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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2024, 24 June 1885, Page 2

:■ Captain Edwin expects another severe frost to-night.

The Masterton Fire Brigade holds a practice this evening.

Mr F. H, Wood makes further additions to his stock list for to-morrow's sale at Ray's yards, According to the Wanganui Chronicle Sir William Fox does intend to return to New Zealand at an early date, Lady Fox's health having much improved, A truly English proceeding was the heliographing from Suakim to one of the advanced zarebas or camps, of the news that Bendigo had won the Lincolnshire Handicap. Mr T. S. Jago, the well-known cabinetmaker of this town, is making rapid progress with the furnishing of Sullivan's Hotel,

Messrs Lowes and lorns announce a sale of furniture, harmonium, electro plated ware, hedging plants, otc, for Saturday afternoon.

Whjlo playing with firearms as highwaynion and policemen, a boy named Charles Scod, aged 13 years, was shot through the heart with a pea fired out of a Morris tube, yesterday afternoon at Wellington The Tinui bridge will probably be closed for traffic for two or three weeks from the (ith July, pending extensive repairs,

A drunk made his first appearance in the R,M, Court, before Mr Stratford, R.M., this morning, pleaded guilty, and contributed the sum of 5s towards the maintenance of the streets iu Masterton,

A meeting of the Farmers' Club is to be held on Saturday afternoon next, when important business will be brought forward. Will not this meeting clash somewhat with that of the settlers interested in the Waipounoverflow?

The friends of Mrs Gapper, leader of the Wesleyan choir, will learn'with regret that continued ill health has compelled her to try a change of climate, She has therefore obtained three months leave of absence from the choir, and left yesterday yesterday by the Hauroto for Sydney, The anniversary ball of the Loyal Masterton Lodge 1.0.0.F.,M.U,, is announced to take place in the Theatre Royal on Wednesday, July Ist, Tickets may be obtained from the Committee, or from the Secretary, Mr F, D, Pelling.

Rather more than usual interest was taken in the election of a councillor, for the Greytown Borough on Tuesday last, when the clerk came forward, and declared the poll as follows:—P. Cotter iJum l ., 67, W, Armstrong, 53,

At a meeting of the Featherston Yolqm teer Corps held last evening. Lieutenant Brunskill was unanimously elected Captain, vice Captain Horatio Dudding, resigned. Vol. Adam Donald was elected First Lieutenant. The second lieutenant is not yet elected,

A terrible accidenthappened on Tuesday to Miss Mary Hughaii, about seventeen years of age, daughter of Mr Thomas Hughan, nf Taieri Beach, While engaged over a fire her clothes canght, and, although she strove her veiy utmost to extinguish the flame, she was frightfully tyimt pn the jower part of the body, hiinds and forearms, The' Bruoo Herald' adds that Dr Reid has done all' in his power for the sufferer, but cannot as yet speak definitely as to the result. The Right Honorable Frederick Arthur Stanley, the New Secretary of State for the Colonies in Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, was born; in 1841, and is brother of tho present Lord Derby. He represented Preston in the House of Commons in the. Conservative interest from. 18(55 to l§6B, when ho was elected for North Lancashire. He was a Lord of tho Admiralty in Disraeli's short-lived Ministry in 1868, and in Lord Beaconsfield's Administration commencing iu 1874, ho was Financial Secretary of War, Hois heir presumptive to the Earldom of Derby. Mr Robert Buchanan, the poet, who is on a visit to the United States, is vory rough on that country in an essay entitled "Freethought in America," He speaks of it as "A nation in which the artistic sense is alinpsfc dead, which i« pi'acfetlly without a litoratu.ro, lvhipli is impatient rif all sanctuary, and indifferent to all rolig- • ions, which is corrupt from the highest pinnacle of its public life down to the lowest depths of its primalism, which is at once thin-skinned under criticism, and aggressive to criticise, which worships material forces in every shape and form, which despises conventional conditions, yet is slavish to ignoble fashions, and which takes recklessly at second-hand any old or new clothes philosophy that may be imported from Europe, yet, while wearing the raiment openly, mocks and ridicules the civilization that wove the fabric"

The following important and highly significant telegram has been received by the Premier from the Mosgiel Woollen Company:-" Dunedin, 22nd June, 1885. The Hon. the Premier, Wellington, The Directors of this Company regret that the Government has seen fit to propose increased duty on woollen goods, as the woollen industry iu the colony, in their opinion, does not require it, Jolin H. Morrison, Manager Mosgiel Company.' 1 The quarterly meeting of the Loyal Masterton Lodge, 1.00. F., was held last night Bro. SellarN.G. infJio chair. The Provincial Grand Master, Bro. D. P. Loasby was received .with due honors. He addressed the Lodge with regard to certain workings qf fcneprdei', and expressed his satisfaction with the conduct of tjje Lodge. It was resolved that the question of buildinganew Lodge-room be adjourned for six months, and that the trustees mike arrangements for the renting of the Temperanco Hall, and that the next meeting of the Lodge on Tuesday 17th L July'.be held there, also that application be made to the District for leave to removo. '■ The following officers were then elected for the next six months i.N/Gii'Bro., Fogden, F,G, Bro. Ranby,, E.S, ;Bro. 'Minifie, Auditors, Bros. Kjbbjewhite, Manselland 1 R. Brown. The lodge was visited by the N.G., of tho Pioneer Lodge, North Canterbury District and Bros, from the Anfct-: podian and Britannia Lodges; Wellington.The P.G.M. gave leave to the Lodge to wear regalia at the ball on the' Ist July.''

A Sunday school is, according to the Oberver, about to bo opened at Belvedere

Some alterations have been made in the arrangements for the excursion of the Union Oo.'s steamer Wairarapa to the South Sea Islands. Tho steamer is -now announced in,another column to leave Auckland on August 12th,: .- •'-."'

Mr F.'E Wood hold's his monthly stock sale at Ray's yards,-jarafcaihi, to-morrow afternoon, The catalogue includes sheep, horses, dairy cows, mixed cattle, pigs, and the thoroughbred horse Traitor.

An extraordinarily severe frost occurred last night. In Masterton,'ice half an inch thick was common ; Carterton could boast of three-quarters of an inch, and', we-'are 1 told that, at Petono the frost was quite unprecedented, MrD. S, Papworth who produced an improved incubator last year, informs us that out of a number of eggs handed to him by Mr James to hatch, ninety per cent proved good. . This speaks highly for the local invention.

A tea meeting was given to the children attending the Dreyertown school on Monday evening, about thirty sitting down to the good things provided. In the evening there was a dance, which was attended by thirty couples. The music consisted of bagpipes, concertina, and violin,

The canvassing for subscriptions towards the formation of a new Pastoral Society is progressing favorably. In addition to lists previously mentioned, we learn that Mr R. R. Welch has obtained signatures representing about £l3O. The Featherston Road Board advertises for the sorvices of a clerk and collector, at a salary of £IOO per annum, Applications close on the 4th July, Mr J, Montgomery has lost no time in carrying out his contract for'the erection of a new fence on two sides of St. Matthew's church grounds, having completed it to-day, The new structure looks very neat, and is a great improvement to the old and dilapidated post and rail fence which it has replaced. The following is a list of assessors appointed for the Wairarapa, under the Property Tax Act:—Alexr, McHutchon and Thomas Mackay, of Tinui; Alexander Svend Dreyer and Frederick Jagcrhorn, of Masterton; Richard Brown, of Masterton; Henry Stanley Horn, and Henry Hilmer Wolters, of Carterton; Nathaniel Grace, of Gladstone; William .Skeetand Alexander Low Webster, of Greytown. The Working Bee in connection with St Mark's Church, Carterton, commenced tho sale of thoir goods in the Assembly Rooms yesterday, the tables being presided over by ladies, some 22 in all, They had some beautifully worked articles anion!.' the lot which had been sent out from England as a present. The sale continues to-day, and winds up with a dance in the evening. If the ladies do as well to-day as they did yesterday in the sale, they say that they shall be well satisfied with their undertaking. A piano was brought into requisition at intervals to enliven the visitors while tl»ey wove making thoir purchases,