The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 103, 8 March 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1879.

We have more than once called attention to the inadequate accommodation provided at Masterton for the despatch of Court cases, and if we again recur to the subject it is because every week the necessity of some improvement becomes more obvious. An far as possible under existing arrangements the 11M. and the Clerk of the Court do their best to meet the convenience of the public, sitting early and late till the cases are pulled through. We iind 110 fault on this score, but the public have a right to insist that fresh arrangements should be made in their interests which will enable the Court business to be taken in a more regular and systematic manner. We would have been glad to have left the question in the hands of the legal profession if we had seen that our local solicitors were sufficiently solicitous for the welfare of their unfortunate clients, But we have been disappointed in any expectations we have formed in this direction, and the public will have to fight their own battle in this matter. The bi-monthly sitting held at Masterton usually commences on Thursday morning and lasts till Saturday night, A plaintiff, defendant, or witness is subject to the pains and penalties of perhaps waiting three whole days in attendance at the Court before ho is released from duty. It is hard for the Court, with its attendant train of solicitors, to have to sit continuously for so long a time, but there is some compensation in the fact that they are paid for their labors, but unfortunate suitors who Attend the sittings make no profit out of the delay to which they have to submit, What is absolutely required to place matters on a fair footing is, first, that there should be it resident clerk in Masterton. and iu the second place, that there should bo a weekly sitting of the R.M. Court, Masterton has a strong claim for asking for much more than this, It would be a reasonable request to make to ask the Government to make the Borough the principal Court in the district and the residence of its R.M. Masterton, however, is not greedy, and if the very moderate accommodation to which we have alluded is promptly conceded, it will be contented not to press its full claims, We cannot go on in the future with the existing arrangements, and if there is no indication of a change it will be necessary to hold a public meeting to consider the question as a whole, and to appoint a Standing Committee to obtain a. fair amount of consideration from the Hon, the M.nister for Justice.

We understand that Mr Fielding in ! complianco with a wish expressed by the Masterton Auctioneers intends to resume his former avocation as town crier. Messrs Blaker &Co., announce that they have been instructed by she bailiff of the R.M. Court to sell by public auction oi) Monday next 400 sheep and six horses. Tho programme of the Masterton Brass Band for this evening -will bp as follows : Quick March-Will the. angel? cpjpe to me; Waltz: Flower of-tlie Field; bert Quadrilles; Quick March—Cheer up, Companions; Waltz-Whisber of Love,""

A well-known settlor Mr Canning of Napier arrived at Miiaterton yesterday.

Tho Masterton Farmers' Club meets at the Empire Hotel this afternoon at 4 p.m. Messrs lorns & Fergusson's markot sale takes placo to-day at 2 p.m.

A. Armstrong & Co. sell on March lßtli, at Carterton, a brake, fivo horses, tarpaulin, &c. Mr T. W. Pilcher gives notice that for the future all charges on goods from his Featherston shed must bo prepaid,

The claim in the case of Ewington v. Jones, reported in our issue of yesterday, arose out of damages by firo and was not an ordinary debt summons, Mr L, Tozzi has re-opened his business in the shop lately occupied by Mr W. Taylor, near the Empire Hotel.

Messrs F. H. Wood & Co, advertise a sale of horses, bullocks, drays, etc., at the Rising Sun Hotel, Greytown, for March 15 th. A committee meeting of tho Mastorton Horticultural Society will be held on Thursday next to settle up for the late Show. Mr Pctlierick's tender has been accepted for the new Police Station at Masterton. Price L 385 10s,

Mr J. M. Girdlestone sold yesterday the furniture of the late Mrs Dixon, The attendance was good tho bidding spirited and satisfactory prices were realised.

Two Murtagh cases will be heard at the P.M., Court this day. One was commenced last evening in which the immortal' Phillip' led of favorably. A meeting of the Masterton Trustees was held last evening;. The business was merely of a formal character. A plan of the proposed additions to the Town Hall was passed the members expressing themselves highly pleased with it. AMy in the lock-up is a rare thing, but yesterday afternoon Constable Scales had to run in a damsel who was drunk and disorderly. A very troublesome business the running in proved and it was not till tho services of two assistants were engaged that the task wa3 accomplished, and even then one of the helps had to leave a literally big lock of his liinr as a trophy, in the fair fingers of the captive. The by-laws of the Greytown Borough are not altogether popular with owners of pigs, which cannot now ho kept within a certain distance of the main road. The strict enforcement of the by-laws will be hard on some cottagers as if they keep a pig at all the animal must bo styed within a convenient distance of the house. Of course in the centre of the town a strict observariceof the rule maybe essential butwhere piggy can be kept without annoyance to any one it might be well to relax it. Mr Vallance's purchases at the late stud sale of Mr G. Hunter, arrived at Masterton yesterday. They include—Lady Ashbridge Fourth; imported; roan; calved 24th July, 1875 ; bred by Joseph Eobinson, Esq., Northchurch Farm, Berkhamstcad, Herts; sire, 2(ith Duke of Oxford; dam, Mary Stewart (the price paid by Mr Yallance was £150), and a roan bull, Second King 'o May, bred by Mr Hunter; sire, Father Christmas; dam, Second Queen 'o May—cost £4O.

The Masterton Male and Female Servants' Registry Office report for the week is as follows Female servants still in great demand: high wages offevod. There is an opening for at least forty good servants in the district, at the following wages: General servants, from 12s to 18s; housemaids, 12s to 15s; nurse-girls, Gs to 10s; cooks, 20s to 35s per week. Men have been inquired for more this week. Bush hands can obtain ready employment, also ploughmen. Wages: Bush hands, 20s to 30s; ploughmen, 25s to 30a. station hands, 20s to 255; shepherds, £75 to £9O; married couples, £BO to £IOO.