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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4147, 24 June 1892, Page 2

Sir George Grey is Bu'fferirig; , from'a severe attack of bronchitis, i Though better, he will not be able to go toVVeIU inijton for a fortnight.;, ; . ;;, ;• ■;. \) ';,;, y Mr J. H. Baker, Commissioner of Crown Lands, will hold a Court Wenquiry into the military, ..service, ;land olaims at Maßterton next month. '

We again remind our readers: of sibe second of the series ef winter entertainmenta to be Riven in St. -Matthew'! Church this (Friday) evening. i Some special lines in winter goods'are' being offered just now by the Wholesale Drapory Company at' 1 reduced' rates', -particulars of whioh ; appear in an inset published' with May's issue' of' the "Daily Times,"; [-.,,.-. -,,-,-:-i-r.'-.'"-

Tho. annual genoral meeting of the raemberß of the Horticultural and lndnatrial Association, will be. held at Mr thts'(Fridayi evening. The business will be to receive the baJaricHhee).- fcleoli officers^etbiT'.; :: Mr E. &.'■ vVaaMing'to'ri' has beeVapi' pointed >to . represent the > Masterton Lodge of Foresters at the annual conference shortly to be held in Wellington. Tho Masterton'RifleYolna'leers' hold their weekly/parade last evening, .about thirty-fivo, rank and file, beint; present. The men wero put through their facings by'-.,- the'. ; local [} officers I ,' arid I through physical drill by Sergeant-Major Finn. At a meeting held after parado, Mr K.H, Eton was appointed Secretary to the Ball Committee. ■■;•■:

Mr Joseph Carpenter, of the Central Boot Warehouse, Masterton, has just received'another shipment of boots arid shoes of every which'wlll be opened up at once, and Bold at remarkably low prices; ,' "' ; /•'■;;'

The ; half-yearly •' summoned' meeting, of the Masterton Lodge of Foresters, Court Loyal Enterprise No 6501,' was held last evening, about fifty members being present. The Chief Banger presided as usual, After the transaction of the ordinary business, the election of officers for the ensuing term took place, with the following result :-o.k Bro 'O. Payne, S.CR. Bro 0. Ewington, S.W, Bro J. J. Roberts, J.W. Bro Z, M. Hoar, 8.8. Bro J. W, Blinkhorne, j. B. Bro W. .field,. Secretary 8r0.'8.. H. Waddington, Treasurer Bro B. E. Hornblow, Auditors Bros Hawke and Praiinel!, President of Juveniles Bro home. One new member was initiated and five proposed. The Secretary was inßtruoted to express condolence with 1 Bro. Cox in the loss of his wife. A silver medal was presented to Bro 11. E. Hornblow for his past, services as Chief Ranger Lodge',' and 'another to Bro J. Yates for having introduced the largest number of members during the past three years, Tho-meeting terminal toddnthe usual,way (/ ,.-.-. , •;,,. •, ■-, ' Frederick Franklyn Godfrey, late of Masterton, pleaded, not guilty, in, the Wellington M, / C6hrt l yesterday 'to having been drunk on the previous night. He admitted that he had imbibed, slightly, but the liquor he had drunk was, he was Bure, drugged. He had never been in a similar position before, and.butfor havint; taken, deleterious grog he would riot be staridiiitj where he was. Sergeant-Major Ramsay informed the Benoh that the police knew the accused •unfavourably in Mnatortori. Godfrey admitted he was woll-known m the Wairarapa, but he defied the authorities or anyone else 'to say anything against his character. The Ser« geant-Major said that although there might be no record against, tho prisoner, still he was much addicted to drink. Mr Graham, R.M.,y in; imposin? a fine of 5s or 24 hours' incarceration, expressed the opinion that the imputation against the publican in whose hnuse,theacoused had been drinking was' a very serious one, and a cowardly ono. unless -it could be'substantiate'd.' ' " ;

Thus the Evening Post:—The press often complains of tho ignorance of law exhibited by Justicosofthe Peace, but newspapers | are not always ; infalliblo themselves on very simple questions connected. with, tho administration of justice',' Thus'the Wair'arapa Bt'ar asserts that one Justice cannot constitute a' Court-consequently cahnot be treated pith contempt, In regard to many simple offences, oneJnstice is as capable of adjudicating as a dozen. It is only quite recently that the power of committing for trial on indictable cases was taken from a single Jußtice. In a Police Court one Justice undoubtedly constitutes a Court, and may be treated with whatever contempt he may merit, but only at the risk of the contemptuous one. !

The caie in whioh John.M'Lennan was charged with the larceny of a saddle, the property of James Stewart, was continued in RM, Court yesterday afternoon before Messrs Kenall and Price, Justices. Mr Powcall, who appeared for the accused, cross-examined Stewart, tho complainant, at some lenptb. Constable CoUerton deposed to having executed a search warrant upon the.whare occupied by the,accused, and an arresL ' For tpTdfjfenca Mr Pdw'nalj stated the rnatref mi far joo (rival to be sent to the superior Court, 'fie would ask, therefore, tj}at' the case be dismissed. Jphji agijuaed),' on oath; denidd'haringtakon'the saddle from complainant's horte. He said he had picked' it up,about three-quarters of a mile from where he «vas living.-, It, was in a gully about a mile arida-half from Tenui. As 1 it was green through having been in the water, te took it home and hung it on the bridge on tho main road to dry. He afterwards cleaned it. f Hev.had. told several times'that lie had the saddle. The B'enph reserved ita decision tiiinextflay; '"■ !^r " t < _'■'■' j

HpFJsit? 4$ Myosin the crowd. 4$ j'ojif next door neigliboijr.'AElt the niatt wliq jojlectu tickets'' $' the' rjij)way. h\L "the people who dw«ir(nEl(etelip.a|'Waii'rlcfy!lJej Tenui, Carterton, (Jreytown, or anywhere the people living ml any part of the country, Abk them all why i tbey shop atL. J. HOOPER& COMPANY'S.' and they will tell you "because it suits them, 1 ! And wot does it suit them! Became they got more and- hotter to'exohango for .their money at the .Bbn'Marche than anywhere'else, and jjccaußc the conveniences of the place are euch aS ! ».UotHeF.ei).la))liiliment can afford. These are the bare ou'tjiw'oj {he reasoning that brings the people in shoals to (bis wpae'/M place of business, Visit the various dcpa*t, meuta in which the lordly creature roan Ml allibe wants,' -'andl wbman-rlovely. woiiianloVcs to linger andlookatthe fashion ifotlon, Hero are.'tie Boulevards- of Paria alid the shops of Regent-aid OxforiJ 'streets, London, WfoJ ioipbne. Hire'under your'eye ate tho iashWiirrJfiged,'- dasjified, dhd ready for immediate''uW'and' ! weai i ; ' Turti • tnto the 1 jtoccry and provision fiiotlons, These r aro 'Bl Interest to'every man jack in the community l , hdyinj'-from Eoober jvould'M B.b'ook, ■ you font olanWs'or boweW'teii .or MS,' whether youVe'a oUUly'njqrjtal gt'p Wf. tocmber,',a pretepti'oniftj'a fpetradjir;' a pMtfc il olithßmpian, a positiyist, a npnp sucp, iff a rabbit catcher, you Tyill findrjo better outlet for the money you havn to spend than at Hooper and Company's Bon Marcue,Master'oß.~Ad.Yt, _"••'; .

_ Settlers generally in the FortwMile Bush. are (aocordiiijr to the Paiiiatua Star) beginning to complain of shortness of feed, a hitherto almost nnh'eard.of thing iu the Buah. A smart drop in tl o price of etook is bound to be caused by this. '

Mr Donald Donald, of Mantorton, has taken through the Forty* Mile Bush another large mob of cattle for his Pukotoi ran.

Mr Walter Greaves, senr., at One time a resident, of Mastcrton,. has been committed to the Wellingtonlunatio Asylum from Pahiatua,

/.A&n/adjournediaeetinpiof the Alfredv ton Licensing Behoh on Wednesday tho application of Mr E.' Ellisrxin for a renewal of the license, for the Railway Hotel, at Eketahuna, was granted. The police report was favourable,.; <j - \Mr'Alexander Reese haV'been appointed agent of the Labour Bureau at Pahiatuaata salary of thirty shillings a 'week V ' ;' '"' '".' ;■,

;,._ The epitaph,which Deeming wrote for himself represented the; writer as going ""Badk to the olay'froih which 1 np'runa, Unwept, unhonored, and.unsung." In conclusion he says tbat'- v, 'th'« jury listened well, To the story I'd to tell, But they sent me off to h—," ; ;. i James Spell, a'ploughman In the em« ploy pf Mr H. S. Snell, of Olareville, was severely kicked in the face yesterday.'morning by a draught horse, one of the. team with. which ho was drawing whe'at/He wricked up and taken to the surgery of Dr Johnston, where Mb injuries were dressed, Uuiqpperjaw is broken. "' v >.

' ■ The Maßterton Lodge of Foresters has now, been in-existence for twenty-one years. At tho present time the financial members number over a hundred. Only t'eh deaths have occurred in the Lodge siriceits formation, which is a remarkably low percentage, I J oil is rumoured that a Working. Men'B Olubisßhortlytobe formed in Maßterton, ' ! : : "- ! • . i

Few people,have any .idea ;of-tho magnitude of the bacon export trade of Canterbury.; From ; the address of the Chairman of the Belfast (Canterbury) Bacon Curing Oorapany, it appears that the annual export trade of Canterbury in bacon'is somo 'so,ooo or £60,000. The Timaru Herald hopes that the action of the Sydenham Licensing Gom u inittee will-'be brought undet-review by the Supreme Court, as it is sure that .'.l-the Committee blinded by their own narrow views, have failed to do their duty as public servants' 'in a judicial capacity. .No amount of evidence would have eatiafied them that any : one of the licenses applied for was required in the district." .-. J '' A liapier householder-who'received a summons to send hia'obild'to school wrote to the Committee etatingthat he thought it a farce. He didn't require ariythioq in the ahapeof auoh fle reooghised the value ofeducation for his children quite as woll aa any of the Ooininittee and didn't'want a'.remindor on the subject'of his child's attendance; She had attended fairly regularly,; but; as he had told onejufthe.: teachers, she was obliged to stay'at home, when her brother was ill. He suggested that the Committee should : tutn their attention to those parents who didn't send.their children to school ;at;;all. i : Therelrere scores of children.about;the. town whq should i be at school,'; but who never attended, ,

The export of c'obkfbot grass-seed from the Masterton district is assuming large proportions and will doubtless in the near future be of considerable importance to small farmers. We wero yesterday shown' by Messrs John "Graham and Co, the shipping returns for this season, which show that thoy,have sent away riino hundred .and fifty-one sacks; of cleanedseed., '.This means a consider-! ably larger number of saoks'of the raw material.- ■ Theutmost pains have been 1 taken with this lot in the way of cleaning ajid grading, and if the venture turns out as we)l as it deserves, Messrs Grahani and Co.' will 'have ho' reason 1 to be" disaatisfied. :; ' : ' : - '■'••'' : ' ■■'•'■' r - :

, "Mercutio'.'in the Auckland Weekly. News says:-During, the present, week 1 saw.a sight J never expected: to see. in New Zealand, .policemen,. ,nith large families, out of, their scanty pay contributing to pay the medical and burial ex-; peruegpf.;a deceased comrade ;in .the South, the Government having deolined to "bury their dead "-r'namely, a polioe officer on active service., -Thene be days of retrenchment 1 shall be told, Yes, but during the week 1 ■ read also that, the Government iutend to introduce early.in the session the Payment of Members Bill -1 presumethe old one, £ 24oayear, paid monthly, and .protection from creditors, That looks like Retrenchment 1.

On Friday night at about half-past nine; says the Kum'ara Times,* huge ball of fife descended with \ \ a fearful ing sound,' 1 andstrubk the earth in Main street. Six men were overthrown in a heap. A crash of'thunder which followed the,, bolt dispersed;, the people ."at a Woßleyan .concert,"where one woman fainted. The bine glare eclipsed the nloßt brilliant' lamp light, and the thunder broke the glass in the Masonic Hall,and played hayoo with the crockery in tho neighbourhood '■./'' "At Melbourne laatweek a butcher hamod Charles Oornwell was fined £"o for cruelty to ahorse. It appeared that the animal could hot draw the load, bo ho lit a fire under it, and as a result all the hair had been burnt off its fure-> ! legs, and from the knee down the flesh was. bare,. Some people would say | that a taato of the cat and a term in jraol would not be too : much for euch a [revolting act. '.'"' ' ";':

,' ■ ■ An. eitfadtdinaty letter' was found amongst, the,.possessions of Perceval Dawe, wheolwright, aged 23, who committed suicide in Melbourne a few days ago. It ran aB follows l-"I have seen enough to prove that 1 don't wish' to see any more of this life, and have therefore made up ray mind to enter tho next. I look upon iit as my,fate to have entered the life of humcn beings, and if/as it is said, God knows'everything, and is the author of aO things,' he is .the author of to/act, and is;therefore responsible for it. This isa very'dangerous dootrine, and if Hived ,1 would not teach it,' aa it would'joiily' add to the confusion of doctrines now taught. I could say a good deal more, but as I think it would do no good, I refrain. I should like it to be understood that, no particular person, or persons are .the pausetf but that m'y'adtMs" my conclusion of the -VBold matter.V.'.iThe jury returned, a verdict of suicide,* but 'did $$ consider that the evjdence sufjced toiprovp deceased to pe b ; '• ; ' !

An incident, the outcome of the recent busbr'aiigmg s6are,:iß-' taraimaki district. According to? art authentic account it seenw that a young fellow who works with others on a farm decided to play a practical joke'on one of his mates; in shott he decided that he' would bail-him up when the mate was riding to the house of a friend. ; ,The put up job waVßTOessfiillycarriedout so far, as the Btiokinglib'ia'c'oncerhed, but the' playfuj dfciple. of JNefiKeljy was areafjy tur'prXed'to fih'd thafljiman' insfead'pf siding.|aßßiyely t |ike a ! ( ia#, ; elippe'd bflfhii.. >fjoak}bgjn ropii hut eJfpreßsivß'parlanje of the day, •'went' 1 for Hni;;, tieing thus tackled the. young fellow" forgot 'all' about his character of hjghwaymah.'ahd responded to the' ; challenge raht'mernly,'..Tho fight was till "considerable facial'danioge' was, effected. Mutual explanations 'were'huahy made, and 1 the pair went home, the: practical joker bilnglsadderlipt wiser -wan, ipasmuch as he got by far the worst in tfon'ght! I ''

. There was a funny (Jeolgion given by a couple ot luatiOos at DaneVirkti Taat week isaya the Wafroa Quardiari), A teaii namedbWatitoo^ a 1 ooat|.the pfophty ef a'laborer,' He'wasßeDh'in poSseAh of .the cQat )jut;.whon arreßtedit could not'befound,"'ltwas Subse'quehtlydial covered that ho Jiad burned thocoat, add acci)6ed;hiicielf! adiriitted Vhafc"he had bnraed the coat' for fear of getting iot6 trdnble'over jt. ■ TJie, justices dismissed tlieacouaed'oh {he grd|inri t¥at,' a Jthougfi lie burned the coat, it-had not' been proved that be otole it, That should take a lot of beating I : ;- ■ ~ :

< Mfi Knottj <}he temperance lecturer, has Shook the dSaVof'Uta West Coast oft his fe"at)!and| Kaai goW to Christohurch (aayß,thf,JEeßftpiis(}&ardian). At his of "Jfo'ooK Arden" at Kiimara only six persons attended—four publtcans and two brewers. Mr Enott decided not to proceed aod returned the money. The party then, according to the West Coast Times, adjourned for refreshments, .

A Napier paper reports that a very narrow escape from death took place on Tuesday morning-'at the railway orossing by the gas works, A man who had | beejj anticipating Her Majesty's birthday; ohbse for his bed the railway Hue and- there, lay till < partially-sobered, Hearing the'lirst frain'leaving town, he managed ,to-jqll .over, and,w,as so near the wheels that 'the tail bf'his'coat'was cutoff. We nearly had to record an inquest on a blacksmith,

An extraordinary case ofself-muti-lation is reported from Naranderas, Victoria/In the'pfej'ence of V'nunilJW', Of spectators, a man named Ohas. Whitlook a photographerVfor'iie'd'oneof his eyebails out with bis finger and thumb, destoying the organ-He had been drinking heavily. i