LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4918, 5 January 1895, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

J. E. Pilbrow, licensed jockey and trainer, is open for engagement,- Particulars can bo obtained on application to Mr R Hiloy, Tauliercnikau. The Gourjay Company gavo a final perfoi'jMi)|ce ,tb a goofl audience at the Theatre ltoynl last evening, an excellent programme being submitted, JjcßßrsG.Smitii.pl Co. notify tho arrival of tjireo cases of remnahts,'to be sold at half their original prices, > )

Tenders ore invited for building concrete tanks etc at the Mastcrton Gas Works. Specifications, and plans may be seen at tho office of the engineers,. Messrs Peiity and Forde, Wellington and Mastcrton. Messrs Thompson, Lewis and Co., (crated water manufacturers of Wellington, have acquired a reputation all over j the colony for llio excellence of their goods. The firms tcrated waters, which are manufactured entirely with purified water, are used almost exclusively by the U.S.S. Co., Ltd, the leading clubs and Hotels in the colony and by very manyprivate.peoplc. The attention of residents in this district is directed to linn's special announcement in another column.

A peculiar accident happened to tho Eev Mr Smith, who has been spending the Christmas Holidays at Mr Harding's Maugaone. Ho was helping in the haylleld, getting tho swarths into heaps and in knocking one with his fed, his leg came into contact with a covered up scythe which inflicted a nasty gash. - Krpress. Professor [[iuismann, who is now with the Gourlay Company, is certainly one of the best workers of mystery anil legerdemain that we have seen in Mastcrton for a long lime, All his work is very cleanly done, and some of his feats are exceptionally good. Dull rainy weather still continues in this district. Prime Warden was scratched for the Wellington Cup at , p in. last Saturday. Tlic Mikado has conferred the Order of the Imperial Chrysanthemum on Kaiser William, in recognition of the services of the German Ollicers in the military tuition of tho Japanese. It is reported that the Union Bauk of Australia intends to make a call ot £25 per share, amounting to £BOO,OOO, on ihe shareholders in the .Bank of South Australia (in liquidation), being the entire amount of the liability of the latter.

Mr W. B. Chennells, Deputy Official Assignee, notifies that a dividend of 20s in the £ on all proved claims in the estate of Peter S. Macdonald, of .Masterton, is now payable. The Feilding Storsays:-" Owing to the scarcity of maid servants in this district men are being engaged to perform the duties. They cost a little more in wages, but they do more work." The ltev. A. C. Yorke wishes to acknowledge, on behalf of Benjamin Morgan, further donations of 5s by Mr Cullcn, 10s by Mr Bagge, and 2s 6d from Mrs Young. Mastcrton Hospital Trustees meet next Tuesday afternoon, During last mouth 53 applications for patients and 22 applications for trade marks were made in this Colony. A San Francisco mail reached Mastcrton at noon to-day. The regular Court day at Ekctahuna lias been altered to Monday. A rather heavy sitting of the S.M. at Ekeliihuna, lakes place on Monday, amongst the cases being a claim under the extended jurisdiction to S-M's, for £ll7.

The Rev. J, Dukes will preach in the Wesleyan Church to-morrow morning; subject: " Divine Guidance for 181)5; evening: "True Inspiration for Service and Suffering," Country services will be field at Waiigaehu and Taueru at 2.30 p.m. P. S. Macdonald, whose first and lina' dividend of 20s in the £ is advertised' filed in May, 1889. A fine photo of fhe delegates present at the recent distriei meeting of Foresters, lias been presented to Court Loyal Enterprise, Mastcrton, by Bro. E. H. Wiiddingfon. To-day is the monthly pay-day of the Mastcrton and Grcylown Building Societies. The ordinary meeting of Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Mastcrton, was held last evening, when the new officers were installed. One new member was proposed. A sail boating fatality occurred at Pipiriki, on the Wanganui.River yesterday, when a boy named Archie Manson, and a man named Alexander Weir were drowned.

Mr O'Calhighan, of the Lands Departmeiit, Timaru, is sending loChrislcliurch to-morrow in ut block o[ ice, tor exaniin alion liy Captain Sutton, and Mr Spademan, a fish i-aught at Opihi on the Ist, and believed to be a true salmon. The fish weighs 511b. The list ot Maslerton auciioiiecrswlio have renewed their licenses, appears in another column. Mr S. Mawley, of Dillon, kindly supplies its with the following interesting weather notes:—Eainfall for 18i)l, •UJ.oS inches; average for previous 13 years, 50'38 inches; wettest mouth, May, 8/4 inches; drycsl month, March '1)0 inch; greatest rainfall in 21 hours, :i'oß inches on 30th May Mr li. French, Past District Workman of the Knights of Labour, at Auckland, has received news that the General Master Workman, Mr J. li. Sovereign, expects to visit jN'cw Zealand during the year in the interests of the Order. The profit of the New Zealand Insurance Company, on the past year's transactions, after making full provision for all ascertained losses to the date ot of the balance, amounts to .£'[4,1)05. Kent has been scratched for the Wellington Cup. The general entriesreccived last night by the Wellington Racing Club totalled 182, as against 1116 for last year. The decrease is noticeable in the Welter races.

E. B. Crespin, grocer, of Wellington, has been fined £5 and £1 Lis costs, under the Shop and Shop Assistants Act, for failing to allow his assistants a half holiday during the week ending 22nd December last, I There is ncthingmlhoworldthatdelights a woman mora than a pretty bonnet! Itis the head and front ot her rejoicing; at once a matter ot self-congratulation, aud a means of revenge, whether worn at Church, the theatre, ot as part ot promenade costume, it is the finishing touch that fa;hion gives; the coping-stone that caps tho edifice of elegance, In order that these things may be, and that the ladies of the ffairarapa may indulge to their heart's coutojt, in the delights ot choice millinery, h, 3. Hooper & Co., havsopeued up at the Hon Mnrci6, tea cases of high class millinery, suita ; le for the 'Xmas Sei-son. Their showrooms are a blaze cf beauty, oxhibitiiig fashion's choicest productions in their loveliest guise. On every side are trophies ot the mantlemaker's and costumier's arts, charming millinery, fashionable jackets, pretty blouses, elegant coslumes,and other seasonable articles too numerous to particularize, Advt

Tho unlimited sale our Mortoin and Spreadeis have mot with tesiiiy of its success in destojing all epeoiesof inseots.suoh as fleas, ffca, bugs, iice, cockroaches, mosquitoes, silverfish, moth in clothes, leach on trees, etc. Tho above and the following can bo obtained attheFaacy Goods Departmento! ihe W.F.U.A.: - Book's l'utz l'aste for cleaning and polishing all ractal.cutlery, windows, and paint work, Is; Bock's Waterproof Cement, Is; Non-Mercurial Plating Fluid, Is Gd; Camphylcne Mi, Is; Herb Extract, an infallible oure for toothaohc,ls German Curo, for corns nnd Warts, Is, P' Bock & Co,, Manufacturing Chemistsand; Importers. The announcement is made in anothof part of this paper that a sale of greater magnitudo than ever yet attempted by Te Aro Houso, is now being held, and should arrest the attention, of everyone in this part of the Colony, Te Aro House has Ion? held the premier position as the leading. Family Drapery Warehouse in the city, and further I developments are now taking placo to inaugurate tho new year of 1895, Early in the year Mr Smith admits to a partnership in his business, a commercial gentleman who has long been associated with.thc London buying for Te Aro .House. To thoroughly reduce and prepare the stock previous to tho partnership stocktaking, sweeping reductions will be made in all departments. The Block must be reduced by £15,000, and will be offered to the purchasing publio at most tempting prices, Heads of families, storekeepers, s tilers, careful housowives, youn? and old, rich and poor, a!ikn will save heaps of money by reserving their purchases for this great partnership sale, which commences on Friday, 4th January, 18'J5, at To Aro House. , j

The income of Oxford University is slightly under £70,000. Up till 5 o'clock yesterday 29 nominations had been received for the open pigeon shooting match, to bo tired at the Wellington Gun Club's meeting on the 25th hist

The report w tlic old Mnsterton Town Hall, laid before the Town Lands Trustees last night, showed that promises of subscriptions amounting to £133 wero made in 1872, but only £27 3s appears to have been paid, the Trust paying between £BOO and £9OO for the Literary Institute as it was then called, Any revenue derived from letting the building was devoted to paying oil overdraft and liabilities incurred in connection with the building. In 1877-8-9 the Trustees paid £220 to the Library Committee for a new site for the Literary Institute, and granted the remainder of Town Aero 10-1, as a perpetual endowmentfor such Institute. From that date to the end of 181)3, the Town Lands Trus tees havo paid for the present Institute, including site, £1)30 2s, When the £7UO insurance was received there was also received £3uo from the Government for the sale nf the old Institute ground, and£2sU for the sale of the G-reytown interest. The sums expended were:—Compensation to lessee, £llß os; Education Hoard for Town Acre 89, £100; Park Trust £135 ; J. Chapman, compensation for 11 Section 29, £200; purchase of land in Bannister Street £;)72; overdraft payment £97 17s lid. In January 1883, a meeting of yotcrs expressed the opinion that the Trustees should build another Town Hall, as near the old site as possible, but immediately after the Theatre lioyal Company was formed and arrangements made with the Town Lands Trustees, for its use at reasonable charges for public meetings, and consequently no action was taken to purchase the comer sections of Town Acre 2, but 'at a later period the Trustees secured the site at a nominal cost of £l(i and have since kept it in reserve.