The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1883. MR RENALL'S MEETING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1363, 26 April 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1883. MR RENALL'S MEETING.

-, - --I-- , Mr Resaii, held § #ee% fa the Theatre Royal, Masterton last eyenipg at which twenty persons held up thejp hands in favor of his resolution against, the .Masterton Town Land Trustees Belling a Courthouse Bite to the Government, This was the nett result of the gathering, and no one will grudge Mr Renall being credited with it. His speech was a more than thrice told tale of the history of the Masterton and Greytown wwyfis interspersed with coarse buffoonery directed Editor of this paper. The terms in which the latter was couched showed Mr Renall is to hold any publio position in any civilised community.,, Happily there is little danger pf Masterton people again entrusting their infests to his care, ■

Messrs' 0, Edmonds & Co,, of tlw Petone. Brewery, Wellington, have an advertisement of their celebrated ale and potter in andther column. ,- A;Committee meeting of the Masterton Institute wna held lost evening, Preseilt 1 -Messrs pish (Chairman), Caselberg, •Boddington, %r, sapdy, and Sellar. The bjismess.of yas rac(rjly j t ... We remind ratepayers and subscribers to the Masterton institute that a.meeting to eleota new Committee will be held this evening, The-aiinual meeting of tho Feathers ton Mutual Improvement and Debating Society takes place this evening at the : Town Board room. Mr Liardet, of Lambton Quay, has cured and fftoupted the two stags' heads whioh were brought down from the Wairarapa district recently by a poupjp : o f, ] oC(l i sportsmen, and they are now on', view at his establishment, where they have attraeted a good deal of attention.—Post. 1 The following is the list of tenders received for 13,526 sleepers on the HurunuiWaitok! raibayVAccepted, Johnston -Good & Co, Christohuroh, i 2,705, De • olined, W. Bpoth & Co, Carterton, £2931; W. L-. Bailey Bros, Palmerstoh, i 3344. _Mr Kudarz, the illusionist, opened at .Greytown un Tuesday night to a fairly well attended house, although \he front' seats were not so » fi |l jailed as might have been expeoted, He oommenwd the first I performance by doing some very clever | card tnoks, whioh were all executed in a 'I masterly manner, - Some conjuring and 1 fortune telling followed with equal buocbbs, ! I the frequent applause testifying to the i dever manipulation of the, different , artiojej. -The enchanted drum' provoked considerable amusement, but the portion { of the performance whioh gave the most e genuine i satisfaction was the cabinet" t seanoe, in . which Mr Kudarz was etnin- ' ently luooeuful.

:. The Masterton Footballers liad a very, good praotice yesterday. afternoon, and did about an hour's hard work. On Saturday afternoon a soratoh match will be played, when: a full muster is looked forward to. . Mr Gv W. Dutton, the well-known Wellington stationer and fancy goodswarehouseman, advertises in another. column that he has determined to relinquish the latter branoh of his business, and is therefore, offering the whole, of his stock of fancy articles at lessthan cost price, The advertisement will he found in another column. Notice is given that the annual meeting of ratepayers in the Castlepoint district will be held at the publio hall, Tenui, on Tuesday, May Ist. Persons interested in forming a Jockey Club in the Castlepoint district, are requested to attend in the publio hall, Tenoi, on Tuesday, ( May Ist.'The, Mastertou Rifle Volunteer Match Committee has sent a challenge to the Wellington Artillery Corps. The District Court sits at Masterton tomorrow. There are, two cases on the list, one a summons of £145 8s lid for fenoing by William MoLaren, against Samuel Vennoll, and the other an application for discharge in bankruptcy.by Mr J. W. Leahy, . 1 The Masterton Fire Brigade turned out last evening for praolioe. Both engines wove takon out, and members put through a satiflfaotory five men practice with ladders, &c. One new member was pro.' posed.'" The Bishop of Wellington arriyeij in Masterton to-day by the Napier cOaoh en route for Wellington, We notice that Mr Cleghorn is now making a fair start with the new court*! house, all the preliminary, difficulties as to the site having been arranged, .V. The Druids'-feW, under the auspices of the Stonehenge Lodge, Masterton, is 1 announced for the 2nd of May, at 8 p.m.,'in the Theatre Royal, The gathering will be an extremely novel and attractive one, and being organised under able management will no doubt provo thoroughly Bucoessful, . . We learn from the Post that at the Education Board meeting yesterday the Secretary read the Board's '.annual report)' which was adopted with slight amendment, The Inspector's report was also laid on the table, MrHutohison complained of this having been published in the nowspapers before being adopted by the Board. He also objected to Mr Lee's remarks jn the report regarding " standard passes," "payroept ]by results,"" additional standard," so, ije further enquired the meaning of tj)p phrase "noisy discipline!' used by Mr Lee, and thought teaoLers should be afforded an opportunity of expressing why scholars were "weak" in certain subjects, as boldly pointed out in the report. Dr Newman thought Mr Hutchison was doing good service by drawing attention to these matters, and added that. the Inßpeotor had complained in former-times of the Board not taking up the points of his report. Sir Paterson thought Mr Lee had simply done his duty:in pointing out the weak parts of the Board's teaching power, and naturally expeoted the Board to take the points up, Mr Bunny thereupon moved that a oommittee consisting of the Chairman, Messrs Paterson, Hutchison, and the mover, he appointedto consider the report, and give information to the Board at a hituve meeting, the committee to have powur to communicate on. the subject with the schoolmasters and committees. The' motion waß agreed to, The Normal •School report was afterwards adopted without -[isendsent,

;At the meeting of; -the I from the Taueru Oommittee for anew residence for the teacher was agreed to. ■The application from Matarawa for a grant for repairs was referred to the , the architect who will confer with the committee and have > ho repairs carried r out, The complaint from Masterton re I defective fire places was referred to the arohlteot. An applioatipji ffom the Car- , terton school coipiitfee ipp.n'gy spjjoola at Dalefield and Belvedere Was referred to Messrs Beetbamj Bunny, and Buchanan to report upon. The .Board decided to remove the teacher from Waihakeke on ! the ground that he was unsuitable, It was decided to grant 15 per year for the , servicesof a sewing teaoher at Tenui, An application for increase of the salary paid to tho master at Tenui was received from, the local committee. It was pointed out i that if the teacher (Mr Ward) passed a , .certain examination he would at once be I entitled fp an increwe fif |4O per year. A bonus wfls eventually granted of |}o to ' Mr Ward on thp pdefs'taii'djng he 1 would be e&pepted tp pass tj)e pxamina--1 tion referred lo at !|)p pest opportunity, Mr A' Farmer, of Cuba-street, Wellington, announces a sale of furniture at greatly reduced prices. Tho usual fortnightly parade of the .Carterton Volunteer Rifle Corps took place in the Publio Hall on Wednesday evening. • Present-Captain Bennett, Lieuts Reid, and 18 rank and file',' The C.apt%'scew the attention of the members to theregulatip# by jvhich all members failing to attend the company parades were fined, Secretary Moore, Corporals iJoodin, Bennett and Beid , were nominated for the vacant Sergeantships, The 'competition will take place at the next meeting of the Corps. It was teaolved on the motion of Vol., Hunter, th?t this Corps adopt the scarlet uniform as provided Jjy the Volunteer regulations.' The following nieiflberj pere nominated as Corporals,'-Vole, Soppe?, ft (Juofln, D. Reid and . S. Hunter, The election will • take. place at the next meeting.' l Charles Giles was elected an aotive member of the,, Corps, and theEev. W. T.W, 0, Buchanan, M.H.R, have rejoiped as hon/membera. Mr (}, Tiller, ,of- the furniture warehouse, Manner-street, Wellington,. has a trade announcement in our advertfsjpg columns, .Thirty-eiqht lioys were on parade at the Carterton School on "Wednesday afternoon, The. list of those joining as cadets stands over till the next meeting, some difficulty having arisen through a misconception as to the amount to be paid for uniforms, . , After a very loDß.dry and warm Btretoh of summpf weather, it is but reasonable toexpect a somewjjat aeyero winter, The "oldest inhabitant •" prognoatioaies it,. and the unnsual-severity of tho last winter in in the Old Country , leaves no doubt but that-onv turn will come next. To be fore, warned is to be forearmed, Din't forget your blankets. We can supply you well,'.as we hold one of the largest stooks in Wellington, imported direet.from the manufacturers : We ' ; can not only give large variety, but t excellent value, no one better, if so well. I Whatever make you want (and we keep all i the best) we can give you first-class value in English, German, Roslyn, and Kaiapoi manufacture, and in sizes to suit the cot of fbo infant, the swag of tho bushman, tho single bed of the baohelor, the double one of ' the benedict, and some that mifiht aJmost be i large enoutjh for the Great Bed of Ware, We have also a very large range of prices, ' varying according to size and quality; torn ■ :7,s 6d t0.60s per pair,- : Customers will find .a great advantage in purchasing from an extensive, well-selected, anddireitlyimpor- - ted stock of blankets,'. such as they will see V4HB Suiih's Te Aro House Wellington, !

;: Knspar Deidrioh wbb fined five shillings .this.morning for drunkonesß by the Mayor of MaaUrton, A considerable. amount of interest is being taken in cthe election for the Mastertod Town Lands Truat to.day,' all the .candidates being about, and being assisted by their friends in seeing that votes are recorded in their favor. Up to the hour we went to press, about a hundred ; votes were recorded, and the general impression" appeared to be that Mr Blsh will head the poll, Mr Hare taking second place, and Mrßenallat the, foot of the list. Mrßenall has, however,' secured some support by the views whioh he expressed last night on the sale of the Courthouse site, which will assist-materi-ally the number lie will poll. '; A man recently died from swallowing his pooket-knife and-injudicious medical treatment combined. He got along very nicely as long as Iho knife ffaa'cloaed,bnt when the doctor gave liimopening medicine it killed him. ' A sailor dropped out of the riggings of a ship-of-war, some fifteen or twenty feet, and fell plump on the head of the first lieutenant, " Wretch 1" said the officer, after he had gathered himself up, " where ■the'dickens did you'come from 1" <l An' sure I came from the north of Ireland ver honor." ... A well-known journalist was taking a walk one evening with his wife, when she; who. is somewhat romantio and an admirer of nature, said, '' Oh, Georgy, just notice the moon I" " Can't think of it, my dear, for less than two shillings per line," wag his reply. :