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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4497, 15 August 1893, Page 2

Owing to an oversight, in our yes* terdsy'aissue we omitted, to acknowledge a paragraph from the N.Z, Tiqicb, relating to the Adelaide Boad stabbing affray. Mr D. Crewe fixes bis next Eketahuna etcok rile for Friday, September Ist, at 1 o'clock. Entries to date appear in another column. The prize fund of 'Jie Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Association, for the next annual show, already amounts to over £3OO, The Masterton Borough Council meet thiß evening. Tho Wairarapa" Faatoral Society iB Bbout to acquire land adjoining the present show ground at a cost of £l)s.

Saturday was a beautiful day, and there was consequently a large gathering at tho meet at the Taratahi.in the afternoon, says the Standard. Three runs had been arranged for. The first starting : from the back of Bay's hotel, and over fences and through open timber land till the check, pot far from the main road. The public who had assembled in considerable numbers and included several lady spectators, saw very little of this run except to witness that Walden came off Titus at about tho second jump. Hunters, however, deolared it-to be a 6rst glass Bpln, Alter ft breakaway they went again for a short spurt this'time to the neit oheok, all coining up to time in excellent style,' The third spurt was aloug tho paddy'.ka at the back of Olareville, and 10 the death in front of Ray's hotpl. The hoppled chema rattling pace, though they made-very little "muth 11 and the fences' were, however, taken in a very gallant style. The following were amongst those that joined in the sport :-Q. Tully (Deputy faster) on Lelia, Boake on Dandy, Bugheßpn tsquire, Bobinsnn, on'M.B., (Veller/'on Hooket, Walden orii Titus, Meiow on Wangaimoana, Mcintosh, bbveiny on Tomboy,, Bay on Konini, : UoPheeonKfatator.Pilmeroii Exchange, 11 iravostook'on Spy* Dawson on Honest lohn, Welch on Half-caste, Burnett on diro, Perry on Sunbeam, Dalgleish on leneril, and several others whose names re did not obtain': The day's sport waa ipioh en Wed by the hunters the pebt§tors.'L .. ■■; ~.: ; ..... •_'■".'. .A novel Detition was jately presented ram Manchester, Salford and nei?hboiirood to the Bouse of Commons, measur, igjpbojitOJjift in.length, andcpntainjng 0,000 signaturei of; gaiters', jorrjmen jjdi others: f hpicome/unoV tie trade eacriptidnbfii'/horeemen,! 1 ; The peti-' oners ask hrliatsent to prohibit the raciiije called- "foe :tTrp.pa?)i?gjriiteni," hioh;ij pr'efaleht inv/theiNftr'th oi ngland.;/jhe etlatoiß is to placa; two le horse carts undor the control of e ogle driverjlthV hptae : 6f; the second irt boibg iaßteiied to the back: of, the

Mr D. Crewe will hold an■'important I "ale gf.diiijr stock at ; his Pahiatua yards lon the29thimt. 180 iiead of young cows and heifera of exceptional merit will be offered.; V' : "»'

■sh» Standard understands that the Mabnes of the Wairampa haw raised sufficient money to oany their case poncorning the Wairarapa Lake to the Privy Oounoil by way of appeal. MrMenteath haß been retained to carry the matter through'. The Natives interested" hare subscribed the amount pro rah. ■-■-■■ The Wairarapa Agiuultural and Paetoro] Assooiatlon hasdeoided against the one judge eystein of judging stock. . The Inland Printer (Ohicago), ope. of the leading trade organs in the world, ', contains in its July issue ■ a biography, with an excellent porcti.it, of the late Mr O.Didsbury, New Zealand Government Printer. - .

Five thousand miners in Cumberland have gone ont on strike.

_The Duko of, Connaught is to succeed Sir H.'Evelyn Wood as Commander of ; Aldorahot District.

A memorial against Home Rule, signed by 103,000 Irishwomen has boon presented to tbe Queen. The Australians won the oriu'-et matoh against Liverpool and district by an innings and 34 runs.

_ The Eatl of Kittore will not now retire from the Governorship of South Australia until the term (six years) for whioh he waß appointed expires, The brothers Delahuoty, who received life sentences. in 1882 tor agrarian outrages in Ireland, have been released.

The Parliamentary Petitions Committee has received a--memorial from twenty-six residents of the Bhtckburne district in Hawke's Bay, protesting againßt a portioi, ot the iCorest Reserve being h«nded over to Special Settlement Associations on the ground that tho land is not suitable for the purpose and that the promoter had made arrangements with applicants by which he is to receive sixpence per acre if the applications were granted, The Committee recommend that effect be given to the petition. The Surveyor-General reports that an application has been received from Mr W. P. Howlett, on behalf of tho Euahino Speoial Settlement Association tor 4500 aorcs but that nothing has yet beendono in the matter.

Theßummer number of Night and Day, published in connection with Dr Barnardo'e Homes, has arrived by the last Frisco mail.

Sir_ Henry Porkea intends to visit Adelaide, Melbourne* and various parts of this colony for the purpose of deliver, ing addresses to forward the cause uf Federation.

The oholera is spreading on the Continent, and a case is reported from Grimsby. In Mow York there are eight more oases among the Italian immigrants,

Mr Ooghlan, Government Statist, estimates the Brilvh deposits in the Australian banks at not less than £40,000,000. The calculation i« based on the Lecember quarter of last year. He gives the total liabilities ot the colonial banks at £110,994,000, and the assets at £1(i0,7fi4,000.

Compared with the simple-rites of less civilised peoplo, our marriage ceremony seemß a trying ordeal for a young and bashful couple to go through. The Cherokee form of marriage is, perhaps, the simplest and most expressive of any The man and woman merely join hands over a running stream, emblematical of the wish thr.t their future lives, hopes and aspirations should flow on in the Bame channel. Between the mountains of India and Persia is a powerful tribe, among whom an extraordinary custom prevails, Women's rights apparently have received full recognition, for the ladles of the tribe oan choose their own husbands. All a single lady has to do when she wishes to change her stato is to send a servant to pin a handkerchief to the hat of the man on whom her fancy lights, and he is obliged to maiiy her, except he can Bhow he is too poor to purohase her at tho price her father requires. .The way the Cingalese and Tartar tribes have of popping the question is about as singular »■ their marriagß rites. The man sends and purchases the lady's wearing apparel. Of course, if she does not like tuegentloman she need not part with the contents of her wardrobe, but if he ia the favoured one she readily does so, knowing that when the evening comes they will be re. turned to her by her suitor in person. The three placed birds in the pigeon race in connection with the recent Weilington Poultry Show had another trial of pace on Saturday afternoon, flying over the same ground. The result, curiously enough, was exactly the same aB in the previous race. -Mr T. J.'Leighton's Lady Gwyder taking- first p'ace, with a velocity of 1328 yards per minute, Mr W.Baileys Lance second, and Mr J. G. Smith's Brooklyn third. The lastnamed bird was liberated at Wanganui at 12.30, and arrived home si 3,18, being 2hrs 48min on the road. Lady Gwyder, liberated at 1 o'ole <k, reach id home in 2hrs llinin j the Lance liberated at 1,80 p.m., flew the dlttance in 2hrs 14min 30suo, MrTownsend started tho birds at Wanganui, and Mr W, Ross acted as timekeeper in Wellington, Next Saturday races are to be flown from Wanganui and Napier.—Post, The Fair American has discovered a new uee for shoes. Instead of canying a bouquet, the maid of honour at tho wedding carneß a satin slipper hung to her arm by ribbons, and filled with flowers. Thus the slipper with its contents constitutes a very delicate and appropriate missile to throw after the departing couple. ■

A meeting to consider the desirability of securing a new cenietery rite for Eketahuna will he held on Saturday, August lOlh, at tho. Ekotahuna School.

About two years ago (say* a correspondont to a contemporary), Lo Bengulu, King of Matebelaml, ordored a very strong waggon'to be made, in which he and his followers were to explore some remote land in his territory. All wont well until they were returning home, when there was a dry spring to be crossed, in which operation the oxen swerved, causing a wheel to rise on a boulder, at which the King grew impatient, and, jumping out, walked over. Just then the river game down (these things haopen in a most extraordinary andunowotediray in Africa), carrying waggon and oxen with it out of sight, The driver, however, managed to reach the bank where stood Lo Bengula, who said; "Where is my waggon and where myoien?" "TJiey are gone, King;" the unlucky nigger had to confess, shaking all ovor. Turning to his young men Lo Bengula said," "Tie him up," which was done; '• then send him after the waggon," and they sent him.

r The beautiful weather experienced in 'Masterton both yesterday and to-day, has dopp good to the town in more ways than one; The main street is now passable on foot, and quite a number of the swagging fraternity have taken up their beds and walked.

1 A Soon TuEttt the preisnt to buy Men's i Bey'e, and Youth's Clothing cheaply. You I can get tbom atthe lowest Sale and Wvage i prices, with' a dlsconut of .1. in the £ , ttinrned in oash, the next 15 days only , atTeAroHoise, [ ThbDuei Ohoke ever yet offered, juook i to it men. Heavy. Scotch Tweed Sails at i 325.6df0r.325.Gd, ColoniaUweed Suits at , 87s fid lor 16s 6d, with an extra cash rift of , lslnthejy, ■ ~..'•'•"*•"?■'•' ' to "BnnJHto'.m in? % Men's Tweed Vestsatijsllfl and.ltlid, Heavy'lVddle Tweed Trousers a! 19s 6d for Ms 6d,' Buij d 20« parcti of tiusi and t-xm a cask Mm of U in tkii ■■■' , FrrrjEN ■■ dm •: 0^;. Men's Tweed Overcoats 85s tor lfy Gd, Youth's Tronse? Bui|B 2}p (or }3s 6(1, tuict torrid the utile (jawimfb/.if h. #e £i .-■'■■■\'Y", ■:• ■ V „ Mi* it t%r< $e bftft foiin i«.; Tweed Knickers a|3s 6t, for 2s Bdr Bobopl suits'at 8.3 fid for 4s ljd. -Heavy.' Seixe Knjok,er Spits}DYO(!forfis6d.. tyMm fat #l/if«sno)»rv;.;>-•'■;,' ■--v •■ ■--..' i]|.prices Ufa Sale and Salvagewith the extwdiscbuntbf ls'in 20swprlhandjiprat'TeM House,. Wei. Uogtbb.r; i ■"■': :: ■■ J

: Amostextraordinary; broodof chicks has just been haiched.by'a hen belong: ioßte a Maatortdn residentvaOne has four legs, another has the' lower portion of its .beak turned in a : direction exactly opposite to. the ordinary fowl, and .one has no legs; but only feet Sticking from its body. Neatly all the others ere more or less deformed, although they appear strong and healthy... Astrong ablo-looking man applied to, Mr E. H. Waddingtou this morning, for a letter of rncomraendatioo to the Old Men's Home at Wellington.- Mr Waddington eyed the appltontßnd remarked thai ho did not look a likely subjeot, whereupon tho'man said " Oh I yes sir, lam. 1 have not had my shirt washed for the last three months, and surely the country will not stand by and see me treated:in this manuer.". Despite this touching appeal the man was not forwarded: to the Old Men's Home, but it is quite probable thathe will soon bo forwarded to "another place" as a vagrant, as the Sergeant is keeping an eye on him,,

Tho Library and Gas Committee of the Masteiton Borough Oounoil met lest evening, no business of any importance being transacted. A notice of application for the transfer of eection 61, Block T,, inlhe Mangacne Survey District, appears in another column.

'• I saw," says a writer in ■ tha Me Detmerat," a curious method uaed, the other day in Illinois, to take foul air out oi a well. The well waa to be oleaned.but the man that took the job was afraid to go down until he had ascertained the quality of the air at the bottom. He let down a lighted candle, and when it descended to about Bixfeet"from the bottom it went out as suddenly as though extinguished-by a whiff of air. That was all he wanted to know. He was then sure that the well hadl poiaoaous gas in it, and took a small umbrella,, tied a tiring to the handle and lowered it opea into the well, flavin;; let it &o nearly to the bottom, he drew it up, carried ii a few leet from the well and upset it. He repeated thiß operation twenty or thitly times, with all the bystanders laughing at him, then again lowered the light, which burned clear and bright even at the bottom. He then condescended to explain that the gas in the well was carbonic acid gas, which is heavier than air, and therefore could be brought up injm umbrella just as though it were 13 mnch water. It was a simple trick, yet perfectly effective." A remarkable natural phenomenon (writes a correspondent of the North Cliina Daily New) was witnessed at Nauking on the night of the 13th May, at 10.30, when the • inhabitants living in the vicinity of the Viceroy's yamen were visited by aM-itorm, the average size of the hail being that of "a ohicken's egg" with a pink colour and an offensive odour. It hailed for over an hour, aid wsb observed to fall only within a radius of 300 square yarda from the Viceregal yamen. No other spot beyond this area' was vißited by the haiktonos. The superstitious Chinese think that the blood of the innocents shed in the Kola Hui trials has risen up to heaven, and that this is a warning to the judges. The Fiji correspondent of the Ofajo Daily Times says:-A service of carrier pigeons has been started between Suva and Nausori, where the; largest sugar mi ll« in tho country ars situated, and only distant about fourteen miles over fairly level country, which presents not the slightest difficulty to the conßtruotion of a railway, to say nothing of such a simple thing as a telephone wire; but as these matters do not affect the native population or any of the dark-skinned pets of the powera that be, nothing .will ever be done. Tho pigeon is a-greet advance upon the foot 'messenger, the bird being able to accomplish "the distance in from ten to fifteen minutes, and is independent of the uobridged and swollen creeks which the loot messenger has to orossj besides, under the most favourable circumstances, the heavy bush trank (for there n no road or anything worthy of the name three miles cut of Suva) requires at least three and a half or four hours to traverse. Monstrous as suoha state of matters is, it is'nothing out of the way in a Crown Oolony. One of the quaintest details of the opening of the World's Fair a! Ohio* o that has reached Englaud is the deßcripof how, in the quagmire through ■ which thegithering crowd had pasßed, hundred of lost goloßhes, hats and other articles were visible, and were afterwards collected by the buoketful. It must have been a very Slough of Despond, for the rubber or gum shoe of the American is too praotioalin its fastenings to come off easily, and ia a very useful article in a country where all but the very_ rich proceed even to evening partiesjn publio conveyances. There is a atory, by the way, of an Englishman who was horrified tu hear an American lady asking for a door mat on which, to "wipe her gums." M, Jules Olaretie, the administrate! of the Oome'dio Francalse, paid a visit shortly before his arrival m London to the battlefield of Waterloo. It waß seventy-eight years ago last June 18th that the battle was fought, yet M. Olar- 1 etie was still able to glean aomethiug in the locality from actual sye-witneases of that mighty historical event. In the little wine-shop called the Sells Alliance where Wellington and Bluoher, 'according to an inscription met and saluted after the victory, he found two old women engaged in darning stockings. Thoy appeared to take, very little notice of strangers, but on being questioned the elder of the two deolared that ihe wsb overninetv years of age. "I wai twelve yean old," she said, " at the tims of the battle. I was living with mj parents at Flancenoit, We took refuge ill of us on the Friday in the woodi with the cattle, It was on a Sunday ( they fought. •]t was just after ray first i o mimunjoD, and on the day of Saint Dqnnat, a saint in whow honour there is a pilgrimage in the neighbourhood, 1 When all was over we went out and saw ' dead bodies everywhere, At night after , the battls thtre was a storm, The bodies beoame swollen through the ram, and I there were fears of a pestilence, They , were buried in heaps, with dry branches , between each layor, and then the . branches were set fire to, or quicklime was poured in the trenohes," Tho N.Z.Times states that a letter has been received in Wellington from Admiral Murray.Aynaiey whioh leaveß no doubt as to the death of Mrs MurrayAynßley having been the result of a misadventure, The Adiniral, afterallud. ingto the oau>e which had undoubtedly injuriously affected his wife's bodily health, says:—She, however, always disliked seeking raedjoal advioo, and had coneeqently npt consulted the medical officer pn board. ... 'lt is, how> ever, absolutely clear that on the night In question she wished to bo alone, simply in order to carry out a long-believed-inidea of obtaining relief by bleeding, With this object she held her arm over a basin while starling the operation, but fainted and fell through loss of blood. So far from having any intention of taking her life, her object I was to render' her life endurable by 1 lessening the sense of fulness which she always felt at certain times in her arms. In this way she attempted an operation whioh her bodily condition rendered her specially unfit to carry out," . ~, 'I may also add .that, while naturally" far from cheerful during the voyage, there was nothlnir approaching the mental depression alluded to in the public prints,'

A craze for bargains set inth,js morning ai the Bon Wp, tEatui Hobperi PPjSWi fjfvs sfarted dialing out the balance (.f our winter stock. Our bargains arealwaya fiennihe. We don't say foil at coat price, because no one m v«y few could test it not ;yhat the cost price is; WMotft offer .oft- goods' at 20 per cent taunt beoaiise'nb.one pan check •&! sffipM(.noy &»iriiig onwbaf'ft la ftased.' ; We rely upon |h(. prices aj which we bargalss.anil in nfte cases', out pf nine ftnA-a-ialf tboso prices are stawiercra pothfor.|he Public apd the Trade, Of course; wcare gulag to lose money~over this job I How could we do. otherwise? Bui whynot? ..Why shouldn't we U well ,as other.pooplo ? Everybody's losing. money now-a-days, and we arr, prepared to drop our share just for the sako cf :ompany, but thai iie lose we lose in a good cause.' We benefit the Public so keep your eye on the BonMarchafof bargains,'. Everything at .paatojiiWr ;;.•'•' :■:■:■■.;:. •,■■'"■■•.■;■"'

!•"' The .output ot «as at the Masterton Gas Worka. for tho month of July, was, ! 304,740 cu'bio feet against 329,890 feet for the corresponding period if last year, beitig an inorease of 34,850 feet. J :

News haß been reaeived that Mr Joseph, Barnard whom it is allegtd abscoudedfrom Greytdwn with a largo Bum of money, has not been arretted, 1 as the warrant was not received in time, and that he sailed in the 'Frisco boat on Saturday afternoon. V meeting of his orbdirors will probably be held to.d»y.

Meesrs Lowes and lorai add to their Masterton stock sale, for Wednesday 28rd August, ten coirs and ' hoifers an d taenly yearlings,

in important meotingof the Volunteer Fire Brigade is convened' for to-morrow evening when important business will be brought before the members. ,