THE SURPLUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 29 April 1882, Page 2

THE SURPLUS.

The N,Z. Times suggests that in view of thesurplus on' the past year of £200,000, the postage on letters should be reduced, and telegram charges lessened, We would sooner see instead of this the property fa? repealed. The latter presses" heavily on the agricultural and'commercial, interests of the colcmy, whereas the present postal and telegraph charges are not regarded as a very enormous burden by any eeotion of the community,

Mr _H. Eglinton of-tlio Western Lake advertises COO croaa-brdd. owos foe sale. .Tho next fortnightly sitting of the R.M. Court falls duo on Monday next at Featherstqu. • Thßjiujual Vegular. monthly meeting of tla.iGrbytnwn 7 Borough Council will bo hold ovening next. Toi -Taratahi-Cartcrton Highway Board invito tenders for work on Vije's Road and Hughes' Lino. Mr Gray commenced operations yeatorday on the Council Chambers, Greytown, A shooting match takes place this afternoon at tho Masterton butts betweon teams selected from the Greytown and Masterton Rifle Corps, Wo call attention to several new announcements of sales by Messrs F. H. Wood & Co in our advertising columns. ' The police have lotted informations against throe boys for throwing stones at telegraph wires in Maslortou. ; Tho cow and two heifers sold under warrant from the shoriiY this morning by Mossrs Lowos and lorns realised LB, L 7, and Li 10s each respectively, The District Court has been occupied all this day with tho second case of Donald Donald v E. Meredith, junior, and at the hour wo went to press there was very little indication of it drawing to a conclu-. sion,

John Drnmgold was brought before Messrs Booth and Boys, J.P.'s, on Thursday morning, at Carterton, charged with being drunk whilo in'chargo of a horse, and riding furiously on the public streets. Fined 20s or seven, days' imprisonment.

Ttt'q members of the Volunteer Commission, viz., Colonel Haultain and Major Bunny, arc in Masterton to-day. Tho commissioners liavo just arrived from Auckland, and will, after spending a few days in "Wellington, procoed South.

Between thirty and forty well bound volumes, representing many of tho best authors in novels, science and goneral literature, have been purchased for the Masterton Institute. ■•

A horse in Qiieen-st this morning was ranking a bolt from his stables when a large retriever bailed it up by seizing the animal by Hie tail and hanging on to it. The othei' day jn Bannjster-st we obsowed a smart hen catch a mouse, whiph dartod across tho" road and carried it off in triumph in her beak,

Mr 0. Munvo, the travelling ngont for the Government TJfo Insurance has, been very successful in taking lives in Greytown this week. Tho exceptionally low prer minra, combined with ihe largo bonuses offered, have induced a groat many to provide for their old ago, and their families as the case may bo.

His Honor jTudiro Havdeastlo visited tho old school premises in Bixqrt-s(i, t]|i§ morning in compnny with Mr 6. tieetham M.H.R. If (lie Town Trustees are propaved to accept a reasonable sum for tins' White Elephant,' which no doubt thoy would bo there might be no difficulty in making an arrangement by which the school building would be, almost immediately transformed into a temple of jugtloo, and the present Court House applied tothe stabling purposes for which it is so eminently fitted.

' The Rev H. Verc Whito M. A.has read an original paper before tho Wellington Philosophical Society on the qiiost}on "Docs morality .depend on freo wrjlf The address evidently threw tho Philosophers present Into a state of profound fog which was admirably reproduced in the Wellington papers. Anyone reading the latter must come to tho conclusion that the whole thing is a hopeless and maddening conundrum. It is to be hoped that tho Eev gentleman for the sake of his own reputation will publish in full the paper, and then perhaps some of our local Debating Societies may be able to grapple. with it. If thoy cannot discover whether morality depended on free will they' might work it out the ether way and find whether free will hinges on morality.

Mr E, Gray is now putting tho finish: ing touches on the now additions to tho Foresters' Hotel, Groytowu. The Hotel now presents a handsome frontage to the Main Street, the new portion with its verandah and balcony has filled a gap that has long been an eyesore. Host Jones will soon up able to offer to the travelling public every convenience and comfort, as tho additionscompriso private sitting and bed rooms suitable for families, and bath room upstairs, and also

additional convenience on the ground floor, Tho old portion has alf.o been thoroughly renovated both insido and put, and tho Hotel ought now to be ranked among the first.class of our up country hostclries,

A meeting of tho. Carterton Library Committee was held at tho Institute on Thursday evening, Mr W. C. Buchanan, president, occupying thp chair, The minutes of tho last meeting were rflad and confirmed, A cataloguo of the books pro ; posed to bo purchased as additions to the Library, out of tho £ls voted at the last meeting for that purpose, was tabled and approved. Tho President offered an additional sum of LlO, and Mr E, Samuel L 5 for tho purchaso of boob, Mr Samuel suggested that a complete set of Thackeray's works should bo purchased, and it was resolved that they should be included in the order to bo transmitted to Melbourne. Messrs Western, Snodgrass and Parker were appointed a committee to arrange for winter entertainments in the Institute Hall, the prnoeeds to be applied to the reduction of the debt on the build, ing, Tho meeting then adjourned. The first entertaimont will probably be held within threo weefafrom the present date.