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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 143, 25 April 1879, Page 2

The San Francisco mail closes to-day in the Wairarapa, Mr A. L, Webster, Creytown, is appointed agent for the Colonial Insurance Company. The sale in the estate of MrH. Bentley commences at 11 a.m. this day, and will be continued to-morrow. All lots will be unreserved,

The committee of the proposed Masterton Volunteer Corps met yesterday afternoon to make preliminary arrangements for drill.

A committee has been appointed at Carterton to secure a site for a range in connection with the Volunteer movement there.

The Masterton Borough Council hold a sitting on Tuesday next to hear and determine objections to the Burgess List.

Messrs Darley and Knight, carriers, Greytown, announce in our advertising columns that they carry goods to all parts of the Wairarapa. The railway extension is coming slowly but surely to Masterton, A gang of men are now employed clearing a track through the busli at Manaia. F. H. Wood and Co. officiated at the Featherston Sale Yards on Wednesday last. They knocked down 17 head of fat cattle to Mr Gear at L 8 2s Gd, Some stores fetched L 4 IBs, The members of the Featherston Local Board have appointed themselves as members of the Public Library Committee, with the following additional names:—H. S. Wardell, C. Pharazyn, J. Gurr, J. Donald, and D. Fry. A little amusement was caused by two very amiable couples, consisting of a Maori gentleman and European lady, and a European gentleman with a Maori belle, who promenaded Queen-street, Masterton, in a very lover-like manner, followed by a few admiring dusky feminines,

Maniliera has authorised the Standard to state that there is no truth in the reports that letters had been received by the Maori chiefs of this district fromTe Whiti, telling them to prepare for the day of blood had como; aud that they were selling horses and cattlo to purchase ammunition with,

In our last issue we stated that the sale of Mr Donald Donald's cattle and sheep at Manaia came off on Saturday. We should have said Saturday week, We have been, requested to state that every head advertised will be sold, there being on the ground now more than the different numbers catalogued. Several of our local business men have beensurprised, oncomparing their invoices with the railway charges, to find that the railway officials had increased the weight of the goods received by about 12 per cent. Quite, a number of these freaks have been brought to light, the difference in one instance amounting to half a ton in four tons. We believe the matter is l?eing inquired into in Wellington,

A meeting of members! and'.-pvoppaeci; memberi of the Wairarapa Prospeoting,' Association will bo held at Mr' Wyllie'a office to-morrow evening.' The new wing of the Masterton Postoffice is sufficiently completed for the telegraphists connected with the' building ,to take up their quarters in it.

It will be seen from an advertisement elsewhere that the road from Langdale woolshed to Breakneck ford through lea station, "Whareama, \jill be closed to traffic on and after May 15.

T. 0. Williams, J.P., the eccentric missionary of the New Zealand Times, who, day by day, prepares that journal for that felicity in a better world which it can hardly attain in this one, has at last found one admirer, one believer,—but he is in danger of losing even this waif unless he advances him £6O on his personal socurity. The expenditure out of the Public Works Fund between Ist July, 1878, and 31st March, 1879, has been as followslmmigration, L 110,728: Public Works Department, L 12,087; Railways, L 458,608; Surveys, new lines, LI0,408; Eoads, L 31,987; Land Purchase, L 61,890; Water Paces, L 9,872; Telegraph Extension, L 10,983; Public Buildings, L109,G66; Lighthouses, L 6,838; Miscellaneous, L 95,497; Charges and Expenses, L 45,741; Services not provided for, etc., L 8,573; giving a total of L980,878.j

Yelverton O'Connell, a carpenter at East Hamilton, who, two years since, eloped with Martha Williams, and was tried at Auckland and acquitted for giving a false declaration to the Registrar, has met with a violent death at Hamilton. He was contractor for building a store, and fell off the roof, striking his chest and belly on the traverse beam. Ho did not feel seriously ill, and continued working, but mortification—the result of internal injuries—set in, and he died in great pain. Ho leaves a widow and ono child at Raglan, The Government, says the Auckland Star, has requested Mr Runciman, the Waikato Sheep Inspector, to forward to Wellington specimens of sheep lice and "scab." The living insect being required, Mr Runciman has made many critical examinations, but cannot find a single insect to export to Wellington, In despair Mr Runciman made for Jolly's celebrated flock, but was again euchred, Not a scab was visible, Only two tiny sheep lice oil a small lamb were discovered,, and these were no doubt seized in triumph, and will be hermetically sealed up and sent to the anxious etomologist at Wellington. It is, however, very satisfactory to know the Waikato district is clean, and its condition reflects credit on the vigilant inspector. A serious railway accident occurred in a cutting near Saltwater Creek, between Oamaru and Timaru, on Tuesday morning, It appears that about 5 o'clock a.m. the train, consisting of 42 trucks and waggons laden with grain, timber, and stone, left St. Andrews, bound for Timaru, and when just entering the cutting the axle of the eighth truck from tho engine broke in the centre, causing several of those behind to go off the line. Before the train could be stopped it had gone ahead considerably, and the force with which the injured waggon was being dragged along the ground caused it to rip up the permanent way for a considereblo distance, The trucks and waggons that remained behind were literally on top of each other in complete confusion and wreck. The guard of the tiain which met with the accident was considerably shaken, but fortunately no injury to tho enginedriver or stoker was sustained. Altogether 12 trucks were smashed to piecos. A tradesman, named Macfarlane, arrived in Asliburton on Thursday evening, accompanied by his family, after performing a feat in travelling that lias rarely been equalled. Attracted by tho glowing accounts of business prospects in Canterbury, the family left their home at Reefton, with the intention of making their way overland to Asliburton, fifteen days ago. Their journey from Reefton to Greymouth, thence to Hokitika, across from the West Coast to Christchurch, and finally to Asliburton, was accomplished in a waggonette, Probably few families in any of the colonies have had a more adventurous trip, They enjoyed a fortnight's continuos travelling through some of the wildest, yet most beautiful and romantic scenery in New Zealand. The privations and risks of the journey may be readily imagined. There are few swaggers who, a few years ago, would have cared to navigate their way through such rough country on foot, and the fact that Macfarlane has been able to carry his family in a two-horse vehicle through the heart of the Middle Island, in the way he has done, shows that what was long considered impracticable country must be getting well opened out. A tradesman who can successfully navigate his family in the way he has done, deserves to get on in the wo.ild. and we trust Macfarlane will have no reason to regret his journey to Asliburton. Somebody must have humbugged the venerable fossil who wrote the following letter to the New Zealander! or is the Native Department getting up this sort of tiling? Our natives do not fight except in debt cases in the R.M. Court, or sell horses or cattle for other ammunition than grog;—To the Editor of the New Zealander. Wellington, 22nd April, 1879. Fkiend,—l have noticed a statement in the newspapers of Masterton and Wellington, that letters have been received from Te Whiti by the Maori chiefs of Wairarapa, saying that the day of blood had come, and to be prepared, and that they were selling horses and cattle to purchase ammunition with. Friend, that is a wrong thing to say against us, the Maoris of Wairarapa. No letters have been received from Te Whiti of the kind, or any kind whatsoever. The person who wrote that information is a man accustomed to dreaming; his mind has become confused; he perhaps imbibed grog freely previous to his writing such.' Friend, there is no man in Wairarapa who knows anything about that false information. The Maoris of Wairarapa have long since declared they would not join in war.— From your friend, (signed) H. M. RangiTAKAIWAHO,