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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 3 April 1882, Page 2

The game and oyster season has commenced. The San Francisco mail i 3 due at Auckland to-day. The Public Works committee of the Masterton Borough Council meet this evening, The Phoenix Lodge of Good Templars meets in the Temperance Hall, Masterton this evening. The Greythwn cricketers are requested to roll up to practice to-morrow afternoon when the team to play the Phcenix Club on Saturday next will bo selected, Mr James Smith of To Aro House has a new announcement to his Wairarapa constituents in his column on this page to which be requests us to draw special attention. A meeting of the Masterton .Amateur Dramatic Club will be held at the Club Hotel this eveuiug at which the presence of recruits will be welcomed.

, The charge of corrupt practices brought against Mr Joseph Ivess a candidate for the Wakanui Seat has been dismissed in the Resident. Magistrate's Court Aahburton. Shingles in any quantity can he obtained on application to Mr H. Jones Junr., carter, Upper Plain. Next Friday being Good Friday, the Masterton Town Lands Trustees will hold their customary monthly moating on the preceding evening, The Loyal Masterton Lodge 1,0.0,1 holds its quarterly summoned meeting to-morrow evening. The time of meeting in future is half paat|seven.

The Masterton Wesleyan Church anniversary ib to be celebrated on Good Friday by a tea meeting with a general gathering in the evening, As the new minister the Rev. Mrlaitt will make his first public appearance nn this occasion an unusually large number of visitors may be expeoted. A maii named Roderick 'Wilson was brought in from Taueru on Saturday last by Constable Darby charged with stealing a horse valued at £IS from. Mr..0.. E. Miller at Tenui, Ho has on the application of the police been remanded by Mr A.Bißli J.P. till Thursday, for the attendance of necessary witnesses. The quaterly return of infected flocks in the North-and South WairararJj- subdivisions is published in another column, In the former there are but four Mooted flocks and in the latter two, making six in alias against sixteen for last quartor. We welcome tho turning of the tide and trust that the time is not far distant when scab will be altogether stamped out in the Wairarapa. i

Mr M, E, Miller's sale of the Biasing, ton Estate on April 18 is attracting considerable attention, The block comprises nearly 900 square miles, and has over 400 miles of boundaary, and includes every variety of country, It is divided into 28 runs.andfarmß. Owingtoßiicha large area being thrown into the market at one .tinie,'prices are certain to rule low when compared with recent sales, To show with what rapidity things can be'done, with every allowance for .the slow speed that the (rains travel on our railways, wo mav state that last Wednesday morning 500 wethers were in their paddocks atßrancepeth, and on the following night (Thursday) 150 of them were killed, boned, the lean moatpreserved, and the fat boiled down at the works:of Mr Gear, in Wellington. Mr Wardell 8..M, is now on a visit- to .Wanganui, but is. expected to be back again by the next Court sitting at Masterton. The business in the interim of the Featherston, Greytown, and Carterton Courts will have to be condu'bted by J.P.'», At Featherston to-day the oases are very light and at,Carterton seven rabbit summonses 'laken out by the. Inspector will beheld over for the following styling Wardell will be in attendance.

. MrW.A.P.fjuttophasma;dearranger raents for housing the four, score ferrets ■which have been placed in his charge, He has had a proper house erected for them, so that every facility for their living and; multiplying will be afforded.. Two thirds of the collection are yonng buoks -which will be liberated as soon as they are old' look after themselves and hunt rabbits., ;The balance will be retained for breeding purposes. All of them at present' look healthy and comfortable haying bycareful attention reoovered frorn the effects 'oftheirlatevoyage, . ' ' .'Just'landed/10-tons'fencing wire, -No 6 £lslOs;.Nb,7,£l6iOs;• No 8, £l7 ,10s. ■:. I}6o\6ut. for ; Rappand, Harb'S' price list of autumn and winter clothing, Largest-andbeststookof men's-goods in : ■•■' -:~i'£ :-?.-'/'

Mi ■*juiyft/''?iftiii'a , v.u u.ib e dnny,si wiihityx .■■F'eijtlieMiii fur sale;.-; &* Vk ;'■: "•■ ?i"' •';:'; .popular leoliires atijthe^?J?oWn^Hall-31as->tertofi.onApril 17$ 1$ i 10- | '■:■; St. Lufe's held' to-morrow." B6me bußiness of" importance will "be —brought forward. '"' A summoned'meitinpf-Oouit-Wairi" rapa A.o.;P>i ] Greyto'wU, «\?illi tie held on Wednesday ovenipg'nextlfgi* the election of a Seofe¥ry." ; •"-^,' J '''-''' •-' ;::: : -^ 7 - ; - : Lowes and loms add 295 merino ewes, 218 cross-bred lambs, and six G-tooth Eomney rams in the wool to their list of entries for Wednesday next. ! !; Mr James Robert Henry who was a short time ago odmmitted by two Justices ofthe Peace at the EM, Court Masterton on a charoe of embezzlement baa been acquitted, ■

Messrs Lowes and loms advertise a farm of 60 acres, five miles from Mastertori for sale. It has a Bix roomed house erected: on it and has ten acres of totara bush. The same firm have also a very superior residenco for sale just on the boundary, of tbe borough. ■A Bpeoial parade ofthe Carterton Rifle Volunteer Corps was held on Friday night in the Fublio Hall, sub-lieutenant Crawford taking command of the men present. The usual weekly drill takes place this (Tuesday) evening, The monthly moetingof the Carterton Volunteer Fire. Brigade takes place tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at the committee rooms at 7 o'olook p;m, ' Two slight shooks of earthquake were felt in Carterton between midnight and oneo'olockon Saturday morning. The direction of the wave was N..W. to N.E. as indicated by the olocks.and watches ih the centre of the town where it was most felt.

That " Don Juan" of this town—the ■notorious Oashman—arrived by the midday train to-day, accompanied by a police officer, and was lodged in MoArdle's accommodation house, •He • will, be brought up ttie! Mayor this afternoon, and "remanded till Thursday. The .charge,.against him hv one of larceny from : the" unhappy' man whose wifehe has seduced. ~ ~,,. ;.., :

It is perhaps unnecessary, to remind our readers of ; the ! u'hrea&ve^''"sale'' to-' morrow of valuable, Carterton properties, by Messrs T. K. McDonald s'C'o iii'' the exchange Land and Mercantile auction rooms. These ; prope|tieß; ( iftcjade ; a Jl yaj-'i uablestore and'two"' oentrally silrtated farms in the occupation of Mr R. Fairbrother.

It will be observed by a notice in another column that one of the youngest but certainly one of 'the'mosTenterprising business men in Carterton MrG:M. Gardener has becomo'a Benedict,! -i Hie many friendswill begkd to see this furthur.indicationofhisintentionofestabiishinghimself permanently in, this district; and- will wish bim that success in domesticfelicity which his industry and perseverance has seoured for him in commercial pursuits, Complaints were, as usual, made at the -Carterton election, on Friday, of a member to serve in the County. Council, by some voters, that their names were omitted from the toll of electors, or they had not the full numbdr of; votes .they were entitled to,. althouglr.the number amounted to less than : :h'alt'-a-dozen. Other complaintß of a like nature have been made at previous elections in other ridings of similar omisßion6. ■ We'would therefore remind our readers that from the 20th April to the 14tn May the copy of the new roll which comes into force in the county oh the Ist July.'next..will, be deposited at some convenient place in each riding, 'and people who have the right •to have tneir names thefeon/Have but themselves to-blame if to ascertain thev are inserted;therein; In making out a list of some 3000 individuals a name may be accidentally omitted or misspelt, or a wrong christian name inserted, especially with so large a number pf foreigners in the district/ without.a great amount of blame being attachable to the clerk by whom it is prepared, bnt it is useless for parties to complain when too late, who would have-had-nooccasion to do bo bad they l taken ihe/pre'oa'tiiion to see that they-wero- on and- : pperlj described when they had the-.b'p'|prtnWity of doingßo, i.-':--'•.'•••:'.' '}'■';! :\.''i y -- V-. ■'■

The speoial drill of .the Greytow'n Yolunteers was not. so well attended on Saturday afternoon as was expected, not more than 30 being present all told; They marohedi under. commaad of Captain Hull? and Lieutonant'CamerbD,' to Steward's paddock, when,about an hour was, spint at field'drill.; The church parade, yesterday was very well attended, all the officers; being .praSeiifc i'tThe Com-; pany attended 'divineiseVyice at St Luke's Church, the hou. Chaplain officiating. Tomorrow evening the 'commanding officer's inspection ■ parade will be "held. On Saturday next the third competition for Lieutenant Cam.erpn'a-.oup will .take place.