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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4144, 22 June 1892, Page 2

Amannamed-Broisnhad his thumb taken off by a oiroular saw at Campbell's mill, Forty-Mile Bush, a few days ago, Temperance advocates and friends of the Natives are reminded of the import* ant meeting io the Mustefton Presbyterian Church this (Wednesday) evening, to discuss the question of the introduction of drink into the King Country.

His Worship the Mayor' (Mr 0. A. Pownall) stated at the meeting of the Masterton Borough Oounoii last evening that the Borough by-laws urgently required revision, being no* almost a dead lettory Bis Worship'intimated that when he had time at his disposal he would draft a new set of by Jaws, framed on the Municipal Corporations Act as it now stands, for the approval of the Council. . ,;. , : v, The pull-offbetween tho Weish and Fire Brigade teams for second placo in the tug-of-war competition in Masterton did not take plabe' last night, the latter team having withdrawn from the contest, The eeoond prize has therefore been awarded to the Welshmen j who, we understand, iDtend making a donation to the local Hospital. A nasty accident happened to a son of Mr Syverson, sawmiller, of Newman, on Monday, He was in the act of moving a piece of timber, from .the breaking-down saw, when half the log fell on bis hand, orushing the thumb and fingers very badly. The brigantine Linda Weber, which' haß put in to Auckland in: distress, is the property of Mr Da Lisle, of Master' ton, and is engaged in the Raratongan trade, It in announced in Christohuroh that fcfie_ Pope has' conferred tho honor of Knight Commander of St. Gregory on Mr W. 15, Perceval, the Agent-General.

King Tawhiao denies having received any pension from the Government.

Forty-seven men are now engaged on contracts extending over one mile and a-half on the Makuri Valley road, FortyMile Bush.

The Dobson-Kennedy Company had a good house in Pahiatua on Saturday night, when they produced "Hani,'the Boatman," They are now inPalmerston i North.

The funeral of the late Miss Jeans took placo yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, the remains being interred in the Masterton Cemetery. The ceremony at

the grave was performed by the Kev. W, B. Paige, A Conference of Wairarapa local bodies is to be held at an early date to consider the advisability of erecting a home for the aged and needy in the district, The Masterton Borough Council will be represented by His Worship the Mayor.

The recommendations of tho Buildin? Committee of the M;\sterton Borough Council with regard tu the additions and alterations required to the Clerk's room and library have been adopted. Mr John King has been instructed to prepare plans and specifications for the proposed work.

A couple of fowls which had strayed from home were looked out of their run by a Masterton resident on Monday night. Having nowhere to roost' they

settled themselves upon the axletree of a dray belonging to an expressman Hying nest door, In the morning the dray was.driveii to the railway station, where the venturesome birds were first discovered. They were left undisturbed, and returned to their homes and the bosom of their cackling friends quite oblivious of the fact that they had been on a trip of a couple ot miles. John Alfred Jury, a well known Native chief of the Wairarapa, has been elected Chairman of the Maori Parliament, reoently totaod in the North. The overdraft of the' Masterton Borough Council is now JE925. The.next Municipal Conference is to beheld in Wellington on Wednesday, 6th July. Mr 0. A, Pownall haß been again appointed to represent the Masterton Borough Oounoii, About a hundred dogs have been registered in Masterton this year. It is estimated that this is about one-tenth of tho total number of oaniaos in the Borough, A sitting of the District Court in Bankruptcy w<b commenced in Masterton before Dißtfiot Judge Robinson this (Wednesday) morning. A man named David Findlay was arrested in Masterton yesterday afternoon on a charge of having stolen a Gladstone bag, containing samples of tobaccos and oigars, of the value of £4, from the Occidental Hotel on Friday last. The bag was the property of a traveller, and had been placed in the passage of the hotel with a couple of portmanteaus only a fen minutes before it was missed. The accused was brought before Colonel Roberts, E.M., after being arrested, and was remanded till eleven o'clock to-day. Work is said to be vety plentiful in the Lower Valley at the present time.

An emergency meeting of the Mastorton Masonio Lodge, N.Z.0., is to beheld this (Wednesday) evening. The Carterton paper says the latest teportjs that Mr G, Fairbrother is to be asked to contest the Wairarapa seat at the nextgenoral election, Mr Colerqan Phillips met with an accident on Monday by being thrown from his horse. He received some injuries to his head, Dr Bey was sent for and attended to his injuries, and Mr Phillips was convoyed to his residence. The Knoll,

The hearing of the case befo-e the Native Land Court in Masterton is proceeding slowly, It is with great difficulty some of the witnesses aro induced to answer questions, and yesterday one dusky warrior was threatened with a fine of £2O or a'fortnight's imprisonment if he did not answer, Needless to say he promptly spoke up.'

Whilst Bearohing for the body of Charles Penny, who was drowned in the Manawatu river on Sunday, Constable Treanor came across a human skeleton dose to the Maori burying ground, The body is'aup'p'o'aod to:;be that of a Maori, as some pawa shells were found close to it, Constable Treanor collected the bones and took them into Woodville in a sack.

A consignment of ■ihlrtysafx boxes of butter was sont away from Ballance last week, This is possibly the last of i the season, The price is ityd cash oh delivery in Wellington, Very little butter is being made at present. The late I severe frosts, followed by the very cold and wet weather we have had, has out off' the grass alf of a sudden. There was about a foot of Biiow'on the Pnketoi ranges last week.

How is it? Ask anyono in tbe crowd. Ask your next door neighbour, Ask the wan who collects tickets on the railway, Ask the people who dwoll in Eketahu.ua, Mauricoville, Tonui, Carterton, Greytown, or anywhere else, Communicate with the people living in any part of the country, Ask them all why they shop atb J. HOOPEE& COMPANY'S; andthoy will tell you "bocauso it suits them.' And why does it suit them? Because they get more and better in exchange for their money at flip Eon Marcbb than anywhere else, and because the conveniences of the place are such as pother estahllshrncut can afford. These are the hare outlines of the reasoning that brings the pcoplo in shoals to this wonderful placo of business, Visit the various departments In which the lordly creature man finds all he wantß, and woman—lovely woman—loves to linger and lookattke fashion section, Hero are the Boulevards of Paris and. the shops o! Regent and Oxford etreetß, London, rolled into one. Here under your eye are tbe fashions arranged, classified, and ready for immediate- use and wear. Turn into the grocery and provision sections, These arc of interest to every men jack in the community, To describe the advantages of buying from Hooper would fill abook, vThetheryou want blanks or bonnets, tea or sugar, whether you're a chilly mortal or a hot member, a protectionist.; a freetrader, a socialist, a calithumpian, a positiviit, a nono such, or a rabbit catcher, you will find no better outlet for tbe money you have to spend than at Hooper and Company's Bon Marche,M asteron,—Advt,

Very doubtful account! ate to ; 'haid | from the Zeehan and Dundas silverfields. Numbers of men are said to be out of work.

The Industrial Bureau has found 7 employment for fifty-fivo men, chiefly buahmon, during the past week.

The public subscriptions towards the cost of sinking for artesian water in Carterton only having reiched £sl, when twice that, amount is wanted, the operations have been appended. Lily Dampier, the.well-known Melbourne actress, has obtained a divorce from her husband on the grounds of desertion and adultery.

Mr Geo. fialier, fortwenty«six*yearsa member of the Tasmanism Legislature, fell dead in the street in Hobart last week,

• The Carterton .School Committee has decided to proseoute the parents of those | children nho have not attended school for twelve months.

The Marlihbordugh Lioenslng Bench granted the application of Mr A. Bunyard for a license for Orr's Hotel. Mr JR.. Buckeridge'a new hotel is nearly completed, and presents a very fine appearance. ...It is alao replete with | every modern will be opened on the tot July, '

Mr and Mrs E. Searl were made the recipients of a very handsome present yesterday in the shape of a tea and coffee servioe by the servants of the Star Hotel as a slight mark of respect and esteem. Every one of Mr Searl's employees express regret that he does not continue proprietor of tho hotel, An Alfredton correspondent writes : Sir,—l believo that in his reeent address at Maeterton Mr 4.W Husg, M.H.R., stated that through hia influence road* had been made, and were being made, to the very doors of small settlers in this district. Now, Sir, 1 would like to point out that not a single road basso far been made for the benefit of small settlers, and I should be glad if Mr Hogg would name one settler who through his influonco has been benefitted in the least in this respect. -..,'.■■

The diffioultioß now being encountered by the Coonoor Special Settlors might well furnish a text for a big speech on reading land before eettlement. At present these people have, says the Pahiatua Star, to pay 10s per cwt for packing in their provisions through the twelve miles of mud that: divides them from civilization; and it is said that two more trips'ofthepackhorses will ronder the track impassable. Every trip now taken ccista the life of at least one horse, and as the packer cannot staud this much longer,it is surely time the Government moved in the direction of giving access to this block, ■ '.;

A gentleman called at the office of this paper *his morning and left the sum of ten shillings to be handed to Mr E. H, Waddington towards the relief of the unfortunate woman whose sufferings we recounted in our issue of yesterday. The example Bet by this sympathising, friend is well worthy of emulation; ',' The third session of the present New Zealand Parliament opens in Wellington to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon.