LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4712, 7 May 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A widow who lives in Archer Street, with five ohiidren, called on us this morning. A bailifl has been put In poasession for arrears of rent amounting to £2155, and it is intended to remove her bits of furniture to an auction room, and to give her and hor ohiidren the koy of the street. Wo know the widow to be industrious, and she! is, we liayo every resson to believe, honestly trying to nopport her family. It would be a ! disgrace to Maeterton for her and her I children to bo turned out into the cold, and we ask some of our friends to assist us in paying the demands of tho myrmidon of the law. A little list on her behalf lies at our office.

Notice of intention to confirm special orders is given by tho Ekotahuna Road Board.

SneaHheives are plentiful in Pah-1 iatua. At present they confine their operations to clothes lines and meat safes. An effort is being made to form a brass band at Eketahuna, A party of sportsmen discovered a large cave in the Mangahao last week, A rise in the price of sheep is predicted. [ . All through the Forty.mile Bush game is reported to be.scarce,

|' The Works and Finance Commitloof the Maaterton Borough Council will meet this evening, The Eketahuna fload Board have resolved to ask the Wairarapa North Connly Council to fix a date for a Conference on the adjustment of accounts for the Tawatai Itoad,

Meißrs Forsberg, Bannister, 'Gleeson, Heckler,andO.Tait have beenelocted members of the Mauricevillo Koad Board. .

The hoi and. muggy days are now about over, Fierce the sun is still in his noonday heat, But ere long thousands will be crying out for warmer clothing, and blankets will be as welcome as acid drinks havo been Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co., of the Bon Maroho, have had the coming season in their mind'B eye, and a practical provision for its wants is a foremost feature in their programme,. They hare just opened a magnificent stock of new autumn and winter goods from the Parisian and London markets, and we venture to assert a belter display of the world's fashions has never been attempted in the Wairarapa, Every department is resplendant with the latest novelties and fashions, and the prices are significant qf their desire to serve all well. Orders' from any part of the colony are exeouted with that exaotitude and liberality that.leave no room for othe.rjthwettis(u\iQii' ~ '

Mr A. Blmie met with a painful acoiJ dent at Miatua on Tuesday ovening by which he severely sprained his rightanklo also breaking a small bone, There is a bone alleged to be going '.round the. cottages in a oertiiu Sydaoy street. One housewife makes broth from it.and when finished passes tbe bone to the next neighbour. -

At St. Matthew's ohuroh yesterday uiorningthe Rev. J. 0. Andrew officiated and in the evening Mr 'W. H, Jaohon conducted the service.

Our Eketahuna correspondent writes that the weather during the past week has been very cold and wet, Complaints have reached us from the Forty-mile Bush district of the whole, sale poisoning of doga which is going on. Many valuable animals have been destroyed, * The Knights of Labour at Miatua have forwarded to Mr Hogg, M.H.R., a list of signatures of 85 unemployed, of whom about 20 are married men. At the request of the Assembly the list, tho signatures to whioh.were obtained in one day, has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour.

..The jubilee of the Salvation Army is to be celebrated in London next July, Tho ijathering will be a great one/including 500 native "soldiers" from India.jrepresenf atives from New Zealand, Australia, Africa, etc. The total muster will, it is Baid, be about 100,000 mem. hers of the Army. A man in a blue Buit came to our offioß onFridaylast and said hewaß anuohinisfc, and aaked permission to look round. We introduced him to our own machinist, who showed him what there was to be soon, but wbb not favourably impressed by his knowledge of machinery. This machinist then wont and stole a coat at the Olub Hotel, pawned it and made tracks, If any other machinists come our way wanting to look round, we shall send for a constable right away," aud advise any of our friends who may receive Bimila,r" angel's visits" to do the A man named FranohTtl. Bentley waa sontenced ft throe months' imprisonment at Bairhsdale last week for sending a telegram in the name of a fictitious person to his wife at Warragul last Saturday. He got ono of the telegraph messengers to write out a telegram to Mr Trew, of Warragnl, asking that person to tell Mrs Bontly that Harry (meaning himself) had been drowned while bathing. Then he signed the telegram'in the name of Benjamin flip worth. He told tbe messenger that Mrs Bentley was near her confinement, and that he wanted Trew to break the nows to her of the death of her husband. The telegram was regarded by Trew as a hoax, and on enquiries being made bythe policecf the police at Baimsdale it waa ascertained that the person who had sent the message and who had signed as Bonjimin Hip. worth, was Bently, tho husband of the woman. It was also discovered that a warrant for wife desertion had been takon out ajainst Bentley in 1890, but that the pair had lived together since, and that, the wife was now in the con> dition Btated. -•

At the Bicetre Hospital In Paris, the well-known surgeon, M. Landry, has performed a onrioua operation on a work man of Belgian nationality. The Belgian, it appears, gob drunk a short time ago, and was taken to the police station at Gentilly, when in a state of utter helplessness. While ho was in the cells, another drunkard, a mechanical engtnear named Machant, was brought in in a state bordering on delirium iremm. Machant was in a terribly excited state, and he attacked his fellowprisoner with extraordinary ferocity, striking him and, horrible to relate, biting off both his ears. When be came to himself, Maohant beoame very penitent, and asked to be taken to the bedside of bis victim, who was nowin the Bicetre Hospital, in order to ask his forgiveness. Dr, Landry,wiio was there, said ," Should you like to give him back his ear's ?" " Certainly,'' said the man. " Then," said the doctor,"let me cut a couple of small slips of flesh from your arm, and it can be done." The. man consented, and the doctor did as he had sugfroated. The pieces of flesh he shaped aB well as he could to the likeness of a pair of ears, and joined them to tho wounded places. According to the latest account, the operation has been a complete success.

! Two New Plymouth Hospital patients obtained lirnior without doctors' orders, A S/rl smuggled the ituff into tho insti'tq tion.was eventually caught, and is now t , to prosecuted.

Talk about knock-out prices! During the coursing at Dnnedin Mr M, Taylor lis reported to have laid £SO to one shilling against Dewy Shamrock. The practice of dehorning cattle is fast gaining ground, and an excellent instrument for the purpose is now being introduced into tho colony by the Walter A. Wood Haryester Company,

Messrs Lowes and loms announce their next Masterton Stock Sale for Wednesday next j entries as advertised. We hear that 1065 reapers and binders ato being imported by the Walter A. Wood Company.

At a meeting of the unemployed at Eketahuna on Saturday a resolution was passed protesting against tho unemployed being sent from Wellington and Christchuroh to tho railway and road works in tho Forty.mile Bush, seeing that a ltrge number of men in the district are unable to get employment, It was allegod that men were being turned away from tho works for the purpose apparently of making room for the detaohmentiJrom the olties, A list of 38 men wantiog work has been forwarded by the promoters of tho meoting, through Mr Hogg, M.H.R., to the Hon, W. P.Keevep,

Tho Labour Bureau is to send out five more men to the Eketnh'uns-Woudville railway on Monday.

Tho New Zealand Land Association, received on Saturday the following London Market cable:—Frozen meatß Liiuib market steady; prime JNow Zealand lamb is worth per carcase 5d per lb, Muttou market dull; Canterbury mutton is worth 4Jd per lb; other quotations unchanged. Tallow—There is a rather better demand; quotations, however, remain unaltered.

MrH. Wilding, Chairman of the So-1 oiety at Auckland for the Protection of Women and Children, telegraphed to the Premier, suggesting that Cabinet, when considering the question of raising the age of consent, should extend the period ofonemoDth within which notion must be taken. The Hon. Mr Seddon has sent, the following reply:-" It is a faot that Government is considering the desirability of raising the age of consent, and I will submit to Cabinet the recommendation made to have the time extended within which action must be taken.".

An overcoat belonging to Mr R. Maunsell was stolen from the lobby of the Club Hotel on Thursday evening last, while Mr Maunsell was at dinner, 1 The stolen property was afterwards sold to Mr W. Shaw, dealer, by a respectably dressed man, who said he merely wishod to raise 5s till next morning. A man named J. W, Sims, alias Arthur Lumsden,has been arrested at Wellington charged with the theft,

Many happy returns of tho day to M rs I Tankersley, an old lady living at the J Opaki and probably known to many of our readers.' Lsßtweek she celebrated her ninetieth birthday,

Our imports ol new season's Dresses' Millinery and Mantles are now fully completed. Tho choice wc are enabled to show and the strictly moderate prices charged are much appreciated'by our country friends while visiting TeAro House, Wellington.

i Our new dressmak cr. Madame de Verney, from " Worth's," Paris, is the leading dressmaker in the colony. We guarantee perfect fit and the latest 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 save the inconvenience of coming to town. Oar order department has been enlarged, and is under most efficient management. Patterns of all our general drapery and Dresses will be sent post free on application at TeAto House, . . / ;'.

A Pftlmorelon North resident ol many years standing was recently arrested upon a obarge of lunacy is mistake for another man,. ...... Says the Mount Baker Courier" It la a misnomor to speak of the leading single laxers ai labourers, for they toil not, neither do they spin, except it be wobs to oatoh Unionist flies."

The Salvation Army was amongst the first parohases of township allotment! at I Coolgardie,

( Sydney exchanges state that there are thousands ol unemployed in that city, and that the Domain and the vicinity of Lady Macquarrie's Chair are crowded nightly with vagrants,

Reports of the Feathewton and Taratahi-Carterton Road Board meetings are unavoidably held over. At one p.m. on Friday, Messrs Loweß and lorns will hold an miction sale of groceries etc

The annual mooting ol Town Lands Trust voters will be held on the 15th inst. at the Temperance Ball,

Mr F. H. Wood announces his next fortnightly »!ook sale at the Taratahi yards, for Tuesday, the 15th inst., atl p.nv. Entries already received include lambs, ewes, and dairy cows Further entries are invited.

An unusually large crowd • -"'rinemr ployed" clustered round the Post Office this morning. One of the fraternity was armed with a concertina, and oociwionally cheered his oomrades with a rather well-played ballad. Several members of the Masterton Masonic Lodge will be'present at Bt. Mark's Lodge installation at Carterton, to-morrow (Tuesday) evening.

The enquiry concerning the Banlty ol the Key. Mr Tollemache, vieir of Whitwick, whose brothers BBked that bis estates and money invested in Consols should be put under proper control, has conluded. The Court has decided that the rev. gentleman is insane. It will be remembered that one of the signs of the olergyman'i insanity, according to a former cable, was bis frequent blowing of a policeman's whistle during divine service. A young man named Alfred Bland, of Mr Hi. J. Searle's Livery Htablea at Featherston, was riding through Greytown last Friday afternoon and was thrown from his horse. He wsb picked up uncousoioui and carried into a neighboring home. A dootor wsslaent for but fortunately found that Bland was only stunned.

The ladies of the Dorcas Society "inkresume their meetings' in Mr Jameß McGregor's cottage, Ohucch street, on Thursday, May 10th, at 2 p.m. Although the Wairarapa Oaledoninn Society Bucce«afully resisted on ptinoiplo, the claim of Mrs McKay who had her leg broken through the collapse of the member's stand at the New Year's gathering, we understand that members oftho Society have decided to show their sympathy with Mrs McKay by tendering her the amount of doctor's expenses incurred. Oh Saturday afternoon a man riding a safety bicycle alone Cuba street collided with \aiouwn.hand brake. The rider himself managed to fall off his machine just in time to escape being trampled on by the horses, 'but the bicyole was smashed to atoms,— N. Z, Times.

It is stated (says thoOlwcrei') that a privato gambling den exists in Carterton which is the nightly rendezvous of sovoral young men, Perhaps the authorities wdl feol inolined to interfere. " Will you iindly send your photograph, together with a few biographical notes, and an historical sketch of your paper," writes a Wellington monthly journal to us, We think weomget along without & puff direct of this kind, and beg to decline with thanks the 'notoriety offered to us. An appoal haß been lodged by Mr C, A. Pownall on behalf of Mr Ouckei'idf{Q, in the caso Police v.Buckoridge, in which defendant was fiuod for alleged Sunday trading and supplying liquor to a child.

The Railway Commissioners have re-

plied to the Memorial from a large num. bar of sellers in the neighbourhood of Eketahuna asking that the train leaving Eketahuna on Wednesday mornings be delayed from 5,55 to 9 o'clock and that a apeoial market train be established. The Commissioners aro not prepared to pro» mise a market train and they cannot see their way to delay Hje morning train on Wednesday soting that it would interfere with tho arrangemonts by. which the train from Eketahuna is able to connect with the morning train from Masterton to Wellington. Tenders are invited by the North County Council for metalling on tho Te Ore Ore Bideford road."

The regular monthly meeting of the Masterton Masonio Lodge will be held un '.he ICth inst instead of tVedneßdsy neit to avoid clashing with the Masonio social at Carterton next Wednesday evening.

A first offender, who pleaded guilty o( being drunk in Queen street, on Saturday evoning,was convicted anddisoharged by Mr G. Heron, J.l',, at the Masterton Court thia morning. Mr J. J, Mackcrsey's infant son was buried at Masterton Cemetery yesterday morning, several friends attending the funeral.

Two fine kiwis have been presented to tho Masterton Museum by Mr L. F, Ayson, Tho birds havo beeu very, nicely stuffed and mounted by Mr J. Jacobs,

Several well-bred horses are Included in the entries for Mr F. H. Wood's noxt Martinborough stock sale.

A middle-aged Maori woman named Erina, living at Pungnrehu, lias developed symptoms of madiiess, and. alter breaking up her household goods, proceeded to Parihaka yesterday and assaulted Te Whiti, catohiog him by the beard to which" she hung on tcnaoiously. Te Whiti Mi9.roleased at last, and the woman tied up,

Mr W. Herriok has sold his BO acre dairy farm at Carterton to Mr Burling for £920,

During last month 03 applications wero made in tho Colony for letters patent, and 21 applications for trademarks. ' Tho settlers living south of tho junction at Mangahao are agitating for a school. About fifteen children will attend, and the balance of the money required for the payment of the teacher is to bo mndo up by a po rata levy on the parents sending children to the school, or by voluntary subscription,— Timet.

The numbor of sorioua shooting accidonta liavo boon very frequent of late and it °ib about time people handling a gun should begin to understand that the weapon should not be treated as a walking stickora shephord's crook. The latest Is from a place near Fahautanui, whore it appears tho gun was put down while the party breakfasted, but the cartridge! were not extracted, and on taking the gun up it went off, and tho sportsman's brother—Mr Millin, a farmer of the district-was seriously injured in the thigh. He was at once taken to his- home and thence brought to the Wellington Hospital I where his injuries were attonded to by Dr. Ewart, On examination it was found that about 40 or SO shots bad entered | the limb, only nine of which could be then extraoted. Luckily no bones were I broken, nor was any artery severed, but ! the injuries aro nevertheless serious,.-

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