LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4647, 14 February 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A London lauudry, owned by women and employing only females, earned £30,000 lass year. , William Madden has been sentenced at Oberton (N.5.W.)10 three months' imprisonment for skinning a live cat! ,

The working girls' clubs of the United States are arranging to hold a monster convention at Buston. It is expected that fully 0,000 delegates wdl attend.

California has now the unenviable notoriety of numbering amongst the "tramps" a large number of women who are in search of work. There are over 400,000 worked-out laborers in England over sixty years of age receiving parish relief, Tom Mann says that in London there are 40,000 children who go to Board schools every day with no food.or a mere crnst and a little tea.

Mr J, O, Boddiogton was -yesterday elected Chairman of the Maßterton Hospital Trustees for the eleventh year in succession,

The Gketahuna tinsmith's shop was robbed of a copper and furnace on Monday night. Mr D. Crowe makes several additions to the entries forhisEketahuna Stock Sale.

The Fahiatua Ecndd reports that a bullock dropped dead at Mangahao last week through the heat. ■ • The gorso nuisance is again becomiog troublesome in the borough.

The Government Life Insurance Department has purchased £2OOO of Mas. terton Borough debentures,

Mr G. W. Woodroofe's celebrated drinking (?) fountain was again the subject of lengthy discussion at tho Borough Council meeting laH night. Finally it was decided to let it still go on "the burst."

A Greytown man who recontly got married, is said to have had things made very lively fur him by his creditors, who, on th<i day of his wedding, simply showored summonses on him, and even stopped him whilo walking with lm blushing bride, to deliver pieces of "blue paper."

The Ardlamont murder trial in the matter of expense, must, for a criminal case, be almost a "record," Tho defence coat not very much lesß than £4OOO, while the proßecution coat rather more than 110,000. What this means may be seen from the fact that in a normal year, when there ia no very sensational murder trial or similar affdr, tho Lord Advocate's nxponses in connection with criminal prosecutions is only about 11(100Newspapers all over the United Kingdom published extended reports of the trial, The coat of obtaining mid telegraphing theso reports has been estimated at from ±'Bo,ooo to 135,000. The statement that the Monson verdict of " Kot Proven" applies to Scott is not altogether correct, The Monson verdict will be made to apply to Scott if he turns up and demands to be put on trial. Otherwise, however, his position will differ from Mr Monson's in this, that he could be prosecuted at a future date, if the authorities obtained fresh ovidence. But without froßh evidence tho authori* tifs will leave him alone; thev will never take the initiative in " inlawing" him, and in securing him from future consequences of his flight, of his not having " tholed his assizs," Theso things, if lie thinks it worth while, ho must do for himself.

| The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Herald hears that the Ohemis case is likely to come before the public again, In what form it will present itself is not yet know n. Mr Jollicoe and Mr 0. H, Mills, M.H.B„arethe promoters of a new. effort for tho release of Ohemis. It is stated that the present idea to obtain a free pardon. This is the only alternative left, the petition to Parliament having failed in its object

Jabez Spencer Balfour, whose nams has been a great deal before the public lately in connection with the Liberator frauds has had a public career of somo aote. Besides being a director of public companies, he wes the first mayor of Croydon ,a justice of the peace for Surrey, Oxfordshire, and London, and sat in Parliament for Tamworth from 1880 till 1885, and afterwards for Burnley from 1889 till his application for the Chiltern Hundreds the other day. He was a Hadical and Home Ruler, The son of a well known femule temperance advocate, he began life commercially at the bottom ot the ladder, but, gifted with keen and great resource, he was not long in carving out fot himself a position. By resolute booming he pushed the unfortunate Liberator Society into notoriety, his chief strokes of business being in securing on the board of directors names that carried weight in the religious world, and an appeal to Nonconformist ministers throughout tho country to become investors in or agents of the society. The income of the society went up by leaps and bounds, and olliceß were transferred from a paltry first door in King William street, Oity, to costly premises in Buduerow, In Croydon he meanwhile identified himself with various popular movements, took the chair at religious and philanthropic movements, and bocame a "rising man." Other companies grew out of the Libe<ator,atd eventually Mr Balfour figured as director in as many as seventeen or eighteen concerns, from which he drew some £4OOO a ysar in fees' alone. The role of country magnate he played wjth great iraprcssiyeness, and one of his latest acts in the costly game of popularity-hunting was to present Burnley with a public park worth £4ooo;iExohange.

Yesterday afternoon auhargo of a most sorious character <was preferred in tho Magistrate's Court, betoro Mr Martin, R.M., against William Stewart, second engineer of these. Waikato, by W. 0. Foster, the cbief enginner of the same vessel, The cUrge entered was tha,t of disobeyinp the lawtul commands of his immediate superior, The accused was defended by Mr T. Youog, and Mr Gully appoafed for tho prosecution. Tho evidence showed that yesterday Mr Foster, on returning, to the ship, found defendant drunk in his berth. Tho refrigerating engines were goine slow.and the temporature in the meat ohambors was raised 5 degrees, Mr Foster stated that there were no fireman iu the stoke, hole.and the fires were dying away.and in another hour if this condition of affaiiß had lasted, there would have been a probability of the 2200 toriß of meat I cargo on board being jeriously deteriorated, if not utterly ruined. His Worship Informed the accused 16 was lucky for him a more serions charge had not beon preferred by the master of the ship, as in that case, if a conviction had followed, not only imprisonment would havebpeninfjicted,buttt)eoertificateofthe accused would Tia>ye been forfeited. As it was, His Worship sent the defendant to gaol for a month's hard labour; and ordered him to forfeit two day's pay, -r Pod.

THE NATIONAL HOTEL, LAMBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON, Has undergone considerable alterations'lately, and visitors to Wellington during the holidays will find the accommodation First Glass, The hotel js close to the Siai;on pad Guests can rely on neing called inlijiiefpr both the WaW npa and Manawatu 'Trains.'' 'TarifMs Cd per day, Wairnrapa paper' Sled, Taos WfifiSi Pwotietor.—Adtt.

The installation of W.M. and investiture of ouioeraof the Masterton Masonic Lodgo takes placo this ovomng. ' The wonderful Strasburgolook will be on exhibition at Maßterton to-morrow evening.

The lire, well now being sunk opposite the Occidental Hole! is roported to be a thorough 6Uccsb3.

Cr Qornblow's motion that a proposa to raise £15.000 for ut water loan for Mas tertonbe placed before the ratepayers has been adjourned for a fortnight.

.'There is a brisk demand for mediumsizod dairy farms ia or near Mangatainoka, says the 'ltaiiier. The attendance at the Woodyille school has gone up to N 342, the highest record ydtmade. .

Captain Kerr, of the Salvation Army, recently imprisoned at Milton for street singiug, was in Carterton on Sunday. Mr Harold Welch, of Opaki, and Miss Fuller.of Greytown.were driving between Greytown and Carterton in a sulky on Sunday, when the seat broke, and they narrowly oscaped a nasty fall.—Observer, At the meeting of the Masterton Hospital Trustees held yesterday, the chairman referred to the number of years Mr B' P. Perry had been ut member, and the interest he had always taken in the management, and moved that a vote of thanks be recorded on the minutes for his nine years services—This was seconded byMrG. 8, W. Dalryuiple and carried unanimously: Sir Jamos Hootor'B report on the specimens of coal Bent from Makuri is as follows : Lignite. Analysis: Fixed caibouj 42-21; hydro, carbon, 29*52; water, 20'04; aßb, 8'23; evaporative power, 5'5 lbs, This is a very poor lignite, and no doubt comes from the pumice sand, clay, and lignite series-plinoene tertiary—wbioh iB so largely doyolopßd along the eastern flank of the Tararua and Guanine ranges, Unless this lignite could be found in thick seams, and be easily worked, it would not be of valuo as fuel.

Nakef youths wero amusing themselves "tickling" trout in the streams about Carterton laet Sunday afternoon. A party of very big boys indeed, wore doing the same thing in the Waipoua,

In 1893 there were 2,092 factories (under the Faotories Act) in New Zealand in which 25,022 people were employed.

A young couple at Carterton recently applied to the Registrar to be joined in wedlock, but had to go away again, the necessary three days no'.ice not having been given. Messrs E. E. Chamberlain, O. Bannis. tor, and Kummer, and the Misses Chamberlain (4), Kummer (2) and Pearce made the ascent, of Mount Huldsworth last week, the weather being excellent and the trip a most enjoyable one. The party left Maßterton on Thursday last, and returned on Sunday. The honor of bemg the first to reach the top was gained by one of the ladies,

The Taratahi-Carteitnn Road Board is claiming from Mtssrs Skey & Co., the sum of £l2, the cost of repairing a email

bridge on the Gladstone road, recently damaged by'one of their traction engines, A young man was sentenced to three months yesterday by tho Wellington B. M., for stealing a shirt valued at 4s 6d, The publication of the Catholio Times has been discontinued, last week's number being tho last. It ia proposed '(says tho Post) to wind up tho company, as the paper has not proved a commercial success, Tho licensing elections will be held cither on Wednesday, the 14th March, or on the following Wednesday, the 21st inst.

It is not an uncommon thing for yountf calves and lambs to die from stoppage of the bowels, caused by the presence of a i ball of hair or wool in' the intestines. The theory is that the young palveslick the hair from their mothers and lambs the wool from tho owes, We have direct j evidenoo before us that this theory is a false oue and that the young stock gather

from themselves the hair which forms in the courao of timo into a ball in the Btomach and ultimately passing into the

intsatines becomes the impediment which causes inflammation and death. We have two cf these balls of hair, token from two of Mr J, Strang's calves, which have recently died from the nauso above referred to. One is white and the other red, and they are the exact ahade of tho coats of tbe reapeotivo calves and altogether different to the colour of their mothers, thuß proving tbe calves lick the hair from their own skin.-O&scrar.

In communicating the result of the Showers' Conference to the Australian Fußtoralißts Union,the President pointed out that the spirit of freedom of contract had not been observed, as tho Pastorslists' Union, notbeing an employer.tnen wore not free to engago or employers free to employ men of their owu selection, References were useless, because what would satisfy one man would not satisfy anotner.

The Viotorian Premier has announced that the Government intends to firmly repress the distribution of properties by lottery, as it considers that it will not help the colooy out of its difficulties, but, ou the other hand, will encourage the spirit of gambling.

A Wellington widow, leaving n large family behind her, has been missing since Friday last. Suicide is feared. The Victorian Cabinet has decided that it oonsiders that the tendency of the high rates of interest charged by the Banks is to cripple enterprise, and will formulate a scheme for advancing money at five per cent, to small landholders from the Savings Bank.

Tho Hangltikei Advocate says that recently, probably during tho last fresh, a portion of the bank of the Manawatu River was washed awaynear Pahnerston, exposing the traces, stamped m soft clay, of two moas, The one track measured 14 indies long and 14 inches across, and the other eight inches by eight inches. Thero was 15 feet of soil and clay resting on the bed on which the tracks are exposed, and apparently n recent deposit, for some t-otira logs embedded in it are still sound and fresh, but a wood which resembles manuka has commenced to docay,

Mr F. H. Wood makes some large additions to his Taratahi Stock Sale entries, for the 22nd iust. including 1100 sheep and about 60 head of cattle.

The. Premier wired to Mr Jackson Paltrier ou receipt of the result ot the Ymtemata olection petition "I am simply amazed to think that a gentleman holding Mr Monk's views ou the ternporanco question should have defended the action, Many mon holding lets pronounced yiows would have scorned to hold a seat which had been won by such questionable means. Tho trial teaches ut lesson which it is well to observe, lam strongly of the opinion that if poor men are to have a fair ohanceof being returned to Parliament, and if the Parliamerit is to be kept puro,-amendments of a stringent character are required in our electoral laws, one of such amendments being the closing up of public houses during the hours of polling on election day, 1 congratulate yon on your suocess inoxposing the wrong-doing during tho Waitemata election,— R. J. Sbddon, Wellington," " Where are your lights ?" called out a midnight humorist ou Lambton Quay tie other evening to a dashing oabbie who was saving hiß oandles. "Wbero they ought to be, you stoopid ; nest to my heart," retorted the vanishing one. The Great Realising Sale lasting for 20 days, promises to be a gigantic success. Tho whole stock is to be offered at genuino reduced prices, many of the lines will' bo qiarkcd at less than English cost at Te Ado House Wellington, During tho Great Sale, Ladios Aprons will bo sold at 4J, 4 Button Kid Gloves all now fresh goods at Is lid per pah; Whito and Cream Lacesat 9d per doz, Ladies Linen Collars new shapes at 3d each, Boys Sailor Collars at 3d each, sold everywhere at Od, at Te Ano House Wellington. It will pay country .customers to take a run down to the Great Realising Salo, They will save all the expenses and bo money in pocket by buying alt they want while good are so cheap. Orders from the Counter will bo carefully selected and sent carriage paid from the GreatyHealising] Sale at Te 'Aim House,—Advi, '-

A apooial announcement from Mr James Muir, coachbuilder, engineer, etc, of Queen street, appears in another column.

Messrs W, 0. Buohanan and A.W. Hogg both supported the petkiou to the Government for assistance for a bridge at Matarawa.

The regular monthly meeting of Stone ■ henge Lodge, U.A.0.D., was held list evening, two new members beinginitiatad.

Mrßaillie, fur some time past assistant at Mr.T.&.Mason's Queen-strest establishment, is about to start business as a chemist at Cartorton, on his own .account. '■'-.•

The 11.5. W. criiet matoh v. Otago resulted, as was expected, in adraw. Wild barley is reported to .be abundant in various parts of Canterbury. The injurious effect of the seeds was well shown by the skin of a sheep submitted to memhor3 of the Canterbury A, and P. Association for inspection, The seeds' had penetrated through the wool and the pelt, rendering the latter commercially valueless. So thick wore they that the appearauco of the skin was that of a caraway cake pretty full of carawayß, the sharp points of the seeds having gono right through the skin Itself..

At the interview with the Minister of Lands yesterday .regarding the Matarawa bridge, Messrs Buohanan and Hogg both strongly supported the request of the deputation and the claims of the district, Mr Hogg mentioned that Greytown was the oldest township in the Wairarapa, and that it was very heavily ratod—twice as much qb Maßterton was. Mr MoKouzie; " But not half as muoh as Oamaru," Mr Hogg: "Ah,but Oamaru is a shocking example to the rest of the Colony." -. Mr &. 3. MoKerrow, for some years Crown Lands Hanger in the Forty-Mile Bußh district, has been transferred to Napier.

Some hams and bacon .quits rotten.ex. posed for sale in Christchurch, were seized by the police the other morning, aud ordered to be destroyed,

On Saturday night last (says the Wanganui Clironide) as tho 10 o'clock train waß ascending the Wangaehu Hill, near Mr Fletcher's property, the' engine crashed into a wandering cow, knooked the life out of the unfortunate animal, and brought tho train to a standstill. Fortunately a delay of some 10 minutes waß the extent of the inconvenience Buffered by the passengerß. . The Canterbury WeeUy Press batepublished a recent article of ours entitled "A Shearer's Romance." This mil perhaps make Mr Mercior a little more careful as to the statements he giyes in the Middle Island concerning his Wairarapa experiences.'

A special meeting of tho Featherston Town Board was held last evening to consider tenders for forming and metalling 10 ohains in Harris street. Three tenders were received, and aftor consideration'it was resolved to call for freßh tenders, to be in by next Saturday, so as to be submitted to the Chairman and Works Committee,/

Some men in the employ of the Telegraph Department walked about Christchurch onßaturday morning with torohea, bummgtho kite-tails which had collected 0 n the telegraph wires.

It is stated (says tho Monawatu Times) that there are at present a very large number of carpenters out of work at Polmerston, and in order to find employment for them it is proposed to approaoh tho Government with a view of induoing Ihem to allow the work of erecting the new Courthouse to bo carried out by cooperative labour.

The Pohangina correspondent of tho Fielding Star writes :—Two milk suppliers at our local factory—both observant men—had the effect of a hot day on milking cows brought under their notice the Bame day. They, each of them, milked twelve cows, and each man's supply of milk was 201bs less "in weight after this particularly hot day. They have only pond water, and attributo tbo decrease to the fact that the cows did not relish tho lukewarm water as much as they would water from a running stroam. This shows how necessary it is to have a plentiful supply of puro running water, so that the milky mothers of the herd can mix their own milk and water at discretion. The cow with the iron tail is, aftor all, more true to nature than many think, Mr Labouchere says:—l hear very bad reports concerning the rolling of the Ramillies. During her late passage to the Mediterranean she was a great deal worso than the Royal Sovereign in this respect, at least if we may judge from accounts received. And yet in the latter ship the rolling at Madeira was so great that the ship constantly showed her unarmoured bottom; life on board became unbearable, and the ship as a gun-plat-form was useless, No denial was published of these statements, but they ivere said by the officials to be exaggerated. In tho Ramillies, from Finisterroto Gibraltar, things were infinitely worse. Often it was impossible for anyone to stand on ideok without holding on. Tho officers are of opinion that tho fitting of bilge keels would have a good effect, but it isa question for tho constructors' department,

A very serious mishap bofel a son of Mr Alex, McLean, of Silverhope, on Saturday last, as the resuit of throwing stones, says tho Bangitiki Adwcak , Some boys wore indulging; in this rather dangerous amusement, wheu a man who was wit. noasing tho affair, probably to atop the game, took part in it, and threw a stone, hitting younE! MoLean and knocking his eye out, Dr Smith was called, but ordered tho boy to Wanpanui for treatment,

A correspondent to a Manchester paper writes as follows :—"lt may not begenerally'known that one of the oldest -if not the oldest-living Englishman is a native of Salford, and has been resident there from his birth, His name is William Hacpson, and ho lives in Duke Street, near the Gravel Lane Wesleyan schools, Be is believed to be 114 years old,and he distinctly remembers as a boy seeing John Wesley and hearing him preajh at Salford Cross, in Green Gate, After preaching Wosley walked on to examine the then partly raised edifice, of Gravel Lane Ohapel,' This was in 1790 and Hampson recalls the circumstance in every detail, Aged as he is, this veteran Salfordian insists occasionally on tempting the dangers of those streets in tho town which ho has sturdily paced for more than a century,"

A man named Cecil 11. Venn camo to [griofin a rather serious manner yostorday evening. Ho was riding on horseback along Manners street, about 5.15 p.m.,when ho ran into a tramoar coming from To 4ro,and the force of the collision threw his horse baokward so that it rolled on top of him. The driver of the trumcar pulled up with commendable promptitude, and by so doing saved Venn from-being run over by the oar. Venn, who was one of the orew of tho Jessie lioadman, wrecked at tho Antipodes, was subsequently arrested by Constable Bishop for being drunk while in charge of a horse,— N.Z. Tims.

A novel but rough process ot shipping and landing sheep has been adopted at Wellington, viz., slinging them like bales of goods, five or six togathor, on thin lines through the agency of steam cranes. Whether the unfortunate bloaters onjoy tho ccrial flight between the deep hold and the lofty quay it is impossible to nay, but as the work is done cheaply and expeditiously, the feelings of the dumb brutes on their way to the butcher, c annot, of csurse, betaken intocon«l deration.

The Hampshire Chronicle reports that a flue New Zealand trout weighing 121b djoz fromWellingtori.N.Zi, was exhibited nt a recent meeting of the Piscatorial Society Winchester, England. The fish has been sent over by Mr Izard in ice-ohamber of the Tongariro and after a journey of 16,000 miles occupying 44 days, looked alraostas fresh as if it had beenrecently caught. Itis believed to bo the first trout that has readied an English angling olub from the Antipodes, and will bo preserved in the Sooiety's iiuuseiun.

A. valuable freehold home property, at •': Grßytown, is_ advertised for sale by auction, by MrF. H.Wood. A return furnished by the Drown Lands ranger respecting tlie McKebzie Special Settlement, which was formed in April, 1891, shows ilist iu December 'list out of fourtoen selectors there were -< four settlers residing, 427 acres had bsea cultivated, and improvements had been . . made to the value of £1655 15s or £7lB more than the Aot required. '"".':

Wellington's wharves were never so crowded with shipping as at the present time and rome of the Steamships rise up like magnificent buildings and are stated to be the largest witnessed south of the equator.

. ThoPorirua Lunatic Asylum has been built on the co-operative system, and there is said to be a good deal of jjrum< bling among the sane workmen, who have been earning; at skilled labour between Ss and 4s per day. Really jl lunatic asyltfm was just the place fotjit™ •., ing the co-operative principle, ai|Wie •; insanity of all concerned in the affair will explain all d liwulties,

The ranges and bluffs on the eastern side of the'Hutt Valley are of the most miserable character imaginable. are ohiefly composed of clay and JW? The early settlers triedfo oover spjnof them with grass, but they ara norther bare soil or overgrown wjtrfßtunted scrub. Some of the paddocks at their bane have been taken- possession of by gorao and aweot btior. In a case in which a bookmaker named Tobias was charged at the Auckland - Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday with having failed to support his wife.the defendant deposed that his earnings as a - bookmaker since he had arrived in Auckland from Melbourne had not averaged more than £2los a week. He had been paying his wife £?, a month when be was able to do it, but he wai not able at present to pay more than 7s Cd a week, owing to the. preoarioua nature .of bis living, He had made with his brother £IOO out of three big race meetings,but then there were no more important meetings for many weeks, It was the totalisator that killed his business, and then they were liable to be stopped from betting at races at any time. Mr Forth* croft ordered the defendant to pay 10a a week to his wife. l

At a meeting of, Wellington Licensed Victuallers, held yesterday, it was resolvod, "That this moeting affirms the urgency of all persons connected with the trade using their utmost endeavours

in the forthcoming Maroh elections to defeat total prohibition, and tu return a Licensing Committed of moderate views, and who are more in favour of scouring good h il ..ccommodation for the public than reducing the number of licenses.".. Also, " That general committees cf the different v.\irds in the electoral districts of Wellington be appointed.' forthwith to secure the election of men of moderate' viowb for the Licensing Bench, and to defeat the objects of the Prohibitionists to secure tho direct veto, and thatpj give efftOt to this resolution an Ex&utivo Committee be appointed." "Do you call that thing a bonnet ?" said Mrs McSmifllecorf to a royal porsonage, looking with withering scorn upon its awk-' ward appearance, It was severe, but it is just as woll a lady, even a qneen, Bhould know her faults and the Imperfections of her . style and bearing, Did every anyone talkjo. you like that? Did ever a friend or an acquaintance ever look at your head gear and say, 'Do you call that thing a bonnet ?" ■ If t ever occurred don't let It odcur again, make sure of tho approval of the world lu tho matter of bonnets. ' lie eo dressed that wherever you go, in whatever company you may bo, you may pose as a well dressed woman. Bow to do it is to buy your millinery and dresses at L. J. Hooper iS Co.'a fashionable drapery warehouse, Quten-street, Mas. terton, A great sale is now on so visit early.