LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4737, 4 June 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand has during the Inst year absorbed nearly 10,000 Australians, Tlio Okiirrer states that Mr G. A. Fairbrothcr intends starling on n trip through England, Europe, and America in about six weeks time. The Mnstcrton branch of the Salvation Army seems to bo going ahead and tho "soldiers" muster in far greater force than they did, It is stated that'a pretty considerable sum of money changed hands orcr the Mnstcrton—Stnr football match on Saturday, both teams being evenly backed, TlioWnirnrnpa hounds meet at Tnuhcrenikau 011 Saturday, 9th inst, " Pinafore" by local amateurs, is to be staged at Pahiatua this week. Mnstcrton seemed rather more, busy than usual last Saturday evening, a greater number of country people being in town. H.M.S. Curafoa, now at Snmon, leaves shortly for the Cape, on her way back to Euglnud. It is proposed this session to consolidate the various measures relating to Public Works. The calendar is the second heaviest ever known at the present criminal sittings of tho Supreme Court at Wellington, the number of eases being 29, _ Twelve of the unemployed from Wellington, were forwarded to the slip on the lino beyond Mnuriceville, on Saturday, to assist in-rlcaring the line. The Works and Finance Committee of the Mnstcrton Borough Council will meet this evening. Wo remind our readers of Dr. Buteincut's lecture this cvenin», under the auspices of the Masterton Ambulance Society, Parishioners of St, Matthew's,Mnstcrton, are reminded of the Venerable Archdeacon Fancourt's meeting at 8 o'clock this cvci"'ng, Several enthusiastic lady supporters of the locnl football eltibs, wore rose'tes of their club's colors at tho match on the Park Oval on Saturday, Knilway comiminienlion with Eketnhuna is not expected to be restored until the end of this week. It is understood that Mr J. Bertie, n well-known Wellington bonifnee is about to take over the White Hart hotel, Cartel .on. Wo notice among the youth of Masterton n growing ambition to cultivate that hirsutic appendage commonly known as a " beard." This ambition is evidenced by tho number of faces one meets in the streets, covered by occasional patches' of down, interspersed here and there with tracts of smiling cheekoases inn desert, To these youthful followcrsof Samson wcwouldrecommeml either a liberal application of bear's grease, or the fertilising offects of a ten years' waiting. Mr John Webb informs us that tin 1 Shelter Shed at Waingawn is open tc all "free," food being supplied at cosl price by his depot master, Mr Charles John O'Connor, It will be conducted as n labour ageney and industrial home, under the personal supervision of Mi Webb, Since it Ims been opened, it lmt accommodated over one hundred men On Saturday night ten men put uj there, aud on Suiulay eight. Jabcz Ualfour, of Liberator notoriety, is writing a book with double objectboth to clear his character, and to draw attention of Englishmen to the advantages which Snlta offers to tlio Englisli emigrant. He intends to order 2,(XX),00t for England, the same number for the colouies, and 1,(100,(100 for the United States. He states no book ever published will have been such a success. The proposed price for the work is two guineas a copy, and as ho expects it to cost him hnlf-n-erown, and another half-n-crown for booksellers' commission, ho reckons on making a profit of over £8,000,000, While William Kcmpton, who is employed as rabbitcr 011 Mntnliiwi, Messrs Holmes' run, was driving into Mnstorton yesterday morning, (ho shaft of the buggy broke, and ho was forced to leave the vehicle 011 the road, and complete the distance on his horse. A mischievous person was playing " ghost" in tho northern part of the Oamaru Domain last week, when a lad named Ibcll surprised him by lighting a match. The practical joker fearing identification, made a violent attack on Ibell, seizing him by the throat, and treating him no roughly ns to render hi m unconscious. No cluo has yet been discovered to tho person who played this idiotic prank, \ The members of tlio Mnstcrton and lied Star football teams, who played in match on Saturday last, were invited to a smoke concert given by one of the members of tho vanquished team, in the Club Hotel iu the cveuing. Over forty persons sat down to the spread, and Mr E. M. D. Whatman occupied the chair, supported 011 cither side by Messrs H. Wifsono mid A. E. D'Arcy, captains of the clubs, Excellent speeches wore made, songs snng, and toasts honoured, H very pleasant evening terminating about 10,30 p.lll. The Itcv H, U, Tuckey officiated nt St Matthew's Church yesterday, and jifeached to large congregation both nwrnipg'and (jvjjpg. At the morning service, hflly cQni'munm yas 1 administered, and in the (iftcfnooi) a cliildrcns' uaj lbism service was held.' 'flip dijwpß iff the House of Commons as to ivlicllief.tlie Colonics should beincluded in tlio provisions of the JJcnth Duties Bill, was very lengthy, Sir W, V. Harcourt ins : Btcd tlint it was just to apply'tho measure to tho Colonics, as colonists taxed British goods. MrSeddou cabled to S : r James Patterson (Premier of Victoria) suggesting a joint protest against the measure. Sir J. Patterson replied, promisingto instruct the AgentGeneral to move i|j (ljc matter. The plcasaut weather yesferday drew a fairly largo number of people to the Hospital grounds, when Pearson's band went through programme consisting of tho following ltcps:—Marcl), "Solfcrr ino," Waltz, '{jiose of sacred 1 selection, " Zipn B.ells,' Fptnsia, "Amanda,"March, "llfjynl Festival,") Overture, "Sleep of Dinfti," March, "Black Dwarf,' Waltz, "Light and Shade.'.' On the way to the grounds the band;played "Your linwQu Love," arranged by Mr T, Gray, and 011 tlio return went through " Tho Bohemian," composed by Mr A. Husscll. Both of tho,composers nrcjlajingmembers in l'earson s Baud. Yesterday's" was tho last Sunday per'oriiiancefor the season. Otm imports ot now season's Ureases Millinery and Mantles are now fully complotfli], , Jhe choice we are enabled to show and the etf ictly moderate prices charged are much''appreciated by pur country friends syljlje yisiting Te Aro House, Wellington. ' wsm teamier, Madame de Verney, from Wom'?,"f!af isf ho leading dressmaker in the polony. WQguaj'antee perfect only to French dressmakers, ~ Oijr foe making dresses is from 22/(1, at l'e Aro House, Wellington. Ladies can do their shopping by poßt, and sivo the inconvenience of coming to town. Our order department has lean enlarged, and ut M/lef most cffioiei.t management Patterns of njj oiiji ggrieral drapery and Dresses will betpl psj> (feepn applieatio< To Aro Souse. ' r '~ :V :

A meeting of ratepayer J >ntlic Upper iu ond 1 -Bonrd District will be Held at Glendonald on Juno 6th, todiscuss the propositi to raise a loan of £SOO g^H'gttrowUipthoMußgapurapura Wo hear, that Isherwood, the wellknown Manawatu football player, is ikeiy to tnko up his l'esidcuco in this district, and throw in his lot witl tho Mastcrtou Club. A Gladstone Maori named Matthew departed last Friday from this rale ol tears, aged <lo. A ziuc coffin has been procured, and a tangi, to extend ova one mouth, isnowinprogress,—Obstiv.r. From Friday Inst, the Marlborougl Daily ximcs, published at Blenheim, ii an evening instead of a morning paper, riw snow that lias fallen during tin rast few weeks at the head of Laki \> akatipu is the heaviest exporionccc for years. A Palmerston paper records that jus before the train left for Wellington tin other evening, a man was discovers lyinp across the rails between tw< carnages of the train, in a stato o intoxication. Ho was rescued from hi: perilous position without mishap. MrE.W, McLean, of the liailwai . Department, is superintending the clear ■ ingof the line between Ekctahuna am Masterton, i Captain Edwin wires:—" Indication; i for frost to-night," Notice is given iii another column tliii poisoning starts at Langdalo on thol2tl . mst. . Mr George Witt, representative o i Messrs bargood, Son and Ewcn, whi for the past three weeks has been laid hi r ut Mr H. Phillips' Occidental Hotel i ™ n»le 'o leave for Wellington tlii , morning. . Mr Thomas William Shuto presentei Six volumes of works to the MnstcrtOi Wesleyan Sunday School, yesterda afternoon. They comprise tho works o Baxter, Fletcher, Itynn, and Warn One of these volumes is ninety-thre years old, andwtis the properly of M Slmto's grandmother. 1 Parishioners of St. Matthew's mee • on Ihursday to elect a new Vestry. Pearsons Band will play in tho Par: on Thursday afternoon next, ut The amount of Customs duties to . lected at Wellington during the mont of.May was £32,1)07 10s Bd, as again. l £31,375 11 lid for the corrcspoudin I 'nontli of last year, and £26,400 3a 1 for the month of April of this year. ■. i lc rc ' ,lrns s ' lo,r "'"t the quantity c ■ beef preserved in Queensland last vea ® amounted to 8,000,0001b, as compart with 3,000,000f0r the previous year frozen beef, 38,000,0001b, as commit fr° ZCU ,llw " 01 c ji.Dol.OOOlb, as compared with 0,G50,0C 8 lbs. There was also a fallingoif in pri served mutton. •s It is reported in Germany that A is lurpin bas sold the patent of his moi ic stergnn for £160,000. The Gas Committee reports to tl komcil to-morrow cveuini i- ihc discussion on this report will 1 interesting, but we do not expect it I IV bo quite as sulphurous as the artic Is which the Committee has of late bee 1, dispensing to the public. Two accidental omissions occurred i s . our report of tho late Presbyterian coi [c cert. A song from Dr. Douglas whio [y ii as received with much enthusiasm,wi is 0,10 'hem, and the other was, wo ri ic Bf-t to say, tho name of a lady, Mi: s . l'eist, accompauied four items ,on tl: re progranimo with taste and expression _ and her services on this and many otlu nl occasions are too vnluablo to be passe id over. ' s ,We learn from Mr Archibald Sai m ABC of Now Zealan v »' " lc birthplacesof-tho presci ic "ew Zealand Parliament arc as follow: to linglaiul, 21; Scotland, 15 ;Ncw Zc: st html, l-j, j Ireland, 7; India, -t; Victor!: cs jjl Spain, I;South Australia, 1; an ; d Tasmania, 1. »• , The Cronido congratulates tho Vieto « uin Government on its healthy percei »s hon on the present situation of affaii l" !?,' colony and its detenninatio l P to utilise the land for tho common hem lit and help tho unemployed, yi The Queensland Government has r< ceived a cable message from Hongkoi: II that tho epidemic is known as tl »• "Butonic plague,"and that 417 deal) v. , J" 0 . lwor,lctl ™«o 20th Ma " cliieljy Chinese coolies. Only thr< Europeans have been attacked. ~1 General Hcwston, an Amorjcan office a- ) v| wf°rU years commanded tho Cal ls forman Guards, had a quarrel 'with in sl/rotiiiueician in London, in thccoursi , n of which he drove the point of an un 1S brclla into the man's eye, and killcdhin A notice rogardiug the Jiev. S. ; Gibson's lecture at the Masterton We: rs lc y»» Schoolroom to-morrow evenini r . appears elsowhoro ie Tho collection at St Luke's Cliurcl 'C Greytowii, last night, was in aid of tl te Maori Mission Fund, tho licv, A, 1 Grace preaching an appropriate sermo lg boarmgon the subject. >e A meeting of ladies is to be held lie; id Thursday afternoon, with tho view ( ig establishing a guild in connection wit ig bt Luke's Church, Groytown. It is pr< m posed to form this in lieu of thcordiuar d sewing bee and bazaars, so that all th « work will not fall upon a few as liilhci s- to, Messrs Lowes and lorns add 700 fa shcop (turnip fed) and o head cattlot d their Masterton stock sale, for Wcdnci 11 day, 13th June. ° The Theatre lioyal was well fillc on Saturday night, on the occasion o McKay and lleod's Limelight Entertain J r mcnt, A large number of very line view p were exhibited, and taken all round i [' was as good a show of the kind as ha visited Mastcrtou for some time, i p special Sunday entertainment was nls j held yesterday afternoon, consisting o ' pictures, illustrative of the lives c b Christ and St, Paul. lt We understand that the Street Lam (I Committee, of the Mastcrtou Boroug II Council, have decided not to rccouimcn . the erection of any additional lamps i p. the Borough at the present, on th [. ground of expense. Poverty Bay is evidently one of th fev" fay stricls; in fc^ar41 | ( iug extract' from tho Labour Journa • ( reportsG|sborno-The supply 0 0 is In excess of tliodomnnd, and appai g ently will be sufficient to meet all re I, quircmouts for the winter." r In another column it is aunounc& t that on Thursday afternoon next, Mis 1 Licln Adair, the " Aerial Queen," wil • make a balloon ascent from tho Master ton Park Oval, and when at a height ii f the air of some hundreds of feet, wii P mako a tlirilliug parachute jump. A [ there arc few people in the Wairarap { district who lpivp ever spen a bajloon g . up to the clouds, the performance ,o: j Thursday should prove' an immcijsi ( attraction, Should tl|o .day prove calm 1 the balloon will make an pcrpen ( dicttjar ascent, and tWlfjdy lfill (Jp^ccni 1 plose to the samp spot, As this will b . tho only balloon ascension Miss Adai • wiU mako in this district, previous ti 3 goiug South, no doubt crowds of ppopl • from far and wido will be inMastertoi [ on that day. Pearson's splendid Ban* , will supply tho music, and tho asccn 5 will take place at a quarter to three ij the afternoon. We beg to notllj that the following lines i , Messrs BockS Co., Manufacturing Chomieta can be obtained at the' W.F.O.A's Fane Goods Department {-Jfon Mercurial.Platini Fluid, price ls 6d, unsurpassed for clcahini ' gold or silver and re-plating brass and copper Bock's Waterproof' Oetao'nt, price Ib, wil , resist hot or cold inter and repair china ■ glass, dclf, leather, etc., etc. Camphylen [ Balls, In neat air-tight jars, containing 31 , ballsy price Is, te keep moths out of clothing , alfij a b'etfWt •disinfectant. Herb Extract prica fi/ ag hiWlfSfjJß for toetlache guaranteed not o . Health jit stops the most acute pain, in 1 m'ediralr, and proves a permanent cure ii ' nearly all cases where the teefi are hollow , German cure for corns and warts prico ls, thl : amous Remedy wUI speedily and painleaslj [ ure soft or hard "corns, also Tarts, bunions , and cliilblaina. —The Wairarapa Farmers Oc . eperatiye Association Ltd, Advi

Tlio amount taken at-Mastcrton Hospital gates ou Sunday, was £3l4s 6(1. Thereare at present six patients ip tho Mastcrton Hospital, ono being discharged last week. Correspondence and a number of reports are unavoidably hold over until our next issue, Edward Parkerson tlio accountant of tlio late firm of Harper and Co. lias been sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The poll upon tlio proposal to raise a loairof £IOO for metalling ou tlio Opakiliangitumauroad lias resulted iu favor of the loan. Tlio Wellington Avliarf slioltor was full both on Saturday and last nights, Iu addition • 10 men were sent to the City restaurant on Saturday, ami Blast night. The beer duty collected at 'Wellington last month amounted to £360 18s 3d, as agninst£lo2 3s 2d for liny of last year. Two. Mastcrton sportsmen went out shooting yesterday. Tlio day was warm aud both are thirsty souls, They were well provided with sandwiches mid good wliiskoy.Aftersomeliourstoil.andamodicum of luckintlio shapcofgame, they decided to rest and refresh. Anticipation was high, when they smilingly sat down. But joy was soon turned to sorrow, for behold the cork had come out of tlio" whiskey flask, and the precious tluid had been wasted, the game-bag aud solid refreshments being soaked. On Fridav evening last Mr Humphries' tender of £225 for tlio erection of a public libraryat Martinborotigh was accepted. The amount is being raised solely by private subscription, and this fact docs great credit to the people of Martinborough, Four out of the live tenders received for the work were within £lO of each other. The building has been desigucd by Mr C. T, Nntusch, of Mastcrton. llio death of Mrs Wilson, wife of Mr George Wilson, of tlio firm of Aitken and Wilson, was referred to in sympathetic words by the liev. J, Patcrson at the morning service at St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, yesterday. The Wellington Branch of tlio Now Zealand Educational Institute met 011 Saturday morning, MrC, Watson, 8.A., president, being iu the chair, A letter was received from the Aueklandßranch, proposing colonial scale of salaries flic Executive of the Institute wroto, asking the Branch to secure support for a Teachers' Court of Appeal Bill and a Compulsory Attendance Bill, shortly to be introduced to Parliament by tlio Minister for Education. A committee consisting of Messrs Grnddy, Macmorran, Flux aud Jackson was appointed to deal with the matter. The motion of Mr l'ilkington that meetings bo held . monthly was negatived, as also was one , by the President to admit ex pupil teaI chcrs to membership at a subscription of • 2s Cd per annum, It was resolved to hold tlio annual conversazione on tlio _ 29th instant at Thomas' Hall, and . committees were appointed to carry out the details, The following officers for the ensuing year were nominated President, J. J, l'ilkington ; (Porirua); Secretaries, Messrs Mcßain and H. P. Ward; delegates to the Coun- ' oil, Miss Hclyer, Messrs Macmorran, Pilkington, Thonins and Bennett. The 1 election will be conducted by post—N. Z, Tim's. 1 Strollers'ou the Queen's Wharf at - Wellington yeslerdity inoruing saw a 1 mollyliawk get its breakfast by a singus lar piece of luck, says the N.Z. Times, • The bird had been wounded 01 had s become exhausted, aud was lying almost ; helpless iu (ho water about forty , yards from tlio wharf. Suddenly a sear gull, which apparently had also been 1 wounded, dropped into tho water, and whilst it was struggling to keep itself . afloat, it was caught sight of by tho ] hawk, who quickly making its way t across, plunged its beak into the breast . of tho tlefenccless seagull, with 0110 fatal ; stroko, and triumphantly mado a very ample meal on tho body.