The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1885. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 6 April 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1885. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

•Tut traffic returns from-the Now Zealand railways for the four weeks ending 28th February, appear in a supplementary Gazette which has just reached us. From them we learn that the total receipts have been £83,202 18a lid, ns against £75,889 lis 4d for-thc corresponding, period last year, llius showing a very fair increase, despite the fact that there was a vory considerable decrease in the quantity of wool carried, the season not being so late as'-last year. Turning to the Wellington and Mastertonl ine we find that the total number of passengers carried was 23,743 as against 1.6,027 last year—an increase of 71H). According to the tables the quantity of wool carried was 275 tons, as compared with 2715, but this is evidently a misprint, because the total quantity carried from the Wairarapa by rail diu'ing one season does not exceed the lastnamed number. The first of the four figures' should, no doubt, be dropped, The revenue was £1507817s 10d, as compared witli £SO?>G 4s Id, being a substantial increase of £01213s 9d. The percentage of expenditure oil the receipts was 72'74, compared with 77*73, showing a very satisfactory saving. The revenue per mile of railway was £OOO 7s Fid, being the highest in the colony, except that from the Greymouth coal -mine. Tho total length of Government lines open in the colonv is 1404 miles,

We again remind our readers of the important stock nalo which is to bo held by Mr F, H, Wood at Martinborough to* morrow, My Walter Brown, 'EnglmiGi', of WlImgtaii lias a now mlvortwniPiit In anothor column, Muii'i tlio oloi'k of tho Avnuri Road Board, who shot himself, has diod of the wound. There is it deficiency of ahout £•ls in his accounts, Sporting men will notice that "Venture," of Greytown, has opened a consultation on the Autumn Handicap, to be run at the Hutt on May Ist. Messrs Lowes and lorns hold a stock sale at Martinborough on Wednesday., They have received a largo number of entries, and tho sale should therefore draw a good attendance of buyers, It is proposed to establish woollen mills at Napier and Auckland. While the prospect of tho extension of an important industry-is most cheering, it is a matter for surprise that some Colonial Treasurer has not becomo alarmed, because the increased local production must have a serious influence upon the Customs revenue. It will perhaps be remembered that a distillery which had been established at Dunedin, was bought out by the Government, because it diminished the revenue, that being the only argument used against it. The annual school feto at the T.iueru takes place on Saturday next, The school will be examiued on Friday. Athletic Sports form the principal attraction at the picnic, and handsome prizes will be awardedto the victors, in the intellectual as well asphysical arena. It was at first proposed to unite with the residents ! at Brancepeth, and hold the festivities ! there, but the majority of the mothers of ! children attending the school bavins; expressed tlio wish to celebrate the affair near their own homes, their desire in the matter was acceded to, and Mr Bectham j lias kindly lent his paddock at the Taneru I for the occasion. The district, of flrcytmni, under the Marriage Act, has been abolished by proclamation in the Gazette, and divided into two districts, to be known as Greytown and Featheraton. The boundary between the two districts starts from the mouth of the Pahaua river; thence bv that river to its confluence with the Kaikaikuri; thence by a right line to the south-western corner of Section No. 96 of the Ahiarulie Block, Huangarua Survey District; thence by the Whangaeliu Stream to its confluence with the Huangarua River; thence by that river to Section No, 103 of the said survey district; thence by the said Section No, 10' i and by Sections Nos, 21, 90, 91, 80, 28, 27, 31,70, and 69, Wairarapa Survey District, by a road fronting Sections >os, 92 and 33, and by the hat-mentioned section to the Tauherenikau River; thence bythe said Tauherenikau River to the north-western corner of Section No, 102, Waiohine Survey District; thonce by a line magnetic west to the summit of tho Tararua Range. The district has been similarly divided for vaccination purposes. The appointment nf Registrars will, we presun.o, appear in the next number of the Gazette. At about 10 o'clock on Saturday night, Messrs D. and J. Livingstone's stables at Te Ore Ore.were burned down. The fire had a good hold of the roof before it was discovered, and the building was soon reduced to cinders. There were about 100 bushels of oats and a lot o f oaten sheaves in tho building at, the time, and the amount if property destroyed is estimated at about £2OO, The origin of the fire is unknown. An " Old Settler" sends us the following interesting reminiscences The relic of early history of this colony, burnt down last week, and reported by you to be a " house built of Baltic pine about forty years ago," deserves more than a telegraphic par. The house was framed in England by Messrs Manning, for G. Duppa, Esq., of Messrs Duppa and Sinclair. was packed up and brought out in the ship "Oriental," landed at Petone in February 1840, and after laying for some time among the sand hills, all the packages were collected and rafted to Oriental Bay (named after tho shW where it was erected, and remained until the other day. Being put up in ratheranout-of-the-wayplaceinthosedays. md remaining for sometime unoccupied, it "nt the name of "Doleful Castle," There is another house built of "Baltic pine", made by the same man, brought out in the same wasel, shared the same fate of landing, raftinp. etc., still standing in Dixon-St., Wellington, This house was brought out by C. Hopper Esq., and was occupied for many years by the lato Mr E. Catchpool. The original Barrett's Hotel was afterwards Supreme Court, where the late Mr Justice Chapman put on the blackcap for the first, time, and sentenced. Wood, for the murder of a boy on board the "General Palmer" to. bo -..hung. It was then turned. into a Government : printing office. This- was also built of : , Baltic pine and fitted together in England,' i and brought out by Dr Evans in the Adelaide" the same.year, but did . not share the fate of being, landed at Petone, &c,, as an alteration was made 'as'to the .: site of the township, after the arrival of |he "Adelaide."

A meeting of the (trustees of the Wes. leyan Church will be held tins evening. The Governor has appointed tiiirteen licensing benches in districts where ratepayers failed to oxerciso their privileges,

Mecsrs Lowes and lorns announce their, fortnightly stock sale for the 15th inst, They have already received entries comprising about 2000 sheep,' and a number of cattlo.

Through scarcity of attendanceon Saturday evening, the footballers had to adjourn their meeting to next Saturday evening. The lack of attendance was, no doubt, mainly owing to the holidays,

The Works Committee of the Masterton Opaki Jockey Club met on Saturday, and decided to open subscription lists at once for tho purpose of collecting the sum of £IOO towards improving the race course, and tenders will be invited in to-morrow's paper for the work.

Mr Aitken, Salvation Army Auxiliary from Dunedin, who was announced to have been at the Masterton Barracks yesterday, was unavoidably prevented from being present. The Army holds a monster "tea-fight" to-night, with a "Hosanna" meeting afterwards,

A slight alteration has been made in the rate for the carriage of white pine timber on certain New Zealand railways, including tho Wairarapa line, In future, 8d per hundred superficial feet will be charged for from one to twenty miles, the rate for CO miles being Is Bd, This appliesonly to timber for export beyond the colony,

The Hart-Millis Troupe gave an Entertainment at Tinui on Saturday evening. The hall was crowded to suffocation, although the charges of admission were high, and numbers had to be turned away. The audience was very enthusiastic throughout, The company returned yesterday, and left by train this morning.

The whole of tho racing stock and other horses in the estate of the late Mr H. Vallance, together with saddlery and other gear, is to be offered at public auction by Messrs Lowes and lorns on tho 16th inst, The salt will offer a splendid opportunity to those who are dosirioue oi invoking in horse flesh. In answer to "AShepherd" who inquired for a remedy for distemper In dogs, wo Iwvo received tho following! —Remedy distemper In dogs, Blue pill evory morning for a wcok, evory othor morning (or a second week, feeding tho dog well meantime on good cooked food, and as much milk as the animal can drink,

Wo notice by the Examiner's report of the speeches made at the opening of the Pahiatua school that a very wide range pf elements was introduced. In reply to something Mr McCardle had said, Mr Haggen expressed himself to the effect that he hoped to see Pahiatua a valuable adjunct of Woodville. The settlers will, we have no doubt, find themselves quite capable of paddling their own canqe, without being tied to any particular place.

A correspondent with the Nile expedition writes that the camels are great lovers of tobacco. Let anyone smoke a pipe or cigar in the camel compound, and the camel will follow the smoke about, place his nose close to the burning tobacco, inhale the fumes with a prolonged sniff, swallow the smoko, then, throwing his head up, with mouth agape and eyes upturned, showing the bloodshot whites, will grunt a sigh of ecstacv that would make tho fortune of a low comedian in a love scene.

"The Prose and Poetry of Great Britain," says the South Australian Observer, was the title of a lecture, illustrative of the growth of literature in the British Colonies, delivered in the Y. M. C. A. Hall on Friday ovening, February 20th, by Mr Edward Wakefield who is amember of the House of Representatives, New Zealand,and a relative of the esteemed colonist .who originated the principle upon which South Australia was founded, known as the Wakefield system, The lecture was interesting, and especially that part which dealt with writings onthc'Maories of New Zealand.

The lower portion of the Upper Plain road is being steadily, improved. The fence 011 the southern side has been shifted back half a chain, so that the road has now a width of a full chain, and the land taken in has been cleared of logs and stumps, Tliebridgeshavebeenlengtlxened, and the work of filling in is now being proceeded with. At the upper Jjridge t)ie bank which overhangs it is being graded down, so tljat when the fprmation is completed the ascent will not be to severe as hitherto. As there is a good deai of traffic on the road, the completion of the work will be hailed with satisfaction by settlers in the and on tjie Upper Plaju.

To'fiight the ''Mower Qijoei)," p "The Coronation of the Rose," a cantata composed by Geo. F, Root, will be per?, formed at the Theatre Royal. We have already stated that it was received with great enthusiasm when it was performed at Wellington two or three months ago, and as the same lady amateurs who then presented it will appear in Masterton, It would be a disappointment indeed if it did not prove a great success here, One of the peculiarities of tho cantata is the number of solos, nearly every flower represented having one or more to perform, The original orchestra will also appear, so that every performer will be new to Masterton, The visitors arrived by the morning, train to-day, and their numbers formed quite an imposing array, Judging from the prolific harvest, and the prices obtained for the grain, the farmers of the district should have no cause for repeating the complaint so frequently heard, that farming does not pay, The bulk of the wheat, we learn, has been disposed of at 4s per bushel, oats realising 2s 6d. With the improved machinery, the cost of farming has been materially reduced during the last four or five years, and as the prices named would have left a profit, even supposing thejwork had been carried out under the old style, $ wi)l easily be seen that a handsome margin has been left. The only cause for regret is that there was not enough grown to supply even the wants of the district. A quantity of new Canterbury oats has already found its way into the local marked while Canterbury flour is in the hands of all the ,deal/ii'g.

The great question of public interest besides which all others sink insignificance is—will war ever bo proclaimed between England and Russia, and if so, what likelihood is there of Russian cruisers making a descent on New Zealand ? We are greatly of opinion such evonts are not at all improbable, especiallyas looting the Masterton Coach Factory would be one of the main inducements for such a course of action. To prevent such an undesirable event occurring the proprietors are determined to get rid of their stock of carriages, lamps, fittings, &c„ at siiph prices as will ensure nothing being-I,eft fyv t)ie Russians to levy upon, —Anyi.'

JT IS A TRITE AND MUSTY MlfiVKltl), but a sound oi)e, that '-'goqd wi|ie needs no bush," so "excellence is its own reward," The immense sales that have been made, and the enormous quantities that have been used, prove that Udolpho • Wolfe's Sohiedam Aromatic Schnapps needs no laudatory tributes. In all cases of kidney affections, inflammation of the bladder, dyspepsia, indigestion, heart-burn, : flatulency, gravel and gout, it is simply a miraculous cure.

The resignation of Lieut. Wiltim, of the Masterton Rifles, Ims been accepted.-, Messrs Lowes and iorns announce an extensive sale of drapery, clothing, and furniture tor Saturday noxt. The Cricket match ■ Wellington, v Wairarapa was concluded 011 the Basin Reserve to-day. The home tdam put together IG3 runs in their first innings, as published in tho Daily 011 Saturday. The Wairarapa team scored 70 in their first innings, tho highest scorers beiiig Bethune, 22, McKenaie, 18, and Sleeman, 14, In the second innings they were all out for 78, Wellington ■ thus winning by an innings and nine runs. The return match is being played to-day. One more instance of the prejudice against New Zealand mutton being overcome in England, has just been brought under our notice. In December last Mr R. Gant of this town, sent home a lamb, and he lias kindly placed at our disposal the following extract from the letter lie received in acknowledgment"One of us went over to to the docks and brought it (the iamb) home. Everybody who tasted it was charmed with its excellence, and your uncle J. said lio should never be prejudiced against New Zealand mutton any more," Those who have eone to the expense of sending ail occasional carcase to their friends at home, are apparently doing more to '.remove prejudice, than those who put large, quantities in the market,

The sottlers on the upper portion of the Fernridge, having reason to complain of the state of an unoccupied section in their neighborhood, are taking practical steps to remedy the matter. They have drawn up a petition to the Road Board, in which they set forth that it is a breeding place for rabbits, which spread from there on to their ground, and that they are also compelled to pay. higher special rates, because the,absentee owner cannot be found. They- therefore pray the Board to cause the section to be sold. ■

A minor at Eaglehawk, Victoria, held a lighted candle close over a blast hole to see how the powder was running-in, and his danger being manifest the powder, lifted him out of the way. A recent inquest in Melbourne had to bo abjourned, beoause tho undertaker had taken the subject away from the Morgue and interred it, in mistake for another one that had boen duly "sat upon,"

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