Untitled

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4279, 19 November 1892, Page 2

There are only 814,160 electors in the colony of New riouthWalas. The new drill for volunteers has been Initiated in Napier. Dane»irke is Gazetted a borough from the llih November,

H isreported that Mr Bruce, MiH.B,, intends tustnnd for Napier next election. A half-bred Berkshire sow owned by MrO. M. Campbell, of Woodville.haa jnst had a litter of seventeen ■

The Ileretaunga School has been closed owmg to the prevalence of dip* theria,

The Woodville Examiner will commence a seriea of articles on gaol life, entitled "In Gaol for Libel" in its next issue.

The Chrißtadelphianß are the first religious body to establish regular services at Makairo, in tho Forty-'milo Bush, Mr A, MoKenzie passed through Pahiatua on Wednesday, en route for Wellington, witha mob of 1200 Lincoln wethers, purchased in the Hawke's Bay district for freezing purposes. It is repotted that 1000 people have diediif yellow fever at Cordoita, in Mexico, and that 2000 have fled to the mountains. The Kanaka crow of tho French veste Constantino, recruiting in the .New Hebrides, inurderod the Captain and mate and throw their bodies overboard, Afterwards the murderers looted the vessel and turned her adrift. Viscount Kelburne, eldest son of Lord Glasgow, is a passenger to Auckland by Monapouri, from Sydney. A restaurant at Bojar, in Spain, collapsed during a wedding festival. Seven persons were killed and thirty injured. Mr J. llioharde, of Danevlrlto, writes informing us that the new fruit pest, resembling a flea, which is reported to havo made its appearance in Masterion, is common iaDanovirke. He also states that ho has discovered a remedy and will bo glad to forward it to anyone caring to giye it a trial.

A meeting is to be held at Anderson's Hotel, Eketahuna, to-night, to consider the advisability of forming a cooperative butchery in that district.

We aro informed that there has been a considerable and steady demand for shares in tho Wairarapa Farmers' Cooperative Association, Limited, and that it will bo necessary for those who wish to participate in the issue to apply early, as the list will absolutely obeoafctho end of the year.

The Court of Foresters at Tiroaru havo deoided to pay sick allowance for accident* received at football, cycling, cricket and wrestling. Our temperance f rionds will be glad to notice that after all MrE. Tennyson Smith, the eloquent orator, is to give a leoture in Masterton, and that on Friday evening next he will entertain an audience with his grand recital of J. B. Gough's famous oration" For the Sake of Others," Full particulars are given in the advertisement, which appears in 10-day'a issue.

Professor Moulton, "tho lightning calculator," ran an opposition "show" to the Jubilee Singers, opposite' our office last night, A large crowd assembled to hear his amusing street lecture,

The Standard says that while'Mr Tennyson fc'roith was giving his imitations of drunkenness at the Greytown Forested Hall, on Thursday night, an inebriated gentleman in tho Main Street was giving imitations of Mr Tennyson Bmifch. If the Tomperanceoratar could have seen his imitator, he would havo been furnished with a fine specimen of that useful animal the "shocking example."

An old cottage, standing on Mi Buchanan's property near Greytown,wai destroyed by Are on Monday night.

Marianne Lintott, a widow, has reco vered £ 102 from the Viotorian Railway Commissioners, On May 12th the lady fell over a hand truck which had been loft on the platform at Frankston,

The Vicar of Wytham, Oxford, invites all boating men there to attend service at the parish church in flannels. He believes that many who entertain an earnest wish to do so are deterred by the absence of their usual church-going garb,

To-night the Jubilee Singers appear for thoir second and last concert in Masterton, and everyone should avail themsolves of.the chance of hearing these gifted vocalists. Thoir sweet solos are charming to the ear, while the choruses, some of them quamt in melody, butallsuDg with wonderful expression and taste, are musical gems of a most enjoyable character. The prices are only lis, 2e, and Ib, and reserved seats may be secured at Mr R, T. Holmes'. Charity assumes many shapes, and not one of them but haa its beauty, Similarly, its opposite is nlwajß ugly. An Instanco in point occurred the other day in Wellington. A man,.looking like a respectable oountry settler, and probably visiting town in connection with the show, had obviously beon drinking a little too freely and had, as a consequence, gone qutotly' to sleep, oloso to the street entrance of a large wholesale house. One passer-by, looking superciliously at the poor fellow, exclaimed: "The beast 1 Why don't the police take him off?" Then he passed on, contemptuously curving his contemptible mouthShortly aftorwards, a man of very different mould came up. He was apparently connected in some way with tho bnßiness of the wholesale house, whose entrance wss being obstructed by the harmless sleeper, Kindly and slightly touching the man's arm,' he said in a friendly voice—'• Poor begfjar! but hadn't you better get up, old man?" Then the old man-not literally soarose quietly and went his- way. But of the two who spako sneeringly, and ho who behaved smypathetic ally—which would be most at home in the Belect circles of Hades {-Evening Press.

It is intimated that. Mr Lionel Caselberg now represents the Wairarapa Farmers' Cooperative Association in the branoh office recently opened in Wellington, and that the Company is prepared to buy, Bell, or ship,' on consignment, farm and station produce of every kind; aho that it undertakes all classes of commissions and effects insurances. Tho Wellington office is in tho Exchange Building onLambtonQuay,

He what prigs what isn't his'n, when he's cotohed is sent to pris'h," That inofrms the evil-diapoped that sooner or later they must pay the penalty of their crimes, and oven as one man is bound to repot another man's rights and not lay violent handi-on other men's property, so is everyone who cares for his own well'boing and for the well-being of the. country of bis birth or adoption, bound to take care of his own, shepherd his own resources, keep a watchful eye on his own property, and safeguard his own interests,- The citizen who has a sovereign to spend and who spends it so that he only gets ten shillings' worth for his money, is praoticaliy as bad as the man. who puts Lis hand into his neighbour's poo- , ket and takes out hall a sovereign; nay, he is worse, because in allowing himseU to be imposed upon, he robs his dearest friepd—that is himself, .Thpreforo be should buy eyerythjng at Hooper's Bon Marche, and no. ho wants-a coat, a suit of 1 clothes, a pound of tea or a bag of sugar; a largeparcel of groceries or a small'itein of 'haberdashery,he will find itthesane' .-:

Thrsa men for pick and sheVol work are advertised for by Mr fl, R. Burgess, lOfOlareville. ; '

Wo are informed that Mr Geo. Wataon of Homebnsb.,has purchased the property 'adjoining-his own, in the-estate of the late Miss Emma Jeana. Mr Wataon is to db congratulated on obtaining possession of one of the must charming pieces of natural bush iu the distriot. The late Miss Jeans was very particular about its preservation aud would allow nothing to bo out down or destroyed, A well-known Mastertou character, who generally winds up her sprees by joining the Salvation Army, chose the wood-shed at the Captain's residence for a sleeping apartment last night, On going into the shed this morning the Captain iound she had gone, leaving bo bind her a bottle of beer, a loaf of bread and a joint of meat, The officer conscientiously broke the bottle and epillod its omtoats thinking it rather a good gamo, but is keeping the meat and the bread for the lady's return.

Mr Harry Gross, the popular bnslnes mpnagor and treasurer of the Montague Turner Opera Company, left forWoodville by the noon train to-day. Mr Cross has made quite a number of friends during his stay here. Mr H. Vennell'a "Sir Tatton," winner of the Hack Hurdles, at 'Wellington .yesterday, was purchased by Mr W. Douglas of jNapier, for £BO,

At tho enquiry into the circumstances attending the fire at Mr Smart's shop, Wellington, the jury returned an open vordiot.

The next meeting of the Wellington Racine; Conference will be held in January. A Maori woman named Hohle Malmpuka, while under the influence of liquor, fell off her horse in Greytown on ThUrs day evening, and broke her shoulder blade. As she weighs sixteen stone, the wonder is she got off so lightly. The Tasmnnian Agricultural Department's travelling dairy has turned out a' 401b cheese from 30 gallons of milk, which the manager states is the record for Australia,

As a sample of (Joverntnent contracting a Melbourne paper. Bays:—Tendors let for tlie Female Penitentiary buildings .£49,000. The contractor claims about £27,000 for extras.

A handsome and Bweet-toned " Dres" den" piano, supplied by the local agents, Messrs Hood and Johnson, was used for the accompaniments at the Jubilee Singers' concert last night, and proved itself to bo a first-class instrument, veil adapted for use in the Theatre,

The Court of Appeal has allowed tho Appeal by Firipi and others, in the case of Section 394, Whareama. The effect of the decision is that the appellants are declared to be the sole owners of tho land instead of tenant* in' common with other Natives. Mr'W. G. Beard had been acting as solicitor for tho appellants throughout the proceedings. MrW. J. Collins, of Arkley Farm, Ohatton, sends the Southern Standard tlie following interesting account of a haro showing fight to a hawk :—Last Thursday morning, as. I was leaving my lioubo, I saw aharo and a hawk. I called my wife's attontion to them, thinking that, as usual, the hawk was chasing the haro. Judge our surprise, therefore, when we saw the hare chase the hawk. Puss was near a wire fence, with a low bank, and when the bawk camo near, she made after him, and when the bird came near the mound, puss made a spring at him, just as a dog would. They both disappeared about ten minutos Inter, and my wife saw two hawks come back afterwards, and on Saturday there were three; but bo far puss has beaten them all off. 1 will put a charge in my gun, and. try and take a band in the game myself,, or the vermin will eventually beat the poor hare with sheer numbers. A patent has been issued for a glazed rrsek. to protect the eyeu of look-out men and ship's offices on watch during driving rain, hail or snow. Tho maik is virtually a flexible extension of the "sou'rwester," having small glass windows, There can be no doubt whatever that it would conduce not only to the comfort of the man but to the ship's safety. It is wellknown to nautical men that tho look-out ahead in the face of a driving shower of sleet is apt to be of an irregular and unsatisfactory character.

' At New York marriages between Chinese laborers and Europeans of the poorest claeses aro inoreasicgly frequent, Among the women in "Italy," as the Italian colony is called, or in Hint part of the city inhabited by the Irish, John is looked npon as a prize in the matrimonial market. He makes a good husband, for he not only provides the funds for the maintenance of the family, but at odd times minds the baby and does the housework, including 'waßhing and sewing. His disposition, we are told, is peaceful; but when disputes do | arise, as they will in the best regulated households, his pigtail, alwayß within easy reaob, offer to the partner ot his 'joys and sorrows a convenient means of vindicating her outraged feelings. When a robust female attaobes herself to the end of John's pigtail he generally yields the point in dispute 'without further argument. The great Chinese national industry is laundrying. After the day's work at the washtub, John is seen outside his house playine; mysterious games of chance with bis follows and "minding his own business," bo says an admirer of his" with a steadfastness worthy of emulation by people claiming to be more advanced in civilisation than he."

A charge of criminal slander was heard at Albury recently at the Police Court, the plaintiff being a Chinese named Wee Eye and the defendants two other Chinese named ?ou Lie and Aug Gow. The complaint was that the defendants, who are cooks, made use of the words "Wee Kyeiis a leper, and is bad with leprosy " to a police constable, whioh led to the municipal authorities searching the camp, to find that the report was unfounded. The case was brought under one of the old Aots, and. if a prima facie case was made out the Bench had oo option but to commit the defendants for trial at a higher court. Proof of the words being used wss given, and tho evidence showed that bad feeling bad been existing among the parties for some lime. The defence was of an extraordinary character. It was shown that a secret lodge, termed tho Chinese Freemasons, existed in. the camp, and that the defendants had been tabooed by most of the other, Chinese forrefusing to belong to this sooiety. It was stated, furthermore, that the reason why they had-refused to join, tbe fraternity was because one of the rules' justified murder, under certain circumstances.

Good 'hoiisowives resident in the country districts when In want of Floor Olotbs or Linoleums should remember that wo have one of the largest and best selected stocks in the Colony, which for cheapness are unequalled outside- of To Aro House Wellington, For other rooina we have Floor Cloths' all in the piece to cover 9 feet by 12 feet for 18s, 12 feet by 12 feet for 245, and 15feetbyl2feetfor : 80«i at To Aro House, Wellington.—Anvi. : ■' We havesbme very nice.light carpet; pattern Floor Cloths suitable for bed. roomßandean cover.rnoraa9feetby 12 feet for 10s (id, 12 feet by 12 feet for! 13s 19d and 16 feet by 12 feet for 17s 6d at jTe Ar*> Hpuae, Wellington. ' ' Spine heavy Floor Cloths irj Mosaio apd Tile. Patterns, are. very':/suitable; for Kitchen use, Wo can: Bupply sufficient to coves rooms' 0 feet by 12 feot for }2s, 12 feet by 12 feet for 16s, 15 feet by 12 feet for 20s, 18ft by 12 feet forj 2$ at sTe Aio Bouse, Wellingtoßi:-:.

, Mrs Cockbum, wife of MrUavid Cookburn, late of Utano, passed away at Kuripuui this.moruing alter a paiuful illness, at the oarly ago of twenty four. -The funeral takes place to-morrow (Sunday) at 3 p.m. • :j ; The notorious Tom Long was takento Wellington yesterday afternoon by Constable Oashion,

Mr Richard Brown roturns to Masterton from tbe South on Monday next. Kias Bellar, of rnnui, inot with a serious accident on Wednesday last, Whilo out riding she was thrown from her horse with such violence at to dislocate her shoulder. Dr Board was sent for and attended to her Injuries. We understand the hdy is now progressing favourably towards recovery. 1 Mr Barnard informs us that the Masterton Theatre has been engaged by him for Christmas week, : and not by the Qreytoivn amateurs. He is endeovoring to.', arrange with a. first class Comedy Company to appear, i

' The country round about Tenui and the East Coast looks remarkably well just now. Feed is plentiful everywhere, and orops are coming on splendidly.

! We notice that Mr James Petrie is sufficiently recovered from his recem accident to be able to drive hii express. ..

His Worship the Mayor of Pahiatua (Mr. Job Vile) was in Masterton to-day. , -

CoromissionArs Davy and Colonel Roberts, who were appointed to enquire into the petition of Nicholas Fryday, late a gunner of the Permamont Militia have reported. After going minutely into the cose they conclude thus:—'Wedo not advise that the petitioner should be reinstated, but are of opinion that be should be treated as if he had been compulsorily retired without fault of Mb own, and should receive the usual compensation which a well conducted man of his terra of servica would receive under such circumstances,'

A. mttbrikg VEEDiOT,—Speaking of one of the muet noted of wlcnial ! specialities, the press says:—"Shartai' Baking Powder deserves more than a | passing noticfy'for the "Moa" Brand Bak. ing Powder enjoys a reputation second to none, From ono end of Now Zealand to the other, large orders aro recolvcd for this popular brand, Even in the moat out of the way districts the careful house-wife, possessed with the laudable ambition to make her bread and her scones better than her buys Sharland's Baking Powder, and triumphs over tlio few of her less sensible sisters, who, from a mistaken senso of ecouomy, buy apparently cheaper brands, The recipe of a good Baking Powdor is anything but a-' secret, but how very few manufacturers use, as Messrs Sharland & Co, do, the best only of materials, carefully tested before mixture and exuetly proportioned, Headers, who require an economical satisfactory and healtbfdl Baking Powder, cannot do better than use tho Moa" brand—AnvT