The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3716, 21 January 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1891.

There will be no publicati on of the Wairarapa Daiiy to-morrow (Anniversary Day). Mr G. H. Swan, M.H.R., passed through Masterton for Wellington yesterday afternoon. An Employers' Mutual Defence Fund has been started in Melbourne, in the hope of raising a hundred thousand pounds for the purpose *>f forming a fund from which to indemnify members for loss by strikes. The schools in this district open again on Monday next, atter tho summer vacation. A naif holiday is being observed in Woodville ou Thursday in honour of the Pahiatua Sports. A salmon tro ufc was (says the Examiner) caught in the Manawatu River at Foxton the other day which weighed about 161b. There was great demand for pieces of the novel take, and it was therefore eut up and sold in portions. The proposal of the Maurice/die Road Board to borrow £3OO under the Loans to Local Bodies Act for the purpose of felling bush and forming Mount Munro Road -east has been carried.

The total number of competitors at the Napier Rifle Association meeting is 197, so that the prizes will all bo paid in full. Wednesdays and Saturdays have been appointed sale days by the Masterton Borough Council under the Impounding Act, 1884. Thomas Lynch, a miner, has been killed by a fall of earth at Moki Creek, near Queenstown. A gentleman of Victoria has brought j over to New Zealand two small boxes of fruit in powdered charcoal. The experiment was a complete success. The fruit was picked ripe ten days ago, and was opened as fresh as when packed. M a meeting of the JSJangatainoka School Committee the ether evening, the Chairman stated that it had come to his knowledge that one of the committee (Mr Jessop) had been collecting money from several persons in the district for the children's prize fund, and had not yet ?iven an account of it to the Committee. It was decided that Mr. Jessop be requested to at once refund the monies collected.

Some eighteen years ago when Banks first made their appearance in the Wairarapa, it was decided not to charge exchange on cheques within the Provincial district. Now, alas, the spirit oi unionism pervades even financial institutions, and after this month the modest pro fits of banking corporation will be swelled by a minimum charge of sixpence on exchange cheques,

|. The Masterton Borough Council has decided that before any further water works are undertaken, plans and specifications shall be submitted to the Council. This will prevent any further disaster by private engineering.

J The motto of certain members of our civic fatherhood appears to be "treat eyary man as a rogue until you prove him to be otherwise." At the meeting of the Borough Council last evening Cr Eton proposed that the Inspector of Weights and Measures be requested to make an annual adjustment of ncales, not for the benefit of those who are old residents, but as a teat of new-coiners.

We remind our readers of the pic nic to be held in Mr Pybus' paddock at Kuripnni to-m jrrow in connection with the Kuripuni Sunday School.

Mr E. M'Ewen is newociating with Mr J. Angove, of Carterton, for the purchase of the farriery business of the latter.

Jarae3 Harris, charged with larcency, t will bo bt ought before Colonel Roberts, It. M., this afternoon. Messrs. Lowes and lorns add to their sale for Wednesday next, 70 3 and 4 year old s'.eers, 30 heifers, mixed ages, 103 ; store ewes and 20 lambs. Professor Augustus, illusionist, gives an entertainment in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening. The Professor has recently arrived from Australia, where ho has made for himself a name. The conjuring which he introduces is said to be really wonderful. The Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Sports to be held on the Park Oval tomorrow promise to be a great attraction. Every arrangement has been made for the convenience of the public, and with Queen's weather the attendance should exceed anything before seen on the ground. Altogether seventy-seveu nominations have been received for the handicaps, and under the management of an able committee the success of the gathering is guaranteed.

The newest Yankee notion is a machine by which a man can tell when he lias become sefficiently drunk. It is called a fuddleometer ; and it operates by giving a fellow a sharp puuch in the ribs the moment he has got drmk enough in his skin. John Kelly, known as " Kelly the Kake," is now in Napier, where he has been convicted six times in six months for drunkenness.

Mr. Duff yesterday informed our Grey town correspondent that the conceit t> be held in the Palace Hall on Thursday next promisas to be a great success. Over 400 tickets have so far been sold, one enthusiast alone selling 100, so that a large house is certain to ba withered together. There will be a depailure from the usual Christie Entertainment, inasmuch as the singers will appear before the audience as the occupants or a comfortable drawing room. We are led to expect some" thing intensely funny from Messrs. Duff and Webster's original "Odds and Ends. The laughable farces "Blinks and Jiuks" and "live shillings a week" will bring to a conclusion a most excellent programme.

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