The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1885. FRUIT CULTURE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 6 February 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1885. FRUIT CULTURE.

Masterton is a large consumer of fruit and it is vory unsatisfactory to notice at thia season of the year that the bulk of the supplies are not Wairarapa grown articles but importations from Tasmania the middle Island, and other localities whence fruits are shipped to Wellington. We possess a climate which ripena a con•sidorablo variety of fruit and a soil which is all that can be doaired but we aro apparently unable to supply & tithe of the stock required for ourowtr use."" This is specially to be ..regretted because while well ripened and fresh fruit is wholesome as well as palatable, tlie imported fruits being gathered before tliey mature are comparatively stale and unwholesome, L, pays to grow fruit even.in the worst soasons. Both last year and this the weather lias been exceptionally cold and unfavorable for pomologißts and yot under those adverse conditions those who have grown for the market roporji that they have mado' a' fair profit out of their labors.' , One gardener assured us that lie. had.;sold, £4O worth of small fruits this season. Such a return for a man who does not employ labor, and who possesses a littlo patch of -freehold, is remunerative, and the work of cultivation is perhaps on the whole as healthy and pleasing an occupation-aa any that can be found. It is certainly one that can be followed with profit by the numerous holders of small suburban sections in the neighborhood of a town liko Masterton, The Masterton Town Lands Trustees meet this evening. . Mr J. A. Marchant, Commissioner of Crown Lands, is, we regret to learn, confinod to his house through illness. Messrs Lowes and lorns publish in another column'a list of valuable Merino and Romney Marsh- Rams, which they are instructed to -sell at the Carterton Ram Fair on the 26th inst/. It.Jias been definitely arranged that Messrs Paterson, Beetham, and Bunny, the committee of the Education Board, meot the Masterton School Committee on Monday next at two p.m. | Full particulars are given in another I column of the sale of the farm,; in the I estate of thelate MrH. T. R. Owoh which Jiß fixed for Saturday the 21st inst. The | property in question is a compact dairy J farm of 192 acres seated at Clareville with dwelling, outbuildings, and orchard. Messrs Lowes & lorns, the/jauctipneera, state that it is one:'of tho best little' propertie* ever placed in thojr' hands for sale. ' ■' '■' ; '' •

Bad news from Lord Wolseley appears among our cablegrams to-day. TheMahdi has captured Khartoum, and Gordon ia supposed to be a prisoner. Two inebriates too fined five shillings each at tho R;& Court, Mastertori, this morning, by His Worship the Mayor.

Members of the Maste'rton Cricket Club are reminded of the match married v single on tho Park Oval to-morrow afternoon.

Notico is give that Mr Alexander Reose and Mr. Joseph Dawson hitherto trading as Reese and Dawson have'dissolved partnership.

. It is notified -that the special raeetingof' the Wairarapa East .County .convened for striking a special rate for the Eketahuna 1 Tinui road stands adjourned till Tuesday

the 10th-insf : Sections 19,17. and 12, blocks2, 3,and 14, Maiigaone, containing in all 597 acres,, have, been setapartas permanent reserves' for primary education, ~ During;- the two days racing at Island Bay. over £IO,OOO paaspd the totaliiiato'rs. Out of this be retained by the proprietors of ments for commission. ....'..-. - ; '^|"||^ Te Kaiwenga, the Maori chief, who had beta ailing for the past three weeks, died at the Taueru Pah yesterday,at.-3 o'clock. News was immediately .forwarded to the natives in the Lower Wairarapa, Hawera, and Napier and a large tangi will take place.

A warrant has ■. been, issued for the arrest of : a Swede-named Meir, at ; the instance of Mr Cockburn Hood, for shooting, two sheep on.the Glendonald run, This is the'man who' waa.svJihmoned for taking a sheep from the same owner which he stated to liavo been found dead.

The " Golden Hours" Combination Troupe, comprising Mr Millicont Berkeley of "Chic" fame,Mr Maitlandand Mil Agnes Montagu, all accomplished artists in their yarious lines, intend giving a aorioa of entertainments in the Wairarapa, They open at Carterton on Saturday at Qreytown on Monday, .and at Featherston on Tuesday. The Company has played with auccess from Auckland to Dunedin. The following is the financial position of the Woodville Dairy Factory:—Nominal capital, 2,000 shares, amount called up, £1; amount paid on shares, £84010s; in avrcai'i £SO 10s; shares to be paid in milk, J52311 forfeited aharos, £3 IBs; loan oil mortgage, £IOO, dotys duo to trades* men, £289 3s 7d j milk snppl(ors, £2OB 8s j Total, £2,129 (Is H-Ansots: Land, £IOO, buildings £CBB4fIBd! plant, ']ffl' 8flM; stock In trade, £!100| avt'oarn on shares, £5610 a; S|iare|i nayabjo, in milk, £2311 cash in bank, £8 0* 1(1; gash in hand, £l2 17s fld; total £1889; leaving a balance of £240 5s lid. " . In Wellington MrTole, it is said, proposes to retrench by abolishing the District Court. It appears that the Magistrate's Court and. District Court in the Empire Oity Ijaye, co-extensive jurisdication up tq £IOO, and Mr f gle is of opinion thaj. tfjere i?'," |therefprej |ittlfi necessity for aJpisfirjcfc Qburt, egpeciajly" whijj,'e there are twp Supreme Opiirt judge? resident. ~ :

Sir Julius Yogel hasexperienced go much benefit to his general health by \\k visit to Waiwera that he proposes to try. the mineral springs of Rotoruaand Taupo before returning to Wellington, in the hope thoy they will provo beneficial to the more specific of his ailments, He will in alljirobability address a meeting in Auckland shortly, and will then proceed to the Lake'' District. His visit to Christchurch will therefore be delayed for several weeks,

A meeting of the Committee of the Masterton-SfangaJMß §gecial Settlement Association was held last nMttflSMJder a letter from Mr Barron of the Sijryejr Office.' Mr Gapper occupied the chair in the absence of tho President, A tele*, gramwasread from Mr.Ballance to.tlio effect that he had instructed the Survey Department to make the valuation of the Block in accordance with the Act. The

Regulations had been relaxed to the ext# f)Hip9.?e| V the Association. A telegram was also pad from Mr Haggen asking the Assogjatjpn' to, genij gatos to meet the Woodvjlje delegates aj;

Pahiatua on Monday next, The from Mr Barron informed the Committee that the boundary had been fixed at tho confluence of the Waitara stream with the Mangahao, and the price of the land would be fixed by competent' valuation, not being less than £1 per aore, If they decided to accept this boundary, tho Department would have a few lines cut through the block, find in conjunction with a valuer appointed by the Association, proceed to put a value upon the block a£ mice, It was resolved that the Association accept % boundary mentioned if there is sufficient 'lanij 'suitable for its purposes exclusive pf road?, and the amount of land (640 apres) far a township, It was also resolved that the Surveyor-General be requested to take tiro necessary steps to value tho land-as proposed in his letter of the 3rd July, The Secretary was instructed to write to Mr Haggen for an explanation of the objects of the proposed meeting,

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