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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5207, 14 December 1895, Page 2

The draft of four good our liberals just sent up NKWLOitns. to the Legislative Council was exceptionally good. It is true that the veteran Mr W. C. Smith, of Waipawa, was once deemed to be the most unpresentable member of the Lower Houso, but now-a-days he would be regarded as one of the more presentable of legislators. The times have changed, but Mr W. C. Smith romains the same. Mr Henry Arkwright, of Marton, is a distinctly good appointment and we fail to see how exception can be taken to the " Only Jones" of Oamuru. This pair of journalists may possibly influence tho Government to treat the Press of the Colony with a little more fairness and consideration. The fourth lord is Mr Richard J. Keeves, a friend of Mr Seddou, who was defeated by the O'llugau for Inaiigahiia at the last general election, and who is quite good enough to represent the mining interests in the Upper House.

The appeal case Madden v. Thrupp still occupies the District Court at Maslei'lon.

Bankruptcy business at the present sitting of the Wairarupa District Court litis been further set back till Monday. Messrs .J. Graham and Co., of Queenstreet, are now opening a large consignment of toys and fancy goods. i)r Tahimge has accepted a call to become co-pastor with the liev. J)r Byron Sutherland, of the lirst Presbyterian Church iu Washington, The Government Printing Ollice is to lie closed from Monday, !Mrd December, to Saturday, Jtli January, both days inclusive.

A female Foresters ' Court, lo be called "The Pride of Wairarapa," is to opened at Musicrlon oil Thursday evening next.

Dr. Spencer F. Beard lias received several telegrams from medical men in various parts, heartily congratulating him upon the result of his ease.

A man named William Cadmau has just been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment at London for bigamy. Jle was found to have no less than seven wives and2:) children.

Mr J. P. Elliot's shop in Queen-street, next to MrT. G. Mason's, was lit up last night for the exhibition of Christmas cards and presents. The display was a splendid one and attracted much ot attention.

The amounts of the lenders for the right of advertising onllailway Stations and iu the Penny Time-table were as follows Advertising on stationsWellington sivlion, A. 11. Trucbridge, JL'Llll; Wangumii, A. 11, Trucbridge. £131); Napier, M. Lascelles, £111; in Penny Time-table, C. Hodgson, £IOO.

A six-pound eel caught in the Maunwatu river on Thursday night was found upon being opened lo contain the heads of two trout, each of which had been about three pounds in weight, a fact which goo? to show that it is liol good for the trout lo bo in company with eels. A freshwater craylish with its claws and all its parts in perfect order, was also in the eel's interior.—Atlnm/c.

The following resolution was passed by the Wesleyan Synod on Wednes-day:-"That the Synod expresses its strong dissatisfaction with the action of the Wellington Licensing Committee in forcing on Wellington South another public-house against the emphatic protest of the residents there."

At the Wesleyan District Synod the report read by llie Secretary of Church Properties showed that the debts on the I'ctonc and Greytowu churches had been removed during the year, The amount owing on the parsonage site at Carterton had been reduced by £lolos, and the amount due to the Church Loan Fund on the Masterlon church had been reduced by £25. The parsonage at Masterlon had been re-roofed with iron, towards which £lo had been raised. Laud had been sold at iS'apicr, and with the amount received £ISOO paid off the debl. The present indebtedness at 'Napier was ,I'oaO. Mauriccvillc was now free from debt. Eketaliuna had reduced its debt by £7 10s, In all, £1(>10 had been paid off the Trust liabilities in the district.

The following" (isliy " slory will lake some beating, says the Eminiiicr. It was told in all seriousness in the Club Hotel commercial room last night, and tiic narrator was one of the fishermen. A parly of llircc were fishing for eels in the Waipukurau Lake one dark night some years ago. They were fishing with the ordinary" worm bob," ami throw the eels over their heads in the grass behind. When the party had landed about 20 eels, our informant 8, andllieolhertwosix each, they thought their basket bigenougli, and after doing up their rods proceeded to look for their " take." Their amusement can better he imagined lliau described when they discovered the last eel landed getting into the water, and not another about. They are now certain that they had been landing (lie same eel all night, _ A controversy on Sabbalh observance is at present going on in the lkiickcs , lkjj llmdd. A Danevirkc writer clinches his argument in the following words " Speaking tor myself, I can honestly say that under ordinary circumstances! can get more real religion out of my bicycle in the fresh air on Sundays lliali 1 can out of the churches. I've tried both, and 1 alway prefer fresh and free Nature to meaningless platitudes served up very often in an ill-ventilated and stull'y building rigidly closed on the six preceding days (as though religion was a thing that only concerned us oil the seventh). 1 think wo are entitled to spend llie day as we please

The adjourned quarterly meeting of the Licensing Commiltee for Wellington suburbs, was held at the Magistrate's Court, on Thursday, to dual with the objections lodged by the Committee, to the application of John Theobald, for a permanent transfer lo Henry Charles Green, of the Hailway Hotel, Johusonville. Mr Martin, S.M., was Chairman of the Board, Mr Bcerc appeared in support of the application for transfer of license, and also for Mr Green and for the owners of (lie house. The objections filed by (lie Committee, were : (1). That gambling was allowed in the house 'on the 23rd of November; (2). that the licensed premises wore open after hours on ih e 23rd ovembcr, 181)5; and (3). that six men were upon the premises at midnight, on • the 23rd November, 1895, none of them boing horn Jidc travellers or lodgers. Harry ltod, Pickers, J", Quirk, G. Young, W. I'ickcn, and Aplin, gave evidence that they Were in the hotel until midnight, oil Saturday, 23rd Noveifiber, and were playing euchre, but did not have any drinks after closing time, and were not pitying for money or drinks. Mf Jecre submitted that,there was no igambling, llr Justice Johnston had held that euchre, pvcp when playpd for money, is not an unlawful game within the meaning of the Licensing Act, 1881, The house was closed, inasmuch as it had been proyed that the outside doors were closed and the bar shut. The third objection was no offence under the Licensing Acts. The Committee, after consideration, adjourned tho application for three months, so that it could ascertain if this was an isolated case or not,— Post,

A now advertisement from Mr 0, I'ragncll appears with this issue,

Mr J. ]?. Llliot requires a young ladv or youth used to shop work. A little girl, tho daughter of a farmer named Steed, died suddenly near Kockhampton, from the results of catiug green peaches. We direct attention to an inset from jMr T. Proctor, who recently opened a I bargain drapery and elotliiug store next to Mr W. Whitt, in Quecn-rtreet. Mrs Brenchley, of Mauricevillc, holds a diploma as a duly qualified ladies' nurse, and also high testimonials from leading medical men, It is stated that tho funnel of one of tlio Atlantic liners is so immenso that two trains could puss each other insido it. In Paris the domand for small dogs is met hy rearing pups on an alcoholic diet, which retards their growth. The nvcrago attendance of scholars is lower in the Taranaki and Wangauui districts than in any other districts iu the colony. Native messengers who have reached the Gold Coast describe the town of C'oomassie as undermined- with trains laid ready to blow it up when the English troops appear,

A London cablegram has beeu received at Auckland slatiug that the prospects for the floating of Wow Zealand mines on the London market have improved. " When shopkeepers stop giving credit," said a solicitor in a Melbourne Insolvency Court, " this Court will disappear." "It would be the best lliing that could happen for Victoria if it did, and I had to go to Coolgardic," replied Judge Molesworth. A return presented to the New South Wales Parliament shows that the revenue from all sources, for Ihc past eleven months, was £'B,ooß,tWO; a decrease, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, of £51,000.

A little boy in Sunderland met sis strange lads in the street who induced him to drink poison from a bottle, saying it was ginger-beer. The child died, and the coroner's jury returned a yerdiet of wilful murder against the unknown boys. It lias been decided that the Chairman of the Education Eoard and Jlr McCardle report in reference to the proposal to establish a schuol at iVgatitipu, Afauriccyille district.

Miss Una Thompson, who won a scholarship in the Greylowu school, lias won the Latin and French prizes, and won honorable mention in scriptural subjects at the Girls High School, Wellington.

Signor De Alba, the well-known artist obtained a verdict of £SOO against the Freehold Investment, and Banking Company of Melbourne, for injuries suffered by his wife in consequence of a defective lift at the defendant's buildings. A requisition is being signed askiugthe Mayor of Greytowu to call a public meeting for the purpose of forming a prospecting association, There has always been a strong convietiou that thrre is " gold in the mountains," and tluit a properly conducted search will discover it. Many think that the opening of the road to Otaki will also open a goldlield, says the Slantlurl The Musket—llosalie stallion Derringer, owned by Mr J. 0 Hayward, of Featherston has been shipped for England by the lonic. The Musket blood is rather rave in the Uld Country ami this has influenced the owner to send the animal Home.

A few days ago a young New Ply. mouth sport lired a charge of shot into a Maori's head, which he mistook for a duck, says a local paper. The ease has been brought belore the Court aud withdrawn on the accused paying costs aud expenses of the Maori. The second of the series of wool sales to be held by the i'ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, will take place on Friday, 17th January IS9G, the catalogue for which will close on the latli pros. In another column the liberal terms offered by the company are detailed.

The recent interruption to the overland line to l'ort Darwin has been explained by the fact that the departmental repairers discovering (he wires cut near the Aliec Springs, traced some foot trucks through the bush, and found nn old man in his last extremity, lie said ho had been two days without water, and becoming almost demented, cut the wire in the hope of attracting relief. The gullibility of the public is proverbial, and people swallow, figuratively at least, more limn is good for them. Still, when it comes to actual eating and drinking, it is astonishing to notice how discriminating people are. In nothing is this more noticeable than in that homely beverage-lea. Willi a discrimination that is unusual the public has selected taste thai famous OXO. Tea, and public is this time backed bv expert opinion. There is no doubt that, OXO. Tea is one of the finest teas imported, and there is little doubt that people iiayc become aware of the fact from the enormous demand there is tor it in every district throughout the colony,

Our Greytown contemporary was recently bewailing tlio loss of his big gooseberry, but now a worse trouble lias befallen him remarks the Observer. For an amateur he is no mean gardeuer. His grounds arc limited, and lie had to encroach on his horse's domain. That intelligent animal—'* our Bielmrd, " as the paper-fed quadruped is styled—watched his owner delving and digging, and saw his own limited pasture getting smaller and beautifully less, Ho also saw the vegetables springing up in the other enclosure, and regularly every night tried the fastenings of the gate in the fence that separated him from them At last his perseverance was rerewarded. On Monday night last he got into the sacred enclosure and demolished row after row of carrots, turnips, striwberries, potatoes, peas, cabbage, lettuce —iu fact, a plague of locusts could not have left the garden so baro of vegetation. In the morning " our Jtichard " stood in t he garden, with his fiddle-head hanging over the fence, his lip dropped half a yard, and a sign of satisfaction oa his ugly mug, and thus his owner met him. Willie wept!—the curiam fell. An amuiuig scene occurred on the down train on Wednesday last. As the train ncarcd Fernside, a stout old lady was seen signalising with a fat umbrella in one hand and a handkerchief in the other, waving them ns if her life depended on stopping that particular train. The train stopped, and the old lady coolly asked tho polite guard, if he would " be sure and call here to-night, when you como back from town!" " Yes'm, if you will signal," said the guard, and jumped on board, amidst roars of laughter, without cursing the old lady. We think that guard has a mother, remarks tho Standard.

•' In 'Franco she was robbed by highwaymen; While witnessing tho battle between the Japs and Chinese in Gasan she was shot in the arm; a cyclist ran j over her iu California, and a fiyo weoks' stay in'the hosipital was the result; while oil another occasion, ' fhroygli a bad fall, she was compelled to ride miles with a broken arm." This is tho bare outline, borrowed from a London daily papor, of the experiences of Miss Annis Londonderry, who left Boston iu June, 1891, having undertaken to return to that city with oOOOdol., without, having obtained them by begging, To achieve tliis end slio rode 28,0Ck)(niilo8 on a bicycle in" ortliodox kniokefs" The body of Janjes Dalgitty who is supposed to have been drowned in tlie Taueru river, l|as not yet been found A: rumour of tjio possibility of sonic mystery in eonucclion with the affair is now In circulation, as it is stated that young Dalgitty had about £6O on lii'm at the time, and on tho riyor bank there are footsteps which lend support to a theory that tho horse may have been driven into tho water, and if so that. Dalgitty previously met with somo foul play. A strong search party is being organised at Gladstone, to thoroughly search tho river and neighbourhood to-morrow,

The Wellington College will re-open on the 3rd February, The annual teachers' examinations are to be held on Friday and Saturday. 20tli and 21st iusfc. A statistician has dicovercd that the number of dark haired girls who get married exceeds that of the fair ones.

Gilbert McCandlish, hotel-keeper, o£ Mangapakeha, has filed a declaration of insolvency. Services will be conducted to-morrow in connection with tho Anglican Church at Opaki at 11 a.m. and ftangitumau at ,3 p.m. The finder of a pocket-book lost in Mastertou, is requested to return tho same to Mr E. Eowlor. . The Bribane polico authorities havo stopped a proposed contest to dive from the roof of the Exhibition Building into a lank of six feet of water. Prince Georgo of England is an inveterate cigarcttesmoker. He consumes from forty to litty each day. To keep a racehorse in even moderate condition in England, with proper attendants, costs £325 a year, It is estimated that the gross passenger receipts of a first-class Atlantic liner amount to from £10,760 to £12,000 por voyage. The first Sister of Mercy to begin her work of love in California was Lord Russell of Killowen's sister. Naples proposes to build permanent sea baths to accommohate forty-three thousand persons, and to enable them to have hot aud cold baths at all Seasons of the year. A New York woman who sells newspapers on the streets is reputed to have mado £4,000 out of her calling in the last twenty years. Eaeli new census of London shows startling statistics. The latest is that there are fifteen births andeleven deaths each hour. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the South British lusuranco Company's calendar for 1893, from Mr A. Hathaway, the Masterton agent. The W.F.C.A. made a special gaslight display, last night, their stock of Xmas presents being much admired. The windows were dressed most attractively, and with cxcellont taste.

The funeral of the late Mr ltobcrt Hare, will leave tlio residence of Mrs Yates, Upper l'lain, to-morrow (Sunday) afteruorm, at 2.30 p.m. A beggar oE the London streets recently attracted a crowd in the Strand by kneeling on the pavement, guawing at a brick and invoking the blessings of the Virgin Mary ou those who helped him, and her curses ou those who refused.

There was a disgraceful fight for a wager in the Black Country recently, between a man and a monkey. The magistrate said he could not convict the man because the monkey was regarded as a wild animal, but the man before him appeared to be lower in the scale of iutellcct than the monkey itself,

An interesting advertisement, having special reference to Christmas reductions, appears from Messrs J. Graham & Co., ou our first page.

A Brockley domestic, aijedl!), charged with robbing her mistress, when arrested admitted that she had been backing horses. A number of sporting papers were found in her possession. A Leeds doctor, who had been hurrying on his bicycle, expired at the bedsido recently, while cjamiuiug a lady patient, The patient died tlie same morning, the end, it is thought, being accelerated by the shock. Special meetings arc to be held all day on Sunday at the ilastertou •Salvation Army Barracks. Stall-Captain Edwards will lead the meetings.

A jealous three-year-old girl admitted killing her baby sister, in London, during the mother's temporary absence, by ehokiug it with paper. Tho coroner pointed out that a child of three had no criminal responsibility, aud tho jury returned an open verdict. A London man, whose bicycle was stolen, succeeded in having the thief convicted, but the magistrate refused to allow liimthe expenses of prosecution on the ground that he had not .taken the precaution to lock the wheels of the machine before leaving it. The Venerable Archdeacon Fancourt, of Wellington, preaches at St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, to-morrow both morning and evening.

An oj;g laid at Bristol by 11 black Minorca fowl recently was in circumference and 3Jin length. Inside this egg was another one, about the ordinary size and quite perfect. The inside one was all yolk whilst the outside one was only white. Messrs Murray ltoberts & Co liavo received instructions to sell nt Nagapukc Omahu (near Napier), several valuable thorough-bred and other horses, particulars ol vrliicli appear in another column. The sale will take place oil Friday, December 20lh, nnd luncheon will be provided for visitors.

The many friends of Mr Jacob Uauuibcr the well-known footballer, will be sorry to learn that his wife died yesterday, nt l'etono. The cause of death was typhoid fever, Six of the unemployed who waited on the Mayor of Christchurch, saw hiin again yesterday, respecting the expected reply from the Premier, as to finding work for them. One of the men told his Worship that unless succour came soon, he intended putting au end to his life, as he could not sec his six children starve. Another threatened to run amuck, and generally damage things. The Mayor advised the latter that should he carry out his threats, he need not expect much consideration. No reply being received by the Mayor, lie agaiu communicated with the Premier. Young New Zealaudcrs require healthy constitutions to lit them for the struggle (or existence. Give them Dr Kirk'# Farinaceous Food in their infancy—Recommended by the faculty.