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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2425, 14 October 1886, Page 2

Shearers are wanted for tho Waitarangi Station. Price, 17s Cd per hundred.

Thero are said to be between sixty and seventy "spoolers" in Napier. Mr B, P, Perry has taken up his res 1 ' denco in Masteitoj. The last balance sheet of the South British Insurance Company shows a loss for thu year of L 91548, The Hon. Mr Ballance returns to Wellington from the Wairarapa on Saturday next. '' , Tenders ai*o invited by tho Masterton Pastoral Society for erecting twenty chains fencing.

Tho Wellington Woollcii Company has received an order which will take three months' to complete, ■ Tenders have been accepted by the Public Works Department for-the erection cf a Lunatic Asylum at Porirua,

In future the meetings- of the Loyal Masfcrtoii Lodge, 1.0.0 F.,M.U., will be held in the Foresters Hall.

The Foathcrston Cricket Club 'opened the season yesterday afternoon. The Carterton Club held its annual meeting last evening, Tenders aro invited by the Mastevton Iload Board for forming and metalling 21 chains of the Mangaakuta road, also for work on the Upper Manaia road. The Park Oval last evening looked very lively with the large number of cricketers practising there. , About thirty players were indulging in the game,

Eighty-threo nominations havo been received fur the Hawkes Bay' Guineas of 1887. This is the largest number ever received in New Zealand,

Messrs L. J, Hooper $ Co. havo a new announcement on the first page of our present issue, to which we direct attention.

Tho case of Iloagcrty v Ilaigh, damages for slander, £SOO, in tho Supremo Court, has been abandoned. Both tho parties hail from Greytown.

There is a falling off in the number of onirics for the Ilaivlccs Bay Agricultural Show this week, the total being 074, against CO!) in ISBS. Tho decrease is in sheep.

At the regular meeting of the Thistle Lodge, 630, S.C., held last evening in the Masonic TTall, Br». T. E. Price was elected I'.W.M. for the ensuing year, and Bros. ,f. Huntley and A. W. Hogg, Wardens.

The nominations for Dunedin Central to»k place at noon yesterday. Wm. Hutchison, Tlios. Bracken, Wm, Darling were proposed. The show of hands was in favor of Mr Hracken. A poll was demanded by Mr Chapman,

Messrs Lowes and loins announce a most extensive sale of a consignment of drapery, clothing &c, for Saturday next in addition to their weekly sale of furniture, produce, and sundries.

Messrs Lowes and lorns make some important additions to their list of entries of stock for their next sale on the 20th inst., ami-would intimate that tho cattle are of really good quality, Messrs Casolborg and Co., of .the Cooperative stores, announce that they have reduced the price of their best quality Dei went eating potatoes to (iOs per ton net cash. They have still sixty tons of these potatoes on hand,

Tho annual Home Mission services will be held m the Wesleyan Church by the Rev. D. J. Murray, of the Lower Hutt, on Sunday next, morning and evening, On Monday Mr Murray will deliver his popular lecture, "Mind your P's and Q's." The admission will be free, but a collection will be made for the benefit of the Home Mission Fund.

We have received from Mr H, H. Wolters, Secretary of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society, the prize list for tho Show to be held at Carterton on tho sth November. The special prizes amount to about £135, and a twenty guinea cup as a champion prize for horses, cattle and sheep, given by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company. The Masterton Cricket Club's second match Married v Sinyle will bo played on Saturday afternoon, wickets pitched at 2 p.m, All members are requested to roll up to enable tho Match Committee to pick tho team to play against the Opaki Club on tho following Saturday, Attention is also directed to tho resolution passed at, tho annual meeting, viz., That no member be picked to play in a match until lie has paid his subscription."

The Post complains that "Nothing has yet been done in tho direction of creating another batch of Justices of the Peace." It is a pity that the Government are so dilatory. There are a number of Radicals who can make their mark in witnessing a signature who certainly ought to be provided for on the bench, The Government might, however, give newly created J.P's one caution, viz., not to sign their names to blank forms. We havo known some of their justices to affix their signatures as witnesses to "unsigned legal documents," and even Sir Robert Stout must admit that practices of this kind aro undesirable,

The monthly meeting of tho Trustees of tho North Wairarapa Benevolent Society was held in tho Institute yesterday afternoon, Present—Revs W. E. Paige (in the chair) J. N. Buttle, and D. Fulton, and Mr J. B. Koith. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The Treasurer reported a credit balanco nf L17114s 2d. Accounts to tho amount of L 44 Is 9d were passed for payment, and tho Secretary was instructed to apply to tho Government for the subsidy on subscriptions received during the past quarter, Ll9 5s Gd, and to endeavor to collect tho balance ot the subscriptions still outstanding. Tho Secretary's action was endorsed in "ranting assistance to five applications for casual relief during tho month, one of whom had been sent to his friends in Wellington; the police had been unable to apprehend the two men against whom warrants had been issued, for some time, for wifo desertion. The Secretary was instructed to afford; all the assistance he could to the wife of one of the deserters, to'unable her to get her children committed to tho Industrial School; and, the sum of 10s per week was voted in aid of tho other family, The allowance was continued as before to six persons who were in receipt of relief, and 2001bs flour was granted to a family the head of which was unable to work through illness,

Venetian Blind and Revolving Shutter manu actory. All Blinds guaranteed of the very best description, Price list on application to R, W. Hcnn (late Henn and Hansen,) Poneke Steam Venetian Blind and- Revolving Factory, Wellinston,—Aiivt

■; A reward of £1 ia offered for the recovery of a chestnut nifire, lust or stolen from the Waingawa. Messrs Rawsoa & Mackay's tender has been accepted for subdividing the To Ore Ore estate. The members of the Masfcerttin,Volunteer Fire Brigade have removed their shed several feet back from Perry-st,, so that a better slope could lie obtained: for running out the engine and gear on to the street, . The contractors for the laying of the gas mains having finished the pipe laying, are now removing the unsightly heaps that have caused danger mid annoyance to the travelling public of Masterton for some time past.

Clement G, Harding was brought up in the Wellington Magistrate's Court yoateulay, charged with, forgery and obtaining money under false pretences. He was remanded for a.woek on both charges.

We understand that the Trustees in charge of the Park Oval held a meeting to-day to consider the action of tho persons who were playing hop-stup-and-junip on the piece of ground which has been "newly turfed; After considering tho matter for some timo, the Trustees ultimately decided that although tho. names of tho five persons were known to them, they would this time, it being fcho : ilrsfc ground of complaint, overlook tho offence. Tho Trustees wish it, however, to be clearly understood now that they lmvo the control of'thc Oval in their hands, and seeing that a large, sum has been expended in putting it in order, they are fully determined to take stringent measures against any persons offending without.further warning