LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4781, 24 July 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of the Masteiron JjOFOUgli Council will be held tin's cron-

We remind our readers of the Wcslcyan Sixpenny Concert this evening. The laic Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of llngland, wouldn't have clergymen on criminal juries,

In Sydney , white shirts arc being washed, starched, andiroiicd for 2s per dozen; large tablecloths and sheets the same price.

A fatal caso of influenza is rcpoitc'd from Dunedin. Tlio victim was a young man named P. 0. Neil, well Known in the city.

Diphtheria is prevalent h Auckland. Kerosene, used as a gargle, or for painting the throat and tonsils, is given as a most effectual remedy. _ Lady Glasgow has left oii her reirai journey to New Zealand via America.

~ excavatio'JS on the banks of the JNilc (says an exchange) led to the discovery of a tomb 5030 years old, wlucii contained, besides a mummy statues.of servants, both male and female, who bore on their shoulders packages which had been filled with provisions for tho master's use when the soul returned to his body. Three thousand Italian Anarchists are to found a residence in Africa. After they settle down their villiifc should prove n nice quiet place for persons who wish to enjoy a few months' holiday,

August Busshc, aged fifty-seven, one of abate h of prisoners sent down from Mildura for sly grog selling, dropped dead m the Bendigo gaol yard.

During twenty years rcsidenco iu thccobmcs I haven't scon so much misery, wretchedness and poverty as at the present time," Thus the ltev. Mv Pnfcrson in St. Paul's Clmrch, "Ifapic:. Whileinlaying poker, a mail in Oklahoma (U.S.) drew four aces, Ho.licsame so excited that he dropped dead o f I hcai t disease,

! The balance sheet ol the Maslciion -borough Council, for the year ended March 31st 181)!, is circulated .with this issue,

lhc New South Wales clip of wool lor the past season is returned by the Customs as 002,023 bales.

Mr J. A. .Wallace, ofQuat Quatta, Aibni'y, nit,mis putting down oOW acres under )neorno,;vitk the view of fattening stock for export as frozen meat. Sheep in New South Wales at 31st December last were as follows :-Jiams, 706,355: ewes. 2!,895,703; Wethers, 19,'195,275j lambs,. 11,793,355; total. 511,980,088,

At the Bisley shooting meeting, Private Hennie, of the Third Lanark llcgimcnt, won the Queen's Prize. The New Zealand Shipping Shares arc in demand. The half-year closed on the 30th of June, and it is clear that knowing ones expect a dividend. The shares are £8 paid up, and buyers are offering 50s, so that it will be seen I hat a dividend of even 3 per cent, will give a return of i)l : on the market value.— Press,

Lite Hamilton correspondent of the New ZmJftnd Ihrahl reports that a peculiar circumstance in connection with the recent burning of the lioyal Hotel was_ the finding among the dtirit, later on in the ■morning, of tho charred remains (veritable ashes) of a roll of one pound notes, seventeen iu number, belonging to Miss Grouse, a young lady who was slaying at the hotel that night. The notes had been carefully rolled up and placed in a workbox. Th'cy were found as rolled up, and the ashes of the notes can be clearly identified through a strong magnifying glass as mostly being what is known as the last of No. i issue of Hie Dank of New Zealand, one National Bank, and one Union Bank note being also among the number. Unfortunately, nouc of the numbers of these notes arc at all discernible, and it is extremely doubtful whether Miss Grouse will obtain aiiy coinpcnsation for those destroyed.

Sir Julius Yogel, in a letter to a personal friend at Wellington by the last San Francisco mail, saysl think things are on the mend here and elsewhere, The production of gold has been increasing during the last few years, until now'it has reached a production equal to that of the early ' fifties '—the palmiest days of California mid Victoria. There is yet, way to be made iip-tlierc | is still distrust arising from the prodigious losses of the last few years, and, what is worse, a great many losses tO i bo written off. But I am ninth mistaken (provided the large yield of gold continues) if there will not soonsay, within three years—bo a fierce boom and many years of prosperity. Gold-edged securities are so high that attention must be soon turned to the silver-gilt ones, The change may come gradually or suddenly—thei-e is no bowing. Tlio rise of silver and of produce ought to lead the way. If, as I expect, wool rises, there will lie great prosperity m New Zealand—agricultural produce will follow and the price of land rise." Sir Julius is a slireivd judge, remarks the Post, and his forecast is dc- 1 cidedly encouraging. A lengthy letter signed by E, W' Kill and E. Hume," on behalf of the members of the Women's' Political Club and others," has been handed to Dr. Newman, M'.11.1!, It speaks of the recent Bill before the House to give women the right of sitting in Parliament, " not as an end in itself, but as a means, to an end." .It states that the most urgently important feature of the Bill was that itwouldgive to women the right to command the same value for the same amount of work ' as performed by inns, "Until this Bill passes," it conliuues, "the value of woman's.labour will contimio to be less than'fhatof man,, and herein is done the greatest injustice towoman. Can you in justice demand from the weaker sex the same amount of . work dono by tho stronger sex at:a less wftgoP 'No, no, no 1"- It concludos by thanking Dr. Newman, tlio Premier and all those members of the Hoiiso whoso sympathy had been with thoso who sought to give to womou tho right of legislating, ■ , ..

lf\ ckcd ■ sthe ,bai'bodJ<|i(K)teusc<l|iA -,'fijsteiiing the coverings oKtno jNijw ®alaiffl frozen meat iiro pAfwo reraiiifiiu tlio meat, thus endangering -thftliVcs of tlic consumers.

An official report states flint a party of Malays surprised a Spauish detachment in Mindanao, ono of tlio Philippine Islands, and killed 14 and wounded 47 boforo' being finally.repulsed.. ...',

• Jordan, the coloured man who was arrested on tliri charge; of being concerned in tho murder, of tha woman Hicks, at Melbourne, 'with- whom lie had been living, has been.found guilty and sentenced to death.

Tims Poverty Bay Herald—" If ■ the principle of invoking the aid of the! law bil'cvcry trivial matter is to be carried to such an extcat as at present appears possible, we may wake'up solne morning and find our .sapient legislators have passed a 'coihpulsory Porridge Eating Bill, Consumption of Tea and Coffiej Limitation Bill, Oysters and Stout Abol'iion Bill," Go to Bed at'Ninc O'clock, or some orliei; equally absurd and 'irritating measure."

Speculators aro showitganittclinalion to dabble in Union Steam shares, ia antieipalion of a rise following tho adoption of free tvade iu Sydney, aid cohsoquent full cargoes,— Mmmi Press, Says Cimstchurch Interest charged by pawnbrokers, pooh, that's only a flea-bile compared to what some people expect their victims to pay,'although our. paternal Govcimnentis'dcvoting legislation to it. Here's sonictlpng (o think about: —Twenty-five pounds borrowed two years ngn. Since thai seventy-live pounds paidas interest on it, And now the amount claimed as still owing is the original sum borrowed plus twelve pounds more interest.

The resumption of extoiisivo shipments of horses to India Trill be tlio probable outcome of the new arrangement made by tlie Indian Government, that is, to pay £-15 on demand in London for " Wnlcrs" sent as remounts to India. In explanation of the word " Wnler," it mny be saicltlmt it used to stand for " Mew South ■ Walevs," and the stampof horse forwarded from that colony is still the standard in India. Hence the common use of the word MVakv"

, Pope, a New Australian at Buenos A) res lias received a lciter from Paraguay dated towards the end of June, to the effect that the adherents of Lane tho chief admlnistivitor intho NcwAustvalian settlement in Paraguay, then intended to migrate into the Argentine. Tlic letter slates that the pcopleof Gongalez aro nearly starving and unless assistance is rendered they must descend to the level of the natives.

Mark Twain was oil a lecturing toiir in America. The town was a little outside, the borders of civilisation; the chairman of the evening knew nothing about the lecturer, liad never heard of liiin ; it was in the earliest of Mark's lecturing days. "Ladies and gentlemen", said the chairman; "It is my duty to introduce to you the lecturer of the evening, Mr Mark Twain. The only thing that I know of him is that lie has never been in our gaol, and I am bound, at the same time, to add that I don'tkuow why he hasn't-!" . -

HerrDowe, the inventor of the socalled bullet-proof coat, wrote to the London 'Hmts on Juno 3rd offering to forfeit the purchase money to anyone who buys his coat if it contains iron or steel. Mr Maxim claims to have produced a liglilcr and equally as effective clolli as HerrDowe's, and declares the whole subject of bullet-proof clothing a farce. His prepared stool, ho sav*, is the best substance in the world for •si opping bullets. Mr Maxim adds, in a Idler to the Tim w. that he lias sufficient evidence to convince him Hint Heir Dowe's invention contains a hard plate.

A Baltimore woman was watching from a window the trolly cars as they passed bv her house. Suddenly a vivid electrical Hash was seen under one of the cars. Its brilliancy was so great that it paralysed tho woman's-oplic nerves, and there appears to he little hope of her ever recovering her sight, Tlic catapult nuisance is becoming unbearable in Masterton. Several residents complaiuof narrowly escaping injury, and this morning a lady was struck in Queen street with a . missile from one of these dangerous inventions, The police should keep an eye on offenders in this direction.

Uje llor L. M. Isitt passed through Napier on Sunday, en route for Auckland where it is Lis intention to devote himself to temperance work for the next three months. It is satisfactory to know (says the Herald) that Mr Isitt has considerably benefitted in health by Jus Australian trip. Considerable sensation was caused in Madrid on Sunday June 27th, by the death of the celebrated prima espada Esparlero, at a bull light. The fame of Espartcroas a matador, coupled with the usual provision in the way of spectacle, liad drawn a very largo assemblage to the bull-ring. Whilst, however Esparlero was in the very act of finishing the bullfight by plunging his sword into the animal's neck just over the shoulder, the bull succeeded in goring matador so terribly thatlic died witlun a few moments. Esparfcro'swontcdnerre and sureiicsa of eye had not forsaken him, and both bull and man expired at the same time. The incident has occasioned little less excitement than the death of a Cabinet Minister, for Espartcro was well known throughout the whole of Spain as a toreador. A good many letters come to members of Parliament during (lie session, Here is the address of one of the latest, says (he Times"Tolhc Hon John Stevens, the member for liangitiki, crown land and survc department, labour Burue, Wellington."

ihc Sydney Referee suggests that New South Wales and Queensland should combine to send a team to New Zealand, The writer says a first-class fifteen could be chosen to represent New South Wales in Sydney, but for an extended tour Ihc backs arc not (juitcelass enough to oppose the best of the Maoriland backs.

Another old Wairarapa resident has passed away, in the widow of the late Jiichard Collins of To Ore Ore. The late Mrs Collins some dozen years ago lived at Masterton in the house now occupied by Mr W. If. Bcctham, and has many personal friends in this town, besides the older settlers who knew her in the earlier years when shcrcsidcd at To Ore Ore. Mrs Collins died at Nelson and her remains were brought to Masterton last night, and will lie at St. Matthew's Church until Thursday next, when tlio funeral ivill take place. We notice in the window of Messrs Hounslow and Hoar a large oil painting of considerable merit, which, ; we are told, is from the brush of Mrs Nicholls, a lady artist well-known in Masterton as a daughter of MrDalrymple. The scene depicted isaplacid river flowing through a giaut bush, with a magnificent mountain range in the background. It is eminently typical of one of the most beautiful aspects of bush scenery, and will well repay a visit. A Glasgow paper furnishes some curious information about Lord Eosebery, who, it seems,, "was bom on tlid 7th of May; the year of his 'birth ' was 1847; lie is 47 years of age; the Derby was the seventh race won by Ladas;; the horse was the soventh on the race card ■ and there were only seven horses run! ning." And lord Kosebcry's father was born on the 14th, his second son on the 14th, the family'was ennobled iu 1700, and raised to an earldom jn 1703, while a seat was; given in the' Peerage of the United Kingdom in '2B. last past, ;

Mr Burt, manager of. the N.Z. Far. mcrs' Dairy..Union,, and Mr D. H, Eoberts, Secretary, have been paying: a visit of inspection t? tho various centres of the .Union's operations. Mr Burt to-day, pogged.'out the, site for.the FerhI'idgo factory, trailers for which will bo j dealt with immediately on his return to iPaloerstoa North.

Mr J. M. Glasgow, Government Audi| tor, i« at present in Masterton, 1 ' A telegraph station Coolgardie, western Australia; | Meetings of creditorsin of, P. Hastio and P. Carr, a| Masterton next Saturday horning. ' There woro 51 saloon aud 29 steerage passengers by tho Taluno, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney yesterday morning. ■; ; An advertiser requires a r good,"'Steady single man cook. At tiio Masterton jßpljr||t]ij( morning, before Mr T. ECPrlce.X|'.i a first offender was cautione'd-acd- discharged. ii'Wo remind our readers, of Lowes and lorn's stock salo to-morrow (Wednesday),, at 1 .o'clock, at their licnall Street yards, :Mnsterton. 0 The entries comprise 500 owes iu lamb; 134 full-mouth ewes; 100 hoggets; 150 fat and forward sheep; To wcancrs to 15 months old; 20 fat and forward bullocks; C cows coming to 2nd calf, aud 20 head of mixed cattle. The Masterton agent of'the Labour Bureau reports: -"Thercare a large number of idle men in the district."

Tho Masterton Ambulance Society is m a very flourishing condition, there being 70 members On tho list.-; 1 ,

MrE. W. Payton'lias been elected President of the Auckland Society; of Arts. This is the. first occasion on which the position has been >filled byi an artist. Sir George Grey held the office last year.

During last week- two male- aud one female patients were admitted to the Masterton Hospital, and two discharged. Therc are now soveu patients in tho institution.

The -N,Z. Farmers' Dairy/Umbiris. adding freezing and cool chambers to the Palraerston North Factory, and also more powerful machinery, New creameries at Sandon and other places'are also contemplated. At last night's meeting of tlio Ambulance Society, Mr B. Dolaii was.elected Secretary of the Society in place of Mr, Astull, who is leaving for England, !'

Tho traffic from .tho Masterton railway station during'the last month has been very slack, only 75,000 feet of timber having been forsvarded. Tho N, Z. Farmers' Dairy Union will erect new creameries this year at Tokomairo, Shannon, Manakau and probably at Levin andTawa Flat, A largo doublo creamery, between. Kaiwaiwai and Feathcrston is to be erected, where it. is exnccted 2,000 gallons of milk per day will be worked, At the Masterton Ambulance Society's weekly meeting last night, Dr Butcmont delivered a 'leeturo on "liespiratiou" dealing at length with, the best means o£ restoring the droiracd, those who have fainted, and those attacked by choking fits. ■ Tlic attendance was very large and the lecturer was listened, to with groat interest by all present, At the meeting of the North Waira-. rapa Liberal Association last evening, a letter was read from tlio proprietor of the Daily Tmks, asking leave to send a reporter to the meetings of tlio Association when questions of public interest were being discussed. The Secretary was instructed to write in reply, that although the Association see no. groat objection tocomplying with his request, it might lend to prevent members speaking on tho questions in which they were interested, and so cause them to become indifferent. Therefore his request could not be complied with. The Wellington Butter Factory, to be erected closo to tho Manawatu liailway Slation, by the N.Z. Farmers' Dairy Union, will be oue of the largest,ana most complete in New Zealand. Freezing chambers, capable of holding fifty lons or butler will he attached, and all the creameries on tlic Manawatu Company's lino will be worked from it. Mr Burl, the manager of the Union, informs us that this step has been taken owing to the largo local trade, Wellington contracts amounting to no less to 5,0001b of butter per week. It is exncctod that tho Wellington factory will be supplied by twelve creameries.

The Customs officials mid police made a raid on a public-house at Lyttclton on Thursday morning and secured some 200 cigars which it is alleged have not { paid duty. ! -Included in Hie cargo ofthcs.s, Maori ; King, which called at Wellington, <n " route from Sydney 'to London, are 20 bullocks, shipped from Sydney for Loui don,'for speculative purposes, by a Sy:lney firm, the first experiment made in the carriage of lire cattle from Aus- i tralia to England. The animals, which l are magnificent specimens, are comfortably housed oil deck. ! Jules Verne's fascinating romance " Twenty Thousand Leagues under the t Sea" gives an account of a submarine i tcsscl which was utilised to explore the wonders of the submarine world. A Sydney inventor lias constructed a similar vessel that can be made to sink instantly under water and rise again to the surface, to proceed at any speed up to 30 knots at any depth below the surface, and remain submerged for eight hours at a stretch, At the Natatorium tlie other day a trial of a model, l-16th of the size of the actual vessel, was|madc before Admiral Bowdcn Smith, who expressed both surprise aiid delight at the results achieved,—Exchange. The Niiliowil Aiiti-bclling League of London commenced, on June 11, tlio llrst of the threatened series of prosecutions of racehorse owners, managers,and book-makers. The suit was against the lessees of the Northampton racecourse and a bookmaker doing business. Though the Court dismissed the suit against the lessees, the' bookmaker was fined 'los. Always on the look out for bargains. Our Mr Hooper struck oil last week. Just read a few (it our purchases and note our intoa» liouslC pieces flannelette bought for 3Jd wo shall soli at 3Jcl, 15 pieces ditto bought for 4Jvt wo slmll sell at tjd. 100 pairs white blankets bought for 7s 9d wo shall soil at 7s lid, 20 pieo.'s whito flannels ■ bought for OJd we shall retail at lijd per 1 yatd, 1760 yaids dross stuff b-jughtat 4s 3d ' yard we slmll part with thorn at 4s Od jard, i a clearing lino of ladies ulsters aiid mantles j nearly given away we shall quit them on the same terms, 57 men'B colonial tweed suits . bought for 21s we shall sell at 22s od, 31 1 men's macinhsh coals bought at 21s, any- i ono can liavo them for 22s Od each. Also a f lot of hosiery, men's hate, and several other lines, bought at half their value, wo shall quit them at the same rates, L. J, Hooper f & Co., BonMarcho. • ! Wo beg to notify that tlio following lines 1 of Messrs Bock & Co., Manufacturing i Chemists can be obtained at the W.F.C. A.'s ' Fancy Goods Department Non Mercurial i plating fluid Is Od unsurpassed for cleaning • gold or silver and re-plating brass and J copper, Bock's Wuteaproof Cement, price 1 Is, will resist hot or cold water and repair < china, glass, delf, leather etc., etc. Camphy. , lone Balls, in neat air-tight jars containing i 18 balls, price Is to keep moths out of clothing, also a perfect disinfectant,- Herb ' Extrnot price 1a an iofalliablo euro for tooth- f ache guaranteed not injurious to the teeth of t health; it slops the most aouto pniu faj. • mcdiatloy, and proves a permanent ouro in 1 nearly all cases whore tho teeth are hollow I German cure for corns and warts price Is I ( thk famous Remedy will speedily and pain; - Jcssly euro soft or bard corns, also wartsbunions and chilblains,-Tho Wairarapa ■ Farmers Co-operative Association, Ltd Asvr. t

"It's an ill wind that blows nobody booil ißan old saying but none the less truo Whilst tho great depression existing in Sydney at tho present time has caused a deplorable amount of misery yet the peopl of .Wellington and tho surrounding districts will: reap a gigantior beneat. During his visit to Sydney rocontly, Mr James Smith 1 purchased at absurdly low prices a large sock which is now being sold at the Whoiesalo Family Warehouse. To Aio House, Wellington, With a view tomaking this sale the event ol the year, two special buyers were dospatohedfrom Te Aro House to.Christohuroh one to attond the great sale of Edwards BcnneH and Co's wholesale stook.-.'ankthe other to' piokoutbargauis'fronrthe manuof the well'knomKaiapoi Woollen Co.. Both\'fliese,'geritlemeh.liave retiurne'd after a moafsticdesaful trib, and tho totalresults of their efforts is to be seen in the astonishing bargains now being sold at tho Wholesale Family Warehouse, To Aro Howe, Wellißßton,—A»>t -