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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2847, 14 March 1888, Page 2

Masterton Horticultural Society meets to-night. Committee 7.30; general meeting at 8 o'clock. Mr Jas. Stuckey, of To Rangitumau, advertises cocksfoot seed for saje'in Jots to suit buyers, and will Bend samples on application. Tenders are invited by the North Wairarapa County Council for the construction of a platform bridge on the Masterton to Wairoafca road. Mr F. H. Wood adds three hundred good breeding ewes to the already comprehensive list for his to-morrow's sheep, cattle, and horse'gale at the Taratahi yards. At Leeston, the other day, according to the Lyttelton Times, a calf was born having three heads. lUie'd shortly after it saw the light of this world. The owner never mourned a death more " for," ho said lugubriously, "the fame and fortune of a Barnum would have soon been mine had the thing lived.

We understand that William Smith of Sydney, a middle weight man, fighting a' 10 stone lOlbs, hearing that Murphy's absence had disappointed Schwass of Carterton, has himself arranged to meet the latter in a fiejht to a finish, under the Marquis of Queensberry rules, for LIS a side and the gate money, at the Theatre Royal, Masterton, nest Saturday evening. Schwaas' boring weight is 13 Bt»ne.

The Masterton Road Board advertisos a notification regarding various special orders , ThePetone Town Board if getting mbitioua, It that the proposed new municipality shall be called "Britannia." Captain Edwin wired at 1.20 p. m. to day: -"North-west to west and South ?alo, and further Vise of glass, with colder weather." The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (limited) have received the following telegram from their London oicoi-Tallow. - Market quiet. Good mutton is worth 25s Cd, and beef 24s per Cfft. The Amuri Sheep Fair which is to be held in the new saleyards at Culverdon| the terminus of the North Canterbury Railway, on March 15, promises to be the largest sale of pure merinos ever held in the Colony. The entry comprises no less than 26,000 ewes, 14,900 wethers, a total of 41,600 sheep. » MrD. E. Mull's Royal Hotel has undergone a thorough transformation and renovation, and it is now one of the most comfortable hostelries in Masterton. Travellers and the public will therefore do well to give Mr Toohill a call and they may rely upon receiving courteous attention and the very best of everything. From a calculation in the Wanganui Yeoman, it appears that in the colony there are no less than 290 race meetings, and'as some of these extend over two or three days, there is sufficient racing for every day in - the year, Sunday included, if no two meetings were held on the same day. But it is the number of horses that proves so startling. During, the last, season 2547 horses took part in these 290 meetings. Of course that number includes hacks and trotters, but oven then the figures are something extraordinary. An adjourned meeting of creditorsin the estate of G. F. Maiisell of Masterton,

painter, was held yesterday when there was again no quorum present. The debtor was examined by the Deputy Official Assignee, and ascribed his position to losses on contracts, and having been laid upfora considerable time witlf a broken le». He further stated that about four months ago a deed was drawn up and signed, according to which his creditors were to be paid five shillings in the pound for all their claims. He expected to realize the necessary funds outof hisbook dobts,and had no other means of meeting the engagements he then thus entered into. Since then pressure had been brought upon him, and he had been compelled to file his schedule. Hi? gross takings in tho tobacconists Bhop, which he had carried on tor some time, would have averaged about £2 or 12 5s per week. He had sold out this part of his business sometime ago, and used the money for business purposes as shown in his books. Be had made several losses on contracts which he had taken. There being no creditors present, this closed the proceeding. OurEketahuna correspondent writes:— "It has remained for our newly elected Eketahuna Licensing Committee _to discover a fresh want under the Licensing Act. At the first meeting ot that body held tho other day, it was decided to give notice to Mr Tuck, the landlord of the local hotel, to add a bath-room to his premises. 1 wonder whether any member of the Committee could deposo upon oath, that there is not a bath-room in the hotel. Supposing such an additmn is really wanted, I presume the Committee might, in the next instance, proceed with a resolution demanding of the landlord to keep a constant supply of hot water for his customers, also a specified of clean towels and so many cakes of scented soap. The appearance of that bath-room after it had been used by half a dozen men who have just completed a logging-up contract would baffle description. But possibly the members of the Committee require the bathroom for themselves, and are of opinion that the Makakahi river is good enough tor bushmen.

A tea meeting will be held at Dreyertown on Thursday, 29th March, in connection with the anniversary of the Presbyterian Church,

We understand that the Poneke Football Club will play the Masterton first fifteen on the Queen's Birthday, if that date is not selected for a match which they havo to play against the East Christchurch Club. As both Clubs hold the Senior Challenge Cups in their respective districts, a meeting between Maoterton and the Ponekes would be highly interesting.

Coal exploration up the Waingawa river is not being allowed to slumber. On tho opposite side of the stream to Mr Falconcr'B property, and on Mr Shaw's estate, three foreipnors have got a shaft down about sixty feet, and they profess to have obtained most admirable results. The prospects where these men are working are said to be superior to any yet alluded to, and they are steadily engaged in sinking deeper. They are, we understand, carrying on the investigation entirely on their own account, in tho terms of a permit they have received from Mr Shaw

Maine news,—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bittern, which are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for ague, biliousness and kidney compaints. Those who use them say they cannot be too highly recommended. Those afflicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in tho praise of their curative qualities,-" Portland Argus.' Shrewdness ■ & Ability.—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters bo freely advertised in all the papers, secular and religious, are having a larpe sale, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denyin? the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters have shown great shrewdness and ability in compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every one's observation.—' Examiner and Chroniolo.' What is a ''plum?" Well, we suppose every man, woman, ohild, and even lisping infants could answer that question without a moment's hesitancy. Still there ate other Opiums" than those grown on trees. There are such in the drapery trade, and by the term is understood anything deliciously, refreshingly, and charmingly cheap, so cheap aiidplun}lj)fe as to make mouths water and handsoutstretcbed \ q grajspthem. Suph 'plums' there are still an abuadap.ee'in Price's bankrupt stock sale, at Te Aro House Wellington. Weat are "jobs?" Certainly no relations to the Astern Patriaroh; not a piece of work or anything to be fane. The word, originally derived from the French, means a "mouthful," Drapers use it to mean gflids sold considerably under regular prices, Plenty of these "jobs," and j&rfl ones at that, are. still to be had at Price's bankrupt stock sale, Te Aro House Wellington. What is ment by "full swing ?" This la a very vulgar term, and used only by those who ought to know better ' II tanotrofei 'i as one mfglil naturally suppose, to the accompaniments of a otrsuß or a fair, "Fullswing,' in drapers'minds, maws rattling, pushing, driving business, such as bas been going on for the last month, and still continues, at (he Te Aro House sale of Price's bankrupt stock Wellington, ' n . To these "plums," these "jobs," now in "full swing," otnerwise rapidly selling, wo invitetlie attention of the public, Many a •plum" and' "job!' have been seouredby thousands of customers during the progress of this remarkable sale, and many noreare only waiting to be appropriated by visitors to the sale of Price's bankrupt stock, at Te Aro House Wellington.—A»vi.

The total recent rainfall in Maßterton was '96 of an inch.

The thermometer at Mr W.' Doucall's read in the shade at noon to day 64 degrees.

_ The Carterton Rival Football Club intends this Beason haying a shot at both the Senior and junior Cups of the Wairarapa Rugby Football Union. ' Borne people are very fond of law, remarks the Dunedm Star. It then goes on to say that half-an-hour's time wbb wasted at the Resident Magistrate's Court over a case in which the amount in dispute was lid, the plaintiff putting the machinery of the law in motion to recover the large sum of Is lid for nails or screws, or something of the sort, supplied; while the defendant admitted owing Is, and paid that amount into court, but. sturdily resisted paying the odd eleven coppers'. After several witnesses had been examined the Resident Magistrate, who showed oxemplary patience, trave judgement for plaintiff for 3d over and.ahove the Is paid into court,