The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2865, 5 April 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1888.

Three inches of snow fell in Fielding one day last week. The Masterton Cemetery Trustees meet this evening at 7.30 o'clock. A gentleman out Pahau way, while shootiug on Monday last, saw two black and white—rather-an unusal colourwild rabbits. Professor Thomas takes two black ones north with him and he also has .secured a bright yellow rabbit, since he has been here.

There have not been many fish distributed from the Masterton Fish Ponds lately. The most recent issues were;— Fifty American Brook Trout to Colonel Kent Johnston, Clareville, and the same quantity, each, of Loch Leveu Trout to Cross' Creek and to another stream nearer Wellington. The female fish in the Masterton Fishponds are now becoming valuable. In pr oof of this, it may be mentioned that a large brown trout-say, a six pound ono —will produce about 5000 ova in the present spawning season, just commencing, and these, allowing for a fair percentage of loss in hatching and rearm?, represent a value of from £5 to fC. At a meeting of the Maaterton-Manga-hao Special Settlement Association the other evening, gratification was expressed by the members at the energetic and thorough manner in which their Secretary, Mr F. T. Redman, had looked after their interests in being the means of securing a reduction of Mr H, Ellison's survey fees by £227, The railway excursions in the South must be popular, or else the department there knows how to make the public travel. According to the Evening Star about 1,500 people were booked by the excursion train that left Dunedin on Good Friday for Mount Allan, and the officials found it necessary to despatch a Becond train, the first with over twenty carriages proviug insufficient.

According.to a paper read by Mr Bear at the Salisbury Hotel, London, there are better times still in store for the British farmer, He bases his calculations on the fact that during the past eight years the area under grain in the United States has been practically stationary, although meanwhile the American population has increased by over 11,500,000, He lays the present ridiculously low price of wheat to the state of the shipping trade. Let matters once mend in that direction and the price will rise like magic,

A new idea was introduced into the programme of President Carnot's last ball, and consists of a figure in which gentlemen alone take part, the prizo being a waltz with the lady who is mistross of the ceremonies lor the time being. This lady launches a small balloon into the air, and the men all jump at it and the one who seizes it carries off the lady, Stout elderly gentlemen are said not to see much fun in the new figure The Masterton Mangahao Special Settlement Association held a general meeting on Tuesday last, when it was resolved to offer for sale to members the tin-allotted town and suburban sections, and to take prompt action to brin? defaulting members either to complete their payments, op fptfeit their interests in the Association. The secretary, Mr- F. j. Redman, reported that the long protracted survey difficulty had been satisfactorily arranged, he having fought out the t case in Wellington against the surveyor, Mr H. Ellison, with Messrs Marchant and McKerrpv/ as arbitrators, obtaining for the substantial reduction of about L 227 off the amount 'claimed bv 'Ellison.

An interesting couple arc on the point of starting for Australia, having beon securely tied up a few days back at the Dominican Church at Limerick, The bride is the only daughter of a gentleman residing in that neighborhood, and the bridegroom is a punter—not an artist, but a man who slaps walls with a very large, flat, and well-filled brush. Not long ago the father's house had to be reamong the tradesmen sent was afino athletic young fellow, with whom the young lady" Instantly fell in love, Parental opposition was of no avail, and, as the girl possessed a small' fortune, she converted her property into ready' money, left her home, and was immediately married at Limerick. Tho Jjrj.de js described in the Telegraph Home letter as being a fine horse-woman, and as having been a prominent figure in the hunting' field'. Tho newly-wedded pair are now, as mentioned above, bound fpr t)ie Antipodes,'

Mr G. Beetham, M.8.R., is expected in Hasterton on Monday next, It is proposed that the football match, Englishmen v Wellington, shall be played on Saturday, 28th insfc. _ Messrs Lowes and lorns make an addition of 150 primo fat ewes to their entries for Wednesday next.

Three thousand sheep and lambs of various classes, and all in first class condition, are advertised for private sale by MrF. H.Wood of Greytown. Anions! the Rimutaka's passengers leaving for England to-day are Major Jervois and Mrs Jervois,. There will also bo Mr Juatico Johnston, who goes Home on a holiday tour, and Miss Hadfield, a daughter of the Bishop of Wellington, who will spend a year in England. Four out of Bix rabbits recently shot in the locality of Pahau, were found to be diseased with rabbit fluke.

Mr A. A. White, the dentist, will be absent from Masterton for a woek after next Saturday. Ho has arrauged with Dr Hosking to receive his patients while he is away.

James Troy,in the Greytown Standard, challenges any man in the Wairarapa, for £lO and upwards, to box according to Marquis of Queensbury rules, Mr W. Dougall, watchmaker and jeweller of Queen Street, notifies that from Monday next, he will close at 6.30 on all the winter evenings, excepting Saturdays. Last night was extremely cold, and the thermometer went down to 30 degrees, or two below freezing point. On the Upper Plain the first ice of the winter was one of the accompaniments of what, so far, has been the coldest night of the year, and no doubt is the prelude to a severe winter,

We understand thai the tug-of-wa r cable has been returned to the Park (W by some individual who has given the rather thin explanation that ho mistook it for his watch guard. As the sixty feet platform was attached to the rope, it is to be assumed that this eccentric person utilised thestructure as a dangle or charm.

On the last homeward passage of the R. M. S. Kaikoura, Henry Rowe, a seaman was carried overboard by a huge wave. Another wave washed him on deck immediately afterwards, And he was then found to have dislocated his thigh.

The Masterton Branch of the School of Design will be re-opened to-morrow under the direction of Miss Alice H. Holmes, late of the Royal Female School of Art, London, and the holder of South Kensington certificates. Miss Holmes will visit Greytown every Wednesday during the forthcoming term.

The Kaiwaiwai School, which has been closed sinco November last, was reopened on Monday, under the control of Mr George M'Dermid.

At the seventh annual meeting of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (Limited) held yesterday, no dividend was declared, but it was mentioned by tho chairman that the profit would probably not only pay the five per cent, interest on debentures, but would leave something appreciable in excess. Tho report and balance sheet, which have previously been published by us, were unanimously adopted.

Being boss of a church choir is not by any means all " beer and skittles." The Masterton Presbyterian choir has for a long time past been in an almost hopeless state of degeneracy, and last Sunday the pastor made a fervent appeal for a little morejinteresfc and a little more energy to be Bhown in so worthy a cause as that of providing the music, which, in the words of the noet, has power to soothe the savage breast. The people were worked up to intense enthusiasm on the occasion, so a member of the body tells us, but they speedily ran down again, and last night, when at the weekly choir practice the precentor found only a muster of six ladies and four gentlemen, he literally tore his hair and raved. Now this gentleman has a great deal of patience, but still he is but human, and before he throws up his duty as a hopeless task, we trust that some of the younger members of the congregation will rally round him and do their duty in this very important and graceful addition to tho services ol the Church. There is plenty of ability and some good voices, so that all that is needsd is for the possessors to come forward.

Shrewdness & Abilitv.—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters so freely advertised in all Hie papers, secular aud religious, aro having a lar?e Bale, and. are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denyine 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 eveiy one's observation.—' Examiner and Chronicle.'

Maine news,—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters, 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 the praise of their curative qualities.—" Portland Argus.'

We have at last made an end of the sa o of Price's bankrupt stock. Henceforth it will be nothing more than a memory-very pleasant for satisfied customers to think of, and memorable enough to warrant notice as one of the wonderful events of the year 1888, at Te Aro House, Wellington, For, the last 10 days we have been busily employed in opening out and marking off very large quantity of new goods for the autumn and winter season, which have just come to hand, ex "Coptic and Eimutaka" at TeAro House, Wellington.

We can tell the public, as a kind of open secret, that we have been positively charmed at the taste displayed, and the good judgment evinced by our London buyers. We are sure the ladies generally will be as well pleased as we _are, the more especially as the selection is riot only in exquisite taste, in extensive variety, but the prices are such as must tempt the million to throng the counters of TeAro House, Wellington.

We cannot now find time to enumerate any of the npyelties whioh we are now showing for the autumn and winter season. We are quite geiiain. to beyisjted, imd that right early, by" thousands of pugtpmers, and we believe that of each one of the numerous visitors it may safely, and truthfully be said -"She came to look, but remainedf o buy," at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.—Advt,