CONSULTATION SWINDLES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8561, 1 June 1895, Page 2

CONSULTATION SWINDLES.

Notwithstanding the faot that the general publio throughout this colony have been repeatedly warned by the Press concerning the "Consultations" promoted in Australia from time to time, and that the vast majority of such sweeps have been shown to be nothing more nor less than rank swindles, there are still to be found many gullible enough to invest. The result of one of these consultations has iust been shown to us, and on the face of it there can be but little doubt that the confidence ti-iok has again been successfully workod. It is suggested from the figures being given in numerical order, with rety convenient gaps b«trsTe»n, that they represent the numbers of the tickets remaining in the hands of the promoter at the time of oloaing the sweep, and probably this indicates how the swindle has been worked, forthe chevalier d'industrie would thereby scoop the pool. The enterprising swindler must be making a real good thing out of his dupes, for from another source we were later shown a further prospectus purporting to emanate from him for a fntur* consultation on one of the Australian raoes, holding out as a bait all sorts of daszling prizes, from £2000 for the first horse, down to innumerable cash prizes of various rained. The tiokets in question, the " result," and also the prospectus mentioned may be seen at this offioo, and intending investors may se* the same should they so wish. It 'is really high time that every person in the community set their faces in very decided manner against these consultations — nine-tenths of whioh are nothing less than bare-faced robberies — and it is really hard to say who are the wont — the people who promote them or the dupes who support them. There oan bo no donbt as to who annexes the money.

Captain Edwin wires: — North-east to north and west gale, with rail and heavy Sea. Glass further fall. Indications of high tides. The Times says that the expansion of Australian exports ought soon to modify the existing tariffs. The proprietary of the Marton Meroury announce in to-day's issue that the paper will be published as usual until otherwise announoed. In the House of Coxuaons Mr Buxton promised tkat the Now South Wales Government would receive the first notice of the appointment ef the late Sir G, Dofs aaeeetaor.

In the House of Commons, referring to the seizure of the Midland Bailway by tke New Zealand Government, Mr Buxton said the Imperial Government watt unable to act in the matter until the Ministers received some complaint from city men jrate rested.

Mr James Laird, of the JEgmont Nursery, Glasgow -street, invites inspection of his largo and well-frown assortment of fruit forest, and ornamentaljtrees, roses, oamelias, azaleas, daphnes, etc. To meat the times, a considerable reduotion will be made for cash. The Nursery is close handy to town and a visit will be well worth any time expended.

The local Sunbeam division of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance announce that they intend celebrating their anniversary on Thursday, June 18th, in the Wesleyan Schoolroom by a tea and entertainment, An interesting programme is being prepared, particulars of which will be announced later on. The tickets have been fixed at the low price of Is for the tea and after meeting-.

One grevious burden of Australian mining is the cost of dynamite. It is made for 4d a pound in Germany and other parts of Europe, as well as ia Amerioa, where it is retailed at 6d ; but in Australia, where the price ie controlled by a convention, it varies only between Is 8d and Is lOd. This is an outrage. The consumption in Australia must be at least 2000 tons a year, which, in round numbers, oosts a quarter million sterling too muoh.

At a largely attended meeting of tho Executive of tke New Zealand Alliance, held last evening, it was resolved to mold a colonial convention of representatives of all Temperance Societies from all over the colony in Wellington about the first week in Jnly. A large number of delegates have already promised to attend, and if; is expected that the gathering will be ono of the largest and moat representative ever held in NewZealand.

liate Sydney papers state that a son of Mr Falkenhagan, of Eail Toorala, in New South Wales, was lost in the bush from a Tuesday until the f ollowins Bunday. The little follow, who was only 23 months old, was tracked for a distance of thirty miles. His tracks led over a rabbit proof wire fence, and it could be seen where he slept tinder the bnsb at night. During the fire cold nights in the bush, without food or drink, the little fellow mast have suffered terribly. When found by the traokar he was walkiDg along, though very muoh exhausted, and on catobing sight of the traoker he simply asked for a drink. All the station hands were out; searching for him,

A oelebrated American millionaire once boasted that ho wai able to buy up the whole of the United Kingdom, Taking this as his text, and supposing for the sake of argument that the British Itlet ware for ■ale, a writer in an English paper his just made lome calculations to show how much tke millionaire would hare to pay for them* It would amount to just about £12,000,000,000. Such is the estimate made by Dr. Giffen, the Rteat Board of Trade statistician, on the Income tax returns. In 1885 the value of this nice little property was just about two thousand millions lesi than the above estimate. In exact figures i figures it WM £10,037,000,000, J

# # » On our fourth page will be found the usual we*kly instalment of our serial story. The Wairere goes to Pipiriki on Tuesday. The St. Kilda goes to Hewoastle on Tuesday for a oargo of coals.

An advertisement in a Sydney daily for " a first class draper " last week elicited 307 applications in one day.

Four decrees absolute and 11 deorees nisi for the dissolution of marriage were granted by the Sydney Divorce Court on May 14.

Five women, who were fined a small sum at Mmmi for tia-kettling non-unionists, were sent to Maitland Gaol, as they refused to pay.

The wife of a Euroa (Victoria) resident has presented her husband with their 31st child, and it) is said that all th* offspring of the couple are living.

In consequence of the inability of two gentlemen taking leading parts in the " Trial by Jury " to attend on June 11th the performance has been postponed for a week.

The Rev. O. H: Garland will preach tomorrow evening on " The B elation of the Forgiveness of Dins to the Death o£ Jesus." (Ephesians i., vii.) The nomination* for the Nominations for the New Zealand Cup as published elsewbere show a total of 55 as against 73 for the same race last year.

The Brunner News reports that a grayling weighing 32 ounces has been caught n the Arnold River. The fish was 16in long and its depth was nearly 4in.

During last month 17 p&tientu were admitted to the Wancranui Hospital, 11 were discharged and S died, leaving 15 in tke institution up to the 31st. The inoome of the Sydney City Mission for this year reached a total of £4031 10s 4d, the largest ever received, but inoluded legaoies of £580. Ten of the town hotelkeeperss are applying for an extension of hours until 11 p.m. at the meeting of the Lioensing Committee to be held at noon 09 Tuesday next* Mr W. L, Mountfort courteously gap : plMs fch» following regarding the rainfal in Wanganui during the month of May ' — Bain fell on 10 days, the total fall being 2*ol inohes. For the corresponding month of last year rain fell on 18 days, the total fall being 683 inches. At the Melbourne Easter Monday sham fight : — Captain Buggins coming out from behind a fenoe, waving a white handkerchief to the enemy : " Will Captain Jobson oblige with a few hundred rounds of cartridge P If not, we must retire." Cartridges sent, ud to the amusement of the crowd, the firing was renewed. A trying experience fell to the lot of the American barque Harvester, which has arrived at Newcastle from Dalagoa Bay, owing to an outbreak of fever. The vessel was only five days at sea when fever and ague made its appearance, and three of tho crew were stricken down. The next day several more hands were laid up, and each succeeding day the number was added to, till out of 16 hands all told, only three remained on deck to navigate the ship. The captain and chief officer were amongst the victims, so that the second mate and two men were for days the only persons well enough to attend to the work of the vessel. The captain was one of the first to become convalescent, and no sooner was he able to be on deck than the seoond mate fell a viotim to the malady, and the other two men followed. The Oscar Wilde scandal is a delicate s abject for a. newipape* to comment upon, but the Otago Times has managed to do it neatly. Dealing with the subject of base vioss historically, it is shown that great wealth accumulations and the aggregation of wealthy people in cities has always tended to produce immorality. Prom consideration of the past and present this lesson Is drawn for the guidance of the future : " That the labor of life, the work and struggle, the anxiety and the worry which mea and women are so apt to dread, are, after all, the great tonics of mind and body that preserve the human being against a descent, in the moral scale. So that the parent who works and struggles that bis children may live in idleness and luxury may be at; one and the same time sowing the seeds of their destruction and assisting in the degeneration of the race." A meeting of creditors in the estate of J. D. Tvstin was hold at th» office of the D.O.A. (Mr J. Notman) yesterday afternoon: Creditors to the value of £650, out of a total of £714, were represented personally or by proxy. Tha following resolution was oarried, being supported by 40 creditors representing J6505 6s lid as against on* creditor representing £146 6s :— "That in consideration of the dividend already paid (amounting to 17s 4d in the pound), the creditors in the estate of J. D. Tustin, of Wanganui, hereby agree to surrender to the debtor the right to collect the rents of tke Wellington property left to him under the provision of his father's will, and hereby authorise the D.O.A. to convey to the debtor such, right by deed. Further, that the D.O.A. be requested to close the estate forthwith." The chairman rnled tkat as tha resolution bad bees carried by a majority in number representing throe-fifths in value it would ba given effect to, if confirmed at a subsequent meeting to be held on Tuesday, Jnu» 18th.A vary good start was made last evening wish th* local Parliamentary Union, the first sitting of the session of 1895 passing off most successfully. There was a goodly attendance of members, and a number of ladies bestowed their patronage on the j assemblage. After the Governor's speech j had been read by His Excellency (Mr F. M. Spurdle), the re-election of Mr E. W. Andrews as Speaker and Mr A. Olliver as Chairman of Conunittes wai unanimously agreed upon. The Address-in-Beply was moved in an excellent and able speech by Mr W- Boss, and seconded by Mr X. Hutchins, after which the policy of the Government was briefly outlined by the Hon. the Premier (Mr J. Hollo way). The debate on the speech was kept up in a spirited manner till the hour of adjournment (10 o'clock), when the Address-in-Beply was oarried on the voices. The following other members took part f; —The Hons. StaffaD, Creswell, Tine, Hainsworth, and Ball, and Messrs H. Williams, T. Lloyd, F. W. Jones, and E. W. Grean. The first polioy measure of the Government will be introduced at the next meeting of the Usion by the Hon. T. B. Cresswell, Minister for Sail ways, to the effect that the railways be handed back to the Commission. -

The tea mooting and entertainment projected by the teaching staff of the Girls' School with the objeot of Augmenting the pri» fund, was a very happy idea and its tuceeia last night wai of the moat aubitantial nature. So hearty was the response of parent* and friends that a more than liberal donation of good things ceuld hardly be found room for on the well-appointed tables, and when all sat down shortly after six o'olook, the Drill Hall presented a very animated appearanae, Notwithstanding a yery protraoted disouision of the eatables and drinkables, it was found at the oonconclusion. that many of the dainties still remained, which w«re quitkly handed OTer to cash customers. Those to whom partioular crsdit is due in arranging and presiding at the tables, include Misi Blythe, assisted by Mimes MoDonough and Hartland 5 Mils Swing, assisted by Muses A. Oarson, Gordon and J. Swing ; Hiss MoNeiU, assisted by Misses Willis (2), L. Delres, Spurdle (2), and V. MoAxthur; Mrs Field, assisted by Mqs Spurdle and Miss Taylor ; Mies Grant, assisted by Mrs Armitage and Misses Mitchell and Stewart ; Mrs A. A. Browne, assisted by Mines Browne (2) and P. Jones ; and the following pupils of the sixth standard, who gare and presided at a table themselves :-— Misses M. Sharp, A. Bsllantyme M. Dustin, Bella Gordon, B. Cummins and 8. Siddle. Previous to the entertainment, Mr t>\ M Spurdle (Chairman of the School Committee), made a few happily worded introductory remarks, thanking all present for their attendance and for what they had dose to make the affair a success. Mr Carson (Chairman of the Education Board) also complimented all concerned on the BUCOBSB of the gathering. The programme inoluded selections by Mr W. H. Bird's orchestra, songs by Miss Wbrgan and i Messrs Bell and Aitken, ohoruses by the senior girls of the school and by the infants of Mrs Hoey's sohool; pianoforte solo, Miss Willis; violin duet, Misses Bringezu. The above items were very well reoeired and deserved the applause following their conclusion. Miss Blythe and her fellow teaohers desir* to thank parents and friends for thsir very liberal support and for donatingnuoh bountiful supplies for tHa tea meeting.