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Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 1015, 6 March 1882, Page 2

The Greytown Borough Council meets this evening... Mr R, G. Williams has filed tt declaration of insolvency, ... Mossrs Lowes & lurns imnouiice a sale of furniture &c., for Saturday next. fortnightiy Bitting' of the 11. M. Court at Feutberaton takes place tomorrow. On Friday evnuing uoxt the Rev Mr Paige will preach at St Luke's Church Gveytown. , At Bivenon North. some Clnnnnien Were nominated for the local Licensing Cotaiuittoe. . The Glfidetone Election {(etition has 'Wen.dismissed by consent. The respon; debt' was allowed costs, The of OoDsdr . asters will meet on Tuesday evening at the, Institute Greyotm In oUr report last Friday of the sale of Mr H. MeM aster's sheejp the nauieofMr Meadow's stud farm should have been Mr Menlove. The Empire 'bus made i's trial trip to Cwtertoii yesterday, and uhuiuml a f,»ir Ji'uJ on ihewiiy down, and ut Btill beutr iuie nil the retur-i j >uruuy Notice is given that races will be held at "Whakataki on Easter Monday 10111 of April, the programme of which will be published shortly.

In Tasmania, although there is a railway between Hobart and Laui.cest.»n, the police make prisoners arrested iu one town and remanded to arother, walk the whole distance—l2o miles A meeting of persons objecting to the tax "on rabbit dogs is convened f»r Wednesday the Bth inst, at the Empire Hotel Master-ton. As so many are interested in ihe subject a full meeting may be expected. • At the w..0l sale at London on 3rd March, 9900 bales were offered. The tone of tlie market was firm. New South Wales fleece, crossbied<, now iule \i higher than at close of last.auctions, The Hawkos Bay Herald. complain that its railway line crawls nn ai the rate of a mile per ma, What- would our contemporary say to the Hue in this district which siands still ? The "Victorian Racing Club's Autumn Meeting opened ou Saturday at, Flemington. The chief event of the day, the St. Le«er Stakes, was won by Commotion, with. Pell-mell second, and Darebm third, Ihe time was fast, 3min 15sec. A pupil in the Groytown school, Master Ernest Porritt, has been successful at the recent examination in obtaining one of the uholarships offered by the trustees of the Wanganui Collesiate i>chool, Out of sixteen competitors Master Poiritt came out third. N»ticeisgivon thai at the suit of Mr Alex, larmcr of Wellington, the sheriff oi WairMapa lub caused to be seized the house ad land of F. W. Ruck, d i'ondant andthiit the Bume will be sold on the 21st day of April 18j2. We regret to learn that Mrs Kemptou, the wife or air T Kempton sen., ou« of Greytown's oldest .aid most respected settins, is nut expected to live. She has been ailing for some time past, and her medical attendants have no* no Iwpe of her recovery. •This -evening Mr Villers de Beeve's Photographic Exhibition of Austwia and New Zealand will be given in the Town Hall Greytown, the prices of admission are Is adults and children (id and as part ot the proceeds are io be devoted towards purchasing uniforms for ilio School Cadet Corps we hope it will be woll patronized,

The Rov. James McKeo who' lias re Oflutly returned from the Oliris church general assembly, gave in his sei'in-m lan i-.vening jave an account of the work oi the Presbyterian Church iu tlie colony and spoke iu eulogistic terms of its prosperity. The rev. gentleman was listened lotttwndvely'by aver) large cougiega tiou,

Messrs F. H. Wood aud On held, an Aucioirsaieof the Stock in trade and Furniture of Mr R. Freeman of Greytowu, on Friday. The sale was very well a< tended and the prices realised were satisfactory. Two horses were sold one f..r i'7los, and the other fur £7 ss, the trap realising £lO The lease and goodwill of 'he business idid not received a bid.

How is it on the Wellington-Masterton railway that the first train always arrives lateai Masiertmi, and the second one it rarely punctual. In the old coaching days *e knew to ten minutes when the mail would anive. but now we. cannot tell t» half an.hour. The coaching business was evidently butter managed than the tailway trhffic is. Messrs Lowes & lorns announce entries f.,r their market sale «ut Wednesday next which n.ciude fat and mixed cattle, cows, farm horses, hacks, brake, &c. In our report of their Teuui sale published inourlasi isßiio, wesaiu the quality of •the stock was not equal to.the demand. This should'have been the " quantity'' of stock, the word quality being a misprint, The formation of an isthmus between tlie United- Kingdom and Ireland is now on the tapis tii the old Country, awl; it-fe said is beliii> quietly but energetically pushed. The site has been decided, and capital is. boing hunted up to" provide I funds to connect England,': Ireland, andScotland. The "Hune News'' is re-, sponsible for the statement.' • There was a Church: Parade of the ! Grey town Volunteers yesterday. • Membora fell m at the Pust Oihce at 10 A; M. and marched to the Church headed by their baud. The Hon. Chaplain, iiev H, V. White officiated. Before service the liev T, J. Potter's beautiful Hymn, "Brightly gleams our banner" was sung, the choir also rendering Jackson's service in "F." very affectively. A very iuip< ess* ire sermon waspieached, the text being taken frnia the 11th Chapter of". I'hessaioutann, 2nd verse. The company were [marched back to the Post Office and dis» missed, To-morrow evenina Command, ittg Officer's luspection Parade will be : held at 7.80. ; ; "•' : -'- ' . The sale »f work in the-town hall on Saturday last was fairly successful, about Ll7 being realised. The goods offered were simply the balance of the anioles which were unsold at the late Wesleyao bazaar. 'We understand that the debt on the church now renminbi); isuuder LlO. The Rev J, Dukes ig anxious that this amount shoultt be reduced to'iiil, prior io his departure from thedistrict, anil this wish on the pan of one who has done m much for.the congres-ation should be lufficietittu inditiß a'few'friends' to at .iiiceioine li.iwinil in'ie»pim»B to it. Wu trußt tube able, to auiiouiice within, the next few days that Mr Dukes' haß .been' isJeMacp'i'uplish tj),e. it (ilije.ct•''■which he I biidso'liitii; inHlßW,';?iz., - '-'tir||ud [ 'f*w ttrt triwit ft) to wcwrttr tmtm im

-The usual monthly meeting of St Lukes Church, Vestry.will.be held to-morrow evening at Greytown'.' "

•: To-morrow, before Mr \Wdell E.M. the] Assistant School-master at Greytown will' be charged, witlrdischarging firearms in the pub)io.atreet.;\ ' • . Mr E. Qray, the successful tenderer for the additions' to the Forester's Arms Hotel, Greytown,"commenced operations at the job on Saturday lost. ~ On Saturday afternoon a praotice match was played :by the Greytown Cricketers. Mesßrs Cuff and Eonaldson picked sides, After a well contested game the former won. Players are requested to roll'up tomorrow afternoon for praotice. There wero thirteen passengers and ' nineteen bags of mails for the Napier and Wanganui coaches to-day. Mr James Miicara at once put on an extra four horse vehicle to divide the load with the ordinary one.

A fatal tramcar accident occurred in Wellington, on Sunday afternoon, A lad named Louis Burgess, aged 15 years, in stepping from one car to another, missed his footing and fell between the two, the wheel of one passing over and breaking his neck, Be died almost immediately, It is notified in another column that Mr E. Evans having decided to close the Masierton branch of his saddlery.busineas, 'he Btock will be enld cheap during the current week, after wiiiich« will be sent •to Wellington. >•'• ' ' Speiial attention is oallod to Rapp, and Hare's price list, which will be found on ou front page. For clothing, boots, ironmongery and grocery, they will be found the oheapes and beßt house in the trade.—To Fanners—■fust'arriioil, Harvesting Glovi'H; 1,00"* Corn Sacks, equal to new, at 7s fid per •ten, - f\»VT] Carterton v Jfasterton,— As a proof of who are the cheapest storekeepers in the Woirarapa 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. ftm the time of their commencing business in, Cartertou 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 ami 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, and iu large quantities still further couces sionsarenvde,—(Abvt