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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2022, 22 June 1885, Page 2

The Phoenix Lodge 1.0. G.T. meet this evening.

Tho adjourned annual meeting of the Masterton Horticultural Socjety will be held at 8 p.m., to-night at the Council Chambers,

Messrs- Lowes and lorns make two additions of slicup to their stock sale for the 24th, which will be found in the advertising column under their heading, Shares in the Wellington Meat Export .Company do not appear to be at a very great premium. Three that were sold at auction on Saturday, upon which £9 had been paid, only realized £2.

The body of Mr F. I|. Liardet was found on Saturday afternoon qh the beach at the Kahautara side of tlje \fairarapa Lake, An inquest will be held today, In the Junior Cup Football matches in Wellington on Saturday, the Wellington Club 2nd fifteen beat the Rugby Ist by 30 to love, whilo tho Athletic 2nd scored an easy victory over the Petone Club, Tho ladies of St Luke's Carterton Sewing bee will hold a sale of work on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 23rd and 24th inst., at tho assembly rooms, Carterton, admission sixpence. On Wednesday there will be a dance, admission one shilling. The " Bees" have just receive from England a large box containing new and artistic designs in fancy toys, vases and numerous other articles. These, together with a large stock of home manufacture, useful and ornamental, they intend to ofier at low prices,

A w/tness in a case which the police .bro.ught for jelling J/qiior without a license, at Fajpajva, says the tyM. created a g«o4 (Je/ti gi amusement by saying ho could npt give evidence'.oij' tlje liquor unless he had 11 a long" glass of it, Witness took two glasses in the witness box, with a countenance perfectly grave, amidst a good deal of smothered laughter in the court, and finally pronounced the beer to be tho same as that which had been served to him.

When the new railway bridge over the Waipoua was started it was said that an effort would be made to have all the cylinders sunk before tho river attained its winter level, or in about five months. Judging by tho rate of progress that has been made, it will take about live years to complete the work; and if the building operations which are now going on are continued, a township of considerable size will grow up on the spot in that period. Fppnitfntlis ago two cylinders on the western tajik' w.ijre started, and these have only boon sijijk "a fo%Y foot, none of the others being touched', altn.qijgh the material is on tho spot. One of tlieiii has been put together to a height of about fifteen feet, and while working, the water and gravel taken out must, as a matter of course, be raised to that height, In the hands of a contractor the bridge would have been finished long ago.

The following entries yep) roppjved f.qr the ploughing match qn Saturday jiiglitDouble furrow, 0. Percy, j. Winter, G. Davenport, S. Liddingip, J. Broom, A, Tyler; single furrow, Jphn Kilministep, W, Pearfe, J. Maxwell, W, Morison, John Morris ip,, H, Crpwder, James Minty, Samuel Foreman, There were no entries for the .youths' class, iiiyj the committee therefore decided upon giving third prizes in the double and single furrow, that in the former being goods to the value of £l, given by Messrs L.J. Hooper & Co., and that in the latter, goods of the same value, presented by Mr John Graham. Prizes for best feering and finish in the single furrow will be Mr Gapper's prize of 10s 6d, and goods by Mr S, Bacon of the same value. For the same in the double fiirrow Mr Peterson offers a pair of boots valued at 15s Gd. For the best kept harness, Mr Dalrymple offers in addition to Messrs Townsend and C'owper's prize, a whip valued at Q§[' Mr E. McEwen gives a special prize of a guinea fflr the beat ploughed ridge. The -entries in the two classes named are very satisfactory, but it is certainly a matter for surprise that in such a large agricultural district iis the Wairarapa not a single youth could be found' Who was spirited enough to try conclusions with others of his own age.

A severe frost is predicted', for to-night' by' Captain Edwin,

The Maories interested in tho Waipo'ua overflow, are invited by special advertisment to attend the meeting of Bottlers, to be held on Saturday afternoon,

Th'oro will be an examination in freehand drawing at tho Masterton School on Thursday next under tho supervision ot Mr Boddington, Chairman of the Committee.

The new infants' room at the Masterton School was used for tho first time to. day, -when about 150 infants attended, The room has been appropriately furnished, and proves a valuable addition to the School, i

Mr F. H. Wood held a very successful sale of horses at the Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton, on Saturday, and prices ranged up to £6O. Afterwards he disposed of a largo number of trees and shrubs from Mr D, Barratt's Tividalo nursery, which also brought satisfactory prices.

Messrs Lowes and lorns held a most successful sale of fruit' and ornamental trees on Saturday, some 800 apple trees were sold from Is to Is 3d, other fruit trees ranged a trifle lowor. Ornamental trees all sold readily and appeared to be in demand. The firm also sold tho right of a. publicans and. refreshment booth combined, at the Ploughing match,' Mr McGlashan being the purchaser at £3, A case which is exciting considerable interest is proceeding before Mr Stratford R. M., and Mr Renail, J, P., in the Resident Magistrate's Court this afternoon. Mr J. C. McAlister, private secretary to the Minister of Education, and the Rev. Father Treacy have charged each other with using threatening language, and the former has also caused to be issued several summonses for assault, The alleged cause of action occurred on Saturday. Mr Bunny appears for the Rev father Treacy, and Mr Beard for Mr McAlister.

You Can Be iumr if you will stop all your doctoring yourself and families with expensive doctors or cure-alls that do only harm, and use Nature's simple remedies for all your ailments; you will be well and happy and save great expense. The greatest remedy for this, tho great, wise, and good will tell you, is American Co'. Hop Bitters,

Thick heads,—Heavy stomachs, biliou conditions—"Wells' May-Apple Pills"—anti bilious, cathartic. Gd and Is. N. Z. Druff Co