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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 31 March 1882, Page 2

: After many difficulties and Relays there is now a tolorablo certainty of an efficient recreation ground being formed on the Park Reserve at Masterton, which will be a permanent benefit to all. existing athletic societies and to future organisations of a similar character. The Park has been, as..everybody knows, a sort of white elephant fur some years, but the time is approaching when the growth of its innumerable tree!) and the improvements about to be made in the ovul will make it the show place" of the town for visitors, and the recreation ground of the resident population.

To-morrow is tho monthly pay day of the Mastorton Building Sooiety. Mr. Alexander M'Minn, of the Manawatu Standard, has been adjudicated a bankrupt.

Messrs Lowes and lorns soil 10-innrrow afternoon at their Mas'crton auction rooms a splendid assortment of new and second hand furniture. Tho choice between Messrs Braithwaite and Armstrong fur tho representation of tho Cartorton riding in the Wairarapa West County is expectod to create somo little interest in that neighborhood to-day. A valuable grey-bonnd belonging to Mr John Macara strayed from Greytown yesterday morning on to the Eailway line and met its fate tinder the wheels of a passing train, We call attention to Messrs F. H. Wood & Co.'s sale of first-class building-sites in Greytown to-morrow. Land is absolutely and undeniably rising in value now in that township. There are' now buyers for every cheap lot that is put into the market. The Masterton Rifle Corps meet this evening to elect a captain and a lieutenant, for the former office Messrs A, R. Bunny, D. Donald, W, Lowes, and W. Perry aro nominated, and for the latter, Messrs D. Donald, C. J, Freeth, and 0. Wilton!

The Masterton Debating Society meets this evening, and as the subject for discussion is one of greater interest than somo which have been recently handled, an interesting meeting may be anticipated.

The summoned meeting of the Masterton Foresters' Court held last evening was well attended, Bro. Petersen, 0,R., presiding, A preliminary discussion was held re tho arrangements which will be requirod to be made for the district meeting, which takes place in Masterton next October, with a view to secure the comfort and convenience of the delogates, "With this object tho present Court officers were appointed as a sepecial committee,

The following has reached us by a special messenger, and may bo intelligible to some of our readers;—" Dr Brown will be in attendance this evening from 7 to 9 o'clock at the Council Chambers to receive patients suffering from tlpit terrible disease known as'lMte defft,ulijns;, Testimonials from Mr'Wardell, After this (Jrite the doctor will attend the patients at the R.M. Court."

On Thursday last a most utterly utter poll under the Licensing Act was taken at Featherston—that township where so ma,ny enterprising publicans have boen dragged by bJ!> ljotels to the perdition of the Bankruptcy Court, Mr J, j, Froeth sat in state from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.', nine mortal hours, to register five votes, which were given as follows :-For increasing the present (too utterly utter) number of licensed houses 3, against 2; for increas. ing the number of nocotnmodition houses 2, dgainat 3, AtWaiheoga tl)in«e were a little livelier yesterday, no less than twelvo voters coining forward, all of whom plumped for an mcrease of licensed houses, and tan of them wanted more accommodation houses,

A well attended meeting waß held at the Club Hotel last evening to consider what steps should be takon to put the Masterton Park into a fit state for reoreation purpose! The attendance would have been larger had it not been for the meeting of the Institute Committee the same evening, as most of the gentlemen of that body intended to be present. Mr F. G. Mooro occupied the, chair, and stated the objeot of the meeting, After a lengthy disousßion a deputation consisting of Messrs Moore, McKenuie and Williams were appointed to wait upon the Park Trustees and the Town Lands Trustees, to see what assistance they could give in the matter. It was also decided to at once open a subscription list (and about £ls were subscribed in the room), opinions being expressed that if the public saw it wna Heine gone into heartily they would respond in a liberal manner. We have news from Pahaua of the mysterious' disappearance of a lad about fourteen years of age, under cjroumstonces winch, ff" "f? tfPit} leave little' roorji /or doubt that the poor boy has either lost himself and died of starvation, or that death has resulted from drowning. We lmva authored the following particulars: --The boy's name i'b Fred jiessington. and he was employed by his brother, Mr H. 8. Mason, wi:h whom he has been working for a year »v two, About ten days ago Mr and Mrs Mason, hiving occasion to visit a neighbor, left the boy in charge of the homestead, intending to voturn the following day. Mr and Mrs Mason, however, did not return for three or 'four days,, and when they did return nothing was to be seen or heard of the i boy. The dngs were all at home, and excepting that the door was unlocked and a pnriinn of fo»d eaten which was prepared for him bv Mrs Mason before leaving the place was just at it had been. left. There were no appearances to indicate that the hoy had meditated leaving, his knife, and o'her etceteras that ho would naturally take, were there, and whether d?ad or alive ■ now -he seems to have just left home in'what he stood when his brother and sister parted from him. Search parties have been/rat in all dirpdinns, The neighboring stations and different routes from the homestead, in fact evervenquiry which anxiety can snggost, hatnailed to give the slightest clm to what has become of % boy.:."He was not likely io Jbe frightened, being an exceptionally smart JaoVand acousfnmed to be alone, besides Mr Cameron's homestead is only about a stones' throw from Mr Mason's, Mr Edgar, Mason has been to Wellington, thinking the boy might have gone home, but nothing could he heard there, and he is now out in' the Gladstone, Wainuioru, district, hoping that if the little fellow intended leaving he may be quietly resting at one of the shepherds out-stations. It is hardly likely, we are sorry to say, as onoe clear away from home it is thought he would have taken steps to let his friends know that he waß alive and well, if not his whereabnntß. Meanwhile, the country adjoining his late home is being thoroughly searched, and researched, so that the mystery whionsur-. rounds:his disappearance bids fair, to be feolved by the unceasing exertions of the ru'Dfottunate.boy'flfriends. I

Messrs Eapp and Hare of the Emporium have a new advertisement cm our front page, ■';■ ;-V.v '

Mr{Jhas.,Wyfltt, Taratahi, invites' ten*dew'jfer deepening about 60 : chain's ;o { , drain Bihd ; for cut'ting'ti-treeflii jM W& : o'oloofj the Greytown crioke'tetiiM-requeste'd'to roll up for practice at 2 p,mi' sharp.., ...'|

Tenders are invited, by Mr Fannin, architect,:foraltefationsandadditions to St, Mark's Church,.Carterton, and for the erection of d parsonage. * v \ • At the Wellington Circuit Sittings, on April, 3, two ■Wairarapa cases will be tried, viz, James; Eobert Henry, embezzlement; and John Bourne, crimnal assault,

The Registrar at Ashburton has kid an information against Mr, Joseph Ivess, charging him under the Corrupt Practices Act with having, in November lust, affixed the signature of an elector to an application for enrolment without having a written authority for so doing. Remembor the opening of the winter season at the Masterton Emporium on Saturday, First show day of our winter goods every purchaser of goods to the value of 5s and upwards at Bapp and Hare's Emporium, Queen-street, Masterton, on Saturday will be presented with a a'bottlo of tho celebrated "Wellington Relish—[Advt.] Our illustrated Supplement to-morrow has the usual interesting "011 a podrMa" of reading matter. Its articles are devoted to " curious facts relating to gun shot wounds," " great writers at work," and "the eminent Edison." The fiction department is represented by a highly condensed novel and the continuation of the thrilling story of" the forged fifties,. The poetical, scientific, household, miscellaneous and agricultural extracts will prove of special interest.

Applications for shares in the Welling-ton-Manawatu Railway Company, writes the Post, continues to pour in rapidly. Up to this afternoon no fewer than 56,600 shares had been subscribed, leaving only 3400 still available for allotment. Nearly £300,000 has thus been already furnished in the Wellington district alone towardß the cost of the undertaking, and it seems certain that the whole available number of shares will be applied for long before the 17th proximo, when the list closes. Wehaveroceived from Messrs S. Bacon & Co. .millers of this town an excellent sample of split poas. The grjiiding of these is a branch of tjieir business, for which they have recently introduced, with their well-known .' special machinery, The peas we have received are well and evenly split, of a good color, aud should find favor among housewives in this district.

AtMatafa the other day, a sou of Mikaeri, of the Ngatiraugitkj tribe,, was severly burnt, through another child setting' fire to his shirt!; Mrs Hill attended the unfortunate little one, and did everything in hor power to alleviate the pain. After a three days' illness the child died from the effect of the burns, and the Natives held a tangi on the remains. On the morning after the death, the child arose and said, " I am hungry, I am cold," greatly to the astonishment of the assembled tangi party. The one that was dead is now doiii!? pretty well says the " Bay of Plenty Times," but as usual the want of proper nourishment will probably cause a more certain death in a few days, A megting of (he provisional directors of the Greytown gutter am} Cheese Factory was hold in the secretary's office last ovening. Present—Messrs Coleman Phillipa, (chairman), W, C, Buchanan/M.H.R., J. Tully, S. Haighj W, C. Nation, R. G. Welch, A, Gray, H. Udy, jun,, A, Anderson, J. Judd, and F. H. Wood. Minutes ol the previous meeting were read and confirmed, The secretary laid on the table form's of prospectus and applications for shares, and reported Ijavjng had 2(jo of thein printed by 'direction of Messrs W. C. Buchanan and Coleman Phillips, and inserted prospectus as rn advertisement in the Standard; also that 433 shares had been applied for, apart from application, whiph might have hepn made since last meetjng through tho provisional directors. Correspondence outwards—To C. Pharazyn, asking fpr (information ro similar factories during his travels in America. Inwards—From same, promising to forward all information procurable! from J, H. Monrad, with price-list of dairy implements; from the Wairarapa Dauv, asking for an advertisement of the prospectus, Resolved that a oopy of the prospectus be inserted In the Dahy. Mr Monrad'a letter was held over for consideration. Resolved en tho motion of Mr F. H. Wood, seconded by Mr W. 0. Natioi)," That the Company be registered without delay." Bpsojved 0 n the motion of Mr Buchanan, seconded by Mr Tully, "That a Building and Dairy Utensil Committee, consisting of Messrs H, Udy, junr,, J, Judd, A.Anderson, R, G, Welch, S. Haigh, 0, Phillips, J. Tully, and the mover be appointed," Resolved that a canvassor for sharos be appointed at a commission of 2J percent, Resolved that 0 general meeting of shareholders be called in about a week hence for election of directors and receiving report of the Building Committee. The articles of assmjatjon were■ then-settled and the meeting adjourned,

A general rpeeting of the Greytown Fire Bfiß&du was J)eld last evening, Cap* lain Baillie, Ljeuf, Maguire arid about 20 members being present. Two new members were admit(ed'.' :; ''!rhe'Secretary 1 reported that the rules would he ready for circulation in a week, Mr Tolloy gave Borne practical information, and suggested: that an application be made to Superintendant 7/hiteford for information. It was decided that Mr Bock when in town ho asked to see Mr, WJiiteford, and ,get all possible infnrrahtiiSnl ViMessrsl ;'E. Tolloyand Tj. Carperon were nominated for the office of sub-lieutenant... Thonoxt meeting will be held oil Thursday, 13th April, when the election for sub-liea.ton--nnt will take place, A mysterious case of stabbing ocomred' at Sydney on. the 19th instant. A young man pamed John Cornwell, while walking round Fort Macqunrie with a young worcan named Elizabeth Gardiner, was mot by three man-of-war's men, One. of them approached the couple, walkedround thorn twice, and then made a blow at Cornwell, with something, which he had in his hand. He, howor, only grazed Cornwell's forehead with his fi6t, The latter moved aside, and the sailor then Stabbed Miss Gardiner in de back' witty ft Jfnjfe and ran away, Tho yoring woman was taken to tjje infirmary, where she was found to have sustained a severe wound threequarters of an inch deep, The police have made a dilligent searoh after the culprit, but without success." An investigation into the matter was held on board the German war-steamer Oarola on the following morning. ' Mjss Gardiner', after viewing, all the'sailors, was unable to identify''the offender; but she subsequently recognised a sailor on board the Oarola as one of thoso who accompanied the man who stabbed her, Jnst landed, 10 tons fencing wire, No 6, £1510s; No 7, £1610s; No 8, £l7 10s. Lookout for Eapp and Hare's .price list of autumn and winter olbthmg. Largest and best stock of men's goods in the Wairßwp&.-[ADVT.I j'

_ The Education Department baa issued lists showing the priucipil results of the examination of teachers held at the' end ,ef January" tot. The names of Wellington candidates are thus given:—Partial success recorded towards Class E; Nellie Barnard, Kathleen Bastirt, EdWatd Alice Maud Bright)" Magpie Helen Craig,' Walter Norgrove Deihpseyj David Henry Jenkins, Laura Keeling, Annie Milne, Jacob Henry Reynolds, Mary Juliana Eobins, Elizabeth Mary Butter, Ada Ruth Warren, Annie Charlotte Whitehouse. Of these all but Beck, Jenkins, Keeling and Reynolds are ton young to hold a certificate. Passed in the subjeota Required to complete formerexaminaiions: Theodore Percy Arnold, James Badland, Francis Bennett, Frederick Gover.

At Messrs Lowes & lorns gale at the Fentherston' Sale Yards yesterday, the following prices were realised:—Beef— Heifers, £b ; bullocks, £1 ; stores, 3yrs, £s2s6d;2}yrs,£4%;2yni, 14 103; 3yr heifers, stores, i#'iss to £4;- dairy cows, £4 17s Gd. Sheep-7s 10a to 10a for wethers. Horses—Very few entriefl i and market dull. On the whole this was] a good sale; prices being if anything in favor of sellers. 100 head of cattle were yarded. /

In the scenes of terror enacted in Southern Russia it was not always,.the Jews who got the worst of it, At Kichjnev, the capital of Bessarabia, where there is a Jewish community numbering about 20,000, the disturbances were-pat, down in a very summavy manner without the assistance of the civic or military authorities. TheKichinevJewa,itappoars,are a dark, Bivarthy race, very unlike their fairer co-religionists throughout Southern Russia. Many of those of the lower class are smugglers, noted for their''hardy, resolute character, and not disinclined for fighting j and the Jewish .butchers and slaughtermen have a reputation for similar qualities. " When intelligence came to the town that the " katzapin" were coming, these smugglers and butcher lads got reaily,.and when the tow commenced waited not' for police or military. Some 200 l of these swarthy, big-built Hebrews armed themselves with axe, butcher's hack, chopper, and bill-hook, inarched quietly into the market place, where'the mobsmen, and roughs had begun the attack on the Jews aud the magazines, and witbin about ten minutes of their arrival had hewed down some thirty of the rioters, tvyenty being killed on the spot, and the others seriously injured." Such instances as this, however, were painfully few.