LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4707, 1 May 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Ayson intends liberating several fhh at tho Opaki to-day. Tho newspaper of the Esquimaux' is only published once a year, A close watch is being kept on all foreigners and Englishmen in London' and Birmingham who are suspected of having Anarohistio tendencies. An appeal was issued in London on March 20th, for the .purpose of raising £50,000 m order to celebrate the jubilee of the Salvation Army.

Mr F. H. Wood advertises for sale by public auction, on May 17th, a valuable section and ten roomed house at Martinborough. The first of this winter's series of six* penny entertainments at the Masterton •Wesleyan schoolroom takea place tlm evening,

Mr and Mrs Charles Young, of Camside, near Kaiapoi,- a day or two ago celebrated their golden wedding. The Rev. Dr. Talmaga will probably visit New Zealand alter all, though there is some misunderstanding about his movements,

The Ohief Justice of New South Wales recently sail-" All tho regulations in tho world won't prevent young men from kissing young women." A bicyclo rider carrying a box in front of him, came a nasty'" cropper "in Perry Street this morning. Bicycle, bo? and rider, all had a little paint scratched' off

Thomas Brightwell Rollins, of Wau«. anui, claims to bo the oldest surviving settler in the colony, He was wreoked at Tapuna, Bay of Islands, in 1837, and has remained on that island ever since.

Sir William Robinson, the Governor of Western Australia, is an accomplished musician and composer,

Sequah extracted eigh'ty teeth in a quarter of an hour at Napier recently. The Hon, J. D. Orraond, who has been re-elected chairman of the Napior Education Board, has held that position ever since the Board came into existence.

MrF, H. Wood will hold an important rale of vehicles, produce, general merchandise, etc., at Greytown on Saturday, MAy 6th, at 2 o'clock Bharp.

Mrß, Oouboume kindly supplies us with the following weather report, from observations taken at the Mastorton Railway Station during the past month : -average temperature 66'09; rainfall 214tnoheson9days.

A very successful trial of tho new firewell _in Queen street was made last ovening, the stand-pipes having been put in yesterday. Several councillors wero present, and expressed thorough satisfaction with the manner in which the Jubilee lifted the water.

We need scarcely remind our readers of the W.A.A. uDd O. Oluo'b sooial this ovening. Every preparation has been made to ensure a pleasant evening.

Messrs Blinkhorne and Miller, have taken over the carrying business of Mr T. I P. Lett, and intimate to the farmers and runholders of Wnirarapa and East Coast, that they will undertakecarrying of every description. The intimate acquaintance the firm havo of the business should ensure them of liberal support. Their ,new advertisement appears in this issuo.

In a new advertisement in this issue

! Messrs Townsend and Cowpor, saddlers, 'of Masterton announco that they are uoiv supplying horse covers of the beet quality and of superior make A speciality is made by them in the manufacture cf long and short leggings from selected matorwls. Major Henri LeCaron, British Govornment spy, died in London on April 2nd, from an internal tumour. Ho had been living at Kensington, under the name of Dr. Howard, guarded night and day by detectives, School Committees aro supposed to forward at the end of each financial year, 31st March, a statement of thoir accounts for audit by the Secretary of the Education Board, As 30 out of tho 72 committees in the Wellington School District have failed to send In their balance-sheets this year, it miybeas woll to remind them that their capitation grants cannot be paid until the accounts have been auditeu.—Post. Twelve fawns from the' station .of Reid Bros., Motutapu, Auckland, are being forwarded to the order of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society,

The last number of tho Sydney Bulletin contains the statement that Messrs Joshua Bros,, of Port Melbourne

distil from 250,000 to 300,000 gallons of spirit yearly.

The Standard hears that six of the unfortunate women who were hunted out of Wellington recently have managed to ralso a tent, and are camped at the lower Tauherenikau bridge, If things in Australia do not take a turn for the better it will not be for want of "push" and judicious advertising. Mr Btuce, of New South Wales, the cable tells us, has arranged to invito the leaders of tho Labour Party in the House of Commons to a banquet in the city of London, The viands will consist chiefly of colonial produce. He also suggests that a week's exhibition of colonial produce should be given annually at the Imperial instituto,the opening ceremony to be performed by ono of the members of the Royal Family.

The Labour troubles apparently are not yet over in America, President Cleveland has heon warned that the Coxeyites possess dynamite and may use it. What with the strikers, Anarchists, Socialists, and tho rest the ruler of the groat Kepublio is not much better off thin the Czar of all the Russlas,

An international glove light betweon Burge, of Australia, known as the "iron man," and Arthur Valentine, the light weight champion, was fought in London on March 19th. The men fought at catch weights for 1100. There wore twenty desperate rounds, when Valen. tine was declared the winner. Burge had three ribs broken, and otherwiae frightfully punished, "Malua" (Napier News) saysi "Our local sporting Chinaman, Sam, has got his celebrated maro Seventy Bob In work again, and both he and his marc are fast getting into fine fettle, fie is again going to havo a go for the town] ' and Buburban ram Ho is not going to be had by any of those bad jockoy boys, who, he is sure, pulls his maro, so he will ride her himself and show what a Heathen Chinee can do, even on horseback. There would be great rejoicing if. Sam pulled off a race, for he is very popular amongßt the boya at Hastings."

Nothing fresh of a definite character has transpired touching tho Loan and Mercantile, says a London correspondent of the Christchurch Press. It is understood that the committeearostill actively engaged in the endeayour to find new directors, This is by no means an easy task. The position is not bo alluring as it once was. Capable business men are of course deemed a necessity, and these look rather shy at undertaking a post which they can see will bo very onerous, very responsible, and possibly vory thankless, I hear that it in in contemplation to propose unusually liberal remuneration as an inducement, but the fact remains that tho new directors, if they do their duty, will have to devote nearly the whole of their time to the woik. This is no joke to a city man, already "up to his eyes" in business, and as yet the difficulty has not been surmounted.

Otm imports ot new season's Dresses' Millinery and Mantles are now fully completed, The choice we are enabled to show and the strictly moderate prices ohargedare much appreciated by our country friends while visiting Te Aro House, Wellington. i Our now dressmator, Madame de Verney, from "Worth's," Paris', is the leading dressmaker in the colony. We guarantee perfect fit and the latent styles and designs as known only to French dressmakers. Our charge for making dresses is from 22/6, at Te Aro House, Wellington. . .

Ladies can do their shopping by post, and I save the inconvenience of coming to town. Our order department has been enlarged, and is under most efficient management. Eitternß of all our general drapery and resses will be sent post free on application i atfeAroHouEe, |

\ Constable May. and Mr P,' Rowley of tho ; Bank of New Mouth. Wales, left for Wellington this morning to give evidence in the oases againßl George Anderson, of Masterton. . /

The following Ssbool Ooinaiittco has been eleoted for Newman, yiz.: Messrs A. Dnnstall (ohairman),Baigent(treas,), Berg, Neilson, Cooper, Ure'aud Crook, I An enterprising theatrical agent has gone to Napier with a view to organising popular concerts there during the i winter months. ■

A'contemporary aays:—Business iB exceedingly bad in Palmerston North, and the people there say they have never known such dull times or money so tight,

At Bastings tho other day Mrs Charles Donnelly slippod on a piece cf peel, aud fell, Her iujuries were aenoußj as b!w had a thigh broken,

The Timaru Herald is informed that the Land Company offered a block of the Levels eßtate 1,3000 aores, in the angle of tho estate nearest Timaru, to the Government for cutting up purposes, and that the Government have madoa return offer for 500 aores of it,

" The English wheat market is dull, the Continental inactive, and American declining." Pleasant reading this for the farmers. The Australian Shearer's Executive is determined to resist any reduction in the rate of wages. . Experience seems to bring little wisdom to the Editor of the Investors' Review—that terrible cntio in whose oyes even the Bank of England is in a rotten condition. Month-by month his statements .become wilder and more outrageous. Tho latest is that the wholesale deaths among sheep during the droughts in the Australian colonies can only be characterised as a gigantic crime, due to insatiable greed,, and that if half the population died from hunger aud thirst it would be an incomplete retribution.

The German view in Sydney from one qualified to express an opinion, is says & cable that there is not the remotest ohance of the acceptance of New Zeaand's proposal in regard to Samoa which 's entirely at variance with the terms of the Treaty If He\i Zealand's idea wero carried out it would inflict roal hardship ontheGerman settlers. The German Imperial Government oan hardly regard the proposal with anythiug but irritation as it amounts to an implication that Germany has not looked sufficiently well nfter the interests of her subjects there. A London despatch of Maroh 31st says that Corbett will fight under the auspices of the National Sporting Club before September or October, provided Jackson is willing and tho purse satisfactory,

Mr Joseph Chamberlain addressed a| crowd of Unionists at Edinburgh on March 23nd. In tho courso of his remarks ho said Mrfilodstone had left his successors a heritage of woe, and he concurred with Mr Timothy Healoy in the belief that tho House of Lords ought to be .dissolved, The Masterton Town Lands Trustees meet on Friday cvoning next, <

Wo remind our readers of Messrs Lowes and lorns Masterton stock salo, to-morrow (Wednesday) at 1 o'clock. The list comprises 4500 sheep ol all classes; 20 quiet springing heifers; 10 yearlings; 10 fat steers 3 good dairy cows and horses eto, Tho annual meeting of the Masterton Municipal Fire Brfoado will bo held this evening, when the prizes won at the Napier competition will be presented. A private oablcgram reports tho death of Captain Gibson, late of the Jessio Headman. He died on the passage from Manilla to Singapore in command of a steamship.' The Committee of tho board of Governors of the Canterbury College has decii.d, subject to tho approval of the Board to appoint Mr J, B. Charlton, M.8.0, V.5., lecturer on veterinary science at tho Lincoln School of Agricultnro. The tost of the cast iron made from theTaranaki ironsand by English exports has not (says the, Manawatu Standard) given very encouraging rosults, The strength was shown to ba pretty equal to the average of cast iron, but in the opinions of tho experts, the amount of phosphorus in tho iion is so largo as.to render it unsuitable for the manufacture ofsteol. The removal of this plethora «f phosphorus has been found to be impossible by the application of the most approved processes, the acid Besjemer and the acid Siemens, so that unless Mr K. M.Smith, theenthusiastioextollerof tho hidden virtues of Taranakt ironiand; can devise a new process, the future of tho iron industry iD Now Zealand does not offer a very inyiting prospect. An Inspector of English prisons in a recent book states :-At Dartmoor a parly of war prisoners excavated a subterranean passage four feet in diameter aud 40 yards long, with no other impta '• mente than wooden spades edged with tin, oask hoops, and old iron made into scrapers, and they hid the oarth they removed beneath the floor of tho room they occupied. A French eonviotnamed Bin, broke from prison thirly times." It was said of him that he oould penetrate arches, run along sloping roofs, fly down to the ground like a bird, lift tho atone flags of his cell flooring, or scratch his way out underground with his nails alono." At Nottingham a man squeezed through a cell window climbed by the lightning conductor to tho roof and leaped across a chasm 13 feot wide and 60 feet deep,

The dog scare (says an English contemporary) is assuming unusually large proportions,especially in sheep countries, and farmers are rejoicing that a judge has been found to decide a oase against the dog-owners on purely circumstantial evidence. Yettheßhepherdsarenotfree from blame. It is the nature of a dog, whether he be of the purestlinesge or the commonest cur, to delight in mutton,and during the lambing Beason there is always a good deal of it about, a oertait. proportion of ewes and a larger perceo* tsgo of their offspring invariably coming to grief. Now, a careful man ought to bury the bodibß or take them home and boil them for his dogs, but too often thoy aro left rotting on tho ground, a temptation to the whole canine race. Even a collie who has once tasted dead sheep becomes demoralized, and it is Impossible to hinder him from gratltying his tasto on every opportunity when he oan do so without peril, Everyone who has spent any appreciable time In the colony (says a contemporary) rememberß what a paradise of peaches it was in the good old days-how a man was safo in many districts to travel long journeys, taking no provisions with him, and relying on tho fruit he would be sure to find along every track and gully-and luscious tHose old peaches were. The French missionaries, coming themselves from fruit growing districts, had taught the natives whenever they ato a peaoh to step off the track and put the stone in tho ground whero with tho care with which the Maori conserved focd suppliers, it be- ' came the patent of a goodly grove of rigidly preserved treos. In fact, in this respect each districts resembled most—except for the lack of men-some parts of Japan and of Holland whuro tho genus larrikin does not consider it his dnty to destroy all tint is beautiful or of public utility. The blight swooped down aud swept the peaib groves into mouldy decay, and for years drove growers to distraotion. Now, it is interesting to learn from Mr Palmer, the fruit expert, that the peach is reviving. The Thames was the list district in the North to be devastated with the blight, | and singularly enough, it is the first to] rise superior to it. Around the Thames peaches are nearly clear of blight, and pne man alone oannod some thousands of tins this Beason.

We beg tonotitj that the following lines of Messrs Bock & 00,,. Manufacturing Chemists, can be obtained at the W.F.O.A's Fancy Goods Department s-Non Mercurial Plating Fiuid : piice 1b Gd ; unsurpassed for cleaning gold o» silvr and re-pTatinj brass and copper, Bock's Waterproof Cemont, price Ib, will resist hot or cold water and repair china glass, de'f, oto. ? etc, Camphylen Balls, in rat aWijht jaw, containing 1 balls, price Is, to keep moths out of clothing also a perfect disinfectant. Herb Extract price Is, an infall'sblo cure for toothache guaranteed not' injurious to the teeth o health; it stops the most acute pain im medhtely, and proves a permanent cure in nearly all cases where the teetfi are hollow. German cure for corns and warts price Is, this amcus Remedy will speedily ami painlessly uro soft or hard corns, also warts, bunion and chilblains.—Tho Wairarapa Farmers Co operate Asiociatlorj Ltd., turn

The Colonial Secretary, Sir Patrick Buckley left Wellington this morning m route for tho Bush,

The vital statistics for Wellington for the month of April are , deaths, 39) marriages, 35.

Miss Boys, daughter of Mr Burton Boys, of Maaterton.is returning from her trip to England by thelonio, which is expected to reach New Zoslmid on May 7th.

Mrs Caiman, wife of Mr-Thomas Colman, who some time ago resided in Masterton, died at London recently. _ The deceased was a sister-in-law to Mr R, F, Temple, and was only 29 years of age, Tbe-cauße of death was consumption, Two Dmiedin paraonß aro having ft newspaper war. One compares the other to Ananias, and accuses him of having "a genius for telling half the truth," Christchurch is agitating for an exhibition in 1895, and Parliament will be asked to vote £5,000 or £IO,OOO towards the project, Theinas Williams, with numerous aliases, who was sentenced to six months for larceny at Napier the other day, was desonbed by the police as one of the most desperate'criminals ever known in the oolony, His criminal eareer in New Zealand dates for 1877, during which time he has been almost continuously in gaol, his convictions inoluda two aeDtenoes of 10 years, portions of which were of course remitted.

The following team has been selected by the Match Committee of the Masterton. Club to play against Carterton on Saturday next: Mesara Agnew (baok) j Norton, Fowler and Kemble (three-quar-ters); Stewart and' Williams (halves)| Watson, D'Arcy, R. Gray, Mowlem, P. Gray, Milton, astall, flolmwood and fl. Welch (forwards); emergencies, Wallace and Yates. The brake -leaves the Club j Hotel for Carterton at 2 p.m, sharp,

The Government Life Insurance Do- L payment's Triennial distribution of profits has just taken place. The assets of this flourishing office at the end oflast year wore as follows: Government securities, £926,896 ; mortgage on freehold property, 498,146 j loans on polioios, £365,676! local bodies' debentures, £157,165; landed and house property, £149,299 j miscellaneous aßsets,£7o,976j cash on current account, £22,791; total, £2,190,942. The new business for 1893 was £742,000, a Jawlnorease on the previous year j and the expense ratio has decreased for every year of the valuation period. The state guarantee distinguishes this office from all others, and New Zealand can congratulate itself that atleast one department of the Government is well managed. A River Plate exchange gives an acoountof anlmmeuca hay farm, the property of Don J.J. Cavagal. There are 6,oooaoreß laid down in lucerne, and the production is 1,500 bales a day,which It Is expeoted will shortlybe increased t<2,500 bales. Tho plant consists of 38 mowers, 1.2 rakes, 60 carts, 6 chaffoutters, 3 machinos for cleaning and separating the hay into two claiseß, 2 French horizontal pumps, 3 American vertical forced do,, 4 hydraulic presses, oaohwith a pressure of 60 tone, and a 60 horse turbine. Tho machinery and haled hay are kept in two largo which are lighted by electricity, Tho stock on the farm consists of 500 for thecatts, 200 horses for the mowers and rakera, and. 200 for the uso of the waggoners and majordomoß. The cattlo and hones in all number 2,500 head, and there are 8,000 sheep to crop the fields in rotation. The committeo appointed by tho Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association to recoiyo delegates attending the approaching conference, held a meeting yesterday, when Meßsrs Scales and Foster were appointed a Bub-oom-mitfceo to wait on the Parliamentary Recess Committee with a view to obtaining permission to hold the conference in Bellamy's, and to make general arrangements for the reception of the visitors and their treatment while' here. Messrs W. O Buohanan, A Matthews, E. Dorset, and Allan have been appointed delegates to the Conference by the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Association,— M. Times, Tho hot and muggy days are now about over. Fierce tho sun is Btill in his noonday heat. But ere long thousands will be crying out tor warmer clothing, and blankets will bo as welcomo as acid drinks have been Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co., of tho Bon Mayoh6, have had tho coming season in ■ their mind's eye, and a practical provision ior its wants is a foremost feature in their programme, They havo just opened a magnificent stook of new autumn and winter , goods from the Parisian and London mar- , kcts, and wo venturo to assert a better display of tho world's fashions has never been attempted in the Wairarapa. Every depart- , ment is resplendent with tho latest novolties and fashions, and the prices are significant of their desire to servo all well, Orders from any part of the colony aro executed with that exaotitude and liberality that leave no room for other than satisfaction