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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 891, 5 October 1881, Page 2

Messrs J. Lima & Co., sell this afternoon 20 building allotments, at Carterton, ill the estate of Mr Thomas Bennett.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the Government printer of a copy of the Statutes passed during the late session.

Mr Walter Mnrisnn has purchased from Mr Pike that well-known horse Sir Colin Campneil, one of the best Clydesdale.! in the North Island. A grand soiree is announced at Carterton on Thursday Nov. 3, (the Pastoral Show day), in,aid of the Carterton Pile Brigade funds. The Carterton Brass Band lias kindly promised i's services on this occasion.

Masterton gardeners are turning out some fine cauliflowers this season, A specimen we were favored with hy Mr William Francis from his garden near the Wa'ipnua, the other day, was a perfect picture, and fit for any Horticultural Show. We have also seou another grown by Mr Bulpit, in the Hospital' garden which, considering the ■somewhat, bleak aspect of the "round, shows that the custodian of that, establishment is a first rate gardener; a qualification which will no doubt be appreciated by the patients under his charge. Te Whiti gave a strong lecture to some of his impulsive young men the other evening. They were:preparing for a surprise on the camp, aqd'TefWhiti hearing of it sent for them, and addressed them as follows;—" If .you kill five pakehas they will get ten to fill their place. If five Maoris we killed there are none to fill their place. The Maoris are-hemmed in on/'every, side by |uropeaiiß, and if you fight and kill all th'efmen in the camp hundreds of' Europeans will come and! vtake theip plHcea. pThe rteauk ia'ihat yon mlV'n'r i ill liVr

Mr WdiMi'ii u.M. siis «t Carterton tcday.

The aunnal meeting -of- subscribers to the Wairarapa Hospital is. convened for Tuesday next.

Messrs RII. Wood kCo have leased as it s>ore room tho promisos in Groytown recently occupied as a brewery by Mr R. V. Smith. ' '

AH persons interested in the formation of a cheese and butter factory company are requested to moet at the Institute, Greytown, on Friday evening next, at 7 o'clock.

There was a vory satisfactory attendance at the Loyal Mastertoti Lodge of Oddfellows meeting last evening. One new member was initiated and the balance Jieot which recorded a very healthy financial position was read and adopted, A Maori scare was got up in Carterton on Monday evening, it being reported thai extremities had been resorted to on Wainiatc Plains, and that six white men and eighty natives had boen slain, The Rifles were on drill ai the time the report, which afterwards proved to be a canard, was circulated.

At the next si'ting of the District Court at Mastertou, Mr Henry will suo Mr P. H. Wood for £l7O damages being the loss sustained by the latter selling a billiard table at the White Hart Hotel but which owing to circumstances, with which our readers are familiar, was never delivered to the purchaser. The name of Mr J. Williams, of Tirauinea, Ims been mentioned as a possib'e candidal); i\< the coming election for the North Wairarapa subdivision. Mr Williams, during the few months he has been amount us, has made his mark as a seitlei of ilib right stamp; hut he is, we think, lon shrewd a man to embark in a coniest which to any new arrival in this district would be absolutely hopeless.

We have seen a copy of Hie programmes which the Mastertou Amateur Dramatic Club are about to issue in connection with their coming entertainments, They contain a quantity of bcal memos, and facetious items which will make them a very attractive feature in the Entertainment, We learn from one of them that ' the hills of Brancepeth will in future be known as the Cats Kill Mountains.'

The Carterton Ride Volunteer Corps paraded mi Monday evening on the Main road, between the Public Hall and the Marquis of Normanby Hotel-Captain Snodgrass. Lieut, Bennett, and 28 rank and fi'e being in attendance. SergeantMajor Bexar put Iho members present through company drill, after which Lieut Bennett gave them 20 minutes' bayonet practice. A meet : ng was subsequently hold in the Hall relative to the Band.

A nreting of members of ihe Mastertnn Cricket Club look place at the Club Hotel last evening, Mr J. G. Collins in ihe Chair. A number of new members having been enrolled, the balance sheet for the past year was read to the meeting, and ii cordial vnte of thanks passed to Mr C. A. Bn«g«, the retiring Secretary. The following officers and committee were elee'ed for I ho ensuing year .'—President —Mr P. G. Moore; Vice-President—Mr G. H. List'r-Kayo ; Captain of Ohih-Mr Kichard Fitioii; C.mnnitiee— Messrs R. (i. Willi !lm s,F. W.Green,W.McKenzie, J. Williams, W. Hester, J. Wickens, and P. Harrison ; Secretary-Mr W. Sellar. It was resolved—That the rules of the Club be revised, and that the committee report at the adjourned meeting to be held on Tuesday, the 11th inst.

The third nf a series of entertainments in connection with the Cricket Club was tfiven in the Institute, Greylown, oh Monday evening, and was fairly attended. Mr W. G. Bwd occupied the chair. The programme opened ivii.li a piano duet by Mrs and Miss Knell, which was rendered in first-class style, and received a hearty round nf applause. Mr Rminldwii sang " Wearing o : theGi'Hen," and Mr Wickerson "The British Flaj," both of which were well received. Mrs Skeet followed will one of |)or favorite readings, " Caudle's Curtain Lectures," aftor which Miss E Wyelt saiiL' with great taste, "Will He Come?" Dr T'iyli.r followed with a song " Alan Water," which received a peifeet torrei.t of applause. MissSpratt was very successful in a song "Tired," which was rendered very sweetly, Mr Black received an enenre for his spirited rendering nf " The Wolf," mid Mr Gray hilly siHliimed the reputation he has uaioed as a vocalist by the inunnor in which he sain, " The Free Lanoe." Mr WVhster nave a humorous reading from Pickwick, "Sergeant Buzfuz's address," wliich was very Widl given and received M s rsPalmerandßeardsangcomics.ims, ihe former gluing an encore for " Cribhage," the latter yivinu "Jones' Musical Party" in capital style, coming in for a Genuine round of applause. Mr Black also san>» "Friars of Orders Gray," Mr Bell cave a reading, and Mr St. George sang " I'm Waiting" in his usual style, and a capital entei tainment. was concluded with Hie .National Anthem, Next Monday there will be another entertainment, when a programme of mors than usual interest will he presented.

A correspondent of the N.Z, Timei writes the following letter on the "cat question" :-Cats-a-waiiling might also be realised, not on house-tops, but in the wilderness far away. How many wanlfl for the quiet hearth and children's bunging will pierce the haunts of sheep and rabbits? How many housewives will require to set their mousetraps? and how many ancient solitary dames will miss their sole companions in the quiet ovenings? But a truce with sentimental regrets? A scope is opened for the budding of undue.appropriation—to speak tenderly, of this unusual inducement offered to loose boys and full-grown loafers, Even a rich septuagenarian—a Whitting'on upside down-has been seen with puss in a bag eager for the sale, peradventure not a purloined one, as too many have been.but, nevertheless, carried to the market. What an amount of remorse must one day visit the originator of this cat em* ! Rumor points to the great ex J.P., whme caustic wings have so often fallen foul on merited and unmerited victims. Here is another crime of spoliation arlded 10 the direful account agiinstthe rapacious squa'ters, whose land monopolies have so long afforded Sir George Gray a stumping theme. Caterwauling will be a fitting accompaniment, to Sir George's lugubrious waih'ngs, and rats and mice will swell into an evil on a par w'th that of depriving future generations of their b ; rt'night in land. Tt is now a struggle between rahhitsand[squatters, and rahhita are likely to he more furmibb'e than even Sir George Grey—in his feigned sympathies —unless cats conquer. ■' .' Arrangements have been tnado to illuminate the Canadian, as well as the American falls, Niagava r .with the electric light. Daily, a well-known swimmer, recently saved a man from drowning at San Francisco, Gal. |fhisis the 27thperson saved by Daily. . v ■ ,'; fkpp amUHare of Ihe Emporium have •for rale 500 bushels of splendid seed Tartarian' Oats, which they are selling at 3s 6d|ier bushel,; As Oats are advancing r eyery day in'price buyers .'would do well if! secure'.some, of them at once...) They ,IJaye t aisti';just received, direo.M^orn. the

Yesterday Mr Shaw, R.'M,, fined tin hostess of the Clyde Hotel, Wellington, and the landlord of the Karon Hotel, one shilling each for selling rum reduced by ■water below the strength allowed in the Adulteration Prevention Act, 1880,

Messrs J. P. Russell .and J. Tully, J.P.'s, took the busintss at the R.M. Cowl Grevtown, yesterday., Judgment for n:iu int and costs was given in a civil caso, \. M. Wilkinson v. M. Zimmerman, lil 10s, and several other cases were either adjourned or settled out ot Court. There is, we understand, a loHger list at the Carterton Court to-day. William Hitmmerich, for whom Mr 11. H. Travers appeared, was charged at the R.M. Court, Wellington, yesterday with having on the 29(h ult., at Pahautaiiui, sold to Constable Lyster half-a-pint of ale, not being duly licensed to do so, It was explained that tho offence had been committed owing to a complication connected with the transfer of the license, and the case was adjourned for a week, to enable omissions to be rectified,

A woman belonging to the sect called Perfectioneits undertook to run herself to death at Dallas, Texas. She got her idea from a Scriptural passage about" running the race to the end," that if she ran till she died she would go to heaven. She could not kill herself by pedestrianism, however, and resorted to drowning instead.

A few days ago (says a Home paper), as Herr Schweitzer, the principal photographer of Strasburg, was arranging his atelier in the [expectation of custom, the floor was thrown open, and an exceedingly handsome young lady appeared on the threshold, Schweitzer at once recognized his visitor as "Miss Miua," the goldenhaired, blue-eyed, "Lion Queen" of a travelling menagerie temporarily established on a plot of waste ground outside the Metzger Thor. " I want to have my portrait taken," said the fair damsel. " I am at your service; pray be seated," replied the photographer, with a deferential bow. "By your leave," she rejoined, transfixing him with a steely glance, " I am not alone. Two friends are awaiting me outside the door," So saying, she set a silver whistle to her lips and blew it shrilly, whereupon two stately lions stalked into the apartment, greeting its proprietor with a salutation of growls that mada his blood run cold. At a sign from their youthful mistress, however, the formidable beasts sat down quietly enough ; and Herr Schweitzer, gaining confidence from their peaceful demeanor, proceeded to " group " his appalling clients with trembling hands, placing Miss Mina on a sofa in a semi-reclining attitude, with a lion on either side of her. All three preserved a statuesque immobility during the exposure, the result of which \m a remarkably fine picture, now adorning the windows of the leading stationer's shop near the Cathedral. Hundreds ol c pies have already been sold, and Herr Schweitzer's "mauvis quartd'heure" with a couple of loose lious is likely to prove the most remunerative period of his professional career. It is a lact that Messrs Gardener ami Son sold last season more sheep, shears than the whole of the Wairarapa storekeepers combined, aud this season it is their intention to offer tho 100 dozen pairs which they have imported at loss than Wellington wholesale prices. We cannot understand how this well-known firm sell all their goods so wonderfully cheap Their stock is splendidly assorted, and we would call special attention to their magnificent stock of drapery, which surpasses any we have yet seen in the Wairarapa. [Advt.l

Direct steam communication with Great Britain is not far distant, hut direct dealing with the Kaiapoi Woollen Mill enables me to sell Kaiapoi Tweed Suits at 555, Cos, and 75*. My show of shirts, hats, hosiery, and other requisites for a gentleman's outfit, is not to he surpassed in the colon). A call solicited. Orders promptly executed.— Akx Sample, Willis-st, Wellington.—AnvT.