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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5216, 30 December 1895, Page 2

Wednesday next being New Yoar's Day, there will be no publication of the Waiharai'a Daily Times. There will bo no ordinary meeting of the Masterton Uorougli Council this week. Not less than 60,000 acres of land are devoted to celery-growing, in the United States. Mr Geo. Eeutley of Masterton, after a lingering illness, passed away at tho Wellington Hospital on Jloxiug Day. _ At Wellington on Saturday the Wellington cricketers made i'l in their second innings, the New South Welshmen winning by 226 runs. Mr I'. Rollings gave a very interesting address in the Masterton Wcsleyan Church last evening, Mr J, W. Burton, Wcsleyan student.

now on a visit to Masterton, will preach at the Wcslcyan Church next Sunday. Hay-making is pretty well finished round Miistcrton, most of the crops having been safely stacked. Hay-maters have been pretty fortunate with the weather this year in the North Wairarapa, and somo lino crops have been secured. Doctors in Connecticut are puzzled over a lad of 15, who has grown 12in in two months, and requires to have his hair put twice a week, Archbishop Crake told Mr Stead that if tlicw were no drunkenness there would bo no criuio in Ireland. The ArchMop, it appears, declines to confirm any boy or girl who has not taken the pledge to abstain from alcoholic drink iip till the age of twenty-one. Acpordiug to a Ijondoii paper a letter sent from that city reached a Midland (own very imperfectly addressd. The .sender having forgotten the name of his correspondent, and the street, and residence, wrote the name of the town on the envelopo, followed by a pen and ink sketch map of the locality, a' star' indicating whero the letter was to be delivered. The letter was delivered at its correct destination without missing a post.

The lemon-groves of California have proved a good thing for their owners this yean The crops have been very heavy. The product of groves planted ten years ago, has brought in, this season, £7OO an ncre, and at least half of this sum is profit. Not long ago, California used to import lemons. The" life-boat" meeting at the Masterton Salvation Barracks, this evening, should prove an attraction. A crew of

twelve will man the " life-boat," and a yea) "goodtime" is promised by Adjutant Drew. !

Mr George Burgess, fprmerly agent pfthe Bank of iNew Zealand at Carterton, and af present Rationed atlieefton, has been promoted to the position pf manager at Masterton.

During ilio thunderstorm tjie oilier night, at Sydney, tlic lightning struck the flagstaff at Admiralty House, travelled along the telephone wires, fused the gaspipes, and ignited the escaping gas. The fire to, however, extinguished before a great amount of damage had been done. Orders have been sent to London for 5000 Bibles, 5000 hymn books, and 6000 catechisms, to bo sold in the Fiji Islands. T|ie'Fiji Islanders gave nearly £SOOO to Foreign missions last yeah ' ' The celebrated preacher, Mr Hiipli Prico Hughes, describes thoWostEndof London as the most nicked, the most wealthy, and the most miserable spot in the whole universe!

] The Prince of Wales likes to bo addressed as" Sir," and not" Your Eojal Highness." To a journalist who had occasion to recently see tho l'rince on a maftpr ■ porfiiiniqg tp yachting, ho promptly' remarked,Blei}&! address mo 'Sir ;it savps time, and I prefer it,"

Of all the peoples of Europe the French have the fewest ehildroii and the Irish the most. The average French family numbers 3'3 persons, and the averago Irish family 5'2. In England the average is 4'B, and in Germany it is ilipMiillf'tliifSsliiiVproliliciiess.' Clo/ trasfed with the French in' liiirbpc, flic Frpbcjf in yiinhfla' aits the most prolific racoijf Ghriijtendoi)]'.' ' M

I -Aft ol<3 plan ljas die 4 at Gdpgsa leav'I MR four millions pfroublestoJjfs'foqr i nieces, in l °' ebwk p , prido in the fortune ladies lie J"" ~ 8 - ■ that previous to receiving the money ) they are to work for 15 months either as j domostics, chambermaids, or washer- ! women. The Indies have gone into , domestic service, and wjtliin a few weeks fcceiycd nearly 1000 offers'of murine, i In tlieso days of gold-ifjiuo boorjiing, the following story is too good to be lost, says a writer in the Auckland Herald;— The manager of one of our gold mines, sent an imperative demand j® a shareholder for the payment of a l . a,1( l received this reply.— "Dear Sir, —I have your letter of this date, anil nolo that your Directors propose to proceed against mo. Your prospectus stated that one of the objects of your Company was to 1 Seek, win and work gold in , and elsowhero.' Things not turning out well in' , your Directors apparently consider it their duty to seek, win and ' wofk gold elsewhere, i.e., out of me. 1 I cat) assure you, howeyer, that l am •' not in ai) auriferous vein; the only I lode I possess is a load of debt, and as a ' a gold mine I shall be a failure, your - prospectus estimates a yiold of loz of ' gold per ton on 30,000 tons of quartz £ crushed per annum, You may' crush' f me, but you will find that' I will ! not yield nearly so much. My person a (which for the purpose of this ealoula- 1 tion may be considered quartz) weighs, 11 roughly speaking, lOst, and if crashed J immediately, I estimate that it would '' yield as under Gold; nil; silver, 3s; copper, <tjd: total, 3s did. Deduct cost " of crushing, say £is ss,' Jt:

_ Eailway arrangements for New Year's Day appear inanother column, About 3000 camels are ■ stated, to be employed in the traffic to tlio mines in Western Australia. ' '

Messrs Simms and Mowlem add to the list of entries for their stock sale iu tlio yards, Queen-street, to-morrow: 2 3-year old steers and 1 dairy cow. Messrs Fitzsimmons and Gray will supply music at the Catholic picnic on New Year's Day.

We have the word of a well-known clergyman for it that the temperature at the Taueru yesterday was 90 in the shade.

Mr F. H. Wood's next Taratahistoek sale will be held on Tuesday, Januarj 7tli. Entries to date ftro advertised*

The first bush fire of this season in ,th? neighbourhood of Mastcrton, started this morning near Mr A. W, Cave's. Tc Oro Ore.

A picnic in connection with St. Matthew's Church Sunday School, is to be held on the 22nd January. Subscriptions in aid are now being collected, A girl named Emily Kichards, who was bitten by a fly near Wagga, New South Wales, died in the local hospital from anthrax poisoning,

John Dunstan, a Perth (W.A.) contractor, was the other day fined £250 for baying uncustomed spirits in bis possession.

Throughout the world, it is computed there aro over 200,000 Protestant Sunday School teachers, and over 2,000,000 scholars.

Oue of Messrs Cole and lhrllctt's broughams met with a rather severe accident on Friday last, which necessitated its being put up for repairs. Our old friend Captain Jones escaped from a serious accident this morning with a broken footboard and slight damage to one of his cabs.

, A young man uamcd Sydney Hams was at Mlarat, sent to gaol for nino month for assaulting liis step-daughter. Hams had married a widow, and eloped with her daughter,

At Greymouth a man named Maloney met with an accident. While felling a tree he cut his leg with the axe, and when going home to have the cut attended to lie fell and broke his leg.

Messrs Simms and Mowlem hold their usual _ fortnightly stock sale, in the yards in Quecu-strect to-morrow, Tuesday 31st inst, the entries for which cmbrace 40 yearlings, 12 dry cows, 3 fat cows, 4 milch cows and 2 H-jt old steers, 300 2-tooth wethers, 100 2-tooth ewes, 80 store, and 20 fat lambs, pigs and horses.

The Queen's liounty has been applied for on behalf of the wife ot a bricklayer's labourer in South London, who gave birth recently, to live female infauts, three of whom lived for a time.

As a buggy belonging to Mr G. Daysh was being driven from the Taueru to Masterton late on Saturday night, one of the horses, from some unaccountable reason, stumbled and fell across the pole of the buggy, breaking its leg. The liorso had to be destroyed.

liilc looking over the visitors' book at the Masterton Hospital wo noticed the following complimentary remarks, over the signatures of Doctors l'urdy, Gault, Milne and Dawson "Very much pleased with the up-to-date condition of the hospital and the splendid collection of modern instruments."

A large meeting was held yesterday, in St. Patrick's School, to make final arrangements for the picnic which is to be held in Father MclCenna's Bush on New Year's Day. Those who had subscription lists, gave most encouraging accounts of the success they met with. On the whole, the aft'air promises to bo the most successful yet held. Two slaves on a Virginia plantation were engaged to be married. The girl was eventually sold in one direction, and her lover in another. A few weeks since they accidently met for the first time during their separation, and their marriage has just taken place in Wisconsin. At a meeting of the stewards of the Wairarapa liacing Club on Saturday it was decided to ask the Wellington Metropolitan Club to remove the disqualification ot all persons taking part in unregistered meetings at Maryborough and Feathcrston on 25th December. A Hastings man went home with a packet in his pocket labelled" Teething Powders" the other night, but when all the papers were removed nothing but a small piece of wood was brought to view, He went back and wrathfully exposulatcd with the vendor, who found on exanimation that lie had about 40 gross in stock of the same quality, Inquiries are now being made which may lead to theexnosiSofaparticularlylively swindle says the Hawke's Bay Herald,

By the late train on Saturday, Messrs Lowes and lorns received a consigumout of 24 horses from Canterbury, which are pronounced by good judges to bo "an exceptionally fine lot, being well brokon to saddle and harness, and 'show grand pace and quality, having for their sires such blood as Artillery, Burlington, Kaiser, Camel, Blucgown, etc. They are to be offered at auction nest Saturday,

'lruth's Paris correspondent writes A coquettish trick has been revealed to me, _ It seems to be widely practised at seaside and watering-place hotels. Those who resort to it are ladies solicitous to captivate, but who have no reason to be proud of their feet. To give riso to the idea that flicy |iave Ms d'enfants thpy have pairs of tiny boots and shops not ipdo for wear,'but to be left outsldo their bedroom doors to be cleaned. To give them a quite natural appearance the soles and parts of the uppers are smeared with liquid mud kept ina bottlelike patent blacking. As ono must soupir pour elre belle, the boots intended for daily wear are slyly cleaued by the owner, when she has not a maid with her. It appears that Frenchmen arc apt fo scaii flip .boots' of jidies in the corridors of hotels,' Thorc'fa no'moro curious sight than a long double row of pairs of boots. It is a most suggestive sight, and may be amusing as a rebus. If where beauty ends modesty begins, it is, perhaps, modest as well as coquettish to x liave special boots and shoes to figure in hotel corridors,

A forpe of pojjee under Inspector ThomSdh i "and'Deteetivd'Ghiitl(!y'rdidea Juryls ''folM'ecoiijst 'shop at'Hew'Ply. moiitlj Ml#y jiigjij ftntl' mije top aprpstj. At thp Policp Qopft on Satijr4ny Jiivy wisM'# for keppipg & piiiflioiisp, in dpfwlf tiro mouths imprisonment. Lovolook and Josoph fined £o each and five Cockburu,,.. others £1 each for t , lv

, A lady passenger by the Pnteena, j from Melbournp, hfld ai) unpleasant ejtperiencowiih the Customhouse officers i| lai)nceston last 'week.' 'She' was ; (ripping down the gangway wheii'a trail | of lace, concealed in'lier clothing, got | entangled in the legs of another pas- ' sengor who was following her. Showas ' instantly pounced on, and duty was lev- ' ied. Itis understood that she is arooent ' arrival from England, The North Otago Times publishes the following paragraph:-"The farmers from the yoriojis parts of the district who visited us on Saturday assert tjiaf they liavo never seen the crops in such a healthful-looking condition. The weather is now fine and warm, andseems to have settled down to real summer and harvest-ripening weather. The crops are lioalthy and heavy, and the yield should bo considerably above the ayerage of tlie jast three or four years. Even tjio'late crops,' wlijeli at ope time were almost wort|lesj, are now jbout a? good as those sown eqrly," Parniprs generally are hopeful, and so they should be, for there is every appearance of their being able to pull up some of the leoway of tho recent untoward seasons. What adds to their hopefulness is that tho price for wheat is likely to be a good one, and that-, with a largo yield, must be very gratifying to the farmers and producers of this diitrict."

Lord Brassey was, tho other night, nominated for the offico of Grand Master of tho Victorian Grand Lodge of Masons.

A youngjad named Reynolds, residing at Kopua, in tho Danevirke district, met with.a peculiar accident tho other day, He was playing with another lad, pulling at an old shovel held between them as they sat on the ground, when ho lost liis hold on ono end of the handle, and the shovel blade was drawn right through the other hand, lacerating it Tory badly,

Advices from Noumea state that a party of 100' New Hebrides recruits attacked about an equal number of New Caledonia natives in the streets of Noumea. ■ Some of tho men wcro armed with out-of-dato revolvers and carbines. About ascorowcro wounded and one killed. Tho local mob dispersed the mob. _ The heiite is tho outcome of the aversion of the local natives to imported labour. Strong antagonism exists between the Europeans and natives at Kcuc. Somo natives attempted to rob a store, when an official shot one dead. Instead of taking revenge on the officer tho natives subsequently returned to tho township and shot Alderman loquet dead.

A gentleman visiting Venice lost a valuable diamond ring the other day in a curious manner. While feeding tho pigeons the ring slipped from his finger, and was instantly swallowed by ono of the birds. On putting out his hand to try and catch the pigeon, the whole flock new away to the Doge's Palace, the possessor of the ring being lost in the crowd, Mr MacFarlane has declared the following rehnndicaps for the first day of the Taulierenikau meeting Flying (Handicap, King's Bowman Bst lalbs, Strathbraan Bst Glba; Hack Hurdles, Bull s Eye 9st 9lb; Trial Hack Handicap, Amberitc, 7st 101b • Nikau Hack Handicap, Slaidcn 9st 131b, Selma, 7st 91b; Grand Stand Welter, Kiug's Howman lOst 41b, Strathbraan 9st 111b ; Hack Welter, Slaidcn 12st 51b,

A very nice wedding was celebrated at Fcathcrston on Boxing Day, when Mr 0. Anderson, storekeeper of Carterton, was united in the bonds o£ matrimony to Miss Mary Louisa O'Ncalc, eldest daughter of Mr A. E, O'Neale, of Fealherstou. The ceremony was performed by the iiev. S. J. Gibson, at the residence of the bride's parents. Three sisters of the brido—Misses Hilda, Ettic and Lottie, and Miss Agues Sydow, ucice of the bridegroom, were the bridesmaids, and Mr Fred, O'Mealc acted as best man. The friends and relatives of the happy couple sat down to a sumptuous wedding breakfast, provided for the occasion.

" Bound to rise " is the firm conviction of the chef tie cuisine when adding tho spoonful of baking powder; the pastry would bo all the better, while thero would be no risk ot requiring a tomahawk to carve it, if good honest baking powder were used. Ono of the most effective baking powders, and ono that has been proved by analysis to bo absolutely pure, is Anderson's Jumbo Brand Baking l'owdor, which is slowly but surely finding its way into every kitchen in the country,