The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2810, 30 January 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1888.

Mr Joseph Ward, the well known piannftirfo tuner frum Reichardt's We lington, is now in Maatt-rfcon on a professional visit. "Sir Launcelot" doubts if Beresford will como uti to the Hutt meeting. In his absence lie looks to I,udy Mirah or Administrator to win the Cup. The Sydney Wosleyan Conference have decided to establish a Ueiitenni ;I Thanksgiving Fund of 1.50,000, and in one hour subscriptions in aid of it amounting to L 7,200 wero c llected, A pu'ilio trial of reapers and binders, un-or the auspices of the North Otago A. and P. Association, took place acOamaru on Friday last, when the Reid and Gray took first- place with JOO points, the M'Cormick second with 99 points, Wood third with 91 points, and Howard fourth with 80 points. Six machines wero entered,

Messrs L. J. Hoaper & Co. announce that tiiey have bought at exceptionally low pricoo—:it less than English cost— L 2.000 worth of Ilarcourt's stock of drapery and clothing, and Hi it they are new charing the lot in a way which will give the public great bargains. The Municipal Fire Brispulo had again at Mr D, K Ti.ohiU's recent fire to draw by manual labour thur sham engine uu to thesoene, there being no horse forward to claim the standing reward of 10s offered far the service. It is unreasonable to supposo that the men can arrive at the fire in a fr«sh condition, and as a matter of fact, they are (juife nut of breath with their traction wow by the time they get there. In the, event of a serious fire occurring and one. tint needs prolonged efforts, tins exhamtimi would be very detrimental. We think it is now evident that the Council-should increase the reward to a sum which w 11'. d'cently compensate' a man for the trouble of bringing his horse round on an alarm of lire bein« tjiven— say a guinea. Tliey will either have to do this or elso keep a hor-e which wi 1- run ■1 water cart and do other diy work, and then be Btablod near the engine house at night, /or use in cjae of (ire,

The Railway Department is certainly doim» all it can to re-assure passengers on the Wairawpa railway. Wo understand that the. authorities have established a telephono station at thu scene of the late accident near Pigeon Bush, and have placed a qualified man in charge of it, who,. if a dangerous wind is blowing, will communicate with Featherston and Cross' Greek so that , the trains can bo ballasted as they pass those places. A' number of canvas bags of gravel ballast are kept on hand at these two stations, and are loaded on tho platforms nf the cars as occasion requires. This is in 1 addition to the permanent stock »(iron ballast which is under the seats of tlie oarringes e'c> As a further precaution it is arranged to place heavily JaJen trucks between the cais, as it is recognised that apart from anything else two or more carriage® coming together offer mure resistance to the \yij)d. 'The Department has acted rightly in taking these steps, and the public will no doubt appreciate the care thar is being taken to ensure travelling. ...

Mt'snrs Lowes and lorns add to thoir stuck sale fur Wednesday next 8 line of 60 head of cattle,' The next dire b m iil for England and EuropeclnsHs at Miiatertoiiiit 2.15 p.m. on Er>day 3rd of February. To go by it, correspondence must be specially addressed " ner s.s, Awwa." Aorangi, from London, via Plymouth and Hoburt, arrived at Wellington this morniug. ' From inquiry made this morning, we learn th >6 although Mr Walter Morrison's injuries are cjrtamly serious, lie has had every care, and bo far lms made very favourable progress. Mails for the Australian Colonies, United Kingdom, and the Continent of Europe, via Sydney, close at Auckland per Hauroto on Tuesday 31st instant and are due in London on 20th March. Owen and Go's., premises, Queen street, have been closed and Messrs M. Canelbernand Co.. are busy marking the stock for a large unreserved auction sale which is to be held in .the shop on Saturday next. 4th February, at 11 a.m. A nuw advertisement on the subject appears to-morrow.

The Davies-MoLean second concert on Saturday night attracted a fair circle and front seat audionce, but the pit was almost empty, The programme seemed to give great pleasure, judging by the applause elicited. The violin items wore of course the stems of the evening, and those present mwtnsed this in . their demands for repetitions The Bishop of .Wellington held a confirmation service at St Luke's Church, U'eytown, last night. There wero seven participants in the sacred rite, four girls and three boys. His Lordship holds a similar service in St Matthews, Masterton next Sunday evening The Thermometer at MrW, Dougall's read in the shade at noon today 61 degrees.-- The barometer showed a fall of three tenths since last night. _ The Masterton. Philharmonic Sooiety holds a committee meeting at Mr Gant's at 8 o'clock to-morrow night. .

_ Dr Hosking has resigned His position _as surgeon to the Stonehenge Lodge ot Druids, Masterton, and Dr Milne lias been appointed his successor. The Masterton • Hawera Special Settlement Association holds a general meeting at Mr W. Whitt's at halfpast seven to-morrow evening, At a meeting of the Featherston bchool Committee-held on Saturday evening last, Messrs (J. Pharazyn, of Lougwood, Featherston, and Mr J. Young, of Wellington, were nominated for the vacancies in the Wellington Education Board.

The Grej town Druids hold a gran installation ceremony in the Towi Hill of that township on Thursday 9.1 i February, the proceedings to hi followed by a promenade concert ii the evening. Wellington, Masterton Carterton and o her lodges are to b represented on the occasion. '

_ The paragraph' in Saturday's Weiington evening papers saying that no nominations had beeu received for the vacancies on the Education Board, must have been incorrect, as at least the Masterton Committee's nomination must be to hand as it was sent down last Tuesday. The local committee, it will be remembered, named the Rev J. Paterson as their choice.

Another man has been knocked out of time by the (Mfornian pump, and our streets are again dependent on the Mayor's side ; cliannel water supply, Caffrey, like his predecessor, found the work too hard, and. came to the conclusion that the Council had better get someone else to work " the darned thing." It lias been suggested that Councillor Gapper should have a go at it, just to show the men the way. As we pointed out before, the pump is altogether too large, and no mere alteration of a part of it will make it a oue-man concern. A new one-lock, stock, and barrel—is the remedy,

Several _ more games of the M aster- • ton Tennis Tournament have been played off. In the Single H andicap, i Mr R. R. C. Coleman has beaten Mr H. H. Smith, and in the Double 1 Handicap Messrs A. E*. Bunny and B. Hoskmg have defeated Messrs H, Warren and P. Bakewell. Two Single Championship games have also been played, in which respectively Mr J. Stokes beat Mr T. L. Thompson, and Mr H; Warren beat Mr J. Stokes. We understand that the Club is arranging for a matoh to lie played on Thursday, 16th February, of town members against country members. The contest will consist of nine events, six single and three double, and it will be played on the Mastorton'Tennis ground. TJIO teams will be chosen later on. There was a protest entered at the recent Greytown Sports, that running had been resorted to in the two mile walking race, and the outcome of this is that the contestants. (Messrs 11. Hodge, scratch; F..Collier, 80yds; J and E. Udy, 200 yds;) have agreed to walk the event again- oil Saturday, 11th February. Advantage has been taken ol this decision) to arrange several other items so as to make up an afternoon's amusement on the occasion. They include a mile walking matoh between Joseph ,Jackson and John Barrat, for, it is understood, JJo a-side, a go-as-you-please, and a quarter'of a mile hurdle race. :

William Murphy, the lightweight champion of Australasia, who, 'it will be remembered, figured ni the Masterton Theatre Eoyal some weeks ago in 1 a glove contest with Edward Kelly, has. after all, accepted the challenge which was oh that occasion laid down to him by Mr Schwass, a Carterton amateur; or rather he lias issued a counter challenge, ii which he offers to fight Schwass to a finish in the saino Theatre, for {ho sum of £ls and the door-money. It will be remembered that at the time the. original challenge, was issued by Schwass, it was not accepted by Murphy, he feeling that with his light weight (Bst 41b), and the disabled hand ho was then suffering from, he was no match for Schwass, who fights at ; 18 stone, and is a tall strapping fellow. Schwass, we should mention, although an amateur, has figured in contests of some no!>e, and is a man of considerable. prowness in the fistic arena. Mr T. Thompson, of the Empire Hotel, has kindly consented to act as stakeholder, but so far Schwass has not I

We understand on good authority that the erection of break-wind 1 fences of the same type as those on the Bitnutaka Incline will he proceeded with almost at once at the scene of the recent train accident to the North of Pigeon Bush. Altogether there will be fully half a mile of fencing erected. It will not be in one piece, but in lengths where most required. As soon as these protective works are erected, the iron ballast, which at present is stowed away under the seats of the cars, and is to a certain extent inconvenient as preventing the stowage of luggage in that recess will be removed and the carriages will run in their pristine condition. The fencing is estimated to cost about £ISOO.

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