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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3970, 23 November 1891, Page 2

£ bout twenty events will be competed for at the Whakataki spo'U to be held on Boxing Day. A boxing between Mitchell find Matthews, two well-known Ideal pugilists, for a good stake, is likely to come off in the Theatre Royal on Saturday week. The lawn tennis tournament between the Carterton and Masterton Clubs, which was to ha\ e been played on Saturday, fell through, the latter Club bein? unable to get. together a team. We are informed that trout poaching is becoming yery common in this district, and that in some of the streams dynamiting is being practiced. The rangers of the Acclimatization Society should keep a sttict luok-out for offenders in this direction.

The crick* t match, Married v. Single, whioh was to haye been played by the Mast«rton Cricket Ciub on the Park Oval on Saturday, fell through. A scratch match was, however, played between teams picked on the ground. The special services held by the Salvation Army in Masterton yesterday were well attended. The street processions, headed by the Array band, attracted large crowds, and vigorous addresses were delivered in the open air by Eusign Cutler, Captain llattray and others.

An elderly woman named Bridget Barsanti died suddenly at "Wellington on Friday night. An inquest was held, when the jury returned a verdict of "death from natural causes."

Mr Walter Bock has been appointed assessor under the Laud and Income Tax Assessment Act for the Feathereton district.

A section of land in tne Makuri district, seven miles from Pahiatu*, containing 229 acres, was disposed of by auction at Wellington on Saturday by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., at .£4 7s 6d per acre. The purchasers were Messrs Milne and Sons,

Ranavalomanjaka, Queen of Madagascar, is one of the Royal ladies who cbew tobacco.

Rain making experiments are to be nade at Broken Hill shortly.

Constable Roaohe. (if Eketahuna, is relieving Constable Cooper at Pahtarua. A Wellington constable is (loins: duty temporarily at UiketahunaWe are in receipt of the first annual report of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, which shows that the Institute at Auckland is new in a flourishing condition.

At Ahipara, in the Auckland province, there are three co-operative stores conducted by Maoris. The Engineer to the Rangitikei County Council has died through the effects of la grippe.

The Marton Mercury is agitating for a cottage hospital for the recepti n of those injured by accidents. The Hastings Farina Company lias censed operationspending theornmeroial fate of the product already made. A settler who still holds 1000 bags of potatoes proposes to continue the manufacture himself.

At a well-attended meeting In the Club Hotel on Saturday night, presided over by Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.K., it was resolved to present a testimonial to Mr Joseph lorns, who recently left the district.

Mi Jauies Macara has brought back with him from Christchurch a filiy,thirteen months old, by Artillery, out of Symphony, byPerkin Warbeck out of Lady of the Lake—a mare well known tii this district. Thus the Inverell Time 3 :—" We hare to apologise to our constituents for not making out our accountven the usual bill heads, but the fact is wo hare exhausted all the ruled paper in the colonies in our yain efforts to gather in our accounts."

The Hugo Buffalo Minstrels, wh-> have been playing to crowded houses in Wellington, open in the Mastarto.i Theatre Royal this evening. The company is a strong ono, composed of sterling artistes of both sexes, whilst the pr"gramine to be submitted is both'varied and attractiye.

It is reported that Mr P. GiU, of Masterton, who has tor eight years past been in the service of the Mutual Life Association of Australasia, and has for some time held the position of Resident Agent for the Wairarnpa, has sent in his resignation, and will retire at the end of the year. An East Indian, who has been resident amongst the Maoris in Taranaki for some time, is now in New Plymouth suffering Jroui leprosy. He is isolated in a cottage at the rear of the Hospital. Mr F. H.Wood reports having effected a private sale of 1200 wether off the shears at lis per head.

Mr T. Dixon, ot the Worksop road apiary, Masterton, has just received from Ohio, U.S.A., three test selected Italian queen bees. Tho bees were sent by parcels post in a specially prepared box, and aHhough several weeks on the arrired in perfect condition.

At a meeting of ratepayer!! of the Whareama Outlying District hold at the residence of Mr Cnpps on Saturday, a unanimous vote of thanks was passed to Mr Buchanan for the services he bad rendered in their interests aurin? the last session.

At a meeting of Whareama settlers on Saturday, strong representations were made of the great dama?e done to the roads by heavy waggon traffic during the winter months, and it was urged that settlers in their own interests should have all their stores lai 1 in before the winter months.

The Uth annual report of the Timaru Farmsr's Co-operative Society is satisfactory. For the year there was £7500 6s in receipts ; £2089 from commissions; £1942 from storage; £5648 from profits on merchandise. The directors propose to divide 8 per cent on capital, 7 per cent bonus on accounts, and place £2OOO to a reserve fund. During the year the premises were enlarged, and the erection of a large grain etore has been determined on.

A church parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers was held yesterday morning, when about thirty men, under the command of Captain Pownall, marched from Rnnall's creek to St. Matthew's Church, where a service appropriate to the occasion was conducted by the Rev W. E. Paige. The pro* cession through the street was headed by Pearson's Brass Band.

Has our local contemporary been attending another banquet ? If so, we can understand how it is he has published the following idiotic paragraph : " In reply to our suggestion that an explanation should bo given of the circumstances which led to the squabble over the letting ot the Masterton Park on B.ixtng Day, our local contemporary Bays that the Secretary did it. It Is only fair to mention that the Secretary is understood to be Mr W. Sellar and not Mr Joseph Payton."

A meeting of ratepayers of the old Whareama Road District was held on Saturday at the homestead of Mr Cripps, to decide upon the proposal to stop the road through Eparaima, which has for many years kept the Board in hot water. A resolution approving of the stoppage of the road was carried unanimously, on the motion of Mr W. C. TJuchanan, M.H.R., seconded by Mr H. R Elder. A cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr Buchanan for having successfully resisted the passing of legislation in the House last session to cjmpel the payment by the overtaxed ratepayers of Mr R. R. Meredith's law costs in conneotiou with this road.

a contemporary states that the New Zealand lady-bird, Vedalia Cardinalix, has so effectually cleared the Incerya scale blight from Californian orchards that it is now roaming about and starving to death " unemployed." In order to save the stock nurseries have been established and that these may succeed, nurseries < f the blight have also been kept up. The lady bird lays its epgs under tho casing of the blight, and when the grubs hatch out they devour the eggs and the young of the scale insect. California reckons the little New Zealand beetle saved her three million dollars hist year on her fruit crop.

The Woodville Examiner has the following :—" It is gravely stated that we have sweating iu all its horrors in our midst and that work is being done at the price of the London swe'ater. A ease is brought under our notice of a woman who is smait with her needle, and after working night and day all she can earn for herself aud family by the end of the week is about 12). If this is true it is horrible. What pleasure can life have to one who has to toil from one week's end to another for so little, and glad to earn that little'?"

Queensland Is suffering from a severer depression than has yet been telt in New Zealand. At Btisbane 40 clerks have received notice from the leading banks, owing to slackness of trade. Building is almost at a standstill. Out of 1500 employed at the beginning of the year only a sixth are now working. T.ie amalgamated Society of Carpenters has expended nearly £'2ooo in relieving the unemployed members, and sending them to the southern colonies.

Mei»rs Lowes & lorni announce their next stock sale for Wednesday, 2nd December, the present entries for which comprise 1000 4 and 8 toct.h wethers, 50 mixed, cattle and 12 pigs (weaners).

1j J. Hooper and Co are now showing the most fashionable and largest assort" meat of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Milli nery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &o.

Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, &e.

We ore showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, Ac. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of nev dress materials in the Wairarapa. All the leading shades, de l signs, satins, and materials for the season, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is fall of the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons trillings, collars cuffs and parasols, etc,