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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4959, 23 February 1895, Page 2

Mr Arthur Hurling has been appointed non-permanent Postmaster at Waterfalls.

intense heat prevails in Adelaide, and several deaths have occurred from heat apoplexy. A special sheep-train of 21 trucks was despatched from Mastcrtou this morning-

The Masonic Grand Lodgcof Georgia has extended fraternal recognition lo the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. A special general meeting of members of the Maslerton Football Club, fakes place at the Club Hotel this evening.

Xoininntions forthcMnstertou-Opaki Jockey Club's March Meeting, close with (lie SccrctnryfMrE. If. Waddington) on Monday evening next. Steps are being taken in Grcytown lo forma syndicate which will send representatives fo Coolgurdic on a goldexploration expedition.

The valuation of the Borough of Palincrslon North shows au increase of about .CG.OOO.

The Auckland Slur very strongly objects to any Government grant towards the proposed Wellington Exhibition.

It is understood that the Commission in regard to the Jlorowhcnua Block will sit at Pahnerslon, and that Judge Mackay will preside. The Japanese have declined to ojieu negotiations for peace at Port Arthur, and insist that they shall be conducted on Japanese soil,

Tt is reported thai the Governor of Port Arthur has confessed" llntl lie was in league with Li Hung Chang to overthrow the Manchu dynasty.

Although women have taken up an advanced position in the work-a-tlay world, and attacked nearly all the strongholds of men, they have not succeeded in securing foothold in the pulpit, They will, however, get there in lime.

| A well got up almanac and " Family | Friend," containing several historical [ sketches and n. quantity of other useful information, has reached us from the establishment of Mr Thomas Holloway, of pill and ointment fame. An entertainment was given last evening in the Upper Plain schoolroom in aid of the Sunday-school harmonium fund, at which there was quite a large gathering, principally of young people, and a considerable amount was taken in aid of the fund. Messrs ]{. Brown and W. O. Becrc organised and carried out the entertainment, which wus a decided success,

It is said, that almost the last thought of the late Czar, was for the theatre employes who, in it way, would lie among the chief losers by his death. Opening his eyes with an effort, he signed lo the Czarevitch to approach. Do not let the theatres suffer on account of the long mourning. Ido not wish so many people to be reduced to misery on account oj: my death." The new Emperor did not forget his father's dying words, for one of his first acts was to give 800,000 roubles towards (he support of the actors and actresses during the time that they were to be out of employment.

The jury in the Potoka poisoning case - on entering to Court after their fifteen hours incarceration, says the Napier 'Mqmpkmxi a very woebegone exe prcssion, but it rapidly disappeared when the order was given for their dismissal. , The oilier jurymen summoned had been , discharged from further attendance at the beginning of (he week, and therefore 3 there was no other course open to the I Crown Prosecutor than to apply for an - adjournment fill next sessions. Tin's i application was accordingly granted. By t the time the case is fully disposed of, if , will have cost the country a nice little ' sum, for up to flic present the witnesses' expenses alone aiuouut to over £l5O. j Tho New Zealand Tnuk Review . writes in a hopeful lone of tho Bank of New Zealand. It says the " bank has 1 now entered upon a new era of its career and'as it undoubtedly still retains a rei markably good busiuess, aud has been , granted a material improvement in flic : conditions under which it is carrying ; on business, it is not unreasonable to hope that it may now achieve a fair . measure of success. The vitality which has enabled it to survive such rude shocks as it has undergone, may be accepted as a guarantee that it has taken a new leaseof existence, with encouraging prospects for the future. It may be interesting in view of the i interest now being taken in Ihe Chinese i Inland Mission to give the following i extract from a letter just received by i MrW.H. Smith, of Auckland, from ' Dr Swallow, of Ningpo, with whom last I year he spent uninteresting tourfhrough i the villages;—" You will remember (lie < last place you visited with mo, aud i where you baptised the 11 converts. I < did not know how much womuuly Chris- I tinn power there was in that village. ] This summer a hand of women between i 00 and 70 years of age [imi recently « converted from Buddism) jhave been c going in and out among the .villages s preaching tho Gospel to their heathen } sisters. They weut out without any i recompense, savo tlw reward of seeing ( others turn from blind heathenism to £ the worship of tho living and true God. r This is the way tho truth has been 1; carried from place to place, and such 1 has been its power, whole villages have v been changed, and a change, .too, it has I been, All converts must abstain from " wine, tobacco, etc. Do any of your c church members show the Apostolic' dc. t votion and consecration worthy to be called equal to this?" 1"

The Mastcrtoii police intend to keep a sharp eye on vagrants, and persons loafing round the town.

The Rev liobcrt Wood will preach morning and eveninc; to-morrow in the Maslerton Presbyterian Church. The subject of the evening sermon will he " The religious difficulty in Education."

Services in connection with the Maslerton Presbyterian Church, will be held in the outfields to-morrow afternoon at Taucru and Dreyerton at 3 o'clock, aud at Wangacliu at 2.30. Sizal hemp plants to the number of oy.WO, have been received from Fioritlaami distributed throughout the Colony of South Australia.

It is now announced from Germany, that the best way of killing snails, is by placing shallow vessels of beer near their haunts. In some eases they arc said to have been found filled with dead snails in the morning. Mr F. H. Wood's next sale at the Turatahi yards, will be held on Tuesday, the Stk of March. The auctioneer specially requests vendors to yard their slock early. LastTuesday.il was nearly 2 p.m. before Ihe sale could start, owing to vendors coming so late with their stock,

The inspector of Factories has issued a circular to hotelkcepers pointing out that if they sell or expose for sale tobacco, cigarettes, or cigars, their premises will come withinlhedcsignation of a shop iitulcrtheintcrprotation clause of the Shop and Shop AssistanlsAcf, and they will have to close their licensed premises on the statutory half holiday. Merc abstenlion from selling cigars, cigarettes, or tobacco on that half-day wiil not suffice. They must altogether give up keeping such articles for sale or selling (hem, at any time, says tiusl'ost.

A Vienna dressmaker, named Madame Luksch asserts most solemnly that in her dreams she is warned of the impending death of all persons of importance, that she is instructed to seek them out and do all in her power to prevent their death. She says she might have saved the Czar, having been shown the nature of his illness in her dreams, and taughtto bww a tea that would have saved him. She went lo Mentone, and told the captain of the Empress Elizabeth's yacht of her desire to save the Czar, but she was prevented from helping him. Her efforts were also frustrated in the case of President Carnol,whom she could have saved. The West Coast If/me* wiitcs:--"Mr Peeves must he fully as conscious as anyone else that mucli'ot his legislation can never be made to apply lo all classes of the community unless lie forces upon us a Slate Socialism which will reduce us all to one level of earning power, when, of course, class dis(inction will be swept away. 'When that happy time anives will the Minister for Labour be content with the same wages as received by the messenger at his office ? We are inclined to doubt it, although he says he is a Socialist. A Buenos Ayres 1 repoit of December 22nd says:—" Our wools were never so good, so clean, in such good condition as this year, and such is the increase in the flocks that the clip is expected lo yield at least 25 per cent, more than last year. Our wheal fields, maize and linseed plantations never looked more promising, and enoimons crops are looming ahead. Linseed will be in the market next week; new wheat will be in next fortnight. Everything augurs a season of unparalleled beauty, lint prices are low, Yet fanners can grow wool and wheat at a profit at present quotations, but they mwl lo see thai the increase in yield will be counterbalanced by a proportionate fall in value. Our foreign readers may rest assured that the republic will turn out more wheat than ever this season, in spile of the low level of prices and the threatening collapse all over the world. Willi gold as high as 250 per cent, premium, the farmer can scrape a profit even oIT odol per 100 kilos of wheat placed at a railway sla-lion-this may be cutting it very fine, but the Santa Fc colonist docs it anil Ibis explains why he sows more wheal than ever." The stock of sheep in the Ucpiiblie. is estimated at 0'0,0^,000.

Aa interesting letter lias been addressed to the J'ull Mull GtrMe, itprojim of ii comparison in that paper between the slums and the denizens of JTayfuirandEclgravia. "In it," says the writer, " you stale that the strong, powerful inhabitants of mean streets, if Ihcy only knew their power, might push the puny denizens of Mayfair and lielgravia completely into the background." You instance Lizcrunt ami Billy Chope as specimens of (he class. One may sec dozens of Lizerunls any day of the week —poor stunted creatures, wilii their fringes and feathers, not one of whom would reach the shoulders of an average effete Mayfair damsel. As for Billy, the slate of our Army shows pretty clearly what manner of man he is, asour line regiments are pretty largely composed of men of'his class. To suit his stalwart physiiptc our standard lias been lixed at the imposing height ot oft 4iin (growing lads one inch less], while our officers—who for the most part belong to the puny and effete Mayfair class, and who are chosen much more for their educational than for their physical qualifications—average even in their embryo stage as Sandhurst cadets (when they are little more than boys) nearly sft Win, with chest measurement to match, 'almost as much as our picked regiments of Guards,' Nothing seems to he more evident than llie extraordinary physical superiority of the upper and middle classes over the lower ([speak chiefly of tho denizens of slums), and (he difference seems to mc becoming more marked every year. I have only touched on the physical difference, but I believe (he mental and moral differchcc is as grcaland all in favour of Mayfair, though in these Radical and Socialistic days it is high treason (against King Demos) to say so."

11 At Hokilika, the other day, says a r contemporary, Mr Wilson of Goltls- ' borough, who buys gold for the National j 1 Bank, sent a parcel of gold in by Mr '• Dolph's carl. Mr Dolph had been in [ the habit of carrying the gold in the 1 horse's feed bag, and the boy (A. P. c Watson, of Dillman's) who drove on B this occasion did not know that it was 1 there. He slopped at Eckmitn's blacks smith sitop ana put the nose-bag on, and f someone else tipped the feed into a [' trough standing outside, while a little, ; feed remained which the hoy did not trouble to put back. When the hoy returned home in the evcuing ho was asked - for the money for the gold, and said he : knew nothing at all about it, did not even kuowit was in the bag. Mr Wilson ■ at once te'egraphed to Mr Smith, tele- , graph lineman, at Hokitiki, who went to the shop and found tho gold in the feed which was left, The gold was valued aUbout £2OO, and was at once handed over to JlrLynch of the National Bank. A slory which it might bo as veil to sift from your end appears this week in the London letter of a Liverpool paper, writes aPras correspondent, The writer st/itcs that several of the big Australian liners have become perfect gambling hells, and that more or less notorious gentlcmon of the genus Greek, who pose as commercial travcilers.makc a practice of travelling backwards ami forwards by these vessels, and do exceedingly well out of their smoking-room gains. Several scandals have, it is alleged, resulted. Two young fellows going ont recently were ''cleaned out" of £IOO3 a-td i GOO respectively beforetheship reached Colombo. The passengers were so satisfied there had beon foul play that they petitioned the captain to haye tho winning gamester set ashore there. Wo are i assured the skipper assented to this extraordinary proposition, and that the ! supposed sharper left the ship breathing ' ypugeance in the shape of legal proceed- ' ipgj. The P. and 0. Company, Orient • Gonjnany, the New Zealand Shipping 1 Company, Sbaw-Savilf's and indeed all i respectable ship-.owuei's, fopbid gamb- i 1 jig in any form in the saloon. It, Js, bowcyer, practically impossible to'prc- , vent poker &c., in the smoking-room. ! I have no sympathy, myself, with c "Jugginses" who lose largo sums at * cards to perfect strangers and then t turn round and call the winner names Wise men don't play with seductive- s ."drirmiuerii," ■

Several bush fires were raging round Masterton last night,

Slight raiu fell in Mnsterlon this morning.

Forty-three male awl two female offenders we convicted and discharged, at the Masterton S.M, Court during 1894.

The Wairarapa school excursionists returned last night, after a very pleasant outing, no accident or hitch of any kind occurring.

A young man mimed George Daysh, who was recently in Masterton Hospital with broken leg, had the misfortune to again break the same limb, while jumping off a brake at the Railway Station this morning. 'Die unfortunate fellow wasat once placcdinMrKcllihcr's cab and driven to the Hospital. Wc arc informed that Mr Dayshis a married man with two children, and this accident following on his last mishap leaven his family absolutely destitute. Ancft'ort is therefore to be made to obtain some assistance on his behalf.

Messrs Lowes and loms announce their next Masterton stock sale for Wednesday, March (ilh, at 1 o'clock. For particulars of entries see advertisement.

The Ifev John Dukes leaves Masterton on Monday for the purpose of attending the Nelson Wcsleyau Conference. He does not return to Masterton until about-the loth March. Messrs Simms ami Mowlem. make several ndditioiis to the list of entries for their Masterlon Slock Sale on Wednesday, the 2/lhinst. ThelievJ. Dukes will conduct (lie services connected with the luiripuui Wcsleyau Sunday SchooKo-morrow. A llower service will be held at;(p m., and evening service at 1 o'clock. Special hymns will be sung and collections made in aid of the school funds.

Mr Cecil Stuart, of Maslcrton, left Wellington yesterday by the Hauroto for Sydney en nrnlv for Sydney, kving sullieiently recovered from liis recent accident to leave the Wellington Hospital. The Wellington and Manawattt Hailway Company's laud sale yesterday proved very successful. The hidding throughout (says the N.Z. Times) was exceedingly spirited The third lot, a small unimproved bush section of 01 acres at Paliaulaimi, excited the keenest competition amongst half-a-dozen residents owning adjoining lands. Starting at a hid of £2 per acre it jumped amid excited bids of 2s (id, as and 10s per acre till ,t" :3s lid was reached in the last bid. Another hush section of 121 acres close to Linton, rose by rapid bids of os per acre until it was kiwked down at £8 per acre. At (he conclusion of the Hail, way Company's catalogue, a number of improved dairy farms on the Maunwatu line were offered, mid 121 acres close to Shannon were sold at CO 10 per acre. AUhe Masteiton S.JI. Court this morning, two strong looking young men very shabbily attired, were charged before Messrs S. Donovan and T. E. Price, J.P.'s, with vagrancy. The evi(lonco of the police went to show that accused (who gave their names as James Jackson and Charles Phillips) had been hanging about the town in a suspicious manner, and shortly before ten o'clock at night, bad askcd'Scrgcant MoArdle if he could tell them where they could lind a shakedown, as they were vagrants and would as soon be in gaol as starving. .Both accused denied thai (hey hud done anything wrong, but bad merely been tramping in search of work, and had paid (heir way all along. The Bench considered it strange tluit two able-bodied young men should be in the position of accused, and it appeared they were simply a pair of professional loafers, The police had done quite right in arresting them. The Bench was, however, inclined to deal leniently with the case, and would senI once both to seven days' hard labor, and if found in the district again, the sentence would be much more severe. Just a word with you. Going into matrimonial bliss.oh, fay! go it boys. Your father did it, and bis father in Ids day. Why not follow bis example? Try to compare the man goisg lmnic to his cozy cottage, with all its comforts, and the single man going to his diggings, Bah, yon can't do it. Might just is well try to find a Drapery bhop in the Wairarapa. that can supply your requirements us good and cheap us L. J. Hooper ,t Co., of the Bon Marche. Don't take our word. Judge yourself, and you will lind it a sterling fact beyond dispute, that Hooper's is the place tor you and your money.—Advt,

One of the irost cruel and crucifying pains rn.ukind is afflicted with, is undoubtedly toothache, It will be of interest to knnw that instant r.dief can be obtained by applyin" a little of Herb Extract, and Infallible Cure for Toothache, which proves n permanent cure in nearly all cases where the teeth are hollow, Everybody at all likely to get toothache should be provided with a bottle, which can be hod for 1/- each (guaranteed not to injure the teeth or health) at the W.F.O.A.'s Fancy Goods Department, also the following: - German cure for corns, 1/-; MorWu Insect powder ami spreaders, 1/- each; Bock's waterproof ccmeut, 1/-; liock's I'atjpiste, large tins, 1/-.-I'. liocii ft Co,, Manufacturing Chemists and Imjiortcrs.—Advt.

The announcement is made in another part of this paper tint n sale of greater magnitudes than ever yet attempted by TeAro House is now being held, and should arrest tho at tention, of everyone in this part of the Colony. Tc Aro House lias lonv; held the premier position as the leading Family Drapery Warehouse in the city, and further developments aro now Inking place to inaugurate the new year of 18115. Early in tho year Mr Smith admits to n partnership in bis business, a commercial gentleman who lias long been associated with the Londou buying for To Aro House. To thoroughly reduce and prepare the stock previous to tho partnership stocktaking, sweeping lcduclions will be made iu nil departments. The slock must be roduced by £15,000, and will be offered to the purchasing public at most tempting prices, Heads of families, storekeepers, s ttlers, careful _ housewives, younf and old, rich and poor, alike will save heaps of money by reserving their purchases for this great partnership sale, which commences on Friday, •lth January, 1895, at Te Aro House,