The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12,1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4010, 12 January 1892, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12,1892.

Special services were hold ia the Synagogue at Sydney on Sunday tor the purpose of raising money to aid the Russian ,)ews. £'looo was collected.

Ttvo hundred and ninety-five passengers were brought to New Zealand by the Mararoa and Tekapo on their last trip from Australia. We understand that tho enquiries made by Inspector Thompson tend 10 ontirely discredit the dreadful suspicion suggested in the article which ivo published yesterday as an extract from the Woodville paper. A varied collection of game birds, including a golden pheasant cook and two hens, havo just' been imported by tho Wellington Acclimatization Society, and will be placed at once in the Masterton aviary. Mr Z M, Hoar, builder and undertaker, notifies that he is prepared 'o conduct funerals in ai.y part of the district,

Tho Ejrl and Countess of Meath wore amongst the passengers of tho lonic, which arrived at Wellington on Sunday.

The Mauriceville Uoad Board invites teiidors for the construction of two bridges on Dreyer's Rock and Wangaehu roads and metalling on the Mauriceville West road.

A bad beginning is said to mako a good ending I It is to bo hoped this will apply to the local bodies in Mastsrton, Out of four meetings called since the beginning of the year, three have lapsed fur want of a quorum, A meeting' of the Cemetery Trustees was to nave been held yestorday, but the only member present wasMr It, M. Galloway,

\ meeting of the inhabitants of Mnjtorton was held in tho Temperance Hall yesterday afternoon to recoivo the balance-sheet, of tho Cemetery Trustees for tho past year, The only persons present we.ro the Secretary, one member of tho Trust, and the representative of the Daily, Mr JR. M. Galloway was voted to tho chair. Tho advertisement calling the meetin? was (ead, together with the balance-sheet, which was formally presented. The usual voto of thanks was passed to the chair and tho proceedings terminated. At Mir monthly meeting rf the North Wairarapa Rabbit Board to bo held tomorroy (Wednosday)the resultof the poll ot tho ratepayers upon the advisability or otherwise of abolishiug the Board will bo made known.

A live male infant, about a fortnight old, was found on the doorstep of Dr Satchell's house in Palmerston North on {Saturday night, Alongside it was found a, bundle containing a quantity of baby's clothes and food. Tho police are enquiring into the matter, The Noith British and Mercantile Insurance Company, of which Mr E. E Waddington is tho local agent, has, with commendable promptitude, paid over the insurance on the building of Mr Simonix and the Borough Council, (Peacock's) recently destroyod by liro The representatives of the Wairarapa at the Maori gathering at Parikino aro Puipi te Mari, Niriaha Raumate, and Tunui Araugi. All experimental consignment of lobsters, brought from florae by the lonic, was not a success. The lobsters all died beforo tho tropics were reached. Sergeant McArdle, who was at ono time stationed in Masterton, is being removed from Waipawa for economical reasons. Tho Maoris of Waipawa are flocking to; Napier to consult Lio Medo, the phrenological herbalist who treated a Native with cold cream till he died. The remains of the late Thomas Redding were interred in tho Mastor* ton cemetery this morning. Although the deceased was [walking about fiyo minutes beforo ho died, Dr Hosking, who had previously attended him, had uo hesitation in giving a certificate of death, We understand the deceased loaveß a wifo and family in Wellington, 1

/Whooping ccugh is'said to bo prevalent in, Grey town, .and," in faotj-.throughout tho district', ' •-./; A " taugi" is being held at the Te Ore Oro Maori Pah tu-day over tho remains of a young native who died yesterday. .. An individual who had wrongly guaged his "holding" capacity was picked up in a-helpless condition in a Masterton street yesterday. Being a Brat offender ho was dealt with in tho usual summary manner in the R.M, Court this morning. On and after Monday,' the 18th inst., an officer will bo in oharge of the Mauriceville railway station, Mr Day, recoiitly of Greytown, has, we understand, been appointed station master. I? gly rumours havo been afloat in Masterton for some dajs regarding,tho Pahiatua tragedy, and some have gone so |far as to mention,the mum the perpetrator of the outrago. Wo might state that the investigations of the police have, as yet revealed no malicious intent. on the part of any person, and tho whole affair is as mysterious as ever. A prospecting party has applied to the Featherston Road Board for a subsidy for making a test, of the well known Brandon's Reof. . As trial crushings in the past have resulted in no gold being discovered, theßnard has declined to rondor assistance. The Wairarapa Racing Club, at its | meeting on Saturday last, drew up the following programmo for its Easter [ Monday meeting;— Hurdles, about three , miles, firat horso L6O; Hack Hurdles, 1| , miics, first horso L3O; Flying, f mile, , first horse Lls; Hack Handicap, ij , miles, first horse L3O; Easter Handicap, . i| miles, first horse L 100; Second Hack Handicap, § mile, first horso L2o; Grand . Stand Handicap, milo and a distance, first horse L 35 ; Hack Race, one mile, first hoiso LIS, A visit to tho Bon Marche would well repay anyone wanting a Nicely Trimmed • Hat or a Pretty Bonnet* Some of the most lovely goods over imported into Masterton are now being Bhown in this well-known Palace of Fashion, Also just give yourself Jive minutes and cast an enquiring optic ovor tho magnificent Ladies Dress Materials in all the latest shades, and tho very pirk of tho season's fashions, and don't forget to ask i the prices. l Neither shovU you go awuj without i seeing the stock 0/ pretty emahmla, 3 paraiols, etc., and see what a gtand shep the Bon Matche is for anything of tho s kind. Perhaps you don't want to spend much money in this way, possibly your limit is something less than half a sove ? reign or half aorown, well, ask the prices and see what Hoo,:erand Company can do for you.