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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4220, 16 September 1892, Page 2

The prospectus of the Pears Soap Company, abows that the net profits in 1885 were £63,946 03 6d, the uoxt two years they decreased, but in 1888 the profits again ro§e Ip 167,264 5s 6d. In 1880 and 1800 the enormous sums of £110,90316s 9d and' £126,994' 4s Jd, respectively, were. Bpent. on adverting thu famous soaps, but the net profits owing to the competition of other soaps, were only £29,86615 a lOd and £38,350 18 Bd, Last year, however, the net prolita were again onurmously increased, reaching the splendid,total of £71,093 15s 2d with an expenditure on advertising of £103,950 63 lOd. The Carterton Cricket Olub opens its season on loth October with the customary match, married v. single. Mr Benjamin Knnberley,of Gwytown, was on Wednesday committed to the Wellington Luitatio Asylum,

Diphtheria it provident at Manga, tainoka, \

Mr W. H. Levin is expected to return to the Colony in December.

The Government hive decided to proclaim the 28th of October, Labour Demonstration Day, a public holiday. A general servant is required for Te Kangitumau, Dunning a fire engine seems to bo fearfully hard on the horses used. The Mayor of Christchurch hearing that a horse had been killed by being driven hard tofires.made enquiries and learned that one horse was so badly disabled that it had to be destroyed, seven were more or less lame, and others not fit for duty.

Orr's Hotel, Maryborough has changed hands, Mr Thomas Leap, from the South Island, being tho new liconsoo.

_ The demand for cattle in this district is on the increase, remarks a correspondent in the Wairarapa Observer, and a handsome mob of fifty head of fat boasts from Te Awaite was trucked through yesterday to Ngahauranga station for Johnsonville. Buyors are said to be scouring the district in search of cattle.

_ Our readers are reminded of the box. ing contest, which takes place to-night at Mr T. Teaguo's saloon, Dixon-strcet, Masterton.

Mr J. R, Hcod, of the firm of Hood and Johnson, manufacturing confeotionors of Qneon-atreet, Masterton, has b9en appointed local agent for the Drcs« den Piano Compnny. The splendid pianos of the Dresden Company are already well-known, and with such an energetic ag6iit here as Mr flood the company should do good business.

The Chriatchuroli Prosß calls the Hon. John M'Kenzio ''anill-niannorod, pigheaded ignoramus," Now this journal usually prides itself on its courteous tone. What would it have called tho Minister for Lands if it had been a scurrilous publication?

We had trout for breakfast this morning I This is as it should be, for if (hero be a solace fur tho ills that journalistic flesh is heir to it is a fresh fish for the matitutinal meal, Dinner has been said to lubricate business, but our own idea of smoothing the*toils of tho day is " trout for breakfast."

A dead and alive township on tho West Coast his started a hearse, and is undecided as to whothor it ought to mourn or rejoice. An old inhabitant of Masterton, who long sinco has sought fields fresh and pastures new, once purchased a convenience of this kind on bills. When the paper matnredhn was heard to Bay," There has not been a " blooming funeral since 1 bought tho blessed trap. "Ho promptly cleared out, leaving evory ono oi his unfortunate oreditors to tako a turn in it, if they felt so disposed.

On a historical occasion New Zealand's Laureate,tben ono of the representatives for Duncdin, electrified the House and shocked Speaker O'Rorke by breathing forth into song, " Bohavo yoursot' aforo folk." The precedent set by Mr Braeken haß since been followed in the Ontario Provincial Assembly, where, on the ove of prorngntion,the usually staid legislators had high jinks for nearly an hour. The Order Paper had been cleared off, and members were at a loss to know what to do, when a representative from the backwoods stood up in his place, and beforo Mr Spoaker could grasp the situation was pealing out " Auld Lang Syne" with lusty vigour, The effect was electrical Ministerialists and Oppositionists at once forgot all their party quarrelling, and, joining hands in orthodox fashion, gave tho final verses with great gusto j Mr Speaker (by no means a bad singer himself) dropping his dignity for tho nonco and leading the chorus. Then it was moved, " That tho Attorney-General do sing us a song," but the learned gentleman was "not on," and he moved as an amendment to omit all the words after" that," in order to insert •' the Leader of tho Opposition do now favour tho House." In the twinkling of an eye Mr Speaker, who enjoyed the fun with the zest of a Bchooh boy, and put tho amendment, which met with such acceptance that he declared that" there was no necessity to call on the ' Noes. 1 " Just as tho Chair was about to cill on tho Loader of tho Opposition to comply with the domand of tho House an unruly orderly appeared at tho door of the Chamber with a Message from tho Lieutenant-Governor, and of course tho House had perforce to turn itsimmodiate attention to serious business, But before accepting dismissal for their holidays, tho House with ono Accord, and with the utmost enthusiasm (says tho local • chronicle) sang tho National Anthem. The London 'Times' was never known to nuke a joke but onco. Everybody knows now what that joke was, A bish'ip, sighing for new fields of missionary work, and preferring for reasons ot his own a locality where cannibals and poisoned arrows and similar demoralising influences were not at work, pitched upon an asylum for idiots, and, descending ono day upon the the helpless inmates, incontinently confirmed the whole lot. Then the Thunderer got off the first and only joke that has ever humanised its columns. It referred to the gratified recipients as "confirmed idiots," The bishop however—who had dorived much gratification from the envy of some of his brethren -on the bench when his discovery of a new and original episcopal sensation had become known-was not disposed to allow any levity in the treatment of his excursion to the asylum, flowrotea letter to 'Truth' protesting against the mischievous frivolity of tho leading journal, and assuring the editor of thnt paper that ho had particularly noticed a very distinct and general loaning towards religion on the part of persons of weak intellect. Then Labby reached for his smoothest pen and inserted a footnoto on that letter, to the effect that he bad noticed the same tendency himself, but Bhould hardly have expectod to find this curious psychological phenomenon brought into public notoriety by a bishop,

Thus writes a facetious correspondent to the Hawkes Bay Herald:— i see in yeßterday'a paper a notice of a "cream separator so light miming that dogs had been trained to work it," Tim is nothing to the apparatus I can show, and have had in use for years. I have now four "light running" cream separators which beat the "Alexandria," in that they are automatic in their action, I havo only to leavo tho door of tho dairy open, and each "separator" places itself in position by the pans to be skimmed, and protrudes into tho cream a small reciprocatory "skimmer," which, being inserted iuto the creiro, separates it effectually from the milk, which is loft in tho pan, tho cream beim? received jn a recoptaele provided for the purpose in the body of the 'Separator." When I enter tho dairy all I have to do is to turn off tho "separators" with a l| awikh" (non-electrical), which arresls tho motion of .the "skimmers" aforesaid, aud brings into action tho "lightening" meohanism of the •'separators," which rapidly retire. I hope that 1 have described this beautiful invention so as to make it plain to nonscientific readers,

A fuherwd YEbdict.—Speaking of ono of'' the most noted of colonial specialities, the press Bays:—' 'Sharland'a Baking Powder deserves more than a pawing noticn,for the "floa" Brand Baking Powder enjoys a reputation second to none. From ono end of New Zealand to the other, large orders are received for this popular brand. Even in the most out of the way districts the careful house-wife, possessed with the laudable ambition to make her bread and her scone's potter than )ior neighbours', buys Sliarland's Baking' Ppwder, and triumphs _ over the few qf her lpss sensible eistors, who, from a mistaken sense of economy, bay apparently cheaper brands, The recipe of a good Baking Powder is anything but a secret | but how very few manufacturers use, as Messrs Sharlaud & Co. do, the beat only materials, carefully tostbd 'before mixture and exactly proportioned," Readers, who require an economical, satisfactory and healthful Baking Pow> dor, cannot do better than use tho " Mo»" brand.—Advt

A Southeru contemporary says that about 70,000 rabbits'have been killed on one of the Dpper Waitakt runs this year. The area of the run is about 70,000 acros.

During the recent English elections a Liberal poster announced: "'The Flowing Tido is with us. Volo for Lever and be in the swim." To this the Oonservatires replied smartly: "Dam tho flowing tide by voting for Bury." Shooting mon are reminded of tho North Wairarapa Gun Club's pigeon matches which take place at MeEßra Lowes and lorns Bale-yards to-morrow (Saturday). The Wairarapa Hunt Club's final meet this season, takes place at Kaiwai* wai to-morrow,

The Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade did a smart turn-out whon, last night, shortly after eight, o'clock, the Queen-st, firebell rang an alarm. Within twenty seconds of the first etroko of the bell tho steam fire engine was in the street, and in less than a minute later a horse was tackled up and tho gear cleared for aotion, • The members ot the Brigade certainly happened to be at the station tit tho time the alarm sounded, but still it was good work and indicated that they could pull themselves together in a remarkably rapid manner. Nothing, howevor, was required on this particular occasion, for the cause of commotion was found to be merely a chimney on fire in Victoria-street.

The maintenance of the Sultan's harem costs Turkey 80,000,000 gold' roubles yearly (43,000,000). " Woman '• says it 13 a perfeot neat of intriguo and Bcandal, of,envy, hatred, uialioe, and all un» charitableness. When ono of the ladies leaves the harem to marry (and about 100 of them leave every yoar) she receives a dower of £7,500. The vacant places are quiokly filled up, so that tho number of odalisques nevor falls below official to get his daughter into the Sulton's, harem, each occupant of which receives the title of Princess, together with a large dower, a staff of ten servants, a carriage and four, and last, but not least, the possibility of gaining influence over the Sultan, and so raising her family in rank and powor. Mdle. Hcliine Vacarosco, tho mussivo maiden of thirty summers whom the susceptiblo Crown Prince of Roumania (now ongaged to Princess Mary of Edinburgh) once thought he loved, is giving her falso swain a bad time, Ho wrote to hor ninny indiscreet letters of an ultra-amorous character, and theso, it is stated, she now mails at tlm rate of one overy few days to his new fimidt. All efforts to intercept the epistles have so far failed. What Princess Mario thinks and fools about tho matter outsiders have no means of judging. The Duke of Edinburgh, however, is frankly lurious and the Prince of Roumania, himself a good-looking but rather offen> inate boy vows that he will never ngain put pen to paper, savo when officially compelled to do bo, Be careful, when you buy, wlieroyou buy what you buy and how you buy, -If you do not watch these cardinal points in tho science of buying, likely enough you will buy at the wrong shop, but what you don't want, and pay moro than is at necessary. Of coarse it will bo your own fault, no ono else is to blame; your misortuue arises from your own denseness nd lack of caution and foresight in floundering into the first hole in tho wall you come across in your shopping rambles, There is only one way out of the difficulty. oclj/mo plan by which the thousand distinct cvih that are in your path can be avoided; and tho thousand blessings that arojyaitingforyouoan bo embraced, viz., Buy everything at Ho.-per and Company Bonllaroho, Makoita rule of your life and see that your family do eo likowiso. It is to your interest, just tho same as it is to insure your life in a sound sooiety, or build your house on a seoure foundation, by coing the whole heg; in other wordß, by detor« mining to buy everything at Hooper and Company's, Bon Marche, Tako your grocery bill on one hand, and your draper's on tho the other Givo us your weekly, ordor for family Btores; for tea, cofiee butter; and other eatables, and you wil save enough to your own clothes, with something to put in the pockots. Buy everything at Hooper and Company's; Bon Marohe—Advt