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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5148, 5 October 1895, Page 2

The Wellington Cycling Club opens its season this afternoon.

Hawkc's Bay liaces commence on Monday next, October 7th. Lamb is on sal,e by the Mustcrton butchers a fortnight earlier this year than last.

The bowling season will be opened by the Wellington Bowling Club this afternoon.

Swindley, the well-known athlete, is leaving Wellington for the Auckland district. The first lamb of thin season was on exhibit at Mr F. Holloway's shop last evening.

An exchange says there are upwards of 3000 white men and 500 Australian girls working for Chinese bosses in Sydney.

Services at St. Matthew's Church, Miistcrlon, will be conducted to-morrow by Messrs if. Brown and W. H. Jackson.

Mr W. Lowes, Chairman of the Masterlou Town Lauds Trustees, was unable owing to ill-health, to be present at the Trust meeting yesterday aflcrnoon. The trotting stallion" Young Boston " has been purchased by Mr W. Watson, of Te Ore Ore.

General Booth is expected to reach Wellington on Tuesday, and Salvationists arc Hocking to the City to receive him.

The first number of a bright little paper called, The Daily Commercial JVofw and Shijipini/ Register, comes to us from Wellington.

Settlement in the Eastern l'ukctois is rapidly progressing. Although no large bush-felling contracts have been let, a number of small blocks, ranging from fifteen to twenty acres, have been put down during the winter.

Whilst endeavouring to slop a coach, the four horses of which had bolted, at IWiudeyer, a Chinaman was knocked down and killed, the wheels of the vehicle passing over his head, An acre of good fishing ground in the ocean will, according (o (lielatc Professor Huxley, yield more food in a week than an acre of the best land in a year.

The Newman limealion Ground has been brought under the operation of the Public Domains Act, 1881, and Messrs Samuel Dawson, James Cooper and F. Dowselt comprise the Newman Domain Board.

The Victorian Chief Justice recently granted a woman named Mrs iioach the custody of her two children, in face of the husband's claim. "Young children," he s:dd," should have a mother's care."

A girl named Mary l'arkcs was bitten by a snake near Bombay. She became blind and speechless, and was taken to the hospital, where she was treated with strychnine. She apparently recovered, but next day her tongue swelled, and she died shortly after.

Some of the tops with which the Chinese amuse themselves are as large as barrels. It takes three men to spin one, and it gives oil' a sound that can be heard several hundred yards.

The mania for manufacturing everything out of paper docs not lessen. Gloycs, handkerchiefs, lies, in fact, the whole stock-in-trade of tho average hosier, aro now being knitted from paper yarn. Our ancestors ato much more meat than we do. In Queen Elizabeth's time her inaids-of-hononr were allowed three rump steaks for breakfast. Mutton was not so much used as beef, being looked upon as a diet rather for a fastidious appetite than for a woman in good health.

There arc 50 benefices in the diocese of Ely with net incomes of less than £IOO a year. Some of the incumbents have private means, but the Bishop has a list of cases in which the clergy are worse oil' than the average mechanic. Among the net incomes are such yearly sums as £JO, ,1:53, £'(Jo', £7O, £7B, and £B6.

A cable tramway, located 30 feet above the crest of the Niagara Falls, is projected by a company, which is now asking for a charter from the New York Legislature. This company purposes to erect towers and landing-stagos on each side of tho river, and to stretch a double set of cables across the river, over the Horse-Shoe Falls. From theso cables a passonger-car would be suspended by trolleys, aud wo'uld be ruu back and forth by electricity.

At a recent meeting of tho Brooklyn Electrical Society a method of cutting the hair by electricity was shown in operation. A fine platinum wiro, heated at will by an electric current, is fixed across the teeth of a comb. The barber passes the comb through the hair, and by touching a switch in its handle seuds the current through the wire, which becomes red hot and singes the hair through. The method is said to be less injurious to the hair than clipping with shears.

The employment of dogs as military messengers seems to be finding favour with the Austrian Army authorities. For some time past experiments with the view of testing the capabilities of the animals in their new sphere have been in progress, and a few days ago the (rained cniiino messengers irerp subjcctecl to a pretty severe test at Zwqrnik, in Bosnia.' In al], about 150 dogs were cm: ployed.. Tjtcsp were (alien some JO or 12 miles into the mountains by scattered detachments of troops, They were then despatched, with messages placed in leather cases attached to their necks, back to the original poiut of departure. Each dog, on arriying at headquarters, was entrusted with a despatch containing orders for the company to which it belonged, and with this it immediately set out again, The noted fancier, Mr J, Walker, of Cuba-street, Wellington, is now showing a very line collection of singing and talking birds, including canaries, (inches, parrots, magpie's and' cockatoos, There is one regal bird which is rarely seen, the species being very scarce. It is called the red maccaw (tint chhroptcra), and was obtained from Jamarach, the London naturalist. Fifty pounds would not buy this bird, as 1 a'matter' of fact Mr Walker would ' not' sell him. The poultry on exhibition and for sale' are a tine lot, and Mr Walker is doing very well in this line, also in eggs for hatching, enquiries for which arc being received from all quarters. Ip pot pliints,'bofder annual, ferns, palms, etc,, Jlr Walker has a fine display amj I is meeting witli good buejneijjt

A parcel post to and from the United States is desired by Mr G, Hutchison, To-day is the monthly pay-day of the Masterton and Greytown Building Societies.

Messrs Lowos and lorns add to their sale list for October 16th, 30 2-y6ar steers.

Iu 1541 the cold wasso severe in Holland, that wine was cut in blocks and sold by weight.

A Proclamation in the Gazette divides tho Borough of Carterton into three Wards, named respectively Belvedere, Eiclimond, and Lincoln Wards.

Eeccntly tho St. Olave's (Southwark) Guardians advertised for a laborer to sweep tho chimneys and (lues, clean windows, and mako himself generally useful, There were 422 applications. There are now five patients in the Greytown Hospital, four males and ono female. Ono of the former is the native Tutu Brown, who is iu a very critical state.

"I have been told dozens of times that the present Ministry is a Middle Island Government and thinks of nothing but Canterbury."—Mr 11. Thompson. Mr Pirani is of opinion the Government should bring down a comprehensive scheme of reform in the Civil Service. " The most consistent man iu this House is the member for Inaugabua; His sole aim in public life is the Single Tax."—Sir Eobert Stout,

A Chicago collector has an Egyptian coin more than 2,000 yc#rs old. It is a silver piece of the time of Queen Berenice, wife of Ptolemy 111., who reigned about 210 n.c.

The Salvation " Self Denial" week in New Zealand, resulted iii £2,850 being collected. This is several hundred more than any past year, since the Army started in New Zealand. Masterlon's contribution was £25,

Mr .Tolm Kay, who will he remembered by musical ]>eoplc in Masterlon as an erstwhilo resident, is a prominent member of the Timaru Garrison Baud, the winners of the Quick Step competition in the Band contest now being held in Timaru. The report of the Colonial Mutual Life Association, shows that during the past quinquennium there lias been an increase in funds, of 75 per cent., and that the prolits for the live years are equivalent in reversion to over £<150,000. The G-reytowu Brass Baud plays on the Kecroation Jioserve to-morrow afternoon. If the weather keeps fine a large number nf Masterton people will doubtless take advantage of the oxcursion drags, leaving the l'ost Ollice at one and half-past one o'clock. The difference between the girth of trees in sutnmir and winter is exemplified in Xtilurc by Air J. Clayton, who says that the amount of contraction with frost jf a sycamore tree 33in in girth is ;J-l(iths of an inch, that of an oak tree ■l2Jiu in girth 5-lGtli of an inch, and that of a beach <l2 l-Bth inch in girth is 4-l(lths o£au inch.

A correspondent writes" Considerable interest is being evinced in the cricket match Wellington College v. the Legislature, which is to be played today. The Legislative team includes the Hon. Messrs lieeves, Stevens, and Carroll, and Messrs Enrnshaw, Millar, G. J. Smith, Buiclt and Heke."

Miss Sheen, of Featherston, created a most favourable impression at a high class concert in Wellington on Thursday ovening. The talented young lady's singing was most highly spoken of by the city papers, and she received imperative encores for both her numbers.

An eldorly woman of foreign extraction, is now hawking fancy goods about Jlasterton. She is most persistent, and on persons refusing to purchase at exorbitant rates, she becomes insulting and abusive, and in some instances has actually called down curses upon the heads of residents who have declined to buy her wares.

The Wairarapa cyclists had a Rood run on Thursday last. The weather was fine and the roads in splendid order. Twenty wheelmen took part, six from Masterton, eight from Cartortou, and six from Greytown. Captain 11. li. Wood, of tho Greytown liovers, was at the head o£ the line.

For tho second time this session, the Hon. John McKenzie has stated that he knows the past accouuts of the Bank of New Zealand. Ho has said that ho knows liow the past losses of the Bank were caused, and tlmt he can tell whose accounts had been written off. Is this true, or is it the uiual Ministerial bluster ?—asks the Post.

In private conversation Mark Twain is saiu to be very fuuny in a dry sort of style. A dav or two after he arriyed it was frightfully hot. Asked whether he wasn't afraid of the heat, Mark drawled: " No-can't say that I am, but I fancy Mrs Clemens and my daughter aro They always attend church twico on Sundays,"—Daily Commercial jS'cm. A patient at the Greytown Hospital named William Casey died on Wednesday morniui:, says the Standard. He was admitted to the institution on Monday. The cause of death was acute peritonitis. Deceased made his will shortly before his death, and after providing for his debts, funeral, etc., lie left £5 to the Hospital. A farmer named W. Archer, and his three little girls had a marvellous escape from death at Guyra recently. Archer, with his little ones was pegging out opossum skins, when a tree fell right over them. They suddenly found themselves in the midst of branches, some being eight inches in thickness, but they all escaped with a few bruises. Some yery excellent Maori portrait work is now on view at M r T. E. Price's studio in Queen-street The coloring is yery fine and shows exceptional skill; in fact, more artistic subjects could not be turned out anywhere in the Colony, The ability of Mrs Price as an artist in colors is well-known, and difficult work is often sent to her for execution, from distant parts.

In this issue Messrs J. Graham and Co., of Mnstcrton, insert a notice setting out the prices of several leading lines. Particular attention is directed to the arrangements made for a regular supply of the best dairy butter procurable in the district, and which it will be hard to beat in any part of tho Colony, even with tho factory-made article. Notice of motion lias been tabled by Mr W. Hutchison disapproving any increase in the salary of any Civil Servant without tho direct sanction of the | House, and urging that in maintenance of its control tho House should forbid any agreements being entered into whereby salaries of £3OO and upwards may be increased by annual increments. A special cablo from London to the Australian Star saysA new 'Messiah ' has arisen—this time jn the Island of Sicjly, A fanatic, who proclaims that ho is tho true Messiah, and whose eloqucnco had gathered around him large and believing crowds, is causing a religious sonsation in tho island. The preacher proclaims the principles of Mormonism, including the favorite tenet polygamy,' and tho Sicilians, especially the men, appear to take kindly to it. Already a great many converts have been made."

On his second voyage, in 1493, Columbus discovered an island on a Sunday, from which circumstances lie gave it the name of Dommlea, which being interpreted, means'lord's Day, or Sunday Island- 'When'the great sailor returned to Spain and told tho story of his adventures, Queen Isabella asked him what the island was like. Crumpling up a pioce of paper in his hand and throwing it down' before hop, Columbus s?id, " That is the nearest picture I can give," whereby ho intended to convey the notion that Dominici'a is largely made jip of steep 'mountains and deep 'ravines. In 1814 the'island boeame one of the British West Indies, bjit is now not in too flourishing a condition, ;

The licv. J. Dukes will preach in tho Wesleyan Church to-morrow morning and at tlio Tauoru in tho ovening. I Mr 0. Pragnell, of Queon-stroet, has just received ex Aotea, seroral casos of latest novoltics in new spring goods. Tho ladies of the Greytown Presbyterian Church are busily engaged organising a bazaar for the 24th instant. The annual meeting of members of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society takes place on Wednesday next, Oct.

The Masterton Dorcas Society met on Wednesday last. Tlioro was a good meeting of mombers and parcels wero thankfully received from Mrs Duncan McGregor and Mrs Wickeni.

"Early Morning" a compact but powerful Clydesdale stallion, by "Banker," arrivod from tho South by tho mid-day train yesterday. Avery successfulrehearsal of' H.M.S. Pinafore' took place at tin Masterton Theatre .Royal last night, every one of the principals doing really well.

To-morrow at the Masterton Salyation Barracks, a service of song, entitled " Home Swcot Homo," with " Army" variations, touching stories, etc.,' will take place. A silver coin collection will ho made at tho door.

Messrs Kircnldie & Stains publish a prico list of superior dress fabrics, of tho ncwestkinds The firm is, as usual, well to the front this season, both as regards the novelties offered, and the moderate prices asked for goods. Owing to indisposition Mr W. M. Easthopo was unable to attend the meeting of the Masterton Mutual Improvement Society last night, and the dobate in which ho was to haw taken a leading part, was in eonsequonce, postponed. The anniversary of tho Daleficld Wosleyan Church took place on Thursday last, when a tea meeting was hold. After the tea a meeting was held at which addresses were given by the liovs. S. J. Gibson, J. Dukes, and Mr W. Sussex. Songs were contributed by Miss Stevens of Carterton, and Mr T. J. Kowso, besides selections by tho Dalefield Choir. Tho church was filled and a very pleasant cvouing spent. Miss Johnston, dressmaker, informs the ladies of Masterton and district that she has commenced dressmaking on her own account, iuroomsovcrllieW.F.C.A, drapery department in Queen-street, 011 strictly cash terms, thus enabling orders to be taken at very moderate charges. Miss Johuslon has now been some time in the district, and tho oxcellent work turned out under her supervision, is woll-known to many ladies in Masterton, who will be pleased to know that tliey arc again able to obtain her services, when required. Mr If. Mackay, of the lirin of Mackay and Bright, patentees of the combined spade and poison-layer, was in Masterton to-day, exhibiting tho working of this useful invention. In the Blenheim district, tlie invention has been received with great favour, and all farmers who have seen tho working of the poison-layer, are exceptionally well pleased with it, on account of the economy of both poison and labour, one man being able to do as much as two in the old way. Torn, Killbunny, or any similar compound, can be laid with this contrivance, and the dose cau bo regulated at will by a combined ratchet and thumb screw. The poison-layer can bo attached to any spade, and Mr McKay is of opinion that it can also be used for pollard poisoning. Messrs Lowes and lorns will be the local agents,

A Grey town cyclist came to grief in an uuoxpcctcd way lately, says the Simulant He was riding aloug with two companions, and they met some eows on the road. Now cows are generally stupid kind of tilings to meet either on foot, horseback or biko, and those cows were no exception. They gazed placidly at the approaching wheelmou and iieycr offered to get out of the way. Bells were rung and whistles blown, but this seemed to amuse the animals,andone walked dclibcratolyin front of the most fascinating young man of tho three, and (here was another fall of Ailaui. Cow, bike, and man were considerablymixed.andlinallyourinformant says, the cow sailed oft' with the bike on her horn, and tho dismounted rider franticly grasping her tail, determined to rescuo his machine at all hazards. As ho has siiico been seen riding serenely along the road we presume he succeeded. Notice to move the following was refusid Mr Keay, a lay member representing Foxtoii, at the Wellington Diocesan Synod yesterday:—"That this Synod declares that the Church of tho Province of New Zealand is a Protestant Church; that it rojects all Itomanish doctrines rojoctcd by the Church of England at the licformation of the 16th century; that it deplores thopresencoin the Established Church of England of clergy and laity who maintain and teach many Itomanish doctrines, which are contrary to the authorised teaching of tho Church of New Zealand; that in tho opinion of the Synod, mauy societies in England such as the Holy Cross Society, tho English Church Union, the Confraternity of tho Blessed Sacrament of the Dody and Blood of Christ, tho Society of St. Osiuuud, and the Guild of All Souls, maintain and encourage tho teaching of doctrines which arc contrary to the authorised teaching of the Church of New Zealand; that in view of the presence in the Established Church of England of clergy who maintain and promote societies which maintain liomanish doctrines, which are contrary to the authorised teaching of the Church of New Zealand, this Synod declares that no clergyman of the Established Church of England who maintains, or has been engaged in teaching, any such liomanish doctrines, or who is, or within the three previous years has been, a member of any of tho societies above referred to, shall hereafter be appointed a minister of the Church of New Zealand in this diocese; that in the opinion of the Synod such amendments of the canons of the Church of Now Zealand should bo made as will enable effect to be given to the motion." Sir Julian Salomons is a llebew, and a native of Birmingham. He was called to tho Bar in 18GI, and married a relation, a daughter of Maurice Salomons, of Edmonton, near Loudon , (famed in the story of" JohnGilpin"),and shortly afterwards emigrated to New South Walos, He combined politics with law, and was made Queen's Counsel greatly to the surpriso and disgust oE a large number of people. Keeping on eye on the main chance, his talents next found scope in the position of Solicitor-General for one year—from December, 1869, to December, 1870, When in 188(i Sir William Manning retired from the Chief Justiceship of New South Wales, Salomons was offered the position of Chief Justice. He accopted it with alacrity, says the Napier Telegraph, but there was such an awful row on the part of other Judges that lie ultimately declined to fill the ofilce. Since then he has twice represented the Government in the Legislative Council, of which he is still a member and in 1891' lie was knighted. One of tho drawbacks of country life, at Icaßt to tho small settler, is undoubtedly the increased price ho has to pay lor any articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason ot tho estrn charges tor freight or carriage, Tliis drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges aro done away with under the new system which has been inaugurated at Te Abo Housb, Wellington. Under this system, any ot the parcels advertised, will be sent to any address in New Zealand, rest hiek, tho prices charged being exactly the same as those at which the goods arc sold over the counter in Wellington. As may bo imagined, however, this libera! offer is only extended to cash customers, and all orders for 'advertised parcels, must be accompanied' by caih for the amount, before' the order can be executed at Tb' Aro House, Wellington, In illustration of this system, we will ' givo an exam'plo. Take for instance No. 3 . Parcel, whioh contains 1 Lady's White Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with the now butterfly collar jTNav'y or • Black Sateeu Blouse, with'white'spots,'pew stvlo; 1 pair of Black or Coliured Taffeta , Gloves,and 2 pairs of liadjesßlaok Cashmere ! Hose.' This complcto parcel wj)l jio sont, post free, to any address, on receipt of 12/6, from Ts Abo Housi Wellington!—Anvr,