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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4063, 15 March 1892, Page 2

A meeting of those interested in forming a Draughts Club in Masterton will be held in the office of Mr W. L, Johnstone, Hall street, this (Tuesday) evening at eight o'clock. A special general meeting of the ? Wairarapa Hunt Olub will be held at ) fcho Marquis of Normanby Hotel, i Oartortou, on Saturday next, the 19th 1 inst, at noon, A notification on the . subject from (be Honorary Secretary, MrG. S. M, McDennid, appears in our advertising columns. The business under discussion will be to consider the ■ advisability or otherwise of throwing open the gates at tlio Steeplechase Meets ingfreeof charge to the. public, and whether or not a ohargo will be made to 1 members for admission to the Grand f Stand. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their ( stock sale for Wednesday, March 23rd, . 200 breeding ewes, ■ A miuer named Thomas P, Violiollo was buried to a depth of eight feet by the " collapse of a shaft at Coal Creek Flat on ' Saturday. He is a married man with a " large family, John Nelson, indicted on a ohargo of having extracted thirteen sovereigns '. from the pocket of a resident of Eketahuna, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday. Twolvo of the stolon , sovereigns were restored. The second fifteen of the Masterton j Football Club hold a meeting in the Club Hotel on Saturday evening to elect a ' management committee, etc. Tho second ' fifteen will this year be a vovy stroll" j one, as a number of Te Ore Ore players , have thrown in their lot with the olub. ■ Tho s.s, Elginshire, which is ashore ; near Timaru, has been abandoned by the 5 owners, and has been taken possession of by the representative of the Underr writers Association. Itisstillhuped the vessel will be floated. ; AWe shipment of first .grade phosphorus has been received by Mr T. G, Mason, chemist, of Masterton, and j will be sold at much loif er ratos than over before quoted in the district. A meetinc of the Trustees of the (ireytown Hospital was held yesterday, B when a considerable quantity of buais nes3 was got through, principally of a routine nature. It was decided to hold the annual Hospital ball on Friday, the ; 13th May, andtn request all willing to act on the Committee to meet at Mr F. - H, Wood's office on Wednesday, tho 23rd inst,, at 8 p. m, ii The case in which the Hon. J. B. Whyte and Mr Etheridge, late Kecoiver 3 of Crown Lands Revenue, were charged » with conspiracy, was called on in the e Auckland Court yesterday. Tho solid- •, tor for the prosecution stated he was t unable to proceed ivtfh the case as tho g principal witness had left tor England. Mr Cooper, who appeared for the Hon, Mr Whyte, expressed regrot that the e prosecution could not go on, Thorowas I nothing in tho qaso to convey any d knowledgo of fraud on Hi 6 part of his d client, or to show that an improper act 3 had been committed. The case was II dismissed.

A very old established and important Wairarapa industry is Mr E. A. Wakelin's Greytuwn saw and planing mills, and the pood namo earned by the proprietor for the workmanship turned out, and the quality of timber supplied is well deserved. Kauri, riinu and totara, is mado up into sashes, frames and doors on the premises, and as a stock of all sizes in common use. is always kept on hand, Mr Wakelin is enabled to execute orders with very littlo delay, A special '.branch at this mill is tho manufaotmo of cheese, butter and other boxes. A number of hands being constantly at this employment enables Mr Wakelin to do this kind of work at particularly low rates, We may add that all material for transit by rail is placed on tho truoks free of expenso to tho purchaser. The proprietor of the Gnsyfcown saw mills will at all times be pleased to post price lists to those who wish to enquire his rates,

. Wo publish to-day as an insert tho . programme of tho concert and Social to , be held ou St, Patrick's Day at the | Tliimttp Royal.' The concert itself will bo one of the best the people of Masterton will ever have been troatod to, ' while the novelty of the social alone should attract a crowd, Misses McLoan i and Fisher, together with Mr Magiunity, i form a trio good enough for any enteri tair.ment in Wellington, while' in Mr ! Peat, anew arrival from Christchurch, ■ the audience will see one of the best Btepdancers and aniatcur negro character 1 delineators in thp cojony. Songs by Messrs Duff and Maguire, ofGroytown, and Mr Bray, of Mastorton, and a new ovorture by the orchestra, form a splendid bill of fare for the most fastidious. , After the concert dancing for a couple of . hours, with refreshments ad lib, will be indulged in. We understand that Archbishop Redwood has signified his intention of being present, Every man has a duty to perform. Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, sometimes utherwise, When it is a duty to pay a long standing butohor's account, or to pay a bill you backed for a friend " just to obliire him," ovwhen it is aduty to receivo a visit from your mother inlaw, these are gainful duties. And when our fatherly Government decide to put a duty on everything, and when a Parliamentary majority consider it a duty they owe to their country, and the electors they represent (or misrepresent as the oase.may be), toratifyandlegalise such duties, why then it becomes a duty for the public of Maßterton in particular and the Wairarapa in genera) to smil ingly' pay Biioh duties and quietly grin & bear it. They have, however, one duty to perform and thai is tp buy thoir Draperyand Clothing at the Bon Marcho the cheapest and best hbuae in Materton for anything of the' tort,' The whole duty of man js to do tie best he can for himself. JNelsonsaid,'!' England experts every man to do his jluty." Hooper and Co., say, ■'! They expect everyone, whether man, woman; or ohild young men and maidens, old folkrand young folks to do their duties, by doiug their duty and buying all they require in Drapery, 1 Olothining, household furnishings, etc, at tho Bon Marche,

A recent iseue of the New South Wales Hansard contained 804 pases, and is the largest parliamentary record of four nights' talk that has been published in J that colony* _ The Kumara Times says that, as an instance of the "pecuniary embarrass, ment," bb Mr Micuwber would call it, or the looal bodies, none is so striking as the Borough Council passing £1 on account of the usual auditing fees of £lO. The Grand Duke of Hesse, son-in-law of Her Majesty Queen Yictoria, is dead. He was fifty-fivn years of age, Mr P. H. Wood reports the sale by public auction at the Greytown rooms on Saturday of 40 acres of land near Feathorston. There was good competition ;it started at £5 per acre and was eventually knocked down to Mr A. E O'Neale, cfFoatherston, at ill 10s per acre, The terms wcro oash, Notice of the intention of the Maßterton Borough Council to take land in the Ngaumatawa block appears in this week's Gazette, ■ An immediato influx of 200 families is expected in Pfltnerston Worth, owing to the railway workshops being removed thero. The Bohemian Minstrels held a successful rehearsal last night, Thoy will make their debut before the public in a tew weeks' time, The Dunedin Globe says that a tannery at Bnrnside has turned out some white kid equal to. anything that ; could bo produced in any country in the world. The ferrets just liberated by tho North I Wairarapa Babbit Board wore collected in the Gore district. When sorted in I thoit boxes at Lyttelton it was found that sixty or seventy had been killed by lighting each other, i _ The Napier Telegraph says:—The arrival of two or three Chinamen in tho district has alarmed the Masterton Knights of Labor, and they call for a , poll tax of iilOO por head of immigrant , Mongolian. Tho Knights would bo working more in the interests of labour if they drew tho attention of the Government to tho increasing immigration of unemployed and distressed from Ausi tralia, • For the embezzlement of tho funds of I the Foresters' Lodge at, Woodvillo J, Hutcbens has been sentonced to twelve months' imprisonment. Tho report of the probation officer was unfavourable. His Worship the Mnyor, by advertised request, invites the burgesses of Masterton to observe next Thursday, St, ' Patrick's Day, as a public holiday'. The principal event of the day will be the Masterton-Opiki Jockey Club's \ Races, and another notification signed by Mr E. H, Waddington, Secretary of J the Club, shows that very complete | train arrangements, including the . stoppage of trains at the oourse, and specially cheap fares have been arranged for the occasion,

A very important meeting of Mason working under the N.Z. Constitute willbe held at Greytowu on Tuosday.'th 12th of April, the occasion being a visi of the Grand Master and about 2i Grand Lodge OlKoarj. Tlio Masterton Carterton, Greytown and Featherstoi Lodges are combining to make the affai a brilliant success. Wo underatam that the Masonic ceremonies wiilboholi in tlie Greytowu Lodge room, in th afternoon, to be followed by a dinner a six and a Masonic" at homo" in the Palace Hall at 8 p.m. To the latter, of course, ladies will bo invited. About half a dozen hoises have been training on ttao Opaki coursrt overy morning of lato. Others aro in active training at Featherston, in viow of Thursday's races, The annual pic-uic in connection with the Masterton 1.0.G.T". Lodge has now become quite an institution in Masterton, and a large number of people both young and old look forward to this very enjoyable gathering. On this occasion the pio-nic will be held in Mr James Wrigloy's paddook, on Thursday next (St. Patrick's Day), Mr Wnglej having kindly lent the place for tho occasion, In addition to the usual sports, races, and games, a gipsy tent will be erected, where fortunes will bo correctly told, and—greatest attraction of all—a real "Baby Show "has been added to the list. In tho evening a social and concert will beheld in tho TenipeiuuoQ Hall at 8 o'clook which no doubt will be largely attended. The Commissioner appointed in South Australia to enquire into the causes and prevention _of red rust in whaat have finished tbeir work. They recommend early sowing and the cultivation of an early-ripening wheat, the harvesting of rust-infected crops at an early stage, and tho growing of whoat after crops of a different order agreeably to the truo principles of rotation. The Commission tilsoproposo the establishment of central stations in each colony to test new wheats introduced into tho country. Onoof the pioneor settlers of the Wellington district, Mr George Burnett, died at Carterton from cancer m the stomach on Sunday night. He arrived in the Bengal Merchant in 1840 with his paronts, and settled at theHutt, He went to MBide at Carterton 11 years »go, and was widely known and highly respeoted, Ho leaves a wife and nine children and six grand children, The London Evening Standard, in discussing the question " What'ahull wo do with our Girls? "proposes that Eng. land's surplus should be shipped to Australia'. A New Zealand exchange does not think this would answer, as the young men refuso to marry, Our contemporary remarks, inter alia:—Why there should bo this disinclination to marry is difficult to dotermino, Perhaps the iact that conjugal returns show that the wives of our colonists, in a great majority of cases, outlive their husbands, induces a supposition that matrimony is a royal road to masouliiiQ dissolution. I'his is hardly a fair inference though, for the apparent calamity is ex» plained by the woll known vital fact that women ripen earlier and live longer than men, The plea of extravagance on the part of the girls is more generally ureed, and is always met with a flat denial froni the fair sex. As a matter of fact, selfishness, indolence, and luxuriousnes3 aro tho primary reasons for our notorious bachelordonv Until wo havo brought our young men to thoir sbhsos, it would be disastrous for inoro fair aspiring candidates from far countries to descend upon us.