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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1724, 1 July 1884, Page 2

.' Mr Wardell sits at Carterton and Groytown to-day. The Mastertou Borough Council meets this eveuing, Thomaß S. Eonaldson, debtor, late of Greytown, haa obtained his order of discharge. Two barques, the Meroia and the Hudson from London haye arrived in Wellington. Sir William Jervois is about to pay a visit to Melbourne. He will be absent for three weeks; Tho notice of the election for the Eastern Maori District is published in another column.

The annual meeting of tho Wairarapa Permanent Investment and Loan Association will be held at Greytown on Tuesday next.

We learn by telegram that the Canter* bury Acclimatisation Society are Bending 10,000 brown trout ova to the Wairarapa Socieij in exchange for ova of Loch Leven and salmon trout,

The growth of the tobacco plant in the Wairarapa is being taken up vigorously, writes the Standard, by several settlers. It will be of interest to others intending to cultivate " the weed" to learn that Mr Toogood of Featheraion can Bupply seeds and give necessary information as to growth. A correspondent, C.E.D., writes to us as follows —"■ Re the case of the lata Hy, Williams, who died in the Masterlon Hospital on Friday and noted by you on Saturday, I think it but right to state that it was not till after a good deal had been done by those who iraew him that admission was sought for him to the hospital. For about live weeks previous to his admission he had found shelter and comfort in Mr A. Tinsley's house. Darin? this time he was not loft a single hour by himself. This continual watching pressed very heavily upon Mr and Mrs I'insley before they parted with their voluntary charge. Williams had no relatives in the colony, and his poverty was caused by the injudicious investment of his savings a few years ago. On his deathbed he expressed himself as extremely grateful to the friends who had muoh for him,

One hundred and ninteen churohea in America were destroyed by fire last year, Gardening is practically taught in more than 20,000 primary schools in France.

In France there are now 4575 miles of navigable rivers and 2900 miles of canals, ■William and Mary College, Virginia, the oldest in America nest to Harvard, has oloaed its doors, having but one Btudent at the beginning ot this school year. It was founded in 1693, and amongst its most eminent" alumni" were Washington, Marshall, Randolph, Tyler, Breckenridge, and Genoral Scott, The London School Board employs 4500 teachers, the averaga salaries of which are graded as follows; Principals, men, £262; ladies, £182; assistants, men, £ll7 i ladies, M, There are 300 male principals, 500 lady principals, and about 3000 assistants, theaggregato salary of all being f 580,000. The English " Baptist Handbook" for 1884 reports 2593 churches, 3738 chapels, 1939 pastors in charge, 304,803 members, 437,187 Sunday scholars, The number of churches has decreased in the past ten years, though the number of chapels has increased from 3172 to 3738. During the same period the increase in Sunday scholars has been about 100,000.

KingThebaw, of Burmab, has reformed. His apts of cruelty were for many years notorious, and neither relatives nor persons whom ho had never Been, were safe. He has now had enough of blood, and has introduced many improvements in the administration and laws, and quite recently issued a proclamation announcing important reforms in the financial system of his kingdom,

The churches ot Berlin are neither numerous or handsome. Ten years ago there were only 64 places of worship for nearly 1,000,000 of people, and there is still the sains ratio ot churches, but as only 17 per cent, of the population attend, the want is not severely felt, Tb,a attendance on religious services on an average Sunday is only 2 per cent, of the population.

A new profession has been established inNew York, It is that a dusting the brica-brao and objects of "bigotry and virtue" in Ihe drawing rooms of the wealthy. The work is performed by professional dusters in the shape of defthanded women, who go from house to house, provided with instruments of different and shapes, to remove the dust from fill marker of decorative ornaments,

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Mr' Bunny invites the- electors'"'of' Wairarapa North to meet him at Carterton on Monday next, at Greytown on Tuesday, at Featherston on Wednesday, and at on Thursday. . At the annual meeting of the- Wellington Woolen Company the following were elected a board of directors;— Messrs D. Buick, E. Oleland, J. Dransfield, Sir W. Fitzherbert, J. H. Heaton, T. K, Macdonald, Charles Tringham.

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