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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4399, 21 April 1893, Page 2

i r Jerusalem ia still euppliod with water from' Solomon's Pools through an aque-' I duct built by the Crusaders. I A gun has been invented by aFrench- ' man which fires cartridges loaded by a oompresßed gas. The gun is said to be ] noiseless and to emit no smoke, ] According to the Melbourne Ago, it is ' costing Victoria £I,OOO a day less to manage her railways than it did last year,; 1 notwithstanding the ; fact that sho 'has*' eighty-fivo miles more to manage. . > i Mr D. Crowe fixes'the date of his next. Eketahunsjßtppk sale,for Friday, May ' sth, at 10 o'clock, for which entries arq invited, All accounts against the estate of tho late James Thompson aro requested to be forwmded to Mr A. G. Thompson, on or before the 20th We direct our readers attontion to a ro-place advertisement from Messrs Ri F.Tomplo and On, which appears iu this issue, Messrs Chamberlain Bros are making alterations and additions to their cental branch, in Queon-stroofc, A man chargod iu London with desertins his wife, was said to be a member of "King Solomon's Sect," and some timo ago informed his wife that ho had received a divine moasat(o to leavo'hor and live with another woman. • • • Constable Treanor rocently beard of the, whereabouts of a man named James Mtirpby, says the Examiner, who had beon sentenced at Woodville inlß9o to seven days imprisonment for creating a ; disturbance at the' Club,Hotob The map had in tho meantime • evaded, the police,and Constable Treanor, on hearing of his whereabouts',' wired to Constable o'Leary,of tiunterville, to execute .'.the warrant. This was done and Constablo Treanor was at tho station when the 1 man was being taken through to Napier Gaol, He nw. at.once that the wrong man was arrested aiid had him released • there and then, brought him to the police ; Btatiori and fed him, and sent him homo 1 again. Meantime the real rami wanted' Is still at large, The settlers of the. Woodvillo-Manga* hao and tho Poninnula Special-Sdttlt--1 ment are intending shortly to apply for a 1 Post Office fur their distriot. There are now about twenty families settled within three or four miles of each othor, and a Poßt Office is very much needed. The nearest is fivo' mile's away at tho very least, and the settlers inteiested have tp i depend on the packmen to carry letters ' and papors, and very often have to watt ' three or four weeks before thoy can get them.-Exam.iner. . Messrs W, and G' Turnbull and Co;, of , Wellington, announce in thoir new • advertisement in to day's issue,, that a 1 furious battle is raging, whioh they term ' the 1 ! Battle of Teas." Thoy assert that they arc bound to win in the contest; as the weapons they wo in tho fight are those of "Purity and quality combined , with value," Tlioy, of course, allude to their Empire Tea Company's teas; and it , would appear from tho nature of thoir [ armament that their position will be.hard indeed to carry, by assault, We oan i apeak with authority on the mattery an impartial observer, and we have no hes'i* 1 tation in'stating' that the Empiro Tea Company's teas are what they profess to be, they are pure, of excellent quality, ■ and above all, marvellously cheap. ; . A cook and a housemaid are required i by an advertiser. 1 Nominations to fill tho vacancies on | the Mauricevillo Road Board, caused by the retirement of Messrs Forsborg and . Tait, close, at noon, on Wednesday, April 2Gth,' A poll, if necessary, will be taken . on' May sth. The annual meeting of ' ratepayers will be held an Thursday, May 4th. ) At the Society of Arts meoting on 16ih May, Mr W. B.Perceval, Agent-General , for New Zealand, will read a paper on Imperial Federation.'' Tho Sydney and Mclbourno Boards .of ' Health have declared Perth an infected port, The Earl of Derby is suffering from , heart diseaso, and his condition is | serious. Under the auspices of the CanadianPacific Railway Company, the Miowera initiates, tho Vancouver service, calling ! at Brisbane and Honolulu. She leavss' t on her first trip on the llth May. ! Ahorse attaohed to a buggy took r fright at a lady cartying an umbrella, in f Queen Street, yesterday afternoon, and ■ bolted into a f snee. Tho occupants wore thrown out, but f artunately not injured.' 1 The horse, however, broke its leg, and 1 had to bo destroyed, > At Lyttoltou, on Wednesday last, ' Joseph Flynti, a 'storekeeper; and 1 William Mackiu, captain's steward on • H.M.S, Katooniba, were chargod with t smuggling 7600 cigarettes. Flynn was | fined £IOO, and the case against Mackin ~ was dismissed, ..'., . The Wairarapa Lako is again closed, , and the Maoris are erooting whores on the'spit and putting fences aoross, .It is ' feared there will be serious trouble over ' the matter with the settlors. In the recently played spot.barrod billiard match between Dawson and ' Roberts, in which tho latter conceded a 1 start of 9000 points in a game of 25,000, Dawson won by 2000 points. , Nine Scandinavians are reported to 3 have recently left Carterton for Utah. : I An extra railway siding is being put I down at the Carterton station to further j accommodate increased traffic. 3 Tho'i'abletthus announces the Catholic ' policy in the ooming election :-"Our attitude towards all candidates must be 3 one of watchfulness and silent detertnij nation to punish our enemies, and prove 3 to them that it is not wise to trifle too . long and ton much with ns, But "'■ Catholics should keep aloof from election B meetings and canvassijlg. And the " reason is that any active participation in e election contests would bo certain to prob voko the bigots and Secularists to even e abandon their own principles to splta us. . We should be careful, therefore, to e abstain from all active participation in , the comiug contest," 6 Two or threefamilios in this neighborhood, says the Carterton Observer, are . about atarting for the Salt Mo City. II They have broken up their homes, cont verted their stock into coin of the. realm y and departed this morning for the Port l, of Wellington, In one family tho. head y of the houso refused to join the Morj mons but he wastod a good deal of time ii. over tho futile effort to prevent his wife. and grown-up family leaving, lie. is a r prominent Salvationist and has probably 1 heard the song of " Brigham Young'" 0 Bung at the Foresters' hall at one of the ,3 annual spreads and. eo got scared, e Wanted, from our lady customers, nuinev, 1 ous orders for the celebrated C.B. Corsets „ of which we have just opened out a large . parcel. We will forward a pair, post free, 11 for 6/6, from Te Aro House, Wellington. A Fob Salk, a splendid lot of Ladies UnderI. clothing, bought very liiuoh under usual 8 prices, Night-dresses from 4/9, Chemises from 2/lliJ(nickers from 2/11, These are ir frem' the "best Home Factories, and are n wopderlui value at Te Aro House., e A New Loi, ■; We have just received from . the manufacturers, a first shipment of the ■ " Ideal," all-woolUhdervcsts, for Ladies and '' Children, and are selling them for wholesale 0 prices at ; Te' Aro. House, .'•■•. t Post Fbee, .We will send any quantityof ~ these beautiful goods by parcel post on re- ' ceipt of order, Prices for Ladies sizes 1/11 J ' to 6/6, Chitdrens 1/3 to 2/11. May be had B in!white and plain colours from To Aro d House'.' ■. 4 ';- , : . '.'•'' 3 SusPFisa.Bt Post. ' ; We make this a lead-; tog feature in our business. .'Country cus--8 totters served at' Wellington price's," We 0 keep a krge..st^B,specially,for : ex'ecntuig h country orders; J bo send them : 6a'■ ear!y. k Remember! All goods charged town prices - from James Smith, Te Aro House, Welling- " {on •;>-?; ,•;•■■

■ MrW. Pragnell notifies that,.he has 50,000 feet of timber for sale cheap. , The'members of the PahiatnaChess and Draughts Club are'taking a .very lively interest in the .championship matches, The contestants are practising • every evening, and a number of new members have joined the Club. A meeting of the Mark Lodge, within the Wairarapa Royal Arch Chapter, was held.at the-Greytown Masonic. Hall last evening. A number of breth ren wore advanced to the M.M. degree. Tho, Pahiatua Fire Brigade will soon bo in active practice,' They are getting the ladders made, and the belfry tower is expected.to bo finished shortly,;.'. Wo hear that objections are to bo lodged against scvural clauses in the bylaw made by ...the..yfairarapa,,South County, dealing witbt'rajtioh'engthes.' Meters Robinson Bros havn secured the'services] of Bar ■ (Jeorgo Dixon, of Masterton, as foreman of their shoeing and blacksmithing department, : Messrs Lowcb ;and, Iprns- announco their next Masterton Stock Snlo for Wekheßday, May 3rd, at' io'clbok,' Tho entries to date, include 700 lambs, CSO ewes, and .50' head Mixed cattle. A contemporary gives the following ss the most cuiious suicide in the annals of self-destiubtion.' It o'ecured at Chiquete, N.8./m.the spring of 1890. Before committing the deed tho self-murderer, who "was named W. R. T.Jones,dug his own gravo, and placed a rough coffin of his own handiwork at the bottom The dirt from tho opening waß kept from rolling baok into the excavation by two boards held in placo by a trigger to which a string was attached. Everything, in readiness, tho deliberate Mr Jones, aa subsequent developments revealed, got into the coffin, took a dose of poison, and then pulled the string, bin ving himself beneath tons of earth; Thiahasbeenput down as one; of tho most unique and successful cases of solfdestruotion on record. ...Should the,,local-bodies not.put too rhaiiy obstacles iu the way, there is a likelihood of the ; settlers and farmers. In the outlying districts getting their heavy carting done by traction engine's, at fates equal—if not lower—than that oharged by tho railways. It might bo wise to 'make all new bridgos. sufficiently strong to carry those engines without risk of damage,-' Mr Thomas Ray announces that lie lias resumed possession of tho old and popular Hotel at the Taratahi,whioh he car. ried on so successfully in former ..years. With tho travelling public of, all classes this Hwteliy has always been a favorite resort and there is no doubt thoy will bB pleased to see Host Bay in. his old house again, • .'...... Tho World says that steamers subsidised by Canada aro wresting from America a largo portion of the. trade with Japan and China, and now threaten to cut into the Australian traffic, ; " The Wolverhampton police, like their brethren elsewhero, appear to bounder the impression thatpsople who are suffering from any failure of the bodily powers must of' necessity, be people who are drunk, A poor wow named Brown, who was discovered the other day by the roadside at Pennfields in a very helpless and onfeoblod condition, was examined by a medical man, who ascertained that sho was suffering from paralysis of the side resulting from an attack of apoplexy, and had her placed in an omnibus, with Instructions to the driver to inform the first policeman thoy mot iu order that the:sufferer might bo convoyed to a hospital. From tho evidence given in the. Coroner's Court it appears that when tho vehicle arrived at its destination two policemen were called in, but instead of conveying Mrs Brown to the hospital they dragged her out of tho omnibus,took her tb'the station, and charged her with being drunk and incapable, Incredible as it may seem, the unfortunate woman was' thereupon locked up all night in a cell, with the result that'she was found Iho next morningin so pitable a condition that sho was removed to tho hospital, where she died the same evening, It was stated that Mrs Brown was ; a sober woman, and'the surgeon who had conducted the post mortem deposed that no traces of alcohol had boon found in the stomach, and that the cause of , death was apoplexy. Commenting on the evidence the Coroner observed that there seomed little doubt that one of the two constables bos at the timo of the ar- . rest undor the influence of drink. It is not always a Cabinet' day. ■■ But the days without a Cabinet are in times of political pressure' no less laborious; for m there not committees of tho Cabinet to meet, ministers to consult, officials to pump, and representatives of this interest or of that to square? In ; this department of his work Mr Glad- . stone spares neither himself nor others, .'' Good heayens, good heavens," said a well-known official (though not quite in . those gentle words), as he wiped the perspiration from his forehead, and sank exhausted into his chair. "Good honvens, there is nothing of me left," • " Why, 1 ' asked his friond," what have you beeh doing?" "Talking buainess. with Mr Gladstone for an hour."- In his power of tearing tho heart out ot .tho. most complicated subject, of putting the most searching questions, and bringing a i remorseless memory to bear upon the < smallest details, Mr Gladstone has no rival among modern ministers, Futile is the attempt to put him off with general information or-round figures. 1 " Come, let u> see how that is," Mr I Gladstone will say, and tho hoart of any ' luckless official who has eonten ted himself with some rough estimate or not I veiy precise information quails within 1 himself,—Westminster Gazette, Tho wife of a squatter near Inglewood (Vic), now staying 'on a visit at Mr i Brownbills', on Simpson's Creek, has (says the Age) caused much astonishment . by her successful use of a "divining ! rod" for discovering spots tfhere water ' exist in springs or drifts. On one farm near Arnold's bridge the owner sank i many wells at different times in search • of water, but could find none. This r lady, by the aid of her rod, which con- ■ Bists simply of a forked branoh of a peach ! tree, the forks of which she holds one in i each hand, indicated the spot where a ; good supply of water existed, which the i party, soon proved by sinking a hole, i Water was also found on the farm of Mr , Brownbills, and on land ownod by others ■ in the neighbourhood. When searching i for water the stick remains motion- , less till a spot where water exists is , reached. Then the sticks point directly i earthwards, The lady then shows strong nervous agitation, her fingors grasping the wood and her muscles ex- ' tending in an extraordinaiy manner, and relaxing as she goes off tho spot 1 where the water is said to be. - She cannot tell the depth at which the water . is from the surface, but she can tell by [ the degree in wbiob the rod Is aflected whether the water is plentiful or net. 1 Mrs McOallum, palmist, remains at ! Holly House, Dixon-Street, till Tuesday 1 next and afterwards by special request , revisits Carterton, Sho impresses visitors with her marvellous faculty for acour- > ately delineating character. She also finds with certainty on tho lines of the , human hand the past life experiences of ' its Ownerjand even ventures to follow the > trail of them into the'dim and mystic , future. . . Nature in her wisuoni has so ordered j that all animals and birds are provided with g a change .of clothing l to suit the season. 3 Human beings alone being left to their own , 'devices;-but'in ordersto atone somewhat for. this neglect, she has invested Borne with , the brains to design, and others with skill j to execute. Ever jealous of our reputation I we have our representatives always on tho j look out in haunts of fashion to glean the first intimation of-what is going to be tho [ thing, and when that information has been , gained to scour'themarkets.for the choicest L of.' fashions productions. We have now I opened up our .first instalment of Autumn j and.Winter Novelties and invite the public . to inspect. OurShowitoomsarbfullofthe ; nowest and nobbiest' Millinery. Ladies ,; Mantles, Jackets, etc, Our Drest Departj mentis b'rowdedout with tho latest fashions , and designs arid all- : other departments are ' similarly constituted, We would;impress j upon our publlo not to delay making tha first selection, H6oper,'aMCompany,.]fon ' Mwohe. ~ ','■■ -'' ■ '' ' : ■ ■■'■•.'.".■ '.yw:^;a : '-W .-,,:

'' Thei time for oloaing the English mail, by'.the Euahine' has beon extended to 1 6.30 to-morrow (Saturday) morning, t Wp regret to hear of the death of nieprgdDidsbury, from time immemorial ] Oovornmoiit printer to this Oolony, Ho ] lias long filled a difficult and arduous I position with honor tn himsolf and with benefit to the community. Every printer , In every part of the Colony knew some* ( thing of him. and spoke, vell.of his. cpur- ( tesy aud business ability. A Govern, i meat printing establishment is apt to bo- i come an Au?ean stable, but George Didsbury was ablo to keep the New- Zealand office fairly clean and sweet. ' A very successful dance was hold at , the Gladstone-' Town Hall last night'-' Meseors Wollor Bros of Masterton convoyed a, party .from Mastertba. to;tho festive scene. "- ;!ti - "■ The Masterton-Opakl Jookey. Club. < have permanently closed the Opaklr.ioe. : \ course for tho winter, to allow the turf to ( be top dressod,.. and other improvements J toibo made, Several loir !plaoes are to | bo filled, and the drains are to be qpenod I to allow tho wator to "qet "away easily, i Tho course will then bo sown with grass | seed and well manured with bone dust..; t Tho usual weekly meeting of the ' PhoßnixLodgo,l,o.(i,T.,washeldiiithe ! Temperanco Hall on Wednesday evening ' Bro,Symes, 0.T., preiidini?. There waß ' a good attendance, One oandidate was i initiated, and several proposed for mom- ' borship. It was decided to allow the u«o •' of Hall on Wednesday next, to the Hor. ' ticulturalSooietyifortheOhrysanthemum ' Show, and on Brd May to- the M.M.F.B, for a sooial, tboLodgo inoetiugsto be hold ] on the Mondays previous. Broi B, E. | Hornblow, Grand Lodgo Representative, i gave_ a report of tho late Grand Lodgo Sossion, at Auckland, showing that verv ' rapid progress has: been made' in the Order ni New Zealand during the last i two years, Nearly ten thousand mem- ; bora were represented by tho delegates at tho Grand Lodge, and the Order was in a better state of organisation than ever ■ before. The. report wont; exhaustively '■ Into the financial position, which was Bhown to be very Batisfaotory. A very hearty vote of thanks was acoordod to lira, florublow for his report." Refreshments were handed round during tho evoningby the sisters of the Lodgo.:A sale, which has been anticipated, with considerable Interest for some time past in thia district, is announced in another column, Wo refer to the corning emotion of Mr John Hessey's farming stook which comes off on tho 23rd ofMay;Mossrs Lowes and lbrns being the auctioneers. For a long time past, Mr John Hessey hasboen to the fore as a successful farmer in this neighbourhood j. his horses,his cowb, and his Bheep havea roputalioii, and his stook and implements are simply unrivalled. 'All are coming under the hammer prior to his departure from the district, and probably- lri the. hißtory of tho Wa-rarapa there has 'never been such a valuable cataloguo of farming stock offered tu the public. '■'. Whitfield, the 0 celebrated American preacher, would (says tho Age) have eagerly secured William Sloaoombo, a destitute old vagrant who was before the Melbourne Benoh lately; the-- more effectually to portray thehideousness of extreme poverty. Accused simply tottered into the Court chamber, and with bent body leant on a stick for support, His emaciated frame showed that his privations ero ho foil Into the hands of Constable Allen must have been terrible, while vermin swarmed over his odd olothinpot Backing and rags, held in position by pieces of string, As he had no friends or home he was. Bent to gaol for six months, . The failure of the attempt to introduce a destructive opidetnio. among the rabbits of Australasia has not (says " Invention ") wholly discouraged the advocatos of such a method of reducing the plague. Mr Millor Christie balls attention to some interesting facts concerning the rabbits ol the Canadian North-West, These animals become vory scarce for several suoceßsivo seasons, thon in a few years in» crease to enormous numbers, when they suddenly die off until hardly a living rabbit can bo found, Professor Hind in 1890 attributed this to exhaustion following a sovero winter, but later writers claim to find evidence of disease. The hope is thus revived that a virulent disease peculiar to the rabbit may yet be brought to tho aid of tho Australian (armor, . A' salutary loison in tho Law of Lotteries has been administered by Lord flatherton and the Oanuook : bench' of magistrates to a travelling tea morohanti It appeared that this dealor, having takou up a station with his van in the market hall of Wedneaford, Staffordshire announoed that he would sell five hundred pounds of tea at two shillings a pound, and that each packet of tea would con. taina coupon for either a watch, olook, lady's guard, or gentleman's albert. Some of tho articles wero presumptively only of trifling value, but others wore wor-'h muoh more than tho tea purchased, and tho chance that was offered iras that of winning one of these, A Bergeantof police who bought one packet' obtained in this way a coupon for a "guard," and a boy who bought two pound packets had the good luck to secure both a watch and an albert, Tho coupons appeared to havo been duly honoured in each case, and it was proved that the tea was sold at a veryßniall.profit over cost price; but the magistrates decided that: the transaction was in the.nature of a lottery and' calculated to encourage the habit of gambling. Thoy. accordingly inflioted a fino of five poands with costs, ; ■ - Relative to Sir Geo, Dibbi'insolvency, the Sydney correspondent of the Australasian writes:—" The Premier's difficulties are said to have arisen from- his having been put into a good thing. as a great favour, Ho was allowed a chance of buying heavily—of course on credit—into the Taranganba gold rclne, near Kockhampton. Thiawasagreat ironstone outcrop reputed to bo rioh in fine gold, and certainly fine gold was taken out of it: The mystery of the mine has never yet been explained. It was Boated for a million sterling,' and some experts sont up tooxamino it did bring back specimens to justify the expectations indulged in, One of the most practised miners in.Qaeensland was taken, but I have beon told that the Mount Morgan directors deolined to buy it, How the gold got into the holes' that were.drilled is a puzzle, All that is certain is that gold was got out of them, but no other part of the solid ever proved productive, Meanwhilo costly machinery had beon bought and debts -incurred/ The first holders thought that they had made tholr fortunes, and though a few shares were floated off at 10s the goneral public was not allowed to oomo in, Luckily for them." We are afraid (says the Bangitikei Advocate), that the Hon. B, J, Beddon la being Subjected to an insufferable slight by tho American nation, arid that there will be an exchange of diplomatic Notes before long between New Zealand and the United States. The Hon, R, J, Beddon, it is well known to himself, is a rail, nay expert of superlative attainments. Ho knows a fish-plate from a cowcatcher, and is acquainted with a lot of other occult mysteries of the same kidney, and is burning to distinguish himself by showing the Railway Commissioners how to manage the railways, Ho must, therefore, feel it -moat' acutely to be told that Mr MoKerrow, Chief Commissioner of New 1 ■ Zealand Railways, has been appointed a member of the Ad. visory Committee on Kailway Problems, which is to sit at Ohicago. during the World's Fair, With his knowloge of his own Buperior grasp of railway matters; if this does not ruffle him, he must be' a good, 1 meek man; . A general committee meeting of the Greytown. Cricket Club was held in Mr Tate'a offibe last evening. Mr J. Ecol e.tori was .voted'; to tho. chair., .Present: 'Meßsre'Brunton, Knell, H, Duff and.T, J. Rowso; (Secretary). The'following resolutions were passed:—That the present match wicket be top dressed and the :two ends levelled; that the Secretary canvass eaoh playing member of the club for a Is donation, the amount so raised, to go towards defraying the' expense. A' vote of thanas to the chair terminated the-meeting..

Me'ssrsF. Hi WoodandjGee, Wyett havo been elected trustees of' the Grey. town Trust Lands'; : ' '. ]V.f The net proceeds of yesterdayV#es. leyan. Church soireo amounted'to £2B 10s, which with the collection of last Sunday make a grand total of £45. We remind our reader of Messrs Lowes and lorns' Horse Sale, to bo held in Messrs Weller Bros.' Horse Bepoaitory to-morrow (Saturday) at 2 o'olook. Full particulars of pedigrees, etc., will bo found in out adtertismg^lumnß, Tho Mastorioh Bhave lately been *y. • fine specimens, of tho coaohbuilding) |t, Onoof the best is an English dogcart(\th - latest improvements, built to the order of Mr..w,.F,;.Oroxton ) .of tho Colonial k Mutual Lifei • A'sauranoe-Society.V'ilt ii'.painted In royal green, piokedont in carmine, and fine lined in azuro blue, Tho effoot of the combination is remark, ably good, and does credit to the taste of Mr A, Ohisholm,. tho Company's coachpainter,' The trimmings are of buffalo hide, coloured peacock blue, and pleated in the French biscuit style, The aca'b'is fitted with "Ueove's Patent Scat Fait toner,' 1 ' and altogether the maohinswould take a lot of beating,' particularly as (with'the oiceptibh of the axles and Jaiipß). everything, inpludlnij Upswings, is.lncal workmanship; "WemWiiotforgot to addthat of' the body are decorated with a perfoot work of art, in the Bhape of a five letter monagrarh, designed and exeo'uted by Mr A, Ohisholm, with exceptional skill. ' The/Committee of;the Mastertbrt Munioipal Fire Brigade met last night, to arrange for the annual social gathering : of members and friends of the Brigade, -'■-, It was deoided to hold the gathering on - Wednesday, ; May 3rd, in the remperanoa '■'•"': Hall, the PhoinixLodge, 1.0.G.T,, hat-. ing very kindly consented to give up the • Hall on that night, A Ladies' Missionary Sooiety was formed yesterday, in connection with th» ; iMasterton Presbyterian Ohurch. ~ Mr '' Duncan, MoGregor explained tho objeot aiuied atjby tho'Oommitteo of Management, and dolleotors' were appointed for Misterfcbnand' outfields. J]w Bapfe, Wood was present at yof\n£Zni . ; reported chat sums varyi.igfrdra (Sato £5 had already been handed over to him for' mission 'purposes* ''".'", : In the Mastorton R.M, Court this ' morning Mr T. Hutohison had ooMflion tu.brlnga witness to bookon one or two occasions, for using too foroible language to emphasize his statements. The first dance held this season by the • Private Qii'adrillb Assembly,,took plaoV In the Maßterton Tomporanco Hall last night. , Tho attendance was good and a most enjoyable evening was spent. .•'..-..■: A recent oable states that The World assertsthaUh'olitigation in connection wit'n, of the Knglish estate of the twelfth Earl of Caithness has resulted in half being allotted to Mr. Murray M'Gregor a resident in Olive, N. Z. ltishbw reported that the-Murray M'Gregor, referred to, was educated at the Napier High School, and early developed tendencies'to. kleptomania. He ■ has been twice convicted of larceny, and 5 and at the February, sittings of the Supreme Court was sentenced to four ■months imprisonment for tho laroeny as a bailee, of a horse, An amusing incident in cohneotlon .with the. Foxton races is thus related by aManawatu exchange:—A bookmaker one of tho mushroom sort, had laid Pibango in the last race of the day a good many times, On tho horses enter' ing the straight for home lond cries of •Pihango wins' greatly disturbed the feelings of the ponciller who, after ex> ■ plaining to his mate that, he would be | unable to pay up, made a boo line for the , bush closo to the railway station as fast. , as his legs could travol and hid himself . from view. .While' t<> . Falmerston, the bootMßHHpfte'd that Slave Girl won theraco/MHEango-..-'. . and as he had invested three pounds oa ■ tho mare in the maohine, end did not , claim the diyidondj his feollrigi may bB i better imagined than described, . I Mr. W;R, Bone informs us that he has already received twouty entries lo* ' tho :ohnmplon Pigeon Matoh; 1 close to-morrow night.. i ■'.'. '■ ''■ ii '