LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4738, 5 June 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mostcrton Borough Council will moot s ( this evening, ' ft Pahiatua County Council has disponed with the scrvicos of the County 1 avcrsccr. \ ( A general rate of ljd has been shuck in the Pahiatua County. ■ '"" F _ The aggregate value of hotel property ' in Now Zealand is estimated at fire millions sterling, C Johnston, tho well-known footballer, \ liadl'lslcgbrokcninthoTnicri-Alhambra ■ match on Saturday. Tho Customs duties collected at tho ! Port of Nelson duriug the month of May, amounted to £315918s 3d. ' 8 "Christian Outlook" advocates tho ( erection of a free public library and rcadinj-room, as a memorial of tho lato Dr. Stewart. 1 In the football match Ekctahnna v. j Tutaeknra, on the Eketahuna ground , on Saturday, Eketahuna won by 8 points to nil. A man named James Olson was ; charged at the Police Coiiil, Eketahuna, j on Friday, with staling goods to tho value of 17s 6d from Jns. Jones and Co., sto: ckccpcrs, He was sentenced to one ' month. _ Hew Seigcr. a prominent painter residing in Berlin, owing to monetary losses, put four of his children to death ' by poisoning and hangin<», and afterwards he and his wife jointly commit'ed suicide by taking poison, Mr F, H. Wood will hold an important sale of furs at his Greytown Auction Booms on Saturday, Juno 10, Tho Hospital Ball Committee intend fitting up the Temperance Hnll as a Slimier room on the night of tho Ball, so that the whole of the Drill Hall floor space may ho available for dancing. London simsays:-"It is curious how many fine voices and singers are coming from Australia just now. A dastardly outrage was committed at Belmont on 'fhursdny night, a valuable broodmare belonging to Mr David Judd, a farmer in that district, being shot dead as it was standing in a looso box. The owner estimates his loss at ffl-Ptirf. Aiiewdcparlurcwillbcmado in the coming Napier Session of the Smircmc Court. Two Maori juries have been summoned to hear the charges of indecent assault on a Maori woman, preferred against a man named Sweeney. A", the evidence, counsels'addresses, and the , Judge's summing up will luwo to be interpreted. The London correspondent of the DimedinStarwiiliiigofSirGeorgeGrey's visit to London, says:—"On dit iliat the > lumor as to the probability of a rccon- ' cilintionwith Lady Grey beiiii; brought • about, js revived in well' informed • circles in London, a.id that Sir George's • friends believe that there is something t in the report." • After the address of tho Ven, Archdeacon Fancoiirt in St Matthew's school- ! room last evening a Quaker's meeting ensued, and for a space of twenty minutes a pin could have been heard to t drop, but, unfortunately, pins were securely fastened, and no distraction of this kind was allowed to break the « profound silence. Then thespirit moved Mr C. T. Natusch, who rose, and, , addressing the meeting, terminated the silent interval. Lnst Monday week an old lady of 87 named Kitchen, living at the Tlmmes.is o reported to have met with a distressing !i accident. She was about to stroke her ir son's St, Bernard dog, which was on the f chain, when the brute flew at her face, s badly tearing the skin from the forehead „ also bruised andbithcranii,nndknoekcd . her down, frnvturing her thigh. The dog was destroyed, and the patient, at latest 11 report, was doing well, A writ has been issued af the instance of John O'Keefe, farmer of Otaraia, " Fcailiraioii, against Coleman Phillips.a f rtinholdcr, also of tho Wiiirarapa, claim- )' lug£sol as damages. Plaintiff alleges 0 that the defendant maliciously and f without good reason caused a search |, warrant to be issued against him on the .. ground that he suspected that the plaintin had a horse, tho property of the ' defendant aud another, concealed upon 1 hisfaiiii. . "Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley is . praise indeed.'•' Miss Bessie Doyle, the " accomplished young violin virtuoso, who - has been creating such a stir in New f Zealand musical circles lately, has just a written a very plensiint nctc to Mr i- Brookes, the manager for the Dresden ,f Piano Co. in Wellington, extolling the e imnlity of the violin strings obtainable at tho warehouse. Miss Doyle says of „ the strings: "They are the only good ones I have been able to get in Australasia." s This is praise indeed, but it is nothing h more than is deserved, for tho Dresden i- Piano Co. mako a ■ point of kecpinc v nothing but the best, irom violin strings s to grand pianOH. Hence it is the ComJ puny has uccn such a great success, for ' "thoroughness" is their watchword, The > Wellington Branch, under the manage--0 ment of Mr Brookes, the able and 11 courteous manager, has realised the fact e from the outset, that the best pays the it best, and keening this fact :n view it e has necessarily followed that the | " Dresden " has forged to the front as ( | the chief musical omporium iu the Colony. ir At the meeting of Parishioners of St Matthew's last evening, Mr W. G, , Beard asked if he should be in order in moving that owing to the apathy ol •i Parishioners the 'Jhurch be closed foi it three months. TL-i Bishop's Commissary c ruled that he could not put such a e motion. Later on Mr Beard asked if r [. vestry of ladies could bo appointed ~ The Chairman replied iutho negative. (1 Mr F, E. Tatham, of Homewood, ~ Whorcnma, suites as follows to a Wcl- ,, Fngton paperH'Sin-Would it --iterj est you to know that there has novel been so many swaggcrsonthe East Const n before as there are now, Evei/ statioi (l on the coast is accommodating three oi B. four swagmen cvcrynightr-occusionnlly i, asmanyaslOorlS. The settlers no* •o intend to take united action in doing fl away with tho trouble, probably by ad. t (. vcrtising that after a certain date nc swaggers will bo accommodated on the j stations owned or managed by thi 11 signers of the advertisement." e, Photographs arc very often most i C deceptive, and this fact received market 10 illustration in England recently. Perci i Blake was charged at Old Bailey witli burglary. A warder aud three con "' stables swore positively thnt he was i 11 notorious criminal named Stead, win of had been several .tiroes convicted. Iln iy photographs of Stead at Scotland Yan io wero most extraordinarily 'ike Blake ]. Moreover, Stead had been convicted oi • r his last trial under the alias of Bl»kp - And yet Blake was not Btoad, but i peaccablo and respectable man, and i littlo care must have shown the author ities that ut the time of Stead's iirs io sentence jvhich was ouo of live years ■h. Blake was only thirteen years of age, 111 Oun imports ot new season's Dressos m Millinery ami Mantleß aro now fully com rs pleted. liti choice wo are enabled to shov j n and the sWotlymoderate prices cbargedari i much aflprtiolated by our country iriondi 11 while visiting Te Aro Heuso, Wellington, "? Ournewdressmalo^MadamedoVerney ;d from" Worth's," Paris, is the loading dress jb maker in'the colony, We guarantee per/eo St aud the latest styles arid uosigus as knowi only to French dressmakers. Our ohargi m tor making dresses is from 22/6, at Te Ari id House, Wellington. l>. Ladies can do their shopping by post, am c vgrthmhuk(. sivo the inconvonionce o! cowing to town, ■ Our order department has been enlarged "■r and is under most efficient managemeal '4 Patterns of all. our general drapery ant it, Dresses will be sent post free on applioatli q, Te Mo House. \ I

The BuUitin saya:—"Tho Victorian 1 Minister for Lands swcarslikoatrooper." An The notorious Mrs Gordon Baillio has 111 been convicted of tho charge of obtain- fling pictures byfalso pretences, and has fa sentenced to soven years' imprison- m ment. - ■".' Four men were shooting a.fcw days bei ago at Mundoolan Station, Queensland, wn One of them named Hiram Smith, had 'aei discharged ono shot from a double-bar- tin relied gnn and pnt his month to the qu muzzlo to blow out tho smoko, when the res Second barrel oxplouod and killed liim Tli instantly, . nil A unique publication is the Upper Thames Hccordcr, .a religious journal m< issued in the North in which Anglicans Gi Woslcyans, aud Presbyterians unite in th publishing a sheet of news iuterestingto at people of nllthreo denominations.— lost, to The London Times considers that if so | Germany will not accept New Zealand's mi offer re Samoa, it will be impossible for Great Britain to interfere. br Sir Charles Dilko denounces the jJJ struggle of the European Powers for the _. supremacy in Africa as insane. Ho alleges that it is promoting civil war all ,; over the country, and leading to an h appalling loss of life. The Eastern Extension Cablo Coin- ii pany has decided that it will transmit t weather telegrams daily, freo of cost, on ti its New Zealand, Tasmauian, Batavia, and Singapore cables. . Captain Edwin wires!—"Judications cc fo: strong N. toE. and S. E. winds aftor m 10 hours from now, with rain aud glass H falling. l, ; The roll of tho Mastoiton Ambulance Society numbers G6 members. 1" Miss Leila Adair arrives in Masterlon i by this evening's train. Constablo Cairns is in Mnsterton p; temporarily assisting Constable Stewart ei whilo the officers stationed here aro ah- c; sent in Wellington. p We remind our renders of Messrs '' Lowes and lorns Eketahuna stock sale a to-morrow (Wednesday) at 1 o'clock. c ' A largely attended meeting of the j Prohibition League was held in the hall ;, of the Presbyterian Church last night, c Mr James McGregor (President of the v ■ League) occupying the chair. It was , decided to arrange for a scries of public 1 meetings to be held periodically, and to , iuvitc certain members of the Houso of s 1 Representatives to attend. fi A West Coast contemporary states [ that a Wellington "doss-house keeper" ■< i recently purchased a ship load of iron f tanks Ho has put them on a section i ' of land, tilled them with straw and now : , lets at 3d per night. The tanks aro full every night. % Sir Andrew Barclay Walker has made i ; an enormous fortune by menus of his ' brewery. His yacht the Uubonn, is said ' ] to have cost over £«,000. I Mr James Wriglcy, of Mnsterton, is | ut confined to _ his residence, seriously ill ( . with bronchitis. ' At the inquest on Eliza Ormsby, aged i 15, daughter of John Ormsby, in the ■ c King Country, the jury returned- a : s verdict that she had poisoned herself c by taking strychnine while in a state of . temporary Insanity. Tho evidence went t to show that she had been crossed in j love.' s Mr G, K, Boud notifies in another g column thnt the timo for receiving tenders for the Catholic Presbytery is ox- [. tended until Saturday the 9th lust. !• In Mr Joliu Webb's letter of yesterday B the wordtmifWas accidentally substituted ' for bea in the scntenco "to buy a loaf, 0 etc." if A rehcnrsnl of" The Sorcerer" by the Masterlon Amateur Operatic Society, ( i takes placo iu St. Matthew's School- . room this evening at 8 p.m.. e A splendid albatross, measuring 12ft 4in., from tho tip of one wing to tho tip y of the other, was recently captured by 1 Mr Clins. Spackmau, on Mr Matthews' properly at Western Lake, Fcatherston. )r . Sergeant McArdlc returns to Mastero tonthisevcmug, and Constablo Cairns :, goes back to Wellington in the mornd nig. " Tho slip on the line was sufficiently 8 cleared to allow the morning train from ;t Wellington to get right through to Eketahuna to-day. ' c Thoordmary meeting of the Mnsterton 'i Druids' Lodge, will be hold this cveniug, i- Tho cnorablo Archdeacon Fancouu, :s returned to Wellington by the early il train this morning. il At last night's meeting of the Grey. 10 town Volunteer Fire Brigade, the Grey- '" town Station Master attended, and 0 stated that tho Railway Commissioners ut intended to give a donation to the Brigndc, iu recognition of their services at is tho recent (iro in Fcatherston, near the ic railway station, ") Petitions to Parliament, praying that "f tho Alcoholic Liquors Sales Control Act ! l should receive a fair trial, arc now being circulated in Wellington. 1( ) It is stated that the Commercial Bank | g of Sydney has provided for tho wife and j children of its manager, McKay, shot at , s Barraba defondiug tho bank's property, » by giving her £IOO a year, g Sergeant Villiers, of Wniiganui, who in was recently stabbod whilo arresting a e prisoner in his district, is now on the \» convalescent list, and in a fair way for i- permanont recovery, >r ' ie The members of (he Greytown Vol. D . untcer Fire Brigade held a meeting last K l evening, Lieut Haigh presiding, Avoto it of thanks was earned to those who asic sisted at the recent Chrysanthemum Ball, it, The secretary reported receiving 5s from us Mr J. Montgomery towards tho engine is fuud. Six ucw members wero elected, ie It was decided to procure a now lain]) for the meeting room, cost to be defrayed by ~ the members themselves. This concluded i' the business of the meeting. "' A smart piece of telegraphy was * recorded by the • Duncdin telegraph 5r officials last week. A cablegram to J London was despatched at 2 p.m., and 11 the reply received in Duncdin at 8.1-5 j 1 |),m, As a matter of fact, tho reply was d- handed in at the London ollico at 9.7 a.m. (English time), but allowing for il, the difference of time between tho two 1- plnces, which is eleven hours and forty r. minutes, the actual time occupied m cr transmitting tho message, from London st to Duncdin was one how and fHy hi minute*. The rncssagc would have tobc jr transmitted over these circuits without |y il break:—London to Teheran, Teheran ■w to Bombay, Bombay to Singapore, ig Singapore to Bajowangie, Baiowaugieto [I, Adelaide, Adelaido to La Porousc, La 10 Perousc to Cablo Bay, Cable Bay to ic Duncdin—about 13,500 miles, The Works and Finoncc Committee ■ of the Masterlon Borough Council met st last ovcuing, Present—His World ship the Mayor lind.Crs Hcsscy, Cham:y berlainand Mutrie. Tlic Overseer's, th report was read. It was resolved to n. rccomnicnd that J, 0, Ingram be granted n h lid for cleaning up the morgue after io use on each occasion. The overseer lie was requested to attend to the fencing rd at tho Fire Brigade station. It was also :e, decided that no grant can be legally jn junde to the Volunteer Fire Brigade, ;c, but that £25 be granted tothe Municipal a Eire Brigade, end that the Committee a cannot recommend tho grant of £l2los, ir- jis asked, for the uniform fund, Ac-1 ■at counts as submitted, amounting to £10? rs, 16s, were recommcmlcd for payment, aud ( the meeting adjourned, ~ We beg tonotilj t bat the following lines o „ Messrs Bock t Co., ManufactcriDg Chemists, ' can be obtained at the W.P.O.A's Fancy Goods Department Plating J° Fluid, price la 6d, uainrpassed for cleaning a 8 gold or alver and re-plating braea and copper. Book's Waterproof Cement, price Is, will y, resist hot or cold water and repair china, is- glass, delf, leather, etc,, etc. Canphylene >ct Balls, in neat air-tight .jars, containing 18 (n balls, price Is, to keep moths out of clothing, „ e also a perfect disinfectant,. Herb Extract, j. price Is, an infaUiablo euro tor toothache, guaranteed not injurious to the teeth or , Health; it stops the most acute pain im 1(1 medhtoly, and proves a permanent, cure in °> nearly all cases whero the teetH aro hoUow, ! d, German cure for corns and warts price h, this nt amons Remedy. will speedily anil painlessly ad ure soft or hard corns, also Tarts, bunions ;io dad chilblains.—The 'Wairarapa Farmers Co operative Association ltd, Anvr I

L meeting of the Committed of tho t ibulancc Society was licld in tlio jslcyan schoolroom Inst night. Prot—Miss Munro, Messrs McKcnzie, .' tlio ckir), Cliisholm, nndDolnn. In '■ unavoidable absence of Mr Astflll, ss Munro acted as Secretary. Tlio Mites of tlio previous meeting hating „ inroad and confirmed, correspondence p s read from Mr W. H. Jaekspn, f scpt'ug the position of President of le ) class, and from Messrs Upton & Co, oting price of text books, It was Vt plved that four dozen bo procured, tt is concluded the business of tlio H !cting. . tt On Thursday afternoon somo work- B in employed uear tlio breakwater in l n sborno noticed a body floating up • 3 river with tlio incoming tide. They * once brought it to laud, and it proved be the body of tlio lad Charles Ford, s( 11 of Mr P. A. Ford, who had been P sang since the afternoon of Sunday to ay 10th. 'Die lad was last scon on the iv cakwatcr on Sunday afternoon, and oi t returning to his home, it was sur- ft iscd that he had fallen over the break- 0 ; iter into the sea. Subsequently an in- .' lost was held at tlio Gisbornc Hostal, when a verdict of "Accidentally Sl rowncd " was roturncd, a Tho Street Lamps Committee of the ■ asterton Borough Council met on ? Monday evening last.. Present-Crs f] essey (Chairman), Cullcu, Mutrie, n id Hornblow. Tho Committo having p spectcd the various lamp sites and f nsiclcred tlio matters submitted to tlicm s akcthc following recommendations:—' „ t supplying gas toa lampto bccrcctcd ° ; DrHoskingin Church Strcot, tho ! onmritteo consider it would bo a bad' 'ccedont to establish, nud would lend ' similar applications from other pro- £ ssional men, who at present, provide v hat light they require to indicate tliciv y remises, The Commiltco therefore remimcnd that tho application bo hotac- ] iiled to. (2) Be slutting the lamp op- • mite tlio mill stream in Queen Street, re committee consider tlio lamp to be t present in tho best position and reMiimcnd that it bo not moved. (3) Be. pplieation torn lamp in the middle of 'erry Street west, the Comniittco having ispeeted this portion of Perry ..Street , nil that owing to tlio street Wing only :idcncd in places, there is no permanent ite for a street lump. They therefore i (commend that the prayer of-Jlio petiiopers be not granted until some final , cltlemcut of the street lino is arrived at. . .'his concluded the business. The Parishioners of St Matthew's ilasterton, require to subscribo—in wind numbers—£so per annum nioro ban they have been doing to support an neumbent and keep clear of debt, Messrs John Graham and Co, notify he arrival of a direct importation of iiu'dwaro. Particulars appear in another jolumn, Yesterday evening the foreman of tho 3rand Jury at the Supromc Couit, in'ormed Chief Justice Prc'ndergast that in he ease of Samuel Trudg'con, indicted at L'nhiatua, only one witness came forward md that was tlio constable. As no other witnesses appeared, the Grand Jury did not deem it cn)u'ta,blc to bring in a bill one way or the o'ihcr. Tliey preferred not to bring in a,bill merely on tho constable's evidence! They asked for His Honor's direction.'.' The Chief Justice nsked Mr Chapman, acting Crown Prosecutor, how this had come about? Mr Chapman replied thut ho believed the constable had taken it upon himself to say that the witnesses would- not] be wanted, '• What could bo his idea ?" asked tho Chief Justice. "Well," said | Mr Chapman," I can only "Andwhatdoyousurmiscf V ''Well" said the Crown, PrastonVJ "my surmise is that he asked tlio' witnesses not to come on account of tho prisoner having escaped." " Oh!" said His Honor, laughingly, " andhclmsn't been arrested yet," No, your Honor," was tho reply. "Still," said His Honour, "the witnesses should havo been hero; it is a very stupid thing for tlio constable to do. I don't suppose any harm has been done, but the present Grand Jury cannot bo asked to come back to deal with the case." _ The indictment was consequently laid aside, and the jury were not asked to deal with it.—N.ii. lima, For the best value m drapery, milJinery, and clothing, just cast an inquiring optic over the stock of Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co., of thoßouMnrche, The iirm have just opened their second shipment of ladies' and childreus' jackets, French niilliucrylniackintoshcs, dress goods, gloves, corsets, and etc. All kinds of seasonable drapery, also an unusual large shipment of mens' and boys' clothing from the best manufacturers in the colony. Wc should ndviso an early call to get the llrst pick. Advt.