The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1883.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1319, 5 March 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1883.

MrWardell R,M, sits at Featherston to-day. The report of the Engineer for the East County will appear in our next issue. Loves and loms will hold an extensive sale of sheep at their yards on Wednesday next including store wethers, good breeding ewes, and fat sheep. Applications tor the offioe of Clerk to the VVairarapa East County Council are invited up to Saturday 31st inst.: Salary, .£l5O per annum. Mr J. J, Chapman announces that he still supplies goud and dry firewood, and that he has no connection with any other firm of carters. On Saturday next Mr F. H. Wood sells at his Greytown auotion rooms the privileges of the Amalgamated Friendly Societies Sports and general merchandize of every description. The Committee of the Greytown Amalgamated Friendly Societies Sports held a meeting in the Council Chambers on Friday evening. The resignation of Mr Richards was received as Secretary and Mr J. Tocker elected in his place. It was resolved that the tender of Mr J. Fuller . to find a Bund for the spuds be accepted The Secretary was instructed to ask the r Friendly Societies in the District to join in the procession. Mr Baillie was elected judge, Mr Webster starter and Messrs R. Bright, H. Udy and W. Maxton handicappers. The meeting then adjourned uutil Friday evening next at 7 o'clock. In our report of acceptances for the Tenui Races published on Saturday last, the name of Mr Carewells Jaok Tar was accidentally omitted from the list for the Ladies' Purse. Tho Waiohine River Board of Conservators hold their usual monthly meeting ' to-morrow evening at 7 p.m. Mr F. H. Woods sale of properly at did not result in either lot ; ng bands owing to the high reserve ,/iacud upon them. The 60 acres were passed in at £lO per acre, an offer being subsequently received and declined of £l7 per acre. The house and half acre were passed in at £BO. Tenders have been invited for the erection of a Court House nc Greytown. ' Flans may be seen at the Post Offioe in that town. Tenders close on the 15th inst. Inapt'li. c 'utnu uilll befound the repot t of tU ii.-ui mnlUned Foy. Readers of it will notice that this Engineer evidently has the advantage of his detractors in undemanding the subject on which be writes and in being untram melled by local prejudices. They will also tee the brick wall against which his opponents have been running their heads. D The owner of an orchard in Greytown : hating suffered great losses of fruit through some'uocturnal visitors, hit upon a plan that was both novel and effective 10 protecting it, He made the effigy ot '' i man armed with a stick, and placed it *■ In & threatening attitudo against one of the trees. Next morning a bag half filled j, with apples was found on the opposite , r side of the tree to where the guard was . placed, and the ground around was strewn ■c with the fruit. The visitors no doubt had gathered all they could on one side, and G on going round to the other side eon- ; 8 fronted the effigy and cleared out in a n fright, leaving their spoil behind. It was also the means of the owner having l " another bag partly filled a few nights after and left in the same way by the robbers. )f The plan commends itself. The Finance Committee of the Wairaraps East County met this afternoon at 2 I. p,B ' There has recently been a division amongst the sons of harmony in Masterton, which may lead to the formation of a second brass band,' The members of the old Volunteer Band, with two .exceptions, have not joined under the new rules, - preferring to remain out in the cold as an [ independent town band. As such they ' played in the bajcony of Mr Watson's shop on Saturday evening last, Some members of the Volunteer Corps are endeavoring to raise a Volunteer band, and names Of persons willing to join are ' being received at Mr G. Dixon's shop. q! At tbelnvercarajllEduoational Board on Friday last, the InvercarjjilJ School Com J' mittee forwarded the report to the General School Visiiiog Committee. They found ic" that the infant department was over. '£ orowded, although a large new rocm asked S for by the head master has been built, On M investigation, if was found to be occupied " by what Mr Gurr said was a model sohool, "•; in which any teacher could c»me and see ?. how a country school should be taught. In this room we-e selected pupils from \ the upper standards under the charge of " Mr E.; Gurr, a son of the bead-masier. . door had been fastened jj between the infant room and the model 5 school. The Commit tee remonstrated, and were told by the head master that he 'had never intended to use it for the infant's room, and would not, and if the inspector spoke about it he would tell him to mind his.: own business. j The Visiting Committee thereupon reported to the Board, arid Mr Gammell, the inspector, visited the sohool, and found-matters as stated. He broke open the door and re-arranged the breaking up the model school. On application to the head-master for certain ' registers, he was informed that they could j t hot be found. ; On further pressure, the i, head-master expressed his inability to find ' tbero, and tendered his resignation. The : reciiters. oould not have been properly *., marked as;..provided ,by;the rules, for , several months, The Board at its meet- - ing endorsed the committee's Action, and jj; accepted Gurr's resignation,,.. The .in- ' spector laid a' complaint ngainst E.' Gnrr. L |<' underteacber, for insubordination on the ■' occasion,;pf ; a surprise visit.; ;When the, t? inspector-ordered-ihe,clasß;. to Btand up' 2: and march from- thji; room, - thera to reaiinTe theii: B6it)(> and; persisted ' in it, besides using disrespeotful language, The Board Remanded an explanation.

The, Masterton Town "Band; played a several'selectionsml Saturday, evening, 1 from Messrs Watson and Co/a balcony. 1 The musio was grentlv appreciated by a i large number of people who assembled to ' listen to it.; The various pieces were' I plnyed in excellent time and tune, one polka being especially noticeable, Tenders are invited by the Masterton ' Highway Board for 56. 11 ohians of metaling on the Weraite road .and 68.30 chain formation and 101.30 chain metaling on the Matahiwi road. We are glad to hear that the Government have sent an Engineer to Castlepoint to make the necessary survey for the proposed harbour jetty, . It will he'seen by our telegrams that Mr G. H. Lister-Kaye a gentleman well known in this district is supposed to have been drowned near Gisbnrne. An eloquent Preßbytenan minister from America, conducted the services in the Maßterton Church, yesterday. Tenders are invited for formation and metalling, on the Dixon estate. Some important additions have been made to Messrs Lowes and lorns' list, for next Wednesday's stock Bale, viz, 8 good milch cows, 6 valuable draught horses and Borne saddlery. Messrs Lowes and lorns announce that they will sell by Auction on Saturday next the slock in trade of tho jewellery, fancy eoods, and stationery business of Miss Dellwood, Queen-street, Masterton. Mr Tanprod's Gabble and the hack Peter passed through Masterton to-day en route for Tenui Races. There is every indication (woather permitting) of a successful meeting, and Mr T. Thompson informs ub that he has only one or two seats vacant in his conveyance that leaves on Thursday inorning, MrW 0, Buchanan advertises first> class cocksfoot grass fleed for sale, j The Wesleyan Church, Masterton was crowded last evening, chairs having to be provided down the aisle for some of the conareeation. Mr Young the newly appointed Home Missionary to the Greytown circuit, conducted the service, and made i favorable impression on Ihe congregation by hiß excellent sermon, the text for which was taken from the 19>h chapter of Psalms and 7th verse, " The law of the Lord is perfect. The improvements effected ot late years in [ ladies' corsets have been very great, and I strikingly beneficial to health, Foremost i among these for their peculiar excellencies • are Kosenthal's sanitaire and "Dr Warner's coralino corsets, The former is constructed to obviate the debilitating effects of the | ordinary corsets by relieving tho delicate and ■ and vital organs from damaging mechanical pressure, while still affording a healthful and 1 comfortable support to the wearer. The support to the figure is properly distributed, I and the distressing effects of tight-lacing neutralised. Br, Warner's coraline corset is [ boned with a new substance, which is vastly j superior to horn or whalebone It' cannot break but will in every instance outlast the corset, being mire pliable that whalebone it adapts itself maro rcalily to the movements of the body .Both these admirably . corsets can bo had in all sizca and colors at ; James Smith's Tu 4.r0 Houßk.-i Advt. 1 ,