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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4960, 25 February 1895, Page 2

An onion weighing 41bs was on view at Kawakawa, last week. _ Hie bumble bee is being introduced into the Hawera District. The Key A, C. Yorkc proaclicd at Jsnuiccpcth yesterday morning, flic liev S. H. D. Perymau lectures at Mctaliuiia to-morrow evening The Crimimal Sessions at Wanganui will be opened by Mr Justice Richmond to-day. In the Wiingaimi district, under the Act, 82 factories have already been registered. Mr ,T. C. Walker of the Opaki, has returned to MiislcUou from his trip to Europe. On Wednesday last the Meat Export Company slaughtered 2812 sheep at ■Ngiuiuranija. Mr J. Charlton kindly presided at the organ at the Masterton Wesleyau Church last evening, . ccl weighing lfl lbs was captured in a small creek at Carterton the other day. The cheap school excursions on the Crovernmcnt railways, arc becoming very popular. An effort is being made to obtain an hotel license atl'uugaroa, 17 miles from Malum. Heavy rain fell on Saturday afternoon and during the night, the weather in Masterton being much colder. Ihe rain on Saturday stopped the crii'liel mutch between Jfastei'ton mid Mat anivva. The election of officers of the North Liberal Association takes place this evening. ihe Gas and Library Committc of the Masterton Eorough Council meets this evening. Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains notify tbo arrival of new leadiug lines and special dress fabrics, It is reported from Venezuela that an appa really successful remedy for leprosy has been discovered. The luiripum Weslcym Sunday School picnic takes place on Thursday afternoon next. l'resh tenders arc invited by the Mauri ceville Jioad Hoard for contract ut US. The blind are now taking to typewriting, and in Scotland they are being trained in the art of massage. Last year there were 401 rear-end collisions in Amer'ca, 311 head collisions and 80 at crossing. A movement is being made to open a Masonic Lodge at Mangalainoka under ihe English Constitution. Mr James Stevens, sawmiller of Carterton, had about oO chains of his tramway burnt on Friday lasl. The oak furnishes food and home for 30!) species of insects, the elm (11, and the pine for 101.

Several changes in the police force are taking place, officers being transferred to different stations.

The half-hour instruction by the Ecv. A. C. lorke at the State School will coinmenceon Wednesday afternoon next. A general meeting of members of the Wairarapa Hunt Club is called for Thursday afternoon next, at the Library. Carterton at 2 o'clock.

The Wangaimi public baths arc now completed at a cost of £S(iB, including the making of an artesian well to supply them with water.

■An ".Empire of India Exhibition" is to take place at Earl's Court, Loudon, this year. It is being organised by Mr Imre Kiralfy. Wednesday next being Ash Wednesday, and the beginning of Lent, services will be held in St Matthew's Church on that day. We again remind owners aud trainers, that nominations for the MastertonOpaki Jockey Club's March meeting, close this evening. Only a few years ago the Shah of Persia had a peculating Governor,guilty o£ stealing lioyal taxes, boiled to death in a closed cauldron of water.

The French Socialists are organising to influence young men who arc about to enter the army to works of treason and mutiny.

Thirty-four applications for the position of Secretary of the Wellington Woollen Company were opened at a meeting of the Directors on Saturday, Black pearls arc mostly found in the black-lippedoysters of Lower California, and being so rare and precious, arc eagerly sought for.

Spalding has lost its giant, an inmate of the local workhouse, who has died Irom pulmonary consumption. After death he _ measured 6ft lOin, and the coffin which contained his remains was 7ft 3iu long.

It is estimated that a ton of gold, used in stopping teeth, is annually buried in American cemeteries. It will no doubt come in uselul some day, when Coolgardie is worked out.

The Fcrnridgc School Committee has unanimously granted the request of the liev. A. C. Yorke, to be allowed to give religious instruction at a time to be arranged with Mr F. Gover, the Head Master.

The champion spelling blunder lias been unearthed—l 3 mistakes have been made in a word of live letters. The word is, was meant to be, usage; the spelling is yowzitch. There are thus live sins of omission and eight of commission—total 13.

[ At liivercargill the Southland Pioneer Settlers' Association has just been foimed. Those eligible formembership are men who arrived in Southland before December 31,18 M, and hare been permanent settlers since. ThoTapanui Coc»■(«• understands that only two settlers on the Pomalmka estate are likely to pull through and meet their engagements. The rest must go or get their rents considerably reduced. It has been decided that an appeal shall be made against the decisionof Mr Martin, S.M., that although tho daughter of a shopkeeper is to be considered an assistant if over the age of 18, his wife is not to be so considered.

Mr John Falloon, of Taratahi, on Saturday received a young Berkshire boar aud a sow imported from Canterbury, and pronounced to be the hand, somest pair of Bcrkshircs seen in this district for many a year. They were bred by Messrs Green and Son, says the Observer.

Sonjc v#ry funny tilings have been been,doiie by animals at different times, says a co»tcmporaiy, but as good a thing iu its way as we have yet cornc across, was told us yesterday at Turakina. Mr Scannoll has a horse that always comes to the smithy when its shoes are worn olf i and will not leave until it has been shod, As soon as tlio shoeing is finished it will go contentedly away to its paddock, The Rev. A. C. Yorko announced last evening tliat the first issue of aproposod ppw Parish paper would bo distributed ppng pjiurch people this week, and if sufficlepf; fjbjeripliohß were received the paper would" be polished monthly. The object of the publication lyas to bind the country and town' members o£ the Cjiprcji into closer sympathy and to secure their (io-opcratiou in the working of Church aJMrs, understand the |aper\vill toi cirlld 'Church

A row occurred amongst a number of buslimen at Pahiatua the other (lay, one ■ of tho contestants bavin? his beard . literally torn out by the roots! Mr A. Pybus conducted services at . tho Mastcrton Wesloyan Cliureh last Sunday evening, : The Zuripuni Sunday School Anui- , versavy services took place yesterday, ' the liev. John Dukes conducting the , services. Special hymns wero sung during the day, According to the Otago Daily Times a party of anglers recently visited the mouth of tho Waiau, Southland, and had some splendid fishing, one angler ' Wiling no less than 1571b of trout in a few hours one evening. The bait used [ was the smelt. Mr McEwen,dairy expert,will deliver . an address to all interested in dairying, at the Temperance Hall, Mastcrton, on Tuesday evening, at 8 p.m. About nine out of every ton of the world's silyor mines which were at work 1 in 1891 are now closed, It has been decided to raise the floors of several of the stores in Blenheim, since 1 the last flood. The New Zealand Loan 1 and Mercantile Company's store is to be raised twelve inches. 1 Tho tourist traffic from Napier ' through the Hot lake district has fallen. off this season, there beiug only 1CI) t visitors, as against <1(10 the previous t season, Hunterville and liotorua lines now take the bulk of the traffic. * A case of malicious damage to property took place some time during last Friday night. Walter Bnckeridge, on 1 entering his saddle room at the White f Hart, (he first thing on Saturday morn- ' ins, found all his bridles cut into small pieces by some malicious person, who ; had gained admission through the loft or else had a key in their possession that would fit the lock.—Ohscrre.r. 1 The highest degree of heat registered 1 in Auckland for the last three years was that of Sunday, February 17th, when it . was 85 in the shade. IJuriag the time f Mr Cheescmau has been in charge of the observatory there have been but two or , three readings higher. Several private j thermometers registered more than 85 on Sunday, The evidence in tbcLiberator Building s Society case shows that a cheque for ,{MS,OCD, drawn by the Lands Allotments Company in favour ot the Eeal Estates J Company before the latter came into > existence, has never been accounted for. The Khedive o[ Egypt is secretly pro. j moting agitation in the interior of the I country, and ananging to form a Bedouin bodyguard. The Times' correspondent i says the symptoms vividly recall the „ events before the massacre of ISB2 at the time of Arabi l'asha's rebellion. , Tenders for works in the Wairarapa North County, were dealt with on Saturday as followsl'ori road, contract No 4,37 chains metalling—Smith and e Frcdcricksen, £lti(i 10s (accepted); D. t Kennedy, £210; B. Cullotty, £2IS lis. Mastcrton-Waimata road, contract No. 51, cartingsso yards of metal—B. Cuilotty, £BS (accepted); It. Manning, £90155; M. O'Connor, JESKi os. Eketa-huim-Timii road, contract No 49, carting 151 yards metal—Smith and Fredcricks sen, ,CoO lis (accepted). A doctor says that it is a great misII take for all women to suppose that the r pointed toe shoo is bad for the feet. He adds that there are feet that should wear •- nothing else, and that are Inn L by the . square-toed boot that is often substituted. The way to determine what is best for one's feet is to placed the stock- ■ itiged foot upon the lloor, and to notice where the big toe comes. If it is on a line with the others, then the square- ! toed shoe is required. If it decidedly • projects beyond the others, the pointedtoe is better. The shoe should be >, adapted to the natural shape of the fool. 1 Jlessra Simms and Mowlcm add to :• the list of entries for their nest stock c sale in their yards, on Wednesday, 2/lh ~ iust., SUO breeding ewes, 125 lwo-too',h ■. wethers, 3CJ woolly lambs, 320 shorn lambs, 30 2-year old steers, 10 !).ycar , old steers, 40 romney marsh rams, 15 ' r two-tooth Lincoln rams, 2 fat heifers, 2 \ cows in full milk. Mr J. T. Mcllarg, of Clarcville, was married at liangiora, on Thursday, to Miss M. 11. Stephens, a daughter of the ; late Mr Solomon Stephens, of Bangiora, An unusually large number of vagrants are just now hanging about Mastcrton, and pestering residents. These gentry had belter beware, as the police arc keeping a sharp eye on several undesirable visitors, '' The Mastcrton liailway Sfalion was " burglariously entered at some time 1 last Saturday night, entrance being | gained by breaking a back window f (which was reached by a ladder), f and then pushing back the catch. i A clumsy attempt was made to open the safe, but the effort was not successful. , T lie object was evidently to get- money, J as nothing was remoyed from the office, j although the ticket box was broken open. The police are of opinion that the offender is the same person who recently broke into the premises of several 1 Queen-street shopkeepers. Inspector Miller, ot the Slock .Department forwards us the following recipe ; for poisoned pollard" Boil li quarts > of water and 4',lb. brown sugar in a ; clean oil drum or kerosene tin. When boiling take oil the fire and put in ]' > sticks phosphorus (3 oz,). After allow" 1 ing a minute for the phosphorus to melt f boil the whole again. Then lift off the > fire, and immediately begin stirring in s pollard so as to make a constantlythickening soup. Stir hard, as this is I tho time io get the phosphorus well dis- ( tributed, Continue adding pollard until the mass becomes veiy stilt. This is [ important. It will take 9lb of pollard Boiling out.—Have a clean board and a roller, and keep them well dusted with i dry pollard. Take about two handfuls > of the dough out with a flat stick, , throw dry pollard on it to stop au y , sparking, knead a hit, and roll out to j-in ; thick, liun a knife or a piece of hoop. iron through the cake so as to divide it I into jin squares, and throw the ragged I i edges back into the pot. Gather up tho squares with dry pollard, and throw into i a box with more diy pollard. The squares will not break up, Lay by turning the sod with tho spade, and put two squares on each sod where rabbits arc numerous. Can be laid with deadly result in driest weather if mixed as above, and is not affected by drought," A settler who has tried the above at Clarevilk speaks highly of its cfficacv in dealing with the rabbit pest. A writer in the Humanitarian declares that "the position of women in ' Germany is one which may well awaken ' a feeling akin to despair in tho heart of ' the social reformer. In no country in Europo, except perhaps Turkey, is the 1 general condition of woman so degraded, ; and in no country it may be safoly said, ; does she acquiesce so tamely in her de- t gradation." "The meaning of which in- ) suit" (savs the writer of "Woman's World" _ in the St. James 1 Gazette) "is that German women, who aro admirablo wives and mothers, and 1 excellent housewives, arc perfectly con- 5 tent and happy. They take a pride in c becoming proficient in every department ]. of womanly work, they live in the most amicable relationship withtheirservants, are good musicians, sufficiently good English scholars to read Shakespeare in English (and have a much more familiar acquaintance with him than tho majority of emancipated English ladies), and aro thoroughly versed in the appreciation of their own poefry and literature. Their amusements-dancing and skating in winter, and in summer long evenings 1 spent with husband and children p listening to ipsio in the open air whilst they drink coffee aro as inexpensive and simple and rational * as ours aro pretentious and un- j wholesome. But this is 'degradation.' " Instead, they should bo conducting crusades on nasty subjects, or discussing o unpleasant problems, Mrs Jameson, in d her admirable book on Shakesperc's v women, says that 'without modesty, grjco and tenderness, _ a woman is no g woman, but a tiling which luckily wants a rianic yet,'—perhaps if she were aliye, j she m'ipht liave no particular difficulty * in finding a npe and aniplo justijica- a !»'" •' "lg

Wellington Land Board meets on Thursday next. A strong brake in good working order is offered for sale.

Tho Hinemoa with the Governor and party lias returned from the Southern

A special meeting of the Masterton lioad Board, to confirm special orders, takes place on Saturday next March 2nd. Three Chinese storekeepers were fined at Palmerston North on Friday for breaches of the half-holiday Act.

MrP.H. Wood makes additions to the entries for his next Taratahi stock sale.

Mr and Mrs Ernest Long, English tourists now visiting this colony, are spending a few duys in Masterton. Tho skin of a black snake, four feet long has been presented to the Masterton Museum by Master Glen Meredith.

There are now eight male and three fcmaic patients in the Masterton Hos* pital.

squabble amongst a party of Jiatives, took place in Queen-street, on Saturday night, but was stopped without any serious damage. The barquentine Grace Dent, 98 tons was wrecked at Wauganui Heads on Saturday evening. All bands wero saved,

A Feildin r resident,Jfr William Wood died on Friday from inflammation, brought about by his drinking cold water whilst in a heated condition a few days ago.

Messrs Lowes and lorns have received instructions from MrC. Aukctell, who is fraying Masterton, to sell on the premises, Hall-street, his commodious dwelling house, also the contents, which include 1 first-class pianoforte.

Mr Lloyd Jones, who, (or flic past thirteen years, lias been in the employ of the W.F.C.A., and who is leaving owing fo ill-health, was on Saturday night presented with a silver watcli and chain by the manager and employes, as a mark of esteem. Mi D. W. Mcintosh, in a few well-chosen remarks, alluded ill complimentary terms to Mr Jones' long •service, and wished him prosperity in his future career.

Four thousand sheep passed through tlio Ballance township the other day en mile to Palmerston. The drivers follow this route (says the limes) to avoid payment of toll on the Gorge road, which on this particular mob would have amounted to £lB.

Just a word with you. Goiog into matrimonial WiLs.oh, say! go it boys. Your father did it, and his father in his day. Why not follow his example ? Try to compare the mail going home to iiis cozy cottage, with all its comforts, and the single man going to his diggings. Bah, you can't do it. Might just as woll try to find a Drapery hhop in the Wairarnpa, that can supply your requirements as good and cheap as L. J. Hooper & Co., of the Bon Marohc, Don't take our word. Judge yourself, and you will find it a sterling fact beyond dispute, that Hooper's is the place tor youaud your money,—Adyt.

One of the most cruel and crucifying pains mankind is afflicted with, is undoubtedly toothache. It will be of interest to knnw that instant relief can be obtained by applying a little of Herb lixtract, and Infallible Cure tor Tootbacbe, which proves a permanent care in nearly all cases where the teeth are hollow, Everybody ut all likciv toget tonthaidic should be provided with a bottle, which can be had for 1/- each (guaranteed not to injure the teeth or health) at the W.F.C.A.'a Fancy Goods Department, also the lullowiug: -German cure for corns, 1/-; Mortnin Insist powder and spreaders, 1/- each; Bock's waterproof cement, 1/-; Bock's I'utzpastc, large tins, I/-.—V. Bock h Co,, Manufacturing Chemists and Importers.—Ann.

The announcement is made m another pirt o! this paper thitasalco! greater magnitude than ever yet attempted by Tc Aro House is now being held, and should arrest the at tenfion, of everyone in this part of the Colony. To Aro House Ins Ion;' held the piemicr position as the leadin« Family Drapery Warehouse in the city, and further developments are now taking place to inaugurate tbe new year of JS!)S. | Early in tho year Mr Smith admits to a partnership in his business, n commercial gcutleman who has to; been associated with the Londou buying for Tc Aro House. To thoroughly reduce and prepare the stock previous to the partnership stocktaking, sweeping leductions will he made in all departments. The stock must be reduced by £15,000, and will be offered to the purchasing public at most tempting prices, Heads of families, storekeepers, settlers, careful housewives, young tindold, rich and poor, alike will save heaps of money by reserving their purchases for this great partnership sale, which commences on Friday, 4th Jamiwv, 1895, at To Aro Houno.