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Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 125, 3 April 1879, Page 2

Dysentery is reported to be prevalent at Fcilding. The Marlborough Express wills Dr Pollen the " pension-luiuting patriot who edits the New Zealand Times." A man at Mnrton builds concrete tanks from 1000 gallons at £9 to 25,000 gallons at £BS. The annual meeting of the Musterton Town Lands Trustees will be held tomorrow evening in the school-house.

Wc think it unnecessary to remind farmers of the dinner at the Empire Hotel on Saturday next. The defaulters' list and the buigess list are open for inspection at thv office of the Town Clerk of the Borough of Masterton. The committee of the Greytown Athletic Club have notified in their programme for Easter Monday the exact hour at which each event will come off. Such an arrangement must be a convenience to both competitors and spectators. Messrs lorns and Fergusson intimate that unless all furniture from the sale of Saturday last is paid for and cleared by Saturday next, it will be sold at the risk of the qresent purchasers, An emu from Otaraia has, says the Standard, taken up its abode on the Wailienga township, much to the terror of a great many horses, &c., in fact, we heard of one horse falling down dead from sheer fright of this ungainly looking bird. It is extremely tame, and will feed out of a peroa's hand,

The Greytown VohinfHSHHHH weekly drill on Tues'cflHflHH oxercised in skitmishiiHnKßHPH ' blank cartridge. ' •••••' Y •W. Hamilton Inma'n:]jas brouglit to Masterton, anil will appeilr ,to-day jjV theR,M, Court to ansv/er to the charge \ brought agaijist hiip by.Mr Cowan, ' The price of the Now'Zealander is now raised to 2d, Tho Wairahapa Daily is the only penny mornirig paper published in the neighborhood .of the Empire City. We understand that Mr W, Mitchell lias bought the premises lately bought by Mr Robt. Noakes in Greytown and that ho intends starting a butcher's establishment there, A bankruptcy at Bulls is thus chronicled by the local papero, Croker, of Bulls, has also takeu tho first degree, Mid in due course will be admitted as an affiliated member of the honorable order of insolvents. A horse belonging to Mr Haigh of Greytown, bolted out of the yard on Tuesday evening last, across the road where the trap capsized and had a shaft broken. Fortunately there was no one in tho way at the time. We understand that part of tho temporary bridge erected at Woodside was washed away by the fresh on Monday last some of the piles coming as far as Greytown, Mr Toomath lias threatened our reporter, says tho Chronicle, that if we publish the information relative to the censure on Mr Everiss ho shall never enter the Board room again. We eliallengo Mr Toomath to-'cxeciito his imprudent and uncalled-for throat, We understand that the income of the Masterton Town lands Trust for the past year amounts to £295 12s, and its expenditure to £340 lis 9d, including grants of £l3O to tho Library and £llO to the School. There is at present an overdraft of £122 4s Id, but the excess of liabilities over assets is only between £SO and £6O. The New Zealander is now printed and published in the name of Mr R. C. Reid. It claims to be an independent journal, and though its preliminary utterance is a little indefinite, we gather from it that it lias a greater respect for the Premier's colleagues than for Sir George himself. If so, in twenty-four hours the paper lias , been turned inside out, The change is a , decided advantage, Yesterday the following tenders were ■ opened for 81 chains formation on the Te '' Ore Ore extension and re-planking the ; Wangaohu Bridge Murdock MclCenzie, £174 3s, accepted. Declined—Thomas Guerin, £3Ol 18s; E, Y, Dixon & Co., £285 ; Thomas Allen, £270 (Is; Houri- ' gan and Falloon, £2014s Gd.

For the last two years the demand in the timber trade lias exceeded the supply at last the position is reversed and new orders are beginning to be scarce at the various mills in the Wairarapa. This of course is the ntaurul result of the present bad times, As yet most of the mills are fairly busy completing old orders, It is only in the new ones that the signs of the times are apparent.

The New Zealand Times reports that a gentleman living not many miles from Wellington recently advertised the fact that he had LDOOO to lend. Within an hour or so os the publication of the notice lie accepted an oiler of 12 per cont, for the money, which was lent for three years. The security oil'ered was said to be worth four times the sum borrowed. If this, be true, and the report comes to us on good authority, money must be both scarce and tight.