Wairarapa daily Times [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the Extended Title Of The Wairabapa Daily, with which it is Identical MONDAY, JULY, 4, 1892

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4155, 4 July 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa daily Times [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the Extended Title Of The Wairabapa Daily, with which it is Identical MONDAY, JULY, 4, 1892

A human skeleton has been found under the floor of an old newspaper office in Hobart. The flax industry at Foxtail has taken another sport. Hewly a hundred now members have this year joined the Mnetcrton Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Bight wore proposed on Saturday.

The whole of the bird* used at the iplseon match in connection with the Wairarapa. BorthGvm Club on Satorduy Just were collected in tha district by Mr K. tl, Wadditigton. Uinnpenco a piece was paid for them. It is proposed to form a combined Prohibition League in Mkatorton this week in connection with the meetings of the Be? Vi Lucas. Une dark bay hone ia advertised as impounded at Tunul. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association notify that they hold largn stocks of Bronchley'a lußectiotdo and lime. The Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association has resolved to hold j its next annual show in the new show ground. Tho district is being canvassed fur subscriptions towards erecting the necessary fences and yards. it novel entertainment is to bo pro. duced at Ore) town on Friday nest in the shape of a Gipsy Encampment. It is proposed to repeat the entertainment in Masterton. The misers of the King, Junction, Queen and Western minus, st Mount Ztsehan, have struck against a reduction of wages. The question of a £loGJprize for the best exhibit of Lincoln sheep at the show was discussed at the latt meeting of the Committee pi tjje yVtilington Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and the Secretary iu directed to srrjta to gave? ral Liiicoln eheep breeders m wjeColqpy informlS* then* that a aubsoription of had already been promised toward* the prize, and invituia.tb.em trico-i^^rate. On Wednesday next, July 6th, a ip-and cotujurt frill be held in the Temperance Ball, Maaterton, in, a}d of the Phoenix Lodge, I.U.G.T, Songs ajid recitations will be given by some ot the leading amateurs of the district, and addresses by well-known gei:tUn)Bß.'A strint; hand will he in attendance, and during the evening will render some ] choice selections. The charge for admission has bseri fisod at tha nominal sum of sixpence, and we have no doubt that sympathisers with the Temperance causo will attend in force to help the Phoenix Lodge on its way, while those yrbu are indifferent as to tbeprjnciples of the 1,0,G,T. platform will also be praeanf; to qbtiitt a pleasant evening's entartata' ! merit by listening to what promises, to : be an excellent programme, ! During the progress of the fcotball ! match North v. South on Saturday last, Mr E. Gray, one of the Masterton forwards, had the misfortune to break the first finger of his; njjht hand. The injury was attended to by Dr HosSuae, bat Mr Gray ia not lifcely to play again this seuspn. To-day—the " Glorious Foßrtn'"—is the anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence. It al»o has its vnn little private significance fa business circles. ." '.'_'"

•-The total number of unemployed in Melbourne is estimated st 2902. Two hundred and fifty! cases of divorce BBva;bßOTi tried in Melbourne siiiou tha introduction of tho Shiels* Aot in JuSf. 1880. " Something must hare *ooewrong with tho puritier at tho Masflerton gasworks, For tho gas in oonaumj tion during the past couple of days has emitted a roost obnoxious effluvium. The meeting of district homo owners, to discuss tia question of charges for horaa boxes on. tha Government railway, has been postponed for a week, Tho hearing of the (ividonoe in the Oburtrpeli subdivision caso has been completed in the Native Land Oourt. Judgment will ba given at twoo'olook to-morrow afternoon; The Masterton police cells were occu« pied this morning by nc less than four drunks. Mr M. Meredith, tho winner of the handicap at Saturday'a | pigeon shooting match, has handed uver the prize money to the Secretary for the purchase of s trophy to ba competod for by tha l<orth wairarspa Gun Club. A couple of men from the ■ labour Bureau in Wellington called at the hoiiao of a Mauricoville settler the other day and begged a meat. After their hunger had been appeased they humped their swag* and set uut for ffesh fields. Jfhe settler, finding that theV did not &A for work, offered to give them employment on his farm at tha ruliiig rates of pay " No, tlianis you," waß the replyi " We an hour for all we do I" They left rejoining. The uutonous John Burks O'Brien has turowi up in Carroifrm. Ho took to preaching in the sired, bub sis' tho "spirit" which guided him was an evil one ho was urrostcd. Ho is flow doing Government stroke. I On Wudneadny lust, Mr M. Oaselberg, of Masteiton, was married to Mian Keosiog, daughter of Rfr Ralph Keesrogi of Fern Nook, Pork Koad, Aucfei&nd, Tho wedding was ctlobrated in the Noithorn City. Tho announcement ci the death of Mr Ocorge Duncan, wmr,, which occurred at the residenco of his ion.in-kw, Richmond. Melbourne, on ho 10th ult., will be received in Masterton with sincere regret, Mr Dunlin wjas for some years in ItuumeM! in this tuwo, and was posacsied of (jualiti3S which gained for him tho rjrapect of all with whom ho oraie in s-.infjcfc. About four years ago he left with hrs family for Melbourne. He was ailing for about six months prior to his death. The Rev. Dr. Lucas: addresses a meetingof women in tho Maßtevton Presbyr lerian Churoh on Wednesday afternoon nest.

It is a peculiar fact that tho 17th of June has lor the past four years brought the severest frost experienced in Duaeuio during that period. A man named A'exander McKicker was fined £3 by the> Melbourne. City Court the other day for kissing a young lady in the public street. Tae New Couth Wales PostmasterGeneral condemns the principle of the Government finding work for the tm employed. Mr James who was for some years ewpbynd at tho Masfcei'ton Bail way Station, and has latterly been in charge of the goods shed atj Feathewton, has been transferred to Eketahuna. The bridge over the Raamahunß-a at Koknt-iu will probably be completed in a couple of weeks. Mr J. Dawson, the contractor, has already got the-last span into position. Dr Lucas, the temperance lecturer, is a bit of a humourist. In his address in the Theatre Boyal y.sstorday afternoon he brought down the house by remark* Ihh: "We want tho hens consecated to : the temperance cause,—and the roosters too! For 1 reckon that some of these line days we're a-goinj to do some tall orowine." In the Maeterton R.M. Oourt this morning before Mr Burton Boys, J.P., W. Cummins wss fined 40s and cobls, in default seven days, habitual drunkenness. William Thompson was fined Ss, 'n default houra'for being drunk, and Edward Warne 10? and oost>, or twenty-four hours' for a similar offenco.