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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5053, 17 June 1895, Page 2

Sir Harold Welch hud so far recovered from his recent accident, (which occurred through his horse falling at the Clnrevillo Steeplechase) that lie was able to get about again on Saturday. Wellington defeated Hnwie's Bay at football, on Saturday, by fifteen points to nine.

The Gas and Library Committee of the Masterton Borough Council meet this evening. The usual weekly meeting of the North Wairarapa Liberal Association, takes place this evening. Wc remind our readers of the popular concert at the Masterton Theatre Koyal this evening.

The Executive of the New Zealand Alliance has lixed July 3rd and 4th for the Temperance Convention ut Wellington. Up till Saturday last £B6O was collected at Dunodin for the unemployed fund.

Messrs Kirkcaldio mid Stains, of Wellington, publish the prices of several special seasonable lines and invito correspondence from country customers. In a recent breach of promise action against a London postman a noteworthy fact was elicited. Evidence proved that he received £2O in Christmas-boxes alone. "When the l'almcrslon Gasworks wore first established, 00,003 feet of gas were produced each month. The production now per week is M8,(0 feet.

A resident of Waipawa has had to have his tongue removed owing to a cancerous growth. This is reported to be the second ease of the kind in that district within a fortnight. On an average nineteen persons out of every hundred committed for murder arc condemned and executed.

To aim is not enough; you must hit! This implies success, and to be successful is the desire of everyone. Wc have an illustration of this crowning effort in the brew of J. Staples & Co., Limited, Wellington. For some time past no exp'ense has been spared in turning out a good, wholesome, palatable beer, ami Staples' XXXX is the result, which connoisseurs attest is equal to any produced in the Colony. This special product of the well-known Thermion Brewery, is on tap at almost all leading hotels in the Wairarapa district, and those who enjoy a glass of good beer, should give it a trial. In another column Messrs Staples k Co., Limited, extend a cordial invitation to all, to test" Staples' , Best."

Cliestevfield IslaiulGutuio, extensively used in the South Island, is now being introduced into this district, and Messrs A. G. Tainc & Co., of Wellington, who arc the agents, have a notice in this issue quoting for ton lots at ship's side.

A meeting of To Ore Ore settlers interested in the erection of a Dairy Factory, was held on Saturday night, at the Empire Hotel, Masterton. It was resolved that as the district has not been thoroughly canvassed for support, Mr Jacques he appointed to undortako the same and report to another meeting to he held on Saturday evening next at 7.30. Other business was allowed to stand over until next meeting. So far 217 cows have been guaranteed towards startiug a factory. Preaching at Gore, the Bct. George Soltan said:—"l do not know of this colony, tall do know of the Australian colonics, that they worship a god of leather, tho Football, and a smaller god of leather, tho Cricket Ball; and when two thousand men go to see Carbine off to England, you can't get two hundred men to a prayer meeting, no wonder God has smitten Victoria with a depression such as that colony lias been experiencing." Do men and women breathe differently ? liccent experiments have shown that a woman without corsets breathes like a man, that is to say, both the diaphragm or abdomen and the thorax or chest eomo into play. When a woman is wearing corsets she breathes more from tho abdomen and less from tho chest.

It is a wonderful thing that oysters, after they have been brought away from the sea, know by instinct the hour when the tido is rising and approaching their beds, and so, of their own accords, open their shells to receive their food from the sea as if they were still at home.

An instrument for detecting tho presence of escaped gas has been placed on the market, and is claimed to do its work safely and effectively. It contains an air column, the length of which is measured by the amount of air necessary to produce a musical note of standard pitch, and as the length of the column depends upon the density of the air, the presence of tho gas is shown by a difference in the sound. . . ■

Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times regards the Eusso-Chincso loan as tho greatest stroko of political finance since Lord Boaconsfield's coin in .connection with tho purchase of Siioz Canal shares iu

Mr ,L -M. .Glasgow, Government I Auditor, is at present in Masterton. ' A heavy fall of snow took place at ~ Christchurch, on Saturday. There aro a considerable number of J men, some of them local residents, out of work at Pabiatua, The Melbourne police havomado a raid upon children selling matches in the street. They caught thirty of this class, Tenders are invited by Mr C. E. Danioll for carting timber from To Ore . Ore Sawmill yard, t Fruit wrapped in brown paper will ] stand fifteen degrees more cold thau if v not thus protected. " He has oaten his last rice," say the & Chinese when they wish to imply that a man's end is near. / The Customs duties collected in Wellington last weok, amounted to £S!M3 6s lOd, and the beer duty to £l7O 6s 2d. H.M.S. l'ylades and H.M.S. Uingarooma, arrived at Wellington from the i South, yesterday. The Stato scliool teachers in Tasmania have been directed to devote a quarter of an hour twice a week to teaching ' scientific temperance. ' The winter vacation in the schools under the jurisdiction of the Wellington ' Education Board will commence ou Ist July, and will last a fortnight, , Down to the present century a part ' of tho marriage ceremony in Hungary ' consisted in the groom giving the brido a kick to remind her of her subjection. 1 Several members of the Auckland ! Education Board are doubtful whether • a teacher has power to keep a pupil in i after school hours. : A cribbago club is being formed at ' Mangatainokn. Mr Frank Farley has • the matter in hand, and has already i enrolled about twenty members. i In Mexico they cat salt with oranges, ) both because they prefer the latter so . seasoned andbccausothcyarcconsidcred t to be more wholesome with salt. s A " leg-of-mutton and caper sauco r dinner"" is to bo held once a month at s Mangalaiuoka. If all are as enjoyable s as the one held on Wednesday evening ' they should become very popular, says , tho I'ahialua Herald. e Several petty larcenies have occurred . about Masterton again lately. Last _ night some moan thief stole the cover off 1 a horse's back, while another removed ? thewood-axo from a resident's back f yard. s Mr and Mrs Johng, formerly of the " Masterton Hospital, have established y themselves in a comfortable whare, aud i, are carving out a home ou the Masters, ton liefonn Block, g Mr" Syd " Sinclair, not unknown in || Masterton, was taken suddenly ill, at | e Christchurch the other day, and was w carried to a Chinaman's residence, , where he died before medical aid could 1 bo summoned.

Services in St. Matthews' Church, Masterton, on Sunday, wcro conducted by JUr W. H. Jackson and Mr it. lirown, morning and evening respectively, the liev. A. C. Yorkc holding services at Brancepcth. For clearing the broom from the Trust Lands Trust section near the Main School, fourteen tenders were received ranging from £1 7s (id to £l3 os. Tho tender of T. McGuire, at £3, was accepted. Among the many paradoses of modern civilisation none is more remarkable than the fact that, whilst the cost of food has steadily declined, the tariff of hotels, especially on the Continent, has shown a steady upward tendency. Wc hear that the Application of numerous residents in the i'nhiiitua district havo been granted, " Under the Advances to Settlers Act," but that they complain of tho money being a long time coining to hand.

Underwear is now made in Paris of peat. This sounds like a joke, but there is nothing of the Munchausen order about it. It has been known for some lime that peat has certain antiseptic qualities. A dead body which was buried in peat .for over a century was found in a stale of perfect preservation. Following up the suggestions made by the Inspectors iu their annual report, several of the State school teachers—including Mr Worboys oE Ekclahuna—hayo obtained magic lanterns, and have prepared slides, with which to illustrate lessons in natural history, science, geography, etc., in their schools.

We are requested by Mr F. IL Wood (o draw special attention ot those interested in the sale of stock in the Bannoekbnrn Estale, to the fact that the sale has been postponed from Friday, till Monday next, the 2tth inst, at one o'clock, when all stock will be sold without reserve- in consequent of the sale of the property.

We understand that thcro is general dissatisfaction expressed in Eketahuna and Pahiatna over the refusal of the Licensing Committee to extend tho hours of the local hotels from ten to eleven o'clock. The trade and its friends are extremely sore hecause some of the Commissioners having secured eleven o'clock for the Mastcrton houses, rcfuso a similar concession to them.

. A Maslerlon resident, during the present year, planted several acres of his property in potatoes, which, together with labor and seed, cost him about £l9. Now, owing to the potato disease, he has about £(i worth of potatoes to dig in return, out of which must bo deducted the cost of digging them. This is a severe loss, but not the only ono of a similar nature throughout tho district.

The sleepers aro being prepared for laying down on the railway lino between Eketahuna and tho Mnngatuinoka river, The platelayers will probably be at work laying the rails within a month. Until this is done, the contractor for the large bridge will be unable to properly start operations. The erection of the bridge will probably take six months, All the earthworks as far as Woodrillc are rapidly approaching completion.

At the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at Auckland, Charles Harley, contractor, was sentanced to 12 months' hard labor and ordered to pay the costs of tho prosecution for attemptiug to dissuade witnesses from giviug evidence in a certain assault case at the Magistrate's Court, Paeroa. His Honor commented severely on the offence, and pointed out that the prisoner had made' his case worse by perjuring himself in the witness-box.

After the formal opening of Parliament on Thursday afternoon, both Houses will adjourn, according to custom, till Friday afternoon, when the Addross-m-Eoply will he moved in the Legislative Council, The Address-in-Reply will bo proposed in tho Houso on Friday evening. Mr Fred Pirani.mcmber for Palmcrston, is to move the Address-iu-Roply iu the Lower House, and it will be seconded by Mr Graham, member for Nelson.or Mr Maslin.mcmber for Es.ngitata, says the N.Z Times. Tho return of the rain fall in New Zealand for the year 1894, as tar as completed, has been published. -The highest record was at Hokitika, whore rain fell on 181 days and the register showed 115-8!) inches. _ The lowest record was at lapimatiki, tho register showing 18'41 inches. Thus the East aud West aspects of the South Island as they arc classed, givo the highest and lowest records for tho year. The returns from Puysegur Point arc omitted and when to hand will in all probability giyo a higher record than Hokitika. In the Chatham Islands the rainfall for 1891 was 35'01 inches, rain falling on 190 days,

i The sale of drapery and clothing anjnounced in another column, will comence on Saturday Juno Ist, at the Bon Maroho. Messrs L, J. Boopcrand Co,, have deoided to dispose of the whole of their now season's stock of drapery, millinery, clothing, household furnishing, 'woollens, blankets, etc, This is a ohanoe that very ssldom occurs and buyers would do well to visit the sale early as there is no doubt the goods will be sold independent of cost prices and at great Baorifioe,—Ajbvi,