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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 993, 7 February 1882, Page 2

Mr Wardell, RM., sits at Oirterfcon to morrow.

The Port Darwin telegraph line is reported to be working intermittently. The Pihfttua settlement is developing. v We hear that a new store is likely to be erected there very shortly. Notices of the sittings of the various licensing and Assessment Courts m this district ore published in another column. Mr John Kay who was recently appointed seoond assistant master to the Masterton Public School entered upon his now duties this morning. The Carterton Town Board calls for tenders in another column for felling and stumping Rutland and Lincoln roads. , The Taratahi-Oarlerlon Highway Board invite tenders for seven felling, olearing, forming and metalling contracts. _ Our Carterton correspondent has been informed on reliable authority that notioea havo been served to dear land from rabbits whero the clover is eighteen inches high in the paddocks. Mr L, Nix has some fine crops on His land with good stron<! atrnw, which, it is anticipated, will run 60 bushels to the acre. This, gentleman's crops last year were among the most productive in the district. At the R.M. Court, Carterton, before Messrs Booth and Boys, J.P.'s, William Mcintosh was charged- last Saturday morning with being of unsound mind, and on the medical ovidence and certificates of Drs Bey and Watts, was committed to the Asylum in Wellington It may be within tho memories of our readers that this was one of the witnesses on the cruelty charges in the celebrated Whitelaw inquiry held some months back. Eeeently, writes the N.Z. Times, the Eey Mr Paige, incumbent of St Matthew's Episcopalian Church, Masterton, ordered an organ through Mr Webley, of Lambton quay, who is the Wellington agent for Messrs Mason and Hamlin's Organ Company, Boston U.S.A., for the use of his Church, The instrument, which is one of largest reed organs of that class manufactured, arrived on Saturday by the b.B. Ringarooma, and 'is at present to be inspected at Mr Web7'Y°° m \ The style is catalogued bb «o. 001, and is known as the "Liat" organ. Its compass is five octaves, single manml, having fifteen stopß and eight sets of reeds. The instrument contains three 4ft, four Bft, and five 16ft stops, the octave coupler runs throughout, and it also has the patent vox hmrna stop in it. At the left knee is the grand organ, and at the right the usual swell. The instrument has been tried by several professional gentlemen in this city, who express their approval, as they consider it most suitable for churches possessing congregations so large even as 2000 persom, v

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Messrs Lowes and lorns anuouncea ale «<f new and second-hand furniture, at ttiHirAuotumßnums, on Saturday next. The Loyal Masterton Lodge 10 6 F meet this evening at the Empire Hotel". ' A Lower Valley Spavrow Club is about nf!r I TK. Wed . onotkQowwll '>'« to be Cock Robin ot it. * Guiteauistobe hanged on June 30. wua will the Amerioan Press do without mm I

AtGreytown yesterday the ouly case on the B.M. Court sheet was a claim for « debt, the amount of which was paid into Court. *

We remind purchasers of timber of of 10,000 feet of seasoned totara at Mr James Cotter's, Greytown Saw Mill tomorrow.

■Mr P. Gray invites tenders for clearing. M acres of manuka scrub and for the erection of one mile of rabbit proof fencing at Fairburn Taratahi.

lUafoundthatMrA.W.Eenallisnot edible to sit on a licensing committee, as nj possesses an interest in a brewery site. Hie Mcensed Vittnallers Association have here ore bad to withdraw his name from their list of candidates.

lbe ■ number of fires in the Colony recently has been exceptionally large. Every day brings tidings of one or more conflagrations. Why. do not the Insurance Companies break the'spell by lowering their rates. s

• Mfl »»* H. Wood & Co. will offer for sale to-morrow about 100,000 feet of seasoned timber at Mr J. Cotter's Greytown Bawmill. .. . ■ ■'■

.Ml F.S.Forbes of Carterton adverises a ,new: nine roomed bouse, and twenty eight acres of land for sale. The latter includes a valuable orchard and

,A Liconaing Committee has keen appointed at Greytown as well as at ■leathera on without a contest. At noon this day the following were declared duly ; JV.H m D.P. LoaßbyiandJ .

A new bakery is about to open in CarIS '"ft Bb A° P l otmtl ? in A« «M. P to V f '} r f Young, and till lately uedby Mr Leahy as.a boot .hop, Mr Morgan's butaher .hop on the main road. *

of Maatortoti held a meeting last evening, when the proof the late gathering of the local Temperance Political Associate were discussed and denounced. The Lod»e unanimously,agreed to nominate and support the following candidates for the Licensing Committee, viz, Messrs A. Bull, T. E. Price, and R. Dagg.

Smce the Belvidero Estate was put up for.public sale at F, H. Wood &Co 5 Z I mß t Carterton, last Saturday week, the following allotments have been disposed of privately: Section 42-18 acres, 1 rood, 12 perches, R. Blake, Lspe acre j section 48-18 acres, 1 rood, 17 perches, B. Blake, L 5 per acre jsecJio 43—8 acres, 2 roods, 12 perches, d. Kennedy, L 6 per acre; section 44-9 acres, 1 rood, 9 perches, D. Kennedy, LG Pf acre; section 46-25 acres, 1 rood, 14 perches, D. Kennedy, LB per acre KVV? acres ' a A»: Kennedy, L 5 per acre; section 47-25 acres 19 perches,.D.K e „„ e dy, LBpo r acre, leaving seventeen sections still in the market for purchase.

The usual weekly drill of the Oarlerton Volunteerß,e Corps took placeonMo %. Present-Captain Snodgrass, Lieut. Benneit, Surgeon Watts.. andVa'nk and Wo. Iho company were put throgb standdrill and bayonet exercise until shortly before nme, when the men were dismissed S B^?l^6^ 01 corps was neia, Upt. bnodgrass presiding. The minutes of the last meeting were read and Petr '™! >l* motion of P"vate Kettit seconded by private Wilson. The Cap. then stated that the business of the meeting was to elect a Sub-Lieut. in the place of Mr C. Potts, resigned. After reading the regulations for the election o «sioned officers a ballot was taken, result „g ln the election of Sergt. Craw! ford, the election being unanimously confarmed on the motion of Lieut, Bennett seconded by Col,Sergt. Campin. Th menwho were at the front subsequently SuV hß °, U, s ttOwllioht W«re ent.tlea.fromtheGoyernraent.andSergt.. Ma]orßezar announced, prior to the men parade would take place next Monday evening. A Maori lad. named "Naera" about 16 IZ S ° f %V ? V 0f chief tßdmtotheWfli r arapa. : |oßpitalGre.ytown S*W* ! was % with another Maori, when as he m, swimmingjapbttt, his companion fll . e d a t »duck, not noticing "Naem" who was not more than 15 yards away, the whole of the charge eatering under the joint of ZS^7? hattei;iD ß»eecap. Ini patient is being carefully attended to bypra.BeyandTayl6ivwhoardoin; theirutraosttoavoidamputation.-althoui such a course'seemed neceßsary to save his life at first; up to this motaing every, thing was propotaß, favorably, three piecesofthoshntteml bone having been removed, MrJohnSavan.thepol J t,T b fl ° bl r elmleg Booth's mill fKiT, ksa ! olsalßoan lnm ateof the Hospital, and we are happy to sav is progressing favorably. . ' The difficulty whioh has arisen between the Mastery School Committee and Education Board as to whether two pupil teaohers or an assistant teacher should be appointed to the school might now be amicably settled, as since the pupils have een taken to the new premises the attendance, has shot up so rapidly that the School IB now entitled .to both. Th mormng four hundred and,Di„e children the School to additional teaching power. In the uew building there are seven class the fifth and sixth Standards, which count up a total of sixty-four boys and eirls The fourth Standard had this morning a quorum of forty-two, he third Standard which is assigned to the charge of Mr John Kay makes a atiil higher total of no less than seventy-two being a greater number than the classroom in whioh it is conducted is intended to accommodate. The second Standard makes an aggregatb of seventy-nine, and being too numerous for any one classroom in the building, the boys forty-one in number ave placed in one room, and the girls who count up thitty-eight in another. T e 6rst Standard com prising tifty-two children are placed in a room designed for forty-eight pupils only, and the infants, of whom one hundred and five were present to-day, find ample accommodation m their special apartment, It willl he seen that the new premises, commodious though they be, are none too large for the present attendances'. It is very gratifying to notice the large increase of children m the school this week as it proves oonclu3ively;that th» new buildings have supplied theiheeds of the Borough, and thrt jn mto of all cavilling as to site they fulfil the requirements of the neighborhool Among the new pupils present m theaohool to-day we noticed two native children who have been sent by the well' known ohtefkiah to .hare in theX. tagaawbioft thei.n.«* premises offer to all oiamsiutheeoimnunity.

The partnership hitborto existing botween'Messrs R. G. Williams ana James Miotte as sadillers, has boon dissolved ».y mutual consent. Mr Elliotto carries on the business,

Mr W. J, Nix, although he has been ottered good prices for his rams exhibited at the last Pastoral Show, has decided to hold them over to augment'the forth, coming ram show. Mr Clifton will also have a fine mob of 53, merinos,, brod from Canterbury ramß.

Special attention is called to Rapp and Haves price list', which will be found on our front page. For olothing, boots, ironmongery, and grocery, they will be found the cheapest and best house in the trade.-AnvT. '

Carterton v Maeterton.-As a proo of who "o the .cheapest storekeepers in the Wairarapawewjsh to draw our readers'.speoial attention to B. A. Gardener & Son's advertisement on our frontpage. This firm is detennined; to keep up their reputation. Ifrom the time of their commenoingbusiness in Urterton they have repeatedly proved that they can withstand competition,.'; no matter how strong. It is therefore ridi'eoloua for another storekeeper.frOm a neighboring township to post price-lists to their customers and pretead.to'sell'at wholesale prices, when for the smallest quantities B. A. Gardener & Son supply goods in almost every instance 10 to 15 per cent cheater, .and in large quantities still further conoes sums are nwle.—(Anyr.