The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1883. BOROUGH FARMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 3 September 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1883. BOROUGH FARMS.

When Masterton was first constituted a Borough its population was sparse, and in order to mak6 up the number of householders required by law the residences of a considerable number of farmers bad to be included in Ihe raußter. This, no doubt, was a convenient arrangement at the time, but it certainly was a wrong one. The Municipal Act was never intended to rate farms or make farm roads, and we are beginning now to experience the difficulties which inevitably arise when it is applied to such purposes. If the town requires gas it must not be obtained because the Borough farmers don't want it. The same with respect to a water supply and drainage. In any direction in which the town may seek to make a step in advance it is blocked by the consideration of what the Borough farmers will say to the proposal. We have frequently advocated improvements in the Borough. The town is dirty, ill-provided with streets, and without any efficient sanitary supervision. All these things require mending, but we feel that the tirst step to be taken towards remedying them must be to cut off the Borough farms from the town and relegate thorn to the Road Board to which they properly belong, and from which they should never have been" separated. The town, with its outlying farm suburbs, is in a false position, and till the latter are cut off the prospect of making any substantial improvement to it is a very poor one, We have faith in Masterton, and believe it would pay well to have its streets properly made, but while town and country are mixed up together it is very difficult to do justice to them. To the south of Masterton there is absolutely only a single street leading out of the town, and that was made long before the Borough was constituted. Some of the cross streets leading from the main thoroughfare are still unformed and unmetalled. In whatever direction ono may travel out of town, putting on one sido the Provincial through-lints, tho explorer, in a very few minutes, comes to unformed and unmetalled tracks which are altogether unworthy of a town with the population and the resources of Masterton. We feel convinced that if the area of the Borough, were reduced to reasonable proportions by throwing off the Borough farms all essential roads could be easily constructed, and visitors ' might drive round the town in comfort, instoad of being blockaded in all directions by thoroughfares only fit for bullock-dravs,

The conference between the Masterton and Oastlepoint Road Board takes place on the 14th inst. With the cold wind blowing on Saturday, the new offioe of the Masterton Road Beard was nut the most comfortable of placea. On the chairmen asking permission to be allowed to wear his hat as a preventive againßt a cold from draughts, ono of the members suggested that the Board be supplied with wigs. The usual meeting of the Groyiown Borough Council will ba held this evening. The weekly entertainment at Greytown i will be held in the Forester') Hall this' evening, when a large number of per'! formers from Feathorston will be present, nrd a Rood evening's amusement k Hxpocted, | An extra drill of tha Greytown Rifles will be held to-morrow evening. A meeting of the committee of the Masterton Horticultural Society takes plaoe this evening. MrWardoll, R.M., sits at Feathereton to-day. The next outgoing San Francisco mail closes at the Masterton office on Saturday the Bth inst. Tho attractive and novel loy eoncert this evening ought to fill St, Matthew's eohool room. Mr F.-H. Wood is instructed to sell on September 11,25 norea of good land and house at present in the occupation of Mr John Brookling, near Greytown. All interested in tho forthcoming poultry ahow are requested to meet at,'the Club Hotel on Tuesday evening next at 7.30, when it is to be hoped all who take any interest in the matter will endeavor to be present, The -Mloffing tenders for the bridge over the Taueru River.were,opened by tho Works Committee of the East County Gutiucil on Saturday :—Reoso & Dawson, £lo94,(accepted); declined: zie, £1165; J. McDonald, £llß2. Persona taking horses to or from Mr F. Jauerhorn's paddock at Mauricoville are warned not to suck eggs, as those to be found in that neighborhood are poisoned for the benefit of hawks.

Mr J. Elley's new shop, opposite the Prinoo of Wales Horse Repository, had a fil'at-claat exhibition of beef, mutton, and small goods on Saturday morning, which had all disappeared by the evening, showing that lie had supplied a want to his customers by opening a place of business in the centre of the town. Messrs Lowes & lorns add to their catalogue for Wednesday's sale, twenty yearling cattle, tho Empire Saloon 'Bus with four sets of harness, a superior .bug(?y, and a Btrong broke. The attendance nt ilia section sale by Mr P. fl. Wood, nt Greytown on Saturday was not large, and consequently the bidding was not very brisk, lots going very cheap. .. The programme for this ovenin'gs entertainment in aid of the Weßleyan Sunday School is a varied one. The String Band will open with an overture. ISongs will be sung by Mrs Smith, Miss Nicol, and Messrs Stevenson, Gsnt, Wickerson, Moore, and Parker. The latter gentleman who is a new addition to Masterton vocalißts is to sing " The Mid. shipmite." Readings are promised by [Messrs Beard and Isitt, and the chief novelty of the evening will be a " Toy Symphony" under the conductorship of Mr Kaisenborg. We would remind-our readers that the . entertainment will be held in the Church of England Sunday Sohool.

John Pratiger was fined five shillings for drunkenness by Mr E. Meredith, J. P., at the Masterton R.M. Court this morn-

Tenders are invited by the Wairarapa East County Council for eighty chains formation and culvert on the EkelahunaTinui road, up to noon on Saturday, 15th September.

The final tie for the Wellington Football Onion Junior Cup, between the Wellington Clnb second fifteen,mid the Greytown second fifteen,-was played'in Wellington on Saturday, and resulted in a win for the former by a try to nil One of the Wellington players had Imlog broken during the game. The House of Representatives capped previous performances on Sunday morning by a disgraceful Otago froe fijfht. There is evidently a low, rough lot of legislators in the present House, Mr G. Langton (late J. Vile), announoes that he has raceived anew stock of garden and flower seods from Budden's celebrated Nelson nursery,

The Intorprovincial football match between Auckland and Otago was played on Saturday last at Dunedin in the presence of 70C0 spectators, and resulted in a draw. The same was splendidly contested, Otago bad the barrsn credit, of a disputed try, and had forced Auckland down twica, whilst the Northerners had in turn forced them down twice. The match, Auckland v. Wellington takes places in Wellington on Saturday next. The following players will represent Wellington :—Full back—Moore. Half backs —G H, Smith, A. Thompson Quarter backs—Dumbell, Davy, Perry. Forwards —Berry, Brown, Carabboll, Cooper, Harvey, Koberts, Udy; Webb and Young. The Hall of Commerce surplus clearing sale will continue until Saturday next, during which time settlers will have an opportunity of purchasing every description of drapery, at English cost prices, G. W. Schroder will offer today and the following week an immense assortment of remnants of new goods, calicoes, sheetings, winceys, flannels, &c, at very low prices. Boy's, youtliß' and men's overcoats wo being sold vapidly at greatly reduced prices.—Advt,

How to Get SicK.-Exposo yourself day and night, flit 'ton much without oxoroiso, work too hard without rest, doctor all the time, take all the vile nostrums advertised, and then you will want to know How to Get Well,—Which is answered in three words-Take Hop Bitters! Read. ' Gorged livers, Bilious, conditions, oo n stipation, piles, dsypepsia, headacne, cured by " Well's May Apple Fills." 5d and' IB boxes at druggists. Moses, Moss, & Go,, Sydnty, Goneral Agents for Australasia, TUICK HEADS, HEAVY STOMACHS, BILIOUS conditions.—Well's May Apple Pills"-anti< biliouß, catharsic, 5s and Is. Moses, Mosi k Co., Sydney, Geneml Agents, Tho extraordinary sale of Surplus Winter Stook at Te Aro Houße, Wellingtonshould be a matter of some interest to all readers of the Wairarapa Daily for these special reason*, Ist, because of tho largeness of the stook, 2nd, beoause of the short duration of the sale, 15 days only, 3rd, becauso 'of the unpreoedentedly low prices. Our price list, issued with this paper, should, we think, astonish everybody, and vory certain it is that, a trip to the sale would bo money in pooket to every Wairarapa resident that should try it. If not able to come, their orders, accompanied with cash, would be as well executed as though selected personally. It simply means 20s for 10s, or even less in mauy cases, therefore try it, O ye residents, aud that right early. Bear in mind that we have no country businesses whatever, no branches in any township, aud no one is authorised to sell for us, either regularly or irregularly, We have only one place of business in the province, aud the publio would do well to keep this fact in mind when sending their orders, or visiting Weiington,that our solo establishment in tho colony is that known as James Smith's To Aro Housft. Wellineton.—Anrr.

A remarkable iiwtftnce of the ingenuity, developed by necessity is afforded by, a conviot in a Louisiana prison, who made a saw out of the buckle on his trousers, and constructed a key from a splinter of wood, with which ho unlocked the chain that bound him to the floor.

•An electric railway is to be laid down at Wimbledon this year for the National Rifle Association. The. line will be a mile long, and the train will consist of six vehicles, each carrying 24 persons, The motor will be Piot's, the patent for which is held by the j Electric Mo.tor Syndicate. Mr Frank Sturges, of Chicago, recently sent a large number of prairie chickens to a friend in England. Twenty of the chickens were presented to the Queen for' the Balmoral grounds, and twenty to the Princo of Wales for Sandringham, while several others were turned loose on the Welsh hills, near Meath.

The "Dia" announces that tho Spanish Government, beiug convinced of the important mission Sprin is destined to fulfil on the North Western Coast of Africa, has despatched an expedition of a commercial oharacter to Morocco, with instructions to visit the West Coast, and particularly the regions of Jouon Saan and Santa Crux de' Mar Pequena. The journal expresses the hope that on receipt of information respecting the country which will be furnished by the expedition, Spanish commerce will hasten to establish relations first of all with the native tribes of Sus and Ouad Nun, and afterwards with the whole empire,

A'singular incident is reported from Darmstadt, About ten years ago the rich widow of a former Privy Councillor in that city left in her will.the sum 0f.100.000d0l to the Grand Duke of Hesse on condition that the same be by him appropriated to the establishment of a foundling hospital at either of the throe largest oities in the Grand Duchy, Darmstadt, Mayence, or Giessen. It now appears that the sovereign has been unable to comply thus far with the wirhes of the testatrix, the municipal councils of the aforenamed cities having refused to accept the gift on the somewhat pharlsaical plea that a foundling hospital could not but be a slur upon the good morals of their population.