The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1885.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1935, 10 March 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1885.

The Alfredton Road Board gives notice of its intention to Lvy a general rate of a halfpenny in tho pound, MrF. H. Wood sells under distress warrant a quantity of household furniture to-morrow, at his Greytown auction rooms. Tenders are invited by the Chiof Surveyor for the felling and cleaning of about i\ miles of the Mangaone roads, in separate contract. Plans and specifications may be seen at the County office, Masterton. Messrs Foley and Berkley had a capital house for the second of their series of Monday evening entertainments in the Theatre Royal last evening. Tho programme was an. entirely new one, and judging from the frequent and prolonged bursts of applause was fully appreciated. The first item was a- piece entitled " Browne Done in which Messrs Foley, Berkley; and T. Wrigley sustained the parts and kept the audience in rare good humor. An interlude of character sketches, dances, &c., by Messrs Foley, ; Berkley, and Martin followed, and almost every item was encored. The-entertain- : ment was concluded with a screaming | farce, in which Mr Foley, i as "Paildy ' Miles from Limerick' town,"" kept .-the '• audience in roars of laughter all through I the piece, being ably assisted, by i Berkley, Maitland, Wrigley, Armstrong, i Martin, and Miss Daisy Yere. These < entertainments promise to become jex- < tremely popular, and from the excellent 1 bill of fare provided no one-will regret 1 paying a visit to the Theatre on Monday j evenings, i

Borough,Council meets this 'evening. .■■■.■■ "■.;'. '"■'".'sy " : ' ■... ,The next English mail via Riihutalca ■ closes at Masterton on Friday the 13th ■hmti s , '.' . ' v , ■■" .The ordinary monthly 'meriting- of. the Masterton Hospital Committee takes place this afternoon. Acceptances for the Autumn meeting of the Masfcerton-Opaki Club will be declared to-morrow evoning. ■The' Masterton Sfconelionge Lodge, A.O.D. meet this evening at the-Empire Hotel. .-,. . . A smart shook of Earthquake was felt at Blenheim at 6.42 last evening, preceded for some seconds by. a rambling jibise.Mr P. F. Tancred has nominated- Administrator, Consul, Ugly Buck, Gabble, and Revoke for the New Zealand cup. Judge O'Brien will preside at the sitting of the. Native Lamh Court to be held in Masterton on Thursday next., A meeting of creditors in the estate of Jens Hansen was held in tho old Court House yesterday. There being no quorum the meeting was formally adjourned until to-day, A portion of the Upper Taueru road, from Bridge Creek out onto tho flat is reported by Mr G. H. Shuteto be very dangerous for traffic from its narrowness, The attention of the East County Council has been called to it.

The first instalment of the cylinders for tha new railway bridge over the Waipoua was landed on the banks of the river on Saturday. It is expected that they.will shortly be placed' in position. A meeting of the amalgamated Friendly Societies Sports Committee was held last evening, Bro. 6, Smith, C,R, being in the chair. It was rcsolyed to recommend the societies to carry out their annual sports in the Park Oval on Easter Monday, There was a: very, heavy rain fell at Pahiatua last night for ..about two hours, writes our correspondent. The school is not yet finished. Mr Yeatej'the master, was ready to commence operations to-day, but in consequence pf the above, he will wait in Wellington till the school is ready. Tho Phoenix Lodge, 1.0. G.T., met last evening at the Temperance Hall, Two ne>y members were initiated. The Building Committee reported the new hall would be .complete and ready for formally opening Ijy tho end of next week. It was. resolved to fiold a special meeting in committee on Thursday next at half-past seven to arrange for the .opening night. It was decided to write to Mr Bucljer to obtain the. assistance of tho Carterton Blue Ribbon Choir, and to other temporance friends for assistance. Some interesting temperance' matter was read and the meeting closed.The patlj-ef jjiis morning was grand for the j&f the New Zealand Rifle Association, Tjje Jlawkes Bay inatoh commenced at ejeyen'o'clock, A telephone has been erected between £he firing points at 500 and COO-yards and the butts, which greatly facilitates the shooting. The shooting this morning was not anywhere near the average, and the bursting up of the champion and exchampioiu! W33. a rule rather than an exception, Ohurton, the present champion, went off altogether and a£|j()o yards he only made 10. For tho future,' is to commence at 8 a.m. and cease at *0 p.m.

Hia WprsJjjp the' Mayor was disturbed at an early jiojjr j;hj morning by no less a personage itJiat-My ft, W, Woodroofe. Oomiiig out in dressing gown and slippers to ascertain what this untimely visitation meant.the Mayor was introduced' by Mr Woodroofe to a distinguished stranger said .to hail from Carterton, and was requested there and t]ien to swear this pilgrim into secrecy as a scrutineer for to-days poll on the gas loan, The distinguished stranger was duly sworn and conducted by ffr Woodoofe to the polling booth and pre? sented to the Returning Officer. Here an unforseen dj%n}ty arose. The Returning Officer pointed out that the.acfc made no provision for a scrutineer In" this particular instance. We need hardly say thrt Mr Woodroofo eloquently but vainly contended for his right to use his imported scrutineer. This stranger is now wandering about the town looking very sad and solitary. The oath is on him, but the oath will not entitle him to overhaul the ballot papers, We trust, however, it will entitle him to claim travelling expenses from his employer. Lord Carington, the new. Governor of Now South Wales,.is a descendant of Mr Garjingtfl" of the well-known banking firm of Payne,. Smith, and Co.. The present barft'n was. educated .at Eton, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Lord Carington was Colonel of the Royal Buckinghamshire Militia,' He owns estates in Gaysford and also in forth Bucks, but the family estate is at Wycombe Abbey, South Buckinghamshire. The Governor-elect of New Soutn Wales is a Liberal, and as an evidence of his advanced opinions, he recently gave a rebate in his tenants rents, after a bad harvest. He has, in conjunction with the vicar of his parish—who, by the way, is father to the present resident surgeon of the Wellington Hospital—restored the cjiuroli pf High Wycombe at a cost of £16,000, the charges being equally borne by his lordship and the Rov, Mr Chilton,

A special meeting of the Pahiatua Road Board was held on Saturday last, Present :-Messrs Davie, • flail, Sedcole, Crewe, and Smith, Mr Davie in tho chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read, It was resolved that the County Council be asked to collect the rate of one-fourth of a penny in the £ as suggested to liquidate the debt of this Board to the general fund of the Council, that the various Road Boards interested be asked to co-operate with this Board in obtaining control of the Forty Mile Bush road, the subsidy if any to be shared on the basis of the cost, or otherwise, of the niaiutainance of the various lengths comprised within the several districts, the matter to be adjusted by one or more engineers. Tenders fortius new office wore read from Mr T, Miller for £7llos, and Mr Crimp for £65. It was resolved that Mr Crimp's tender be accepted on condition that the place be finished by the 7th April, 1885, under a penalty of 10s for each and every day over the time, _ A certain lot of people are on a desert island and have only enough food to last a short time; but there are two ships, one is .rotten at the bottom, and the other is quite sound and can be relied upon, Of course the experienced sailors take to the good ship, and beg all the others to go with them, but some say they don't believe the chart, and would rather die where they are than bemad enough to go in either ship. Others say they know quite enough themselves and take the ship with the rotten bottom on their own hook, rather than go with the experienced sailors, Well, the experienced sailors beg and pray both the foolish ones on the island and the ones,on the rotten ship to go with them, but neither take any notice, and so the experienced sailors who are thought fools by the ethers, have to go by themselves. My dear reader, which class do you."belong to.? Some stick to this world, and will not start for the other, where there.is Life Everlasting ; and some start hi a rotten old ship, sinning all the way, for does not your chart tell you that Without Holiness you cannot enter Heaven,.. Have you tried both sides of the question, yet ? If not— Do! And if you want to learn to navigate your own vessel, go to the Salvation Army meetings.—Apyi,