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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5008, 24 April 1895, Page 2

Mastcrton Borough overdraft is now £OBO.

Hope street suddenly terminates in a nice drop of seven feet on to a shingle bank, since tho lust flood.

A section of land with a seven roomed house atCartcrtou, will be sold at auction by Mr F. H. Wood at his Carterton rooms, on Saturday next. Cr Hughes, who is leaving Mastcrton shortly, to visit the Old Country, lias resigned his seat on the Borough Council.

Crliobcit .E.Hornblow occasionally quotes scripture—incorrectly—at Council meetings. Lust night he impressively reminded the Mayor that " hope deferred makelh the heart sad."

A meeting of the Committee appointed torepoit on the advisability ot forming aliiverßoard at Mastcrton, will meet the Borough Council delegates at 10 'o'clock on Saturday morning,

The Examiner considers the Government ought to assist the Waipawa and l'ahiatuaCounty Councils in repairing the damage done by the Hoods. There is a dangerous hole in the ford at Wardell's, on the Kuamnhunga river, of whichhorscmcii should be acquainted. Yesterday a stranger look what appeared to be the ford from leading tracks, but as the river has shitted considerably during the late Hoods, his [ horse got into a deep hole and it was [only with great difficulty that he reached the bank.

Messrs C. K. Daniell and J. L. Murray attended theMaslertoii Borough Council meeting last evening, to urge the Council to at once take steps to erect protective works on the Waipouu Hiver bank. His Worship was manifestly opposed to the Council lending the way, and when Cr Hcsscy proposed that .£3(l be voted to "simplify matters," the Mayor remarked that lie thought'it best to wait fora report, although lie did not wish to throw " cold water" on the proposal ! This was altogether too much for Mr Dauicll, who naturally a grave and sober man—as becomes a business resident of his standing—hurst out into audible laughter, in which he was joined hy Mr Murray. The Mayor looked at the culprits and said "Gentlemen, I've not the least objection to your laughing at me when I'm very serious, but 1 can assure you we don't often have "scoffers"here, and it is therefore a little novel! " Both sides scored.

The Mungapakeha bachelors held their ball on Friday, the lllth. The had state ot the roads interfered a little, but taken as a whole, everything went off well. The hall was nicely decorated by Messrs Sinclair and Eogers, and Messrs Lawson and Perry, of Tinui, kindly pro Tided the music. Mr llogcrs acted as M.C, and dancing was kept up until daybreak, everyone seeming to enjoy themselves, and all speaking in favour of I a large gathering on the next occasion. I Mr ,1. Wickcus, of Mastcrton, provided the refreshments,

The Mastcrton Dorcas Society begins its winter's work on the ]st May. The ladies have decided to change the day from Thursday to Wednesday, and hold their meetings on the Ist and 3rd Wednesday of each month, A preliminary meeting will be held on the Ist of May, and the first general meeting on the loth, Meetings arc to be held as usual in Mr McGregor's collage in Church-street, which has been kindly placed at the disposal of the Society. The ladies of the llarnardo Guild have decided to hand over to the Society such articles left from their late sale, as may be suitable for distribution among the poor. Liberal gifts of clothing haye been received from Mrs (Dr) Johnston, Mrs Dagge, and Mrs Blaud.

_ Mr llurney Young, of South Australia, in a report on the butter trade, says the exporters must eventually adopt the Pasteur system, He thinks there is a good opening for Australian produce iu retail shops in Londonaud the provinces, and regards London as the best centre for distribution.

One institution of Coolgnrdic is evidently here to take root and flourish, and that is the " two-up " school, says the Coohjanlie Miner. Daily the gamblers gather, and it is said the stakes at times would astonish a Marquis of Hastings or a Prince of Wales by their large amounts, Business may fluctuate and brokers miss issuing a daily price-list, but the devotee of " two-up " sticks to his game like a bullpup to his breakfast, and in spite of colds, constables and colics, holds his daily lcvco. The present location of the entertainment is right on to the town, and we expect to see—so energetic are the police—the ring established as in early days, fair in the centre of our business street!

The Wavcrlcy correspondent of the Wanganui Herald telegraphs on Monday :—A fearful accident happened to a young man named Stewart nt Moniohaki about 11 o'elock yesterday. He went outside with his mother to shoot a hawk, but did not fire at it on account of the hawk being too high. The gun exploded accidentally, blowing away the whole face. The unfortunate fellow fell dead beside his mother. He was buried to-day How the gnu exploded cannot be accounted lor. A receni issue of the Auckland Ohcmr contains the following paragraph:-" Mr E. H. Waddington has presented to the Mastcrton Museum a bush Ilea, We presume the interesting insect will bo stuffed aud put in a glass case. Mastertou Museum, by the way, is rich in treasures of equal value to the Ilea."

A London correspondent mentions the Earl ofKintore as the most likely successor to Lord Glasgow, as Governor of New Zealand.

The Supreme Com t of Indiana has decided that its unlawful for a woman in that State to hold a saloon licence, and no debt contracted by a womau in that business isyalid.

The bestthing about Lord Randolph Churchill was his devotion to his mother. Night after night ho would go from the House to his mother's side, nor would he sleep till he had told her all the fortunes or misfortunes of the day.

A writer in a church paper considers that four or fiv« different places of worI shipin any country township where there are but twenty-five to thirty families is a sight to make the angels weep. Two girls applied to the Highgatc magistrate recently for summonses against tho senders of uncomplimentary valentines. The Bench rofused the applications, amid laughter, the girls not knowing who the lenders were.

At the Marylcbonc Police Court the other day, an elderly woman told the magistrate that sho had not leceived any : support from her husband for twentyfour years, and asked, as sho had another opportunity of getting married, could sho legally do so ? The magistrate said she had bettor uso a little more patience and then perhaps anpthpr twenty-four years would give her a chance, I

A recent trial in Paris showed that a bullet docs not penetrate a wall of snow Oft thick from a distance of fifty yards, while it would pass through thick earthworks and trees from a much greater distance.

A widow who recently died at Dunfermline,agcd 99 years and cightmonths, leaves 144 descendants, including four Rreat-grcat-grandchi Idrcn. She witnessoa tho reinterment of King Kobert the'Bruce jn'ißlß.' • • , A man broke open five boxes placed in piiblic-houscVin'Londonlocollect funds fojrhilway servants,' and between tjie'lflt Jqurjj th'ree-pcn'cp.wbicli bV stole. Disgusted w# ]|is liaul ftp gafe hjmsejf up, to case his conscience, ' A man styling himself Joseph Antonio S. Poniatawaki, Count Do Blumenthal, lecturer on phrenology, has been convicted on two charges of petty larceny at Cambridge. Sentence was deferred tjll flirco charges of horse-stealing were heard,

Mr'G. S. W. Dalrymplehas returned to Mostwton, after a fortnight's holiday in the Jlanawatu District.

The Minister of Lands passed through Mastcrton yesterday, en route for Weilington. John Meadows Drew, settler, of Masterton, has filed a declaration of insolvency.

Sergeant McArdlo lias returned to Mnsterton after a pleasant holiday in tlie Hawke's Day District.

A Tery fine collection of chrysanthemums, grown hy Mr E, Hale, are now on view at Messrs Hood and Johnston's shopin Queen Street. Active arrangements arc being made to carry out on a large scale, the concert and dance which takes nlac.e at the Drill Hall to-morrow evening in connection with St. Patrick's Church.

Sir liobert G. Hamilton, ex-Governor of Tasmaiiia.whosedcath was erroneously reported recently, has siiccumed to the illness from which ho was suffering.

During last month 2237 men were employed on Government co-operative works in Ncir Zealand. The Wellington audits have been advised that the s.s. Tokomnni left London on the 19th inst,, for Wellington and Lyttelton. A Spanish gunboat fired on a British schooner oil the coast of Culm, killing two seamen, 'Die schooner was taken lo Santiago, a Cuban port,

A man named JohnClimo was drowned at the WanganuiHcads on Sunday oven-

We understand that Mr T, Wilford of the Hutt, has purchased WiHutaua's hack racer Slaideu for £l5O.

Kingun, the rider of Legislator in the Stewards Handicap at Taulicrenikau yesterday, hud his leg badly injured, by colliding with a post at the entrance lo the straight. At Manchester the other day, the Magistrate declined to convirt for begging, a number of bona fid?, working men, thrown out of employment through j no fault of their own, Klicumatism more than ever claims Bismarck for its own. He has been heard to say, that he would rather find a cure for rheumatism, than have all the titles in Europe conferred upon him. Tliß AimivcrsarySoireeintlie Presbyterian Church, Dreyerlon, will be held on May lllli. Although yesterday was very threatening at Taulicrenikau very little rain fell.

The sum of C2,(i'>2 passed through the totaflsator at the Feallicrsion Haccs yesterday.

The news of the relief of Dr. .Robertson at Chilral is continued. General Booth is about to visit Africa and Australia, starting in August.

The Goldlineh replaces the Jiingaroomaon the Xcw Zealand station, and and is noff being got ready with all despatch.

Several liussian firms have established the eight hours system in their factories and workshops without reducing wages. A woman iuManchesterhas eyes which magnify objects fifty times their natural size. The oculists consider hera wonder.

At a sale in Chancery Lane, Loudon, recently, a necklace, which comprised thirty-nine pearls, was purchased for Mr Vandcrdilt for £2OOO.

Poaches brought from the Cape and retaining all their bloom have recently arrived in England in large numbers, and realised prices ranging from Oct to Is each. 4 female skater in knickers and short blouse appeared on the ice in a London park, and was so mobbed by roughs that a policeman had to escort her off the ice. An Arctic exhibition is to be held in Edinborough in the summer in recognition of the jubilee of the starting of Sir John Franklin's last and disastrous expedition.

Air It A. Davys, of the local railway staff returned to Masterton last night, from his holiday trip. Fifteen trucks of sheep left Masterton this morning. This brings (he total number of sheep sent away by rail this week, from Masterton, up to 5,000. Some time ago, members of the Salvation Army in Glasgow reported that on a recent Saturday evening they watched eight drinking saloons and that 2,308 men and 385 women entered iu the course of a single hour. Lord Urasscy, in a letter to Tkclimcs, suggests that the Admiralty should select certain merchant vessels, and pay a premium for each apprentice, as the cheapest means of supplying a reserve. The experiment in regard to the selection of apprentices had already been tried, and showed that in four years 113 boys had been taken on vessels in colonial waters.

More than half of the entire cultivated area of GrcatlJritnin is now occupied by permanent pasture.

There are 6,000 men employed on the Lake Michigan-Mississippi liivcr Canal, and it will be finished in 1890.

When petroleum was first discovered in America it was called rock oil, aud was sold in small vials as a specific for rheumatism.

Miss Ellen Tickle, of Heno, Buller Co., Ohio, is said to be the smallest fully developed woman now living She is thirty-one years old, and weighs but twenty-eight pounds. The first of a series of winter entertainments in connection with St Matthew's Church will take place at the. schoolroom this evening. A really' excellent programme lias been arranged including, Overture; tableau ' Poor old Joe," with song and invisible chorus; song, Mrs Jackson; "Box and Cox,", the famous farce, the characters being taken by Messrs Porter, i\'ops, and lieere; song Mr C. Cinders; duct," The Lilliputian Quakers" ; Shadow pantomime, "The Hungry Chinaman." A large gathering is expected. An apple tree in Monieello, Florida, is said to bear on different limbs grafted apples, crab-apples, prunes, peaches, pears, and quinces. What price ? Ask, listen, and wonder, Look at the new dresses, and the jackets, and macintoshes, and millinery. Look at the clothing, mercery, and houso furnishings, and gloves, and marvel when you hear tho price named. You'vo never heard \ anything like it before. You'vs been used to getting your money's woith because you've done yjur shopping at Booper's. But these extra reduced rates, these extra low prices, they almost oxc ed belief, and but that you tab the coods away in exchange for the prices quoted, you would bo inohned to doubt your senses, and to fancy that things were not what they seem. Walk round the shop, price everything, go somewhere else! go everywhere i price everything at tho other shops, and then by every fcroe of circumstinces and (torn the strongest conviction that it is the proper thing to do you'll come back to spend your money at the cheapest and best shop in Masterton, L, J, Hooper and Co's Bon MarohcV-ADvr! One ot the sights of Wellington, at any time isundoubtably tho magnificent establishment known as Te Aro House, and now that every department within its walla is tilled to overflowing, with a bewildering variety o! the season's novelties in millinory, mantles, dresses, etc, it is more than ever a pleasure and profit to visit the wholeBale family drapery warehouse, Te Aro House.

Particular attention has beon paid this year to the requirements of country customers, and tho result is » be seen in the immense and varied stock of calicoes, shirtings, funnels, flannellettcs, strong 1 wearing dress materials, men's and boys' olothing, &o. The choice in each depart, nient, is almost unlimited, as may bo imagined, when it is stated that of flannelette alone, over 50,000 yards have this season beep imported at To Aro House, Wellington;'

A specially organised department, has been established to deal with epuniry orders. Patterns of any materials in'stqck, will he forwarded to any address,' post 'free, Country residents aro invited to write for prices, or any information regarding goods wanted. It is confidently asserted that nowhere can such a wide selection, or such sterling vald'o be obtained, as at Te Aro House, Wellington,—Awfy