Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4243, 14 October 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1892.

Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical.

The now isßue of £IOO,OOO worth of dobenturos by Messrs. Chaffey Brothers, in connection with their irrigat ion colonies on tho River Murray has beon over-subscribed, A member of the roporting staff of a New York journal has harmleeslj undergone a number of reckless and loathsomo tests in connection with the inoculation of Pasteur's anti-cholera vac oino. A distinguished bishop observed that of all recreations ho found music to be She best, and especially when he playod himself. " It calls in my spirit," says ho, " composes my thoughts, delights my ear, recreates my mind, and so not only fits me for after business, but fills my heart at the present with pure and useful thoughts." How tho poor people felt who wero compelled to listen, is not mentioned, ThePromier is improving in health, It is hoped ho will bo well enough to leavo Wellington for his home at Wanganuibythe end of the week. Rabbits are becoming numerous in the Pahiatua district, Mr Qoorgo Fisher asserts that bofore ho announced himself for tho Wellington Mayoralty he had tho asßuranco of Messrs Bell and Duthie that thoy had no intention of standing. With reference to Mr Seddon's charge that the Eailway Commissioners had let contracts for coal and then lowered the rates, thereby putting iSOOO into the pockets of toe contractor, the Commissioners Btate it is quite true that some time utter (jiving the contract to Mr Kennedy they lowered the freights on the West Coast 2s per ton, in consequence of the cry against the competition with Newcastlocoal, but with Mr Kennedy's consent the amount of remission was doducted from tho payments to him, and consequently he derived no advantage from it, They also state that no favour has been Bhown any newspaper in advertising, the amount paid to papers in tho principal centres being within a few pounds of the same,

When the Ministers are here next week, says the Pahiatua Star, there is a little story that might be repeated for their especial benefit, it is of the difficulties that aro to bo contended against by some of the people who are trying to make a home for themselves in the buah. The particular instance is that of a Mangahao settler, who is now building on his section. Every stick of timber, every pound of nails, and every brick used in tho erection of the house has to be carried on men's backs or shoulders for exactly three-quarteta of a mile. No doubt when groaning under Bomo of his heavy burthens tho settler in question derives great comfort from the reflection that this year £BB,OOO are to be devoted to opening land for settlement.

We aro satisfied with our buyer's selec tions of Spring Dress Fabrics, They are all of the newest materials and in the most fashionable colorings, Our country friends should send at once (or patterns, which will bo fovwardedj poat&go free, from Te Aro House, Wellington. We are abundantly satisfied with the immense variety of these Spring Dress Fabrics, and we aro daily displaying overj 1000 pieces in every fashionahlo coloring and design, at le Aro House, Wellington, Send for Patterns.

We are abundantly satisfied with the su, perlor value of these Spring Press Fabrics, The priocs are exceedingly moderate for suoh excellent quality, ranging from 10s 6d to 46s the full dress length, at Te Aro Hiiubc Send for Patterns, We are abundantly satisEed wither grand phoiae o|.]Jew French De Lafoes, now 60 much in demand, • These are exquir site in design, colorings apd qualities, and may be had at Is, 1b 3d, la 6d, Is Od and it per yard; at To Aro House, Wellington. indiorP»ttafli,-ADYr

A communication from the Govornment has been received by tho Wairarapa North County Council, stating that the Council 1 ! request that the saw mils traffic bo dealt with by Parliament, was too late to roceivo attention in the session just concluded, A number of Eketahuna settlers have determined to raise a special loan of £3OO, for metalling a portion of tho EketahunarTenui road. . ne liailway Commissioners have intimated that they are not prepared to contribute towards the maintenance of the main road from Eketahuna to Pahiatua. The Pahiatua Borough Council are requesting Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H 8., to ask the Government to make a standard survey of the town.Viscount Kelburn, eldest son of Lord Glasgow, at present in Sydney, will visit his parents in New Zealand shortly. Tho body of another of the unfortunate men, drowned in tho Whangarei yachting accident, has been recovered. His name is Cliff Wilson. A toll-gate is to bo erected on the Alfredton road to raiso money to pay interest on tho metalling loan. The Manawatu Gorgo line is expected to bo opened again on Monday next. _ CoiißtableOooporsays that professional fighting men havo been a scourge to Pahiatua for years past.

_ The Oddfellows of Eketahuna have decided to hold thoir Aunuil Ball on Jlov. 9th. The following were appointed a committee to arrange matters:—Bros Polling, Wright, Men, Johnston, Nori'oll, Noilson, Cooper, Albertson, Olaen, Tumor and Bright. Mr F. Pelling was elected Secretary tn tho Ball committee. _ The Greymouth Star dovotes a considerable quantity of space to a speculation as to the probability of Mr JRoberfc Browning succeeding to the liaureatship, Apparently tho news that Mr Browning Is dead has not yet reached the West Const of the South Island, A ball in connection with the Carterton Social Club, to bo hold on Wednesday next, will wind up the danoing season in that town,

The Engineor of tho Pahiatua Borough Council has resigned, and it is expected that his work will fall on tho sh»ulders of a competent roadman whn won't pretend to know more about roads than his employers,

The Carterton Borough Council huvo received n lawyer's letter in which they are threatened with an action for damages by Mr J. Lepinski, unless thoy pay over to him the sum of £0 JOj, It appenre Lepinßki was riding along High-street, Carterton, at a pretty fast pace, when the horse stumbled and fell with its rider, The oauso of tho horse tailing, Lepinski states, was due to its putting its feet in a hole in tho main drain which was by noglect of tho Council loft unprotected, To meet all present requirementei some very important improvements haws been made to tho Show Ground of tho Wairarapa and East Coast A, and I', Society. New caltla yards and sheep pens havo been erected and the old ones removed; horse boxes for eutires have been put up, and an oval made large enough to show all the horses and hold jumping ovents in, A grand atandhas also been built, oxaotly 100 feet in length and 40 feet in breadth. The front elevation is 25 feet, and a lawn 40 feet deep has beon railed off in front of it, The entrances for stock and visitors have bson altered, and every possible convonionce made for all concerned, The whole work is a groat credit to the Society, and to Mr A, M, Brown, the contractor, for theprincipal portion. We understaudthat, ovorything has been done under the superintendence of the onorgetic Secretary, Mr E, W, Dorset, Mr J. lorns, of Pahiatua, has sold out his auctioneering business to Mr B. S. Abraham and will act as stock agent to his successor,

A man named Neill, who is now chop< pingweeds in tho Maßtorton Cemetery, is one of the hard cases which the local Benevolent Society has bad to reliove from time to time. His health does not permit him to travol in search of his old employment as station or camp cook and as sundry small children ara dependent upon him, he has to bo coddled a little by tho Society when sick and givon a little light work when he is convalescent. " Fooled Again" is the hoading undo r which the "Catholic Times" describo 8 tho way in which womau's franchise wa knifed by the Government. In the " Wiltshire Times" the following advertisement appoara:—" NOTICE. -Baptising by tho Rev. A. E, Johnson, Stonmore Water, next Sunday at 10.30 a,m, Fhotographn imM," Mr Tosßwill has proposed to tho Pahiatna Borough Couucil that the centre portion of the Main road be closed to vehicular traffic, The cost of maintenance would then be much loss, Nothing has yet been decided on. Woll-informed authorities on matters political say that there can bo no doubt that tho real of the breakdown of the health of the Colonial Treasurer haß been his extreme anxioty about his 6nan. cial policy. It is contended that the expected revenue cannot possibly bo realized, and that tho Government will inevitably be brought face to face with a deficit at tho end of the current financial year.—Evoning Press, Mr Allen opened the Hawera school on Monday with thirty-one children, Mr John Commander, manager of Messrs Nelson Bros, freezing works in Marlborough, was thrown from his horse on Saturday last, and died in two hours. Ho was only 23 yoars of age,

Attontion is drawn to the mystio invitation extended to one and all by Mr J. L. Murray, by notification in his advertising space on our loader page, _ Often are invited for a dairy factory site at Eketahuna, An advertisement on the subject appears in this issue. The birth of a ono-leggcd child at Hawaii is recorded. The parents are Portuguese. The sex of the ohild is undetermined. Itlived only a few minutes

A supplementary Gazette was issued yesterday proroguing Parliament until the 12th January next, Our Harbour Board correspondent writes that one of the residents is the happy possessor of a remarkably cunnine dog, who regularly accompanies his mnster—who, by tho way, enjoys the reputation of being ono of tho most aocomplishod anglers who ever dropped line in Oroua-on his regular noctural fishing rambles. Directly the gentleman takes his favourite seat by the stream, lights his pipe sad drops his carefully baited hook among the denizens of the water below, the dog becomes an intensely interested spectator, and no sooner is one of the wriggling tribe thrown on the bank, than lie dcxterioußly removes the hook from its gills, at the sumo time giving it such a Clip as to render further motisn impossible. The dog then carefully puts tho fish in tho bag brought for the purpose, his master in the meantime baiting the hook and enjoying his pipo, without moving from his comfortable seat. Tho division of labour continues as long as the fishing nßtß.—Advocate.

A rUTiBBiNO VBRDior.-Bpoaklng of one of- tho most noted of colonial specialities, the press says:—"Sharland'e Baking Powder decorves more than a passing notice.for the "Moa" Brand Baking Powder enjoyß a reputation second to none. From one end of New Zealand to the other, large orders are received for this popular brand, Evon in the pub out of tho way districts the carefuVhouse'Wife, possessed with the laudable ambition to make her bread and her scones better than her neighbours' buys Sharland'e Baking Powder, and triumphs over the few of her less sensible sisters, who, from a mistaken bnuq of economy, buy apparently cheaper brands, The recipe of a good Baking Powder iB anything but a secret but how very fow manufacturers use, as Messrs Sharland & l'o. do, the beat only of materials, carefully tested before mixture and exactly proportioned,' l Headers, who require an economical, satisfactory and healthful Baking Pow? der, cannot do better thap use the ,Mo»"brani.~AJYTj

Tho_ Manawatu Standard, tells the following extraordinary «tory:-A girl attending the Longburn sohoul' was ferociously attacked by a lady resident and beaten yesterday, because she declined to act as a travelling post office. As the child is vory dolicate the consequences are likely to be serious, and a criminal prosecution will probably result.

The Christchurch Pigeon Match, which was to have been flown from MastertoT), is postponed for the present; the birds having been partly disabled by flying for several hours against a head wind in a match from Dunedin.

_ The Fielding Star considers that there is rather a crazo for establishing butter factories in the Colony just now, and if it gets a good start-like the flax mill mania did not long ago, to the ruin of hundreds of harmless people -there will 1 soon be a butter faobiry in every ''village hamlet." There were only 280,711 breeding cows, of whioh 200,906 were milch cows, in the whole Colony in 1891, and since then their numbers cannot have increased in proportion to enable them to meet the extraordinary domands likely to be made on their services. A most successful trial has been mado in the presence of the Victorian Minister of Agriouhure and a number of gentlemen interested in dairying inventions of a steam milking machine imported by Mr J. Craig, of Craiglea, Stratford, Gippsland, invented, perfeotod and patented by Messrs Gray and Nicholson in Sootland. Tho machine, whioh answered the tests to whioh it was submitted admirably, will milk twenty cows at once. It will probably bo exhibited at work at the forthcoming National Show at Bendigo. During the absence of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Glasgow from Wellington a graceful act of eourteßy is to he extended to tho citizens, by the grounds at Government House being thrown open to the pubho from eleven to five on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

London is now (says the Mark Lano Express of August 15) relying for wheat on America in the first place, on India in in the second, and on Now Zealand in the third, Canada,-Russia, Turkey, Persia, and Australia havo done very little of lato for tho metropolis, and last week the last four sources were entirely unrepresented.

A rather nice dairy farm is advertisod for Bale by Mr W. \V. Smith, rstito agent of Queen Street. It consists of 189 acres, only seven miles from Maslecton, properly cultivated, with house •nd orchard, while its prioe is only £685, Full particulars will bo found in Mr Smith's advertisement oUewhero in this issue.

A prisoner at Glasgow has oonfessed to the authorities, that he was impacted in the murder ef Lord Leitrim, shot in Ireland in April, 1878, from am bush. The prisonor also states that he was concerned in the killing of Lord Mountinorris, in County Mayo in IP) and that he iras also hired to assassinate Ihi) man who killed informer James Oarey. The Prison Comiuissioners are carefully investigating the story of tho incarcerated man. Thoy hare subjected him to a searching examination, They refuse to divulgo the piisonor'B name or furnish any information whatoror concerning him. Elsie Farm, Mauricovillc, formerly tho property of Messrs Joseph and Wrieht, is now owned and occupied by Messrs Webb and Co.

The Wellington Pigeon Club will fly a homers' match on Demonstration Day, from the loft of Mr Burton Boys, Masterton Terrace. Birds will bo liberated at intervals of ten minutes.

Mr L. F. Ayaon, yesterday discovered no less than 8,000 trout, of all sizes, stranded in a pool loft by the Waipona. They wore, of course, removod into the Btream. What a haul it would have been for a poacher 1 Tho audit of accounts at the Masterton Post and Telegraph office, which has just concluded, bears striking testimony to tho incrensod businoss transactions of late years. It Bhows that from 17th January to 11th Octobernf this year the aggregate sum passed through the hands of the Postmaster, Mr J. Bagge, was no leßs than £24,999 10s 7d, or at the rate of about £34,000 a year. And this has to balance to a penny,|and does do so! Tho pigeon record of Now Zealand is 1098 yards per minute; about 87 miles on hour.

The Standard Fire and Marine lnaur" ance Company has waived all charged in connection with the- alterations now boing mado in the Public Institute building. The concession has been mado on the recommendation of Mr G, S, W. Dalryniple, the local agent, A slight shook of earthquake was fel at 6.80 last evening. At a private meeting of creditors of Mr 11. Hockley, butcher of this town, held on Wednesday last, in Mr Dalrymple's office, it was arranged that the estate should be ansigned to Mr Mobort Johnson in security for the payment of an immediate and final dividend of five shillings in the pound. The Roy. J. Lymburn's lecture in th e Mastorton Presbyterian Church las 1 night was well attended, The lecture was most interesting and instructive. Tho proceeds ore to be dovoted to the Church Improvement Fund, The Matter'ton School examination concluded yesterday. Messrs Lee end Fleming, the examiners, left by this morning's train. Tho coffin of the late Mr J. O'Brien covered with beautiful floral wreaths was deposited in tho Masterton Catholio Church this m«rnini». An lmpreeeivo aervico wsb conduotedby tho Rev. Father O'Jleara,

After much wearisome delay the rail* are at last being laid on the Te Aro Railway extension, and platelnyins; may be finished next week. No steps are bsing taken, however, towards the ereotion of a station, so that it is evident that no trains are likely to run for a considerable timo. There is much grumbling in Wellington at the vexatiously slow way in which work has been carried on,

A married couple, for station work, ia advertised for in the Wanted Column. Tho many friends of Mr P, J, Bowerman, one of the proprietors of the Picturesque Atlas, will be pleased to hear that ho is again in Masterton. Messrs Lowes & loms announce their Eketahuna stock sale for Wednesday, October 20th. Entries as advertised. The examination in connection with the State School scholarships will be held at Wellington and Masterton on Tuesday and Wednesday next, A Captains parade of the Masterton Rifio Volunteer, took placn last night, Thirty-aoron rank and file vnawored to the roll. We remind our readers of Metro Lowes and lorns Bale to-morrow at 2 o'clock, of now and second hand furniture of every description, Drapery, Boots, cutlery otc. Also under distress for rent two bntchers carts and one set o, harness, '

Activity prevails all over the house tearing open cases, ripping up parcels, slitting boxes, nndoing packages, all day long. That ib how the work of preparation is now going on at Hooper's BonMarcbe, Inconsequence of the advance of spring the fashion's seotions aro. specially busy, Huge sticks of dress materials are rising in tho epaco apportioned to'them,'and in the show rooms pile of bonnet boxes, being the choicest millinery in the world, Boxes of feathers, flowers, parasols, 'and other fashionable, etc, etc,, are gradually Icing absorbed into their comprehensive and liberally assorting stocks, ifuohan array of elegant millinery, pretty bonnets and dainty hats. The shew roomß aro a blazo of bcaufy, exhibiting fashion's choicest pro ; daiitiona. On every side are trophies of the mantlemaker's and costumier's arts. There should bo no time lost, no moments waste.) and tho business should bo that of buying as fast as possible. There aro just a ohoice sprinkling of many lines, so those that are first in the field will) have the first piokj-Am