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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5200, 6 December 1895, Page 2

Iu the Wellington Supremo Court, yesterday, the Native Kuku Karaitiana, convicted of passing valueless cheques at Palnterslon, was sentenced to six mouths'.

Tlio Huuroto, from Sydney, yesterday, brought 118 passengers; 02 landing at Wellington. The Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association has made a profit of £l5O on the late Show at l'etouc.

As tho net result of Mr Michael Pavitt's visit to Napier, £95 w ;, l be seut Home to assist tho Irish cause.

'Die coillin moth is about again this year nud oilier orchard pests, including the plum leech, arc on the move.

Mr H. Carlson'snewmill atMangahao is now in full swing, and employs some twenty-six hands, Tho milk supply at the Parkyillc Creamery is now averaging 2C:) gallons per clay. The next sitting of tho S.M. Court at Ekctahuna lakes place on Monday iltli inst.

Mr H. Carlson, Hie contractor for the Mangalainoka bridge at Pahiutua, expects to finish his contract by Chrislmas. The monthly meeting of the Masterton School Committee lakes place on Monday evening next. Mr W. Miller, of Gladstone, has some oats, growing on his property, six feet eight inches high. Wc should say this is a record, remarks the Okcmr. Tenders for privileges in connection ivitli the Wairarapa liacing Club's meeting, close to-day. There is said to be cold storage in the Cilyol London equal lodic accommodation of 810,000 carcases of mutton,

It is estimated the total amount of gold in circulation throughout the world is less than 1C '3 tons.

A contemporary states Fcilding can now boast of four lady cyciisis, two of whom ride iu bloomers.

The second charge against Leonard Harper, began yesterday mo;,ling, "i which accused is charged with unlawfully converting lo his on 11 use, the sum of £3,030 enlraslcd to him, as agent for Mr Wm. Jlotliani, iu 18111.

At Dmicdiii yesterday, Samuel Lister, proprietor of the Olago Worhm, was convicted of criminally libelling Mr Adams, solicitor, and was sentenced lo three months without hard labour. This concluded thcciiininal sittings A special inset from the W.F.C.A., with reference lo I he new season's fruit, Xmas hampers, and oilier seasonable lines, is circulated with our issue of I to-day. A cash price list, at which goods will be sold from Hie 7lli lo Die lllst December, is also "iclmled, and should be carefully studied.

The Unite of Cambridge does not like newspapers it is said, lie has a great objection lo any little occurrence in his career being chronicled. The last story is that whilst he was cover-shooting, a fox suddenly sprang up. The keeper sufgesled that the IJultc should shoot it. The Duke replied "lam sure I won't if I did I should have all the halfpenny papers down upon me. At the annual meeting of the Pahialna Athletic Club the follow'ngollicers were elected:—President, Mr W. Tosswill, vice-presidents, Messrs 11. Smith, Dr. Gimlt, C. Avery; mnrshall, Mr J), Knight; secretary and treasurer, Mr G, Moore, re-elceled; auditors, Messrs G; Gehbrdand W. J, Jieeve; committee. Messrs W. Brown, J. Grcgoiy, G. Dottomly, A. Stewart, If. W. Brings, W. Parkes, G, Avery, T. Avery and E, Baucke.

Says the Euwk's Ik;/ ][cmhllt would appear from information to hand that a criminal attempt was made during the dark hours of Tuesday night to Hood Papaluira by culling trenches in the slop bank near Mr Bee's property. Had the river risen much higher an overflow winch must have proved disastrous would have been provoked. Itishardto say what motives couldactuntc a human being to peifoun an action ol this kind, but a substantial reward is offered for the d'scoveiy of the perpetrator.

At the quarterly meeting of the Wairarapa Licensing Committee, on Tuesday, the Chaiiman, (Mr T. Hutchison, S.M.) informed the meeting that a most serious accusation had been made to him, against a licensed house in Caitcrton, and coming from the source it did—a Justice of the Peace—it had weight, and he had notified the informant ihat lie would hold a special meeting of the Committee, at any time tho J.P. gave notice that he was ready to substantiate the charge madp, The action of the Chaiiman was endorsed by tho Committee,— Obsemr.

lady at Owakn expressed herself regarding Prohibition in the Clutlia district to tlin following effect:" The moral tone of the whole community has been raised, and everywhere the churches are I better attended, and the gospel meets | with a greater spirit of reeeptiveiicss; and though lately there has been a period of severe commercial depression, the people seem more comfortable in their homes, and really better oft'thiin in more prosperous times when the liquor bars were open. Families that then were alwavs destitute are now well clothed ami fed, and storekeepers get tlieiv debts paid." 11. Paul dc Chai'lu, the famous explorer, is still a bachelor, but, he says, " I have had more offers than most men. Once, in Africa, the king of a tribe, who loved me dearly, offered me a choice of eißht hundred and fifty-three women. ' Sire,' said J, - *' to take one would leave eight hundred aad lilty-two jealous women on the earth.' 'Take 'em a l ',' said he. lint lam a bachelor st'M,"

Jtnmiitini, who as a bull-fighter, makes ,C 20,0 a year, was a porter on the Great Northern liailway of Spain. He was strong and handsome, and lull of pluck, and he said to himself, "I want to make money. In Spain there are only two ways-to be a tenor or a bull-lighter. I can't sing, but I know I can k.i" a bull." He began as one of the gr'jg of assistants at small shows; lie soon acquired skill, and to-day whenever he travels, his is a royal progress; his diamonds are tho envy of prima doitiutx, be has his town mansion, and Ms shooting-box, and his vi"a at tho seaside.

A recent Hobart paper states that Margaret Goss, a girl of 16, was brought into Datland (Tasmania), to be treated for snakebite, Site hacj put her liand, into a rabbit bunw, when a diamond snake fastened on her middle linger. With exceptional presence of mind and heroic nerve she severed the joint with a hand hoc. The usual subcutaneous injections of strychnine witli stimulants were applied, and skill and patience wero rewarded. She lias since left for home, with eveiy prospect of perfect restoration to health.

Some weeks ago, writes a Melbourne correspondent, a Chinaman named Tick Lun ran amuck in Bcnd'go, and savagely attacked a countiyman, Tuo Hum, with a meat chopper. He almost chopped, Tuo Hum to pieces, among his injuries being four fractures of the skull and the severing of tho kneecap. It took the hospital surgeons four hours to wash, dress, and sew up Tuo Hum's wounds, He was covered isith linjo thrown on him by tho othor Clmamen to stauncli the bleeding, Tlio general belief was that Tuo Hum could notpossibly roc over. However, Drs. Long and Buiek liavo succeeded so well that the man is now believed to bo out of danger. Tuo Hum is gifted with a splendid constitution, and has great muscular development. His assailant has been confined iu a [lunatic asylum,

Wo have to acknowledge receipt of a picture calendar—tho first to hand this I seasou—from Mr John Henderson, tailor of Qtieon-slreefc. j Mr Eton, chemist, of "Tho Bed Lamp," Queen-street, intimates that all purchasers of a bottlo of Eton's Sarsaparilla—" a thorough blood cleanser" -will be presented with a musical album.

Further evidence in the case T. Sewell v. J, Meßao was taken in the S,M. Court at Mnsterton yesterday, His Worshipfiually disinissingthe claim and giving judgment on the counter claim for £2l2s 73d.

Mr 0. Pragnell," the people's draper," publishes with our issue of to-day an inset containing the prices of several lending lines in drapery, clothing, etc., specially imported by him for the Xiubb season.

The Masterton S.M. Court was occupied, yesterday, in the hearing of a case in winch Messrs Uoelitz and Heeny sued Messrs Eska, Haubcrg, and tho Mauriceville lload Board, for payment of a sum alleged to he due 011 a sub-contract on Jacksou's Unad, taken by plaintiffs from defendants. It was alleged, in opening tho case, that defendants (Eska and Hauberg) look a contract from the Mauricevillo 'lload Board, for £1)0, of ivliich sum plaintiffs were to receive £2210s each. They had only received £'3 15s each, and now sought-to recover Hie balance, £lB 15s. The caso was adjourned (ill this afternoon. The Sultan of Turkey is reported to be looking worn and haggard with the anxiety of the present crisis. When he appears, as lie does once in every seven days, before the public gaze, his slight ligure is enveloped in a pale brown overcoast. .He walks like a man whose health is shattered, and it is quite sad to watch the pale, wan, and careworn face, half covered by a thin, brown beard tinged with grey, and surmounted by a plain red fez., which only servos to emphasise his pallor,

On Friday evening last Mr Noblo Coleman drove his conveyance with n couple o£ horses, tandem fashion, to liieiimond, and there awaited some youthful picnickers to take them home says the Nelson Colonist. While wait, ing some wretched practical joker unhooked the leader and made it fast to the blinkers of the shaft horse.- The trick was not observed until Mr Coleman on starting homeward, found himself in | dillicultics on the leader getting away. He met with a nasty spill and sustained a severe cut on the thigh, Fortunately no lives were lost. The practical joker, whoever he was, is no doubt sorry by this time, but the incident should prove a warning, if anything will warn the foolish.

The plan recently adopted by the New South Wales railway authorities, whereby parcels of farm produce may be sent from any station to any statiou at a uniform charge is said to be working very well, and proves of great advantage to farmers, who are finding many willing customers for weekly consignments. A bag of potatoes, or a packago of similar weight is carried for instance, 205 miles for Is lid, ami an extra sixpence ensures delivery at the house of the purchaser, to the manifest advantage of uolli parlies. UrO. i'ragncll has secured for show purposes in Masterton the "liccord Suit" which was made by the Weilington Woollen Company for their exhibit at the recent Wellington Show, and it will boon view at his shop for ut few days. The following are the particulars of tlie procedure in the making of the suit :-"0n IheKltliultimo at the Company's mill three sheep were shorn, The shearing commenced at (i,HO a m., the wool was then scoured, dyed, extracted, teased, carded, spun, ami woven into cloth. The cloth, measuring 8.1 j'jrds was then washed, milled, tcntered, dried, pressed, and finished by 10.50 a.m. At 10.55, the doth was packed and forwarded to the Company's clothing factory in Wellington, and at 3..J0 p.m. a suit of clothes wis completely finished, together with a cap and pair|of socks. The actual working lime taken to complete the whole operation from the time the shears touched the wool to the folding of the completed suit, was 8 ; } hours. Thjs feat is a world's record, such never before being performed." A'o doubt it will prove a good advertisement for Mr I'ragncll, as it has been the subject of a lot of comment in Wellington, having been shown there by Messrs Kii'kcaklic and Stains. M.Louis do Gramonl, n French writer of no particular reputation, has seriously proposed that a baby market should be established in l'aris, and carried on under Stale supcrvison. lie has been moved to make this proposition, because some people in this world lament the lack of children in llieir homes, olliers, having an abundance of oliyo branches, find them simply nuisances, and treat them as such. Many a dark crime, M. Gramont thinks, might be prevented, if those who have children they connot or do not care to support, could take them to a-recognised marl, and (hen and there sell them Society as at present constituted. our author points out, assumes that the paternal or maternal instinct, is a suilicicnt guarantee for tho proper bringing up of children. As a rule it is, but infanticide is n common crime all the world oyer, and thousands of children who escape with their lives, arc subjected to the grossest treatment by their unnatural parents, to whom they arc simply encumbrances. Give tlicso parents the right lo soil their children, and a market lo take them to, and all will be well, says M. Gramont,

There has been a reconciliation (writes

tlio .London correspondent of the Auckland Herald) between Viscount and Viscountess Massarine. The Viscountess was the only child of IVhyle lie!, ville. The Viscount lias lived at his Irish place very little of late years, his wife has seldom left it, and has been

singularly popular in the neigliboruhood. The couple have just celebrated their silver wedding. The mother of Lady Massarine was a sister of the present Lord Batemont aud had a large fortune. She was very jealous of her handsome and brillant husband, who was a notorious flirt. He had made himself rather conspicious with a well-known society beauty, apd insisted on his wife receiving her. This she refused to do. On one occasion at a large party he took the lady up to his wifo aud introduced lipr with emprcssement, Mrs lYhyte Moivillc turned her back on her husbaud's friend with marked rudeness, nu act which so enraged him that there ami then lie boxed her ears. She left tho part at once, and there was a country scandal in which the wife's part was takcD to such an effect that Mr W. Melville was cut by almost everybody. Then the wife turned on the county, and returned to her husband to bind up his wounds, and coudolc with liira. After being a widow for a short time, she married an adventurer, the proprietor of a matrimonial paper, who behaved shamefully and spent lier money. She tried to divorce him on the score of a certain lady and I think succeeded, This lady is now one of ournewnovelists, but her books, brilliantly clever as they are, are hardly suitable for family circle. Mrs lYhytp Melville has been dead for some years,

In Wales there are poor people riyen to superstition who still believe that if auyono kills a wren ho will fall down and fracture a bone within a year. The Gisborne Hmihl says .—The author of " The Mississippi Pilot " said on Wednesday that he had had many rough experiences in his time, but he had seen nothing to equal the bobbing about of the Snark alongside the liotomahana, and no doubt his brief visit to this port mil find a place in tlio book which the humorist is writing. Seeing the four prisoners brought aboard the ship for transport to Napier, Mr Clemens, pointing to ono of tlicin, inquired how lon?[ a scnloncethatraainvas under, On being told 12 months, he drily roplied, " Waal, I guess it ought to be shortened to six months after that trip in the tender," One of the prisoners, who got a great buffoting about going out ii tlio Snark, was heard to be deploring his fate in having to go to gaol in such weather, |

Kupert Fairbrother, trading at Carterton, as Fairbrother & Son, lias filed a declaration of insolvency,

In Borderland it is stated tliat Mrs Besant has cancelled her passage, forfeiting halt her faro to India, in order to defend tlio Theosophical Society from the imputations thrown upon it by Mr Burrows,

In the case, Dalrymplo v. Uill, referred to iu our last issue, it was Mr ' Jackson who applied for a rehearing on behalf of Mr Gill. Mr Poivnall, who appeared for Mr Dalrymplo, objected to the rchearintt, on the ground that His Worship would virtually be asked to reverse iiis own decision. Considerable amusement arose out of a case in the Masterton S.il. Court this morning. A disciple of Confucius was charged with allowing rotten fruit to accumulate on his promises, to the annoyance of his neighbours aud to the detriment of (he publin health generally. As the Celestial did not" savee," Wong You was sworn in as interpreter, but failed to fill the requirements. When asked whether lie (the interpreter) understood the charge, lie replied lie had been " charged " for taking the rubbish away. He also showed a desire to take charge of both prosecution and defence. This was too much for His Worship, consequently another interpreter had to be sought for. Ah Lop was then sworn, but appeared only a slight improvement on Wong l'ou. When asked by His Worship whether he understood the oath and that he had to tell the truth, he said (referring to accused) "Ohho say anything! Blow the match." Ah Lop commenced making a rambling statement, when His Worship said " Tell the accused that the law —Ah Lop again commenced talking. His Worship Now what arc you telling him." Ah Loj) " Telling him he must keep him clean." His Worship: —" That is what I wns going to tell you. Tell him it is compulsory—" Ah Lop:—"He says—" His Worship:— "1 don't want lo hear, what he s*ji now, he can make a statement presently." ill Lop was now running at top speed. His Worship—" Will you be quiet and come here H I want you to tell the accused what I have to say—" Ah Lop again interrupted. His Worship:— " Come here, I want you lo tell the accused a little more." It was no use, and His Worship eventually gave it up, and allowed China to hold undisputed sway for a short time. Finally, when the Court announced that accused would be lined live shillings and seven shillings costs, both the Chinamen gasped and looked as though some dreadful , calamity had befallen them. The fine was paid, and both left tho Court, jabr boring at a terrific rate.

For the future, the position of femalo doctors in Ilussia, loaves nothing to be desired. With the exception that- they eannot be appointed chief doctors at ordinary hospitals for patients of both sexes, and that they will not be allowed to serve in the male section of such hospitals, lliey will in every respect liold the same position and enjoy the same privileges as their male colleagues. There is every reason to belieyc lliat the post of chief doctor for women's and children's hospitals, will be preferably given to lady doctors when these possess Die requisite ability.

The special correspondent of the London Sportsman writes There was discussion at Ncwimirkcl about Lord Ciulogan's proposal to limit two year old races to six'furlongs, and the pros and cons are so nicely balanced that 1 hardly know on which side to range myself. On the one hand it is urged that training for longer distances saps the vitality of the youngsters, and that for this reason you often find horses that stayed a mile as two year olds unable to do so later in life, On the oilier hand some of our most capable trainers maintain that the hustling and scurry of sprint races do more harm to the constitutions and tempers of two year olds than do longer and less irritating contests. William I'Anoon goes so far as to declare liis belief that it docs two year olds less harm lo race them over a mile and a half or two miles than live furlongs, and he is in the habitof acting on (his theory. lam very strongly inclined to think that no two year old should be asked to carry such weights as flst 101b, and Lord Cadogan's proposal deserves most careful consideration. Anvllum; that tends to stop the early waste of our thoroughbreds is eminently desirable, and no doubt in (lie equine Utopia wo shall have two year olds broke and sharpened up but not raced at all; then three year old racing, as for our present two year olds; and the Derby, Ac., for four year olds; but I fear that tiuri sacra fumes will prevent us from ever seeing such a satisfactory state of affairs, and we must, under (he circumstances, welcome less ambitious ell'orts lo improve our horses.

One of the drawbacks of country life, at least to the small settlcv, is undoubtedly tho increased price be has to pay for any articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason of the extra charges for freight or carriage. This drawback need exist no longer, for extra charges are done a,/ay with under the new system which has been inaugurated at Te Abo House, Wellington,

Under this system, any of the parcels advertised, will be sent to any address in New Zealand, post fukk, the prices charged being exactly the same as those at whioli tin goods aro sold ovor the counter in Wellington. As may bo imagined, however, this liberal ofter is only extended to cash customers, and all orders for advertised parcels, must he accompanied by cash for tho amount, before the order can be executed at Te Am House, Wellington, In illustration of (his system, wo will give an example. Take for instance No. 3 l'arcel, which contains 1 Lady's White Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with the new butterfly collar; 1 Navy or Black Sateen Blouse, with white spots, new style; 1 pair of Black of Coloured Taffeta Gloves,and 2 pairs of Ladies Black Cashmero Hose, This completo parcel will bo sent, post free, to any address, on receipt of 12/0, from Te Alio House Wellington.—Ann.