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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4498, 16 August 1893, Page 2

An enormous programme has been arranged for the farewell electric entertainment, to be given by' Professor filobat'd M.E., at the Maswrton Theatre Royal, to-morrow (Thursday) evening, Admission to all parts of the house will be ls'and back seats Gd. A widow fifty years of age recently attempted suicide at Adelaide. Hers was a pitiful story. The sight of her four starving children had driven her to commit the deed, and she had hoped tint sympathy would be aroused for her ohildren if she committed the act, , Several grazing, pastoral, and farming properties are advertised for sale by Mr J.B.Keith, A distressing scene occurred at a funeral in Pahiatua onHunday. vi hen the coffin was about to be lowored it was discovered that the grave had not been made large enough to admit it. Three times did they try unßUCcesstully to lower the casket; the fourth attempt was successful, and the sad ceromnny whs completed, Surely it would not be a difficult matter to make sure that the grave was large enough, instead of inflicting needless pain upon sorrowing relatives during the last sad ritea.— Herald. Mr A.'Bish delivered an interesting essaW'Time" -0 alargenumberofmem, bors'of the -Carterton Dobating Society last evening and was awarded a hearty vote of thanks for the trouble be had been to in preparing it, The subject for, Monday theßl«tinstant will bel'Afew notes on America" by Mr Hunter, and for the 28th an essay on " Sewers ''by Mr fi.'A. Fairbrothor, illustrated by magio lantern viows, •" The monthly! j Sooial Dance will be held Mm row evening in the Club Koonis.-Observer. At last night'smeetiDg of the Masterton' Borough Council, Dr. Douglas re. ported twenty caseß of measles, and Dr. Beard thirteen ewes. Dr. Beard has previously reported .nine cjsos, which brings the total up to 42 cases reported, whioh the Council will have to pay for at the rate of 2s 6d per head. Or Hejroii remarked that theiepotte were praotjg cally'of no use/and the Council wou!| like it 'better if the medicalgeufclerneaq i refrained from sending them In, lb fbb pointed put, however, that ihe 'dootors; |areliable to'apenalty for notMpdrtin'g 'any/casesof infeotiouß disease coming I undeif their notice, bo are oWigeci to earn I the haifdrowns Or 4t?sai4Mis:J)eiii^?yM liliiiiilj.WM^!!Ml^™

r. deferring to a reoent trial'of smokeless ponder at Auckland, theflew Zealand Herald says, (hat it certainly" sustained its reputation of being smokeless, at least to such as extent as not to become perceptible, niid there is no issue oi flame from the muzzle of 'the rifle, but ignition was slow, and tho diechor^eof cartridges i hung fire for several seconds in iho barirel..

A skittle alley has been opened at the Union Hotel, Pahiatua.

A sooial is to held e on Thursday next to welcome the RevF'H., J. Davis to Pahiatua.

The Kev. Jno. Dukes leotnred at the Wesleyan Church, Eketahuna, on Monday evening last, The subject chosen wamhe " LifocfJohn Guthrie." The leotnre was listeued to by Vx appreciative audienco. *.

The rainfall during lasl month, was heavier m the Manawatu, than for any month during the past ten yoars. The Mp.sterton Borough overdraft now stands at ±785, -

Mr T, G, Mason returned to Masterton from his Australian tour last evening, looking much improved by the trip, The annual meeting of the members of the Wairarapa Trotting Club will be held on Saturday i,oxt,at the Marquis of Nirmauby Hotel, Carterton.

One of the finest collections of fishing tackle yet shown in Mastecton was opened up this week by Mr J. Williams. The consignment is direct from the English makers, and consists of every article necessary for successful angling. Particulars ot the l goods are to be seen in another column,

The Executive has finally decided to exeoute Makin, who was convicted of murdering a number of infants. The Emperors of Austria and Germany meet at a hunt at Kosteg, in Hungary, on the 21st itißt. The charges against the other men In connection with tho death of Pert at Miller's Pointwill not be proceeded with. Sir Jblvelyn Wood has been appointed Quartermaster-General,

A great fire in Minneapolis destroyed 200 houses, and rendered 1500 people homeless.

ThePopo, in an Encyclical to the Frenoh electors, favours upholding the Republic, as no return to monarchy is now possible.

A suit in the English Ohanoeiv Court, begun ISO years ago, was concluded the other day. The Government duties and legal fees covered nearly the entire sum fought for. A (even bird pigeon match under the management of Mr W. B, Bone, of Masterton, will take place at Tauhereunikau on Thursday AugUßt 24th, Particulars appear in another column, Sir Herbert Maxwell contributes to the Nineteenth Cenlwy an artiole on the Graving for Fiction,'which in the light of public library circulation statistic?, seems to him to hare far transcended due limits. His advice to the reader is to apply as an infallible test to any novel, the question—ls it north reading, pencil and notebook in hand? If not, Sir Herbert would set it down as not worth reading at all j and he solemnly warns " tho young poraon of leisure" against discursive reading, his maxim being, "Meai■ anything beating on a definite subjeot>." The new Licensing Bill is still on the stocks (oays the Pojt), but the Government hope to have it ready fur circulation to-morrow. It is understood that the measure will propose to greatly extend the licensing districts, probably making them co-terminoua with' the electoral districts, and to take the local option poll ou the electoral and not the ratepayers' roll, requiring en actual majority of those on the roll, or a two-thirds majority of those who vote. The Bill will provide (in view of recent decisions) that any expression of views ou Prohibition, no matter bow strong, trill not disqualify a man for a teat on a Licensing Curnmitteo. It is understood that the Government will elect to stand or fall by the Bill, aod go to the country immediately should it be defeated,' An extraordinaiy formation in boxwood lias been discovered at the wood yard of Farrelt Bros., Forbes street, Woolloomooloo. \Vhilo sawing logs into 9-inch lengths, a chip off the side of one piece near a knot disclosed a largo iron horsoahoe firmly imbedded in the centre of the log. The. explanation of this peculiar discoteiy seems to be that the shoe must have been hung on the fow of the tree, and in the course of tirne the timber grew around the iron. <■

The Committee ot the House of Lordß which has been engaged for some time past in taking evidence upon the importation of meat, recommends that imported meat should be branded, that the registration of meat importers be made compulaoiy, and that retailors' shops be inspected.

The Curator of the Acclimatisation Society's grounds notifies that persons trespassing thereon with dog and gun will bo prosecuted and that stray dogs will be destroyed. His reason for taking this course is that after a recent pigeon match boys hunted wounded pigeons through the reserve disturbing imported birds which are nesting tinder his charge. Two years ago (says an exchauge)a Melbourre timber merchant formed a syndicate with £350 capital to prospect Western Aastralia for gold. The two experienced miners, aftor getting as far aB what is now known as'' Coolgardie," pegged out olaims there, abandoned them as worthless, and are now amongst the unemployed of Melbourne, The abandoned claims are now worth a score of thousands.

Messrs T. Eason, J, Smith and another were returning to TVoodville from ballasce on Saturday about 9,80 p.t,., (says the Fahiatua Herald) by way of Gimwood's Boad wheu arriving within about.lo chains of Mr Greaves' residence, one dray and horses succeeded in passing a very nasly place in the road caused by the recent slips, and : then stopped to warn the next driver. It appears that the leading horses of the second dray stopped rather olose to the edge of the bank, which was undermined, and itgavo way,'precipitating horses, ' dray, and driver into the. gully. The driver (Mr Eason) was found in a ve;/ ; precarious state, and it is fea,red he is ' hurt internally, The cries for help were heard, by Mrs Oreaves and Miss A. Walker, who at once proceeded to ' the scene provided witb a candle and i matohos (having no' lantern), Miss ! Walker was at once sent to obtain , assistance, and Messrs J. Stewart and i McCorioohy were soon on the spot, It i was a difficult task to release the leader, and the shatter could not be extricated , until the shafts were sawn in two. The latter, however, did not jive long after , being celeasod. The dray and a portion of the harness is still fast in the mud . down the gully. Mrs Greaves kindly provided refreshments for the unfortunate party, who. went on to Woodyilje in the other dray. It was 1 nearly 3.■ o'clock before the work of extricating waa complete.. The loss to the owner will bi' from'£lfj to £2O. 1 A Soon T\mi at'the preset to buy Mens' Bey's, and Youth's Closing cheaply. You can get them at (he lowest Sale and Mvage prices, wi|h : a dlsconut.jjf 1. !h the f> r.;umeduj cash the neij 15 days ou'.y aJTeAroHMse. '•Tips 2ns; (Jajjjcis ever yet offered.. w\ to it men. Heavy Scojoh Tweed Soils at 323 W for 22s od, Colonial Tweed Cults at 37s ii for £Ss fid, with au extra cash gift of lq in tbo ' ■'Pse Shhliho n? thp &. Men's Tweed Vests at 8a lid and 3t lid, Heavy, fudle Tweed.Trousors af 19s 6d for 14s Od. Buy a 20s pnnxl : tf </WS and wears a cath UmiofUin&ti, Diva Osi,, Men's Tweed Overcoats 35s for lfls 6d, Youth's Trouser \ Suits 31s for 13s 6d, and la'crmmthe whole % diicounlofU it. Ik & < .-; This it wliw -the kv's come in. Tweed Knickers at 3a Oil lor 2a 3d. Sohoohuiisat Bs6difor 4s'lid.' Heavy Boije Knidker ; Buits|os.Cdfor6s6di Buy wjiatyo't want .; Now is lira' Trsik."" All-prices -both Palo and Salvageiwlth 1 tlie'.extva : disodiiiitof ;ls in ■ » j

j A comfortable eight roomed dwelling.' > The 'Programme Committee'of the house, with stables and all -necessary, Masterten A. and P. Association met jbutbaildingß, :«ith ten aoteaiof land this morninj! to arrauge the programme ■ attached; situated at Upper Plain, witbih for the forthcomingshow.. • - Ci^UMWIS?^'?> dveitised The■ Pahiatuj Star says another : toletbyMrE.E.Ohamberlam. . rand i date beßideß . Me?Bt / floßg : and The deaths.from oholera in Russia McUardleistobeasked to contest the number 100 daily. Maßterton seat. There are plenty of dark horses about but at present the only candidate is Mr A. W, Hogg. Eyen Mr McOardlemay not put'himself in nomination. .".:■. "".■''■'"-'.":"'..-'"■ A first offender was,charged with drunkenness in the Masterton R.M. Court this morning, and dealt, with in tup usual manner.

The Tariff Oommitteo of the Gisborne Harbor Board has juat- recommended—1. That with the exception ot ale, bee' and porter in casks, the tariff fcr goods, etc, landed at or shipped from the wharyea be increased 100 per cent, as from the Ist September, 1893. 2. That for ale, beer, and porter in casks it be increased from one halfpenny per import and export, as from the Ist September 1893. Captain Tucle.", in mOviiig the adoption of the report, referred to the return which ho had prepared, by which it w shown that most of the burden of the harbor liability fell up m tho shoulders of comparatively few people. He spokeof the exemption of natives under the present system, though some held large properties The on'y way of getting natives to contribute was an alteration in the tariffon imports. Be thought the increase in the wharfage rate on beer would reach them, as the natives would have their " long beers " whether tho rate lovied wis a halfpenny or sixpence a gallon. Under the proposals the Board would get from them what Hie colony could not get from them as owners of land. The disousaion of the Uoramittee's report stands adjourued.—font.

A special meeting of.the Featherston Town Board was hald last night, to consider the best means of raising a loan for a Town Ball. The Board went into com" raittco to discuss the matter and the. result has not yet transpired, .'The Board's action in going into committee met with the disapproval of a large numbar of ratepayers who wore present: The alterations andadditions, painting, furnishing, eto., at the Government Buildings since January, 1891, cost £1,433. ~ -..;«.: ■:;:..-■■■■.

A very graphic description of a gipsy wedding which took place a few days ago at Friedrichshagen is given by the Berlin correspondent of Woman.' "The bridegroom was thirty, and the bride fifteen years of age. All the members of the csravan, about forty persons in all, were present. The women of the party were arrayed in gorgeous colours, and wore heavy gold chaina and earrings, The wedding ceremony was performed by the head of the band, an old gipsy, who signed to the pair to kneel before him; he th°.n broke a bottle of wine over their heads, and murmured Borne words over them. A fearful and unearthly howl from tho witnest.es showed that the ncremony was at an end. Then dancing fol lowed, and in a surprisingly short space of time over 100 botllei of ivine were emptied, ' The ; -gipsies began, as time weut on, to get quarrelsomo, and a free light ensued, in which the nswly-roarried couple took part, The who'.e band was at length hunted off into the heath by the gendarmerie. Tho next day the ground which had been the scene of the wedding was covered mtb brightlycoloured rags, tufts of'black hair, and spots of blood," There was a time within the memory of living persons when South Africa had no pauper class, But in those days the population was perhaps the very poorest on earth, excludiog savages, if wealth must be reckoned by the possession of hard cash, Wow it stands among the richest in due proportion to its numbers, and the curse which follows general prosperity has settled there. The leading newspaper sounds an alarm, "In tho gardens, on the jetty, and iu the main thoroughfares of the cily the social derelict"—so gracefully it describes' the tramp (says the London Standard)—"is to be met with at all hours of the day. As tho winter approaches, and the weather becomes inclement, he Mill grw desperate," From the tone of the article it must bo concluded that social derelicts are not yet »o very common, but doubtless they ate multiplying fast. A recollection to that tune to which we referred leads Cape Colonists to demand stern measures of repression. The Capo Argus recommends a tightening of the definition of vagrancy, and imprisonment of thoto who fall within it. The experience of centuries suggests that such measures will fail.

A desperate affray has taken place near Cairo between a body of o<.nviots and their guards, A band 600 strong was returning from the quarrieß where they had been working, escorted by 86 guards. They wore in batches of 50, and at a preconcerted signal, a rush was made at the two rearmost guards, who were overpowered, The. 50 convicts I then made for the open. Eleven of 1 the S6 guards started in pursuit while the remaining 25 fired volleys over the heads of ihe main body to iutimidate them. This ruse succeeded, the 550 convicts being overawed. The fugitives finding they were being rapidly overtaken by the 11 mounted warders who had started in pursuit, opened fire upon them with the rifles of the two guards whom they had disarrr.ee 1 in the outset. Two horses fell dead. The guards also opened fiteaud shot dead 39 of tho flying convicts, the remaining 11 getting clear away,

We wish Captain Edwin would wire us some more heavy gales I He prom'sed us a series of real busters to begin on the 12th met, and to conclude to-day, and we never had calmer and gentler weather. We don't object even to a cyclone at his hands, for that would mean perfect rest with the elements. The Key. H, Van Staveren, stated at the meeting of the Trustees of the Benevolent Institution yesterday, that there are 500 strong, able-bodied men in Wei* lington who cannot get employment.' The Bill providing for the subdivision of the Cheviot estate was read a second time 1 in the House of Representatives yesterday after a long debate. The House afterwards went into Committee of Supply, when some of the Estimates were passed. A very curious phenomenon (says the Manawatu Standard) is to'be seen at Loviu, and is exercising the minds of the residents of that town, About a'week ago a couple of springs suddenly made their appearance about half a mile from the township, and within 48 hours the place was flooded to a depth of Bin by the flow from these springs,. Past the Levin Hotel thera is a regular torrent of water, which empties i'Belf into the Horowhenua lake, about two miles away, Should this exceedingly strange outburst of water from the bowels of the earth, as it were, not cease very soon.the residents will have to go in for a wholesile importation of gondolas, and carry on their business in Venetian slyle. The following excellent programme has been arranged for the concert in aid of the De Lacey family, wnioh takes placoat the Lyceum Hall, Carterton, on Thursday, August 17th: Overture, Orchestra; Song, 'Watching and Dreaming,' Mr Astali; Song,,' The Last Mile, Stone,' Miss May Cameion; Song, 'Friar of Ordora Gray,' MrNioholls; Duet,' Maying,' Miss Lowes and Mr W. Simms; Solo (trombone) Mr Gray; Song, 'Diver,' Mr Robinsou; Duet, (selected) Mrs Wood and Mrs Coimack; Song,! A Dream Within a Dream,' Miss Lowes; Overture, Orchestra; Song,' Good Company,' Mr .lames Simms; Duet (violins) Messrs Cinders aud Winchester; Song, 1 Only Once More,' Miss Isabella Oan> ' cron; Song, ' For Love Alone,' Mr W. Simms; Quartette, 'An Old Romance,' 1 Mrs Wood, Miss Lowes, and Messrs W. 1 and J. Simms; Song, ' The Pilgrim of Love,' Mr Astali j Duet,' We Wandered in Dreams,' Miss May Cameron and Mr W, Simms j Song,' The Flight of Ages, Mr Nich'ills;

A writer in the Sydney Morning Herald thus moralises on the present Btate of Melbourne :—" She is become a by-word and a roproach among the critics, To understand the Melbourne of to-day you must think of a community where ourious,' old-fashioned folk say one to another:' The end of the world be surely anigh.' wherein is confusion merging on anarchy and despondency, at many polnb touching despair. Of a city of to-day, a,d, 1898, where are many people who really think their money is safer in an old stocking, or stowed away 'i' the lum,' than in any bank whatever. Of a city which four years ago had full 30,000 men omployed in the various building trades, and which has now upwards of 17,000 empty houses, Of a city which in two stocks aloneBroken Hill Proprietaries and Mel. bourne tramc-are worth £12,000000 less to day than in the list year of the past decade. Of a oily sore smitten indeed, yet by no means hopeless, only as erratic now h efforts to get sijaight as heading and headstrong of old in determination to go wrong,"

The ordinary daily life of Princess May (Bays a Homo paper) is utterly and entirely unpretentious and simple. She is passionately fond of reading, and is a atudentof theofassics, and weJlconversanfc with the poets of several nationalities. Of course the Princess talks ohieily in English, which she holds to be her mother's tongue, but she is a good linguist, can speak both French and German, and reads Italian fluently. The Princess rises at 8 o'clock, and at 9,30 breakfasts alone with Mdllo. Brioka, her dame de wmiiagiiU. A certain time is given to correspondence, study, and reading and perhaps to singing. The Princess sings sweetly, and is always accompanied on the piano by Mdllo. Brioka, Her voice is a mezzo-Eeprano, which has been carefully trained by Signor Tosti, Life at the White Lodge is aim plicity itself. The dinners, always enfamilk, are euohas would hot be deemed at all equal to the require* mentsofmany of the noimavix ricA«s and the princess goes to bed early, 'Priacess May dresses very_ quietly but always becomingly, and to look.at her in her own home with her knitting or crochet in hand you would take her for a type of a sweet, unaffeotid English girl. Bho is, as we have said, the pet of everybody,: from father and mother down wards. She Is very fond of riding and driving, and waa at one time frequently to be peen about iu the neighbourhood of' her home in a little pony carriage driven 1 byherselfi •

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their next Masterton stock sale, for Wednesday 23rd first class dairy cows,

Notice isgivenby the Wairarapa North County Council of intention to confirm the special order merging the • Alfredton Road iDistrict into the County. The Council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society will meet on Friday evening next to arrange for the distribution of trout, and also to fix the date for the opening of the fishing soason. i The sad story of a woman's misfortunes was told at the meeting of tho Wellington Benovelent Society Trustees yesterday. She appeared in rags before the Trustees and naked for assistance for herself and child. She; had no place to sleep in except 'the wtshdioune.' The Ohaitman (the Bev fl. Staveren)said that, she was a decent, respectable girl onoo, but she hsd got into trouble, lb was stated that the unfortunate Roman was now a little wrong in her head. Tho Chairman thought it was a sin to allow the woman tokeep the child, and suggested that they should send both to the Benevolent Home, and make atrangementß, if posfible, for sending the girl, who ia eight yearaof ago, to' a convent. An order was accordingly made for the instant admission of the woman and her child to the Homo, Another distressing case (Baya the Times) was that of a widow and three grown up children, The eldest, a young man of 20,' suffered from fits, while the next, a girl' of 18. was suffering from consumption. The only bred wmner the family had was a young girl ot 15 years, and she was not abletooarn sufficient to keep them all, The woman herself was willing to work if she could get it, Tho unfortunate woman broxe down in telling her troubles to the Trustees. It wbb de» cided to grant 6s a week for a month and rations,

Mr George P. Hpgan, now residing at Auckland, New' Zealand (Bays Mr Labouchcre, in Truth), enlisted in the 19th Regiment in November, 1863, at the ageof 18. "He served as an N.O.Q. through the Crimean campaign and the Indian Mutiny, was wounded ut the Alma and at the capture of the Redan, teoeived a commission as Ensign in the 4th West India Regiment in 18C7, and was gazetted out in 1890 at his own re» quest. Beiue in straitened olrcumstances \ath a family of six dependent upon him, and feeling the infirmities of ago approaching ho wrote last year to apply for one of the pensions promised to the Crimean and Mutiny veterans. This was the reply from the War Office;--'Sir- In reply to your lotter of 2nd July last, requiting that you may be granted a special pension in consideration of your services in the Crimea and in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, be. fore you obtained a commission, lam directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you that a Chelsea pensions' cannot be awarded to anyone retired from the service aB a commissioned officer, oven although he may have been promoted from the ranks.' So that this gallant old warrior is denied a pension because he has served his country too well, His fatal mistake was that he won a commission. Some means ought to bo found ot putting this matter right. Failing that, Mr Hogan remains an awful warning to young soldiers against |" trop de'ze'le" in Her Majesty's Bervioe, The difference in the manpgeraent ot Bheep was recently described at a famous fathering in Sydney, according to his own views, by a Napier man who ought to know what he was talking about. In one island, the owners, said Mr Tanner, ofHawkes'-Bay, are farmers* In the other! they are runholders, 'We call ourselves runholders. InHawka'a Bay no sheep-farmer owns a plough, He simply runs his sheep on English grasses surface sown,, and native grasses in some places,' The result of this simple method must bo aB pleaßant as it is patent, 'The returns' said Mr Tanner,' are enormous. The eipensei are very small, ksyou may imaging when no agriculture is indulged in. Onomanin Hawkea' Bay shears i fiO.ooo sheep. He grosses £1 an acre off 80,000 aoros. His long-wool sheep give him a clip of 10|lb, and have done so for some four or five years past, and he sells 10,000 fat wethers and old ewes t>t an average of 13s a head off the sheatj, He is simply coining mon«y; in fact all sheepfarmers in Hawkes' my at the present moment are coining money.' We (8%. Times) sincerely hope Mr Tanner had an eye to business, in the Mother Colony's capital. At tho same time it strikes us that, if his account is not' too rosy, the pressure of the land tax ought not to be largely felt in Hawkes' Bay. A. couutiy where there is no agriculture, where expenses of the occupiers are a mere nothing, where mony is coined in solitude, is not an ideal countiy by any means, from the national point of view, These are not illicit coiners, but they are 'fairg*me for fair taxation,

A. craze for bargains set in this morning at ttio Bon Marche. We, that is Hooper* Corcj"uiy 1 ' have started olfcaring out the balance of our winter stock. Our bargains arealwa/s genuine, We dart say'wo sell at'coßtpice, beoausono one oi vvy few could test it- not knowing what the cost prico is,' We don't offer our goods at 20 per cent disMun* became no one can check ;he calculation, not Luring .m what it is Sased. We rely upon thi prices which we offer oil bargains and in nine cases out of nine ond-a-half to priceaare staggerers bothforthePublio. and .the. Trade. 0 course, weave golag'to lose money over this job! Howcouldwe do otherwist? But whynot? VfhyshouMn't.we'ba.well as other people ? Everybody's losing money now<a-days,-and.weaf(». prepared to drop our share'just for the sake c'f company, but that -ve lose we lose in a good'eaute, 'We benefitthePubliVßokeep your eye on the . Boallatpbe ior.bafgaina..^iEverythirig at panic ; fe£ -'

The Borough Council hag authorised : :^;^ thepurohaso of 3,000 feet of timber for ■■■•V'?i'" the oonstruotion of colverta eto.;- :.'■:.. '% : 4 .Several of tbo lower Valley flax, i;; mills will re-open next weok, > The ■ Hawke's B«,y Acclimatisation Society has applied for 12,000. trout ova; : -.-'.', ■ trom the kattertou Hatcheries, in ad* - liition to the 60,000 already ordered, ?■"_■{'■.'■;'

It is said that Mr Bruce, if absolutely required, mil confcot anest for bis party at the coming general oleotion. He is the ideal man who ought to lie secured for the Mastertou eltctorate. It would take a strong man to boat' Mr Hogg; but if Mrßrucecamoup this way -Mr Hogg would be nowhere. : 'V ':

. A horse ridden by Mr.'F. W.Wood, eldest son of Mr F,B. town, tripped and fell in Kqwwwli;!? street yesterday. Mr Wood escaped with a slight injury to his arm. j The Masterton Municipal" Fire Brigade held a very successful practise last night.: ',' ■; .■' •': - '■ / .'■■'