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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4289, 1 December 1892, Page 2

Miss Harvey has been appointed dupil teacher at the Masterton Infant School. Special attention is drawn to Messrs Kirkoaldie and StaiDß new advertisement on this page, Ladies who want tho latest and best things in drapery should particularly study .their announcement regarding supplementary snramer shipments at discount prices. The firm send patterns post free when desired. A very brilliant meteor was seen at Eketahuna on Tuesday night at 12 o'clock. It appeared to strike the hills, making a very bright light as it fell,

A rather severo shock of earthquake waßfelt at Eketahuna at 7.10 yesterday moruinf,

There appears to be a very keen competition amongst people wanting to erect dairy factories, No less than four firms have offered to erect one at Eketahuna.

The Jubilee Singers perform at Eketahuna on Saturday night next, when it is likely they will have a full house.

An amusing Incident eccurrod at Pahiatua yesterday, A heifer, being driven down the main street, tookitinto its head to pay a visit to a well-known land agent's office, where she created quite a sensation, getting behind the counter and demolishing stationery, etc, much to the alarm of tho occupant, who left the office in a hurry and barricaded the door. The heifer left after she had satisfied herself as to the bomjides of the establishment,

The urgent repairs needed at the Masterton School are to be done The ques. tion of providing an additional clow-room has been left in abeyance by the Education Board, fur the present. The Christmas vacation of the board Bchools in tho Wellington District, will commence on tho 16th December and extend to tho 24th January.

Tenders are to bo called for tho oreotion of a new school at Rangitumau. Tho Oastlepoint Eoad Board notifies its intention to strike a special rate at a mooting to bo held on Friday, 30th Dacember, in connection with raising a loan of £3OO for 'making a doviafcion in the road from Manawa to Annedale.

At the meeting of the Wellington Education Board, hold yesterday a lotter was received from tho (Jreytown School Committee recommending an exchange of school land for streot-widening purposes. The Chairman said the Board had no power to oomply with the request, Mr Buchanan moved that tho recommendation of the committoe be referred to a committeo consisting of Mr Young and himself, to report at the next meeting. This course was agreed to. A coucert in aid of the Grey town Hospital funds, will bo given at Gladstone this evening. Greytown was visited by a hail storm on Tuesday las t. The Makakahi School Committee's request for gravelling and a now pump has been granted by the Board, A sum of £l6los has also been noted for erecting a shelter shed at tho Hastwell School, Mr C. B. Daniell'a tender for the erection of a (once at tho Maaterton Infant School has been accepted by tho Education Board. Tho amount was £35 19s. Mr C. R. Bidwill's inare Thalia foil while exorcising a few days ago, crushing the arm of her ridor, a lad named Walden.

Theresignationof Miss Oundy, teacher at tho Foatherston school has been accepted. Tho sum of £SO has been subscribed, up to tho present time, in Palniorston North, towards tho guarantee fund in connection with tho holding of the next Eaßter encampment at that place. 1 Mr Henry Redwood has told one of his numerous interviewers that he considers Dudu tho best maro that has ever carried silk in Now Zealand,

Thus tho Manawatu Standard :—Even the Heavens obioet to land monopoly bj a parson. Wo hear that a moteorito foil at Te Aute on Friday, on a portion ol the Rev. S. Williams' proporty.

The report of Inspectors Lee and Fleming on the recently held scholarship examinations, states that tho result is more satisfactory than last year, ahowincr an improvement all round in tho work done.

Mr J. L, Murray, of Masterton, announces sorno new and special goods in the way of engineers' blue serge jaokets and trousers, painters' white drill jackets, and butchers'aprons,

A Melbourne bricklayer named Coughlan.with a family of eight childron, committed suicide because he had boon eight months out of work.

Tho Wellington Education Board has decided to admit all pupil teachers and probationers to the scholarship oxamina. tionß, to bo held on the 16th and 17th oi December.

Itoports on the Victorian whoat crops are most encouraging, and tho yield will probably bo the largest the Colony has ever produced,

In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly a motion has been carried in favour of introducing a Bill to abolish barmaida and permitting hotels to have only one bar.

Francis Joseph ot Austria, who again talks, it is rumoured, of renouncing his throno in favour of his brother, Archduke Charles, and spending the rest of his days in religious seclusion, is once an Emperor and nine times a King. Ho wears tho Imperial diadem of Austria, and the royal orowns of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Gahcia, Lodomeria, Ulyria, and Jerusalem. His grandfather and father both abdicated in his favour

A correspondent of the Napier Tele« graph wntos:-" Sir,—don't you think it would suitaswellasanythingto lethalf the shopkeepers and storemen havo up to half-past twelve on Mondays as a halfholiday, and the othor half on Thursdays, giving them turn about? This would be good for masters and men, I should think, and ought to suit both parties, I am, Arc, Only an Opinion," Leave out the Thursday alternative, and we think the suggestion is an excellent one. Tho Monday forenoon could not interfere with trade, for little businoss is done before ten o'clock, and such an arrangement would altogether cure tho "Mondayish complaint," A great sonrcoof annoyanco and expense to railway companies is the encroachments of the grass which grows around tho rails of their lines, An effootive modoof getting rid of this nuisance has just been devised in the shape of an electrical vegetation destroyer. This consists of a wire brush, very muoh in appearance like an ordinary Borubbing brush, This is connected by a wire with a dynamo !d the nearest available electric light or power station, A powerful current is turned on, and the operator _ drags the fully charged brush, which is supplied with a wooden handle, over thograss, killing it instantly, There are many ways in which this ability to instantly destroy vegetation can be utilised. Gardenors, especially, are likely to be grateful for such a ready method of getting rid of noxious weeds on garden walks as well as in Sower beds.

I A good Btory is going tho round of the town just now concerning a hat of a particular description, which was wanted by one of our local magnates, Ho tried everywhere in search of it, and found it at most places; there wao no difficulty: about that. But tho pripes, Oh Fie I nine shillings at one shop, eight at mother, seven and six at a third, and a crown somewhere else. Then Hooper and Company's was reached, and soon the seeker went home delighted, singing "That Hat, That Hat, that wonderful Hat 11 got it at Hooper's for two and a sprat,"-Ai)vr, '

_ The gumdiggor McKenzie, found dead in a whare at Hukoronni, proves to have oommittad aucide by cutting hia throat: The election of Mayor for the city of Wellington is taking place to-day, tho candidates being MrH. D. Bell, tbo present holder ot the office, and Mr George Fisher, M.H.R. It should interest farmers to know that Mr J. 0. Eastwood of the Star Hotel, Maaterton, and who is experienced in agricultural mattora himself, has purchased from Mr W. B. Buick, tho whole of his threshing plant, including the now Clayton and Sbuttleworth machine. Everything is in thorough order, only qnaliGed men will bo employed, and good threshing niuy bo absolutely relied on. For terras, whioh ara particularly easy, and full particulars, applications should be made to Mr Eastwood at the Star Hotel. In the Maßterton R.M. Court this morning thirty-two cbbus were set down for hearing, Slot a single one was detended and only three were called on at all. The remainder (with the exception of a few in which summonses have not yet been served) were settled out of Court.

The adjourned meeting in connection with the formation of the Featbo'ston Cricket Club washeld in the Town Buard Office last night. There was a good attendance, and over forty names wore put on the list of meicbors. Mr A. Toogood was elected Secretary, and Mr P. A, Cooper Treasurer. The entrance fee was fixed at 7s 6d. ' The flow Zealand Times understands that the proposed appointments to the Commission of the Peaco will include the following country settlers in the Wairarapa, Pahiatua, and Woodville districts; James Taylor,.shoemaker, Tonul; Henry Edgar Eton, chemist, and d. W. Woodrofie, settler, Mastorton ; Joseph Dawson, bridge builder and contractor, Pahiatm; H. Cdy, farmer, and Charles Homblow, settler, Greytown ; Eli Smith and A, J. Saunders, farmors, Alfredton. Enquiry is now made in our advertising columns for the Hying pigeens lost at Eketahuna through the mis-direction of a hamper, They vent astray on the 23rd November. The birds wore really only short-distance ones, and should have been liberated at Paikakariki, not at Eketahuna. Thus they went astray; and Mr D. Ryan, Secretary of the Wellington Pigeon Club, will feol grateful to anyone who is of service in recovering them. There wore seventeen of them, altogether. It is notified in this issue that Mr Charles Hughes, has to-day taken ovor tho old established butchery business of Mr Walter Perry, Queen Street, Masterton. Mr Hughes has bad very considerable experience in tho trade, the past eleven yoara having been spent in Hastings, Hawkca' Bay, where he recontly sold out a flourishing business ta Messrs Nelson Bros, In continuing the trade connection ho has nowacquired from Mr Perry, every endeavour will be made on Mr Hughes' part, by koepitig tho best meat of all kinds, and by civility and promptness, to conserve and increase the substantial business already existing, In the same advertisement, Mr Waltor Perry thanks those whohavosolong given him support at tho Queen Street butchory,

Tlib Rov. Eoberfc Wood delivora a specinl sermon in tho Mmterton Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening next taking as his subject: "Tho friends and [osb of Temperance Reform." Tho text affords scope for a most interesting! essay A Government Inspection Parado of the Mastorton Rifle Volunteers will be held at tho Drill Hall to-night, at half past seven o'efook, before Liout. Col Newall, All absentees will bo fined,

Mr Cbarlos having bought Mr W. Perry's business, has just taken up his residonco in Mastorton, was formerly a member of tho HaßtinßS Borough Council, Mr Hughos is also a J.P., having been so commissioned by tho present Goyernment.

At tho lato Ohristchui'oli Eaces, £37,228 paaaed through tho tocnluatorn.

The Wellington agents have beon advised that tho s.s. Coptio arrivod at Plymouth on Monday last, Her meat is reported as being in very good condition,

At tho inquest on the body of the little boy Boyd, who wits drowned in -a Wellington drain al the beginning of the week, the jury brought in a verdict of Accidental Drowning, and added the following rider:-" Tho jury aro of opinion that the gratings of die silt traps should bo aeouvely fastened down, and that the Corporation should have this done at once, otherwise similar accidents are sure to follow."

Tho Eothschilds have a pretty way of providing a birthday present for all the girls of tho family when they come of ago. At the birth of each littlo girl, six pearls, valued at a specified and not inconsiderable sum, are put aside. Six more are added at every birthday, and whon the young lady reaches tho ago of twenty-one, she is presented with the valuable necklace.

A writer in Nature Notos aays he was greatly surprised to learn on tho authority of a keeper, that moat of tho ducks in Kensington Gardens made their noEta in the trees. Wherever their is a dwarfed tree, or whore, on othor trnes thero is a favourable knot or tutt 20ft or so from tho ground, there a duck's nest is always found each year. Directly the young one 3 are hatched, the old duck simply kicks them outof tho nest, letting them fall to the ground, she quacking all the time, and when they are all down Bhe descends, gathers them under her wings for a little time to warm thorn, then starts off to the water.

Tho political world will soon havoa woll.known licuro in its midst, namely Lord Charles Ueresford, whoso command ot Her Majesty's ship Undaunted comes to an end in December, It is understood that the uoble lord will as soon as possible re-enter Parliament, for the business of which he has a Btrong liking. Somo of the Conservative partylook askance at him, but Lord Charlos is a power in himself, and is bound to make bis way in Parliament. Ha will, on quilting the Undaunted take up his reeidonce a°t Parnate House, near Biohmond.

The following recipo for cooling water, for dairy purposes in the summer time is given by Mr M'Cormick, tho expert in charge of the Tasuianian travelling dairy :—Tako 81b nitrate of ammonia and 41b chloride of ammonia, both finely powdered ; mix. well together and use 51b of tbe mixture to ovory gallon of water, This quantity will be found sufficient to reduce water at a tomperature of 90 deg. Fahr. to freezing point (32deg, Mr.) in a fow seconds, In order to regain the salts after using, evaporate the water over a slow tiro in an iron vessel. Tho salts should then be laid on a plank mid ollowcd to thoroughly dry in tho sun. Bo careful not to boil the mixture, because a portion of the salts will tboreby be lost. Never allow the ammonia to come in contact with butter or cream, but stand the vessel containing these artiolos in the mixture, so that they may be entirely surrounded by it,

During tho month ol December, from tho first day to the last, unusual advantages will bo offeicd to all cash customers at Te Aro House, Wellington. There will be a free distribution ot Christ* mas presents, differing in value according to the amount of goods purchased at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our scale for Ihia distribution is very liberal, and may be scon in another column of this paper, The Christmas gifts have been expressly selected for this purpoßO, and have just come to hand by the latest mail Bteamera at To Aro House, Wellington, Country residents will find tbiß an excelIsnt opportunity for buying alltheyneodin household drapery, dress fabrics, millinery, mautles, jackets, mens', boys', and youths' clothing, etc,, from the largest and cheapest slock in tho Province at Te Aro Houso, Wellington,

For, in addition to buying well and cheaply, they will have tho opportunity of selecting their own presents, in accordance with the amount of parchasej, from (hi Ist to the 31st December, at To Ara House Wellington, _ Orders by post will receive prompt attention, and where oash is enolosed; the presonts will bo sont with tho goods from To Avo HoiiEe, Wellington ,-.A,»vi

Additions are inado to Mr F. H. Wood's horse and vehicle sale at Groy town on Saturday, 10th December. A pleasing coremony was performed atSt Lukes Church, Greytown, yesterday afternoon, when Miss Annie Tocker, daughter of Mrs E. E. Tocker, of Feathorston, and Leonard Sydney Knell, of Auckland, eon of the Rov A. Knell, of Greytown, were joined together in the holy bonds of matrimony, The bridesmaids were Misses N. and A, Knoll, and Misses Tocker and M. Tocker. Mr W. J, Kuell officiated as best man. A large number of friends witnessed the ceremony, which waß performed by the Key T, B. Micloan. As the couple left the church they were greoted with showers of rice and old slippers. Mr and Mrs Knoll left fur Auckland where they intend to reside, by the afternoon tain. It is understood that the prize fight which was to have taken place between J em ityan, champion of South Australia, and Sam Hill, of Wellington, has been abandoned in consequence of the patties being unable to obtain the use of a suit" able hall. Hill i'b at present in Feilding training Harry Laing for his ooming fight with Ryan. We are glad to notice that the feeling in favour of improving the breed of cattle in this district is in steady progress, and to-day we hear of the arrival inMasterton of six woll-brod Ayrshire*, all prize takers, bought by Mr Alfred Elkins, at the recent Oamaru Show. The cattle—four of them heifers, and two of them in calf to the imported bull "Baron of Uxhill" -were purchased by Mr Elkins from Mr James Gemmell, of Oamaru, a prominent South Island breeder and who, if we remomber rightly, secured the twenty guinea cup for the greatest number of points in Ayreshites at the Oamaru Show, Mr Blkina is to be congratulated upon his acquisition, and the enterprise which prompted It,