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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3949, 27 October 1891, Page 2

There will be no publication of the Wairaeafa Daily on Thursday (Show Day). The next parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers will be held on Thursday week, wlien the election of officers takes place. The men at I'ctone Railway Workshops have decided against a holiday on Demonstration Day. A special coach will be run by Messrs W. Preston and Co. between Mauriceyi'le and Masterton on Thursday next, Show Day. Notice is given by the Alfredton liond Board of its intention to take certain lands in the Mangaone Survey District for the purposes of a public road. The Advocate reports several cases of influenza at lurakina, some of them of a seyere type, while at Marton "la grippe" is playing sad havoc among the people. The VVanganui Herald holds this opin i„ p : _lf the coming man is to be a teetotaller, he will not be made so by Act of Parliament, or by one sect ion of the corn munity attempting to curtail the liberty and privileges of the other by means of the ballot box and hysterical accusations against those who prefor to make glad the heart ii a man.

•Tames Dalton paid the usual penalty ir. tjie Masterton 11. M Court to-day for haying too freely imbibed. James Bascett, who was sentenced to two months' hard labour yesterday for larceny, was taken to Wellington to-day by Constable May.

A movement i 3 on foot to erect a fine new public hall near the Empire Hotel, Featherston.

About a hundred busbfellers, who have completed various contracts, are in Masterton at the present time. The fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council will ba held this evening.

Another brass bmd h about to be formed in Palmerston North.

The Napie? Telegraph calls the opinions of Sir Robert Stoat on the perpetual lease system, "halfbred Shet-land-Island-Yankee nonsense."

The privilege in connection with fruit and fancy goods at the Masterton Show has been purchased privately by Mr James Wickens.

The further hearing of the. Picturesqne At'as cases in Masterton has been adjourned tiU to-morrow (Wednesday). Several cases are being heard at Carterton to-day.

A practical test of the Wolseley sheep shearing machine will be made at the show of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Assuciat'on to be held on Thursday. Pearson's Brass Band has been engaged to play at the Masterton show on Thursday next.

Fur some unaccountable reason the names of children who have at the annual examination have been withheld from publication in the Lower Valley.

A violent lunatic was taken from Woodville to Wellington on Saturday. When in the cell he attacked the constable and doctor, making a determined effort to "chewup "Dr Milne. A young man named Frank Burchmet with a nasty accident at Stony Creek, Lower Valley, the other day. He was engaged bushfelling when the limb of a tree fell and struck him on the arm, fracturing it abare the elbow. The sufferer has been attended to by Dr Bey.

A Home Minion service was held in the Masterton Wesleyan Church list evening. The congregation war large, and the chair occupied by Mr B. P. Perry. An interesting account of his labours amongst the Maoris was given by the Rev. Hnuraki Paul, whose quaint sayings provoked*'frequent rounds if applause. The rer. visitor also recited in a pleasing style, "There's a Good Time Coming, Boys," and made a stirring appeal for financial assistance to the Maori Mission, An address was also delivered by the ttey- J. Dukes, the service concluding in the usual way.

We have heard of individuals who " neyer open their mouth "but they put their foot in it," but a man named Westall, of Ormondville, has gone one better. The other evening he was sitting by his fireside, when he suddenly essayed a yawn by ivliich he dislocated hia shoulder. He tried to yawn it back again, but it would not go. He is now under medical treatment.

Will the public allow one of the grandest conveniences in Masterton, Mr KeuaU's road-side puddle.to be destroyed by a squinting culvert ? This. it how our local contemporary sounds the battle cry for the Mayoral election 1 Sooner than this puddle should be touched by impious hands, the gore of the Liberals will How faster than the culvert can squint. According to the Palmerston South correspondent of theOtigo Daily Times, sumo diegers returned from Zeehan with two or three pounds of gold, divided it into equal portions, visited tho banks in the t'lwnship digger fashion, professed that they had got tho gold aonieI where in Shag Valley, though they declined to indicate the exact spoo, and received L 3 17s an ounce for Zeehan gold that was worth only L 3 3s tid. Having discovered the fraud tho bank officers are greatly annoyed. It will be interesting to farmers to know that there will be exhibited at the forthcoming show of the Masterton Agricultural ai:d Pastoral Association one of Gaskill's Patent Perpetual Baling Presses, for baling straw and hay. A | trial of the press will be made on the ground by the Masterton Blickstnith and Wheelwright Manufacturing Company, who are the exhibitors, which will no doubt be witnessed by farmers with considerable interest. The sole agents for .New Zealand are Messrs Booth, Macdonald and Co.

By a recent change in the firm, Mr Alfrid Tarae has become the principal of Messrs F. W Oottrell and C», the well-known Wellington forwarding agents. Wo haye pleasure in drawing atten.ion to Messrs Coctrell and Co.'b business notification in another column, and while doing 30 may remark that from our own experience of them, extending oyer a period of some years, they may be relied upon tj carefully handle all parcels and goods committed to their care, and .to act as customs and forwarding agents with promptness and at uuitotmly moderate rates. The annual meeting of the Wairarapa Huut Club was hold at the Empire Hotel, Featherston, on Saturday. There was a largo attendance of membera from all par's. Mr W. E. Bidwill was re* elected Master oi the Hounds, and Mr M'Dermid Secretary. Theptoposals of the United Hunt Club to hunt the next season were left with a general management committee of 25 members to consider. It was resolved not to accept the United Huut Club's offer for the purchase of the young hounds. The annual subscription was raised from 10s (3d to LI. It was resolved to hold a steeplechase meeting at Tauherenikau in the winter. The Club numbers 148 members, and the balance sheet showed a credit balance of 1.8 Mis Bd.

A plan for the destruction of small birds has been used for smie time with great success (says the Lyttelton Times) on Mr John Grieg's Longbe<ch Estate. The system is one which has been em - ployed at home with success, and has been introduced into Canterbury by Mr Frederick, now an emplnye on the Lt ngbeach estate. The ordinary method of poisoning grain is by steeping, and the strychnine permeating eyery corn and making it rather bitter the birdi are apt to reject it. In the process used atMr Grigg's the application is dry, and the kernel of the wheat is not affected m taste. It has so immediate an effectthat the birds are picked up in thousands on the spot where the poisoned grain has been laid, and a small quantity suffices. So great his been the destruction of small birds at Longbeach that the adjoining road boards have applied to Mr Grigg for supplies of grain thus prepared, and are ceasing to purchase the heads and eggs, as they find that wholesale slaughter results from the use of the grain prepared by the new method. Mr Puwell has secured a provisional protection order pending a piterfc being granted for his method. Boys' summer clothingjust received at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro Bouse. The following are all made to our special order Boys' White Drill "Sailor" Suits. Gilt Buttons <"nd trimmed Blue Braid, from 4/9 each at Te Aro House, Wellington. Dors' Drab Drill Sailor Sui'.s, Collars trimmed Blue and White Braid, Gilt Buttons, from 6/6 each at Te Aro House, Wellington. Boys' Blue Serge Sailor Suits, White Braided Collar, White Flannel Fronts, Arm Badges, Lanyards, &c., from G/9 each at Te Aro House, Wellington. Boys' Blue Serge Sailor Suits, Collars trimmed Red Braid, with Wliito Singlets and Lanyards, Beautiful Badge on the Arm, from 12/6 each at Te Aro H wae, Wellington. |