LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4792, 6 August 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Yesterday proved another unpleasant Sunday, being cold and showery. Two or three small disputes amongst Maoris occurred in, (Jural street on Saturday evening,'' hut the police wero oil the alert to prevent any disturbance. An unusually large mimberof Natives were in Masterton 011 Saturday, and some of them appeared to have been indulging pretty freely in strong drink. _ The east of characters in the production of" The Sorcerer" by tlio jfnstcr- . ton Operatic Society has not yet been filially arranged, Messrs Chamberlain Bros, of the Masterton Flour Mills, are making further additions of the latest improved flour milling machinery to their already extensive plant. ■ An English mail, per Kaikoura, will close at Masterton on Tuesday, August 7th, and a 'Frisco mail on Thursday, August Dili, both at 0.30 a.m.

•Mr J. Charlton, the well-known piano timer, is now on his regular visit to tlio Masterton district. Orders may be left with Mr li.T. Holmes.

Masterton Ambulance Society meets this evening.

The services at St Matthew's Church yesterday wore conducted by Mrli. Brown. . . •

We have received an official copy of the Hon. J. G. Ward's heavenly budget appropriately bound in skybluc, DrNowmanhas tabledaqueslion asking whether Government would consider the advisability of creating a State monopoly of tobacco, the proceeds to go to an old ago pension fund, the shine as has recently been instituted in Switzerland.

A Duncdin butcher told the. Committee on the Public Abattoirs Bill this morning that the Jewish ltabbi at Duncdin, condemns 25 per cent of the old wethers- slaughtered, as unlit for food for bis people. . • , Some larrikin threw a stone through one of the windows at the Mnstcrton Salvation Barracks last evening while the service was proceeding. The low hills near Mnsterton; were covered with snow yesterday. The balance-sheet of the Woodville Jockey club shows receipts amounting to £133013s 'ld and expenditure £11)0-1 'is Bd, which gives a dear profit of £272 8s 8d; and monies due to the Club £l7 14s, which makes a gross profit of £320 2s 8d Tho actual cash balauco to the Club's credit is £772 10s 3d. A woman has been admitted to the Christchurch Hospital, suffering'from injuries caused by a bite from a monkey,

A rather peculiar accident happened to Willie Meliac, tlie 13 year old son of Mr Mcliae of Stroiivnr,ncar Braucepctli lust Wednesday. Young Meliac was attending to sheep on the run, and in attempting to jump crcok, his legs became entanglcdii a bag lie was carrying, and ho foil, a sheatli-kiiifo iu the bag inflicting a nasty cut at the back of his knee-joint, from which he bled very freely. Dr Henry Spralt attended the sufferer, and he is now doing well,

Poiipn Prole imd oilier citizens of AdoInldp recently lrrofc to Jjiclgc Bundey protesting Ugainsj; the publication of evldenco in a divoreo onsp which was liding heard, as they averred such a thing would be morally disastrous, His Honour replied that he sympathised with the writers, but could not coerce the press.

The present time seems to bring out all our local invcirtivo talent, especially' m the race for stump extractors. Mr li, Burton is patenting a new invention for the purpose, which can be worked by manual labour or by steam-power where the conditions nrc suitable. A public trial of, flip "Eclipse" stumping machine is advertised to bp given on Wednesday next, I at Messrs Lowes and lornj? sale yards.

t Meesra L. J. Hooper and Co. have pur- , enormous disoojunts, a JargQ por- : lion o! llessrs Jjiwards, Bennett and'Oo.'s t wholesale .Btqpjt (rpfli CJirißjtchuroh, and will , offer .tho pijrchgso witji the bakn.ce of their , winter goads qh Saturday. Jaly 2§th. fiver; ! artiojo in tlje BQn Marchi will be marked down, and our readers may expect some Great Bargains, —Advt, ' , We bpg to notify tlwHlio following lines of' Messrp J3oelf & C<)., Kunutactnring ChomUts oan be obtained at tlio W.P.C.A.'a Fancy Goods Department:-Non Mercurial plating fluid Is fld unsurpassed for cleaning gold or silver and re-plating brass and copper, Book's Watenproof Cement, price Is, will resist hot or cold water and repair chiDa, glass, delf, leather eto,, eto, Camphylene Balls, in neat air-tight jars containing 18 balls, price Is to keep moths out of clothing, also aper/ect disinfectant, ,3Jerb Extract price Is an iafalliab'e cure for toothache guaranteed not injurious to the teeth of health; it stops tho most acuto pain hnmediatley, and proves a permanent cure in nearly all oasos where the teeth are hollow, German cure for corns and warts prico Is • this famous Remedy will speedily and pain; 'lessly cure soft or hard corns, also wartsbunions and chilblains,—The Wairarapa Farmers Co-operative Association, Ltd Advt. •' i " It's'an illwind thatblows nobody good," is an old spying: but none the less true Whilst the great depression raisting in Sydney at the presont time has caused a deplorable amount of misery yet tho people of Wellington and the surrounding'distriols will reap el 'gigantip benefit, During his visit lo gydnoy recontly, Mr James Bmitfi purchased nt'atsurdly low prices a larga stock which .'is now being sold at the Wholesale 'Family Warehouse. Te Aro House, Wellington. : . With a view toinaking this'salo the event of tjieyear, two special buyers : wero desAro House to Christohurch one to attend tho great sale of Edwards, Bennett aod Co's wholesale stock, and the other to pick out bargains from the manufacturers of the well-known Kaiapoi Wool- 1 len Co';> B.oth these gentlemen nave re-' • turned nfter:a.mqst sucoes'sful . trip, and the } totalresqllß of tffeir'eifforfs is'to be seen in ' tho astonishing bargains ngw being sold at J tho Wholesale Family Warehouse. <T Aro £ Houe,?, W#gton,-Af)jir s

At StMatthow'B Church yesterday in spito of badiTrcatlior, fair congrcgatioiis assembled. 1 ; Services were conducted by Mr E , Brown, ,Mr: D. E," Eobinson reading tho lessons.: Messrs Lowes and lornsadd 130owqs in lamb, 50 owes and 10 sprmgiug heifers to' their Masterton Stock. Sale. Mr Wilson, a recent• arrival from Scotland, conducted tlio sen-ices yesterday at the Masterton Presbyterian Church, owing to tlio indisposition of tlio Boy li. Wood, Despite tho unpleasant weather, there was a fairly largo, congregation;., at each ser- . rice. 'ln tlio morning' Mr Wilson preached on "Sanctification." As Mr liobert McKay was riding along Queen Ftreet at about 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, his horso collided ■with a'cab which was being driven in an . opposite direction, Mr McKay was thrown to tho ground, and received some rather, severe,,wounds- about the temple which' we're attended to by Dr llosliing. ; - A handsome residence consisting of eleven rooms, is to be built in Sussex Street, Masterton, for Mr Lionel Caselberg. Tlie plans have been 1 prepared by Mr Geo. K Bond, architect of Masterton, under whoso supen-ision the building will be erected; Tenders for, the work are invited ill this issiio to close on Wednesday,tho 15 th instant. . A former resident of Christcliuroh writing from Buenos Ayrcs to a friend in,the Cathedral City, says that: "auy New Zoalauder thinking of leaving New Zealand for tlio New Australia should bo sent and detained in Sunny side Lunatic Asylum, to prevent his doing himself and his family an irreparable injury." ■

' Tlietotalnniount ndTanccd to tlio village homestead settlers since tho beginning of the system to the end of March last was £25,318. During that time tlio rent and interest rccoircd was £13,403. Tlio arrears of rent and interest at tho j end of March last amount to £2212. The value of improvements now on the land is £70,000. On tlio- co-operative works: near Makuri township, the minimum wago per day was 3s Bd, the maximum 9s 8d aud the avorago 5s 9(1. The minimum on the Makuri, Makairo, Towai, and Maugatoro roads was is sd, aud the maximum 10s Id, the average being. 7s. Captain Turner states that on the contracts under his charge, somo of the men's wages have been as low as 3s <ld per day aud some as high as lis; and as in all cases the works uro estimated so as to enable the men to earn as nearly as poss\blo tho same wage, ho attributes the discrepancy to the want' of experience on the part of those previously used to very light employment The Inspectors report that (luring tho year the men have conducted themselves exceedingly well— Times.