Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, JULY 8, 1895. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5071, 8 July 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, JULY 8, 1895. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

t Ml! 0. E. Daniel!, who is enthusiastic in liis endeavour to secure technical education for Mastcrton, has obtained a copy of the Calendar of the Sydney Technical College for 18fl'l. it is almost bewildering to follow the ground covered by this institution. There are departments of architecture, of art, of chemistry and metallurgy, of electrical engineering, of industrial and decorative art, of mineralogy and mining, of mechanical engineering, of pharmacy, of sanitary engineering, and of training in sheep and wool, Now cacli of these departments is again divided into classes and for each class lecturers are provided. The area of instruction is so large and varied that it is almost amusing when we find a small body like the Masterton Town Lands Trust, lightly and airily talking of giving the community technical education, as if all the arts and sciences could be bought for fourpence, and tho Trust had the fourpenco wherewith to buy the Jot, Still, Mr Daniell is justified in his contention that something may be done, The Trust cannot take up ut department, but it may deal with a class in a department, and oven this is something. Probably the class Mr Daniell would be disposed to select, would be that of building trades in tho department of architecture. This class covers masonry, stone and marble carving, bricklaying, carpentering and joinery, and cabinet-making. As far as we understand his yiew, it is in the direction j more of lectures being given on these subjects, by local residents who . are qualified to deliver them, rather ' than practical manual instruction. The world is ruled by brains (even ; if New Zealand is for the time being , under another kind of government), j and if Mr Daniell's proposed class i were instrumental in rousing and 1 training the brains of some of the I young people in this town it might j be of great advantage. The young man who is taught to think out tho , why and wherefore of all the tools . ho uses and of all the work to which | he puts his hand is the young man i who will succeed in after life. It is i easy often to find a man with a 1 trained hand for a particular craft, J but it is not so easy to find one with ' a trained brain as well as the trained j baud. When the two go together ( the owner is a man thoroughly c equipped for the battle of life in any t part of the world. r ' Pur own-idea was that a little a manual training in a workshop would l be jijie mosj convenient opening for j the. Masterton Trusses jn dealing j with technical education, Mr Daniell i

strikes a higher note than this, and if, with the expert assistance of Messrs Bond and Jackson, he is enabled to submit a practicable scheme for a students' class and a lecture room to the Trust at next meeting, we shall bo only too glad to support it. The men who do things for the public in this community are usually few in number, and when one is found who is trying to accomplish some work of utility, ho should bo encouraged on all sides, even though there be some difference of opinion as to methods, It is the do-nothing-men who keep tlie town back, and who are often only too ready to hinder those who are willing to do something, and who possess the capacity to do it,

One baptism took place in St. Matthew's Cliurch, yesterday afternoon. The first pawnbroker's license ever granted at Napier was issued last week,

ThcMasterton School Committee meets this evening. Sunday concerts are largely on fko increase in London.

Three new novels a day are issued by London publishers. The Wairarapa liugby Union Bauner falls to Grcytown this year. The Fcalhcrslon lioad Board has a debit balance of £1935135'1d.

A Dundee man is working on a (lying machine that is built on the bicycle plan.

It is estimated that in England one woman in every six earns her own liviug, The Jiev. A. C. Yorke conducted morning service at the Taucrit, on Sunday.

A good deal of rain fell in Mastcrton yesterday. Muring the night, there was another frost.

It is said that some pretty stiff wager ing took place over (lie ijtar-Grcytowi football match on Saturday. The invention of the typewriter lur given employment to half a millioi women.

Another Sixpenny Concert takes place at the Mastcrton Wcslcyan Schoolroom this evening. The deaths from football in Great Britain during the past season numbered twenty. A lirst meeting of creditors in the estate of Xf. If. J> Lisle takes place tomorrow morning.

The Jlaslerton Operatic Society has not yet commenced the rehearsal of the next piece to be produced

A number of the school committees favour the proposed monthly parade of schoolboys for company drill. A Hill is to he hurried through Parliament to make an end of the revival of rock-lighting in Scotland. .In some parts of the l r iiiled States the law forbids marriage between coloured men and while women.

All outstanding rales due to l!t< Feathci'ston Road Board.will lie suei foraflerlhc lath of this month.

_Soulli Africa lias over :)()00 miles ol railway and their earning power is worth .to,o;w,oDo a year.

A big house is p.'omi.wd for (he o]i(iii ing iierl'orinauce of the Kcnnedy-Luca! Compiy, at Hie Theatre iloy'al, thii evening.

The small boy nuisance on the Masterton Park Grandstand, keeps many people from patronising it at football matches.

Several Mnslerton sportsmen who went to the Eusli [or ut day's shooting, 'relumed by (rain litis morning iritli well-filled bags. Tho front appearance of the Drill J [all has been greatly improved by new windows protected with strong wire netting.' The Wairarupa Hunt Club will hold a meet at Feathcrston on the LSth July. An extra hunt has been arranged to take place at llastcrlon on Thursday, July 25th. A lad was lined E! and cosls a day or two ago ut Dunedin for snowballing persons who were riding on a Ironical'. The attendance at the football match in the Maslcrtou Park on Saturday, was | even larger than on the previous Saturday.

The petition of Sarah Jane Lett, a Kailoke. for a grant of land for her l! sons born in Wellington, has hcei "referred to the Government for eon sideraliou."

A fanner in Michigan recently obtained liiffl pounds of unwashed wool from 112 sheep. The average per head wits a little over 14 pounds, and the largest Hecci! weighed ;ll pounds, The clip is au extraordinary one.

'Hid appearance of many a garment is improved, and its usefulness prolonged by having it dyed; and those who stand in need of the services of a dyer should read tho notice of Mr H. Hs'lall, of 110, Courtney Place, Wellington, which appears in another column of this issue. H. D. Nelson, of Nelson Moate & Co., is petitioning Parliament (hat 2d a pound extra duty be imposed on tea imported in packages of under 20lb, ta prevent foreign cheap labour competing with the New Zealand tea merchants in the packing of leas in small parcels. It is estimated that in the United Kingdom no fewer than 70,000 girls arc employed in public-houses and drinkingbars. It is marvellous how some of our greatest write have betrayed to the world their weaknesses. In "The Lady's Last Slake," Act 1, Colley Cibher gives himself away completely, when lie makes one of the characters say," Tea! Thou sofl,thou sobcr,sage and venerable liijuid; thou fcmalc-tonguc-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity, I owe the happiest moments of my life, let me fall prostrate." But this fulsome flattery was expended on China Tea, with its adulterations and impurities, and had Colley Cihber the privilege of lasting the fragrant and delicious 0.K.0. Tea, his eestacies would have known no bounds, and no language of his would have adequately expressed his feelings. New /Wanders have a privilege that was denied Colley Gibber, for 0.K.0, Tea is obtainable everywhere at a small cost. A man died the other day in New York after licking au envelope. He was poisoned by decaying animal matter from the glue getting into a sore in his mouth. No poisons are more deadly than those produced by the decay of 'animal matter.

The Kennedy-Lucas programme for the week is as follows:—Monday (to-night), "Fighting Fortune"; Tuesday, "The | Snowball"; Wednesday, "ThoBells"; Thursday," East Lynne"; Friday, " David Garrick "; Saturday, " Neek or Nothing."

Massage, though now generally accepted as a curative means, is not a modern system, but a development of a science known to the ancients, by whom it was practised in a somewhat rough-and-ready form. Massage as we now know it, owes its development mainly to the Swede, Henry Ling, who early in the century brought it prominently before the people of his country. Its introduction to London dates back to 18' iS, since when it has been regularly practised. A specialist in this mode of treatment, who lias had wide experience iu Great Britain and the Continent, also in America and Australia is now in practice in this Colony. We refer* to Mr Hermann Both, who was recently appointed to thcGovemmontSanitorinm and Baths at Botorua. In another column, Mr Both directs attention to the fact that he can be consulted free of charge,' at Phocnij: Chambers, 52, lambton Quay, Wellington. Mr Both's testimonials and credentials arc unquestionably of the highest order, and sufferers, need have no hesitation in placing tlicmselves'under his care, It is, as well to state that Mr Both's visit to Wellington is limited to four months, when he returns to Rotorua,

Wednesday next is to be proclaimed 'Arbor Day, The Masterton Town Lands Trustees I will discuss tic proposed Enabling Bill j this eTcnincc. Messrs Lowes aud loras add to their ist for Wednosday, 1 brake' and harness and 12 fat heifers.

lhe Wellington Collego Old Boys' Association will hold their annual ball in Thomas' Hall, on 13th August,

Further additions ore made to tho entries for Mr P. H. Wood's Taratahi Stock sale, which takes place to-morrow.

The Customs duties collected at Wellington tor the week amounted to £009219s Id, and tho beer duty to €212 15s.

The postponed general moetiug of members of the Masterton Horticultural Society will beheld on Monday next, I July loth. The Hon J. G. Ward reached Auckland on Saturday, after live months absence from the Colony. He is to be bauqucttcd at Wellington on Wednesday.

A woman named liacliel Livingstone, 8G years of age, living by herself at Cliristchurch, was found dead on Saturday. She had seme small', means. Deceased was last seen alivo on Thursday. Messrs Siinms and Mowlom have a very full description of "Devonshire House" in our advertising columns to-day. This valuable property lias been placed in their hands for sale, and the advertisement is well worth perusing.

The Duke of Bedford, who some time ago purchased 3000 frogs and had them turned into his ponds near Woburn Abbey, has just received another large consignment. The frogs rapidly diminished the insect life which abounded in the ponds.

In Saxony no one is permitted to shoe horses unless ho has passed a public examination, and is properly qualified. A great school at Dresden has students from all parts of the world studying "farriery." This includes not only shoeing horses, but their care and treatment, a provision that saves a great deal of money for the fanners and others owning horses. Tho experiment in the United Stabs of making paper stockings and gloves has been going on for some time, and stockings to sell at three cents a pair are proposed. Solidity and durability are given the texture by a sizing bath of potato March and (allow, and when finished, its appearance is said to be strikingly like the articles made in the ordinary way, One of the sights ot Wellington, at auj time is undoubtedly tho magnificent establisbment.known as To ho House, and now thai overy department within its walls is filled to ovcrllowing, with a bewildcrim; variety ot the season's novelties in mil'. lincry, mantles, dvessfS, etc., it is move than a pleasure and profit to visit the wholesale family dranery warehouse, To Aro Houce,

Particular attention lias been paid this year to the requirements o! country customok, nuil tl'o result is to bo ton iu the immense ami varied stock of calicoes, llannc's, lluunclk'ttcs, stimv wcurin;; dress materials, men's ami boys' clothing etc. The club in c.icli departincut, is almost un'imiled. as may be imagined when it is stated that o! Ilaiiuc'otto a'.oje, over 50,000 yirds have th : s Eeason been imported at To Aro House, We'.h'ngioa,

A spec'aU.v organised department, has been established to deal with country orders. Patterns of auy materials iu stock, will hi forwarded to any address, post free. Country residents are invited to write tra prices, or auy information regarding goodminted. It is conlidently asserted tha 1 nowhere can such a wide selection, or such sterling value bo obtained, us at Te An. House Wellington.—Advi.

Wo art not in the habit of boasting, Our wa»s arc modest rather than hold Rnd m hiding our light under a bushel we have often imperilled our chances of success; but on this occasion with so-called sales on every side, with firms selling oil around us, aud people in all sorts of busiiusses offering their goods for anything anybody likes to pay, we feel impelled to offer our services iu the matter of supply. Busy 1 We are aa busy bees, full of customers from morn till night. Crowded are our counted and crowded is our establishment with eager buyers, mid the reason is, the public have found out that our prices are lower ind on, goods belter tbnu can ho purchased else where. What about the blankets and Ihnnels, and the dresses and mantles and the hosiery aud 'inens and the clothing and mercery ? Why the prices themselves arc an inducement to buy, while the marvellone quality which accompanies these prices make tlio goods Bon Marchc value, Our only address is L. J. Hooper, Bon MarchJ, Mastorton.-Awr.