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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4270, 16 November 1892, Page 2

Mr Snozelle appears in Pahiatua on Friday and Saturday next. Mr E. Naylor of Pabiatua Is oponing a '

One of tbe oldest; wealthiest, and most prompt and liberal of English insurance Companies Is represented in Masterton by Mr E. H. Waddington. We refer to the North British Insurance Company, the Wellington agents of which aro Messrs Murray, Roberts and 00, This powerful company has a subscribed capital of £?,500,000, a paid up capital of »000, and a perve fund amount, ihg to the enormous 'slim of £1,842,644. These totals stow at once the majjnittide of the concern, aud the , undoub'ted"se. purity'offered'to policy holderV- Mr 'Waddington, the localigent, is prepared fo jn'suje wool from thesheep's back to London, and td.Becurejthfl publio against josses by fireonevery possible" kind of insurable goods,

Mr Jno, Spillane of the Empire Hotel, Pahiatus, haß Bold his interest to Messrs Bates Bros, of Hawke's Bay.

flieDunstan Times, commenting oni tho report of the Government pomelogist, wants to know "if the Government' are really aware that Otago is part of New Zealand. If so, how is it that the i Government fruit expert never, by any chance, vißits this part of the colony?" Mr A, H. Wilßon, of Pabiatua came to grief with a buggy and pair at the Manawatu bridgo on Saturday last, The whole turnout was smashed and Mr Wil. son was found on the road side in. sensible, but otherwise uninjured, The Chairman of tho Pahiatin County Council, intends taking legal advice on Section 128 of the Land Act, of 1892. He considers that the Council has a claim against the Government for the thirds of all lands disposed of under tho perpetual lease system since 1885.

We learn that a settler holding a public position in tho Mastorton electorate wrote, by request, a few days ago to Mr George Beethani, asking him whether he contemplated coming forward as a candidate at the next general election. Mr George Beetham replied that ho did not intend to come forward,

. The Chairman of the Pahiatua County (Mr Bolton), and the Mayor Mr Job Vile), will repiesont Pahiatua on the Wairarapa Hospital Board. The impounding of cattle in the PalliatuaOounty, is to be suspended during the summer months.

The regular monthly meeting of the Masterton Masonic Lodge No 19, N.Z.C., takes place this evening. A public meeting will bo held at Carterton on Friday next to consider the question of the maiu drain and other matters affecting the Borough. _ The new bridge over the Ruamahunga river at Kokatau, is to be formally opened on the 24th inst. Mr W. 0. Buchanan, M.fl.U,, and others will give speeches, and a luncheon will bo provided.

A oarter named Randolph Lawrence rescued a boy named Pegsley from drowning in Wellington Harbour, in a very plucky manner, on Monday morning last.

A man named John Carnue has been arreßted at Dunedin charged with committing several forgorins in Wellington. Mr J. M. Hiokson, of the R.M. office, Wellington, has been granted six weeks' loave of absenoo, his health having broken down,

A meeting of stewards of the TavatahiCarterton Hack Racing Club will bo held on Saturday evening,

The Chinese residents of Wellington are beginning to agitate in connection with thedeath, at the Wollington Asylum, of their countryman Ah Ching. Mr Jellicoe has been engagod to make enquiries,

The average attendance at the Pahiatua school is 150.

About sixteen men, who were out ol work in the South, have beon brought up by steamer from Lyttelton, and are being sent by the Labour Bureau to Makuri, where they will bo placed on road work.

The first cricket match ot the season will be played in Masterton on Saturday next, when the elevens of the Excelsior and Oriental Clubs try conclusions on the Park Oval.

A company of some thirty singers, in Masterton, are actively rehearsing selections of the great masters, to be rendered at Mrs Mueller's concert on "the sth December. Some high-class music may be expected, as tho conductorship is in excellent hands,

On Monday last Mr John Russell and Miss Mary Ludvigson, both residents of Masterton, were united in holy matrimony by the Rev R, Wood. The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride's parents, and was witnessed by a large number of friends. '"• The .happy couplo left by tho afternoon train for their honeymoon trip to Wellington, the guests keeping the festivities going until late in the evening,

The Petone Borough Counoil, at its laßt meeting discussed the question ol paying the Mayor a Balary. It was decided to vote the incoming Mayor £2S to recoup the holder of the offico for out-ol-pockot expenses during the term ol office.

Tho milk.preservlng factory on the Swiss system, which has been started at Wallacetown, Southland, has already received orders for all the milk it oan turn out.

Many of our readers will regret to hear of the death of Mrs Borlase-relict of the late Mr 0. B. Borlase-which occurred at her residence in Wellington yesterday morning. The deceased lady came to the Colony with her husband in the year 1818, and they wcro amongst the earliest settlers in the Wairarapa, taking up their residence at Waihakeke. Mrs Borlase, although only 68 years of age has for some time past been in inmft'erent health. The immediate cause of hor death was an internal tumour, which at last proved fatal,

A Florentine news correspondent telegraphed the other day that a "whole slice of mountain had fallen on a village and buried the inhabitants, He added, with true Yankee imaginativeness " that the cottagers were aßleep at the timo of the catastrophe," Perhaps'they were; but who knows ? Howmanymothers jußtthen were warming the baby's milk, and how many irascible people were throwing epithets and bootjacks at the festive cat which carolled on the clinging vine? What kind of villago is Monto Sasso if thero was no merry group deolaring with emphatic melody that "they wouldn't go. home till morning?" We don't object to the correspondent trying to picture the situation, but'we don't like his dramatio colouring, A passenger by the Dorio on her last Homeward voyage, named William Keene, committed euioide by cutting his throat. He was a grocer in London, and had como to New Zealand in the hope of improving his position, but, failing to obtain employment, resolved to return Home, He was noticed to be in depressed spiritß,and tho morning after the vessel left Rio was found dead in bed. Among his effects the captain discovered a bank draft for £l2O,

Ho what prigs what isn't his'n, when he'spolchedis Bent to pris'n," That in, forms the evil-disposed that sooner or later they must pay the penalty of their crimes, and even as one man is bound to respect another map's rights and not jay violent hands on other men's property, so is every, one who cares for his own well-being and for the wollrbeing of the country of his birth or adoption, bound to tako care of hie own, shepherd his own resources, keep a watchful eyo op his own property, and safer guard his own interests, The citizen who has a sovereign to spend and who spends it so that he only gets ten shillings' worth for bis money, is practically as bad as the man who puts his hand into his neighbour's poo ; |et and takes out ball a sovereign; nay, he is worse, because in allowing himself to bo imposed upon, jie robs his dearest friendthat is himself. Therefore he should buy everything at Hooper's Bon Marehe, and no matter what he wants—a coat, a suit of clothes, a pound of tea or a bag of sugar, a large parcel of groceries or a small item of haberdashery, he will find it the same,

Good housewives resident in the country districts when In want of Floor Cloths or Linoleums should remember that we have one of the largest and best selected stocks in the Colony, which for cheapness are unequalled outside of Te Aro House Wellington. Porojther rooms we have Floor Cloths all jn the piece to cover 9 feet by 12 feet for 18b, meet fy'l2 fept for 24sj and 15 feet by 12 feet for BOs, at '% Aro Houbo, Wellington.-Advi.

We have some very nice light carpet pattern Floor Cloths suitable for bedrooms and can cover rooms 9 feet by 12 feet for 10s I'd, 12 feet by 12 feet for IDs 9d and IS feet by 12 feet for 17s Cd at Ta Afp House, Wellington. Some heavy Fjqprpioths in Mosaio; and Tile Patterns are very suitable for j Kitchen use. 'We'cau'shpply sufficient! to coves tooms 9 feet by 12 feet for 12s, 12 feet by 12 feet for 16s, 15 feet by 12 i feetfpr 20s, 18ftby 12 feet for 24a at! Te Aro Bouse, Wellington, J

Pickpockets are very troublesome in Wellington at the present time. Carpenters are being ohosen for the Te Aro Railway Station, through the Wellington Labour Bureau. One of tho leading; Australian dailies made a hideous misprint in dosing a five-column obituary notioe of Lord Tennyson. Quoting the line from "Crossing the Bar" - "But suoh a tide as moving aofitriß asleep," it changed '• moving" to " snoring," Two Palmeraton residents were anxious to get rid of their horses on account of their having the fault of stumbling. It so happened that the two hoises were put up for auction on the Bamo day, and, amusing to relate, each bought the other's horse,

Thero is every prospect of privat houses, in Wellington, being supplie (with electric light within the nextfow months.

A seventeen acre property, with houBS at Papawai, is advertised for sale by auction on Saturday, Brd December, by Mr F, H. Wood. It is at present occupied by Mr Dodsworth, and the sale is by! order of the mortgagees. Notice is giyen by the Wairarapa County Counoil that roadmen and rangori will, on and after the 23rd November, destroy all pigs found running at large on any fenced road under the jurisdiction of the Council.

Windows havo been wantonly smashed and other damage done at the MastertoiiOpaki Jockey. Club's oourse, by some evilly disposed petßons.

lhe great bucccsb of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Show has enabledthe Society to wipe out all liabilities, although £SOO has been this year Bpent on ground improvements.

TheTainui arrived in Wellington yesterday afternoon,

A Timaru tailor, pressing a oTeditor for an account, becamo angry at the other's refusal to pay, and snatched some money from hia hand He waa promptly arrested for larceny, and brought before the R.M,, who dismissed the case, but warned the tailor that he must not take the law into his own handß in suoh a way.

_ We are glad to notice that Mr W. Vile is running a coach to Masterton on Friday evening to give Maurioevillo residents a chanco of attending the Jubilee Singeti entertainment. Tho coach leaves Mauricoville railway station at half past five o'clook, returning rihi the performance, and as the enjoyable character of the concerts given by the Jubilee Singers is so well known, Mr Yile has every chauoo of invit liberal patronage

Greytown is always te the fore I We have just received from one of its resident*, Mr M, R, Varnliam, a well-known musical amatour, a pretty and lively composition ontitled " Tho Merry Dan cer's Mazurka,

Tho Manawatu Times hears on good authority that the Government aro in treaty for the purchase of a portion of the Horonhenua Block for the puroose of establishing a State farm in that district. The laud is of the finest quality, and no better locality could bo chosen for thoroughly testing this scheme. In this connection some amusing corrospondeuce took place the other day between a Government official arid a Palmeraton gentleman, The latter received a wiro from the official, asking if a cortain block, the major portion of which was a swamp, was suitable for a State farm. The reply was—"Entirely unauited. More suitable for a duck farm,"

Verdi'smelodiousopora 'll Trovatore, which abounds with charming airs and tunelul duets, is underscored for tonight by the Montague-Turner Opera Company, and the Masterton Theatre should certainly be well filled, for it is vory unlikely that rosidents will have another ohanco of hearing this popular opera here for a long time to come The j visit of such distinguished and talented artistes should be met with encouraging support. We have heard, also, we might mention, that Miss Annis Montagu is to be heard at her very-best in the part of " Leonora," which she takes to-night, Our readers will be pleased to notioe by a notification on our leader side that those experienced and accomplished photographers, Messrs Wrlgglesworth and Bitins, of Willis-street, Wellington,' aro making speoial concessions in their prices during the rest of this month and the whole of December for large-sized family and other groups for Christmas presents. New Year's gifts and presentations, As Messrs Wngglesworth and Binns arean old established oity firm, whoso artistic and perfect work has earned for them a pormanent and lasting reputation both in the Colony and beyond it, we need hardly Bay that tho firm's present connection is extending every day, and that Buch liberal inducements as those at present offered are likely to still more increase it.

Messrs Jonoß and Hunter are the successful tenderers' for carrying tho mails betwoen Woodville and Metahuna.

A man nained Ule Lundgren injured hia leg at Pahiatua about a month ago, by jumping ofia dray. He has since been lying in his hut without attendance, until yeatorday ho was removed to the Wellington Hospital. It is foaredtho limb will have to be amputated. The attendance at the MontagueTurner Opera Company's performance had materially increased last night, and Balfe's charming work, "The Bohemian Girl" waß produced with very considerable success. Everything wont briskly throughout, and the audience repestedly manifested its' approval, among their i tokens being a tribute to Miss AnnisMontague in the form of' two beautiful buquets. No doubt the attendance tonight will be larger still, for the Company certainly deserves patronage, MrE, Tonnyaon Smith gave tho third of his Beries of lectures at Greytown last evening. The Groytown Band kindly played a few selections opposite the Palace Hall before the lecture commenced, Mr P. H. Wood occupied the chair, and Beveral hymns were eung.The subject was tho "Trial of a Kotoriouß Criminal" (King Alcohol), which Mr Smith delivered with his usual good style. At the conclusion several persons took the pledge,

It is proposed to establish a toll-gate at the Pahiatua County boundary, to pro. vide funrla for maintaining the mam road botween' Eketahuna and that point, The question is to he discussed at a publio meeting to bo held at Eketahuna on Friday, 2nd December.

AFUTmmQVERpiOT.-Spoaklng of one of the most noted of uolonial specialities, the press says;—"Sharlaui 1 Baking Powder deserves more than a passing notlcn,for the "Moa" Brand Baking Powder enjoys a reputation second to none. Frpmonoend of New Zealand to the other, large orders are received for this popular brand. Evon in tbe moßt out of the way dlßtricts the careful houße-wife, possessed with the laudable ambition to makp her broad and her scones hotter than her neigjibours's buys Sharland's Baking Powder, and triumphs over the few of her less sensible Bietera, who, from a mistaken sense of. economy, buy apparently oheaper brands. The recipe of a good Baking Powder is anything but a-'aecrot, but how very few manufacturers use, as Messrs Sharland & Co. do, the best only of materials, carefully tested before mixture and exactly proportioned,' Readers, who require an economical satisfactory and healthful Baking Pow, der, cannot do tetter than' use the' Moa" brahd,--AnvT"