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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 169, 27 May 1879, Page 2

j The Masterton Borough Council moot this evening at the Council Chambers. 1 The adjourned Lower Valley Ploughing Match meeting comes off to-morrow afterB noon. A meeting of the Miistcrton Public Library Committee is convened for this afternoon. We are sorry to hear that the genial Warden of the Wellington gaol, Mr Micaiah Ileid, has broken liis lu;;. Mr Mollitt, surgeon dentist, notifies t that lie will be at Masterton 011,) line 4th, and at Greytown on June Gtlv. We hear that £14,000 out of the £20,000 advertised by Messrs Dalrymple & Co. has been placed in the Wairara'pa. | The settler 1 ! at Kuripuni are again memorialising the Education Board in cou- . nection with the school which (hey desire ' to see established there. . The Maori Hah and War Dance an- ■ nounced at tlie Town Hall, Mastcrton, . for to-morrow evening ought to prove attractive. A mounted plan of the Masterton Riding is advertised for as lost. It is only right that a plan for a riding should be mounted. The latest telegrams from London indicate still firmer prices for wool. Tiio sales opened on Thursday last at a further advance of from id to Id. On Monday next an entertainment will ' be given in St. Matthew's .School-room, Masterton, which should prove attractive, as in addition to local talent, Mr CI hit, of Fcatherston, and others from that township, well-known for their histrionic and ) musical ability, will take part in the programme. The 13th annual report of the Colonial Museum and Laboratory contains the following local information '.—lgneous rock t was sent from the Seventy-mile Bush by Mr McKay ; Viviauite from the Taueru by Mr Cockburn Hood; Iron Pyrites by the Telegraphist at Cashpoint, and by Mr Mowbray from near Masterton. Mullock sent by Mr John Rutherford proved non-auriferous. Sandstone taken from ' the Wairarapa by the Hon, John Sheehan (smartest prospector of the lot), yielded 1 dwt. 2 gr. gold per ton. Pyritous sandstone from the Rimutaka.was " no good," and calcareous slate from the samo neighborhood was no better. It is to be hoped. . that the record foivthe year lS 1 ?^. will be brighter than that of its predecessor.

Our telegrams iinnounco two now insolvencies at Wellington) but they aro, wo believo, unimportant ones, The creditors of Williams, Cameron and Co. have at last accepted an assignment of 10s in tho pound. Messrs Dalrymple, Easthope, Girdlestone', 'lor'us, and Wyllie, were nominated yesterday as auditors for tho Borough of Mastcrton. More Knighls! We have to offor our congratulations to Sir E. W. Stafford, and more particularly to Sir William Pox, who is now ii Knight Templar. ■P. H. Wood it Co. hold an unreserved sale of drapery, grocery,saddlery,clothing furniture, &c,, on Saturday next, at their rooms, Greytown. Tho valuation lists under the Land Tax Act may be inspected on and after Wednesday ; those for the Alfiedton and Mastcrton Ridings of County West at' tho Highway Board oflice, Mastcrton ; that for the Carterton Riding at the County olliccs, Carterton ; and for the Featherston, Otaraia, and Greytown .Hidings .at the Police fetation, Feathorston. The County East lists will be lodged at tho Police Station, Timii, and tho Borough lists at the Borough oflices. Wc acknowledge the receipt of a pamphlet called " Tho Sheep Act, 1878," which has been prepared under the direction of the Colonial Secretary, containing the Sheep Act, which came into operation, on the Ist January last; together with all proclamations, Orders in Council, and Gazette notices; and the regulations and fonn3 to bo'used under" Tlie Sheep Act, 1878 also a memorandum ou the parasitic insects which infest sheep. A Southland contemporary announced the other day that " during the coming summer 3000 'stallions' would leave for JSew Guinea." It was explained in the next issue that 3000 Italians was meant. A man who has been knocking about tho Manawatu and Mastcrton districts for some time past, has just taken his departure, it is said, t» assume possession of property worth £BO.OOO, left him at Home. These slices of good luck seem to be getting pretty plentiful. A farmer in Tarauaki, .who lives on the Bell Block, whilst ploughing tho other day unearthed a camion, which is supposed ■ to have been buried over twenty years 1 ago. The cannon is three feet six inches long, and six indies in the bore, and is , believed by local papers to be one which Richard Barrett gave to an old native who | went by the name of Skipper, and who is supposed to have taken it from the Sugar Loaves to Bell Block, and buried it on the war lirst breaking out, where it has remained ever since. The Timarit Herald says-We were yesterday shown several capital photographs by Messrs Croxliead and Sargcant, of the huge piles of grain now stacked on Messrs P. Cunningham and Co's premises comprising in all some 50,000 sacks. We understand that copies of these photoi graphs arc to be sent to the Sydney Exhi- ' bition, and they will go far towards giving I foreigners an idea of our wonderful resources." ' A writer in an English paper says : •' Long residence in India does not always i destroy the sense of humour. Here is an i illustration from the English graveyard at , Peshawur. On a slab is tho inscription—- ; ' Sacred to the memory of the Rev., Blank , Blank, A.M., who spent 17 years as a missionary among the Afghans, and tran--1 slated the Holy Writ into their language. He was shot by his clioukowar. Well ; done thou good and faithful servant." The New Zcalander writesTho name . of Mr Wardell, at present Resident Ma- , gistratc in tho Wairarapa district, having been mentioned in connection with the appointment of a second llesident Magis--5 t rate for Wellington, we may say that it ' seems very unlikely that that gentleman 1 would accept the position if offered to him. i Mr Wardell will be entitled to reiire on a well-earned pension in another year or two, and as lie has often expressed his intention of remaining in the Wairarapa, whero he is singularly popular, lie would not lind it worth his while to shift for so 1 short a time, Mr Wardell performed the , duties portaining to the office here during i the interval between the resignation of ] Mr Crawford and the appointment of Mr k Mansford, and won general approbation I by his impartiality and courtesy. Tho wish has probably been father to the 5 thought, but wo fear that there the mat--1 ter will have to rest. Funny mistakes are sometimes made by ' the bailiffs and constables whoso duty it is r to "cry" the various cases in tho law courts. At tho llesident Magistrate's Court this morning a gentleman named Owen Lord was interested in a case, but t in order io save time no doubt, his name appeared on the official records as O. , Lord. iSaid the clerk to the orderly, ' ''Call 0. Lord," " Oh, Lord!" shouted the orderly. As Mr Lord did not answer at once, "Oh, Lord" three times. Al- ' though the Court was convulsed with 1 laughter the orderly could not see that there was anything wrong, and simply 1 contented himself with calling " Silence!" i' in stentorian tones. A well-known legal gentleman who was entering the Court , when the orderly was crying " Oh, Lord," was amazed, and made anxious enquiries ' as to the mental condition of tho orderly.' In another case heard to-day Mr Eustace ! Brandon was concerned, and when tho 1 bailiff was instructed to call him he twisted the name into " Useless Brandon," much ■ to the disgust of that gentleman, Mr - Brandon, however, forgavo tho bailiff ; because ho knew that the bailiff meant no offence, and that the acoustic properties of the P.M. Court are not all that could be desired.—Evening Post.