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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3549, 30 June 1890, Page 2

Tub Alfredton Eoad Board is at present in an awkward predicament, through' the■' action. of the Waste Lands Board in refusing to grant a certificate for .the' application of deferred thirds to liquidate a loan raised by the' Tawaitai settlers for the formation of roads; The ground of refusal is that the not completed according to the Act, legalising the taking of deferred thirds for the.repayment of loans: to local bodies. ' Wiiilo the Board's action ia strictly in aojordance with the existing law,-it certainly is a hardship on the settlors, bectusethoy do not Bee their, way clear to-borrow more money, and the original loan (£800) is not sufficient to complete the roads for which tbe money was borrowed. At the time the loan was raised, the annual amount obtained by deferred thirds, from properties benefitted, was>£Bo. Forty. pounds is needed every year to''pay'the interest,, and- the_ settlers, wish to place the remainder on fixed deposit until it accumulates nufliciently to repay tho principal. This course they are prevented from' taking : by tbe'.cortilioate being .withheld.: We. do not see why tho difficulty could not- be got over, more especially as some time ago a certificate was granted lo the Ekelahuna Road Board, authorising tho taking of thirds'for tho repayment of the Parkvil'e loans, while the works were still in progess, and were not cornpleted. Every year. the. deferred thirds are growing less, the payments ceasing through effluxion of time, and tho Alfredton people are in a difficulty out of which they cannot extricate themselves until the Act is amended, unless- the Waste, Lands Board sees its way to render assistance by departing from .the -strict letter of the law.' Such a state of things does not seem to us to be very conducive to land settlement, or the i opening up of bush country, : and the Alfredton people have discovered to their cost that the Loans ; to Local Bodies legislation is occasionally- a delusion and a snare. ' Ui

■ Messrs Lowes and lorns add to then sale for Wednesday, next JOweaners. 170 Lincoln ewes, 8 3 year old steera, and 21 porkers.

Tenders are invited by the Education Board for additions fo the nchuolat

Kaiwaiirai, Mr 0, A, Pinkerlon lias been appointed Clerk, pro tern, to the Masterton Boat Board, in the place of Mr R, Wilaone deceased.;, \'

For refusing to. receive a dead body into hia hotel for tlia purpose of. holdiug an inquest, the licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Oamard, was last week fined 10s and 7s costs. The scarcity, of pieeons in this district is this season unprecedented. Hardly a pis;eon has been seen in Masterton since the opening of the shooting season, This, no doubt, is the result of the upemngup, of the FortyMile Busli. ' ,

Mr'Ayson, curator of the local fish ponds, informs us that since, the beginuinp of the spawning season he has taken no less than 250,000 ova. The programme of. the Acclimatization Society anticipates half a million for the season, ,

in the; letter of" Practical Farrier,"

in reply to ".Noii-Unionist," which wo published last;Veek, "According to the size of the horse or the weight of the km" should have read, "According to the. size of the. horae ur- the weight of tho s/wes." : Considerable ill-feeling is expressed in Pahiatua at the action of Mr Beese, J,P. who sat on the Benoh to hear the charge against the two sons Mr W. W. McCardle, and afterwards went bail for Mrs M'Lean, plaintiff in the case, who was subsequently herself committed for trial./ ~, An accident of a eericua. nature hap-, pened on Saturday ataooh' to' the seven year-old son. of Mr F, O'Opnnof, of this town. It appears that r young O'Connor was playing in cpnipanj with two or three other bays;' when' one of

them' began talking of guiipowder. 0 Connor said his father had' some, and at the suggestion of another .boy the little fellow ' went quietly. hdme arid managed to secure a guii cartridge, friim a place where they were kept for safety, and presumably out of the reaoh of the children. . The bullet was extracted

without harm, and a match, Applied' to the cartridge,' which, however, did hot at first explode, feeing this the boy r e.it up, and kneeling doyfii, blew 011. it. Tlio result was tllkiit ihot'right into his face, taking'his eyebrows clean off, with a portion of, his hair, and burning hiq eyes and face very badly. Dr. Hosking has been in attendance, and holds out hopes that the child's eyesight: is not permanently injured:' This should be a warning to ' boys not to -touch such dangerous :artiolfls .while-at the" same time parents. cannot bo too cateful. A. vers ' spcoial •inTitatott.is'beMwith extended to the ladies of the oity 1 to i>ay an early visit of! inepection io our magnificent and attractive display of ball and evening dress 'fabrics,; vrhicb, togethor'- with : all fiiiown on'the central, counter at Te Arp House';- > . :The variety of thesV.oharminp! fabric's-; is very large, and the numerona ■ tints '.are- 9f the ; mqstpleasing, oharaoler,. the prions are e^qaed|ngly,.mqd^r^ie.' The 'display,iseasily 'accessible,.™ very artistiote its smallest details,.and could not fail to bV gratifyibg: to' iiU visitors to Te 'Aro House.

: We shall be delisted : tq!shpw : tliem' : to all visitors, whoioay ,'fsst aiisured' that they will'-npt- ti .:bnyiMndeed there-will be-no obdasiod ;.to'do: tnisl for the

goods ; mil ; Bpeftk J fpr' themselyea,; i*nd we iraagiue there are few.-ladies.who could look at these, beautifd,yet ;inex^nsive.fabrics, and reqaißiteß,wi(h'ont foe ling an; irreßistible desire; to jTe ; "Wi invite v nieht dn the frontrpaea of this'paper,'whiolf gives full partiaulars'of the names,' makes; colours, &6,j of 'these';- ball and Evening dress fabrics > and requisites at the Wholethe Family Drapery lo.Ato Hsuso, Wellii)(?lpn,-^yv,

luDg worm Ma causing'an 'unusual' mortality amongst the efaeep Jin, the Woodvilfo district, ; }-j l -J 1 v ■An;..interesting:■ advartwement-.ifrqtn i Mqssja A Ifatuß andOoij seed merchants of Auckland, appears in anutlW column; . The fixtures for the Theatre - Roya' appear as usual, They cotuprise rinking aud a tomporanco lecturer by Mr Knott, Mr T, Ray, of the Teratalu, is,we hear, about to ' leave the' Wairarapa, Bo is likoly to Bottle in Australia,'it is under-: sto6d.''|:

■: A man namodKniVht fell down 1 dead at the bar of theGlub Hotel) Pahiatua,at 8 p.m.. on Saturday.' An inquest la beinsr hold to day, ' .An inapeotion- parade of the Mastorton Siflo Volunteers will be held on Thursday next, July 3rd, at 7.80 p,m, A ohuroh parado is to be held on Sunday noxi.

.The annual ball, of the:.Masterton Rifle,/ Volunteers, has been altered to plain and.. fancy dress,: i The arrange, menta wliioh are being tmdo. by Hib Committee should onsuro the gathering beiug one of the largest ever hold in the dibtrict, . . '-Vv-V^

. :SirGeorge Grey and Messrs Beetham and lhchanan, M.H.Rs,,, havo each promised to be present at the Arbor Day . celebrations at - Grey town on Thursday next, if tho legislative position at the time will permit of their being absent from: Wellington, ?>• ,

■ A- nieetiSs' ; of the Committee of the Masterton Poultry Society will bo held in the Olub Hotel ta-niorrow,(Tupstiay) evening. '• ' '■;.;.'

,' A " Cautious Parent" .writes to ua ■as followsAs the; use. of ptip-guna is becoming common amongst the children vf thutuwu, permit trie to warn parent# and: guardians .against allowing their charges to '- press , these: harmless weapons''ajainst'their stomachs, as; the practice is likely to be followed by the most Benous results," 1 •

It has been stated in our Carterton contemporary, tluit the stoats and weasels recently liberated'.oil* tho Eist'Coast havo made their way to the 'bush and are DrQcticßlly useldas, but wo have mado ; enquiries and find that (hey are still to be found in large numbers pa the , various runs, aiid are causing a' goud deal of destruction" aaionyst the rabbit s

Tho Feast of St.' Peter 'and St. Pau' was celebrated in St.'Patrick's Church yoaterday, ; when special 'sorvioes were held. In the evoning the Very Rw. Dr Watters, ot Wellington, preached <an ablo and impressive sermon from the text,:'' Scandals will come, hut woe vnto him by whom the BCandal comeih." Considering the inclemenoy of • the weather thecongregations were fairly lariro, • ;

• - That cofebrated orator, Mr J, Knotty" is to deliver a lecture in the Thuatre R'jynl on Tuesday evening. at 8. o'clock. Mr Knott, liaving been'; engaged by tlfe Temperance: organisation of Masterton to lecture in their interests, all friends t)f Temperance can/justly look ■ forward to an ercoptionai bratical,treat', It is.asiid ly ; the PreßS and critics . that lib w,quite equal'as a lecturer to thojate famous J. B. Gough; Admission to tho lecture' is free;but willbe taken.til help iii defraying expenses, Mr W. H. Beetham has kindly consented to take the chair. ' ' •. . ~ At the of the Masterton Bond Board oh Saturday last,- the 'following mution was carried; unanimously This Board very mucli regrets; the death .of Mr late Olerk'j.and, tHo members',ollo and .'all desire to convey to the bereaved family their 'deepsympathy in tlieir affliction. They wish also to record , their testimony of the fidolitiy aniloare with which tho lato Mr Wilsone for many years oarried out tlm duties appertaining 'to the dual position ot Secretary and Treasurer to the Board." . . • ■ ■

_ Mr D. P. Loasby, of Greytown, is sinking for artesian water on his property in the Kuratawhiti Road.; He'has specially engaged it Ohris'dhuroh well-sinker : for; the work. : Ono attempt has jual been abandoned after forty feet had beer bored, the pipes; haying; cuivcd ;-alitiul eight feet from the botty'm. Boulders, Bhiiigle, and hard. conglomerate "are '■ at .met with, the proportion of sifter strati being,very liniiteu. Fresh pipes, of t stronger tinke are being ptooured, mic another trial will be made in a day 01 .two,; This is by no -means the onl] experiment Mr'Loasby lias made in thii diteotiop, and' as the' question. of an artesian.; water supply ia a matter ii which the Greytown Borough Ooutici could well have been Mpected to take ( lead, i; is to bo hoped that such persever ing private entei-piisß will be rewardei with success. The expense, it is'noedlesi to say, is considerable, and if MrLoasb; proves the feasability of obtaining arte siau water, he will benefit not onl; himself but everyone in Greytown. Our Pahiatua correspondent writes Mr Mullius left liis hlrae and trap a the door of a Pahiatua hotel while hi went on an : ijnbiliing expedition. Th horse, after standing for the hotter par of an hour, got thirsty too, and in look inn round for something to ,'drinb displaced the blinkers. Seeing tlin some Qurions looking urtiole was behind and not knowing what it was, the ani tnal made a bolt, with tho. usult tha the turn-out collided against a post, t the,serious injury of the horso, and tlii destruction of the trap. While this wa going on, the man remained ntthe ba enjoying himself. Somuone having tol him of the damage, lie rushed outof th house, but into the arms of Constabl Stewart, who ran him in, not to th hotel, but the look-up. As the Oonstabl .refused to allow him out on bail, he ha plenty of time to study the'eause o temperance. '■k. decided improvement is to bo mad to a portion of the interior of SI Matthew's Church. In addition to Htained glass window, the .wholr oftb sanctuary is to' be beautifully paiute and decorated. : Suggestions. us to th harmony of coloring, etc, have bee acquired from Mr, Mouinford,- th Cathedral architect, of Ohristcliurcl Judgin?' from the. suggestions. of th architect, we 'should say that til decorations of the sanctuary will.thw the remainder of the interior of th whole edifice out; ol proportion, and it: hpped that an effort will be made ;l improve the barn-like appoarauce of tli bare, board walls, Which are : Buch a offenoe to the eye, by subntitbtme pleasing, color and, an economic 1 an artistic design. : . .In the Kaiapoi Court the other day, a witnee who -was being examined as to ti knowledge of the Pastoral interests c the colony, having given his idea of th value of full aiid empty mouthed she's and the different breeds, ; was Mke about their feed, He said ibeyjwbro fe on Native feed, tussock, and wi! Irishmen,. In reply to Mr Joynt, tt witness said he did not consider a wil Irishman nutritive food, - as; he; wt ratherdry. •• .' 1 y« • : Our readers will be 'nterested to kno that Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co,, have'noi opened and showing the hew •• winter, shij ments of Drapery,' Millinery, and. Olothiui The Dress Uepattment at the Boh Maid is "exceptionally heavily 1 stocked with tj newest .designs aid makes in.Dress Bobe Knickcr Tweeds. Homespun's, Cashmere Fancy Flakes, Braided dresses, English an Colonial Dress Tweeds, Tweeda ia Ciieci Bordors,;Stripes, and Plain/- The'stook i this department has been bVonght: remarl ably ohcap'aiid'art being sold cheao,■;y Visitors to the Bon March'e Bhovvroon will be .well repaid by. inspecting the'supei issortment of Ladies' SealetteJaokets an Mantles, .Oloth and Fiir Jackets and Mantli iq ; Ladies'; and; ohlldrea ii|sters,.;Fnr ; lined and Silk'.lihed;ol6ak nj>tha C%ql?saii add Higliwaymau in a 'Mcsaiff XHoojoibr. aid - ittentiQii ? to. tpoir: inaftniflebnt -display,"* Snglish; andFronohtrMiUineryj' Felt; an HrawHots,Ladles' : fashioiiably.;trimm£ Idtsond Bontiots, 'flieso goods aremarke iff at , Now the winter hoa. fairly ept' in, , we-. ai fought to'face the fact thartn . extrarpai 1 Blankets and good warm' nndcr-olothin looper.and Co,, aro sHowihg large'stoobic iese classes of goods, English'and Oolonij 'lankels, Flannels; Men's and Boys' Cloth lg, shirts.-uyderßhirtß/atid ! ; paiita, : - k&itte wis at wholesale prices at the JBon Maichc [astor(oa,-APYT, 1