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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2127, 23 October 1885, Page 2

A new advertisement from Messrs H. Owen and Co., the well known general drapers, clothiers, etc,, of Queen street, appears in another column,

The Rev. J. N. Buttle will deliver a lecture on the "Maori Race" in tho Kurupuni Hall this evening, in the course of which he will touch upon its origin, personal appearance and physique, language, social life, religious notions, annexation, Kjng mqyement, and Maori wars. The subject j? an jntui , e.Bting one, and should attract a large audience. Mr Hatch has addressed his constituents, and treated them to a speech, the full report of which would have filled 30 columns of the Southland Times, had it been published. He talked for three hours and 20 minutes. Any skilled speaker would no doubt have easily compressed the whole into less than one hour, while a journalist of ordinary talent would compress more than the real matter into a space the contents of which could be easily read in the odd 20 njinqtes.— Bruce Horald,

Says the Woodville Examiner" We have received information that the lino between Woodville and Ekatahuna is to be located almost immediately. It is not improbable, owing to the high prices ruling for land at Pahiatua, that the line will now run through the Mangatainoke Block, and will in that case divide the land allotted to the Woodville Special Settlement Association." We presume that in that case the line would also touch the Mastorton Mangatainoke Settlement, and further benefit the two Mangahao Settlements to a coneidepab.le gxiefit.

The following letter, inching upon a peculiar subject,- has appeared in the Evening Post:—"A short time since, officers of the Survey Department wero working overtime in preparing plans for the Property Tax Department, pay being allowed at the rate of "time and a half.", On making out the voucher! for payment, the rate per hour (5s to 8s) due to some of the higher-paid officials seemed to create doubts in. the minds of those ri}lii)g the department as to whether the audit dept. woi)ld pass the amounts: but, by way of making ay re, tlje vouchers were returned to the various office!} the order to add one third more than the number of hours actually worked, and reduce the change per hour one-third,, thus making it appear, that no extra charge had been made for the overtime, and claiming to have worked .one-third more •hours than was actually the case. The money was paid, Ib not this a falsifying of accounts ? The matter cer-' tajnly wants looking into. lam, &c., JjoTUS.''

We again remind stock-owners that -entries for the forthcoming show of the Wairarapa Pastoral and Agricultural Society close at noon to-morrow. The Education Board requires the services of an assistant teacher for the Carterton school, and a mistress for the Te Aro infant school. The Treasurer of the Masterton Hos pital acknowledges the receipt of £4 10s from the Manawa stations per Mr Sutherland.

It is announced that Mrs Scott, a lady evangilistfrom Canterbury, will commence an evangelistic mission at the Wesleyan Church on Sunday evening next. The Mangahao reserve of the Wellington City Council is to be sold at public auction by Messrs Lowes & lorns on the 21st November.

Major Bunny was to inspect the Mas-, terton school cadets this afternoon. This evening he will inspect the local volun-

Some of the members of the late Fire Brigade assert that a local butcher has made them an offer of 9d per foot for their old hose, and that he wants to use it as skins for whito puddings. It is stated that it has been definitely decided to appoint Sergfc. 'Price to the charge of the Wairarapa District, and that Sergfc. Lyon, who is now here, will resume his duties in Wellington,

The match Committee of the Masterton Rifles has arranged for morning squads to shoot for Cfoptain Donald's, and Lieutenant Cameron's trophies, commencing to-morrow morning at 5 o'clock. This is for tlio convenience of those members who cannot get out in the afternoon. Wo were informed to-day that the contract for platelaying on the section of railway from Masterton to Dreyerton has been let privately, and that the work has already been begun. An extra number of hands is working at the Waipoua bridge, so that the work is likely to be completed at an early date, A goodly number of members answered to the roll call at the quarterly inspection of the Carterton Riflo Volunteers last night, at the Town Hall. The company was put through drill by Captain T, Bennett and Drill-Sergeant Bezar. Major Bunny was also in attendance, and complimented the company oh their efficiency in their drill. This morning 1 they assembled at the butts for olassfiring,

We are requested to remind our readers of Messrs Lowes and lorns' sale at their rooms to-morrow. The list will comprise furniture, glassware, crockery, cutlery, fancy goods, drapery, sewing machines, boilers, 20 sacks fluke seed potatoes, silk dressed flour, teas, Kitchen's candles and soaps, and sundiy lines, all of which must be cleared to make room for incoming goods, The public may attend, knowing it will be a genuine unreserved sale,

It is understood that the Public Works Department contemplates the reconstruction of the Waingawa railway bridge by substituting iron cylinder piers for the present wooden ones, Why wood should have been us<M at all while it was found necessary to put in iron at the Waiohine and Tauherenikau bridges lias- always been a puzzle to those settlers who know the three rivers, especially as the Waingawa is, if anything, the most rapid. Experience has shown that the wooden structure a failure. Traflio has on inore than one occasion been jnterriipted by a port'on being washed away during heavy freshes, The alteration would therefore be a very judicious one. Mr P. H, Wood, having been instructed by Mr McDowell to sell an entire and unexpected shipment of spring and summer drapery, etc., will again wield the hammer at his Masterton rooms to-morrow (Saturday). Mr McDowell, whose name has lately become familiar anjongst us, i? on the ove of leaving the district, and we sre informed that the terms of this gale will be even more advantageous to buyers than those that have previously popularised Mr McDowell's sales. We aro requested to state that all lines offered will be disposed of at any sacrifice, and buyers may confidently attend, relying Upon obtaining such goods as have not yet been placed before them.

Three parties of surveyors are to be placed on the Mangatainoke Block at oijce at the Woodville end, to cut up tho land with a view tq settling it under the deferred payment system, says the Examiner, The |ai)4 in. tfye yicinity of the Mangatainoke Bridge, and tl}at portiqn known as the township reserve, is to be subdivided in sections varying from ten to fifty acres, and offered under the village settlement, system, A large block of country in the Forty-Mile Bush, already surveyed, and known as the Mangaone is to be put up on the perpetual leasing system, Those blocks, tqgether with a considerable area of land between Eketyhuna and Mauriceville, will form the largest Vrea yet deposed of in ono sale under the Wellington Land Board.

In the Exhibition there is ono special exhibit, which is greatly admired, namely, the wool mats and portmanteaus made by Mr Field, of Dunedin. Tho whole of the exhibit has been purchased by Mr Thorburn, the clothier, of Willis-street, Parties wishing to purchase any of the ahove can now selec them, to be delivered on the Ist of lfqyeii)ber,—Advt,

Yenetian Blind and Revolving Shutter Manufactory, il} Blinds guaranteed of the veiy besi. description, Price list on application fcp it. W. Heiin (late Henn & Hanson,) Poijekp Steam Yenetian Blind and Revolving Shutter Factory, Weiiiwton.—Advt.