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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2783, 24 December 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Established— 1803; Hokicika • '. 186U j Mastertun, AGENCIES; The Standard Insurance Company of Neiv Zealand; Fire Marine, and Fidelity Guarantee; Korbury's Draining Pipes; Mutual Life Association of Australasia; ;■"''■', Bock and Cousins Rubber Stamps and Inks. IVT A QTTG\i)T'/Y\r • ABoimightowur-dividetf into four wards with 12 ropulation 3.160, there are eiyhiy strectK, liaviug a total lengtli of •I*l AUI JLVlllUll • 83 miles 63J chains, The area of tho Borough is 5311 acres 3 roodu and 13 perches. The annual rateable value of property is £23,155. The rates are Is in the £ for general purposes, and ono penny in the £ for Fublic Library (with a free Heading room and Library, and contains over 2000 volumes) The 'town is lighted with gas. There are three branch banks, and two other banks have bought sites, six Licensed Hotels, and two private hotels, County Club, two daily papers and two weeklies, the Theatre Eoyal, two Flour.Mil's, two Steam Sash and Door Factory. Market days-Wednesdays and Saturdays, when stock and other sales are held by two auctioneers, It is the chief township the Wairarapa, 71 uiiles.rail from Wellington, and one'-'df the largest inland towns in the North Island, in the heart of pastoral and agricultural property, There are the following Societies: Freemasons (Scotch aud English), M.U.1.0. Oddfellows, Foresters, Druids, United Friends, Rechabiles, Gospel Temperance Union, and Good Templars, Company ■of Itiflc Volunteers, two companies of Firemen, having one steam fire engine and two manual engines. . The Wellington and Wairarapa Acclimatisation Society have their breeding ponds here. Two Cricket Clubs, Lawn Tennis and Three Football Chits, Caledonian Society, Pastoral and Agricultural Society, Farmer's Club, Poultry Society, Horticultural and Industrial Society holding Autumn and Spring Shows, a Jockey Club owning a freehold course, adjacent to the town where Spring and Autumn Meetings are held. The District Court, lt,M. Court, Bankruptcy Court, and Licensing Courts are held here, in which tho District Judge and Resident Magistrate preside, the Court House lwijig the head office for judical affairs in the Wairararapa, there being live solicitors practising in it. The public Hospital, managed by alliardofsix Trustees, and having tlio attendance of two medical men. The North Wairarapa Benevolent Society is managed here bjft3jUent Committee. The Wairarapa East County Council offices arc situated in tnc town, and also the Masterton Road Board Offices. Churches-Church of England, Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Salvation Army; 'Two public schools, with average attendances of 500; Town Lands Trust, Cemetery Trust; Masterton Permanent Investment wid Building Society; Public Trust Officer A public park ot 30 acres, having a cricketing oval; also an endowment in the Forty-Mile Bush of 701 acres, let ou an improving lease, Town Lands Trust of 70 acres from which a revenue of £3OO is obtained, two Bathing Sheds, two Brass Bands, vo üblic schools, two-large public Cattle and Sheey Sale Yards, Town Hall (Jumipuni), Institute. ' . PROPERTIES FOB SALE.

Register ' ■ It'ipol Ko= . , £ 301 Opaki, 103 acivß, dairy, farm \ aud 120 shcop and (i cows ~. . „ 1000 318 Mastevton, 6 acres at £4s'each ; Easy terms,.., <. ■• .•;; 'ls 353 Bannister Strcot section toi'ma - '''" ■' £2sci»sh,£7satß% -,.■-;';;; 100 364 Tinui town sections, easy terms" from£2oto . 38? lorns 1 ' estate, sections each • •;' 00 MO lorus' estate, G acres £IOO eflfih,; balance 0% . ' : 000 391 Sangitumau, 2139 acres ;teni»' ■": £250 cash, balance at b% for 0 . years ■ '■'-2800 410 Station andStoek, 27,000 acres'r";; ; '.easy terms .. MOOO 421 Rangitumau, 100 acres, good" paddock, orchard, and hop gar- :;•. den, new house, good dairy farm"' 800 420. Carter's line, 314 acres, ring fenced; grassed, house, easv terms, ■} casli balance at 0 % JL.1884 ,129 Opaki, 388 acres, ring fenc' 0 roomed house, Terms half ciibVl94o 130 Pakuratuhi, '4OO acres, 0 roomed house. Terms ; \cash 1940 43G UangituHia'u, 210 acres, only quarter cash -210 439 Chapel Street, 7 roomed' houso and 1 aero 075 440 Kurupuni, 5 roomed house and '2!acros . :. 000 442 Church Street,7 roomed' houseand land r' s . , .850, 444 Opaki, 821 acres, '.good; house, •' well fenced aiid watered, | cash 3101 52 Church srroet, 8 roomed house 525 453 Victoria street, 8 roomed hbiißO 700 478 Opaki. 60 acres, good houso 500 .79 Bannister street, 7 roomed' :''■■ house arid pardon; 425