LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4705, 28 April 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

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Sydney Truth says the flew South Wales Upper-House is rushing baldheaded to its ruin.

A^cyniekites: "All.the world's a wardrobe and all the girls and ffomen merely wearers."

The settl, r- at Taupo complain bitterly of the ravages of stoats and weaeles, wluoh have now made their appearß in that district. ' ,

Fifteen unemployed men leive Wellington on Monday for tho railway works at Eketahana.

Judge Conolly severely lectured a Sew Plymouth audience recently in the Supreme Oourt for making a noise. TheßevW.E Paige will preach his farewell sermon at Bt Matthew's Ohuroh to-morrow,

Sowing machioos oan now be hired at one penny per week in Sydney.

The wages list of Bass and Co, tho well-known brewers, reachss £3OOO a week.

The Westport pipereays thai the local County Council ia almost at its laßt g"sp,

Melbourne Argw thinks there will bo bu immediate improvement in the price of wool.

An effurt is to be made to introduoe the Tasmanian orab and fresh-wator lobster to this colony, It is Stated there are 2(10 printers married and resident in the oity of Wellington,

The Government ofiers a bonus of £ 8 a ton on IQO tons of starch manufao. tyred iu the colony during the current year.

TheChristohuroh Hospital Board are to consider the neoeasity for having an inebriates' ward connected with the hospital,

The Sunday train on lha Wellington ' and Manawatq Railway line has been withdiawn for the season, Up tothe present time the ova of the English grayling has not been successfully imported, but experiments are to be madein.England, at tfco request of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, to ascertain whether it is possible to retard the hatching by the application of cold to enable this to be done,

The tiorornor's assent to the proposed deviation of the flutt Park Railway is gazetted. -

. At tho inshnce uf tho Labour Bureau 30 of the Bettlers in the neighbourhood of Cattlin's River, Otago, have beon pro. vided with work on the co-operative principle on roads in that district, Inspector John Drummond of the Stook Department is on a visit to Mastetton,

Mr E, Bennett, empkyed at M H. Morrison's Glenporven "estate, has been admitted to tjie Ureytown Hospital I Buffering from a fractured leg caused through a fall from his horse, . A very old Maori named Makaeral Maru died at Gladstone last Wednesday.

A meeting of the Taratahi Carterton Hflok flaoing Oiub will be held at the White Bart Hotel, Caitorton, this evening.

An old man named Clements waß recently charged at the Melbourne Police Court with the orime of being "hungry, homeless, and helpless." A (wording to Tmth a Sydney prisoner, after being flogged was offered the usual drink of water. "Go on," ho said, "give it to the fellow who has been doing tho hard work."

The Rev, J. C. Andrew is at present visiting Greytown.and is staying with his son, Mr W. Andrew.

It is considered that the removal of 32 of the Wellington unemployed to Government works, and 20 to private employment has broken the back of the unemployed difficulty, , Notico is given in another column that tenders will close at noon on Wednesday, May 9th, at tho County office Maßterton, (where particulars may be obtained) for Contract No i Mt Baker Road.

l'ho revenue of the Wellington AcoKiatisationßooiety for Iheyear juat ended, rom all source?, was £975 2s od, towards whioh the feos for shooting licenses ontributed 1348 (considerably in oxcosa t any previous income from thissonrce), ielnng lioenaes £26012s Cd (Wellington ontributing £llß 7o 6J, and Mmterton J142 ss), and the contributions from [indred societies £ 250. The expenditure mounted to £BB9 os9d, the largest outay being in connection with the Master, on establishment, whioh cost £46112s r d. After allowing for an overdraft of 8100 4s Cd on the Mastercon account the Society has a credit balance of £BS J7s !d, which must be considered very satis, aotory, The Council, in ita .report, re* narks that thongh tho expenditure iias )een heavy the workdone has been correipondingly extensive from an acclimatilation point of view, and it expresses 'ratification that the settlers generally ihroughout the district are beginning to recognise the real value' of the society's ifork, and in many caßeq are co-operating heartily with the BOaiety'a offioorn. The soience of colouring was au an which the old masters had to perfection, Modern painters have never been able ti liscover the secret of these wonderful polours which haye retained thtQHRt penturjes al| their beautiful tones and shades just as if tho paints had beer mixed and the pictures painted yester day. Modern science, try ns it will cannot unravel the mystery and revea to the world of art in the present daj the secret ol these rare colours, Thi secret has diod with tho old masters ant possibly it will never bo re-discovered It is for their exquisite colouring tha the pictures of the great masters an chiefly celebrated, but as the seoret wai kqown to but a few it has never beei handed down to posterity. So it is witl ten blending. The niixing of teas' ji order that thoy may retain a permanen and uniform flavour ia a secret knowi to but a comparative few. These fey are very conservative, they do no readily mako known their inyaluabl septets. Thus it is we have many te blenders, but comparatively few" #h possess the real secrets of the crafl Experimenting, mostly done • at th expense of the consumers, will no divulge the process, and so it follow that the genuine tea blenders are fei and far between, They are a clos corporation, Now the Empire Tea Co does posses the socret, and therefor their teas, like the pictures of the of masters, will live for all time as example of what can be accomplished by skill an knowledge of the secrets of tea-mixin;

Wo beg to notify that the following «i of | Messrs Bocki Co,, Manufactnring Chemists, an.be obtained at. rhe V.F.O.Afc Fancy Goods Department :-Non Mercurial Plating Fluid, price Ij 6d','.ntaninwued for oleanfog gold or silver and re-plating bnurotutoogper, I Waterproof-Jjement, price Ib, will reaiithofw'cpld-water and repair china glass, dclf, etc.. etc. Oamphylen Balls, in neat najrrtighj! jelra.''containing 1 halla, prloo Is, tokeep'pjiothiM.p/. clothing awo a perJe'ot'disinfectant. Herb Extract Sricc Is, an infalliable cure for toothache guaranteed 'Rot injurious', tp.. flie teeth p |)ealth: it atops the pest acuto pain im jMnteto and proger* permanent cure/Hi WMpaMi wjiere the teefi m ill*.' German cure lor coma and warts juice Is, tliis amous Remedy will speedily aim uro soft or hard corns, and chilblains,~TheJjjifl^^^^B

_;A woman mimed Foot residing near Liverpool has: presented her husband with four children at a birth-two boys and two girls. : - Under the new Criminal Odde Act .cheating-whilst playing at an illegal I game ut an indictable offence. Sir Qaorge-Grey will probably return to New Zealand in the Gothic .The two constables at Broken Hill, N.S.W., who ahotthemanConsidinea few weeks ago, havo been acquitted. The jury returned a verdict of '• justifiable homicide,'' The Public Works Department is proparing some road work in tho Taranaki district to which it is intended to send further batches of the Wellington unemployed next week,

Good times are coming I. When Germany, who is in anything but a flourishing finanoial position, has a loan of eight | millions at 3% subsonbed twofold, it is evidence that timid investor is at last coming;out of his shell and is getting over the shook occasioned by the disasters of the last few yiiars. A Sydney papers saya—" The attempt to make Sunday a day-of- gloom and horror is opposed both to morality and common senßn,"

Patea Press says:-" It is rather pleasant to find it possible to travel about in a New Zealand smoking carriage with 251b of gunpowderunder the seat. Yet this ocourred the other day." For the senior civil service examinations in January next, the pened of literature will be the 1 latter eud of the eighteenth century, and the special books will be Shaksp'ere's" Julius tear," and Thackeray's" Esmond." k burglar at Westbourne Park, England, became entangled in some trellia work, and finding himself being choked ta death yelled outjjtpr the police, flergo'ant Buick reeoaed him with great difficulty, and then arrested him., Efforts are being made to introduce the common English bat to New Zealand the wild native bat having almost died out, It.isbeUved that they might be artificially hibernated in boxes full of straw (with air holes) placed in a cool chamber, and thus brought out to the colony, An English paper says-" When our warriors are going Jo fight we hear nothing but praise for the • brave army,' our' gallant soldiers,' and the rest of it, But when the war is over and they are turned adrift in old age, they are treated like vagabonds," ' The Eight Hours Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Oom--1 inons. Various opinions havj been delivered by leading men on the probable effect of the measure. Mr J. A. Pease M.P. for Northumberland, said (hat if the measure were carried it would be the death-blow to English industries. Sir A. Hiokman, M.P. for Wolverhampton, declared that tho adoption of a legal eight hours would vastly inorcase the cost of coal to consumers. The Home Secretaiy declared thata very considerablemajority of the Cabinet approved of the measure. Lord Bandolph Churchill, speaking in support of the Bill, s'aid it would benefit 400,000 miners, and it was preferable to strikes, MrE, S.W, Butler,,Hakateramea,has resigned the Commission of the Peace. Mr E. J. Gothaid, oi Woodville is appointed a Justice of tho Peace, The late Mr Alfred King, journalist, n one of the founders of tho Wellington Debating Society, The Wellipgton Acollmation Society has organised local committees at various places within the Society's district with the object of assistiog in tho protection of game. ~ Mr J. Carpentcr.of the Central Boot Mart Queen S|rect, has just received soma wry special lines in Winter boots, shoes and slippers. We can reoommend those of our readers requiring anything in this line to paj Mr Carpenter's shop a visit. Sir Charles Lllley, addressing tm enofmous meotlng in Brisbane said he looked forward to the salvation of Australasia bj women's influence onParliamentary moials. He trusted that ill the near future the womenof Queensland would remodel the Parliament of the colony as they would oventuallj do in the restof what must beoome a great Australian federation. The Registrar General's monthly report on the vital statistics of the principal towns in the Colony states that the great fact that in suburban boroughs the deat|rato is not increased but lowered at Aucklaffl, Christ, ohureh andDunedin, while at jMinglon the rate remains the-same. ' ' This ia the way in whioh a it.S.W. leg. islator is desoribed by tho Opposition organ in Sydney-"A blotchy and splay-fooled genius who has about as much inielleclinlrißht to be in Parliament as a dirty pig has to stand at oaso ina Dutchwoman's parlour I An adjourned meeting of settlers in tho Opaki dislriot was held on Thursday' night at the rosidenoe of Mr D. MoLaohlan for tho purpope of taking steps for tho establishment of a creamery in the distriot in connection with Dairy Farmers' Union. On the motion of Mr McKenzie, oeconded by Mr Kemboll, MeEsri MoLaoh,lanj' Wrigley, Cotlell and H.Jackson, jun,, were appointed a committee |p cahva.s for shares, over. ?9 shares were applied for, and the milk oi 55 cows guaranteed.

This evening the Annie-Brandt Dramatic Company will appear in the Masterton Theatre Royal, whero they will produce the farcical comedy' Betsy. 1 This Company is highly spoken of by our exchanges, On Sunday evening the Company will giv.e a eacied concert when some excellent musioal itoras will bo glvon.

Mr R. M. Galloway, formerly of Maiterton, and now resident at Auckland, haagone over to Sydney to see his father who is aerionsiy ill. A Masterton man whj has just re-, turned frum atrip to Auckland, «aj« railway travelling in the Auckland pro. vince ib a long way ahead of Wellington, for comfort.

a. large portion of the corrugated Iron fence around the new saddling paddock at the Tauhorenikau racecourse wai blown dowa in the recent stoop, Tho medals, won hytha successful oompolitors at the'reoeht Amateur Athletic Club's sports, will be on exhibition in the* window of Mr J, Henderson, Queen Street Masterton, Hub evening, '

"One who has traded among the Islands" writes to a contemporary as follows on the proposed annexation of Samoa by New gdand:-What do we want to mix up in native quarrels fiN teen hundred miles away for? Tho land is no good to lis; the natives live on tropical produce, and want next to nothing from ut«. We have no army or nary to suppress native war, It we had a navy, we would probably lose il in one of the periodical hurricanes, We have not the money to spare, or our unem. ployed wonld havo more work ■ to doj and Burely we don't want to go to war, to shed blood, with a peoplo nearly at numerous as ourselves.

1 The first of the popalar fortnightly 1 sixpenny concert, this winter, held in ■ connection with, the Maaterton W&leyan 1 Church, will take place on Tuesday even- '. ' ins; next May let. The programme will ' include:—Overture, Maaterton Orchestraij Recitation, Ethel Tricker; Violiu ■ Solo, Mies Galloway; Song tyr iilly ■ 1 Piano Solo, Olivo fjellwoodißeoitation, Bertie Donald; Song, Mr Simma; Piano Duet, Mr and Miss Jeannie Bennington j Recitation, Victor Williams ;Sung, Miss Perry; Trombone Solo, Mr T. Gray ,• Beoltation,' Mr Davy,; Song, Mr Ralph ;Phno Solo, )Muß Butler, Song, Mi BB Oran; Recitation, Mr L. Dm»'<3 , Quartette, Mita Perry, Mrs Boagey and Meisti Boagey and Ralph; Cornet Solo, Mr,] Bennington ; Glee, "Homeward Bsund,\ Otm imports of new season's Dresses' Millinery and Mantles are now fully completed. The cboico wc are enabled to show and the stridtly moderate prices charged are much appreciated by our country friends while TJBittog Te Aro Honse,'WeHfogtbn, Our new dreßßmaler. Madame de Vern'ey [ from "Worth's,!' Paris', is tbo leading dress-' mate in the colony. We guarantee nef foot; I jit and the latest styles and designs as inown for'making dreßses is from 22/6, at Te Aro ' HonsajWelliogton." . 8AI !) ( ' Ladies can 'jjoihajt shopping by post, and ' save the inednvebjence of coming to town. ( fJur order tjepartment has been enlarged, and is undermost efficient management; Patterns' ot all our. general tfrawry and ' Dresses' will be sent post free on nfiplfoaiion i at To Aro House,' '" ,', ■■? ; -T f

The Shearers Union in New Zealand numbers 2801) members.

The doath is announced of an old Nelson colonist, Mr Benjamin Lusty, at the age of 74 years. Deceased arrived in Nelson in 1842 in the ship Clifford. Notice is given olaewhere by 'the Upper Tauoru Road Board of the annual meeting of ratepayers so be held on May Brd. '

I The blind man Douglas, who is well known in Masterton, was again the victim of an acoidenb this morning in Halktroet. While crossing the street he made a Budden dash »«one of Mr Pinhey's cabs was driving past, and ran into the back wheels. Fortunately ha escaped with only a few bruises, Sergeant MoArdlo informs us that since the new Licensing Act came into force, the local hotels are more strictly conducted.

A public trial, .of'"Bennett's Improved Stump extractor will ba held in a paddock adjoining Messrs Lowes and lorns'yardson Saturday, May sth, at 1 p.m. A cordial invitation is given by advertisement to all interested.

Messrs Lowes and lorna add 4 pure bred young bulls tu their next Masterton Stock Sale for Wednesday next,' May 2. Drunkenness has been conspicuously absent in Masterton during the past week,

At a meeting ot Opaki Bottlers, held at the residence of Mr D. MoLaoblan, on Thursday evening, it was deoidedto canvas the settlera for support In the proposal to erect a creamery near the Opaki railway station.' A Masterton Chinaman who left unexpectedly some dayß ago, is being anxiously enquired after by his creditors. ,

The regular fortnightly meeting of Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Masterton, was held last evening, Two new members were initiated.

Mr E, fl. Waddington relumed to Masterton from his northern trip yesterday. Owing to an attack of bronchitis the pleasure of his holiday was somewhat marred.

■ The unique Bight of a summons f«r £7 10s, posted on a shup recently kept by a Chinaman may now be seen in Matterton.

The hot and muggy days are now about over. Fieroe the sun isstill in his noonday heat. Butero longthousands will be crying out for warmer clothing, Bnd blankets will bo as welcome as acid drinks have been Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co,, of the Bon Marchc, have had the coming -season in their mind's eye, and a practical provision for its wants is a foremost feature in their programms. They have just opened a magnificent stock of new autumn and winter goods from the Parisian and London mar- , kets, and wo venture to aßsert a better display of tho world's fashions has never been attempted in the Wuirarapa. Every department is resplendant with the latest noveltieß and fashions, and the prices are significant of their desire to serve all well. Orders from any partof the colony are exeouted with that exaotitude and liberality that leave no room for other than satisfaction