EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3207, 17 May 1889, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(From Our Own Correspondent)™' • ■ "May 16.'.' " Very cold south. winds with frost at night, very little rain falling., . We are about having : a'; ranger, owners of straying cattie will havo '■'• to look out or they will find them ■ in the pound. 1 hear" that pur petition re Magistrate's Court has • ' been refused on the ground that the ~ Road Board Office is not large enough for the Magistrate to sit in. Poor chap I We are thinking about' calling a public meeting to see if we cannot raise money '. by subscription ■ or loan to build a large Court-house before we petition the Government' again on tho subject. i A concert will bo given here in Parsons'-Hall by the I.O.G.T's,on the 22nd, proceeds to be devoted to. : .'■''' purchase a piano for use of their lodge, No doubt, they will a good attendance, and I believe a good'evening's amusement will be. provided. .. : The Eketahuna Debating Socie't*/ held their first meeting on Tuesday^''■' night. There were very few present, so it was judged advisablo to adjourn tho meeting to next Tuosdayeveningatßo'clock.--&ubject of debate, "Has the stage aiemoral'- ; ising .tendency?" (rather a large ;. subject). The Society was started about two years ago, mainly by the • v efforts of Mr Penny, and a late • " resident, Mr De Cliiton, also took an active part in its formation. ; The;.' subscriptions from that and from .the evening school (the sobool was also started by Mr fenny, who kindly gave ' bis services for nothing,)" went'■to purchase books to form a library, From that small .beginning we have now in the library^.., ■ volumes. About" thirty have'been presented to the library, the remainder purchased. All this has been done by tho efforts of about' twelve members. - Anyof your readers who ■ have books they have no use for, if they will kindly send them to the Heorctary of the library, Mr Penny,' wo shall be thankful for There is, I hear, a new butcher V> starting here. Wo have two already-*!!'' who don't seem to have too much to'"''' do, I should have tliouglitthero. ■ was hardly room for a third. Suoh is l\ trade I Only a three handed game of euchre I The Woodvillo people seem to know " more about our affairs than we do. They toll us that two of our hotels are to bo shut up by the new Liconsiug Bench. We have not heard anything about it here, as the Bench has not met yet. I don't know how'tbey got their inforr ation.