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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 10 April 1882, Page 2

A letter signed '■ Kurupuni" will appear in our next issue. A Wellington Cricket team plays a friendly matoli with Masterton this afiernoon, The Waiiarapa Hospital Committee meet at tho Secretary's office, Greytown, •to-morrow afternoon. That big bazaar tho Chnstohurch exhibition opened to-day, .■••■■ Mr.John Barton of the Upper Hutt has been enrolled as a J.P. Messrs Lowes & lorns announce a sheep sale for Thursday April 13, at their yards, Masterton. There are sixty-four new Justices of the Peace gazetted, There are no Wairarapa names on the infected list. The ordination of the Kev J. Stewart to the charge of the Lower Valley district takes place at Waihenga tp-day. St. Matthew's Church was Boautifully decorated with evergreens and flowers for the Easter Services yesterday, Labor is becoming, .scarce up country, and jobs which eighteen months ago were eagerly,sought after, have now to remain undone. Mr E.E.Edmuuds formerly of Carterton is now in business at the Empire City as a Commission Agent.

The engine on the Gaeytown branoh line tliiß morning stuck when half way to the Woodsido Station, and the passengers were conveyed the rest of the way in a truck by manual labor. . , The County engineer notifies that the road bridge ovor the Waioliirie river will be closed from the 12th inst. f till,-further notice. Tfce appointment of William Bey to be honorary aurgeon to the Groytown Rifleß, and tho resignation of Lieutenant Wyllie, of the Masterton Rifles, are-gazetted. A trap from Grcytown last night came to grief by the horse shying over a culvert near the Waiohiue toll-gate. Fortunately the occupants escaped with no worse injury than a goo.d sliak;ng. We understand .that the WaihakokG School C.omniiUe.e jnl) fend a deputation to the next Wfiug fljf t)jp'JSauoation Board to urge upon it tho 3PPo'ff'???,flflt of Mr Austin as teacher to the flc"!l!)ol.:. MrH.S.Wardellß.M. in conjunction with Mr H. Rawson R.M. of Naw Ply. mouth, recently acted as a commission to investigate the causes of Bcab breaking out in the Hawera district,

W|o hav,6 many complaints of the banks closing on Saturday jaafc from employees who had" in" fogo without their weekly wages.'' 'As no intimation was given of this particular holiday /md as Saturday was not a Saints day, the .closing was a surprise, Possibly tho banks having fiijjeu 1 ' jfcft takp a rise out of their customers on tho Ist' of April, thought they niight as well'do so on tho gth. ' ■"' :v "' " "'" A notification appears iu another column with reference to tho industrial branch of the Government Life Assurance Department. A very liberal scale lias been fixed which enables a working man to secure a policy for amounts from £3 and upwards by small weekly' payments; Bpocial tables tying arranged for children. As a collector will call for the'Vjeekly premiums the' p.oJjcieß would not be likely to lapse frpni fprgetfulness,

Acorrespondenton the jCoast writes: -" With regard £u jfchp boy young Lobs-. ingto'n who has bepn raissjng for tjie.jast fortnight, I'm afraid there j» litfle'doubt but that lie is drowned, as his h'a|f.-brnj,lier Edgar Mason, picked up one of liju boots on the bench last Sunday, near the place where the dogs wero seen the day he was lost, I ehoujd have written you some particulars on tjijs siibjept before, but while thero seemed a chance that the hoy might turn up, did not like to do so on account of his friends,' It js a. very sad thing, he was such a smart active lad. Mr Duncan McMaster, of Tuhitarata reports the Standard, has just received from the well known herd of the Key, S, Williams, of To Auto, near Napier,: four fine pedigree bulls, They are as follows;' -Prince Rupert, by Prince LeonardPurity (calved 4th'Deceniber, 1379); The Premier, by Prince of the North-Duchess of Now Zealand 11. (25 January, 1880); Rod Riby, by Hiby, Knipbt-g.W,!. (14th August, 1881) : ; 'and Abbot I,' The latter was got by the Earl of Derby, .'and 'took; the first prize in .the yearling's * class at I the lasjj Hawke's Bay Show,

The third competition for Lieut, Cameron's, pup took place at the butts on Saturday aftetnopn last, The weather was not at all ikvor/ible for sfcooting, epnsequently there were not niijnynreseut, The three highest scorers were :-Corp. Trotwan, 58; Vol.'Saywell, "50;-. Vol. Sayer, l 49. The cup has been won once by Vols, Kempton, Saywell, and Trot-' man,

The hatchet Btill seems to have a small, portion of the haft sticking up on the Taratabi, though a very earnest request was made on Thursday night that once foiv all it might be finally and entirely buried. At .the meeting of the Olaveville School Committee held on the above evening, the chair was occupied by Mr Walter' Francis. The minutes of the previous meetipg haying been read and confirmed, the treasurer's uspl yepoi't was read. The report of the schoolmaster, shewing a considerable increase m the daily attendance, since he had taken charge, waß read, and Mr Bairstow then called for the rpll to bliow the ages of the children.' The roll, however, was pot forthcoming, so Mr Vile moyed that Mr Goodin's daughter be allowed to attend the school. The motion was seconded by Mr A, Booth, and carried, A letter was read from the Greytown School Committee, requesting the support of. this Committee on behalf of Mr Coleman Phillips as a member of the Education Board. The Committee, however, held true to their first selection, and the nomination of Mr W, C. Buchanan, M.H.R., was confirmed. Arrangements were made for the completion of {he fencing about the playground BRd other works in connection with. the Bchool .premises,'and a recommendation to the Board for the enlargement of themaster's residence was directed to be transmitted by the.Obaitman