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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 267, 17 September 1879, Page 2

Messrs Ja3. Russell and Son invite lenders, which will close to-morrow, at noon, (or additions to a house in Makora. Mr Philpott gives notice that all persons having left watches or clocks with Mr C. Broadbent, watchmaker, Carterton can have the same on application to him. Tenders close on Saturday next, 'for ploughing two hundred acres of laud, on the Whareama flats; and also for leasing the Pastoral Society's grounds at Carterton Tenders are invited up to o p.m., next Tuesday, for the old telegraph poles and wire at Vallance's Range, Te Ore Ore, and Masterton. Mr H. H. Woltera has been appointed Trustee in the estate of Mr Joseph Gundy, butcher, Feathersion. We remind creditors in Tanlcersley's estate that an important meeting takes place at Mr Skipper's office, to-day, at 12 o'clock noon, A case was heard yesterday, before J. V. Smith andD. McGregor, Esqs,,J.P.s, George Dixon v Sophia Dearda.—Abusive language. Fined 20s and 7s costs. The Land Tax will be payable at the Masterton Post Office on and after the Ist October current, from 10 to 4 p.m.,daily. This evening members of the Masterton Quadrille Club meet at the usualplace, Members desiring to see the Club continued are requested to be present, and we hope to see a good attendance. The balance sheet of The Masterton Volunteer Fire Brigade was published in our yesterday's issue, and shows the balance in the Bank of New Zealand to be £341558 d. Tenders are invited for the formation of 19 chains of road, including a culvert and platform bridge, in the Masterton Highway Districts. We direct attention to the alteration in Mr T. Moyer's, of Lambton Quay, Wellington advertisement, which will be found in another column, Messrs M, Caselberg and Co,, in our first page, advertise the opening of their Spring Millinery, etc, on next Saturday. Communication between Batavia and Singapore has been interrpted since 8 p.m. yesterday. A special steamer will leave Batavia for Singapore, to-morrow, at noon,taking on all telegrams. The communication was restored on the Western Australian line at five p. m.

The International Exhibition at Sydney is to be opened to-day. Mr W. M. Easthopo has been appointed collecter in Mr J. G. Rockel's estate. Traders will -be received by tho County Engineer, up to Monday 22nd inat., for cutting a drain at To Ore Ore. Mr 0. W. Bomblow, cabinetmaker, of Grcytown, has assigned his estate to Mr E. W. Mills, for the benefit of his creditors. It is time that the Masterton Cricket" Club was up and doing. It hardly deserves success if it dues not begin early in tho season to organize and practice. A meeting will he held at Messrs F. H. Wood and Co's auction rooms at Greytown, mi Saturday next, with a view to organize a farmers' club. Mv E. Peavce has refused to become a candidate for the Mayoralty ot Welling, ton. He is too respectable a man to have a chance of success, if he did stand. A telegram from a Southern paper reports that Sir George Grey gave his private cheque for £IOO towards the election expenses of Mr Hutchison. The Premier is a wealth, man, and can perhaps afford to buy up half his constituencies. His oratory goes a long way, but his money carries a still greater distance. We believe Masterton will soon have a resident photographer in the person of Mr 1. E. Price, of th e Educational Depository, who intends erecting a large studio at tho rear _of his shop in Queen-street. Mr 1 rice is well know as an artist of nullity Hi that line, having' been a photographer in Timaru for many years. The adjourned RM. Court sits at Masterton, to-morrow. We believe there are an immense number of cases to be heard, and that it will be a three days' sitting. Then; is only one criminal casethat of Maoris charged with obstructing roads at Hurunuiorangi. ° At the opening of the Qtieen's-park United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow, some years ago, Mr Morton, one of the directors, put in a bundle of Cifcv of Glasgow bank notes amounting to £125 The congregation, remembering the circumstance, met and resolved to pay back £l5O to the liquidators, The Borough Council intends making large alterations to the Government cottages, lat,;y handed over to them by the Govermnent-makiiu' the road on which they abut, bringing all the back ones into lino with the front, and fence them with dividing f eill!M> j t j g . cnn y eilt]y ex . pected this will be anotl-er source of revenue to the Council, as it is believed they will let readily.

A London correspondent writes that gilt and platinum sovereigns are in circulation, and the public is respec'fully warned to beware of bad money. Their appearance i* in their favor. They ring like silver, and need only weight to make the detection of them difficult. But they don't weigh. That reminds me that the hankers are applying electricity to the detection of bad or light coins. The little instrument is a beautiful specimen of mechanical art, A stre; mof coins is very gentU shaken down a brass slide, and one by one they fall upon a testing bar so delicately adjusted that a slight deficiency will set the apparatus in motion, and cause the sovereigns to be jerked out at a side escape hole, while the coins that come up to weight pass into another receptacle. The invention saves a great deal of time, and is correct to the minute's point'. Being correct it is dear, for the inventor charges a royalty of £4O per annum for each machine.

It is a sad reflection (says the Poverty Bay Herald) for those who can reflect Hut the hotel-keepers of Poverty Bay are rejoicing much, because a number of Maoris are about to receive considerable sums of money from the Government in pay for their lauds. Say the hotel-keep-ers, "The Maoris never keep their money; don't save it up; don't turn it to profitable account. They drink it, and so let us rejoice," By-and-by, when the Maoris have parted with their lands, and have drunk themselves into disease., and have lost all relish for work, then we shall be taxed to build them asylums, and further taxed to support them. Could a paternal Government not find out a way by which the Maoris shall economize their money, to prevent them from becoming pauperized and made a charge upon the country ? When a child comes into a large estate, his guardians do not allow him to squander it until he has reached an age to know what lie ought or ought not to do with it. Are these Maories not very children when they have money to command! Why not make the Maori

lands, whether bought or leased by the Government, or by private persons, go to the Maories in the shape of annual income be it small or large 1 A very pleasant piseon match for a stake of £lO, was shot off in Mr Matthews' paddock on the Op.iki yesterday. There were fifteen compititors for the prize, and their skill was witnesed by a large number of spectators principally conveyed to the ground by Mr P. Cockery, who kept his vehicle running throughout the match. T''e following are the scores made : Schroder, 0.2,0, retired; Dnlrymple, 0.0,0, retired; Galbraith, 1,2,2,0-5; \V. Perrv, 2,2,0.0-4; R. G. Williams, 2,0,0, retired; Resodi, 0.2,2,0-Camp-bell, 0,2,2.0- ; Murray, 2,0.0, retired ; Scale, 2,2,0,0-4; Tancred, 1,2,1,2-6; Girdlestone, 0.0,0, retired ; Pilkington, 2,0,1, retired ; Young, 2,2,0,2-6; Elkins, 0,0,0, retired ; Thompson, 0,0,0. retired. Messrs Young and Tancred being ties, fired off for the prize, and Mr 'Young was the winner, A scratch match for a few birds terminated the amusement.