EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3169, 2 April 1889, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(From Our' Own Correspondent); I heat that another line of coaches, in opposition, ia to be run between here and Woodville,

In accordance with my suggestion a Bhorb time back, a banquet is to be i given to cotnmeinmorate the opening : of the railway on' April Blh. At the first meeting of the Committee, Mr i Danaher proposed giving £25, pro- ': viding the Committee furnished a like amount, The agreement was that . tickets should be issued at ten shillings, Mr Danaher taking ten for '. private issue, .That was agreed to, but at the meeting held on iJriday,Mar:h 28th, Mr Danaher proposed that no tickets should be sold; | instead, 100 invitations be given, rb . he wished to have the gathering a select one, This was objected to by the Committee; whereupon, Mr Danaher stated he should withdraw hia offer of £25 and left the room, It WBB then proposed and carried that tickets should be issued at 7s 6d each, and tenders be called for tbecatering, closing on Monday evening, April Ist, when another committee meeting will be held to accept tenders. The temperance party appear to have ;;ot the upper hand of tho publicans in their nominations of candidates for the licensing bench for the Bketahuna district. There were only five gentlemen nominated and, all Good Templars, or members ot the temperance party. The following gentlemen were elected Bayliss, Frederick" Diuvsett, John Edge, Edward Elliston, Edward Morriss, I hereby offer somone.'a nut to crack,. (1.) A Good Templar has no right to vote for licensing the liquor traffic, (2), A Magistrate sitting as a member of a licensing Board, who, havint; the discretion not to vote for the issuance of a license violates his obligation. (8), Where by law, a County Commissioner or other officer has a discretion to grant or not a. license to sell liquor. Then if such officer should grant such license it would be a violation ; but if the law requires him to do so, and he has no descretiou about it, it is no violation. Bather a hard nut for someone to crack is it not. Mr Eobert Eush, of Hawkes Bay, will deliver a lecture on Saturday next at 8 p.m., on the physiology oi the pulpit, in the Wesleyan Church, Eketahuna. I trust he will have a good attendant, I hear that Mr Danaher is about giving a bßuquet to sixty at his own expense to celebrate the opening of the railway. ' The infant son of Mr and Mrs Brenmuhl died somewhat suddenly on 1 Friday 29th inst. An inquest was ■ not considered necessary.