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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2760, 28 November 1887, Page 2

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council takes place to-morrow evening. The Masterton Masonic Lodge, E.C., meet this evening at the Masonic Hall, Bannister Street. Mr Henry Jones, of tho Upper Plain, advertises for a few acres of good grass to cut for hay, The Canterbury ring are about to set another little game going 1 The Summer Railway is to be placed somehow by somebody.

At the meeting of the South County Council on Saturday last, Mr Coleman Phillips said that the sooner the County delegated their powers to the Road Boards, the better for the district.

The train arrangements for the Wellington Eacing Jlubs Spring Meeting is published in another column, It is also notified that on St Andrews day (Wednesday) Saturday return tickets will be issued which will be available for return on the following day.

Between eleven and twelve on Saturday night the late train from Wellington arrived, The public in Masterton fancied that some accident had taken place on the line, but the authoiities had, it appears, quietly put tho train back for racing purposes without intimating tho alteration to those interested in it.

'Hie Woodvillc streets must bo capit il grazing ground judging by the following paragraph from last Friday's Examiner. "The first borough impounding notice appears in another column. Since the pound has been established it is estimated that not less than 400 head of cattle and 50 horses have been taken off the streets.' 1

A singular instance of the rapidity of growth among tho lads of Fielding is found in the following circumstances says an exchange. One of them, who endea voured to enter for the Boy's Raco of 14 years of age at the Feilding sports in 1886 applied to get his name on the electoral roll for Manawatu during 1887, Ho only missed by a few months, This beats the record,

The following are the amounts of cash prizes and silver medals awarded at the recent Show of the Masterton Pastoral and Agricultural Society Cash prizesHorses £SB 9s, Cattle £24 7s, Sheep and Pigs £4O 17s, Implements £3l 12s, Total £154 19s, Medals—Horses 31, Cattle 15, Sheep and Pigs 36, Implements 10, total 95, valued at £57 10s. The estimated receipts and expenditure for the year are set down as, receipts £535 lCs 3d, expenditure £447 lis, thus leaving a credit balance on this year's show of i'BB.

Not the least seasonable and useful articles we have received by the steamer liuapehu are about fifteen pieces of beautiiul pongee silks, 22in wide,_ at 3s Gd per yard. These are in white and in all those shades moat in demand, viz, creaui, orange, mexique, blue, navy, Cleopatra, or old rose, beige, rose clair, inagdala pink, cardinal, fawn, &c., and are now sdlling rapidly at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.

Concerning these pongee silks, our Home buyer writes from London 11 These are very largely sold here this season for dresses, sashes, curtain band linings, facings, and a variety of other purposes, and being exceedingly cheap, will no doubt be eagerly sought after by the oustomers of Te Aro House, Wellington,

Mr Kinnear our special buyer, being an acute, smart, business man, and possessed of an educated and refined taste, lias thought fit to send out by the same steamora very select assortment of exceedingly rich And handsome black moire damasse I'ekin silks, which are now such a•' huge success" in fashionable circles at Home, and which every ladyshould'ipakeita matter of conscience to inspept, without delfw at Te fao House, Wellington. We are also showing a lot of ladies' taffeta silk gloves, 2gin long, ond in beautiful light summer shades,- quality iiijexceptiQnable, being from the best glove manufacturers in the world, for 2s Gd per pair, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, To Aro Houso, Wellington,-Apu,

Parliament on Saturdaylaat met on the Island Bay JRaco Course.

Mr Ben.ill will address the burgesses of Masterton tit the Theatre Royal this evening at 7.30, The Wellington Botanical Garden is becoming, according to a Wellington paper, a wilderness of weeds and rubbish.

Wellington raised £6OO and Canterbury and (itago £2200 for the Jubilee Fund, £2817 haa been Bent to tho Imperial Institute, Constable Itoach has laid an information against Ml'J. Tuck, of the Eketahuna Hotel,for keeping Ins billiard room open after 10 p.m. Our issue of to-day .is printed with a Double Hoyal Wharfdale printing machine which we have just imported from England, and which is driven by one of Crossley Bros" Otto" gas engines. ■, : flansardsare becoming biggornuisances than ever. New members compare horribly with their predecessors by making longer, drearier and feebler speeches Messrs Lowes and lorns agent for Reid and Gray of Dunedin notify that thoy will give a public trial of their new patent Acmo harrow at Mr Cave's farm Te Ore Ore on Thursday next at 3 p.m. and invite farmers to be present. A resolution was passed at the Wairarapa South County meeting on Saturday last, that the Council co-operate with the other bodies of the Wairarapa with a view to this district managing its own Hospital and Charitable Aid affairs, •

At the London wool auctions on Satur day 8200 bales were offered, making a total of 36,600 bsles submitted since the opening of the series. Tho market is steady, and for superfine and finest qualities Kenerally there is a pood demand. The Zealandia with the English mails of 2nd of November left San Francisco for Auckland on the 19th insfc one day lato. The Alameda with the Colonial mails of the 7th of November arrived at San Francisco from Auckland on tho 2(ith one day earlier than time table date,

The openins; match of the season, Married v. Single was played by tho Masterton Cricket Club on Saturday last, when the bentdicts were defeated by 18 runs. The match was played on Messrs Lowes and lorns grounds, Renall Street, the field being very rough. For tho winners, C. Perry was top scorer with 25 runs, T. S. Farrar he iding the losers with a nicely played 20. Kibblewhite was the most successful trundler for the single, and Iggulden for tho married. The following are the scores: —Single— O. A. Pownall b J. Williams 8, C.D'Arcy c Mooro b Iggulden 5, Kibblewhite b Williams 2, A, D'Arcy b Iggulden (i, 0. Perry c Moore b Iggulden 25, Mclvorb Jackson 7, W. Day b Iggulden 0, Grantham not not 7, W. Welch b Iggulden G, byes&c 10, Total 70. Married—Jackson b D'Arcy 9, Bromner b Pownall 7, Williams .c Welch b D'Arcy 2, Farrar b Mclvor 20, Iggulden b Mclvor 5, Moore b Kibblewhite 2, Wickens c Welch b Kibblewhite 5, Maine b Kibblewhite 1, E. Minifie not out 2, Extras 7. Total 58.

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