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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4422, 18 May 1893, Page 2

Theßev.LM. Isitt lectures at Elliston's Hall, Eketahuna, on Friday, May 26th, on the nholition of tho drink traffic and the direct veto.

With commendable enterprise Mr R. Batch, of Mastorton, has had printed a rnco.bDok for use at the Akura to-day, entirely in Maun,

A smart shook ol earthquake, of rather long duration, was felt in Masteiton at about 3-30 this morning.

_ The Queen has approved of long ser* rice docoratioiiß being conferred upon colonial volunteer officers,

Tho uew Australian bills of lading will be brought into operation on June Ist.

The Kew York Horald has been con verted into a limited liability company with a capital of 2.000.0C0 dollars, A Parhamentaiy Select Committee recommends that tho sale of cereals in Great Britain should be by thehundrod. weight of 112 Imperial pounds. The Nihilists hive murdered a student in Plussa for refusing to fulfil his pledge to kill tho Czar and the Czarowitch,

Tho Times oulogises tho importance and tho enterprise of tho Vancouver aorvico stattcd by Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co, aiidexpreases the opinion that it will hasten runl Federation,

Tho Post says that Dr Eliza Foster M'Donogh Frikart.of King'sand Queen's Col. Ph, Ireland, and M.D. of Zurich, is the first lady physician to register in this colony. Sim intends to take up her residence in Wellington. There aro already two lady dontistß registerod— Mies Coi, of Auckland, and Mrs Uaro, oi Napier,

At tho last meeting of the N.Z Grand Lodge held at Auckland, Bro. F, H. Wood, of the Groytown Lodge, was ap. pointed Grand Steward. A London contemporary reports that tho Earl ofßurford, eldest son of the Duke of St Albans has returned to England from his tour round the world. The ycungoarl enjoyed himself greatly iu the colonies, especially in New Zealand, where he found both tho country aud the people much to his liking. Tho gale which passed over tho Wai. rarapa and other parts of tho colony a few weeks ago was the means of doing considerable damage to one or two properties situated on the Underfill road, Foatherston, Onoofthe many creoks in that vicinity overflowed, and has completely transformed Borne of tho fertile land into a shingle bed, and the creek alluded to, has cut a channel in a parallel line for some distance down the road, which will ultimately result in further damage being done if necessary prcca»> tions are not taken to prevent overflows, by means of deepening the bed and erecting protective works,— Standard.

The Rangitikei Advocate says that Mr James Thompson, who, with others, was engaged in putting a cutting through a sandhill oppi site Mr Tennent's property on tho Mam Drain-road, which leads from Uampbelltown to tho Oroua Bridge, came upun eight human skulls and othor bones of threo adults and live children, Along with the bones woro found clay pipes, what appeared to be a painkillor bottlo, a billhook, tricopherous bottlo, and an American coin, Mr Thompson at first concluded that the skeletons were those of Maoris, but finding along with the remains the things referred to, he thinkß that there must havo been a white man's camp thero at, some time, a conclusion which seems to be borne out by the fact that quantities of ashes and other indications of a camp are present.

Mr A. G. Johnson, the secretary of WellingtoußenevolentTruste63,reported at tho mooting on Tuesday that Mr Mackay, of the Labour Bureau, had promised that in those eases in which men had been sent up country to work on Government contracts, leaving their families in Wellington, he would, with the engineer, endeavour to collect money out of thoir wagc3, and forward Baraoto the trustees for the workers' families. Tho Secretary was to furnish Mr Mackay with a list of such lien, and the trustees expressed the opinion that the arrangewas a good one.—Press. A littletlutter of excitement was caused at the Wellington Police Station on Tues-1 day afternoon by a man coming into the! watch-houso and informing Constable! Forater that he bad just found a human' heart, at tho eamo time producing a email heart wrapped up in a leather case. A group of pressmen and others were) standing about at the time, and, needless! to say, visions of the undiscovered] Thompson, or something werse crowded i fast upon their brains- A butcher who was sent for was not quite certain, but thought •' it was a calf's heart." There I is a largo gash in the heart as if caused by i aknilo.-EveningPresa, !

A case of interest to racing men (say« the North Otago Times) will come before the Dunedin Resident Magistrate's Court at an early dato, and evidenco of the defendant (Mr J, Wallsjwas takon lately, at Oamaru before Major Keddell, Messrs Mason aud Roberts, totahsator propiiotors,Buo for £5, the amount they allege they put on the totalisator under instructions from Mr Walls; Mr Walls telegraphed to Messrs Mason and tloberts to put tho sum of £5 ou the horses Lustre, Gitano, and Dawn. On previous occasiuns, on telegraphing similarly to Messrs Mason and Roberts, ho had always received a roply, but on the occasion out of which the case arises, he received no reply, and concluded that the money had not been invested. The plaintiffs allege that they put tho money on as requested, but were too busy to reply to tho telegram, and Mr Walls refusing to pay,sued for tho above amount

Wakiep, from our ladyoustomors, numerous orders for the celebrated CD. Corsets of which we have just opened out a largo parcel.' Wo will forward a pair, post free, for 6/6, from Te Aro House, Wellington. For Sue, a splendid lot of Ladies Underclothing, bought very much under usual prices.. Night-dresses from 4/9, ChemiscE from 8/11, Knickers from 2/11, These are freni the best Homo Factories, and arc wonderful value at Te Aro House.

Fillfa'Wonderful Ciroui and Untirla. lod Menageno atill holds full sway in Woltington, and the constant changes of programme are drawing full houses nightly, There is also an afternoon per. formance each day.

Signatures in favour of the female franchise are now being collected in Mastertun. Husbands don't object to their wives awning, or if they do they ara said not to express their objection within the hearing of their bolter halves.

As many people aro nndor the impression that thesports on Quoen'B Birthday are confined to members of the Jlunt Cab, we may state that this is not so, all tie events being open except tho Ladies' Tiophy, and anyone doairing to compete for that can do so on becoming a member, tlo non-hunting members' lee being £l, and hunting membors £2. Entries close on Saturday next. Tho first annual dinner in connection niththe W.F.O.A. Urickot Club, takes place thin evening. The following gontlemon have been noninaledforthevacanciesou the Masterton Trust Lands Trust!-William Lowes, nominated by W, J. Hirschberg and Jaa Elliott; Henry E. Eton, nominated by L.J. Hooper and 0, A. Ppwnal); Thomas P. Lett, nominated by Geo Heron and Walter Perry. Tho following is from tho Nepean Times, N.8.W.: 'Disguating' and 'degrading' are moderate terms when applied to the conduct of these persons who congrogato to vociferato at the local football watches, Hot only youngsters, but mon of old age could be noticed on tho touchline on Saturday yelling as though their lives depended upon it, Barrackiug is tiotn sportsmanlike characteristio, and it ia a remarkable fact that tho touch-line yell-hard is generally a narrow-ohcßted heron-ivaiatcd. largo-mouthed, mosquitolegged individual who has no pretensions to athletics, but who loves to keep himself in evidence by hia blatant screaming capacity. This applies to boys, young men, and old fogies, each and all of whom ought to know better, if they don't,

A publican at Woolwioh, England, cays that he has a pug dog who is now 10 years old, and quite blind, and yet knows the day of the week. Every Tuesday a tobacconist's van comes, and the man in charge of it has for somo years been in tho habitof giving the dog a spongecake, Bvevy Tuesday the blind old doagie goes outside the houso, and turns its blind iiye towards tho road, it knows the van will come aloriß, and listens for the wheels. _ And it never rocs outside the houso without its master or mistress on any other day. 'Now (asks the London Jlefcree), how does that little blind pug know that it is Tuesday ?

Many members of the Housb of Commons (says an English paper) have been amiißcd atroceivinga printed document headed "An Appeal and a Warning," and purporting to come from women advocates of women's suffrage, It says i that amongst their opponents aro "men whoso reasons for denying to us equal rights with themselves may be stamped as ignoble. Many of them, while posing as the protectora of society and models of all tho virtues, are, we know, men of evil minds qnd secretly dissolute lives." "These arc the men we wish to ram. They know thomsolvos and we know of them; and wo solemnly doctor* our intention of, in due courso and at the tight time, publishing and laying bare boforo their constituents and the world their evi! doings, that, they may i) 8 driven from public lifo and give place to bettor raon."

A valuablo suggestion has been mndo byMr.l, S. Rutherford,of The Island, Whanuarei, in the following letter to the New Zealand Institute :-"I behovo that preserving a record of the Maori race, '.heir language, and old Now Zealand, is within tho wide field of labour of your institution. I shall therefore respectfully suggest that one of the moßt important .uds in this direction would be a purely Maori map of the colony, showing native names only, This would be of tho greatest historical valuo, and, in fact, is almost the only way we can evor hope to retain the native names and hand them on with any degreo of purity. Every year past makes the task more difficult, as. at all events in the southern portion of New Zealand, the names are being fast forgotten, corrupted, or en. tirely lost, there boing now only a rom< nant of the race living to whom an appeal can be made. When it is considered how carefully and minutely evory bay and headland is named by the natives, in many cases far more appropriately than by tho Jiuropeans, who hayo fallen back on a clumsy repetition of names where there is no similarity of position or surroundings, and when it is remem. bered how ofton the native name is taken from some distinctive feature in the place, 1 think tho value of such a document will be readily admitted,"

The Leeds Mercury acknowledges that the Temperance cause ia makinu; headway. At a Chambor of Commerce dinner in a Yorkshire town, about 60 gentlemen sat down, to any of whom the cost of a bottle of wine would have ken a matter of little moment. Yet, with the exception rf a few bottles nf champagno, and two smoll bottles of claret, not a drop of spirituous liquor was consumed. No one, says the Mercury.appeared to bo ashamed of drinking success to commercein water, The Mayor seemed positively proud that so many were, like hluuolf, proof against the temptations of the table; and it was observed that tho countenance of one of the olerEtymonof the patisb,a temperance man, beamed with satisfaction.

The result of a recent auction tale, chiefly of Australian stamps, held in London the other day, suggests tho idea that there maybe quite a small fortune I stowed away even in objects so worthless to everybody but the immediate owner las packets of old lovo letters, For the | earliest issues of New South Wales postage stamps, known as Sydnev views, ! A splendid pair of" Id Sydnoy's" was I knocked down at no less than £ll, and a [line unused spewmen, printed from jplatoll, was disposed of at tho very fair figureof jKI2 10a. For a fino unused specimen of the 8d orange 112 was paid. So the sale went merrily on, and the whole collection of old postage stamps offored on the first day realised close on 11500. On the second day a number of New Zealand stamps wereofferod, but we are grieved to learn Ihey went off rather lamely. The chief excitement centred itself on the first issues of (Queensland, Tho gem of tho sale was a splendid unused strip of three imperforate 2d lof the first issue of Queensland, with original gum, Jt was started at 120, but this was soon doubled, and the bids rose at a furious rate, until it was knocked down at M, or no leas than 25C0 times tho original faco value of the stamps I Our readers (?ay» the should overhaul thoir old letters. It is an exhilarating thought to reflect that even tho stamp on a letter demanding payment of a tailor's bill, if of sufficiently ancient date, may be sufficieut to defray the account twice, yea, and it may even be ton times over I

The Bon Marcho is to the Wairarapa what the sun in to the solar system—its principal light, Wherever jou go you hear of Hooper and Company and their universal store. People living in the north, south, east and west go there as naturally as ducks take to water! People furnishing fly to them on wings of expectation to feast on bargains such as nowhere else could they hopo to get I They do the business well! They do it economically I They do it to the satisfaction of those who favour them with their orders I Fashionable ladies arc amongst their most valued patrons. They visit the Bon Marche in shoa!s. Hooper and Company cater specially-fortheni. They show them everything new I They place the latest of fashion's fads before them! They offer them the choicest and newest, and consequently aro considered their best friends I Business men patronise them because they know by business instinct that they are business people who do business in a business way. And they tell there wives and daughters all about it, and advise them for their own benefit audthe benefit of the family purse to do the wholo of their shopping at Hoopcr'sßon Maroho, Young ladies liko our shop.' They like to roam about and look at this and that, and spy out this new thing and that beautiful novelty and then for ribbon, laces and gloves. Why they all swear (as hares swear, of course, in language of their own) there's is pli.ee lih it.

Sho trades upon hor uplineaa, docs Paqueretto, the neweßt of Paris concerthall lingers, who is just now attracting big houses to Tony Pastor's Theatre in New, York. Paquerette intrudes and exaggerates every physical defect and she possesses enough nf th'se to wreck any woman who does not use them to make money. She sings hilariously in Froncb, and marches about behind a big tombstone. As ihc tings she tirist* hor mouth, which is enormous, first under one ear and then under the other. She flies her eyes su as to appear cross-eyed, Shu hangs her lower jaw bo as to appear like an idiot. She has armß of impossible length, and the greit queer hands which look like misfits. Her bust is flatter than her back, and her salary at Tony Pußtor'sia SOOdol. a woek.

Tenders are invitod by tho Education Board for forming and gravelling at the Mauricoyille East School. All creditors in tho estato of the lalo James Mack, of Martinborough, are requested to forward their claims to Mr E, P. Bunny, solicitor for the executors, Wellington, before 81st May instant, Referring to a pnblican'e bill of particulars this morning in tho Maßterton K.M. Court, Mr Hutchison said that the defendant, likoFalßtaff, was charged with an enormous quantity of sack. Mr Pownall added that the people in the locality (Alfredton) had an enormous capacity

The Borough Collector had another batch of summonses issued for hearing to-day, but the "blue" paper was sufficient to bring most of the defaulters up to the mark without appearing before the Court.