LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4801, 16 August 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wc remind those interested of the Prcsbyteriai Concert at Drovcrton, tomorrow evening,

The South Australian Department of Agriculture is importing flax seed from Kussia.

The Bed Star Football Club's social takes placo tliis evening at the Mastcrton Drill Hall.

The Mastcrton circle of the A.H.E.U. will meet as usual this evening.

Mn*Yining, well-known in Mastcrton, and who was at one time in Mr W. B. Chcnnclls' office, is at present visiting Wellington, nftcr soveral years sojourn in Nelson, where he is organist in the killing church. The Land Tax department gives notice in another column that land tax and graduated tax duties arc payable in one sum on Friday, the 17th day ot August, Tho late Itev Lorenzo Moore was buried at Nelson yesterday. The influenza epidemic is less severe in Mastcrton just now, although many arc still suffering from the complaint The new " bird-cage " carriages for use on the through Wairarapa trains aro approaching completion, and will be available for the bpriug traffic. There will bo one such car on each train, with a third held in reserve.

Mr Joseph Myers, the well-known Secretary of tho Wellington Hunt Club, is a candidate for the City Council. Tho Minister for Education says he has reduced the list of school books to 50, but he is powerless to prevent Education Boards permitting tho uso of hooks not on the list, as some of them arc now doing. Mr Pirani was told yesterday that the reason why the carrying of chaff in L trucks has been abolished-and cattle trucks have been substituted is, that chaff has fallen off the ordinary trucks to the danger of tho trains.

It is currently reported, (saw the Emmmj Fnss) that the Hon. Walter Johnston has been asked to accept, and has accepted, the position of President of the Bank of New Zealand. The appointment is a good one, and will tend to re-establish tho conlidcnco of the public in the institution so far as any presidential appointment can do. [With reference to the abovo the N.Z. Times slatcstlint tho report is declared by the Colonial' Treasurer to be absolutely without foundation.] Tho annual meeting of tlie members of the Wairarapa Trotting Club will be held at tho White Hart Hotel, Carterton on Saturday.

A sleep-walker named James Dear.of South Melbourne, walked through the window ot the upstairs room in which he slept, and fell into tho street below, a distance of 15ft, sustaining injury to spine, and also severe scalp wounds. The new American Tariff Bill has boo" agreed to. Wool remains on the free list. It is asserted that under the measure the Sugar' Trust will mako an immediate profit of £8,000,000. At a meeting of the Committee of tho Mannwatu Baring Club the programme of the annual Summer Meeting was drawn np, the stakes being increased from £B7O to £llOO. The Palmcrston Cup and President's Handicap being raised to £3OO and £2OO respectively. One of the unemployed went into several business places at Grcytown, yesterday (says the Slamkrd), begging a loaf of bread. He had evidently been "in the sun " and had by no means recovered. At one place he was told that if he could afford to get drunk, he could buy_ bread for himself, whereupon lie " winked his other eye," aud showed ' a loaf which he was carrying under his arm and said ho wanted another. He didn't get it. Tho construction of the new Courthouse and of a larger Post Office at Pahiatua is now in hand, and both are to be completed within three months. The former will cost about £I,OOO, and the latter nearly £OOO. The buildings have been designed by an experienced Melbourne architect, Mr 1(, I{. McGregor, who, through the collapse of trndo and the suspension of building operations since the boom subsided, has ken induced to practice his profession in tho more flourishing colony of New Zealand. Besides being the successful competitor with his designs for tho -Pahiatua contracts, Mr McGregor also had drawings accepted for the Ballanco Memorial to be erected in Parliament Grounds, and will arrange for the carrying out of that work as soon as the marble arrives from Italy in a few months time.

Mr Hiloy, of tho Tauhcvcnikau Hotel lost, by death, a valuable brake horse yesterday, says the Slamhml.lt is only a few weeks ago that he was offered £6O for the pair. jDcnth was from stoppage of the bowls. One part of the gut contained quite a handful of saud, a little further on was a hard mass of chaff with about six inches of wire, and a great mass of small worms, quite a quart of them, and farther on still hundreds of botfly larvie. The portion containing! the hot fly larra Mr Bright preserved, and it is now on view at the Working Men's Club. '

Messrs L. J. Hoojper and Co, havo purchased at enormous discounts, a large portion o! taessrs Edwards, Bennett and Co.'s wholesale stock from Christchnroh and will offer the.purcfaaso with the balance of their winter goods on Saturday, July 28ih. Every article in'the lion Maroho will bo marked down, and our readers may expert some Great Bargains, -Advt.

Wo beg to notify that tho following lines of Messrs Book & Co,, Manufacturing Chemists can bo obtained at the W.F.C.A.'s Fancy Goods Department :-Non Meronrial plating fluid Is 61 unsurpassed forolearing 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 etc, eto, Camphylene Balls, in neat air-tight jars containing 18 balls, price Is to keep moths out of olothing, also a perfeot dieinfeotant. Herb Extract price Is an iofalllable cure for toothache guaranteednot injurious to tho teeth of health; it stops the most acute pain immediatley, and proves a pormanent oura in nearly all oases where tho teeth are hollow, German cure for corns and warts prico Is • this lamous Itemedy will speedily and pain; 'lesaly core sblt or hard corns, also wartsbunions and chilblains,—Tho Wairarapa Fanners Co-operative Association, Ltd Anvr!

" It's an ill wind that blows nobody good,,' is on old saying but none the less true Whilst the great depression existing in Sydney at the present time has caused -a deplorable amount of misery yet tho people of Wellington and tho surrounding 'districts win reap a gigantic benefit. During his visit to Sydney recently, Mr James Smith purobnM ftt absurdly low.prices » large stock which ■ is' ! nowbefog sold «t {he Wholesalo Family Warehouse. To Aro House, Wellington." : With a view to making thls'sale tho event of the year, twospecial buyers were despatched from Te Aro House to Ohrlstohuroh one to attend the great sale of Edwards, Bennett and Co'a wholesale stook, and the other to piokbut bargains from the manufacturers of tho wellknojraKaiapoi WoollenOo. Both ' these gentlemen liave;returned after a most successful trip; and tho totalresnlts i ofthe'ir efforts isto be seen in the astonishing bargains now being sold at the .Wholesale Family Warehoufo, T Aro House, Wellington,-Ann :

■ A now rivith refercnco to tho celebrated implements of Messrs Uoid and Gray, appears' oh our first

Messrs Lowes & loras aninounco a ! sale of Furniture,; clothing, etc. for Saturday, 18th. August. /"; Mr F.I. Woodadds 100 first-class owes in lamb and 200 hoggets to tho on. tries forliis next Taratahi stock sale.

The annual general meeting of members of the Wairarapa Trotting Club takes place at. tho Whito Hart Hotel, Carterton, on Saturday next, at 3 pi. An extended announcement of Messrs E. E. HombWs, of Mr Wycth's stock-in-trodo, which will bo sold on Wednesday next, appears ia another column.

It is said up north that a gorso plana; tatimican bo made to feed fifteen sheep to the acre, and that tlio legislation in its wisdom is about to classify it as a noxious weed.

Tenders arc invited by tho Wairarap North County Council, for road forma Hon on Saunders Boad.

Mr I Nation, brothor of Mrs G. Piatt, ofMangamalioe, is to bo married to Miss G. Ilossitor, of Mauricevillo, on the 27th of tin's month, at St Matthew's Church, Mastcrton. The Land for Settlement Bill is to bo committed this evening. Tho afternoon will be given up to Localßills. "Onoof tho most cultured gontlemcn in the British Empire," is how Mr .&. Hutchison spoke of Sir George Grey last night,.

Mrs W.E. Paige, writingundcr date July 17tli,from Colombo,informsaMas. tcrton correspondent that the Ecv W.E. Paige and herself have enjoyed their passage to Eugland so far, though just at that point the heat was rather trying She obtained at Colombo late Mastcrton intelligence in some copies of tho Waibahata Weekly Timks which lias been | posted to her there by one of her Mastertun friends, being tho first news sho had received from Mastcrton for some time. Nominations arc invited by the Tara-talii-Cartcrton Racing Club for the Wairarapa Hack Guineas of 1895 and 1896. Tho amount of stake in each case is fifty guineas. . .

On August 22nd Mr P. H. Wood will hold au important sale of household furniture, at Bclrcdcre'Eoad, Carterton, under instructions from Mr A, Mercer who is leaving tho district. MrF.H. Wood sold at Maryborough! yostcrdny, under instructions from the Public Trustee, ncro No. Co., fronting the Main lload, near the English Church, to Mr Joseph Donnelly for £GO. An acre nearly opposite the Martinborough sale yards, wns also sold by auction for £SO.

Nellio Matthews, tho six-year old daughter of Mr P. Matthews, of Villa Street, who was badly-burned through herclothcsaccidentallycatchiugiircyesterday, is still in a precarious condition. Tho burns were more severe than at first thought, and Mrs Matthews in' her efforts to save tho child was badly injured about the arms.

■"Tho case of Hung Foo v. Wong Yon, particulars of which were given in yesterday's issue, was concluded in tho Supreme Court last night. The jury retired at 8.50 p.m. and returned ut 10.10 p.m. They found that there was no agreement between tho plaintiff and defendant that the tenant of the shop iu Grcytown was Hung Poo, and that a high-handed trespass was committed by the defendant; that the damages for trespass bo assessed at £100; that the amount to be awarded to tho plaintiff for goods seized bo £20710s 9d. With regard to tlto counter-claim they found that the defendant was entitled to the balance due, £lO9 6s (id, together with interest at 10 per cent, per aununi on 14 months one week, to date of seizure, £23 16s, making in all £223 Is Od, They 1 also found that the plaintiff was entitled I to a sum of £SO compensation for loss of' prolit on business. Leave was given to Mr Hislop, on behalf of the defendant, to move to reduce .the amount of the verdict. Costs on the middle scale were granted to the plaintiff on tho main claim, and to the defendant on thci counter-claim.— 'finm.