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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4119, 23 May 1892, Page 2

Tho Waikakapa Dailv Tjme3 will not be published to-morrow-Queen'B Birthday. In Otago the sparrows have been eating the blight on the fruit trees and hedges during last season. Our readers are reminded of the Bachelor's Ball to be held at Mauriceville East on the evening of Queen's Birthday. Tha annual soeial meeting in connection with the Masterton Presbyterian Sunday School will be hold to-raorrow (Tuesday)... A large number of Masterton residents have signified their intention of being present at the ball to be held at the Lowor Taueru on Tuesday evening in connection with the Bifle Club.

Lord Glasßow arrives at Sydney on the 27th instant and leaves on the 29th. He is expected to reach Wellington on the 6th or 6th proximo. The Rev Edward Walker, temperance lecturer, pays another visit to the Wairarapa next week. Sir John Ball is going on a trip to Fiji for the bonefit of his health before the Houso meets.

Forty families, making a total of a hundred and fifty persons, have left Melbourne for the'new village settlement at Wanwandah (Victoria).

The dishorns Standard, which re> cently succumbed to the pressure of the times, now appears as tho "New Zealand Standard,"

The Government supporters appear to expect a dissolution soon. At the Postmaster General's Banquet Mr Earnshaw raid that "during next session tbe country might again be appealed to for an endorsement of the policy of the Government. 1 '

The following tenders have been received by the Wairarapa North County Council for tbe maintenance of 9| miles of toad in tho Wainuioru Riding far tho period'of tv?o yearsi-John Anderson, £436 (declined); Mc Kee & Savage £447 (declined)'; Culluty and Snflivan, £477 10s (accepted);. J. Cayijnagh, £623 (informal), T|)e Salvation Army Lassies' Band pays a yisit to Masterton nest week.

The Chinese at Oapiaru subscribed £2 lfis towards Dr Bamardq's Homes, . Forty trucks of sheep weredospatphed trom the Carterton railway station during the first three days of last week for freezing purposes. The annual dance in connection with the school examination was held at Walngawa on Priday night, There was a large attendance, and the light fantastic was tripped merrily until the early hours of the following morning;

The Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society kave adopted the report of the Ground Com • mittee. 1 The cost of improvements is estimated at £4G3) and £l6O was subscribed In the room.

' faring the present month we shall be prepared to send fifll drcES lengths of any of the undermentioned n'ot'Wliitet' Dr»j Fabrics" Free by Parcel Post" to any address The goods are all of the present season's importation, and are splendid valae, Country residents should oertainly request patterns of tl)e,go forwarded from Te Aro House, Wpllingtoi). ' "" ' '" The following are the special items dress length of gpod quality' Melton in any shade for 10/-; Fu)l dress length of superior quality Melton for 12/-; Full dress length o| Granite Tweed lor 13/.-1 Fiill dress length of Grey Homespun for 12/. Any of these sent "Free by Parcel Post "from Te Aro Houße, Wellington, Full dress length French Fonlo Serge all colours for 14/6 and 16/6; Full dress length. Navy Dress Serge all wool and fast djefrom 13/6 to 22/6, and full dress lengths' Fancy Homespun for 8/-, 11/- and 10/- eaoh," Fr < by Parcel Post" from Te Aro House, Wellington,

Patterns of all the above aro now ready for despatch and oan be rent immediately on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. : ; 1 .

Customers sending orders will' please enclose cash in postal nAtea, jost offioo .order or olieque payable"to Jameß Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington,-Advi.

An alarm was sounded cn the Mas-1 terton firehell, shortly after eleven o'clock on Saturday night. The person who ran? the bell mistook the flickering of a street lamp for a tiro. The Brigades were not required.

The cost ol establishing a creamery in the Forty-Mile Bash is estimated by Mr Wilson, a dairy expert, at Ml. The cost of a factory to treat the milk of throe hundred cows wuld be £SOO, A week of self-denial, to raise subscriptions for the Home Missionary fund has just been held by the Wesleyan Church in Neir Zealand, The sum of 118 5s was collected in the Masterton circuit,

A Sydney policeman shot himself because lio had incurred the temporary disfavor of his superior offioera.

The planet Venus has for some time shone with brilliancy in the evening, and during the day may be distinctly seen with the nakfcd eye. On Thursday, at Christchurch, the phenomenon could be observed of the sun, moon and a star within view at the same time, -

A Tirnaru law clerk was fined 10s on tachot eleven informations for neglecting to stamp receipts in»common rent book, Thj conduct of a Masterton police officer in the R,H. Court during the bearing of the cases of allowed perjury is likely to form the subject of ivn enquiry. The novel spectacle of a person oharged with an indictable offonce caricaturing the Magistrates and officials of the Court was witnessed in Masterton recently. Truly the caricaturist is an artist 1

The'only business transacted, at the meeting of the local committoe of the Wairarapa Hunt Club held at Masterton on Saturday night was the appointing of ' a subxcomniittee to make arrangements for a course ontowhioh hold the first "meet. 1

A good many residents have expressed surprise that a well-known auctioneering firm in Masterton should have received a license fur seven months only. We might point out that under the Act passed at laet seßsion all auctioneers' licenses must expire at the end of the year. It was thus necessary For the firm iu question to renew their license for Beven months.

The sitting of the Native Land Court at Masterton which was to havo been held on Wednesday next has been adjourned till Wednesday, June Bth. The sitting of the Court is being held to settle a dispute regarding the subdivision of the Okurupeti Block, situated at Te Ore Ore, near Masterton.

Queen's Birthday will be observed as a close holiday at the Masterton Ifyst Office, The mails to be despatched to> morrow will therefore olose at 8 o'cluck to-nieht. There will bo a delivery of letters over the counter between 8 and 8,30 o'clock to-night, The Telegraph office will bo opon to-morrow between the hours of 0 and 10 a.m. and 7 and 8 p.m.

The Go- Operative and Farmers Alliance (Limited), of Wellington, has arranged an amalgamation with the West O.iast Farmers' Association. The shareholders now number nearly 500 strong with a subscribed capital of about £l6,ooo,and every day is adding to those figures. The turnover in the supply of stores is understood to be very gratifying, and the Directors have every roason to be proud of their bucccbb. The Pahiatua Star says a writ will be issued in a fow days by Mr J. P. Clark against Mr E. Naylur, blacksmith, for £IOO damages for slander, The act-ion is based on ceitain statements alleged to have been nwdo ky Naylor iu reference to the unfortunate Boxing Day poisoning ft Mr Naylur's house. Mr G. H. Smith is acting in the interest of Mr Olark; but Mr Beard will conduct the case in the District Court at Masterton, when it is called on for hearing on the 22nd June.

A meeting of Gladstone ratepayers was held on Friday night to consider the advisability of constructing a bridge over the Euamahuuga river at Mr Wardell's station, forming a road between the same and the Taueru river, and erecting a bridge over the latter. About thirty ratepayers were present, Mr J, A, Renall presiding. After considerable discussion it was resolved to lay the question before the ratepayers on the East Coast and arrange a meeting at Mr Cooper's woolshed at an early date.

About a dozen gentlemen assembled at the premises of the Masterton Blacksmith and Wheelwright Manufacturing Company on Saturday evening to tike ff j lesson from Professor Theo Lichtwark, the renowned horse tamer, A young unbroken colt, which the owner, Mr &, Fraser, had not been able to manage, was brought to the Professor for treatment. At first the animal resented all interference and'poßitiyoly refused to be handled, but in an extraordinary short space of time its fierineus was turned to docility; its wild timidity to calm obedi ence, The system adopted by the Professor is undoubtedly a proper one, his gmitle and firm persuasive treatment being simply irresistible. The nature of tbe horse operated on on Saturday night was in two hours completely changed. The process of transformation was a gradual one, but it was nevertheless sure. Tbe method adopted is simplicity itself, and anyone can undertake with ease all that wai done by the Professor, It is to be regretted that a larger number of our farmers wero not present at Saturday's class, for the information imparted was really valuablo. Not only was the possibility of breaking-in a horse in two hours revealed by ooular demonstra - tion, but it Wfls shown how simple it is to prevent jibbing, to make it easy to catah a horse in a thousand acre paddock, to mounta "buok-jumper' 1 without fear, and to undertake many things which in tho past have appeared to be feats of daring. The Professor loaves for the Lower Valloy to-day, but returns on Friday, when he will giye another class of instruction and teach his pupils how to break a horse to harness.