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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5188, 22 November 1895, Page 2

Mr A. A. Grace, the well-known author of " Maoriland Stories," has joined the editorial staff of the Nelson Ski: AtCondoboliu, Mr Wm. Gubbins was killed, instantly by his pony, which he was exercising," colliding with a tree. William Wilby, a native of Norfolk, who arrived in Tasmania is 1828, died in Hobnrt on Saturday withiu a few days ot his 102 nd birthday. The continued wet weather is greatly interfering with the shearing operations hi (he MunaVutu district, A Hock of lambs, raised on a farm near Danevirke, ayeraged Mb each when killed and dressed, Wc remind our readers of Mr 11, E. Horublow's meeting this evening, in connection with his candidature for the Masterton Mayoralty.

A settler in the Stratford district is said to have planted 70 acres of potatoes. Ilntlicr a large order for ivlnttis a comparalivcly new bush district, A committee meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association takes place at Mr Mandel's Club Hotel, at 2 o'clock

to-morrow afternoon. The Wairarapa Caledonian Society's Directors meet to-morrow afternoon, at the Club Hotel, Masterton, to confirm the programme, As an evidence of the spread of temperance, says the Noi-lli Otago Times, it is noteworthy that the show privileges were on Saturday sold to a "prohibition syndicate "at £lslos. Messrs Lowes and lorns hold their usual weekly salcat the mart to-morrow. The list at present embraces a largo assortment ot first-class new and secondhand furniture, produce, etc., which is new in view at (lie sale rooms. " Do this at once " is the gentle hint given in another column by Messrs Snoad and Co., lea importers, of Man-ners-street, Wellington, and it is a hint that is well worth heeding. It is shown by American statistics that the " crime" of suicide is rapidly increasing. The number of citizens who died by their own hands were as follows -18811,222.1; 18(10.2(110; 18111,3231; 18112,3800 j 1893,41110; 1891, .11)12. Tenders are invited, by the Wairarapa Pacing Club, for the privileges and band for 181)0. Full particulars appear in another column. Tenders close with the Secretary-Mr G. T. F. Mutton—

at 7 p.m., on Friday, December Oth. Nominations for all events at the

Wairarapa Pacing Club's Summer

Meeting, close with llie Secretary, at the Umpire Hotel, lYathcrston, ou Thursday, November 2Slh, at 7 p.m. Mr C. E. Ucetham, of Pahintuu, is increasing his Hock of purebred Hornneys. At tlin Wellington show he purchased some magnificent sheep from Messrs Bidwill Bros, aud Mr W. B. Allen.

The Jtangitikei Ailmmlc reports the finding of a mushroom measuring lolin in diameter, and <l7in in circumference. A premium of £250 is to be given for the best two designs for a church to take llicplace'oftlic present St. Matthew's, in ilobson-strcet, Auckland.

A fatal accident to a youth of 19, named William Cowan, occurred at Chines (Victoria). The deceased was in the employ of a baker as a driver, He had just delivered bread to a customer, and was in the act of remounting the cart when the horse swerved. The vehicle capsized and fell on the deceased, breaking his neck. A witness in the Masterton S.M. Court yesterday staled that he had paid ten and eleven shillings a bag for sugar to his employer. The eleven shilling sugar was brown and the ten shilling sugar was black. He further stated he was charged two shillings per pound for candles, which he could buy in Masterton for ninepencc. On the "witness being asked if he could use live candles each night he said 'impossible. 1 His Worship suggested that the man might have gone in for an illumination, or .possibly he may have eaten the candles,

Under date September 27th a London correspondent says—"For several days London and the South of England have been passing through such a visitation of heat as we have rarely known at this period of the year. The shade temperature has ranged from b'Odeg to Stideg, and has touched 133dcg in the sun. Such figures as these at the end of September havo never been known. Tho average heat of the past week lias been 22deg above the ordinary ayeragc. Fortunately the nights have been cool, falling to 'lsdcg; once lust week the thermometer recorded 3Gdcg. There have been several cases of sunstroke, and the wells and streams arc gelling short of water. The root crops are suffering for want of moisture, The anniversary of the Pahiatua Methodist Church takes place on next Sunday. The liev. .J.-Dukcs of Maslerton will conduct (lie anniversary services. A special children's service will be held at il o'clock in the utternoon, when the liev. Mr Dukes will preach. The clpir has been assiduously pPftising some special inusjc for the occasion, which will no doubt add to the success of the anniversary. On Tuesday evening a social will bo hold in the church, when the li.ev. Mr Dukes, together with several local and visiting Ministers, will give short addresses, which will be interspersed with vocal and elocutionary items. '. The West Const Times says that nt the liangiriri School, on the Christchurcii road, only eight or ten children, representing two families, attend, The mother of tho family representing tho majority, had a misunderstanding with the teacher, took the law into her own bands, broko tho schoolhouse door and took away a child which had been kept in by tho teacher as a punishment. The courtesies usually exchnnged by ladies under similar circumstances, took place, and the children were withdrawn. This leaves the school with an attendance oE three, representing tho children of Ihc other family. As the Board cannot keep open a school with nn attendance of three, it will have no option but to close the school unless the breach is healed! If once closed, thero is every probability that the school will not be rc-opencd. Pull rehearsals of Les Cloches de Corneyillo worehold yesterdayaftcrnooh end'evening. So successful was last night's practise that the Btago managor deemed it 'unnecessary to hold any' further rehearsals this' week. However, yielding to the petitions of the members who without a single exception, haye thrown their hearts into tho work, he decided to hold a full rehearsal to-night. It. speaks well for the management of this society that such enthusiasm should bo displayed by its members,

A light railway is being constructed, which will enable travellers to visit the top of Vesuvius.

Physicians declare that tho most nutritious ordinary article of diet is butter, and bacon comes noxt, _ Two volcanoes in Icelaud aro advertised for sale in a Copenhagen paper. Tho price asked, is about £l5O.

In tho affiliation case, J. Burko v. W. Harris, at Masterton this morning, an order was mado, by consent, for £6O and costs.

The Masterton Trust Lands Trustees advertise several properties to let. Particulars appear in another columu,

We have received a copy of a handy little pamphlet by MrC. F. Spooner,deal. ing with the thermal springs and bath s ' at To Aroha.

It is estimated that from 90,000 to 100,000 deer, feed in tho forests of Scotlaud, and that-1000 stags are killed annually. Men attending tho pans in salt works aro never known to have cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever, or influenza.

A lady recently rode on a bicycle from London to Brighton and back in 7 hours 10 minutes, beating the previous ladies' record by 20 minutes.

A curfew is to be rung at Eockford, Illinois, for keeping all children under 15 years of age, unattended by older persons, from the streets after nine o'clock.

A banker's clerk in Vienna is said to have died through moistening his thumb and forefinger with his lips, when counting bank-notes, microbes having caused blood-poisoning.

Twins have been born to dwarfs who have been on exhibition in Wales, as General and Mrs Small. The husband is only 35 inches in height, the wife being even smaller in stature. A London magistrate has declined to punish a woman for drinking gin without having tho money to pay for it. She was in the habit of visiting publichouses and saying"G'mmcahalfparlcn of gin, please," After swallowing the same, and when asked for payment, she replied," I asked you tog'minc it."

A dog known as" Spot," that hud saved the lives of several children, was run over and killed iu Cincinnati, a few days ago. When the news became known, the school children clubbed together and bought a handsome oak collin for the deceased animal, and when the day of burial arrived between 600 and 1000 of the little ones followed to the grave.

First amongst the largest British hotels comes the Hotel Mctropolo in London, which can accommodate with comfort 1000 persons; then the Hotel Victoria, the Grand Hotel, the Langham, and the Savoy, all of which are also in the metropolis. The Grand Hotel at Scarborough, and the principal hotel at Leamington, are next in size to those London hotels. Several monster mushrooms have lately been found iu various parts. A perfect record-breaker was picked up by Mr D. Nicholson, of Masterton, yesterday afternoon, on Mr Skcy's property at Taratahi. It weighs thirty, four ounces and measures forty-live inches in circumference. Mr Nicholson's find is on view at Mr J. Williams' shop in (Jucen-street. The Dahomey Amazons are not the only womni warriors, for (he Kiug ol Siam possesses a bodyguard of four hundredofthestrongest and best-looking girls in the land, They eutcrthc service at the ago of thirteen, and remain in it till (hoy are twenty-five, when they are drafted into tho reserve. Thoy arc armed with lances,

| At a recent Dairy Show in England, amongst the chief sales the following prices were obtained:—Poultry: Hall's 2nd prize Silver Grey Dorking Cockerel, £l3; Jofl'erys' 2nd prize, Plymouth Hock Pullet,£B 8s; Grceuop's 2nd prize Houdan, £(J Os; Simmons' Ist prize Orpington Pullet, £5 los; Butcher's 3rd prize Gold Wyandotte Cockerel, £5 ss; Saunders' 3rd prize pure Light Brahma Cockerel, £o. Pigeons-Collins' Medal and Cup Blue Dragon Cock, £25; Darbysliirc's 131uo Dragon Hen, £6; Turner's Swallows, £6 os.

Ouo of the most singular-looking creatures that over walked the earth or " swam the water under the earth" is the world-famed man-faced crab of Japan, Its body is hardly nn inch in length, yet tho head is fitted ivilh a face which is the perfect counterpart of that of n Chinese coolie—a veritable missing link, with eyes, nose and mouth all clearly defined. This curious and uncanny creature, besides the great likeness it bears to a human being in the face, is provided with two legs, which seem to grow from tho top of its head and hang down over the sides of its face, besides theso legs, two feelers, each about au inch in length, grow from the chin of the animal, looking for all the world like a forked beard. These manfaced crabs swarm the inland seas of Japan,

The "revolt of the daughters" appears to bo a Chinese institution, and lo meet the easo the Prefect of Xwaug Chau-fu has issued an edict suppressing ladies' clubs. The edict say?:— " Women's clubs are hereby prohibited, It is a well-known fact that in the districts herein named, a great part of the femalo population has a horror of matri. mony, in consequence whereof our young persons who are married, do remain away from their husbands a whole year at a lime, passing their existence with parents, female friends, or in clubs, Should tho man demand his wife back by force, she kilis horsclf, and this causes grumbling against him, from the parents and friends of the deceased. So that a man must often live without Lis wife. I therefore order these clubs to bo closed, and that the married woman go back to her husband within the spaco of one month, Contumacious wives will be taken back to their husbands, by the policeman." In a recent issue of the Freeman's JoimwlthoK appears an appeal from certain members of the New Zealand Irish National Federation to the Irish people in general, aud the Irish M.P.'s in particular to "once and for all shake off and slam)) out this accursed spirit of disunion mid discord amongst yourselves." The signatories to the appeal point out that it does not matter much who is named leader of the Irish party in Parliament, or by what name the party is called. " !l'ou may," continue the memorialists, " cb'sregard our appealtreat it with indilTerenco, as repeated appeals before have been treated—but while doing all in fairness in our power to support you, both with our quota of funds as well' as deep'sympathy, we sorely feel that the money so contributed should bo used sometimes in wrangling and fighting amongst yoursolves, thereby alienating our support and sympathy, as well as that of all truo Irishmen throughout tho world and of all other friends of the cause."

Sonic two years ago the Government of this Colony Wdcd toallowadvertise, monts to appear on the back of telegraph forms and postage stamps, says the Diaicdiii Star, but the practice was discontinued aftor the first year's contract. Now the Victorian Government have resolved on a similar experiment on the front of post cards, and this is how the Argus views the matter:—" Wo have received a specimen of the cards which aro to bo issued under the new arrangements. There can be only one opinion on the subjected that is that the Post-[master-General, instead of making the best of a bad bargain and demanding | that none but neat and inoffensive advertisements should bo placed on the cards, has outraged all the canons of tiisfo'by allowing tho virtues of a particular tobacco and a certain brand of beer to be set'forth'in glaring type On a large portion of the sido of tho card on which the address is to bo written, Apart altogether from the indecency of allowing advertisements on official docu. ments, it is a distinct insult to pprsoris who do not believe in smoking oil drinking that a public department should bo mado uso of to push tho sale of beor and tobacco."

The case in which George Arnold, of Masterton, charges Korou Karaitiana : with assault, has been adjourned till ; next Friday on the application of defendant, as two important witnosscs were i stated to ho out of the district,

_ The opening sceno, chateau and castle, in the opera, "Les Cloches de (Jornenlie,' was temporarily set last evening and was much admired. In fact tho stage manager had some difficulty in getting the members to begin tho practice. They had taken up positions in the auditorium where they might enjoy the picture and folt disinclined to lcavo their vautage ground. Mr Donnelly is now engaged upon the great corridor scene.

Wo remind our readers' of Messrs Simms and Mowlcm's clearing sale, (in their rooms Queen-street to-morrow Saturday) of furnituro, tools, fittings, express, double buggy, horse, harness, saddlo and bridle, also a valuable band saw which may be driven cither by steam or hand power. The sale is on account of Mr T. Jago and as the catalogue is large the sale will commence punctually at 2 o'clock. Every line will be sold to the highest bidder absolutely without reserve,

A distressing death through misadventure has occurred at Mataura. Mrs Martin Jfaloy had been rubbing her 18' months-old boy with painkiller, and set the bottle down. The child pickedit up and, going to the cradle, poured its content into tho mouth of a seven-weeks, old infant, causing spasms and inuamation of tho lungs, from which the child died.

Ono ot tho drawbacks ol country life, at least to tho small settlor, is undoubtedly the increased prion ho has to pay lor any articles ot clothing or genera! drapery, by reason ot the oitra charges (or freight or carriage. This drawback need oxist no longer, lor extra charges are dono arfay with undor tho new system which has been inaugurated at Te Alio House, Wellington, , Under this system, any ot tho parcels advertised, will bo sent to auy address in 'New Zealand, tost free, the prices charged being exactly tho same as those at which tbt goods aro sold over the counter in Wellington. As may be imagined, however, this liboral offer is only extended to cash , customers, and all orders for advertisid parcels, must bo accompanied by cash lor the amount, before the order can be executed at Tk Aao Hodse ; Wellington, In illustration of this system, wo will idvo an example Tako for instance No. 3 Parool, which contaius 1 Lady's Whito Mainsook Mouse, trimmed with ombroidery and with tho new butterfly collar; 1 Navy or Black Satoon Blouso, with white spots, newstylo ; 1 pair ot Mack or Coloured Taffeta Oloves.and 2 pairs ol Ladic3 lilack Cashmere Hose. This comploto parcel will bo sent, post Iroo, to any address, on receipt ol 12/ li, from Te Aao House Wellington,—Advi,