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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 181, 10 June 1879, Page 2

Tho English mails, via San Francisco, close on Friday, the 20th instant. 1 The Committee of tho Masterton Hospital raeetthis afternoon at the Institute. The Masterton Borough Council holds its usual fortnightly meeting this evening. The net proceeds of tho Soiree held at Greytown on Friday last were £3O, not £2214s 6d, as stated in our last issue, A telegram from London, dated Juno 5, reports that the wool market is strong, with a hardening tendency. Messrs lorns & Fergusson soli tomorrow, on tho premises of H, Bentley & Co., flour, oatß, furniture, etc., without reserve. We direct the attention of farmers in the Wairarapa and East Coast to Messrs Reidand Gray's advertisement of agricultural implements in another column. We trust to see the grand Concert in the Town Hall, Masterton, to-morrow evening well attended. The programme is a lively and attractive one. Mr Wiedner, Standard Fire, Marine, and Insurance Company, and Mr Miller, National Insurance Company, wero at Carterton last week, and inspected risks, which were generally satisfactory. The ratepayers of the Featherston Highway District are invited to attend a meeting at Tauherenikau, on Friday, 20th inst,, for the purpose of taking .into consideration the advisability of adopting the Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876.

A meeting of theMasterton Horticultural Society convened for last evening, fell through for want of a quorum. The sale of a furthor portion of the Reclaimed Land'at Wellington, which was advertised to be sold on the 17th instant, ia postponed until further notice. An amusing incident is reported by the New Zoalander to have occurred in connection with the Maori war danee givon in the Theatre Royal during several nights of last week. It appears from the manager's statement that the cashier's wife, unable to resist'the temptation thrown in her way by .the sight of so much money, cleared out with the gross takings, leaving the rest of the tribe in an unpleasant fix. As it happens, the natives who arranged the whole affair are well able to stand the consequences if the money ianot recovered, but in the meantime the creditors in the concern will in all probability have to wait a little.

The Times states that a private letter received by the last mail by the local representative of a gentleman now in England, states that the interest ordinarily charged on trade bills at Home, when the mail left, was If per cent per annum. The following is a summary of the mail brought to Wellington by the Taiaroa From the United Kingdom—3sß2 letters, 1720 books, 10,500 newspapers, From America—l 42 letters, 76 books, 570 newspapers,

Wo note, says the New Zealand Times, a alight improvement in trade during the past week, but hardly sufficient to influence quotations beyond a trifling extent in some articles, and wo have hopes that the pressure experienced in the money market for some time past, and which has tended to keep down the price of imported goods below payable limits is comparatively at an end. Cetewayo has made fresh overtures of peace, and sent an envoy to Colonel Clark, the officer in command at Fort Chelmsford. On hearing this, General Crealock, commanding the district, sent an envoy to ascertain if tho proposals were honorable,

It is with great pleasure that we'obverve in our exchanges, writes the Times, that the eminent scientific sorvices of our townsman Dr Buller have received the highest recognition which can be conferred by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, on the 10th April, being one of fifteen out of seventy-lhree candidates for the honor. Dr Buller is, we believe, the first scientific man, born and educated in any of the colonies, who lias received this distinction; so that New Zealand has some reason to be proud of the scientific pre-eminence which has been thus asserted for it,

The Chinese diplomatic body is, we are told to be organised completely on a European footing. A degree has been issued by the two Empress Regents according to which China is to send henceforth not only envoys but ambassadors to Europe, and to establish there consulates-general and consulates. The monthly salaries are fued at—for ono ambassador, £420 ;an envoy, £3GO ; a minister residont, from £240 to £3OO ; a charge d'affaires or con-sul-general, £l2O ; and the medical man of an embassy or legation, £6O, These salaries are to be paid by the Customhouses at Shanghai, The Government is also to bear the expenses of the residences diplomatic dinners, receptions, and carriages and horses of its representatives. Every ambassador or envoy may now, in urgent cases, telegraph' to the two Empresses. The tenure of ofl'ice of every Chinese representative is fixed at three years, after which he must be replaced.