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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2841, 7 March 1888, Page 2

The public hall at Fielding was destroyed by lire early yesterday morning. | The "Leap year dance" has already been introduced into the programmes of Wairarapa balls, and this phase of the light fantastic in which the lady instead of being wooed for the privilege herself extends the invitation"May I give you the pleasure?" is becoming very popular, A four-roomed house at Wangaehu, occupied by Michael MeMullen, was burnt to the ground last Sunday night, at eleven o'clock, very little indeed except a few clothes being saved, and MeMullen and his family escaping only with difficulty, The house was insured for LIOO in the New Zealand Insurance Compauy, and the furniture for MO in the same oflice.

The Auckland 1 Herald' urges the claims of Sir George Grey as AgentGeneral.

The Norsewood Brass Band, Hawkes Bay, planked down £125 in gold for their sat of instruments,

( Mr H, IS'eilson lias lodged an application to be allowed to slaughter cattle on his premises at Mauriceville.

We undei*atand that Mr A. MeGlashan, Into of Masterton, has relinquished the confectionery business which he started in Manners-street, Wellington.

Mr Cuningham, of the firm of Cunmgham, Badham and Oa, auctioneers, has been appointed manager of the Wellington Meat Preserving Company,

Tho Eketahuna Road Board have granted the use of their office so that a monthly R, M, Court can be held thoro in future,

Wo notice that Mr J. In. Brunton, our enterprising local tailor, has got into his new premises next to Messrs J. Ewington amßons wheelwright's shop, and is prepared to do as large a business as euer.

The North island representatives took £449.10s of the prize money at tho New Zealand Rifle Association's meeting, and the Southerners £444105.

Sir Julius Vogel proceeds to England by the Aorangi on Thursday, in connection with the business of the South, Pacific Publishing Company, an impor-' tant literary "Undertaking planned by a number of colonists, Messrs Loves and lorns add to their stock sale 150 breeding ewes, 100 fat ewes,-and 100 fat wetbers.

Tenders are invited by the Public Work's Department, in an advertisement, for leasing the toll at the Manawatu Gorge Bridge. It transpired last night that the £5 which the Mayor has added to his water scheme appropriation fund, is in consequence of the stream having scoured away the approach to the culvert where it crosses the road near the Railway, and owing to which some of the water now escapes into the mill race and only a proportion of it can be brought dowu to the town.

We hear that Mr John Burrow has disposed of his property at Gladstone, and intends removing to the Whareama. The purchaser is a gentleman who until recently has been gaining experience as a cadet, on one of tho largest sheep stations in the North Wairarapa. It lias been ascertained that at the recent Palmerston race meeting two individuals invested £2O each on tlie totalisator on Dudiifthe w'mnerof the M.R.C, Handicap, and had she not won they would have demanded back tho money, and they had printed forms already prepared to hand into the proprietors of the machine. It is believed, says the Post, that the same tactics are to be carried out in Wauganui by them. Professor Blackie, who is himself a warm sympathiser with the crofteragitation, says Mrs Gordon Baillie is so clever that siio would deceive the devil himself. She has been living for some years in great style, and has attracted considerable attention as a woman with large means, She has now disappeared very suddenly, and has a large number of debts unpaid. The defectives are searching for her with a warrent for Iter arrest on a charge of fraud, Mrs, Gordon Baillic's mother earns her living as a charwoman.

When at the Borough Council meeting yesterday evening it was arranged to take the Works Committee's report seriatim, in response to the very forcible representations of the Mayor, the latter secured quite in his element. The Clerk read an item, Cr Gapper as Oliaiaman of the Committco chanted forth an explanation and Hie Worship kept up a running commentary in a comical strain,, which kept the faces of the audience in one continuous lain,

As much curiosity is felt as to the number of shares and their values, tlio following list lias been compiled of Broken Hill ventures:—Broken Hill Proprietary, IG,OOO dhares, quoted at £405, paid up £9; British Broken Hill, 240,000 shares, quoted at £7 ss, paid up L 5; Broken Hill Block 14,100,000 shares, quoted at Ll4, paid up Li lis; Broken Hill South, 100,000 shares, quoted at Lll, paid up Ms; Broken Hill North, 120,000 shares quoted at L 3 us, paid up 15s; Broken Hill Junction, 100,000 shares, quoted at W, paid up 12 b; Broken Hill South Extended, 100,000 shares, quoted at LI os, paid up Bs. A meeting at the Masterton Cemetery Trust was held yesterday, present Messrs Payfcon (Chairman,) Feist, Hare, Galloivay, Hourigau and Buriny. The minutes of tlio prevous meeting having been confirmed, the Treasurer reported a credit balance of £2O los 3d. Applications from the Benevolent Society and Mr Ja»o were received for a rebate of burial charges in certain cases. The former application was acceded to and the latter, held over for enquiry, A letter was read from Colonial Secretary notifying appointment of Mr R. M. Galloway as a Trustee. Secretary reported that conveyance of Cemetery had been mislaid, It was decided to make every effort to discover the missing deed and if unsuccessful to ask the Education Board, who originally made the conveyance, to sign a second one, Tlio Trustees liavo decided to hold regular quarterly meetings on first Thursday in January, April, October, and December, at half past seven,

The meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night was characterised by a liberal interlarding of the " funny business," without which His Worship the Mayor seems unable to endure, and which to judge by theirabandonment to it, isconsidered by the whole Council to be a graceful and refreshing way of relieving the inotonomy of what would ordinarily be a very hum-drum afliiir. Oil several occasions last night, however, things sot more than mildly exciting, and when Cr. Gapper, who was one of tliree or four Councillors who were all on their feet, at the same time and who wore all talking at once, refused to obey the mayor's fierce injunction to "Keep your seat sir," His Worship showed every sism of visiting the obstructing Councillor with the terrible consequences of disobedience and said he" would soon make him." Luckily odo of the many other diverting incidents at this moment took away His Worship's attention and when next he looked towards Cr. Gapper it was with if not the smile of forgiyenoss at least with vanished wrath.

The representatives of two rival life insurance offices' wltc are at present in Masteuton, have becomo so warm in their protestations of the superiority of each other's institutions, that nothing will avail them but arguing the matter out in public, and to night, at the Club Hotel, the civil war of the Government Life Insurance (Mr J. Young) v' Equitable Life Insurance of the United States (Mr Ravenliill) will bo fought out to the bitter end by their respective'energetic agents before a jury of thirty pentleinen, whose duty it will be to listen to the arguments and return a verdict in favor of lie whose claims for superiority prove most convincing. The talk is expected to .be botli fast and furious,

Great preparation is being made by die ladies of Mauriceville for a bazaar which is to be held tlicro oil Easter Monday, in aid ot the Lutheran Church,

A lost ladies gold brooch is advertised for.

It waß Mr R. Evernden's timber-wagon which came to grief in Lincoln lload yesterday. The front axlo broke. The English Cricket team will play in Wellington on the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th instants,

The thermometer at Mr W. Dougall's read in the shade at noon to-day 74 degrees. The barometer slill shows a slight but regular fall, and this would seem to indicate rain.

Captain Wlute of Auckland, who was Rifle Champion last year and third on the' list this timo, will be in Masterton to-night and tomorrow on a holiday visit. Most of the cocksfoot grass seed grown at Mauriceville has now been sold. The growers wore hardly satisfied with the price they got, from 3d to JUd per lb, and consider this reduction due to the greatly larger quantity, which this"season came down to Masterton from the bush, there having been, it is estimated, quite twice as much put into the market from that district this year. Two largo loads came down even to-day, Last season, the yield from the same .locality realised 3|tl to 4d.' Thej.ea.pers and binders seem to bo missing a good deal of grain in their traverse of the fields,. at least that portion over which the wheels pass being left. Several fields around Masterton which we have seen would well repay if gleaned, and children could easily earn tivo or three shillings' a week at it,' Although Lincoln sheep seem to be all the rage in the Wairarapa now, and this kind of ram is being largely used for breeding from, some owners will find later on that Lincolns will not suit their class of grazing, and they will have to go back chiefly to Bomneys, and in some cases to Cotswolds. No -doubt, where tho country will run them well, Lincoln crossbreds are at present the most profitable, but they can only be kept payably on good land. It is reported that some of the Lower Valley wheat crops are a " bit off" this year, while others on better land have done well, Tho former, on the whole, are the exception, and at the worst they will supply the want that is always existing for fowls' wheat, While on the grain topic, we hear reliably, that the crops down in Southland are this season almost an entire failure in many parts of the district, tho cold, wet, and windy weather having played havoc with them in January and February. A citoss lUBY, • Nothing is bo conducive to a man s remaining a bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of a married friend, and being kept awake for live or six hours by the crying of a cross baby, All cross and crying babies need only Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters to make them well and smiling, Young man, remember this. '• Traveller."

Pees of Doctors.—The lee of doctors is an item that very tinny povsons arc interested in at present, We believe the schedule for visits is $3.00, >vhich would tax a man confined to his bed for a year, and in need of a daily visit, over 01,000 a year for medical attendance alone! And one single bottle of Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters taken in time would save tliu §I,OOO and all the year's sickness. "Post."

. Ouii special price-list recently issued, and giving a few details of some of the bargains in the bankrupt stock o£ A. G, Price, lmd the effect, on Saturday, of drawing one of the largest crowds of visitors that were ever congregated within the walls of To Aro House, Wellington.

They came from all quarters, from the North, the South, the East, the West-from the Hutt, l'etone, Johusonville, l'orirua, the Manawatua, and Wairarapa, ancl from the Province of Marlborough and elsewhere. They came in shoals, not to look only, but to buy, and buy they did, wisely, discriminatingly, and cheaply, at (lie wonderful sale of Price's bankrupt stock at Tc Aro House, Wellington, 1' ltoM all quarters comes the assertion of this undoubted fact, that nothing like this sale has ever transpired in the city; that for genuineness and the multitude of unmistakable bargains it is without a rival in this city or elsewhere, So say we of Te Aro House, Wellington. We want all our friends and the public to understand that we were not able to move the whole of Price's stock at once. We brought and are bringing it down gradually, day by day, so that there is no fear of scarcity of bargains, They will not run on' while this sale continues, and the last customer equally with the first will go away rejoicing because of his good fortune at the sale of Price's bankrupt stock at Tc Aro House, Wellington. Wi; cannot keep this sale going for] more than ten days from the present. date, and therefore we would urge the public of the town, suburbs, and country districts, to grasp this present opportunity and empty their pockets, while supplying all their requirements at lower prices than were ever known in .New Zealand at the sale of Price's bankrupt stock at To Aro House, Wellington,—Ami'