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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5184, 18 November 1895, Page 2

Owing to the heavy southerly ram last Saturday tlio Wellington Ametourithlctic Sports were postponed.' "Dr." and Mrs Brown have been committed for trial in connection with the Alice |fe|jall,caso at Wellington, The Mflsferlon Trustees hold Ihetf raontliiy racctii)gito.nifcoiv afti-r. !IOOtt. : I I • JFlic funeral of the Jatc Mrs 1), A. pf Groytown took place jester(liij);' 1,1 I' - ■

Very heavy rain fell in Mastcrton on Saturday evening, business in consequence, being unusually quiet, The Works and Finance Committco of the Mastcrton Borough Council meet this evening, The people of Newtown are strongly j opposing the opening of another hotelin their district. y _ Mr W, H. Cox, of Waverly, has reit signed from the Commission of the • Peace. Sir I'. L Buckloy was able to attend . at his offico in Wellington on Saturday last for the lirst time since his recent illness. There are now in the United Kingf doin, 177 women doctors and 120 women | members of School Boards. The recent rise in wool means, it is - said, an increased earning power to the !, Bank of New Zealand Assets Company, of over £12,000 per annum. The quantity of gold received for coinage at the Sydney Mint for the ten months ending October was 1118,75'10z, 1 valued at £2,232,101, An insect which burrows into the flesh is causing mortality among horses ( and cattle in the Miulgce district, New South Wales. Services at the Carterton Weslcyan Church were conducted yesterday by Mr Sussex of l'cathcrston and Mr Vibert of ' Mastcrton. A meeting of Directors of the WaiT rarapa Caledonian Society will be held ' at Mr J. Mandcl's Club Hotel on Saturday next to pass the programme for the next Sports meeting, The Native Land Court sits at Greytown on December lGtli, when the yaiuc of the shares purchased by the Government from the Native owners of the land abutting oiutlie Wairarapa Lake, will be determined. According to a northern paper, a few nights ago the constable at Ellham was c. seen malting for the railway station with - a drunk on a wheelbarrow. Jt seems there is no lock-up at Ellham, and the I, inebriated man had to be conveyed by train to Hawcra, Sawing and hewing competitions at ( athletic sports have become exceedingly popular. The United Fire Brigades Sports Committee have succumbed to to the persuasions of our local bush workers, and intend making sawing and hewint; important events at thcircouiing Sports, s 1 Failier T. McKcnna, of Pahiatua, has in received a .permit from the Colonial Secretary to have milling at the Catholic Bazaar in the Olympic Theatre un the 18th, ltlth, 20th, nnd2lsl December next. lp At the Mayoral contest last year Mr Heron polled 151 votes, MrPownall 115, and Mr Jfomblow Sli. This year it is expected that Mr Jlornblow will poll a few more votes at the expense of Mr „ l'ownall, and that the latter will foot the poll, The Li/lUHdii Times warns the Liberal Parly in Christchurch to be prepared for an election to lill the scat about to be ' vacated by the appointment of the Hon. W. P. Kecvcs as Agent-General. On the Wellington section of the N.Z. Railways during the four weeks ended October 12th, the receipts amounted to C52iS 1 las Id, as against £5212; the number of passengers carried was 25,971, , as against 25,M1; the fares amounted to £2UOG 15s 7d> as against £210115s yd. J he return of New Zealand railway receipts and expenditure for the four weeks ending 12tli October shows the former to have been £81,051 His « t |, and the latter £50,581) Ills 3d. In the corresponding period ot (he previous year the figures were £77,111 lis lid and H, £55,121 Is 3d respectively. The gentleman who ordered from a Stratford linn of rat-catchers live hundred rats, explaining that his lease requiring him to leave the house in the is same state as he found it, lie wanted the nd rodents lor restocking purposes, was perhaps outdone in the strangeness of « his request by a man who ordered from a lirin of wholesale providers a pound of llcas, This order was the outcome of a bet, and was in time duly executed by IS . the iirm, who boasted that they were V, open to provideany thing and everything R. at the shortest notice. l'ootball, in addition to dislocating 5 the work at the factoriss in Birmingham is also affecting the progress and wclk fare ol the Sunday schools, In a special *' article a Birmingham paper states that the teachers complain that not for 25 years has so serious a hindrance to the " work arisen, Boys introduce football editions of the papers into the classes and discuss the previous day's games = without reserve, The teachers say that their efforts to turn the boys' thoughts into a less mundane channel, are so much time wasted. The Panama Slur and llmtU of October 12, published details of the earthquake which occurred in British le Honduras on Sunday, September 8, that t- arc alive with horrors. At Zetipan 153 t- bodies were found, and there arc many y other persons missing, At Corajunnca 115, and at Coryuscott 111 dead bodies have been discovered. Monday and •j, Tuesday there were fearful shocks. Volumcs of Ihime and smoke, hundreds of ' feet in height were visible in the 1 inb'iinn tains, Lava engulfed a large number I- of cattle, and rocks fellin the ncighbourh hood like hail. The earthquake is said I, to have been the mosttcrrible ever known !!■ in Central America.' i. 'flip Jfaoris i|| the Pjpiriki district and 0 in all i!|c fofpsl'co|in|jy between tjieri S and Tokiianii, are, sitys thesumr.%ica graph, slaughtering pigeons and f i|is in , a cruelly wholesale way. The natives '' themselves reckon that they have killed !' 20,000 birds since April Ist, The birds on being shot are crammed into sacks, e and drayed to Tokaanu, where they are d preserved in a Maori fashion. In the p lovely drive through the forest from e: Mangaweka to Turangarerc, a distance 0 of about'3o miles; a recent traveller recj ports that lie saw only oiie pigeon where previous' to flic' late slaughei 1 , tevcry tree jjaijits'bjrd.' Nowtlial'thejiig^onshave ■" bepn kjljerf.off, piif-huiit'ers 0 are tpiing thejj attpnt'joii }o the t|jis, i, anil |hpy are bejng rapidly des'tcoypd, n in spite of it boing tljoip pairing spasoi). s A chimney sweep thus writes to the ■ Fire Insurance Companies of Auckland e and [ho.Thames:—"On tho 31st of ; October, 18' Jo, 17,' i!! have completed my . twelfth year as chimney sweep ?! 'ho , Thames. During the twelve years I [, fmvp'bcpi)fo'Jjjjsjifejs hero J. have car- : , ried out my work in a conscieiili'ojjs aiuf ■ 1 painstaking manner, thus helping to pro- I e cure for the town a very great immunity '' from the danser of fire, and by this i 1 means have possibly saved your various 3 olliees a large expenditure in covering in- i 3 surances on buildings which may have L > bpi:h'destroycd by lire through want of ! B or 'the deljjctiyc- dialling of chimneys. , In consideration of the aboye, tho large , falling oil'jn my business, ami tlic small ' reinunenitioi) I receive, I would bp giad i 3 iftheoilices would award tijc sonip con- i • sideration. ' ' A Mr Allison has written to the Lon- ' ' don Simrlmuii, giving some particulars ! > of the only occasion upon which the 1 ) totalisator was used in England, In ' ■ referring to Hose of Atliol winning the ! j Great Yorkshire Stakes in 1871, Mr 1 [ Allison Vyfe 1 .'I wpjl remember the 1 former of thesp racpiS, lfc'ttt.ifto if was.j then that the prl-mMs wore brought ! , to York racecourse, and a fine trade 1 ' they did outside the rings. There were ' 5 about ten of the machines, and they * ; took only modest, half-crown stakes i I Out of curiosity, I put' 2s Gd 1 i ,i)'n Eofy 'Atliol, in each one 1 , flf fhpui, at}d ' tlje" aHragtf 'jsfapjf f j!#mc o)}t ajmosjt exactly tho sjmo'a? the ' Fstfi flf odds quoted in' the ring, yhiclji J wan, If I romembpr rightly, 15 to 1. ' Shortly ® ■ proprietors were prosecuted, and their J machines were held to bo instruments of r . gambling—a most nonsensical decision, £ for they could not be so designated any 1 more justly than could a betting-book, J as they were simply a ready record of J transactions, and the same result can be " acbisyed by marking on a sheet of paper 8 ca'chstlte'asiit in pwd in.. However, T the- judicial* flat .went'/forth,, and fronj J 1 that, day to this the paii-mrfiielrlia's t becu unkuowu'On English racecoursos."- s

Wellington Eaecs take place this week, Tho erection of tho Newman railway station, is proceeding. Hrß, E. Hornblowismakingarrangements to address the ratepayers of Masterton on Friday evening next. The Itev. John Dukes proached to large congregations in the Masterton TPesleyan Church yesterday. ' The Eey. Mr Griffin, of Pahiatua, will preach in tho Masterton Wesloyan Church on Sunday next. The telephone service between Eketabuna and Pahiatua, will be opened'in a few days. - ■ Mr F. H, Wood holds a large and i important sale of furniture and genoral merchandise at his Groytown Rooms, on , Saturday next, November 23rd. Par- , ticulars appear in another column. , Mr F. Dnprd, late of Mastcrton, has started business as a watchmaker and . jeweller, in premises adjoining Messrs , Wright and l'othan's, at Ekctahuna. , In the city of Sydney last month there were registered 213 births and 100 , deaths. i Bishop Wallis is to visit Mastcrton early in Fcburary, for the purpose of holding another confirmation service, i Mr J. Gribble, late of Norsewood,has : been appointed manager of a mine at : Coolgardie. A Dundee man is working on, and . hopes, soon to perfect a tlyiug machine | built on the bicycle plan. ■ A man named Temple was lined 10s at ■ Bendigo for allowing six dogs to attack a constable who had a summons to serve. : A Goldficlds National League has . been formed at Coolgardie and all the I centres of the West Australian goldliclds. ' Owing to the increase in the number of condensers at work, the domestic water • supply at Coolgardie is improving. ' Immense swarms of flying while ants 1 hcsciged the Sydney city lamps the other ; evening, and lay in heaps beneath on ! the footpaths. Special railway excursion fares in connection with the Hutt liaccs, arc adverI tised by Mr T. 15. Donne, Traffic ' Manager on the Wellington Section. The noise created by larrikin boys 1 outside one of the local churches was so ! annoying last evening that the service J was twice interrupted, and some of the > congregation were called upon to check the nuisance, . Messrs Lowes and lornsadd to their , sale list, lor November 27th, 15 fat , bullocks and 2 young Shorthorn bulls. • The fortnightly meeting of the Masp ton Druids takes place to-morrow evcu- , ing. s In spite of the late heavy rains, the " ashes of Mr J. ifessey's barn were still r smouldering this morning. c ThcSecretary informs tis tlialsubscrip lions to the Masterton-Opaki Club this 1 year are coming in exceptionally well r The membership roll now includes 12[ e names. '■ An enquiry regarding the (ire whicl destroyed Mr J. Hessey's outbuildings i. is to be held before Mr T. Hutchison oi J Thursday afternoon next. ° The following tenders were rcceivci L by the Masterton Itoad Board on Satur ,' day for 151 chains of formation on tin I Mastcrlon-Gladstone Eoad: \L Burke, ' £ls, accepted; declined—M. Jvcrrins, )' £lli; AleK.ee and O'Dowd, £18; P r Mulcahy A Co., £2l. I The tender of Messrs Ward am Murray has been accepted for painlinp the Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club': j Grandstand. Bro. J. Candy, representing Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Masterton ' left lor Wellington this morning, k attend to District Meeting. c The office of Mr E. If, Waddingtoi c was entered some time on Wednesdaj s evening last, and a certain ledger rc ,f moved. So far nothing else has bcci: i, missed. The police have the matter ii [ hand. a Messrs Simms and Mowlem add 5 P heifers in milk, 2 springing heifers, ami c 1 young cow, to the list of entries foi ? their next stock sale in tho yards or Wodncsday, 20st inst. „ A meeting of tho Committee of tin Masterton A. &1V Association will bt . held next Saturday afternoon to arrangi 1 for altering tho date lijcd for next Show J 1 Messrs Lowos and loms report the ' sale of sections 7, ft, 11, and 12, com. , prising3()o acres in thcMaugaone Yallej ' at a satisfactory liguro. s A mushroom, which it is bclievet j beats the record, has just been found uf s Auckland way. When measured it was 3 found to be 33in. round, the stalk was 9jin. round, and the thickest part through j. 2Jin. It turned tho scale at 30oz. ; The following Census Enumerators i arc gazetted:—Samuel Johnson, Pahit alna,Waipawa,Palangata; William li. j Bone, Wairarapa North, Wairarapa ■ South | Edmund Mason, Hutt and adi jacent islands; William Charles Nation, s Horowlienua, Manawalu; ltobert North | Keeling, Oroua, liiwitca, I'oliangina; . Ji'rnest Barns, Wanganui, Itaugitikei, [ Waitotara; Sydney Henry James, , Ilawera, Patca, Stratford. The Hawcra Morning Post reports ; that Sunday week Mr If. Soutlicy ■ was fishing in the river near the mouth ' of the Waingongoro, when lid octopus elapsed him in its fell embrace. Mr [ Southey called for help,and was released i by' Maoris', who hacked the." wekc" to pieces, sjraf Ifr'Soutlicyi aud'obfaiucd a lafge anjount of'the best bait'for schnappar. A remarkable feature at tho Napier horticultural show was a bunch of bananas perfectly ripe, grown in a hothouse at Mr M. Lasccllcs' residence, Clive. Some magnificent oranges were also exhibited, growu in the open, by Messrs J, H, Coleman and H, Williams A contemporary says:—The Mark Twain craze is rampant in Dunedin at present, 1 ' For months Jiast heap's of our amattnr ink-slingers and would-be novelists have illovrcd thcit hair 'to grow info shapV suggestive of (abated seawoed or doofmat?. IJqw tliey lirp off sickly chunks of humor ijt yo'q, pitljer on car, train, or pavement,' and if you don't laugh, declare you have no soul. Mr J. li. McMillan, of Palmerston North, lias received information from "'wlville, says the Palmerston Times, that his colt Fairplay, by SomnusFugitive, broke his neck on Saturday, tijOritjng'flm} Jmd to bp destroyed, Many accounts iiavc boe'n ftiygn Jgtelyj javs the Auckland Herald, of vessels lighting and passing through shoals of dead sea birds onthccoastof New South Wales without anything definite being known as to the cattso ol the pteiiome non. Some special enquiries have been made, chieljy of the tugmasters who arc constantly patl'illin'g tho spabport). Their "testimony amo'uijtcd to Seeing as m'4ny This was olf Jervis. Bay. sfuttoi?birds is the description given of (hem by one of tho skippers who took somo interest in tho curious incident, and ho indinos to the opinion that tho remarkable shoals of pilchards that made so sudden an appearauce and au equally sudden disapncaranecoff the coast arc responsible for tuc visit of the birds. As to tho ija'use'of tho death of the birds in such MimboirsjM) believe they died of hunger when tho herring Supply givs out. Others attributo the mortality to somcoccultdisease. The theory of hunger is mostgcnerally held, however, and has a good deal of support; The master of pne yessel mentioned that he had noticed the 'fyjusnp of the birds a good while I agi}, and had thriwn jJieee^ 1 of jM Hp tjfpm! Tfioy would'c.omo in close along! sidp,' and easily'bp caiiqhtljy hahd. In his opinion they had Wen driven north !u southerly and soutU-westorly gales, and that, the warm weather killed them. Tho barquentino Silver Cloud, which arrived from Now Zealand on October 31st, aud for 16 days had beon knocking about in strong N.W, to B.W, gales, saw nothing of them, but the weather conditions met by the vessel, lend strength to tho theory that the birds were driven north by violent stjorms ia\thc|hjgher latitudes, - . ' —• K i I; • -fi,

c. A, J. Jacobs, taxidermist, of M astery ton, gives notice of intention to apply fat his discharge from bankruptcy, at the next sitting of the Wairarapa Dis. j" trict Court, at Masterton. Mr A. P. Dawson, surveyor, is leaving Masterton for a short timo. on account of a business engagement at Coromandel n Duringhisabsonce.Mr William Andrew, of Greytown, will look aftor his local J, survey connection. " A special roporter of the Melbourne ije has been on a visit to the cereal i- districts, He says that whether rain a comes or not, it is now apparent that a largo area under cereals will absolutely d yield no grain. il In Oorea visiting cards are a foot n square. The savages of Dahomey anr- nounce their visits to each other by a wooden board or the branch of a tree ls artistically carved. This is sent on in j advance and the visitor, on taking leave 's pockets his card, which probably serves for many vcars 'c A meeting of Mr Heron's supporters b at the forthcoming Mayoral election, takes place this evening. Mr T. Donnelly has been engaged to paint the scenery for Les Cloches de Cornevillc. As several new scenes are ' required Mr Donnelly will have his work cutout to got them ready in timo. d We have to acknowledge roceipt of an c advance copy of the special illustrated Christmas number of the Canterbury Times. It is certainly ahead of anything of the kind previously issued from the Canterbury Times office, and should be very largely in domand for sending to the Old Country. Tlio contents arc ls interesting and original, and tlio iliustrae tions depict some of the finest scenory in New Zealand. 1( , A full rehearsal of Les Cloches de Cornevillc will be held by the Masterton 1 Amateur Operatic Society to-morrow s oveniug. ir n The public examinations of W, Ml of Masterton, and W. P. Mason of Clarevillc, will tnko place at Masterton on December 11th in the District Court of Bankruptcy. The IPairoa Guardian says that Mr 's Humphries, Chief Surveyor for Hawke's 0 Iky, has been exploring the hitherto e unknown regions about Lake Waikaree moana, and somo of his excursions led to k the discovery of some really wonderful features of interest—magnificent cas[r cades, eerie caves, majestic overhanging lI cliffs, and delightful rooks. Mr Skey the Government Analyst has i- reported on samples of coal found on ]. Mr Kummer's property at Mauriceville that," the coal would prove a useful lp coal for domestic purposes where wood II is dear or not readily available." According to a London correspondent p the Foreign Ollice lias beou a good deal is embarassed of recent years by the sue--11, ccssive deaths or retirements of many >9 veteran ambassadors. Dut the worst is that young men with the right sort of ability and with aristocratic connections no longer seem to rare for the diplomatic service, Various reasons are suggested for the dearth of recruits. The preliminary examinations arc said to be too :i > still wid bookish, Then the modern r * Foreign Ollice craze for economic and 10 commercial experts (whose profound es°i says and exhaustive reports no British 3, merchant ever reads) tends to turn out professors not diplomatists. Itmaybe that Continental life is losing its attractions ul for young Englishmen. Thirty years ijr ago, men who didn't happen to care for i's sport, and had a taste for good cookery, good music, unconventional society and cultured Eoheniianism, found England n dull, and were almost driven to the (y "fi®y capitals of Europe for amusement." Nowadays English society is less stiff, far more amusinc than it used to be. London is bccomi ng tlio most cosmoiy polilun capital iu the world, while Cone- tincntal cities are no longer cheap to p live in, nor unspoilt by the vulgarities in and utilities of modern civilisation. Again, eyery attache on entering the 2 diplomatic service, must possess a priid vate income or allowance of £4OO a year. fiiso in wool I To make your Scones, Cakes, Bread, etc., Rise, use Anderson's Jimto Brand Baking Powder, Sold by all lc storekeepers, One ot the drawbacks of country life, at 1 least to the small settler, is undoubtedly the increased price he has to pay lor any articles o! clothing or general drapery, by reason ot the extra charges for freight or "• carriage. This drawback need exist no ■J longer, tor extra charges are done away with under the new system which has been >(] inaugurated at Ts Aao Housb, Wellington, Under this system, any ot the parcels advertised, will be sent to any address in New Zealand, rosr hike, Hie prices charged 15 being exactly the same as those at which tin i" goods arc sold over the counter in Wellington. As may be imagined, however, rs this liberal offer is only extended to cash j_ customers, aud all orders for advertised j parcels, must be accompanied by cash tor ' the amount, before the order can be oxca outed at Te Aao House, Wellington. l " In illustration of this system, ivc will »- give an example. Take for instance No. 3 n Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's While i Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery i, and with the new butterfly collar; 1 Navy or s, Black Sateen Blouse, wth white spots, new stylo; 1 pair o! Black or Coloured Taflcla Gloves,and 2 pairs ot Ladies Black Cashmere ts Hose. This complete pared will bo sent, y post free, to any address, on receipt ot 12/0, h from Te Ano House Wellington.—Advt. r Mark Twain s Toast. —The Bahies- We , have all been babies. Heaven bless them | lo make tliom strong and healthy uso Dr , Kirk's Farinaceous l'ood. Soli by all stow(f keepers, ' " ' "