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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2802, 19 January 1888, Page 2

. Monday next, 23rd January, being set apart for tho celebration of Anniversary Day the Wairauapa Daily will not be published on that occasion.

The programme of the MastertonOpaki Autumn Race meeting will be out •iu a few days, it is now in the hands of the printer's.

We hear that it has been decided to hold a hack race meeting at Teuui en an early day, and a meeting of those interested will be held on the 25th instant, to arrange a programme and fix the exnot date.

On the Winchraore estate in Canterbury there are this yoar 12,000 aoros in wheat and oats. This is a striking contrast with tho Wairarapa whero 300 or 400 acres is about tho outside area in crops on any one farm.

Attention is drawn in our business columns to the facilities offered by Mr George Dixon, blacksmith and farrier of Bannister street for shoeing aivi generally attending to the hoofs of his customers horses, Mr Dixon also brings his chum pion wire strainer under notice, , "Nancy" the journalistic hero of the late general election now resides in Masterton andfrom this centreinspiresthe columns of our Carterton contemporary. " Nancy " recently Bent word down to his journal that we had mistaken samples of road metal sent down to Mr Biemner the Engineer for quariz specimens, Thin yarn supplied by "JNancy " published by our Carterton contemporary and republished by our Masterton contemporary, bears upon its face its own condemnation. Had there been an atom of truth in it l \\ T ancy" would not have written it, our Carterton contemporary would not have published it, and our Masterton contemporary would not have republished it. When Na uoy, when our Carterton contemporary aNd when our Masterton contemporary combine their inventive faculties the result is usually a concoction which would make Baron Munchausen's hair stand on end. In a day or two we will probably be in a position to ."ihibit some specimens of auriferous quartz which, wjll make "Nancy" weep and our Masterton contemporary frantic.

Messrs Lowes and lorns report at their .sale yesterday they penned 700 fat sho»p 50 head of beef, 70 head of store, oittle; and 14 horses, besides vehicles, pigs &c. Sheep maintained previous rates,'wethers being enquirod for, Cattle showed a decline, both beef and stores being down in price. All sold under the hammer with the exception of a few fat steers, which wero passed at 803, and a few hor ses, Good fat wothers made 7a. medium Gs, stores ss, fatewes 4s6tl to ss. 4 line of 30 fafc.speyed heifers ffliuje £3 7s Gd about 12s (id lOOlbs, a line of Css, forward bullod 8 83s, medium steers 60s, small 85s to 50s, store cows and heifers 35s to 40s, dairy stock 40a to 80s, calves 13s, yearlings 255, Two good draught horsed made £ls to Ll6. A few hacks sold from 12 to L 7, Spring Dray, Ll7. Small pigs 8s <sd to 14s, Mr James Ross notifies that he has frikmi into partnership Mr James Muir, of Masterton. The new firm of Robs & Muny will undoubtedly be a strong one both partners possßssbf! the respect and confidence of the community' At Freeman Jackson and Co. V stock saleatWanganui, yesterday the entries were very few in number, and there wav no demand, Cows with calves brought 375: milk cows, from 30s to 57s 6d; fat sheep, ss ; (sd;fliid pigs from 7s Cd to 17a, We are glad to bo ablo to announce that Mr Thomas Bracken, sew Zealand's poet and humourist, has arranged to deliver a lecture in Maaterri.n on next Monday night. The Bubjeot Mr Biaoken has chosen is" An evening with Samuel Lover,

The fcliermumoter at Mr W.' Dougall's read m thu Bhadu tit noon to-day 71 degrees. The Barometer showed »/fall of three tenths siuco last-night:' Mrs Wilsnne'a school re-opens on Tuesday 24th instaut.

Mails fur the Chatham Islands per "Kahu" close at Lyttleton on Monday next the 23id mat at 5 p.m. In the Bankruptcy Court at Wellington yesterday a,n order was inado for the taxing of Mr Travers' bill of costs in the case of Edward Shaw. The Alfredtnn Road. Board invites tenders for metalling 50 chains of tho Alfredton district road, particulars can be seen in the advertisement, The Mastorton Town Lands Trust invite tenders for leasing a cottage and land in Dixon-street for a term of 21 j ears,

A pull of ratepayers who are interested in the proposal to burrow Ll.OOl) for tho purpose of metalling the road between the Mmigapakeha Bridge and Tinui, will be hold at the Tinui public hall, on Friday, 27 th January, Our Carterton correspondent writes under date of yesterday:—There is a fearful gale of wind here to day and the dust is blowing about in clouds.. We understand that telephone connection between Masterton, Mastorton Railway Station, Mauricoville and Mangamahoo will be established to-morrow. Telephone message can bn sent by the publin on the same k-rms as telegrams. Another boxing match has been arranged between Laing, Clnmpion of New Zealand, and Matthews, recently defeated-by--him at Wangtnui. The fh'ht will tako plaee at Otahuhu racecourse Auckland on Thursday, Mareh 29th next.

Tho well-known line of coaches run by MrMacara, between Palnierstun North and Woodville has changed hands, the two drivers Messrs Jones and Hunter having purchased them,

Cheese shipment by factory companios seems tobe becoming moro extensive. The Temuka butter and cheese factory Company recently sent six tons Home by the Knikoura making the ninth ton thev have exported this season. We have already recorded in our columns various shipments by our own surrounding factories, and now the Taratahi Company are dispatching another seven tons and tho Dalofield Company ten tons, both lots to go by the Arawa early next month

The return Cricket Match between the Masterton mid Carterton Clubs will take place on Saturday next on the terrace in a paddock kindly lout for the ojcasion by Mr James Ewington" Play to commence at one o'clock sharp. I'he following team will repiesent Masterton. Rev McKentia, Rremner, A. D'Aroy, 0 D'Arcy, Iggulden, Jackson, Kibblewhite, Moore, Mclvor, Perry and Powuall. Emergency Wickena,

The petition which the Mayor desires to send to the Governor, advocates the dissolution ol the wirds on account of the deadlock between the Mayor (who it says lopresunts the ratepayers) sand the Councillors,au) on the ground of the pr sent system boing found to work unsatisfactorily and extravagantly. Considering that Mr Renal! was the means nf instituting the ward system, this audlcn desire for reform and economy would have been mote consistent if ic had emanated f.om someone else.

The Mayor will have a little trouble before he attains what from his words last night he evidently considers an easy matter, viz,, the signatures of a sufficient number of burgesses so that his petition to the Governor can be sent in regardless t»f tho nbsunce of the Councillors' autographs. Mr Benall according to the Municipal Act will have to obtain the petition of not less than one half of the burge>ses of each ward, before the Governor can by proclamation declare such ward to be abolished and the Borough to be thereafter an undivided one.

Messrs G, Beetham, x M,H,R., andß' M, Galloway, waited on the Minister of Lands yesterday in c-nuecticn with the Mangatainoke Block which the MastertonUuwera Special dettlomunfc Aesuciation has obtained, The Minietcr said that he ■•mild not see his way to reduce the price from 30s uu acre, but the Government would instead make an allowance by "ot chrirgin? forsurvoys, and would plaint out to the satisfaction of members, free of expense. Mrs Partington says. - Dun t keep any oi the quack rtstrums, as they are regimental to the human cistern; but put your trust in Dr Soule's American Hup Bitters, which wdl cure general dilapidation, costive habits, and all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a severe extract of typhoid fever. They are the m pks iHiitm of modicines. " Buston Globe.". Two ORGANS. - Itegulate hrst the stomach, second the liver, especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly, and you will remove at least nine: teen-twentieths of all the ills that mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate, Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two organs "Mains I armor :l \V >NTED al 'adies to fee our last diipneir for the sewn of white embr idered musin robes very oho'c", fr m 25a' 6d to 425, at, T»Aro House, W'lington. N amed, aye wanted all thnyounglad'ci of the »-ity to vi.-i, our showroom and sel ct f»m tho ni" t Iwwtif 1 assortment in the ■ ity heir hats for the seison at 'leAro Hou=e, V\'e liri.'ton Wanted, all mothers to see our pionio hatsfnr the girlvfrom 2d to 6d each, and nur oy*' straw hats f'om 3d to Is eaci, at TeAro House, Welling'on, Waited, aye wanted, 500 customers for ladi s' summ r costumes from 3s 6 ■ to 60s, and su mner man r les and jwkets of eve y desctiptiotfroin2s lid to I guineas, at lo Afo Houbp, Welling on, Want d, evorypti't to sea and buy 4-buttonkii■gives-':amerior qnalty, usual price 2s lid, f>f la" lid. As 500 pairs of t'teieh uea'ready t,een s ]d, n„time6h ul be lost in* curing thtin at To Ar> House, We l in«ton. Wanted, a v o wanted, pmchasera for a s.M'iai'lflVflf < rjen.ul mid oth r laces at about, ha.f ;huir ut-ual price, vjz 2}ij, 3JSd, 5$ land 6il per vnrd, There is l>oiiiifj '0 b§ rush for H >use.—Anvx.