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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3974, 27 November 1891, Page 2

Sir G. S, Baden Powell is mentioned as likely to succeed Lord Onslow as Governor of New Zealand. 3etween the 24th March last and the present date the Land Board have sold 52,627 acres 0 roods 11 perches, the price realised being £30,722 15s 7d. Speaking at Ballarat, Cardinal Moran referred to the Salvation Army as the latest form of heresy, whose hymnbook was full of cant. The friends in Maaterton of the Rev I). Fulton will be interested to hear that ho has recoivod and accepted a call to jjallina, in'tfow South Wales.

Mißs Manning, the celebrated palmist, is now in Masterton and may be consulted at Scott'a Temperance Hotel, Queen Street. Mr James Muir, coachbuilder offers for £6 a bargain in the shape of a second hand Solway Wool Press. The Olago Cup, run at Forbury yesterday, was won by Florrie, with Boul anger second and Occident third. The race was a desperate one and was won by a neck.

Decision in the case in which Eli Strawbridge, of Carterton,is charged with perjury, has been reserved t ; U Monday next.

Mr Skerrett expressed the opinion in Court yesterday that because a man was a book fiend he was not necessarily unreliable. There are certain residents in Masterton who hold quite & different view of the matter.

From the year 1885 up to the present time the port of Wellington has been visited by forty-fiye Men-of-war. In May last there were tifty--fiye members of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers who received capitation for the year amounting to £97. The recent Auckland hospital Inquiry cost the ratepayers ti the Colony the sum ot i-294 2s lid, or the twelve months' salary of three good Civil Ser* rants.

No less a sum than £2,832 has been expended in the Wellington district for the year 1890-91 by the Stock Department in the destruction of rabbits. This does not include th 6 salaries of the Inspectors. Tenders are invited by the Eketahuna Road Board for thirteen chains of metalliug in the Wellington No. 1 Block.

Summer is now fairly upon us, the heat being very oppressive. At five o'clock last evening the thermometer registered 88, Fall., in the shade. A parcel of land containing 181 acres 2 roods, being section No. 89 of Block V, Kopuaranga Survey District, is proposed to be set apart for the purposes of primary education. Mr W. H. Beetham, J. P., sat on the Bench yesterday under somewhat unpleasant circumstances, suffering as he wss from an attack of the prevailing epidemic—influenza. John Russell died suddenly at Glen lnnes on Saturday evening. He was supposed to bem indigent circumstances, but the police found 227 sovereigns concealed on his premipes. He was a miser. The potato blight has made its appearance in the Richmond River district, (N.S. w .) acros of plants being hopelessly destroyed near Lismwre, There are in the colony at the present time 1,696 properties, of the value of £50,756, belonging to unknown owners. Mr George Pratt, a loadman in the employ of the Wairarapa North County Council, died at tho Opaki yesterday from the effects of influenza. Or Bolton has been re-alected Chairman of the Pahiatua County Council. It has been resolved that in future the ordinary meetings ot the Council be held on the second Saturday after the first of each month. The whole Council has been appointed a Works and Finance Committee.

The f blowing fish, from the Masterton hatcheries, have been liberated in the streams of Pahiatua this saason: —ln the Mangahao, 5500 ; in the Makuri, 1000 ; in the Man?ataincko, 14,050 ; in theMakakahi, 13,900. Total, 34,450. Altogether nearly 100,000 have been turned out.

A man in the Rangitikei district has been bitten so severely by a katipo spider that he is in danger of losing his life.

At a general meeting of the member? of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association, to be held on Wednesday next, the question of incorporating the Society will be discussed and other important business transacted.

Iu cur report of the horticultural show we omitted to mention the exhibit of some firßt-class bricks, manufactured by Messrs Truscott and Alpass, of Kurupuni.

A practical lesson on butter-making ia to be given at Mangatainoka at an early date by Mr Dons, Government dairy instructor. A country paper, in puffin? a certain soap, says :—" It is the best ever used for cleaning a dirty man's faoe ; we have tried it, and therefore we know." According to the Advooate the Marton Maoris are about to establish a special settlement association to take up land from Government. Mr John Best, ot Waimea West, (says the Colonist) has obtained a re» markable clip from his Romney Marsh stud sheep, imported by him from the Wairarapa, the aierage clip being thirteen pounds of wool. From his flock of crossbreda he averaged ten pounds, the whole of his flocks giving at the rate of 111b per sheep. The other day our local contemporary put a series of questions to Mr I'ayton about the Park Oval squabble which we presume have beeu satisfactorily answered, as he apparently has nothing more to say on the subject. We will now put a question to Mr Alexander Hoggin our turn. '' Did the School Committee, of which he was a prominent member, distribute enormous quantities of cakes, lollies, and toys amongst the children for the sake of popularity, and did the Committee steal the cadet fund to pay tor the junketing, and at the annual meeting suppress all mention of the robbery in its official report and balance sheet ?"

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