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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4346, 16 February 1893, Page 2

Tho Mauricaville Dairy Factory is in full swing and putting throughan average of 600 gallons of milk daily, Its butter this year is exported to the English market direct by the directors. Two tJi.qußqpj} aores of felled bush belonging to sevoral settlers are paid toliayo been burned at Mongamahoo, oii Friday last, and exceptionally good burns resuited in nearly every case.' '■ Mr Dawßon has completed the bridge on the Makakahi, at Mangamahne (Hefty's Road), The extra piles have been driven, and only the format,joji of the approach requires to be done to allow settlero to got in their heavy goods

Mr Hansen, of the Ekotahum Boot' Depst, announcos in our advertising columns that he is now making v,p order goods from picked material and his patrons may rely on ?ettmg real sorviccabloboots suitable for the bush country. Watertights and womons dairy boots are made a speciality, Grapes are boins; yory successfully I srown at Oriental Hay, in thß neighbourflood of Wellington, j The death is announced of M r Fred* eriok E. Darby J.P., an old and re« spected seltlor iu tho Wolliugton distriot. The namos of sundry Mastei'ton unemployed have been submitted to the Labour Bureau by Mr A. VV. Hogg, M.H.R. Tlioy must bo men who cannot work or won't work, for latterly tho demand for labour in this neighbourhood has exceeded the supply. The Grand Lodge of Arkansas has decided to extend recognition to the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. Tho Grand Lodge of Arkansas has 4514 lodges, numbering 13,191 members, under Its jurisdiction. The expenditure of tho Wellington Benevolent Trustees is now £SOOO per annum. The JSketahuna Road Boaid invites applications for the position of cattle ranger, Frank Seber, aged 23, whilsi bathing with some companions in a water hole near Violet Town (Vio.) on Saturday afternoon came in contact with a stick, which entered his right Bidf, passing nearly through his body, He died shortly afterwards. According to the Garden ani Forest a remarkably fine camelia is growing near the Koyal castle at Pillnitz, Dresden, Germany, Tho tree is 24ft high, and

produces aunually at least 60,000 blos« soms, It is supposed to have been imported from Japan about a century and a half ago. It is planted in the open ground, but overy winter a structure of boards is built around it to protect tho plant from the severe cold of winter and the blooms from rains and fro3t. The other day a Mrs Kibble, a widow, who was the main support of a yonng family at Kangaroo Ground, Millfield, near Greaford, was assisting to thresh some wheat when, in stepping over a portion of the machinery, her dross caught, dragging in her foot, which was fearfully orushed. 'l'hewomar. was tnken to tho Maitland Hospital where it was found necessary to amputate ';he limb below tho knsa. Mrs Kibble is progressing favourably,

j A profossionl burglar in Berlin has found a new and original wty of adding to the ordinary profits of hi? profession. After each burglary ho sent a full account of it to ono of the daily newipapors, and and for this he received payment in' tho usual way, But ho tried his plan once too often. The editor got suspicious, and gave information to the police, who soon found how this amatour reporter was able to beat all rivals in tho way of early information, The result is that the burglar-reporter is in sale custody.

The provisions of the recont Kanaka labour legislation are being rigidly enforced in Queensland. At'Wackay, re™ cently, several farmers were heavily fined for permitting three Kanaka servants to milk cows. Tho f.irmors 'considered this a t;reat hardship, They had engaged tho Kanakas under a law which only permits their employment in tropical agriculture, but they consider at tho | same timo that when active work in tho canefield had ceased, and ths cows were waiting to be milked, tho spare time of South Soa Islanders might just as well be utilised. The next dove'opmont was tho fining of a medical man, iu Mackay, for the same offence, This, tho farmers contended, was very just, fcr they oould not conceive why a doctor should want to employ a Kanaka in aiiy capacity. Tho unfortunate physician was not ongaged in tho growing ol BUgar, but rather in consumiug it in the coating of pills. The latest incident, however, caps the whole of the series. On th>) 29th of the month, Mr W, 8. Hyne, of ',he Meadowlands plantation, was mulcted pretty heavily for letting a Kanaka drive a dray loaded with cane purchased from a neighbouring farmer. Had tho cane eome from Mr Hyno's own twlds, along a publio road, there would liavo been no caso; but a breach of the Act was involved when the cane was conveyed from tho small grower to the big luillowner.— Exohange. Wo are informed by a gentleman who ha 3 some knowledge on tho subject, that the butter industry is likely to be overdone in this country, and that too little attention is paid to the choose market by proprietors of dairy lactones, The lattor article, if properly made, commands a moro steady market than butter, This may be so, but taken with the ;act that Mr Chester and the firm he represents (one of tho largest in this line in England) were prepared some little timo ago to erect any amount of faotories and give a stated price (three pence per gallonjfor five years to suppliers, it does not look as if this product was to be a drug in the market,. Perhaps with regard to tho presentfall in the markets at home it may be found like that in other New Zealand exports—tho middlemen find it a good article to handle and are makiug rings to suit their own pockets at the expense of the producer,

At the Presbyterian General Assemt ly ) in Wellington on Tuesday last, tho Modoj rator (Rev. W, Gillies of Timaru) in the | course of his address, remarked that I " excessive devotion to pleasure, both by young and old in this colony, was de- ' plored as playing havoc with tho moral i stamina of tho population, for there was • no fury no vindictive and oruol hearted : as the Goddess Pleasure, and her votaries . became liko her. The legislature had also been criminally and suicidally in tor--1 diotive and obstructive toward virtuo by ' its State ban upon the Bible in the 1 education in its public schools," J Mr Coleman Phillips has given notice ' to movo at the meeting of the Welling. ' ton Bonovolont Trustcos on tho 21st i instant-" That tho poor of the city be i divided into five classes, viz.—(l) The deserving poor; (2) The poor abandoned by their natural protectors and guard- ; ians; (3) Tho idle poor | (4) The drunken poor; (5) The dissolute poor; 1 and that tho three latter classes be relieved in future by the police, and not by tho Poor Rate Trustees," This was re.ad at yesterday's meeting of tho Trus-. tees, and as the end approached, tho 1 Chairman suggested that one class had been omitted—" (fi) Tho poor fools," Wo sugp;eßt {ho Mdßterton Horticultural and Industrial Society should offer at its next show a substantial prizo for tho best factory butter, One of the applicants to tho Benevolent Truateoft yesterday was a thin end hagjard man aged 48, sunken-eyed und with pallied cheeks, who hailed from Manchester. He said ho had been Eent out by hia friends from there nine months ago to bettor hia condition in the colony, the passage costing £l6. He had to trade, and no capital, and " was anything.". He first ll landed in a place thoy call Napier," and finding nothing there tramped to Gisborne, where ho had had a few clays' work at odd times, p.nd sot out finally to tap to Wellington, arriving on Monday, since which time he 1 had had no food. He was starving, tnd had been more or less so sincohe came 1 to tho colony. The Trustees looked at 1 each other, and agreed that this wis a 1 most unsuitable typo of man to have b ien 1 sent to New Zealand, but thoy could not | refuse to aid a starving man, and so ho 1 was sent to tho Home to grow stronger, \ -Post. !

'Melbourneßargains at tho Dress Counter during the Gigantic Salo at To Aro Houi,c. Buy these quidly, full dress length!, of summer ccarte, worth 5/6, for 1/11. Hot many left, very useful summer che voits, 12 yard lengths, worth C/ 6, for 2/1?.. Now is (ht time for a full dress length of summer diagonals at 7/6, for 3/11.

Smp time up. Splendid qualities in inloker tweeds, woijh 0/0, for 4/}|,

The prettiest dresses o( the season aro our 10/6 French Do Laines for 6/6 the dress, ■The most charming and osquisite designs in 12/0 French De Laines for 7/6 the dreis'' It is impossible to help buying our French Do Laiues at 15/- for 9/6 the dress.

Onh afan left of our superior quality 18s French Do Lainos forlO|6th«ites3at Tfl Aro House, Wellington.

Inspector Pender is on a visit to Mastorton. Quite a number of vehioles ore stuck up at the break in the Waingawa Bridge, One oftue most conspioions is Messrs Dixon Bros' gaily painted lemonado van, loaded up with several hundred dozen "ompties." Tenders to close on Wednesday, Marohlst, forbuilcing a truss Bridge over the Tiraumoa River at Edwards' ford, are invited by the iVairarapa North County Council. Ben Jonson, appointed in 1619, was tho lirst to hold the pest of Poet Laureate in Enghnd. From his time there has been an uninterrupted succession of Stato poets. 4 Whareama correspondent writes that the earthquake on Sunday morning waß felt all aloug the coast. The Dowager Duchess of Londonderry i has recontly boen appointed a churchwarden of Machynlleth. This appears to be the only instance on record of a titled lady holding such an office. Wiremu Kingi to Mat'ikatea, the celebrated Ngatiawa Chief, died at his home, Opua, Opunake, yesterday. It is said that typhoid fever and influenza are very prevalent in Gisborno just now, The hospital there is full, and many persons are also laid up in different parts of the town. The Foxton people bavo decided to hold the usual regatta on the 17th March.

Thero is considerably moro tourist Mo through the Hot Lakes this season than there was last year, "News," says an American journalist with a talent for crisp and felicitous phraseology, "isany heretofore unprinted occurrence which involves the violation of any ot the ten Commandments." " A Tramp " certainly got the best of the Minister for Public Works, on Friday, says tho Manawatu Standard, when he introduced as a deputation a Minister ot the Gospel who wanted to borrow tents from tho Defence Department for a religious camp meeting, An extensive sale of Wairarapa property is advertised in another column by Messrs Uarcourfc and Co, for Wednesday the 22nd in the Colonial Exchange Auction Rooms. The list includes an unimproved compact property of 105 acres at Alfredton, township properties atFeatherston, Woodeido and Carterton, and broad acres in tho Whareamadistriot, where will be offered a first-class farm of 582J- acres with suitable and convenient dwelling and buildings. The latter property is one that will specially attract purchasers, baing one of the most valuable and complete small station properties now in the market and offering to a man of moderate means a rare opportunity of making a profitable investment in a substantial freehold.

For tlio benefit of the unwatered country about Naaeby, Otago, tho Government have undertaken on expotiment ot artesian bore, which. Bays the Chronicle, is to be put down at Ewebum, the centre of the settlement, The Government steamer Stella will bo submitted for sale by auction,

A Government State farm will short be inaugurated on a 1500 aero bloc some miles beyond Feilding.

Once a year our Whakataki and Castle Point friends have a day's outing on tho breezy sea boaoh, with a Jittlo race meeting at which fair prizes are offered, and a hearty welcome is accorded to visitors from all quarters. People who have been to these gatherings say that they are very jolly. In another column this year's arrangements are advertised, the 25th of March being selectod as the day, .

The Rev. J. Crowes, of Wellington, gives one of his popular entertainments in the Temperance Hall Hall, Masterton, thtß evening. Admission iB freo, but a collection will be taken. Mr Crewes announces that ho has left Holly House and will read heads for charts daily at thsTomporance Hall,

The recont floods in the Waingawn inundated a good deal of tho country round about Fornridgo, After tho water had gone down in ono particular paddock, Mr F. Hood discoyered two large trout stranded about a mile from the river.

A Palmerston North paper states that the Opposition Party intend to try hard to induce Mr Scobio Mackenzie to stand for that constituency at tho next election. An auctioneer's notice in this iesuo from Georgo Thomas aad Co, postpones their great sale of galvanised and black wire until Monday the 27th ir.st.

The Greytown Horticultural Society is favoured with splendid weather for their show toiday.

Yesterday being Abli Wodnosday, a servico was held by the Kov. T. B. Maclean in St, Luke's Church; Greytown, last evening. The Town Clerk of Masterton has received tho following subscriptions towards tho Queensland Distress Fund: J. flare (Foatherston) £1; R, M, Galloway (Masterton) £l- - heavy galo with rain visited Mastor ton last night, No damage of any conse* quenco Is, howeyor, reported,

A correspondent suggests that to g»t water from the new fountain, the first man sentenced in Masterton tn twentyfour hours hard labour should be put on to tho machine that works it, Perhaps, to give tho fountain a fair chance, it would be as well for the Benoh to make the terra forfcy-oight hours.

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their Masterton stock sale for Wcdnosd&y next, February 22nd, 100 ewes, 100 lambs, 20 liomney and Lincoln rams (various breeders) and fourteon pigs, The ltev, J, Dukes will conduct Divino Service in the Tinui Public Hall on Sunday noxt, February 19th, at 3 p.m. Mr McCardle has takon (he plungo, aud declares that he will stand for tho Masterton electorate as a Prohibitionist. Mr Hogg, to go one bettor, must tsko the pledge. He was hanging round Woodroofe's fountain conundrum yeaterday, |

The Mastoiton Road Board gives notice of its intention to tako under tho Public Works Act certain parcels of land at Weraite for a publio road. In connection with tho forn stealing oase heard in tho Masterton R,M, Court yesterday it may bo of interest to the publio to know that tho maximum penalty for the offence is six months imprisonment with or without hard labour, j or a tinn of £2O in addition to the cost of tho damage done,

The Autumn Show of the Masterton Horticultural Society is being held to< day In the Drill Hall. Tho entries are numerous, and in some of the classes tho exhibition is excellent. Vegetables are particularly well represented. This evening the Masterton Volunteer Band will play outside tho Hall, and Mr Eeisenborg's Masterton Orchestra will reudor selections during the evening,

A physician of St, Louis asserts that thero are iu that city 20,000 viotimß to the habit of injecting morphia undor the skin, and that the great majority of those viotimß aro women of tho welkto.do classes. He blames the doctora for thlß stato of aflaire, beHeying that their constantly respiting tohypodermie injections of morpine as a speedy cure for tho head, aches of their patients, or as a stimulant in cases of nervous prostration, or as affording reliof from great fatigue, has initialed tho craving which soon bocomes irrestible. Though doctors almost invariably warn their patients of the danger el the habit, it grows upon them and speedily subdues thorn.

A good story Is going the round of the town just now concerning a hat of a particular description, which was wanked by one of our local magnates, He tried everywhere in Bearch of it, and found it at most places j there was no difficulty about that. But the prices, Oh Flo I nine shillings at one shop, eight at an* other, Beven and six at a third, and a crown somewhere else, Then Hooper and Company's was reached, and soon iha seeker went home delighted, singing "That Hat, That Hat, that wonderful Hat i I got it at Hooper's for two and a oprati"-Ai>VTi

.Mrs McCallum, palmist, is now stopping at Mrs Young's, Holly House. She is said to possess extraordinary insight in the art whinh she follows, mil to even claim the aid of olniryoyance in munitesting her oowers. Our own experience of palmists has made us treat them with a certain rrapnot, A year before (ho Editor of this paper took his recent trip to the Old Country, and when ho had not the remotest idea of taking it, a lady palmist assured him that he was about to take a long sea voyage, and gave him aoveial othor tests which, to say tho least, surprised hint.

A correspondent forwards us the following interesting paragraph clipped from the .Family Herald of June 17th, 1892, referring to tho Count do lesseps; —" Count de Lesseps became a widower at sixty-eight, with a numerous family, A few years later ho was in the habit of Yisiting a family in Paris which comprised five sisters, One day he observed that he had undergone great dangers and difficulties among the Arabs because they could not conceive hoir a man could live without a wife. The prettiest of the' sisters innocently asked," Why, then, do you not marry again ?" " Because lam too old. Besides, if I wore to fall in love with a young girl, it would be absurd to think that she would fall in love with me." " Who knows ?" observed bis questioner, Lesseps told his young listeners about the rose of Jericho, which, after being dried and placed in wator, again bursts out into bloom. Soon afterwards he obtained one of these roses and presented it to tho young [{irl, In a few days she appearod with the re-blossomed rose in her hand, which sho gave to tho Count, saying," See what a miraclo tbo wator has effected upon the rose; it is the blossoming of love In old age." Their eyes met ; and he, believing she had a meaning in what she did, said, " If you really daro venture to share the remaining years of an old man, hero is my hand," _ But for this marriage it iB very uncertain whether tho Count de Leßseps would have undertaken his laborious task at Panama, The Countess is always at his side, and has been his chief holp and support throughout his arduous conflicts with politicians, money-lenders, eneineers, labourers, and many others." A French soientist lately obtained, it is reported, a yield of 42 tons of potatoes por aero by treating the seed tubers with sulphate of ammonia. Ho steeped the potatoes for 24 hours in a solution of six pounds of saltpetre, six pounds of sulphate of ammonia, ana 25 gallons of water. Ho then allowed them to stand and drain for a day, in order that their buds might swell, before planting thorn,

Sir Edward Watkin proposes, if evor ho gets his Channel tunnel cut through to run trains direct from London to Gibraltar, transfer carriages by boat to Tangier, and thence along the north coast of_ Africa, through Egypt, down the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee, and so on to Calcutta, with change of carriages.

The Mssterton canvessor for the Atkinson Memorial Fund has only succeeded in gathering £2 2$ after four months' work. A furthor sum of £2, Cs has boon promised, but is not yot collected. The first annual sports of tho Walrarapa Am»teur Athletic and Cycling Association Bhould prove a thorough (success. About forty competitors will tako part, making the total onirics nearly 120, On Tuesday afternoon Messrs Eethune and 00. hold a largo salo of land at their rooms in Brandon street. There was a good attendance. The property known as the" Tauanui" sheep and cattle run, situated in tho Lower Yalley, consisting of some 13,080 acres, freehold, together with buildings and improvements, was bought by Messrs G. Hume, H, T. flume, W. Hume, and P. K Hume for 129,000. This price, of course, does not cover a mortgago of i12,<)00 which the property is still subject to. A. meetiug of tho Sports dommittoe of the Wairarapa A.A, Club was held last ovening, A deputation was appointed to seouro the Park Oval for the Sports, It was also deoided that nono but offioials and competitors be permitted Inside tho enclosure.

_ H.M.S, Ringdove, from Sydney has at' rived at Wellinpton,

Tho Mastorton School children are to be granted a lioKJioliday for the local sports on Thursday next. The following new members have been olected to tho Wairarapa Amateur Athletic and Cycling Olub:—Moaara N. Gurr, 1. Handel, 0. Pragnell, B. Roake, O. Bannistor, J. Cashion, and J. N. Pringle.

Mr 1?. H. Wood adds to hia next Taratahi stock ealo list, 800 breeding ewos, 100 lambs, 200 2 and 4 tooth forward wethers, 10 2-tooth Lincoln rams bred by W. Wilson Esq,, of Wanganui, 5 ditto bred by F, B. Sutton Esq. ,of Canterbury, and 10 ditto brod by various broodors. Mr Wood also notifies that owing to the large number of sheep entered for this salo no entries of horses can be receiyed. Yesterday at the Presbyterian General Assembly, tho liev. Robert Wood, of Masterton, said that as the older uiorabers of tho Assembly seemed disinclined to move in this matter, he, as ono of tho younijor and more foolish brethren, might bo permitted to do so. Ho would therefore move-' That this report be ro> ceived, and that the presbyteries be instructed to hold further meetings in view of tho next election, and to make this question of Bible-reading in tho public schools a test question at this election,' The rey. gentleman complained that tho Wellington Board of Education had 1 sat upon' a request from Masterton, though favoured by the local Bohool committee, that half an hour in each week should be set apart for religious instruction to the children in the publio school, tho contention of tho board being that as they provided for five hours' Becular instruction each day for the scholars they could not reduco it to fuur hours and a half, yet the Act only specified four hours' instruction a day. In the InvercarglJl sohoola 50 minutes a week were dovoted to religious instruction, viz., ten minutoa every day, tho schools there being opened with prayer and the reading of tho Biblo.