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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5060, 25 June 1895, Page 2

fl c remind our renders of the entertainmotit iu St. Matthew's Schoolroom this evening. The late rains have brought down a lot of snow from the hills, and the rivers in this district are consequently very high, It is expected there will he a rise of »d m merino combing and bright crossbred, at (he Loudon July wool sales. It is rcpoiled that Lord Wolsclcy is to succeed (lie Duke of Cambridge. Thus the Pu„t:-" It i s evident that the Government intends to perpetrate a monstrous job, by foisting a few more of lis supporters on the Legislative Council."

Limelight lanterns are to be used in connection with the interlninment nt St. ( Matthew's Schoolroom this evening, so that those attending need not fear a risk jot suffocation from the smoke of" blue fire."

Another useful leaflet for farmers entitled " Sonic potato diseases, and how to prevent llicm," Ims just been issued by the Department of Agricnllure. The writer is Mr T. W.'ffivk, F.L.S., etc.

The Wairarapa District Court opens at Masleiton to-morrow. The business is lighter than usual.

ill V. Parker, milkman, of Homebush, is, we hear, giving up business in Maslcrton, and wdl shortly stmt h Well'nclon.

The Maslcrton School breaks up lor the mid-winter vacation on Friday next.

lhe ram of the past few days has flooded the town creek sullicicnlly to " move on," sundry dead cats and other things, winch for several days remained peacefully in that portion of the stream mulling through St. Matthew's Church grounds.

The English wheat market has undergone a general decline of lid. The full is wn.tinuous. The spot quolaiion al present for New York red winter iS : o. 2, is?oI cents.

Llie worlds expoit of wheal for the last ten weeks was 2,0":>,C0U quaiicrs above ordinary needs, hut owing to the moderate stock in England, the surplus was readily absorbed.'

Messrs Aeison Brothers propose to transfer iheir English business to a Colonial Distribution Company. The lirsl issue of capital will he .(."ICIJ.OQO.

The Cartel Inn Dorough Council have resolved to put oil' (he proposed additions to the Council Chambers, as to carry out the work would cause them to exceed the legal limit of (heir overdraft. Students in Constantinople have been found plotting against the life of the Sulian of Turkey, and 30 arrests have been made.

The Wellington agents have been advised that the s.s. Doric left liio on Ihemoruiiigof llie22udiusi.

A Manchester Colonial Steamship Company is being formed to run produce steamers between New Zealand, Australia, and Manchester and Glasgow, calling at the Cape. It is expected that some 50 or (10 delegates will attend the annual conference of the County Councils Association, tu lie opened in' Wellington on the last Tuesday in July.

The Directors of the Sew Zealand Insurance Company have declared an jinl.M'im dividend for the past half-year at the rale of 121 per cent, per annum. A similar dividend was declared for the corresponding period of last year. The Pull Mull Gazelle states thai in April China gave a London bank (lie option of raising (he indemnity loan, receiving an immediate advance of .(.'1,!'.:"..!,':.:), and therefore shehcsilalcs to ratify the Jlusso-Chinese loan. 'J'lie London Daily Kcien of May lii;h says thai (he annual meeting of shareholders :d Moiilo Carlo lasted for lime days from Ira in (lie morning until midirjlil, dinner being eaten during caVli meeting. There was a pitched" battle between Ihe Prince ol Monaco's partisans and the descendants of iheßeave. The Prince's parly won. They will retrench in the expenses of Hie place. The two laigest causes for the 1 falling oil in Hie dividends are Hie financial stringencies iu the United Slates and Italy which nations spend more at the rcsoii than any others.

Mr 11 envy Hughes, Patent Agent, Wellington, has secured the patent rights in Australasia, for the ingenious invention of Messrs Hielianl 'lirighl, jiuir., anil Hugh MaeKay, of Grcylown, known us n spndo for laying loxa poison: Mr Hughes has also applied, on behalf of the Cassell Gold Extraction Company, for Idlers patent in this Colony for another invention bearing on gold extraction. The Cyanide patent rights, now hold hy this Company, arc to lie attacked as foreshadowed in the Governor's speech. The Government in agreeing to an additional grant for the Mount Holdsworlh Tourists Jtaid, msule it a condition in agreeing lo it, that the TiiraiahiCarlei ton Jtoad .Hoard undertake the work on the co-operative system. Mr C_.K. Bvemner, County Engineer, lias laid oil' the road in (en chain sections, but recommends the Board do not 'undertake the work themselves, as the cost of inspection will cat into the grant ■loomuch, Instead, he suggests the Government should he asked lo accept the Engineer's plans and specifications, and carry out the work, us they hold all Hie machinery at command. The Board at its meeting on Saturday adopted the Engineer's recommendations,

The following is the programme arranged in connection with the Colonial Temperance Convention in Wellington on July 3rd and -Ith:—Conference in Courtenay-place Congregational Church on Wednesday, ill 2 p.m.; adjourn at 5; open-air meeting at 7; Conference al 8. On Thursday, Conference rc-as-semble at 10 a.m.; torchlight procession anil open-air meeting at 7 p.m.; mass public meeting in (he Opera House at 8 p.m. Subjects for Convention—(l) " Essentials of New Legislation," liev. E. Walker; (2)" Parliamentary Work," MrE,A.Haggeii| (3) "Organisation of the Party," Jtcv. T.J. Wills. The [Mayor of Wellington (Mr C. M. Luke), will preside at the public meeting, and it is expected that Sir liobcrt Stout, mid MrH'oneHckc, M.H.K.'s, licv.F.W Jsilt, and Mr T. E. Taylor, will he among the speakers.

- " There is about to bo introduced into > England," says EmjhariMj, " ut process • of preserving timber which has been for [ some years in operation in the United Stales, the dolails of which have been | worked out by Colonel Haskin. Ordinar- | ily (ho treatment of timber to obviate , decay consists in the application, after , being dried, of some antiseptic-chloride ; of zinc, sulphate of copper, bichloride of : mercury, and, much more extensively, t creosote, But Colonel Haskin believes , Hint timber in its green state lias in itself the properties essential to preservation, and the process associated with his name is designed to utilise those properties, The wood in its green state is pinned in a large air-light vessel, and is there subjected to an air pressure, varying, according to the timber, from 1501b to 2COlb to the square inch; and this air is dried first and heated by passing through pipes oyer a stove, the ultimate, temperature being from2oodeg.toJsodeg;, Fahr., according tothc'miliireof the wood. The effect is said lobe a chemical change in these compounds - albuminous, glutinous, resinous or oleaginous—which constitute tho sap of the tree, so that the'fluid i niatler'beconiesinsoluble, and coagulated : in tho pores, preventing decomposition. ■ This result is attained in about eight 1 hours' treatment, for, say a mahogany ( log 12in. thick, the time varying with ] thp thickness, The process has thus the i merit, at least, of great rapidity, but 1 time alone is the arbiter of its preserv- i ing qualities." ,

_ Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their list for to-morrow, 3 first-class dairy cows.

His Honor, District Judge Kettle, will not arrive in Masterton until to'morrowmorning, and the District Court will therefore not open until noon. It is understood that representatives of Colonial and English foreign insurance companies, meet in Mclbonrno, next month, to arrango a general tariff for this Colony, The Korth Wairarapa Gun Club's Pigeon Match on Thursday next, is for Mr J. Handel's ten guinea Cup. Mr W. J. Hirsehberg's handicap is 21yds not 12yds as appeared iu the list published yesterday. Plans of a number of Tolnablo'building sites at Carterton lobe sold by public auction by Mr li. E. Horn'blow, on Wednesday July 17th, are now in circulation.

Mr Henry Phillips, of the Occidental Hotel, Masterton, offers a reward for the recovery d a lost umbrella. He hardly expects to got it back, he says, while the present weather lasts, but would feel obliged if the fiuder would return it as soon as the present storm is over.

Messrs Lowes mid lorns hold (heir fortnightly slock sale to-morrow, the entries comprise: 4(13 good ewes in lamb, 120 fat ewes, 100 wethers, 5C3 lambs, 35 prime fat cows and heifers, 10 fat bullocks, mixed cattle, daily cows, pigs, horses, etc.

At the Supreme Court,? Napier, Isabella Laws, for embezzling the fundi of the Good Templar Lodge, of which her husband was Secretary, received a sentence of 12 months' hard labour, His Honour, the Chief Justice, declining to extend to her the benefits of the Probation Act,

lhe business set down for the ucxt sitting of the Wairarapa District Cowlis us follows:—liefoic District Judge kettle and jury: R Lee v. Hera To Tau and others, fencing claim tor .6120; without a jury: McKec and Lintl v. McLaren; Donald Donald v. Ah Lep, claim for rent. A T o defence has yet been filed in cither of the two hitler cases. The bankruptcy business consists of three applications (or discharge and one summons lo show cause.

The Ckristchurch Licensing Committee lias granted renewals of license to nine ol the hotels, applications in respect .of which hud been deferred. Several hours were occupied in hearing ovidenee mopposilion lo the renewal of the license to Colter's Hotel, allegations in regard lo the conduct of one of the bars being made. The matter was adjourned till Thursday, to enable the 'licensee, T. Popham, to bring witnesses to meet the charges made.

A movement is on foot in Scotland to erect a statue of Highland Mary, imniorttihsrd by Burns, at J)iuioon, near the place of her birth, on the Firth of Clyde. The statue will be a very artistic and striking one, and will occupy a most commanding position. It j s proposed to unveil the statue on 21st June, the centenary of Burns' death, on which occasion there will be a great national demonstration at Dunoon. That Scotchmen iiml admirers of the poel Burns in New Zealand may have an opportunity to contribute towards the cost of the statue, it has been determined to open subscription lists in the various centres of population. Tho Hon. William M'Cullough.of Auckland, and Dr. Stenhouse, of' Dunedin, haw been nominated patrons ot the funds and entrusted with the arrangements for collecting subscriptions in this Colony. Influential committees have already been formed hi Auckland and at the Thames, and the Hon. Mr M'ChNoueJi, who is now here (says the Pod) is about to organise a Wellington committee also.

Perhaps in the whole of this dislricf no man is better known thau Mr William Cullen of Masterton, who traity-three years ago-after a career of adventure "by ilood and field" during which he served Her Majesty in the iioyal Navy, taking iiart in the i\.Z. War, and subsequently acted as male Oil a colonial liner-came to Maslcrlon as Government immigration Agent lo pioneer a large number of the original Forty-mile Hush settlers. After (his Mr Cullen entered into business for himself as a contractor and carried out many permanent works about Masterton, hnally-sonie twelve years wio-cntcr-ins: the service of Ihe Singer Sewingmachine Company, and from Unit time forward, until a few weeks ago, he remained in Ihe service of Ibis large and far-reaching manufacturing concern. I'iiring his connection with Ihe Sin R er Company, Mr Cullen lias worked ii]} a vciy extensive busiliess; Jias placed some thousands of sewing mat-limes, and lias called—at least oncc-at every house between 1 alliser Jlay and iNapicr, for at one lime he worked Ihe llawke's Hay office as well as (he Wairarapa one. Latterly Mr Cullen lias felt the ever-increasin'.r business and Hie constant travelling 100 much for hiir, as exposure to Ihe weaiher and a very active early life begins to tell on a man of his years, and lie llicrefore decided lo give wav to a younger man and consequently resigned after a career as successful as any of the Singer Company's agents in (his Colony. We are glad to learn that Mr Cullen does not intend leaving Masterlon, but Inking up some line ol business which will leave him more leisure, and although settlers will miss his regular visits somewhat, and his genial smile and kindly word, they will not lose him altogether, for MrCnllcn's active nature will not permit him to quite give up work. At anyrale, whatever line Mr Cullen may select, we hope he has many successful years ahead of him.

Amost painful sensation was caused n liosano, a few weeks ago, when particulars were received of a shocking tragedy enacted in a neighbouring " chacra." The details are as follows :- "In the neighborhood of Arroyo Scco, stands a small chacra recently taken by Juan Letrier, his wife Maria, and their daughter ltoquina, A young fellow of •bout 25, named Jose Chiappe, was hired as a'peon.' Everything went on well, until one day Maria was told thai Josd was going about saying that be hud seduced Jlocptina, The mother was seized with fury, and she resolved to avenge her daughter's honour. On Monday last, she arranged a little dinner party, having invited Jose and two neighbours. Maria did not display the least sign of irritation, or ill-feeling, but towards the end of the dinner, she quietly left the table and went out to the kitchen. She returned with a sharp hatchet, and before any could suspect her design, she opened Jose's head, exclaiming at the same time,' Now you may tell people that you seduced my daughter She then turned towards Ikraina L awl called on her lo finish him. Eoquina

L seized a knife and stabbed the man ) with a ury bordering on frenzy. She _ stabbed him 23 times, The police too , soon on the scono. and tho mother and 1 the daughter too taken to thepolicc- ; station, They showed not tho slightest f rogret for what they had done. , Professor Limon, of Pcttio and 8on« i Sydney, has been inspecting several . nocks of sheep in Hawko's Bay to dis- , coyer the cause of the grave mortality. . So far he has found almost the sole cause of the trouble to bo pulmonalis which corresponds to plcuro in cattle! It is generally accompanied by lung worm, but that he maintains the effect, not the cause, of the disease He addresses a meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society on Thursday. A marriage ceremony was interrupted atUarcaldine, Queensland, the other day by the refusal of the bridegroom, says { contemporary. For several (Jays prc . pwations had been mado for the colebra Hon of the marriage, and a dumber of the friend? of the parties assembled in tho church. The contracting parties having arrived the ceremony was proceeded with nnhl the question, '•'• iVflt thou take this woman i<" Ac, was put hv th« clergyman, The bridegroom said in l W voice, "I will not," repeating tho ■ words three times and tnkinglushat, he hastily left tho church. As may be imagined, tho incident created great astonishment and confusion, ,