LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5378, 10 July 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Fcatherston Citizens' JMis fixed for Thursday, 30th July. The annual meeting of tho TaratahiCarterton liacing Club will be held on Saturday, 2otli iust.

Messrs Lowes and lorns announce their next Masterton stock sale for July 22ud... .

■- Notice o£ intention fo strike a general rate of live-eighths of a penny is given by the Mauriceville lioad Board.

Wo remind our readers of the meeting of those interested in tho formation of technical classes, to be held at the Volunteer Fire Brigado Station thiseyening.

Tlio Government docs not see its lvay tills session to introduce a Bill compelling lawyers and trust companies to publish their trust accounts like hanks, as suggested by Sir &. Whitmore. Mr T. Mackenzie considers that the rising generation has not that respect for sacred things, for their elders, and for women and girls, that they ought to have. A straw con.. and baling

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uaehine, having nil the most up-to-date mprovements, has just arrived iu Mas. tcrton from America, to the order of Mr Angus Eraser, of this too.

At the meeting of expressmen last night, ono of those present gave it as the reason a license fee was demanded from carriers by the railway authorities that bccauso the Liberal Government was running short oftravelling.expenses they wished to •' raise the wind." A trotting match between horses owned by W. liedmond and W. Whittaker took place over a two-mile course on the Opalii-road yesterday'afternoon, mid resulted in a fairly oasy win for Mr | Whiitaker's bay. Notice is given in another column that certain Crown Lands will bo open for selection at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, August 19th, under perpetual lease and lease in perpetuity conditions, Full particulars appear elsewhere.

Messrs Hornblow and Co. adcl to tlieir stock sale wliicli takes place to-inorrow one well-bred mare, Gyra., by Wapiti, out of a I'romier mare.

Mr Duncan, M.H.E., is asking for a Board of Appeal for members of the Police Force, on similar lines to the Kailway Servants Appeal Board. Mr Duthio is of opinion tlmt onethird of the population of the colony has no immediate connection with any church.

During the quarter ending .Tunc 30th there were fifteen births, four deaths, and four marriages registered in the Eketahuna District, The rainfall for the month of Juno at Ncwmau (Forty inilo Bush), was s'Bo inches, llain fell on fifccen days, the minimum on 9th, "D 3 inches, and the maximum on 20th, I*l6 inches.

A gentleman has written to tlio New South Wales Minister for Lands from New Orleans, suggesting that the Government should import the great horned owl to mitigate the'rabbit pest,

Good hotels have now been opened at Mount Uarmcl, Nazareth and Tiberias. This is only a sentence from tho official reportof theßritisli Consul at Jerusalem. But what a reminder of the distance the world has travelled since the days of tho Bible, remarks an exchange. The Anli-treating Bill, making it a misdemeanor "for any person to treat or offer to treat another person to an intoxicating drink, or to give or offer to give another person an intoxicating drink in any place where the liquor is sold," has passed the Ohio House.

Mr W. Hutchison—"l venture to make tho bold statement that two-thirds of those who signed tho petition in fayor of the Irish National Text Book being introduced into the Stato schools never saw the book at all." Sir B, Stout—-"Nine-tenths of them!"

Messrs Mackay and Bright are pushing the sale of their patent combined spade and rabbit poison layer, and have just issued a well-printed little pamphlet entitled "Mbit Extermination Made Easy." The "divine Sarah" has lately been in Montreal, and this is what a reporter of one of tlio local papers says of her: — " Sarah's hair last night viewed closely, was of gold, with a glint in it. It is not purely the peroxide oE hydrogen tint, It is not fast or showy. It might be natural, if you were not quite convinced that this could not be. It is coyly dishevelled and skittishly tousled. Sarah's lips made up with streaks of carmine. They are so thin that they resemble rosy tape sewn to her mouth j and when she smiles the npper lip rises like a curtain and displays a set of spiteful little teeth that can bite, and aro evidently willing to do so."

Henry Clarke age sixty, described as a labourer, was charged at the SouthWestemPolice Court with attempting to burglariously enter tho residence of Mrs. Matilda Hill, a widow, of eighty-eight, Wardley-strcet, Wandsworth. The prosecutrix said at three o'clock that morning she was awakened by the noise of someone forcing an entry into her house. She looked out of her bedroom window, and saw the prisoner trying to enter by the window below. He had already broken the glass. She threw down a flower pot, which struck him on tho head, cutting it opou. She rushed downstairs and held liiui until the arrival of a constable. The prisoner said bethought the house was an empty one. Mr Lane ordered a remand for inquiry.

What is coining oyer Scotland in the matter of Sabbath observance? The fact that Sunday golf and Sunday music haye of late found many, advocates beyond the Border is striking enough, but it was thought that this sort of thing was confined to tho great towns. That, however, seems to be a mistake. The Haddington Bowling Club has just resolved to open its green for play on Sunday,and" TheLampof theLotliians" will look down upon a scene such as it has not witnessed for centuries. Ihe Dundee Advertiser linds a reason for these departures in the activity of the extremo Sabbatarians which has hastened and not retarded the revolt against their views. Apart altogether from tho

Tightness or wrongness of those views, the case, it says, has been presented in a way to stir antagonism into action, Regularreaders of The SpeMorhsm met with a good mauy dog stories of late but none to excel this, which is told by a correspondent of ihe Bristol Times: —" A gentleman was travelling on the M,B: from Stonehouse to Bristol in a first-class smoker. 4 A lady got in at Yale just as the train was moving off. Tho gentleman was smoking a wellcoloured meerschaum pipe, which the lady indignantly throw out of the window. The gentleman retaliated by throwing out her dog. At Mangotsfield station tho lady called the guard, and was about to give the gentleman into custody for cruelty toiler dog, when, on turning round, tho guard espied the dog running along the platform—with the pipe in his mouth still alight! " And yet there are people who say that wo English aro an uuimagiuative race.

A young man named Alexander McKay lias gone raying mad under peculiar circumstances, at Lvbstor, Caithness. A few weeks ago lie waf bitten and scratched by a lunatic whom lio helped to remove to an asylum, but ho seemed all rielit until the other day, when lie went to the farm where he worked as a cattlemau, dressed in his best clothes and carrying an overcoat. About noon ho returned towards his home quite mad. Among the first to encounter him was a drill instructor, and McKay kicked him on the arm, shattering tho bone. Ultimately ho was secured with ropes,'only to break away again. Subsequently ho plunged into a mill dam, After going rescued from drowning he cut and scratched sovcral persons before lie was secured. He was subsequently sent bound and guarded to Montroso Asylum. The German Emperor lias been up Vesuvius in tho orthodox way, and greatly enjoyed the expedition. "We are pained to hear," says the Daily News, "that His Majesty 'scattered coius' all the way to the beggars who infest that dreary Portici-road—pained beeauso it will encourago the beggars, and raise their standard too the Emperor scattered silver); but pained also because the Emperor's fellow-countryman, tho judicious Mr Bafdekcr, lias, if we remember arijjht, specially cautioned all tourists against tho pernicious practice in question. That caution will liayo to disappear from subsequent editions, or tho indispeusible Mr Baedeker may find himself imprisoned for lest mj'este, and that would be an international calamity. Tho Emperor, it seems, was greatly impressed by Vesuvius. Nobody will be surprised at that. The volcano and its visitors aro essentially sympathetic. ' Great things are done,' says the poet, 'when men and mountains meet,' When will tho Emperor break out next, and where ?

It is justa hundred years since Jenner performed his first vaccination. The person operated upon was one James l?hipps, a lad of eight. In The Practitioner for May, which is a special Jenner number, the fact is recalled, and it is pointed out that Jenner looked well after Phipps, building him a cottage, and laying out a garden " stocked with roses." Our contemporary, howeyer, is greatly concerned that the centenary of the first vaccination, which is to he celebrated with appropriate pomp and circumstance in Germany, in Kussia, and in the IMed States, is to pass unheeded in England. The fact is certainly remarkable. It is true that when Jenner died the project for a national memorial to him was a failure, and that it was with considerable difficulty that money enough was collected for the erection of his statue in Gloucester Cathedral. But "distance lends enchantment," and that" the profession " should allow the present opportunity of glorifying one whom its members regard as among the greatest benefactors of the race, to pass unnoticed is difllcult for laymen to understand. 1 An advertiser requires a respectable youDg girl to assist la housework,

Messrs Lowes and lorns hold a general sale at their rooms to-morrowi the list for which Includes furniture, drapery, produce, harness, hay, poultry, and sundries.

Tim Maori ladies at Pipiriki have certain by-laws, included in which is a fine of os for men who get drunk. Another way in which the ladies propose to raise pin money.

AmarricdwomaninCaliforniarecently punished her husband for remaining out all night. She tied him up by tho thumbs and administered chastisement with a horsewhip.

We remind our readers of Messrs Hornblow and Co.'s estensivo sale which takes place nt tho Peoplo's Auction Mart to-morrow. Full particulars are announced in another column.

At the usual fortnightly meeting o tho Mustertou Mutual Improvemen Society, to bo held in the tyesleyant Schoolroom this evening, the ladies of the Society will giyo a musical entertainment, to which the public are invited free of charge. An elderly man employed as a rabbiter on the Blairlogic Station, was found dead on the road about three miles from the homestead, ycstcrdaymorniug. Mr T. Hutchison, District Coroner, went out to the Junction Hotel this morning to hold an inquest,

& French chemist has made a blue soap which will render unnecessary the bluing in laundry work. In ordinary soap ho incorporates a solution of aniline ijreen in strong acetic acid. Tho alkali of the soap converts the green into blue, uniformly colouring the mass,

A Dutchman has invented a penny automatic doctor. ' Tho waistcoat of an automatic figure is pierced with slots bearing the names of the best-known diseases in general circulation. You drop your penny in the aperture that bears the name of your malady, and out pops a " packet of medicine,"

The air breathed by the young ladies who attend to the Chicago Telephone Company's switch-room is washed) dried, heated or cooled, and compressed, before they are permitted to use it. It was found necessary to keep the air free from dust to secure perfect action of the switches, aud so the air is sprayed in the basoment, dried of moisture by centrifugal force, brought to the proper temperature, and forced into the room at a rate of 10,000 cubic feet a minute.

At the Masterton 5.M. Court this morning before Mr William Cullen J.P. (who took his seat on tho Bench for the first time since his appointment as a Justice) an elderly and penitent inebriate was charged with drunkenness. Accused pleaded for leniency and M r Cullen said: " I'll convict him and discharge him. If you come before me again you might got something worse!" This was all the business and the Court adjourned. A minister's littlo daughter, who had been to the church for the first time and heard her father preach, was questioned by him ou reaching home as to how she liked his. sermon. There was an embarrassed pause. Then the little maid, tired out with the long strain of "being good," and yet anxious not to offend in any wise, made answer, with a longdrawn breath of patient resignation, " You preached awful long, papa, but I beared it."

The biggest hotel in the world was formally opened recently. It stands ou the Thames embankment, and is known as the Hotel Cecil. Erected sorno years ago under circumstances well known, it has been completed under other auspices, and is now the most complete hotel in the world. There are 700 bedrooms and 300 other rooms. Of late yuars there has been a tendency in London to erect larger and larger hotels and a correspondent is assured that the larger the hotel the bigger is the success A enterprising French photographer in the Eue la Petetier, Pans, has set up a studio where for a moderate sum you can go and get an "X" Bay portrait of yourself to put in jour photograph album, The phrase," the family skeleton," will at this rato soon acquire a new meaning, and future generations will be able to point out our physical as well as our moral defects when showing the family album to admiring visitors. " That's my uncle Charles," you can imagine our descendant saying, "lou'll notice that his left lung is a trifle touched ; and that's my father. See his hands? That's where I get my gout from, you know." A meeting of Mastcrton expressmen to protest against the liceuso fee required by the railway authorities from those plying to the railway station for luggage and goods was held in tlio Club Hotel last evening, It was pointed out that since the meeting had been called information had been received that the license only referred to those who " solicited" for luggage on the platform, and not to tlioso who were employed to carry goods to and from the station. A doubt was expressed by those present as to whether this applied to tho carrying of passenger's luggago on the arrival of trains, when requested by passengers to do so, and Mr Tile, who was present, undertook to ascertain from Mr Donne, Traffic Manager, his views on the matter, Tho expressmen unanimously resolved to adhere to their determination to pay no licenso fee.

A recent number of the Auckland Herald, referring to an old Masterton resident says" last evening Mr J. W. Burton, student of Princo Albert College, gave an interesting address in the social room of the Y.M.C.A., on the proceedings of the recent Convention of the Students United Christian Union in Melbourne, which ho attended as a delegate from Auckland. The address gave an admirable resumo of the proceedings of the Convention, and particularly of the speeches of Mr Molt, who lately visited this colony, and who was the life and soul of the wholo gathering. Great interest was taken in the Convention both in Sydney and Adelaide. It was anticipated that only three student delegates would come from Sydney, whereas thero were twentysix, and Adelaide sent fifteen instead of two, Mr Burton dwelt on tho suggestion made at the Convention to 'equip tho student for the battle of life, to guard him against its temptations, and also against tho perils incident to university and college lifo, On the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mrßcckctt (Prince Albert College) a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr Burton for his clear and instructive address,

A story istold of tlielatcFowler Short, Bishop of St. Asaph concerning the bishop and his candidates for ordination, " Gentlemen," said the bishop to his trembling candidates, " I wish to know what Ability you possess in visiting the sick. I shall go into the next room and imagine myself a sick man, and you will come in ono by ono and minister to me. Don't he afraid, hut acl justas you would to one of your peasant parishioners." Enter a very nervous young deacon, shaking all over, and wishing ho could be fifty miles off. He looked all at sea, but at last screwed up Ms courage. "Well, Tom," said he," what's the matter p" " Very ill," said the patient; "I am afraid lamin a had way," The poor curate looked nonplussed and hope, less, but a bright idea struck him.' He fcltthepatient'spulse. Thepatientsnbmitted. Silence again. Curate again nonplussed,but again inspired, "Put out your tongue," was his direction, and soi-dilant sick obeyed, "Gfo along and get to work," said the curato briskly, "Thero nothing the matter with you; you are only shamming." Tho Bishop was much delighted, and soon after gave tho young man a living-Christian] leader.

The editor of a country paper wrote ono evening To-day is the anniversary of tho death of Louis Phillipo," When the proof was handed to him the namo read "Sam Phillips," and lie wrote on the margin " Who tho mischief is Sain Phillips p" The next morning tho article read, "To-day is the anniversary of tho death of Sam Phillips, Who the mischief is Sam Phillips P" A lecturer on chemistry said: "One drop of this poison placed on the tongue of a cat is sufficient to kill the strongest m&n,"

Additions aro mado to the entries for Mr G, A. Fairbrother's next Carterton stock sale.

Mr P. H. Wood's next Taratahi stock salo is advertised for Tuesday, July 21st, St. Patrick's College, Wellington, will re-ojieu after the winter vacation, on Monday next.

At the Mastorton S.M. Court yesterday judgment was niyen for plaintiS in the disputed wages claim—Kichard Clark v. W. A, Oameron-for £25 and costs. Judgment was also given for plaintiff in tlio caso W. Pragnoll v. J. McGuinness, claim £2 3s 6d. An inset will appear in to-morrow's issue from Mr J. L. Murray, announcing extraordinary reductions in prices in every department of Lis drapery and clothing establishment. All his goods have been marked down from twenty Kyoto fifty pet cent,

Mr J. L. Murray, is presenting two cuns which are now being made to his order, Ono to be competed for by the junior football teams, the other by teams belonging to tbe Thursday Union. The Cups are to be won twice iu succession or three times at intervals.

The following are the particulars of the business done in the Pahiatua Magistrate's Court for the quarter ending Juno 30th, 1896 Number of cases heard by S.M., fourteen; number of cases heard by Justices, fifteen; aggregate amount sued for, £909 12s 4d; aggregate amount recovered, £475 13s lOd; amount of civil fees paid in stamps, £46 7s, The number of criminal cases before the Court for the quarter were forty-one; persons taken into custody, summoned or apprehended, males thirtynine, females two; discharged for want of evidence, seven males; dismissed on merits, live males, ono female; summarily convicted, twenty males, ono female; otherwise dealt with, seven males; amount of criminal fees paid in stamps, £7; amount of fines paid in stamps, £2l9s; £9l9s. . The aunual general meeting of the North Island members of tbe Sheepbreeders' Association was held yesterday, Mr J. G. Wilson, M.H.E., occupied the chair. The report and balance-sheet were read and adopted. The latter, showed a very satisfactory balance on the credit side. The election of the council for the ensuing year resulted as follows: Mr J. G. Wilson, B, Cobb, G, Wheeler, W. C. Buchanan, A. Matthews, J. Stuckey, A. JlcHardie, J. H. Williams, S. T. Seddon and J., Baker. Another member is to be elected to represent Auckland. Mr E. W. Dorset was unanimously re-elected secretary. Ten new flocks were sent in for registration. The risk of introduction of the tick plague was discussed, and the Mowing resolution passed;-" That in view of destructive plague of ticks at present causing heavy loss in Australia, the North Island Council of the New Zealand Sheep-Breeders' Association desire to bring under the notice of the Government the danger of allowing the importation of hides from the neighbouring colonies."—N.Z. Times.

Speaking at ft Church Pastoral Aid Society meeting in Carlisle, Archdeacon Madden, vicar of St. Luke's, Liverpool, said: A popular idea of a clergyman's duties was tlinthc preached two sermons on Sundays, and spent the rest of the week attending his babies, or it might be, his pigs. (Laughter). Some of them, ho could tell them, would not object to four sermons a week if that was all they had to do, but the variety of the calls upon a vicar like himself in a largo town was amazing, There was the mothers' meeting, at which ho had to talk to the mothers as if ho was an old woman himself. (Laughter). Then there were the young women, and he was supposed to know everything about them and their difficulties. There were also the young men, the children's Band of Hope, the Boys' Brigade, clubs, and ho did not know how many things. Then the young men came and said they did not see" the vicar" at sucli and such a meeting, and hoped he was still "interested "in the matter. " Interested!" ho replied," of course lam interested, but I can't livo on promises." (Much Laughter), Although he wroto for about two hours every morning, people camo to see him about all kinds of people and all kinds of things. If it was only their too that ached they came to tell him about it. (Laughter). Ho sympathised with them, and it was wonderful the amount of good it did them, The doctors were not in it. (Moro laughter), They were even writing to him now to proyide them with servants. He had a letter from a lady requiring a good cook —laughter—and another person recently came to him and said, " Me I don't want to troublo you, out I want some lodgers." (Much laughter). Some vicars in big cities were working sixteen hours a day, and for weeks together he had nover been'in bed before one o'clock in the morning, /

It is not so widely known as it should be that tho Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company gives employment to some 400 persons and pays away in wages tho large sum of £IB,OOO n year. This alone entitles the Company to the support of all workers in the North Island, Tho works at Totone are quite a hiyo of industry, and on inspection of tho up-to-date machinery there is a liberal education. If thero were any 'esprit' about New Ztolaud people 110 woollens would ever pass the customs, as there is no question that tho Petone Mill's goods are unapproachable for wear and appearance. The Company has recently embarked in tho trade of making up their manufactures into clothing, shirts, etc., and so successful lias it proved that difficulty is experienced in keeping pace with tho orders that flow in. Wo feel we are doing our readers a servico in pressing them to ask their drapers anil clothiers for Petone goods, and, to borrow a motto from a famous soap advertising firm, " ones tried you will discard all others,"—Advt,