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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2037, 9 July 1885, Page 2

Opotiki is said to have produced 12,000 bags of maize last harvest.

The third quarter of tho Wellington College begins on Tuesday noxt, the 14th inst.

Mr A. McLeod has completed his contract for the repairs or the Te Ore Ore Bridge, and the work has been taken over by the County Council.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's Royal Mail Steamer Aorangi left Lyttelton for London yesterday morning, taking about one hundred passengers, The National Bank .of New Zealand, in anticipation of probable losses amounting to £IB,OOO, has not declared a dividend for the past half year.

MrR. Buckeridge, brother of the host of The Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton, has -leased the railway refreshment rooms at Feathorston,

In our yesterday's report of tho meeting of the Loyal Masterton Lodge, 1.0.0,F.,M.U., the name of Mr W, Sellar was misprinted, that of Sinclair appearing instead.

A catalogue of the stars visible in the southern hemisphere lias just been completed in London. It contains 75,000 names, and occupied five astronomers fourteen years in compiling it. Messrs Lowes and lorns make an addition to their general sale for next Saturday of fifteen pairs of fancy prize pigeons, including owls, baldheads, nuns, carriers, tumblers and Antwerp varieties. The whole of them will be sold without reserve.

We have been requested to direct attention to Mr F, H, Wood's saleat Greytown on Saturday next, The goods to be offered cumprise a large variety of superior household furniture piano, and other articles, the property of a gentleman leaving the district, The sale will be without reserve.

A measure bearing the peculiar name of "The Rabbit Nuisance Continuance Bill" has been introduced in the Legislative Council by the Colonial Secretary, The Bill should probably liavo been entitled "The Buckley Nuisance Continuance Bill." With such a title its defeat would have been ensured. "Into the merits of the Riversdale affair wo are not in a position to enter," says our local contemporary, in replying to a letter from Mr W. C. Buehanun on on the Sutton enquiry. Exactly; but as thai is just where the sore point lies, what he says in the column and a half which ho devotes to the subject must necessarily fall just a Httle flat. "Puff'in the Evening Press, is pick ing a bone or two with the. Colonial Sec' retary, and says among other things Yes,—he put Bunny on the Domain Board at Masterton, dead against the recommendation of the Board, and after tho post had been offered to and accepted by the man tho Board recommended! Aye,—that's the style! Nice sort of a Minister, ain't lie ?

A farmer near Waipawa named Wiliain Hall recently charged his housekeeper, Mrs Clara Ford with larceny. Tho case was dismissed; but during the trial it transpired that, though Hall was living in singlo blessedness, he had been married three times. His first wifo died from natural causes, the second committed suicide, and the third first broke an arm and then\ log, after which she left him. The little story iB no doubt an interesting one, but the puzzle is, what had it got to do with the charge against Mrs Ford. Tho voracity of thoeel has just received another proof. While scvdVal members of tho Acclamatisation Society were dragging for trout for the breeding ponds, in the stream close to Renall's Mill, an eel weighing 18|- pounds was netted. On being opened, considerable quantities of feathers, bones of ducks, &c., were found in it. A resident on the banks of the creolc states' that during tho last year or two he has lost a large number of ducks in a mysterious fashion, but what puzzled him the most was, that some of them would occasionally turn up mimn one or both feet, That the damage was done by an eel never occurred to„hiin till after tho culprit was caught,

Among tlio many methods tor preserv-, ing fence posts which have been suggested, the following has been brought under our notice" Take boiled linseed oil, and stir in pulverised coal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man who will live to . see it rot." The plan may be a good one, but if the soundest totara post that could be found in tho Wairarapa were so treAted. while it was green, it would rot in from four to six six years.. We know of no better plan for preserving fence posts than this : Let the wood get seasoned, and then char the end that is to be put in the ground, Wood, to last, should also be put utp 1 in a position the reverse to that in which it grew. Where totara is used it is hardly worth while to go to the trouble of preparing, for we sknow of fences made of this timber in; the district which are thirty years old, and apparently as sound as over.

Captain Edwin telegraphs at 1 p.m. that bad weather is expected between east and south and south west, with a fall of the ({lass and heavy rain. A member of the Legislative Council appears to have got astray, o.t' been lost, or stolen, in the Wairarapa.. Tho Hon, Mokene Kohero left Wellington by train last week intending to' goto Papawai, He was, how'eror, carried on to Masterton without know of it. On Friday last he wandered about near Masterton, and eventually started on foot for Papawai, which place he-had not ,reached up' to latest accounts. The Maories are under the impiession that he was not in a fit state to take care of himself when he arrived in Masterton, and his freak in preferring to walk to Greytown in place of using his pass on the railway confirms them in their suspicions, At the Local Bodies Conference yesterday, Mr Hawkins' resolution "That the proposals now before the House as to the Local Government, are not calculated to derelop a permanentsystem of effective Local Gavernment in tho doJony." It was agreed to. Mr Buchanan moved—- " That in the opinion-of. this meeting the Local Government pfopos } ils now before the House of Representatives should be set aside in favor of a modification of the Roads and Bridges Act, in the direction of abolishing the main-road section, of the Act, and liberalising the mod'eof granting monies as provided under the district roads section."Mr Hawkins moved as*an amendment—" That tills Conference is of opinion that Local Government shall remain in statu quo during the present year, and that- funds should be provided to meet the demands of the Counties and Road Boards under the Roads and Bridges Act, and that meantime a Royal Commission should issue, to enquire into the question, with a wew .to facilitate legislation," The amendment was carrbd. Several notices of motion were given, among them being the following by Mr Mackay:— "That the construction of all roads to open up Crown Lands be handed over to the County Councils." Mr Mackay —"That the Conference considers minor amendments necessary in the Road Boards Act." The Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill, and the Crown and Native Lands Rating Act will also come up for discussion.

We have been requested by Mr J. Thorburn, the Clothier and Outfitter, of Willis-street, Wellington, to call the attention of the Wairarapa to his gigantic 20 per cent, Tax Salo, which is now being held, The wholo of his great stock of Men's, Youths', and Boys' Clothing, &c., is m 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.