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Waipawa Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 2713, 26 January 1892, Page 2

On our fourth page will be found articles entitled “ Realistic Horrors on the Stage,” “ Smokeless Powder in Attack,” and “ Good Eyesight of Indians.”

The addresses of claimants in the Rakautatahi case were closed yesterday, and the Court announced that the judgment would be delivered next Thursday, at 2 p.m. Meanwhile no other business will be taken.

The Property-tax Department have withdrawn the interpretation of the law by the commissioner demanding triplicate taxation from such companies as the Northern Investment Company.

The Rev W. and Mrs Marshell are now on a visit to Napier and their numerous friends in this district will be glad to learn that they are still in the enjoyment of good health.

The Secretary of the Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows for the week ending January 23rd, 1892 :—Patients in Hospital, M 24, F 2 ; received during the week, M 7, Fo; discharged, M 1, F 0 ; died, MO, F 0.

The broken weather which has lately prevailed culminated yesterday in a continuous downpour, followed last night by a deluge. But little of the grain crops has yet been secured, and it is feared that a good deal of grain in stook will be sprouted.

Our Takapau correspondent writes to correct an error In a report in last issue* The child whose toes were cut off by an axe was a daughter of Mr Malkin, of the Takapau bush, not Mr Watkins of Ashley Clinton.

A man Darned Flood, who broke his left leg just above the foot by falling from a trap near Woodville, was brought down yesterday by the express train to the Waipawa County Hospital.

Mr B. B. Johnson will hold a sale of timber at Kaikora on 4th February, at 11.30 a.m. ; and at 2 p.m., at the same place, he will offer for sale about thirty draught and trap horses and hapks. A Hoosier lad of twelve years was industriously at work upon a pile of wood in his mother’s back yard, when he was approached by a playmate. “ Hello, Ben,” said the youngster, “ do you get anything fer cuttin’the wood ?” “Well, 1 reckon I do,” replied Ben. “Ma gives me a cent a day fer doin’ it.” What you goin’to do with yer money?” “Oh, she’s savin’ it for me, and when I get enough she’s gpin 7 to get qae a pew axe.”

The population of France is now 38,095,150 while that of the United Kingdom is 37,740,283, so that the latter has come within 354,867 of its great neighbour. At the beginning of the present century France was 27,000,000 to the 16,000,000 of Great Britain. The reports an interesting discovery on the estate of Archdeacon Williams at Te Aute. In the deep excavation that has been made to drain the swamp into the Tuki Tuki, numbers of pu iri logs have been come across, showing, contrary to received opinion, that this tree used to grow at one period south of the thirty-ninth degree of latitude.

It is becoming clear that the Liberal Unionist Party in England is breaking up, and at the next general election the struggle will be between the Gladstonians and the Conservatives. The other day, for the seat vacated by the elevation of the Marquis of Hartington to the peerage, a Home Ruler polled 6066 votes against 4841 recorded for the Unionist candidate.

People who retire from business and wish to live comfortably on small incomes are bßgining to turn their attention to the 70-Mile Bush. Two or three families have thus been permanently located there lately, and it is becoming quite a common practice with many who can afford a long summer holiday to shut up their town houses and spend it in the Bush. Horses arc pretty cheap at Brisbane according to a Melbourne paper. A short time ago a resident of Victoria rode from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Brisbane, close on 1,000 miles. Having no further use for his horse, a real plucky animal, with legs of steel, he entered the beast, with bridle and saddle, at the saleyards. They were put up in lots. The saddle fetched 158, the bridle 2s 6d, and the plucky steed, who did the 1,000 miles without a flinch, was knocked down at Is.

Mr Humphries, Commissioner of Crown Lands, accompanied by the Crown Lands Ranger, left Waipawa to-day on a visit of inspection to the new blocks lately opened and sold in the Whakarara district. Last week they essayed to visit the Weber settlement, but were deterred by the bad weather. Mr Humphries has completed his inspection of the various settlements in the 70-Mile Bush, and has submitted to the Land Board a comprehensive summary of their history and prospects. The largest office building in the world is now being constructed in Chicago. It will be hnown as the Masonic Temple. It is to be twenty storeys in height, and is to rise 370 ft above the level of the street. The lower floors will be used as stores, and the uppermost for Masonic purposes, a large hall to seat four thousand people being one of the principal features. Numerous doors will lead from this hall, one on to the roof, which is to be laid oat as a garden. There are to be no less than fourteen passenger elevators and two freights, mail-chutes, heating, and every modern improvement.

The return match between the Senior and Juniors will take place to-morrow at 1.30 p.m. sharp. We hope the day will be fine, as we should not like to see the juniors disappointed, as several of them will be leaving in a few days. The fol lowing are the names of the players : Seniors—W. Witherow, P. Cosgrove, E Bibby, F. Kroupa, Howard (2), H. Rathbone, Bennett, Godfray, Salmon, W. Wiseman ; emergencies, A. Wheeler and B. Cosgrove. Juniors—Jas. Cosgrove, J. Bibby, Grenside, Dunn, Hewitt, Skerrett, Garry, Peters, Pellow, C. Irvine, Rathbone (2), Slatford, Wells, Thornton ; emergencies, JIJ. Johnson and J. Irvine. The inquest at Wellington on the body of Peter Cheyne, killed by falling from a telegraph polo, showed that death resulted from severe concussion of the brain and spine. The post stood 38 feet out of the gronnd, and deceased fell about 25 feet. He was putting arms on the post, and when putting on the fourth arm the bolt broke ; he was standing on the arm below, and apparently lost his balance. A witness named Clifford Lees®, working with him, said he must have been holding on to the arm he was fixing od, though the rule was that they should have hold of the pole. When he fell the arm came with him. It appeared there was a defect in the bolt, though it was passed as sound. The new refrigerating stores being erected at Blackfriars for Ne’son Brothers (Limited) are now nearing completion. Already (says the London correspondent of the N. Z. Herald) one and three-quarter million bricks and £20,000 worth of timber have been used, and the stores, when ready for use, will have a capacity of 820,000 cubic feet, capable of storing 235,000 sheep carcases. The building is on the bank of the Thames, to which it has a frontage of 180 feet, and it is fitted with three powerful Lancashire boilers, two Delavergne ammonia - compressor engines, and one large Haslam cold-air engine, an electrical installation of 1600 lights, and a hydraulic installation to work 20 cranes. The cold air can be driven through conduits at the rate of 180,000 cubic feet an hour. A theatrical manager who had a limited purse, and consequently a limited company, occasionally compelled some of the actors to “ double ” —that is, play two or more parts in the same piece. “ Lancaster,” he said one morning addressing a very serviceable utility man, “ you will have to enact three parts in The Silent Foe Uncle Bill, and the Crusher.” “ Can’t do it,” replied Lancaster ; impossible—can’t be done.” “You can’t do it! You won’t do it! Why?” “ Because it is impossible,” returned the indignant actor. “No human being can play those three parts at the same time. In the first scene of the third act two of them have a fight, and the third fellow rushes in and separates them.” A great event from an acclimatisation point of view (says the Leader) has just occurred at Temuka in the birth of the first monkey ever born in New Zealand. Dr Hayes keeps a menagerie on a small scale, and in this the great event has taken place. The pair of monkeys which are kept in this menagerie are from Burma!) and Calcutta respectively, and are fine healthy animals. The young monkey and hfs mother are an interesting sight to see. The way she nurses her offspring, and the intense affection she displays in the care of him is very edifying. In another column of the Leader the following announcement appears :—“ Birth.— Mitchell Monkey.—At his residence, Main South road, Temuka, the wife of Mr Mitchell Monkey, on the 23rd inst., of a son and heir ; mother and child doing as well as can be expected. Thanks for kind inquiries. Burmese and Calcutta papers please copy.”