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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1458, 16 August 1883, Page 2

Mr F. 11. Wood announces his next snick sale at C'arlerlon for September Gth, Ho also advertises a fellmongery in the d.ime township lo let or fur sale. Tho Mastorton and Greytown Town Lauds Amendment Bill was read a second time yesterday i'i tlieLegislalivn Council. Tho linal rending and passing of this measure is only a matter of form. Tim ordinary, nmiillily meeting of ihe Mnaiuiton School C-.inimitteo was held last evening. Present—Mtsw Bodding lon (Chairman), Rapp, Galloway, Heron, and Payton. The minutes of the preceding meeting having tieen read and confirmed, tho Treasurer reported a credit bnhinco of £2l 10a Cd. Letters woro rend from tho Education Board, stal in» i hat i he Inspector and Mr Grundy had been appointed to prepare regulations for ihe Dis'rict High School, and that a l>onus of £2O had been vo'ed to Miss Baillie. An application waß read from Mr JiiLos Martin, offering his Bcrvices as a classical teacher, The Secretary w«b instruu:ud to inform tho applicant chat no vucauey existed Tho head master reported thai the attendance had been affected during tho present month by wet weather. The number on the roll was 495. The following accounts were passed for payment:— Mrs Shepherd, £2 10ai W. Sellnr, 1319 a 3.1; and M, Cuselberg nnd Co,, £1 2s Cd, Messrs Ftiat and Galloway were appointed visiting mem* hers for the ensuing month,

The Rev Mr Western has been elected on the Wairarapa Hospital Committee, vice, Bev Mr White resigned. The BevMrGarlick', Weslevan preacher has commenced a series of services at Grey town; j

A good muster nf the Greytown Rifles tinned up for d'ill on \Tueadity evening, and wefe served with arms. Mr Western was'elected Hon Chaplain vice Mr White, resigned, ' « The usual monthly ineeting of the Greylown School Committee was held on Tuesday evening, when the hoad master's ipport was read, showing that the average attendance was 164, The school hours had been changed, and the children had now no afternoon play. This action was Approved by the committee, and notice »f m otion given that the play hour in the f renoon be also dispersed with. Mr Grey was.eleeled chairman of committee. A discussion took place as to the custody "f the inspector's report. .

The Pavsonage of AH Saint's Church at Gladstone, Invercargill, was destroyed l»y fire about four o'clock this morning. The building was occupied by Mr Gurr, laie head master of iho Central School, and family, who had barely time to ifscape. Nothing was saved hut a piano and n litllo clothing. The furniture was insured for i'4so in the Hamburgh Magdebnrijh, and the house, whioh contained' eight rooms, for 1300 in the London, Liverpool, and .Globe, and i'2oo in the North British, The' origin of tlio lire is unknown. The 's.s. Hoihow left Dunedin on Wednesday last for Hongkong, via Sydney, freighted—in addition to general cargo- with the renmiiisof 280 Chinamen the result of the exhumations that have been so presoveringly carried on throughout the Colony for some time past. Special provision was made in the 'iweendecks for the silmt passengers, whose cartage was for at the rale of something like £1 or £8 per he-id. The bodies, or rather in many cases the" remains" were packed singly in zinc and wooden boxes, and stowed closely side by side upon staging that was speciilly erected for the purpose. Some 45 live Chiiiainoo accoin piiuied !he deceased as passengers, and those before leaving Port €htimers, gave a perfect fusillade of fireworks in honour of theirdef aitute for the "Flowery Li fid," and further to ensure the spirits of their compatriots being conveyed in peace to their nn-ive shores. Ou the first outbreak of this pyrotechic display it w«b imagined that aorae accidental explosion had occured on board, and a number of people has'ened down tho pier in some alarm.

We need hardly remind onv Masterlon renders of the attractive programme lit St. Matthew's school room this eveuin^, At the Wellington Divorce Court to day rules absolute were granted in the cases, Mulholand v. • Mulholand, and Maynard v, Maynard. The case i-f Cliino v. Clinio was heurd The poiition was (l'ora the wife, who presided at Curtertnh, fur a dissolution of luarriago on the ground of her husband's cruelly, and also adnltry with one Mrs Spar»o. His Honor said he was satisfied us to adnltry, but-or. one or two points law reserved liia judgment. A general parade of Mafitertmi Hides takes place this evening at 7,30 A gdiieml meoting will bo hold iifior drill, when the question of uniforms, &c., will be diacussud. A full attendance is pariicularly requested, m the business is of great iinpirtance to the corps, ■ Sergt, •Major Uozar lutd the lioya of the Otrterton Udet Corps on parade in the school ground for au hour, it being the first lime they had had their rifles in their hands, and he reported himself very well satisfied with their performance. In the evening the usual fortnightly parade nf the senior Cot pa took place under the command of Lieut. Crawford, but the attendance was very small and the men were dismissed about nine o'clock, after havingjbeeii in the drill instructor's hands for about an hour and a half.

Lowes & lorns bad a very largo ationd.ttice ut their sale of the remaining allotments of the Bentley Estate, some twenty Ulotments, varying m size from | to j acre, selling at figures ranging fwm £l7 tn i>29 each, the balance being withdrawn, the auctioneers intimating that they would continue the Bale privately, Wo learn that a few sections have since been sold by private contract. A limestone fossil in which is embedded iho skull and bones of a largo bird uf the parrot kind has been biought down from Mauriceville and lodyod ut the Council Chambers, where quite a collection of iheao interesting specimens is now on view.

Tho third competition for Lieutenant Williams' irophy was finished yesterday, hut Bandsimn G. liontley's scoro of G2 was not. reached ; lie therefore holds it fur the present, Corpl. E, Kibblewfiite and A, Matthews have each a " leg in" for [he trophy. The following team has been selected to represent Masterton in the cup match uiih Greytoivn (at Greytown) on Saturday nextUcLachlau, Harvey, J., Q, and H. Bannister (b), O'Connor, Jamieson, Morison, 8., J,, W., and 0. Perry (4), DuGasiro, Elers, and A Welch, emergencies—Joints, Campbell, and Buss. The following will play against tho Union Club on Soturday in Mr Geo, Dixon's paddock for the Junior Cup of the Wellington Union Association;— Boss, James, Campbell, Q, and W. Day. A. Thomoson, F. Pelliug, Bori Thompson, Himeona (2), llanganui, Batumi, H.karaia, Ifaho, and Murray, emergencies—Wahu, W, IJc Keuzie, and Tingi, A meeting of the Masterton Bechabits Tent takes place this evening.

Thomas Was no was brought before Mr Wardell, R.M, to-day, charged with beiiig drunk, and lined five shillings. The vote in aid of libraries was carried last night in the House, but no library is to receive a larger grant than fifty pounds, Mr Thomas Mackay calls a meeting nf the Uastlepoint set lers for Tuesday next to consider the proposal made to abolish County institutions. The Golden Crown Company's (Tern whiti) Directors have cabled to Melbourne an order for a comploto (en head orushing plant with all the latest improvements, The Rcohabito Tent Hope of Carterton was opened on Tuesday evening 17 members being initiated and several others giving in their names as being about lo join almost immediately. All accounts against the estate of the late Michael Dixon of Mastorton, are requested to sent in to Messrs Henry Cole and James Wrigley, executors, and all debts due to the estate aro to to be paid to the same forthwith. Consul Rainals reports that the continued disappeaarnce of the sardines once so abundant on the coast of Brittany, has become a serious calamity to the people of that part, where the catching had been wont to give employment to 1500 boats, and moro than 9000 fisherman, while the curing and packing for home consumption and exportation have furnished a living to ft very large, number of male niul female hands, The reason of the disappearance is believed to be the great change of temperature.

Tito Musiertori Institure Committee tuild their ordinary monthly meeting tliio ovonine.

Although to recent census in Hungary shows an incroasoof less than 1J per cent in eleven years, the population of the capital- 1b found to have increased in thai; period more - than 32 per cent, being now 370,767—a number which entitled Budu Peath to tho thirteenth place among Continental cities, whereas in 1870 it was only twenty-third on the list.

The Electrical Railway Company/of'■ the United States was inboi porat'ed at Albany, New York, on. tho Bth May. Among the incorporators is Thomas A. Edison. The company has been formed to work a system based on tho patents oI'MrS. D. Field "and MrT. A. Edison. The capital is 2,000,000d01.

Sir Abraham Woodiwiss, one of the batch of new British knights, commenced life at Derby as a labouringstonemason, and his wife, now Lady Woodiwiss, rose from an equally humble social position.

JMomi/s Ointment and Pilk-Reliable licnieiliiis,— In wotuuli, bruises, sprains, glandular swelling, enlarged veins, neuralgic pains, and rheumatism, the application of this sootliing Ointment to tho ftfhcted puts not only gives the greatest ease, but likewise cures the complaint, The Pills greatly assist in banishing tho to:idoney to rh'imiatism, neuralgia, cramps, snd spasms, while the Ointment cures tho local ailment. Tlie Pills remove the constitutional disturbance and regulate impaired function of all tho iutora-il organs of tho body. Tho euro is neither temporary norsupeifk-ial, but permanent and eoinp'eto, and the disea o i early recurs, so perfectly has beon, the publication performed by these searchinß yet harmless preparations.

Thick heads, heavy stojuciis, bilious condiiions,-Well's May Apple Pills"—:mtibilious, cntharsie, Cs and Is. Moses, Moss 4 Co,| Sydney, (!eu:;nl Agents, The extraordinary sale of Surplus Winter Stock at Te Aro House, Wellingtonshould be a matter of some interest to all readers of tho Waiiiarafa Daily for these special reason*, Ist, becauso of the largeness of tho stock, 2nd, because of the abort duration ul tho sde, 15 days only, Srii, because of the unprecs-d-'i.tedly low pricos. Our price list, issued with this paper, should, we think, astonish everybody, and very certain it is that a trip to the sale v/ould be money in pooket to every Wairarapi resident that should fry it. If not able to come, their orders, accompanied with c'isli, would bo as well, exec itod as though selected personally. It simply mejus 20s for lOj, or eve i loss in many cases, therefore try it, 0 yo residents, and that right early, Boa'' in mind that we have no country -businesses whatever, no branches in any township,, and no one is authorised to sell for in, either regularly or ll'e have only one place of bumesi in lite province, and tho public ivnuhl do well to keep this fact in mind when sending their orders, or visiting Wellington, that our sole establishment in the colony is that known as Jamb-! Smith's To Aro House, Wellington.—Anvr.