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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3190, 27 April 1889, Page 2

Tenders for ploughing for Messrs W, Booth & Co close on 80th instant. By anorderin Council, the Wellington Agricultural, and Pastoral Association is incorporated. Tho following Members havo been elected on the Te Whiti School Committee:— Joseph Renall' (Chairman), James McKenzie, Johu Pike, Win.Fairbrother, Mrs McKenzio Mrs Pike and James Rtibieson.

The biggest voting at the recent School Committee oloctions appears to havo beon at Napior where the highest. number of votes obtained by one candidate waa 856, and the lowest 276. Altogether 4,718 votes wero recorded, while 308 plumpors were given. Tho meeting was very orderly and all tho candidates declined to answer questions, ' The following is the schedule of Crown Lands disposed of by the Wellington Land Board for the year ended 31sl March 188!), Caßh sales,—Town, 59 selectors, 54a. Or. 38p; suburban, 22 selectors, 181 a. Or. 18p; rural, 49 selections, 11,395. 2r, 38p. . Doforrcd .paymeut -r-Town, 12 selectors, 128 a. 3r. 85p; rural, 249 selectors, 32,329 a. 3r. 25p.' Perpetual lease, 10 selectors, 204 a! or 32p; rural 179 selectors, 14,809 a. 2r. 33p. Small runs', 17 selectors, 10,441 a, Or. - lp, Pastoral and reservo leases, two solectors. 858 a. 'Summary.— 591) selectors have taken up 130,354 acres, cash receipt, L 35.925 103 2d,

.The following tenders have boon accepted by the Education Board:—For covering-roof with galvanised iron and painting the Kaiwarra School, W. Jennings, LSO; for painting and slight repairs to Makara School, W, Jennings, Ll2; alterations to residence of schoolmaster Taita School, A, Leslie, L 59; erection of a dividiim fence in playground and division of boys schoolroom atPctone, W.H, Edwards, LIB. A special meeting of the Masterton Borough Council was held on Fndny night to consider what steps, if any, should bo taken to accord the Governor a public reception on his arrival in Masterton on Monday. After the matter had been discussed, it was resolved that an address of welcome be prepared by the Mayor assisted by tho Town Clerk, to be submitted to'a future meeting of the Councd, -Lieutenants Thompson and Hooper waited upou the Council and stated that application would bo made to tho authorities for permission to be given to tho volunteers to act as a guard of honor to the Governor on his arrival at the Masterton railway station, They also asked the Council topublicly request the shopkeepers'/to close, at 5 p.m. on the day in question for the purpose of allowing their employes to be present at tho proceedings. .The Committee declined to tjive any official notification inviting the shop-keepers to close at the hour named.. It was decided that the time and place for presenting the address should bo fixed upon at the next Council meetinc. In honor of tho Governor's visit Mnritaiia [will bo produced at the Masterton Theatre Eoyal on Weduesday ovening May Ist.

Spottsmen say that thoro will be very few white nine berries this year and consequently little food for pigeons. Perhaps this accounts for their scarcity in the Wairarapa. The treasurer of theMasterton Hospital acknowledges with thanks receipt of the following subscriptionsMr S, Von Sturmcr 12 2s, Mr F. H, Hales, £1 la, Mrfi Luxford, £1 Is. and employees yf Flat Point station, £5 ss. Thodate for holding the Children's Fancy Dress Ball at the Drill Shed has been altered from Friday, May 10th, to Wednosday, Hay Ist. As the time in which the necossary dresses can be prepared has thus been considerably shortened, it has been decided to admit plain dresses. A shocking fatality is reported from Taylorstown, where aboy named Thomas, son of Thomas,, of Pontygwaith, was playing iu an empty tar caalt containing . shavings, and was burnt to death in the cask $ The.R M. Oourfc was crowded to excess last-night during, the hearing of the case against Brodio, Although all lamps availablo wore alight aud a number of candles, the place had aldull aud gloomy appearance. !

The finder of a carpet-bag, containing dress, lost between Greytown and Maiterton, will be rewarded on roturningthe samoto Mr G. Hooper, Maatorton.

' Ten of tho valuable American bronze turkeys which wero' lost, stolen or strayed from Dr Hosking'a Run, Weraite have been recovored. They were several miles away irom homo on thoJiills near Mr W. C.Buchanan's property, Tupurupuru.

The Earl of Onslow arrives at Napior on Tuesday night. An address of welcoiuo will be presonted on Wednesday morning, H o will then leave by special tram for Mastevton, whore he stops for the night,

Summonses havo been issued against W. Smith and H. Laing, tho boxers, for having, engaged in a prize-light. The charge is to bo heard on May 31st at Wanganui. - All connected havo jbeen summoned aswitnesses.

A young son of Mr E. Cade of Masterton received from a cow last night while milking that injured him to such a serious extent, that.it was found necessary to obtain suivical advico. Dr ffmlring was sent for and on examining the lad found he had in endeavouring to evade the kick twisted his thigh and sprained his leg, the injuries being'more serious than a brohen limb would have been. ' A service ot song, entitled "The ■Oiled Feather" was rendered last night in the Eeohabite Hall, Carterton, by tho teachers aud scholars of the Weslevan Sunday School, assisted by the Eev, J, Dellow andsome, friends belonging to the Greytown Sunday School, Mrs Charles Barnard performed the reading part in a very creditable manner, although laboring under a disadvantage, as she had only -just arriyed home from Wellington by the night, train,. "Miss Westop (sister of." Mr T.'A. . Weston) presided at the harmonium,. The Hall was comfortably filled withan apprecia* tire audience. The proceeds are lor the benefit of the Sunday School. A meeting of: the Gas Committee of the Borough Council was held last night, It was resolved to recommend that a service be hit) on to the railway, station provided the tjovernmept pay halt tjio cost of the sorvico pipe;, that four, new retorts and fifteen dampers be procured; that tenders be called for laying services, at per foot, labor only; and that a service be laid on

to the Salvation Army barracks.. rho Gas Manager reported that 149,750 of gas had been made during the first twenty six days of the current month ljeing an increase of 26,100 feet over the quantity the corresponding period last "yea?." ' . ; ; > Mrs Stokes, widow-of a runholder formerly a residenVof Napier has presented $ stained glass window for the.chancei of the .Oathedfal of that town.' It will iover five lancets. Sfeft. high, ah/l \vill bo the. finest 'window.' ip the'Ausfraiasia.n' 1 jojqiiies, ' ' 'v.

Two extra policemen will be' sent to Wesport in consequence of the dynamite explosion, : " Captain' 1 Needham of the Salvation Army arrived in Masterton by the mid-; day train to day. The steamer arrived too late to catch tho last-night's train. Inspector Lee examined tho Te Whiti school on Thursday when 27 paßßed out of 28 presented. The following are the names of the pupils who passed; Infants -Lottie Eenall, Lilian. MoKenzie, Minnie Fairbrother. First Standard.— Leonard Pike. Second.—Mabel Pairbrother,, Herbert Gordon, Fred Pike, Fanny Dorset, Elizabeth MoKenzie, Third Standard.—Kenneth McKenzio. Colin MoKenzie, John McKenzio, Walter Pike, Joseph Eenall, Maud Eenall, Nelly Gordon. Fourth Stand-, ard.—Jessie Dorset, Margaret McKenzie Ethel Fike, Fifth Standard.—Hugh McKenzie, Arthur Renall, William Renall, Matthew Gordon, Sixth Stand-ard.-Frank JDorset, Charles Eobieson. Seventh Standard.—Alfred Eenall, Ohnrlea Eobieson. •

For some weeks past parties of men have been in the habit of transgressing against the game laws by shooting ducks with swivel guns on Lake Boort, Constalbcs Luke and Fitzgerald proceeded to tho locality recently, and on searching the tents of twoduck shooters discovered ■ two of these illegal weapons, Eather': and Ayres, the owners, were brought before the, local police court, and their ; guns were forfeited by the Magistrates, together with an implement known : as a "boot-jack." The method which these men pursued when fowling was to lay flat in the bottom of a punt, having a gun resting on the" bootjaok," which is a sort of rest, and breaks the recoil after discharging. Holding their hands over the side, they propelled their boats by means of two email paddles, close to the ducks, and fired their guns by pulling with their teeth, etringa which were fastened to the triggers. The Minister of Customs has ordered that awards of £3 each shall be remitted to the constables who effeoted ''the seizure, and will determine what shall be done.with the guns, which have been forwarded to liim through the Police Department. Melbourne Age. ' . Evidences of the march of progrtss ar evinced in these days by the attempt so worthily made to bring tho great body of consumers into all but direct contact with the noted manufacturers of Britain and the Continent, through the medium of the proprietor olthe celebrated Te Aro House, Wellington. ' Not content with having erected one el Largest, most Convenient and Magnificent Family Drapery Warehouses to be found this side of the Equator, and whioh attracts as it should large concourses of Customers, he seeks still further to influence the publio by sending his representatives through tho various country districts, to make known to the residents the manifest advantages of dealing with Te Aro House, Wellington, .

A representative is now in this district and will call upon all and sundry with patterns ot Seasonable Dress and other Fabrics, Household Drapery, Tweeds, Coating, Ao, Ho will tako orders of Dressmaking, Tailoring, and everything connected with, the drapery trade, and the Proprietor trusts that every oourtesy will bo extonded to him with large numbers of orders to be, executed at To Aro House, Wellington. All parcels will be sent, carriage paid, to any station on the Government and Mnnawatu Railway Company's Linos that may be nearest to the customer's residence, and thus country purchasers ,will bo placed on the same footing as those resident in tho City, and enjoy all, the advantages connected with dealing directly with the Impoitcr, James Smith, Te Aro House Wellington.—Advt.