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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2398, 13 September 1886, Page 2

Tho regular monknly meeting of the Waimrapa TSaat County Council takes place to-morrow.

The freehold or leasehold of a farm of about forty or fifty acres near .tho town of Masterton is advertisod for in anothor column.

In tho produce prices published by us on Saturday laßt the retail price of oats was quoted at 4a. This was an error, it should have been 3a.

Tho offer of Mr E, Haggon, late of the Woodvillo Examiner, having been accepted for tho purchase of the Napier Evening News, tho company will bo wound up. The annual general meeting of tho Mastorton-Opaki Jockey Club will take place on Saturday noxt at tho Club Hotel, Masterton, at 8 p.m. The Pahiatua Star learns that the proposal to float a company to take over tho Woodvillo Examiner lias been unsuccess-

ful. At tho meeting hold for tho purpose on Wednesday the required numbor of shares were not taken up, and the question was adjourned for another mouth. On Saturday the art master of the Educational Board, Mr A. D. Riloy, gave tho .first of a soriosof lectures on drawing to tbo teachers of the Wairarapa district hi a class rnoni of the. Ma&tevton public school. There was a laive attendance of teachers aud papil teachers from all parts of the district, Members of tho Masterton Mangiihao Special Settlement Association meet to-

morrow evening at tho Temperance Hall for the purpose of drawing for their town, Buburbui, and rural sections. 'As there are more members than rural sections, some of tho members will be ballotted

mt, but they will participate in th* own and suburban lota.

Tho progress of tho colony and the' benefit derived from oarly and judicious investment in proporties aro strikingly illustrated by a fact announced in tho Christchuroh newspapers by Messrs H. Matson and Co. A sum of £420 invested

,n city property In Christchurch thirty ago, has already realised £BO,OOO, ivhich either has been or is to be remitted

to an absentee owner in England. The Masterton cricketers havo gone to considerable- exponso in preparing tho Park Oval for the coining season. The turfed pitch is looking vory well, and bids fair to become a boon for the season's match plaving, but the prepared ground, viz., that which been top-dressed and sown is at present showing very little prospect of being any improvement on its last year's condition, as there is no sign of the young grass springing up.

The Woodvillo Examiner understands that she ongine-shod at Tahoraite is to be shifted to Woodvillo, and the other station buildings there will bo removed to Danevirke. A station master will

Thou be placed there and it is intended to have the Post and Telegraph oftico at the station. This should bo interesting and very satisfactory to the Danevirko people. As soon as tlio formation of the

Woodvillo section of railway is done tenders will be called for the station buildings. It is still expected the line will be opened in February next. We notice by the Wellington papers that the Hon Sir George Whitmore has interested himself in assisting to defray the expenses of the Wellington footballers in eonnextion with the visit of the New South Wales team to that city. As tho exponses'of bringing the team totho Wairarapa last Monday wero very heavy, no doubt it would be acceptable to the Wairarapa Football Reception Committee if the oxamplo of the hon. gentleman wore followed in this district. The Btateraont that Mr T. S, Weston

is spokon of as a likely man for tho position of R.M. at Wellington reminds one (says the Cambridge News) of the time when that gentleman was tho " masher" District Court Judge of Now Zealand. The suavikr in nwdo of the Bench was extreme. For example, when Mr Weston was on one trip to Woatport in tho diggings days, his Worship had beforo him a toothless Btorm-beaton old hag for some crime or the other, and asloundod those in Court by lisping in his most dulcet tones, "Constable, will

you give the lady a chair ?" Mention has beer, made two or three times in the papers of a curious tiro burning within ono of the hills near Makarotn. The fire has been burning for nine or ton months. A correspondent writes us that it has now been extinguished. Last week a- large numbor of settlers

assembled and went in a party to the spot, Bunk a shaft near tho fire's vent,

dug a small race from a neighboring oreek, and the water found its way to the fire aud quenched it. The digging of tho Bhaffc was unpleasant work, the ground being so hot and tho atoam so plentiful, that oach man could work but short spells. The Bpaco thrrugh which the smoke issued was about four feet square, depth unknown. The combustible material is supposed to be coal, as the rook is coaly, ana tho smoke had a vey offensive smell. In fact, somo of the men who wore at work have been unwell since—Evening News,

The Taranaki Herald, rofomng to Mr Isaac Newton Watt's death, which took place in Dunedin on September 10th, saya that that gentleman arrived in New Plymouth on the 23rd December, 1843, in the barque Himalaya, from London, and waa ir. business here for many years as a merchant. When the new constitution was granted to New Zealand in 1853, Mr Watt waa chosen aa the Speaker to the first Provincial Council of Taranaki retaining that position till the end of 1856, when ho joinod the Provincial Executive as Secretary undor the Cutfield auperintendency. Beretaiued this nfflcei till 1859, when he'rpred from politics.^ .' In this year the fiwJ Volunteer corps waafbrmod,;.when was elected ; aa--.tho.-captain.. ■;N%;went on several:; expeditiona. .with during the.war of 1880-61,' nil-after the truce made d.urinsf .thedattei;; year, he accepted tho'.apporatment at the •Bluff, where he waa for He iwaa afterwards R.M. at; Dunedin. He was a married man and had four children —two boys and tw» girls.

The Maslerton Masonic Lodge, 1430, E.G., meet this evening^

The tinder of two keys is requested to return the same to Mr Eton's chemist shop where ut reward is awaiting. Tenders dose at 4 p.m. to-morrow for falling 200 acres of bush at Ballance, the towrißlnp of the Masterton-Mangahao Special Settlement.

Messrs Lowos and lovns report at their flale on Saturday fur produce, etc., the following prices wero obtained:—Horses, £Blss; poultry, 2s 6d to 2s 9d per pair; potatoes, £2los; fowls' wheat, 8s od; oats, 3s; barley, 3s 6d; bacon, 7|d. A quantity of furniture and sundries concluded the sale.

A mooting (if persons interested ill the cause of temperance was hold on Saturday night in the Temperance Hall. Mr T. P. Girdwood was voted to the chair, and explained the object of the meeting. Ho said there wore several tomperance organisations in Maaterton, and most of those present belonged to one or othor of them. The promoters of the present movement considered every way of working for the cause should be tried. The Gospel Temperance Unious were doing anod work, also the Salvation Army and the Good Templars, and kindred societies, yet still there was the fact that a very large section of tho drinking classes was not reached by thera. When they considered tho habits of those men they wished to influence, they would hardly expect them to go voluntarily into a place of worship, on a weokday especially, for any purpose. The drinking class which did not wear broad cloth was seldom to bo found mside the Church wills, and the attempt to induce them to go there before thoy had given up tho drink had proved an abortive ono. The society which it was proposed to form that night was one that would ombraco the non-church going class, and give thorn a meanß of meeting together for tho purpose of rational enioymeut other than at the publichouses. Tho cry was continually heard 11 Where can we go if we don't go to tho hotelsi" and do doubt a counter attraction to tho well-lighted and comfortable loukinp hotels was needed. The church tomporance meetings did not meet this want, and the preseut moeting had boe.i called to consider the matter, and take such stops as might seem 6t to moot tho case by arranging for weekly gatherings in'iftmiß uusectarian building to which the public might have free ingress and egress, and whore pledges could bo taken for short or long periods. It was suggested to form a Society lor that purpose. Souie discusiiion took place on tho mode of procedure, anri a committee whb formed to report at the next mooting upon a suitable building, the bust ovening ou which to hold meetings, the rules tliey should have to guide them, and general managemont. It was decided that the next meeting should take place in the Temperance Hall on Saturday ovening noxt at 7.30 to receive the Coramittoo'B report, and after the formal business was concluded, sougs readings, &c. should be indulged in. A progtaiuino committee was appointed, and the meeting adjourned until Saturday next, at tho same placo. A friond of Dean, Swift ono day sout | him a tnrbot as a present, by a servant who had frequently been ou similar errands, but had never jet received the most trilling mark of the dean's generosity. Having gained admission, ho opened the door of the study, aud abruptly putting down tho fish, cried, very rudely. "Master has'sent you a turbot,"-" Heyday, young man," aaid the dean, rising-from his easy chair, " is that the way you deliver your message ? Lufcmo teach you better manners; sit down in my chair, wo will excham/e situations, and 1 will try to show you how to behave in future." The boy sat down, and tho dean, going to tho door, came up to tho tablo with a respoctful face, and, making a low bow, said,." Sir, my master presents his kind compliments, hopes your reverence is well, and begs your acceptance of a turbot."—"Does lief replied the boy, "Here, John" (ringiug), "take tins honest lad down to the kitchen, and give him as much as he cau eat and drink ; then sond him up t» me, and 1 will giro him half-a-crown !"

Never Return.-It is said that one

out of evory four invalids who go to foreign countries to recover health nover

return, except as ;i corpse. The undertakers, next to the hotel-koopcrs, have the most profitable business. The excessive mortality may be prevonted and patients saved and cured under tho euro of friends and loved ones at home if they will but use American Co's Hop Bitters in time. Bead