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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4193, 16 August 1892, Page 2

At an adjourned meeting held last evening, Pearson's Private Brass Band was re-formed It wi't be carried on under new management, and the officers are to be elected on Thursday next, Therotirinc! ranmbers are to be allotted in cash value their full share of tho property, and the remainder will bo held in trust as heretofore, It is now thought improbable that the new Band will continue

Tfie friends in Masterton of Mr D. S, Papworth will be pleased to hear that he is recovering from the injuries which he recently sustainqd through an appidrat at' the Oroytowri flour mil} It will bo some tjtne, however, freforp he will be able to reßUjne wptk. A football match between tean)s rppre t senting the Wellington and Wajrarapa Rugby Unions is to be played in Maxtorton on Saturday, September 3rd, In! view of this contest the match between the Masterton and Star Clubs, which was to have been played on Saturday next, will probably bo abandoned, Mr and Mrs (ioodgnme, of Mauriceville, who were seuteucfd yesterday to three and four m.Jtiths' imprisoiimer respectively for cruelty to a child, wei token to Wellington by the afternoon train in the custody of Constable Joseph May.' The six children of the accused have boon fouftd'-temporary homes, whilst the child who his been subjected td tho 111-treatment, has been placed in it situation, :

Dr Beard, of Masterton, met with an accident k 'Mauricoyille a few days ago. He had driven out to see a patient aiid was returning when his horse backed the vehicle over an embankment of eorisidorabjp depth' into a stream, A.snail of'{foe buggy was broken, but otherwise po damage yasdopo, although, tho escape was a v -rjarrpw. one.' The doctor escaped wiji|j a |h?|)ng;

Acommjtfee mpetingof thp Masterton Horticultural and Industrie) |sspcia ; tion was held in Mr Board's ofjjce last (Monday) evening, when the catalogue was revised and the date for She shows iUed as follows i-Spring Show, Hofem> b«23rd; Autumn Show, last Wea>e3» day in February, provided that neither dato clashes with the Wellington showß. It was decided to hold the Chi/santhemum st'u u °'ft? M Wednesday in APfil;

' A sud/jep change in the weather, which for 1 tjiepasf f/.fteen'days has been gloriously fine, "occurred in (laste'rtpn last night. The ram this morning descended in torrents, and the streets and glitters werequipkly flooded.. Therejsrio probability of the "eoontiy stifFenni to any great extept by the pjjangei ■as the rajn, coming' from 'the n.orth>weaf, 'is yo;,; warm, ' ' '

A petition is to be presented to the House, praying that asunfmay bo put on the Estimates for the connection of the Mangahao district with theManawatu Gorgo road, This means the MastertonMnngabao Special Settlement and all tho other lands'adjacent,' '

i E, P. Benton, of: Pahiatua, storeI keeper, was yesterday adjudged a bankrupt. ; A representative football team from the Bash Rugby Union .plays tho juniors at Wellington on September /trd. A young man named Holaon, who was working with the gang at Makuri, where Smith was killed, had a narrow escape of sharing the same fate as Smith. The tree which killed Smith alio covered up Holson, but he wasforiunntely extricated with only a few bruises. A now brewery is about to bo eatab> lished at Woodville.

The Thameß Advertiser publishes the following from Taurauga :-The Tau. ranga Natives just returned trom Maungakawa bring tidings oJ a remaikable oircurottance there.. A Maori woman gave birth to triplets, and as soon as tho children were born the mother died; shortly afterwards two of the children also expired; the remaining one, a boy, is doing well, but wn born without hand*. The Maoris look upon him as a wonderful dispensation of Providence, as the ordor of things by Tawhiao's Par. liament is that no Native land shall bo sold, and tlioytbink that it is to prevent this particular child signing away his inheritance that he hai no hands. Inspectors Lee and Fleming have of late been engaged examining the smaller Bohoe>la of the Wairarapa, They are now in the Wellington district. The larger Wairarapa schools will be inspected in October,

Proceedings for libel have been commenced by Mr 0. Hall, of Woodville, against the Pahiatua Scar. Tho plaintiff; alleges that a recent articloin that paper is calculated to injure him in his official oapacity, The case will be fought out by tb defendant, ThoHobartMorcuiy states that tho following sangu'nary unsigned epistle has been Ncaived by Mr Bird, a member ot the Cabinet:-"Take notice, if yuu raise the duty on tea, sugar, butter, tobacco—Bird, Fysh, Clark -your blood and brains will be blown out of your bodies. You are nothing better than a set of robbers and villains. Take £lO3 a year off your sak/, and pay your own railway fare, and not lot the poor people do it. You ought to have to live on old bread and salt beef for 12 months."

In referring to the case in which Thomas William Tait, of Masterton, was recently committed for trial for perjury, the Greytown paper says:—The only matter for surpriso is, in our opinion, that committals for perjuty are not almost weekly occurrencn, For downright hard shearing, for mutually contradictory statements on oath a: to the matters of fact, commend ub to the law courts—and not least' to the police courts. This is So notoriously the case, that numbers of persons would sooner suffer wrong than bandy words in court with a shameless liar who has the odds in his favour nine times out of ten by reason of his sheer audacity.

Mr F, H. Wood has roceived instructions from Messrs J. Staples and Co, Limited, to soil by public auction at his Greytown rooms, on Saturday next at 2 p.m., four acres of land having a frontage to Main road and to West street, Grey, town, situated nearly opposite the residence of Mrs Hastwell and known as the site of the old " Rising Sun" Hotel. The land is centrally situated and admirably adapted for cutting up into building allotments, being situated in the highest and healthieit part of Greytown, Full particulars may be obtained from Messrs Staples and Co., or from the auctioneer.

Bo careful, when you buy, where you bay what you buy and how you buy. -If you do not watch these cardinal points in the soienco of buying, likely enough you will buy at the wrong shop, buy what you don't want, and pay nioro than is at all necossary, Of coarso it will bo your own fault, no ono olse is to blame; your misfortune arises from your own cWeness, and lack of caution and foresight in floundering into the first hole in the waU you oomo across in your shopping rambles, There is only ono way out of the difficulty; only one plan by which the thousand distinct evils that arc in your path can bo avoided; and tho thousand blessings that are waiting for you can be embraced, viz,, Buy ovorything at Hoopor and Company BonMarohe, Make it arutiofyour life and sob that your family do so likewise. It is to your interest, just tho stvrrib as it is to insure your life in a sound society, or build your I'oubo on a secure foundation, by coing the whole hog; in other words, by deter> mining to buy everything at Hooper and Company's, Bon Maroho. Take your grocery bill on one baud, and your draper's on the the' other Givo us your weekly, order for family stores; for tea, coffee bnttor; 'and othor eatables, and you wil eavo enough to buy your own olothes, with something to put in the pockets. Buy everything at Hoopsr and Company's-, Bon Marche-Anra