LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4824, 13 September 1894, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

f. It is reported tluit tlip. Sobranjo will impeach M, Stambouloif for robbing tho Treasury. The directors.of Kempthorne, Prqsser and Co.'s New Zealand Drag. Company [have- declared an interim dividend at tho rate of 7j percent. per annum, " Another largo building society—tho Modern Permanent—has bccu compelled to ask its creditors to accept 3 j per cent, instead of 5 per cent, ottered under the reconstruction scheme. Mr Mitchelsou says there arc now 22 members in the House who were in it when the liailway Bill was passed in 1887. , Two .thousand Martini-Henri' rifles reached Wellington by tho Aorangi yesterday. Dr Gillon, of Wellington, has successfully undergone an operation at the London Hospital. Messrs Hornblow & Co. held a most successful sale of drapery and clothing at their rooms yesterday. Thero arc several hundred lots still to be disposed of, and we should recommend a visit to the rooms on Saturday, when the sale will bo continued. Miss May Yates, Organising Seererctary of'the London Vegetarian Society lias arrived in Wellington. She is to give a course of lectures.

Miss .Tervois, daughter of Sir William Jervois, arrived from England by the Aorangi on a nine-months' visit to the colony. .

Dr. Newman wants to sco a detail survey completed for a railway from To Arolo Newtown

Tlio Wellington agents have been advised that the Tninui loft Plymouth on the Bth inst for Wellington and Lyttclton. She lms 1550 lons (including transhipments) for Wellington, aud 650 tons for Lyttclton.

Tho' Grocer of a recent date says margarine and mixtures meet with ready, purchasers, notwithstanding the cheapness of the article for which they act as substitutes, and large quantities pass daily into consumption. Quotations i for the superior class of French Mixtures at tlio iinish are reduced 2s per cut

In addition to the drapery sale on Saturday, Messrs Hornblow and Co., sell fruit, horse, saddle and bridle, and one pure-bred rough Scotch collie' sheep dog. i'hc sale takes'place at 1.30 o'cloe k. It is reported that the agreement as to the amalgamation bctwscn the Bauk of New Zealand and the Colonial Bauk was signed on Monday, and at once forwarded to the Government Should the terms bo approved tho agreement will require to bo submitted for confirmation to the general meetings of shareholders in the two Banks, which take place at Wellington aud IJuncdin respectively on the 26th instant. Ever since the close of the native troubles, Taramiki lias held the premier position for the prime quality .of its beef,' and the fact that tlio butter industry may be said to have had its inception there. For grazing and dairying purposes the bush lands of that provincial district have no equal in the Colony, aud each succeeding year sees an enormous increase in the output recorded at the shipping port of New Plymouth. These circumstances have helped to make the Taranaki District a favourite for investors in good dairy farms, where a competency is assured to men either of large or small capital. In this, .connection, wc would refer our readers to the list of properties, both leasehold and freehold, which appear in our advertising columns in this issue, mid for which Mr RE Corkill is tho agent. It will be atoncc seen that any sized property, 1 highly improved, can be obtained at prices to suit the'means of those iu search of a good comfortable home, witli an assured income, as interest on tlio capital invested, ' ■ \ The Hauroto, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney yesterday, brought 63 passengers, 39 of whom were for Wellington.

A public mooting will be held this evening in the Wellington skating liink when addresses will be given by Messrs Hogg and Kelly, M's H. 1!., oil tho Chinese question

The woll-known. light-weight jockey Kaiser Myers was yesterday refused a jockey's license by the Stewards of tho Wellington Racing Club. No reasons were given.

Greytown correspondence and other matter is crowded out of our present issue.

Tho It. M. S. Alameda arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon. The P. and 0. Company is building tlirce 5000-ton steamers ou tho Clydo for the general passenger traffic, John Gardiner, labourer, formerly of Masterton, and now in Oliingaito, has been adjudicated a bankrupt.

A good dealof interest is being taken in tlio municipal elections, which aro taking place to-day, All the candidates are working hard.

Judging from the way Messrs Wagg and T. Dixon raced their bicycles during Ihe Municipal election to-day, they certainly liavo a claim to bo called " progressive" caudidatcs. By steamer leaving Wellington ou Wcduesday next, free passages will be given to shearers desirous of proceeding to Queensland. Particulars ol rates etc, appear in our advertising columns. Messrs Abraham' and vWilliams, in another column publish an important list of entries for a slock salo to be held at their yards, Pahiatua : on. Tuesday Sep. 18th. Many of our .readers, mil regret.to learn that Mr John Beer, cabinetmaker of Greytown, and for many years a resilient of Masterton, is in danger of becoming totally blind. He is at the prosent time under Ihe treatment of Dr, McKenzie in Wellington.

No !by Jovo, they can't bo Heal IA to you blessed with a family 1 Have you.ono baby, two boys, or half a-dozen girlE, and bavo they got to bfl decently clothed ? You can't get out of it, can you ? The more tho merrier, say you, and if you'd two dozen moutk to fill, you'd sling upj.jui.caps -and. ftitfcs JT-ixh, hu-loiiijame chips held out, Very well, then you arc net a magician, Yoa can't turn copper into silver, and silvcrinlo gold, but you'oan get next door to it by buying your drapery and clothing from li. J, Hooper &Co, Bon Marcb6, they arc the cheapest and best, We beg to notify that the following lines of Messrs.Bock & Co., .Manufacturing Chemists can bo obtained at the W.F.C.A.'b Fancy GaodßDepai'tmenti-Non Mercurial plating fluid Is Gil unsurpassed for clearing gold or silver arid ro-plating brass and copper, Bock's Wuterproof Cement, price, Is, will resist hot or cold wafer and repair china, gloss, delf, lcathor eto., eto, Campbyleno Balls, iu neat air-tight jars coetaining 18 balls, price' Is to keep moths cut of clothing,alsaaporfectdisinfectant. Herb Extract price Is an iofalliablo cure for tooth aohe guaranteed not injurious to the teeth of health; it stops tho most acute pain immcdiatlcy, and proves a permanent cure in nearly all eases where the teeth aro hollow, German our'e for corns and warts prico Is - this lamous Remedy will speedily and pain; 'iossly oure soft or hard corns, c also / .wartsbunions and chilblaios,—The Wairaropa, Farmers Co-operative Association,;. Ltd. Anvr. . .

. •." It's anill-wind that blows nobody good," is un old saying but none the - less true Whilst the great depression' Mis(ing in Sydney at the present time has caused a deplorable amount of misory yet tho people of Wellington and the surrounding ;distriots will reap a gigantio benefit/ /During! his visit to Sydney recently, Mr James '.Smith purchased at absurdly low prices a large stock which ; is now being sold at-the Wholesale Family Warehouse.; ' To Aro House, : Wellington/:.7 'With a view to making this sale the event of the yeaif two 'special buyers; were, dospatchedfromTe Aro House to Ghristohurch one to attend tho great: salo oi Edwards, Bennett and Co's wholesale Btook, ' s arid the other to pick out bargains from the manufacturers of the well-known Kqiapoi Woollen,Co'.-. Both, 'these .gentlemen.have /.returned after 'a most suocessfuUrip, and the total, results' of theiA efforts is 'to; be. aeen in the astonishing bargains now being sold at tho Wholesale Family Warehoiife, Te Aro House,Wellington.-Ann

The < Masterton'FofostirV wcokly danco takes placoin the (Drill Hall tlus ovoning.^v; .! j-'• The annual meeting of the Masterton Pci'Jimiaent Investment and Building Society is. advertised ; for Wednesday Oct 3rd. Messrs Boddmgton and Bunny tlie retiring directors offer themselves for re-election, : but a third vacancy caused by tlio retirement of Mr 11. H. Smithwillkveto .be filled by a new man. Nominations will be received till the 19th inst/at the offieo of tho Secretary. Wo regret to state that "owing to Mrs Morloy's illness tho President of the General .Conforcnco' is uuabloto keep his engagements at Masterton. Ho lias, however,' secured as a substitute the services of a brilliant speaker and lecturer, tho Eev. H. 11. Dewsbury. It will be a great literary treat to hear Mr Dowsbftiy lecture on " Charles Dickens Humourist and Moral Teacher," on Monday, September 24th. ' Particulars will appear in a futuro advertisement, 1 'Tho votes polled up till 1.15 this afternoon number :—East Ward 69; West 80; Outer 60.