The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1883.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1358, 20 April 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1883.

Yesterday Mr E. Meredith, senior, was returned unopposed for the Beat in the Wainuioru Riding of Wairarapa East Council recently vacated by Mr E.' Meredith junior. We remind our Masterton. readers of Messrs Lowes and lorns sale of town land leases in Queen-st, Bruce-st, and Dixon-at to morrow, also of the sale of furniture which will follow it. The annual general meeting of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Soolety is convened for Saturday week. We would suggest that the report and balance sheet should be circulated among members prior to the gathering so that when the meeting oomes off they would be in the position to discuss them. Our Pahiatua correspondent.writes as follows When I last wrote grass seed sowing was in full swing, and with the! exception .of two small patches, it is now all done, and as the weather has been favorable, it is all in, a forward state, having been sown fully a month earlier than last year, The caterpillars have, been very bad in aome places, having eaten the grass quite bare. Bushfalling is again in full swing, BBverftl jjjindred acres being let, Tbe population is increasing fast, and tbe settlement is quite lively with the sound of the carpenter's hammer. We shall be glad when the Board of Education gives us our sohool, there being now twenty ohildren of the prescribed age, and several more very near it, ~ln the matter of roads, wo are about-iii the" same position we were last wipler, with the prospeot of- increased traffic soon'l making the Puketoi-Pahiatua road impassable, For the time this block has been Bold, we are miserably short; of roads, It is now over twelve months since the last cpntractß were let, and of those two sections, formation only is done, there being neither culverts nor bridges, on'orie road you can take a cart about 10 chains, and on the other about twenty, so to all intents and purposes the roads are useless, It is earnestly, to be.hoped that the infusion of a little new blood into the County Counoil will have a good effeot, and this district get a fair share of their august consideration. The settlers are still of the opinion that a Road Board will he the best thing for the district, * and are going to hold another meeting on the Bubject on Saturday evening next, It is considered a great hardship that - people are expected to,improve their holdings, When in many oas?s they canriqt' find them only on tjja map; and then immediately they have improve# t|)eirjeotion they are taxed for it, whilst {heir speculating neighbor receives the benefit without contributing a oent. The'sooner the people of this much governed country bring pressure to bear on our born legislators in the direction of nationalising the land, or what is next best, a progressive Land tax, the better it will be for the country at laree. We are in hopes that by the time the railway extension reaches here we shall have quite a respectable little township, two of our moat prominent settlers having cut up their sections into town lots, and as they are in the best positions in the whole district we trust their enterprise will meet with a satisfactory return, We are sorry that the Wellington City Counoil are so short sighted as to decide to do nothing with their 2000 acre endowment-one of the Wiseacres having stigmatised it as a white elephant—l for one would like to be afflicted with it. ! Ab I believe from the number of enquiries we haye.here for; land; that on, anything like / reasonable' terms the whole of it could be let within three months from the time it was thrown open. .As it is at present its a drag on the settlement, fancy 2000 acres, the oyo' of the block, being shut up when it might be let and improved I itunity of getting a really first olasai2? tea,' but it can be had at Kapp k UareiAdvj. .

[ The outgoing San Franoisoo mail oloaea at Masterton to-morrow,

His Honor Sir James • Prenclergast | arrived; at Masterton by the train last i evening, 1 ; We. dircot special; attention to Mr. G. j W. Schroder's announcement of the arrival of extensive shipments at the Hall of Commerce, Masterton. , Kudarz: and Verno publish in another, oolumn their programme for to-morrow evening, when they open in the Theatre Royal Masterton, ' The demand for export timber is keep* ing Messrs Booth & Oo.'smill in ful swing. During the ensuing fortnight, this firm has, we understand, arranged with the Railway Department to despatch I*2o truck loads ot timber, Another effort is to be made; to get the members of the Masterton Debating Society together this evening. The treasurer, we believe, has three shillings and two pence in hand, and wants an authority to pay a dividend' to the societies'creditors,

Mr Wardell R,M, intimated yesterday that for amounts up to £SO the maximum solicitor's fee recognised by the Court, would be two guineas, unlesß under special circumstances whioh would war-, rant a higher rate being granted,

Mr F, H, Wood sells household furniture nnder a bill of sale at Carterton to-morrow.

i A chimney on fire at the Bank of New Zealand created a little alarm about six o'block . last evening, asit persisted-in scattering sparks for a considerable time aim being in the centre of a valuable. blbck of' buildings; its pyrotechmo discharge was watched with keen interest, At last the fire brigade which was sumr mone'd by the fire bell, planted a ladder, against the tall flue and with a hand hose,kept on the premises, put out the burning soot.

The Evening Post reported that all apprehensions regarding the fate of Jeremiah Murphy, who mysteriously disappeared from his home early on the morning of the 24th ult,, and was supposed to have drowned himself, was set at rest this morning by the receipt of a. telegram from Constable Oollerton, who is in oharge of. the police station at Tenui, stating that he was working at a farm in that district. Mr Coslell, an old settler of Auckland, died yesterday. He leit about £IOO,OOO divisible between the hospital, free library, Children's Training Sohool, Parnell Orphanage, Auckland Institute, Old Men's Home, and Sailor's Home. Mr Cleghorn has been to Wellington for instructions with respeot to proceeding with the new courthouse. He was informed that an officer will be sent to Masterton on Wednesday next to give him the necessary particulars for pcooeoding with his contraot. The following team will represent Masterlon in a rifle match Carterton v Masterton Bides to-morrowCapt, Snb-Lieutenant Williams, Sergts, Wilton, Woods, Corpls, Matthews, McLachlan, Vols. O, Bentloy,'G. Bentley, F. Bright, Freeth, Eeferees, Lieut. Hill, Vol, W. Wilton, Volunteers Rummer, and Anketell proceeded to Wellington this afternoon to fire for the Ladies' Frizes at the Association meeting to-morrow. We regret to learn that Mr Fellingham of this town, who has for some months past been suffering from an injury to his foot, and has consequently not been able to attend fully to his business, is now laid up entirely from a severe attaolc of bronchitis. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of. the Waste Lands Board was held yesterday afternoon, and was attended by' Messrs J. G-, Holdsworth (Commissioner of Crown Lands), T. Mason, M.H.R., H. Bunny, and W. W, Taylor. The schedule of lands sold since the previous meeting showed the area applied for to be 414 a. lr. Bp., and the price released was £6Bl 14s. The Chairman brought before tbe Board the question of forfeiting Mr J. L, Bacon's selection, 1521, Bunnythorpe, under the. Immigrants Land Land Act, 1873, Mr Bacon attended the meeting of the Board, and certain correspondence was read and receipts produced by him for clearing the bush and improving the section. It was resolved that the resolution -passed at ' the last meeting of the Board as.to forfeiting Mr Bacon's section be rescinded, and that for the present no further action be taken, The Chairman reported that he was unable to place before the Bqard a complete schedule of lands for saje at tion, owing to plans, &c,, not being ready. It was agreed, upon the motion |pf the Chairman, that sectioij 899, Whareama, as subdivided, be included in the next auction sale, at the upset price pf 15s per acre, and that the cost, of survey aijd cjivicfing fence be addecj to the upset price, The meeting then adjourned,—Evening Post, • . About ?1B on Saturday evening, writes out Tenui corespondent, we were visited by a thunder storm (the lightning beinsr very close), which lasted about half an hour. Over the blaok hill there were about' ten telegraph poles shattered to pieces, some of the fragments being found some twenty yards away from where the poles orginally stood. The wires on the. test board in the offioe caught fire but Mr J. McKenzie the linesman ibeing at hand'there was no further damage done beyond the destruction of the wires, on the test board, The weather here has been very bad of lata and our roads are beginning to look very sloppy, I am surf the settles will hail with delight the ntended work that is to be done next spring on our roads. The construction of bridge over the Mungapakeha crossing will in itself bo a great boon, as our tra|o was very often stopped through not beipg able tp cposs tliia oreek, There is every chanoe of our roafla being very bad this winter on aooount of the setting in of bad weather so early—eapsoially the Mungapakeha, A meeting of the Masterton Volunteor Corps was held last evening Captain Donald being in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed, the Secretary read the balance sheet up to March 81st which was received and adopted. No other nomination being forthcoming for the vacant sub-lieutenancy the election of Color-Sergeant Williams was carried unanimously, Sergeant Dalrymple proposed that the offioers of the Corps and the mover as Hon. Score, tary be appointed a committee to ascertain the feeling of other corps in the district with respect to forming a Wairarapa Eifle Association. After Borne discussion the motion v. as carried. After the ;mepting closed the officers assisted by Secretary Bentley and Sergeant Dalrymple'paid the capitation for the year ■IBB2, and tailor Komzstedt took the measure of the men for the new uniforms to he obtained from England in accordance with the Imperal pattern, • Fenoing wire in any quantity can be had at less than Wellington prices at Ripp & Hare's.-ADVi.

. Messrs Chas. Pownall & Co., Scriveners/ report'thoughthe quotation lor mprtgs({e investment remains .jri.a., 7;to 9 per cent,, there iB more dif&cully-iti~obtainiog it now at the lower -the lost menth, a considerable attm'f- amounting to about J150,00(J of? outside, capital, has bo#n placed in this aiid.the Taranaki provinces, and the supply offering,beingoonß'equently somewhat more limited, the market has a slightly hardening 'tendenoyi ■; In' Australia full prices still continue to prevail, and wa havo only to look therefore to further remittances of English capital to obviate higher rates.being demanded here, : ;

At the R.M,, Court, Cartertopj to-day, before Mr W, Booth J.P., Frederiok Lynesfl waß charged with a breaoh of the Vagranoy Act by being illegally on the premises, Several previous oonviotions were proved against the prisoner, and the .'Benoh sentenced . him to fourteen days'hard labor. : : Masterton Footballers look to your laurels 1 To-morrow is general praotice and let every player and thoßfl who intend joining put in an appearance at Dixon's paidook at 3 p.ra, sharp, The WellingHon Olub will tend a firat and second fifteen to Masterton 'on the Queen's Birthday, and let Masterton be not caught napping I The date for receiving tenders for the Featheriton refreshment rooms is altered to Monday, May 7, instead of Monday, May 14, Our Carterton contemporary writes as followsWe regret ,to say that, on the whole,,we are compelled to agree. with ,qur contemporary', the Daily, in at least, ,a, few of its remarks regarding the West County Council," A four-year-old son of Mr J. lorns fell off a fence to-day through a cubumber frame, cutting one of hia kne6s very severely. Medical assistance had to be obtained and the little patient put under chloroform while the wound was sewed. There is some apprehension of a stiff joint being, the ultimate result of the accident, . One of the new arrivals from the South waß united in marriage at Bt Patrick's Church, Masterton, yesterday, by the Rev. Father Halbwaobs, When the Bank chimney was on fire last evening a well-known lady of ample proportions who is occasionally alluded to by her 'owner, Captain Edward, as the " Dutch craft" was observed to be in full : sail for the treasure bouse. A bystander advised her nat to hurry, as the Bank was closed, hut the retorted in a iuoid explanation in her own native language, in which the only intelligible portion appeared to be" mine deeds vaß up dat schimnee I" ; The membership of London Clubs aggregates nearly 100,000,' and their property is worth about £5,000,000. There are clubs exclusively for clergymen, and others exclusively devoted to gambling. Messrs Moet and Chandon, the wellknown champagne growers of Epernay, have made the munificent donation of lOOgs to the funds of the Licensed Victuallers' School, and also.one of the same amount to those of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum. The sllletoes and medals given to Garibaldi by the South Amerioan Governments in whoße service he fought, besides pipes and oanes of his own handiwork in the old Garibaldi house at Olifton, Staten Island, have been given to the National Museum at Borne. The New York Foundling Asylum, which m a few years has grown from a mere nothing to be a large flourishing in? Btitiition,' flurjng the past year has sheltered and provided for 2458 children and Ml homeless mothers, and since its organisation has placed nearly two thousand children in happy homes. ' Mdme. Blanc, of the great' Monao gambling establishing, kept 214 gardeners, and I never dismissed the old and sick. They have been reduced to BO since she closed her acoount, 200 pairs blankets oan be seen and bought from 16a per pair at Bapp & Hare'B.—Advt, ' After a very long dry and warm Btretoh of summer weather, it jij but reasonable to expect a somewhat severe winter. The "oldest inhabitant "prognosticates it, and the unusual severity of the last winter in ,iu the Old .Coirotry leaves no doubt but that our turn will come next. To be fore■warned iB to be forearmed. Don't forget your blankets. Wo can supply you well, as we hold one of-the largest stocks in Wellington, imported direct from the manufacturers We can not only give luge variety, but excellent value, no one better, if so well. Whatever.make you want (and we keep all the best) wo can give you iirst-olass value in English, German,' Koslyn, and Kaiapoi manufaoture, and in Bizes to suit the cot of the infant, the- swag of the bu'shman, 'the single bed of the baohelor, the double one of the benedigt, soqe'that might almost be large ehoiiglj for thp Great Bed of Ware. We have also a very large range of prices, varying according to size and quality,.from 7 s Id to 60s per- pair, Customers will find a great adyahtago in piirohasiqg from an extensive, well-selected, and (firstly imported stock of blankets, such as they will see at James Smith's Te Aro House Wellington, —Ad'to, ■