The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1885. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 9 April 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1885. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

• Wk liavo before us tlio agricultuia statistics of the past year for the Borough sndrjding of Masterton. Summarized •they are as follows:—Wljoat, 1293 acres, 29,797 bushels; oats, 1,383 acres, 43,5,42 ' bushels; barley, 80 acres, 2,510 bushels. hay, 502 acres, 024 tons; grass (ploughed land), 7,340 acres; grass .(surface sown) 21,790 acres; potatoes, 114 acres, 803 tons: beans and peas, 27 acres; turnips'. 1 1,168 acres; mangels, 2 acres; hops, 17 1 acres; other crops, 3 acres; garden and orchard, 68 acres; plantations; 12 acres. During the past year Masterton imported 10,368 bushels of wheat from Wellington ■ (in reality from the South), and 0,572 bushels from the Lower Valley, making a total of 1(3,940 bushels. Of oats we ' required' 9,750 bnehe}s more than we i grew, of potatoes, 95 tons, .fif feur, 24 r f tons,:and.oatmeal, 10.tons. To make an } absolutely correct, comparison,, these ' figures should be put side by side with Ij those of the local products of last year • buji.njj the aggregates have not been ': materially altered, tho exact position with regard to our ability to grow all we consume is pretty plainly pjjown, As ' the population of the district j» steadily increasing, an estimate of n what wo shall have to purchase in other markets during the current year, which, \m been furnished to us from a 1 reliable source, fa not by any means devoid of interest. Yyu aba)! require about , 18,000 bushels of wheat, and probably 6,000 or 7,001) bushels of .oats, besides 3 small quantities of flout', potatoes, j and oatmeal If we tako current - market rates, our present position is that we shall have to pay away, in round numbers, £5,900 for i produce which we could easily ' grow for pujselves. There is, however, a set off to this which ja of material importance. We stated at ihe ,out<set that ■ the figures which we gave represented ■ only the Masterton borough and ridingi r which at tho present time include every acre of oats or wheat in the County o Wairarapa East. The runholders and other settlers of by far the greater portion of the county draw their supplies lrom or through Masterton, so that while our produce strictly represents only the one riding, the consumption includes the j. greater part of the county, The Master t ton riding of itself probably exports about twenty thousand sheep per 1 annum, to say nothing of beef and wool 3 so that we are not by any mean . in a bad position. Nevertheless, we musfc 1 point out that the district is capable of growing all the cereals it requires ! and that, too, at a profit to the producer, . who should seo of the advantages that ! would be derived through keeping the money in the district. The cocipjeje returns for the two counties will probably be published shortly, and we may then revert to the subject, I

Messrs 'f'vep. :lllfl li!V« b:i"; i.'i >J': I'urtlier large addition rn I!»«,•fo-'.nightly stuck salo to be held mi AY'odiitsday next. I We leam that' Mr T, Camvell comtomplates erecting an hotel', between Taueru and Tinui. ■••, On Monday next the fifth of Messrs Foley and Berkley's popular weekly' performances will take place in theJTheatro Royal. _ The programmo is both lengthy and varied, avery item in it being new. _ It having been found impracticable to lift the traction engine which fell down the bank at the Waipoua yesterday, Mr Gapper, its owner, is taking it to pieces, and it is expected that the body, when relioved of everything that is movable, will be got up without much difficulty. Mr T. Myers, picture dealer of Lamb" ton Quay,, Wellington, makes an announcement that he has for sale a large supply of pictures and- picture frame mouldings. Country customers will be interested to learn that work in tlie'establishment is carried on withsuch- rapidity, that they can have pictures frained while they wait. " '• ■ ! The annual plain and fancy dress, ball of the Fire Brigade is announced elsewhere to be held on Wednesday next. This will be the fifth gathering of the kind, and as previous ones have all proved highly successful, the members do not anticipate disappointment on this occasion. George Henry Evans, who was arrested on the Featherston Racecourse, charged with having stolen a purse containing £5. which a man named Brighton had laid on the table beside him, was acquitted. .It appears that there was only one witness, and that, on prisoner being searched, only a one pound note was found.on him, which Brighton thoughtresembled one of those he had lost. A telegram was recently misrertd by the Taranaki Herald in a most amusing manner, a message forwarded by the Press Association being made to read, " The Government has purchased the armed cruiser Suitable, etc." So far as we know there is no such vesssel, and it goes almost without saying that- the message, had it been properly tilled in, would have read, "an armed cruiser suitable etc,"

The Sandon-Oarnarvpn Road Board has resolved to supply the settlers with strychnine for the mirposo of destroying small birds, Wavawi Sanson stated thoro wo 20,000 aoi'os of grain in the SandonCarnarvon dlstrlot, and of this at least a quarter of a bushel per acre wis destroyed by the small birds, or a total of 5,000 bushels, which at throe shillings a bushel, represented £750, During the reaping aim gathering the birds also destroyed at least another quarter of a bushel poraQre, • No less than three charges of having sheep infected with lice, and exposing the same for sale, were dealt with in the R.M. Court at Greytown on Tuesday, the defendants, Messrs W, C, Cuff, H. Hodge, and F. Wilkinson, being each mulcted in a penalty of 20s and costs, Mr Wardell, who presided, took the opportunity to warn sheepfarmers that the law in relation to this disease was as severe as that in respect of scab, and that it was not likely that the minimum would always be imposed.

The annual meeting of the Masterton Theatre Royal Company was held yesterday evening. Mr Caselberg, Chairman of Directors, presided. The report and balance sheet for the past year were submitted and adopted. The Chairman explained at some length the position of the Company, which, lit said, was much stronger than at the previous annualmoeting, He anticipated that, during the ensuing year their bperations would yield a fair .profit to the shareholders. He oulogisod-Mr Dalrymple, the Secretary of the Company, for the manner in which he had worked up its affairs, and gave him credit for much of the success during the past year. Messrs Caselberg and Muir, the retiring directors, were reelected. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to. the Directors for ■ their past services.

A writer in the New Zealand Herald Bfcaio.^; J j[ Jiavfi ktely diswvpre.d that the present Gqycrjij^nj;' have adopted a new system of getting off iheir ftwri telegrams by marking 'jfchem " take precedence," by which they take the' Tine immediately," in preference to all '> urgent t§lepms,," Cabinet Minister's having adopted this system, the UnderSecretaries now fpllow suit. Heads oi departments will probably follow in their, superiors' stops, and so on down to the "tail." Government telegrams are rarely of such immediate importance (oxoept in the eyes of the fussy sender) that they should override the " urgent telegrams," for which the sender has paid double rates, the price fixed by the Government to enable a wire to be sont immediately, or at any rate in its turn of "urgents," Very few of the public are aware of this new system being in force, and probably when they are enlightened, their faith, like -my own, will bo gone in the splendid system of" urgout telegrams."

A neat sh op with about 20ft frontage lms just been erected by Mr (/leghorn, for Mr .Cole, in Queen-street, on ii portion of the ground formerly used aa a garden by the owner. The walls and roof are of iron, the building being lined and painted all through. A neat verandah protects the large show window and entrance from tiiu morning sim. The whole structure has, in W, lio'flii put up and finished in a thorough worknimililiu manner, Tn the roar of tho shop is a convenient work room. The plans were unpolled by Mr Fannin, The building will lie oeeuiued 'by Mr L Nicholson, a relation of Mr Colo's, wlui intends to open a business aa tinsmith, plumber, and gaslitter. At the northern end of the town Mr Oleghorn ijas almost completed the erection of a new pfd dwelling-house for Mr Bradford, gijnsraj.th, to, replace 'the one I'BSBHtly de>troye(| by |r?'. r 'Tho building is two storeyi in )|oighVan<f cqritluns a, shop, sitting roqii), pd kitchen ''on' the ground floor,, and mm\ bodrgoms up : stairs. The walls and roof are of jrflh, the risk of a future fire being pommunicated from the outside being thus materia ally diminished. Altogether, 'the build-" ing presents an appearance far superior to that of the old one, Mr Bradford will probably take possession during the .ensuing we,ek, At a late race meetjng (says the Taranaki Herald) a laboring man, who was much the worse for liquor, daggered up to the totalisatov, and pulling out £2O lie Galle,d to tho person who ran the machine and said, " oonje hero and. stjekihis on something for "s." Tl|e tpta]jija,f;o i r man, probably to give him a show of winning jj lot of money, placed the whole sum on a rank outnidor, Tho unexpected happened, and the inebriated speculator was shortly afterwards called to take his winnings. Hardly knowing what it all meant, he again staggered to the totalisator and stuffed bundle after bundle of notes into his pockets, till, when he had received considerably over £3OO, he was informed that-was all, The police, who had watched the affair all the time, at once arrested the i man on a charge of being drunk and' dlsordorlv. Next morning, when he had recovered from the effects of his intemperance, he was brought up, at the Magistrate's pfturt and fined ss, '' The potice said it was the, first time they had been thanked by a man for running hint in. '■•■•'■ ■'', Thick nsAog.—Heayjf .stomaohß, bilious omditionß-"'Wells' JJjy. Apple Pills"—anti. bilious, cathartic, 'fid ana ty N- ?• Druj Co,

•Tl.'» usiii-,' im>ii! , . , !!y stock sain m\\ be held lit Ray s yards, . Taratahi,, qh Thursday the itifcli

Mr. Richards,, poundkeeper, notifle? that a hay maii-wifch saddle arid oar bridle has been left in his charge. Mr Fi:H.AVood will sell at his rooms Uroytown, 'on Saturday next a large quantity of merchandise. Further entries will be'received up to the timo of sale. A general meeting of members of the Masterton-Mangahao Special Settlement Aasociation has been called for Saturday noxt, at 1 p.m.

Captain, Edwin ' telegraph's— "Bad rather between' North and West" and West and South, and the glass will rise within ten hours."

■Mr Thomas Wrigley is about to open a furniture warehouse in the front part of the premises in Queen-street occupied by Mr G. .Russell as a joiners shop. ■■■•'•■

. The next direct English and European Mail closes, at Masterton on Saturday next at 1.30 p.m., and leaves Wellington on Sunday per Ruapehu.

Tenders are invited in another column for the erection of an hotel about 18 miles from Masterton. Plans and specifications may be seen on application to Messrs Lowes & lorns.

.In the Supreme Court yesterday the Grand Jury brought in a true bill in the case of .Mr T. E. Price, charged with perjury in the recent affiliation case Adams v Price. The trial is proceeding to-day, a report appears elsewhere. Samuel Bennett, charged with house-breaking was found guilty and sentenced to twelve months hard labor,

The turning of the first sod of; the North Island Trunk Railway takes place on the 15th inst., the Governor performing the ceremony at Marton, and Tawhiao at Te Awamutu, where Mr Stoufcwill be present, Mr J, Stuckey, of Rangitumau, is about to take a trip to England, and will leave Wellington by the Tainui on Sunday. We have received a second letter signed " Citizen" in which the writer expresses his disappointment that we have not noticed his first epistle, If "Oitizen" will look over the leader of the Daily of the 7th inst,, lie will there find the explanation he is in seavoh of, Tho new Temperance Hall, Ohapol-st,, Masterton, will bo opened on Thursday noxt with a concert, The Carterton Blue Ribbon Choir of twenty voices will be the leading feature of the evening's entertainment, whilst temperance addresses from prominent local men will vary the programme.

Mr F, H, Wood's sale at Martinborough on Tuesday was largely attended by settlers in the neighbourhood, and all the stock yarded was disposed of, either underthe hammer or privately afteawards. The following prices were realized:—3oo 2,4, and fl-tooth ewes 7a 6d; 600 full mouth ewes, 4s; lambs, 4s j wethers, 8s; calves, 20s; yearlings, £2; cows, £3 ss; and draught horse, £B. As may be seen by advertisement in another column, Messrs Foley and Berkley are inaugurating popular weekly quadrille assemblies at the Theatre, Friday evening next being fixed for the opening night, As anything undertaken by these indefatigable gentlemen is usually successful, we may suppose that they will not fall in their new undertaking. It is the intention of the projectors to keep the assembly strictly select.

Mr F, H, Wood announces that he intends opening a branch of his Auctioneering and commission agency business in Masterton, Tenders for the erection of the. necessary auction rooms, offices, and stock sale-yards, "have already been accepted, and in the meantime, the buildings known as Toomath's mill will be used. • Tho branch will be under the management of Mr R, Stanßfield, A sale of fancy and useful work will be held at the Wesleyah school-room this afternoon and evening. The ladies of the Church have supplied a large number of appropriate articles, and as various vocal and instrumental items have been promised by Mesdames Gapper and Redman, Misses Perry, GaUoway,f!wen and 'Marshall and Messrs Gant, Wickerson and otherß, there should be a'large attendance. ili 'Qweri has kindly lent' h'is" piaho'for the .accasibn. The doors will be open from' 3 tp, 5 an,d 7 to 9 o'clock.

4 WfSE DEACON.-VDeacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and family so well la6t all tho reßt of us have bgen sick so much and have had the doctors running to us so often," "Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitters in time, and kept my family well and saved large doctor's hills. Four shilling! worth of it kept us all well and able to work all the time aud I will warrant it cost yon and most of your neighbours £lO to £IOO apiece to keep side the same time. I fancy you, II take my medicine hureafter " See Don t die in the house,-" Rough on Rats' clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs flies, ants, insects, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers 7Jd—N.Z. Drug Company,