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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4508, 28 August 1893, Page 2

The" Groat American Salesman" did Mastcrton last Saturday evenim;. DoubtIflndtißthouKht '-'dfawetion the better part of valour," The Workß and Finance Committee oftbeMasterton Borough Council will meat this eveuing. Yeßterday.waa a glorious day, awl almost everybody was out. Two fine

The Clydesdale stallion Duke o' Argyle? 1b announced to be at the service of breeders this season. Mr R. Fulloon will have his qunrteiß atTatatahi. AtWanganuiafewdaysago, Mr W. A. Peters, son of Mr A, Peters, of "Woodville, WDB married to Misa Annie McQonnell, of New Plymouth,

. The Danevirke football Olub is arranging matohes with teams from Ojrterton, Woodville, and Makotuku. Mr DeLatour has definitely decided to contest tho Waipawa Beat, The Cook County Liberal Association have chosen Mr J, Carroll as their candidate, at next eleotion.

Twenty-nine charges against twentyfive prisoners are Bet down for hearing at the next criminal setting of the Supreme Court, at Wellington.' Thisiß tbeJargeat calender for many years.

Mr W. Watorson.Benr., met with an acoident whilst baahfalling on W. Booth's property, Belvedere, yesterday. He was endeavoring to gst up a hill-side to escape a falling troe, when hia foot slipped and before he could reoover himself the tree Btruok him down. Young Sayer, who was working with him, ran to his assistance and with difficulty got him to his home. Dr. Dickson was speedily in attendance and found that the Batterer's ribs to be broken.—Obaerver.

The Pahiatua Herald states that business changes are the order of the day in Pahiatua, and many familiar names are being replaced by others not so well known locally, Mr Hacked, of Auckland, has boon in town this kt few days, negotiating for tho purchase of the business of Mr Coleridge Ridd, surgeon dentist etc., and the sale will probably be completed within a few days. Messrs James Elliott and Go,, the wellborn saddlers and harness-makers, of Masterton, to-day completed the purChase of Mr J. Bertram's saddlery business, and will take orer the concern I almost immediately.

Bread has gone down I Yesterday Mr Wall's bread cart met with a mishap in the Mangatainoka river (says the Pahiatua Herald) which was in flood, and the whole consignment of bread went down stream.To Bhow the lightness of thebread it ib said that Mr Wall and his man floated ashoro on a 41b loaf each. Everything wan recovered but the bread.

We remind our reader? of the Social in aid of St. Matthew's Church, which takes place at the Temperance Hall tomorrow evening,

From what wo can gather, the Masterton Masonio Ball, which takes place on Thursday evening next, will bo a big gathering. 'Visitors are expected from all parts of the district, Somewhero about thirteen years ago a triple crime, embracing burglary, arson, and murder, was committed in Dunedin by a criminal named Robert Butler, and at the time the horror created tremendous excitement, • The victims were a man and his wifo. who woro supposed to have been murdered in their beds by Butler, who then set fire to the premises in order to conceal his wicked deed. Butler was tried, but got off on the capital charge, but subsequently on tho sih April, 1880, received a sentence of 18 years on another charge (it burglary. He has been inoarcerMed of late in one of the Wellington gaols, and a few w6oks ago the Eseoutive Council remitted the balance of bis sentence, and he was shipped on board the Rimutaka, which steamer would call at Rio de Janiero, to which place his passage was paid. The Commissioner cf Police is reticienfc about the matter, but that Butler Bailed from Wellington as above described is certain, An application made to tho gaol authorities failed to elicit any information.— Post.

Colonel Hume, in his roport on tho police force, recommends that matrons should be appointed at the police itations in the large centres, and that tho force should be strengthened in tho four large centres on account of the number of criminal classes that aro at present coming to the Colony. The report also states that" baby farming" appears to be a growing evil in haw Zealand and recommends that regulations should be enacted by Parliament to provido for such bouses when they are known. The Wellington section of railways earned 16,R85 in the four weeks ending 22nd July, aB against £s,2bsmthesame period of lust year, The number of passengers carried were 29,680 while in July, 1892, tho number was 27,205. season tickets issued numbered 250. The number ot sheep decreased from 10,767 to 9,396. Goods by weight show an increase, there being 4,847 tons against 4,251 in thesameperiod for 1892.

The total revenue of tho New Zealand I railways for the four ending July 22nd, amounted to £76,913 as against £78,208 for the correspanding period of last year, The working expenses are 61 47 per cent, of the revenue, and slightly less than that of the previous year. On the Kaihu Valley line, which runs from Dargaville into a heavy kauri forest, it oosts 105-96 or practically £lO6 to earn £IOO. On the Picton-Blenheim line it is still worse and oosts 106*35 per cent., but trains run at " some speed" on this portion of our railway system. ThoKawakawasection costs 9569 per cent; Nelson, 85*18 per cent-, Whangarei, 79'64 per cent j Auckland, 71*08 per cant; Wellington, (7'84 per cent; Napier-Taranaki,67*3s per cent; HurunuiBluff, 57'54per cent; Greymouth, 50-37 per cent; and Westport, 46'42 per cent, The Manawatu Racing Club has called a meeting of delegates from the West Caost, Wairarapa, and Hawkes Bay country clubs, to bo held at Palmeraton on September 14th, to discuss the advisability of country clnbß being represented on metropolitan committees.

Is tho Hon. J. G. Ward or the Government printer liable to a penalty of i'soo for circulating through the " Southern Standard" without a legal imprint, copies of the financial statement speech delivered by the Postmaster. General? We ask tho question as the supplements in question are evidently printed at the Government office,

The number of police in New Zealand is 481, and tho cost per head of the population iB very considerably less than any of the other Australian colonies as the following return will show. New Zoalaud has one police offioor to every 1439 of population, and pays at the rate of !is Bid per head; Victoria, one to every 760* persons, and pays 5s pa" head; New South Wales one to 694 persons, and pays 6s 6d per head; South "Aus. tralia one to every 859, and pays 6s ljd per head; Queensland one to every 537, and paya 7a 7d per head, There are 1894 miles of railway open for trafhV in New Zealand of thia number 1,173 miles aro in tho South Mandand 721 miles in the North Island. The total oust of construction, including harbnur.wOMß, terming part of tho Railway system, amounts to £14,733,120, and there has been expended on unopened lines £1,083,412.

Mixed metaphor by the Buller Lion, apropos o! gambling in clubs:-" If they get a pigeon tbey increase tho stakes and fleece it."

A Soon Time at the preset to buy Men 3' Boy's, and Youth's Clotting cheaply, You can get them atthe lowest Salo and SMvago prices, with a disconut of 1. In tho £ rtinmed in cash tho next 16 days only atTeAroHoJse. The Desi Choice ever yet offered, wok to it men, Heavy Scotch Tweed Suits at 82s 6d for 22s 6d, Colonial Tweed Suits at 87b 6d for £ss 6d, with an extra cash gift of 1b in the jO,

Onb Shilling m ihp &. Men's Tweed Vests at 2s lid and 3t !ld, Heavy fiddle Tweed Trouseis at 19s 6d lor 14s Gd. ■ Buy 0« mral o/ turn and twin a cash aonus of It in the £. Foteen Days Om.. Men's -Tweed Overcoats 35s for lGs Gd, Youth's Trouser Suits'2ls for 13s6d,ani2 '.town the wbh adisaunlof\tn<the£. This is where Ik boy's come in. Tweed Knlokew at 8s 6u for 2s 3d, Sotaool suits at 8s 6d for 4s lid. Heavy ffcye Knioker SultslOs Gd for6s 6d. Buy whafyot want oliksenovi. , , „', Now is the Time, All.pnoes both Sale and Salvage'vith tho extra dißOOuntqf Is in the £is fot:i6 days "only, on purchases o 20s worth and\ up, at.le Aro. House, Wei

Tho Minister of Lands has promised to again look into the question of offer- < ins; a bonus for the boat means of I eradicating the oodlin meth. I By afire in Ohioago, five blocks of ' buildings and ooal andtimber yards have bean destroyed. Five thousand people i are rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at 1,500,000 dollars, . Colonel Baillie, of tho Salvation Army, Christehurch, has protested to the Government against the imposition of a menth'B imprisonment on an officer of the Army for playing the cornet at Milton, The Minister for Education has promised to enquire into tho matter. On the Ist April last the strength of tho Hew Zealand police was 481, being a deorease of 1 during tho year. The totals were made up as follows: Inspectors—first olass, 4; second class. 3; sergeantsmajor, 3; sergoants-tirst .class, 18; second clans, 17; third class, 15 j constables—first class, 109; second class, 111; third class, 187 j detectives-first class, 2; second olass, 5; third, class, 3; fourth class, 4. Total, 481. There are also 106 troop-horses. In addition to the above-quoted Btrength of the police proper, there are 11 district a:id 8 Native constables. Ulster women to the number of 140,000 have signed a petition against Home Bule. The Minister of Agriculture again says the Government cannot this yoar grant aid to Horticultural Societies to-. wards the planting of trees on Arbor Day. The largest room in the world undor one roof, and unbroken by pillars, is at St. Petersburg. It is 120 ft long by 160 ft in breadth. By daylight it is used for military displays, and a battalion can' completely manoeuvre in in. Twenty thousand wax tapers are required to light it. Tho roof of this structure is a single arch of iron, and it exhibits remarkable engineering skill in tho architecture. The criminal statistics of New Zealand, for the year ended Met December. 1892, show in the North Island an increase of 481 in the number nf alloffencea reported, and in the South Island a decrease of 102, or an increase throughout the colony of 379. There has been an increase in the undermentioned crimes :-Murdor, 4; indecent assaults, 14; abusive and threatening language, 82; cattle and horsestealing,27, proceedings under Destitute Persons Act, 40; breaches of Gaming and Lotteries Act,69; disorderly conduct, 19; neglected and criminal children, 35; minor cases Police Offenceß Act, 251 j vagrancy, 130. Othor crimes have deoroased as follows:-Assaults (common), 38; embezzlement, forgery, and uttering, & ; lunacy, 39; drunkenness, 66; breaches of the peace, 39; malicious injury to property, 20; arson, 6; illicit distillitiou, 6; cutting and woundi'ig, 6; smuggling, 6; indecent exposure, 15, keeping disorderly houses, 20; larceny 16; manslaughter, 3 rape, 7; perjury, 4; sheepstealing, 4. Chinese filial devotion is as keen now as in less civilised days, A Chinaman who recently undertook to wacch by his mother's grave for three yoars has just died at his post after several months' vigil. He was completely worn out by by the continuous cxplosuj-e

The heaviest peach on record has been grown at flartwell House, near Aylesbury, in England. It weighs IBioz.

The total expenditure lor hospital and charitable aid, in New Zealand, for the past year, has been L 153,955 lu's Bd, shelving an increase of L 9,014 19* lid over that of the previous year. This increase is owing to the founding of the following now institutions: The Pal-

merston North Hospital, at a cost of L 2,456, of which 1.2,2t!2 38s was for new buildings; the Jubilee Institute for tho Blind, Auckland, at a cost of L 3.780; the Jubilee Home, Wanganui, L 890; aud the Benevolont Home, Wellington, at a cosfc of L2 > 555. DrMoGregor's roroport says:—" All these institutions were urgently required, The last, especially, has greatly relieved the difticul. ties of the Wellington Bonevolent Society though, owing to the delay in comprehen. sivalegislation dealing with Hub subject, tbe trustees were obliged to build in a position which cannot long meet tho requirements of tbudistrict. lam bound, howovor, to say that thoy have made the best use of the moans at their disposal, I made a careful inspection of the Homos and Befuges maintained under the Act, and found that they were all carefully looked after by the locil authorities, The difficulties of providing new buildings under the Act have there, as in tho case of tbe hospitals, hoon found so great as to still cause great embarrassment, especially at Jbapior and Taranaki," Wo can well romember the day, not bo very many years ago, when to desire tho possession of a watch was, for many people, to absolutely sigh after the unattainable, so costly and so rare was such an article. Now-a-days evory one, no matter how slender bis income, can possess a watch, thank:, to the great Waterhuty Watoh Company. This firm annually turns out many thousands of watchos, from the beautifully- tinished gold chrooometorto the familiar, though no lesa perfectly finished, niokel timekeeper, Theso watches are acknowledged throughout the wide, wide world to be the best timekeepers in existence, and their low price places Prince and peasant on an equal footing in the matter of ability to purchase. It may seem incredible, but it is nevertheless a plain, unvarnished fact that 120,000 watches have been sold in this Colony alone since first introduced, These figures are extraordinary when our small population is taken t into account. The New Zoalanders, however, are like Oliver Twist, they are still crying for "more," as noarly 6000 watches are now landing or on the way to the Colony, half of this number being requird to fill immediate orders in hand. The same story of phenomenal success is heard all over the globe, and the sole secret is that the Watorbury Watch Company have succeeded in placing on the markets nf the world, tho cheapest, tho most reliable, and tho most perfectly constructed watch (for the price) evor offered in the history of our times, The election of officon of the Waitarapa Royal Arch Chapter will tako place at'Jie Masonio Hall, Grey town, on September 29th.

A meeting was held on Saturday erening in tit Matthew's schuolroom,the Rev, W. E, Paige in the chair, in connection with the newly formed Boys' Club, Rules were adopted on the basis of a similar Club at St Paul's (Tkorndonl Under these the age for admission is 16, and the annual subscription half a orown. The following officers were elected:President, tho Eev. W. E, Paige; VicePresidents, Drs Staking and Douglas and Messrs W. B.Beetham, A.P, Whatman, W. Lmvej, and W. 6, Beard. Trea surer, W. H. Jackson j'Secretary, H, R, Bagge, The appointment of a committee was left over till the following meeting A sub-committee to canvas for subscriptiorit, consisting of Messrs A, Owen, J, Bennington, B. Bowser, T, D'Aroy, A, 0. JNicol, W, Presswood and the Secretary was elected, A eet of Roman • rings and ropes presented by Mr Lewis Holmes was acknowledged by a hearty vote of thanks. The colore adopted by the .Club are red, white and blue. Thirty names of members were given in at the meeting. Final arrangements for opening will be made at a meeting to be held in the schoolroom on Saturday evening next, Mr Jackson waa authorised to procure thirty pairs of Indian clubs. A craze for bargains set in this morning at the Bon Marohe, We, that is Hpoperl Coffij%uy, have started clearing out tho balance of our winter stock. Our bargains are always genuine, We don't say we sell at, cost price, because no one oi viry few could test it not knowing what the cost | price is, We don't offer our goods at 20 per cent discount because no one can check iho calculation, noi l.norfing .mi what it is based. We rely upon thi prices at which we offer ov i bargains and in nine cases out of nine and-a-haif those prices arc staggerers both for the Public and the Trade. Of course, weare gulag to lose money over this job I How could wo do otherwise But why not? \?by shouldn't we. in well as other people ? Everybody's losing money riOTf-a-dayß, and we an* urepared to drop our'share just for the sake cf :ompany, but that to lose we lose in a good cause. We benefit the Publio, so keep your eye on tho Boh Marohe for bargains, Everything at pauloyiioes,

About' 24 notices haye been Boryed on lertain . Napier parents warning them :hat proceedings will be taken against ;h<m if they continue to neglect to send iheir children to school. The Hawera.Star reports that ffaipa alecfors are siguing a requisition to Mr « John Bryce to come forward »s a \ aandMate for the Walpa electorate at next elections. '' ; Mr M. Oaselberg is expected to return to Masterton, from his visit to Auckland, on Wednesday next. lin Tuesday afternoon last (says the I Pahiatna Herald) Mm George Moore in- I vited a number of yousg ladies to meet | her in the public Hall, when it was do- ] oided to form a lata branch of the | gymnasium, arrangments having previomly been made for the free use of the material. Tho following wero appointed ' a committee:—Mrs Geoiye Moore (hon. < seoretary pro. tern.) and the Misses < Moore, Birnio (2), Wowing and Knight. | A small membership fee only will be ro- j quired to pay for the use of the hall. | Ladieß and girls wishing to join should send in their names to the hon. secretary from whom particulars oan be obtained. The next practice will take I place jn Tuesday aftornoon. ] Oharles Robins was charged in the Masterton R.M.Uourt this morning, on l warrant from Napier, with the laroeny , as a bailee, of a saddle and bridle valued , at 16, the property of Dr MoWillan of . Taradale. Mr Pownall appeared for the j accused, who was remanded to Napier, bail being allowed. Another information has been laid by Madame to Brand, against the man Brown, who was on of those who caused a disturbance at her house on Saturday eyening last, The annua! election of threo Borough Councillors is notified in another column. Tho retiring councillors are Messrs E. Chamberlain, fl, Heron, and A. Mutrle, It is eipeoted that Messrs Chamberlain and Mutrie will offer themselves for reelection, but It is somewhat doubtful whether Mr (i. Heron will consent to again become a candidate. Mr J, Wickens notifies that he will run his bread curt on the Upper Plain on and after Monday, September 4th. Thero are some perfumes that are very grateful to horses, however little credit a horse may oommonly receive for possessing delicaoy of scent. Horse trainers tiro awaro of the faot, and make use of their knowledge in training stubbon and apparently intraotable animals. hany trainers have favourite perfumes, tho composition of which tboy keep a secret, and it is the possession of this moans of appealing to the horse's tcsthetic sense that enables so many of them to accomplish such wonderful results. Tho morning servhee at Graytown Wesleyan Church, was conducted by Mr Tonks, of Wellington, A number of boyß wero introduced into 8t Luke's (Groytown) Church Choir yesterday who with a little more trainiiiE; Bhould prove a great assistance. There is come talk of making the Choir aßurpliceono. A lady at tho Wistininster Falaco Hotel discovered a man in a room occupied by her sistor. She pursued him, and on the man being caught jewellery valued at £IBO, and which he is said to have stolen from the

hotel, was found in his pocket.

A mistrcßS complained to a London Magistrate that her servant remained in bed and would not dreßs herself although her notice to leave had expired. TheMagißtrate advised the applicant to engago Eomo strong woman to dress tho girl and then sho could bb turned out of tbchouse.