The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1884.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 16 September 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1884.

The list of entries'for Messrs Lowes and lorns market sale includes mixed cattle, steers, heifers, cows, horses, pigs, poultry and sundries, The Masterton Lodge, 10.0.F, meet at the Lodge-room of the Empire Hotel this evening.

Mesars Henry Owen & Co'a advertisement of new Spring goods whioh they are nowmarking oflf will appear tomorrow.

A meeting of members of the Masterton Cricket Club is convened for Wednesday evening at Meßsra Beard & Gray's office, at whioh all the members are requested to attend, as business of importance will be brought up. The Committee of the Forester's Anniversary Ball met last evening and made final arrangements for to-morrow night. The Masterton String Band has been engaged, and Mr Bell, who gave so macli satisfaction to the Oddfellows on a similar occasion, has been appointed as caterer, We are requested to state that danoing will commence at 8.30. The Anglo-New Zealander mentions that Sir Edward Stafford will shortly visit the colony on private business. Tlie same paper states that Sir John Hall was to have left Liverpool about the middle of August, Intending to pay a short visit to Canada and the States, and then join the steamer for New Zealand at San Franoisco on the 7th Soptember Lady Hall and family remain in.England,

The new Masterton fire-bell waß rung yesterday evening Blowly and solemnly for the first time, As Mesßrs Mills & Cable the makers of it staled it is a fine toned bell. It has quite an ecclesiastical ring, and aB a " church going bell" is superior to the bell of St. Patriok and St. Matthews, We fancy' however that the noisy little bell which it replaces would wake up more Bleepers and put more terror into the heartß of the people than its aristocratic successor, At present, however, the new bell does not appear to swing very freely, Possibly it may be re-adjusted in the tower in such a way aB to give forth a fuller and freer power. Mr Thomas Carswell announces tha his _ well-known thoroughbred horse Daniel O'Rourke, and his Clydesdales " Dainty Davy" and the" Laird O'Largo will be available for stud pnrpoßes this season.

The following letter from Mr G. Beetham, M.H.R., was read this afternoon at'the Institute meeting:-"I duly received your letter and the Daily re the meeting to beheld to-morrow to discuss the Opaki overflow of the Waipoua river. I am very sorry that I find myself unable to be present. I am doing all I can to prooure assistance from the Government to repair damage done by floods. Mr Buchanan, myself, and Mr Smith, ,had another interview to-day with Sit Juliuß Vogel and Mr Richardson re the subject of the necessary monetary requirements of the district. We got uo positive as« Burance of aid, but I believe we shall find that the financial statement that will be delivered te-morrow by the Treasurer will indicate that oar wants have not been forgotten.At the same time, unless the assistance is afforded us from the proceeds of a loan, we shall have to go without .anything, The only money available for main roads under ".The Roads and Bridges Construction Act" is not more than £IOO. There has been, lately, no land fund from whioh the main road account can be replenished. The Department have promised me that an engineor will be sent immediately to report upon the Waipoua overflow, and that no doubt the Department will also recognise their reaponsibility-re the railway line endangered by the overflow. I hope to attend the meeting of the County Council next week, and shall be glad if the meeting to consider the extension of the railway construction through the Forty-Mile Bush Distriot could be held onsthe evening of the;day of the Council meeting, lam doing all I can, Yours truly,—Geoege BEETHiM.

We publish in anotlier'column; Mr Bremner'a report on the Waipoua over, flow. • ' ' :

The bovs connected with 'fctl. Matthews'' Church choir and the Wesleyan Sunday school choir held a first piactice last evening under the tuition of Mr Rapp of " Jeaaioa'a First -Prayer," a musical recital which is intended to be shortly given to the public of Masterton for the benefit of the school funds.

George A, W. Mills of Carterton, miller, has" filed a petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. ■ . j Tender's for 12.50 chains of formation •OB ithe Masterton to Gladstone road are invited by the Masterton Eoad Board. , Tenders for 'driving slook for the ensuing twelve months, in the Wairarnpa and Hawkes Bay district will be received fir-the Gear Company' up to 30th of the month 'by Mr .Alexander McKenzie of Feath'erston. j

. Peter McGrajh,, the defaulting hotelkeeper, was brought before the Wellington R.M. Court this morning, and judgment reserved until to-morrow,

The North Island Railway Committee met this morning and examined Mr John Sheehan, Mr Eoohefort, surveyor, and Mr Fraser, who had passed through the country which the lines traverse, Mr Richardson, accountant at Messrs Rapp & Hare's store liaß shewn us a ininature edition of a four-page Glasgow paper, 11 The Evening Citizen,"' the origi* nal of which is larger than any other daily Scotch newspaper. The page measures by 4} inches, and contains nine columns. Eaoh word is distinct and oan be read with a good pair of eyes. The Nelson Bros, Company, of Hawke's Bay, announce that having up to the present made every effort, without success, to induce the New Zealand Shipping and Shaw, Saville Companies to reduce freights on frozen meals, the present rates being detrimental to the development of the trade, they, if they do not get a substantial reduction, intend running a direot line of steamers between Napier and London,

In addition to the sum already oolleoted for Mrs Bellmain, the following subscriptions have been received by Mr J, H. Brann';—From Wellington: Mr Home 103, Mr Winter £l, Mrs Winter £l, Mr .■Bennett 10s, Mrs Francis £2, Mr McMor* ran 12, Miss Chatwin 16s Gd, Miss FefgUßson 6s. From Wairarapa: Mr Badland II Is, Mr Bunting 10s, Mr Loete £l, Mr Grundy £l, Mr Waite £l, Mr Ford ss, A.F.C. 6s, Mr Brann 10s, Mr Samuell £1; tolal, £1413s 6d.

A Mrs Windsor, an ootojjenarian and one of the oldeat residents of Waikouaiti, Bays the Palmerston Times, had a very narrow escape from being burned to death. By the purest accident) Bomeone happened to call on her during the evening, but finding the door locked and no movement inside. Constable Bird was communicated I with, and ho at once burst open the door, when the poor woman was found Bitting over the fire in a semiconscious state with her clothes smouldering around her. Strange to day, when questioned, she admitted feeling no pain and in a miraculous manner her body escaped being burnt, Evidently, however, the nervous system had received a shook as she died on Wednesday morning,' The deceased was one of the few survivoH of those who oame to Otago in the service of the late Mr John Jones and Bettled at Waikouaiti.