PAHIATUA COUNTY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3815, 20 May 1891, Page 2

PAHIATUA COUNTY.

I Tenders were accepted by the Works Committee ot the Pahiatua County Council on Saturday as follows: No 140—Formation Dew's Road, three lengths, £2 53, £6, £3 5s per ohain.oulverts 2s lOd to Bp, MoCarthy. No 141—Stumping and clearing 79 chains, Fakowaißoad, lis per chain, Waterman and Co.

SECOND EDITION

A finishing dressmaker is advertised tor by Messrs M. Oaselberg and Co. At a public meeting held last mV&t it was deoided that Karori be formed a Borough. A man named Malaohy Foasian was found dead at Cambridge yesterday, and had died apparently in a fit. He had been driuking heavily. A large number of New Zealandera have proceeded to Tasmania during the past month to try their luck at the silver mines.

The Pelorus Guardian says:—We are sorry to hear that Mr H. A. Gaßkill, who was progressing favourably, has had a relapse. With the arrival of a new medico at Havelock an epidemic of whooping cough occurred, more than half the ohildren attending the publio school being laid up. Mr. O. H. Osborne, of Dryerton, would be glad if the person who borrowed a lamp from him would return the same at his earliest convenience. The Hon. Mr. Oliver has made arrangements for returning to the Colony in October, The Government, it is thought, will give the Railway Commissioners the £ 40,000 they ask for, on their fuinUh • ing a reasonable full list of particulars of proposed expenditure.

The Maori Land Court opened yesterday morning at Groytown, before the Chief Judge, MrSeth Smith. A number of applications for hearing were adjourned, that in respect to the Okurnpatu Block. The chief party in vrhich is Karaitiana Korou, is now under the consideration of the Court. The application for a re-hearing in respeot of Rangatara was withdrawn.

L. J. Hooper Co,, of the Bon Marohe warehouse, notify the largest and must complete stock of general drapery and clothing in the Wairarapa. The firm have always held the premier position for keeping the most fashionable and best classes of goods procurable, together with moderate prices ; and this season their reputation will be lull}' sustained. Any of our readers requiring fashionablo drapery or clothing should visit the Bon Marche. The following goods are noir open for inspection:— French and English millinery, trimmad hats and bonnets, birds, feathers, ladies' and children's ulsters, ladies' jackets and mantles, corsets and underclothing, new dress goods in the following velveteens, flaked cheviots, cheviot checks. Dress tweeds, real Scotchhomespuns, diagonal cloths, cashmeres, foulle serges and Estauiines. Winter gloyes and hosiery in all the best makes, furs and fur tri-nmings &c, Dressmaking on the premises by first class modeßtes. L. J. Hoop t ran* Co. the Bon M,arche, *

The Cabinet has, it is rumoured, decided to establish the penny postatre" system throughout New Zealand, finding it necessary to meet the reductions of the Imperial authorities. The expected loss for the 2 ear is A' 40,000. This, ii is oxpected, mny be reoouped in about three years out of the increased postages. Mr Maroh is about to prooeed to Oatlin'a River to take charge of the *j|ok of niacins? the unemployed of Otago on thu works and settlements at that place/

The Agent-General will probably not attend at the Vienna Postal Conference, beini; prevented by illness in his family. The Government, we understand, are likely to obtain indirect representation at. Vienna. Tho engine shed of the Masterton Volunteer Fire Brigade has been* remoyud to the site next to the Temperance Hall, and is now being enlarged.

A vigorous alarm was sounded on the Queon Street firoboll, shortly before noon to-day, the cause of wbioh was a burning flue in the "Star" block. A consignment of about 280 stoats and weasels arrived in Masterton to-day, and will be liberated by Inspector Maojpy forthwith.

Applications for renewals of license haVe been made by the licensees of tho Club, Occidental, Empire, Princo of Wales, Star, and Royal Hotels. A farm laborer in Kent is said to be making money by his cleverness in catching stoats alive. He gets 7s 6d a head from an Australian agent who is acting for the New South Wales Government. He has proved very successful. j^' Another old settler has 'fßrai away. Mrs Dr Taylor, of GieytowhjKod at the Hutt yesterday morning, asft seventy* four. Tho deceased lady was highly respected and leaves a large circle of friends to mourn their loss. The body, will be interred in the Greytowflf cemetery to-morrow. The funeral taking place about 11 a.m. on arrival of the trains from Wellington. The Wild Indian Water Buffalo, whioh was exhibited yesterday in the premises opposite the Prince of Wales Hotel, attracted a large number of the public, the " small fry" especially being highly delighted with the monster. That the unemployed do not trouble Carterton is fully-proved by the fact that it is almost impossible to get a man immediately, everyone being engaged weeks ahead, A contract for work recently offered failed to elicit a single tender.— Observer.

A man named Thomas Todd was arresied at Napier yesterday on a warrant issued from Masterton, charging him with the larceny as a bailee of a saddle, bridle and martingale, the property of one George Bell. It appeara that tho articles were borrowed by the* accused from Bell at Buick's farm on. the Opaki, towards tho end of last month, and were loft at Hawke's stables. The acoused afterwards left for Napier. Major-General Downes, being interviewed aa to the work of the Defence Commission, in answer to a question as to whether New Caledonia holds any position of menace towards Eastern Australia, said he was decidedly of opinion from information he had gathered that there were about three thousand French troops there, and that male convicts of the number of about [9OOO were being drilled with wooden guns. This drill was of a nature to.st men to take part in a land attack ffr

One of tho very earliest settlors of this district, Mr Charles White, died at his residence, Linooln Road, this morn" , vng. Mr White, who arrived in New Zealand early in the forties, oaiue to Masterton with the first batch of Bottlers, and acted for many years as overseer of roads. For some time past he had been in a sinking condition, and. death rebulted from senile deoay. The deceased, who was seventy-nine years of age, had a large family, but only one, Mrs Murdoch JVcKenzie, survives; Despite bad times Mr K Herrmann of the Cuba street Photographic Gallery opposite Te Aro House, seems to be doing a thriving \> and no small number of those who visit him to have their likenesses taken are country residents. .Mr Hermann is admitted to be a capable artist with special knowledge of photographies chemistry, and both ia operating and in . re touching he his produoed some excellent work. It is to thlß that he owes his ' liberal patronage, and also to the moderate prices he charges when the excellent quality of his productions is taken into account.— Extract.