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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5402, 15 April 1909, Page 2

The reading matter on the first page oousists of Australian Nows. Agricultural A H air b appear on the fourth page. Colonel Goring delivered a looture on New Zealand defence in the Takapau Town Hall, on Tuesday night. Mr Lsithead presided. Mr Simmonds, the well-known working jeweller and gilder, is now on a visit to Waipawu and may be nonsuited in the premises next to the Mail OHioe Mr Simmonds is au expart at his business and patrons can see him at work if they desire.

Messrs T. M B'nnr a"d On, report: —At tha aalo iu tha mart we had a fair attendance. Fowla brought from 2a 8d to 4a 4d per pair, duoka 3i 0d to 5a od, geeae 2a 6d to 8i eauh, turkeya 4a (Id to 0a 0d eioh. At the timber Bale, Tamumu, we oleered ell loti offered at fair prioei. Rabbit abooting on Good Friday will be remembered by a youth named Frederick Patience, who rsaidea it lterhamnore, Wellington. He wsa ahooliog at Terawhiti, when hia gun ncoideutally diauhnrged, a pm turn of the charge entering oue of his thighs Ho waa brought to Wellingtou, hia injuries were treated et the hospital, and he ia now progressing favourably.

The wife of e Great Eastern Railway employee namdd Humphfies has just givau birth to twins, making up her husband’i family to one of 33 I The couple—when widow end widower—married nbouf 15 years ago, the men having at that time a family of eight and the woman nine During the laat 14 years the woman has given birth to 10 children. Humphries is 64 years of age, his eldest eon, aged 31, being a non-commissioned officer iu the Army. The Wellington publio can get oheep fruit and vegetables. On Wednesday morning fine oabbsges were knocked down at 0d per sack, turnips at Is per sank, end beetroot at la fid per aaok. Potatoes were down to Ss and 3s fid per owt, end tomatoes brought from Is to 2s fid per half case. The prioe ot bananas, big oases containing from 18 to 20 d- ecu (according to siza), fell to 3s a case, and were hard to dispose of at that.

It is a vory long time sinne a female was charged with drunkenness at the Nelsou Police Court, says the Colonist Ou Thursday last a stranger to the town appeared ia company with a man before tho Court. Both were oouvioted end discharged It ie alleged that the oouple visited the local Registrar on the previous day, but owing to their inebri-' atud oondition, that officer refused their request that he would unite them in matrimouy. At a send off to a member of the Helensburgh (N S W.) Workmen's Club, the secretary suggested a soheme which will enable a certain uumbor of its members (nearly the whole of whom ere miue employees) to tuke u health recuperating trip to the Old Country. The yearly subscriptions of members now amount to over £IBO, and it is suggested that this be used to defray the expenses of u certain number of members each year, who may be seleotad to make the trip The question will bo considered at the next geueral meeting of members. A ease of matrimonial misery was investigated at Stratford B.M. Court. An applicant for a separation order otuted that sinoe her marrisgo in 1893, when she was sixteen years of oge, there hid not been one week without whioh she had not been struck by her husband. About two months after their marriage her husband firat struck her, giving her a pair of blaok eyes. Ou that oocasiou she went home to her [ether and mother, but two duye afterwards returned to her husband in response to a pitiful letter from him. Sbe also gave detail! of other aots of aruelty whioh sbe htd undergone at the bauds of her husband during their married life. A neighbour gave evidenoe that he saw defendant kneeling on hia wife with his hands on her throat, and after expressing regret for hie aonduat had drawn a knife. The application for a separation order was granted. Evidenoe of the severity of the earthquake on 23rd Muruh ia thue reoorded by tho Otaijo Daily Timet :—Those who have journeyed over the M'Kinnon Pase since the earthquake sty that huge boulders, whioh have evidently broken away from Mouut Balloon, lia on the truck in Clinton Valley iu several places, and in many instances completely block it. Some of the boulders must range from five to ten tons in weight. The bush that was standing in the course of tho ston«B has, of oourse, been orushod to the ground. In addition, the traok shows slight oracks, also caused by tho seismio disturbance. One of tha guides, who wae just beginning to asoend the pass at the time of the shook, threw down bis baggage and ran baok as fast as he oouid to avoid any serious oonsaquenoes.

A Daily Timet reporter had a abort conversation with Dr Maokay, of the Nimrod expedition as lie passed through Palmerston station. Tho doctor's wardrobe wae reduced to what he stood up iu, as all hia baggage had been lost at Lyttelton. “ A suggestion that possibly relie hunters had divided it up amongst them was received with u wan (mile, for there were thiugs in that baggage that oouid not be replaoed. The doctor opined Professor David’s restriotion of wine at the magnetio pole had not been poseible of maintenance iu view of the urgent hospitality of the people of Ohriatohuroh. Perhaps that is why Professor David lied. Dr Maokay admitted that he had changed his dietary ooneiderably sinoe he got off the ioe, but he says that undoubtedly they grew to like the seal oil and blubber while there, though the craviug for it loft them as they got to warmer latitudes. And apropos of this longiqg of all dwellers in vory odd oliraates for oil, ha told how before Glasgow was lit by gas the Russian sailors who used to oome in were wont to drink ths oil in the street lamps—to tho uhugrin of the lamplighters—os well as munoh tallow oaudlos like sweetmeats.”

The Wairarapa Daily Timet says : A resident of Masterton was on a recent visit to Palmerston North, He there met an old acquaintance. The eubjeot of conversation was tho high borough rataß iu both towns. “ Why, my dear sir,” said the Palmerstonian, “1 never grudge paying my rates. They are a small rent, I admit. But I always reokon that tho water alone is worth the money. My dour sir,” lie went on, “we don't realise what it is to have an abundant supply of water in our houses. Look at Gisborne, sir. Just look at it 1 Typhoid fever, dozens of oases. Noue in your town or ours. Oh, never mind your rates. Pay them and look pleasant. If you were without water and drainage you would gladly puy double what you are now paying to have these estimable privileges. Growl if you like; we all like to growl occasionally, but pay up your borough rates. You don’t know how well you’re off.” Perhaps he is right. In faot, on looking into the matter we are satisfied he is. Water and drainago are two of the greatest blessings in ary town, for they mean life and health.