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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5040, 1 June 1895, Page 2

A ycry brilliant meteor was risible at Mastcrton early this morning appearing in the northern sky. Mr Ebcnczcr Grey, secretary of the Waipawa Bating Club, poisoned himself yesterday morning. We understand that the Mastcrton Lodge of. Good Templars has been closed altogether, owing to want of interest taken in its affairs by members.

A public tea meeting to celebrate the anniversary of the Greytown Wesleyan Church,will take place 011 Thursday Gtli of June,

lii one day at Glasgow throe football players came to grief, two of them having limbs fractured, wli'le the third died from exhaustion,

The Earl of Coventry has started a jam and pickle manufactory on his estates.

A payablo reef has been struck in Lansell's mine, Bendigo, at a depth of 3,100 feet. This is the deepest payable discovery over made in Australia. Thomas Avciy, of Pabiatua, and Constable Murphy, of Makuri, are appointed officers under the Fisheries Conservation Act for the Counties of Hutt, Horowheuua. Wairarapa North and South, l'ahiatua, Oroua.Manawatu, Kiwitca, and l'ohnngiiia. A large'number of retirements from the Hank of New Zealand service are being made throughout the colony. The latest announced is that of Mr G. lievans, for many years connected with the Napier branch.—Fust,

A London fashion paper having offered, a wedding dress to the first lady who should receive an offer of marriage while wearing a dress made from designs in its pages,a Glasgow lady has claimed the prize. Messrs L. J. Hooper & Co., the popular drapers of the lion Marche, Masterton, are not to be outdone in the present lush of sales, and announce that large discouuts are the order of tlio day at their establishment., which is replete with every 'novelty for the present season,

An American newspaper described a lire by saying that the red flames danced in the heavens, and Hung their iiery arms about like a black funeral pall, until Sam Jones clambered huiricilly on the roof and doused them out with a pail of water. This is how a sedate ecclesiastical paper enlivens the Lenten season. A clergyman, it states, was showing a lady round his church, and the following conversation took place. He; "So madam you have now seen tlio organ,the font and the nave, I should next like to conduct you to thcaltar." She (bhishiug deeply): Oh ! this is so sudden."

Infmmation has been received at Dunedin that during the snowstorm of Siiiirday and Sunday a man engaged at Tara Station, Vincent County, died of exposure. A man named Oliver was lost in the snow, and has been brought into Pembroke in a very low condition, The Times special states thatthepeople of the Nevis arc snowed up for the winter, and have no supplies, The snowstorm was the heaviest ever known in the district.

To-day (Saturday) His Lordship Bishop Wallis will be entertained at a social at Greytown, on Sunday morning will celebrate Holy Communion at St. Luke's 'Jhurch, Greytown at 8 a.m., preaches to the natives at Pnpawai in (lie afternoon. On Monday we understand lie meets the natives to talk over the matter of the college reserve and the native school, which the natives claim ought to receive tlio rents of the reserve, says the Standard. Mr J. Walker the noted poultry fancier and llorist, proprietor of the Model Poultry Farm, Mt, Albert, Auckland, some two or three months ago opened a branch of his establishment at Wellington—in Cuba-street. Mr Walker is known throughout the length and breadth of the Colony as a breeder of prize poultry, and his farm at Mt. Albert lias acquired more than a A T e\v Zealand reputation, for its completeness. Mr Walker guarantees to supply (lie finest breeds of all kinds of poultry-fancy and ordinary—upon the shortest notice. Poultry keepers in this district should not fail to consult Mr Walker in the matter of improving their birds. Country correspondence is solicited, and all orders will be promptly dealt with, All those interested in the subject of poultry should look in at Mr Walker's establishment when in town.

Referring to a number of sacred items to be included in Mr A, H, Gee's sacred concert, at the Mastcrton Theatre lioynl to-morrow evening, the Miamiwatu Slumlord says:—Mr Gee was in great form and and his several numbers formed quite a concert in .themselves. His first song" Nazareth," was a great triumph, and he responded to the tumultuous applause with ' The Holy City.' For an encore to Sullivan's 'Thou art passing hence,' Mr Gee gave ' The Village Blacksmith,' afterwards singing J The Lost Chord' superbly. The audience still asked for more, and Mr Gee responded with two verses of ' Vanity.' Each item was given with all that finish, expression and power which have won for Mr Gee the foremost place in the musical world he now occupies, Miss Sampson, although suffering from slight hoarseness added to the laurels she won the previous evening, and her solo 'With verdure clad' wasinuch admired and well received and the same may said of her rendering of Gounod's' Ave Maria.' Mr Walton's solo 'Lcs liamcaux' was deservedly applauded, He quite caught the devotional spirit of the former, and it won for him an encore. Mr E. Stevenson, the talented violinist of the company, increased the good impression lie made on the previous evening, playing the piece—Haydn's l Souvenir '—in such a masterly style as to cause the audience to demand a repetition. He also deserves a word of praise for the violin obligato to the' Avo Maria,' sung by Miss Sampson.

This is just how the story reached the Wanganui Herald Two well-known commercial travellers when discussing mundane matters at a roadside hostelry. Both of them were travelled stained and weary, and they were enjoying (medicinally, of course) some of the best of mine host's liquor. The conversation turned on the drinking habits of the day, and it was admitted that only the pocket but the health suffered thereby, Having gone so far, they discussed the routes they wcro taking in following out their business avocations, and before saying good-bye, tliey, over a parting ■ glass, registered a vow that they would take no more strong drink until they met again, mentioning the end of their journey. But man proposes, and the Deity disposes, Ore of the bagmen, on reaching his destination, was very much shocked to hear of the sad and sudden death of his friend. His sorrow is all the more acute from the fact that he has now become a rigid teetotaller for life, but he hugs to his 'breast,'the hopes that amongst the papers of the deceased, there, may bo some paper releasing him from what he considors is a promissory note at a lengthened date,

To-day is pay-day of tho Mastorton and Greytown Building Societies,

Tho Cliincso have a god for every disease, oven far childhoood's afflictions like the mumps and measles. Tito tallest man in the German Army, a 'one-year recruit' in tho First Eogimeat, is seven foot inches in height, Mr H. Field, of Wellington, will preach in tho Ifasterton Wesleyan Ckurcli to-morrow evening. The Kev. J. Dukes conducts services at the Taueru, at 2.30 p.m.

During the hearing of a caso in the City Summons Court it was mentioned that 301 'buses pass tho Mansion House hourly. Mr and Mrs Maiwell, of Makora, return thanks to those who gave sympathy and assistance in connection with their son Leslie's sad death,

A fine large pig marched, unattended, quietly down the middle of Queen Street , this morning, tho very dogs seeming too much surprised to giro chase, Sergeant McArdle leaves Masterton for Wellington this afternoon on Supremo Court business. During his absence Constable May will be in charge of the police station at Masterton.

A Burnley man, who as a small boy helped himself to oranges from a local shop window over fifty years ago, has just sent a penitent letter to tho firm enclosing six Id stamps an compensation.

An entertainment in aid of St. Matthew's Sunday School, will lako place on Monday evening, and will consist of a concert, Maypole Dance, and Punch and Judy show. Mr Astor, the American millionaire, whoso wife died recently inEngland and was buried in America, has ordered a A'cw 1 ork florist to place over her grave a mantle of violets and lillies of the , valley for a whole year. As these blossoms wil havo to be forced, tho cost will be about £2OO a day.

Tlio offensive circular in the. Town Lands Election, to which we drow attention yesterday, did not, we are pleased to find, originate with Mr AY. I'ragnell, but came from an indiscreet supporter, who did not quite understand that a printed squib, which reflected on the characters of reputablo persons, was a somewhat dangerous weapon. A very pleasant dance was given hy the Masterton bachelors in the Temperance Hall last evening, as a return to the Carterton ladies. Tho majority of those present wore visitors from the Lower Valley, and the local committee of management aro to be complimented ujion the enjoyable result. Messrs kearsloy and Gray supplied excellent music.

A singular stroke of fortune has happened to Lince-Corporal Taylor, of the Hoyal Scots Fusiliers, now lyiug at Aldersliot, Information reached him last week that by the death of a relatiye lie had become entitled to a fortune of about £IO,OOO. Taylor who is about 18 or 19, has obtained leave in order to proceed to his home and take the necessary legal stops to secure the legacy, but says that lie lias no intention of leaving the army.

There was a large attendance at the usual weekly meeting of tho Masterton Mutual Improvement Society, held in the Wesleyan Schoolroom last evening. The liev. J. Dukes occupied the chair, and the business of the evening was a debate; "Is Football Overdone," in which Mr Hollings led off in the affirmative with a very masterly speech, Mr 0. Pragncll championing the negative. The former was supported by Mr Easthope and the Chairman, and the latter Ivy Messrs liowse, Wise and A. Burton. The vote resulted in a majority of two for the aflirinaliye. "An Evening with Dickens, 1 ' will eventuate at tho next meeting, in which Messrs Hive and Easthope will lead.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese army, Count Yamagata, who has proved such a brilliant leader, sprang (says tho Court Journal) from very limnble origin: He is the son of a working man, and the fact that he has risen from tho rank of a private soldier to his present position is ill the more remarkable when the exclusivencss of Japanese society is considered. As a soldier Count Yamagata has displayed the highest qualities. He knows the exact strength of his own men, and can form a pretty correct estimate of the weakness of his opponents, He does not strike until he knows the blow will tell, and though lie does not lose time he is never iu a hurry. And this is the secret of his successes. He cannot, howeier, be said by any means to rank as a soldier with such great generals as Napoleon, Wellington, or Moltkc. Field-Marshal Yamagata is a far from showy man in society; lie is a decidedly poor linguist, and his scholarly attainments arc not very high. Pots, pans, milk boilers, and other cooking utensils are now made of aluminium, which is both light, cleanly, and durable, It is also free from poison and requires no tinning or enamelling within or without. Further, it cooks more quickly than iron, as it retains the heat better. Portable canteens, basins, cups, plates, salt-sellers, trays, and toast-racks are also made of this white and shining metal, which is coming rapidly into general use, and has evidently a great future before it now that chemists are learning to reduce it Irom its oxides at a comparatively low cost. M. Moissan has lately succeeded in reducing it by means of his electric furnace.

A terrible battle lias been fought at the railway station at liawaruska. A menaßcrio was being conveyed by rail, and when the train stopped at the station a great noise was heard. The guards went to the waggons containing the wild Leasts and found the wooden partitions which separated three lionesses from three bears and these again from three hyienas, broken down, and the animals engaged in battle. One bear was missiag. The lions had eaten him, skin and all. They had bitten another bear's paw olf, and a hy/eua lay dead on the floor. Two lions in a neighbouring compartment remained calm. j\ T o one dared interfere between the fighting beasts, until the owner arrived in a sledge and separated them—not before hcliad been bitten by n bear, howeve:, He claims damages from the liailwav administration, because the partitions gave way. 1 Birmingham man, who recently absconded with his partner's money, has in his turn become the victim of fraud. He is the eldest son in a suburban family, and recently attained his majority, On Hint occasion, the paternal purse-strings were slackened to the extent of one thousand pounds. In making the gift, the head of the household expressed a hope that the recipientwould find some means of investing the money in a business, and, with perseverance, build up a successful concern. The son was not long in complying with the first part of the father's injunction, for ]ie beenmo partner with a factor in the South of England. All went along merrily for a while, but the junior member of the concern, tired of the monotony of daily business life, and while his colleague was absent on the Continent, disposed of the business and shipped to America in the company of a Birmingham barmaid. The pair made New York their headquarters, but ns the weeks rolled by, the man began to' think that it was quite time to turn his capital to account. He resolved to go up country prospecting, but as Hcbo did not like tho idea, he made up his mind to go alone. She took special care to point out the danger ot travelling about with so muchmonoy in ihis possession. He quito concurred, and away ho went, leaving tho bulk of the ! money in her keeping, When he returned ho learned that sho had gone ]»ck to England. Ho had the impudence to telegraph instructions to his partner to arrest the woman, but tho latter pointedly replied, Conic back and prosecute lior," This of course (comments Kobin Goodfellow, who tells the story), was outoftho question, and so tho poor fool remains on the other side of the Atlantic with empty pockets, while his Becky Sharp luxuriously disports herself at homo with impunity,

At Warrnambool potatoes are selling at Cs 6d per ton. A few years ago they were £5.

The votofor the erection of a new Trnui police station has been passed by tho Cabinet and the work mil at onco bo proceeded with, In referouce to the seizure of tlio Midland liailway, the Grey River Argus says: " This is the crowning act of a continuous and systematic series of acts to cmbarass the compauy and lead to a wicked waste of time. . . We cannot help thinking that this last act of Government is a daviug piece of ' bluff.' They seem to be groping about for some means that will gain more time, and enable them to skirk arbitration,"

In a gentleman's residence in the Auckland District recently, a servant, on entering a spare bedroom, discovered a smell of fire, and found a small mat on a wooden waslistand in a blaze. The sun's rays, passing through a waterbottle on the wash-stand, had been focused on the mat, and set it on firo.

Mr Pcnley it never tired of relating the marvellous success which has attended the production of Charley's Aunt. It has made more money than any piece ever produced.. He has 25 companies playing it now in various countries of the world, and up to the present the play has mado over £500,003. Constable Hallctt died rather suddenly at Timaru at 7 o'clock this morning after a few hours' illness. He had been 34 years Colony. He joined tho Armed Constabulary in 1868, and the police force in 1875, and saw threo years' service in the Maori War. As a boy he served in H.M, navy in the Mediterranean.

Is lunacy increasing P This question has been exciting considerable interest of late years, and most peoplo were inclined to answer it in tho affirmative. Tho Commissioners for Lunacy in Scotland, howover, concludo their published annual report by stating that the facts and figures afford no ground for a belief that insanity is to-day more prevalent in Scotland at any rate than it to 3G years ago. Mr Coubournc, station-master at Masterlon, leaves for Wellington this afternoon to give evidcuco in the Supreme Court case against Roderick McKcnzio, charged witl burglariously entering the station premises and stealing an overcoat. During Mr Coubourne's absence Mr W. H. Frcethoy, of the Manager's Office, Wellington, will be in charge.

A Nottingham giant, Brough byname, is on exhibition. He it 23 years old, stands Bft in his socks, and measures over .17m. round the chest. At the age of 12 lie stood over 6ft., and working as a miner, he received a man's pay. His grandfather was over 7ft. in height, but his parents and brothers and sisters arc of average stature. At the Land Board meeting the North Wairarapa Country Council applied for certain thirds to enable them to restore footbridges opposite Mr Smith's residence in tho 'lWataia and Mr Davis' of the Mangaone, partially destroyed by the late Hoods. The application was granted. In connection with St. Matthew's Church, Mr W. H, Jackson conducts services at Opaki at 11 a.m. to-morrow, aud the Kev, J. Hewson at iiangitumau at 3 p.m.

To-day ii the tenth anniversary of St. Patrick's College, which was opened on the Ist June, 1895. The College Ims 85 boarders, and GO day pupils, says the Times.

ThcLongbum freezing works were on Thursday taken possession of by the mortgagees, the National Mortgage and Agency Company. Tho amount of the mortgage is about £l3,soo.—Ahnamln Standard.

At a meeting of the Wanganui Women's Political League the following resolution was passed That the marriago laws of the Colony be recast or readjusted on the principle of complete equality and the economic independence ot men and women." And another—- " That the law of divorce be so altered so as to put husband ami wife upon precisely tlic same footing as to the dissolution of the marriage lie." Instructions have bceu issued to the Departmental Engineers, to at once admit the unemployed in this and other districts, to the co-operative gangs on the short time principle. At St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, to-morrow, Holy Communion will he celebrated at 8 a.m. and 1145 a.m., by the liev. A. C. Yorke assisted by the liev. Joseph Hewson. A Children's Service and Baptism will take place at 3 p.m., the liev. A. C. Yorke preaching again in the evening. E. Gray, Secretary to tho Waipawa County liacing Ciub, and clerk to the Kaikora Town Board and the Patangatu Jioad Board who committed suicide by taking strychnine, had just applied for tho renewal of a prohibition order against himself, and lio loft a letter stating that; drink and gambling had led to his ruin, aud that death was preferable to prison, from which it is inferred that he was in financial trouble.

The Wellington Waste Lands Board continues to be deluged with applications from _ members of Special Settlement Associations, who desire their sections transferred, and at the late meeting, after an hour's consideration, refused one and all. Mr l'irani said ho had been informed tlmt one applicant had been offered £l7O for his interest if he rauld obtain a transfer. In every instance only a preliminary fee had been paid, and no improvements had been effected,

Messrs Simms and Mowlem are instructed to offer for private sale that valuable acre of land next to Pinlieys stableSj the lot has been cut up into convenient building sites which have frontages to Queen, King, and Chapel streets. Also a seven-roomed house in Bannister Street, on lj acres of land. All arc offered at prices to suit the times and should find ready sale ns the building sites command one of best positions in the town,

There arc at present over 250 applicants for land under the improved farm conditions, 189 of whom ask for land in the Awarua Block. The area reported to bo suitable is only 3,500 acres, beyond what has been already allotted. To supply the present applicants would require 10,000 acres, or fivo times the area available. It is intended to decide upon the successful applicants by ballot.

The Eawh'sßity Herald relates that a Mrs Codd, accompanied by a lady friend and her child, was driving over the ItcdclyfFo bridge, when the horse shied, and the child was thrown from its mother's arms over the rails into the Tutaekuri river, a distance of fully 30 feet, The little one, strange to say, floated down the river for about 50yds, ueing probably held up by its clothes, and was eventually rescued by a Mr Waterhousc, who had to wade into the water waist-deop.. The child was apparently none the worso for the accident, although it was several minutes in the cli illy water.

| A strange murder was discovered at Vienna on a reeont Wednesday afternoon. A brieklaver went in the morning to a small chandler's shop, and asked the shopkeeper to chango a 1000 florin note for him. Tho chandlor informed the police, and when the case had been looked into, it was found that an old lady, who lived alone in a lodging in the ' same house as tho brioklayer, had not been seen for a wook or more. Tho lodging was forced open, and the old lady was found murdered in hor bedroom, whero she had been lying for ten days. She had been strangled with a rope, and in her clenched hands was a qnantity of fair hair, She was an architect's widow. 'The bricklayer is only 17. It is supposed that the alleged murderer took more money than tho thousand florin note ho tried to change, The old lady was supposed to have 200,000 florins, and all the neighborhood spoko of her wealth. Nobody missed her onaccaunt of her extraordinary habits.