The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1884. THE WAIRARAPA PASTORAL SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 28 April 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1884. THE WAIRARAPA PASTORAL SOCIETY.

The annual meetinst of tho Pastoral Society hold on Saturday last was a quiet humdrum affair. During the past year the Society had held its own and no more,' and the time had not arrived for launching out, for taking a step in advance, and initiating a big programme. Wool is still down, and wool is yet the barometer of fair or foul weather in the Wairarapa, The time will undoubtedly come when wool will advance or other resources of pastoral income take its place, and when this change occurs an effort to place the Wairarapa Pastoral Society on a iinner tooting will undoubtedly be made, It is gratifying to nofcjce tho keen interest which many leading settlers manifest in the fortunes of the Society, and it is perfectly evident that thoy are only waiting a favorable opportunity to push them. Year after year the annual show of the Soci'ety has been worked under manifest difficulties which have prevented it from growing into what we would like to see it—not a mere " mutual admiration" exhibition for local settlers, but a show which will attract outside exhibitors and outside visitors. As yet it has not reached this stage, but we believe that ultimately it will do so, Though our annual show is not, as yet, all that we could wish it to be, it is not by any means unworthy of tho district. Tho stockowners and the fm'mers of the district, by united effort, can undoubtedly make it hotter than it is, and wo trust soon that times will mend, and that when the President and Committee of management call upon the public to give the Society the " lift up" which it needs the response will be hearty and liberal,

Mr Georgo Beelham M.H.B. in a letter to a friend in Maslerton, dated London March 3rd intimates his intention of becoming a Benedict on March 12th, and of arriving in New Zealand with his wife during the first week in June. Notice is Riven through our columns of tho annual licensing meetings for the Maaterton Borough Licensing Committee, tho Maaterton District Licensing Committee, tho Alfredton Licensing Committee and the Castlepoint Licensing Committee. Lieutenant Kear, who is leaving Masterton, reported to a large congregation last evening that during tho few weeks he has been in charge of this station of tho Army he has registered 63 converts, Our weather reporter writes :-A fine week again to chronicle, Damp only on one day, aud only giving a rainfall of -133 parts of an inch for tho week The baromoter has been high the whole of the week, indicating a continuation of fino weather, Tho mean reading is 30,07 inches, and the same for the thermometer is 47 fah, The wind light imd principally from the north. Frosty on five days, On Saturday morning a gentleman was riding a young horse into Mnsterton, to meet the train, when his progress was arrested fully a quarter of an hour by a flock of geese which were holding a sort '.tangi' in the main road noar tho Waipoua, The traveller want? tho Maslerton Borough Council to pass a by-law to prohibit birds of this character from stopping traffic.

Our local artist, Mr T, Donnelly, is busily engaged painting the necessary Bcenery for the " Olde Englyshe Fayre" that lakes place on Thursday next apart from the novelty of the entertainment. The trouble and expense that the Committee are going to to make it a success, shows that there is not the least doubt in their minds that their efforts will bo rewarded with a big attendance on the part of tbo public, We refer our readers to the advertisement of the "Fayre" which appears in another'column. We have been told that a lady in Mas. terton recently remonstrated with hor servant for stopping out at Salvation Army meetings till after ten o'clock, and that tho girl replied that she was instructed by her commanding officer to stay out till that hour, and, if her mistress objected, to find another situation whore she would have liberty to stay oHt so late, We trust the officers of the Army have more common sense than to give servant girls instructions of such a character, and that they have in this instance been maligned, Wise foily,—' 'For ten years my wife was confined to hor bed with such a complication of ailments that no doctor could tell what was the matter or cure her, and I used up a small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw an American flag with Hop Bitters on it, and I thought I would be a fool once more. I tried it, but my folly proved to be wisdom, Two bottles cured her she is now as well and strong as any man's wife, and it cost me only two dollars," H W Detroit, Mioh, Head -

Mr 11. Dngt{ was returned unopposed Saturday to his old seat on tho Masterton Road Board. During the past week no loss than' 2.500 Rheep have boon forwarded by rail to Wellington to the order of the Gear Company. Applications are invited for leasing or purchasing 18 acres of land at Kuripuni with dwelling house and outbuildings lately in the occupation of the Eev Father Halbwachs. Messrs Lowes and lornsadd another 1000 sheep to their sale list for Wednesday next, GOO of'them being superior twotooth wethers, and 400 good fat do. A few days ago a poodle dog, owned by an old lady who was 6ent from the Ballarat City court to the Benevolent Asylum touched the hearts o! the City court officials by its faithful qualities, -the poodle in question was found the morning after its owner bud been sont away, lying on the court doorstep, refusing to be comforted. Next day it took'hp its reaideuce under a tank in the back' yard of the court, and tho keeper fed it with a long handled shovel. But it still refused to come near a human being, and word was sent to the Benevolent Asylum authorities of tho incident. They resolved to allow tho frithful animal to acjompany its owner into tho asylum, and next-day a boy was sent to the court with a rope and a bag, to take lbs dog away. All efforts to entice it to walk into the bug, or to put a leg or its head into a slip-kuot at the end of the rope proved fruitless. Tho boy went away and brought back-a rake, lo rake the poodle out from:.under the tank. It would have allowed itsolf to be torn to pieces first, and as a last alternative its owner, the old lady, came down from the asylum to the court. And directly it caught sight ot her, with one bound it jumped into her lap, and the two marched in triumph back to the asylum,

After several years experience in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English Lever Watch at a lower prico than that usually paid for such watches. It is only bj the judioious division of labor and by the manufacture of large quantities on a uniform plan, that we are enabled to meet this want We havo now tho pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever. This watch, being simple in design durable, highly finished, and accurate,fulfils, all tho requirements of a pocket timekeeper, A written guarantoo for two years will be given with each w?<oh. Sent by post, securely packed, on receipt of Post Office order or choquo.— (Advtl