Our Masterton Letter.

Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1888, Page 3

Our Masterton Letter.

{Our Own Correspondent.) Mabtebton, 7th February. The two charges of sly grog-selling preferred at the instance of Mr. R. H. Elliott against Mr. H. Power, the lioenseo of the Mauriceville Bail way Befreshment Booms, wero heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day, and dismissed. As in the oases against Mrs. Riddle, of the Taneru, heard a week previously, there was some very hard swearing somewhere. J am afraid that nature tends to prove th*t • great many things that have been said {(<auiat New Zealand are not at all justified by oiroumatanoes. For instance, I have read, I do not know how muoh, ■boufckeepW F*? 8 * f rea f F om , oid j nm in ereenhouses. That this particular disease would ever attack .outdoor vines never appears to have ooourred .to anybody. I find, however, that a black Hamburgh whioh happens to be in ny own care is very badly attaoked by it, and that quit* a number of vines in the town are in a similar position. It is easy enonsfh to apply a cure under class, but what can be done out of doors P The water cart question has reached a new phase. The Works Committee recently got ■constructed a Californian pump, whioh was very hard to work. Several men tried their hand at it, but gave it np, until at last Mr. M'Killop, a well-known settler, declared he would work it. "anyhow." Mr. M'Killop has stuck to his work very bravely, but the Mayor seems to have conducted that the water-cart was not much account without ■opposition, and he therefore put on a man with a speoially constructed Jopg-handled

tihovul to throw water on to the street, as well as tho footpath. The plan is a very good ono, but I am afraid that when the Council is asked to pass the amount there will be a row.