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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 150, 3 May 1879, Page 2

The sale at Manaia takes place this clay. Tenders for alterations ,to the Town ■Hall, Masterton, are invited. On Monday next Messrs Irons & Fergusson resume their sale in the estate of H. Bentley & Co. • Persons willing to prospect for the Mastorton Prospecting Company afo advertised for in another column. We believe that the Bank of Australasia is calling in overdrafts, so that the Bank of New Zealand does not stand alone in limiting accommodation. A Chinaman named All Gee has carved in stone anew baptismal font for the Oamaru Church. It is said to be a very handsome and well executed piece of workmanship, Laery, Campbell & Co. sell by auction, at Wellington, on Monday next, a valuable stock of builders' goods, a list of which is given in another column. Shares in the Masterton Prospecting Association are being rapidly applied for. It is anticipated that the number of applications will be in excess of the number of shares to bo allotted. Wo notice that Mr Caselberg has liunsr a lire-bell near his brick warehouse at Masterton, thus anticipating tho Fire Brigade, who are endeavoring to arrange for hanging one near the junction of Queen-street with Church-street. Tho Alexandra correspondent of the Waikato Times says:—"Some of tho flour supplied for the Kopua meeting which I have tasted is, in my opinion, fur more likely to settle the native difficulty than gunpowder and bullets." Of course, all the shopkeepers here repudiate having sold that particular biand, On all sides of the district says the Wanganui Herald, we hear of the scarcity of fat beef. The same complaint is being made in Auckland and Canterbury, so that before the winter is over beef will realise a price hitherto unknown, Good judges who are acquainted with the resources of this district state that fat stock will be sold by Mr. P. R, Jackson for Ll4 and over before the spring grass is up. In contrast to this scarcity of beef we find the market overstocked with mutton to such an extent that good sheep can be bought for 4s. and ss. per head. Tho Cologne Gazette reports a new edition of the infernal machine of the murderer Thomas. At Zebaze, in Upper Silesia, a letter directed to a man named Pelka, to be delivered into his own hands, was given up to his wife. Being very large and thick and fastened with tape, it excited lior curiosity. Oil pulling one of the ends of tho tape for tho purpose of opening the letter, there was a frightful explosion, Frau Pelka was thrown down and severely injured, and all the windows in the house were broken. As far as has been discovered from the fragments afterwards picked up, it appears that the letter contained some explosive substance, either dynamite or nitro-glycerine, and a cap and needle for its ignition, with which the tape communicated. The author of the crime lias not yet been caught; but whoever lie be ho lias not yet given up his intention of destroying Pelka, for lie has written a letter threatening to repeat the attempt on his life if he is not at once dismissed by his employer, " Subduing the Forest" is not without its dangers, as the following clip from the Rivorton Star will illustrate:—A settler at Wild Bush, named Dugald McDonald, was felling a tree when it lodged, and ho had to fall the other. In coining down one of them fell across his right leg, burying it in the ground. He dug his leg clear with his knife, but tho tree canted it and buried it again, nearly burying his body with it, lie cut a stick to bring his axe within his reach, and cut his way and dug himself out again. He then crawled out of the bush before ho could obtain assistance. By the time a doctor was brought, his leg was so fearfully swollen that more particulars could not bo ascertained than the fact that tho bones were brqken, the soft parts discolored, and the skin torn. He was removed to the Wallace and Fiord Hospital. The same man had His leg broken 15 or 10 years ago on his arrival in this district, when ho was attended by the same surgeon, and two years previous to the present date lie had his collar-bone broken, obtaining relief from tho same source, Even at Picton where the old residents appear to have outlived the necessity for a circulating medium, dirty bank notes are not now despised. A correspondent to the Marlborough Express writes How is it wo never now hear of those disgraceful bank notes that people raved so much about a couple of years ago ? The Colonial Press grew eloquent and indignation ran high when any mention was made of those filthy pieces of paper that were circulated in this benighted land. This species of currency was said to be the medium by which the seeds of every fatal miasma was borne abroad. Dipthcria, scarlatina, and a host of other infectious diseases were thus carried into tho bosom of one's family. Such delicacy is now a thing of the past. Is it because there is more courage or less money, or is it simply that i the idea of danger from that quarter has exploded! Whatever may be the cause, it is evident that when a man now gets half a chance he eagerly clutches these notes, and pockets them without a wince, diphtheria and all, The last note Iremember having seen, was one of the old sort. Judging from its appearanco it must have had three or four complaints besides general debility, but tho owner would not part with it,

Tenders ■ aro invited. by Mr Robert Donald for squaring 20,000 feet of timber for the Waingawa . Though Bishop Redwood will be unable to attend at Masterton to-morrow, tlio Church of St. Patrick will bo opened by the Rov Father Halbwachs with services in the forenoon and evening. We have no doubt but that the rev. father will bo well supported on the occasion of opening this beautiful edifice. A meeting of the Masterton Trustees was held last' evening, Present: Messrs A. W. Renall, R. Donald, F. Gray, and W, Perry. The appointment of Chairman tor the year was deferred till next' meeting, Mr Renall being elected Chairman pro. tern. Mr Feist was elected treasurer; Mr R. Rrown was also reappointed secretai y. Mr R, Donald handed in his resignation as a member of tho Trust, aa he was about to reside outside the town, The other business was merely formal. Masterton Male and Female Servants Registry Offico report is as follows: Female servants of all classes still scarco the demand has not been so great this week as last. Wages—general servants and housemaids, from 12s to 20s; cooks,' 20s to3ss; Nursegirls, 6sto 10s. Demand for men slow. Good ploughmen, fencers, and station hands waiting engagements, Wages as follows:—Farm and station hands, 20s to 255; ploughmen, 20s to 30s; cooks, 20s to 355; married couples, £BO to £9O; lads, 8s to 12s; pick and shovel men, 7s to Bs, per day, A short discussion, says the Chronicle, ensued in the Education Board yesterday upon a request made by Mr Mowbray, teacher of the Thorndon school, for a six months' holiday, The applicant stated that he required a rest, and has he had for twenty years been cooped up in the one building without a holiday he hoped the Board would favorably consider his application, The Yen, Archdeacon Stock thought six months a long holiday; ho had had one holiday in twenty years, and that was for six weeks four years ago; he would also remind the Board that teachers got the usual holidays during tho year, and had the Saturday to themselv js during the week. A Wicked reporter here interjected sotto voce, " the parsons have every other day but Sundays to themselves." The Rev Mr Paterson said he had not had a holiday for eleven years.' ■ Mr Pharazyn thought twenty years service deserved a six months' holiday. Ultimately tho leave asked was granted. If the parsons find cause for grumbling that they do not get sufficient holidays when they have practically only one leader a week to write—and that on a thread-bare subject, how much more so have editors and literary men to grumblo who havo numerous articles to write daily« on current matters, and who, if they take a holiday at all, have to make it up at their own cost. Under the heading "A bit of blood," tho Palmerston paper has the following':— " Paragraphs are continually being written retailing races between horses of flesh and those of iron, but they generally havo refence to half-hour spurts. The following, however, is one of a very different character being a . contest between the metal charger and a charger of mettle from Wanganui to Palmerston, Mr Henry M'Neil bade some friends good bye in Wanganui, as they were starting for Palmerston by tho train, and in doing so jestingly remarked that lie would be at the latter town first, He then harnessed 'bis horse and in company with Mrs M'Neil, Mrs Robinson, and another lady started along the road, a journey of between 00 and 70 miles, He arrived in Palmerston at four o'clock, and after driving home and depositing his cargo repaired to meet his friends in the approaching train, who' as may be imagined, were considerably amazed to see him. It may be mentioned that Mr M'Seil turns the scale at nineteen stone, but gallantry forbids us giving the weight of the ladies, although we may say that they were neither Asteas or Lilliputians.