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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2638, 4 July 1887, Page 2

In response to a request from the Masterton Football Club, excursion tickets will be issued at Wairarapa stations on Saturday next, and: tho departure of the afternoon train from Wellington will bo delayed until 6,35. This will eivo ample time for the match Wellington Club v Masterton Club to be played,'and allow players and visitors to return home in good time.

Rinkirig is evidently becoming a fashionable amusement among the ladles in Masterton a number of the fair sex patronising the rink on Saturday afternoon and seemed to thoroughly onjoy this novel amusement.

The Greytown School Committee hold another lively meeting on Friday night and the Chairman waß asked to resign, which he positively refused to do. After the meeting the Chairman and another member of the Committee attempted, to settle their differences by a pugilistic encounter in which it is said'•that the Chairman came off second best.

The Borough of Masterton is proclaimed subject to the provisions of tne Public Bodies Leaseholds Act 1886, It his understood that the llepresenta-

tion Commissioners are to recoivo between them a Bum of 900 guineas, The oifioial members of tho Commission are to receive . 200 guineas each, and the non-official members 100 guineas each,—Post. ' , A notico appears in another column to tho effect that the Masterton Agency of ( the Wairarapa Standard is at Mr James ] Brown's, Quoon-Btreet, whoro copies of j the paper can bo obtained. ■ ' The annual general meeting of the, Mas- r Horticultural Society takes place this ■ evoninp at tho central chambers, MrG. Beetham will address the electors of Wairarapa North at' the Theatre i Royal Masterton tomorrow evening. | The unfinished senior cup match of the Wairarapa Football Union GreytoWn v Carterton will take place on Saturday 16th lust, and the next heat for the Junior Cup takes place on Saturday next at Greytown, between the E«d Stars and Greytown second fifteen. To-day Mr John Drummotid takes his departure for the North to assume charge of tho Auckland Provincial Shoep District. Mr Drummond s host of friendß in the Wairarapa will regret his departure, not only as an active and vyiknt departmental officer, but also as an old settler, whoße sterling qualities have won the esteem and. respect of all classes in the community. The following team has been selected to represent Masterton in their match arainst the Wellington Club at Wellington on Saturday next:— Back— Roydhouse; halves— C. Perry, W. Perry (captain); quarters Homewood, MeKenzie, Stewart; Wings Hounslow, Polling; Forwards Whatman, Cox, Welch, F. Perry, W. Day, Kibblewhite, C. Bannister; Emergencies-Back-11, Thompson; Forwards O'Connor, J.

Bannister, P. Welch. At the Leestonß.M. Court on Friday last before Mrßichmatid Beetham R.M., Jas Warburton, head master of the Lakeside school, was charged with committing an indecent assault upon a girl 10 years old, one of his pupils named Martha Winchester, on June 15 last, Ohief-Deteotive Nell conducted the prosecution. A deal of evidence was taken from the p;irl and also from her sister three years older, in support of the charge. The evidence, on cross-examination by Mr Russel, proved conflicting, and showed an animus against the master, owing to his being strict. The Benoh declined to convict the accused, and he was discharged. Jubiloe balls,carnivals, pastimes, gaieties and celebrations have now nearly run their courao, and the public haw by this time beeu almost, if not satiatod with the subjoot. It is becoming tame, wearisome flat, stale, and unprofitable, save and excopt only as it applies tothe marvellous Jubilee gilts at To Aro House, Cuba street, Wellington. Here you gain everything and lose nothing. Call the gifts what you like they are gilts for all that. It is pleasant when buying drosses, raautlos,. and niilUnory to luiow that you got them of the best quality, from the largest selection in town, ana at the lowest possible prices, with a suitable and artißtio present town in at Te Aro House,-Cuba street Wellington. ■ It is pleasant when you are buying oarpets, blankets, sheetings; and other household requistes to know that you are" killing two birds with one stone," getting the fun value'for the monoy you spend, and adding gratuitously to your household adornments from the' Jubilee gifts at Te Aro Houso, Cuba street Wellington. This is a free country; Wo do not volunteer unnecessary advice as to the spending of money, nor do wo take all the credit for the present low prices of drapery goods, but we do say wo'offor advantages not obtainable elsewhere. We ''have already distributed some thousands of our Jubilee gifts, and up to' the end of the month hope to give away as many more This is putting into pratice the advioe so often heard of late," Let us Jubilate, let us be merry Jet us be wise," in securing our share of them at the Wholeealo Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Cuba street,"Wellington.—ADVT. A Wonderful Henn.—Many are the inatancescited of the astonishing fecundity of the various speoics of domesticated fowl; but the celebrated Wellington Henn (which, strange to Bay, is of the masculine gender) has a soul above the mere produotion of egpß. The manner in which he turns out Venetian Blinds, etc., is the-wonder and admiration of everybody,, froni the Governor down' wards. The name of this wonderful bird is R, W. Henn, and his well-known fowlhouße' is the Poneke Stoam Window •Blind Factory, Molesworth-street, Wellington.—Advt,

John Hindley Ea<Veg contractor oralorisons Bush has filed a petition in Bank uptoyl ' ' ' Mr A. Phillips advertises for a siiftrt ingle young man fqrjm pork butchering (UsineSS, . . . ' Tenders qro invited until Monday July Ith for erecting wire fencing particulars,; san be obtained in another column. N One pound reward .i 3 offered for a pair )f barrels belonging to a breechloader, lost between, the Maori pah and the Wangaehu road, ■ . : .Tkegeriewlmeeting of tie Masterton Fkriners club'was'to'haVe' b»bri held "on 1 Saturday last, but lapsed from the ,non attendance of members. A meeting -, is now called'for the: 9th iiiat. when the questions of arranging a Ploughin? Match; and the erection of a shed for storing grain will be discussed. Messrs Lowes &, lorns add to their Stock Sale tor Wednesday next ;—6OO good "crossbred ewes, 20 head mixed cattle, and 6 young dairy cows springing. Their sale now embraces :■ —1600 crossbred ewes, 000 fat shoep, 350 store wethers, 20 fat heifers, 10 forward bullocks, 20 head mixed cattle, 20 pigs, 10 horses, and sundries. . A. meeting of the Executive Committee of the Masterton Pastoral Association was held on Saturday afternoon, Mr R, S. Hawkins presiding.; It was resolvec that Mr W. Sollav be paid four guineai as a remuneration for clerical service:! That the Secretary interview Mesen Lowes and lorns and arrange date fo; annual horse parade to be not later that September. ' The date of the annua show was fixed for Novembor 17. Tli Committee adopted the programme o last year with the following alterations —Entries to be not later than -Novombe

7; that all purebred cattle calved since July 1885 must be. led. into the show ring; that two classes be made for ponies viz,, those fourteen hands and over thirteen hands, and thirteen hands and under, this also to apply to ponies shown in buggies; that any hacks shown in sections 30 und 3T (in old programme) may also be shown as ladies, hacks or buggy horses; that heifers calved since 1884-5-6 be shown in pens of one as well as pens of two; that a sweepstake of £1 with entrance money added be givon for the best pen of fivo oalyes, any breed, calved after July 1,1886, and-bied by exhibitor; that wet eweß be allowed to compete without lambs at foot/for the champion prize; that a prize be given for the best collection of agricultural implements manufactured in Wairarapa' North or. South and exhibited by makers residents in these districts; that the Secretary write to invontors of shearing machines, and ascertain if they will exhibit at tho annual show. Messrs Gorringe and Maxwell were elected memberß of the Association. The meoting then adjourned.