WAIRARAPA AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 28, 5 August 1871, Page 15

WAIRARAPA AFFAIRS.

MEAT PRESERVING COMPANY. The meeting of the shareholders in the Wairarapa Meat Preserving Company (Limited), which was to have taken place at the Rising Sun, Greytown, on Monday the 31st ult was, owing to the state of the weather and rivers, adjourned. A telegram from Mr C. Pharazyn was received by Mr G. Beetham to the effect that the Tauherenikau was 100 high, and that the meeting be adjourned until 3 o’clock on Wednesday, August 10th, was proposed by Mr C. Cundy, and seconded by Mr Williams, which was duly put by Mr Tully, the chairman, and unani mously adopted. Considering the very bad weather there was a very fair attendance. ACCIDENT. An accident, which might have been much more serious, occurred at the Rising Sun, Greytown, on Monday afternoon. Old Mr Telford, of Wellington, who had just previously arrived by the coach from Masterton, and was en route for Featherston, went behind the counter for something in the absence of the barman, and not being aware that the trap door leading to the cellar below was open he walked straight into it, and was precipitated to the bottom, a distance of some six feet. He was scratched and very much shaken, but he had no bones broken. It is to be feared that the shock will prove more serious, considering Mr Telford’s age, than he himself at the time appeared to imagine. On arriving at the concert in the evening judge my surprise to see Mr Telford there apparently as well as ever. He is truly a wonderful old man. EAST MASTERTON SCHOOL,. A meeting of the committee of this school was recently held, when, I am informed, Mr and Mrs Jupp, of Greytown, were appointed master and mistress of the school. A resolution to the effect that the chairman be requested to communicate with the Provincial Secretary, in order to ascertain if an ad vance in money can be made to the district out of the expected loan, so that proper accommodation for boys and girls, with a teachers’ residence, may be provided without any further delay, was passed. The amount to be recouped by the education board from rates levied within the district. The chairman said that after the rateable property had been valued, he did not know that there was anything in the Education Act, 1871, to prevent it from being brought at once into operation. , THE DOWN MAIL. The mail coach from Masterton to "Wellington could not get any further than Greytown on Mouday, owing to the flooded state of the rivers. The weather recently here has been, if possible, worse than ever, and the roads are in a fearful state. CONCERT. An amateur concert was held at the Town Hall, Greytown, on Monday evening, for the benefit of the hall fund. The bad state of the roads, the flooded state of the rivers, and the extremely wet weather, prevented so large an attendance as would otherwise have been present. I have not time to say more than that the concert gave very great satisfaction to all who had the good fortune to hear it. For 'the sake of those who gave the concert, it is a great pity that so short a notice was given, and that the weather was so unfavorable.