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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 14 September 1891, Page 2

His Excellency the Governor, Lord Onslow, arrives in Masterton to-night and proceeds on a fishing excursion tomorrow in company with Mr W. H. Beethain. We trust His Excellency will haye a good haul. The remains of a Maori womnn who recently died at Homebush were interred in the Native cjmetery at Te Ore Ore on Saturday. The funeral concourse was a large one.

A clrunk who was arrested yesterday, but failed to put in an appearance in the B. M. Court this morning, had his bail confiscated-

Meetings of the Wairarapa Racing Club and Lower Valley Jockey Club were held on Saturday last. The IN apier News urges the Hon .J. McKenzie to go electioneering at the \V9ikato. The weekly parade of the Master ton Rifle Volunteers takes place on Thursday evening, after which a general meeting w?ll be held.

The local police are on the warpath. They are determined to suppress drinkjng after hours and Svnd.iy trading.

The Maoris are applying for a school at Tahoraite, where there are fifty children.

The concert company of Miss Trehair Osborne is expected in the Wairarapa next week.

A branch of the Society known as the Sons and Daughters of Temperance, has been established at Pahiatua. The <?eath is announced from Aber deen, Scotland, of the father of Dr. Milne, of Woodville, at the age of 66 years.

A dividend of 20s in the £ is the rather novel amount which the Gisborne Deputy Assignee has been able to pay in a bankrupt estate. The bankrupt is a Maori. The sum of L 6 17s 6d h»s been expended during the past year in the provision of wines, ales, &c., for the patients in the Masterton Hospital. The peach trees in the Walroa district have entirely recovered from the bli2ht and now present in their bloom a beautiful sight. There is every appearance of a splendid fruit crop there.

_ A man named William Fraser was kicked in the groin by a horse at Auck* on Friday morning. He thought little of it at the time, but be died on Satnrd, 7A disastrous fire oceurred at Palmerston North on Saturday morniirj, by which six buildings were destroyed. The loss is estimated at £12,000. A wiit for £IOOO for alleged libel has been seryed by Mr W. G. Tustin, of Wellington, upon a prominent Government official. A costume football match is to be played on the Worksop road pround on Saturday next in aid of the newly-formed Masterton Crioket Club. The annual show in connection with the Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association is to be held on Wednrsday and Thursday, 18th and 19th November next.

A blasting explosion occurred atßi unswlck, a tuburb of Melbourne, In which a man named Andrews was blown to pieces and five others were seriously injured. The lot of the Agriculturalist in New South Wales is not an enviable one. Last year lie had, according to an official report, to contend with floods, droughts, bush fires, runt, locusts, yermin, hailstorms, excessive rain, blight, and flying foxes.

Sixty-seven patients were admitted to the Masterton Hospital during the year ending 31st March. Of this number sixteen were from Pahiatua, fi.'teon from Ma3te;ton, eleven from Eketahuna, twelve from Whareama, three from Wellington, two from Alfredton and one >.'om Carterton.

Instructions have been given by the Deputy-Official Assignee to Mr Bvlggs, of Pahiatua, to offer for sale the vill age section held by T. J. James, bankrupt, at that place. In connection therewith the bankrupt writes co the local paper to say he is still in possession and has- no intention of vacating the section. He says, inter alia, "I hope to make it known to all tint whoever or whatever may be found thereon will be prosecuted, anu they will also have to run the risk after this for any damage they may receive".

Some idea of the value of the butter industry to Waikato (says the New Zealand Herald) may be found in the state* ment published in another column, made by Mr Reynolds at the meeting oil Friday, of the Hanr'.ton factory milk suppliers, namely, that in the year ending 30th June last his firm had paid the milk suppliers to the Waikato factory the sum of £IO,C JO for ia. : 'k alone, independently of the other cost of workinp the factories, etc. During the same year they had exported 150 tons of butter from Waikato.

In the R. M. Court this morning, the Be: ch, consisting of Colonel Roberts, K M., and Messrs B. Boys and J. Gardiner, J.P.'s., intimated that it con* sidered the evidence in the Duckett charges sufficient to justify a committal of Murdock McKenzie. Mr Pownall, for the accused, announced that the defence world be reserved. There are three charges yet to be heard against McKenzie.

The Bon Marche has always held the reputation for the nicest assortment of new &cods at the opening of the season, and Hooper and Company are determined to offer the public such a choice this seison as will eclipse everything in the distuct.

The Wanganui Charitable Aid Board pays 9s a week for the maintenance of eii;ht old men in a boarding-house. The testimonial which is about to be presented to Mr B. R. C. Coleman has prepared by Mr C. E. Breraner, of this town. The Boroll work &nd embossing reflect the fere»teßt credit upon the artist.