LOCAL NAD GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4680, 31 March 1894, Page 2

LOCAL NAD GENERAL.

To-morrow (April Ist) is Low Sunday, A concert in connection with St. Mai thew's Church, is announced to be held i the Tomperance Hall, on Wednesday ne'xi Thooflicors and pasengers of the K,M,f Orizaba had a most nnusuai experienci says the Argus, at tbe close of the last out ward passage to London,' After roundin Cape Ushant; a strong;gale from the eai Bet in, and blew with Buch'force as to di lay the steamer's antral at' Plymouth ft nearly twelve hours. Keaohing Plymout at 9 p.m. on January Srdvshe sailed agai for London at ten p'clook tbe same evsninj The gale continued up* the English Char heli. ; ranninguphighneadseaß,''"and:bein Mowed by fierce snowstonns,'Tbe thermc meter fell 'several degreesMow*;zero; 'a ;that everythingabout the" v ahip}fapitlly:be ': luane opatS;! 'b intense-that'.'the''•'Bpay-".b^akfc'g'?j>vffliiih , bowsof the shipcongeajei) .into; tbiu';flake ; of ice'before:faUlngbnl;te : pip&swewfrozeh|to^ : fußiotfirbm^ih^on^rk^or^eiforTOri ' etbkshole, ■'■ BeWMovjny^teikigfea . ;difrloultv',':.wai '^yvifiti^^^B/fgQttin.

v .Mr Maoftra left;Sye[ney for Wellington by! thei Taraweta ; ; yestr%,:;; He; • brings;. a couple of h6rs<s'with; InW;.''* fib ;/. -v. : : l ;; We liear that Mr J. J, formerly Olerk of the Court in; this district, is likely to again take.up. his residenoeTin Masteridn. Further additions are made to the entries' for Mr F.: E Wood's next'; Taratahi; Stock Sale.: - : ...-' ■:;■■:• ■.:;•.'..':

-<: To-day, March 31st is the yearly! balance day of the Bank of New Zealand, r: :■■ The attention of sportsmen and others in the Walrarapais directed to Mr '■% H. Tisdall's announcement' in our 'advertising columns, ■Mr TisdaU's-estlbhshment at 159 Lambton Quay, Wellington, has long been noted as. the best ol its kind in the Empire City." As a> matter of : " fact. Mr Tisdall's is the only gun.shop and; sporting emporium in town and when we say,'that we mean it is the only establishment where nothing the but guns, rillea ami other sporting requisites are sold. Henoeit must be that nothing but the very best and latest goods are kept in stook.'Mr Tiadall is himself a skilled gunsmith of many years' experience, and is consequently fully aoqnainted with all the thousand and one details of hisjrade, A large stook of the latest sporting guns and rifles has just been landed, and Mr Tisdall has samples of the "LeeSpaed" patent sporting rifle— of the new army regulation weapon now in use in Great Britain—also magazine-repeating rifles of the Winchester, Colt and Maalln patents. Fishing taokle of all kinds is also made a speciality, and all sportsmen's requisites arc obtainable at the establishment. Cartridges of all kinds are made or refilled, and Mr Tisdall has large stocks of the best ammunition, Eopairs are skilfully made on the snortest notice. '

The Eketahuna: Football team returned from their tour on Thursday night, very muoh pleased with timr outing. All speak highly of the courtesy and attention shown them at tbo towns visited, , .;'

Mr A. Anderson, of Woodside, who it I will be remembered, had a serious illness after his return from a trip Home, has now almost recovered, aim 1 is residing in Grey town. We are very muoh pleased to see Wm baok again (says the Standard} and wish he had brought a few frißnda like himaelf with

Our Eketahuna'corrospondenfc writes: " Many Bottlers hero, suffering, from weak lungs, are in a critical condition, the dense Bmoke having caused a rupture of the small blood The eldest son of Mr A, Aulin is ao bad from .this cause that fears are entertained for his recovery. The Scandinavian family quarrel— Pedersen v Johanaen—dragged its weary length along the whole of yesterday at tho District Court held at Master, ton.' At> six o'olook His Honor gave judgment, for the plaintiff, The question of costs "was reserved,

Fires have again started in several parts of the Forty-mile Bußb.

Eketahuna was defeated by Feilding in tho reoent football matoh by 4 points (two tries) to nil. The Eketahuna team played a man short.. .'.. His Honor Judge Kottlo has a won* derful capacity for work, ' After heating the case of Pedersen v Johanaen, which lasted till six o'clook, yesterday evening, the Court resumed at 7,30, and bankruptcy c'asiis were proceeded with. The examination of Mrs Hamilton occupied some considerable time and the Court adjourned at 10.15, Tho balanoe of the work will probabiy bo finished this' morning, and His Honour will proceed to Wellington by the afternoon train.

Coal has been discovered in Now Guinea.

Several Bottlers roundabout Eketahuna are suffcringloverely from partial blindnose, caused by the smoke from bush fires. Ifcisfearedthatin one or two cases I ho blindneas will be permanent. The late fires in the Forcy-mile Bush will mean oomplete ruin to a number of settlers.

From late accounts it appears that a very considerable number of sheop were destroyed last Monday in bußh fires more than at first supposed: . Lieut-Col. Roberts, S.M,, Returning' Officer for the Bay of Plenty Licensing ! District, has declared the poll valid, having counted tho informal papors to make up tho number. As there is not an absolute majority of the votes recorded for any of the proposals, he declares each and every one rejected—that is the proposal tor licenses to remain as at present is rejected,as also are those for reduction and no license.

Captain Russell lost a valuable yearling cult foal by Dreadnought—Tigredia from lockjaw.. In jumping a hurdle the other day, the colfc-fell, landing un bis head. A couple of days later, tetanus set in, and the animal had to be destroyed. Surely builness cannot bo so bad as one ia led to believe when the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company declare a dividend of 8 per cent. After a year like the one juat-pfsfc, when prices for frozen meat have been unprecedented!)'low an eight per cent, dividend seems pretty fair.

Constable Bowden, of Martinborough, has arrested a man named' Charles Murphy on a warrant issued at Riverton nearly two years ago, oharging him with false pretenoes. The Hawkes Bay-Wellington inter, provincial cricket matoh will bo played at the Basin Reserve on Thursday and Friday next. The (iovernment has been offered another estate of 11,000 acres in the Hawkes Bay district—partly on the bills and partly on the plains. The matter will remain in abeyance until the return of tho Minister for Lands, when bo will decide as to whether a- meeting of the Land for Settlement Board shall'take place to consider it.—Post The deadlock oyer the Momuhaki Village Settlement has raised the in> portent question whether the Land and Burvey Department' presided over by Mr Barron, I'nder-Secretary,or the Land Board, presided over by Commissioner Baker aro to administer the Wadte Lands. • In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, fi J, Fitton's bankruptcy waß annulled. Probate was granted this morning by His Honor Judge Kettle, to the widow of J. W. Andrew, late of Eketahuna, decoased.

To-morrow, being the Hatyest Festival at St. Matthew's Church, Mastorton, the services will be special. - In the morning Stainer's beautiful Easter anthem, " They have taken away my Lord", will be repeated, and in the evening Cooke's Harveat anthem," Fear not Oh Land." During the collection of the offertory Mrs Moment and Mr Nioholls will sing the duet "Oh LoyeVy Peace," from Judas Maccabsus. Special psalms and kymns havealeo been selected for both services, , .

Messrs Lowes and lorns anncunoe a sale of the estato of Goo Anderson, bankrupt, by order of the Official Aseiojneejor Saturday, 7th April, at 2.30 p.m., on tbe premises, Queen Street. A meeting of the Wellington creditors of Henry Stevens, storekeeper, of Pahiatua, was held yesterday morning' at the office of the Offioial'.Assignee, four creditors attending.. It was agreed not to accept, the tenders sent in tor stock and book debts, but to realise, thesfcock by a cheap sale, and arrange for the bankrupt to collect the debts, allowing him 10 per cent., The Assignee waa directed to send someonef;to■:■ Pahiatua "to conduct the sale. The liabilities in theestato amount ;to ithe-bomirial/aaseta are whichKva&My^^ tors 1 ; Seliew ; d(:tb/^beitqip^:>:|n^^int(>i. 'JiyMdeffbtithVittokj^hlMSTJued |^wa||f|pos||^||p| can;be' : oT)ta)riett|^B|^'Rp.A'B; ; Fancy : : Fluid; ; j|^^^^^^Hifo'r^l4iußgJ

juries from bush'-falUngwas from-PabJatua yesterday to the Mastefton Hospital.-; ■.:"■:';-'/;" : '- : • j."^;'x : 'fi

' "The;Bankraptoy Court is.not ft- white; washing establishment" remarked His Honour Judge Kettle, this morning wheri'a somewhat "ragged" application; waa made for adischarge.. , .- ; , : ; V .: '':■;. •.' ; We" are;' requested to "state'that' Mrs Young's late accident'haswt interfered in anyway.withher'boarding'houso business a competent person having been Beoured to look after Holly House until Mrs Young's reobvery.■'.■'.■■-.■. ■'.,,/ ":'..:

;■: Tenders are wanted for painting and pap> I firing a : bouße in Ohapsl -.-'-'

I-'•'.: Tnat isa curious story that conies from Paris. The figfaro,'say's the cable, publishes details; said,to have been supplied by M, Flourons, an ex-Miniater, of negotiations between France and Germany when M Ferry and M, Brisaon were Minißtors in 1887 upon the basis that France'should drop the; idea of revenge for the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and (hat Germany should help her to oust rho English from Egypt, The change of Ministry in England howevor and the aocession of Lord Salisbury to power upset the the negotiations,. ■».

Mr James Aitken, Acting-Postmaster, supplies us with the following oompara» tivo vital statistics forMasterton for the quarter ending March 81sb:—Births, 1894-61; 1893—09 j deathß, 1894-11; 181)3-16; marriages, 1894*-16; 1893, 14;

Mr ti, W. Davidson, travelling agent for the Colonial Mutual Lite Association I was riding on the Alfredto'n Road yesterday, when a small bridge collapsed, and let him through. The horse rolled over on its rider injuring his leg rather badly, but exactly to what extent iB not yet known.

Mr Jos. Bonnett kiudly supplies us with the following comparative record ef the rainfall at Otahuao, for the mouth of March :-'94, 0 P 69 of an inch on three days; '9B, 9'57 inches onßdays; '92, 2'2Binches on 9days; 'Bl, 204 inches on 7 days. The above shows the past month to.have been exceptionally dry, A programme of races, proposed to be held at Akura on 17th May, has been submitted to the Metropolitan Olub for approval.

. The remaiuß of the late wife of Hoani Whatahoro (John Jury) were conveyed from Featheratonto Wellington by train yesterday afternoon, and from thence by steamer to Gisborne, where they will be interred, A large number of her friends | also went by this train and intend going i'ou to Gisborne, '•■.-.

A boy named Alfred Eobins had hie leg rather bady out yesterday afternoon, through a pieoe of steel flying off one of the forges .at the Blacksmith Company's workshop, where the lad la employed, From Samoa R M.S. Alameda, at Auokland, brings intelligence) of. the resumption of internecine warfare, and up to. the 24th of March about 30 people had been killed and 50 wounded.

Captain Edwin wires that there are in dications that hard galea from the north.went, changing by the west to aouthwesfc, 1 may be expected inmost parts of the

country southward of Napier and New Plymouth between noon on the Ist and midday of the Brd April. The proposed Wellington Athletic Park Company is not meeting with muoh support, particularly at the hands of onoketers and footballers.

Mr George Darrell, the well-known actor hf.s .returned to New Zealand by the Alameda from the United .States, The Nchon Colomst k\ the authority for the statement that on the cartridges' being served out- to that men at the encampment there on Easter Monday, it was discovered that there was one round of ball cartridge. ' Applications for discharges from bankruptcy in the estates oi Carey Bros,, George Langton and Georgo Benton havo boon adjourned until next sitting of the District Court, •'

Asadcaso recently came before tho S.M. Court, at Wellington, in which an old couplo named Mulligan, prohibited persons, were stated to be living in a filthy condition, and their bed "not fit for a dog to aleop upon," At one time their properly brought In f,105 a moth but it bad by degrees deteriorated through their drinking habits until it | now only brought in £36 a month, and there was a mortgage on it of £1500; Neatly the whole of this amount went in drink. A man named Jiichard William Smith was finod £5 for supplying the liquor, since the issue of the prohibition order against Mrs Mulligan. The B.M, said that the conditions under which the old people jyere now living constituted a gross publio scandal. He felt very strongly about the matter.

The Great Realising Sale lasting for 20 days, promises to be a gigantic success The whole stock is to be offered at genuine reduced prices, many of the lines will bo marked at less than English cost at Te Abo Hoose Wellington. Daring the Great Sale, Ladies Aprons will be sold at 4£, i Button Kid Gloves all new fresh goods at Is lid per pair, White and Cream Laces at 93 per doz, Ladies Linen Collars now shapes'at 3d each, Boys Sailor Oollars at 3d eaoh, sold everywhere at 6d, otTz AroHodse Wellington, " It will pay country customers to take a rundown to the Great Realising Sale, They will save all the expenses and bo money in pooket by buying all they want while good aro so cheap. Orders from the Counter will be carefully selected and Bent carriage paid from the Great' Realising title at Te Abo Hotjsb.—Aivt.

The hot and muggy days are now about over. Fierce the sun is still in his noonday heat. But erejlong thousands will be crying out for warmer clothing, and blankets will be as welcome as acid drinks have been. Messrs L, J. Hooper and Co,, of the Bon Mavche, have had the coming season in their mind's eye, and a practical .provision tor Us wants is a foremost feature-in their prograrmno. They have just opened a magnificent stook of now autumn and winter goods from the Parisian and London markets, and wo venture to assert a better display of tbo world's fashions has never been i attempted in the Wairarapa. Every departI rnent is resplendent with the latest novelties and fashions, and the prices are significant of their desire to servo all well. Orders from any partof the colony are executed .with' | that exaotitude and liberality that leave no room for other than satisfaction, •.