MARTINBOROUGH NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3665, 18 November 1890, Page 2

MARTINBOROUGH NOTES.

•/..(From our own Oorrespoiident), '"•' ■■ The vofarios of the' light fantaatio . c M bera looking anxiously forward for the late Toiree, it being; the -* winding _ up; 6f the Quadrille Club, f'o majority were' brimming ! ovor. with expectation that they wero to have an enjoyable evening, and they were certainly not disappointed. Jfor • what could the most'fastidious desire : more than' a floor in splendid order/ goodmusic, and an excellent supper/• A» : -I remarked in one of my ■'■.' previous communications, the obkctsV' of the Quadrille Club were two fold,'.' Drstly to provide amusement for the young people of the town during the long winter evenings, and secondly to purchase with any surplus funds a piano for the use'of the hall, It has proved so far successful,'that, lam ' informed by the,promoter. of it, l! : they' intend to purohased piano the season comes 'round again, i' ' undewtand to Mr G. Payne i 8 due Iba ■' credit of not onljr inaugurating the' affair, but of carrying it such 'a fluccessiulussueaatheabireaprovedtp.' be. A more sociable; arid'.'enjoyable liaffair« has certainly not been my lot to report... Tlje total absence of class •■ : . dotation, which often mars the N pleasure of soriees .at the principal centres of :\our ; move pretensibus : townships, to. not apparent? here, lhere were aboutforty couples present, and dancing yas kept up with spirit ill dawn The : mUB i O was supplied by the Martinbprough Brass Band ' under the conduotorsbip of Mr J ~ Hodge. This young band promises to be quite an a:quisition to the; town"hip. The brightness, of the .hall internally, and the phalanx of dakceW ' : as they glided past, aeemed togive zest to al. The hours quickly flew and the Maryborough Soiree of 1890 will • be pleasantly remembered. " JTew- : " reporters have the courage to seleofr the belle of the evening for reasonj best known to themselves/ Notto'do'. so, from your lady readersstandpoint, Ittuiaurewouldbetorobit of its pnncipaloharm;Aslhorevferosomaiiy i who ooked nice I will give the names " of a iew.m.the following order i-Miss < ianny Miller (tliis'young ladylooked quite a little fairy), hisses Amos, iMoLeod.Wenham.Wall.Orr.andA Hodge.

In the matter of politics, things are very quiot, although we are not faroff the day which will decide whether we m to be represented by men whoso" oieta has a genuine ring, or claptraps, so called working mh , a candidat £ who havo«special axe to grind in th» shape ofa good billet. I aui rather surprised thatso old an hand at election 1 campaigns aa Mr Bunny should so far' forget himself as to offend many of his , best friends, by hia uncorteous replies to their civil questions. I knowpersonally of several votes he has lost through it, what with the severe, temper ho displays at his meetings,, nnd his distinctly uusatisfaotorjr policy, it must be plain to any one ' but his blind followers that he is running a losing race, and I feel confident he will be distanced out of any possible chance of running in another contest,

lime is likely to bo another , improvement to our already rising township, in the shape ot a nice- , dwelling house for Mrs Badland, • Ik will probably be ready for ocoupalion in about two months timo, The Presbyterian Church is also in course of erection, and it will be quits an ornament to that part where it in situated. Mr Orr continues to beautify the surroundings ot his private residence and doubtless in the Jutee this part will be tho weab end of our town for those that havo become millionaires, eo to speak. I hope that all will follow the Hon on Mr Waterhouse's admirable example in ornamenting their homesteads with shrubs, and ?£ the propossd irrigation scheme suggested by our enterprising settler, MrOoleman.Phillips,is earned out,' homesteads will be (springing' up ia every direotion, Four large waggon loads of wool win from Pate this afternoon. At this season of the year the teams going to andfro remindone of the early days of Greytown, when Hastwell's, team .used to • collect: all the, wool and other produce 'grown ir. the Wairarapa as far north a» Bowlands and south as Tenui, and. transmit it to Wellington miy Monday morning, via the far-famed Kimutaka.