LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4753, 21 June 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mastcrton Hospital Ball takes place thw evening. i . To-day (Juno 21st) is tho shortcstday in the year. Wairawpa North Comity Council sits tins (Thursday) afternoon.

Messrs Lloyd ACo.'s tender for formationon Aohonga Valloy Boad has been accepted,

Tho gorso nuisanco is again becoming sertoiisinparisofthcMastcrtonßorougli! Hie question is "How to deal with if"

Playing for the gentlemen of England against Notts, Stoddart scored 148 runs. A New South Wales experimental shipment of honey has arrived in excellent condition.

Advices have been received that tho s.s. Done left Plymouth on tho 10th inst. for Auckland, Napier, Wellington, andLyttelton. ,

A man nmnod Frascr shot a woman named Anderson in a" hotel in Bourkestreet, Melbourne, and then committed suicide. The woman is in a precarious condition. The affair arose out of a dispute over a recent lawsuit.

A large number of Lower Valley people are expected to be present at the Mastcrton Hospital Ball this evening. The adjourned application for the Vi hakataki Hotel license will be heard to-morrow.

The Board schools break up for the winter vacation on tho 2Gth instant, The Hon Colonel Baillie, Chairman of Committees in the Upper House, is also Father of the Council, having been nominated in 1861.

A conference of delegates from the Mar borough Local Bodies was held in '■ Blenheim on Saturday to consider the small bird nuisance. A sum of £3O was promised for the suppression of the nuisance.

Ekctuhuiia Mutual Improvement Society held its ordinary meeting on .Tuesday night. Impromptu speaking was the subject for the evening. Each item was discussed fully, as delivered. The subject of "Education" excited considerable intctcst,

Another illicit still seizure has been made near llccf ton. Six hundred gallons of whisky were turned into the river. '

It is announced in our advertising columns thatMrW.H. Jackson will dcliver a lecture entitled." Glimpses of Science," under the auspices of the Masterton Mutual Improvement Society. The lecture will be illustrated with expcriinciits, and in such capable hands will no doubt draw a large' attendance. Admission is free. I

The captain, officers and crew (six all told) of ■the stranded schooner Sovcrcigu were brought by concliycsterdnyfromWhakataki, by Messrs Foreman & Co. In most cases the men saved their outfits. The vessel is now high and diyouthobeiu'hatMataikmia. Several Carterton residents talk of starting a Working Men's Club.

Owing to bad state of the roads the W.A.A. and Cycling Club's road race has been postponed. Tho Cambridgo Borough Council is endeavouring to get tho co-operation of other local bodies, to urge the Government to pass an Act clearing up the doubt existing as to the legality of members of local bodies contracting for small amounts.

Every arrangement, has becu made for the most successful carrying out of the Masterton Hospital Ball, this even-

The_ resolution relating to Municipal tendering passed at the Typographical Conference is as follows:—"That a letter be forwarded to the Conference of Delegates of Municipal Bodies shortly to sit in Wellington requesting them to take into their earnest consideration the necessity for providing ngniust unfair competition in Municipal tenders."

The Eveningl'ress hears that warnings hare been sent bv a high authority m spiritualistic circles to Ids friends and followers recommending them to quit New Zealand with all possible despatch, as the whole country, from lake Taupo to Cook's Straits, is about to be submerged by a scries of volcanic phenomena unprecedented in tcrrcstial experience.

■ In tho action brought by William Skcy Government Analyst, as administrator of his late son E, S. Skcy to recover from the Mutual Life Association £ISOO, the amount of a life policy on the life of E. S. Skcy, Mr. h. D. Bell in opening; tho, caso pointed outthat it was not until today during 25 years of business, that I this company had appeared in Court to contest a claim by an assured person. A very important question from an insurance business point of view was involved in the case—a question which was also important hi matters of ordinary business and commerce, namely whether payment by dishonoured cheque was payment at all? This was tho question for the jury to determine, Mr Bell then related the facts of the case as set forth inthcastateinentof tho claim, and impressed upou the jury that Mr Skcy on being applied to (for the payment of his premium) by Mr Astall said he would take his days of grace. If he (Skcy)had died 'within the days of grace (30) the association would uot—whatever their legal , rights-have contested tlio claim, .Mr Bell submitted that a Life Insurance Company was bound to defend itself from a claim such as this, It was perfectly evident that the premium overdue never was, aud never would have.been paid, had not Skcy been killed on tho loth. Tho policy would have been allowed to lapse, Skey having only paid three quarterly premiums, An insurance company could not carry on business if a person could recover under such circumstances as indicated in this ease, After hearing considerable legal argument, it was agreed that the only question was one of law, and could be determined by His Honour without a jury; who were accordingly discharged, ' Legal argument in tho case will be ' lieard.byHisHonor ,on Friday,

'.'lt's an 111 wind that blows nobody good" is an old Baying but nono the less, true. Whilst the, great depression existing in Sydney at the present time has caused a: deplorable amount of misery yet the people of Wellington and the sumranding distriols willrejip a-gigantio benefit. During his yisiUpSvdnpy recently, Mr James Smith puroiised absurdly low prices a largo stock'which-is' now being sold at the Wholesale Family Warehouse. Te Are House, Wellington, . . ; With a view tqmaklng tbie eale the event ot the year} two special buyers were idespatohedfroaTo Aro House tpOhristoh'urch one to attend tho great Bale of Edwards. Bennett and Co's wholesale stobk, ahd J the other to pick out bargains from tho martu. faoturers ot the well-known Kalappi Woollen Co. Both-r.theeo:gentlemen:nave returned; after tt most successful trlp.and the total reaolts of th'ci r .'eHo'rta is to. be seen in the astonishing bargains now being sold at the ffholesalefamilyiWarebouse, >J«; : Aro

KA singular fatal acbiddftis .roifttodj | froni Bockdnlfc j3outh]Wales.; A■■mannameiv6lffli:;6iil^^:s6i^^p , tar on a.fire;'to/ : boil,|ttd 'wJu'loJib-was outside attending tar'. hold'bf tlie iron ; .pbtv contaiiiingut, flip, burning mass joutsido the door* ; Just'iat thatmonjcnt his only.clrild James,aboy aged five, happoiicd to eomo to the door, audthowholo of the flaming tar mis thrown over him. Ho was frightfully burned, and died in -a short time. His father also sustained soverc injuries.'.' _ Tlio proposal to raiso £ooo for fornix irig a road up tho'Mungapurnpura Creek has been carried. • . ; A woll-known drapory house is at present looking out for suitablo businoss premises in Mastcrton. Messrs Lowes and lorns add 200 fat ewes; G head mixed cattlo ; and I horso, cart, and harness, to their Mastcrlon Stock Salo for Wednesday noxt, 27th June. Tho slip on the lino has been cleared andtrainsNrill continue their ranthrough to-day. 'Awritorin tho fCestattafer Gazette gives tho following analysis of accidents (luring tho season of 1893-d. Deaths, 2<ljbrokon legs, 100; broken arms, 25; broken collar bones, 108; miscellaneous injuries, 88. On Friday afternoon Mr Donald HeLanghlan, of Turakiria, was riding along tho Manffahaoroad, when his gun went off, tho charge going through tho right arm below tho elbow and, grazing tho right temple, thus nearly proving fatal. According to a local paper one of tho longest trains which has ever left the Mdiug station was tho mail train for Wellington on Tuesday evening. Tho freight consisted principally of cattle and sheep. In another column the W.F.C.A. give a list of their stock of seed potatoes for the current season. A choice selection from tho best growers in the colony has just conio to hand ingood condition' and may now be inspected by the public

Wjth reference to the Licensing point mentioned by us yesterday, it lias been agreed that the old arrangements for tlio issue of licences were not repealed by ,thc Actof 1893, aud Treasurers of local bodies mil therefore recoiro fees and issue licences as boforc. BcneTolcnt Societies arc often asked to find some fuuuy thiugs, but about as roinarkable a request as ivc have met, was one brought under the notice of tlio Wairarapa Trustees this morning, who were calmly requested by a man to supply a porous plaster for his wife! Ho got tlio plaster all right.

Tho bridge on the Mastcrton-Tenui road at Pino Spur has given way during tho Into flood, nud will be unsafe for henvy traffic till repaired. Tlio Masterton Operatic Society held another most successful rehearsal of the " Sorcerer "in tho Temperance Hall last evening, forty members being present, , and oTcrything working very smoothly.

Mr Gcorgo Gray lias presented to the Masterton Musouni n copy of the Wellington Ppuktor, published in the year 1817.

Mr Corrie Johnston is holding some good meetings in Masterton. His addresses nro deeply interesting and wellattended. Another meeting takes plnco this evening at 7.30. It is reported in liotorna that Iho old chief llaiviri Hapiona and other influoutial natives havo wired to tho Premior that they are now willing to sell large blocks of land, in accordance with the promise made to liim when ho was on tho Uriwera trip. During the recent storni,Mcssrs Nowman Bros' coach stables at tho first stage, in tho Happy Valley, Nelson, were blown clean down.

Tho Masterton Drill Hall has been more suitably arranged for the Ball this evening than ever before. The ladies of the Coinmitteo nro to be congratulated, as also is Mr W, Sellar, tho cucrgolic beeretary to the Hospital, on the arrangements made. A covered way has been built from the Drill Hall to tho supper room (Temperance Hall), and the i whole of the floor spaco will bo available for dancing.

_ People who happen to ho in, or corao into Court, while any proceedings arc going on, opiicar to imagine that thoy arc there /or theirown amusement. During tlio delivery of a judgment to-day-one of soino importance—tlio scraping of feet, blowing of noses, and boisterous coughing in the body of the Court, almost drowned the voice of tlio S.M., and so, naturally, made the task of following the speaker, both easy and pleasant for the reporters. Possibly at some future date, the public will learn that a law Court is intended for business, and is not a playhouse. A strange story reaches us of the ease of man living near Mastcrton, who had persuaded himself that ha was seriously ill, aud who had remained in bed for several months, alleging with many sighs and groans, that his end was at hand,, aud -Hint his complaint was beyond medical skill. A clever local medico was called in by the Benevolent Society, and soon diagnosed the case, and in not too gentle tones ordered tlio man-who had previously kept his bed for three montlis-to at once get up and climb into his clothes, After some littlo.pcrsuasion the patient to awed into'mil), mission, and as soon as he was dressed | the doctor took him out and ran him round a paddock. The man has been better ever since, and a more remarkable cure has never been effected in these parts.

For tho best value in drapery, millinery, and clothing, just cast an enquiring optio over tho etook of Messrs L J. Hooper and Co,, of tho Bon Marche. The firm havo just oponcd their Beoond shipment of ladies' and ohildrens' jackets, Fronoh millinery, maokintoshes, dress goods, glov.os, corsets, and eto, All kinds ol seasonable drap?ry, also an unusual large shipment of mens' and boys'clothing from tho host manufacturers in the colony. Wo shouH advise an early call to get tho first pick.—Aovr. We bog to notify that tho Mowing lines of Messrs Book 4 Co., Manufacturing Clieniiats cau be obtained at the W.F.C.A.'s Fancy Goods Department :-Non Mercurial p.atiDß fluid Is M unsurpassed for cleaning gold or silver and re-plating brass and copper, Book's Wateaproof Cement, price Is, will resist hot or cold water and repair china, glass, delf, leather eto., eto. CaniphyI 6 ""* Mis, in neat air-tight jars containing 18 balls, price Is to keep moths cut of wo limit, also a perfect disinfectant. Herb Extract price Is an infalliablo cure for toothache guaranteed not injurious to the teeth or nsatth; it stops the most acute pain immediatloy, and proves a permanent cure in nearly all oases whew tho teeth are hollow, German cure for corns and warts price is tine famous Remedy will speedily and painJcesly cure soft or hard corns, also warts, bunions and chilblains,-The Wairanpa Farmors Co-operative Association Ltd. Anvr..