ALFREDTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2865, 5 April 1888, Page 3

ALFREDTON.

(From an Occasional Correspondent,) Sunday Bullock Drayiiig, A. practice that prevails to a most unseemly extent in this district and to an extent that is to say, the least wholly unnecessary, demands passing notice, if by so doing the eyes of all offenders can thereby be opened to the uncivilised, not to say, unchristian practice. I refer to the bullock draying that prevails to such an extent on the public roads on Sundays, The reason of this is, I presume, that the driyers are their own masters. Were it not so, theie would be a howl and no mistake. But if those settlers who object to such an unnecessary practice, not to say inhuman—in working poor dumb animals for seven days in the week—would refuse to support such men, there would soon be an end to the practice. I am not straight-laced nor yet intolerant, but there is a medium in all things, and the habit is growing, not decreasing, The Education Reserves, I have it on good authority that the Road Board has won its enso against the School Commissioners, which the latter have resisted at every turn for the hist two years or mere, The remittance from tho Commissioners, with expenses, amounts to close on £IOO, I understand that the Board's case decides also that of the County Council, and the latter will get its money as well, Whilst the Board did the buffeting, the Council did the slumbering, The Weather, The weather continues most unseasonable. Wednesday, the 28th ulc, in particular, was a regular " stunner" in wind, rain, and extreme cold. A House Burnt, I have to chronicle the total loss o' Mr Arthur Burling's residence by fire a few evenings ago. The fire occurred after the family had retired for the night, and it is supposed that a spark from the ashes in the kitchen fireplace, carried by the high winds coming down the chimney, caused some inflammable material on the floor to catch fire, thereby causing the catastrophe I understand the house was insured, but to what extent I am unable to ascertain,