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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4974, 13 March 1895, Page 2

We need scarcely remind our renders of the races at Opaki to-morrow. Masterton Hospital Trust has now a debit balance of £7 7s Id. Masterton Masonic, Lodgo holds its regular monthly meeting this evening. The net overdraft of 'the, Masterton Borough Council now stands at £1207. We regret to hear that Mr Angus Frascr of Masterton is seriously ill with inflammation of the lungs and pleurisy. The annual meeting of the Masterton Red Star Football Club, will be held at the Empire Hotel this evening. A good deal of interest is being taken in the boxing contest, which comes off at the Theatre lioyal to-morrow evening. The estimated expenditure of the Masterton Hospital this year is £BOS, and the revenue £772. As usual brakes and busses will run to the Opaki racecourse to-morrow, in addition to the train service. Last year a little over one ton of coal per day, was used at the Masterton Gas Works. Mr P. H. Wood adds to the entries for his nest Taratahi stock sale, 150 ewes, etc. Patli now commands £BOO for a single concert in London, which only means threo songs. "One Pop "won the Post Stakes at the Karioi races the other day, and paid a dividend of £SG Ms. " A male biped who raises his hand to a woman, should be kicked out of the community."—Napier News. Mr Lemon has sold his race-horse Osiuan to Mr Hobbs, of Christchurch. I The price is reported to he £2Q. Several of our exchanges think that > the Shop Hours Act will send many a good mail to the lunatic asylum before the year is over. It is computed that no less than £11),C30,0C3 arc annually spent on Sunday drinking alone in the United King- . dom. A California widow, just before comj milting suicide, wrote to a friend that . "it nearly killed her to leave her eliil- ; drcn." A meeting of Stewards of the Sports ! Committee of the Wairarapa Hunt Club ' is to be held at Carterton on Saturday , afternoon next, f To-morroiv the trains to and from • Masterton and Ekctahuna, will stop at Opaki Racecourse. A special train will also 1 cave Mnstei ton for Eketahuna at 1 8 p.m. • In another column will he found an , advertisement, setting forth the objects i of the National Association of ]\ T ew Zealand. Every preparation has been made by Mr E. H. Waddinglon, the Mastertona Opaki Jockey Club's Secretary, for a good day's sport to-morrow, and pro- . yiiled tlte woather is tine, a large atten--8 dance may be expected. The Dnnediu Churchman is appealing , to its defaulting subscribers—3o per cent of 1893 subscriptions, and 00 per ' cent of 18M being still unpaid. The s annual subscription is only Is 6d. j A party of 23 Hussian Jews too passengers by the Tainui from London to , Capetown, They are to be followed by further parties, There were twenty-two cases on the • Featherstou charge sheet on Monday, and all but live were settled out of ._ Court or judgment was confessed. , _ The Anniversary Services in conncc- ' tion with the Belvedere Weslcyan Church, will be conducted next Sunday morning and evening by Mr Burton. i The daily Telegraph's special cones- - pendent telegraphs that the Turkish i soldiery is Sassoon, prior to killing the ! Armenians, sawed off their limbs, gouged , out their eyes, and extracted their tongues. j _Mr Brett, cattle breeder of the ArgenI tine Republic, is closing a large contract . to deliver live cattle in London. He guarantees each beast to be not less than " 7001b, and the price is £l2 per head, | The Dunstau Times learns that the codliu moth is attackiug tomatoes this year as well as apples, pears, peaches, 1 and apricots. j In a new advertisement, Mr A Wilton, butcher, of Masterton, thanks the 1 public for the support accorded him i since he has been iu business. Mr i Wilton will continue the butchering i business, and supply only Orst-elass , inoat. i The following team will represent the . Excelsior Cricket Club, a°ainst Carter- . ton Tradesmen on Thursday next, at , 2.3o:—Harland (Capt.), Wrigley (2), , Baggc, Nicol, Johnston, J. Wickens, I Mason,Warner,L.Williams, J.Wick, ens, senr. Emergencies;!'. Wickens. ' A suit for £3,0 damages has just , been brought by a Victorian man against a neighbour, who, by means of I a sun-glass, burned all the hair off the complainants head while he was asleep. II The Times' Amoiican coirespondent , says tho United States Government is indignant at the imposts placed by European countries on farming produco from America, and is contemplating- reI taliation by levying 10 por cent duties on • some and enacting total prohibition '< against other countries, An ingenious device for overcoming the obstacle of not having aponny stamp to put on a receipt was producod in Com t on Wednesday (says the Since™ Star), when a receipt written on a blank cheque was handed in. His Worship said that as the receipt was written on the right side of the form, it was of course perfectly legal. The sheep traffic by rail, from Mas tcrton, still continues, Last night, a special train of 20 trucks was despatched, and this morning another o* 23 trucks, in addition to which, _ 7 trucks were attached to the ordinary passenger train. A few days after the Tainui left Cape- ' town a steerage passenger named George : Sutherland, booked for Dunedin, at- , tempted to cut his throat with a razor : whilo ju a state of temporary insanity, ( but was prevented from inflicting serious ; injuries. The wounds were attended to , by Dr. Don, surgeon of tho vessel, and , Sutherland is now progressing satis- • factoiy. Whilo in the tropics.a second- , class passenger to Sydney, Mrs Bond, . gave birth to a son.— Post. James Slingßby, the last of the old '• Kentish smugglers, has just died in a ' workhouse, having passed his 90th i He is said to have escaped hanging, a ' fatowhich befell his comrades.by turn- ' ing King's evidence at a trial in Maid- : stone nearly 70 years ago. i

I Fresli trustees are to appointed for the new cemetery at Eketahuna.

The Ecy Mr Van Staveron of Welling, ton, came to Mastcrton by the excursion train to-day, Several horses engaged at the Opaki races to-morrow, came up by the | ordinary train at noon to-day,

The civil business at the Mastcrton S.M. Court to morrow is not heayy, and should be finished by noon. Five informations for failing to destroy rabbits will occupy tlio Masterton S.M. Court on Friday,

A two-roomed house at Akura, occupied by an old Native named iiawhiti, was totally destroyed by tire yesterday afternoou,iiawhiti being burned severely about the head and arms.

The "Bush" excursion train on Friday leaves Eketahuna soon after five a.m. Children from tiie outlying points like Newman, will have to get up tolerably early. Amongst the visitors to Masterton today was Mr J. B. Innis, at one time a well-known and popular resident of this town.

A return of 2018oz of gold has been yielded from 80 tons quartz obtained during the month from the Hauraki Company's mine, Coromandel. Two boys aged 12-.lames Nolan and Leonard Willis—pleaded guilty at .Christchurch, to breaking into the houses ipf the Hon. \V. Montgomery and three others, and stealing goods to the yalue of £3B. They were committed to the Nelson Industrial School,

Masterton is quite alive this afternoon with excursionists from Wellington, fully 800 children and adults arriving by special train at 12.20 p.m. A large numue'. of Masterton people gathered at the station to meet the train, Mr Donne, Traffic Manager for the Wellington Section was on the train, ADioccsau Inspector, iu New South Wales, asked a class of small Cambrians, " What did Noali do, while he was building the ark?" Chorus—"Preach, sir," "Yes; and did the people believe what he said! J " "No, sir." ''Why not?'" No answer. Pause eventually broken by a mile of seven summers-" Please, sir, lie preached too long."

The Tuapeka Times is responsible for the statement that, the matters having been reyrcscnted to the Hon. ,T. McKenzio during his visit to Dunedin last week, he stated his willingness to come forward, should his candidature be deemed necessary, to exclude Mr Earnshaw from the representation of the City. In the event of such a necessity arising, it is probable that Mr John Ewing, of St. Batlians, will be selected to contest Waihenio in the Liberal interests at next election.

Of the Shops and Shop Assistants Act the Timii'ii- Jhntld writesAgnin wd say, let us have the whole of this precious law in all its deformity. The sham division of shops should not he tolerated for ut moment; the publicans! should be prosecuted for not closing if they continue to sell tobacco and nouintoxicating drinks; and an information should be laid against each businessman who does not close his office on Saturday afternoons, and does not in other respects strictly comply with theprovisions of the Act. We hold that in demanding this general and impartial administration of the law we are displaying truer Liberalism than can be boasted of by those who make fish of one and flesh of another —who pass a drastic and tyran« meal measure, and then relax it or press it home as political expendiency appears to demaud,

The Liverpool town crier has retired after 60 years' service, and the office is practically extinct, the newspapers having superseded the bellman. In his time the Liverpool crier had restored 130,000 stray children, all the lost little ones being taken to his house. A Masterton resident writes to tell us that he Ims a new and sure remedy for exterminating rabbits. If such be the case he is a lucky man, for he has a fortune in his grasp, and should lose no time in advertising himself. The criminal list at the Masterlon S.M. Court on Friday is a long one. The further charges against P. J. Donovan, under the Bankruptcy Act, n number of informations for failing to comply with maintenance orders, and a charge of using obscene language are set down for hearing.

Messrs Lowes and lorns auuouuce an important and unreserved sale of high class dairy stock, Lincoln sheep, farm horses, purebred pigs, implements, etc. Undor instructions from Mr A. A. Jilkins for Friday, March 22nd, at 1 o'clock at his farm, Makora, Messrs Lowes and lornslmvo received instructions from Mr C. F, Vallanco, to soil on the property of Messrs Vennell Bros., Taucru, on Friday, March loth, at 1 o'clock, the whole of their stock, implements, etc. Particulars of which will be found in advertisement. Mr J. L. Murray's tender for supplying football jerseys for the White Star Football Club, has been accepted. Mr Murray supplied most of the Clubs last year, aud gave general satisfaction. An Australian contemporary reports: A woman named Catherine Anderson met with death on board the lightor Malay, lying at tho inn Street Pier, Williamstown, in a vory extraordinary manner. She had gone aboard thelighter in a dmnken condition, but could not gain entrance. She then evidently tried to get below through a skylight head first. The skvlight had cither fallen on her, jamming her in this position, or she had been suspended bysomethingeatching her dress, Owing to her condition she could not free herself, and she was dead when removed. The deceased,who bore a notorious character, had issued a warrant against her husband for desertion, Tho police found b'ui in a dying condition at Geclong. A liUlo child of MrW. Ctirham's, mauagcr of the Wanganui Gas Works, recently had a narrow escape from a I serious, if not fatal, accident, says the Wamjanm Chronicle. The little one had strayed on to the Heads railway line, just beyond the cemetery curve, the train at that time being on its way, and but for the promptness of Messrs Mills and Robertson, tlie officials in cliarge, in applying the brakes, escape would have been impossible. Near the Caspian Sea there are several " eternal fires," so called by the natives, wherenatural gas issues from tho ground and has been on lire for ages, Cycling in Turkoy, according to an Austrian wheelman, is not all "beer and skittles." Ho relates" Sleeping at a village inn ono night I was foolish enough to leave downstairs my bicycle which became an object of speculation to the members of tho entiro population of the village, who had never seen such a thing before. In their perplexity they fetched tho village priest, who instantly pronounced the bicycle to bo the instrument of a sorcerer, come to wreak ruin and destruction upon that village in particular, That was enough for tho villagers; seizing their axes they chopped the bicycle into little bits, mounted tho staircase aud smashed in the door of the room where I was sleeping, and I would have had rather a bad time if I had not escaped .through tho window and made off." Arrangements have been made by the Victorian Agricultural Department to havo consignments of- rabbits intended for export, brought alive to Melbourne by rail in future. Most of tho rabbits are snared alive for despatch to"-Mel-bourne and killed in the country, but during the recent hot weather (the Melbourne Argils says) they reached tho city in a putrid state, To avoid this they will bo sent down alive in future, being cairicd in double decked sheep trucks, which will bo surrounded with wire notting to prevent their escape. It is illogal to carry wild rabbits abopt thp country j but as two Government departments—the Agricultural and the Mways—will be concerned in this particular breach of tho law, it is expected that tho third department, that of the Crown Law, will wink at tie illegality,