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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5144, 1 October 1895, Page 2

Tliis week, the steamer Ilawke's Bay is to ship 50,000 carcases frozen meat at Napier, This will be the largest cargo yets jut from that district. The meeting of creditors in the estate of W. Weill, has been adjourned till Friday next. During the past week, one patient! was admitted to the Masterton Hospital, one was discharged aud one died. There are now live male aud two female patients iu the institution.. During the past seventeen months, only one person has died at the Masterton Hospital. St. Matthew's Vestry have decided to give the " envelope system " of contributions a (rial. A full rehearsal of "11.M.5. Pinafore" will lie held iu the Theatre lioyal this evening, commencing at seven o'clock.

The Anglican Synod opens at Wellington, to-morrow. The weal her. yesterday afternoon, was unusually cold, and after the recent mild weather, was severely felt. A reward is offered by Messrs I'inliey Eros., for the return of two lost dugs. The funeral of the laic Mr D. Hartley takes place at 4 o'clock this afternoon. At St. Matthew's Schoolroom on Thursday evening neit, "Kinderspicl and musical selections," will form the programme for an entertainment. Four young men charged with loitering on the footpath at Wellington, were yesterday lined 5s each. M r W. Scale's friends will be pleased to learn that he is making very good progress towards recovery. A sharp frost was expcricncd in this district last night. An enijuiry into the origin nf (lie fire at Mr Harvey's cottage, Kuripuni, was held this morning. The jury returned a verdict that there was no evidence to show how the lire originated, A' fuller report is crowded out of this issue. Smith, who rode Impulse in the New Zealand Cup last year lias been booked, it is understood, to ride Waiukn in the corresponding event this year. The l'rcss Association in Copenhagen invited (lie foreign newspaper correspondents assembled at the opening of the Kiel Canal to the number of sixty-seven to visit the capital of Denmark and chartered a steamer to take them there. Amongst other things in the programme for their entertainment was a breakfast in thepavilliononFredrieksburg Avenue. Aft er breakfast the correspondents were invited to step out on the balcony, nnd on doing so, were surprised to seo a procession of 2200 cyclists. livery cyclist carried a llower boquct and garland on the steering bar of his machine.

The Synod meets on October 2ndThe Editor of St. Matthew's Kulemlur says" A petition of Parishioners is being forwarded by my hands, praying that the Synod recognise the right ot the I'ansli to the property of the Church acre, I am also taking down petitions from Mangamahoe, Ekotahmia, and liideford, praying that those unbeneficed districts bo included under my supervision as Mission Districts; and proniisin? contributions towards the majnlen-1 mice of a Mission Curate to work under me front Mastertou at regular intervals, Opaki and liangitumau, as well as Dreyertou and Mauriceville, would be included in the work of such Mission Curate. As Mr George Eectham has vacated his seat as our representative, the Standing Committee have appointed Mr Kirk, of Wellington, in his place.'i Mr F. H. Wood is instructed by Mr Jas. Wilkinson to sell by Public Auction, on (lie Mtli October, at Feathorston, two freehold house properties, household furniture, horse, gi? and harness. Full particulars arc advertised in another column.

Entertainments will soon cense, as summer advances apace, says St. Mat(lmc's Knlmlar, lied Hiding Hood went oil to Carterton a few weeks ago, and received a hearty welcome. The Happy Family revisit us on Thursday, the 3rd. After that exhibition the Old Woman that lives in a Shoe, will pack Jier troublesomo bairns off to bed. Somp of them, 1 understand, have shipped as A.JJ.'s on H.M.S. Pinafore, bijt H.M. ships arp extra-parochial and outof ipylpi); Messrs Lowos and lorns hold their fortnightly »topk sale to?morrovr, (.lie list for which at present-comprises—2o fat bullocks, upwards of 100 head of storo cattle, dairy cows, springing heifors, 200 fat ewes, 300 forward ewes, SO wethers, 500 hoggets, store ewes, mixed sheep, 50 pigs of all sizes, entire horses, "ThoPremier" and "Young Boston," hack horses, etc. At the quarterly meotmg of the Wcsleyau Church, held last evening, the Eev, J. S. Smallcy, of Kaiapoi, was unanimously invited to succeed tho licv. J, Dukes, as minister of the Masterton circuit. Wc understand that subject to the approyal of the Conference, Mr Hmallcy cordially accepts tho invitation, Owing to the wet Sundays therowas a dclicit of about £G on the quarter, and it was resolved to hold the annual eongregational social on Thursday, October lOtii, \vhea an effort will be made to clear it oil. •' At the social a vory interesting account of the first twenty Veafs of tho Colonial life of Mr Henry' Jines, i sopr,, will he given, .

Mr Arthur Warburton is to be asked to contest the Wellington Mayoralty. The adjourned meeting of the Master ton Licensing Bench takos place at 10 a.m. to-morrow. During the month of September, 23 births, 3 marriages, and 4 deaths were registered at Masterton. H.M.S. Bingaroonm's next port of destination, is Duncdin. At Port Chalmers she will go into dock for an overhaul.

A Woodvilic correspondent writes Two farms were sold this week, about three miles from Woodvilic, one bringing JCC per acre and tho other £slos. Clay pigeon matches, open to all comers, will be held on Thursday and Saturday noxt, to start at 2.30 each day. The shooting will take place near the Waipoua liivcr, close to the end of Church-street. Full information may bo obtained from Mr W. li. Bone. Mr li, Brown found a little box waif ing for him at his office this morning with on the lid the words printed "Dose-twotosiiatbedtime." Feeling curious as to the contents, he opened the box, and discovered two live beetles of nil uncommon variety, intended for tho local Museum! lie took them—but not at bedtime.

In the House yesterday the Hon. J. G. Ward refuted the charge re forwarding telegrams to aud from his private firm, and in the course of his speech is reported by the X.Z. Times to have said" It had been a subject for comment how he had been attacked in the columns of Ihe Evening Post. Anything more cowardly, more unfair, more unmanly, anything more contrary to fact appearing iH the leading columns of a journal of the Colony had never excelled that appearing in the Evening Post. The editor of the Evenin </ Post had_ not been actuated by honourable motives for some time past, so far as he (Mr Ward) was concerned, Shortly before he (Mr Ward) went to England the head of one of the departments under his control came to him and said the editor of the Post was unfortunately ill and was anxious to make some provision for his family, and asked that one of his daughters should be appointed to a vacant position. The nicer told him that if the daughter was not appointed he (the editor) would have Ins knife into him so long as he was a member of Parliament, He brought the matter before bis colleagues, and as it matlcr of fact lie was unable to make the appointment. Within the next few weeks the first article attacking him appeared, and theso attacks had continued ever since."

There H ere thirty-four sittings of the Magistrate's Court, in Masterton, (luring the quarter ended UOlli September, twenty-live of which were presided over by the S.M., and nine by Justices. The number of eiyil cases heard was sixty, for 11 total of £11)01 lis i)d, ol which sum £530 is lid was recovered. Twelyc warrants were issued and six judgment summonses. '1 he amount collected in fees was £7llos, aud for license fees £1 ss. During the same period, sixtyfive persons were taken into custody; fifteen were discharged for want of prosecution or evidence; seven were dismissed on their merits; one committed for trial: twenty-one summarily convicted, and twenty-one otherwise dealt with. The criminal fees amounted to £'l7s, and lines to £l3 lis,

Mr J. Hcimikcr Heaton (ells an interesting sequel to tho most famous Australian ghost story which came to his knowledge as one of the proprietors of the Town arid Cmntn/ Journal. One of the most famous murder cases in Australia was discovered by the ghost of the murdered man silting on the rail of a dnui (Australian for horsepond) into which his body had been thrown. Numberless people saw it, and the crime was duly brought home. Years after a dying man makinghis confession said that he invented the ghost, lie witnessed the crime, but was threatened with death if lie divulged it as lie wished to, and the only way he saw out of the impaste was lo affect to see the gliost where the body would be found. As soou as lie started the story, such is the power of nervousness that numerous other people began to see it until its fame reached such dimensions that a search was made and the body found and the murderers brought to justice. A case of what looks like gross cruelty ki an animal has been brought under the notice of the Cambridge police, says the Napier Telegraph. Cn Saturday evening an Assyrian hawker named Abrahams arrived there with a packhorse, haying, it is.alleged, done the overland journey from Napier at the rate of 35 miles a day. The wretched horse was completely done, and was apparently abandoned by the owner in Alpha-street on Sunday, Several residents supplied food to the horse, but it died on Wednesday. The constablo lias sworn an information for the prosecu tion of the owner,

A home minister lias hit npon a happy simile which is not without Colonial implication says the Outlook-.-"I go about into some London churches," he says, " and I find something like what I see in my friends' drawing.rooms. You go into a drawing-room and see the fireirons beautifully chased and polished—tliey really are a yery great ornaircnt to the room ; but, on a winter's night, if you attempt to stir the tire with any of these fire-irons, the lady of the house will be down on you. The fact is, the lire is kept going, not by these resplendent fire-irons, but by a miserable little instrumentwhichthey ealla "pokerettc," which hides itself in the corner And I have come into some London congregations where there lias been a resplendent display of fire-irons, in the shape of people of high education and social position and wealth, and all that, but they do not keep the lire poked, and when you want to have the fire of that church alight and kept stirred, it is by a little group of people answering to that pokerettc 111 the corner."

One of the drawbacks o( country lite, at east to the small settler, is undoubtedly the increased price ho has to pay ior any articles ot clothing or general drapery, by reason ot the extra charges for freight or carriage. This drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges are done away with under the new system which has been inaugurated at Tz Alio House, Wellington. Under this system, any ot the parce's advertised, will be sent to any address in New Zealand, rosr mee, tho prices charged being exactly the same as those at which the goods are sold over tho counter in Wellington, As may be imagined, howovcr, this liberal offer is only extended to cash oustomers, and all orders for advertised parcels, must be accompanied by cash for tho amount, beforo the order can be executed at Te Abo House, Wellington, In illustration oI this system, wo wilt give an example, Take for instance No, 3 Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White Mainsook Uloiiee, trimmed with pmbtoidory and with tho new buftertl; collar; 1 Navy or Mack Sateen Blouso, with white spots, new stylo; 1 pair of Black or Coloured Taffeta Gloves,and 2 pairs ol Ladies Black Cashmere Hose. This comulcto parcel will bo sent, post free, to auy address, on receipt of 12/6, from Te Aho House Welliugton.—Advz.