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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4054, 4 March 1892, Page 2

Tho Tuapeka Farmers' Union at its last meeting passed for payment accounts for 125 dozen small birds' eggs. Tho Wanganui Cup, run yesterday, was won by Crown Jewel, with Queen of Trumps second and Uudu tbird. A working partner (single man pre fered) with £IOOO, is wanted to take a share ip a sheep farm. A dividend of 2a 9d in the £ has been deolared in the estate of O, J. Trapp, of Alfredton. A meeting of settlers of the Pahiatua district was hold last night to discuss the advisability of establishing a dairy faotory. The business people in inglewood, Tpranaki, have JtobidaJ to keep' half holiday on Thursdays. 1, ''' ! • The tradesmen of Pahiatua hayei been victimised by a stranger who passed two valueless cheques drawn'on someone at Waipukurau. Tho police are on his track.'

Both the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily 'Telegraph devote : .leading articles to Lord Onslow's Governorship of New Zealand. 3 A batch of new books for the Carter- " ton Library were shipped by tho Tongariro, which will shortly arrive. A special settlement association at Woodville, having fifty ■ members, is applying to the Government for 11,000 g acres of land on the eastorn slopes of the Puketois. A parade of reomits of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers was held last evening. i, The men were put through their facings | • by Lieut. R. J. Malcolm, and acquitted tnenißelves very, oreditably. The action ot the Committee of the !' Wairarapa Hunt Ulub in declarin? a || free (rate and charging members for 11 paddock privileges at the coming Steepleohase meeting at Tauherenikau isgenerally condemned at the lower bnd of the " Valley, and a requisition is in course ol signature requeuing the' Master :of the Hounds to call a general meotingof members to re-consider the question, B The Manawatu Standard says :-A contractorfromHiinterville was down here yesterday looking for men, but , failed to get them. He was offering a shilling an hour, - Only about half the faotorles in Mas- ■ terton have sent in returns to the local Board of Health, Most ef those who ]_ have failed to send them in have received no forma from the Irißpeotor of Factories William Thomas Peacock, who is to be charged at Masterton on Monday with failing to provide for his wife and family, was working at Hunterville, intheßangitikei distriot, .when arrested. y A case of alleged forgery will in all . probability be brought to light at e Peatherston at an early date. • Mr James Carrol, the new Minister, is a property-holder in the Gisborno district, but the local paper states that he claims the privilege of an aboriginal . native to refuse to pay the harbour rate. if A sailor named Charles Treffry has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Wellington for-threatening to stab his superior officers. The accused I, said ho would sooner go to gaol for six months than continue to live on his ship, which he said was ill-provisioned, ,' We have to acknowledge receipt of the February number of The Publio Service Journal. It is, as usual, full of interesting information concerning Civil Service matters, and is a creditable g production alike in its editing, compila--0 tion, and printing. j The Empire Tea Company, whose fine ,_ blends have becomegreatly in requisition, continue to keep the article in which they deal "up to date" with the tea markets of the world. Nearly evory . where may now be seen the Empire Tea Company's Brand, and those who have tried these delioateand richly blended teas, pronounoe them second to none ) amongst many competitors. A meeting of the Wairarapa Farmers' y Co-operative Association, Limited, (formerly M, Caselfcerg and C 0.,) was held . yesterday, when Dr Hosking and Mr H. ■ H.Smith (of the Bank of Australia) ■ were appointed additional directors of the Company, and Mr A. K. Bunny was " chosen to act as solicitor. The shares in j the company are being rapidly taken up, we are informed; in fact they are going off much faster than was anticipated. Mr J, Jacobs, taxidermist, has taken ', a shop in Queen-St to enable him to display some of the specimens of birds, beaßt and fishes stuffed by him. Pome very remarkable and valuable natural curios are on view, not the least strange . being a freak of nature in the shape of a ■ snow white sparrow. All tho exhibits 6 show that Mr Jacobs is a perfect master , of his business, and we have no Joubt that his services will be greatly in requisition now that people can see for them- ' solves what he is really capable of, A young girl, sixteen years of ace, employed as a domestic servant by Mr •W. W. Scott, of the Temperance Hotel, 1 was arrested yesterday afternoon on a charge of the hrceny of a gold locket, gold guard, gold ohain and Bible, of the value of £4IOB. The accused was o charged with the offence in the R,M, 0 Court this morning, 1 The Pahiatua Star says nothing has i yet been done by the Government to give f the Mangaramatamn Village Settlement t section holders access to their land, although if the regulations under which 1 they are held are carried out, a number 3 of them will be liable to forfeiture in a

' few days, This is another examplo of • tho folly of these cast-iron impossible 1 conditions; but as some of these settlers 3 are now ready to build, the least that j could be done for them is to give a road to their holdings. At present they are 1 only to be got at through tangled bush, 1 or by a road impassable from the quantity 3 of fallen timber lying upon it, , The following extraordinary letter was " received by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr ° Orowther; "Eemuera, 24tb February, 3 1892, Dear Mr Mayoral regret I 1 cannot, except as a private colonut, take 1 part in the State procession in honour of , His Excellency the Governor and the j Countess of Onslow, on their regretted departure this day from-tho colony of New Zealand, as the position in the pro--3 cession accorded to the members of the 1 House of Representatives is ; not correct, f If you care tn inform yourself ou the ; matter you will find the order of colonial , precedence laid downiußourke's Peert age, 1888, page. 1720.—1 am, &c., J. M. . Shera,''—N.Z, Herald. ? An appeal by the Oamiru Mail on f behalf of Mrs Bowler, whoaehusband was i drowned" jn the Kakanui during the 1 recent floud, has resulted in a collection . of £7 Bs, half of which waß contributed in one subscription. Our contemporary ' points outi that the publio hall was ' crowded with jchantably-disposed per« ! son; whp rushed to give their mite to 3 Drßamardo'a homes, and then proceeds: 3 —''jifOajnaiucansubjicribe £,60 to help , tho poor of Great Britain," surely she I .can sorape together more than a paltry f.7 6s for a,destitute woman and invalid ' chjld at her .own doors, who have been ' robbed of fifeir suddenly 1 and without warning, 1 The names of the follpwiqg New Zea* 1 land exhibitors appear in (Ej) published '"^rdsaMlioLipcoßtonExbj. i listsou„. ■■» «,«„, j) mim i bition—Eeid anu I chaffcutter, first award; diso harron, ■ first award; seed drill, special first award; ploughs and harrows, speoial first award for collection, • Booth, 1 M'Donaldand Co, diso Beed harrows, first award, iron windmill, built entirely of iron and steel, special first award; double furrow plough, first award, Andrews and Beaven, Ohristchurcb, Travelling self-bagging chaffcutter, horse gear, corn crushers, cleaners, special first award for collective exhibit, P. J, Bellett, Dunedm, Black, blue-blaok, and copying ink,-scarlet ink, ; gold paint raven black, cold water ink, blue-black, blue-black copying and coloured inks, W, J. Meek, Dunedin, first award. Midland Eailway Company (Limited), N.Z, iMapofCanterburyand Westland, highly commended, ■ . - Every man has a duty to perform. Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, some- : timos otherwise, When it is a duty to ' pay a long standing butoher's account, or to pay a bill you backed for a friend " justto oblige him," or when it is a duty , te receive a visit from your mother'in- • law, these are painful duties, And when - our fatherly Government decide to put ■ a duty on everything, and when a Par- ' liamentary majority consider it a duty i they owe to their country,'and the i electors they represent (or misrepresent as the case may bo), to ntifyand legaliso , such duties, why then it becomes a duty , for the publio of Masterton in particular and the Wairarapa in general to Brail ! ingly pay such duties and quietly grin & ' bear it. They have, however, one duty I to perform and that is to buy thoir I Drapery and Clothing at the Bon Marche, ] the cheapest end best house in Masterton , for, anything of the sort. The whole duty of man is to do the best he can for ' himself. .Nelson said, " Enpland ex- l pects every man to do his duty." E Hooper and.Co,, say, ■••'_' They expect i ,eVeryone, whether or 'Child, i young men' and'njaidons, bltfifoljß arid i young folks to do thgjr duties, i their duty and buying all they require > in Drapery, Clothinjug, household winnings, etc, at the.Bon Marche,'