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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 144, 26 April 1879, Page 2

Mr Clayson announces a ball at the Cafe Boyal, Masterton, on the Queen's Birthday. A Catholic Bee for clearing away rubbish and making footpaths at St. Patrick's Church, Masterton, is announced for Wednesday next, Messrs lorns and Fergusson had a good attendance and spirited bidding at. their sale of Bentley & Co.'a stock yesterday. The sale will be continued to-day, On Monday next the meeting on the rabbit question is fixed at 2 p.m. It is likely to be numerously and influentially attended. Tenders are invited by the Masterton Highway Board for the surv.ey and preparation of 35 chains road at Uriti and 12 chains of the East Coast road. A billiard challenge appears in our advertising columns, Six Masterton players v. an equal number from any other part of the Wairarapa. Colville and Gifford, bootmakers, announce that they have taken the premises in Queen-street, Masterton, formerly occupied by Mr Greaves. Mr D. Crewe has been appointed gravedigger to'the Masterton Cemetery. Applications for interment must be made, to him, and he is authorized to ( receive the usual fees,

It is intended to offer the whole of the stock-in-trade of Mr D. Blyth on Tuesday next in one-lot, ,- .. . v

On Mr'Cockb'urn's farm, .Manaia; ?2 bushels ofioata to,the acre have been!obtained during the past season, ! : The Princess . Vaudeville Troupe announce that they will play at Mastertou on Monday and Tuesday next,

Notice is given of the next quarterly licensing meeting for Tuesday, June 3rd. Applications must.be lodged by May 12 th. Our Grey town correspondent informs us that the arrest of Wordsell was duo to a telegram sent by Constable Byrn to Constable Brunskill.

The Ashburfcon Mail says that a young Cliristchurch lady named Miss Ruth Parker accomplished, last week, the feat of driving over a small boy without doing him any serious injury, Tlie -Wellington Evening Chronicle's last nickname for the Wellington Evening Post isinfamous journal." Chronicle says Post has a strong natural taste for lying, fraud, and dishonesty, The meeting of the Masterton Rifles advertised for Monday evening is postponed, as members cannot be sworn in till their services have been formally accepted by the Governor,- who is at present absent from Wellington. At a meeting of the Appointments Committee of the Education Board, held yesterday afternoon, Mr Kay was appointed master of the Gladstone School, and Mr M'Farlane assistant-master of tho Featherston School.

It is announced elsewhere that the Rev Jolinstono Walker will preach in the Presbyterian-Church to-morrow morning and evening.. A large number will probably take the opportunity to hear this eloquent minister on this lastoccasion prior to his leaving the neighborhood and colony. St. Patrick's Church, Mastorton, is for its size about the most perfect specimen of church architecture in the colony. The altar fittings of beautifully stained woods have just been placed under the direction of Mr Turftbull, the architect, and the building is now ready for consecration. The Rev. A, Halbwachs has had a small dwelling erected adjacent to the Church, so that lie has now a home in Masterton as well as at Carterton.

We learn from an exchange that a meeting of solicitors, the object of which it was understood was to have been kept quiet, has been held to tako into consideration the appointment of Mr Forwood to the Magistracy of Wellington. The legal gentlemen, however, after a short discussion, determined to let tho matter drop. They did wisely. Mr Forwood possesses high credentials for the post, and has been highly recommended for the office by the Minister of Justice. The salary is £SOO per annum, Tho Masterton Male and Female Registry Office weekly report is as follows Female servants are still very scarce and in great demand. Wages—Female cooks, 25s to 355; general servants, 12s to 18s; housemaids, 12s to 20s; waitresses, 12s to 20s; nursegirls, 8s to 10s, Men plentiful in all branches of labor, Pick and shovel men, 7s to 8s per day; farm and station hands, 20s to 255; bush-falling by contract, 30s to 50s per acre; waiters, 20s to 355; shepherds, L 75 to L9O; married couples, L 75 to LIOO. We recently (says the Chronicle) wrote an article advocating the principle that tradesmen should have a cash and a credit price, and that both branches of the business should be kept distinct, the cash customers not to bo made, as is too often the case, to supply the deficiencies of the credit customers. We notice that Messrs Caselberg and Co,, storekeepers in the Wairarapa, have adopted this system. They advertise that they will make a reduction of a shilling in the £ on cash purchases of drapery and clothing, and fid in the £ on cash purchases of groceries. Surely our tradesfolk are not going to permit themselves to be outdone in common sense by their country cousins. The following curious fact occurred some time ago in Wellington, and might have produced serious consequences, had the matter not been discovered in the proper time. An unsophisticated resident of the Wairarapa had occasion to visit Wellington and having been installed for tho night proceeded to make arrangements for retiring to rest, with this in view he went to put out tho light, which happened to be gas, but haviner exerted himself for some time in trying to "blow out" tho gas and not succeeding he put his hat on the burner, not having the gumption to turn off the gas; and then tranquilly laid himself down to rest. We do not know how long the gas was escaping, but it reached the nostrils of tho proprietor of tho house, who at once proceeded to the room of our friend and let the gas escape through the window, It is to be hoped he slept soundly, but we rather think he didn't.

A telegram from Oamaru says:—-The man John Morrison, who some three years ago was committed for trial, for throwing kerosene over Isabella Johnston, a woman with whom he was living, and then setting fire to the house, but who managed to get off on that occasion, figured in the Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday morning on two charges of brutally assaulting the same woman. It will be remembered that in the case mentioned the woman was so seriously injured that she had to be sent to the Hospital ior medical treatment. Prior to the case coming on in the Supremo Court the woman was spirited away from tho Hospital, and as no trace of her could be found the man escaped punishment. Since then he has on several occasions ill-treated the woman, but has escaped punishment by getting tho prosecutrix out of the way. On this occasion tho police have taken the matter in hand, andhavo bo far succeeded in preventing a return to tho old tactics of the prisoner. Tho unfortunate woman presented a deploraplc appearance in the Court to-day. Her face was literally one complete mass of bruises, thewholo of one side of it being as black as a coal. Her evidence showed that the prisoner had resorted to a slating-hammer, a small axe, boots, a pole, and his fists in the course of the two assaults complaiued of; that he had struck her with these over the head and all parts of the body, drawing blood from her head, eyes and nose; and that he threatened to cut her head off. When she begged for her life, he said, "You are a coward, and are afraid to die."-