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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2881, 24 April 1888, Page 2

Anew railway time-tablo was issued on 18th April. Last Monday the old poster was still on exhibition atWoodside station, and until the officials aee fit to replaco it with the new one, -it will doubtless, out of "pure cussedneas," do its best to mislead the travelling public, Mr F. H. Wood's new Auction Rooms at Carterton is expected to bo finished by next Saturday, and Messrs Lindop's and Catt's shops are also makinar rapid progress Mr W, Benton has the .contract for Mr Wood's building, the original contractor, MrT. Wakelin having, as will be remembered, abruptly left the district without completing the work. It is believed he went to Sydney. "Pass the butter, please," said Jones to Smith, as .the former tied two ends of his napkin round his neck, and shovelled about four inches of fried potato into his mouth with his knife. "Ah, thanks Jones, for your timely warning," replied Smith. "I always endeavor to pass the butter in this house, in fact, i give it as wide a berth as possible," This little bit of conversation was met with a gentle titter from the balance of the boarders, while the landlady gave Smith a look that curdled the milk in her coffee,

Saturday was the final day on which the Greytown Cheese Factory received milk this season, the gradually increasing price obtained for butter having caused the milk supply to decrease till on Saturday it got as low as 300 gallons and as this quantity was below the minimum quantity which will pay, operations were discontinued until next season. When the supply was ,it its highest 1100 gallons a day were received. The Company has we understand about 20 tons of cheese in stock, and it is anticipated that mo3t of this will be disposed of in tho colonial market, as orders from Wellington and other districts are freely coming to hand in indication of an improving domand. What few empty houses there were in Greytown are all taken up by Maoris at ending the Native hands Court there, which opens on 25th April. On former occasions tho visitors have had 110 difficulty in getting habitations, but this time they are experiencing great trouble in securing accommodation. We understand Mr F. B. Wood lias been applied to for the use of tho large building known as Black's American Coach Factory. Ho has communicated with the owners, and if this is granted about sixty or seventy natives will be able to find quarters there. The local Maoris are making extensive preparations for the entertainment of their visiting friends, and the men of means among them are priming themselves with ojsli, in anticipation of the expenditure that hospitality entails. The Court is expected to sit for six weeks at Greytown, if no adjournment takes place to Masterton for the Northern business.

Last week we had two elopements in Masterton. A Lower Valley town also, it is said, is not without its joys .and sorrows, and there two dissatisfied matrons with a yearning for the infinite, have left the bosoms of their families, and, taking with them two innocent and unsophisticated young mon, have launched themselves into that sea of bliss where joy is without limit, and " Love's young dream" is. even as. Tennyson's brook, ever flowing, never failing. The abandoned husbands arc making the best of their forlorn condition. One of them is a man who would not make a bad "shocking example" for a teetotal lecturer. He, therefore, is carefully accepting the many soothing "drinks," offered him by sympathetic friends. But then, again, an unromantic whisper says that finding conjugal felicity rather palling, he has simply arranged to "sell out," or, at any rate, to lease with a purchasing clause. The other man, too, is not at all unhappy; he says that lie is glad to find that there is a bigger simpleton in the world than he is, and that provided his wife only remains away, he will have a better opinion of her than ho ever had bofore, seeing that someone lias paid her the compliment of boltin? with her.

Two tramp 3 called recently at a farmhouse not far from Dundee, and asked alms. While the housekeeper was absent for a minute or two, with a view to supplying their needs, they seized some articles of clothing which were hanging up near the door and made off. Only some ten minutes later a policeman, accompanied by a largo dog, happened to pass, and on being informed of the theft he immediately sent the animal after-the thieves, It came up with them about a mile farther along tho road, and detained them until its master arrived and took them into, custody, They were tried, found guilty, and sent to prison for 40 days. A few weeks since, for the third or fourth time within a year, a monkey figured as an incendiary, firing the wellknown steam yacht Norma, lying at a wharf in New seems to have gone about the job with the greatest deliberation, too—gnawed through the rope with which it was tied up, cleared out a match safe in the cabm, and then started the blaze in a place which only a monkey would have thought of, between the deck and the ceiling of the coal bunkers. It took the crew all night to locate and put out the flre, which was filling the boat with smoke, the monkey, wh"se part in the affair was established by indisputable circumstancial evidence, being afterwards found on an eccentric bar in the engine room, quietly grinning over the rumpus which it had raised. Fire and Water suggests that monkey risks will be next heard of in insurance circles it this kind of thing keep 3 up. Joe Warbrick has now completed all arrangements for taking a Native Football Team to England. He has the choice of thirty-three eligible playei'3 out of which to select his team of twenty. The money for expenses has been guaranteed in Napier, The team is tj leave for the old country by the July direct Bteamer, and is timed to arrive in England on the 22nd September; Letters will probably be received in May, acquainting Sir Warbrick of the arrangements made at Home for their reception, and the matches they are to play. The Wanganui Yeoman asserts that Joe has taken the precaution not to. play the visiting English football team before leaving the Colony!

The Theatre Royal Rink is open to-day. The Wellington Patent Slip Company has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, The English Footballers play their first match in Dunedin on Saturday next. The wrecked Pleione is now high and dry on tlio Waikanae Beach, and visitors can walk all round her. Masterfcon Philharmonic Society practices at Messrs Jas Brown & Co.'a auction room to-night at oight o'clock. The Dixon-strect contract; is making go,od progress, the formation both of road and footpaths being nearly finished. The annual meeting of ratepayers of the Masterton Road District will be held on Saturday, sth May, at noon. Mr H. J. Haigh has made arrangement with MrH. B. Rowlatt to _ conduct his architectural duties during his absence in England, Messrs Lowes and lonis make a further addition of 600 breeding ewes to their stock sale list for to-morrow; and also five draught horses. Mr David Carman notifies that all accounts owing to him or by him should be settled at Mi; C. F. Gaivith's office, on or before'2stli April. At the Foxton annual races on Saturday, tlie Publicans' Handicap, of 30 sovs, was won by Mr P. F. Tancred's Revoke, with Armourer second, and Germaine third. The dividend was Is,

Messrs Bright, 0, E, Fabian, G. Stevens, Maguire, Hornblow, and Trotman have been nominated as members of the Greytown Town Lands Trust. Only two new Trustees have to be elected, and, a poll will be held next Thursday, We are requested to remind our readers of Messrs Lowes and lorns stock sale at their yards to-mnrrow. Their list will include some (iOOO sheep, iucluding all classes of breeding ewes, fat and store wethers, lambs, rams, fat and storo cattle, dairy stock, horses and brake, pigs, vehicles and sundries."

"Oh thoss editors 11 sent one a splendid poem of ten lines, telling him the list four linei' might be omitted without injuring the sense of it. What do you think the miserable man answered! 'The first six lines also'!"

At the It. M. Court yesterday, in the case James Smith of Wellington v. Alfred D. Harper, claim L 33 03 lid, on a judgment summons, defendant's offer to settle by paying £lO down, and the balance in live instalments of £4l2s 2d each, ivaa accepted by plaintiff, and a Court order was given accordingly. Our respected fellow resident, Mr D Carman, loaves on the 27th inst., for a trip to England. Wo understand 1m will be absent about twelve months, Mr R. Allen was also going, but, we under' stand, he has deferred his journey until May. Captain Edwin wired at ono o'clock today : " Glass further riso, and much cold weather with strong southerly wind." Our report of the inauguration of a Foresters Court at M'Uiriceville is crowded out of to-day's issue but will appear to-morrow. The English football team arrived at Dunedin yesterday. by the K ■ikoura. The men arc of a splendid physique. Tlicy had some practice during the afternoon. We hear thai- a number of ratepayers in the Masterton Road District are defran'chised for the coming election on the 3rd proximo unless they pay their rates in tho interim. No doubt many of them will elect to do this rather than be counted as deadheads in a contest.

At the U.M. Court to-day, Win. George who was charged with being drunk and having behaved indecently in Queonstreet, was sentenced by Messrs Beetham and Caselberg, J.P.'s, to forty-eight hours imprisonment.

Wo understand that at a conference of the Masterton Town Lands Trust with Mr Geo. Beetham, M.H.R., on Saturday last, it was decided to re-draft the proposed Bill, and • after it lias been considered at a special meeting of the Trust on Thursday next, submit it to a public meeting on Friday. The following are the amendments suggested and agreed to at the conference. The term " primary education " in the clause specifying the purposes to which the funds should be applied should be altered to "general public education" and this should be defined in the interpretation clause as applying to schools under the control of the general public, Clause 21 empowering the trustees to invest surplus funds in the purchase of land or on mortgages was struck out; the residential clause was restored to its original shape, the property qualification of voters and trustees being struck out, and several other important amendments were made. The "beautiful and pure" silk, announced by us as the latest outcome of the manufacturing skill and ingenuity of Messrs Bonnet et Cio, seems to have aroused some amount of curiosity and excitement; and no wonder, when added to its lnctrous richness there is the inestimable guarantee of durability. Those ladies who have not yet inspected them should do so without delay, at Te Aro House, Wellington, Like the silks our grandmothers and great grandmothers used to wear are these for durability, when a dress would outlast the life of many a sturdy dame of high degree: and such also is the special characteristic of some other choice silk fabrics which we wish to bring under the particular notice of the ladies of Wellington, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Wii are now showing some lovely and charming shot silks with handsome broch6 to match in the following shades:—Moss green with red, brown with gold and ruby, gold with grey, grey with white, bronze with grey, saphire with golden brown, burgundy with myrtle, ctrc. All these are in 20-yard lengths, and considering their suberb quality are extraordinarily cheap at £7lßs Gil each, at Te Aro House, Wellington, We havo also a grand choice of real Irish poplins in tobac, golden brown mode, French grey, slate, navy, with a few pretty and attractive stripes in 'black and cardinal, navy blue. These aro in full dress lengths of 18 yards, and are now being offered tor £sl7s (id each, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, To Aro House, Wellington.— Advi.