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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 15 November 1895, Page 2

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Preserved whitebait arc being largely exported from Westport. The Canterbury Jockey Club paid . £6136 in stakes in connection with last • week's race meeting, South America Ims the greatest unbroken extent of level surface of any country in the world. The opening performance of Les ; Cloches do Cornevillc by tho Mastertor j Amateur Operatic Society is announced , for Wednesday, November 27th, Mr 0. li. Hugo, the wcll-knowr physiognomist; lectures at Eketahum this evening. , The Pahiatua Hacing Club's pro , gramme Ims been approved by tin Metropolitan Club. • During a storm in the Longreach (lis trict, Queensland, the roof of an liote was blown 50 yards, and some of the i timber fell on an injured an aboriginal. Mr W. 11. Carlile, Goyernment Audii Inspector, is at present inMasterton. Mr A. Henderson, jeweller, etc., ol Queen-street, Masterton,has a specialty selected stock of the latest novelties it • jewellery and silverware, noiv on hand Several dogs from Carterton, liayi killed ut number of sheep and lambs nl ' Clareville latclj', and tho Obscrcci hears that 1 the matter is likely to lead to litigation. The Itnv. Mr Topliam sued the Bisho| of Tasmania to recover £SOO damages for alleged wrongful dismissal from a curacy. The Bishop based his action on the alleged misconduct of plaintiiV who contended that the Bishop had onlj power to suspend him, and not take away his license. The jury returned « verdict for the Bishop. Messrs Lowes and lorns offer at theii rooms to-morrow on account of tin Uliicial Assignee, in the estate of Win Seill, bankrupt, the equity of rcdcinp< tion of a ycxy desirable property in Dixon-strect. Mrs Fake, who was shot at on Wed , nesday, by her husband, Isaiah Fake - who afterwards committed suicide, ii progressing favourably in the Welling , ton Hospital. Mr Archibald Meston.of Queensland, who is now on a yisit to the northern rivers, said that his prophecy made li years ago, that sugar growing was dyiuj out, is being slowly and surely fullillcc even in Southern Queensland. A Pahiatua business man informs in that owing to the impassable state o , the Ekctahunn-i'ahiatiia road, he ha; been obliged to send a large order fo: 1 oats to liangitikei when lie could liuvi purchased them advantageously in tlii: I district, • Mr Job Vile, Mayor of l'ahiatua c journeyed to Masterton yesterday t< wait on the Wairarapa North Count' Council with regard to the condition o the main road norlh of Eketalmna. Tin worthy Mayor, however, had his joiirnc; . for nothing as the Council lapsed fo: want of a quorum. A rather sudden death occurred a ■ Uioekhumpton (Q.) a few days ago b; blood poisoning. One night a youiij t man named William Kimber, a cab driver, complained of a boil on his neel and stated to a fellow cabman that if i were not better next day he would no go out. It appears that he pricked tin boil with a pin, and blood poisoning wa> the result, which was followed by lockjaw, and two days later he died. Messrs Lowes and lorns hold an unre j served sale of high-class furniture ;i their rooms to-morrow, which have bcei seized for rent and remoyed to the mart The goods are now on view and wil repay a visit of inspection. The American press is furious at i pamphlet issued by Lord Diuiravcn owner of the Valkyrie, respecting tin recent race for the America Cup. Ji this pamphlet- he implies that th ' Defender was sailed under one weigh and measured under another. Yachts men demand his expulsion from tin New York Yacht Club. The King of Ashantec refuses to yicli jj to the British demand for assent to i protectorate, and is purchasing or com pellingallianccswithsurroiindiiigStatcs 1 A draft of white troops will accompanj the punitive expedition, headed bj Colonel SirF. C. Scott, Inspector-Genera ! and Commauduut of the Gold Coasi • Colony, and will sail immediately. Tin ■ total force amounts to MOO men." A Masterton man went out cel-fishm; ' a few nights ago, and reluming placet his rod on end between a fence ami ai outhouse, leaving the " bob " danglinf some few feet from the ground. To wards morning he was awakened by : most frightful caterwauling, and on ris- ! ing to ascertain the cause, found a bif gaunt-looking Thomas cat suspended from the end of the rod, hooked securely by his top lip. The work of liberating the snared and wrathful feline was no easy matter, but it was at last safely ac . complisheil.and puss cleared out with laii extended and every hair on end. Mr Larkc, Canadian Commissioner tc Australasia, who lias just returned from ' New Zealand, says lie found that the I iN'cw Zealanders knew nothing of the : trade conditions of Canada, and that the farmers took alarm at the proposed reciprocal treaty because they thought , it would cut their trade to pieces, though as a matter of fact it would be the other ' way about, The timber trade also became alarmed, especially the Kauri Timber Company, and that set the .North ' Island against the treaty, There was moreover, no time to educate those interested, and the result was a small panic in regard to the treaty. There are a large number of members of Parliament in New Zealand who (according to Mr Larkc) would give a subsidy to the Vancouver Mail Service if tho subsidy to the San Francisco Service were witlulrawu, but that, lie explains is not the intention of the promoters. A Californiau gentleman is giving the " buried alive" question hisscrious and practical attention. A little electric b.cll was his first notion, which would start tinkling at the slightest movement of the remains, and cause sexton and gnivcdiggers to hurry to tlic spot and set to work to reslpre the boijy to its sorrowing and befooled friends. Then the difficulty arose as to what air the body woiild have to breathe whjle the work of restoration was goii|g on. The Californian enthusiast has overcome this difficulty by inventing a tube arrangement communicating with the outer world. It is somewhat complicated but its eltpct is that wl|en the inmate of tlje, cofliu moyes, a little red ball signal' appears outside hjs grayoand a rush of ffesh air copjes down tlje tube. Tl|e inventor is giving illustrations of tip; working with the assistance of a young lady who plays the corpse, and docs i|o(; mean to rest until lie has got his signal into eycry cemotory in tho world, There was an unusual excitement amongst the young people of Carterton on Wednesday morning at the advent in High-street of a carriage and pair of greys, aud the harness and whip decorated with white bows, which pulled up at St. Mark's Church, and was quickly followed by several buggies. It pro.ycd to be tho marriage of William, eldest son of Mr J, Snowies, farmer of jJlatara'wa, and 'Mary, eldest daughter of Mr G.Gtaskm,farMerof Clarpvillc,' IJotli families being widely known nm| highly respected, there was a large attendance at tho Church to witness the interesting event, tho ladies, of course, preponderating. The -bride looked very pretty as she walked up the aisle on_ the arm of her father and atyayed in a neat dress of crcrae epaugaljne,'wifh' a pr6tty : s,traw jiiit, and Wyijjg ii Beautiful' boq'uet of natural flowers, Sho'wfjs S!ll)'por(ed ljy sister. Miss Hetty Gaskln, In pink cashmere, two Miss Knowles, sisters of tho bridegroom, in white muslin, Miss Nellie Hopwood and Miss Gcrty Allen, ill fawn crcpon. The bridegroom's i brother, llr Herbert Knowles, acted as best man. Tho service was conducted I bytlio'Bey. W. Jjallachcy. The bridal ■ party left the Church aiid were n|c|i at ' the door with showers of congratuM' j tions; old slippers and rice following the conveyance as it drove off. Tho ! pdrty was entertained atbreakfast at the i residence of the bride's parents.— > Qmmtn, j

I Mr James Macara notifies that poiso: i for dogs is laid on his land at Akura. Mr 0. Pragnell, draper, of Queen street, advertises tho arrival of specia new goods by the Tokomaru, It is now definitely known that M Michael Dnntfc will give his first lectur in Wellington, on Saturday, the 23rd. Of eighty-three passengers from Aus tralia by the Hauroto on Thursday forty-five lauded in Wellington. Wm. Wilby, a native of Norfolk, wh arrived in Tasmania in 1828, died tlier 1 ou Saturday, Ho wouldhavc complete the 102 nd year pf his ago on the 6t ■ proximo. 1 We remind our readers of Mcssi Sinims and Mowlem's unreserved sal , of furniture in their rooms, Quccu [ street, to-morrow (Saturday), at i o'clock, on behalf of Mr Gee Langton, who is leaving Masterton, th auctioneers are also instructed to oft'c the well-known racehorse" Margrave. i A new treatment of obesity has bee propounded. It is based on a new the ory. The victim of corpulence is fc ou one pound of lean meat and on ; pound of fish per day, aud is obliged t drink a pot of hot water every two hour; ' Ming else in the way of food or driu is allowed. The theory is that the foo being purely nitrogenous, the nccdfi hydrocarbons are supplied through al 1 sorption of the excessive fat, Thelarg quantities of hot water are for the pui pose of averting the renal distutbanc to which thoso who live chielly onnitro genous diet are peculiarly prone. Tho following nominations for th offico of Mayor of Masterton have lice received Heron, nominated b li. E. Chamberlain'and F. Holloway 1 C. A. Pownall, by W. Simms aud W. C 1 Cargill; li. E. Hornblow, by It. John ston and G, W. Woodroofc. .The man Walter Willoughby, wh was injured on the railway line, nea Napier on Wednesday night, died a fei hours afterwards m the hospital, Dt i ceased, who came from Pahiatua som i weeks ago, had been out of work, an his family were in receipt of eharitiibl aid. Tho cvideuco showed that nol withstanding this he somewhere g< liquor enough to make him drunk; bi ! it was not clear whether he fell in , drunken sleep on the line or dclibcratcl I laid down and courted death. A vei diet to tbat effect was returned, tli , driver of the train being exonerated froi all blame. ; Alhorouglily experienced wool-classe . with highest refcrcncc.s,secks an cngagi i ment. Particulars appear iu anotlu column. The MurlboniHjli Express of Noycn , ber 7th reports:—Mr G. Atwood, < i High-street, lost twenty-seven ducks an - eight geese on Tuesday; and last nigl f Mr Hewitt, living in the same localit; » discovered the permanent absence fro: . his yard of nearly thirty fowls and alioi . fourteen ducks. Ferrets have bet proved to be the culprits, and they ha\ also been distinguishing themselves i | other poultry yards. ; Perhaps the strangest of all clocks ■ to be found in India, being one i : possession of a Hindu prince, Near 11 1 dial of an ordinary-looking clock is 1 large gong hung on poles, while unde. : neath, scattered upon the ground, is ; pile of artificial human skulls, ribs, leg and arms, the whole number of bones i the pile being equal to the number r . bones in li human skeletons. Who [ the hands of the clock indicate the hoc , of 1, the number of bones needed to fori a complete skeleton come together wit j a snap, by some clever contrivance tli skeleton springs up, seizes a mallet, an walking up to the goin?, strikes one blov 1 This finished, it returns to the pile an | again falls to pieces. When 2 o'cloc ' comes, two skeletons get up and strik J while at the hours of noon and midnigl ■ tho entire heap springs up in the shap of 12 skeletons, and strike, each or " after the other, a blow on the gong, an : then falls to pieces as before. . The treasures of the Bank of Fraiu are said to bo better guarded than tlios of any other bank in the world. At tl close of business hours every day. who ; the money is put into the vaults in tli t cellar, masons at once wall up the dooi . with hydraulic mortar. Water is the turned on and kept running until tli [ cellar is flooded. A burglar would liav ' to work iu a diving suit and break dow a cement wall before he could even stir ; to loot the vaults. When the ollicci I arrive the next morning, the water i drawn off, the masonry is torn dow: ; and tho vaults opened. The New lurk Mail mid Express, i mentioning that the Century . has purchased the serial rights of Mi 1 Humphry Ward's new story, adds "Those, unsuccessful aspirants fi literary honours, who constantly con plain of the ' poverty of authorship may be interested to know that a sui almost fabulous, is said to have bee paid by the magazine, It is rcportc that for magazine and book rights com billed, Mrs Ward will receive anywher from 550,000 to $75,000 for this on novel"—that is to say, from £IO,OOO t £15,000! A most remarkable case of child murder came, on September 17, befor the assizes in Berlin. The wife of locksmith named Franz, thirty year old, was indicted for having uiurderci her two children, aged three months am three years respectively, by suiToi-atinj them with coal-gas. Tho woman was o respectable position and bore an ex tremely good character in all respocts both as a wife and mother, but had bcei terribly tried by the manifestation ii her children, of an hereditary constitu lional disease which had nearly blindec them. Her husband, who was dcvotcdlj attached to her, did everything in hi: power to tranquilise her mind, but six secretly formed the resolve to commit suicide with her little ones, and thui save them from the prospect of i blighted existence. Her plan succeeded as far as the children were concerned, as they wero asphyxiated, bijt tjiqely help arrived to restore (lie prisoner to consciousness, The trial was characterised by deeply affecting scenes, both .fudge aud jury being moved 'to tears, and when the official medical testimony asserted that the woman committed the deed in a state of mental exaltatioq, and was not responsible for her actions, the jury had no hesitation in unanimously returning a verdict of not guilty, which was warnjly greeted by the public in Court. Speaking at Hobart General Booth said the shelter houses in London afforded ncconjmqdation for 6000 people at a cost of ono penny, from which the Arn)y made a profit,' The rescue work had beeji the menus of saving 21,0Qb young girls, /o per cpnt of whom Wero leading lives of virtue. He spoke strongly about the slum life of London and other largo cities, and said that the saiuo conditions existed in Melbourne and tho other colonics in a lessor degree. If care were not taken to check the evil, it would bring into these colonies a harvest such as not yet been thought of. Tho Government would yet have to take the matter up. Ono oi tho drawbacks ol country lito, at least' to ; tho small Settler, is undoubtedly tho 'increased price ho iias to pay for aby articles ot clothing or general dfapery.'by reason of the extra ohafges for Iroinht or carriage. This drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges aro done arfay with under the new system which has been inaugurated at Te Abo House, Wellington, Under this systom, any of the parcels advertised, will bo sent to any address in New Zealand, post fhee, tho prices charged being exactly the same as thost at Which thu joods are sold over' tho 1 oouoter'in'Wellington, As lhay be imagined, however, this liberal ojjer is only extended td oash lustomers, and all orders for" advertised parcels, must be accompanied by cash for iho amount, boforo tho order can be oxerated at Is Aro House, Wellington, In illustration ol this system, wo will jive an example. Take (or instance No. 3 ?arcel, whioh eontains 1 Lady's White dainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery indwith the new butterfly collar; 1 Navy or Slack SMeeu'Blbuso, wllh white'spots, new ityle; 1 pair of Black Or Coloured Taffeta }loves,and 2 pairs ot Ladies Blaok Cashmere lose. This complete parcol will be sent, lost free, to any address, on receipt of 12/6, rom Is Aro House Wellington.—Advt,