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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4352, 23 February 1893, Page 2

A tea meeting nnd socjal gathering' to. celebrnte the anniversary of theGpevr town Preßbyterian Ohurob ffill bo held this evening. /

Four hundred people are homoless at North Bundaberg in Queensland. The town is entirely under water. E Mrs McCallum, the palmist, has been tl doing a good business since her arrival at Holly Huuse, and the stream of visitors ti still keeps up, A stand up fight between twowenum i. was Aituessed in Queen- Btreet yesterday, ii One fair damsel, with " two lovely black ji eyes," commonced proceedings with an umbrella, with which sbo boat her op- r ponent unmercifully. After a regular rough and tumble, the affair ended up in i, an sppeal to tho onlookers for help, [ We hear that the incumbent of St. Matthew's Mastercon, intends to arrango r at an early date for a special offertory , in aid of tho Queensland Belief Fund, Also that Mr \V. U. Jackson is making a c very successful collection for tho same r ob]ect at the Maßteiton public Boheol, " A danco takes place at the Mastcrton ' Drill Hall this ovening. 8 The Queensland Relief Fund now , amounts to £12,700. An application by John De Mey, Cnlis- , tbenic Instructor, foran increased allow. ' ance for travelling expensos, was de- | terred for further consideration, by the | Wellington Education Board yesterday. | Mr Mlchad Davitt is desirous (wrote ] the Argus' correspondent of January 6) ' of startinj on hia long-projected.anti-podean lecturing tourasßOon as possible, ' but ho fears that his political engagements in Ireland will not permit him to , leave beforo April or May. It is his present intention to visit New Zealand first- New South Wales, Queensland, \ Victoria, and South Australia to follow. It may not be generally known that Mrs It. B. Owen, sun of Mrs Owen of Tenui, holds tho College record lor Ihe world for 100 yards. His time is 10 3-aths sees., and was made on the Basin Beserve last year. All musioians will learn with regrot that it has been found necessary to shut up the celebrated pianist, Hans von Biilow, in a lunatio asylum at Pankow in the environs of Berlin. For some time past Herr von Biilow had showed i of mental derangement. f Mr Norman Owen, ol Tenui, has been transferred to the Masterton office of the W ,F.O. Association. Mr Owen is a proI minentathletic, and will inall probability , be heard of in the football field next • season. ' In this issue Messrs John Graham ■ and Co,, insert an advertisement, in which they publish a Bpeoial list of a leading lines with prices attached. Many of these have been greatly re- . duccd to effect a clearance. A large supply of clover and other seeds are i, included, together with twenty-live bales i of cornsaoks, crockery and glass-ware, jam jars and bottles suitable for prea servos. Particular attention is directed to the reductions made in tho price of 8 a linea of churns now on hand together with a lot ot specialities in ironmongery. il The Waikato correspondent of an t t Auckland paper remarks:—One of the d most extraordinary crops of ouionß ever n grown bus been taken off a piece of ground seven yards by seven yards or jj 49 square yards, this soason by Mr MoOutcheon, Whatawhata, The sort is the whito Spanish, and they were sown 3 in a bed last autumn and transplanted in '' the spring. Nearly the whole ground is covered with bulbs, for they were closely - planted. Some of theao bulbs measure 17 inches in circumference, and when 3 growing it was just possible to lay a finger botween one root and another. The whole crop grown on tho 49 square j, yards or about a perch and a half was exactly half a ton, being at the rate of a trifle over iiO trnis per acre, The bulbs J are handsomely grown and perfectly sound.

A petition was presentod to the Wellington Education Board yosterday by Mr A. T. Hancook, Chairman of the Tenui School Committee, from 48 houßeholdors at Tenui requesting that the teacher's residence Bhould be remodelled and made habitable, as it was in a very dilapidated condition, and an oyeaore to

the district; also, that shelter sheds should bo provided for tho use of tho school ohildren. It was resolved on tho motion of Mr W. W. McCardle seconded by Mr W. 0. Buohanan, that the architect draw out plans for removing the top storyof tho teacher'aresidenco, constructing shelter sheds and making the build-* ing habitable. " Pearson's" Privato Band has once again—Phoenix like— risen from it* own ashes, and, after disappearing from tho Bcene for the last sis months, will play at tho Sports mooting on tho Park Oval this afternoon, under tho conductorship of Mr Georgo Gray. Under his direction tho Band should be ablo to maintain the high reputation it always had in the past, A man in Western Texas fired in the dark at a man who was stealing his corn, and the next day the county sheriff \m around with his arm in a sliug. - An English Company, with a capital of £1,000,000, is being formed for the purpose of absorbing tho Portugueso torntory in Nyassaland. In the Queen's Bench Division the Lord Chief Justice has ruled that a master is unable to sue the officials of trade unions for Inducing the workmon to break contracts. Tho Irish in Chicago aro responding to Mr Justin M'Carthy's appool for monetary assistant?, Somo information given by the Chairman of the Trustees of the Wellington Benevolent Institution seemed rather to astonish Mr Coleuun Phillips on Tuesday afternoon during tho meeting of the Board. Mr Phillips enquired of the Rev. H. Van Shveren if he could say how many of the persons who were obtaining relief from tho Trustees came from the Wairarapa district. The roy. Chairman replied that a great many ofi the applicants to the Society graduated from the Wairarapa and Manawatu dis-tnots-indeod, he thought that nearly all on the books of the Society said they had cuine from countiy districts Mr Phillips remarked that he had been re quested to mako tho enquiry, and ho had done sn, He had, howover, assured those who had sent him thero that it would do them no good to complain. As a parting ahot the Chairman) said that of every 20 persons whowero in the Homo, or who were obtaining relief in some way or other from tho Benevolent Society, 19 of them came from the country,—Post.

Mrs Longshore-Potts, M.D.,ls delivering the first of live lectures to women only,ac the Theatre Royal this afternoon, Mrs Dc Potts will deliver another free leoture to women only to-morrow afternoon. On Saturday the regular pay course of three lectures will commenoe. Next Thursday night sho will deliver her famous lecture to both seies on " Hearts and Homes j or, Is Marriage a Failure." London Truth says this lecturo is: " Moral, iiutructire, and very amusing "; while the Boston Herald Bays it is; "As good as an hour with Mark Twain. - ' To-mor-row night J, 0. Harrison will deliver his first lecture to mon only. It will be free. All the lectures will be fairly illustrated with stereopticon views,

John Canning, for the larceny of a travelling rug, thß property of his mato, was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment, at Masterton this morning,

Melbourne Banjaim at the Dress Counter during the Gigantic Sale at To Aro House. Buy that qxicMy, full dress lengths of summer ccavtc, worth 5/6, for 1/11. Not mumjhft, very useful summer chcYoits, 12 yard lengths, worth 0/0, for 2/11. Mt|) is dc lime to a full * resS loll Sfo of summer diagonals at 7/6, for 3/11. Snap thte up. Splendid qualities in knioker twoeds, worth 8/6, for 4/11.

The prttliist dram of the season are om 10/6 French De Laines for 6/6 the dress.

Thf t|ios( eliarming and exquisite designs in 12/6 French De Laines for 7/6 fho dress " iiis toossiWc to help buying our French I)a Laines at 15/- (or i)/B the dress. Only o/ew \$ of guv superior qualify 18s Freuoh Ds Laines Joi.lo/6thetaat! Aid Homo, Wellington. i

A competent cook is advertised for. In the bis; Rugby football mutches in England, the latent Btyle is to play four three-quarters. A speciul meeting of tho Trustees of the Masterlon Trust Lands will be held at 7.30. p.m., on Monday next at tho Borough Council Chambers, The meet- ' ing'is called to hear and determine ob- < jections to the voters 1 list. I Further subscriptions in aid of the ( Queoustand Belief Fund are acknowl i edged by Mr fi. Brown as followl: 1 "H.Y."£lO ; tt, J. Harcumbo 10s; ] Mrs 0. Allen, 10s. Mrs Longshore-Potts, M.D., and J ( Clias. Harrison, M,D., arrived from , Wellington at noon. Dr Harrison ia accompaiuo.d by hiamuthor,Mrs J.E, Harrison. MrF. C. Stewart, the stereoptician I arrived last uig:.t. All of them are pleasantly located at Mr Bulpit's Devonshire House, in Viotoria Street, Writes Anglo-Australian in the European Mail :—So feral complete roller flour mill plants are going out to Australia and Now Zealand this year. This is doubly signißeent, say some of the Mark Lane magnates, considering th fact that Australasia has already some hundreds of modern scientific now process plants, and that on January 2nd Antipodean wheat was selling at 27s per quarter, agaiost a top price of 46s on January 2nd 18921 It is worthy-of note, too, for Australasian merchant millers, that some fine Japanese roller-mill flour has been on offer at Mark L»no, tho product of Japanese native-grown wheat. Eiperta aßsure me that the flour was really a beautitul sample, although the price at ; which it went oil'was such as to involve n loss of some Bhillingß per Back to the 1 bold Japanese miller who made thu 1 purely experimental shipment. "Ah I ' 1 remarkod ono of the oldest habitues of the Corn Exchange, as he compared this sample with some Amerioan "patonts," i "Japan is the second New Zealand of i the Pacific. It may be bo, but tho r Britain of the South has a good start of i tho Japs, and need not fear much in that 1 quartor. Still, there is no harm in heeding such faots as those cited above. i An exchange states that the wife of a ) butcher at Wolverhampton has been . awarded i'so, recoverable from the wife i of mother butcher of tho same place, t under the Slander of Womeu Act, 1891, which provides that spoken or published , words imputing unohostity to any , woman or girl shall bo actionable, even [ if no special damage can be proved. The case iB the first under the new Act, • Thero is an old story told by a Norfolk s rlcarof one of his parishioners who was e married by instalments. He had gone s to church with his bride, and had eii, pressed his readiness to forsake all others '• and keep only to her aB long as thoy i both should live. When it came to the F young woman's turn, however, she was r not Bomiudod, No perassion could '. make her agree to her Bhare of the barn gain. Pleading and storming were alike e in vain, and at last the intended couple , r left the church no moro to oach other ,{ than when they entered it. The village , t people Btarted to find that the would-be [ r bridegroom was an evon moro ardent j 9 lover after this incident than before it. „ Ho laid stoady siege to the heart of the n fickle fair one, and at laßt induced her to 13 ro to ohuroh with hiraagain. His scheme l„ was to get her thore and leave her in the .„ lurch, aB Bhe had loft him. Unluckily for „ its success, he had taken a loose-tonguod a comrade into hia confidence, The vicar r _ had got wind of it and was prepared, To r g the horror of the couspirator.ho proposed J3 to take up the marriage service whore it a was loft off on the. former occasion, and, )3 getting a ready assent from the youne i„ woman to fulfil tho conditions she had previously declined, went on without

hindrance to tho cud, and bound the disgusted bridegroom tightly to the expected object of hiß revenso. This was great spurt to tho vicar, but no laughing mutter lo the poorwretch who found tho | joke turned so completely agahißt himself. The vicar never moved a musclo, although inwardly he must have been exploding. His lovity leaned to virtue's side, At the Wilts Quarter Session, a labouror was tried fur sheep-stoating, and after a long hetring the foreman of the jury, on being asked for tho verdict, blurted out, "We find him guilty, but through being undefended, wo find him innocent." There was roomontary look of blank dismay on tho features of both Chairman and Clerk of tho Peace, while othors, unstrained by official gravity, gave vent to their feelings in hearty laughter. Happily tho foreman's brother jurymen grasped the situation, and it was explained to the Court that their real yordict was " guilty," with a recommendation to mercy" oh account of his being undefended," MrW.G, Turnbull, tho Wellington Education Board's architect and In. Bpoctor Lee visited the Masterton schools yesterday. They will recommend Beyeral important Improvements. The Duchess of Buckingham and Chandoß is now visiting Wellington, A meeting of tho W.A.A, and Cycling Sports Committee was held at noon today to consider the question of tho postptmoraont on account of tho weather, As however, thore is overy appearance of the weather keeping fine, it was deoided to hold the sports this afternoon as arranged, Mr F, Hiley, lato occupier of To Puhl, Featherston, takes possession of the Tanheronikau Hotel to-day. On Saturday night a house warming will be hold, to which the Featherston Brans Band has been Invited. At St John's Church, Featherston, on Wednesday morning, Mr Jury of Waitotara was married to Mrs Campbell, daughter of Mr J. 0 'Cm, ot Featherston, Tho Bev T, B McLean conducted tho coremony, which took plaoo about half. paßt nine. Tho happy couple departed by the train for Ekotahuna on their way to Waitotara, m Woodvillo and Palmerston, A good general Bmith is advertised for by Mr J. Tucker, of Greytown. An employee in Messrs Bidwill Bros, flaxmill, at Kahautara, caught his hand in tho scutcher last Monday, The hand was yery much mulilated and the sufferer wasconveyed to the Ureytown Hoe. pital.

A good story Is going tno round of the town just now concerning a hat of a partuular description, which was wanted by ono of our local magnates. He tried everywhere in search of it, and tound it at most places; thore was no difficult; about that. But tlio prices, Oh Fie 1 nine shillings at one shop, eight at an-. other, 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 wondorful Hat; I got it at Hooper's for two and a sprat.'-Anvr