LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 4, Issue 357, 4 November 1875, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr James Harvey, junior, has opened an hotel at the Scandinavian Camp. The Waiohino is well up this morning and is impassable even for a good horseman. The next quarterly meeting of the Licensing Courts in the Wairarapa districts is appointed lor December 7th. All applicalio’.s must be lodged by Nov 15. We believe that it is proposed shortly to erect a public hall on Hooker’s line Taratahi, and that the necessary funds will be raised by means of shares. The meeting convened at Carterton for Monday evening last, to consider the state of the Local Cemetery was adjourned till Monday evening next at 5 p.m. on account of we t weather. A single seated American Hickory buggy with a set of harness, is to be raffled for on Saturday next, at the Rising Sun Hotel, at S 30 p.m. There are 45 members in the raffle at £1 each. Mr Duncan announces a sale of leather for November 10th which is worthy of the attention of boot and shoe makers. The sale will take place at his auction room Wellington. The committee of the Horticultural Show have decided to postpone the show in the Greytown Hall till Wednesday December Ist. This has been done at the suggestion of intending exhibitors. We understand that the shareholders of the Carterton town hall have decided to raise a sum of £2OO by the issue of 100 additional shares for the purpose of enlarging the present building. We bear that old linen Ac, suitable for bandages is wanted at the Wairarapa Hospital, Perhaps some of the ladies of the district will kindly take the hint and forward a contribution of this kind to Mrs Hobson the matron in charge. All the stations on the East Coast now are engaged in shearing operations. When the sheep are shorn in that locality the shearers will migrate to the Lower Valley, where the flocks are as a rule shorn a little latet in the season than on the East Coast. Edmondson Sellar & Co.,' general carriers announce that they will carry wool from the Wairarapa to Wellington during the present season at the following rates, from Featherston, £3 10s per ton, from Greytown £4, from Carterton, £4 10s, and from Masterton £5. This week the court cases of the Wairarapa are very l<ght. The Featherston, Carterton, and Masterton charge sheets arc blank, and at Greytown, yesterday, a bibulous Maori, the only culprit on the books, had a fine of five shillings added to a night’s seclusion in Mr

Byrn’s mansion. Saw, and flour mill proprietors will hare an opportunity of picking up bargains in their lines at an auctidn sale of Mr B. Lucas’s which is fixed for November 18, at Taratahi, and at which will be sold a weighing machine, limber wagon, team of horses, and a number of other lots detailed in an advertisement in another column. Our attention has been called to a paragraph published in our issue of the 26th ultimo., which stated that “ Premier” had been withdrawn from the stud this season, and would be trained for the ensuing races, at which he might be expected to do better than he did last season, when, from indifferent training he did not turn out so well as anticipated. We find that the authority on which we asserted that he was indifferently trained was not a very reliable one, and. in justice to his trainer, we willingly withdraw an assertion which conveys an unjust imputa-

tion against him. We are getting a mixture of all nations amongst us which may or may not improve the physique of the New Zeniander of the future. Last week 47 Italian adults ex Herschel, araired at Featherston, and were domiciled there in the depdt and immigrants cottages. Many of them have got to work on the incline contract, some are still open to engagement. They are a miscellaneous lot, and their avocations vary, one for instance

is a plaster image manufacturer, another a locksmith, two more cah-men &c. Possibly the immigration department will provide any of them who may not obtain other employment, with band organs and monkeys, so that they may have a chance of obtaining nn honest living, by exercising an art for which they are specially adapted. The last two sales held at Taratahi by Mr B. Lucas tend to show that stock taken there when duly advertised and put up for bonu fide sale fetches its full value. In the sale held yesterday, as in the one held a fortnight back, all stock which had been previously advertised found a ready sale at satisfactory prices, Mr T. Ray, of the Taratahi Hotel, evidently recognises the admirable position of his establishment for such sales, for ho has just completed the erection of additional sale yards, which were used for the first time yesterday, when a hundred head of store cattle, bred by Messrs MoMasters, were knocked down in lots to suit purchasers at prices ranging from £3lss to £6 5s per bead. There was a good attendance of buyers from all parts of the district and keen competition. The principal purchasers were Messrs John Morrison, Partridge, Lowes, and Braithwaite.

A meeting of the Greytown Cricket Club was held at the Institute on Tuesday even-

ing. Dr H. H. Spratt m the chair. An offer of a paddock for practice was received from Messrs Balfour and Beard, and

a committee appointed to visit it to ascertain if it would be suitable for the use of the club. An offer from Mr W. R. Hastwell, for conveyance of the Wpirarapa team to Wellington for the match on the Prince of Wales’ birthday, was received and accepted. The secretary was also requested to thank Mr Hastwell for a donation of five pounds which the latter intimated his intention of presenting to the club. It was arranged that the combined Wairarapa team should meet for practice at Greytown on Saturday next at 1 30 p.tn., that a challenge should be sent to the Featherston club for a friendly match on the 13th inst„ and that the club should meet for practice every evening at five p.m. The secretary was also instructed to apply to the Wellington and Star Clubs for copies of their rules. It will be noticed that the Greytown cricket club is now going to work in a business like manner'and it is to be hoped that it will be able this year to carry off more laurels than were gained by it last season.