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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 505, 2 July 1880, Page 2

The Maatorton i'own Lands Trustees moat this evening. The Master'ton Volunteer and Cadet Corps, parade thisjevenini? at the Town Hull. Mr Tuck ha# withdrawn the tenders he advertised for in our lust issue, pending the com pletion of the specifications. ' Dr Watts, "the new medical practitioner for Carterton, arrived jvith his family iu the Wairarapu yesterday.

Notice is given by the Collector of Customs that Mr Adam Armstrong, of Carterton, has taken out an auctioneer's license for the current year. The Master ton Public Library will be closed up to the 14th insfc., to enable Committee to prepare and re-arrange catalogue. The Maaterton Borough Council invites tenders up to Tuesday next for additions to Lincoln road (carpenter's work only). ' Notice is given that Messrs R. & J. Brown have dissolved partnership. The businesif will in future bt carried on by Mr R. Brown under the style of.R. Brown & Co.

Hand-rails and a lamp have been erected in St. Matthew's Church aero. The contract, under the hands of Messrs Williams & Barker, has been finished in a. first-class menner. We believe the lamp was made by Mr D.-Pickering. A fortunate escape from a broken limb occurred in Queen-street yesterday afternoon. As Constable Fleming was riding a somewhat spirited horse up the street, it suddenly swerved into the entrance to the Courthouse, unseating its rider. Mr Fleming, however, managed to regain terra firma without injury. The Wanganui Chronicle says that defaulters under the Laud Tax turn up every other day at the Courthouse, with smiling faces, beseeching the Clerk of the Court to be good enough to accept the amount of the tax, together with the costs subsequently incurred, owing to their indisposition to square up when it was first demanded.

Subscribers to the Masterton Public Library are requested to return as aoou as possible, all books in their possession to enable the Committee to re-arrange the Library. As soon as this work is accomplished, 200 volumes of new books recently received by the committee will ba issued to members.

In the R.M. Court, Mastorton, yester day, before Messrs J. Y, Smith and E. Feist, J.P.'a, E. Lancely charged E. Taylor with an ass ult. It appeared that tha prosecutor was engaged taking possession of defendant's horse under a distress warr*nt when the latter, not understanding that a legal process was being duly served, knocked the former down. A fine of 10s, with the alternative of three days' imprisonment, was inflicted.

At tha R.M. Court, Feathersfcon,. on the 30th June, Archibald Anderson, of Wharekaka, was charged on the evidence of Constable Brunskill, with having stolen a sheep, the property of the Hon John Martin, value 10s. The evidence was clear of his having taken the sheep, but he pleaded that he found ifc cast on its back, and nearly dead, he therefore killed it and cut it up and gave it to his dogs. His Worship sentenced prisoner to six months hard labor.

The following team will represent Masterton to-morrow in the return match' with Greytown :—Messrs Andrew, Bunny Oowa.il, Garrard, Girdlestone, Gossett, Harrison', Hogan,'Holmes, Hood, Jones, Meredith, Thompson, Wardell, Wyllie. Emerpenoy—Measra Cook, Perry, James, Williams, and Allen. Play will commence sharp at 2."80. The Masterton Club held a satiflfaotojy practice on their ground yesterday afternoon.

In the Lower house on Wednesday evening, Mr Seddon said that the no-cou-fidenca debate had taken up no less thiui 52 yards of Hansard, and added another yard as his quota. Major Atkinson reviewed the unhappy mat in another yard or two. He threw down as financial alterations " stopping subsidies," borrowing from the loan, and additional taxation. Retrenchment however appeared to be somewhat ignored in his schedule. He held that if the Government dismissed its employees, it would have to compensate thorn. It is a pity that the House haa not the courage to face this question of compensation.the dread of which makes State pensioners of many Civil Servant*.

Not very long ago there appeared in the several German papers an advertisement, emanating from a aoi-diaant doctor of Geneva, offering, in consideration of the small sum of two francr, to give a receipt for the radical cure of corns. For a while the trick answered and he did a flourislfjbg business. Until the chief of the Geneva police, getting wind of it through & lady at Berlin, who was not precisely satisfied with the value she had received for her two francs, put & summary stop to his proceedings His " cure " consisted in the prompt amputation of the suffering toe, for which, purpose he recommended a saw of his own invention, guaranteed to perform the operation without pain to the patient.

The North British Agriculturist says: Mr David Kiddell, of Blackball, Paisley, has sold two of hie celebrated " stallions, viz, LuckVall and Chancellor,, at a- very high figure to Thomas Wilkin, Tinwald Downs, Dumfries, for exportation to his brother, Mr Robert Wilkin, of Christr church, Canterbury, New Zealand! Luck'a-all, we understand, has won nearly £6OO in premiums, being the champion horse at the Highland Society's Show at Perth last season. He is by that wellknown horse Prince of Wales. The Chancellor has also been a very fortunate horao. When three years old he was engaged at the Glasgow Show to serve mares belonging to the Duke of Bedford's tenantry at Woburn, £4OO for the season, and last year he was selected at Glasgow by the Dumfries Horse Association for their district, with £IOO premium. He is by the noted horse Time o' Day.

A meeting of the Education Board wm held on Wednesday last. There were in all, 42 applications for vacancies at present existing in the Board's school . They were divided a* follows Master of the Normal School, 5; mistress of the the same, 7 ; master at Mastorton, 10; master at Featherston, 8; raaater at Park Yale, 9; assistant at Olareville, 3. It being impossible to get through the list at the meeting, the applications were referred to a Committee, consisting of Archdeacon Stock, the Rev Mr Paterson, and Messrs Blair and Bunny, -with instructions to report to a special meeting in a week, Mr Gurr wrote, to the Board, trading his resignation as na aster of th® 'Featherston School, in consequence of his acceptance of an appointment in the South. Mrs Powley also resigned tha charge of the Park Yale School, and applied for the place of assistant at Clare*