Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1892. DR. ALFRED KINCOMBE NEWMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4181, 2 August 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1892. DR. ALFRED KINCOMBE NEWMAN.

Beinci the extended title op the Waikarapa Daily, with which it is i IDENTICAL

A SKETCH, (From the Chriskliurch Prm.) Take a sanguine complexioned cherub, rather over the average size of cherubs and under the average size of men; array it in the neatest of suits and the snowioßt of linen; place a largosized Lincoln and Bennett, slightly tip-tilted, upon its head; see that it carries a perpetual, a gorgeous, and a genuine smile and its hands deep* dived in its trousers' pockets; arrange that it shall always be affable, gonial and unaffected; that it shall have plenty to say and shall say it, and that its internal, mental and physical mechanism (conscienco and liver) shall invariably be in the very perfection of \vorking order—and have soma idea of "The Angelio* Doctor." Dr Newman—he wag not born a doptor—was raised in India, flow suoh chronio amiability ever happened in—or, having happened, was permitted to depart from—the home of dyspepsia, liver complaint and the churlishness they engender, is one ofthoso mysteries of Nature wbioh could only be satisfactorily solved by a very firstclass philosopher like-say, our revered friend, Mr A, Saunders. The youthful Newman arrived, however, in New Zealand at so tender an age that he may, for all practical purposes, be regarded as a local industry. He is certainly a productof which JNew Zealand has no cause to be ashamed, and, as tho champion cheerful man, would undoubtedly take first prize at the coming World's Fair, The doctpf, fjiough not to the manner born, is a njo?t cptljijsiastio New Zealauder. Only jyhpn Bom,e Bgotian it casting rude aspersions upop flippiitjwiiali: ties of his well-beloved adopted country doos displeasure throw its shade athwart those cherubic features. And, even then, 'tis but a.shadowof a shadi}, |tyr kindly nature oast our little hero in moijld of eiijjh gjipremest Optimism that the provocations of uncouth men are all insufficient to induce bim lo stray into harsher tpqoi} gr vie linage of a painful or free nature. Let jt not be concluded that pr Newman is merely a genial nonentity in a Etovo-pipo list and tbo smile of perennial summer, Fajjrow jt, He was sent to sixteen years of age, to Bath In the first place, which may possibly apooiwt for the immaculateness and rosiness of his complexion, Thenco he entered as a student at Guy's, The fact that he was a gold-medalist in medicine p/bjn year, and subsequently house pjiysiciaii a|t Gpy's, siijjfsjently emphasises the oaliMe of lii? jijtellejtualjty,/It tajfes more than ft empty fgr to engineer tlie Hquoo _ Pjiysfcuil of a great London Hospital, His English training . was good for him. It enabled bim to look at life as life'is seen under horizon vaster and wider than in this seagirt, isolated home of ours. He saw i|) actual process of slow solution i many of those problems wo can hut dibble at—problems of life, of duty, of fleatli, of'labour, andawfiil poverty; of 'abjdot' pauperisVii' 1 'and' Vastest : traveled niay only theorise about If, when walking the London Hospitals, there are not unique opportunities "to study, actually aud metaphorically, the

insides of men, then can the study be pursued nowhere on earth. Tbe dootor'a experience has given him a liberality and breadth of view, the value of which is perhaps discounted in the judgment pf cursory observers by the extreme airiness of the "Angelic Doctor's" manner,

For some years now, the subject of thiß sketoh has waded knee-deep in life semi-public, publio, and political. For upward of twelve years he has been on the Wellington Eduoation Board, Heholds strong viewsapon the Education question, considers the New Zealand small boy a little higher than the angels, and defends the ingenuous youth froiu any accusation of larrikinism; holding that, oven should the larrikin exist, lie is a local rnanu-. faoture, and, as such, is neoessanly nice, and should be protected. The Doctor was soma time President of the Philosophical Society, and is still a Governor of the Philosophical Institute. He has studied and smelt the Wellington drainage from the standpoint of a Wellington Municipal Councillor, and is prepared to prove Wellington the sweetest-scented habitation in the universe, or perish of typhoid in the attempt. He has been sosio eight years in the House, and theso long arid years have utterly failed to disenohant him with New Zealand politics, or to diminish his boundless faith in the present greatness and future grandeur of the Colony. But then, as before pointed out, the doctor is not lightly disoouraged. He would cheerily congratulate a dying sinner upon the liveliness of his future prospects, and see much that was breezy and encouraging in the condition of a hopeless corpse. In the House the doctor has gained the respect of all men, no matter of what party. The grit and geniality of the little gentleman are fully recognised and appreciated. He is perhaps "no orator as Brutuß is,''; nevertheless he 13 a bright and rapid speaker who lias generally something to say worth hearing, and who saysit with not a little of the inflection and mannerismof the "dab," of the school, to whom learning is mere relaxation, but who, though conscious of his merits, is not unduly inflated thereby. He is ready, but not razor-like, at repartee, being full to the bungboleof the milk of human kindness. He is never disconcerted by any interruption. He smoothly pumps his points into the depths of his auditors' inner consciousness with his rounded little right arm and well-kept right hand. He has of the Fisherian gift of remembering faces and names, is immensely popular among all classes of his constituents, one of whom recently described him to the writer as a "sweet Utile gent with no big-rot-xy about him," Humanlyspeaking, a citizen who is the happy psssessor of the Angelio Doctor's angelic disposition and phenomenal digestion will beam upon this sublunary sphere for muoh years, and will finally depart with as large faith in himself and fellow men as when he commenced his life's journey. When he is being ferried across the dark river we may be sure that he will have a pleacant smile and hearty handshake for the grim ferryman, will enquire tenderly about Charon's rheumatism, and should , the aged boatman beimpe* cunious, will tender his professional services without hope of fee' or reward. After—well, sure we all know the happy ultimate destination of cherubs.

There were G'9B inches of rain registered in Eketahuna for tbe month of July.

A gentleman living near the Makak&hi river, Forty-Mile Bush, hoaring an explosion the other night, got up and went down to the river, when ho found evidence of a dynamite explosion, There were dozens of young fish floating about dead, Mr K. H. Crease, the well-known coffee and spice merchant, died at Wellington yesterday morning, aged fiftytwo.

A till,oontainingabout £3O, was abstracted from the bar of the Longburn Hotel between Saturday night and Sunday morning. No due haß yot been discovered as to the identity of the perpetrators.

A late cable announces that the year's profits of the Bank of New Zealand amount to £60,000, A further dividend of fivo per cent, has been declared, £15,000 placed to tho reserve fund, and £IB,OOO carried forward. Mr J, Charltop, the well-known pianotuner, is now on his periodical visit to Masterton,

K speaker at the publio meoting held in Masterton last night stated that £l6O of the liceiiße foes contributed by the hotels of this town was to be expended this year in charitable aid, Mr James M'Oregor, of Masterton, stated at the publio meeting last night that although colonials were as a rule out-and-out larrikins, they were altogether a sober people, A meeting held last evening for the purpose of forming a new Brass Band in Masterton was well attended, and over twenty members were enrolled in tho room to oommence operations at onco. The following officers were unanimously elected Managing Committee-Messrs J, Bentley, 8, H. Ralph, G. W. Niool, H. T, Reel, A, W. Russell, R, Evernden, and J, Thomp. son; Secretary, Mr Wm. Hnunilow; Treasurer, Mr G. W. Nicol; Librarian, Mr J. Thompson. It was rosolved to wait upon Mr Candy with regard to the conductorship of the Band, and Mr J. Bentley was elected leader. The meeting was very enthusiastic, and a band of about thirty members will probably be the yesujt. The question of forming the Band info § yo|ijnteer one will be dig. cussod at a meeting tb be Ijeld on Thursday evening. The Masterton Borough Counoll meets this (Tuesday) evening, | Mr W, H. Williams, of Kahautara, was'oijttefe sjjootingo'n Sunday, when by some miscnanpe he met wjth a bad gunshot woiind jußt' ab ; 6ve the fight wrist.'

The bodies of the boys Burrell, who were drowned jn the Mijngaroa river on Monday week, have been recovered.

Oyer a thousand entries have beei} received for the Wellington Ponltiy,Pigeon apd Canary Association's annual show, whigl} takes pjage fln Thursday,

Be careful, when you bay, where you btm what you buy and how you buy, -U you do not watch these cardinal points in the Boienoo of buying, likely enough you will buy at the wrong shop, buy what you don't want, and pay more, than is at all necessary. 01 coarse it will be your own fanlt, no one else is to blame; your misfortune fri'tof (ram your own denseness, 'and ' lapji' 'o?' won and /oßsigh| in jfounflsrijig jntb^lhe'firsthole 'waif m teoss 15 yoii'i 1 shopping rambles; Tjierg'ja pnly'oijeyay oaiof'th'e difljoiilty J oplyfiSO-M ll h yhigh'tp thousand 'dis-J fn your pat!) ai) to avoided; apd t]pittM)3 b|epii)gs.tl(af are waiting forypu ssn be m, ; Buy everything at Hooper and Oqmpany, Hon Marohe. Make It a rule of your life, and sen that your family do so likewise. It is to your interest, just the tame as it is to insure your li/oin a sound sooiety, or build your house on a seoara foundation, by poing the whole ihegi in other. words, by deterininliig to buy eiypry thing ; at Hooper and Company's, Bon tyjrobe, Take your grocery bill on 'the band, and your draper's on the thh"other,;' i fliw: ui.-your ,weekly order for family'stores; for tea, coffee, butter, and other eatables,'' and you will ears enough to buy your own olotneßj with something to put in the pockets. ' Bqy everything at Hooper and Company's, Bon Ml,

The tender of Mr 0. B. Dauiell has, we understand, been accepted for the erection of the new infant school at Masterton. "

Mr D.S. Papworth, who met with a Berious accidout at Greytown on Friday last, is, we hear, progressing satisfactorily A candidate for a seat un the Blenheim Borough Council likons the two looal papers to a " muck-rake." The motning journal resents the imputation by stating that it dues not wish to rake a lump of muck into the Council Chamber.

It is reported that Mr J. Ohantrey Harris, at one time proprietor of the New Zealand Times, and for years managing director of the Southland Timss, has purchased the Globe newspaper in Duncdiii. ...

The effect of the past couple of days' line weather iu. Masterton has been to bring the wattles into full bloom, A writer of football notes in a Wanganui paper saysTh9 two 11 crack " fullbackß of New Zealand met in the Wai-rarapa-Taranaki match in Thomas and D'Arcy, Thomas has Jost none of hu form, while D'Arcy is the fancy man for the New Zealand team.

A most malignant form of diphtheria has broken out at Doucaster (Victoria). Sixteen children are afflicted with the disea'so. The complaint first appeared in the public school, which has been dosed, The disoase, it is reported,arose from the filthy state of a piggery near the school.

A Wellington paper has direct authority for stating that Mr George Beetham has no intention of standing for the Waimea-Picton seat at the next general election, as lately rumoured. The two hundred pigeonß procured by the North Wairarapa Gun Club from the South Island reached Masterton yesterday, They are a healthy lot of birds,

We wish to draw the attention of our readers to an alteration in the program me of the Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade's Concert to be held in the Palace Theatre on Thursday evening next, especially to the fact that children will bo admitted at half-price, Yesterday the flomewood property (Haatwell's Estate) of eighteen acres, uear Masterton, changed hands, Mr Robert Johnstone becoming its owner at a satisfactory figure, Mr It. 8. W; Dalryraple effected the sale. A correspondent writes :-l can confirm theßtatement recently mado by your " Rambling Correspondent" concerning tho feat performed about thirty years ago by Jabez Luxford, a well-known jockey, I was present on tho occasion. The horse Luxford was riding ran right through his girths, and the jockey, not to be outdone, carried his saddle ou his arm and rode in a winner amidst tremendous excitement, There are many old sports in the Wairarapa who can remember the event and will endorse what your correspondent has said.

Tho young men of Wellington are very gay. A correspondent of a city paper says!— Day by day it grieves me to see h»w pleasure-loving, say young men aro on the increase, while, alas I the better sort are decreasing rapidly-indeed, it is quite a hard thing to lind a young man nowadays who can tell the simple truth, and who lives a generally good, honest life. Surely something might be done to remedy suoh a state of affairs, Can we not teach our young men to admiro and practise a noble, truthful life, instead of the miserable, butterfly lives so many of them take delight in ? It Is speoially pointed out to those interested in the establishment of a butter factory that tbe meeting called by the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association for Wednesday (to-morrow) is at three o'clock in the afternoon, and not at eight o'clock iu the evening, as previously advertised. It will be held in the Temperance Hall, Masterton, In common with moßt, if not all the freezing Companies in New Zealand, the Wellington Meat Export Company has Buffered from a falling off in tho quantity of stock offored for freezing. Their output for the year just ended comprised 121,094 sheep, 5,225 lambs and 3,6(!0 cattle. In addition to this the Company also stored 421,707 lbs of butter, and 129,826 lbs of fish, meat and sundries. The numbers of stoca for the previous year were 162,383 aheap, 14,047 lambs and 6,210 cattle, showing a difference against this year (if 40,689 sheep, 8,822 lambs and 2,650 cattle. In view, however, of the rapidly increasing flockß in this island, the Directors look forward with confidence to an increased output during the coming year.

A narrow escape trom a serious accident happened on the road to Hawera on Saturday last. As a gentleman was driving home from the sale at Pahiatua, it being veiy dark at the time, his horso shied at an object on tho road, which proved to be a lady who had fallen off her horse, The wheel of the trap was almost upon hor when the howo waß stopped. Late the other night a man was seen to approach in stealthy manner a deep pool in a retired spot in Dunedin, When ho thought no one was observing him he dropped a bulky parcel into the water and made off, Hero were the materials for a delicious tragedy, a maddening mystery, Information was taken to tho police station, and the intelligent Inspector on duty, recognising the gravity of the situation, sent for a detatchment of the lire brigade, and commenced pumping the wator out of tho pool, All night they pumped, and when the sun was winging his measured course across the eastern skies, the mysterious parcel was displayed to light, lying fiat and squat on the bottom mud, & vast crowd pressed forward, thrilled to the finger tips with expectation, Was it dynamite cartridges, or the limbs of a man, or the head of a man, or the head of a woman, oi tho body of a murdered child ? It was neither of there. It was a case of Sharland's Moa Brand Baking Powder destroyed by the order of a combined company of rivals, —Advt,