LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4669, 15 March 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Jrairooffuarrftahoomplairij ithat the. Ohairman of■ the Local Boardof Health hasapigetye whioh" emits most disgusting odors.'! ,'.. ~'•. :.-':

" Railway arrangements ori the Wellington seotiop for'Bt PatriokVDay are ad; vertised, ■ .j : The Tapanui Courier states that amob of aheap belonging to'- : Mr.. Smith,- of Greenfield were left iri the saleyards at Waikoikoi while the man in charge had tea. A dog got amongst the sheep and hustled them into a corner, with the result that one hundred and eight of them were.smothered in the space of a fewminutep, ; The Masterton branch of the Austral laßi'an Heme Reading Union will meet this evening, ;

• The young man Jones, whose hand •' was accidentally shattered while out shooting recently, is progressing very favorably, and it is' now hoped that no , amputation will be necessary. Mr F. H, Wood addß to bis atook Bain advertisement, one threshing machine ' by Shearer Bros, steam power, will thrash 1 from grass seed to beans, We notice that our contemporary i classifies Mr Syversonas' an " independent," and notaa a "moderate" candidate. These terms are very mis- • leading. " Moderate " means" trade''' candidate, and independent candidates! are th-ise who have not been nominated by the trade We believe MrSyverson wu asked to come forward by the trade, and if this be the case ho is entitled to be called a moderate candidate. • Our local contemporary says that "It wiib like Cr Hornblow's impudence to that the Mayor, who took upon himself .to. instruct Mr Pownall, had slighted either the Borough Solicitor or the Couuoil," Considering that the Mayor admitted that Or Hornblow was in the right and .expressed regret for the mistake vhioh he (the Mayor) had made, the •'■cqniment of our contemporary is obviously unfair. ■ The following is a listpf the Deputy RetuiuiiigOfflnera appointed to take charge of theWairarapa polling booths at the Licensing Election :-Cartwton a. Aylos arid utonorieff; Gladstone, W. Scale; Wainuioru, H. S.Mason; flat Point, G.T.F.. Button; Homewood, T. Mackay; WhSreama, A. Halhaway; Tnuoru, E, 9. Waddingtont;. Otahuao, W. gimms ; Ta'ratahi, Miss Gray; Dale held, J. Mrßeerhey; TVaihekeke, A, Ool.lhiB; Greytown, D. P,'Loasby; Morrison's Bush, J. Tweedale : Martinborough, W. Tate; Upper Pahaoa, H, 0. Rainsdam; Lower Pahaoa, H, Mackay; Waipawa, B. H. Wyatt; Pirinos, H. Edmonds; Kahautara,W, Androw; Kaiwaiwai,,K, J, MoLean; Feathorston/A. Sanderson; fl'aiorongomai, H. F. Hilson. _ A French physician with plenty of. ■ time on bis hands has amused himself by building a colossal model of the.human heart out of some substance which gives it the right color and proper consistency, Every detail isshown, and this enormous heart pumps out a reddish fluid through the arteries on exaotly the same principle bb tho organ underneath the inventor's waißtcoat. Now (observes CAnsfchwc/i Tmth)m want someone to conatruot a model of the drunkard's hob-nailed liver in full working order. According to a contemporary, a singular licensing difficulty has cropped up in Nelson, The system of bottle licenses prevaila there, and a poll has to be taken as to whether tho numher of bottle licenses shall bo reduced. If the vote* is in favour of reduction, the committee is bound, under a penalty of M per head, to reduce the number of bottle licenses by : not more 'than 25 per cei.t. But, as it happens, there are only two botiJe licenses in the district, and no ono libs yet been nble to solve the question as to li'iw this number can be reduced by not more than 25 percent, Yet, if the jeliotors eo reaolvo, the committee must do it, or incur the personal penalties at- ; taching to disregard of the will of the people.

Thus Labby in Truth:-" It is iut generally known that the lamented Jabez Balfour was once on the eve of becoming a Liberal candidate for Northampton. Before the election of 1880 he went down to interview the local Liberals with that .view. Among others he had a conversation with the Rev F.'Aveling, then a minister at Northampton, to whom he confided that though he had personally no qualms in regard to becoming associated with Mr Bradlaugh (whose election was aforgone collusion) he was apprehensive of the effect at Croydon, where he was sure that the Tories would mako much capital out of tho conjunction of" Balfour the Deaqon and Bradlaugh the' Atheist." Tho whirl'gig of time has brought its revenge very swiftly, liradlaugh'e uameisnosv honored and respected by men of all parties and all seots, and the Deacon 1b —wanted, y

r Mr W.J. Helyer, ■ secretary of. the | Wellington Prohibition League received : a telegram from Sir Robert Stout, | stating that he expects to leave Dunedin , for Wellington to-day (Wednesday), or ! will get away on Saturday at the latest, flis arrival is being eagerly looked for by the Prohibitionists, and will give an ' additional interest to the Eey L, M. i leitt's meetings, Sir Bobe'rt is eipecteiil i to take the chair at one of the Opera House meetings. If lie does, the temperance cause will indeed be fortunate in having the two strongest platform speakers in New Zealand to Bpeak together from the platform.-Pr^j. Statistics have been published shoring the disastrous effects ot the drought which has jußt terminated in Queensland. One station in the North Gregory diakiot during the past two yoars lost 80,000 sheep, another 60,000, a third 52,000, and a fourth 48,000. One station" alone in the Michil distriot lost 180,000. One cattle station in the .TSorpi Gregory distriot lost 10,000 head of cattle, another fIOOO and a thitd 8000. A large consoli- ' dated run in tho Warrego distriot lost ! 250,000 sheep. Ibis estimated that the ' number-of sheep to be shorn in the ' Central district thia year is 50 percent, ! |ess than last year, So rapidly is science extending its conquest (says the Melbourne Argus) that ! many sheep stations which wereformerly ' bnly'connected by thedreary tramp of the ' Bundbwner are now linked toother by [ the telephone. So long as a squatter keeps hja telephone on hjs pwn property f h is (|Hitewithin his rights, butif his \ wires cross a public road he renders himself amenable to the law, which ■ forbids a private person to ereot a 1 telephone er, telegraph, tho monopoly { being reserved for the Government : The Postmaster-General does not wish to \ prohibit telephones under'suoh oiroutn, • stances,-and he has therefore: had " regulations prepared,' which have been passed by the Governor In Ooflnpil, 1 charging a license fee of £1 per mile per c annum for the first four miles, and after c that iO.sper mile; the fee, however, in no • Eise to exceed if per annijin. The | Bight at which the wire roust be carried n abrouvroadß is specified, and it is also g provided that in no case shall a fee be £ chargediOr-Socepted' for the use of the line. U; :; ! Vv "' : '\!

• : How is it? 'Why is it ? There are con tinual complaints down town -ab'out'th'e 1 slackness of trade; it is said that customers jtie scarce and the; shops' are ernpty,' \\\i\ in ' bop thin ope large the gms" ia.groTOg v >hroreh;thq|oor : boflrds, and" there-being nothing tosdo shopwalkers rip longer: prowl;-f : Ohanjgo the •scene, wlth'a hoftßlep, and jurnn and yoiiaro in the Bon' of Messrs Hooper & Co.j, Be yfisp; renjain Ihere; till you've done your shOppingr they are always busy,' ihey:.-,Me ,nev^r-:BJaok. .they.khow.noK'dV pres«ipn;'the f {heir';:floorboards;';Diirlng;the[r grwfHflfc which' is;nof pi, t#raMcirpM|erß» (iii: jo oriierMbe ■mM Www for wotherwfc-Aji^-

»yM.at. ;^du^ii;j[^;B^ey|Ma7; ; Overbeard Jones, dputlook at inejliiamorning 1 :' tbiß is nay charitablei aid dress I've cot on to do r, :^ ;.; . • M.H,R, i: aooompanied. Mr-Murray; the yictormngeolopst.inhismeteorioflight."' i.Cbtißtohurch has.a'."ghost",scai : e'on just now. - Inspector Broham has issued social instructions to.ths deteotive force .and police, that every legitimate means be used and enquires mafiuted to prove the trnth or otherwise of the assertions which are nowbeing freely circulated Regarding the matter, v -..'. .:..'■ . ....

A case'wbioh was heard a few moniheago attheßloomsbury.Court shows that Lord Hayleigh hasa.large milk business in London, His lordship was suing a plebian milkman named Sullivan for trespassing on his walk and diverting the peer's customers. LordKayleigh is a woll-known mathematician. - y } '■ ..... - ■■

An English that at Blackburn recently a football match was being played before 10,01)0 spectators, A house dose by took fire, and only the policeman on dutv leftthe field. •- ■-- _ Preaching at the Botany.road Congregational Cbaroh, Waterloo, near Sydney, the Kev, P, Moses said there were in New South Wales now at least 20,000 unemployed men and women,. No less than 500 women were at the present time grinding their lives out to ...earn from 2s 4d to 3s a day, and there were thousands of rnea and w6mon of Sidney whose standard of life was not equal to that of the cabhorse. ■ Co-operative dairying is growing very rapidly in France, and there is more inclination to make butter than-cheese. Talk about the longevity of a cow I Kr W. Home, a well-known English breeder, says he once saw a cow with her fourth generation standing besideher. She.was 33 years old, still milking, and had a four year old daughter, ! ;DrYorke Davis says " that more people ! are killed by drinking water than are killed to drinking aloohol in all its various forhls." •

. Wanganui IkmM says: "Thero are a lot of shady people about Wanganui just now."

It is worth mentioning that although several female electors on the Napier roll describe themselves as " gentlowoman," toe is only one who calls herself»lady." SheepsteSling is so prevalent in tho Ashburton district that fanners and stationowners are reported to be conferring as to what steps it would be advisable to take to detect the offenders. It is said that most impudent robberies of sheep have occurred in the district.

At a meeting of the Hawke's Bay Babbit Board held at Hastings on Thursday, a rate of HGth of a penny on sheep, and 5-16ths ol a. penny on cattle was struck lor the ■ensuing year. ;

_ A laborer employed at a Buga>millat Bundaberg, Queensland, recovered £363, and costs, under the Employers' Liabiitv Act, for the loss of his right arm, Duelling in Russia has become so common that the Government has been compelled to decree a severe code of punish■ment. Killing au antagonist will involve ! six years in prison i

Tho connexion,between pig and piety would appear to the lay mind to beat best very ronioto (says a contemporary), but the vicar ofPlumpton, England, professes to nave made the discovery that pork, in any form iB fatal to the religious spirit of man, What a frightful Binucr poor old Charles Lamb must have been when he could sit down ■ and write his essay on " Boast Pig 1 ' -a magnificent tribute to the soul-destroy-ing "crackling." But this discovery opens up a field for further researoh. If pork and piety, why not mutton and morality, beef and bumptiousness, oysters and oiliness, haggiß and holiness, trotters and tribulation, or tripe and transcendenUlism, Mr A. Allan, of Greytown, has published a story entitled " The City of the PWnB." The work shows a considerable acquaintance with Australian life and a knowledge of the country. -The old ferry house at Waihenga was burned down on Tuesday night.

Captain Edwin advises as follows :- Tho ovidencea ofeaaterweather indicted in yesttrdayriorecaßt, and tolegraphed to tho uorthorn par's of the North Island, are now more definite, and denote the existence of a cyclone centre at a distance of about 350 miles to the, west of the North Cape and travelline: to the south east. There is aho a low pressure advancing towards i Stewart Wand from the west,

Various representation have been madoto the Gownmeot (says the Post) asking that the game Beason be opened to allow of shooting at Easter, but after careful enquiry it has beerTfound very undesirable to do so, and the season for shooting both native and imported game iuthie provincial district will begin on Ist May.

London Standard, considering the modern.prize fighter so-called, saysi- " These fellows have become altogether too expennive for even the wealthiest and most foolish admirers of the ' noble art,' especially when the paltry exhibitions they hava generally given arc taken into account.". . •'

The New Zealand Medical Association meets in Napier on Monday.

At the last meeting of tho Wellington Benevolent Trustees, the Chairman referred to the case of a blind man who has reoently been solioiting alms and playing a (lute in the Wellington streetß. It wan the sort of thing they should not have in their strjot», and the man should be aent to the Home. It was resolved that the attention of the police be directed to the fact that a man was begging in the streets. When the police provonted him from continuing his present practice the Trustees would see to getting him into the Institution for the Blind. °

Rowi, tho great Maori Chief, in a recent conversation with the Kov. Mr Gittos, said: " Youpakehas have always blamed the Maori for the murder of the Kev. John Whitely at Whiteoliff. The Maori never did thatdoed, Itwas done by a European-a pakeba-Maori." Rowi, on being further questioned, reasserted what he said, and gave the name of the European. Kewi was biptiscd by the Rev. Atchdeaoon Williams, but when at Kawhia he entered the Wesleyan com., raunion, being one of the Rev; J. Whitely's people.

Messrs Beaton and O'Donahoo, ap» pointed to enquire into the Waiohine water race scheme, for irrigating 15,C00 acreß of the Lower Valley, in conjuuc tion with Mr G, Laiog-Meaßon, 0.E., estimate the coit, with engineering added, ati3,lsfO, hi' thou 1 report they py; -" ore strongly of opinion, and urtniß we are borne out by. Mr W. Laing-Mesaoßj who has designed seydrai oimilar works for towns in the South Island, that a low lovel water supply for Greytown would be more suitable, from a financial point of viow at any rate, than the expensive pipe service B'ystem. Such a low level supply as we advocate would coat np.t more than three or four hundred pounds, and although not available for drinking purposes, y/ould be available for firn extinction, Mr (J, Lairg-Measpn informs us that tho In-surance-Companies in the South have ; reduced the premiums by as much as 25 per cent, as soon as such water supply has been established j for instance, in the town of Geraldine, South Canterbury, whiolTis very similar to Qreytown mßimnd configuration, l '.'

I . <>Vekwg tonofalj thatthe tollowjng Jlnegof i Bleasts Bocks 00.,,' Manufacliiring Chemists r can be obtained.at the 'W.F.O.A's Fanoy , Goods Department' :-Nou Mercurial Plating ' Fluid, prico Ik 6d, unsurpassed for oleaningl gpldorsilverand re-plating brass and copper! mW Waterproof Cement.:price Is, will I resist hot or cold water, and repair china' i glass, delf, leather, etc., etc. Campbylene ! Balls, in neat air-tight jars, containing 18 balls, price Is, to keep moths out of clothing, alfo a perfect disinfectant. Herb ■ Extract, price Is, an Infalliable. cure for toothache, guaranteed not injurious to the teeth or nealth; it 'stops the rnfist aoutt ■"ss jm! medhtely, ana" cure fn m\j. aljpases wero tietectV are hollow, Gurnfan cure for poms and watta'price k this famous Remedy .will speedily and painlessly bure soffbr hard coins,' also >»rts, : bimidns and chilblains... Mortein' Insect 1 ' Powder jb without'doubt 'the rnoßt reliablei insect des: trbyer in the world, .hiring, quite, harmlesa id animal life it is unequalled in destroying F ies, Mosquitoes, Fleas, Bugs,. Lice, Cookwaoh.es, : Ants, Caterpillars, Aphis,' Moths,■ Silveiflsb, andaU:inßecta'linownj ;^o^jMorteitt'-|i',k BprMere,'tbrougff» MWairarapa

Moßsra Chamberlain Bros, require a \ boy for the bakehouse. - . Fd The second supplementary roll fo'rfcho P 1 Masterton electoral district has been. OD | issued. It contains only sovon nameß, Several late burns in the Forty-mile' Bush have just taken place with good results.

; vThe anniversary services in connection with she Masterton Presbyterian Ohiiroh will take, placeon Sunday next, ut The Rev. Mr PhiUip, of Pahiatui, wiJI conductthe services, ~;'._:; >.,.-J:.--.;.-.-;-" : The annual soirea in connection with the Maatmtoii Preßbytetian Church has .been arranged for Tuesday next, Maroh 20th, :■:■ ■'- ■ f * ~'..: :,

: We remind members tii; St. Matthew's Church of the meeting of parishioners this evening.. ■..■ :' ; -

Mr Harry"Vogol, whohasabandoned his proposed trip Borne for the present, announces himself as'a candidate for the "Wellington Lioerising Committee. ' _ Mr J. Watt notifies that he has on sale Easter cards, books for all classeVeto..'

News has been received by the Warri: moo, which has arrived at Vancouver, that there is muoh excitement in Honolulu, caUßed' by tho presence of the Canadian recruits who were imperted to restore the Queen by n coup de main. During last week fifteen persons' filed schedules in bankruptcy in New Zealand. Three of them were labourers', and among the others were a tailor, a storekeeper, a dyer,4 settler, a bricklayer, a builder, a blacksmith; a bootmaker, and a clerk.

In Canterbury a parcel of wheat, not a bad milling sample, was sold recently at is 6d, about the lowest on record-up to date. '■ • . •

The Melbourne Age reports that a peculiar epidemio haa broken out among tho children attending the' State schools at Warburton Kast and West. The Bymptomß appear as if the head were affected in some way, and in. about three days afterwards the sight is entirely 1 gone. Mr W. Simpson's'daughter is completely blind,. ...... ■■' . On the road between Carinda and Uoonamble,N.S.W.,a man named Brooks was driving the mail coaohVhen a gun lying on ono of the soata went'off, the contents shattering' bis arm. Though alone Brooks drove two miles to Coonamble, and had his wounds dressed. Tho arm has since been amputated.; .. The Auckland Obsirw says. Captain McGea took advantage of tho opportunity afforded by the heavy gales on the coast last week to tib another knot in the tail of the Union Company, The Mararoa had a terrible experience going down, and was unable to oall at Napier. McHee, however, managed to call, and landed all his passengers all right,' you bet, and he could afford So smilo when he birthed the Tasmania at Wellington next day. 'Bough ?* he explained, 'Ood bless you, no I We brought sixty horses and did noD hHVe Uie hatches od them, and not even a glass of water was spilled on board, ,

A youthful colonial nho is at present working somewbero in the Wauganui Harbor Board Block has ideas of his own en the subject of dental surgery and economy. Ho had a decayed tooth whiob ne wished extracted, so he made fast to it a piece of strong twine, the other end of which he inserted in a partially split bullet and then hammered it olose in a good grip. He took the gun in his hund, and wept out in the bush to combine pleasure with economy by bagging domething for the pot on which to exercise his remaining molars, Presently he sightod a wholesome looking young pig, and dropping the bullet down the barrel of hisgun he took steady aim and hred. The pig was slain, In his agitation this sportsman, and amateur dentis hadohnched his teeth, so, when the tall sped it dragged out the tooth, and at the same time loosened a fow others and also made hia, month two ■sizes larger.- Buthe says he doesn't mind he lost a tooth and a little skin and blood, but gained a good fat pig.Jieilduuj Star,

, The ordinary meeting of.the M'asterton , Volunteer Fire Brigade was held last, , owning. Tbo business transaoted was i «»routtno character. It was decided to call a special meeting on Friday next, to receive the delegate's report of dto> ceedings at the recent conference.* A very successful wet practice was held prior to the meeting, 'The Waipawa'Mril does not think too is any necessity for newspapur subscribers to learn the song" Oh.teacJj me to forget." - Kdward Sach, oharged at Hawer* under the Bankruptcy Act, with having obtained oredit under false protences, was sentenced to six months' imprison, menl, with hard labour. R. Crow, ia,t night at Dunedin, owered the.oycling record for three miles, doing the distance in7minß6 2-6 "jo This is 4 2-saecß over the Alliance standard. J§ T> , L : Thompson, in his statement, a tributes hw bankruptcy ohiefly to the almost uninterrupted losses incurred in working the Te Ore Ore estate, The reason for holding on to the property was that the firm hoped to recoup by a rise in land valuo in the Wairarapa, when the prnporty would have been cut up into small blocks and sold, In July last the property was offered in comparatively I small areas, but only abut ona third was sold. His difficulties had been further increased by losses on the Waitauhiti run, ' amounting m seven years to about £IOOO, ' ohiefly through the inolemency of the I seasons. i

1 wish I could congratulate you on thi present and prospective prosperity of thi portion of the colony, said Sir John Hal at Leeston, but those who do so an perpetrating a cruel mockery. Unfortu note season and miserable markets havi doalt heavy blows to farming interests ir moat parts of the oniony, and the tradini interests share their depression, Thi oircumstances call for' any assistant! which a Government can give; but it reality, thi>u»h Governments can d< muoh to oauso depression, they oanno do much to cure it. This must come fron the courage, the self-denial andtfii patient thrift of the men who are no? Buffering so grievously. They are thi • backbone of the colony, and, their quali I ties in the direotiona indicated havi • brought hb through worse times thai ■ these. I trust, they will not be troublei i by the bad times, but that they wil ; work on, and that ore long wo may w 1 bettor times return to us. ' The Jollowingis from the > Southland}} cu> -On furthor oiunintttion of the watch'o Mr Andrew King drowned in the Blul boating acoident on Buuday last, Mr Niohe watchmaker has* found beyond doubt th» deceased's watoh, an English lever contin ued to go for three hop and twenty min utoj after immersion in the water, As i stopped at '1.85 this would show that the ac oldent ocourred at 1,15. Itwouldseem al most incredible to some that a watoh woul continue to work so long after contact will saltwater but the one in question is parlic ularlywell oasedand having lain face down wards the paper inside the baok oaße bear in'gthe watohmaker's namehadmade it aii tight. Tho consequence was that wate nevertouohed the balance and escapemenl Rust is traceable on thirty-three teeth of thi great wheel representing in' time thre hours,twenty minutes, _ln our report of the last Masterto: Hospital Trust meeting, Mr Keith wa inadvertently reported as Mr Feist, Th latter was not present at the meeting. Pearsons Private Band picnio'ls goto to be a big affair, and and anexcellei] and .yatiod programme of amusement has beenarraEged.

.The Great Realising : Sale lupUng tor 20 days, prorates to be a gigantic "siiccesa The whole vtWpM.wm tht'llnw.W be WW$ EugUah cost at Tb Abo Wellington, ... , ;<V' .?■..; "Js*M ■%s£&' L * km will Resold at4J, A ButtonKld Gloves'all! new fresh goods at Is lid per pair, Whlt» andlYeamLacesaiMper<foz,l!adie Blin 8 lin en Co a*s new shapes at 8d each; Bob. Mor Mars at 8d oaoh, sold evarywhe're' ■ :It ,^ u 'rai o ffli?y'o|fcrs'; to 4 take a fljßl hn all the expenses and be, mine? in pocket telflyingautheynan't: while & ate. so,oheap, Orders te-ths-'On'E paidfromthaGreat-Hoalißiag gfti^S^

U;l!The exhibited in F(atherskim yosterday,', and; was well ■< pa Irpnised,pits' season Mere bonoludes on Saturday night. ; ':' school held a very :„ 1 ■uodesßful picnio on the race-oourse vea. ' , A privato family 'iu VVsrkaop Road advertises il« willingness to receive two geritlemon boarders. "... ASn advertiser requires a good cow in fullmilk., ; : Half a ton of quinces are advertised forjsaleattheW.F.U.A. OWireaaMs are reminded that fha • Maaterton-Opoki: St. Patrick's Day Racsstake place en Monday the 19th March, instead gf tho 17th, St. Patrick's s Day properly speaking. .Things we li'otjao slack In the. Bush "* districts now and .several unempkmd are getting work. ." ' As there to^PIHIHJH amongst many as to the worinHlM Licensing E'ection, it may bo stetethat the two polls'(one fo'the of the committee, the other on • ho Itcensioequestionlsre quite distinct, though carried ousimultareously, For ' the election 0 f a.com ra if Xft 4 jotit ; of those voting is eufrioieiK«tomake - helioensingeleotionyalidjnohalfof the registered eleqtota must poll. : According totheJV.irmw George Anderson I stor«keeper,:iate of Masterton was adjudged a.bankrupt- yesterday afternoon, and a meeting of his creditor* has been convened for 11.30 to-morrow morning at the Official Assignee's office! Mr 'James Muir, coachbuiWer and vTS'A Ua ,lm > MMt «fon, has added to hia plant anew planini • machine which will enable him to exeouto a- large amount of work which * hitherto has had,lobe sent out ol this alstnot. A runaway cab in Queen Street this morning collided with a horse post bus | fortunately veiylittlo damage was done. A lad of 16 years, Harry Barker, has been admitted to the Wellington Hosolal suffering frooi the sffeots of an accident at 01mu.fJe. was thrown from* horse, buthungby thefobfctothestirrup, and consequently was' trampled upon about tho chest ahd arms Two ribs were broken and dislooated.

Mr F.H. Wood add,- thirteen calm to ho entries for.his nextTaratahi stock sale, . The conference of delegates from till various Agricultural and Pastoral Assoc a-

; The Folding people aw experiment. nig for artesian water. Inspector Miller, of the/Stock De< paitment, is being transferred from Oaniaru to the charge of the Wairaraptf tot. The Oamaro ifaif aay ß that during his term of office in thab district he has proved htoselt to be a hard, working and; conscientious officer, who has ever fulfilled his duly, not alwa,.o( the moat plpant nature, without fear and without favour. \

Mr Montgomery.tho contractor for tho' alterations and additions to the Olnbl Hotel Maaterton, has commenced th.' work which will require fo be pushed on ; expeditiously seeing that the contraob' has to be completed by 16th. May next; The additions.will inoludo a private* entrance, private billiard room, nevrU commercial, farmer's and .'ladies' rooms, and a brick cellar attached to tho private'] bar, Thecontractprice is f54§ ; .:. \ Mr F & Moore has returned from his" visit to Nelson, Messrs Stone, Son, and 0o„ have pre. senml the Maaterbon Borough Oouiioil with a copy of their Otago-Southland ' Pirectory for 1894. . A quiet wedding took place this morningwhenMrDavldMiller(whp.forßom9 | .timei past has been connected *th Mr J. oi fl ?'JH of Melbourne, 'waS united to Miss Florence' Matilda Her. nolde, daughter oftho lato Mr P. Kt.y. nolds of Maaterton. The oeremony, whioh was performed by the Bev. Robert Wood, took plaqe at the residence of th» ■?» «'? pt ? 8r ' ftt Mr and Mrs MiUer leave for Wellington on their honoymooii tritfthls afternoon, oarryifl* thV wod wishes of many

er written a treatise oa^^^^^^^^^H chophagie-or to tr^^^^^^^^H vulgar tongue, the h^^^^^^^^l ie finger The^^^^^^^^^B as fro^^^^^^^^^H If not adise^^^^^^^^H of nervous sj^^^^^^^^^^l schools, we are fold, "fl^^^^^^^H obje^^^^^^^^H observationf^^^^^^^H n agreod in pronounoing^SiQ^^^H observed to have the habit are uniyS^iH ,; sally tho worst students) that if boys.^W they are inclined to effeminaoy, and if I girlsj to slackness. ; " ' l 0 Two of the Sydney p u lioe hadaa., it exciting contest whilosooking to arrest n in a backyard four men on a charge of e stealing some harness, Directly the a constables ondnavoured to detain the e men a rough-and tumble fight occurred. i. in which a number of larrikins joined e with a view of securing.ihe escape of the* a suspects. Two of the four men broka ' i away.and the police drew their revolvers ' 1 and threatened to firoou-thew^aailants i unless they discontinued thdrTOijive ■■-*"" taohes. The presentation of firearms , completely bowed tlie crowd of roughs, ■■, [ and the constables Ruocoeded In getting [ the; two men they had arrested to the I station This; is the first ocoasion on > I which the police haye found it necessary -i ■to utilise their revolvers since they were i ( issued, and had the firearms not beent ',, II aval able, the possibility is that the oou« ' • stables would have been severely niaU V • treated If they hud clung to their 1 pmoners. . ; ; In Dunedio the plher erenintr, the Sslto- ■'■( ion Army (says the OtagoTiia<i) had» : ' v ' novel.burniDg night. l ' i fl the centre of' the ring on a bier were-plawd "yellow, backs"of aU kinds, ranging f,em "Blue, ' ' cap, the Bushranger," to some of Bosant'a ' .works. Thepjocesdlngs were under the • '., eaderchip of Captain Chappie and Ikl - -A tenant Mathers. Thoformor declared thai r'iM if persons gave: their time. admiration to novels they voM' quite as much as the heathel who shipped his ugly, elephant. Works W^^M ratten for apurnose,were excelled: he avwage religious novel was? mscathin&terms, and was a 4kb a without the covers/with a dash Wed:onto:gull Aft r some Binginp and addresselp; som books and periodioala were deetrtoed.