The Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1895. AFTER THE SESSION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5173, 4 November 1895, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1895. AFTER THE SESSION.

Wk breathe again, for possibly the most demoralising session of the most demoralising Parliament which New Zealand bus known is over. Are there still lower depths and shall we encounter them next year ? We hope not, and indeed, Parliament this time must have got very near the bed rock when a Minister of the Crown used such an expression as " infernal liars "and escaped reproof. The mud thrown this sossjon, has beon phenomonal, and all respect for the character and reputation of the Assembly and for its leaders has gone by the board. The Colony with its needs and requirements has been forgotten and four months have been wasted in peddling patchy legislation. Looking back it is difficult to remember more than three questions of major importance in connection with the work of the session, viz., the Hank of Now Zealand Bill, the Alcoholic Liquors Bill, and the Customs Bill. The Bank of New Zealand Bill broke up the Liberal Party and came near to brcakipg up' the Government. Sinoe its passage, there has "be'eii strained relations between Ministers and Ministerialists, and if tho former have not resigned, it has been because they would sooner take a rebuff from their supporters than give up place and power. The Alcoholic Sales Control Bill can hardly be expected to answer the intention of the Government, which was to* settle a disturbing political question for some years, The big brewers and heads of wholesale houses in tho liquor trade exercise an enormous political influonco, and it is supposed that on this occasion they made their power felt through the Upper House. At any rate the Bill, as passed, is a compromise which is-hardly satisfactory to either the liquor or prohibition parties, and next session the question will again " bob up serenely." -Tjio Giwtoms Duties Bill \yns flje comedy of the session, as the flank of New Zealand Bill was the tragedy! Without rhyme or reason all sorts of funny changes were made in the tariff, tho Government sticking up certain items like ninepins and thon bowling them down again. Vory many of tho policy measures of the session were kicked out of the House altogether, and the Government contented itself with promising to bring them forward again, Th§ main fact observable in the late Bos> sion is that tho Government has lost its power to carry through moasures,! and no longer possossos the confidence of the Liberal Party, The' . Ministry "'dc?.l-2°k appear..to..l» |iappy family, find the' Party is cer. j t'liinly disunited,, !# as W asij pickings ai'P to he had it will pang, together., i

The Melbourne Cup will bo run to-morrow. r The Masterton Town Lands Trustees meet ou Friday next. t A gold watch and chain was lost last " Friday on the Carterton Show ground. Tlio special anniversary hymns are to ' be repealed at the Masterton Wesleyaii l Church next Sunday. The Gas and Library Committee of ? (ho Masterton Borough Council meet ' this evening, ' The country round about Masterton has benefitted greatly by the recent ' raius. t The Wainui Eailway Station, on the Wcllingtnn-Manawatu line, has been closed, c The next New South Wales cricket s team to visitNewZealandleavcs Sydney on December 7tli, A little boy named Abbcrton.accidcnt- i ally shot and killed his sister at Worn- t bat, near Young, N.S.W., recently, 1 A Chinaman at Bendigo attacked two fellow-countrymen with a meatchopper, i inflicting most serious injuries. < The Victorian Premier has hinted that the Government do not intend to start j any more relief works this summer. , An awful warning.—A woman named j Hill died at Karrabri after eating cold ' potatoes. St Church Kuhmhr for ! .November contains the usual interest- ' ing Church news for the month. | The New Zealand Cup will be run to- ' morrow; theCanlerlmry Derby on Thursday; and the Canterbury Cup on ' Saturday. i The Pahialua Racing Club has raised the amount of stakes for the next meet- i ing from £175 to £225. The Canterbury Jockey Club's race meeting opens to-morrow. Several Wairarapa residents have gone South to lie present, The Victorian Derby was won on Saturday by Mr Wilson's colt Wallace, with Osculator second and Auraria third. Services at the Carterton Wesleyaii Church yesterday were conducted by the Win. S. J. Gibson and Mr A. I'ybus, of II 'istertou. The Sunday School anniversary services at the Masterton Wesleyaii Church were largely attended yesterday, the Kev. J. T. Knott, M.A., preaching both morning and evening. Special hymns were sung at all services. \lr (J, Hiddlcston, once of the New i South Wales liegistrar of Titles (Mice, and well-known in Sydney cricketing . circles, is reported to have made 1 £IOO,OOO in and around Coolgardie, ; Mr li. T. 1 lolmcs, of the Educational depository, Masterton, notifies that N.Z. Diaries for 1 Still are now to hand and also Christmas cards for the outgoing English mails. " Pour hundred free ladies' tickets were issued to members oflhe Manawatu . A. and P. Association, and yet the takings at the Show gates were largely in excess of last year. The snow is not yet all off the ranges. In spile of this we hear that there is sonic talk of a party attempting the ascent of Mt, Holdsworlh on Prince of Wales' Birthday. A lamb with four ears can be seen about midway between Patcuroa and L Nasehy just now. In reply to a question as to what her religion was, a woman in the Duncdin Police Court answered, "Scotch!" Nelson papers bewail the death of a black sheep .which was knocked out by an emu a few days ago, A white man on the Sydney side has j gone to gaol for a term for calling a Chinaman a yellow-skinned snake in tho grass. Mr Geo. Franklin, of Drcyertoi), notilies thai he has a securely fenced padj 5 dock of twenty acres at the convenience ul of drovers and others, at moderate charges.

A mau named Ahem, who was grubbing a tree at Warialda, N.S.W., which fell in the wrong direction and injured a woman and child, went out of his mind with grief. At Tamworth, says Sydney Truth, a man was sentenced to eighteen months for biting another man's car off, while two pakehas, npm and, woman, for assaulting and robbing a Chinaman, got two years and a half. At the Sydney Waler Police Court William Ware was sentenced to three months' imprisonment«ith hard labour on a a charge of having thrown a dog into a tub of boiling water. The accused denied the charge, and notice of appeal was given. Sir Frederick Mihicr, chuckling over the capacity of the present House of Commons to secure the absolute destruction of Home Pule, vastly amused an audience by the following senI tencc: — "The House has, lirst of all, a good Butcher to kill Home Pule, a Sexton to arrange for its burial, a Field in which (o bury it, a Chaplin to read, the service over it, and a. Olarko to say 'Amen.'" General Booth, who is on a visit to New South Wales, speaking of New Zealand said that though the people are no more friendly towards the oversea colony scheme than they were four years ago they are very friendly to the proposal to deal with their own submerged section. _Hc does not look at Now Zealand specially as a sjto for an oversea colony, nor does lie intond to bring immigrants to any of the colonics until they seek to have them, lie has come to no definite decision with regard to the oversea scheme, but the choice of locality lies between Canada, South Africa, and another country which ho prefers not to name at present.

The Chief Justice has giyen judgment making absolute the rule u'm granted by himself in December 1891 and has quashed the conviction of E. G, Jellicoe by District Judge Xettlc for contempt of Court on the ground that Judge Kettle had no jurisdiction.

Two Masterton residents w°rq returning home the other nigh], after. J| good evening's sport'wilii tie spotted beauties of the liuamahunga, when they heard a singular outcry in a paddock near the road. A closor inspection showed that a draught horse had got a foal on the ground, and was biting the little animal most viciously, while its mother—on the other side of a stout fence, was crying out most pitcously, and quite unable to assist her ill-used offspring, The anglers at once went to the foal's' assistance, and beat off the horse, afterwards carrying the baby to the how delighted mother, who thanked the deliverers as plainly as she was able. The fishermen were returning across the paddock to the road, little thinking of any danger, when a mob of cows, evidently frightened by the noise tho horses had been making, charged down upon them, and it was a race tor life. The anglers won, we are pleased to say, and just bundled over tho fence in time to save an obituary notice, One of the straugest coffins ever told of is one for which the War Office is responsible. The story is that of a work-' man engaged in casting rn'p(al for tho manufacture of ordnance at Woolwich Arsenal, who lost his balance aridl fell into a cauldron containing twelvo tons of molten steol, Tho metal was at whjto heat, and the man was utterly consumed in less time than it takes to tell of it. The War Office authorities held a conference, and it was decided not to profane the. dead by using tho metal in the manufacture of ordnance, and that mass of metal has actually been buried, and a Church of England clergyman readtlic service to the dead over it, j ijphp Qilopfe, s, Gripjean veteran, (10 yoiirs'of rocorjtly applied for relief to the Hawthorn (Vie.) Bench. He bore on his coat the valour badges for active services in tho Crimea lidiaa imutiny, and o?Sled'to'thc'Conrt tho S'arKs of wounds received during the various cngagoipits. The Bendh, on learning from the veteran that that day was'theanpiyersary of the battle of Balaclava, granted him 'jjjl from, the pogr ho;, .

j Heavy rain set in at Eketahiina last night, and has since continued The Grey town Band has been engaged to play at the Taratabi-Carterton liaccs on Monday next. The common or garden drank was fairly numerous in Masterton last Saturday afternoon. To-morrow, November otli, is the anniversary of Gunpowder Plot. A few hideous masks in the shop windows remind us of the fact. Not long-since there was constructed for a Now York millionaro a pianoforte, the outlay on which was no less than £lO,OllO. _ Coroners' inquests of London show eighty deaths a year occur from hunger, counting persons who commit suicide in extreme want. A meeting in connection with the Masterton Wesleynn Church Sunday School is to be held this evening, when the liev. J. T. Knott and other speakers will deliver addresses. The Masterton Salvation Barracks were crowded yesterday when tho service of song "Calvary " was rendered, The first cricket match of the season in Masterton will he played on Monday next, when tho Wellington Excelsior team will play the local Excelsiors. The teams will be chosen this evening. Shearing operations in all the large sheds arc now in full swing. A number of young fellows of Masterton left this morning to try their hands at the shears in various parts of the district. The music at the Masterton Wesleynn Church last night was particularly attractive, and the way in which the children have been trained reflects the greatest credit on Mr J. ,7. Boagey and the Sunday School officers. The little people looked very pretty arranged in a specially built gallery at the end of the Church, and the service was altogether one of the brightest held in the Church for some time past. The popular Sunday afternoon walk for Masterton people at the present time is in the direction of Lansdowne, and every week hundreds of towns' folk inspect tho building operations of the mansion now being erected on the hill. From the top the view of the surrounding district is a splendid one, and yesterday three boats sailing on the dam lent an additional charm to the scene. Through the courtesy of Messrs Williams and Bcctham the hill isnowlookcd upon as a sort of public reserve.

A swarm of bees settled on the balcony post of the W.P.C.A. Drapery Establishment yesterday morning, and considerable amusement was afforded the spectators by the endeavours of several enthusiasts in bee culture to entrap them. Many attempts were made but the invaders generally came down the post quicker than they went up. At last Mr W. Ollivcr who appears to he perfectly at home amongst bees, procured a step ladder, and alter a series of trips succeeded in scooping the bees into his hut (with his bare hand) and transferring his treasure trove to a box, calmly walked away. According to an Indian vernacular paper, a curious case is just now pending in the I'unjatib courts. A few weeks ago a parly of weavers, formed in a marriage procession, were on their way to a 1 village in the Fcrozoporc district. The bridegroom was bald of head ami blind of one eye. His father feared that this might dissuade the bride's parents from agreeing to the union. His fellow processionists advised that a barber's boy, who accompanied the party and was not disfigured, might bo put forward as the groom. _ This was done, and the youthful barber was dressed in the gala clothes intended for the bridegroom. After the marriage was over and the party returned home, the weavers wanted to take the bride to their home as agreed upon. The barber took advantage of the foolish arrangemententercd into, and refused to part with the bride. All entreaties on the part of the weavers were of no avail. A suit has been filed against him,

■ A New Zealand parson, says the Cani tertian/ Pms, recently had a visit from i his Bishop on Confirmation business. i On the Sunday afternoon he took his Lordship for a drive in a family ark. t But the parson's marc unaccustomed to 5 Episcopal freight, bolted. The olive , branches were dumped put ovor tho back and squalled on tho road in various degrees 'of tearful consternation. Then the back cushion fell off; a hundred yards further on the whip fell out of the socket; finally his Lordship was jolted [ off llie box and pitched into a gorse ' t hedge—happily unhurt. In the even--1 ing the parson in his imioceuco gave '. out the text" Gather- up the fragments that remain." And his parishioners have never to this day quite forgiven the | Bishop who scandalised a congregation by laughing in church, The competition amongst the manufacturers of the sewing machine-one of the most useful articles of every day use in the household —hus of late increased more than appears to the ordinary onlooker. Not only is the style and finish made more elaborate and attractive, but the mechanism is every year undcrgoingsomeimportnntiniprovomcnt. The desire of the manufacturing firms to_ make the machines, lightrrunning, noiseless and durable, may bo said to have reached perfection, and this applies particularly to the "Bcalc Patent-High-Arm Machines," and we learn that for popularity, easy working and reliability, this make now stands prominent amongst the machines placed on the colonial market, Mr Eeale informs us that ever since he first introduced his machine, some ten years ago, lie has found it to give universal satisfaction. The latest, and certainly a most valuable improvement, which' is only to be met with in the '•■Bealo" patent is a button-hole attachment which can be applied to any " Beale" machine, and does not interfere with its ordinary work. This appliance is made an accessory to tho machine, and ! can be put on and disconnected in a remarkably short space of time, and a novice can work it with tho utmost ease, after a single lesson, "The stitch known as tl^e,'.- Itcrr'iug-bono," besides other hew work can also bo done with the "Bcalc" machine Elsewhero the proprietor announces that Ms machines can bo obtained on easy lime payments, and tho travelling representative, Mr H. E, Ockenden, may be seen at Holly House, Dixon-strcet, Masterton, where he will he pleased to show these excellent machines. Mrs Booth, the lyjfc, of the Commander of tho American Salvationists, ma.de, iu a reoent addrens, the following onslaught on tho" New Woman," or, as she calls her, the "mock man." Here is her plan for the reformation of this new development:-" I would make her change her dress the tiling. I would take her bjg sloevcs and make them into dresses for the children of the slums. I am sure a good many little dresses could be made out of those sleeves, As for some, of her other garments, which I will not mention here, I would take them away and give them to the sex to which they belong. The next thing I would 'do would bo \a, collect the books that flip' now woman roads, books flint any God-fearing, right-feeling woman would blush to havo about her, disgusting treatises on realism and kindred topics, I would pile these books all up together and burn them, burn them along with her cigarettes and her chewing gum. The next step would be to induce her to come to the Salvation Army meetings and learn what it was to get rid of herself, to help tho poor, ■ tho sick, the lost and the outcast, and ' forever abandon her vain soli-s.eeking, ; Then, if that plan failed, I should get ■ her a strong-willed loving husband, that ' slid might oome to recognise that there ' is something groat and strong and noble ' in the other sex." '< _ At Seaeornbe, a Suburb of Jjiveipoo), ' Mrs Glynnc, aged 52, foil dead in the J street-fram heart disease, and it took , quite nu hour to remove the body, as - the lady's {black retriever dog flew at , all and sundry who went near. Apgon, : was backed oyer (ho hp,dy ( and by | means of a las,sp thp police sepured the 1 faithful dog,

An advance of £1 per ton in too price | of flour is reported from tho South. j Sir Patrick Buckley is rapidly improving in health, Pour inches of rain fell in Wellington last month on twolvo days. The Hon. A. J. Cadman, who has been seriously ill, is reported to be improving, During tho ten months just ended 2070 criminal cases have been before the Wellington S.M, Court. This is a marked increase over the corresponding period of last year, Major Te Wheoro, tho well-known chief of the Waikato, is dead. He passed away at his settlement at Churchill. Mr W, H, Sefferu, editor of tho Taranaki Herald, retires to-day into private life, after 40 years' connection with newspapers in New Zealand, 28 years of which period he has been editor of the Herald. Mr E, Bryant, of Bulls, formerly of Palmerston North, drew a prize in tho St. Albans lottery, a yearling colt by Eiridspordo—Oceania MrW.B.Chennells,D.O.A.hasgonc to Wanganui in connection with the Pahialua Herald cases, which are to be heard there, Henry Macklcy, aged 20, a clerk at the Frozen Meat Company's Wallacetown works, was drowned yesterday at Tuvercargill, A first-offending drunk was brought before Mr G. W. Woodroofc, J.P., at Masterton, this morning. The culprit was severely admonished by the Bench and discharged with a caution. Some stupidly brutal person tied a heavy iron can to a horse's tail at Kaiwarra, and started the animal away. It was so injured about the legs, that it had to he shot. Mr Charles Lines, who has left the service of Messrs Sargoood, Son, and Ewen in order to join his father (Mr J. B. Innes, the well-known Wellington bookseller etc.) in business, hasbeonprcscnled by tho employe's of the firm with a smoker's cabinet, as a mark of esteem. A report is current that Mr Tc Kani Pere, owner of Mahaki, has purchased the New Zealand Cup candidate Impulse, who will run in the interest of his now owner at the C.J.C. Meeting. The price paid is stated at £SOO. We have received a letter commenting on some of the judging at the late Carterton Show, but consider it inadvisable to open up any question of that kind.

A meetiug of Stewards of the Waira. rapa Pacing Club was held at the Tauhorcnikau Hotol on Saturday .afternoon. The treasurer reported a debit balance of £2? l 13s 8d and accounts amounting to £39 lGs 8d were passed for payment. It was resolved to call for tenders for the privileges to be in by the next meeting of Stewards. Tho Course Committee reported that the new training track is in eicollent order.

The Presbyteriau Synod decided at Duncdin by 50 to -18, after two days' discussion on tho question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, not to commit itself to an approval of such marriages, but to leave it to the individual conscience of ministers and members to detonniue what course thoy should pursue in celebrating or entering upon them. Protests against the decision were handed iu in the evening. A meeting of the General Committc of the Mastcrlon A. and P. Association was held on Saturday last at Mr J.Mandel's Club Hotel. The programme Forthe next Show was further considered and a number of minor additions and alterations made, after which it was passed. Messrs D. J. Cameron, B. Gray and E. E. Chamberlain were appointed to canvas locally for special prizes and subscritions.

During the thunderstorm on Friday last a boy named Hugh Russell, living in Villa-street, was stunned by an electric shock. He was taking a kuifo from the knife-box at the lime, and his proximity to iron possibly accounted for tho incident. His mother took prompt measures to restore consciousness, and soon had tho ploasuro of seeing hor son himself again. A six-year-old ohild, whose parents live m Wellington, stepped on hoard the Corinna last week as she was on the point of leaving tho Queen's Wharf, and the fact of his being on hoard was not discovered until she had cleared the harbour. His absence was soon noticed by Ins parents, who informed tho police of his dtSHppcaranoe, and themselves mado careful search by the aid of lanterns tho same night in the public reserves and open places of tho city. On the arrival of the boat atLyttelton the youthfnl wanderer was handod over to the police, who telegraphed the news to "Wellington.—rimes. The news of tho result of the V.K.C. Derby was received in Wellington by Press Association's agent within six i minutes after Wallace had passed the post says the N.Z. Tim. This looks like very quick work, but in MartiniHenry's Melbourne Cup year tho record was still faster. The chairman of the Press Association issued special instructions in that year totheMclboume ag»nt to send the namo of the winner without waiting for second and third horses to be placed. By the payment of ipecial rates the message took pre ccdence of all others, and the name of the winner, Martini-Henry, was flashed across to Now Zealand, and was received in Wellington beforo tho horses had pulled up,

' Thore is one thingiparticularly notice- , able of late in Auckland remarks a i writer in the N. Z. Herald, and Hint is , the number of persons to lie seen going ■ about tho streets, in open day and in tho i evening, in a state of liquor, on the Day • of Best. Whether the Saturday night's ' beer, through being corked up for Suni day's use, is headier than usual, or that i they arc "travellers," entitled to call at I a publichouse and demand "an imperial pint in a. pewter," I do not pretend to i divine. A French dentist has recently discovered an ingredient, by which every man can become • Lis own _ distiller, and make an articlo which could not be detected from the Government brand, and produced at half the cost. This will be a solacing piece of information to tho topers, as they will thus be able to mil their liquor without the necessity ol scuttling about tho baek doors of hostel rics to get "a drink" on Sundays 14 Every man his own distiller," is tin triumphant cry of the Pronch chemist Only look at the vista of" long sleovcts' it calls up to tho imagination. _ A startling announcement was madi in Sydney the other night by Mr W Buckingham, ohairman at a meeting o the, Foreign Missionary Soeiety of tin Baptist Union. He declared that tin world was to como to an end about th year 1914 When the statement wa made there was quite an awakening o interest in what was otherwise a rathe dull gathering, Noonowasat allfcai ful, and some of the incredulous open! giggled at this revelation. To show tha he fead tho highest authority for Sim\ such a date, Mr Buckingham took th Scripture, and.beginning with quotation from tho 27th chapter of Leviticus, h built up an arithmetical calculate based on the number seven, multipliei and divided in all sorts of ways, until hi arrived at tho grand total of 19k The total ho asserted, represented tho yea; when the Gentiles would rerun, and hi informed his incredulous listeners tha cither in that year or a very short timi later, the Saviour- would return to Hi people on earth. _ Those interpretation! of Holy Writ quite prepared themeetin| for the announcement that Mr Bucking ham had made a gift of £SO (o thi foreign mission fund. In wplanatioi to this large he slated that h gave £2O as a thanksgiving offering fo a successful year's business, while £3l , represented insurance premiums whicl h had previously paid from yea to year on his businoss, stock the presumption being that as, tho worh was to.end, m Jftk. there was no furthe 'need for this outlay, which coul be better employed in tho mean time Mr Buckingham is a draper in large way at Surrey Hills, and is ver generous with his religious gift,^

j Mr J. B. Gudgeon, postmaster at Pieton, died on Thursday night of can. cer. Sir Gudgeon entered the Postal and Telegraph Serrico about 25 years ago in one of the large .Southern offices, Messrs Simms and Mowlcm add to the list of cntrios for their noxt stock salo in the yards, Queen-street, on Wednesday next:—2s fat ewes, 160 shorn wethors, 3 fat bullocks, 1 light draught mare, aud 1 yearling colt by x i. ; ■* Nil JJesporandum. gn Messrs Cuzco and Leon's grand Au7 traliancircus, which has been delighting large audiences at Palmerston Worth and other important centres, opens this evening at Masterton. The circus tent is pitched opposite the Borough Chambers, in Chapel-street.

The Timaru Presbytery is uttering its protest against Sabbath funerals, '" These, it thinks, arc found to minister .». to ostentation, and, in many cases, prevent the holding of the usual Church services. On Sabbath week a notice was read from the pulpits requesting tho people to abstain from the custom—excepting in casos of absolute necessity. Three girls named Mary McKay (aged 16), Hcttic McKay (U), and Lena'T Gibson ',15), were arrested at Danovirko , ' yesterday. They stole money from two shops at the Spit, then packed their swags and left for the country, slept at a restaurant one night, and under a railway bridge the next night, eventually taking shelter iu a hut in the bush, where thoy were traced by a detective. The girls were brought before tho Magistrate to-day, and remanded with the view of being placed under ' t control. Jk Dr. Delaie;ne has been making specia observations of the effects of tobacco on thirty-eight youths, from nine to thirteen years, who were addicted to smoking. With twenty-two of the boys there was a distinct disturbance of the circulation, with palpitation of the heart, deficiencies of digestion, sluggishness of the intellect, 1 and ii craving for alcoholic stimulants; in thirteen instances tho pulse was intermittent. Analysis of the blood showed in eight cases a notable falling.off in the number of red corpuscles. Four boys had ulcerated mouths, and one of them contracted consumption, the effect, Dr. Dclaigue believes, of tho great deterioration of the blood, produced by ■* the prolonged use of tobacco.

Captain Leroui, of tho barque St' Josopli, who wasrecently picked up by the Hocliestcr ship Osprcy, iu a small boat on the high seas, has now been charged before the Marino Commercial Court at Cherbourg with having abandoned hi» ship. It transpired that tho accused's story of his life having been threatened by his crew, and of his having to seek safety in flight in the shin's boat, was a complete fabrication; ana it was urged on his behalf that he suffered from tjA hallucination that ho was the victim flf systematic persecution at the hands SP others. The court came to tho conclusion that the accused was at least temporarily irresponsible for his actions, and they accordingly suspended him from his command of the ship for two years. In order to make this decision regular it was necessary under the statute to accompany the decision with a sentence of two months' imprisonment, hut it was expressly stated that hard labour would not be imposed. There was a very painful scene in court. Captain Leroux was seized with a lit at i the close of his counsel's speech, and was removed outside in a condition of insensibility and foaming at tho month. When he recovered consciousness it was; found that he was stricken with paralysis; on the right side. In i recently-published volume—- " Addresses spoken to Working Men ' from Pulpit and Platform "—the Dean of Jlochcster says;-" I havo been told that a man, said to be of unsound mind, »ttends a church in one of our great cities, and that when the curato, who preaches briefly and impressively, is in the pulpit, ho listens with unftaggujk attention; hut when the vicar beginsifty read a long and dreary discourse, lie , takes off his boots and puts them outside the pew, to intimate that he is probably tkero for tho night, and willies tohave them cleaned."

Under this system, any ot the parcels advertised, will bo sent to any address in New Zealand, post free, the prices charged being exactly the same as those at which th» i goods are sold over the counter in Wellington. As may be iuiagiued, however, this liberal oiler is only extended to oash customers, and all orders for advertised parcels, must be accompanied by cash tor the amount, before the order can bo oxooutcd at Te Ano House, Wellington. In illustration ot this system, wo will givo an example, Take tor instanco No, $ Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with the new butterfly collar; 1 Navy or , Black Sateen lilouso, with white Bpots, new style; 1 pair ot Black or Coloured Taffeta. Glovos.and 2 pairs of Ladies Black Cashmere Hose, This complete parcel will bo sent, post tree, to any address, on receipt of 12/6, from Te Abo House Wellington.—Ai»t, Mark Twain's Toast.—Tho Babies—Wo have all been babies, Heaven bless them ! lo make them strong and healthy uso Dr Kirk's Farinaceous Food. Sold by all store- ' keepers, ;