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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3108, 4 August 1894, Page 2

Our Graphiological Column will be found on tho fourth page to day. The Town Board meets on Monday. Mr H. Liddlo has completed the erection of a store for Mr M. Flynn at Hampden. It is roportrd that Mr C. Nairn, of Pourcrero, has died at Home, aftor a second fit of a paralytic nature. The avorago prioo of first class land in Canterbury is put down by Mr Hall-Jones at £lO per acre. Mr Ludvig Larsen, who will bn well known in Norsuwood, died soinowhat suddenly at Pakiatua on Sunday evening hist. During tho past two years tho sum of £350 has been given at St. Mary’s of the Angels’ Church, Wellington, by means of the penny collection. The work of surveying tho Waikopiro block is proceeding The surveyors are now pegging out tho roads. Tho outlet will bo at Ormondvillo. Tho annual meeting of tho parishioners of St. Peter’s which should havo boen hold on Thursday night, was postponed until Monday ovoning. It is reportod that the Argentine Republic has decided to surnndor Jabez Balfour, and that he has been placed on board a British ship for deportation to England. The first paragraph in a recent issue of tho Tapanui Courier is as follows : “ Pleasure beforo business.—Owing to pressure of matrimoniul affairs, this office will be dosed to-day.” Information was sent to the police today that a man named William Tracey was found dead this morning in his bed in a whare in the Te Aute bush. An inquest will be held to-morrow morning.

War has ho m daclarod between Ckina and Japan. Tickets for tho Hospital outertaiument may be had from all the haling storekeepers in Waipawa and Waipukurau, the Mail Stationery Depot, and Mr Clarke, Kaikora, Mr Macfarlane, Onga Onga, Mr C Hobson, Takapau, Mr Morton, AshleyClinton.

Had the 529 candidates who aspired to be elected to tho N.S.W., Assembly last week all contested elections under the old system that required a nominated man to deposit £4O with tkereturning-offioere, 157 poll-defaulters would have forfeited their deposits to a man. Messrs White, Soiiuigeour and Joll, tho Hospital committee, paid a visit to the institution on Thursday afternoon. They report that everything was in perfect order. They are of opinion that extended accommodation is urgently required. A lawyer stated in the Pabiatua Court the other day that ho had advised bis client, who was suing for a small sum, to decide the matter by running the defendant a race of 100yds. The advice was not accepted. In Nelson it is considered that the wages of young persons should be paid by law to the parent direct, as tending to improve the authority of the parent and increase home influence, which would be a benefit to society. There is something in this suggestion made by Police Sergeaut John Prutt. In another column will bo found an advertisement of interest to those who huve been called upon to pay the Land Tax five months before tho usual time. As the matter is of importance to a large section of the community we publish tho announcement gratis, for owing to our views being of the wrong color wo are under tho Ministerial boycott. Bill and Davis, tho Sydney bank embezzlers, who got away from Australia with a cargo of sovereigns, in the schooner Beagle, are reported “ free, fat, and hearty ” at Upper Bolivia, iu the very centre of South America. Tho Beagle, at latest advices, was trading on the Cuilian coast. A very quiet wedding was celebrated in PahiatuA on Monduy last, tho contract ing parties beiug Mr W. 11. Hawkins, tho well known cricketer and footballer, and Miss E. M. Allurdiee, of Danevirke. The ceremouy was performed by tho Rev W. 11. Phillip. Wo add our congratulations and best wishos to tho host of others already received by the youug couple. —Pakiatua Herald. Preparations for tho forthcoming Masonic Ball to tako place on the 17th August, are well in hand. A full muster of tho committee was held last night when satisfactory progress was reported by tho lion, secretary Mr Sorrell’s string hand will supply the music. The catering will be in the capable hands of Mr A. Breuer.

Tho Inangah.ua Times states that Mr M‘Kinlay’a itomestead, on the Grey Valley, was struck by lightning while tho family were at tea. The nails wore drawn from many parts of tho bui!ding. A largo bullock chain was fused in parts and the links clean cut in others. A troo was felled by tho lightning, being cut through as if by a saw. No injury is reported to human life or live stock. A correspondent of tho London Live Stock Journal , writing from Chichester, says : “ When on a farm iu this neighborhood last woek I saw a ewe with twin lambs about three weeks old, and was told the owe was thirteen yours old, and during that period she had had twentytwo iambs, nineteen of which she had brought up. She was cross-bred between a Southdown and West country Down, without u tooth in her bead ; but no douot, being a pet, sho obtained plonty of soft food.”

It would appear as though Mr F. C. W. Biorro of Danevirke had laid contribution on all the clubs he was connected with. In addition to the £165 which he has taken from tho Road Board, it is said that be has failed to uccouut for £l3O belong ing to tho Racing Club, while St John’s Church is a loser of £4O by his disappearance. Court Rising Sud, A.O F. is a sufferer to tho extent of £6O, and the New Zealand Insurance Company has lost about £9O. It is also said that many Danovirko residents will mourn his departure for he borrowed considerable sums to help him on his way. In “ tho good old da. s” Victoria gave pensions to her high officials. Sir Andrew Clarke, who filled the office of SurveyorGeneral for throe years, has since drawn £22 327 ; and tho Right Hon. 11. C. Childers (who besides has a pension of £2OOO from tho Imperial Treasury, ho having boon a Minister of tho Crown), who held office for a little over fivo years, has iu the interval received £17,288. Dr Moloney wants those pensioners to reside permanently in Victoria or to strike out their allowances, but he will not be successful with either proposal. A curious co-operative yarn comes to the Wairarapa Times from Eketahuna of a pair of co-operative men who struck oil on a six weeks’ job which yielded them three pounds per diem. Tho return was so good that it would not havo been divulged, only the boss man of tho couple is said to havo appropriated two pounds out of the three for himself and handed only one pound per diem to his mate. Tho indiguant mato therefore lias told the yarn. Tho Standard says :—A mooting of the Committee of tho Palmerston Trotting Club was held at tho Empire Hotel last evening to consider a protest entered by Mr \V. G. Mouat, owner of tho Duke, against Mr W. 11. Chitham’s Kentucky Wilks, winner of tho Maiden Trot on Wednesday, on tho ground that Mr Chitham’s name appears on the Unpaid Forfeit List for an amount duo to tho Woodville Racing Club. After discussion, it was dooided to postpone further consideration of tho protest for a week. A strange acoidont happened (says tho North Otago Times ) to a pair of horses belonging to Mr J. Miller, which were working on Mr Gilchrist’s properly. A team of four liorsos wore at work plough ing, and when they came to a particu'ar spot in the paddock tho two loaders disappeared suddenly. Tho leading horses had walked on to the thin crust of earth that coverod a Maori drain or runner, and were precipitated between 40ft and 50ft down. One of tho horses was killed instantly, and tho other was so much injured that it had to bo destroyed. It is fortunate that the leading chains snapped as the loadoiß fell, otherwise it is probable the whole team would havo boen destroyed. The two horses wore valuable animals, being worth botween £4O and £SO. A correspondent from Makotuku writes : —“A railway enquiry is about starting hero. I do not quite know tho ins and ruts, but tho rnihvay magnates are showing up in forco. Tho question at issue is “ whether one man can be statiomnaster, porter, postmaster, nud telegraphist.” Poor Lund performed this fourfold office for two years and now he is reflecting in tho hospital on the evils of official greatness ! Tho relieving officer, who followed him Bt Mnkotuku, not desiring to follow him any further (i.e, to the hospital), protested, and hence suspension , enquiry , and railway magnates, etc. Supposing each of them would just hove a try for a mouth to do the fourfold task themselves ! I Farmers who aro called on to pay their land tax in one instalment, four months

beforo it should be piyable, will no doa* fail to discern the fitness of the Seddot Ministry to hold office Although th» Government boasts that it has k surplus of nearly a quarter of t million it also shows the hollos, ness of this boost by declaring that the money derived from land tax i« once required to meet interest due. ty this is so, then it discloses extremely bud management of the country’s affairs, ooupled with the allegation that a surplu, remained in the Treasury after tho yesr’i operations convicts Government cf arrant hypocrisy and misrepresentation. If the House is not utterly degraded, and doet not contain too mauy who are dependent on their “ honorarium” it will certain * eject these political charlatans from th« positions thoy now hold. —Manama Times.

A will has just turned up, near Mel. bourne (says a Sydney paper), dated 1874 which, had it been discovered 19 year* ago, would have been good enough to base a romance upon. The maker died i D 1875, and under the only will found (dated 1872) disinherited her eon in favor of her own housekeeper. The eon shot himself, after unsuccessfully trying to upset tho 1872 will, whilst the housekeeper died from alcoholio poisoning eight years later, in Melbourne goal, without a copper. Under the latter will the son would have got £9OOO in cash and a furnished house.

A singular occurrence took place it Puriliaka on Thursday last. A native woman of some rank, who had boen ill, on Wednesday afternoon was supposed to havo given up the ghost. Preparationi were at once made for intorment the following day, and the natives gathered from all quarters for a tangi. On Thursday morning, accord ing to Maori custom previous to the burial of the dead, a gun was fired ovor the supposed corpse, when to tho astonishment and terror of those prosont the woman sprang up and looked around her as though waking from 1 natural sleep. The consternation of the natives who wore gathered in the village is said to havo been very great, owing to the idea that there was something supernatural about the awakening. The Lyttelton Times states that a correspondent, a gentleman of high commercial standing, has supplied it with a seriee of nl trming statements concerning the condition of tho southern railways, .vlany of tho bridges are alleged to b« dangerous, tho timbers being quite rotten. There is one bridge, it is stated, from which the piles simply hang. The ends from which they have boon severed are still firmly embedded, and as the trains pass over their weight presses the suspended piles downwards so that the two parts moot. Bridges in other parts are said to have been in a dangerous condition for some time, temporary patching hu been going on, some of it with very old timber, which looks as if at some stage of its existence it had done duty in bridge work, and boen removed on account of long service and failing health. Reference is made to tho Haketeramoa branch line, wbero the sleepers are said to be rotten and the bridgea all require attention. Instead of the usual staff of five men for every seven miles, there are on this branch only three men for uino miles. During the summer the traiu ploughs through thistles and weeds up to the floors of the carriages.