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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2763, 1 December 1887, Page 2

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Messrs Fbebiunß, Jackson &Co.report of their Jolmsonville stock sale : yesterday as follows: We had about A the usual number of. cattle, sheep, ansf pigs yarded, and. prices ruled at last sale's values, with the exception of : lambs, which were Is to Is 6d more, • owing to Jthe large numbers entered. ' Pigs were well competed for at Ml.'.: rates. Cattle; Bullocks £5 17s Cd to £6lss, average 16 9s 6d; other lines average £6 Is 2d and £5 Ig&lOd, Sheep: Best wethers9s6dtd^wd;; others 8s to 8s 9d; half fatted wethers 7s to 7s 9d; ewes 6s 8d to 7s lOd; lambs 4sßd to 6s 6d. Pigs:. Good porkers, 18s to 275; smaller 15s to 17s; stores 10s to 14s 6d; small pigs 6s to Bs. .

MAUEIOEVILLE ROAD BOARD, The ordinary meeting of the Board was held on Saturday last. Present: Messrs Win. Jesseu (chairman), G. Gundersen, J. Bannister, and 0. Forsberg. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Correspondence outwards was read from letter book, and inwards from Commissioner Crown Lands re deferred payment thirds; from County Engineer enclosing plana and specifications for bridges over Kopuaranga. Resolved to expend £6 in clearing slips on Dryer's Rock road; to apply to the Land Board for half acre gravelreserve ; to clear the slips' on Limestone Hill. The Treasurer reported a credit balance of £lB9 9s 3d. • Accounts amounting to £ls 9s 8d were, passed for payment, and the meeting then adjourned.

CRIMINAL LIBEL, --..- THE CHARGE AGAINST W, C, NATION, A prosecution for libel was commenced yesterday morning by Henry Anderson, journalist, against William Charles Nation, of Grey town, proprietor of the Wairarapa Standard, for an alleged libellous article published on the 25th September. The libel complained i 3 as follows:

"Is the employment by Mr Bunny and Mr Ballance of a notorious creature like Jock Anderson, (meaning thereby the informant) as a defender of Christian faith and as a public servant likely to do harm to the causo of' Christianity and the public service. Before our readers- answer this let them reflect that this unhappy outcast Anderson (meaning thereby the informant) has constantly violated the code of Christian, ethics, that he was even picked out of a gutter, where his unrestrained vices had cast him, by 'JSr Ballance—himself a notorious infidel —that Anderson (meaning the informant) is now a clerk in the Native department eatiug the public bread placed in his mouth by au" infidel arid which every infidel taxpayer in the community—ourselves included—assist to pay for. Then let the electors ask.. themselves whether such a creatine (meaning thereby the informant) should dare pose as a defender of that faith which has at least been sanctified by the lives and deaths of myriads of noble men and true, pure women. In any election contest, those who participate aro bound to essay some uncongenial duties; but there is a depth of degradation to which wo are not prepared to sink; that is, to enter into any personal controversy with the degraded Henry or Jock Anderson. Lot Mr Bunny and Mr Ballance use him as their bully if they please, as ho has been used before. While fearing neither them or him, we do fear and object to have our name associated with such a lost creature (meaning thereby the plaintifl)." The defendant is also charged with having published on the 26th September.thefollowingarticle: "Jock Anderson (meaning thereby the informant) Ballancedipsoraaniac , , Well the general public objects to rusty revolvers, razors, bludgeons— a stock of which Jock (meaning thereby the informant) carries concealed on his unhandsome person to assail small menwith. Then there is always a fear of spontaneous combustion where he is, and—Here he is. Well, he can't hear whatyousay, Heaven be thanked. Enter Jock in the historical helmet, great coat soiled shirt-collar; big stick, dirty clay pipe, Maori kit, with a public house gin funnel as an ear trumpet, ... During this time Jock (meaning tho informant) has seized the whisky jug and is draining it, Bunny, Forbes, and Armstrong try to prevent him. In the. struggle there is an awful iksh of light' and Jock (meaning thereby tbc.informant) is seen to be enveloped in flames, There is also an awful stench, They stagger back, and when next they look for Jock (meaning thereby the informant) all they can find is the Maori and the public-house funnel. DowneS?" '.'Where's Jock?" (meaning theieby tbe informant). Beckett: 'Gone! Spontaneous combustion! This should be a warning to some of you fellows.'" Mr Gray, who appeared for. the defendnnt, applied for an adjournment on the ground that he had not sufficient time to preparo the defence. Mr Skerrett opposed the application, but it was ultimately agreed to, on the defendant paying witnesses oxpenses. - The case will therefore qome on next Monday,

TO THE EMTOK. Sir,—Will you kindly allow me through your columns to acquaint the people of the Wairarapa of the fact t hw I am giving np the clothing portion w my business entirely, and consequently am now selling mens', jouth's and boy's clothing at whatever it will fetch, as 1 am determined to realiso on it at all hazards. Youra Truly, J. Ihobburn, • - Clothier and Outfitter, corner, of Cuba and Manners St„ Wellington. Dather is OftTINC weil. ~My daughter says, "How much better father is since he used Dr Smile's American Hop Bitters. He is getting well a r »er his long suffering from a disease declared incurable, and wo are' bo glad, ho lined your Bitters." • A lady of Roc Hester. N.Y.-VtoH«ral4r-' • ~'