bitten. As a consequence of this the boy was ill for some time, and even now he occasionally awoke at night-in a state of terror, and cried out that the dogs were after him. The occasion complained of was not the first on whioh the child had been bitten by the dog, it having rushed at him and torn his trousers three months previously. The defendant denies that the dog belonged to him.

The lot of tho Western Australia policeinen can hardly be called a happy one. n. Perth telegram states that Proctor, a constable, who was bringing in a batch of men in chains, was overpowered by his prisoners,who succeeded in releasing themselves and subsequently chaining up the policeman, :

MrO.M, Gray, of Christclmrch, has just cotnpletod his annual invostigntion ofthecostof the drink traffio in New Zealand. The result reveals ah increase last year of more than £14,000 in the total amount spent in drink, but tne increase of population shows that the average cost per head has .decreased' about one shilling, The coat of keoping down rabbits in Viotoriais estimated at half-a-million per annum,

The District Court in bankruptcy was occupied several hours yesterday in the hearing of the application 'of Joseph Ingley for his discharge,' The bankrupt was examined at some length by opposing counsel. The Official Assignee, in answer to Mr Acheson, stated that he had no opposition to offer to the discharge being granted if the costs incurred were paid by the bankrupt, After considerable argument by counsel His Honour intimated that he would not think of giving an unconditional discharge, and as to a conditional discharge he would reserve his decision,

''MiohaelDaly was before tho R. M. Court at Gisborne yesterday on & charge of stabbing one John Dunn with a pbdkm'fe. The evidence showed that a party of men spent the whole of Sunday in playing "Yankeegrab" and drinking 'm a country hotel, and late at night they quarrelled over gambling transactions, acoused stabbing Dunn in the thigh, Daly was remanded for a week,'

A man named Austin shot his wife, and then himself, out of jealousy, at Sydney, jtoth died. They were formerly residents in New Zealand. Although the tug-of war tournament recently held in Masterton was not a financial success, we understand thp whole of the prize money has been paid over by the promoters aud all liabilities liquidated.

During the past few years tb) business of Mr Geo Johnston, of Quoen-street. Master ton, has madosuch rapid strides that he finds his present premises do not afford him sufficient accommodation, and he has been obliged to effect extensive additions arid ■.',■ To save.- tho trouble of removing a very large and selected stock he has therefore decided to hold a genuine clearing sale, which will last for twenty-one days only. The time cannot on any account bp extended as the pontraptor wjll- require to remove the side partitions and commenco work on the old premises at the expiration of that period.. It will thus bo seen that the Bale is jiomfiie, as the. goods must be got out by the time specified, A glancp at the inset published with today's issue will show the real bargains in every lino, whioh we feel sure residents will not be backward in taking advantage of. How is It? Ask anyono In the crowd, Ask your next door neighbour, Ask the man who collects tickets on the railway, A*k the people who dwell in Eketakuna, Maurlceville, Tonui, Carterton, Creytowp, or ar.ywhero else, Communicate with the people living in any part of the cuuutry, Ask them all why they'skopatL/JrHOOPKRfcCOMPANY'S, and they will tell you "because it suits them,' And why does it euit them ? Because they get more and better in exchange for their more; at the Son Marche than anywhere else, and because the conveniences of the plice are such as no other establishment can afford. These are the hare outlines of the reasoning that brings the people in shoals to thin wonderful place Of business. Visit the various departments in which tlio'fordlycreature man finds all he wants, and womanloves .to linger and look at the fashion section, Herb are the Boulevards'of-Parifand the shops of Regent'and Oxford streets, London, rolled info due. Hereunder your oyoare the fashions 'arranged,- classified,- and ready for Iramediatd use and wear. Turn into the grocciyand'provisiin.Kctions, These 'aro' of interest to Everyman jack in tho community, To-'describo the advantages df liuying'from Hooper would SU abook, Whether you want blalikets or'bonnets, tea or susar, .whether ycty'rea chilly mortal or'a h6t Jmerhb'er, a iprb'tectlonlstj-a freetrader, a socialistic cWthuropSai, a potltivist, a 1 none''such',:'or a ftbbit'cafcher, you will nnd'iibhettor'outlet fir the money •ydir'have to spend thin at Hooper and'Compasy's Bop tlareta.Maiteri&itift :„■ ' "■•■.'...■■■■.'.:.;

- An Awahuri (Manawatu) settler Is theowner of three sheep who work in har«' uess, draw wood, etc., and live in loose boxes like horses, It is said that Sell's Circus Oom'pa! y took away £15,000 more than they wont tu Australia with. A publioan of Danevirke is to be charged with having served liquor on Good Friday." According to an Auckland telegram to the Daily Times, advices by the 'Frisco mail of the shipments of applos to the London market are very unfavourable. One shipper gets loss than 10s (total) tor about 180 caws, after "paying freigbb and London charges. Messrs White & Co,; London, writing of one consignment, say they appeared as if they had got frozen on board the steamer and afterwards cooked. They were in a most frightful condition. Fruit after being frozen spoils on being turned but, and becomes rotton. It should be carried where the temperature is about 45deg; then it would travel all right, but it must be away from meat.

It was at a ball not a hundred miles frow Pioton (says the 'Press'), aud the subject under discussion was vanity, ', A lady maintained that mira were also given to vanity. " The men are t«n times more vain than the ladies," she remarked.; "That's impossible," said several gentlemen. The subject changed, and a few minutes later the lady romarked: "The handsomest man in the room has a spot on his waistcoat," whereupon every man within hearing glanced down with a scared expression of countenance at his vest.

We have been shown by Mr M, '¥' Coffey a piece of pawa shell about an inch long, whiph haß-a somewhat gruesome history, During the war it was driven into the body of a warrior who was wearing it; and Kimball Bent was ordered to extract it. Fearing that the result of an operation would be fatal, and that probably ho would bo" paid by results" in a somowhot utipleasant fiahion, he declined to act as surgeon till forced. The native did die, but Bent was not made the scape-.goat, and he returned the piece of shell as a memento of a rather awkward predioament.-Hawera Star. "

Wo learn that a gentleman at Timatu, who has been several years investigating the causes and sources of our colonial earthquakes, and who has supplied to him telegwphio 'notice!, with particulars of ah that are'obßerved, has 1 arrived at the conoluaion that most, if not all, of those felt in this part of New Zealand originate at a point under the sea, about 62 miles from Wanganui (saya the Chronicle) and 47 tram - Wellington. This would be about, half way betwoen Utakiand O'Urville's Island, and agrees with observations takon here during the last fifty years by the Rev. R, Taylor and others.

Accordiug to thsGlenorchy correspondent of the Lake Wakatipu Mail a remarkably fine harvest has followed one of the finest Bummers ever enjoyed at the head of the lake, and enabled the farmers to save their exceptionally tine crops in first-olsss order.' The yield all over the district, with few exceptions, is one of tho best,that has ever been seen, even-in this looality, so favourable to tho growth of cereals. He adds: -Grass is more abundant than it has bpou at any time Bince the advent of bunny,; and I believe I am within the mark in sayinti that in no part- of Otacd arefiner Gelds of turnips to be seen'th'atfonsoine uf the farra» here, notably on the. Now Zealand Loan and M.A, Oo.'s Eirnslaw estate. As a natural consequence stock of all kinds are in first-class condition, and owners' are enabled to look forward to the coniir.g winter without, the least apprehension as to soarcity of feed. The only drawback is the abnormally high rales ruling for store sheep, combined with the low price of wool, which renders it impossible to buy sheep so as to leave anything like a fair margin lor protit; and, as in many cases hore. the country is not stocked up to anything like its carrying capacity, a latge amount of feed will go absolutely to waste,

It may be interesting to Victims of the "Picturesque Atlas " agents to learn that the'company formed to publish 1 the | work was a huge success, Big dividends were paid, and when the work was completed the oapital ! account just balanced. If it had been wound up shareholders would have got back the whok of their capital-In addition to what they had previously received in dividends. But instead of liquidating the company has ontered upon other enterprises, for which the articles of association '■ give' authority. This work, however, does not, it is said, require inore than half the capital that was necessary to carry on the original busi- ! ness, and the New South Wales Supreme Court was recently asked to, confirm a resolution reducing the amount from £76,000 to £37,600. Mr.Justioo Wanning found himself the guidance of authority, and followed the lead of common sense. He therefore confirmed the resolution, and thus indirectly sanctioned a thing which: the law forbids being done directly. The point is an important one and the question arises whether the principle embodied in it is a safe one fur general application.

_ As the platform of many newspapers is an enigma, the following furnished by the Grey River Argua-to a correspon« dent anxious to know the politics of the Star, will be found applicable. The editor of the former paper despaired answoring' euoh a formidable question, so called into requisition the P.D., who wrote as follows; The policy of the Star is liberally liboralj unconaervatively conservative; a roundy num. square polioy ready to go baldheaded for what pays j a dog in a manger and a cat chasing her tad polioy; a go as you pleaso jump Jim Crow policy j a real So. 1 polioy in which there is no No. 2, the results being the author's sweet prerogative ; the largest circulation in the world polioy and a thousand times mure than the other fellow—the handiest policy of all; a give and take polioy, the taking part being played by one only and always; a quarter on your enemies and friends alike policy ;anever oxpress an opinion policy if business is lively to be endangered; a working man, capi. talistic, benefit organisation or any other society policy that is likely to be handy; abe all things to all men while taking care of No. 1 polioy; a attckto! any political prinoiple so long as it pays policy; an always professing but never performing policy; a policy whioh enables Toots to write to himself anonymously slating his old and tried friend Jimmy; it is the polioy of the thimble rigger—now you see it, now you don't see it—a £ you can't spot the joker; generally speaking a polioy of don'tthis side up with nare, and don't you forget it; it is Joseph's coat polioy with a)l the oolours of the rainbow, the 'right colour' in eluded—enough to make Mr Uallanco greon with envy,

The Wakatipu Mail reporls'that as aOhinese gardener, named Ah Moke, residing at the Uhinese house a short distance ont in the Gorge road, was returning from town to the garden at about 8 o'clock, a person of short stature passed him quickly near tho: junction of Beach and Oarap-atreeta and went towards the road.leading to the gtrdem. He saw nothing further of the person until near home, when he noticed somebody standing as if waiting, immediately on passing the individual Ah Moke looked round to see who it was,, when he- saw a gun levelled'at him;.the individual quickly turned his head away,, bo that his face should not be seen, and 'fired, the shot tearing away tlie.coatiiig of Ah Moke's right arm add lacerating the flesh, The person immediately ran away, The wounded man's cries soon attracted af ten-' tion, and be was taken td (he hospital Tho imatter twaf-tjlen 'placed • in' the hands of the police, whohave 'since beeti making rigid investigations, but without Bucceis so faVwebelieve'■ The gW was lirodatabouta yard distant' frota Ah Moke, an'd it ia quite prdbable that hii life'was saved by- his looking"roiim) at the'.misoreanf,- whd, in' consequence,' fireoVwjth' his' face turned away from his violin), thus spoiling his aim. ,;The injured man has 119 'ifiea whatever;- wnV the person was, the njght bejag' W! troiririy.dark, ."'-'.''••

: The remains of thelate lira Cox were followed to'the grave yesterday afternoon by a ; larp;e namber of residents of Maaterton. Ttte' Foresters' Lodge, of which Mr OWis a member, wasrepresented in and took part in the ceremony at the grave, The second of the series of winter evening entertainments to be held in connection with St Matthew's Churoh, Masterton, takes place to-morrow (Friday) evening, i good programme will be presented, several of the leading lady and gentleman amateurs of the district having promised to assist, As, apart from tho 'merit of the entertainment, the object is a worthy one, we have' no doubt that a goodly number will be present,. '

One of the speakers at the meeting in the Mttßtertoh Presbyterian'Ohuroh last stated that the present Ministry was the greatest" beer-barrel combination " which had ever held the reins of office in flew Zealand.

It ijproposed'tosend 'missionaries' to the King Country to procure signatures to a petition for presentation to the Government protesting against the introduction of alcoholic liquor to those parts.

Mr James McGregor, who has been on a combined business and pleasure trip to the South Island, returned to Masterton, last night.

It is probable (Bays an Australian paper) that in these colouies the prerogative of morcy in oapital cases will be transferred from tho Governor to the Cabinet at the joint request of the Australian .Governments,

The funeral of the lato Mrs Darby took place at Carterton yesterday, the cortege being a very lengthy one. rkgemt M'Ardle, of MasterUm, was amongst the followers. Messrs Lowes and lorns announoe through our advertising columns a sale for Saturday next of new and second hand furniture of every description, books, surges, clothing, etc On Thursday last as a wedding party was driving away from the church at Southbrook, one of the! horses dropped dead, the oause being the dreaded but fly. A man named John M'Lennan was brought in to Maaterton yesterday by Constable Collerton, of Tenui, having been arrested at Mr H. R,. Elder'e station on the charge of the larceny of a saddle, The saddle was.removed from the back of a horse belonging, to Mr James Stewart at Tenui in January last, and was traced to M'Lennan's whare. The accused was oharged with the effence in the R,M. Court this morning, The Premier and Colonial Secretary waited upon 9ia Exoellenoy the Governor on Tuesday aftornoon iu reference to the proposed appointments tothe Upper House. The Premier asked His Excellency whether he would agree to the appointment of a certain number of Councillors to till the vacancies caused by deaths and resignations, and to. further strengthen the ranks of Ministerial supperters in. the Council, His Excellency produced Lord Onslow's memoranda on tho subjeot, and declined toagreo to the number proposed, suggesting a slightly smallor number, but as ueithor side would give way, no settle-: ihent was arrived at, No names wore submitted. It is understood that the Government will now wait and send up their palioy,.Bills to the Upper House before' taking further'action, Lord Onslow's' memorandum to His Excellency contained a moderate and impartial review of the question of the now appointments. The Premier's araumenta finled to alter the opinions which Lord Glasgow had formed upon the. representations of his predecessor, and though there was little difference between the numbor ho was propared to appoint and tho number which the Premier desired him to appoint, he would not recede from his position.

A correspondent in the Wellington Evening Post of yesterdays;—tJaseeing a leading article in your issue of Saturday, in whioh you stato that the work of unravelling the Eketahuna mystery was left in the hands of fcha iuexper. iencod (?) local constable, 1 must presume that you have been misinformed, as such Was notthecase. The facts are that Datum expired a little after H a,m. on the 12th February, and at 12.30 p.m. the same day a Wellington detooiivo arrived on the scene from Pahiatua,aud was there beforttuthe local constable returned with the suspected persons, Inspector Thomson arrived next day, and appeared at the inquest.- Throe days later another Wellington detective arrived, and kmaiued until the men were committed for trial, So you see this inespeiienced constable was acting, I presume, under the directions of the intelligent, ex* pnrienced Wellington detectives. Iu calling Constable tioche "inexporienced" f must presume you do not know the man, as a settler in this place informs me he served with him in great Scotland Yard many years ago.