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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5133, 23 September 1895, Page 2

The Works and Finance Committee of I lie Mastcrtou Borough Council meet I this evening. j 'J he Frances lioss Company gave a very successful Sacred Concert at the Mastcrtou Theatre lioyal lust'evening, j Phil May, of Punch, is said to br earning more money just now than any I artist in England. Professor Garner will soon start for the wilds of Africa to learn more of the language of apes. Shearing Ims commenced on one or two properties iu this district. The Brancepeth sheds commence about the 10th of October. Mr Stevens will commence cutting timber in Wrigley's Bush in about three weeks. Mrlt. A. Wakelin's tender has been accepted for additions to the W.F.C.A. store at Grey town, A meeting of stewards of the Mas-terton-Opaki Jockey Club will be held oil Wednesday next. The Wairarapa Hunt Club's annual ball takes place at Greytowu on Thursday next. Some rich alluvial ground lias been struck in the Blackball District, Groyuioutli, The Grcymouth Harbour Board has stopped all work, throwing about 70 men out of employment. The death is amounted of the Princess of Batten burg, mother of Prince Henry of Baltcnburg, An American surgeon claims to have successfully treated a series of cases of sunstroke by placing the patient in a bath of iee, The Dev. J. Dukes preached at the Masterton Wesleyan Church last evening, and Mr J. Gordon in the morning. The quarterly meeting of the Masterton Wesleyan Church takes place on Monday evening next, September 30th. The animal show of the Woodvillc Agricultural and Pastoral Society will be held on Saturday, !)th November. Entries close on Friday, 25th October. The Astronomer-Royal lias been upsetting a popular belief. He declares that a ring of mist around the moon is in no way indicative of wet weather, An aristocratic baby show wasrccently held at a fashionable residence near 1 lyde Park. The lirstprizc wasawarded to the infant son of Lord and Lady Castlerosse, which, though only 11 months old, weighed 33.11b. A clergyman in Pennsylvania, aged 31, has died of blood poisoning, caused by the prick of a girl's hat pin, given in jest by member of his congregation. The young woman is said to be almost crazy with grief. The Chinese prisoners are stated to have been subjected to revoltiug tortures to make them confess the names of the actual murderers of the women and children at Kuchemr. _ The Egyptians believed that the soul lived only ns long as the body endured, hence their reason for embalming tile body to make it l«t as long as possible. It is estimated that altogether tlicre are •1'M,000,000 mummies in Egypt. A man in Victoria lias compounded with his creditors for one half of a farthing in the pound. He owed £58,000 and the creditors good naturcdly accepted the offer he made.

What makes a gentleman ? In Kussia they say he drinks like a gentleman ; in Prance, he acts liko a gentleman ; in Spain, lie makes love like a gentleman ; in Germany, he cats liko a gentleman; he attends mosijuo like- a gentleman. The Greytown Presbyterian Church Sunday School are to be favored with a treat in the shape of lantern views, by the liey, J. Lymburn, of Marti üborough, on tho evening of the Ist of October. Befreshmcnts will be provided, and the small sum of (id will be charged for admission,

Yankee newspaper enterprise accomplishes wonders. Mr and Mrs Darwin Mcllwrath have been sent on a bicycle topr fouqd t!|'e world for the Chicago hler Oceun, They have nearly finished travelling through tho countries of the Old World. Oil August 22nd tliey left for Yokohama and the Orient in the steamer Belgic. Mr and Mrs McIllwraith ride wlice's of twenty-six pounds in weight.

The Chief Justice gave judgment on Saturday morning, in connection with a summons issued by the Trustees of ilio Estate of the late ifobert Grant, of Gladstone, calling on John Strang, of the same place, to show cause why the estate should not be distributed without payment of his claim of £225. His Honor disallowed the claim, but thought John Strang had a claim against the lifciuterest of the widow.

In The Strand Magazine a writer points out that tho returns of the li\st census show Unit in London alone, in 1891, there were no fewer than twenty, one persons 100 years of age or upwards. Of these fiye were males and sixteen femalcs-a striking confirmation of the belief acted upon by life assurance actuaries to tho effect that women are longer-lived than men. Taking the country ctenerally the ccntenarians'\yerc pretty equally distributed, Tlicy are, however, 1 moro numerous in northern than in southern counties, except in Ireland, where the reverse is the case. The London Bail;/ News remarks on the above that "Teetotallers will note with pride and satisfaction that most of these centenarians are stated to have lived quiet and temperate lives. Not oup of'thepi had ever been kiiown io drink to exooss, while most of them esohowed alcoholic liquors altogether." _ A tourist in Ireland tells the following curious story—" One man whom I saw sitting on the ground, leaning hii back against the wall, attracted my attention by a degree of squalor in his appearance, which I had rarely before observed, even in Ireland. His clothes were ragged and full of very common circumstance—and his face was pale and sickly. He did not address mp, and I pitssed by; having gono a fciv races mv heart Smote me, 1 and I turned back. 'lf you are in want,' said I, in some degree of peevishness, 'why do you not beg P ' Sure, it is a beggin' I am I' was the reply. ' You did not utter a word/ No, it is joking you are with me, sir? took there I holding up the tattered remharit of what had bnee been i coat, 'Do you seo how the skin is speaking through tlie holes of my trousers P And! 1 tlie bones crying out through my iskin E'" Lopk' if my sunken phpptyniidi]ip fminp that's staring in my eyes, Mp alive 1 what moro tan I do-|s)i't it beggin' I ant with a hundred tongues?'"

Mr Wi Parata, M,H.K.,is on a visit to Masterton. Messrs Lowes and lorns advertise a good cart horse for sale; also garden manures. When meeting a friend, a Chinaman shakes his own hand instead of his friend s. Angus was unable to sing at Mssh ranees Boss' concert, last night, owing to lung trouble. hmKippur, or the Jewish Day o£ Atonement, will be commemorated on Saturday nest, September 28th, A league for the promotion and development of gold-mining, Ims been formed nt lloliitika. Marshal Campos has sentenced an American oaptain to ton years' imprisonmout for running the Cuban blockade. Hie licv. Heskett Smith, the next eiturer to be trotted through j.Vew Zenhind by Smytlie, has a sou farming near ; iVanganui, j Mr Sims Rccye's, the eminent tonor, now 73 years of age, has married a young pupil. He proposes to make a tour of Australia with a concert company. A thief presented a forged order at tlio Union Bank, London, and succeeded in 1 obtaining Mrs Langtry's jewels, worth 1 £40,000, Tlio stipendiary magistrates in Sydney ■ i have decided to enforce the strictest reading of the law in the suppression of double and totfilisator bolting, ' The second Christian Endeavour Con* ; vention in connection with tiio Wellington Union takes place on October Ist and i 2nd. lliree members of two families at •: Lismorc (s'2t) miles north of Sydney, on 1 : tlio liielimond liiver) have been disr corned to be suffering from small-pox, The Premier, intends to get the Hail- ■ sard report of all the debates upon tlio ! Banking Bill printed and published in pamphlet form, One patient was admitted to thcMass terton Hospital during the past week, ; There are now under treatment in the Hospital six male and two female , patients. J j

Towards the new Romau Catholic cathedral at Westminster, tho Dub of York gives £10,000; a private donor £1.2,000; 27 others, £IOOO each, which entitles them to be called pious " founders." Taking the returns prepared by the Statistical Registrar of New South Wales, it appears that 33,516 miners arc employed in the colony, while ihe number of those engaged in pastoral pursuits is 31,(J12. Charles Fisher, of South Melbourne, has been arrested for striking his father-iu-law, Edward Norton, a man of (SO years, with an axe, during a family row, and causing a deep wound in his cheek and a fracture of the skull. We arc informed thatunotlier depatation will wait on the Education Hoard on Wednesday next, to again endeavour to get the Kaituna site removed. The deputation consider money would he wasted in building a school on a river bed. There is on exhibition in London a Sabbath-keeping clock, made long ago in Scotland. It stops working at 12 o'clock on Saturday night till 12 on Sunday night, and directly the hands stop there appears on the faco of tho clock the words-" liemember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy." Particulars of the sale of the lease of certain sections near Eketahuna, are published by Messrs Lowes & lorns, who have received instructions from the Public Trustee, to sell the same, at their Eketahuna sale-yards, on Oct. 9th. Our Greytown correspondent writes: " I hear there is to be a contest for the Mayoralty at the forthcoming election. It is pleasing to notice that the ratepayers are beginning to awaken from their usual apathy in these matters." Thcprocceds from the Charters Towers hospital ball broke the record in Queenslaud, and probably Australasia, the net amount being £333 10s, which, with the Government subsidy, will total £IOOO. A shocking fatal accident occurred at Gulgong(N.S.W.),recently. Tkeeldcst sou of Mr T, Condon, aged •! years, was riding in front of his father, when the horse stumbled and fell on the child's head, fracturing the skull. Tho boy was killed instantly. A meeting of the Baggc Testimonial Committee was held at the Club Hotel on Saturday afternoon, Mr W. Lowes occupying the chair. It was decided, owing to it being inconvenient for Mr Bagge to again visit Masterton, to ask the Mayor of Marlon if he will make tlie presentation to Mr Baggc.

The Emperor of China lias been petitioned to prohibit the custom of footbinding which is so universally practised ou the girls of the better classes in his dominions. The Chineso women themselves arc said to bo in favour of llic custom remaining in vogue. The annual installation of Principals of the Wairarapa lioyal Arch Chapter and investiture of officers took place in in the Masonic Hall, Greytown, on Friday night. The following officers were installed by M.E. Companion Dev. T, Porritt, P.Z.First Principal, ,f. G. Cox; Second Principal, N. Grace; Third Principal,H. S. Izard; ScriboE*. W. J. Lindop; Scribe N., T- Price; Ircasurer, F, H Wood; Sojourners, F. C. Smith and H, Darby; Conductor, K,Bright; Janitor,N.King. Tbo Tunam Herald says Mr Walter Lane, of Upper Waihao, had a narrow escape from being burntto death last week. He was burning tussock on the run when tho wind sprang up so suddenly that lie was unable to get away from tho flames until his clothes wero scorched, his whiskers burnt off and his facei very much scorched, In running from the flames Mr Lano foil and sustained nasty sonlp-wound. He was able to walk to the house, and was then driven to Waimate, where his injuries aro being attended to, Mr Sidney Hall is tin latest addition to tho professional ranks Mr Hall is a surgeon and mechanical dentist, of extensive experience, andl\as begun practice at -16, Manners-street, Wellington. Tho dentist's rooms are tastefully furnished, are on the first floor, and approached by a broad flight of stairs. Tho operating-room is extremely comfortable, and fitted with alHlio latest appliances, affording patients the option of simple " drawing " or painless operationundot nitrous-oxide, gas. Mr Hall ji certip, tp. command n large amount of business.

In the Wellingtog S.M. Court, on Saturday, two seamen belonging to tho ship Oamaru, were charged with broaching cargo. Tho evidence showed that while committing the offence, the men hud lit several candles in the vicinity of forty-five tons of gun-powder. Accused were remanded to enable the officers to. ascertain the extent of thp delation, It has been ascertained tliat during the Toyage of the same ship from London, the rigging was maliciously cut, and only discovered in time to prevent a yard falling on two men below. The patent log was also seriously damaged. The death is reported from AVarrnambool of Diana Baxter, one of tho few remaining native Victorian blacks. She was about 65 years of age, and is the last of the Tooram tribe, which in the early days was a numerous body, with their headquarters on tlw Fopklns Itivcr, about six miles from Warrnambool, Pinna's interview with the Earl of Hopetoun on the occasion of his first visit to tho Warrnambool races caused greatmerriment. HisEicelleney was being entertained at a luncheon, and lie had just responded to tho toast of his health when the tyacV visage of Diana appealed behind his. chair, and as she slapped the noble Earl familiarly on tho shoulder, ' she exclaimed," My boy, my dear boy. here is sixxy-penco for you. This' unwonted liberality everyone, b\it W flopejoun retained' % sixpence, jt was the first' tip ho ever jecoived from a lady, and then handed Diana another coin which caused her to oxolaim most fervently, "God bless you, ray boy;" '

I The Frances Boss Company, after a v ery successful^ Masterton season, appear at Carterton this evening. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their sale list for Oclober 2nd, 28 pigs, 40 fat wethers, and 40 fat ewes. The Hev. A. C. Yorke addressed a good congregation outside St. Matthew's Church, at the conclusion of last evening's service. The sermon this evening at tlio 8 p,m, service iu St. Matthew's Church, will be preached by the Eev. A. V, Grace, of Greytown. A man named James Wykes was drowned in Wellington Harbour yesterday, whilo out boating. _ Messrs Simms k Mowlem add to the list of entries for their next stock sale in the yards, Queen-street, on Wednesday 25th inst., 14 head beef, 2 good hacks, and 1 draught horse. A man named J, .Tones, employed by Mr J. Montgomery, slippedwhileatwork oil Saturday, and falling heavily broke his leg just abovo the ankle. He was taken to the Mastcrton Hospital, and is progressing favorably.

The Broken Hill Proprietary Mining Company has just declared itshundredth dividend. Since the inception of the Company _ upwards of £6,368,000 has been distributedamougthesbareholders. The Ghbc, in an obituary notice of the late Justico Richmond, remarks that lie was "one of those vcrj rare men, a really great colonial lawyei. ifad be remained at Home lie would have been one of the greatest ornaments of the English bench." On Saturday evening last an enter-1 pnsiug Maori attracted a good deal of attention by opening the trap-door of the drain which crosses Quecii-slract opposite the Post Office, and calmly fishing for eels, His ciForts were only rcw arded with sundry " bites," the slimy denizens of the dirty drain probably preferring the filthy food at hand to the Maori fisher's bait. After several hours of patient watchfulness one-only onewas drawn forth, wriggling on the hook, and the aboriginal, with a grunt of satisfaction, gavo up the sport.

A very quiet wedding took place at the residence of Mr A. Burling, on Thursday last, when Alice, his sixth daughter, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony, to Henry, eldest son of Mr Henry liayner, of Morcton Eoad, Carterton, the licy. S. J. Gibson officiating. The bride wore a white robe very prettily trimmed with blue, and with the bridesmaids (Missllosina Jiayncr in pink, and Miss Annie Burling in blue), made a very lovely group, says tlie Okcrnr. liic bndo was given away by her father. The happy couple left by the afternoon train for Wellington, on their honeymoon trip. A strange coincidence of the Crimoan war is that of the ' three Jims.' A group of four men were in the trenches during an artillery engagement. Tliey were lying on the'ground, chatting and smoking, out of the direct reach of fire, when a small shell suddenly exploded over their heads, and so seriously injured three ot the men that it necessitated amputation of the left leg in each instance. The Christian name of each of thcsethrce men were the same—James. The fourth, who was uutouched, bore another name. The three veteran pensioners nere ever afterwards known among their acquaintances as the' threelegged Jims.' The poet, Samuel Sogers, once narrated a coincidence which, although it may liaye been a humorous invention, ii quite within the bounds of possibility, and at the same time somewhat amusing, An officer who was ordernd to India, went on the day before leaving England, to his lawyer's. The day being wet he took a hackney coach, and when he got out, tishc was paying the driver, dropped a shilling. He looked in the mud and slush for it in vain, and so did the coachman. On his return home after some years service, lie had occasion again to go to his lawyer's. When leaving, lie recollected his lost shilling, and by some unaccountable impulse began to look for it, when, strange to say, ho found, just at the very spot where he had paid the coachman—not the shilling, but twelve pennyworth of coppers done up in brown paper! I Since 1891, through Ireland generally, and especially in the west, very early marriages have become less frequent. The decrease of early marriages, especially among women, accounts, says the liegislrar-General, to a great extent for the diminution in the average size of families in Ireland, and also explains in part the diminished birth rate, which in I tlio ten years from 1881 to 1890 had fallen from 2*o to 23 3 per 1000 of the population. There ought to have been an increase in tho Irish population in the 10 years of oyer a quarter of a million, that being the increase of births oyer deaths, but this natural increase has been nwre than counter-balanced by emigration, so that in the same poriod the population sank by nearly lialf a million.

After three months' trial, the Kildonan Goldfields, in Scotlaud, arc now by order of the Dultoof Sutherland, shut against all comers, The experiment can hardly, in any sense be termed a success. One miner, as the result of his three months' labour cleared upfrom £lB to £2O worth of gold. Others managed to pay their way at most, but one or two did practically nothing. The more fortunate diggers are being offered more than market price for their gold as a curiosity. It is not improbable that the Duke may renew the experiment on more favourable conditions, the miners having frequently protested against the restrictions, which, they contended were too prohibitive togiyo them fair play, At an inquest held by theßirmingham coronor on the body of Georgo Bayliss,a japanner, who poisoned himself, anextraordinary letter written by the deceased wai read. A portion of it ran:" I w*i not asked to come into this world, and I don't see why I should consult anyone when or how I should lenre it. I trioi to go nap on Friday in Christmas week, and failed; in other words I did not get enough stuff. But I think this time I hare got the ace, king, queen, and ten of trumps, and the ace of ipades. If I don't get nap with it then it will be a bad job. I don't think anything more about death than killing a fly. I think when you snuff it i? like & game of crib whon you get in th<? 6i hole. They can bring it in how they liko. The doctors can claim mo to play with, and what they don't want they can send to the "pare farm." The jury returned i Terdict of suicide whilst insane. Messrs L. J. Hooper & Co., of the Bon Marche, are now opening up their first consignment of Spring and Summer novelties, and will'make their display in lew Jays. Elegant millinery, fresh from tho hands ot Parisian modistes ;• gomsof fashion in bonnets ans ht|tF,togelher with their own orcationa, coped tiom tho most stylish mftdds. Abundant supplies of sailors hats in the most fashionable shapes and colors, extensive varieties of children's millinery, untrimmcd straws in tho newest styles, dress goods, mantles, blouses, parasols,' prints, etc,—Advi.

One of the drawbacks of country life, #• least to the small Bottler, ia undoubledlj tlw increased price he has to pay tor an; articles of clothing or general drapery, bj reason ot tho extra ohargos tor freight 01 carriage. This, drawback need exist nc extra charges are douo with wilder tho now system which has beot inaugurated at Tk Abo Housk, Wellington, Under this system, any of the parcels advertised, will be sent to any address in Now Zealand, post mee, the priqe3 charged being exactly the aarae v ns yioae at which the I goods aro sold the counter in Wellington. may be imagined, however thjs liberal offer is only extended to cash eustomers, and all orders for advertised parcels, must bo accompanied by cash for the amount, before the order can bo executed at Tb Abo Hodbe, Wellington, _ In illustration of this we will give an oxatnpfo, Sake 'for instance No 3 Paroel, which ogntainj. 1 Lady's White Maiiisook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with the now butlorfly collar j 1 jw or Black Sateen Blouse, with whito spots, now style; 1 pair of Blaok or Coloured Taffeta Gloves,and 2 pairs of Ladiea Blaok Cashmere Hose, Tbifl complete parcel will gent post free, to any address, on resy of 12/6,' from TbAro flora, ■