LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4924, 12 January 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Miss M. Bulement, of Maslerton, notilics that she is prepared to give lessons in shorthand.

The quarterly meeting of the Masterton Park Trustees takes place next Thursday afternoon, A considerable number of sheep have been sent from Eketahuna to Wellington lately, for freezing. A well-attended meeting of the Eketahuna Masonic Lodge was held last evening.

A New York watchmaker recently accomplished the feat of drilling a hole through a common piu from head to point.

the Loan and Mercantile Company's case will, reckoning in the final proceediugs, cost about £10,01)0.

The King of the Belgians offers au

annual prize of £I,OOO for the best plan of supplying Brussels with drinking water. The competition is open lo all the world.

Vi e hear that Mr L. J. Forde, of the firm of Pcnty and Forde, lias been engaged to prepare plans and estimates for alterations to the Maslerton Drill Hall, for the Mastcrtou Town Lands Trustees! Offers are invited in another column for the lease or purchase of Hounslow House, Chapel Street, Masterton, containing fourteen rooms. This should be au excellent investment lo anyone in search of a really well-finished rosidenco or privule hoarding house, Fuilher particulars can bo seen elsewhere.

Typhoid fever has broken out amongst the Maoris at Akura, ami two deaths have already taken place. There aro said to be other serious diseases ravaging this settlement, and it might be well if the Government obtained a medical report of the sanitary condition of the Natives in this locality.

Our correspondents often send us per post little samples of their wares, saying " try this and tell us what you think of it," and as far as we can we meet their wishes. For instance, we did not quail when a small ilask of whiskey was sent to us the other day, but this morning we do feel that there is a limit to this sort of thing. Someone in Wellington has forwarded a small tin labelled " a posifive cure for pip-half a leaspoonl'ul every three or four hours, every (wo hours if very bad," We happen to be a good all round invalid, but " the pip " we believe is the only complaint we have not got. If any of our friends have it they are welcome, more than welcome, to the tin, and to the cure for pip. We offer it as a donation (o (ho Masterton Hospital if there be no private enquiry for the invaluable remedy,

The Chairman of the Education Board made an apparently disingenuous statement on Wednesday when the Carterton School difficulty was under discussion, saystho Post. Regarding tlic respective qualifications of Messrs Bennett and lay, Mr Blair said that" in 1893 Mr. Kay held an 121 certificate and Mr Bennett a Dl certificate, which was a full certificate higher than Mr Kay." As a matter of fact Mr Kay has, since that timo, passed the examination for and obtained the Dl certificate, and possesses, therefore, exactly the same qualification, so far as certificates go as Mr Bennett does. Why the differencc between them in 1893 should have been mentioned, and their present equality not slated, wo are at a loss to imagine, but the statement made was certainly not fair to Mr Kay. We suppose there was a timo when neither had any certificate. It is what qualification they now hold, not that which theyheld at some anterior period, which is relevant at tho present time.

Tho American dealers have refused to grant the London meat salesmen tho rebate of lib on each quarter. The salesmen hare combined to offer resist once.. It is alleged that the change mil involvei a loss of. £1,000,000 per annum to Jlugland, Tho Bible Christians' annual district meeting commenced, at Cliristchurcli on Thursday, tieEov. W. licady presiding. On the question of Methodist Union, the following motion was carried by.ll to_ S--'< That wo aro still in hearty .sympathy with-the. orgamc union of the MethodislrCuurclies in Australia, and are prepared to adopt tho basis of union laid down by the various Methodist Churches of Victoria and adopted by the Wesleyan General Con- ] feraice/of 1894,. recently held in Ade- , Mc,;and,respcctfully ask. our English , Conference to allow us.ito go into the I \ Union as soon as tho arrangements can i i J be completed, •■....;:•'! - ■ U

I Tho road works being. carried out in the Eketabuua district at tho present time must be a very great help to trade up that way, somewhere about £6OOO I worth of work being in hand.

_ Under the Conciliation Act, regulations of which are gazetted, all societies of employers ami employees desirous of coining under the Act, will have to take steps to affect registration immediately, as this step, and the election of the Board have to be completed within i! 0 days from the gazettiugof the notice. Mr C. Berkeley, well-known in theso parts, is now at Newcastle N.S.W., with a strong dramatic company. There is a likelihood of tho combination visiting Masterton before long.

The quarterly communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand is to be hold in Dunediii on Thursday next, The M.W. Graud Master, Bio. HD. Bell, will preside.

Mr Thomas Lawson Thompson, of Johnsonville, is appointed an officer under the Fisheries' Couservatiou Act for the Counties of Hutt, Horowhenua, Wairarapa North and South, Pahialua, Orona, _ Manawatu, Xiwitea, and Pohnngina.

During the month of December the estates of 2? deceased persons were placed in the hands ot the Public Trustee.

The annual report of the committee of the Dunedin Jockey Club states that the years operations have been unsatisfactory. Starting with a debit balance at tho bauk of £123712s 7d, a sum of £IOSO was transferred from the deposit account, but despite this the year ends with a debit balance of £Ol9 -Is ad, showing the position to be worse by £731 lis 10(1. There was shrinkage from nearly all sources. The expenditure had been reduced by £555 Nis2d. Unless something untoward occurs the Committee anticipates the expenditure of the next year will be much less, and hopes to show more satisfactory results next year. The Cliristchureh Press writes:" Mr' Ward, it is not denied, is going. Home mainly about his owu private affairs. In [hat case he certainly ought as a preliminary step, to resign his portfolio. In the first place, if there is any part of the year when the Colonial Treasurer ought to be at his post, it is during the next five or six months, when the preparations for the coming session of Parliament have to be made." Mr P. H. Wood advertises particulars of entries for his next Tnratahi Stock Sale, which takes place on Thursday the 21th hist, the regular day, Tuesday, being in this instance Anniversary day and a public holiday. Further entries are invited,

Seventeen miners and the manager or a colliery at Lithgow (N.S.W.) were lined live shillings each and costs or two hours in the slocks, for working in Hie Zigzag mine on Sunday. The men pleaded that they had to obey orders, and the manager pleaded necessity because they were behindhand with orders. The Bench afterwards remitted the costs, and lime was given to pay the fines.

The Wellington Amateur Athletic Club has chosen the following members to go into training for the championship meeting : —KJ'jyds and 250ydsiNathau, Patrick, L. Ilarley, S. Diehardson;l 10yds aiidß«yds-Stuart, Ilarley, Dodwell; One and Three Miles 1' hit - Morpeth, Angoll; One and Three Miles Wulk-Talbut; 120 Hurdles and 110 HurdlcsW. Tiirnbull. If. Gore, F. Hurley • High Jump-It. Gore, W. 11. Turnbull, H: Bailey ; Long Jump-It. Gore, S, liichardson; Pole Jump-H. Kingsley. It was decided to hold a test meeting on FebruarySth. The Earn and Ewe Fair, under the auspices of the Maslerton Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held in Messrs Lowes and lorns sale yards on Tuesday and Wednesday, sth and 6th February. .

A committee meeting of the Masterton To™ Lands Trust was held yesterday afternoon. Present: Messrs Wm. Lowes, E. Feist, C. E. Dauicll, A. Vile, and A. W. lienall. After considerable discussion it was resolved to obtain a rough plan and estimate for raising the roof of the Drill Hall, putting in a dress circle, ami making other alterations.

The police had a lot of trouble in keeping hoys out of the Court during the hearing of the alleged trout-poach-ing case, boys from the age of seven upwards creeping in among their elders to get a hearing of the case, which seemed to interest them greatly.

Lord Winchilsca once made a bet that he would find thirty misprints in six numbers of the Times. The stakes were £IOO, with £lO additional for every blunder more or less. Six numbers were taken at random, and three misprints were discovered. Lord Winchilsca lost nearly £IOO, Mr John Walter's share of the 'nines was sixteen sixtieths; but he was also printer of the Times, and the printing business was kept separate from the publishing. He also supplied the paper, mk, etc., and the profits on these sales belonged exclusively to him. The cost of the Paruell Commission to the 'Mines was £IBO,OOO, so that Mr John Walter's share of tho loss was £-18,000.

The burial contractor to the Merthyr Tydyil guardians has a merry wit. Taken to task for burying a pauper in a coffin without a name plate, he said the day was windy and the plate must have been blown oil'. How was it lixed on to start with?

The old order changeth and they who do not movo with the times and kcop abreast ■ with the new order, will find themselves . sinking into depths of despair. It's the fashion to movo on; it pays to hurry up, "Be up and doing" the Poet sings!" Movo on" the Bobby cries! Wo remodel our prices with tho New Yeav because a snwll profit suits a largo business. We intend in the future to work on a very much smaller profit, and do a moro cash business, therefore, if you want a good article at a low price, the Bon Marohe is tho place for yo'i and your money I Have you mado up youi mind that althoughyou want several thing: you will not buy them unless tjey can be bought under such circumstances as wil enable you to say " I bought them at a lov prico" ? .If bo,- you will find what yoi waut at L. J. .Hoopor and • Co.'s. Is ther. any truth in the rumour that you aro member of an Association formed for ih purpose of doing away with promiscuou shopping, and that your" pals and pail lasses "and all the blokes and blokesses o your acquaintance are sworn under foarfi penalties, - involving all kinds of losse to buy nothing, even if you aro tattered am torn, unless tho articles you require can bi got at a low price? However stringon your rules may be they cannot touch you i you buy from L.J. Hooper and Co.'s Bo: Marche.—advt.

Tho unlimited sale our Mortem M Spreaders have met with testify of its sue cess in desirojing all species of inseots.such as fleas, flies, bugs, lice, cockroaches, mosquitoes, silverfish, moth in clothes, leach on trees, etc, The above and tho following can bo obtained at tho Fancy Goods Department tho\Y.F.C.A,:-Bock'B PutzPaste for cleaning and polishingall metal.outlery, windows, and paint work, Is j Bock's Waterproof Cement, Is; Non-Mercurial Plating fluid, Is 6d; Camphyleno Balk, Is; Herb Extract, an infallible cure for toothache.ls German Cure, for corns and Wart:, ls.P Bock & Co,, Manufacturing Chemislsand Importers,

3 The announcement is made in anothe- part , of this paper that a sale of greater magnitud o than ever yet attempted by Te Aro House j is now being held, and should arrest the at tention, ofoveryoncin this part of the 1 Colony, Te Aro House has long held the premier position as the leading Family Drapery Warehouse in the city, and further ' i developments are now taking place to in- | augurate tho new year of 1895, Early in the year Mr-Smith admits to i partnership in his business, a commeraial gentleman who tolong been associated with the London buying for Te Aro House. To thoroughly reduce and prepare th stock previous to the partnership sto t taking sweeping reductions will bo made m al departments. The stook must ee duoed by £15,000, and wiU bo offered to the purohasingpublioatmosttemptinEwic 8a Headsi of families, storekeepersS' tu , h ,? us .™^, young andold,riohan' poor, alike will save heaps of money bv ro. serving their purchases for.this,great part nersh l p S alo,which l comniences on Fiidav ; , ,4th Japuary,lß9s,at.Te Aro House, 7 ■

I A fine collection of dogs of all sizes congregated in the' Masterton Court Houso this morning, and they were left in peace until tho watchful eye of the Scrgeaut found them out.

Messrs Simms and Mowlem add to their list of entries for their next stock sale in the yards, on Wednesday 16th instant, 1 fat cow, and one shorthorn bull. .

Communion service will bo held at St. Matthew's, Masterton, at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning

The Eov. A. C. Yorko preaches at Taueru, if the weather isfino, to-morrow evening.

Mr Pownall said in Court this (Saturday) morning, that he would enter a formal plea of not guilty in the informations against four more boys charged with unlawfully taking trout from the Waipoua river, at a later date than the cases just heard, and for whom ho was to appear. Tho cases will stand over nutil a decision is given in the cases heard.

Mr C. A. Pownall, solicitor, of Masterton, announces that he has been registered as a patent agent,

An occasional stoat finds its way to this coast, says the Mauawatu Farmer, probably from the Wairarapa. We are free of the rabbit nuisance, but we do not want to cultivate their natural euemies.

. A diamond wedding is tobecclebrated in Auckland this month. Dr. and Mrs Alder Fisher, who have for over a quarter of a century residcdatPahi.Northem Wairon, complete tho 80th year of their wedded life this Christmas, This venerable couple are aged 80 and 87 years respectively. A lad named William Elliott, a recent arrival from Australia, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Wellington yesterday, for robbing a kindhcarted native who had found him destitute and had provided for all his needs. Some excitement was caused in Wellington yesterday, by an alleged gold lind on Lainbton Quay. An expert declared that the specimens were only the spelter of zinc, &c, wliich were melted when a fire destroyed a building which stood on the locality many years ago. The liev Mr Dawson, Primitive Methodist Minister, of Cliristchureh, will conduct services at the Mastcrtou Presbyterian Church to-morrow. Messrs Simms and Mowlem add to the list of entries for their next Slock Sale in the yards, Queen St. atlo'clock on Wednesday Kith inst, 180 ewes mixed ages, 200 lambs in the wool.

The ItevDr Walters, of St Patrick's College is in Mastcrtou to-day.

Au important meeting of the members of the Mastcrtou Football Club is convened for Wednesday next, atß p.m. at the Club Hotel.

MrN. Jensen of Mauricevillc inserts a notice to trespassers,

The business of the TclcgraphDepart. nient has increased so much Hint it has been found necessary to open the principal offices in the colony for ordinary •msines between 5 and 7 p.m. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.K., will address his constituents in the Theatre Royal, Mastcrtou, on the evening of Friday next.