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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5201, 7 December 1895, Page 2

In Hie district of Tacoma. Washington, there aro several trees over 700 feet in height. The further discussion of the Town Hull project, lias been postponed by the Musterton Town Lands Trustees.

Luroclydon has beeu scratched for all engagements at the 'Auckland Summer Meeting. Mr P. H, Wood adds to his entries for next Taratnlii Stock Snlo <lO 3 year old steers, 52 2 year old steers and LI empty heifers. Tlio perfume of tlio nutmeg flower is said by some naturalists to have an intoxicating oiled on small birds.

It is said that Gustav Jovanoyitch, a cattle king in Jiussia, has 35,000 shepherd dogs to look after 1,600,000 sheep,

It would take a line of cradles extending entirely round the globe to accommodate the 37,000,000 babies that are horn into this world every year.

The Masterton Town Lands Trustees intend to terminate a number of weekly tenancies, owing to the tenants falling in arrears with rent.

The Salvation Army Almanac for 1890 has reached us. It is strikingly got up and depicts the return of a certain modern prodigal sou, Messrs Waller, Mylirc and Co., of Chi'islcliurcli, manufacturers of the celebrated "liapid" cycle, are to the front with all the latest up-to-date cycle fittings. At the Masterton Licensing meeting yesterday, during cross-examination in an application for extension of lime for hotels, the Licensee of the iiketahuna Hotel said that Christmas in Eketahtiua extended over a period of six months.

The services in connection with the Forty Hours Adoration, will be conducted to-morrow at St. Patrick's Church, Masterton, by the Very licv. Father Levoy, The Jiev. Fathers Goggan and T. McKcmia are also expected to be present.

The many friends of Mrs 11. Broom, senior, of Maslcrlon, will regret to learn that she passed away at the Mastcrlon Hospital last night. For some time past she has been seriously ill, and as a last hope a very serious operation was performed. She never rallied, and died at a late hour last night, as above slated,

Oil is no longer to be poured on troubled water. It is to be fired like a shell from a gun. As a wave approaches, a bomb filled with oil is to be precipitated in its direction, The bladder will be perforated with small holes, so that the oil will run out slowly and continue its work for a greater length of timo than would otherwise be the case.

The Diitchhavea deliglitfu'ly original way of collecting their taxes. If, after due notice has been given, the money is not sent, the authorities place ono or two hungry militiamen in the house, to be lodged and maintaiucdat the expense of the defaulter until the amount of the tax is paid, In some purls of the country in England there are malicious persons who throw tacks in the roadway to annoy bicycle riders by perforating the pneumatic tyres, To meet this dilliculty it has been proposed to attach a magnet in front of the forward wheel, with the object of picking up the tacks as the machine rolls along,

The fly season has arrived, and ilies of all sizes arc about, full of vigour and full of mischief. Flies are all very well in their way, but at this time of the year, we get too many of them, and it becomes necessary to give the "happy despatch " to as many Ilies as possible. An effective fly-killer, is the preparation known as Wilton's Fly Destroying l'owder, which is simple, non-poisonous, afid clean, and obtainable from all storekeepers. Particulars of this useful powder will be found in our advertising columns.

.New Zealand lias" whipped creation" in its treatment, of bunking problems. It has first made the shareholders ot the Jiank of New Zealand feel, In the direst extreme, that tliey have 110 interest in the colony but to pay up the subscribed capital in full, It has then enacted that the depositors of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand shall be deprived of the absolutely sure security they possessed in the assets of the bank, supplemented by the shareholders' liability of £1,1)00,003, and shall have only the guarantee of the Dank of iS'cw Zealand partially supplemented by that of llie Government, an inferior soeurit}' as it seems to us. The Government ol j\'ew Zealand has trampled alike upon the right of shareholders to control their own properly and upon the right of depositors to retain the security upon which they ventured to lend thcirmoney. - Melbourne An/us. Electricity, which has added much to the convenience of living, is now being pressed into the service of amusements, and (he last newspapers from across the Atlantic (sajs an English paper) are full ot the joys of the latest American fad—the electric trolley party. In Philadcphia and Chicago, to mention only two of the great cities, the favourite | amusement of the fashionable and wealthy is to give a trolley party. About half-past eight at night a special car, brilliantly illuminated and gaily decorated with llags and streamers and incandescent lights, draws up at the rendezvous. The company, which sometimes is numerous enough to completely fill a car, take their seats, and then oft they go for a run. The rate at which an electric trolley car can be hurled through the broad streets is almost incredible. The trolley party in Chicago does its twenty miles an hour, and frequently the run for the evening is fifty or sixty miles. In the cool of the evening no more exhilarating form of amusement can be desired. The sight of a special, trolley car sweeping through the streets in a blaze of lights, wilhstreamcrs aud music, is declared by those who haye seen it to be like a vision of paradisc. Those who live in this overcrowded island, it, is to bo feared, are doomed to wait for such experiences until they reach the continent of magnificent distances.

The following is an extract from tho November edition of the N.Z. Farmer: -" We have received from Mr Harrowell, the representative in Australasia, of Messrs Cooper and Nephews, the proprietors of tho famous Sheep Dipping Powder, a small pamphlet called a 'Handy Companion for Sheep Farmers,' and the publication docs not belie its title. It is full of interesting and instructivc matter, well worth the perusal of sheep farmers iu this or any country, Messrs Cooper and Nephews who issue llio pamphlet, show a knack of looking at tilings in a practical light, which enables thejn not only to pf)t forward sound reasons for placing confidence in 'their dipping powdiri biif also to furnish a lot of general 'information collected from various sourcos, of a useful charafter to stock owners and many other people. Mr Ilarrowell, whose address is Manurewa, Auckland, will he happy to post frco, copies of the pamphlet, to any of our readers who may apply to | him, and it is woll worth getting,"

Tlio monthly meoting of the Masterton Hospital Trustees will take place ou Tuesday next. j Tlio new show-case for tlio Mastcrton Museum is now boing fitted up by Messrs Hounslow itnd Hoar.

A curious pneumatic ball tyre for bicyclos Ims recently been patented, substituting for the continuous tubular tjto a sorics of rubber balls, Set in cups at tho outer ends of the spokes. The balls are so arranged that they may bo simultaneously inllated. ! Princess Mario of Orleans, wife of Prince \Yaldemar, is an enthusiastic firowoman. As soon as a fire breaks out in the neighbourhood she liastons to the spot and gives all the assistance in her power. Slio has had lier photograph taken in uniform, with helmet and axe and has dedicated it to her" colleagues," tho firemen of Copenhagen. From an educational point of yiew, girls in Egypt arc far behind tlioso in most civilised countries, A movement has been started in Egypt for improving the education of Egyptian girls. A small elementary Government school will be opened shortly at Cairo, where the girls will have opportunities of obtaining a good education. It has been decided to place an English teacher at the head of the school, and tho appointment has just been made. The successful candidate, Miss Alice Forbes, was educated partly in France, received her professional training at the Cambridge Teachers' College, and was for some years a successful teacher in a girls' school at Port Elisabeth, South Africa.

The unhappy victims of nervous headache should rejoice, saysa contemporary. Boston, tlio intellectual centre of the universe, has discoyercd a remedy for the trying complaint, The great beauty of the new remedy is its simplicity, for it consists in the more act of walking backwards,_ Ten minutes is usually as long as it is necessary to promenade, the best place being a narrow room whose windows are high. The patient is recommended to walk very slowly, placing first the ball of his foot on the door, and (hen the heel, Furthermore, the treatment has this additional merit, that it promotes a graceful carriage.

The West Melbourne brewer, N. H. Lindsay, who drowned himself in a beer yat, after the Cup race, was aged 45 years, married, but liying apart from his wife. He had £1 on Hova, the ticket being found in his pocket, At half-past seven on the Cup night, an em. ployc of the brewery went to examine the vat, when lie found the dead body of Lindsay_ floating in it. Whether Lindsay fell into the beer while examining it, or whether ho deliberately threw himself into it, can only be conjectured. He was not happy in his domestic relations, and his wife had recently threatened him with legal proceedings for the recovery of arrears of maintenance due by him.

There is a woman in Kansas, who makes a good living as a professional companion for women whose husbands arc away. She will go to a houso and be company for a lone woman at a pound a week, or she will go out for (lie night while husbands are away, for three shillings an evening. She knows all the gossip, and will tell it for two shillings a night extra. In families where there is a young woman with a beau, who is liable to be talking in a low tone until ten o'clock, in (he drawing-room, (lie woman charges four shillings a night, making no reduction for long-time conwho lies on his back and screams, at bedtime, the woman charges double rates. She is particular and very independent, and as the houses grow in the town, her business is branching out, and she is said to bo putting money in the Bank, every week. Writing of this cycling carnival, the Argus says" Never has the Syduoy cricket ground presented such a line spectacle as when the League ot Whoelmen held their Zimmerman carnival. Every inch of sitting space was occupied hours before the racing began, but people poured in from all quarters until there was hardly any space uncovered. In the popular portions the crowd was massed from the barrier to the outskirts in such a solid body that their swaying carried away a strong fence separating tlieiu from the oval. With the aid of the police repairs were effected, and encroachment upon the track prevented. The vast grand stand was lined from top to bottom, and against the fence spectators stood a dozen deep. By far the greater majority were quite unable even 011 tiptoe to do more than catch a Heeling glimpse oE the races, yet so intent were they in the contests, and so universal was the excitement, that their numbers had not appreciably dwindled when the last race was run. The attendance in round numbers was fully 27,500, which is a record. When Lord Harris' team of cricketers played here, 24,000 persons jwere packed into the ground and again when the memorablo test match took place between Lord Shcllield's Eleven and an Australian team 23,000 spectators gained admission. Excitement ran high on each of these occasions, but it was not comparable with that displayed yesterday by men, women, and children. The bright spring weather and the northerly breeze made the day perfect from a spectator's point of view, although the wind told against fast time. The plcasautest feature was the perfect impartiality of the vast gathering." The marriage of the Marquis of Worcester, the eldest son of llis Grace of Beaufort, at the ripe age of 'lB, to the charming widow, the Baroness Carle dc Tuyllc, has (writes a London correspondent) rather exercised society, as the Marquis was supposed to have made up his mind to single blessedness. It is believed he was not impressed with the malrimonial tic from his domestic and filial experiences. However, thelino old sporting Duke and the much-suffering Duchess liaye lately celebrated their golden wedding, so I suppose bygones are bygones. The bride has two children. failing further issue of the present marriage the dukedom goes to the son of Lady Henry Somerset, The poor woman did not draw a prize in the matrimonial ring, and since her living widowhood she tried to lill her life in the cause of temperance. She is a brilliant I speaker.

Largo sums arc often recovered by divers. In tbo year 1805 the" Earl of Abergavenuy " Jsast Indiaman, was lost in ten fathoms of water. Ten months went by, and then two divers—Messrs IJ. and W. Braithwaite recovered nearly the whole of her valuable cargo, and £75,000 in silver dollars to boot. Another lucky diver was John Gran, ivho fished up £IOO,OOO from a Spanish galleon sunk off the Irish cost, Tho treasure of spccio had been contained in barrels, but tho wooden exteriors having long ago rotted away, the coins were gathered up in lump liko figs. A part of the proceeds built a row of houses at Whitostablo, which still bears the name of Dollar Row. Again, the" Malabar" was wrecked in 1860, and froia lier liiril was saved tho troasuro sho carried, amounting to £280,000. Often a wreck is sold for what it will fotoh, and tho purchaser gets what lie can as a speculation. Thus tho sunken 'Uoyal Charter' was disposed of for £I,OOO, and among the salvage was a bar of pure gold weighing nine pounds and a half and a box containing £3,000.

Somo lawyers seem to liavo no senso of honour in tho means by which they try to discredit the testimony of those opposed to them; in illustration of which wo need only adduce the following specimen of cross-questioning Counsel ; " Mr Jenkins, will you havo tho goodness of answering me, directly and categorically, a few plain questions ?" ! Witness • " Certainly, sir." " Well, Mr Jenkins, Js there a female living with you who is known in the neighbourhood as Mrs Jenkins ?" "Thero is." "Is slio under your prWion?" " Yos," Do you support her P" '.'l do,!' Mavo yoi) eypr been marrjqd to her P" 'I have not."_ (Hero several jurors scowled gloomily on Mr Jonkins.) "That is all, Mr Jenkins." Opposing Counsel: "Stop, ono moment, Mr Jenkins, is the female in question your motherP" "Shois,"

TLo jury in tie Leonard Harper ca«e baa been locked up all night, Tie funeral of the late Mrs H. Broom will take placo to-morrow afternoon. H.M.S, Lizard has gono in search of tho missing ship Weathorsfiold. Messrs J, Polglaso, 11. Cado, P. Helps, :H. "WacjstafE, and C. E, Eeetham havo been appointed a Board to control the -Mangatainoka Domain. The Agricultural statistics of tho colony are to be takon from tho 9th inst. to tho 16th prox. An inset from Mossrs J. Graham and Co., of special interest to eyeryone is circulated with our present issuo. Country services in connection with tho Mastcrton Wosleyan Church, will be hold to-inorrow afternoon at Rangitumau and Weraiti.

Mr G. S. W. Datrymple, local agent for the Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria has handed us the company's calender for 189 G. Messrs Lowes and lorns add 31 head mixed cattle, 1 Jersoj bull, Gporkers and 50 maiden ewes to their stock salo list i for December lltli.

Tlio charge of procuring abortion now being heard at Wellington, against Mrs "Dr." Brown, is not likely to finish beforo to-night, Mr William Sellar knsbcen appointed a Trustee of tho Masterton Cemetery, Dire Mr J. I'ayton, resigned. Land Tax payers are reminded that Tuesday next is the last day ou which tho Land Tax is payablo without tho addition of tea percent. Some exceptionally fino white Lisbon onions, grown by Mr Maguire, of Makora, Lave been left at our olllco.

Services iu theoutfioldsin connection with tho Masterton Presbyterian Church will be held to-morrow, at Droyorton, Waugaehu and Bideford. We- have to acknowledge receipt of the National Mutual Life Association's almanac for 1890, of which company Mr E. H. Waddington is the Masterton representative, Messrs J, Graham and Co arc making extensive alterations to their business premises. Wo understand that the extra i room is for the reception of a largo consignment of fancy goods suitablo for Christinas presents. A bible published in 1799, has been presented to the Mastcrton Museum by Mr Angus McLcod. Mr 11. Brown has also given o, commentary on Ephesians published in 1058. Notice is given that all claims against the estate of the late Alexander Bruce, ot Dreycrton, must be sent in to the Public Trustee, or his deputy, Mr W, B. Cheunells, on or before February 21th.

Intlic Masterton Presbyterian Church to-morrow, the liev. Hobert Wood will preach in tlie morning on " Tlio powers of the world to coinc," and in the evening will give an evangelistic sermon on the parable of" Tlio Great Feast,"

There is now on view at Messrs C. Smith & (Jo.'s Queen-street shop a curiosity in the shape of what is stated to he" the record suit for New Zealand." The price is only 255, and it is constructed from the wool of Wairarapa sheep.

Messrs Bidwill, Kiddiford, Elgar, Crawford, Eeetham, Stuckey, Majendic, and Sludden have been appointed a committee to consider alterations in the catalogue for next year's show of the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

We arc sorry to hear that Mr James Smith, tobacconist, of Queen-street, Masterton, is confined to his room, having burst a blood vessel in his leg. Mr G. M. Gardiner, of Wellington, reached Masterton last night, having ridden a cycle, fitted with the "Collier" two-speed gear, right through. He found iiodiiliciilty in taking all the hills, aud had n very pleasant trip,

The annual Choir Service will be held in the Masterton Wesloyan Church to-morrow evening. Tho Anthems" 0, Father Almighty," and "0, Worship tho lord," will bo sung. The preacher in the morning and evening, will be tho liev. J. Dukes.

At the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association's Annual Show, held on the 13th inst., Messrs Langridge ind Co., Maka, secured the first award lorseparator butler. This result reflects great credit upon tlio firm, and Mr J.E. Christensen, the manager of the factory. Mr Christensen was until lately butter maker to the Mauriccvillo Dairy Company,

At the Wellington wool sales yesterday the competition for the various lots was very fair, gooo parcels being readily disposed of at good rates up to 9d, but faulty parcels were not sought after, though there was a marked improvement on these lots as compared with last year. Coarso clean wools ranged from 8d to BJd; medium wool 7jd to 8d half-brcds, about 8d; faulty and stained wool brought from 5d to G}d. There was«ery little merino and no lambs' wool offered.

At yesterday's meeting of tlio Masterlon Licensing Committee, (lie following resolution was carried on tho motion of the Chairman" No application under section 12 of sub-section 3 of " The Alcoholic Salo Controls Act, 1893," will be entertained by tlio Committee, unless written notice, signed by the applicant, be lodged at least It clear days before the quarterly meeting, at which such application is proposed to he made."

At Uic regular meeting of Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Masterton, hold last evening, tho following officers wore nominated : -C.E., Bros, J. Yates, J. C. Ewington, E. Pragnell, aud W, Blinkhome; S.C.E., Bro, J, Walker and J, Sillarsj Treasurer, Bro. W, Candy; Secretary, Bro, E. H, Waddington; 8.W., Bro. Blinkhome; 5.8., Bro, 0. Pragnell; J. 8., Bro. V. Woller. One new member was proposed, and the meeting adjourned,

At tho meeting of tho Masterton Licensing Committee yesterday, a witness under examination said wlieu travelling through the Bush ho could not get accommodation in Hotols after closing time. Sergeant McArdle said ho had no trouble in getting accommodation. Witness; "Ah, you wear different clothes to what I do." Sergeant; " That makes no difference." Witness; "Oh yes it does." Chairman; " Did I understand you to say that you travel with ■ skins and bonos' P" Witness: "Yes." Tho Chairman; "Doyoutako the 1 skins and bones' into tho hotels with you ? Because if so I do not wonder that you cannot get accommodation !"

Ono of tko drawbacks of country life, at least to tho email settler, is undoubtedly tho increased prico ho 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 away with under tho now system which has been inaugurated at Te Aho House, Wellington, Under thi3_ system, any of the parcolß advertised, will be sent to any address in New Zealand, post fhf,e, the prices charged being exactly the Bame as thoso at which the goods are sold over the counter in Wellington. As may bo imagined, howover, this liberal offer is only extended to cash customers, and all orders for advertised parcels, must be accompanied by cash for the amount, before the order can be execute at Te Ano House, Wellington, In illustration of this system, we will fiivo an example. Tab for instance No. 3 Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with tho now butterfly collar; 1 Navy or Black Sateen Blouse, with white spots, new style; 1 pair of Black or Coloured 'Meta Gloves,and 2 pairs of Ladies Black Cashmere Hoso. This complete' parcel will be sent, , post free, to any address, oil receipt of 12/6, from Te Abo House Wellington.—Advt;' 1

Young New Zealanders require healthy constitutions' to fit them (or the struggle for existencd.' Giv'e them : Dr Kirk'i Farinaceous Food in their infanoy—by tho faculty, " Merrie England "deals with thoproblem of bow to raise the masses; but to raise your bread, oakes, and sconeß there is nothing to equal Anderson's Jumbo Brand ißakingPowder. Sold by allstorokeepers,