WAIRARAPA DAILY TIMES. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1893. ARBOR DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4468, 12 July 1893, Page 2

WAIRARAPA DAILY TIMES. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1893. ARBOR DAY.

The Government have decided to ob 3 Bern Fridij, Angust 4ih, aj the Arbor day for 1898. Apart from the inconvenience of frequent holidays and the interruption Ibey cauße to the n business oE the Colony, we look with a favorable eye on Arbor day. At any rate the Government proclaim e August 4th a public holiday for treeplanting which is a good thing, and for cermionies and demonstrations which are not always good things and which occasionally become unmitigated nuisances. One and all are called upon by the Slate toplanttrees, flowers and seeds about homes, farms

and highways on this espeoial day, th St«to being evidently under the in pießsion that without its injnnctio: necessary trees, flowers, and seed will not be put into the earth. Ther if> no barm in doing a little of al round sowing on tbis particular dny in fact there istnuoh good,it the trees planted are duly cared for subsequently, but ve fear that in very many iu- < stances after negleot completely nullifies the enthusiastic labours of Arbor day. Ike Secretary of tho Department of Agriculture suggest that in municipalities the Borough. Councils should appoint a marshal! and deputy marshalls and an Arbor day fund should be established, On the eventful day there should bo processions, and the Mayor should deliver an address on arboriculture. No doubt Mr Pownall will bo prepared for the occasion both with a suitable address and by leading off tho Arbor Day Cantata, which is to follow. Last year Arbor Day was not somehow pulled off in Masterton, and we fear the day is doomed this year unless some special effort be made beforehand for its due celebration. We would not mind the omission of the Mayoral speech, the suppression of the processions and the cantata, but there are -certain thoroughfares in the town which ought to be planted with suitable shade trees, The northern entrance to the town from the rise down to Queen street requires shelter trees. There are several streets, such as Vic* toria street, which are very suitable for decorative planting, bn' we fear that if people wait for the Mayor 1 and Borough Councillors to take , Arbor day up as requested by the State they will be disappointed. II 1 any thing be done at all it will probably have to be accomplished by private committees. We should very much like to see tree planting along many of our thoroughfares, and action needs to be taken at once if any advantage is to be praotioaily. derived from Arbor day. The Borough Coun» oillors.witb suitable mourning badges on their arms, might perhaps hold a tangi on the town bank of the Waipoua and with the aid of their staff drive , a fresh lot of willow stakes, but . then if they don't .look after them when.they are driven, what is the good?. Arbor! day ought to be in some way made pro- . Stable-to the town if it.is to be regarded as a publio holiday. If it is not to be thus utilised,'why then, we don't want it. We have tpo many ! holidays already, and we do not see why ..we should be punished with more. . . -

1 We trust an Arbor day excursion train will be 1 laid; oii;to Wellington so that people wj baye at) oppor-

tunity of seeing Ministers, who have' introdaceJ this purliculnr holiday to us, celebratfl it. Mr Seddon doing a Mottiß dance, the Miuiater of Lands as a Jack in the Green, and Mr Reeves olimliing up a gronsy labour pole will be worth going to see. Wo presume Ministers will be doing

something cf ibis kind, as they are calling upon others throughout the land to act the gout on this occasion, land it would be undignified for them not to set an example.

Some time back we expressed & doubt whether the financial diatar-1 baiC'-s in Australia could pass away without New Zealand b»ißg implicated. We did not know how the blow would fall, but we felt that with

the intimate relations existing between this colony and its neighbours, it must come. We eren went so far as to express a hope that settlers here, by prudent prevision, would prepare thfmselves for a possible catastrophe. The blow conies now with the suspension of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, and it would be folly to regard this event as other than a serious calamity. We mny congratulate ourselves that the suapen-

eion comes at a time when settlers' wool claims hare been secured, and also that the Bank of Now Zealand is untouched by the disaster; bat even with these modifying circumstances,

the fall of such a colonial institution will be a severe blow to New Zealand,

A Pahlatua Ouuuty ratepayer is repor. ted to have recently carried off the rate lull. Why he took tho trouble to remove it is not stated.

The question of pi? breeding ter the purpose suggested by Mr A. "Veoht, representative of the Intermacine Supply Company, is being taken up scilously in the Forty-Mile Bush. . • - The United Hunt Olub's uce meeting is being held at Hutt Park to-day. Several Wairarapa hones are engaged.

There are eleven patients in the Maiterton Hospital, Sir William Jervois, who returned re* cently after his visit to South Australia, is tiring; at Merlewood, near Virginia Water.

The Examiner states that Captain Brown, of Manawatu, has been feeding lub hoggets with ohaS this scwon. Having lost a number from some cause not apparent, 'Capt&m Brorn had the car. cases opened, and in tho stomach were found hard balls, composed of binder , twine which had evidently been the cause of death by Betting upstomaohic

trouble. It is thus evident that it is f.] dangerous to feed stock with chaff cut „] without removing the twine bands be* j ( fore cutting the aheaf. The entertainment held in the Wbb\ t< leyan sohoolroom last evening was a great success, Tho room was packed, c The recitations ot Clarrie Williams and v Allie Smith—both little mites not yet in T theiv teens-deserve special mention. The musical part of the programme, I howover, was exceptionally good, both 1 vocal and instrumental piuues being ( muoh appreciated and loudly applauded, i Miss Lilly received a vociferous encore < for her sung " Tho Better Land," All ( the accompaniments were played by Miss Williams in her usual tint-class style. A , hearty vote of thanks was pawed to all ■ 1 i ' tho licensee of the White Hart Hotel, 1 Carterton, on Saturday evening. Be, s and somo other boys were playing with 3 gunpowder and a proposal was cade to . put it under a log and loavo a long fuse of paper lighted which would have given tho boystimeto retire to a safe distance. '> That idea was rejected by Hamilton as 8 too alow and uncertain and he put t twisted piece of paper in the mouth o the flask and ignited it at a fire. Tht flask exploded and blow away part of hii hand and destroyed it to such an extent that amputation is considered neceasaiy. Dr Dickaun boing away ths Buffer or wss taken to Uasterton to have his wounds attmdd to.

"Amongst the poorer classes in China," said Professor R. K, Douglas (who known a good deal of that country) < to members of the Royal Institution, "it is quite common to kill off the fernnlo infants in one nay or another, and such notices as' Girls may not be drowned in this pond 1 can often be uiefc with." Scottoii, tho formely well-known Notts professional cricketer has com* nutted suicide by cutting his throat. The cause was family troubles, At ono timegreat disoredltwould have attached to any painter of repute who outlined his picture with the aid of photography ; but latterly thero has been a muoh healthier Bentiinent fell on the subject, aud most artists of the present day either avowedly or with plausible-apology do not disdain its use. Indeed, the time they save aud the greator perfection they attain, although there iB still tho same scope left for their own individual talent •to assert itself, justifies fully the resort to the help their brother in art, the photographer, oan give them. Possibly many of our readers are unaware that most of the beautiful pictures one sees in the illustrated magazines of the period are simply photographs reproduced by thewondetful "process" work which has lately be. come so perfect. It a touching domestic scene is required, real people pose with appropriate surroundings, a photograph is taken of this tableau virant, the photograph is reproduced and becomes, say,a "photogravure "-and there we have our picture. Thereisat the .present time two most interesting pictorial effeots on view at Messrs Wriggleworth and Binns' studio in Willis Strool-, Wellington, which will, illustrate our remarks. They are lightly imprinted by photography and then has followed some remarkably clever brush work with Indian ink, the result being tho creation of two of the finest pictures we have at any time seen. They are very large—4 feet by 3 feet—and ono represents the Cabinet Room, with the New Zealand Ministry «ittiog in Council, pre sided over by the late Premier, the Hon John Ballance, and the other is a striking and faithlul likeness of ■: Bit George Grey, wherein the aged and revered legislator is pourfcrßyed with simply lifelike fidelity. In the portrait of the Cabinet Ministers, the grouping is daringly free and natural and withal it is a noteworthy success. The Ministers oc» cupy their usual seats, and the inter™ caption of the table has not evenbeon allowed to mat the perspectively correot and artistically finished presentment of the group, lioth.piotures are a credit to Meuri Wrisftkwurth and Binns and are well calculated to sustain the first-class reputation the firm already possesses. We should also not omit to mention that there is now a new and. very handsome exhibition of photography in general .on view in the Willis Street vestibule which all visitor? to Wellington JtouM inspect.

Mr F. H. Wood add a to hia next Taralahi stock Bile, ten steers, also {out heifers in calf.

An unusual eight was ,witnessed recently a,t the funeral of Lady Wheler, ] wife Of Sic Trevor Wheler, at-Lemington I [Mugs, Warwickshire. The deceased j weighed 3!) Btono, and with tho Coffin llowt 2qr 7ib. The coffiu was 6ft 9in in length; Bft Sin wide, and 2ft Bhi deop, & spocial hearse waaconsttuo'ed, and 12 men were noeded to cany the coffin, Tho remarkable sight att-raotod hundreds of pcoplo from the surrounding country,

Owine tua gap between the Kukotau bridge and tho eastern bank of the Ruiinwhonpa river traflio is suspended and notice of tho same is published, Ah obstiuotion has been put across the road to prevent horsomon and vehicles from bring endangered and Mr Snell, a settler nearby is guarding it. A Maori came along on horseback and insisted upon passing.' Ho removed the obstructions, knocked down Mr Snell, but found the gap was too wide for his horse to attempt to negotiate and he had to turn back after all, Not a very pleasant experience for a man to be knocked down for being kind enough to stand by and warn people of danger Obsemr,

The annual report of the Public Trust Office states that the report nf the Royal Commission exposed the conduct of the office to so strong a current of public criticism that fear was occasioned that all confidence would be swept away. But has not this boen balanced by a subsequent report ononu oftho Commissioners by a Judge of the Supreme Court?

"I'm very sorry, my lord," said a felonious young female cook to Sir Peter Edlin, at Clerkenwoll Sessions, the other day," but my young man is in Court, and ready to marry me. The banns aro tip." " Ready to many you I" replied the Judge; ''then I'll bind you over to corae up for judgment, and if you don't bring me the marriage certificate you will go to prison," A row publication " the Temperance Standard" emanating from Dunedin has reaohed us, It is a monthly serial well editoi and from a typographical point of visw attractively arranged and printedPeoplo who don't want a weekly doso of this kind of literature and yet would like occasionally toaeo how the movement progresses should take the Temperance Standard, A heavy thunder storm paßied over the city of Auckland on Monday afternoon, While standing under a verandah in Jetvttis-road, Ponsonby, Edward Egan. a City Counoil labourer, wsb knocked senseless. The lightning struck a post of the yerandah. He was unconscious for two hours,

Gladys Lynch, a child eight yews oldi daußbta of Mr, P, H. Lynch, J.P., o' K.uineroa, was aovorly burned yesterday through her olotb catching alight while she was lighting a fire, Her position is critical,

The population of Bastings is said to have doubled since the last census, The Ghriatchurcli branch of the Shearers'and Labourers' Union. starts with 223 members. Tho Earl of Menth assorts that In London thousands of women and girls belong to what are called Drink Olubs, a email Bum being paid by each member weekly in order that several timesyearly all may meet at somo publio-house and drink what has been contributed. Ad ingenious Yankee inventor hat devised ameans of witnessing a race with the maximum of comfort. He poses to erect a revolving grand id as nearly as possible in the centre Jia ground. During the races the id is to be made to revolve in euch a j that the horses are alwayß directly ibloin front of tho occupiers of the ta, who can then witness the raco m start to finish Alderman Soupham, of Leeds, recently ide a singular find at Bridlington, He s walking on the seaside, when a ;kage was washed onshore. It was (sly tied. Inside there was forty-ono iques and a promissory note, of the He of about £6OOO. They were for ) most part drawn in the year 1815, on a local firm of bankers. All the suroents were in a state uf almost per:t preservation, the water marks being 17 olear. The promissory note is for 193. A meeting of the North Wairarapa in Olub will take place at 3.30 thiß -ornoon. The Dunedin Typographical Associan is writing to the Minister of Labour -ecting attention to the frequont in* | ngement of the Printer's Begulan Aetbytho issue of printed matter 1 thout imprint, ] At Kaiapoi, the other day, a oat was covered haying a fight with a hare. 11 The cat had gripped the hare behind the ir, but, being surprised, let its prey soape. Ths hare, however, was subsenently shot, and found to weigh 01b, luioit double the weiyhfc of tre cat,

The Thnaru Herald says During tho past week frost fish have been coming ashore iu large numbers, and men may be seen at an early hour in tho morning patrolling the beach to secure an; of these rara piscii that may got stranded.

John 1). Ritohie, Secretary of the De« partmentof Agriculture sends us word that olearia (oßterii, corynocarpus IcevU gatus and ewrybai argophylla are suitable shade_ trees for plauting. This information is exceedingly interesting and we reproduce it with pleasure for the benefit i of our readers.

The not proceeds from the entertainment in the Masterton Wealeyan school. room last night was £5 14s. It is tbe Intention of tho Committee to hold these concerts fortnightly, the next to beheld on July 25th,

In olden times rhinoceros horns were employed for drinking oups by royal personages, the notion belnj; that poison put into them would show itself by bubbling, Thero may have been some truth in the idea, inasmuch as many of the ancient poisons wore acida, and they would decompose the horny material very quickly.

A professor at the Rollin Lyceum, in Paris, named Lucas, murdered Mb young wife-a girl of eighteen—by cutting hor throat and throwing her irom a fifth storey window, Ho then Bprang out after her and was killed immediately, His viotim lingered for some hours and then succumbed at the Hospital, There resides in Boss at the present moment an old lady who remembers teaching Sir Robert Stout his ABO at Lerwick, capital of Shetland, which is his native place, and where he afterwards became a pupil teacher, Asßhowlog the damage done by ahags, | one was recently shotatKakanui, Otago, which, when captured, was found to contain in its gullet a trout neighing JibAt Sze?edin, in Hungary, a young apothecary, who committed suicide, it having been discovered that he had poisoned his sweetheart, whereas it had been believed that she bad ended her life by her own free will, has left 10,000 florins to the oily of Buda Pesthßnd 4000ta8zegedin to easo his conscience, as he says in his will.

Salvage Sale of goods saved from the burning ship " Port Jacton" in Bjdnoj harbour bought at 10s in £ commences on Friday, June3otb, at Te AroHouse, Wellington.' Salvage Bale. 500 good 'Winter Dresses cheap at 8s 6d,now telling for 3s lid. 350 heavy Melton Dresses, in navy and red, worth 9s 6a for 4s lid.

Salvage Sale. 800 heavy Cheviot Tweed Dresses, valued at 22s 6d, for 12s 6d. 150 splendid Cashmere Dresses, in'all colors, usual price 12s 6d for 6s 6d. : Salvage Sale. Heavy Striped Flannelettes Is lid per dozen yards, Twilled Flannelettes 2s lid per dozen yards. These are exactly half price. Salvage Sale, 6000 yards Stout Groy Calico 3s Cd for Is lid dozen. Heavy Grey Calicoes, Iyd wide, 6s 6d for 3s lid dozen yards. Salvage Sale. 1250 yards White Calicoes, lyd wide, 5s 6d for 2s lid dozen. Heavy White Calicoes, one yard wide, 6s Cd lor 8s lid dozen, Salvage' Sale from burning ship ''Port Jackson" commences on Friday, June3oth, : atTe Aro House, Wellington, Hurry up tor Best choice*

Frosts have been bo eavaro at the Taierl(Otago) that several lagoons bavo been frozon over, and residents have availed, thenißslvea of the opportunity to indulge in skating on the Ico, - An holol in flukitikn, whioh cost £IOOO tcii yoara ago iras knocked down at auction recently for £IOO. This niveß a fft'r idea of tha falling aUo of the town.

No less a sum than £50,000,000 sterling i> suppoaed to be lying in banks in Scotland in tho shape of unclaimed deposits. An effort is being raado to compel bankers to raiko public tho unclaimed money in their possesion.' Tho route from England to India is strewn with treasure, owing to the many shipping disasters. An industrious statistician reckons that fully eight hundred millions' worth of gold and jotrels lies At tho bottom of tho' soa on that frequented way. Captain Enisson, of tho French malty, has brought out what ho calls a " hippometer," h r measuring tho distance covered by ahcrse, It resembles a watch, or tathor an ordinary pedometer, and is Btrappod to the horse in front of tho Baddle Like the pedometer, it works by tho stepping of the animal. For hunters, travollers, and military men it is expected to prove very serviceable. The Masterton Foresters havo ap> pointed a committeo to carry out the Mimialfooial in connection with the Court Loyal Entorpriie. This year it will be held in the Theatre or Drill Ball, as the Temperance Hall proyed too small on tho last occasion.

The Amorican lady Theosophtotn carry their ideas to extremes, An Amman correspondent writea:—"Annie Era Fay, a disciple of tht latelomented Blavatslty, is on her way, via San Francisco, to India, in qaest of a wooden head, given Blavalskyby the 'adepts,'which talks. To a common BcoSer it hardly appears "i - go so many miles in search i>f a wooden head that The social iu aid of the funds of St Mathews church promises to be a bugces<, and those attending the Bocial on Thursday evening will have a musioal treat.

A German contemporary states thst a very peculiar patient has been nnder

irciitmont at the Auqspurg State Hospital. A man, aged forty, had sot himßelf tho task ofswsllowlnt! 2W fruit stones, Having finished hie extraordinary meal, ho j experienced excruciating pain. While nnder treataent on thi first day in the hospital the medical men succeeded in removing '2OO hazel-nut stones. The man had taken all his trouble to place his life in jeopardy for a wager of fire shilling.

A craze for bargains set in this morning at the Bon Marche. We, that is Hooper £ Company, have started clearing out the balance of our winter Btook. Our bargains aro always genuine. «We don't say wo sell at cost price, because no one or very lew could test it, not knowing what the cost price is. We don't offer our goods at 20 per cent discount because noono can check ihe calculation, not knowing on what it is based. We rely upon tho prices at which ytg oiler our bargains and in nine cases out ol nino and-a-half those prices are staggerers both for the Publio and tho Trade. Of course, we are going to lose monoy over this job! How could wo do otherwise ? But why not? Why shouldn't we as well as other people ?. Everybody's losing money uow-a-days, and wo are prepared .to drop our share just for the sake of company, but what to lose wo lose in a good causo. We benefit the Public, so keep your oyo on tho BonMnrchofor bargains. Everything at panic prices.