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Waipawa Mail, Volume 2, Issue 116, 22 October 1879, Page 2

There will be a sitting of the "R.M. Court before Justices of tho Peace on Friday, to hear a number of civil eases. AV e are very glad to announce that J. D. Ormond, Esq., M.H.R., has given a donation of £2 to the AVaipawa Comity Cricket Chib.

AYe notice that Messrs Coward and Co. announce a sale of skins and hides, to be held at the Repository, AVaipawa, on sth November. AVo believe it is their intention to hold such sales periodically; this will, no doubt, prove a great convenience to settlers.

Local Industry.—AVo hear that Mr F, Shanly, coachbuilder, lias received an order from Palmerston North for a buggy. The one he exhibited last year at the Hastings Show, and which took a prize, he sold to Mr C. AVordsworth, who is now residing at Palmerston, where the buggy has been so much admired that an order for a similar one lias been given to Mr Shanly. The work turned out of Mr Shanly’s workshop invariably gives satisfaction. We are glad to find the good fame of our tradesmen spreading so far away as Palmerston.

Divine Services. —On Sunday next, Presbyterian church services will be held as follows ;—At Wuipukurau at 11 a.m., and Tamumu at 3 p.m., by the Rev. R. Fraser, At Ivaikora at 3 p.m., and at Waipukurau at 7 p.m., by Mr AV. F. Wilson. At Hampden at 11 a.m., at Onga Onga at 3 p.m., and at AVaipawa ut 7 p.m., by the Rev. J. U. Spencp. AYe regret to hear that Mr It. H. Rhodes, of Springhill, was thrown from his hbfse yesterday, and fractured his collar-bone. He was driven into town, and attended to by Dr. Todd. AVe hear that after the first of November Mr G. E. Sainsbury, solicitor intends visiting Waipukurau once a week. Mr Sainsbury will be up every Saturday, and may be consulted at any time between ten and four. He is very popular with all who know him, and should find plenty of business to do. There will be no need now to go outside the district for legal advice. AVith one solicitor resident, and two visiting the district, it might bo supposed by a stranger that there was a vast amount of litigation going on.

A recently published return shows that there are lit),008 males in the colony above 21 years of age; of this number, 82,271 are on the Electoral Roll for 1878.

AVe beg to remind our AVoodville subscribers and others of the tea meeting to be held on Monday next, the 27th inst, in celebration of tho first anniversary of tho Hope of AVoodville Rochabite Tent. Tea will bo on the tables at 5.30 p.m. Tho after meeting should prove an attractive one; several gentlemen wellknown in the temperance cause are to address the meeting, among the number, Sir AVilliam Fox, who has been styled the “ Great Apostle of Temperance.” A complimentary farewell ball was given on Monday evening, in the Oddfellows* Hall, to Constable Murphy, who is leaving this district for Napier. There were a large number present, and judging from the spirited way in which dancing was kept up, every one seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. The ball did hot break; up till after five o’clock. Mr C. Harding presided at the piano.

Sudden Death. —AVe have to record to-day the sudden death of an old settler in the district, Mr Thomas Gill. The deceased was employed as foreman of road works by the County Council. He poisoned his hand about a week ago while digging a cutting near Onga Onga. Dr. Todd treated him for it on Saturday, and ordered him to be verycaieful with the arm, but deceased, wo are told, did not take necessary precautions to prevent inflammation, and the poison spread up his arm. On Monday morning Mr Bridge drove him into AVaipawa to see the doctor, but before medical skill could be procured, deceased had breathed hi* last—mortification had set in rapidly, and no human power could have saved his life. The deceased arrived in Wellington in 1857, and has ever since been employed on the roads by the Provincial Government, and lately by the County Council. Ho was a native of London, and has, wo believe, no relations resident in the colony. The remains of the deceased were yesterday afternoon interred in the new cemetery at Hadley, in the presence of several of his old associates, and those who had known him. Tha Rev. J. U. Spence was the officiating clergyman.

AVaipawa Stock Sales.—At yesterday’s sale there was only a fair attendance, and supply was quite up to the demand. The following prices were realised : —Steers, 3-year-old, £6 5s to £6 17s Gd ; 2-year-old, £5 to £5 17s Gd ; 18 months, £3 12s Gd to £ 4 ; yearlings, £2 12s Gd to £2 15s ; weaners, £2 10s, Heifers, 2-year-old, £5 to £5 7s Gd ; 18 months, £3 12s Gd; yearlings, £3 ; weaners, £2 to £2 5s ; working bullocks, without gear, £lO ss; cows from £5 to £B. Horses, medium draught, £l4 to £l7 10s ; good light hacks, £7 15s to £l3 7s Gd ; inferior ditto, £4 to £7 ss. Two bulls were sold, aged 17 and 20 months respectively, for pi ices £7 17s Gd and £9 15s.

Among a parcel of Parliamentary papers received from the Government Printer at Wellington, we have an interesting history of tho carved house “ Matatua,” exhibited by the New Zealand Government at the Sydney Exhibition. The idea of the house first originated with a chief of the Ngatipikiko tribe. The whole tribe took the matter up, and decided to build the house at Whakatane. and represent all their ancestors in it. Tho house was completed in 1874, and was opened in March, 1875, by the late Sir Donald McLean, with great demonstrations.

Commercial. Mr IL Monteith reports as follows : —At the bazaar, Napier on Saturday a fair number of horses, chiefly of an inferior stamp, were offered, the most of which changed hands. I have considerable inquiry for light harness descriptions, a number of which could be readily disposed of at current prices. I quote as follows.— Heavy draughts, £32 to £3B ; medium, do, £25 to £2B ; light harness, £l3 to £l7 ; strong useful hacks, £9 to £l2 : light hacks, £G to £8 ; aged and unsound, £3 to £5. Produce—Potatoes in brisk demand at £8 to £8 10s per ton ; oats 3s 4d to 3s Gd ; maize, 3s 3d ; hayj threshed, £3 15s per ton ; do, unthreshed* £5 ; chaff, £5 per ton.