The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1882.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 February 1882, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1882.

It is now nearly ten years since the first Horticultural Show was held in the Wairarapa. Our maiden exhibition was a very unpretentious display of fruits, flowers andvegetables on the old lauherenikau Pastoral Show Grounds, and yet it was notfar behind its more ambitious successors in Greytown and Masterton. The truth is that we have not during the past decade made very rapid strides towards greatness as gardeners, and our double set-of biennial Shows has practically been only saved from insolvency by industrial exhibits being grafted on to them. Bacon has come to the rescue of roses, and big boots to the help of bouquets! It is some co mfort to ob : serve that horticultural destitution has not been confined to the Wairarapa, and that even in the Empire City the Wellington Society has appeared "ra fpnm pauperis. .In this district we have got into a horticultural groove w.hich we sadly want to get out of. We run four Shows per annum and about £l5O covers the yearly expenditure on them. This far a district containing a thousand gardens and ten thousand people is rather poor, especially when it is remembered that twothirds of the money which is raised finds its ways back into the pockets of those who contribute it in the first instance. We are anything but spendthrifts in our encouragement of horticulture. For every pound laid at its shrine, twenty-five, pounds or perhaps fifty pounds' are' laid on the altar of racing, Would that tho proportions were Reversed.' If. it were, the Wairarapa would be the garden of New Zealand. Itib time that we made.a freat departure with, our little spring, and autumn flower flutters by establishing a district-Society on a broader basis. A few mbjitliß ago Greytown invited Masterton to join with it in holding a central Show at the annual meeting of the Wairarapa Pastoral Society. The overture was not accepted 'probably because the scheme wag not presented in a matured form, but the suggestion is one that is worthy of a trial. If the Pastoral Society not only found house room for horticultural exhibits, but arranged them so that the ■promoters pf this section of .the Show icouldjcollect a modest shilling from visitors towards a prize fund, the pro-posal-"might be carried out with success nextieawn, "We want Uvger Shows,

prizes, and a greater numbeivof visitors, And to.secure all these benefits we shall have to! get into another horticultural groove. Wedo not desire to disparage the nice little Show? held in the town hall to-day. It is as attractive as it can well be expected to bo under the conditions which limit.it, but we feel that the district is capable" of doing something better, and 'we would like to see the attempt • made,not merely for the sake of making' a fine Show, but because a good exhibition reflects more or lass the progress of horticulture in the district and excites a greater interest in gardening among all classes in the community. More attention given to horticultural pursuits means that a healthy, beneficial, and profitable occupation is engaging the leisure hours of the business man and the working man, We believe that if our Good Templar and Rechabite friends formed themselves into a' big Horticultural Committee they could effect more good for the temperance cause than they could perhaps secure by any other expedient,

To-morrow the -Wairarapa Daily will not bo published. The nominations for the vacant seat in the Maaterton Borough Council close at noon 10-mori'dw. The compulsory clause of the Education Act is being enforced in Wellington. A special meeting of the Masterton Town Land Trustees is called for Friday, evening to hear objections to the voters' list. It is rumored that the Government propose t» save i' 30,000 a year in the department of the Hon. Minister for Justice. .■■■•■• -■ Messrs J. H, Belhune & Co. will offer for sale on Thursday, March 2nd, a valuable block of freehold land in the Upper Hutt district, particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns' The Bhower of rain which fell last evening ought to make things pleasant for the Tauberenikau races to-morrow. It was just what trainers were praying for to make the course perfect, It will also by cooling the air and laying the dust be appreciated by travellers to the. busy scene.

The Assessment Court for the Greytown Borough sat yesterday. Thore was only oneobjeotion, which was arranged between the parties. The Dng Registrar for Wairarapa South, Mr J. W, Laimbeer, has already enrolled one thousand' dogs in |his registration book.

The Wellington Dog Inspector is opening up a new line of business, Instead,of destroying unregistered dogs at once lie offers them for sale cheap.

The nomination of candidates for the Licensing Committee for the Greytown District took place at the Tauhoremkau school house yesterday, when the following persons were declared duly elected : John Orbell Bidwill, Henry Bunny, Henry Humphrey Jackson, Edward E. Martin, and Samuel Vennell, The following is the Masterton team selected to play against Tinui on Saturday next:—Alfred 31akeloy, 0. A. Briggß, R. J.Filton, F.Harrison, C.E. Hood, W. McKenzie, F. G. Moore, F. O'Connor, Alf. Matthews, T. L, Thompson, R. G. Williams. Umpire—J. Wickens, The Railway Department have made the following arrangements for the race days:—Extra trains will leave Masterton at 9.30 a.m., Greytown at 10 a,m„ arriving at Featherston at 10,15 a.m. Return from Featherston at 6 p.m., arriving at Greytown at 6.20, aud Masterton at 7.15. The ordinary train loaving Masterton at' 2,5 will on each day be delayed until 4 45 p.m. Single tickets betweon' Featherston and all Wairarapa stations will be available for the return over the two raco days. The Greytown Volunteers met for their usual weekly drill last evening under the command of Captain Tully. Lieutenant Cameron put the men through their facings, after which he informed them that in I lie first competition for his cup Corporal Kempton was top scorer. This was principally through his good attendance at parade, having 13 points to his credit through this. The Becond competition takes place on the 4th March, and the second competition for Colonel Pearce's prize on Monday next. • By the Orient in July last 4000 carcases of mutton wore conveyed' to London, cool and comfortable. A leading official of the Frozen Meat Export Company placed a private mark on six of the carcases, and asked one of the engineers of the refrigerating room to look after their disposal. He did so, and saw. them sold to a retail butcher in Oxford Street at s|d per lb, Next day (says" jEgles") he paid a visit to the shop, and saw the marked carcases hanging up. Ee inquired how they sold this mutton. The reply was, " Best.Scotch, sir, 13d per lb." That Pcotch mutton was bred and fattened at Cocketgodong, Urana, N. S. W.'l Jem Mace, the well-known " champion of England, who has for some time pnst been a resident of Victoria, reached; Wellington by the s.s. Wakatipu from Sydney on Sunday, and is now detained at the Quarantine Island, with four other passengers by the same vessel, their vaccination marks not having been deemed satisfactory by the Health Officer, and the restrictions which have been in force here for some time not having been removed • until two days after the Wakatipu left Sydney. The detention is, of course, considered most vexatious by the unfortunates, who aro compelled to Bojourn on Soames Islond for a day or two, but it could not be avoided. The object of Mr Mace's visit is to cive a series of entertainments in the principal towns'.of New Zealand, similar to those which lie has given with such Buccess in Australia and Great Britain. In these he gives representations of classical statues, and as ho is admitted to bo one of the finest specimens of manhood living, they are, without doubt, well worth seeing, He will be piloted through New Zealand by Mr H. P. Raphael, who is already well and favorably known to theatre-goers in this colony. Mr Raphael has with him tne celebrated silver belt which has been held by Beveral successive Champions of England, and which has never been wrested from its present holder; and ako a splendid gold belt .presented to Mace by his admirers in Victoria.—N.Z. Times. Special attention is called to Rapp and Hare's price list, which will be found on our frontpage. Forolothing, boots, ironmongery and grocery, they will be found the oheapes, and best house in the trade.—To FarmersJust, arrived, Harvesting -Gloves; 1,000 Corn Sacks, equal to new, at % 6d per dozen,- [Advt.] • Carterton v Maiterton,—As a proof of who are the cheapest storekeepers in the Wairarapa we wish to draw our readers' special attention to B, A, Gardener & Son's advertisement on our front page. This firm is determined to keep up their reputation. From the time of their commencing business in Carterton they have repeatedly proved that they;can withstand competition, no matter how strong. It is. therefore ridiculous for another storekeeper from a neighboring township to post price lists to their customers and pretend to sell at wholesale prices, when for the smallest quantities B, A. Gardener & Son supply goods in almost every instance 10 to 16 per cent cheaper, I and in large quantities stilf further oonces jgionsaremnde.'rfAiJVT: ■

tiliSvSEttUday. ! ;; Atthe'E'du , s|lo|nßbtt|[|o-da,v the Hon, The followiril.ljii'sin'ek of JWairarapa in : ' tereat transpired":—The application uf the Eketahuna committee for fencing, not to cost more than 25fl'perchaiti'-tta9 allowed; £ls were allowed to Tenui for repairs,. The acoo'unts sent in v .by'the Qreyt'own' committee and' clocks and desks applied for to be sent, but the Board could not make, any special grant. '.,. The old site of the Maaterton school was ordered to be conveyed to the Trustees in order that they may raise the £IOO promised. Tenders are to be called for the erection of sheds, but ire not to be accepted until the £4OO is received, The necessary drainage and cupboards at the school are to be attended to and another assistant master allowed. Be a protest lodged against the late election, the Board resolved it could not take any action re the election of the committee as it was elected at the time fixed,