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Waipawa Mail, Volume IX, Issue 881, 16 January 1886, Page 2

Mr 11. Rush will deliver an address tomorrow night in the Methodist Church, Waipawa, oil “ Spiritualism in relation to Freeth oil glit.” “Glimpses of life in two worlds” will be the subject of sermon by the Rev. S. Douglas in the Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening.

After tlie public meeting at Makarctu § Tuesday the newly elected committee met and elected Mr Bridge as chairman aud Mr Howlett as secretary. The chairman was authorised to call a meeting ns soon as the fires were out and damages could be ascertained. It was also resolved that for the present the printed forms should be retained and not given out to the sufferers,

Mr H. L. Jull is erecting a new shop between the settlers hotel and the temporary premises of the Empire Hotel, Mr Bcd. B. Johnson’s auction mart. Mr Johnson’s office is now at the rear of Mr Cosgrove’s shop. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company held a most successful wool sale in Napier yesterday. We have not the full particulars to hand, but we learn that Mr T. S. Glenny of Onga Onga got the top price, viz., Bgd per lb. for greasy cross-bred, which, in the present state of the wool market, is remarkably good. Out of 900 bales catalogued 840 were sold. The Waipawa fire apparently is not yet extinguished. A quantiiy of smoke was observed yesterday issuing from beneath a heap of bricks. On examination a lot of the debris was found to be on fire, which had been covered over by the falliug of oue of the chimneys of the Empire Hotel. On Sunday lasta lot of coal dust at the rear of the Empire Hotel site was burniug. These fires should be extinguished as sooon as discovered, for should a wind spring up in the night time the sparks from them may prove dangerous. A story of Lord Houghton is told by Mr John Bigelow, in the October number of Harper. A thief who had robbed his Lordship was arrested, aud his Lordship went to see him iu gaol. He questioned him as to his motives, and the man replied that he was known as a thief to the police, and that they prevented him getting a living. Lord Houghton asked him if he thought he could live honestly. The man replied that if he could get to Australia he was sure he could do so, and Lord Houghton took him at his word. He gave the man a cheque for £IOO, and went to the trouble of seeing him on board ship to the antipodes. Several years afterwards the man wrote to thauk his beuefactor, and to tell him how he had kept his word. When last heard of this man was holding an important local office in Australia, to which lie had been elected by the suffrages of his fellow citizens. The thigh bone (2 feet 3 inches long) of a moa has beeu found by Mr William Gal pin on his property in the Upper Tutaeuui district. The bird must have been of huge size. —Manawatu St a ndard.

Miss Rosina Carandini (Mrs Palmer), whose name is known in the anuals of the Australian concert stage, was accorded a complimentary concert iu the Town Hall, Melbourne, recently. The hall was fairly full, and the Governor and suite were present. The programme presented nothing remarkable.

“ Colonial,” in a Blenheim paper, referring to the St. Leon Circus, says the placards are the best part of the show ! They always are. On paper we see lovely nymphs bouuditig with graceful agility over banners held high above their galloping bare-backed steeds. In the tent we see a very ordinary looking female hopping gingerly over a banner held an inch or two above the horse’s back, on which is a pad as wide as a tea table ! All steel articles can be perfectly preserved from rust by putting a lump of freshly burnt lime in the the case in which they are kept. If things are to be moved (as a gun in its case, for instance), put the lime in a muslia bag. This is especially valuable for specimens of iron when fractured ; for iu a moderately dry place the lime will not want any renewing for many years, as it is capable of absorbing a large quantity of moisture. Articles iu use should be placed iu a box nearly filled with thoroughly pulverized slacked lime. Before using them rub well with a woollen cloth.