The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3951, 30 October 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891.

The Wellington Land Board held its usual monthly sitting yesterday. The tender of Mr Timothy Hayes at £BOO 16s has been accepted by the Wairarapa Worth County Council for 112 chains of metalling on the EketahunaTinui road.

A lecture is to be delivered at Mangatainoka this (Friday) evening by the Rev. J. Dukes, of Mhstjertpn

The unemployed havo completed the formation of nearly flye miles of road in the Makairo Valley. It is stated that two new Special Settlement Associations are about to be formed in the Forty-mile Bush. The application of one of these for 2,000 acres, has, it is said, already been granted.

• The Woodvillg freezing works will be ready to commence operations on Monday next. The capacity of the works is estimated at 800 sheep per day.

Fuxton boast* of an individual who is a coroner, J.P., butchery secretary, auctioneer, land agent, newspaper proprietor, and editor.

Ihe programme of the race meeting of the Woodville District Jockey Club, to be held on January Ist, appears in our advertising columns. The whole of the machinery at the Carterton show will be driven by one of the Gulcher OoniDany's electric machines, which Has been provided free of cost for the occasion by jthe Company, Mr Isifct's patent <j»r«er of bi -sulphide of carbon was on exhibition at the show of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday, and attracted a good deal of attention. A meeting of settlers in connection with the proposed Starling S.S. Association was held at Eketahuna on Wednesday evening last. The Association is being formed for the purpose of takiiig up land at Mangataiuoka, at the back' .of the Hainan special settlement. The new £rov<,-riime»ii hj.ns regulations were read, and a resolution was parsed unanimously that the (Government be aahitd to add a purchasing clause to their present regulations.

Three thousand one hundred persona paid for admission to the show grounds yesterday. Besides this number, there weie fully a thousand holders of free parses.

About §fty fresh summonses are to be issued in Masterton at once against defaulting subscribers to the Picturesque Atlas.

The Pahiatua correspondent of the Woodville paper says :—Mr Jackson, of Masterton, canvassing agent for the Government Life Insurance, arrived here yesterday and will make a tour ot the district on Vehalf of the Department. Mr Jackson js a disciple of Isaac Walton, and will make a trja/of the local streams.; and find out whether trout aie Jjkely to be caught or not. The hearing of the case Picturesque Atlas Company v. J*'. D. Harrison was continued in che Masterton R.M. Court on Wednesday afternoon, and on tie application of Mr" Pownali, who appeared for the plaintiff*, was adjourned until the 24th prox. MrPownall stated that hi? dieuts had not anticipated an absolute denial of the signature on the part of the defendant," and they jro»!d require to call fresh evidence. A number of other cases which were £o have been heard were settled out of Court. The case Bowerman v. Riddle, which is to be defended, has been adjourned until November 24th.

The turnstile which the Masterton A"rioultural and Pastoral Association purchased last year wvs not used at yesterday's show, as the process for admission was considered to be far too slow.