LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4757, 26 June 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Another very sharp frost was experienced in Masterton last night.

The Wairarapa District Court sits at Masterton to-morrow, Juno 27th. Stoddart has asked Eichardson the Surroy bowler, to join his tcamfor Australia.

Grass i 9 ; rc]iovtc(l to.lj o jotter throughout tha'u'iforyears ~-piistj 'iat this: "season of the year. i Mj 1 P. H.' Wood will sell by public j auction, on July 11th, a small farm property situato on 'Ward's'Lino, Morrisoii'.s Biisli. .Particulars appear elsewhere,

Dr Newman wants to know "why tho fourth quai tor's abstract of the national roTcrinc and expenditure has been retnjncd for priyfttc'usc by Ministers, lind 'nofc' : pnblisned for .tho behofit-.of: the colony." i. vV < y *.••!

No liccuso is necessary.', iri;;England fora dog kept'and-.uscd'soioty by-a blind person for his or her giiidanco.

Tho wife of a hatter- at: Carlisle 'had four infants at a birth recently, all girls, three of whom arc livjng; Eleven months ajjo she had twin's, making six children within a year. ■

A meeting was hold ; in Christchurch last wci>k under the auspices of flic Progrcssivo LibcrnrAssocinlioii, to consider the question of a State Bank. It was decided that the committee of tho Association, should send circulars, upon .the' matter to eighty bodies throughout the colony, and that a public meeting should ho held iii Clivistdmrcli to advocate a Stato bank of issue.

' A twelve hours' walking match, for £25 a-side, takes place on July 30th, at Dunedin, between James Scott (brother of the champion). Fred Bowcn, and James Tolley,(of Invcrcargill),

Before cancelling nil arrangements on account of what is uclieved to be cancer in the nose, Mrs Lnnglry, "the Jersey Lily" was under articles to act in Mcrt Buchanan's now play, at £IOO per week.

A woman drove up to the Club Hotel Kaiwnrra, on Saturday, and having asked for drinks for herself and the cabman, tendered a coin and received nine shillings inchango. Sonic time after tho woman had gone Mrs Manson discovered tliat tho coin she had taken

as a half-sovereign' 'was only a now faithing of' 1893 coinage—Press. Lee, one of the Barraba murderers requested to see Mrs M'Kay wile of the victim.; Hctold her that her husband had acted bravely but foolishly in defending the property of the bank. He admitted sliootingMrM'Kayaecidcutally during tho struggle, and asked her to oxcrt her influence to saveCummings. ' The Hon. B. Pharazyn is asking the Attorney-General to abolish tho locking up of juries for indefinite periods.

Mr Buchanan is again urging the amendment of the Hospital and Cliaritable Aid Act.

Severe shocks of' earthquake have been experienced at Yokohama and Tokio, Several natives wero killed and injured aud great damage was done to property in all directions. The attention of our readers is directed to the advertisement in this issue, in which it is announced that Mr C. W. Walker has opened a large stock of boots and shoes in premises next to Messrs Hooper and Co., Queen Street Masterton. The stock has been particularly well selected, and we have no doubt that the proprietors will receive a share of publio patronage. :

According to the Lyttclton Times the Minister for Lands has determined to reintroduce the bill of last session giving the management of education reserves to land boards acting under the advice of the Minister.

Tho Mont d'Or washings for the eight' weeks nmount to 300 ozs, 1 dividenuof Is per share has been declared.—Hecfton Times, ''

Tlicro are ninety men in llio Scots Guards avcragiug six feet two and a half inches in height. Not one is under six feet, and twelve are six feet four inches.

Archibald Forbesls of opinion that the war iu Europe which so many believe to be impending will not occur until 1896. To prevent the misuse of typewriters, tho llichmond Borough Council is urging the Victorian Government to introduce a bill requiring all such machines to be registered, a fee paid by all who use them, and the registered 'number of each roaehincplaccdon all matterwritteu witli it, Tho member who moved in the matter snid. his object was to protect the public against tho anonymous circiu lationof offensive typewritten documents.

Says the London'correspondent of the " Press '•" The town of Wolverlumipton iu|]|e' Black Country' enjoys a new sporf, introduced by the colliers, that of a flight between a rat lied to a pej; in tho middle of a table and a man with his hands secured behind his back. The man bit the rodent to death with his .tooth, but received many wounds from the little animal before he accomplished it." Says tho JMcfrn;—As illustrating an iniquitous aspoot of distress for rent—nt a recent Sydney " distress "lalea piano, bought new two years ago for £lO5, was knocked down for £lO at a sale where morocco-covered dining • room . chairs realised a shilling a-piecc, Dr. Lavinge, medical superintendent of the Stinnysido Lunatic Asylum, is about to leave for England on a' holiday. Daring his absence his duties will be discharged by Dr. Hassell. An extraordinary case of sudden death occurred in Molbourno' on a recent Saturday afternoon. Thomas Kallard employed by a corn merchant, had received his wages from tho accountant, and having counted (ho money had remarked that it was 5s too much,when lie fell on the floor of the ollieo aud died immediately. A meeting of the Mastcrton Liberal Association was held last evening, in the Foresters' Hall, There was a good attendance of members present,anda great aniojmt of interest lata) in the prqceed ; ings, The whole of the q|ocps pf flip association were "declared vacant and new officers were elected as follows : Mr A. W. Jlogg, Patron j Mr Baiiinbcr, President; Messrs,!. Yates and Hughes, Vice-Presidents i Mr D, S.!Papworth, See,; and a Council of nine members, A largo amount of discussion arose over, the, status ofmcmbershipandthe general government of the Association. It wiis resolved that ah address on some important, subject should bo given at every, meeting, of tho Association. : TJic address for hext meeting mil be on " Municipal and Local .Government.", 1

"It's ail ill wind that blows nobody' good" is an old saying but nono the loss true Whilst . the great depression taming in Sydney otthejresent time has caused a deplorable amount of misery yetthe people of WclHngi'on'and thoßurropdin'g districts' will reap, a gigantic benefit. .Daring his visit.tojjydney recently, Ur James Smith absurdly low prices a large atock wjtiioli is now being soM.aUho Wholesale : Fafiiily Warehouse, To Aro Housei yelliogton. '". h • hi-;.-. the went of {he year,Hwospecial 1, buyers', were '.^egone'lb attend the great's^le-o| 'Edwards, HepßcttahdGo'a whqleaftle other to piok out bargains from: thq itiariufacturersof the well-known Woollen Go, Both tjieso gentlemen havo re'turned after a most'Moessiui irip; and the total results of their efforts Is to be seen in the astonishivg bargains now being sold at the ffholegalo Family Warehouse, Te Aro Horn Winston, ~A#Ui

,: ffhts J ioUdcdod^o^minoraland bonr to. tho Austin; of shortly bff;ifraiW«l '■ iiii theSchscsf aup])lied by Carterton, will' cbnduct'*Wm«3"iit'St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, on tho second Sunday in July. Tlio Bulletin speaks, not of Mount Huxloy, hut Mount Honxlcy, ill alluding to tho M wilted "; Tasmanian gold mine. ■ ..iThc sea dii.ring.lnst week has had: a greator force-,thaii- has been observed for tho past sixteen years at papier,.,,. '

" Onoof the New'Aus-t-ralia stigmatises the settlement as " ono of tho most disorderly scrambles; ho..ltyg ever seen in a pretty varied oxpefiellflo" of tliis little world. j

The first and second fifteens of tlio To Ore Ore Club will meet for practice a .yi lo ,Topre Ore grouud oh Thursday at2. p.m. " !" « invited by >tho tipper Taueru Hond Board, for tlio 'survey of 3| miles of tlio Mungapurapurp, Bowl, for the purpose of forming tlio sitmo for cart- tralllc. :<

We remind our ■ -'mulcts i of Messrs Lowes audlorns' usualfortniglilly stock talc to be held at their Itonall Strcot yards, Mastcrton', I to-morrow (Wednesday) at 1 'o'clock;; ; !!ib ; cntri6s comprise 2?0 ewcs'iu lamb,: 325 l .cra, 300 fat owes, 325 fat wethers, 200! lambs,ll fat cows, 4 fat bullocks, 3 dairy Icows, and 1 horse, cart and harness, also on nccounUf Mr Win. Fleming of Asliliurtoii', 2 draught geldings and 1 GUy, Tlio Mastcrton Operatic Society will hold a rehearsal in thoTcmp'cranco Hall to-nionw evening, During the four wocks ended tho 23rd of June, ,83 head of tattle, 5000 sheep and 85,000 feet of timber were forwarded from the Mastcrtoii Railway Station. , i Tlio will of tlio l(ito Sir James Stoplioii in : .ivluch ho disposed of £21,603,' was concise, and to tho point. ,It ran as follows ".This, is my • last will. I giro all my property to myvi-ifo; whom I uppoint my solo executrix." A meeting of uuomploycd, attended by 59 men, representing 109 children,was held yesterday morning nt Napier, Tlio men promised to again urge upon tlio ' Government tho immediate necessity of something being done to relieve the destitution, ,

In view of dismissal of Mrs McCalluni, on the charge of fortune-tolling,the other oases will not be proceeded with at the Auckland Supreme Court. An 18-gallon keg of tlio whiskey niauufactui'ed at the Gollan's Valley still, has been traced to a Wellington hotel, says tlio i\'. Z, Times. ThoHawko'sßay Ilera'd says that a violent hailstorm passed over Hastings on Sunday evening. The hail lay so thickly upon the ground that it could bo shovelled up. It is believed that the Estimates this year will not contain any iucrcaso of salary to Civil servants, except to cadels. Ingorina, who is entered for tlie Waii--arapa Stcoplechase at the Wairarap Hunt Club meeting, mil be auon-startcr. The Times lias been informed that lie is to bo shipped to Sydnoy this week, Springtime, who is entered for the hack race, will not be a starter cither..' ;

At last flight's meeting of the Masterton Ambulance Society, Dr. Bulomcnt dealt with the : heart, arteries, and in. tcmal and oxtcrnal bleeding, and ho\y to stop it. A practical description of liow to place a tourniquet to' stop bleeding was given.' The meeting was a most successful one, and the lecturer rivettcd I the attention of his audience throughout.

Just boforo the English Budget was brought in the Treasury received on account of spirit (luticsftchcquefoi' £21,000 being the amount due from a single Him in Leith on clearing spirits out of bomb This is said to be the largcstchcpeevcr j drawn for a similar purpose.

hi addition to repairing the Aorangi railway bridge, it is foundnocessary also to protect the approach on,the right bauk. For this work large pieces of rock, each several tons in weight, are' brought from the bed of the Poliangina Hiver, near tho .Gorge, and tipped over the approach!to the.- water's edgo. Tho work of driving tho piles for the new pier is being'earned oh night aiidday.liangitikeiAiwpte,

A child died from tubercle on the brain in Nripicr recently,says the Herald, flic father asked his.medical attendant Low the disorder might bo contracted. The doctor replied that infants frequently contracted tubercle by partaking of milk from a tuberculous cow. -the inspector of nuisances was communicated with. He went to the dairy of thenianwhosuppliedtho milk to the family in wlucli the death occurred, and found a tuberculous coir. It was at , oiice destroyed, but as tho the child was (load (and possibly as other children may have become tuberculous),. it would have been better if tho cow had been killed long before.

A very curious occurrence, has. just taken place in South London. Mr l'omeroy, tho well-known treasurer of Southwark Wcsloyan Mission, has just' beeii elected "people's churchwarden" by the Bermoudsey Vestry! It. is also urcduttio ad absurdum of;the State ■ Church theory, says a contemporary. Here is an ardent Wesleyan Methodist and Dissenter appointed, by an irresistibly popular vote, one of tho chief officers of tho Parish Church.ltis strictly legal, and it is a great advantage to tho Parish Church:to have in that responsible office a real Christian and a friendly Methodist. But it is. none tho less an anomaly, ami n striking illustration of the incongruity and possible peril of tho present unnatural relation between the Episcopal denomination and the State. Mr Pomcroy completed tho comical aspect of the, occasion by appointing as one of his sidesmen a Free Methodist, who is as ardent a Libcratioiiistoskimsclf.

For tho best valuo in drapery, millinery, and olothing, just cast un enquiring optio over the stock ot Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co., ol the Bon Marcho, The firm have just opened their second shipment of ladies' and olnldrens 1 jackets, French millinery, mackintoshes, dress goofy gloves,'corsets! and eto. All kinds of ecaaoDnble draparj, also an unusual largo shipment of imiib' and boys' clothing from tho best manufacturers in the colony. Wo shoul 1 adviso an early call to get tho first pick.-A»vr.

We beg to notify that the following lines of Mesßts Book & Co., Manufacturing , Chemists con be obtained at tho W.F,C.A.'s Fancy Goods Department: -Non Mercurial platiDß fluid Is 64 unsurpassed for oleaning goM : or silver and ro-plating brass and copper, Book's-Watep).of Cement, price Is, will resist hot or c'old wlpr : and repair ! china, : glass, delf,leather eta.j'eto. Caniphy. lone Balls, in neat ajrrtighf jars containing 18 balls, price Is to ,Iteop .motliß out of clothing, also aperfeot disinfectant,.; Herb Extraot price Is an iofajliablo oiiro for tooth- i acbo guaranteeij not in jnrious to (lie teeth or health; jt stops Ihp most aoutc pain ip>. njediatley, am} proves a pennaijeni oure in nearly atl oases where 'the teeth are hollow. German pure fpr corns (ind wnrts.price Is,' i this tainous Bemedy wlli speedily and painlessly cure soft or hard oorns, ilso warts' bunions and oliilblaiuß,—Tho. Wairanpa Farmers. Co-operative Association Ltd. Advt. '