GOOD NEWS!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1276, 12 January 1883, Page 2

GOOD NEWS!

The following cablogram received by us this afternoon (Friday), brings good news London, January 11, evening.—THe tenders for the one million four per cent, loan for New Zealand were opened to-day, The total amount offered was found to be one million five hundred and twenty thousand pounds, at prices ranging from minimum of 98| to 101. Tenders at ninetyeight and nine sixteenths will receive allotmeht to i the' extent of seventyeight per cent Tenders above ninetyeight and nine sixteenth? will receive allotment in full. ' ■ ■

MA D.' P, Fishery of • • Moltioghan^ House, Manners-street, Wellington, an-'i Bounces several * haberdashery lines, also i that she etas; and; curls feathers in superior style. ' ' At the mooting of the Juvenile Fores- 1 tera .held last- 1 evening the following officera' wero installed :—C.R.i Bro, A, Gardner; 5.0. R., Bro. A. Blinkhorne; S.W., Bro. E. Minifie; J.W.i Bro. S. Miuifie; 5.8., Bro. G. Sykea; J. 8., Bro. Wr Collotte; Se^-B^'F. : Eoy>r i A manf natned ; John; Turnosiiii .was brought up at Grtytown yesterday before Messrs F. H. Wood and S. Revans, J.P.'a for stealing £4 from a countryman named Lepenski. The man pleaded guilty, and' was sentenced to four months imprisonment. ■ J ; ■>; _

The Masterton Town Lands Trustees' meet in committee to-night for the purpose of considering the best means of erecting a Town Hall euited for the requirements of the Borough. J.!

The; County Council of Wairarapa West meet to-marrow at Carterton to clear up arrears of,business, and consider the question of new riding boundaries. Acceptances close for the Hurdle and TaratahlCarterton.Handicaps onTuesday next, the 16th inst. Meaars Lowea and lorm' well-known auction iboras should be a busy scene tomorrow afternoon, with their land, furniture, and prize plant sales. Iu the former catalogue' are ten allotments in the Keaton Estate, and land and houses in Bannister-Btreet, Elizabeth-Btreet, Villastreet, and Quean-street, The furniture and Horticultural treasures are offered on account of Mr G. M. Park, who,is ia well known, is leaving Miaterton, and'is therefore compelled to saoritioe his goodi and cbatteti, and his conservatory.

- Mr F,;H. Wood sells at Carterton to-morro.w the privileges of the TaratahiCarterton ; Race Meeting,,at 3, p.m; >At 2, p.m.'the sa'me : auctioneer will aell/with-' out reserve, general merchandise of every description.

• -The cricket match Grey to wn v, Master-. ton will take : pliioe ai the"former'towh* ship to-morrdw.'-Wickets'will'be pitohcd 1 at 10 a.ml ;sharp.. The following wjlli represent MastertnnW. G. Beard, W. A. D'Atcy, L, M. Isitt, W, McKenzie, F. G. Moore, A. Miuifie, F. O'Connor, C. Perry, G.|H, Smith, H. White. Emergency T. Maokay, W. Corbett. Umpire R, G. Williams.: Scorer S. H. Wickerson. The team are requested to meet at the Post Office at 7 a.m.

It is notified that Mr Milner, Stephen will be in Mdsterton on oi' about January 22nd. '■' ■ '< i

The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the' Wa9te Lands Board was held yesterday afternoon and was attended-by Mr J.' G. Holdsworth (Chairman), H. Bunny, T, Mason, M.'H.Rlj : G-. Beetbaia, ; M.H;Bi,' and W. W. Taylor. The sohedule of lands sold since the previous meeting showed the area applied for to be 1210 a. 3r 3p. and the prico realised £85612s Bd. The chairman read a memorandum be had received from the Undersecretary of Crown Lands,, as' to the propriety of withdrawing from sale the sections of land in Miki Miki and Kopuranga, proposed to be sold in February next, at Mastei'ton,! untill suoh time as the line of railway is determined upon, and thp roads through the blocks in a further state of advance. The action that had beon taken was approved. The request of Mi- John Stubbs to have balf of bis section 1541, block V., Kairan'ga, transferred to his brother, James Stubbs, was agreed to oh the usual conditions; as also was an application on the part of ;Mr Albert iF. Weber to transfer his license to' occupy section 215, block XII., Mangahao to'Mr John M. Davie. The Board then adjourned.. About a dozen, of the Greytowa cricketors were, on the ground yesterday evening to water and roll 5 the pitch for the match ion Saturday. Some good practice was also indulged in, some of the batsmen showing,very good form, The usual monthly meeting of the Trustees of, the Greytown Trust Lands was held on Wednesday evening. Present—Messrs Baillie ■ (chairman); Wood, Haigh, Cii£f, and Wyett. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A [ lettor was ' read from. the. secretary of the- Horticultural Society' asking for ((refund of hire of the hall which was granted, as was also balf fees charged for the'fancy fair. Two applications were received for the office of olerk,: that of Mr Webster's being accepted., An account for £2los 4d was paased forpayment. j...... : .

His Excellency the Administrator 1 of the Governjnent has appointed Major John George Butts, New; Zeall'nd.Militia, as adjutant to' the volunteer forces in:tli«! Wellington, Wairarapa, .and..Napier Districts. ! . j •

It is notified in the GazetteVf^yesterday that certain; lands in the"Kopuaranga, Miki Mikij and Aohanga diatricts have been temporarily reserved'as endowment-, ■for.primary education,; also- that.a.septionat Makuri (308 sores two,,roods) has. been, permanently' reserved fojr. a>'simiiaro pur-' pose. ; : -If.- '

A meeting of perEoris 'interested' in forming a Swimming Club, and arranging for a tournament, is, convened,,at ;the, Empire Hotel on Tuesday, evening naxt.j It !b. not every' day we ' bear of a a journey of 900 miles with 6000 sheep, and not one lost on the way; but ,Mr;T. A. Bodes has|just, delivered at Kooringa 6014 woathers from Curryawinya Station* Queensland, a distance of 900 miles, without losing a single hoof ! .

Recent inventions bare shattered some of the most cherished traditiona of our childhood; we were aJivays brought up. to believe that " he who fighfa aod runs away-will live to fight another day'' but in these ofexpress"' "he.who fights and runs away" gets -a conical bullet in the small of his back. The Eoyal Academicians i have • determined upoQ undertaking a work of the highest interest to the art biographer and'i oolleotor. It. is their intention to reprint in one general, list, the conteijtji of the wholo of the .catalogue? 'of ti|eir exhibitions from, the first ptof the fojjfjijatjon and to make "the information readjfv. available for the student by, ; means ,01. special and elaborate indexes! Partly, from the scattered nature of the materials the lives of many of the principal English artists havo' not yet been sufficiently investigated, and this new work wjll tend to lighten the labors of all futuro biographers. ' ■ i '

The improvements effected ot late years in ladies'- corsets have been' very great, and strikingly beneficial to health. Foremost among these for thpir/ jjeoiiliar excellencies are Rosenthal's sanitaire and Dr Warner's .coraline corsets. The former is constructed to obviate the! debilitating effects of the ordinary corsets by relieving the delioate and and vital organs from damaging, meohimical pressure, while still affording a healthful and comfortable Bupport to the Nearer!- The aupport to the figure h properly.distributed,, and tho distressing" effects, of tight-lacing neutralised. Dr. Warner's, coraline corset is boned with a new substance, whioh is vastly superior to horn or whalebone, It cannot breakbnt will'in every instance outlast <the' corset, f.being more pliable-' that<»halibone< it adapts itself more ,'readilyS> ! to l the»move* meats'of the body.; l .BotK: these '■ admirable ; corsets can be had in all 'sizes and colors -at James Smith's Te Abo