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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2419, 7 October 1886, Page 2

Several reports and letters from correspondent* are crowded out of our present isBUO.

Notice of a special ordor undor the Local Bodies Loans Act is given in anothor column by the Alfrodton Road Board. A meeting is convened at Mauricevillo for the 16th inat, to consider the advisability of taking advantage of the provisions of the Local Bodies Loans Act. The privileges of tho Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral Society will bo Bold by auction by Mr F. H. Wood at Carterton on Thursday, 28th inat. Clement G. Harding, well known in this distriot, has been arrested in Wellington charged with forging aud nttoring valueless cheques. Persons doßirous of procuring licenses for trout fishing for the year ending 81st March, 1887, can obtaiu them in Masterton from Messrs W. H. Beetham and D. W. Mcintosh. The Gear Company have just brought overland from Napier a splendid mob of fat cattle for tho Wellington market A special train of fourteen trucks was sent from the Mastoiton Btation this morning containing about one hundred head. Tho Secular Tcmporanco Sooiety hold their weekly meoring at the Kuripuni Hall this evening, They havo a good programme provided, and thoro should be a large attendance. Mr U. Snaddon, tin-smith of Tory-st., Wellington, has an announcement to tho Wairarapa public, and to dairymen in particular in our advorfcising coluranß of to-day. :, Several members of the Masterton Crickot Club turned out yesterday evening, and indulged in an hour's rolling, The ground waa somewhat soft after tho recent rain, and the roller did a lot of good. Tho Club will open tho season with tho time-honored match Married v Single, on Saturday next, and all members and intending members are requested to roll up at 2 p.m., or as soon after as possible. The niatoh will be played on mattlu . Mr John Gurr, head master of the Onehunga public sohool, formerly teacher of tho Peathorston school, was found drowned yesterday morning at Maugere bridge over an arm of the Manakau Harbor. It was evidently a case of determined suicide. A rope was fastened round the body and tied to a pile of the bridge, tho body buing thus dragged under by the rush of tbo tide. Grave charges were peuding against Gurr of misconduct to a female pupil teacher at the school. This is supposed to havo led him to commit the act. Ho was an elderly man with fivo childron, Ho had high abilities, musical as well as educational, and was chairman of the Auokland branch of the New Zealand Teachers' Institute,

Yesterday the Chief Justice in sentencing Ti WhitC is reported by the Evening Press to have spoken as follows ; -" You have been guilty to being an accessory to the 'forcible entry committed by the other prisoners, and I feel a great difficulty in alloting what may seem a proper sentence for the offonces you have pleaded guilty. 1 am quite sure that it you consider the matter, as, no doubt, you haqo ofton considered it. that such aots are but little short of levying war against the Crown; and most cortafnly it must occur to you that such acts aro sure to meet with great resistance from the European settlers; and it would bo impossible for you or any person to say how soon blood-shed might ensue. On this particular occasion, both on account of tho good tempor of yourselves and the white people thore was little disturbance. I have nothing to do with any supposed wrongs you have against the Crown, all I have to do is to take into cousidoration the facts upon which this prosecution has been instituted. I am, however, at liberty to take into consideration the fact of your having pleaded guilty to the charge made against you, and I entertain a hope that for ~the future there will bo no further wrongful aots instigated by you. I propose therefore only to pass what must be considered a very lenient Bentonce, but I feel bound at the same time to say that if you aro charged at any future time with any similar aots tho Court will feel bound to pass a uibre Bevere sontence. The sentence of the Court is that you be kopt in the Terrace goal for. throe .calendar months and that you pay a fine of £IOO,

A meeting of the .Masterton Cemetery Trust is convened for this evening, Mr W. Carlisle has sold his Woodville property, containing.s3(i acres at the rate of £lO per acre A piano suitable for n young beginner iB advertised for sale for Lls. Miss Reese has been appointod a teacher to tho Pahiatua school. His Excellency tho Governor arrived in Masterton by special train to-day, and is the guest of Mr W. H, Beetham. Venetian Blind and Revolving abutter mfiT.i factory. All Blinds guaranteed of the very tat description, Price list on application tj It, W. Ilenn (late Henu and Hansen,) Poneke Steam Venetian Blind and Kovolving Factory, Wollinortou.—Auvt