The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1887.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2524, 14 February 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1887.

The Maßterton Rifles arc ordered to parade for daylight drill at 0.30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 16th inst. We are pleased to notice that Mr E. Taylor, has so far recovered from his accident as to be able to visit his Masterton business. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Masterton Lodge, 1.0.0. F., takes place tomorrow evenjug,

The Fisk Jubileo Singers are about to make a tour of the Wairarapa townships, andwilloivea concert in Masterton on Tuesday, 22nd inst. ;

The autumn show of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society will be lield in the Drill Hall on Wednesday, 23rd inst.

We hoar that tho Masterton Wealoyan Choir intend giving a concert at an early date, in which the special feature will be the rendering of melodieß as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

Tenders close to-morrow for the orec-t-ion of offices. for the Bank of New South Wales, Queen-Btreet; also for the ;supply of grass seed for the Parkville Special Settlement Association. Eighteen'members of'jthe Napier and Spit Fire Brigades arrived in Masterton last evoning by special coach, and left by train .this morning, en route for Dunedin, to take part in tho Fire Brigade competitions to be hold there. Wo have been asked by Mr G. Beothani to contradict the statement that appoared in Saturday's New Zealand Times, to the effect that he had purchased the hoiwo and proportyof Mr Kirkcaldio. Mr Beetham states that he has leased a fuvniehod houso in Wellington for twalvo months, but has no intention of purchasing proporty thorpi

Tho Anniversary meeting of the Masterton Presbyterian Church will be hold onWednesday next 16 inst. Thore will be a tea-meeting at 5.30 p.m after whiflli addresses will be delivered by thaßefs. Patterson, (Napier); Grant, (Waipukurau); Gow, (Reefton); R. McGregor, (Kaiapoi); and othors.

Messrs Cunningham, Badham & Co.,' Auctioneers of Wellington, announce an important sale at their rooms, of valuable freeholds in this district, comprising 850 acres at the Tauoru, 520 a'crps at the Rangitumaii, and 700 acres at Hawkhurst Opaki. A perusal of the advertisement in another column, will give detailed information.

The Fun on the Bristol" Company brought their season to a close on 'Saturday evening in the Theatre Royal, the downstairs being again crowded. There was an entiro chango of programme in the concert act, the performance of Signor Gonzala on the invisible wire being very clever, The singing and dancing were exceptionally good, and the character sketches very amusing. The great cannon feat was successfully petformed, iEola being cleanly caught by the trapezist, the applause that followed beinp most enthusiastic, The company left this morning tor Dunedin.

A public meeting was held at Tinui on Saturday last to tako into consideration tlio action of the Government re tlio telegraphic communication with that district. The meeting was largely attended by tho leadihg Bottlers of the district, and great astonishment was oxprossed at tho change proposed by tho Government-to deprive them of constant telegraphic communication. Tho following resolution was unanimously carried: ."That the Government bo desired to suspend their .action in removing tho present telegraphist and postmaster and substituting in hit place an officer as linesman and telegraphist, asboing unfair and Injurious to this district."

All over the oolony it was telegraohed that Mr Buckley oxpected to be able to save £50,000 a year by retrenchment in the_ working of the Rabbit Act. Seeing that tho entire vote for tho Stock Department last year was £29,825 -this including the cost of tho entire stqff and all tho expenses of working Cattle, Sheep,' Rabbit and Brand Act, it is absurd to auppoao that any great saving can be effected, certainly nothing like tho figure telegraphed,—Telegraph. ' • ■ The Primrose League ia.s great organ-, isation, with thousands of ramifications, to get on the sunny side of the people in order to get at their votes. No sooner did the cottagor get his vote than .he. nil at once, became an object of solicitude. He is now visited by the clergyman, or the squire, or the Peer, or the clergyman's wife, or'the colonel's wife or the squires wife or daughter or the Peeroas, or the daughter, or neice, or cousin of the Peeress. - He, or his children, or his wife, aro talked to in dulcet tones, thoy have creature comforts distributed amongst them, and they are taught to dread the Radicals and cleave towards the Tories. Tho ourious thing about this business is, that this personal interest has only been shewn in the cottager's welfare since ho had the vote; and, if he were to lose the vofco tomorrow tho great concern exhibited in his behalf would vanish.—Weekly Times.

General Boulanger (says the World) is becoming so prominent a person in French if not in' European politics, that it will intorost many people to hoar that he is half an Englishman by descent, and also of this country. His mother was a Miss Griffiths, and he was born at Brighton, and spent his earliest years thero-as he himself says ho played sur le Chain Pier, General Boulanger is in the prime of life, being barely forty-livo; a smart, soldier-liko figure, straight, and well set up, with a clever powerful face, and not a grey hair on his head, Jtlis photograph is in every shop window; and it is possible that ho does not dislike the dessimination of his portrait and personality through Franco, Whether ambitious designs are rightly or wrongly attributed to him, it is certain that he loses no opportunity of ingratiating himself with the army.

An influential methodist haa just furnished the Birmingham Daily Post with a Ion? and interesting account of tho various divisions of British Methodism, and explained the reasons why re-union is now hopefully sought. He says that "in the United Kingdom the Wesloy&n Methodists (the parent body) • have a Church membership of about 500,000, the New Connexion about 30,000, the Primitive iMethodists noarly 200,000. the Bible Christians 81,000, the United Freo Churches 76,000, and the Reform Union 8000, "making a total, of 845,000, with nearly 5000 ministers. 48,000 lay preachers, and more than 1,500,000 Suuday Scholars. He also adds that the Salvation Army is, ''barring certain.exadorations, essentially Methodist." It ia quite possible that a United Methodism might be able in years to come to make some such happy arrangement with the Salvation Army as Dr Rigg hinted at a recent conference misjfit be mutually advantageous. But leaving that out of the account altogether, it is evident from the above figures that a United British Methodism would represent at least 4,000,000 of the population, for the strict membership of a Methodist Church does not, as a rule, includo more than a fifth of the congregation.

About that J#|j to be given away,— To the Editor—Sir, Will you allow me through your columnß to lot the people of the Wairarapa know that I am going to sell all my stock, consisting of men's, youth's, and' boys' clothing, shirts, hate, hosiery, &c,, at a great reduction in prices up, till the end of the year; and also to remind them that everyone who buys goods to the value of 2s 6d gets a ticket in my £35 competition, Tl)jnk of that I By spending 2s 6d with me, you may win lrltfney enough to carry you for a trip round New Zealand,-John Thorburn, Clothier, &0., Willis at,,Wellington, I

Tlio Masterton Masonic Lodge, E.G., meet this evening -in the Masonic Hall, Bannister street. Visiting brethren are invited. •

A rehearsal of the " Sorcerer" takes place this evening . in • St; Matthews' ■schoolroom. Members are requested to bo ill attendance at 7.30 sharp. Tlio quarterly gathering of the Masterton Good_ Templars takes place tomorrow evening in the Temperance Hall. Tea will be on the table at 7 o'clock, and au open meeting will be hold after, at which the Gospel Temperance choir will assist. The usual weekly meeting of the Gojpel Temperance Union will not be held this week in consequence of amalgamating with the above gathering, The Pahiatua correspondent of the Haivkes Bay Herald, writesMr Ballance has laid another egg—l mean inaugurated another villiage settlement. It is a gay fraud. I enolose a plan. It is all lovely, is it not? But the beautiful •roads and so on are purely imaginary. 1 • have marked in blue the only real road that can be traversed by horses. The rest is a dream. I spent all yesterday trying to find the sections. Jtfot a peg to lie discovered ! The whole place- is absolutely virgin bush, exquiaite in its cool secluded beauty, for where there ate no cattle the ferns are graceful and delicate. Butwheroare the pegs? The railway line is tlio most unblushing fraud, for the Government have promised to seud Mr Knorp down this weuk to survey the lino, so I may s y positively that it is not located,'and the line as shown is pure hypothesis." Messrs Lowes filoniß roport that at their horse sale on Saturday last, the entries totalled upwards of fifty, and included every class. The bidding throughout was 'somewhat dull, only about 25 being sold under the hammer, although several were placed privately at the reserves during the sale. In the light harness sorts several really handsome, well-shaped 3-year old unbroken animals were submitted, a few pairs selling. In draughts or tarm horses only about eight came forward, but useful sorts found purchasers. Aged draught horses did not move off, only a few selling. The hacks included all kinds from the old crock to the useful weight carrier and the well-bred showy hack, mostly all of these polling. The following are the rates obtained For good farm horses, guaranteed, LlB co L2O; unbroken farm horses, LlO to Ll2 each; light farm or tramway unbroken colts and fillies, from L 7 10s to LlO 10s each; a few good young trap mares mado from LIOTOs to' Ll6 10s each; heavy hacks sold from L7los to L 18; light useful hacks L 6 10s to Ll2 j old horses, L2 to L 5. A pair of handsome carriage horses were passed at a genuino bid of 3(i guineas, A lot of vehicles, implements, harness, &c., selling at low rales concluded the sale. A special mooting of tho Masterton Town Lands Trust will be held this evening at 7 o'clock to consider the sohool site question.

To-day is St. Valentine's Day, and judging from the letter carrier's light loads, the time-honored custo.ni of distributing favor and disfavors'' by means of them, is dying out in this.district.' -

We are pleased to learn that Mr A, Matthews is recovering slowly but Buroly, from the effects of his late serious., accident, and, is now able to leave his'bed.

Mr J. R, George, C, E,, manager of the Wellinpton Gas Company, arrived in Maaterton on Saturday oveninp, inspected tho Maaterton Gas Works and, left tor Wellington by this morning's train.

Voluntoers would do well to notice that advantago has been takon of seotion 47 of the Defence Act, 1880, by Oaptaiu Jones, Wansanui Rifles, to fine a private £1 for absenting himself from two consecutive parades,, and the fine has been entered on the R.M. Court record book, and made recoverable within a week.

The following are the eutriesi:' re'epiced for the Ram and Ewe Fair, wln'6h mil'be held at the Shbw Grounds, Carterton, tomorrow (Tuesday 15th February):— 2B3 Romney Marsh Rfjma, 213 Lincoln Rams, 25 Merino Bams, '24 Shropshire down' Rams, 15 English Leicester flam s/ IS Gdts - wold Rams, 200 Crossbred Ewes, Total 573 rams, and 200 ewes,

Through a very simple mishap th e Secretary of tho Titiui Jockey Club wa 8; unable to announco several of tho nominations for'tho forthcoming races at the proper time, It appears that on clearing the mail box belonging to tho Olub Hotel on Saturday morning four lettefrFwere found that had not boon cleared on Friday night although they must have' arrived by that mail. Tho only explanation seems to bo that tho messenger cleared the box before the mail had boen all sorted, Under the circumstance the bbc- ; retaiy had no option but toadmitftlW nominations and they are accordingly announced in our sporting column. An oversight appears to havo been made by his Excellency tho Governor, (or his advisers), in dividing tho Borough of Masterton into wards, by not defining the Borough Licensing Districts according to tho Act, Whether the forthcoming election will bo effected by tho oversight we cannot say, but the Act is very clear on the subject. Clause 6of tho Licensing Act, 1881, reads The Governor shall, as Boon as conveniently, maybe after tho commencement of this Act by prdcliyna- • tion in tho Gazette, from time to time define districts to be licensing districts under this Act, and may from time to time alter and redefine the boundaries of the same. Such districts shall as far as ,possible and convenient be identical.and conterminous respectively with, existing' and future-r(l) Undivided boroughs (2) ■Wards of divided boroughs (3) Ridings of counties the smallest of such divisions being in evory case adopted: Provided that no licensing , district shall contain less than on? hundred ratepayers (4) lload districts outside the counties aforesaid- (5) Such other districts in parts of the colony not comprised within any of the foregoing as may seem fitting Tho districts within or comprising boroughs, ridings of counties, and tho road districts, aforosaid, are ordinary licensing districts Tho remainder are tpocial licensing districts,