Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4066, 18 March 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is identical. FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1892.

mu t mo" w P Wt "wi' l i The snm of £U»* '^.^Opali the totalisator at the Masiu.. i races yesterday. On Sunday noxt anniversary semes will bo held in the Maiterton Presbyterian Church, the services bothmornn ing and evoning being conducted by the llev J. Lymburn, of Maryborough. On Monday a tea and public meeting will be held in the church, the meeting being addressed by the Eevs Lymburn, Dukes, Murray and other gentlemen. Tho flawke'sßay Cup, run yesterday, was won by Crown Jtwal, with Retina second and Loch Ness third, The two-.year«old son of Mr Michael Dunn, of Carterton, has died from the effects ot influenza, Tho rain which fell in Wellington yesterday spoiled the Hibernian sports, which were postponed. The'monthly meeting of the Masterton School Comnuttoo will be held this evening. An En?lish and Australian mail arrived at Masterton last night, Thirty»three truck loads ot sheep left the Masterton railway Btation this morning for Wellington for freezing purposes. A special train which left at six o'clock took twenty truck loads. A heavy rain fell in Masterton last night, whioh will do a great doal of good to the district. The ground which was becoming hard and parched, received a thorough soaking, A nasty accident befel George Frecth, a jockey, at the Masterton-Opaki races yosterday, In negocntinEf tho thud hurdle in the Hack Hurdle Race, Union Flasj, the horse he was riding, fell ant rolled over on top of him, fracturing hia le» in several places. The unfortunate young fellow was removed fco tho Masterton Hospital as quickly as possible, where he received the best of medical attention. A subscription list on his behalf ivas got up on the course,and was liberally responded to, Another list was opened by Mr Elkins at the. Club Hotel in the evening. It is said that the application for ohoiceof a block of land in tho Puketois by a Woodville Special Settlement Association has been considered prior to that by a Fahiatua one. It is known positively that the. latter Association's application was lodged some days prior to tho former, and considerable indignation is expressed over the matter, especially as the Government give as their reasons for considering the two claims in the order mentioned, that they were determined by priority of application. Every man has a duty to perform, Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, some - times otherwise. When it is a duty to pay a long standing buioher's account, or to pay a bill you backed for a friend " justto oblire him," or when it is aduty to receive a visit from your mother inlaw, these are painful 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 tho electors they represent (or misrepresent as the case may be), to ratifyand legalise such duties, why then it becomes a duty for the pubiio of Masterton in paitioular and the Wairarapa in general to Bmil ingly pay suoh duries and quietly grin & bear it. They have, however, one duty to perform and that is to buy thoir Draperyand Olnthingat the Bon Marche the cheapest and best house in Materton for anything of the sort. The. whole duty ot man is to do the best he can for himself. JNelsonsaid, !' Enpland expects every man to do his duty." Hooper and Co., say, %y expect everyone, whether man, woman, pr child young men and maidens, old folks and young folks to do their duties, by doing their duty and buying all they require in Drapery, - Olutniaing, household fur nijiugSj eto, f at the Bon Marche,

The" overdraft of the Greytown Borough Council at date is £297> A benefit concert to Mr Lundqvist, of Carterton, has been fixed fur Thursday, April 21st. Tho Mastorton amateurs hate promisea to assist. The New Zealand Drug Company has declared a dividend of 7| per cent. A man named Simpson, who has been working for Messrs GardinerandKerrins, contractors, was relieved of three five pound notes, a one pound note, half a soveroign, and some silver in Masterton on Wednesday evening, The police have the mutter in hand. A sailor of the ship Silberhom, now at Wellington, assaulted the boatswain of the same vessel on Wednesday evening in a brutal manner by kicking him on thefaco and head. The assailant wai I sent to gaol for a month. A sncoesiful picnic was held in vVoodrooffe's paddook yesterday by the local contingent of tho Salvation Army; The death is aunouneed by cable from Sydney of the BightPev. Mesac Thomas, D.D., Bishop of Goulburn, James O'Flaherty, a corporal in the Wellington Guards, went home under the influence of liquer on Tuesday night, and loading h<s rifle fired two shots at his wife, One of the bullets entered the house of a neighbour and shattered to pieces a bedstead on which a young woman was sleeping. O'Flaherty was charged yesterday with firing at his wife with intent to kill, and remanded to the 22nd inat. The Championship Belt, which has been fired tor at the N. Z. Rifle Association meeting, has been jron by Doughty, of Auckland,. Pumell (of Wanganui) and Doughty tied with 509 points, but the latter won on firing off. The portrait of A W. Brown, the levanted ex>Mayor of Wellington, which was hanging in the Council Chambers of that has been taken down and placed lii the corner of the floor with the face to the wall. Hia Worship the Mayor, on hearing that this bad been done, directed that it should be replaced on the wall, A Maori has sent a letter to the Greytown Borough Council demanding £2O, or the return of a horse alleged to have been sold illegally, it having beeu advertised for sale on a certain Saturday, whereas it was sold on tho Friday preceding. The writer was referred to the peundkeeper. Mr Henty Sedcole, one of the earliest settlers of Pahiatua, Intends removing shortly to bis farm at Hait era, A situation is wanted by a shepherd with horse and dog. The advertiser's address may be obtained at this office. Wo learn by special telegram from the Presß Association that nine ef the jury in the second trial of Smith aud Harrison for tho Eketahuna murder were in fayour of a promotion P|)d llirep were a«ajnst it. Another story current in Wellington, but which more takes the character of rumour, is that ono man on the jury has been known from the first to be opposed to the principle of capital punishment, and that lie simply will rot abandon his opinion on this point to tho extent of supporting a con*, viction, wlutover the eviaence may be. We regret to record the death of Mr Pierce Cotter, junr., which occurred at his residence. Upper Opaki, at an early hour this morning, Mr Cotter had been in indifferent health ever since his- retpi'l! sotyie months ago from Australia, where he was attached with h grippe. lor the past few weeks he had been gradually getting worse, until he succumbed, as stated, from failure of the heart's action. The deceased, who wasa son of Mr Pierce Cotter, of Riverside, Greytown, was forty'three years of ago, IJe was born in the colony, and had re sided for many years in this district, where he followed farming pursuits. He leaves a wife and six children, besides a large circle of frionds, to lament his death,