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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2247, 18 March 1886, Page 2

;;, The Masterton Tent, 1.0. R., meets at the.Temperance Hall this evening. ;f;The Delta Lodge, Loyal United Friends* meets at the Temple Chambers this evening,v;;';:;;:::'^\vV ' ■ W'e draw attention to a new advertisement of Messrs Kirkcaldio & Stains which ■appears in to-day's issue, referring to ;their new stock of autumn goods.

v Messrs Lowes & lorns add to their sale for Wednesday 24th inst,, a. line of 350 .fat sheep, 800 ewes, 200 lambs, CO young ewes, and 400 good lambs in wool, . There were no.businoss at the R,M. Court, Greytown yesterday, further than Btrikirig: thirty. Maori names from the vWairai-ajia South' Electoral roil. ■-. : -

■:-"Tenders are invited by the Masterton Road; Board for formation and motalling ■from- tho .Upper Plaiiv'to Upper Manaia. :-T6hderS;Cluse op-Wednesday, 20th March. ViTcnders/are myitediy : Mr .G,. Fannin, ni*c}iitect,; : for the evection. of a two storey iho/p^nd^dwellii^

vTehderß'are invited'for the erection : . of .tw,o;anJa.halt\hiiles of fencing; to induce Bplitting:.and:'delivenngj;:atvManoaone. .-Speiicifications - Be : en..at' thiaoflßce. :';";: Subscriptions totlie amount of £4019s haye/sbeen 'colloet'ed-'.on-behalf of..!the :\vWo\y aiid;children: of. - the; late Thomas 3)on iielly vrfeciehUy :/loßt > his -. 1 ifo ; ;by 'Masterl»i)£.:#t^X ; %':£'&&?■ ; f

/. ; ; Tjie;;3iberiiian ; ;-Society^'held;:'-their i-annual. ;terdayJ : " ; A : ;hew;banner ) ;.imported.% Sboietyi -wasiblossediby "Bishop.lledwopd ■iit:;tlie^iithedral : ;iSthe^'iriorning^:k;-^S ■^iCTders'aWiri^ Club's' .-race'eourse,:: : --Terms' .'oii;'application'; : to ; the 'So'croftr^ , .(Aii; apology toi-Messrs G. $' ::Williaihsqii.'^^d;:; : {or : thoughtless OTdßlusedJby^MrVJ. at a banWestpbrttrecently/appears in our :adycrtisihg;Coluhrns.7T:-'.'y ; :,-\ : .;, '' .;-•'.;

:'■ The-'Salvation; Armyheld'apionic yps-?terday-;iu/; Mrißfc MoKenzie's paddock, and fifty persons ;bemg^on'|he v Games of. all the ■.usual- sorts were (indulged in, and the brass band ployed several times during the day,■'■.:■ The proceeds amounted to £7. ■■' ■.'.„■ Tenders are ipvited for additions to the ■ public schools at' Pahiatua and Eketahuna, ifind for repairs to tho schoolmaster's residence tit Mauricevillo. Plans and specifi ' c'atioiiß .for the work at Pahiatua may be seen'at'the. .schoolhouse. thero,. and. for 'Eketahuna and Mauricevillo:.at the.office *f;Mr:WrSej!arn^'";::yi«U^:'-'''; : ■

oprVe.fporidept';tif th,e' ;Pyßt : ropprt?Hkt;:.tlip;iMastorl:()nHSc]iuol ;Oomniitree arc/of ■opinion' that the Board •'is-'launcliing-oui:intb' : ; ; wiid' and reckless iktravagence;;i^ 'lißanlinr nf WmiiiigliVafn'r m-Lmaini-iinlimiln-At the late meeting: ohe ; member of the .Cpimnittee,:::Mr:-sH6gi;,;f did express an vopinioii:; in-.'this direction, ; but the Com'niittco.ccrtat'nty'did not.'eiidorso'" it by a, resolution, and .we feel certain that had. a : resolution'been, proposed.'in these termß it would liav.6:been fojected. \-V-. : /;'.'Tho. Marlb.qrough.Express has.thq fol-lowii)g':i-()ur roadWwill be interested to see from a telegram in another column that Mr/Winter,; Editor, of the Express, lias been:fdeclared„;6ne' ; :pf the. two gold !'■'medallists and first: prize ..winners iii the Exhibition-Essay Competition. The con- '■: test wa3 keen, and;there;was 1 a" tie with I Mr Haseldon, a.solicitor of ; tor 'first place'.. Mr.'Winter lite dealt with the colonial industries from, many points of view',: and has.strongly advocated a policy ...of protection, )>'The.Eßßay will probably be.'nublished;by. tho Government Printer, .£A_telegi ; ahi:.iri fclvo Wangimui Herald states that tlifti'Otaki' School; Committee .have resolved to interview the..member. for.tlie.district and ; ask. him to. use his influence to get. Otaki transferred into the ■Wellington Educational District. < This is surely a fair indication that tho Wanganui Board does not give'complete satisfaction; .the':-management 0 f that institution is not altered very rapidly wo shall not be surprised to see a movement 'inaugurated in tho direction of separation oi' the dijfcricj;. ■: It.is.nbw far top-large for its'affairs to bo''successfully, administered by one Board, and far too imporfpt to be subject to the freaks and follies of one or; two officials into., whoso hands the management of affaira has entirely drifted, —Manawa'tu'Times.' '■."•■';.'

./i.-Tho approach to the Waiohino Bridge from the Carterton side has a narrow sjjarp curve on the top of the steep bank, which in the case of a shying horse is partioulaly dangerous, One evening two gentlemen were proceeding Jo Carterton from Greytown says the Standard, with a horse and buggy, and on arriving at. this •place their horse shied at somo sheep on the side of the road, overturning its occupants down tho bank of the left hand side going from Greytown. The horse, trap, and' occupants all escaped uninjured, altogether had one of jt])e passengers met with an untimely death, nrqfyabjy heaven would not have received an increaso, as none of that gentleman's' profession according'to an old adago are supposed to reach tho gfflcjen sliores, As showing how the business,of the late exhibition at Wellington was managed accounts for space are only now being rendered, and the mode of doing so is uniqu.o in its way. Previous to the exhibition being opened, the' secretary solicited the assistance oj persons to make the matter a success, and certain information was sent them, such as tho charge to bo mado for spaoe. &c. It was suggested that these agents should make the charge and collect the amounts at the time of the exhibits being forwarded, but this was, too much like the proper mode for carrying on business for the suggestion being adopted, Now, after a ( lapse of nearly six months, these local gentlemen who have done all gratuitously are now in receipt' of demands asking them to collect the fees, that, in our opinion should have bo&» pre-paid,-"

A joiut meeting of the Town Lands and Park Trustees will be held to-night at the Institute.

A gold seal with square and compass is advertised as lost in Masterton, The finder will be rewarded on returning the same to Messrs Littlejohn.

At Phillips' Wairnrapa- Hotel a very intoresthiggameofibilliardshas been played between Butcher and Washington, 150 up, the former winning by 47 points. The game was probably the fastest played in Masterton. It only occupied half an hour.

DrHoskingreports HiafcJ, Laing, the jockey whu was injured at the MastertonOpaki races yesterday, is doing as well as can be eipected, his injuries art; a comminuted fracture of both bonus of right leg, with fracture of right, collar bone and possibly a rib on same side with severe bruises all over.'

Thomas Ross was brought before Mr H. A. Stratford R. M. this morning charged with drunkenness, He was convicted and discharged, he having been locked up since half-past 0 o'clock yesterday morning. James McGee, on a similar charge, was fined 5s or 8 hours imprisonment. Henry Jones was charged with the larceny of two dozen pairs of sox from Mr John Graham's store He was convicted, and sentenced to six weeks hard labor.

An accident happened to the up train from Wellington last night. When the train _ was nearing Matarau a tube burst in tho engine. A trolly was sent back to.Woodside, but the engine there, it wa3 found, could not bo got without an order from Wellington, The trolly then went back to Featherstone and A telegram was sent from there to Masterton. Steam was immediately got up, and an engine sent on to Matarau, The train was then brought on to Masterton, arriving here about 1 o'clock, four hourß behind timo.

The Rev. de Berdt Hovell preached the first of the Lenten addresses last evening, the Napior Telegraph says, before a crowded audience, the subject being " Thick. Darkness." During the discourse the preacher; made the following apt quotation from English Thought in tho Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen, "A man of broad if not sceptical .views." In reference to Thomas Paine he says, "The details of his habits, during tho few remaining years of his life are simply disgusting. Ho was constantly drunk, filthy beyond all powers of decent description, brutal towards the woman he had led astray from her husband, and in short as disreputable a wretch as was to he found at that time in ■New York." So said Leslie Stephen of that man who is sometimes considered an intellectual and shining light of the eighteenth century.

'. Tho Waipawa Mail states that a meeting of siiwmillors is to take place at Makotukii for the purpose of considering .the best means of selling totara timber to the greatest possible advantago, Twice already have meetings of a similar nature been held, but their object has been to deal with the timber trade in general, It ■has been found difficult to adhere to fixed prices for the sale of the commoner kinds of timber such as pine, matai, and rimu, but with totara it is quite a different matter, The sawmillers have found out there are no totara forests in New Zealand that can compare with those in the neighborhood of Makotuku and Danevirke. Orders have of lute been received from the larger southern cities to such an extent that the mills have barely been able to cope with them. And still the demand continues to increase. The sawmillers will now combine together, raiso the price of heart of totara timber-most probably—and make such arrangements that when one firm is unable to supply its orders, another mill will assist it, the compliment being returned, when the circumstances require it. By this means the trade of totara will be made into a monopoly, and thus the interests, not only of the sawmillcr? but of thp settlers in the Bubli will'be properly guarded, The timber ib their birthright. On it their present and their future to a great measure depend. Why should they not look afew tiinir iii+mWc I IV,. 1„„,„ t,. 1 that the 6awmillers have come'to a unanimous agreement and that they will all endeavor to abide by it.

-. "The census enumerators are now busy, in town and. country, in delivering the printed schedules that are to be filled up by all householders on the morning of the 29th instant, and to comprehend the ■ naincs, ago, nationality, occupation, and other particulars of all persons who elept on their premises on the immediato proceeding evening (the 28th). It is expected, says the Evening Bell, that they will exhibit a population of between- 50,000 and 00,000 for Auckland and suburbs, being an unusually large increase on the census of 1881. No' other city in the colony has increased its population to the extent that Auckland has done during the last _ fivo years. Much of the increase is owing to immigration from the United Kingdom, and to removals from the South Island to the Northern Capital. As the census takes cognisance of all untepapted shops and dwelling-houses; as well as buildings in course of erection, it will be found that Auckland will compare most favourably, in theso respects, with tho Southern cities. There was. recently 1600 empty shops and houses in Dunedin, just nearly four times the number that are unoccupied in Auckland at tho present time, This shows that the once-prosporous capital of Otaco has greatly retrogaded in commercial affairs of late, whilst Auckland has materially prospered in that direction in the sainp period.

Wq liavo reoelved from Lieut, Co]. McDonnell the following copy of an interesting letter from the Jate General Chute to the Defence Minister, the Hon. John Ballance: Egmont, Brackwell, Berks, 28th January, 1886. Sir.—Having recently received a letter from LieutenantColonel Thomas M'Donnell, relative to his services when in command of the Native Contingent, and under my command and personal observation at the end of 1865 apd the early portion of 1866, with much pleasure I have the honor to inform you that during the above mentioned period no soldier could have served with more zeal, ability, and distinction, or could have shown more intrepid and gallant conduct. On several occasions, under a galling fire, his heroic examples to his corps the force under my command, frequently greeted with applause. Colonel M'Donnell, when severely wounded at the capture and destruction of the formidable Putald Pah, insisted on leading his men until the engagement was ended. Very many soldiers have received the Victoria Cross,, for meritorious Services, but few, if any, more deserved the distinction conferred qn thorn than is due to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas M'Ponnell, and 1 earnestly trust that you ..will be pleased to obtain for this gallant officer the honorable decoration of the silver cross, • 1 have, &c, Tekyor Chdie, General,

Messrs L. J. Hooper & Co., of the Bon Marohe, received their first instalment of autumn and winter goods on Saturday, these goods* have been imported direct from tho manufacturers in England and Scotland, and aue now being marked off iit prices that will oouipare with- any ■ ,