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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1637, 18 March 1884, Page 2

Mr Wardell, R,M., will ait at Greylowii' to-day. ■ ••' The ordinary fortnightly mooting of Ik' Loyal Masterton Lodge 1.0.0. R. takes place this eveniuj,'. Woodyears Electric Circus appears at Featherston to-mnrrow,

Tho Salvation Army has opened a day ichool for young children in their Masterton Barracks. It is conducted by Miss Kdte Leo and under her care is likely to thrive.

Mr F. H, Wood offers for sale a four horse power thrashing machine, and a five horse power ditto. Also 50 well bred and 3 pure bred Lincoln rams. Notice is (jiven-by the Mas ortou Road Board that unless arrears of rates are paid on or before Thursday the 10th April, legul proceedings will ho taken fur their recovery.

The Post understands that Messrs J. H. Bethuno and Co, Ime effected a sale by private contract of Mr John Williams' extensive sheep mid cattle station, well known as "The Tiiauinea Run," in the Whareama district, containing 10,344 acres freehold land, together with the sheep, catilo, 'hnvsos, and implements thereon. Mr James Siewart Huhnes, son of the Hon, Malhew Holmes, is the purchaser The price has not transpired This property, which was advertised in our columns for salo to-day by public auction, will consequently be withdrawn, Messrs Lowes & lnrns ofier at their market sale to-morrow 1400 good lambs in tho wool, 1800 cross bred ewes, 400 Lincoln owes, hied by Messrs Buchanan and J. Russell, 150 2 tooth wethers, 100 fat sheep, 100 lambs, 162-ioolh Colswold superior 2-tooth Lincoln ewes, 1 collie dag broken to work, 15 colts and fillies by the celebrated sires Mangle and Traiipr and out of mares by English tlmrou»lir rolls;' imd also colonial sires of <;ood repute, 20 iliree year old steers, 20 two year old steers, 20 head mixed cattle, 50 Lincoln rums, from 2 tooth upwards bred -by Messrs Boetham.

Mr John Bathgate, in a recent speech, referred lo llie Evening Poet's pet railway in the following terms:-"From an , advertisement in the Scotsman lie read , as follows; ' New Zealand 5 per cent, mortgage debentures, 25 years to run. is , issued at 105 per 100; aunual return ) upwards of 4J per cent.-Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company.' ' This company, then, had the impudence to advertise their debentures as if they came from the Government. This he looked upon as a false label, It was like a man pulling a false label on a bottle of bad brandy. .The.directors further advertised that the debentures were secured by lands, allocated by tho Government; and -purchased by the company, to Iho valuo nf L4B8.000: and the 20 acres of the Wellington foreshore granted them' by' the Government, which they valued at' L 90,000. It was thus apparent, by their own showing, that these Wellington people had received property to the value 1 of L 548,000, lo make a railway which was only to cost L 500,000." ' A large audience gathered in the Wesleyan Church last evening to hear Mr Marsh's lecture mi" After Dark in London." Mr Short occupied the chair, and. the Eev. J. Fulton and the Rev L. M. Isiti supported the lecturer on the plat' form, Mr Marsh spoke with unabated, vigor for two hours and a half without any interval, and the fact that he retained the interest and attention of his audience throughout litis exceptionally long sitting shewed that ha was no ordinary lecturer, Mr Marsh was evidently full 0 f his subject, and there was a' ring of earnestness l ■about every sentence, which went home to the listenors. He possesses a powerful voice, and has histrionic gifts, which enable him to reproduce, to the life the characters which ha portrays. Here and' there in his address there were graphic! touches, in which humor and pathos were so skilfully interwoven that one was almost reminded by them of the masterhand of Charles Dickens. Not that Mr Marsh is, in any senao/a ■pla{tf4r^£, ! 'but thathe possesses, in a great degree, those special faculties of sympathetic observation and delineation whioh distinguished the great novelist who wrote " Oliver Twist." Mr Marsh expressed an opinion that the vast hordes of the London pppr, onlyneeda leader to revolt against the monied classes, and exercise a tremendous power, and that unless the tide of-' misery is stemmed by those who are in •authority there will.yet be an outbreak,. " The poor of London were Britons still, though they were Britons orushod. If they became Britons rnusod the upper classes in London would havo lo beware of them." We cannot, within the limits of our notice, follow Mr Marsh m his tour among the thieves' quarters in London, and his brilliant description of tho noble work done there by Miss Annie, Mac,' pherson, Dr Barnai'do and others.. The lecture created such, n sentimental sympathy for his heroine Miss Maopherson that the Eov L M, Isilt proposedthat the audience should make up a purse to assist Iter work. Eight persons present agreed to give a pound a-piece and (lie collection plates were brought out for smaller contributions Lectures wili soon l)e labelled dangerous if surprisecollections of this character.are induced ; in. The suggestion, it is only fair tosiy •' did not emanate from Mr Marsh, but that gentleman,; when the wedge was ; in, ■ certainly; helped to drive it home, A nearly vote of thanks to the lecturer and the chairman concluded the programme, Fuss and nuGSr-Beetles, insects, roache/ : ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack, rabbits, cleared out by "Bough 'oa Bats7Jd Moses Moss iCo„ Sydney, General Agents

■J'ln-rti will he ; , ailing of the Native? liii.il Court at/MnsKrvs en tho'2oih luit. .... " ; ■■';

, Tenders are invitod by the Public Works Department fur the supply and delivery of 11,000 Bleepers. ' : -• About twenty of the men engaged to work on the Maaierton-Opaki line, o'ame up by the irain yesterday morning.

J-1200 ivas subscriuuil last Sunday in Wellington on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of St. Patrick's college. Bishops Eedwood, Moran and Luck took park in the ceremony. v Those larrikins !■ On Sunday; a mother bringing her child out of a Salvation Army meeting found her perambulator which'she had left outside the building filled with brioks !

Mr G. S. W. Dalrjrnple of Mautarton, has invented irid , patented a'ready reokoner for the'-use of investors in totalisators, which will set forth the dividend for any number of investors on any horse, :■' ;■■■'■'',

A Court was held at Tenui on Friday last before. Messrs Langdon and W. H. Beethain, J.P.'s, J. Dnimmond suod R, Eainie for breach of, Babbit Act.' |Ad-; journed to 14th April.., Several other cases on- the list were settled out' of Court,

-Messrs Spei'ry and Maunsell having become the BuretieaforMrD.O.Maunsell, recently Incarcerated on a charge, of 'embezzlement, he-was liberated on Saturday. -Mr Edward Shaw appeared on behalf of the prisoner at a formal trial before his •Worship the Mayor.-N. Z.-Times yvir Lee, Inspector to. the Education ,Bdarl, arrived at Masterton by the mid'day.lrain yesterday to examine some of •the 'country schools which have not as ■yet been visited by him.

A quarterly meotibu of the Licensing ■Committee for Cnsityoint was held on ■Friday last, all ihe members of the ■Committee beinu present The minutes of the last meoti'iy wore real and confirmed. .The police report for the past qtnrter was iilao read. The clerk was directed to ins ruci the police tn report in their next quarterly return upon the means of escape provided at each hotel in case of fire. Several other matters wero dealt with and the meeting then adjourned.

■By. the-closest approximation Mr Irving's four weeks in New York must have brought ,£15,000 to the box office. On the occasion of his first' benefit in London as a manager he announced from the Lyceum stage that during thcirst seven months £36,000 had been taken, and even this was considered singularly good business. '

The Hope and Hawarden Highway. Board have given Mr Gladstone a month's notice to remove certain trees which be has placed on waste plots of land on the roadside between Chester and Hawarden Castle, in order to beautify the landscape,-on the ground that it is nn infringement of tho liberties of the people to the land, and they have further intimated that if Mr Gladstone will not remove the trees the board's surveyor has instructions to do the necessary work. The consumption of gold for other than monetary purposes in Europe, America and Australia has more than quadrupled in 30 years, and has quite trebled in 20 years. It is more than five times what it was half a century •ago. Tho great mass of gold which has flowed from the mines has. been absorbed in the same opulence and luxury of the times which have swallowed''up the flood of gems. ,' Fire-sixths of the current production of «old is absorbed in the arts nnd manufactures in the western world and in British India, A part of the remaining sixth' is lost in the wear of coins and fires, shipwrecks, and forgotten hoards.

At this season—just tho close of summer and with winter near at hand-there is always considerable activity amongst the drapers, many of them are stock-taking, and most of them selling the balance of their summer stock to mako room for winter goods. Some few while stock-taking find that from tho amount ot patronage they have received during the summer season they are enabled to sell tho balance of their-stoek far cheaper than any competitors in the Bame line, in fact Messrs Owen, Schroder & Co., Hall.of Commerce, opposite the Club Hotel at Masterton are at tho present moment ofking a splendid selection of drapery at English cost price.—Advt.

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