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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 177, 5 June 1879, Page 2

Frederick Olsen, of Kaiwaiwai, has filed a declaration of insolvency.

The usual fortnightly sitting of the KM. Court will bo held at Masterton to-day.

The time for tendering for Mr Perry's buildings in Queen-street, is extended to Saturday noxt. The grand entertainment in St. Mat thews' Schoolroom, postponed on Monday last, will be given to-morrow. Tenders are invited for the erection of a teacher's house on the Opaki. Plans and specifications may bo seen at Messrs 11. k J. Brown's office. A soiree under the patronage of tho ladies of Groytown, is announced for Friday evening. It will be one of the best we understand that has yet been held in the township. The Georgia Minstrels took £2O tho first night, and £lB the second at Masterton.' Somo may consider this money wasted, but we are inclined to believe that a good laugh is good for the health of a community, and that in this insianco the tonic was not an expensive one. We have seen a very choico assortment of jet jewellery, which Mr H. Cole, of Prospect House, Mastorton, has just received direct from a manufactory, at Whitby, and to which he draws the attention of the public in our advertising columns.

The Guardian states that a number of

natives atHurunuiorangi havo commencod tho tactics of the New Plymouth natives, and have seized and commenced to plough land leased by them to Mr Harrison. The latter intervciwed Mr Wardell on the subject, who advised him not to tako any steps ill tho matter at present, Wo are sorry to report that John Stelin, proprietor of tho Olionga Ferry Hotel, was drowned in tho Mataikuna river on Monday last. His liurse and dog were found yesterday on the north side of the river. The body was found at the mouth of the 'river yesterday morning. He left Ohonga on Monday to attend tho Liconsing Court to be held at Tinui on Tuesday. The Mataikuna was much swollen by the late rains at the time of the accident. Our Carterton correspondent writes : The Maori dance last night was a grand success, a larger audience being present, I think, than the hall ever contained before. I had seen the corroboree on the other

side, but like most persons present had never witnessed the Haka, and I oxpect to most, as to myself, it was a novel and interesting sight. I need not go further into particulars, as probably most of your readers attended the performance in Mastcrton. There were about a score on the stage, including five females.

Some of the American papers. have struck out a new line in journalism. They publish a weekly list of marriage licenses, giving the names in full of the candidates for matrimony. This is how the San Francisco Chronicle of the 2nd March introduces tho aspirants for marital rights;—" Licensed love! Seventy more joyous and light-hearted people ! Marching to tho front of danger with all the impulsiveness of fervent love, come seventy more kindred spirits, who, during the past week, havo obtained marriage licenses. Witness the cooing couples." Then follow the names in full. Tho Mastcrton Park Trustees notify that they have laid poison for trespassing ,dogs and intruding poultry, and we presume that if dogs and poultry still vonture on to the domain the Trustees are not responsible for their untimely decease.' But we would ask tho public-spirited chairman of that body if, as his notice does not extend to cats, lie will not be legally responsible should some poor pussy finds her quietus there. The other day two tame cats followed somo ladies to tho cemetery, and picking up some of the poison laid down, were observed to be going through a series of convulsions. Fortunately the tenacity of feline life overcame the effects of the drug or the spirits of murdered cats might have disturbed the slumbers of the Park Trustees, .