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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4382, 30 March 1893, Page 2

Amu a prolonged illness, oovering I a period of some fifteen or sixteen years, the Rov, A. Knell of Greytown has broathed his last, It is some twenty-Bix years ago sincß he was appointed incumbent of the Wairarapa for the Episcopalian Church, taking up his residence at Greytown. Under his auspices, St. Matthew's Church in Masterton, St. Mark's in Carterton, St. Luke's in Greytown, and St. John's in Featherston were built and opened, For many years he spent much of his time on horseback, traversing the great district under his oharge, and keeping up every appointment with the utmost diligence and conscientiousness. In all parts of the district the gentle-mannered, kindly clergyman was loved and welcomed, He bad no enemy, but the overstrain of work which gradually broke him down. When he became prostrated; and was assured by repeated medical testimony that his working days were numbered, ho cheerfully accepted his fate, and lived an absolute invalid for a long stretch of yoars in the midst of his family, exercising what little vitality was left to him in ministering to the training of his numerous children, The prolongation of his existence to a period never anticipated by his friends was undoubtedly due to the care and devotion of his wife, and the affection oi his children. There are heroes and heroiues even in a prosaic district like the Wairarapa, In the patient endurance of long years of Buffering, the Rev A. Knell was a hero, in tireless nursing and ministration Mrs Knoll has been a heroine. When he and his helpmate bad to give up the parsonage and leave a sphere of duties which both adorned, they continued by their personal example to show that the Christian religion could be lived as well as it could bo inflated,

To.morrow being Good Friday, there will bo no publication of tho YVairarapa Daily Times.

Our readers are again reminded of the principal sportin? went in this district, for the FCjgjgk Holidays, viz ; the which oommenco at Tauherenikau on Saturday. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to the entries for their noxt Masterton stook salo 1000 6-tooth itesh full mouth owes, 600 breeding ewes, 300 wetherlarab!,and B 3-year-old heifers. Mr A, Mason purchased the entire horßo Arab from Mr T. Smith after the Whakataki races. The horso will probably remain hi the Whareama district. The travelling Punch and Judy Show gave an entertainment in the Tenui Public Hall on Monday evening, The entertainment is said to have been nearly as laughable as the recent Court case at Tenui, heard before Mr Taylor, J.P. The Standard hears that another Celestial tradesman, who hails from Masterton, intends to open a shop in Groytown.

An accident happened outaide the Ekotahuna Railway Station yesterday to Mr Huntora' mail coach, one of the axles broaking. Constable Roache is taking his departure now from thii district. There ia afunny yarn current as to the cause of his removal, It ia said chat a communication was aent to' the Minißterto this effect, ''Dear Mr Seddon, cannot you promote Cnnotablo Roache out of Eketahuna.—A. W. Hogg," and that the reply was" Dear Mr Hogg, I will send him down to Amberloy, perhaps ho will get promotion there.—R, Seddon."

A notification from the Public Trustee with reference to the estate of Arnold DawaonThomas,ofEketahnna,appearain another column,

The Duoheas of Buckingham has boon patronising colonial art, Her Grace visited the studio of Mr E. W. Payton in Auckland the other day and ordered a couplo of water-colour illustrations of New Zealand scenery, Tho proposal to connect Bordeaux and Narbonne by a ship oanal is undor discUßßion in the French Chamber of Deputies. The length of tho proposed canal is 328 miles.

The English Homo Secretary has reprieved the boy Shaw, who waa sen, tenced to death for the murder of an old woman near Halifax, on tho ground thai he is Insane.

The British Military authorities have tested a bullet-proof uniform similar to that invented in Austria, without buccojs.

Tho net loss involved by tho failure of Jaboz 8, Balfour's (ex»M.P.) group of companies eiceedfl £7,000,000, including £ 3,000,000 swallowed up by the Liberator Building Soolety.

A correspondent at Tinui writes to us as follows: —"Quite a scene was wit" nessedinonrTown Hall at Tinui a few days ago, Our constable summoned two men for furions riding, and they were duly brought before our new J.P., Mr Taylor, who being somewhat new at tho business failed ontiroly to obtain the respect due to the Bench, and allowed all kinds of loud remarks during the time the witnesses woro giving evidence, in faot It wound up by all hands having a good argument all at the same time. The first witness called refused to be sworn on suoh a trivial buainess, but was at length prevailed on to kisa the book, when he was asked if he knew anything about riding or furious riding, he replied yes, and he went off down the centre of the Hall at a furious pace imitating a horae at full gallep, and doing the jockey business Bplendidly. He wound up by assorting that horses never ran faster at Newcastlothan these horses woro made to go, "Yer Honor." This created a roar of laughter, which could bo heard a long dlstanoe. The defendants wore fined 20s each with no option, and I bear one man paid and the other one has cleared. Such soenes are indeed calculated to lower the standard of respect for the Bench, and in this case I think the J.P. is more, to be pitied than blamed."

Nature in her wisdom has so ordered that al| animals and birds are provided with a change of clothing to suit the season. Human beings alone being left to their own devices; but in order to atone, somewhat for this neglect, she has invested some with the brains to design, and others with skill to eieouto., Ever jealous pf our reputation we have opr representatives always on the look'pjif in haunts of fashion to glean the first mtiraalion of what is going to be the thing, and when that information has been gained to eeour the markets for the choicest i of fashions productions, We have now .opened up our Bret instalment of Autumn and Novelties and invite the publio to inspecj,. Our gho\y Kooms arc'full of the newest and nobbjesf Millinery. Ladies j Jlantles, Jackets, etc, our Press Department is crowded out with the latest fashions pd designs pd al| gjlj'er te'rimepts arc similarly constituted, We woidd irppreES ■ ■->■ our public jp't to delay niakipg W\ M Hoope*r. W i*W PQ!,i Harobe, ': J'

Mr Christie Murray, the, novelist, intends to pay a second visit to Australia, '

i female parachutist: made a balloon asoont at Orange, N.S.W., but by some mecos the balloon caught fire and fell 500 feet. The parachute attached opened, and this saved the woman's life. The Times says the Paoifio cable is necessary for Imperial and commercial reasons, and thinks arrangements for carrying out the work an easily be made.

'Jho construction party of the Telegraph Service has been in this neighborhood for the last few days camped on the Waipoua and Waingawa rivers. Mr E, von Sturmer, a son of Judge von Stonier, Is foreman of it, MrT, Sutchjson R,M,, arrived in Mosterton yesterday. According to the Freeman, there died at Ballinderry, on the shores of Lough Dorry, on January 20th, a man named Connar Ryan, bora in 1780. An eyewitness of many stirring events of the robollion of 'O3 he fought in three engagements with detachments of the English army, at Cappawhit, Oullohill, and Monasterevan. About six years ago, although then 106 years old, he built unaided the house ho occupied thenceforward till his death, except that some naighhours put on the roof for him. Less than twelve months ago he thatched part of the root himself, and every Sunday up to three months before his death he regularly walked a distance of a mile and a half to Mass. He only predeceased by one day his wife, who, if she bad lived to March, would liaye been 100 yeara of ago,

At the 11 o'clock Mass, at Greytown, on Sunday last, the Rev Father KcKenna announced to his conization that this would be his last Sunday amongst them for sometime to come, as ha was about to pay a visit to tho Old Country,to soehu old father and mother. It is ten years since he left thorn, and it has been always bis ambition to once more see bis parents and the homo of his youth. Bo said aftor a few months he would return to New Zealand, and that His Grace the Archbishop had promised him thathe (Father MoKenna) would be their pastor to the end of his days. He thanked thorn for their generous support in the past, and prayed that the blessings of God might attend them and their families. He asked them to remember him in their prayers, and said that he would also pray for temporal and eternal welfare. Tho parish, he said, will be in charge of the Roy Fathor O'Meara, assisted by the Rev Father De Lastu.— Standard.

A meeting of the Yeatty of St, John'B Church, Foutliereton, was held at Mr McShano's office on Tuesday even. ing, the Rev. T. B, MoLoan acting as chairman. The minutes of the last annual mooting wore read and confirmed, The Wardens reported that the sum of £6 5s had been paid to tho Greytown Vustry for repairs to the clergyman's baggy. It • was resolved that the thanks of the Vestry be given to Mr W. Hodder, junr., for the gratuitous we of his horse and cart for gravolling the path leading to tho Church, The Rev. T. B. MoLeai drew the attention of the Vestry to the uncomfortable seating accommodadatlon, and said it had been brought under his notice. He also asked the Vestry if It would not be advisable to lengthen the Church and to strengthen the building with buttresses, ltwasre" solved that plans the leDgthoning-cTWChurch from tie Southed by fifteen feet, for erection bt tour buttresses, for new seats, and ior iron roofing, be drawn up, To defray the cobS of the alterations, it was resolve! to hold a series of monthly entertainments.

Mr W. Jeffries returns thanks ot behalf of the memberß of the W.A.il and Cycling Club to those ladies and gentlemen who assisted to make Ir.jfc night't social Buck a success, Thr. railway authorities advertiss that thn "contemplated" train on Sunday nut will not ran. Sunday is a day for contemplation and it is meet that tho train on that day should have been "contemplated" only.

Mesvs Lowes and lorns add to the entiles for their next Maaterton stock sale 600 eves, 700 wool? lambs 45 full mouth and 2-tooth ltomney Rams nud 30 full mouth Lincoln Bams.

Mr T, Hutchison, E.M., presided al tho Masterton R,M, Court this raornlnp for the first time.

The cricket match between the Wei lington Stars and the Masterton Orion, tals will commence on the Park Oval al ten o'clock to-morrow (Friday) morning On Mr Buchanan's motion the Educa-

tion Board has decided that stops be taken to secure a sito for a teacher's residence at the Taueru, Tenders are to be invited for the erection of a separate shelter shed for the girls at the Miotua Sohool. Meetings for tho olcolion of Sohool Committees will take place on the fourth Monday in April, Yesterday the Wellington train arrirod in Mssterton thirty minuteß behind time, to-day it reached five minutes

before time. It has Btill twenty five minutes to make up, All tbe accompaniments at the concert in the. MBSterton Drill Hall laet night, wore lidmirably played by Mr 0. Clifford, whose efforts met with thegreatest satisfaction. The quarterly meeting of the Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Maaterton, takes place this (Thursday) evening at 7,80.

A smart junior assistant, for the drap ory, is required by tho W.F.O. Association,

A nan named Andrews, sottlor of the Tawataia, w»s brought down from Eketahuna yesterday charged with being a dangerous lu.'itio at large, He has made several desperate attempts to destroy everything he oould get hold of —himself included-with bbwb, axes, eto, On Tuesday night he deliberately sat himself on a blazing fire, and but for the intervention of some friends, who forcibly removed him, he would have roceivdd fatal injuries. He arrived in Mastetton in a much quieter state, and was examined by Dra Beard and Douglas this_ morning, who at onoe grant-id, certificates of Insanity. He was brought before Mr flntchison, E,M, and committed to the Wellington Asylum.

Tho Press Bays that four sea-faring men, described as" red-hot customors," who were recently admitted to tho Benevolent Home, refused to do any work, and had to be forcibly ejected in consequence of filthy habits, foul language, and generally disgraceful conduct. The Maßtorof tho Homo had some difficulty in getting rid of the men, but in future the police will be summoned by telephone to deal with such characters.

Further evidence in the case of Simmons, charged with stealing 720 rabbitskins was takenbefore Messrs Woodroofe and Renall, J.P.'o, yoatnrday afternoon, The Bench convicted tho accused and admitted him to ball until Tuesday, April 4th, when he was ordered to come up for sentence, tho Probation Officer to ! report In tbe meantime. The Kews-Wo have now opened outour now dreas goods for the Autumn aud Winte; Season. The variety 1b greater, the value better, and the prices lower than in any previous seasonat Te Aro House, Wei lingtoo,

This Need,—For winter wear every good housewife will need warm dressos for herself and daughters, Try a full dress of our useful Knicker Tweed at 7/6, oarriage paid from Te Aro House,

The FLaci,—'Where to get the beat value for money from Te Aro House. You may procure a full dress of "wear to tho last" Diagonal Cheviot Tweed for 7/6 and "ever durable" Bannockburn Tweed for 11/6 carripßo paid, The TniE.-Buywbenyou want and that should be now. Delays are dangerous! Don't miaß the chance o! buying full dress longtln of •! wear resisting" heavy Scotoh Cheviot Tweeds, double width, 13/6, par-' riago free, from Te Aro House.

Tbe ■_ WAT.-B.uy for cadi.' That is the proper j)pi best way, fy ll *P fi|jd it the cheapest'way, "Try it in our "strong as leather" Biagppal Cheviotp, SljtbeM dress, aud. ('never wparing put!' !'Wylr wyo'Wjf'' We* o ) l T "eed ?6/:> carriage paid

' _ The Evening Post says it has a circulation on the Wairarapa district more tjran double that of either of the Masterton papers. Our Wellington contemporary always was addicted to blowing, but we rogret in this instance to have' to accuse it of making an absolutely false statement.' The Wellington Education Board has declined the application of Moss, de Mey, drill instructor, for itioreasod travelling allowance. Miss Mary Franklin baa been appointed pupil teacher at the Mauricoville school, Evidenco was taken at the Masterton R.M, Court this morning In the Palmerston North caie W. Peedony. Janoi Feleiiclaimforgoods supplied £44 9s 6d, The evidence was the offect that the articles mentioned were purchased by defendant's hnsband and she was not liable as the plaintiff knew this and oharged them to him. Mr Beard appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Bunny for the defendant, ,

Sir P. A. Buckley leaves Wellington for tho Hot Lakes on Saturday morning, and will remain there some time. An advertisement from the Provincial Farmers 00-opeiative Association, Limited, appears in another column, A woman 64 years ot age with a large family, including an invalid son, applied to the Wellington Benevolent Trustees on Tuesday, for relief. The applicant said she was a resident of Grainger street street and since the flood had been un< able to make a living (by washing), in consequence of rheumatics brought on by exposure during the flood, Itwasre* solved to assist the applicant temporarily by paying fis a week towards her reat. Many enquiries have' been made lately sb to the meaning of the myitie words "Football Punch." We are now in a position to explain that Messrs Dixon Bros, of Masterton, who take i deep interest in the manly game of football, have produced a drink which may safely ho taken at all times, but is particularly suited to footballers who need aroal "rofreshor," after a tough spell in the field, and have thereioro named this new liquor "Football Punob," Our football reporter haa sampled the liquor and pronounces it the very thing required, and says it is a long way ahead of hop beer, ginger ale, or lemonade.

The Wellington Education Board decided yesterday that a culvert is to be made through the sohool ground at Eketahuna, and also that the arohiteot obtain plans for -draininp; and gravelling at Maurioevillo East. Declflion on the qaestion of a classroom and repairs for Mnaterton school was deferred, pending the report of the Inspector, The report of the Inspector in connection with the extension of schoolroom at Mangatainoko waß ordered to be given effect to.