LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 10, Issue 1173, 8 October 1881, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Private Brass Band has kindly offered to play a i w selections before the crieker. entertainment at the Institute on Monday. The programme we are led to believe is a very attrac ive one, and we anticipate a crowded attendance.

To-day at 2 o’clock the Greytown cricketers open their season by a match Married v Single. All members and intending members are expected to be present. Owing to the unavoidable absence of several of the committee, the Lower Valley ploughing ma'ch has been postponed until the 26th inst. We understand that Mr S. Vennell has offered a special prize of a heifer for the beat ploughing in the single furrow class, The annual meeting of the subscribers of the Wairarapa Hospital will be held at the offices of Messrs P. H. Wood & Co. on Tuesday next, the 11th. mst. at 4 p.ra A meeting of the members of the Lower Valley Jockey Club will be held at the Waihenga Hotel this evening at 8 p.m. A special meeting of the Wairarapa West County Oohncil will be held to-day for the purpose of confirming the rasolu'ion passed at the last meeting, “ That Mr Chew’s application to construct a tramway along and across the road, known as Arnold’s line, in iheTaratahi-Oarterton Highway District, be granted.” The Taratahi-Oartarton Highway Board invites tenders for certain works at Marat rawa, Belvedere Road, and N'x’s Road, specifications of which can be seen at the Board’s office, Carterton. Mr James Harris notifies that he will supply bricks in large or small quantities. Tenders are invited for leasing the Oddfellows Hall, Featherston, for a period of one year. Messrs F. H- Wood & Co. have received instructions from Mr James Driscoll to sell by public auction on Tuesday 18th inst., at his farm Taratahi, 100 crossbred ewes and 100 wethers and dry ewes, also farming implera ents, &c. This is the way the money goes. The bare auditing of the public accounts cost the colony £15,000 every year. If it is a fair question we should like to know whether in this instance prevention is better than cure.

Mr A. W. Renall is spoken of as a probable candidate for the North Wairarapa seat, also Mr J. Williams and Mr E. Meridith. Candidates will soon be as numerous for the north as for the son'll Wairarapa electorate. During the past tow days (says the Daily) cattle buyers have been busy in this distr-ct. Yesterdey morning Mr Hobson left Mas erton wirh eighty head, and will return in a fortnight to collect two hundred more which he has secured £»r Enderby of Wanganui is now in Masterton wi hj three hundred head which he has bought nrmcipally in the Lower Valley, and Mr H. Hickey of Napier who has managed to collect another three hundred head which will leave fertile north in a few days.

Chinamen have s'arted market gardening in Masterton, having rented a piece of land in the heart of town.

The oil springs at Poverty Bay are, at last, likely to prove profitable to the company formed to work them, and a source of revenue to the colony. A Yankee relates that some time ago a man employed in a mine was blown up sky»highbya charge of giant powder, and when ho returned to earth the owners of the claim deducted three seconds from his wages, being ihe time he had been absent In the Masterton R. M, Court to-day a settler named John Tuck sued a rabbifer for £5 15s, 'he a'leged value of a dog and gun which he (Tuck) had furnished. ° The young man alleged that the dog had do serted him, and the gun had nearly killed him through Tuck supplying "blasting powder; yet Mr Warded ordered him to find the dog or pay the money, assessed the damage to the gun at 15s, and ordered 54s costs in addition to be paid. The plaintiff’s story was that the powder was “ medium,” but he acknowledged the rabbiters did not like it, because, as he said, “ It is not very dependable.—Wairarapa Star.

A meeting of the Carterton Cemetery Trustees was held at the Institute on Thursday evening. The business trans. actea was of no particular public imnortance.

A serious accident: nearly occurred at Mr Booth’s mill, Carterton, on Tuesday last. Some men ware coming down the bush line on a trolley, when one of them, feeling the logs shift, lumped off, and caught his toot against the wheel, falling and hitting his side against one of th,e sleepers. Luckily no evil consequences of a serious nature followed on his rash action.

The entries for the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society’s Show are not coming in very fast at Featherstou. and as entries close on the evening of the 20th October, it behoves intending exhibitors to remember the date. Mr J. D. Oakly has been appointed the agent in Featherston for receiving entries. Air Wardell’s son, who was injured in the eye by a piece of glass in the beginning of the week, is progressing favorably, and great hopes are entertained that the sight will be preserved, as fears at first were to the contrary. There will be a general meeting of members of the Working Men’s Club this evening, to discuss some important business.

Tenders are invited for supplying the Matar.wa Saw Mill with logs. At tne Butter and Oheese Factory meeting last evening Mr Buchanan stated tha 'hey hoped to scud a shipment of frozen meat away about the month of May.

In Melbourne on the 10th September a test was made of meat preserved by a process patented by Messrs Lee, Wallace, and Knox. Mutton and beef which had been preserved for six months were duly tested, and stra.igers said they had no suspicion when partaking of it that it was other than fresh meat. The meat has been tried on board shi > on voyages to England and India with most satisfactory results.

A native woman named Kotero Heuheu committed suicide a> Marlon a few days ago. Her husband had aroused her jealousy by taking another wife, and she pu> an end to her troubles by hanging herself.

HR H, the Duke of Cambridge was a guest at the recent annual dinner of the London cabmen. A “ cabby,” in responding to the toast of the evening, dess cribed the joy which he felt at the first sight of the Duka. “ His Highness,’* said Jehil, “ had a presence and an appearance, which had I not known who he was, would have induced me to think tha'- he was a cabman of 30 years’ standing.” This sally is said to have created roars of laughter, in which the Duke heartily joined. There is no work done in the world which expends vitality so fast as wruing for the public. It is work which is never done. It accompanies a man upon his walks, goes with him to the theatre, gets into bed with him, and possesses him in his dreams, A butter-freezing company is about to be started iu Cambelhown. The Hon. R. Cambell has offered a refrigerator, and to pay the same, provided that a company is formed to take charge of it, —Rangitikei Advocate. To Mr Mcßeth, of Dunsinane, belongs the honor of this season bringing to maturity the first oranges grown in the open air in Rangitikei. Mr J. Laird, of the Egmont Nursery, .Wanganui, also possesses some orance trees now bearing ripe fruit, the first grown in Wanganui; and he says that on Sunday afternoon the trees are interviewed by quite a little crowd of admirers. We do not at all wonder at it, for an orange tree in blossom and fruit is a beautiful object, and weli worthy of a visit, even though it has no epicurean attraction to recommend it to notice. We have no doubt that these interesting little trees will be harbingers of many an orange grove, of which the poetical portion of ” young Rangitikei” may sing, and under whose shade they will doubtless “ spoon.” We believe that Mr Allison, of Wangaehu has succeeded in ripening oranges on his estate for some years past, and in the northern part of New Zealand orange trees bear abundantly, so that we may hope to see them gradually cultivated al. through the colony.—Rangitikei Advocate 1

A distressing story of vice regal snobbishness is current in town just now. One morning during the passage of the “ Hineraoa” from Wellington Sir Arthur Gordon came out of the cabin rather early and one of the saloon stewards seeing him observed civilly, “ Good morning, Your Excellency.” Receiving no reply he thought the Governor could not have heard him so he added ‘‘ I hope Your Excellency slept well.” Sir Arthur turned on his heels without a word and soon afterwards complained to Col. Knollys about the man addressing him. “I am not,” quoth he “ accustomed to being addressed by servants.”—Observer.

The “ Man at the Corner” in the Taranaki News says he learns from outs de source that a number of young men receuily met for discussion, and the subject chosen was— “ Which is more advantageous, the single or the married state V The debate went on with great spirit for aboui. two hours, and just as a speaker was making an impassioned oration in favor of the “ single state,” a lady in a red shawl, and goloshes, marched up to the orator and exclaimed : “ Henry ! I thought yon was at the ‘ pub,’ but this ’era's woraer. Come ’ome, you willin, and support your family,” When he had dismally slouched out, the chairman put the question, and the single state” was carried. The contract for ra‘ioning forces on the coast is taken at lOd per head daily by Mr J. Pennington, of Waitara J. Stephenson took it last year at 10£ d, but tendered this year at Is., The Dunedin Star is the authority for the following Mr Levestam presented the Premier with a gilt-framed portion of his Lees'on speech deprecating the disfranchisement of minorities. At the foot of the address are the words “ Wi'h the grateful acknowledgments of the Nelson members ”

It is a fact that Messrs Gardener & Son sold last season more sheep shears than the whole ol the Wairarapa storekeepers combined, and this season it is their intention to offer the TOO dozen pairs which they have imported at less than Wellington wholesale prices. We cannot understand how this wellknown firm sell their goods so wonderfully cheap. Their stock is splendidly assorted, and we would call special attention to their magnificent stock of drapery, which surpasses any we have yet seen in the Wairarapa.— Adyt.]