The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1884.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1870, 20 December 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1884.

A new Corps, "The Foatherston Rifles," will be gazetted from the Ist January. The Masterton Rifles parade for inspection on the 29th inst, On the 80th those members who have not completed their class firing and judging distance, will parade on the rifle range at 6 a.m.

The Greytown Fire Brigade held a capital wet praotio on Thursday night' there was a good muster, and lota of water,

TodayMrF.H. Wood halds hia annual Christmas sale, we have no doubt it will be as successful as on former oooaeiona, a great number of people are rather inolined to wait for this sale, as Mr Wood is noted for beiog very quick with the hammer at these auctions. A lewt. bag of flour will be given to the largest purohm,

The Mastertoti Eoad Bo»rd met to-day. Our report of its proceedings will appear oq Monday, : The Bishop of "Welhaftton hold a con-firmation-service fn St 'Matthews Church, to-morrow. ;

We would remind bargain lovers that.a sacrificed to be made; of •■the goods yet remaining unsold at the Wqsleyan Bazaar ibis afternoon.

The hovel and pleasing entertainment "Masks and Faces" is announced for Tuesday evening next at the Institute.

Mr T. Hall, late boukkeepecto Mr-D, -Ft McCarthy, is now in business-as a' storekeeper at Palmerston North, There'was a large following of old settlers at the funeral-of the late Mr Holmes Crayne, yesterday. ■ The Rev D. Fulton conducted the burial service.

Mr Nicholson, ot Cuba at, Wellington, who is giving up businbss, advertises.a valuable Art Union, tickets for' which can be obtained at this office..

Yet another bandidale is announced in our present issue tor the Colonial Insurance Board in ,ihe person of a young and promising MIH.K, MrH. S. Fitzu'erbeit.

Speaking at 'a temperance lecture the other night a leotu/er said " My friends if \i thirty years Bince I took a drink i f ■spirits. Thirty years, my friends, j thirty ; long and weary yep." • We hear there is a some talk'' of a costume cricket match) between teams known as the "Muffs" coming ; offiii Greytown very shortly. Last season the "Muffs' 1 , cricket matches were all the go, Daring the distribution of prizes at the Theatre Royal yesterday, s'orneinterr'up l ' tion to the proceedings ■was'''caused by. ..stones thrown on the jron roof and rattiirtg. down'. The comfort of those Bitting immediately beneath the skylight was not ••increased' by the prospect of a possibility of a shower of glass coming ■down,

The Greytown Amateur Christy Minstrels make then- first appearanoe before the public on Monday uight. We expect to see a good houae, more especially on account of the benefit it is given for. The entertainment winds up with a dance.

■''■ Mr 0, Sage, of Carterton, died ia the Greytowh Hospital yesterday, morning.This makes the ninth death in the township since the first of the month, and we hear there is a Maori in Papawai named Rorara not expected to lire another night out,

Mr Joseph Kitchen, in announcing himself as a candidate for the Central Hoard, says:—"Knowing that there are large interests at stake in the Wairarapa and no local candidate having been nominated for a Beat on the direotory, I promise, should the policy-holders elect me, to see that their interests are not oepjooted."

Messrs M. C&selberp; and Co, announce that they will not give Christmas Bosej or New Yearß gifts this seasou in order to avoidoffendingany .of their customersby an-inadvertent-omission, but. in.lieu thereof they publish, a hat of seasonable goods which they intend supplying to the end ot the year at the estraor'di nary prices quoted, The Great Diorama of the World will open at the Theatre itoyal on Friday and Saturday next with an entertainment which is spoken of by the Press to be the finest of its kind that has visited this colony, the views beum very clear and well defined, We expect 10 see a treat in store for the Mastenon people on the above dates, We notice that the Colonial Mutual Insurance Company lias purchased the valuable landed property formerly occu pied by Mr Krull in Customhouse-Quay and the adjoining property once owned by Mr Comptou, The exact amount of the purchase has not transpired, but we believe it to be about £15,000. We congratulate the directors of the society on their seclodion of one of the premier sites in the city, and are glad to see institutions of this kind investing in this way and showing that they are ofusasweil as with us N.Z. Times. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) held their first wool sale Bale of the new clip at their warehouse on Tuesday afternoon, There whs a numerous attendance of buyers and others interested, and very good competition was experienced for the catalogue, which was fairly representative of the wools from the provincial distriot. Greasy oroaabreds realised up to 8d per lb, and washed up to 10d, Nearly the whole of the catalogue was cleared at auction or privately immediately afterwards.

'. Additions to the Museum collection in Maaterton hare been made in tbe shape of specimens of lime stone iu which are perfect impressions of leaves and mosses. A present has also been made by Mr Feilding of a pair of boars tusks, and by Mr, J. F, Ward of a very ancient book "Thompsons four Seasons." . The past week has been more' like summer -weather, writes Mr Ford, thar ',ny previous wqek thia Beason,- It.' '

4ometDibfctoreoord "no rainfall.fori weeki'' - |fot but what tarn did fall,.bi in aubh siaajl drjlblets oh throe days, the 'there'.bm bo raj? There ar indications .'of raiu ' jday),; bu lot us hope it will be One settled weatbc. for. J.be. Christmas holidays. The meat reading for.the barometer is 89.54 inohes, and. for, the thermometer itia 6S Fah. There were two Bplendid cloud Indioationt for wind, one on; Sunday night from a southerly, and another on Monday night from a north easterly direction,

A Berlin correspondent of a London journal says that an engineer named Ejsh.er. is reported to . have-made- an imporJanTdjscqvery in aeronautics; by whicHhois'enabled tQcondense or expand the gas in a balloon, The agent he employes is compressed, carbonic acid, with the help of which.ho can ascend or descend with pleasure. This perpendicular movement puts it in the power of the aeronaut to go up or down until he finds a current of air moving in the horizontal direction he

wishes, A Wise DEACON,-"Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and •family so well last season, when all tho rest of us have been sick so much and have had the doctors running to us bo often." "Brothor Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitters in time, and kept my family woll and saved large doctor's bills. Four shilling* worth of it kept us all well and able to work all the time aud I will warrant it cost you and most of your neighbours £lO to £IOO apiece to keep sion the eame time. I fancy you,ll take my medicine hereafter," See

K&pp & Hare arc instructed to Bell at mill prices the following goods: Mosgiel Clothing and Hosier;, Kaiapoi Clothing, Auckland Clothing, and Wellington Clothing. We intend to dear our large Block at immense reductions, and offer a bonus of 2s in the £ cash to all purchasers to the value of £l. Don't forget the address.—Advt. :neqlect is often as fertile a cause of SUFFERING as the Mease itself.'■• Human nature, warned as it s by repeated examples, is prone to forget the salutary lessons thoy inculcate and apt to lose by deferment, the good It may rocleve from prompt and declslvo action. When the means a o within our grasp, It Is almost sinful to allow their escape, and hoso who overlook the virtues of UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS must stand forever lolkrimtaatcdandreproartiod Don't deb ih the hodsb.—"Kough on Bats" clears ont rats, mice,beotles, roaches,

The followinet are the Bcores of the Mastortoniaus in the match proceeding between Masterton ami Greyiown as we gn to press irSleeinaii 10, Harrison 11, Beaufort 8,; McKenzie, . 18. Total for innin.Eß,76. An adjournment; was then .'raßdeXor lunch. ■•;;.'"..

• The Following is'the result of the sale of the QrtledonianipriVileees'to-day at Lowes' & lorhs' \&uc'titfti:—Gates," O.ißTalUrSf 1,82; No 1 publican's booth, .T. Waj{'gL7'; No 2 pubhean's'booth, D."'Toqhill,"Lß,; Eefreshment booth. A. L. Whyte, L 7; Frait, McDonald, LI; fanoy goods, L, Holmes, sb; programmes,.C, Hallard, Gs,

, A meeting of ;the"Oomrhlttee of the Small Farm Association will be held at the Council Chambers this evening.

"Z.Y," wishes to purchase a hack mare broken iu to harness, letters to he left at this office, The following is the list of tho works and the estimated cost which the Education Board decided at its last meeting to undertake i-Mungaroa, repairs, i's ; Tawa Flat, repairs, £lo;'' Matarawa, sheds, 115; Ohariu, painting, £ls; Taita, sheds, repairs, and pump, £6O; Jud'geford, dwelling, £ls ; Daleflald, olearing stumps, &c, £1; Porirua, repairs and fenoina, £1 6s;Kilbirnie, fonoing Karorl,' addition to residence, 1106 ; Featherston repairs to residence, £lO ; To Aro lufaut school, windows, £2O; Te Aro'Biiys 1 -School, 120; Thorndon, weather sheds, <k; £6O y\ Masterton addiiions, £000; To Whitii new sohool, £850; Dreyerton, new school, ££3so, Eketahuna, new Bchool, £4OO ; Porirua, si e and new school, £550; Johneonville, new school, £450,

Mr A .P.. Feilding has just received from Messrs Hatton, King. & co, oq.nfee tionerSj Dunedin, a large and varied assortment of Christmas Lollies. We have inspected the Btook,-aud it iiof o very superior quality. .'■■'-.■

Arteraus Ward had a poorly painted panorama'.' ■ When anything especially; poor came up he would.look admiringly at it and then, with a. look of reproach at the audience, remark) "This picture is'a great work of art.-,. It is an oil painting done in petroleum. It is by the old masters. ' It was .the last they did before dying, they did 'this and expired. I wish you were- nearer, so you could see it'better.' I wish I could take it to your residence and let you see'it by daylight. Some of the greatest artists .come here every morniag with lanterns to. look at it. They say they, never saw anything like it bofore,.and hope they never will again" Then pointing to some splashes of paint. "These are intended for horses... I

know they are because the artist told me so. After two years he came to me and said,' Mr "Ward I oannot ooncea'l it from you; any longer. They are horses,'",,... Thick sb/jh.— Heavy stomachs, biliouß condition's'4'' Wells' May Apple Pills"—antiMious/eatharjiOi • '6d and Is,'' N. Z, Drug ■:00. «■■"■ ' ••.'-'•'.