The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1887

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2773, 13 December 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1887

The Mnsterton Volunteers are referred to the District Orders for December which appear in another column, The meeting of creditors in thebankrupt estate of G.T. Farmer, will be adjoumod from Wednesday to Friday next. Messrs Lowes and lorns announce a most attractive sale for next Saturday, when the whole of \V{r Russell's choice collection of p ants, will be sold without reserve, To lovers of horticulture, this sale will afford a good opportunity of indulging their tastes. A cricket match has been arranged to take place at Greytown on Saturday next between the Greytown and Mnsterton clubs. The former have proved themselves to bo efficient with both the willow and leather this season, and judging by tho fiirm of the n irthern reprosenta fives, should not have much difficulty in adding to their Jaurols on Saturday next, Some remarkable and hjtueijip. unrecorded incidents appear to have taken pjace at the Jlitcholstown riots. Here iaoue, as related in the evidence of Constable Michael Doran, reported in the Freeman's Journal:—TJio men that were riding the horses seemed to be spurring them, We made an opening in the horses and got iu side. Jnimpdintcly we g-»t inside the people attacked us yyith sticks," That began the riot, An offort is being liiado in Greytown to paise funds for the erection of a Sunday School building in connection with St. Luke's Church, A sacred and secular concert is-to be given jif the Greytown Town Hall on Tuesday eyening pxt jn aid of, the building fund when tho Masr terton Amatenra have kindly consented to repeat the programme, which met with such groat bugcoss in Masterton a few weeks ago when given for the bonefjt of the Mnsterton Hospital. The annual Sunday sohool picnic 'in connection with the Mnsterton Wesley*!) Church is advertised to take place on Boxing Day ( in those pleasant convenient grounds, Makora Road, kindly lent by Mr A. Elkins. The Kaiwaiwai School Committee have come to the conclusion that "discretion is the better part of valor," and have, in accordance with a demand from the Edu-. cation Board handed over tho keys to the head teacher—Mr kinger-rrwhy re-opened the school yesterday morning, The Maunceville Athletic Club haye decided to hold their annual gathering on Boxing Day, in Mr Gunderson's paddock, Mauricevillo, Tho programme of the days sport is published in another column, and' consists of twenty-seven events, the principal one being the Mauricevillo handicap, of 100,220, and 440 yards, entries % which nipt be mado by Monday, 10th inst. A .cricket match was playe.d at Feather jsjpn ,on Saturday last, .betw.eenthe'jecoii.oj elevens of tjve Greytown and F.eathVraton ; clubs, resulting m ajyiufor the former: by 15 runs. • E. Udy bowled well for the winners securing twelve wiokets for U runs. The ecore3 were.-—Greytown IS and 44; Featherston 31 and 17. For the past twelvo months Mr Voo Starrer, R.M.. has presided at tho Woodvile §o,utt sitting? says the Palratua Star and wo'belie've wokw they have been successful ni.their'suits or not) that a more just 'Magistrate neve'r 'sat upon the Bench.'' 'Some' Magistrates :fej«fly.'y|ien.'tl\ey jare 'siting ,f6' decide &g.,'tliat they'are privileged .to go p'f jthnir'way to make tjlungs .decidedly unpleasant for riaijUiiJjj P}' deie'jidantsi'but l.n '|tr".yon/B.Unrfer , thpir Vp JpuW £sP,' 39,? was pleasant ' to (ilj, and v/M jiurp bis monthly visits to WoodvibV will begreitfjy |M Mr R Ward,, of w M)gßn«i,' .■'ffl!' In' ¥ure take tho Magisterial work at WftfidyiHe, ' and if lie succeeds .in pleasing the same as ' Mr Von Sturmer has done, there will be 1 owifanycoihplaints, - I

A sittins; of tho District. Court will bo held at Mnsterton to-morrow. Tho list contains nofchinp but bankruptcy busineea,

A social gathering in connection with St Matthew's Guild is announced, for Thuisday, tho 22nd iiisc. We have to acknowledge tho receipt from Mr W. Sellar of the lwndsomoorrieo calendar for 1888 of the Now Zealand Insurance Company; Ensilage experiments in this neighborhood aro we understand about to be made by Mr John Hessey and Mr B. P, Perry who will build silos this season.

In the Carterton R, M. Court yesterday beforo Mr Von Stunner R. M. and J. Bayliss, Mr W, Hart was fined 5s for drunkeness, and R, Hompken was sentenced to 14 day's imprisonment for indecent exposure. The only civil case was Thomas Price and Lars Anderson claim for £lol3s Mr Beard for plaintiff, judgement for amount and costs 40s, A meeting is convened for Friday evenill? next at the Theatre Royal, for the purpose of forming a Choral Society in Mastonon, There is ample material in this district for tho formation ot a strong aociety, and we hope the meeting will be well attended by both ladies and "ontlomen who are' willing to further the movement,

A loaded timber dray got stuck in Renall's Creek Queen Street, this morning. Tho driver of the vehiclo took his horse into tho stream to get a drink, when the animal commenced backing and got into a soft bottom and deep water' The load was jettisoned to prevent the dray being completely submerged, and by the means of ropes and plenty of willing hands the horse and vehiclo were drawn Bafely to dry land. A piece of quartz impregnated with gold is now to bo seen at the Club Hotel, Greytown, and we understand a similar specimen has been sent eo Dr Hector for analysis, which the finders allege they knocked off a reef westward of Greytown, on the rah»es. The discoverers are gentlemen of integrity, and we believe if they push their discovery it may be tho means of openin? out a reef which may pay for working.—Standard,

In the Mastertonß.M, Court yesterday afternoon, the case of Jorgeu Krmiius v Henry Dorset, claim for £2B 17s 9d balance of account for work done, occupied the Court several hours. Mr Beard appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Bunny for defendant. Mr L, Holmes acted as interpreter. It appears that plaiutiff had worked for about 14 vears for defendant without having a settling up, he receiving payment on account from timo to time. It was ultimately decided by both sides that Mr Guilder Gunderson sheuld act as arbitrator in the matter, and that his decision should bo final.

Mr J. C. Brown M.H.R. far Tuapeka who has just ''cturned from a trip to England states that he lias made tentative arrangements with English capitalists to establish agencies in the colony for the purpose of purchasing approved meat here at a fixed rate of say, l\& or ljd per lb, free on board. Producers would then get their money at once, and run no further risk, He thinks there is a «rand opening for frozen mutton »t San Francisco, The West American sheep aro chiefly small merino, and the moat poor, and retailed at 10 to 18 cents, per lb. Tho Temperance bodies of Masterton have organised a great United Gospel Temperance meeting to bo held this evening m the Salvation Army Barracks, when addresses will be delivered by the Rev. J, K. Buttle, Captain Buckingham, and other workers in the temperance cause. A procession headed by a itill band will leave the barracks at 7,30, parade the principal streets of the town and return at 8 o'clock, at which time the meoting commences.

Mas Partington' says. Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are re»iiiiental'to the human cistern; but put your trust inDrSoule's American Hop Bitters, which will cure general dilapidation, costive habits, and all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a severe extract of typhoid fever, They are t!)e ne plus vmim of medicines. '' Boston Globe."

Two oiioans, - Regulate first the stomach, second the liver, especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly, and you will remove at least nino-teen-twentieths of all the ills that mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate. DrSoule's American Hop Bitters is the only tiling that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two orgnus "Maine I armor,"

The lapse gf time brings us once more to the festal and orowning month of the year and with it to the time honoured prqctjge oj the free distributionof Holiday, and Christmas presents at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse To Aro House, Wellington. Wc have a really graul variety of useful, ornamental and artistic articles, lit to put on any table, and to adorn equally the mansion and the cot, and these we intend to give away in accordance with the amount of purchases made, during the month of December at the Wholesale Family Drapery' Warehouse, To House, Wellington. "' ■*""■•'' On all cttfh purchases qf the following amounts we s'l/ali give proportionate presents' -thus; purchase 10s gift Is, purchase 15.8 gift Is (id, purchase 20s gift 2s, purchase 25s gift 2s Gil, purchase 80s gift 3s, purchase jjss gift 8s (id, purchase 40s gift 4s, purchase 45s gift Is 6d puvclmse 5Qs gift ss, purchase £3 gift 6s, purchase £i gift Bs, purchase £5 gift 10s purchase £6 gift 1% piirohaso "if gjft 1-is, purchase £8 gift 16$, purchase' £S) gift 18s, purchase jjlO gift 2IJs, and so in the' 'game proportion up io purchases of £SO or mqre at the Wholesale ItyniHy Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington, Wairavapa residents are reminded that in our. Warehouse there is every facility of oxercising a large variety of ohoioe, and that all goods aro marked at actual wholesale prices, that a.visit to our warehouse would at once bo profitable, and enjoyable and that they are sure to carry back with them many pleasing reminders of the advantages secured in pur. charing at the Wholesale Family Drapery fyaeeliQUiie, Te Aro House, Wellington.