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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1206, 17 October 1882, Page 2

Mr T, L, Thompson of Te Ore Ore announces that the well known horse Camden will be available for stud purposes this season. The ordinary meeting and leoturo ; pf the Loyal Masterton Lodge will be held at the Empiro Hotel, this evening.

Mr Wardell, R.M. sits at Greytown today. The finance committee of the Ma JtertOU Fire Brigade meet this afternoon. Tho San Francisco mail is expected in the Wairarapa by the first train toOiorrow.

The property tax for tho current year will be collected in one installment about January next. The working men who foolishly left our shores during a time of depression now appear very anxious lo get haok again to us.

Tho North British Fire Insurance Company lmvo recognised the services of the fisterton Bli g»da at the late fire by a donation of five.guineas. At Hokitika the authorities kindly rang the firebell in the early morning to rouse people desirous to see the comet. Mr W. Dixon notifies that hobs been appointed agent for the well-known Mauncevillo limo, and is prepared to supply it in any quantity. % Messrs Lowes & lows advertise a lurmtnro, produce, mid sundries sale for batardaynext The list for this auction includes sewing machines, grass seed, tent, pictures, pnmjs, and soed and table potatoes.

The poll will be token at the Institute MMtoton to-morrow for and a»ainst the proposed loan of $.600, We believe the ratepayers will carry it, but should they not do so wo venture to piophecy that they will be obliged by stern necossity to consent to n larger loan next yoav. There v s a Maori dance in the Town Hall, Gre>:owu,laat night, when about jO aHwidel, and all Beemed to enjoy themsi-h'm thoroughly, to the mosio of piano nml violin. There ia to be another dance i.f the same description on v\ wines liyeveniDg, and a Maori war dance un Friday oveuing, which should draw a crowd. The annual meeting-of the Greytown Tennis Club is to be held in Mr Wyett'a olhco to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock An there Bhoald be a nood attendance. Charles Rico, who a short time since came before tho magistrate at Carterton on a charge- of drunkenness, was again arrested on Monday evening, oW-ed with a similar offence and using obscene language on the main road. • He was today brought before Mr Booth, ohaned with tho offence stated. We learn by telecrara he duly appeared m Court this mwmng and was fined a pound or seven days' imprisonment.

A full meeting of the committee of the Wellmeton Poultry, Canary, Pigeon, and Dog Show nas hold at the Central Hotel yesterday afternoon, with Mr Hill in the chair. The auditors, Messrs Kirlon and Siownrt, were in attendance, and vouched for the correctness of the balanco-slieot. Tim sum of £2G 9« 5d was shown as a balance credit after paying all accounts, and it was imauimously ovraed to pay t'.o Secroiavy, MrEdmonds, kffl far his trouble. It was then resolved Out a meeting be held in a fortnight's time, to form the afftir into an assoctau«n,and that the balance of. £fl 9a 5d form the nucleus for such an object. The police force at Greytown has been strengthened by two special constables from Wellington, who arrived yeaterday, and will remain during the sitting of the Bitting of the Native Land Court.

Tho ladies of Greytown and Featherston have been busy for some weeks in preparing all sorn of fancy articles for Hale at a bazaar to bo hold in the Town Hall, Greytown, in the second week in December next, in aid of St. Luke's Church building fund.

Iu the Victorian Parliament the other day, Mr Munro, annoyed by a remark rom Mr Wilson, said, "Everyone knows that you are a fool."-" Everyone bows yon are a rogue," was the refoit. ■Tim language brought Dr Quiok, the chairman, and the Premier on their feet ■with coinpltiints and protests. Mr Wilson urged that.the offensive laua.ua»e was "mutual," mid Mr Munro assured the House that it was a " Scotch joke." On this latter plea the offenders were let off with a caution from the chair.

' The other day (nays a Sydney paper) a poor man named Ludlow came in from Morago Station to the Deniligmn Hospital with his children and wife, who was near her confinement. He stated that between 7 and 8 o'clock on the previous evening his family were sleeping on the station, three of the children bein» under a dray, and the rest of the family in a tent attached to it. Ho went away for 10 minutes to look for a horse, and when he relumed he found that the wind had Mown a large tree on to the dray, smash, ing it completely, killing one of the ohildron, the eldest, and Beriously injuring his wife and auotber child. Had he been away a little longer his whole family would have been burnt alive, as a fire which was in the tent at the time of the' accident had set tho plica on fire. < Tho mother and the other child aro now lying in the hospital in a very critioal state, and are not expeoted to recover.

The Registrar-General's report oil the vital statistics on the principal towns of. the colony for the month of September last shows that during the period there were 461 births and 165. deaths, Of the deaths, males contributed 93; females, ?0. Sixty-three of the deiths were of children under 5 • years "of age, being 38 65' per cent, of the whole number: 40 of these were children under 1 year of aae. The births' in Wellington during the month numbered 73, and the deaths 22, the latter comprising one male under; 1 year, two under 5-yea'rs,- seven over 5 ; ,jears, Foinales-six under lyertv, throe under B years, and three over 6 years. The proportion of deaths to the 1000 of ■the population for the month was 1.03.

A: project is on flint for purchasing the largellmpire Store built some three year.* ago by Mr; Blyth abd converting it into a theatre. /#. j■■ . ■ •

''The-Maori land Court opened at Qreytown-yeßterday. Nothing of any input tance was done, the business hemp .principally, the .arranging ofcases-in order for hearing, and other preliminaries, The man Ellis, conrioted of an indecent .assault in' July last; received a second flogging this morning. It is said to have been very Bevere.

' Mr : Stevens/secretftry of the New Zealand Rifle AFsociatihri, has received the names of 116 tntendingcompetitors at the forthcoming meetings These, do;not in-, dude many'of the names from the prihoK pal districts, and it is estimated that fully 300 men will fire. " /,

The following letter written by Mr B. Meredith to the Chairman of the Master ten Highway, Board was rehired to in odrissueof yesterday, and as an error was on that occasion made with reference to it we now give it in full. "I much regret being unable to • attend this evening, you will oblige by convoying my apology to; the Bgard. Assuming that the Board ' favors Wo Counties, North and South, without suggesting the line that should constitute their mutual boundary, I am of opinion that the consideration whioh should} mainly influence the Board in its recommendations is the conservation of the various groups of rate' payers identity: of interest in the road systems of the County within which their properties will be included."

Last year thero were 900,0C0 births in the Japanese Empire and only 600,000 deaths. A-parliamentary, return showj that the cost of building and completing for tea servico Her Majesty's shiplnflexible was $09,594, of whioh 1589,481 was for the hull alone. Asad fatality occurred on board H.M.S, Hecla, at Alexandria, on July 16, Tor-pedo-Lieutenant Elphinstone having accidently shot himielf while praotioiug. with his revolver. Durin« the bombardment of Alexandria one of the shells of the Inflexible, missing the forts, twined a distmoe of six miles and hes been picked up, unexploded at that distance from the snip. Prince Victor Napoleon, with his tutor, has been to Berlin, on a visit from Heidelberg, where .he Imb been studying Geiman. The Prince was acoompanied about the city by tho military of j the Italian embassy. The Russian stonmer Moskwa, with tea i from China, which recontly . pasted through the Suez Canal, has uot since been heard of. It is anppoßod that she has.gono down after a boiler explosion. Two hundred men were on board. Bowl Visit.to BiUOToiro.-Thi)raent visit of the Prinze and Princess of Wa'ea hps directed attention to the prjdueibns of Bradford looms. Amongst the first cloths to attract general and, favova'ile notieih-is been the welkeieived Burano Lace-Cloths, now admitted by all'o le one o! the mnvt useful and fashionable Summer Dress Fabrics ever prodm ed. The special features of this most beautiful material ata that it is fast in weave, and does not slip; it» sn.'t, ani drapes with remarkable elegance; is not liable to become crushed; nor liao!{ .'imp j does not gather dnst; has the brightness of the Silk Brocade, with the lightness of the lace; and is so durablo as to give unusual ntisftction in wear, thus entirely superseding ell olassaa of silk grenadines. Tina admirable fabric oan ba had in all shades of colors at Tb Aro House, Cuba Sheet, Wei-lington.-Aovr.