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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2036, 8 July 1885, Page 2

Mr F. H. Wo'id holds his monthly stock sale at Hainmerich's yards, Greytown, to-morrow Messrs Lowes & lorns announce a sale of furniture, superior literature, produce, etc., for Saturday next. Mrs Richardson, dressmaker, notifies that she has removed from Albert-street to the house lately occupied by Mr W, McKenzie, in Bannister-street.

A meeting of the Lower Yalley Jockey Club takes place ot the Maryborough Hotel on Saturday next. The Groytown quadrille assembly held their weekly dance on Monday night, the occasion being termed a long night. There were Jiboufc' 55 couples present, and dancing was kept up with great spirit till 12 o'clock. Mr Jorgenson acted as M.C,

The Wanganui people are trying to get the Union Company to lay on the Takapuna for their trad. There is only one slight difficulty in tho way. The Takapuna draws 14 or 15ft, which, is three or four feet more than there is depth of water on tho mud flats in the Wanganui river.

Messrs Edwards andMcßeath announce in another column that they have opened a Labour Exchange and Private Inquiry Office in Grey Street, Wellington. The exchange will be under the management of Mr J. Edwards, who has had a good deal of experience in tho business in Wellington, which Mr Mcßeath will attend to all other business. It is said that since the now tariff came into force candle manufacturers have raised prices one penny per pound, although they were making fair profits at previous prices. When the people feel the pinch of higher prices, they will realise what these increased duties really mean.

We learn from the "Argus" that in the Victorian state school last year, out of 185,000 pupils, only 184 were taught history, and they had to pay for the instruction, because it was an extra subject. It is now intended to make the study part of the ordinary curriculum, and at the request of the Minister of Education some members of tho inspecting staff have been enquiring into the best means to be adopted for securing that object. A remarkable and very distressing case was reported by the Secretary at the Feilding Benevolent Society's meeting, says tho Star. AMr and Mrs Pope, of Halcombe, are stated to have become totally blind within a few weeks of each other. The man was an employee" on tho railway, and lias expended all his savings. The society will allow 10s per week to them Until the result of some movement for their relief being made by the railway employees is known. An old grudge, due to election differences ia said to have decided the Wakanui election in Mr Ivess' favor. Mr Wright, the defeated candidate, has always endeavored to take up a position mid-way between parties, while Mr Wason, who formerly represented Coloridge, has alwavs been a Conservative. At the election just mentioned, however, hd threw in his weight with the Radicals, who thus gained the day. Perhaps Mr Wason's own party will remember the trick on some future occasion. A recent visitor to Russia writes"A fortunate compensation for the worst svstem of government in the world is that the manners of those who administer it are about the best, Even if you are not always going to have the full measure of everything you want meted out to you, it is surely pleasanter to have it refused with a smile than with a growl. In no public offices in Europe do you meet with so much obliging good nature as in Russian ones. Even government clerks treat you like a fellow human being. Instead of quailing before the overawing gruffness of a gorgeous German, or losing your temper over the supercilious indifference ■of the English redtapist, in Russia you meet with a politeness in officials which has all the outside polish of the Frenchmen, combined with an interest in you and a desire to please, which is notan invariable characteristic of a Gallic civil servant, It would lie ungrateful not to acknowledge this, and I believe : most travellers have had a good word to say for the Russians on this point."

Messrs Horcook and Ta[)liu, curriers, have an advertisement in auothoreolunni, which is of special interest to runholders,

, Professor'Haselmayer, a man wollknown upon the stage, has just died at Vienna, aged 47, at the precise junction that he lmd retired with the idea of enjoying the large fortune he had amassed. ■The formacion of a skating club has been mooted in Masterton, and gentlemen interested in the subject are requested to meet at the Theatre Royal at 7 o'clock this evening.

The business of saddler and harnessmaker, which has been carried on by Mr C. H. Giles, for the. last five years at 'Carterton, has beeii transferred from him to Mr Joseph A, Dudson; from Wellington.

We should thank our Wanganui contemporary, the Herald, if lie were to exercise a little more honesty in copying paragraphs. The fact that Mr Gorst, the new Solicitor-General at home is an old New Zealander is no doubt worth repeating, but we think that in doing so we should have been credited with having been the first to publish it. A Wellington paper gives a very ridiculous. description of W. Waring Taylor,-as he appeared'in the dock when brought up for sentence, and* states amongst other things that his "beard had grown a good deal longer." Considering, that lie formerly wore no beard at all, this item will be read with special interest.

The Local Bodies Conference was opened in Wellington yesterdayafternoon, ten delegates being present. Mr Sutton (Hawkes Bay), was elected Chairman. Mr Hawkins gave notice of motion to the effect that the proposals now before the House are hot calculated to develop an effective system of local government. The Conference then adjourned till' to-day.

A meeting called by the Duke of Rich mond, Gordon, and the Marquis of Huntly, and the Earl of Aberdeen, of the members and representatives of the clan Gordon, was held, in Aberdeen on the 10th April, when it was resolved to establish in that city a memorial of the late General Gordon. 'The meeting fixed £5 5s as the largest amount of individual subscriptions, with the view of enabling each member of the various families now representing the c)an to contribute to the fund.

The railway and traffic bridge over the Manawatu river at the Awapurua will be opened with great coremony to-morrow. Mr fir Beotham, arrived from Wellington by the mid-day train to-day, and left in the afternoon in order to be present. Mr W. C. Smith, membor for Waipawa, and sever;d officers of the Public Works Department, also passed through. The Wairarapa East County Council will not be ■ represented, partly because the notice given was very short, and partly because the Chairman and Cr Hawkins are both in Wellington attending a conference of local bodies,

Messrs Foley and Berkley had a fair house at the Theatre Eoyal last night, and, as is always the case, they kept their audieiice in a merry mood from beginning to end, The performance opened with " In Arcadia," in which Messrs Foley and Berkley and Miss Beaufort took part. Being put on with some now and most appropriate scenery, the effect was all that could be desired, the three characters being also splendidly maintained. Messrs Foley and Berkley each gave a song, and the former a clog dance before " Mated, not Matched" was put on, In this the company made a great hit. The droll situations elicited the heartiest laughter from the most seriously inclined, and sent the audience home in the best of humors, We notice that the next programme is already in active rehearsal.

Tho adjourned summoned meeting of the LoyalMasterton Lodge 1.0.0. F,, M. U, was held in the Temperance Hall, (the now lodge room) last night, N.G. Bro Sellar presiding. A letter was read from P.G. Bro. Corbett, of Paluatua, in which he stated that he had very great pleasure in presenting to his old Lodge (the Loyal Masterton) the Lodge chair that was given to hin} by the united lodges, and he trusted that the future officers whose duty it was to preside in it would take as much interest in their lodge duties as those whoso namesappeared on the merit board had done. It was resolved that a vote of thanks be accorded to Bro. Corbett for the present of the chair and canopy. The balance sheet and auditor's report were read. The balanco to the credit pf the Lodge on the 30th June was £258 Is l'Od. P.G. Bro. Jago was elected as delegate to the next District meeting, to bo held on the 30fch inst, Accounts amounting to £lB were passed, for payment. MrJpseph Dixon, of the Loyal Brittania Lodge, was unaniimusly elected a member by clearance. The report of the Ball Coininittee| was received, showing their expenses were covered by the receipts. Bro Jago, P.G., duly installed Bro R, Fogden as N.G. for the ensuing term of six months. The usual loyal toasts were given, and health and happiness proposed to the past and present officers, which was responded to by Brog Fogden and Sinclair. A stock of aprons and sashes were received from the District,and the brothers are informed that in future they would all have to appear in proper regalia. The total receipts of the evening amounted to £l3 8s Gd and the Lodge was closed in due form.

We have been requested by Mr J. Tiiokduhn, the Clothier and Outfitter, of Willis-street, Wellington, to call the attention of the Wairarapa to his gigantic 20 per cent. Tax Sale, which is now being held. The whole of his great stock of Men's, Youths', and Boys' Clothing, &c., ism the market for absolute sale, at the cost price, for 21 days,—Advt, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, &c,, are quickly cured by using Baxter's celebrated "Lung Preserver," This oldestablished, celebrated medicine, is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by the members of the medical,,legal, and clerical professions. Sold by all Patent Medicine Vendors. See testimonials in advertisements,—Advt.