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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5023, 11 May 1895, Page 2

Heavyrainfell iuMaslci'ton lastnight, MvM, Knrins will finish metalling on his Villa-street contract to-day.

The Mai'viccyille liond Board invites tenders br road work, bridge bir'd'iig. etc.

i Mr F. 11, Wood makes further additions lo his Taratahi stock sale, which takes place on Tuesday next. We sincerely trust that our friends on the Upper Plain will have a line evening, for their conceit, on Wednesday next, as so many will be goiyg from Masterton.

We have to acknowledge receipt from Messrs Lowes und lorns, of the fortysixth annual report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society.

Mr J I. F. Kagar,Sccretary to the Otnki Maori liiiciug Club, nolilies that acceptances close at !) p.m., on Tuesday lite 14th insl, for the Queen's Birthday Meeting. The Otaki Post and Telegraph Olllcc close at 5 p.m.

The programme of the Wairarapa Hunt Club's Steeplechase Meeting, which has been arranged to lake place onjhc Clarcvillc course, on Thursday, June 13th, appears in another column, dominations for all events, close on Saturday, May 18th.

On it recent evening a countiy butcher left his meat cart standing in Hardy Street (Nelson) for a few minutes. On returning, all the meat in the cart had vanished, and no trace of it could be found.

A "Barefoot Mission" has been established at (JO, Temple Chambers. London, which is trying to bring (he old shoes and boots of well to-do people and their cast-oil! clothes into contact with the bare feet and bare backs of poor men, women and children iu the great English metropolis.

In one of the English law courts the other day, counsel mentioned, with line simulation of regret, that in a case in which one of the parties was concerned over a. will and an executorship, although the amount iu dispute was only .tm;,'), bctwccn£lo,oooand £I2,C:tO had already been expended in costs.

As the result of the departmental enquiry into the circumstances connected with the railway collision atl'ukclcraki between the morning train from Oamaru and the train conveying the children of the North East Valley school with their parents, wo (OlitpMlyThms) Ica.n that M'lntyre, the driver of the Oamaru train, has been dismissed from (ho service.

Mr Herbert Marsh, of Masterion, lias received the following letter from the agent of the Department of Lands and Survey at Pahiatua, in answer to an application for employment :—" With reference to an application of yours of March 12th, for'cmploymcnt for yourself ami others onthcMastertomlicform Block roads, I have the honour to inform you that I am making up some parties for that work and have to ask you to give me the names of settlers ready to go on to their sections and work on the roads. The conditions of employment are that all must be settlers, Married men will have to work two-thirds of their time on tho roads and one-third on their land ; singlo men will have to work one-third of thoir time on the roads and two-thirds on thcjrscctions; so that married men and single men will have to be in separate parties. Pleaso give me the names and stato whether tlicy are married or single. The single men could come up at once and the married men as soon as they hear from me after I get their names. Of course, I refer to names already given in your letter referred to above. If you know of others let me know. In the case of married men not living with their wives they would got half-time on work and half, timo on soctions."

Arrangements lire being coinpteted for the visit of an American baseball team to Australia.

Mrliichard Boiikc, formorly in charge of tho Wairarapa Hunt Club's hounds has begun business in JJimevirlco as an auctioneer.

Sir Henry Loch succeeds Sir Hernlcs.lioliinsoit ns a Director of the ioikloii and Westminster Dank.

Tlie total value of imports to the Colony during llm March quarter was it 1,756,072. In Ihncom'spondingquarlor nl the previous year it was .tl,H.|!),lllli,

ll is reported lluil owing to a hitch luring Hie negotiations with Japan the KtiHsiim wai'sliipH at Chefoo wore got •cady for ai'.liou, but the dilliculty was niliM'ipii'iilly untiled.

The reiiiili'iits of Managua, the capital if Nii'iinigiui, have subscribed the imoiiiil. of llm indemnity itemandcd by I lie Hellish Government.

TliiTstiiiiiilcdpopulationoftlieeoloiiy, reclusive of Mnuiis, on the »lst March, was i;H!I,I7'>. That of the Maori popubition was 41,!)!):!, makinc a total of Ml. ■HIS.

Onre iiiinii a time a biryrlc accosted a horse. "Get off the earth," said the hieyelo, 'l'm going ( 0 supplunt you entirely." The horse smiled. •• Nay, nay," it rejoined gently, "they cannot make canned beef out of you."

At Chrislcliurch, the inquiiy into the best menus of dealing with the dog nuisance has led to the adoption of the nlan of sending a nut round the streets, Hoisting into it all unregistered canines and taking them to the slaughtering yard.

The accomplice of Howard - the stylish American arrested last week for the forgery of hank notes-drew £33:;) from Continental banks in a few days by means of forged notes upon Coutt's Jiank, London. The facts discovered by the police no to show that the forgers were preparing for 1111 immeneo conn.

Anollicr lot of tntigiiificciit elirysanllicmum blooms, grown by II r Hale, of the WiiiriiriiDii Nursery, urc on view in the window or Messrs Hood and Co., (Juecn Street, Quite n large number of people, from nil pails of the district, visited Mr Halo's nursery on Sunday last, and were delighted with the endless variety and beautiful coloring of the chrysanthemums growing there. Mr Hale has expressed his intention of giving substantial prizes, if tin' local Society will reinstate a Chrysanthemum Show next year.

The town of Dresden, in Geimiiny, is one ol the chief strongholds in the European musical and artistic world. Those large and deservedly popular musical emporiums which arc known in Wellington and Duncdin as the Dresden Piano Company's establishments, have thus happily been named after the lamous German town, lor they are undoubtedly the centres of attraction in tlieColony so far astho musical profession is concerned. Just as in Europe, Dresden is signilic.ml of all that is artistically excellent, so is the Dresden Company in New Zealand associated with all that is excellent in music. The Dresden Piano Company's stock of pianos, organs and novelties in music, is id the present moment unequalled. Particulars can be obtained from the Masterton agents.

Mr John Tripp, of Leiintuh (N.S W.) a few evenings ago, felt thirsty and as the creek was close by he stopped to have it drink, its he had done hundreds of times before, when a large turtle (listened on to his lip and was only got rid of by lite animal Inking it piece of llcsh with il. Fortunately no serious effects followed beyond that Mr Tripp will have a wound for a week or so. We have known tut ties to bite the legs oil' young ducks while in the water, but we never before heard of human beings having been attacked —Campbelltown lhndl

Quong Tart, the popular Chinese trader of Sydney, is up to anything mitler the sun, from disclaving war as a Mandarin of the Peacock's tail down lo singing j\>uue Laurie or dancing the Gillie Galium in kilts. Now he is an olliccv of n cycling league, mid at a banquet the other night he boldly said he " hoped the members of the league would ad honourably in their racing and have no sliinaimikiug. If they rami straight out from the shoulder they were bound to gel on. And if they- d'd this they would knock cricket into a cocked

When Hie stranger caHodiulo enquire the price of door-knobs, lie espied a bottle of Usher's si Hiding on the corner of tlie mantelpiece. When the proprietor returned lie found n decided mess on llic floor. "Beenill," he enquired. The stranger smiled a sickly smile, put his hand convulsively to his mouth, and rushed headlong from the room The bottle had contained a solution of bicycle oil, kerosene, and dead Hies. This is a trite Greyinoutli story, on the affidavit of a well known Greymouth merchant.— Jvumara Times.

A spring tide which Hooded Trieste recently was more formidable than any since 1875. At eight o'clock the sea began to rise, and Hooded the quay. Driven on by the strong sirocco the waves soon covered the neighbouring parts of the city, mid the squares round the Town Hall, the Theatre, and the lied Bridge were lakes. In less than half an hour the water rose to n deplh ot two feet and a half. The streets which connect the squares were canals, which reached to the Southern Terminus. Later the water rose to the Corso which is situated much higher, and invaded the old town and the square between the Government House and Lloyd's building. The police station a'td the Communal Theatre stood like islands in a lake. Eycry cellar, of course, was full of water; and cafes and such shops as were still open were Hooded. At the Communal Theatre " Manon " was ljcing pel formed, and was near the end when the water burst into the parterre. In the cloak-rooms Hie servants stood up to their knees in water. Abridge was buillofboardsandcaris.and over this the audience reached a higher street All the street porters who came to the theatre could earn money by carrying ladies home or on to dry land. Many men took oil' shoes and stockings, ant! paddled through the water. Others were wheeled home in barrows. There was no danger from beginning to end, so the affair was regarded in a comic light, and spectators fought for the windows at the cafes that look on to the square in front of the theatre. At eleven it began to sink, and in two hours only the low-lying parts were still Hooded,

The Ihhurt Mercury is not enamoured oE (lie proposal of the Now Zealand Government lo establish sawmills in connection with the scheme tor settling the unemployed on the land, and says: —" The proposal involves the purchase and erection o_f costly machinery with necessary motive power in many and widespread localities, this construction ot roads or tramways lo the timber machinery cannot prove profitable, the employment of skilled bushmen and timber-getters, aud the appointment ot an administrative staff to send the timber to market. As a commercial undertaking, no men in their senses would think of establishing a number of risky uuder- | takings which must necessarily be run I in competition with private ventures of | the kind already in full work within the colony, and which after years' of uphill work even now pay no great dividends on capital invested. Neither would such a step bo taken by reasoning men without fully considering the extent of competition lo be anticipated from other colonics, Just now the Government of each and every Australasian colony is '. bestirring to aid, if possible, private enterprise in developing the resources of the various forests, but New Zcahiul, of course, shows the way to manage tho business on a better basis., The Government, with tho aid of the unemployed, the multitude of social and industrial failures, will with lighter hearts enter upon a business which requires an infinite amount of practical experience, good judgment,andcaroful exploitation! We snail see what we shall see"

Mr J. L. Murray notifies the opening up of new goods. Masterton School Committee meet on Monday evening next.

I Mr King, an officer of the Income Tax Department, is now iu Masterton.

General Booth was accorded a great wclcomo on his return to England from his recent visit to America. A reward is offered for the return of a silver medal, supposed to have been lost in the Masterton Park or Cemetery. Ludy Florence Dixie seriously advocates that girls should be taught to play Association football.

The new Masterton gas tank is now iu thorough working order, and will he charged with gas this afternoon. Law, author of " The New Boy," has received £O,OOO as his share for the first year. Jcrrold got £3O for" Black-Eyed Susan," out of which Major Elliston made £30,000. At a country ball iu France.—" My Am sir, you have stepped on my partner's foot. I demand satisfaction," " Oh, certainly! Yonder sits, my wife; go to her and step on hcrfoot."

The members of Mrs llobert Wood's Bible class have presented her with a group of the class. The photographs, two in number, were executed by Mr D. Wilton, and nre handsomely mounted in black aud gold frames. Mr E. H.Waddington's pigeon house has beeu removed, and rc-ercctcd at the residence of Mr Bone, tho North Wairavapa Gun Club's new Secretary. The whole of the work of removal was done by Mr George Cox, as a donation to the Club.

Cabinet yesterday authorised the expenditure of £100!) on the AlfredtonWeber Itoad, aud £IOOO on the Maltawahuri Itoad in the Forty-mile Bush. A number of handsome chrysauthemum blooms, grown by Mr T. Dixon, of Masterton, are on view in the window 'of Mr .J. Henderson, tailor, of Queen Street.

We understand (says the N.Z.TimesJ that Parliament will open about the usual time this year, viz, about the third week in June. The Government policy measures are in a forward state. The Panama (Christehurcli) Gun Club intend holding a grand national handicap pigeon shooting match on August 7th, at which prizes amounting toJMhvillbegivcu. Mr T. Hutchison S.JI. in giying his reserved decision in the case Carlson v, •Johnston, a dispute over repairing a bouudary fence, said that the statement of facts had not been properly laid by the plaintiff, and he would therefore dismiss the case, with costs,

The usual fortnightly mooting of Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Masterton, was hold last evening Bro. Z. 31. Hoar, C.'H, presiding, After the usual routine business, two newmembers were admitted by clearance. Jlcecipts for the evening amounted to £l9los (id. It tvas resolved to hold (lie next meeting on the Wednesday previous to Queen's Birthday,which falls on a Friday.

At the Church of the Sacred Heart, Greylown, on Wednesday, His Grace Archbishop Ecdwood held a confirmation service|iissisted by the Parish Piicst, licv. Father McKennn, and the Very Rev. Father Dcvoy. administrator. Eleven candidates were presented, six girls and live boys.

A lecture " WycliU'e, His Life and Times," formed the subject for an address by the Bey. J. Dukes at the Wesleyan Schoolroom last evening, under the auspices o( the Jlastorlon Mutual Improvement Society. The attendance of members and friends was good, and the lecture, which lasted about fifty minutes.wasmosl attentively listened to. Next week the " Journal" will he read and discussed.

In our advertising columns will be found a copy of an apology, seal by Mr F. Holder, of l'ahiatua, to Messrs Dixon Eros., cordial and airated water manufacturers, of Chapel-street, Masterton, with reference to having used Messrs Dixon Bros', bottles, stamped with the firm's trade mark. In consequence of tho above, the proceedings which Messrs I Dixon Bros, intended taking have been stayed.

In the House of Commons, the Bill to repeal the Irish Crimes Act was read a second time by a majority of 11 votes, O'Donovan liossa, who was in the gallery during the discussion, referring to some remarks on himself, cried," An assassin's blow is being given ino in this House, and a stain placed on my name." This remark caused quite a sensation among the members, and also the officials and the latter seized and rushed liossa., who was still shouting, from the precincts of the Chamber, and ordered him not to show his face there again,

The following is the programme for the Sixpenny Concert to be held in tho Masterton Weslcyan Schoolroom on Monday evening next:—Overture, Masterton Orchestra; recitation," Not for Pay," Miss Emmie Daniell; song, (selected) Mr A. H. Light ; piono solo, Miss Pearson; song, " The Outlaw"; reading, Mr G. S. W, Dalrymplo; song, " The I'oung Brigade," Mr li. G, Langton ; quartette, " Village Chimes," - Messrs A'icol, MmiGe, T. and G. Gray; song," Tell Her I Love Jlev So," Mr C. Ginders; recitation," In Miniug Town," Miss G. Powell; song, " True till Death," Mr N. J. Bennington; mandoline solo, Mr Ifolliiif s; part song, '' Called John," Misses Perry ami Prentice, Messrs Boagcy and Balph; violin solo, Mr Canny; song, " Best of All," .Mr Meadows ; selection, Masterton Orchestra.

We understand that Mr Hogg, M.H.li. lms written to the Lahour department in Wellington pointing out that a number of men in Masterton have been out of employment for some time past and tint (he persistent neglect of the unemployed in the Wairarapa is leading to the breaking down of wages and imposing great hardship on labourers' families. He cites the reduction made by the Wairarapa North Comity Council in the wages of their roadmen, and urges that employers of labour would not venture to take such a step if a little attention was devoted to the local labour market. Mr Hogg bitterly complains that while large hatches ot men are being sent up from the South Island to the northern roads, the few men who are out of work in Masterton, and for whom he has been asking some assistunco for a considerable time past, arc allowed with their families,to face extreme destitution.

The Australian Mutual Provident Society hive asked us to point out thai Mr G. W. Schroder is (he only canvassing agent employed at the present lime in the Masterton district, Occasionally under a misapprehension, insurances are effected which arc supposed to be with the A.JLI'. but arc really not connected with it. It is to prevent mistakes of this kind that the Society desires it to be known that in the Masterton district Mr Schroder is its sole authorised aßcnt.—Advt. _ Ono ol the Bights ot Wellington, at any time isundoubtably the magnificent establishment known as Te Ato House, and now that every department within its walls is filled to overflowing, with a bewildering variety of the season's novelties in millinery, mantles, drescee, etc, itißmorelthan oyer a pleasure and profit to visit the wholesale family drapery warehouse, To Aro House.

Particular attention has been paid this yew to the requirements of country customers, and the result is to be seen in the immense and varied stock of calicoes, shirtings, flannels, flannollottes, strong wearing dress materials, men's and boys' clothing, Ac. The choice in each departnietit, is almost unlimited, as may be imagined, when it is stated that of flannelette alone, over 50,000 yards have ,this season been imported at Te Aro House, Wellington. A specially organised department, has! been established to deal with oountry orders. Patterns of any materials in stook, wi'lbo | forwarded to any address, post free, Country residents are invited to mite for prices, or any information regarding goods wanted. It is confidently asserted that nowhere can 6uoh a wide solootion, or such sterling value be obtained,, as at To Aro' House WelliigtonHtolir '