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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4097, 26 April 1892, Page 2

The proposal tointroduce hydrocarbon gas into Balclutha is being vigorously taken up. Mr Pyke, junr,, his become proprietor ol the Dunstan Timos,

A lodge of Oddfellows is to be opened at Maryborough on May 14th. • Tbo fortnightly meetiug of the Mas« tertun Borough Counoil will be hold this (Tuesday) evening, , A farmer of Waihenga has a threshing machine which ia driven by foot, but which is capable of doing an enormous amount of work. It ia said to be Iho only one of its kind In the Colony, and in known as tho "peg dtura" machine. Its cost, landed in the Colony, was only about£ls.

On (lit (says the Mount Ida Chronicle) that a bank manager who some years ago suddenly departed from Dunedin tor England, taking with him the wife of a highly respected citizen of Dunedin, is in a state of complete destitution, and that the misguided woman,lua paramour, has had to suffer privations which, when her former position is considered, must have been worse than nil th j reproaches that could have been heaped upon her. Old Dunedinites will know to whom the above refers. Mr R. T, Booth, the well-known temperance lecturer, ia now on a visit to New Zealand for the benefit of his health Be lectured to a thousand people in Dunedin on Sunday last, We (Kvening Press) understand that the defence to be set up by Constance Spargo, the womau charged at Pahiatua with bigamy, ia that she had not seen her husband for ten years. Mr. Toswill, I of Pahiatua, will prosecute on behalf of the Police.

The follo wing have been elected unopposed as members of the Eketabuna Road Board:—iSo 1 Ward -F. Dowsett and H, E. Mowbray. No 2 Ward—A. Anderaon and "W. B, Matheson. No 8 Ward—.T Parsona. No 4 Ward— T. Baylisa and W, Reilson, . At the_ meetinijf of the Committeo of the Wellington A. and P. Association, a letter was received from the Secretary of the Manawatn and Went Coast A, andP. Association, intimating that .its Show would be held oii Novetnber2nd and 3rd. It was pointed out that this would clash with the Wairarapa Association's Show at Carterton, and regret was expressed that the matter had not been left open until after the approaching Conference of delegates at Ohristchurch, as the Conference would be likely to determine upon dates for varioue shows.

The sneak thief is still on the warpath in Masterton. Mrs T. Collier, of Victoria Street, had her meat safe cleaned out on Sunday night.

John M'Cue, who recently figured in the Masterton E.M. Court, and announced that he "belonged to the Circus," has beon sentenced m Carterton to forty-eight hours for drunkenness and to three months' hard labour for using übscene language. <

A threshing machine and two stacks oi wheat were destroyed by fire on the farm of Mr Edwin Udy, near Greyt-own, on Saturday night. The maolnne longed to Mr D. S. Papworth and the Wheat to Mr Udy. Strange' to say tho fire coiißuoied the machine first, and was running up the stacks when discovered. Incendiarism is sua* peoted, aa.one of the hands in,running' to the fire passed a strangnr hastening in the opposite direction. There is no insurance,

The pojicp have discovered two bags of oats corresponding with those recently lost by Mr Robert Campbell, of the Opaki, in an unused, shed in yiitoria Street,

".Ghostlyadventures in the Forty Mile Bush " is the title of a serial about to be published by'an exchange,

Mr John Gallic, at one time of' Carterton, has taken over tbn business at Maryborough so long and successfully oirriedou by MrUeorgo Pain, The meotlng of householders held in Masterton last night for the olection of a School Committee was, in pleasing con* trast to similar gatherings of past years, boili and decorous. The whole of the businesstransacted in the short space of half an hour.

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