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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5164, 24 October 1895, Page 2

In New South Wales it takes two day! to produce a number of Hansard ; ir New Zealand twenty-eight days, ■ The members of the Oddfellows' and Foresters' Lodges at Eketahuna, headed by the local Brass Band, held a church parado on Suuday last, when a special scrvice-was conducted by the liev. S. Peryman in the Wosleyau Church. Amongst Mr T; Jago's novel mechanical effects in the performance of H.M.S. " Pinafore," last night,' was a very natural moon which rises and sets in the real original way; a lighthouse with revolving lights; and a travelling steamship which tires a most realistic salute when passing her naval sister, Mr F.H. Wood will hold a sale of exhibits on the day after the Carterton Show, at 11 a.m. Further particulars appear in another column. There was a very fair attendance of members at tkp mooting of the Masterton, Blue and White League, held at Oxford House last evening, when Mr W. H. Jackson delivered the sccoud of a series of scientific addresses on "Alcohol, its properties and effects," whiok proved both interesting and instructive, At an interval during the performance of "HM.S. Pinafore" last night a " fairy dance," arranged by Miss N. Williams was performed on the " main dick." The dancers were the Misses ponnic and Keltic. Ward, PCarl Oullcii and Euth'' Henry, and they certainly lpbked'iiorfect little' fairies. Tho nudieneo expressed great'approval of the novel performance

Dr. Hosking informs us that Mr C. E, i Bremnor is much improved to-day. I o Tho appearand) of the school grounds • i, at Eketahuna, has been improved by J • the erection of anewfenco. The installation of officers of tho J Pahiatua Masonic Lodge will take place ' 2 on Wednesday, November Oth. The operetta " Snowball" is to be s j produced by Eketahuna amateurs next \ week on Thursday and Friday evenings _ | Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their I sale list for 30th, 50 steers, 18-month to < 2-years.. I 1, Miss Florence Marryatt, late of , Dimedin, lias been placed in chargo of the aided school at Makuri. ( The French Budget proposes a loan of 100,000,000 francs for the purposes < '> of developing Tonquin, aud for railway « construction. I Field-Marshal Andelshum, a retired ' officer, 72 years of age, who was ruined ' by losses caused by bad investments, i shot his wife, and then committed suicide at Vienna the other day. II is stated that owing to some mis- - management the laying of the permanent ] . way at tho Eketahuna end of the rail- , ' way Hue will have to he done again. ' It is reported that tho Czar wishes to i meet the Emporors of Germany and ,) Austria alter his coronation. Notwithstanding the large attendance : at the Masterton Theatre ltoyal last , night, there was not the slightest con- '. s fusion or bother about seating, Messrs m J.E. Hood and Co. having arranged everything most satisfactorily. id An ludiau Coolie was recently couc- drained to death in Fiji for murder, tc He informed a countryman who visited ltim in the condemned cell that he was ■quite content to be hanged, that he wauled to get hack lo Calcutta, and that . '.wis I lie shortest way there. The .Minister for Defence slates that wlidi the £I,OOO on the Estimates for li;',:b.nir defences is sp.-nt the harbour , of Wellington will be in a thoroughly i, irolected condition. Mr Tullock has again started his M artiiilioi'ough llaxmill after a spell of about two years. Motive of poll on the Maungatakalo road loan proposal is given by the AVaiI'lirapii North County Council. i.L Dr. Beard informs us that all the diphtheria cases ul Haslwell arc now doing well and the disease is not spreading. Mr It. C. Dauiell, for many years Commissioner of Crown Lands in the Nelson District, died on Sunday. He was an old and highly-respected colonist. The llcv. J. Lymburn, of Martin- ■"' horough,starls this week forhisquarterly pastoral visitations to the Back Country, and his place will be taken next Sunday by Mr E. Feist, of Masterton. - About 150 ratepayers assembled to 1 K hear the addresses of Messrs Appliu, ,n " Faivbrollicr, ITuglian, Telford and A. Armstrong, candidates for seats on the "•! Carterton Borough Council, the election for which takes place on Saturday. They were accorded a vote of thanks. A small sheep run near Wavcrley is j offered for Bale on easy terms. Tho owner is willing to take a Masterton „, property as part payment. Particulars appear in another column, and any " 3 " further information required may be ,>' obtained on application to Mrli. Kceue, a' Exchange Chambers, Grey-street, Welj\ lingfon. V.' St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, (*• was crowded yesterday afternoon, when Miss Marion L. A. Marchant second ™ daughter of Mr J. W. A. Marchant, Commissioner of Crown Lauds in Canterbury, was married to Mr William £ Ernest Hughes, third son of Henry Hughes, of Tinakori road. The Hev. T. It. Sprott, performed the marriage ceremony. __ As regards the ciitries.the Palmerston North Show is the largest the Associa5. tion has yet held, the numbers exceeding = those of last year by 202, and those of 18!i;i by 110. Thequalityof the exhibits all round is excellent, the experts speaking very highly of the cattle and sheep. 3rs The display of implements, too, is a very an line one, by far the best ever seen there. sh The regular meeting of the Masterton oy Eeclmbitc Tent, was held last night in jy, the Foresters' Hall, at 8 p.m., Bro. W. on M. Easthope, C.lt,, in the Chuir. Two jiu new members were initiated, and thrco more proposed. n ' s An opportunity of obtaining all sorts ■ of music in wholesale packets at a con- . siderable reduction on the ordinary j° price is now offered by Messrs Frederick " c Jones and Co., of Lauibtou Quay, Wclet. linglon, and their announcement in xl, another column should command the ch attention of all those requiring now aud lr . choice selections of music, ix, A Masterton poultry-fancier informs ite us that a valuable rooster belonging to a„ him was taken very bad with the" pip"

', a few days ago. Tho bird was apparently at the last stage, when someone suggested a Holloway's pill might do good, ' and certainly could not make the bird i any worse. The idea was acted upou, ; and worked like magic. In two hours ! the bird was able to walk; yesterday he > took his full share of feed with an cvi--5 dent relish, and to-day is so far coni valcsccut as to lie able to crow with remarkable vigor. This opens a new ! field for Mr Thomas Holloway's famous ' medicine, , The following encoro verso in one of Sir Joseph Porter's solos, quite brought ', down tho houso at tho Theatre Koyal last night:--1 " To-morrov, night wo play once more, i This good old opera, "Pinafore," I Your kind attention to engage. Wo thank you for your patronage 1 And hope agaiu you'll come to see i Our juvenile lulcr of tho Queen's navec." A rathor funny pig story reaches us i from our Wellington Correspondent. It seems that a prosperous squatter ot the Manawatu distrist, who, as a "side- ' show," patronises prizo pigs, latoly imported from England a yory yaluablo ' boar of bluo-bloodod pedigree—indood, 1 the highly-bred animal cost him eighty 1 guinoas on the vessel's deck in Loudon. i In due course this preoious pig reached i Wellington, and his proud owner went i down with a party of bucolic friends to : give the volatile voyager that reception I which now-a-days is hold to be the correct thing for both pigs and politicians. But what was the surprise of the ! importer of prize pork to find about ' " Berkshiro-the-Third " an absolute lack I of dignity, positively shocking in so '. distinguished an arrival. Indeed, he . totally lacked that aristocratic reserve f which might be eipectcd of such ancient linoago, and _ jiad not ..only . allowed advances of friendship on the part of the whole ship's company, but at the actual ) moment of his patron's arrival was i permitting himself for the edification of passengers and crew to be put through a I perfect circus performance, including I such feats as hurdle racing, jumping through barrels, blindman'i buff, and such-like. It seems that during the idlo hours and sunny dayi of the tropics the sailors had contracted a jood-f ellowship alliance with the easy-going pig, and had undertaken to teach him all they knew, with, to themselves and that most enterprising "tusker," quite excellent results. "Berkshire" had, bocome, indeed, a, veritable' learned pig, rivalling tho famous Bismarc of circus fame, and in the opinion of the seamen, possessed, as a result of their comprehensive training, every possible qualincationforeitheraseatiu the Houttof Representatives or the editorship of a leading Wellington newspaper. But, strange to say, the pig's importor was most ungrateful for such devoted attentions. He indignantly asked the commander of the ship if the imparting of those idiotic antios was the best use an imported eighty-guinea pig could be put to, and. did he suppose that his capital'"Vis meant to he sunk' in such sanguinary skylarking as that. Then "piggie" said good-Dye; and the sailors saw with \ sorrow his departure for Quarantine Island, where, at the present moment, he languishes in regretful repo's'o after so Stirling a tirao on shipboard, Whooping cough is very prevalent in tho Forty-mile Bush just now, and tho attendance at the various schools is very low in consequence.

The Southland lima reports Hint tlio New Zealand aad Australian Land ' Company at Edendalo haTe been using lime very extensively during the last ' two or three years with most satisfactory results. By the aid of lime they had a • splondid crop of turnips last season, which fattened a large number of sheep. and about 7,000 of these have just been sold in one lino to a London firm at a price equal to 19s on the station. As tlicso sheep were all bought at the beginning of the winter, it is easily ascertained what profit has been made, and this could not have Leon got without tho lime. Mr Brydon estimated that two tons of lime to the aero trebles the carrying capacity of tho land. An extraordinary and horrible storv comesfrom SiorraLeonc. Three negroes', one a schoolmaster, have been executed for cannibalism. They belonged to a band known as" Iranian leopards," and disguised in the skin of one of those animals they attaoked isolated human beings, killed them, ate portions of their bodies, and sacrificed the rest to their fetish. The miscreants were brought to justice in consequence of the screams of a slave girl, whom they had captured and were about to put to death, attracting the attention of the inhabitants of a neighbouring village. Eight othor "leopards" have been arrested, and will be tried at Freetown. The girl who had been rescued was brought to the lionian Catholic mission houseatßontho. The liov. A. C. Yorko delivered an address on Monday evening last, to between seventy and eighty men who are employed at the shearing sheds of Messrs W. and H. Bectliam, Drancepcth. The liev. gentleman, who arrived from Mastcrton shortly after 6 p.m., said that he did not propose to hold a service, but that he only wished to say a fow words on" lleligion." After laving read the collect and part of the gospel for Hie day. he, in a few well chosen words, explained the different ties that exist between God and man; exhorting his hearers_ to think them over earnestly in their own minds. The address_ was doliycrcd inj the spacious dining room connected with the shed, and by the closo attention with which the speaker was followed it was evident that his remarks had been received with good effect. Mr Yorko left for Mastcrton soon after 8 o'clock, ainidmauy expressions of good will and solicitations for another visit before the shearing season closed. The Methodist Tims, the orgauot the Eev. Hugh Price Hughes, gives prominence to the following paragraph:— " Wo have just learned, on what seems to bo unquestionable authority, that Mr Chamberlain has been seriously considering the possibility of introducing into this country the military conscrip- ■ tiou as an agency by which'he can get money to float his scheme for old-age , pensions. The proposal is that every nun shall he compelled cither to serve in the army or navy, or to a , line in lieu of personal seryice. It , is assumed that in this wealthy , country, with its tradition of freedom from the military yoke, great numbers of persons will pay a fine in order to ' escape the conscription, and these accu--1 mulated lines would form a fund big 1 enough to break the backofthefinanciul | dilliculty which has hitherto rendered all cld-age pension schemes imprnetic- '■ able. We do not say that Mr Chamber--1 kin has finally committed himself to the conscription, but only that we have very good reason to believe that a short i time ago he was considering it in coni ncctioii with his favorite social scheme." p " Well, my boy, do you know what • syntax means?" said a schoolmaster to 1 the child of a teetotaller., "Yes, sir; ' the duty upon spirits." . One ot the drawbacks ot country lite, nt least to the small settler, is undoubtedly tho increased price he ha« to pay (or any 1 articles ot clothing or genera! drapery, by reason ot the extra charges tor freight or ! carriage. This drawback need exist no ' longer, lor extra charges are done i with under the new system which has been - inaugurated at Tu Alto Hocsn, Wellington. , Under this system, any of the parcels ,- advertised, will be sent to any address in New Zealand, rosi I'uee, the prices charged being exactly the sume us those at which the i goods are sold over the counter in Weli lingtou, As may be imagined, however, . this liberal oiler is only extended to cash ) customers, and all orders for advertised 3 parcels, must be accompanied by cash for tho amount, before the order can be executed at Tk Alio House. Wellington, s In illustration ol this system, we will give an example. Take for instance No, 3 i Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White t Mainsook lilouse, trimmed with embroidery • and with the new butterfly collar; 1 Navy or i Black Sateen Ulousc, with white spots, now c stylo; 1 pair ol Black or Coloured Taffeta J Glovcs.and 2 pairs of Ladies Black Cashmere Hose. This complete parcel will be sent, post free, to any address, on receipt ot 12/6, s from Te Ano House Wellington,—Ann. )