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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2140, 7 November 1885, Page 2

Monday next (Prince of Wales' day) being a public holiday, the Waibarafa Daily will not be published

The usual meeting of the' Phoenix Lodge, 1.0. G.T., will be. held at the Temperance %)1 on Tuesday next. The annual general see,ting of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society' wjll be held at the Club Hotel w-niorrow .evening. .. ■

From a notification in the Gazette it appears that the distribution of the £4OOO library grant will be made on the Bth February. Claims must be sent to the Secretary for Education on or before January'2lat next.

Mr D, Asher, of the Ojjeap Fancy Bazaar, Manners ■ atraet, ' Wellington,. directs special attention in another column to his large stock of bats and other cricketing materials, and also to the supply of fancy goods. . A general meeting of the Masterton Volunteer J?irp Brigade has been convened for this eyewiig, s)d. Pp 0 Rumor has'it that the proceedings'wfli I>o oxsee.dingly interesting, if - not altogether: satisfactory.. TJie weekly meeting of the Mast'erton Freethought Society is announced to take place at .the 'Royal to-morrow' evening, An' interesting of lectures and .vpcal and into.iimental music has, as visual, been prepared'. The result of tfiepea competition got up by Mr JPiice, the draper, of.opba-9.tre.eiij Wellington, appeal^.in another colpip. It jvill be seep.'that two ladies and ope pentleman guessed within ono of the proper njimber, which was 8069, The money has be§it between them.

According to the N. Z., Times, a letter has been received by the Colonial Treasurer from the Deputy Master of tho Melpoimija Branch of ,tho .Royal Mint .with respect to the jy.orn silver coin withdrawn from circulation' in New Zealand. Be states that coins wilfully defaced will not be received at their nominal value, Hut will be taken at their weight as bullion.

_ Tlio Post Office will bo opened this ove-, ning after the mail is sorted, for a short time forthe delivery of,letters, Monday being alioliday, no letters will be delivered that day.'

The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M. steamer Rimutaka has arrived at Port Chalmers from London. Her mails will be delivered in the Wairarapa by the midday train on Monday,

Mr J. P, Russell of Whangamoana has become the purchaser of the shorthorn bull Sir Garnet, the taker of the first prize in his class, at the Wairarapa Pastoral Society's Show, at the reserve price of £l5O. :

Captain Edwin sent the following mysterious message at 11.25 a.m, to-day. Bad weather expected between NorthEast and North and West, Glass will fall again, and wind backing within'that time.

_ An energetic-carter in Masterton has invested in a water cart, and it is his intention,-provided that the shopkeepers wil sufficiently compensate him, to keep Queen-street watered during the summer months. Possibly the Council will see its way to subsidise such an undertaking.

Messrs Lowes &.lorns hold two sales to-day. ' At 2 p.m, they will offer a large quantity of watches, jewelry, etc,, being a' portion of a southern bankrupt stock, while an hour later they are to submit a large quantity of furniture without reserve,

It .appears that Mr Parker, contractor, who intended leaving for England, has abandoned the idea, and that portion of our paragraph-alluding to his Bale to-day, in which his early departure was mentioned, was therefore scarcely correct, The cricket match Wellington Stars v Masterton will take place on the Park Oval on Monday, play to commence at 10 a.m.' Mr Pearson's Private Band has kindly undertaken to play in the Park during the aftornooii. A charge of 6d admission will bo made to the Park, ladies and children free.

The Spring meeting of the 'Wairarapa Jockey Club will be held on the Tauherenikau race-course on Monday. The acceptances are very fair, and there is a prospect of good sport. No special train arrangements have been announced, but the holiday time-table arranged by the Railway Department will suit visitors from the upper portion of the district very well,

The anniversary services in connection with the Masterton Wesleyan Church will be held to-morrow, and will be conducted by the Rev J. N, Buttle. On Monday evening the event will bo further celebrated by a tea-meeting in the school room. This will be followed by a public meeting in the Church, when a number of appropriate addresses will he delivered.

Mr Keisenberg requests us to correct a slight error which our Carterton correspondent fell into in Ida report of the Carterton Fire Brigade soiree on Wednesday night. He states that lie himself supplied all the music'up to 1.30 a.m., ai)4 that he was only joined by Messrs Lundqvist pd Tierney after that time, when the proceedings $ the Lyceum Jiad terminated.

Mr F. H. Wood will offer at his Masrooms this day at 2 p.m., a large quantity : of )wy and second-hand furniture,' glassware, cutleiy, household requisites, poultry and pigs; also a large quantity of tinware from the estate of J, TLove, will be disposed of. The whole is to be q/J/ttcc} entirely without reserve, and at any sapnijee.

Several amusing incidents fn .connection with the late pea lottery at'Mr J ; G. Price's shop have conie ynder notice of the Evening Press, Among tliem we may .mention that many of the drug .shops fn ioivn sold oift .of all glass bottles about the size of flie pne holding the peqs, and a local seedsman sold three sacks of ftliji pe?s, .The'purchases wete made by persons dosirop qf obtaining some data tp work upon before hazarding a guess at the !]!H!)ber in the jar','! '' That municipia} in tile tyellm? ton City Council, i Or-. Petherisic, gcored *a point at the last' meeting. Cr A. W. Brown, who is a candidate for the Mayoralty, had asserted that. ho was not a rariuigman, and the one outsider of the Council .quickly re,ponded, " Councillor Bro\yi) says ljie is l'iofc a"racing mail.' I think he is n.oiy engaged in about as hard" a race as ever lie hat} ji| Jjig life," and all the Council laughed,

_ Mr Hursthouse, in Ins recent speech to his constituents at Upper Moutere, made an attack on the Bishop of kelson tor the active part ho lias taken in connection Wi the %t and West Coast and Nelson Railway agifcatiQii.'' He recommended Bishop Suter to' confine himself fp mak- j ing plain the way to heaven,' and to leave' the Weßt gailway to politicians." flo added that there was nqthjnpbout railways in the consecration service, The Bishop, in replying through the columns of the Mail, says tliatjlie has as muoh right to meddle with politics as lawyers and journalists.. . Among the exhibitors iu the agricultural implement class .at the late Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Show held at Oartorton on the 4th . insL the. firm of Messrs P, and D. Duncan, :oi Chjistchurch, were .conspicuous by the number and quality of their exhibits, for which they received first and second and sp'ecM prizes, and the Gold Medal. The whole of tljie are now in the hand? of Mr J/' of Masterton, who is agent for this firm in tlje Waira- : rapa, The implements egoist of two double furrow ploughs, (one witli ?übsoiler), one potato plough, or ridger, two disc harrows, one with seed sower attachment, one drill sower, (artificial manure and seed sower one latest improved curd mjlj, one cheese press, and corn crusher fyr h.gp or steam, power. Messrs P. and D, Duncan Jiaye entered tho whole of their implements fgr the Masfcerton Agricultural SUo\y which takes place on the 25th November. Tire above goods were also shown at the Exhibition, and took all first prizes.

A most successful week of evangelistic meeting#, heldinthe Presbyterian Church, was brought to a close last night. The meetings throughout the week'haye been largely attended, the Church being filled every night, except on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, when thewoathenvas most inclement. Tlie meetings 011 Sunday and Monday night were addressed by the Rev, Jameg Kennedy Elliott, of Wellington, and the larg,e congregations were apparently deeply impressed by his earnest and stirring discourses. On Tilesday night, addresses were delivered by ; the Rev, P. D. ,Kodger, of tho Hutt, find tlie Rev J, N. Buttle, of Masterton, m W e <Jnesday night the Rev Mr Buttle, and My Arthur, President of 'tlio Wellington Young Men's Ohvistian Association. The Sev E'. D. fiecil, flf Petone, an able young congregational npister Jatejy' from England, addressed the meeting on 'Thursday'night and also on' Friday nighfc, followed by Mr John Grajiam, pf Mastertpii. The meetings grew in interest and impressiveness as the week wore on, and fortnight's nweting was perhaphs the largest and most impressive of all. The Rev David Fulton presided at ' all the meetings, except last night, when he was unable to be present. A prayer meeting was held each night at the close of the meetings, and members pf all denominations ongaged in prayer;-• .

Mr Wakeman caught a trout weighing Gf lbs in the Waipoua on Thursday .evening. To-day is the monthly pay day pf the Masterton Building Society,

The Treasurer of the Masterton Hospital acknowledges the receipt of the sum of, £6 5a from Mr S. Ma\yley's Ditton station. • .

Mails for the first train on Monday, and Forty-mile Bush will clos'o at 9.30 tonight, instead of the usual time on Monday.. ■ .