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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5177, 8 November 1895, Page 2

The banks keep holiday to-morrow, Aovembcr Oth. The C.J.O. Spring Meeting concludes to-morrow. The Auckland Guineas will bo ran to-morrow, , Mr Agncw, of Balelutka, lias a curios ity m the shapcof afour-legged chicken. Die tour legs are fully developed. The Grand Hotel at Eotorna, when completed, as it will bo shortly, will I have cost about £IO,OOO. The Clareville course is now in splendid condition. There is a good sward of grass all over it, and the going will be found in fine order. The installation of tho W,M. of the Ekctahuna Masouic Lodge has been fixed for December 6th'. A syndicate': of seventeen, three of whom aro W'airarapa men and the remainder Wellington, have won two forty-nound 'cash prizes in Tattersall's Consultation on tho'Melbourne Cup, 1895. As the sweep failed Jo more than' half fill, they net only about £36.' '

The Mastcrton Town Lands Trusteos moot this afternoon; A fairly large number of people visited the Masterton Park yesterday, to witness the Grcytown-Masterton Cricket Match. Eketahuna must be going ahead. It is reported that another Hall is to be built there. Mr E. J. Searl is considerably enlarging his Universal Hotel, Eketahuna The Carterton Cycling Club hold a dance on Monday evening next. TheTaratahi-Carterton Daces are about the only attraction of any importaucc in the Wairarapa District on Monday. Mr P. H. Wood makes additions to the entries for his next Taratahi stock sale. . A Magisterial enquiry is to be held into the circumstances connected with the Flora-Wakatipu collision The Venezuelans assert that the schooner Myosotis was a local smuggler, and that Garcia, who was shot by the coastguardsmen, was not a British subject. Arrangements are, it is stated, being made for offering to the public 22,300 acres of the Awarua Ulock, lying in the forks of the Moawhango ami liangitikei Hirers. The weather seems to hare set fair again for a few days. It is to be hoped Hie line weather will coutiuue till after the holiday. At Melbourne yesterday Auraria succeeded in winning The Oaks Stakes, with Gcorgic second and I'arisicnnc third. Notice of intention to apply for a transfer of the license of the Marine Hotel, Whakataki, from Gilbert McCandlish lo Jeremiah O'Neill is given. Mr T. Young, of Wellington, is solicitor for Ihc applicant. The Mcrrirale Estate, Southland, 10,000 acres in extent, recently acquired by the Government tinder the Land for Settlements Act, has been cut up into 5:1 allotments, the smallest being 20 acres and the largest JSO acres, and is open for selection on lease in perpetuity, siys the Posl. Marquis Maykes, of Bourges, has been acquitted on a charge of haying murdered his stepson in 1885. His wife laid the charge and declared that, she had remained silent for nine years, under a priest's influence. She tried to suborn witnesses, but was exposed in Court. The music for a captivating circus which has just visited the Wairarapa, was provided at Grcytowu by the local brass band, and so enchanted were two of the village bandsmen with the freedom that a roving life would socm to afford that when the " show " left Greyloivii they had become part and parcel of it, and now they "footle the llulc "lo nigh l ly crowds as to the manner born, while Arab slccds prance merrily round, sawdust Hies, and spranglcs gaily glitter. It is quite a novel experience to be slruck by lightning, and to lire to describe the sensation. A. signalman on the Brooklyn Elevated liailway, John Breig, has related how he was struck. He writes: -" Just as I was in the act of pressing the signal button, a red-hot shooting pain went up my right arm, and I fell backwards. For just a second, although it seemed like anliour, pains, as if from red-hot needles, seemed lo pass all through inc. I didn't remember anything else until I found myself in my own bed at home." Except for a little weakness, Breig adds that he is now as well as ever, It seems only too true (writes the London correspondent of the Aukkml I [mild) that the Queen's health has changed for the worst. That Her Majesty should suffer from acute rheumatism is not surprising when one recollects the persistency with which she exposed herself—as well as her attendants—for! many years to all sorts of weather, and especially bitter winds and cold draughts. But iL is now stated that the Queen's general health has fallen much below par and that various remedial courses arc under serious consideration. A royal visit to.Xew Zealand and its curative hot springs nould be the " sovereign " remedy, but I suppose that is not _to be thought of. Her Majesty inclines of course to a German Spa, but what arc they beside liotorua? She has now to be lifted about almost everywhere, and begins to feel the want of the active exercise to which she has so long been accustomed.

Crocodiles will not thrive while kept iu ut state of captivity. Four of llie ? immense reptiles kept at the Jardin des Plautcs, iu Paris, have died, but lmyc since then been replaced by others scut from the Nile by the French Consul at Cairo. But the feat of turning them into the ponds prepared for their reception was not accomplished without considerable difficulty. They appeared to have heen unduly excited by travelling and the heat, and made desperate efforts to turn some of the attendants into mincemeat. Each was strongly bound | across the head and over the jaws by thongs, but one succeeded in freeing his mouth, and immediately dashed at the leu of a museum servant, one of whose colleagues, seeing his danger, managed to ram a thick plank of wood in between the sauriau's jaws. The plank was quickly crushed into splinters by the crocodile. The feat of shaving a horse with a razor was performed in Hull the other day. It was undertakcu by an old well-known and highly respected coachman of the town. To accomplish a task of this kind an exceedingly strong nerve and steady hand arc required, and these being at the command of the person in question, notwithstanding the fact that he is nearly seventy years of age, lie performed it most successfully and in firstrate style. Considering the dangerous character of the tools to be employed at a work of this kind is by no racaus easy, and is rarely resorted to. The animal, after the operation, showed* skin like that of the elephant, and has since begun to grow a beautiful coat. The operator has resided upwards of 50 years in the town, and is a native of Arnold, in Holdcruess, The Olmjo Dmln Times says .—There is an air of free-and-easincss at the mcctiugs of the Caledonian Society, distinguishing them from ordinary meetings. Each member can smoke, and there is nothing to prohibit snuff-taking. The consequence is that those at the bottom end of the long table, can barely discern the form of the Chairman at the other end, and the Chairman, owing to the difficulty of fixing his eye on members, has to assert his prerogative with a stick that is said to have been the hefty end of the spear of Goliath of Gath, and which, descending throughthounhrokenchrouology of the Philistines, stopped at that particular place in the Highlands where the Chairman was bom. Whon members are not smoking thoy aro sneezing, for to vary the pleasures of the mooting Mr J. M. Brown passes what might bo called a family snuff-box round, aud each member immediately becomes engaged in a struggle to suppress the I prcmonitary grimacos that invariably precede a double-barrelled or three-bar-1 relied sneeze. All these things give variety to discussions on whether the larger sum is to be given for bagpipe' music or for bicycling. Forgetting that the best "cure" of the craving for drink is strict abstention from liquor of an alcholic character remarks a writerin tho AneMaml Hemhl some legislators in the United States have been seriously discussing the merits of a remedy for inebriety, which has at anyratc, the recommendation of being cheap. The device originated from " tho experience of a prominent citizen," who narrates the immediate disappearance of a drink craving which had been I diminished two months after taking the pledge of abstinence'.' And this is Id's ;recipe;—"Get a bowl of icewater and a raw potato, peel and cut down one end of the potato to a size' convenient to tako in the mouth; dip tho potato in the ice-wafer, and suck it every time you tuink you 'musthave whiskey." ■"'' |

Tlio rainfall at Eketahuna during October was 6.3d inohos on twenty days, The assault casoMcMullen v.McMulleu, adjourned from a previous Court day was dismissed in the Mastcrton S.M. Court this morning. The father of M caghcr, of Dean notoriety, died in Sydnoy last weok, after the disgrace of his son. The hearing of the charges against the son was postponed a day in consequence. When the last mail to arrivo at Wellington left Sydney, Harry Plaackc, who received sueli severe injuries in the fight with Barker, had so far recovered as to be able to walk about the grounds of Syduoy Hospilal. So far.beyond weakness, the only serious result of his injuries lias been an affection of the sight. The excellent railway arrangements for Prince ot Wales' Birthday should induce a large passenger traffic (his year. Messrs Simms and Mowlem announce their next stock r ale in the yards Queenstreet for Wednesday, 20th inst i Messrs Simms and Mowlem sell all classes of household furnitureto-morrow (Saturday) at 2 o'clock, without reserve. The Mayoral election has been fixed for Wednesday, November 27th, Nominations close on Friday. November 15th. In the Mastcrton S.M. Court jesterday judgment was given for plaintiff in the case Official Assignee (Becker's estate) t. John Hall, Peatherstou, a disputed claim for £3 4s, No counsel's fee was allowed, the S M holding that the case should hare boon brought on in the Featherston Court. Many of the gardens in tho neighbourhood of Afasterton have suffered considerably from the frosts of the last two nights; French beans, tomatoes cucumbers, and also, in some instances, potatoes, being detrimentally alTccted. Wilhelmina, of Holland, the only female sovereign in Europe reigning in hcriwn right besides Queen Victoria, has just completed her fifteenth year. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their salo list for November 13th-150woolly hoggets, 200 woolly fat and forward wethers and ewes, 10 young cattle, 5 quiet heifers. A witness in the Mastcrton S.M. Court this morning stated that he stood by and saw the accused strike a girl several times.whercuponthe S.M. asked the witness whether he meant to say that he stood by and saw a woman assaulted. The witness replied " Yes." " Then, you can leave tho box at once," said the S.M., and the witness left. The llcv. George Nieol, of the China Inland Mission, at the request of tho meeting held on Wednesday night, has agreed to stay in Mastcrton over Sabbath. He will give an address to-night, in the Wangaehu School, and on Sunday evening, at half-past eight o'clock, will hold a meeting in the Theatre ](oyal, Mastcrton, and will speak on "Mission Work in China," and refer to tho Kuclieng Massacre, Mr Nieol will also preach in the Masterton Presbyterian Church on Sabbath forenoon, and address the Sabbath School in the afternoon. Messrs Lowes and lorns announce a goncral unreserved sale at their rooms to-morrow. Owing to next Monday being a lioli- 1 day discount will be allowed on last month's gas accounts paid on or before Tuesday next at the Mastcrton Town Clerk's Office.

Messrs ]{. E, Homblow and Co., 0 announce a general sale at their rooms, y for to-morrow, November 9th. s Many Mastertonians will be sorry to • bear that Mr ,7. Watt, tlic well-known 1 bookseller, is about to leave Mastcrton. c His reason for departure, the ill-health • of Mrs Watt, is also to be regretted. T Mr J. P. Elliot, late of Duncdin, will 1 be his successor. s Mr J. F. PorrFn, editor of the New ; Zealand Tablet, having resigned his s position to take an appointment on a l Catholic paper in Sydney, the Very Dot. ■ Father Lynch, at the request of tho di- - rectors, has accepted the vacant position. \ Mr ami Mrs Donald McNicol, who . have resided in the Palmcrston district s for-12 years, celebrated their diamond . wedding to-day, old and young residents p turning out almost en musse to pay their s respects. It has been decided to make a delivery of correspondence, over the counter at \ the Mastcrton Post 0 like, between the ; hours of eight and nino o'clock to-mor- > row (Saturday) evening. The Post " Office will be closed on Monday in all I branches, instead of to-morrow. i At the PlumptonPwk (Cliristchurch) • Trotting Meeting on Wednesday, £7075 • passed through tho tolalisator, The ) Sockburn Handicap fell to Economy, ! with Fos and Pansy JJ. in the places. i lac two miles was trotted in omin 1C i see, and the dividcnd.was £3. Dondri ! accounted for the Plumpton Harness ■ Troljlic Fiddler being second and Jane ; third. Bondri paid £2 Us, and the two i miles were traversed in smin 3!)secs. The Maiden Saddle was won by Jeanettc (dividend £2 Ills), the Pony Saddle by Norma (dividends 14s), the Maiden Harness by Ohio (dividend £5 7s), the Selling Handicap by Horc-I-go (dividend £C is), and the Dash Handicap by Jumbo (dividend £118s). After all the boasting of the Japanese, their battles in the late war with China were not won so easily as tliey rcprosented. The final list of casualties has just been received here It represents wounded only, bcarin mind. No human being will ever know the actual deaths. The total number of disabled persons brought from the seat of war and placed m hospital was 19,208, of whom C 278 were wounded, 8616' attacked by ordinory maladies, and '1213 suffered from epidemic diseases. Of the above 5027 recovered, 2786 were removed to other places, 6G returned to their houses, 101) were discharged, 628 succumbed to diseases, 195 left of their own accord and 317!) are still in the hospital, Ono ot the drawbacks of country lite, at j lcoßt to the small settler, is undoubtedly the increased price he has to pay tor any ' articles ot clothing or general drapery, by reason ot tho extra charges for freight or carriage, This drawback need exist no longer, lor extra charges are done away with under tho now system which has been inaugurated at Te Aro Hoosb, Wellington Under this systom, any of tho parcels advertised, will bo sent: to any address in Now Zealand, post fkee, the.prices charged i being oxactly tho same as those at which tint ;oods are sold ovor the couoter in Wolington, As may bo imagined, however, c this liberal offer is only extended to cash ' customers, and all orders for advertised r parcels, must bo accompanied by cash (or j the amount, before the order can be exe- l cutcd at Te Alio House, Wellington, " In illustration of this system, we will ° Rivo an example, Tab for instance No. 3 1 Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White v Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with tho new button; collar; 1 Navy or Black Sateen Blouse, with white spots, new " stylo; 1 pair of Black or Coloured Taffeta I Gloves,and 2 pairs of Ladiesßlaok Cashmere ( Hose This complete parcel will be sent, *• post free, to any address, on receipt of 12/6 from Te Ano House Wellington.-Ann v