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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4328, 27 January 1893, Page 2

The new Presbyterian maoso at Carterton la now completed and is one of the most ornamental buildings in the town. Influenza is very prevalent In Pahiatua at the present time. The Rev Mr Saunders of Woodville is i reported to havo given up the ministry to start a soap factory at Wdiigamii,

Notice is Riven by John Mackintosh Roberts Esq, sheriff of theDistriot of Wairnrapa, of the seizure of certain native lands in the Wairarapa whiob will be sold by public auotior. by Messrs Tomuend and Paul on Thursday, February 23rd, at Mr G,S, W. Dalrymplo's rooms, Mastorton. Full particulars of the land etc., will be found in another column,

A well-known Auckland cyclist, J. Selby, rode from Hamilton, to Auckland yesterday. Ho accomplished tho journey in oxantiy eleven hours, despito the faot that the roads above Mercer were very muddy,whilehe hadalso to wade through water, carrying his machine, between Huntley and Mercer, which delayed him an hour.

In Mr W. H, Lucy's capital book, the "Diary cf the Salisbury Parliament," thero is a story relating to Lord ftose» bery and one of his Scotch gueats which has been published before, but is worth re-quoting. 1" the month of May, 1889, there was an evening party in Berkeley squaro; and in tho early part of the day Lord Bosebery had met in Piccadilly a Scotch farmer with whom he had some acquaintance, and he asked his friend to "lookin." [nthe course of the night the farmer duly presented himself in something that resembled his idea of an evening dres3. All went well till the Scotchman got into the supper room, and after eating of a variety of delicacies, he lighted on an ice-cream—a form of nourishment that was new to him, Having taken a large spoonful he managed to conceal his disoomfoit, But seeing his host he thought it was his duty to inform him of what had taken place. •' 1 don't suppose you knoiv, my lord," he loudly whispered," but I think I ought to tell you—there has been a mistake somewhere and this pudding's froze." Lord Kosebery grasped tJie situation in a moment. With perfect courtesy, and with a pretty appearance of critical erquiry, he tasted the icecream. "So it is," he said; "that's very strange"; and then, after speaking to one of hia servants, ho returned and Bttid to the Scotch farmer, "It's all right; lam told that this is a new kind of pudding they freeze on purpose," and taking his friend's arm, led him nut of the room,

A good story is told of an experience of one of the candidates for the Dunedin mayoralty. He visited a house for the purpose ol soliciting a vote, and his knock at the door was followed by the appearance of a tidy little woman with a baby in horarma, After stating the object of hie visit, a man appeared on the scene and took his stand behind tho lady. Owitinmng his remarks, the candidate, to gain tho favour of hiß hearers, began to tap the baby on the cheek In a true fatherly fashion. " A fine chubby boy," he said; "very like you—very like you, indeed," he added, turning to the man, To hiß surprise this compliment rather discomposed both his listeners, but the candidate put this down totheir modeßty. His own dißnomfiture may be imagined when it was aftorwards explained that the reason he had lost two pood votes was because that man happened to bo the next door neighbour paying a kindly visit to his friend, who was down with the influenzal -Glutha Leader.

Thoy do things in proper fashion in the States, Colonial girls would hardly go to the extent dopicted in tho following from Charleston:-'' Miss Uertrudo Hagar and Lizzie Spears, two attractiye women of this town, run a rival race for the young mens' attentions, Therivalry is bo bitter that a duel was fought be tween them last week. Miss Hagar fired five shots at her adversary, but couldn't hit her. Miss Spears has applied for a warrant to prevont further yiulenoe from her enemy.

Aq Amazon of the west has been discovered noar Minnesota. A giant girl, with her hair flying looso, was found in the woods living in a cave, A man who had beon missing live stock waß driving his cattlo to water when he saw the enormous girl scrambling up the hillsido. He followed her into the cave, where she sprang upon him, threw him down, and drugged him out down the hillaido. Tho man was glad to <Bcape. She iB supposed to be Mena Lorsen, a proud and well-to-do Norwegian girl, who five years ago was deserted by her lovor. She took an oath never to look on man again,

Horses in Norway have a very sensible way of taking their food, whioh might be beneficially followed. They have a bucket of water put down besido their allowance of hay. It w interesting to see with what rellish they take a sip of one and a mouth' ul of the othor alternately, somotimes only moistening their mouths as a rational being would while eating his dinner of such dry food, A broken-winded horse a scarcely ever seen in Norway, and the question is if the mode of feeding ha& not something to do with the preservation of the animal's respiratory organs, It Is claimed that broad tyres canse an ■ increased draught on tho waggon, This wholly baseless beliof (writes Professor Stewart in the " Hew York Times") is due to common ignorance of the laws of dynamics, which govern the praotioe of moving vehicles on roads, But some of these laws are so simple that a ohild cannot bo mistaken when the principles are explained, Everyone knows that a waggon going up a hill requires more force to draw it than when it is moved on a level. Now whon a wheel sinks in soft soil there iB an elevation uf the ground in front of it equal to the dopfchof the sinking. When a narrow wheel sinks Sin or 4in in the ground the effect is precisely the same as if the waggon was going up tho same inclino, or when the broad wheel is usod and it does not sink in the ground this obstacle doas not exist. The surface of the wlieol does not interfere in the least with the draught of a waggon even on solid, hard ground, and it must bo evident that the broad wheel will not out into a road as a narrow one will, and thus on soft roads it must bo of easier draught. Tho wciter has recently made half a mile of new earth road through his land. The soil is day, and in the present wet and frosty weather oro day's use of narrow-tyred wspgons would make the road impassable. But by inviting a neighbour who uses broad wheels to use this road as a short cut the surface hoa been rolled dewn to a smooth and hard road, so that after a month's wear a narrow tyro may go over the road without damage. Thu has a serious application to the winter work of the farm, and equally to tho drawing in of the nitrvcßt from the soft fields, The narrow-tyred waggons are helples". The roads are quagmires, and impassable. But had the bread tyres been in general use thoy would bo passablo, and the haulir.g out of manure on to the fields might bo going on all the winter, If a complete account ot the narrow tyres in the shape of lost time, greater expense of maintainingthe roads, washing of the fields by tho ruts cut in the land, the extra labor of horses, and all other eyil results of this amazing blunder were figured up the amount would provide new waggons with broad tyre? for overy farmer In tho country, and would leave a comfortable surplus to remain In the farmers' pockets, A good story is going the round of the town just now concerning a hat of a particular description, which was wanted by one of .our local magnates,. He tried everywhere in search of it, and found it at most places; there was no difficulty about that. But the prices, Oh Fie I nine shillings at one shop, eight at another, seven and six at a third, and a crown somewhere else. Thou Hooper and Company's was retched, and soon the seeker went home delighted,'singing "That Hat, That Hat, that wonderful Hat j I got it at Hooper's for two and \ a'sprati"—Apvt>

Trout aro repotted to be plentiful in the Forty-mile Bush rivers. Some fine specimens have beon captured. The Rev Charles Murray of Carterton wasmarriod in Ohriatohurch on Wednesday last.

A little eirl named McCarthy fell off a log at Tiraumea Valley road, a few days ago, and broke her arm vory badly. Mr F.H.Wood adds to his entries for the Carterton Ram Fair, G5 Lincoln rams bred by the Hon. Matthew Holmes and Messrs W.J. and J. Martin.

The Postal Department notifies that' there is an interruption in the cable to Suez, the land lines being down through a hurricane. Bombay advises that messages for Port (Said and Cairo may be accepted. On Wednesday last at Pahiatua, a well known couplo named Patrick and Katherine O'Brien were charged <vith drunkenness and obscenity, the former being sentenced to seven days and the latter to twenty.one days hard labour, A reward of two pounds is ofiered for the recovery of a pooket book containing money and papers lost between the Prinoe of Wales hotel and the Taueru road.

While in Marlborough recently, the Bon Mr Seddon distinguished himself at a fire at Eenwicktown, taking charge of the workers, who, at the time were quite unr.ware of Wb identity.,

_ Koumania has ne ground for complaiu* ing the law is a laggard—at least in one particular, At Ilfoy no fewer than 53 couples were divorced at a single sitting ofthe court, Hymen may bide his diminished head after this record breaking performance.

At Tenbury an old gentlemen named Preston, speaking at a publio presentation to Prebendary Avßcough, the vicar, had just uttered the words "I had nothmir more to aay" when ho fell down dead from heart disease

The ManawatuStandard says: "The way of the Maori is not always that uf tho European, and least of all does the dusky one allow himself to be bound by the conventionalities of white Society At Turakina, at presout, there is a well known Maori suffering from cancer, and whose end is supposed to bo not far oft, and Mb friends are already laying in a large stock of provisions for thetangi whioh they intend to hold over his body.

Captain Whitney has written to Major I Summirville that early tat June lie offered to supply the Government with any number of Martini-Henry riflos, with bayonets and everything complete, for £3 2s fid f.o.b. in londou within six monthß of receiving the order. Had the Government given him the order, ho certainly should have delivered riuVs in time for the Rifle Association's meeting.

At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Land Board, tho Member for Masterton, Mr A, W. Hogg, made nn effort to deliver a political oration, but wbb promptly checked by the Crown Lands Commissioner,who was in tho chair. Mr Hnirg said that as a member uf the Land Board his attention had been called to Mr Rolleston's speech. He considered it behoved him not only as a member of the Beard and one who had been personally attacked by Mr Rolleston, but as the representative of persons in his con* stituency who had also boon aspersed by the Loader of the Opposition, to adnress the Board on tho Bubjcct. Mr Rolleston s remarks had been very damaging to certain persons who had settled in the Wairarapa. Here the Commissioner, interrupting Mr Hogg, remarked that he objected to politioal speeches being made at a meeting of the Board Mr Hogg insisted that, as apublio man, he was pefectly entitled to speak on the subject in question, especially as he had been personally attacked by Mr Rolloston. Not only had he been attacked, but the Leader of tho Opposition had as sorted that overy third man in the Wairarapa was nothing more than a land speculator. Mr Pirani said he considered that if Mr Hogg continued to address the Board on the subject it would be exceedingly unfair to Mr Baker as a Civil servant. Mr Hogg again arose to address the Board, when he was once more interrupted by the Commissioner, who romarkod that he had no doubt in his own mind that tho Board-room was not the place for any member to dohver a political speech. Mr Hogg said he would buw to the ruling of the Chairman, as perhaps he had aaid sufficient to vindicate his own character as a publio man. He knew tho Leador of the Opposition, and from what he had seen of him in the House he was surprised at nothing that Mr Rolleston said. He was a wolf in sheep's clothing and a friend of land-sharks and landgrabbors. The subject was then dropped.

The beat Lincoln Stud Barns at the Wellington Fair wore entered by the Hon. Matthew Holmos, Mr Jamea Maoaraseouredone for bis farm on the Opaki and Mr Duncan MoMaster of the Lowor Valley purchased two, Owing to the complaint about poaching and unfair fishing in this district Hanger Moorhoußo has been on duty about Mbbterton for tbo past week. The result of Ins observations has not yet been made known. He has now gone to the Lower Valley to investigate oortain coraplaintß re river pollution, trout poaching etc, in that quarter. Messrs Lowes and lorns announco their next Masterton stock sale for Wednesday, Febuary 8 th. Entries at date comprise 300 woolly lambs, 800 shorn lambs, 180 two tooth wethers, and 50 two tooth ewes,

"Bohemian" in the Christchurch Presj i says.—l was at a very pleasant public ' gathering the other day—perhaps Iliad ; better not say exactly where it was. 1 , will merely mention that there was a : certain placo set apart for subsoriberß. ■ Within this enolosuro thero was a yet 1 moro saored reservation conspicuously ■ hMki~"Pnmk,{orhdKsonly." This wasallright, and of courso looked simply i hko proper thoughtfulness on tho part of • the Oommittco. What perplexed "Bohemian," however, was to see a numbor of ' gentlemen entering this s»cred spot from ■ timo to time, and emerging therefrom ' with a highly satisfied expression, their faces wreathed with smiles. The idea 1 then ocourrod that pußsibly this was a kind of ladies reception room to which a favoured few of the opposite sex were admitted, "Bohemian" accordingly had settled himself down to a kind ot resentful envy of those pampered individuals, whon he caught Borne of them furtively wiping their mouths whon they came out. Not only puzzled, but now scandalised to boot, ho determined to sift themyßtory to tho bottom. He found it out at last. Thero weren't any ladies thereat allit was the place where the Committee kept the wbiskoy I N.8.-"Boheniian" wasn't asked to have any, or he might not have said anything about it." To-morrow (Saturday) tho Greytown team will play Masterton on the Recreation Reserve Greytown. The following will play for Greytown i-Messrs S Nioholls, (capt) H. Hawke, W, and J. Judd, E. W„ A. and H. Udy, W, J. Knell, A. A Elder, A. L. Webster and T, J. Rowse. Emergencies W, A. Tate, R. Judd and Fd Hawke, Eor a time marvellous Melbourne had a great run of wonderful but fictitious prosperity. Everything was "boomed." Fabulous prioes were the ordor of tho day. But soon came the end. Tbo" boinu" .burst. Apparently inexhaustible money was exhausted. .Trade collapsed, and sovere depression clogged all the wheels of commerce. James Smith, of Te Aro House, has, howover, profited by his recent visit to this city of" tho doldrums," and has made immonso purchases of new and seasonablo drapery goods at infinitcstimal prices, Thero will bo rarest of raro bargains at the "erupted boom" sale, commencing to-morrow, January 20th, at Te Aro House, Wellington, This will be no ordlnary.sale. It will bo belter than any surplus stook sale, superior to any bankrupt stook sale, and unsurpassed by that sale of all sales, a salvage sale. Because it is an effeot of tho exploded Melbourne "boom," we call it the "erupted boom" sale, at To Aro Houeo. Wellington. Country residents should visit this 6ale without delay. In this case time is doubly precious. The bargains, though numerous, will not last for ever. City customers, ever on tho alert, will como to it in droves. Countrymttlers should not hesitate and so lose tbo chance, Such an opportunity may not occur again in two decades, if over, and it would be an irretrievable mistalo to m!s6 the goiden chance at the " erupted boom" 1 sal?, Te Ate Hou.se, WelUngton.-ADU,

■ Meßßta MuLeod and Campbell's camp at tkft Upper Taueru, was entiroly destroyed in the bush fire on Tuesday last. Teals, utensils, clothing and tools were burnt.

■ The Superintendent Collector of Agricultural statistics informs ns that the followinggentJeraan have been appointed sub-enumerators for the Wairarapa South County-Awhea and Otaraia Riding:—Constable U. Bowden. Fea> theraton Township:- Constable Smith. Featherston and Greytown Ridings;— Win Scale. Grejtown Borough: -Con» stable Eccleton. Oarterton ltidine:.1. M. Drew. Carterton Borough :-Oonstable Darby. Gladstone Biding:—H. JR. Baggo, Several important additions to the entries for Mr F. H. Wood's Carterton Ram Pair are made to-day on account of Messrs Walkor and Sutherland and W. 0, Buchanan.

Mr Bulpit of Devonshire llouso intends next month to start on a holiday trip to the old Country. Owing to the small muster, the Mas. jterton Rifle Volunteers did not parade 'last night, A meeting is to bo held on Thursday next to arrange matters in i connection with the proposal to turn the corps into a Mounted Infantry Company.