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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5169, 30 October 1895, Page 2

Messrs Cole and Bartlett, of Master, ton, have imported another Palace Cur. The Cartel toil Oddfellows are arranging to hold a dance on 11th November. The W, and East Coast P, and A. Show opcui to-morrow. The Pahiatua Swimming Club has now a membership of fifty. ' The cyclists moonlight run will start from the Masterton Post Office eornei at 8 o'clock to-morrow evening. , Mr G. W. Deller has consented tc stand for re-election as Mayor of Carterton. It is understood that Mrs McKcnzic 1 formerly of Invercargill, has taken tin • lioyal Hotel, Masterton. 8 The Parkville creamery will not com mcucc work this season for about an oilier mouth. A feature of the Carterton Show wil he the large exhibit of the Masterton B and W, Company. Pahiatua will'observe Mouday, No veiTiber lltli.as a public holiday insteai of Saturday the 9th. ■ The Emperor of China has decorate! the leading members of the liussiai Foreign Office. Mr li. F. Temple's many friends wil be sorry to heir that although progress ing most favourably towards recover] from his reccut accident, he has been un fortunate enough to catch cold ami i suite-ring from an attack of inflammatioi , of the lungs, in consequence A special consignment of hoots, sad tilery and leatherivare, has been addei to the already extensive list of entrie for Mr F. H. Wood's general sale at hi Carterton liooms next Saturday after noon. Messrs W, Hawke and Pinhey Eros j announce that they will run vehicle direct to the Carterton Show Ground SI on Thursday and Friday. Arrange ments are also being made to run t the Clarcvillc racecourse on Moncla ilth November, n Eleven years ago an Hungarian an an Austrian stole 250,030 florins frot ly the Buda-Pesth Post Office. Both wci st recently apprehended, and the Austria ?• will be imprisoned, but the other will p " free, the Jlungariau law not recognisin _ offences over ten years old. A man named Thomas Geaghan, lii ing in a solitary hut at Clinton Gorg m having developed symptoms of religioi ■ mania, was sent to Dunedin. In lv pocket was found a deposit receipt f( £SBO, and 21 £1 notes -i.jifeTiA J tW°ycars* : ago, says tl Pahialuu Herald, and the last season D _ ripened a crop which weighed 721b These sold at 3d per lb which brought i „ 18s. The apple is of the Slurmcr Pij pen veviety, and this yield represent !" interest at 10 per cent, on £1), whic should be the value of the tree. According to the Hindu's Iky Html ' the four largest dividends paid i Hawkc's Bay arc as follows:—AVa - marama, £lO2, Poraugaliau Christina Handicap, 1893; Mavis, £223 4: , Tradesmen's Handicap, H.B. J.C.jjVTarcl 1881; Louie, _ £259, March 1891 A'apier Handicap; Crummy, £3Ol February, 1886, Fire Brigade Haudica] - T. and S. There were £2 tickets in th j. years of Louie and Mavis, = The partnership between Crick an Meagher, solicitors, was dissolved som days ago, and the name plate at th t . former firm's offices in Phillip-street lias been altered to" W. P, Crick." it Sir Julian Salomons is said to liav j a yearly income of from £7OOO ti I £IO,OOO, which ho spends mainly i: ' travelling and in purchasing books am pictures. He litis one of the fines 1 private collections of books in Australia ® Many ladies arc endowed with th ® highest business canacity. Not so a fail 1 financier who said the other day, ii \ perfect good faith : " Oh, my banke 8 writes I've overdrawn my account. Bn jr I've made out a cheque in his favoui :1 for the amount, That'll set the matte f right, won't it."- JMamjc. b Wr W. 11. Wilson has purchase* j Wallace. The price is not mentioned but it is a large sum, and subject ti winning contingencies. After 70 to ■« was accepted about him for the Derb] last night, the eolt was heavily hackee t for the Cup, finishing up equal favour i ite with Delaware at 100 to 9. 3 The Wellington College Examiner: - this year, will beLatin, English and > Mathematics: Mr A, It Meek; Scienci . (including chemistry and physics): Mi JR. Speight, of Christchurch; French Mr C.J. Harling, of Christ's College, Christchurch. Messrs L. Cohen (Mar--1 ton), T. W. Kirk and T. W. liowc, arc 1 to conduct the examinations at the i Girls' High School. ' Under date September 13th the Lon--1 don correspondent oE the Otago Daily i Tim writes:-" Mr John lioberts, ' C.M.p., after {ilojig sojourn in Scotland, i has left lyiih liis wife and daughters for [ Paris, where they will stay for a short : time. On his return to London Mr Roberts will rearrange the Now Zealand wool exhibits at the Imperial Institute, 1 adding to them a very valuable and varied collection which he has brought from the colony. The Misses Eoberts will probably remain in Paris for some time, as fliey aroaniious to devote themselves to special studiesin art and music," " i complete set of teeth for one guinea" is the announcement which the Australian Dental Institute, located above Mce's Building, 177 Lauibtoa Quay, Wellington, makes in another column. The announcement will come as a 11 boon and a blessing " to many in this district who find it necessary to masticate with an mtifical set of denials. The Institute takes up the whole of the first floor of Mce's brick building, and the rooms are comfortably and tastefully furnished. The operating room where patients are relieved of their offending teeth in a painless mannor, is fitted up fith all the latest appliances. The waiting rooms are three in number and are well furnished. In the work room wliefo the artifical teeth aro manufaclured may be soon tho latest mechanical contrivances for manipulating vulcanite audtheothcrmaterials, Itisthcsavinf[in labour by the use of the finest machinery f,fot euibjos the Australian. Dental Institute to supply a domplofe set'of teeth' for brio guinea in tho shortest tlmo' possible. Country patients 'can be fixed i up with a full Set 'of masticator j in i' single yjsit, 'a' convenience' tha't manj will apji'reeiafe. The'lnstitute employs ■ a full staff of competent workmen,' ' ' t

Mr Donald McLean, aged 46, manager of the Maraekakaha Station for 16 bi years, died last night. fc One person in every thirteen inTTa- k mania is said to bemoreorless interested in tho fruit trade. i A meeting of the General Committee gi of the Masterton A.&P. Association o! will be held at the Club Hotel, at 3.30 si p.m, on Saturday neit. w Messrs Lowes and lorns announce a long catalogue of furnituroand effects Cl seized under bill of sale, to be sold at their rooms on Saturday next. a: Messrs E, E. Hornblow and Co,, an- * nounce an important sale of superior household furniture and effects, under C bill of sale, for Saturday next at 2 p.m. w Tho meeting of delegates from the 5 ■ 'Thursday Crickot Clubs, convened for ■ Monday last, lapsed for want of a , • quorum ; The delogntos from the Mids land Criekot Club and one from the Eire ? , Brigade Club, were the only ones pro- . 5 sent. d . Eain is badly wanted in South Canlerf bury, Tho Timarii Herald says the , young crops arO making no progress, and *1 J the pastures uro grey and bare. J . Tho champion Bwimmor Placke, who t was soriously injurid in Sydney in a ' fight with Barker, of Queensland, is, by latest advices, making satisfactory pro- ! 8 gress towards recovery, j At the Water Police Court, Sydney, i two restaurant-keepers were fined £3O B oach, with costs, for selling brandy . ■' without a license, in" coffeo royal" . We noticc-with approval—tliat the ' Member for Masterton assisted to kill j the Bill for increasing the number of ( :■ Ministers and for augmenting Minis- ( terial allowances. ;• The British Dental Association has : discovered that the children of poor tt parents have as a rule better teeth than the children of rich parents, 1S Anotherphaso of the new tariff! The Kuripuni Fire Brigade recently brought under the notice of the New Zealand Insurance Co., its claim for a subscrip:r tion. The Company, while fully admitting the services of the Brigade, has i 0 pointed out in reply that under tho now r _ tariff, no individual company is allowed to subsidise a Fire Brigade. i c A case of alleged neglectof an elderly io man, who was admitted to the Mastorton Hospital by the Trustees about a month ago, and who it is stated, was " discharged from that institution on Sat- ' urday last in a very unclean condition, is now being enquired into by the Hosill pital Trustees and the Benevolent B. Society. Thomas Watson, a prohibited person, °" pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day lt * before Mr G. Heron, J,P., with bciug drank on the 29th instant. His Worship »d said it appeared to him that tho prohibiin tion order was a farce; he had himself seen the accused the worse for HI liquor on several occasions since the order was issued. Accused declined to say where lie was supplied with the liquor, and promised not to appear j s before the Court again. A fine of ten on shillings, with tho usual alternative, was imposed. Mr James Modem who is agent in e( j Masterton for the celebrated Humber eg Cycle, hason view at the Auction Kooms '! s of Messrs SimnisandMowlem, five different styles of this company's machines including lloadsters, Racing, and Roadracing 'jiicycles, on the latest and most 3S - improved designes, one of which has atcs traded many admirers since its arrival, ds The wheel frame is of wood, thus making the machine much lighter and 'o of more easy carriage than those of past 'V manufacture This style of bicycle is now being greatly sought after in the nd in tho large cities of the colonies, and im although only recently imported, many ?rc have been sold in Wellington. Mr au Mowlein is sending seyeral cycles of his g0 company's manufacture to the Carterton ng Show. A ' turf correspondent' writeslt iv- may not be generally known to your ge, readers that tho abolition of the practico ms at one time prevalent on the Colonial his turf, of owners making a declaration to for win with one particular animal, when starting moro than one in a raw, was ■"« ltoDlnson Crusoe's descendants, but so ™ it was. Mr Eticnno DcMestre had j't Navigator, by liobinson Crusoebs. Cocoanut, and Solitude, by liobinson , m Crusoe—La Mousse, engaged in the ip- Normanby Stakes at Flcmington, and its he declared to win with Solitude. The lcl ' race between Solitude and Mr 8, Millor'i Boolka however, was so fW cl° so 'hit Navigator came to the j rescue of his stable companion, with tho result that although Solitude las mana K C( I '° B°' her head in front (ts of Boolka at the finish, she had to take .jj' JMond place to Navigator, notwithstanding that the last-named was almost jjj' pulled up on tho post in tho endeavor to ' let Solitude win. The affair was freely commented upon at the time, and the V.H.C. authorities shortly afterwards passed a rulo declaring that in future nd all horses should be runout,and declarajie tions to win should not be allowed. The many friends of Mr J. C. M'Vay of this town says the Napier Em Id rejoiced with him on Saturday last, when J' 0 news came to hand that he had been t .° fortunate enough to draw liobinson "j Crusoe, the fourth prizo in tho St. Ml Albans lottery drawn the day bofore in ; 4t Brisbane. Wo understand that Mr la ' M'Vay at once sent instructions to haye he tho horse well insured and commissioned ;ir an agent to enquire as to his market in price with a yiew to his immediate elisor posal. liobinson Crusoe, who is 22 ut yoars old, is one of the host bred horses ir in tho colonies, being by Fishorman's or great son Angler, from tho imported mare Chrysolito, by Stoekwell—Juliet C( | As a three-year old Kobinson Crußoe, d then known as tho Chrysolite colt, was the only horse sayed from tho wjiik of 10 the steamer City of Melbourne, on which j_ occasion Eobin Hood and many of the ;( j best racehorses then on the Australian r . turf met their death. Bobinson Crusoe was himself a great performer, and when ho left the post for tho paddock proved " equally as successful as a sire as he had 111 been as a racehorso, Among his de'c scendants may bo noted Navigator, Lr Trident, Solitudo (dam of Solitaire), La 1; Tosca, Copra (dam of Cobbitty), the °> Sailor Prince, Tho Workman, Vakeel, r ' Foxtail, Quilt (siro of Quiltiri), Quadro rant and The Officer, while Onyx, ie liobinson Crusoe's full sister, gave to tho world tho good horso Nordenfelt, f - The Olago Daily Km has the foP H lowing on the subject of a telegram recently published by us.—The other '> day the body of a.Chinaman who was J previouslysaidtobemissingirasreported to hayo been found on tho banks of tho i J Molyneux. The constable at Alexandra ' j 1 proceeded to tho spot, and discovered i •j the remains to be in au advanced stago | ® of decomposition, Thelegs were bound, the clothes wero torn, a hugo stone was 8 tied around the neck, and there was c eyery indication of foul play. With the ' assistance of some half-dozen Europeans and Chinamen tho body was removed < q to Aloxandra South, but as it had I 0 to be dragged over six miles of rough | j and stony country, and as the stench ( j which arose vras most abominable, . the party were utterly exhausted s on arrival, Tho body was viewed, the 1 , conshblo reports, by hundred* of people 1 , including a large number of celestials, c who agreed that though it was that of a j Chinaman; it was not that of the man i j reported to bo missing. Two doctors r j also viewed the remains, and ordered [ , them to be removed to a convenient / ' placo forpoii mortem examination. This ; was afterwards commenced, and after " , themodicalmonhad been at work for r j twenty-five minutes, (at least the con- ' , stablo says they were), they suddenly t became aware of tho fact that they wero s [ examining the inside of a sheep and not ( , a dead Chinaman at all, The truth of j, ' thematter is the whole thing was a i , clever hoat, and various parts ofa sheep, ? a pig and other animal's had been ?! : utilised in turning oiit a dummy. Tho " , policeman seeks consolation in the fact n , that besides himself many others, in- -ti /eluding two medical men, had' been ! o . deceived; but the memory of that awful ' f : task of draging theUoatbom'e thing over' a ■ six miles of rough country will ever *; jjaufithim, ' • j-

Two Koumanians, owning dancing bears, have confessed to the murder of four Hungarian boys, whom tlioy gave to the animals as food. A new kind of cloth is being made in Lyons from the down of hens, ducks and geese. Seven hundred and fifty grains of feathers make rather more than a square yard of light and Yery warm waterproof cloth. A waterspout fell one evening recently near Bougie, in Algeria, killing fourteen Arabs, injuring fourteen others and destroying four miles of railway, with two iron bridges. The Blacksmith and Wheelwright Company, of Masterton, claims that it will be tho largost exhibitor of locallymade farm implements at tho Carterton Show. It draws, in another column, tho special attention of farmors and Show visitors, to its collection of implements from the Southland Implement Company, whose steel drills, spade and disc harrows, are unsurpassed in the market. At an inquest held recently at Stoke-on-Trent, on a bargee's daughter, drowned in the canal, it was found that the father had previously lost ten children in tho same way, Spain is arming six trans-Atlantic | steamers. She fears the United State: Government and the South Amerioat liopublics will recognise the Cuban rebels as belligerents, Under the heading of roads and bridges, the following arc included in the Supplementary Estimates:— Pohangitm Valley Forest Deserve (additional), £100; Towai road (additional), £300; Alfredton-Webcr (additional), £500; Euamahanga Bridge, £200; Pori road, £120; Mangaratmv rama, £2OO. Professor Woolskolf has discovered,

by means of a microscopo, many interesting details connected with the life of the ancient Egyptians, in a brick taken from the ruins of the pyramid of Dashour. The brick itself is made of mud from tho Nile, chopped straw, and sand, thus confirming what the Bible and Herodotus had handed down to us as tho Egyptian method of brick-making. Besides these materials, there were also found the debris of river shells, of fish, and of insects, seeds of wild and cultivated flowers, com and barley, the field pea, and the common ilax, cultivated ; probably both for food and textile ' purposes. Eailway men in the United States arc ' still discussing tho " race to the north." J They find it hard to accept the story of ' 510 miles in 528 minutes, as this would put their own record in the shade. This • is held by an express which leaves New ' York at half-past eight each morning. ' It runs to Albany, 143 miles, in ICS 1 minutes; thence to Syracuse, 143 miles, ■ in 175 minutes; thenootoEocheeter, 00 miles, in 73 minutes; and thenco to r Buffalo, G9 miles, in 83 minutes. The ! actual speed for the distance, inclusive ' of stops, is 52.36 miles per hour, and on J stretclics where the track is suitablo a r speed of 70 miles iB reached. 1 Sugar-cano was unknown to the an- ' cient Jews, who used honey for the sweetening of their food, It was first 1 used in Europe by Alexander the Great, r fcho in 327 n.c brought it as one of his ? trophies from the East, Thus Pliny • relates that Alexander found a remark- ! able kind of reed growing in India, • which produced a sort of honey withoul t the assistanco of bees. The culti- ■ vation was introduced into Persia " about 500 a.d., and great attention 8 was at once raid to tho manufac--1 turo of this valuable substance, Tin Arabs obtained the plant on their coa--8 quest of Persia, and carried it westwardi ' with them. In 750 i.e., tho mosl <* fertile laud in Egypt was almost f entirely under cane, and the manu r facturo of sugar increased largely 8 At marriages and festivals at the Ara n bian Court in Egypt quantities of sugai were consumed. About the same time it it was introduced in Spain by the Moors ir Next in its westward course the cam :o was carried to the Canaries, while ii il 1493 Columbus took it to San Domingo o where it increasod so remarkably as t< n become in after years tho main cultiva is tion of tho West'lndian Island. It i; lC O'vivn 111 (ill Dfirft of llio fropi/10 ;o Hie dissemination of tho sugar-cano i, d almost as unaccountable as the distribu - tion of the human raco. It is found ii n many islands of the Pacific, and in un ,c civilised New Guinea arc found mam d varieties of tho cane. ' e iiiso in wool I To make your Sooncs '• Cakes, Bread, etc., Bibe, übg Anderson 1 ! 0 Juabo Brand Baking Powder. Sold by al ic storekeepers, One ot tho drawbacks of country life, a >° least to tho small settlor, is undoubtcdl; it the increased price ho has to pay for an' ■O articles of clothing or general drapery, b; 1- reason of tho extra charges for freight oi it carriage, This drawback need exist n< ;3 longer, for extra charges are done awaj y with under the new system which has beei ie Inaugurated at !e Aao House, Wellington 1 Under this system, any oi the parcel! advertised, will be sent to any address ir e New Zealand, rosi hike, tho prices ohargec l " being exactly the same as those at which thi goods aro sold over tho counter in Wei lington. As may be imagined, however 3 this liberal offer is only extended to cast customers, jind all orders for advertiseo n parcels, must bo accompanied by cash foi n tho amount, before the order can be exe n euted at Te Aao HOO6E, Wellington, t. In illustration of this system, we will n givo an example. Take for instanco No. I ir Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White e Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidorj j and with the new butterfly collar; 1 Navy oi Black Sateen Blouso, with white spots, new , stylo; 1 pair of Black or Coloured Taffets ' Gioves.and 2 pairs of Ladiesßlaok Cashmere ' Hoso, This complcto parcel will bo sent, 8 post free, to any address, on receipt of 12/6 8 from Te Abo House Wellington.—Anvr. Mark Twain's Toast, -Tho Babies—We ' havo all been babies, Heavon bless them 1 '> lo make them strong and healthy uso Dr s Kirk's Farinaceous Food. Sold by all storef keepers,