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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4169, 19 July 1892, Page 2

Forty thousand brown troat ova are to be sent from Maßterton to the Bawke's Bay Acclimatization Society next week,

The oourse of the Waipoiia river at Masterton has been so far diverted by the recent floods that at the present time hardly any water passes under the new bridge. The result ia that the thousands of email trout which used to disport themselves in the old course will have to be removed or pensb, Hundreds of Chinese are flooding Western Queensland across tho South Australian border, In Port Darwin there are 14,000, mostly destitute, but ready to follow.

Robert MoEwan, a JParramatta poultry farmer, fell into a large pot in which he had been boiling down sheep, and died from the effects of his injuries,

North Melbourne is the smallest municipality in Victoria, and the meat thickly populated, there being about thirty-one persons to every aero in the town.

The next English and European mail, via Brindisi, closes at the Masterton Post Office on Friday next, The Mow Zealand Methodist, a journal published weekly in the interests of Methodism, has been reduced in price to one penny. The paper is published in Chnstchurch and has a weekly circular tion of oyer five thousand copies, It is well got up and contains, beside a number of smartly-written articles, a fund of information interesting to the religious community at large, In another column will, be found a notification to the effect that the Masterton Blaoksmith and Wheelwright Manufacturing Company, Limited, have been appointed agents for Howard'scelebrated Digging Ploughs. These one-act cultivators, as they aro aptly described, are undoubtedly tho plough of the time, and any farmer who does not possess one and wishes to bring bis implements up to date, should certainly seoa " Howard." It will be rememborod that Mr W, J. Horrell, tho manufacturers' representative for New Zealand, recently held a trial in Masterton of these ploughs, and he has since given a number of similar exhibitions in other parts of the North Island with success as far as his firm's interests are concerned, and with very complete satisfaction to those who have been wise enough to purchase, The local agents will, wo understand, be happy to afford every information to those interested in these excellent digging ploughs. Yesterday's mid-day train brought through the largest mail whioh has ever arrived at the Masterton Post Office. It consisted of six largo bags, or a - total of two thousand five hundred letters and bonk packets, tiveiything was sorted in thirty minutes. This was quick work, The consignment included two English mails, a South Island mail, an Australian mail, one from Auckland aud the North, and the ordinary district letters and packets picked up en route Shareholders in tho Wairarapa Farmerß* Co-operative Association are again reminded that coupons must be sent in not later than the 20th inst, to enable them to participate in the present! half-year's profits. Tenders are invited in our advertising columns for cutting about four hundred acres of scrub and light bush on the Mataikuna Station. Particulars may he learnt on application to the manager, Mr A, Murray,

The Wellington Education Board invites tender* for a new schpol at tlaaterton. Plans and specifications may be seen at Mr W. Seljar's office The Manowatu Times is informed that a cow bolouging to a resident aji Terrace End which calved on the 6th inat. produced another calf on the ) 2th inst, Similar o :ses baye been recorded, though the occurrence is extremely rare,

The Tuapeka Times slates that local gossip has been particularly busy during the last week or two discussing an elopement, the attendant circumstances of which are admitted to be as grotesque and unlovely as they are unromantioand morethanusually commhtiplace. The gay Lothario has long since passed the period of life when tjjat portion of his anatomy generally regarded ag the tender organ is understood to be oyewußceptjble to the seductive wilos or witchery uf the gentle sex, Nnr is the lady at that giddy time of life when impulse takes the place of jud& ment, and what the ppots ca]l'*love'a 'young dream," and all the other tender yearnings of sweet eighteen, are strugplt ing for expression. The wronged husband has already taken measures to secure rofuge from his troubles in the Divorce Court, and will in addition claim as a solatium for his outraged feelings from the co-respondent damages, The writ has already hem served and counsel engaged, Mr J.F. M. Fraier being retained on one side and Sir Robert Stout on tho other,

TJje aeronauts missing.. from the Havre balloon, wjylch recently descended in England, jyero roacued in the English flhann el by a sailing ship, and landed at Finisterw.

How Is it! AjU anyone in the crowd. Ask your next door neighbour, Ask the man who collects'tickets on the railway. Ask the poople who dwell in Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Tenui, Carterton; Groytown, or anywhere *'■«. Comnpicato with the people living in anfpartoftbsco-::!? «mt the; shop atL. J, HOOPKRs and they will tell you "bocauselt suits them.' And why does it suit them? Became they get more and hotter in exchange for their money at the Bon March* than anywhere else, and because the conveniences of tho place are such as no other establishment can afford. These are the bare outlines of the reasoning that brings the people in shoals to this wonderful place of builness. Visit-the various depart-! ments In which the. lordly creature man finds all ho .want*,' and woman-lovely wornanlovcs to linger and look at the fashion section, Here are the Boulevards of Paris and the ehops of Regent and Oxford streets, London, rolled into one. Here under your eye are the fashions arranged, classified, and ready for immediate use and wear.- Turn Into the 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 abook. 'Whether you want blankets or bonnets, .tea or | sugar, whether, you're a cMUy mortal or a' hot: member, a' protectionist; a freetrader,. a socialist, a ctlithumpian, a poaitivist, a none such, ore. rabbit catcher, you will find no better outlet for the money you have to spend than at Hooper and Company's Bon Marclie, Master oa.~Advt' '

Tho Portland Ceiuonfc Corporation of New Zealand, with a capital of £40,000, i has been registered in London, The Chairman and CuunoiUor Elgar, otthe Wairarapa South County Council, have been appointed delegate! to the Charitable Aid Conference,- proposed to be held in tho Wairarapa.

The Hon. Walter Johnston and family are returning to New Zealand by the Doric, \yhicb is expeoted at Wellington at tho end of next weok. The Countess of Glasgow has become Patroness ot the Girls' Friendly Society in Wellington,

Forty-six men sere found work by thb Labour Bureau last week. Most of them were sent to the Wairarapa. A youßg lady who visited Masterton fish ponds recently became so alarmed at the conduct of a tame Paradise duck belonging to the curator that sho rushed into the water to seek refuge.

Tho fortnightly moating of tho Masterton Borough Council will be held this (Tuesday) evening.

The best wheat in tho market this year is from Central Otago. Velvet wheat, Strath Taiori,. gives n yield of fifty bushels to the acre.

Iu the Invorcargillaheep»stealingcase recently heard, tho complainant, Wallis, deposed that he had been losing an average of about 1000 shoop per annum since 1888.

Mr Joseph Pay ton | of Masterton, is expected to return to New Zealand by the" Ruahino," which left Plymouth on 26th June, and is duo at Auckland on about Bth August, Mr Payton is gradually improving in health.

A Chinaman named Lon? Way has died at Wellington. A city paper thinks his cognomen is a singularly appropriate one.

A curious discovery, saya the Wanganm Chronicle, appears to have been made at Caetleclilf (Wanganui Beads). Mr Shannon, in sinking a well on his ground, met with an effervescing water with a taste closely resembling tho ordinary soda water of commerce. The supply is continuous, and is used and well-liked for household purposes. It might be worth while to have a specimen of it analysed, Louis de Wayne, of Sydney, who had previously been found guilty of admiiiiatering drugs for an unlawful purpose, which caused the death of a mother and child, has been sentenced to eight years' penal servitude on the first count, and to live, years' imprisonment each on tho second and third counts, the sentences to be concurrent,

Councillors Bunny and Buchanan, of the Wairarapa South County Council, havo been appointed to wait on the Colonial Secretary and endeavour to arrange for the renewal of the lapsed license of the Lake Ferry Hotel. The Oounty Council own the property and also receive nil the license fees, yet they mado no provision for such contingency as the present.

The Ohinese lady who recently arrived in Mastorton is causing quite a flutter amongst the feminine sia. She holds " receptions" almost evety day. The Government, jn setting apart the fourth of August for the celebration of Arbor Day, has suggested the following programme in instances where the proceedings take place within a city or borough:—The Boreugh Council should have the conduct and direction of the general proceedings, A marshal should be apppointed by the Council and as many deputies as he may require. The sites for planting should be determined upon at the earliest possible moment, and arrangements made for having tho holes properly dug for receiving the trees. The attendance of sb many pro k fessional gardeners as possible should be obtained to assist and direct the planting, bo that the trees may obtain a proper start. This is all-important. Presents of suitable trees should be invited by advertisement beforehand. A card or ether similar uiemonto should be given to every child attending the doy'B proceedings, In places where no Borough Council exists, tho Town Board,, Oounty Counoil, or Hoed Board should] take tho necessary steps, It will interest anglers and pisciculturists generally to know that cannibalism is quite common amongst trout, and that there is therefore littlo danger of the streams in the Masterton district becoming overstocked. The other day Mr W. H. Beetham, when on a visit to the local ponds, noticed a fish about nine inches in length in the act of swallowing a trout almost its own si&3. Mr Ayson, the curator of the ponds, has also had many illustrations of the cannibalistio propensities of the fish, (Jn one occasion he was stripping a trout nf its ova, when he noticed a number of eggs fall out of its mouth, and with a little trouble he succeeded in making it disgorge nearly the whole of the ova which it had swallowed after spawning. H.M.B. Orlando sailed from Sydney for Wellington on Saturday, The death is announced by cable nf Thomas Cooper, the prominent chartist

Mr Harrjr Allwright, one of the oldest residents of LytteltoD, and who represented that district in the House of representatives in throe Parliaments, died yesterday morning, at the age of 55.

An unfortunate female resident of Masterton, who had misjudged her capacity for taking stimulants, was arrested in Dixon-atreet last night. She was admonished and discharged in the B.M. Court this morning. • Mr Sanson, teacher at the Mauriceville School has been promoted to the Tawa Flat School. The vacanoy at Mauriceville School has not yet been filled. Miss Alice Bayner, an old resident of Ma.sterton, is, we are sorry to hear, lying very dangerousjy ill. Mr W. fJinsey, the tajenfed artist and photographer of Larabton Quay, Wellington, has kindly sent for the acceptance of our editor, an exceedingly handsomo large-sized photograph of His Excellency the Governor, the Bight Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, G.0.41.fi, The portrait has been very muoh admired by those who have seen it, and it combines in a most happy manner a perfect likeness and an artistic picture. We can well understand, as indeed occurred, that lord (Jlasgow warmly complimented Mr Kiniey in acknowledgement of his unqualified success, for it is difficult to ipiagjne any more finished example of the photographer's art.-- We are unfortunately not able to do the picture justice ia a technical description, but one or two features in Mr Kinney's work could not but impress üb. First, ease of poße was evident at once, and the position—natural and life like—is particularly well chosen, The expression has been caught and reproduced with fidelity at a most happy moment, while the back-ground, and other accessories, all of import, exhibit thorough experience and the utmost judgment on the part of the artist, The general *'tone" and light and shade of the picture are' uncommonly good, and are such as to win high prajse. tye felicitate' Mr Kinsey on his excellent portrait, and (hank him for the complimentaiy popyhe has so thoughtfully Bent us,