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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 961, 29 December 1881, Page 2

The next outward mail via San Francisco closes in Masterton on Saturday afternoon.

Grazing is now found to be more profit-, able than ploughing in the Whareama. At Uriti there will be no expoit grain this year.

Mr J. Tocker of Greytown met with a nasty accident (and one that is likely to incapacitate him from following his work for sumo time) on Boxing day. On arriving home from the Weselyn pic-niche was assisting some of the occupants of a trap when the horse moved forward, the. wheel •>6ing over one of his feet crushing his toes badly,

Mr Dan M'Donhell of Featherston lost a valuable Sator cult named Sexton, on

Boxing Day, under, very peculiar circumstances, It appears the animal had bsen jumped over a hurdle on the Waihtmga cuurße Bevoral times when it fell heavily. It appeared none the worse for the fall and was being riddeu home when it fell dead on the road,

It will be remembered that a complimentary entertainment was given a short time ago in the Town Hall, Greytown, to Mr George Palmer, and it may be of interest to our Greytown friends to know that the proceeds were handed to Mr Faker on Saturday ovening last, also an illuminated address. The presentation waß made in the Working Men's Club. On Monday evening an opportunity will be afforded to those desirous of doing so, to witness a public installation of the officers of the Druid's Lodfje. The ceremony is a most impressive one and will attract a large number of visitors. A torchlight procession and a supper at the Empire Hotel also takes place the same evening in connection with the Lodge, A meeting of the Mastorton Institute was hold yesterday afternoon. Present: Messrs Feist (Chairman), Boddington, Sellar, and Payton. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The Secretary read his report for the last month. It was decided that a clock should be purchased for the reading room. The following accounts' were passed for payment:—T. Jago, £2 ss; E. Feist, £i 9s; 10s;Dutton, 43 7a 3d; andD. Clark, £{ 2s. The entries in the suggestion book having been read itwwats t resolved that provided some person, becume responsible for good order, the side room might be re-opened tor draughts and chess. It was also determined that the London Times, newspaper, should Be ordered. Mr. Catr was appointed ue,jik visiting member, The usual weekly drill of the Greytown Volunteers was held on Tuesday evening, when between 30 and 40 answered to the roll call, Lieut.. Cameron being in command. The evening being fine the Company were drilled outside, Col.-Sergt. Hamilton keeping them at field exercises for upwards of an hour, On the return to the Hall, it was decided to commence the competition fjr Lieut. Cameron's Cup on Saturday next, the distances to be 200, 400, and 500 yards, any position, and that none but efficient Volunteers be allowed to compete; to be won twice in Bucosasinn, or three times at intervals On Sunday next there will be a Church pirade, and on Tuesday next commanding officer's inspection parade. As some scirlet olnth had been sent by the authorities in Wellington to the Company, the Secretary was instructed to write and ask if it was compulsory for the corps to wear scarlet coals: the members present being in favor of the present uniforms. After dri'l the usual dance was held, and was as well attended as ever, the music being rupplied by the Band.

There is to be an International Exhition in Holland in 1893.

At Baby, the seat of the Duke of Cleaveland, a oarriaee runs directly into the great baronial hall.

The late Victor Euianual's debts have have all been paid by his son Hubert, who doos not owe a penny himself. The night before his wedding the Duke of Argyll Bat out a' debate, and drove to the (rain at daybreak. His wife is but little older than her stepchildren, The Grand Duke Karl Theodore, of Bavaria is a cunning ocu'ist, and works without a fee. He has lately founded a hospital for diseases of the eye, at his own expense.

The family seat of Prince Bismarck, Varan, is a favourite haunt of the herons of which great care is taken, as an old legend says that when the herons fors i ko Varzin, fortune forsakes the Bismavcks. Prince Bismarck's little estate of Sohouhausen, which has belonged to-tlie family for four centuries was a present from the Margrave of Brandenburg, and it is there that he passed most of hiV childhood.' The Russian military authorities are considerably exercisedi'wbether to adhere to the present system! of military districts or to adopt the regular army corps and an influential committee has been appointed : to consider the question which has been | taken up as jhuoh with regird to the efficienoy of the Russian army of the future as of $ rednotion in the military expenditure of the country. The. importation in 1880 of American apples into England, shows a falling off of 43,896 barrels. In 1877,833,019 barrels were imported, and in 1880 only 290,293. A peculiarity of the apples shipped from Amerioan ports is that, though they: are shovelled into casks with more haste than discretion, and are braised in this process as well as on the subsequent voyage across the Atlantic, thei blemishes are only external; Most of the European apples, if damaged by a fall or ablow>iare affected by the. injury even to the core. >..'-. Carterton v Masterton,—As a pr@of.nf who' are the cheapest storekeepers'in the' Warmrapawewish to draw our readers' special attention to B. A. Son's adveron. our frontpage. This, firm is determined to keep lip their reputation. .From the time of their commenoingbusiness in .Carterton, they have repeatedly- proved that they can withstand-competition, no matter how strong; It is therefore ridion; lons'jfor.another storekeeper from-a neighboring; township to post price lists to thoir :cfa'sWwiefa : anil pretend to sell at wholesale prices, > when ; for the smallest quantities B, ■ ; A.Gardener&:Ponsnprtlygoods -in;almost', every instance 10 ti 16 peroent'-oheaperj and in'large quantities still farther 66ao«a :

The Featherstb'n School pionic has been fixed fur January 10th in the. town belt.reserve. ,: ,:;' ■ •

:f-The Masterton Bechabite Tent will hold a summoned quarterly meeting tonight. ■'■./ ( '1 .

Messrs F, E 1 Wood & Op announce that thoy will hold a publio auction at the Rum and Ewe Pair in February next, and invite owners of stock to make entries of sheep cattle and horses, Mr D. M'Master annual Bale of pure-bred pedigree bulla nrill take place on this occassion. We believe that Bhortly another alteration in the railway time-table will be made. The second train from Maeterton will probably leave an hour later'pd the seoond train from Wellington an hour earlier. ... Messrs Lowes and lorns held a sale at Mr Avery'B farm at Tarhtahi yesterday. The attendance was good and prices very fair, especially for Btock, Fifty store cattle sold, varying from calves, 265, to two-year-olds, £3 lis 6d; cows, £S 10s to £7 10s. Horses, pigs, poultry, etc., also oreated plenty of competition.

Messrs Lowes & lorns have added to their sale catalogue for January 4, fifty good cows and calves, ninety good ewes, and thirty store pies. The Masterton Fire Brigade heldjji ÜBual fortnightly meeting last evening.

Mr Oaaolberg'a nomination paper has been handed to the Returning Officer. It is subscribed by Mr A, Bish, who has thus redeemed a promise ho made to Bupport him as a candidate for the Borough Council. The following were the payments made at the meeting of the Masterton Highway Board, held on the 26th December, 1881:—John O'Connor, £7 16s; John MoMannaway, SI 16s; J. Cavanagh, £8 Is; A*. McKormao, £7 16a; F. Poulson, £5 8s 6d; J. Petersen, £7l6s: A. Lovejoy, £1 12s 6d; P. Hourigan, £l 4s; J. Hourigan,£l24s;o. L. ProphM'B Is; T.Salter, 156sGd;G. Fannin, .£6 8a; McGregor Bros., £l9 6d; J. Payton and Co., £2 7b 6d; M. Caaelberg & Co M £2 8s 3d; G. H. Shute,£6; 0. E. Breraner, £26 17a Bdj T. E. Price, £1 IBs: Sohwarman 4 Co,, 10V; D. C. Macquarie, £6. Slender, of middle height, with chestnut hair and beard, with soft blue eyes, and of reserved manners, is the picture given—by his enemies—of M, Henri Bussen, the possible successor of M. Gambetta as President of the French Chamber.

Dr Le Breton, of Jersey, the father of Mrs Langtry, the Jersey Lilly, is spoken of as the probable successor of Dean Close, the venerable Dean of Carlisle, who was married last year at the age of eighty-four, and has just given in his resignation, Mrs Rachel Barnard, a neice of General Warren, of Bunkor Hill (U.S) renown, who died recently in Kentucky, lost her eyesight when a little past middle life, but recovered it when about ninety, and could read fine print without glasses at the time of her decease.

The Princess of Sohleswie-Holstein who became Madame Ftmark by marrying t turgeon of great authority but of common birth, does not regret her royal title, and home at Kiel is open to students and artists and is a delightful and happy one. Their imperial relatives often visit them: for Madame Esmarckis aunt of the future Empress of Germany. At the late Medical Congress in London the Crown Princess took great pains to give the professor a flattering introduction to her mother the Queen.

To FARMERS,-Jußt landed, a large assortment of Scythes, Scylhe-handles, Rata, Forks, Chums, Milk Pans, to be sold at Wellington prices by Rapp and Hare, of the Emporium,- [Adyt.]