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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 966, 5 January 1882, Page 2

Nominations for the Taratahi Baces close to-day.

The .funeral <>f Mr Chinchen'a late nephew is appointed fur to-morrow afternoon at 4,p.m.

The first quarter of the current year of the Wellington College commences on Tuesday the 24th inst.

Tenders are invited by Mr Chas. MoKillop for reaping, binding, and stooking, about 60 acres of oats and wheat at Akura.

The inquest which was held yesterday on thepoor ladßindon was in the opinion of many, an unnecessary one, but as the doctor who attended the case refused to sign the usual certificate necessary for a burial there was no alternative but a formal inquiry, ; The approaches to the new bridge over the Waipoua have been so far completed

that yesterday ordinary traffic was allowed to pass over it To-day it will be olosed for some finishing touches which are

squired, but after this date it will be al

the service of the public. The new school buildings at Masterton will shortly bo out of the hands of Messrs Williams and Barker the contractors, the last coat of paint to tho interior being now under way and the necessary outbuildings and fencing having been commenced.

. The following team will represent Greytown, in their match with Masterton on .Saturday nextT. S. Ronaldson, W, 0. Cuff, W. Say well | H. Hawke, C. Beard, W, G. Beard, F. O'Connor, J. Maguire H, Udy,.A.. L. Webster, Hirschberg. Emergencies, G. Saywell,-A, Hirschberg, The Inspection parade,of the Greytown Volunteers whb; very well attended, on Tuesday ev.eiring, about 45 answering to the roll call. Captain Tully- being in command Leiut. Cameron- also present, After tho inspection Drill-Instructor Bozar

gave the company a drilling. This being the half-yearly meeting, the balance sheet was read, and othor business brought forward,

The Foresters and Oddfellows of Grey

town have decided to hold an amalgamated Fete on the 22nd inst., they have electee their committees, but that is all that ha:

been heard about the matter. Surely the committees (if they imend to carry out tho affair) should meet and make arrangements, for they have only about a fortnight in which to do ■ everything. We should like to see this fete as successful as

she previous ones, and we hope they wil

lose no time in pushing matters oil. Masterton is beginning the new yeai .well., This morning Mr Wardell R.M,

had abla'uk sheet in the Masterton Court as far as criminal cases "wore concerned, and a very light calender of debt caßes. , It will be seen by a notice in another column that the afternoon trains will, on and after Friday next, leave Wellington at 4.5 and Masterton at 2,5. If the Hutt

be satisfied, we in this district must be content. The late time table lasted for six weeks, we should say six days would be about long enough for the present one

o rim. The following are the names of the

Masterton team chosen to play against Qreytown on the 7th iust. R.' Futon, R. G. Williams, F, Harrison, "W. A. D'Aroy, A, Webster, 0. A. Briggs, G-. H, Lister-Kaye, A. Blakely, J. W. Green, F. G. Moore, J. Wickens, J. G. Collins, and J. Williams.

Messrs Dwan & Co have been instructed to sell the whole of the stock of Mr M, J. Mulligan, Jeweller of Lambton Quay, who is'leaving the colony.' The stock comprises a'splendid assortment of every description of jewellery, watches, docks, &c., and a complete clearance of the: stock is to be made, as the business has been said to Messrs Littlejohn & Sous.

The building of railroads through Arizona and New Mexico has opened up a fine field for industrious men, who grow- fat in stealing valuable timber from the United States in secluded nooks beyond tbe pale of civilisation. InNew Mexico it is said that one firm has undertaken to furnish 8,000,000 ties for the use of the Mexican Central Railroad, which are being out on Government lands, while on the line.of the Atlantic and Pacifio Railroad they are having everying their own way. Sawmills are being built, and contractors have-located at various points and are engaged in furnishing' bridge timbers to the company

• Mr Til, -Schloesing proposes to extract magnesia from sea-water and utilize it for manufacturing mauures from' sewage. His process is as follows:—Sea-water in tanks is mixed with lime till precipitation of magnesia-"takes place. After standing for a dayj a; gelatinous precipitate is obtained of about 8 per cent, tlio volume of the water,. With this a certain quantity of a weak solution of phosphoric aoid is mixed, whereby a tribasio phosphate is precipitated, which • settles, and can be filtered through cloth or in a filter-press, and employed in extracting ammonia from sewage, the produot obtained being a phosphate of ammonia and magnesia of groat manuring value. Whether the process will pay any better than many other similar method^'for precipitating sewage remains to he seen.

A Reefton paper says:—A most extr a ordinary escape from instautaneous death occured at Black's Point. A son of Mr R. J. Scoltock, a little fellow about eight years of age, was passing the slip and was seen to fall over tbe precipice. Mr H.'Lloyd who was nearly a quarter of a mile away, saw the child fall ovar; and ran at once to the spo] fully expecting ,to' find that the little fellow had deen dasded to pieces on tbe rooks below, hut on nearing the place lie was delighted to Bee the hoy olimhing the slip and within a few feet of the' top. Mr Lloyd assisted him on his road, and enquired whether he 1 was hurt, to which he coolly replied " No, only my arm is broken," at the- same time holding up his right arm showing that it'was broken just above the wrist, The spot where the hoy fell is quite 00ft from the road, and the: face of the slip almost perpendicular, and how he escaped sudden death is hardly less a mystery than how lie managed to olirnb the slip with a broken arm., / • ■ ' • The public are reminded-'that Rappand Hare, of the Emporium,: are the sole I fluents for the noted Jeatherstnn-Cheese, | diothingj Boots, Groceries, and Oilman's | Stores are ten per cent, oheaper than any other house in town.—rADVT.l