LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5497, 28 November 1896, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Joseph Creelman sends ui a further letter about his counection with the National Association. Wo decline to assist him in misleading the public on this point He is a member aud was made one at his own request, At Mauriceville last evenint; Mr A.. W. Hogß said he had been all through the Electorate and well received everywhere tmpting in Masterton, There are nine woollen mills in the Colony at present. Euroelydon had a walk over for tho Onslow Plate at Dunedin yesterday. Mr W. C. Buchanan addresses the Gladstone electors to-night. 1 The strength of the Egyptian Army is to bo largely increused. Mr A. W. Hogg speaks at Mauriceville West to night at eighto'cloek. Mr D. J. Cameron holds a meeting at Hastwells, at eight o' clock to nittht. Tenders are called for tho Masterton Town Hall. Mr. F. H, Wood adds to the entries for his next Taratahi stock sale. Eight thousand dock lnbourers are on strike in Hamburg and the trouble is extending. Mr D. J, Cameron will address the ladies of Masterton at 4 p.m. on Monday next.

There will be Presbyterian services'-to-morrow afternoon at Dryerton and Wangaehu, A garden party and open-air limelight entertainment, are to come off at the Wesleyan Parsonago on Thursday, December 10th, The plans of the new Masterton Town Hall, prepared by Messrs Penty and Porde, show a very handsome building indeed. The Directors of the Bank of New Zealand contemplate erecting new premises, three or four stories high, at the corner of Lambton-quay, Wellington, A vigorous peal was rang out In the fire-bell last evening a(five o'clock\ The cause of the alarm was a chimney at Ah Lop's shop in Queen-street. There will bo special Temperance meetings next week at Opakion Monday; Dreycrton, Wednesday; Wangaehu, Thursday. The Drill Hall Temperance meeting takes place to-morrow evening after Church hours, not on Tuesday as noted yesterday. ' Messrs Ronayne, (General Manager), McLeod (District Engineer), and Donne (Traffic Manager) of the Hail way Department, paid a visit to Masterton last night. A fine specimen of a liyo brown lizard has been presented to the Masterton Museum by Mr August Johnston, of Myrtle Holmo,' To test tho correctness of a thermometer plunge it into a pail of partlymelted broken ice, and note ifit correctly registers the melting point of ice as marked on it. Mr C. E. Daniell left Masterton this morning on a business visit to Christchurch. He will lose no time, as he intends rotuming to Masterton next Thursday night.

The Hev, Mr Drake who speaks in Masterton to-morrow, is a young unmarried man who has only been a few years in the Colony, but has proved himself one of the doughtiest champions of tho great temperance movemeat. A medical authority says that infants should be weighed every week until thoy attain the ago of six months. If after the second week the child gains loss than four ounces each week we know there is somo fault with its nutrition The contest for the election of a member of tho Masterton Borough Council to represent tho West Ward, resulted in the return of Mr W. Dougall. The numbers polled wcro W. Dougall, 130; A. Sterapa, 96. Both candidates worked hard, Mr Doagall also getting a good deal of assistance from members of the Council. . TheKev. J, 8. Smalley pioaehes tomorrow at Mauriceville, Mangamahoe and .Eketahuha, the Rev, Lawrence Eyan, of .Eketaliuna, taking the Eev. Mr Drake's work in Wellington. Addrcssos on temperanco will bo given at all Wesleyan Churches to-morrow, by order of the Conference. The French penal oolony of New Caledonia is suffering from a sorious drought. Private advices received in Sydney last week state that" the drought has recommenced in a most serious form, and menaces us as much as that of last year.especially with regard to the prospects of our coffee crop." To-morrow is Temperance Sunday at all tho Wesleyan Churches. At the Masterton Church the llev. . Mr Drake, of-Wellington, will he the preacher morning and evening, and atfiangitumau at 2.30 p.m. Mr Drake 'visits Masterton by special invitation to address the meeting in the Drill Hall after the churches on Sunday evening. Services will also bo held at Weraiti at 2.30 p.m. and at Taueru at 1 p.m. As the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church has given special instructions to Ministers regarding the Local Option Poll on election day the Eev. Eooert Wood will proach in Masterton to-morrow in the morning on " God's voice in Science, History, and the Bible on the Liquor Traffic." In the evening ho will preach an election sermon on "Conscience in- Politics; or 'Christ or Barabbas."

Archdeacon Denison always held his own in insisting on beer at his famous harvest homes. His nephew, Prebendary Denison, has purchased a public-house in Portobello Eoad, in the parish in North Kensington, and turned it into a working men's club, where beer is sold to the members. He has put into it as manager one of his curates, a clergyman who by own force of character has risen from the rank The Bishop of Chester and Sjr Wilfrid Lawßon will no doubt visit tho club. In certain parts of the world, ipost notably that portion of the ocean west of the Capo Verde Islands,mariners, while hundreds of miles from land, often encounter what are known as" dry fogs," While sailing through theso fogs, whioh are usually of such density as to obscure everything and make navigation quite dangerous, the ship's deck,sails, and rigging become covered wilh a fine, brickcoloured dust, This dust falls in such a way that it is referred to by sailors as " dry rtfist." The quantity is sometimes sufficient to cover the deck to the depth of several inches, making it necessary for the men to work seyeral hours shovelling tho stuff overboard, A caeo occurred this morning in Jlasterton in which a certain owner of a vehicle got rather nicely mixed, and after getting his horse shod at a local blacksmith's, in pureabscnt-mindncss harnessed it to the first buggy he came across, which happened pot to bn his. The good man then drove off jn the direction of Fahiatua, blissfully ignorant of his appropriation of another's property, The owner of tho missing property camo along about half-an-hour later, and ascertaining tho position took the lush resident's buggy and started a stern chase. They were both at latest advices travelling on, and as the , one in the rear lives down the Lower Valley his state of mind may bo imagined,

The Eimutaka from London is expected toreachWellingtonon Monday. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their salelist for December 9th, three hundred fat wethers, Messrs Lowes and lorns announce their nest Masterton stock sale for December 9th. A shocking case of suicide took place at Bathurst the other afternoon, Miss Florence Howell, daughter of Mr W. B, Howell, auctioneer, shot herself. The Key. A, C. Yorke will deliver his first open air Advent address on Wednesday evening, 2nd December, instead of to-morrow (Sunday) evening. The Petono Navals havo arranged to affiliate with tlio New Zealand Kifle Association for the purpose of competing for the bronze medal of the Association.

The Government is stated to have purchased thoNgarua Block of 10,000 acres, situated in the Piako District, Auckland, from tlic natives for 6s an aero. Our Grey town correspondent writes: —" Mr Coleman Phillips addressed a large audience in the Palace •Hall last night. Mr C. W. Hornblow, J.P., occupied the chair. The speaker referred to the lieturning Officer refusing to accept his nomination fee and said it was his intention to upset tlxo election." Fatigue causes a chemical change in the blood, resulting in a production of a poison resembling the vegetable poison which certain savage tribes use for arrows. _ When tlio blood of a tired animal is injected into the arteries of a fresh one, the latter exhibits all the symptoms of fatigue.

Specimens of the woolly • headed thistle, now stated to be'largclv on the increaso in parts of the Masterton district, have been sent to Inspector Miller at tlio Masterton Stook Office. This weed is_ stated to be as bad as the Californian thistle, so settlers would bo wiso to use every effort to chock its spread. ' v The misery that exists in some alleged "homes"is rarely exaggerated when the story is told in Court, In one case yesterday a woman denied that slio had pawned her blankets for drink; she had none. Her husband had none to pawn either. She hadn't pawned the perambulator | she had sold it for two shillings—the wheels, at least; the other part was no good. Also, she denied haying pawned the tomahawk or taken four pounds of rico back to the grocers' to exchange it for money. Her husband, however, alleged that the did all these things, and chopped up every bit of furniture in the house as well. Matrimonial bliss I-N.Z. Tunes. Vacancies for gentlemen boarders at Bichmond House, Bannister-street, are advertised, An advertiser requires a young girl to assist with housework.

Five oases of new summer dress materials arrived at the Bon Mirchi this morning. These goods are of the' latest and newest fashions and desipns, having onlj arrived in the colon; on Monday. Messrs Hooper and Co. have also opened another consignment o! millinery, blouses, parasols, gentlemen's mercery, shirts, hats, eto.. As a speoial inducement for cash tho firm are giving ten percent, on prompt cash purchases.—Advt The leading hospitals in England and the Continent are enormous consumers of tigs, ii bsiog generally conoeded by tho principal lights of tho medical profession that more benefit is derived from a fig aperient than anything else. Woods' Kg Lasativois a fruit aporient of the greatest excellence. It has been graved in the most obstinate cases of liver trdubles and constipation, vcrysuitible for both sexes and children. Is Gd and 2s Cd.—J!dvt. Tho Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, Limited, Petono and Welling, ton. Tne Manufactures of this Company are sold by all leading drapers and clothiers. goods at moderate prices," Cricketing, Tennis, Cyoling and Walking Suits, Boating Sweaters' "First-class quality "Flannels, Blankets, Tweeds, Bugs, Men's, Youths', and Boys'' Clothing. Wellington Woollen Manufacturing Company, Limited. Trade Mark," Petone."-ADvr.