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Pahiatua Herald, Volume I, Issue 93, 29 December 1893, Page 2

Two poems, oue by Henry Lawson, and another by Robert brothers will be found on our fourth page to-day.

Owing to Monday next being New Year’s Day the I’aiiiatua Hekali> will not bo published. A smart lad, to learn the printing trade, is wanted at the Hkralu office.

An error inadvertently occurred hi our report of the school entertainment of Friday last. A splendidly-executed violin solo by Mr Hunnibell was attributed to Mr Honey bell.

At the Mauriceville Athletic Society’s sports on Wednesday E. Darley won ilio hop, step, and jump and long jump and was third in the handicap, running into third place in each of the three events. Rapid progress is being made by the contractors for the erection of the block of buildings for Mr T. C. Williams. The shell is just about completed and in two or three weeks the shops should be quite ready for occupation. A very pretty wedding took place at Pahiatua on Boxing Day, when Miss Matilda Culmer was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Mr Henry Strong. The ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride’s parent. - , by Rev. A. \V. Ashcroft. Miss Cooper was bridesmaid and Mr J. Strong, brother of the bridegroom, officiated as best man. After the wedding the happy couple left for the north on their wedding tour. To them we extend our heartiest wishes for their future happiness and welfare. The Wolseley shearing machin eshave been very successfully used at Brancepeth this season. On December 20th, the following tallies were made :—Palmer 207, McCormick 188: Reid 182; Sage 181 ; Blackler 170; Buxton 170; Raiibv 170. The remaining tallies were all fairly good, and with twenty shearers at work, the average all through was 152 per man per day. With the exception of four of the men it is the first year they have used the j machines.—W.l). Times.

The next English and European mail via San Francisco will close at the local Post Office on Wednesday, the 24th day of January at 1.15 p.in., due London 28th February. The next Frisco mail is due Pahiatua tith January. An e xceptionally large number of holi-day-makers patronised the lines of railway yesterday. .Between 8000 and 9000 persons travelled on the WellingtonMnnaNvatu Company’s line, and there was not n carriage or truck left in the yards here. Even then the accomodation was hardly sufficient, and there was some tight squeezing coming home. This, however, is one of the accompaniments to such outings, and usually enough fun is obtained from it to more than compensate for a little discomfort. On the Govern- i merit line about 4000 persons were carried, J and as in the case of the Wellington- i Manawatu Company without an accident . of any kind.—Press.

Mr E. Sullivan, of the C-ommerrial Hotel, advertisos for a man to make himself generally useful.

There are sixteen gangei-s and fortynine platelayers on the Wellington-Eketa-huna line of railway. Tt is stated that nearly 170 cases of leprosy have been discovered in Australia during the last five years. The Masterton fish ponds were visited .by a large number of strangers during the holidays.

Mr F. Yon Reden has disposed of his section at the Tiraumea to a gentleman from the Hutt.

A mournful peal on the firebell yesterday, like tho tolling of a church bell with a broken clapper, brought people into the street. The cause was a blazing fiue at the rear of Mr Wooclhuse’s shop. Half-a-dozen firemen, with as many buckets of water, extinguished the flames with no worse result than a spoilt dinner.

At the Pahiatua sports on Tuesday ono lad struck another and injured him rather severely. This is the freo and easy manner in which the Wairarapa Star re cords the fact: —“ A free fight occurred on tho sports grouud at Pahiatua on Boxing Day which resulted in one man being carried off the field in a comatose condition. He was struck iu the region of the heart and rendered insensible." The members of the Police Force in the city who live in barracks, although their duty did not permit them lingering at the festive board for a prolonged period, did not forget “ the good cheer that comes but once a year ” through their caterer, Constable T. McCarthy nnd his civilian assistant, Mr W. Evans. The mess-room on Christmas Day was gaily decorated, and the tables just prior to "dinner time presented a very pretty appearance, not only on account of the appecising viands, but also owing to the artistic manner in which they were laid.—Post.

Tho Martinborough police have notified the Wairarapa Coroner that Nellie Green, aged 15 years, the daughter of Mr James Green of that place, died very suddenly on Sunday night—it is supposed from bursting a blood vessel through coughing.

The Wairarapa Standard states that artesian well borers at Mr Bidwell’s new homestead at the Lower Valley, Wairarapa, brought up a quantity of different colored quartz from 65 feet below the surface. Mr Bidwell has sent it to Sir James Hector for inspection. The Wairarapa Star says :—There is to be another sports meeting in Pahiatua in a few weeks time. It is a strange thing that they can run two sports meetings in Pahiatua every year, and we can barely run one in Masterton." Quite so! And the strangest part of tho thing is that the sports instead of turning out “frosts" as the gentle Star prognosticates, invariably show a profit on each gathering of between £lO and £2O.

The sum of .£2542 was put through the totalisator at the Masterton-Opaki races on Boxing Day. Of this amount £219 will go to tho Club, j£3B to the Government, and j£3l to the owner of the machine.— Star. A number of mallard ducks have recently been hatched at the Masterton aviary They are from ducks brought out in the lonic. Star. A flaxiniller at Otaki has tiled with assets £3O and liabilities £*742. The Kumara Times says, that like a wasp at a dinner table, Sir Robert Stout is the cynosure of every eye. A convent is to he erected i,i Otaki at a cost of about £SOO. Mr F. G. Moore is authorised to receive money and orders on behalf of the Pallia tua Newspaper Company. Fescue grass Bft high is reported to be growing at Lower Waiau. A secret order has, it is said, been given to Prohibitionists, that they must “organise ” for the March elections. Resident Magistrates in New Zealand are to be known as Stipendiary Magistrates after March next. The Southland Frozen Meat Company has increased its capital to £IOO,OOO, the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shire Company taking 4000 shares of £5 per share. They have the freight of the meat companies for five years at a stipulated price. Ernest Jago was drowned in the Waitotara river, Wanganui, on Tuesday while trying to swim across in company with a bov named Arthur Train, about the same age. Tho body was recovered after two hours dragging of the stream, which was in considerable fresh at the time.

A disgraceful scene took place in Ghuznec street about 1 p.m. on Wedncsda}’ afternoon. An elderly woman, in a helpless state of intoxication stumbled into the doorway of a wretched hovel which does duty as a Chinaman's shop. A young woman, apparently about 19, with a hard looking face, attempted to eject her, the Chinaman himself not being visible. The scene was a most degrading one, and whoever the publican was who served the woman with drink to bring her to such a state, deserves to lose his license. A girl must be lost to all sense of decency to be seen in sucb a dwelling, and the Chinaman and all his breed would only get their deserts if they were flogged down to the end of the Queen’s Wharf and shipped hack to their native land instead of being an eyesore to a British community.—Press. A digger who arrived in Napier on Christmas Day from the Auckland gumfields, has called at the Napier Daily Telcgrah office to warn men from going up there. He says the sum of one pound is demanded as a license, and when that privilege has been obtained lie is sent to fields that have been worked for over twenty years, consequently men going there to make a living will be wofully disappointed. The ball given at Eketuhuna in Elliston's Hall on Boxing Day was a great success, and a larger number were present than on any previous occasion. Mr Smith presided at the piano, and dancing was kept up until the morning train left for Masterton.

We are informed that insulting letters have been circulated through the Masterton Post Office during the holidays. The police have the matter in hand, and as tho culprits are pretty certainly known a severe example will probably be made.— W.D. Times.

There has been a good many inebriates waltzing about the streets of Masterton during the past few days, shocking decent people and edifying the young. It is not unusual for the police to give a plenary indulgence to offenders at this season, but the thing has gone u little too far on this occasion and wants checking. —W. D. Times.

During the past week three male patients were admitted to the Masterton Hospital, and two females nnd one male were discharged, leaving six males and one female in the institution at the present time. Messrs Abraham and Williams, instructed by Messrs W. L. Luxford and Co., of Palmerston, will hold a clearing sale of their stock and plant on Friday, January sth, at 1 p.m. Particulars of the sale will be found in the advertisement.

The supply of milk to the Woodville cheese factory hag reached 1200 gallons a day.

A number of accidents are reported from Christchurch, the most serious of which was a boat accident at SumnV, by which four young men were preeipated into the water, ull l>eing iMOued, but an hour elapsed Wore animation was restored in one case. A youth, Anthony Martin wok thrown from the Sunnier tram and got his foot crushed, ft is feared the toes will have to l>e amputated. A boy named Arthur Taylor sustained concussion of tho brain through falling over tho cliffs at Sumner.

The Mongatainoka people evidently do not intend to overlook the matter of their recreation reserve, and even in the amidst of the festivities of this joyous season they are pushing ahead splendidly towards the object they have in view. The public meeting to consider the whole matter and to decide upon the steps to be taken is to tako place on Tuesday evening next, January 2nd, in the schoolroom, when there is bound to be a lurge attendance.

To-morrow evening the Mungutainokn Brass Band has arranged to carry out tho following programme (weather pertnitting):—Meet at Mr O. 11. Kemper's residence at 7 p.m., play a few selections, then march through Mangatainoka, playing at the bridge and opposite the Dudley Aims, then inarch to Pahiatua, playing selections in the Main Street during the evening.

The Mangatainoka band has, we learn, been invited by tho settlers at Ballance to attend a picnic and assist in ensuring its success by providing music. The hand is undoubtedly progressing remarkably well, and has now attained a very creditable degree of perfection.

So far £27 1,000 of land tax has been paid this month. Mr Thoin&6 Bracken is to bo appointed Registrar of electors for Wellington at a salary of £l5O a year.

A former resident of Reefton, who is now bush whacking near Pahiatua. writes to a Reefton paper that the supply of men there is not equal to the demand. The wages offered is Is per hour. If those men who stop in towns, he adds, and talk about having no work would go into the country they would find plenty of employment. There was a lively quarter of an hour at a meeting of the Auckland Harbour Board the other day, when Mr Crowther, one of the newly-elected members for Auckland City, and Chairman of the board told Mr Witheford, who was pressing for a lot of information about a dredger, that he was “ a perfect nuisance.” Mr Napier objected to this expression as offensive, but Mr Crowther, with the utmost sttvoir fa ire , ruled that it was in perfect order.

On Boxing Day two men. who had some difference of opinion while travelling on tho Manawatu line, alighted at Shannon, according to the Manawatu Farmer, and

fought it out on the platform. It took eight rounds to convince one of them that he was in the wrong. The employees at the VVoirarapa Star office presented Mr W. Clement Cargill with a silver-mounted pipe on Friday as a token of the high esteem in which he is held and the good feeling which has always i \isted in the office.

A drover, well known in Hawke's Bay, Archibald Wilson, met with a fatal accident at Hastings on Tuesday. While walking along Ileretaunga road, he fell, and was lifted up in an unconscious condition and carried into a shop, and thence was taken to Maroney’s Hotel, where he

was attended by Dr Linney. The injured man never recovered consciousness, but died two hours afterwards from compound fracture of the skull. Deceased had consulted .a doctor earlier in the day for heart disease.

The X. Z. Times reports that the tide of settlement is rising rapidly on the Cheviot estate. A visitor just returned from there reports that a large number of the new settlers, who number between 50 and 60, are busily at work on their sections, some of thorn ploughing their land, some of them mowing the grass for hay, and some building houses for themselves and fencing their sections. About 10 of the smaller settlers have also begun work. A great quantity of building material, fencing posts, standards and wire has recently been landed at the port. Of the 150 unemployed who were placed on road works on the Cheviot estate some time ago, all but eight went down to Lyttleton and Christchurch at the end of last weok for the Christmas holidays. r I he balance-sheet of the Manawatu Rabbit Extermination Society shows that, since October 10, 1892, the society has paid for 10,253 skins at a cost of £254 &s lid.

A sensational action will shortly come before tho Melbourne Supreme Court. The plaintiff, who is well-known in sporting circles, sues the executors in the estate of the late Abingdon Baird (the F.nglish sportsman') for £15.000. The statement of claim alleges that the deceased sportsman some time before his death charged a lady with stealing £50,000 from him, but was dissuaded from taking legal proceedings for the of the money, and promised the plaintiff half the amount if he could recover the whole sum. The plaintiff did so, but it is alleged that Baird paid him only £IO.OOO, hence the present action.

The local Xapicr Relief Fund now stands as follows : —Amount already remitted, £663 15s 6d ; remitted to-day, £3O 19s 6d. Total remitted through the Cnion Bank, £694 15s. An additional subscription is that of the lion, the Premier, viz., £5 ss. The South Wales Daily News of the 13th November refers to Sir Thomas M’lllwraith as ex-Premier of New Zealand, and says he will seek a scat in the House of Commons as a Liberal at the next general election. The Surveyor-General and tho Commissioner of Taxes are (says the Post) about to pay a visit to Marlborough, in [ order to assist the District Land Registrar and the Commissioner of Crown Lands in dealing with two offers which have been 1 made under the Land for Settlement Act. It is currently reported in town that a petition against the return of Sir Robert Stout for Wellington will be lodged in the course of n day or two on the alleged ground of a corrupt practice in the form of a bet made by one of his agents in the late election. The petition is believed to be instigated by one of the defeated candidates although he will not he the petitioner. The petition has not vet been lodged with the Chief Justice, nor has the requited security of £2OO been given.—Post.

Tho Government, it is said, have been notified that an intending purchaser is prepared to give the upset price of £25,000 for the Mansion House and grounds at Cheviot.

The steamer Buninyong took over 100 passengers from Sydney—nearly all men —to join the Royal Tar at Adelaide, bound for Paraguay. Amongst them were Berrv, Forrester, and Blackwell, three of the recently-released Queensland strike leaders. The vessel was expected to sail with 200 passengers on Sunday, 24ih inst. The Graziers’ Butchering Company at Brisbane has decided to open an establishment in London for the sale of chilled beef direct to consumers, am! develop the wholesale trade ; also, if there is sufficient inducement, to open shops in the principal towns of England.

'Hie next direct English •ltd European mail per Riimitaka, ipecially addressed, will close at thr local Post Office on Wednesday the 7th day of Jaooary at 1.15 pm , duo London Ist Maroh. The nsxt direct mail in dot Pahialon mhout 10th January. Wo hove to acknowledge receipt of several almanac* and calendars. From the Wairarapa Star we have received an excellently printed pictorial almanac eon taining a likeness of the Countess of Glasgow. Messrs Lyon and Blair forward us a handy booklet containing, besides the oslmulst, timetables of the principal ship ping companies. Mr F. lx. Moore ha* sent a neat and eonvsaisrtt csrd calendar. Mr J. lorn*, agent of th* Nrtional Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and Mr IT. W. Briggs, agent of the Northern ▲* huranee Company, have also sent copies of the cslenders issued by their respective companies. Harry Laisg is no- at j Foley’s room* in Sy£9«y. " Foley’s * rooms ’' prol»ably are located at the old Gaiety Theatre in C 'stereagh street.

The latest story regarding gooseberries is that it grower at Ashburton haa produced some measuring 4in in girth, and looking like plums. We again draw attention to the impor taut auction aale at Broomsfield, Woodville, on Wednesday next, 3rd January, when the whole of the plant used by Messrs Carlile and Thomas will be cleared. Luncheon will be provided on the ground. A County notice re loan poll appears tn anollicr portion of this issue. Mr J. Vile has a special coaching time table for Monday’s races at Woodvillp. A list of tenders called by the Pahiatua County appear* in another column. Tenders are invited for forming and metalling the Pahiatua -chool plavground. Ltfe Assurance Without Cost ! Tabu: A.R.— Under ordinary forms of assurance, the policies on the lives of those who dio young reap the largest returns. This table advantages the be*t lives—early d#*at h means tho payment of tho assurance w ith bonuses. Long life means all this and the following also :—l. All the premiums refunded to the member. 2. Assurance continued at the same rate of premium. 8. Several liberal options fer realizing the investment. Example—A man, ago 80, asHures for £SOO. under table A.R. 30. paving an annual premiujn of £l7 lls 8d for 30 years, and secures the following benefits : 1. At death, if before reaching 60 years of age, the sum assured f£sout with reversionary bonuses added. 2. At age 60, a refund of all premiums pi. 1 (£528). and the member may continue the policy for £SOO with future profit* at tin original rate of premium (£l7 lls Hd), and either draw the cash value of accrued bonuses or leave them as reversionary adtions to the sum assured : or, he may withdraw the total premiums paid (£528), as above, the surrender value of the policy (£185), and also the accrued cash bonuses : or, he may have a paid-up policy, for £SOO, with full participation in future profits and an annuity of £6O (about) for the rest of life.—E. B. Hark, Resident Agent, Pahiatua. Christmas Presents. All buyer* of 10s and over will receive a suitable Christmas gift according to the amount purchased. The distribution will be on a very liberal scale, and my prices are now well know to be the lowest in Pahiatua. Inspection cordially invited. £>. G. Radford, tho cash draper.

Ladies’ 4-button Tan Kid Gloves— Splendid value—we are now offering at 2s 6d per pair. Trkwby Bros., Hosiers and Family Drapers.

At tho W .F.C.A., Ltd.—Have just opened a speciality in all sizes of boys’ sailor suits that they recommend for good hard wear at n very reasonable figure. The prices range from 4s 9d the full suit.