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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4989, 30 March 1895, Page 2

Hea%y rain set in atHastcrion yes- j terday afternoon. < At tlio sitting of tiio Native Land Court at Greytown, some 83 cases will < bo dealt with. J Sharp frosts have been experienced , iirtlie Bush, and.the people are bejinuiug to prepare for winter. I The Tulaekara Ha'l is just about ] completed and will be formally opeued ( on the 19th of Auril. [ An American 'iaper coolly proposes that America sltotud buy up Newfoundland. ■ Tjrenty-twb per cent, of the population of Ireland are. IVotcstants. Nearly 2500 convicts are annually discharged on tickct-of-leave in England. Gei.iianv's propoiliou of suicides is larger than,- that of any oilier Europe.'!! country. : In the United Kiigdom last year :il warships were built, and in all other countries 2?. A boy mimed George Eden, of Koroniiko, in jumping a ditch, fell and broke his arm above tlio elbow. The Coiut of Appeal is to sit :*i Wellington ou Monday, 22nd A'jrL Messrs Udy and Yule's sawmills at Tulaekara ,nrc again in full sw'ng. Auangcmenls are being made to open two new roi!ls. The two calves brought from Pahiatna to llasterlon in connection with the ease, Hope y, Greville, have so far nroved very costly (o their owners. .Vliat proportion o! their cost would they fetch at nuciion P The road between Tulaekara and Elictalumii is in a bad state again. By the middle of winter it wi'l lie impassable. I Two more butchers have slnucd business at Hawcra, .Forty-mile Bush. Milli on is beiug retailed at 2d per lb, ou credit. During the month of Fcbruaiy the number of ai rivals in the colony was

2083 and the number of departures 2503. It is stated that Native Land Court Judge. Von Siuriner has resigned, on

account of ill-health. The peiiod within which the election of Boards of Conciliation may take place has been extended to 2nd May.

Deer stalkers are again on the move, getting ready for the opening of the season, writes a Marlinborough corespondent.

Mr Edward Tregear stated in the Wellington Supreme Court on Wednesday that a matai tree 3ft through may be regarded as being about 4GJ years old.

The want of a waiting room for witnesses was severely felt yesterday, at the District Court sitting at Mastei'.on, as a number of people were lrept hanging about in the rain all the afternoon. We have, to announce the appearance of Messrs Mount Curtis and Co., of Jfo 1 Larnbton Q.uay, Wellington, amongst the ranks of stock, station, financial and general agents, and we hope that the new firm, whose businoss notification appears h another column, will receive n fair shave o£ support from the Wairarapa. Mr Curiis was formerly known in the U.S.S. Co.'s sendee, as an able officer, but on lug to anhjury to his arm received when shoothg in Marlborough, he was obliged to resign his appointment and proceed to England for the purpose of having a difficult and dangerous operation performed. The operation consisted of removng the clavicle and amputating the arm. This was successfully accomplished and now Mr Curtis, for whom much synnalhy is felt is out here again and he jas determined lo commence busiuess on his own account. The quarterly meeting of Com i Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Mastciion, was held last evening, Bro. Z. M. Hoar presiding. The business was simply of a routine nature.

During the quarter just ended five bankruptcies occurred in thoWairarapa against two iu the first quarbr of 18M. Two declarations of insolvency were filed during the past month. Mr W, M. Cameron, of Bideford, invites tenders for the erection of 1! miles of wire fencing. A recent issue of the W.Z. Graphic contains a picture of the University Senate, the group including ail excellent portrait of the llev J. C. Andrew of lea.

The friends ofMrsMarlcy, of Carnarvon House, Masterton, will be glad lo barn that she is recovering from her : cccnt scvcro attack of congestion of the lungs.

Pollard's Lilipulian Opera Company, who will be remembered with pleasure by many of our readers, open next Friday at Masterton, with " The Gondoliers."

Mr T. Warnor. tailor, of Masterton, wli'o lias been established in tho district for the last eighteen years, notifios in our wonted columnj that lie lias a choice selection of-scasonablc goods, and invites inspection. MrW. C.iuchanan M.H.E., lins been informed (hi answer;,to his request) that the General Manager of Railways is niakingcnqiiirieswith the vicwofmceting the wishes, of Wairarapa consignors, in connection with the conveyance of dairy ipriduco lb: cool tiuok's during hot

A woman named Elizabeth Scott, a stranger to Masterton, was chained today, before Mr Hutchison. S.M., with having no lawful visible means of support. The accused said if sho wero allowed her libeiiy, sho would leave the town at once. She was on her way to Eketahuna with a man named Reid with whom sho was living. The charge was dismissed on the promise of accused to clear out within an hour.

The Hey llobcit Wood intimated last Sabbath that lie would introduce into the ordinary Sabbath morning service a short address to the children. He stated that ho expected to see the chi'drcn with their paronts present at least at one service every Sabbath in addition to tho Sabbath school. The Sabbatli school and service, he said, would only take up about half tho time devoted daily to secular instruction in day schools. The first address will be given to-morrow forenoon.

The Council of the Wellington Acclimation Society have received information from Mr Koss, of Kapiti Island that the Teneriffe partridges toned out there somo time since are increasing in number, aiid that ono of tho old birds has been seen with a small covey of wollllcdged young ones. These aro the only TenerifEe partridgesintlic Colony. The other birds liberated thero aro also doing well. As Mr Boss allows no shooting on the Island there is every prospect of the birds multiplying rapidly. During the year just closed 896,0 CD trout havo been hatched out in tho Society's pouds in Masterton, and a largo proportion of them liavo been pla3cd in siiitablo I streams throughout the disirlct.-W.Z, Zfea ,

Twenty-fire drunks and ten 1 were convicted at Mastei lon - duiitg the first three months of this year." This year 58 police cases have oceu* pied tho Masterton S.M. Court, 63 convictions being obtained. Only ono lunatic has been committed at Masterton durhiß the present quarter.

Mr P. H. Wood adds several lines to the entries for his next Taratalii stock sale. Arrangements are being mado for the Anniversary of the Masterton Presbytcrion Sabbath School Mr Holdaway has been holding a special singing class ou Wednesday evening's. At Te Aro House, Wo'linßlon, you oin get a dress of 42 inches wide Melton cloth, in biown, navy, or o&vtlioal, sont pust fice loyour address, for7s6d. A stylish winter dra ol inches wMo Flake Tweed, will to sent post frco b any address in ihe Colony, tor Is< 9d. Write lor pattern, to Te Aro House, Welliogton. A full dress !en>h of 44 inches wide Coßlume Cloth, may be obtained by firwarding 10s to Te Avo House, Wellington, from whence the dress will be sent pout free, to any pari 0! ibe Co'ony. A very hardwire riinver dress of Figured t'nek f'a-hmerc m new de3ißns, will bo sent, post (r:e, to awyivlikess in theColouy, 01 receipt oi 10s 9d at To Aro Houso, Wellington If a lady in the .jsouniry wishes to perohase a dress Jcr'jih oi fashionable knicker tweed, it cosis her e:actly tho same as a town 'o'lusor pays, : : 0f ihe dress will be seoi, post ,\'ce, oa raeipi of 14s 9d. Coaniry customers should noie that a fu'i dress length 0' ihe new fa°hionablo Cheviot o.'Esiamene Sergo will be sent, post free, fi'o.n To Aro House, Wellington, to anya.idressin New Zealand, for los, -Ann,