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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 202, 4 July 1879, Page 2

Tho Wairarapa Pastoral Association meet at Carterton on Tuesday next. A sawmill has been started at the Dry li-iver Station, Lower Valley. Mr Duncan Cameron late of the firm of Williams, Cameron, & Co., has started in business at Wellington. Sir George Grey has it is said been consulting ' Sir. William Fitsshorbcrt with respect to existing difficulties. Messrs Cooper and McLaren of Carterton have disposed of their butchering business to Mr George Bowles.

The usual monthly meeting of tlie Waiohine River Board of Conservators will be held in the Town Hall this evening. Mr 111 T. Ooopor, lately a cadet in the Post and Telegraph Oitices of Masterton and Grey town, has been appointed to the charge of the Ot-aki office. There was a large attendance at F. H. Wood and (Vs. sale at Greytown, on Thursday, wlien a largo assortment of fruit trees, shrubs, and plants of almost every variety were offered for sale, and were bought eagerly at /cry satisfactory prices. The consignment was from Mr McCardle.

Various opinions are expressed at present in Greytown as to the ultimate locality of the Police Station unci Court-house,

We believe petitions and counter-petitions are being signed whether it will be at one end of the township or the other. It is certainly time that the said buildings were commenced. It is rumored that the Government has decided upon all public buildings being erected near the Railway Station.

On Tuesday last at a meeting of the Loyal Masterton Lodge, M.U.1.G.0.F., the following officers were elected for the half-year ending 31st December, 1879 : -G.M., Thomas Jago; N.G., Alfred Bish; V.G., Donald McJCenzie, ; P.S., G. S, W. Dalrymple; Trusteos, A. Bish and James Brown ; Treasurer, J, M. Girdlcstone; Auditors, E. A; S. Wyllie and Robert Ghinchon ; Medical Oflicer, Dr W. H. Hosking ; Chemist, T. G. Mason.

An Alfredton correspondent writes : Continuous heavy rams causing every creek and river to rise into impassable barriersjiave been the stato of things here for days past, yet our rivers aro wi.ll confined by high banks which don't allow even the lowlands to suffer from Hoods, but I fear many of our bridges not being

of a very permanent constructure will be much damaged, while others are likely to he bodily carried away. The bush tracks

I also anticipate will be in a bad state, not only from the rain, but tho high wind will bo knocking trees and their limbs down across the tracks. Am sorry I couldn't report on progress of the Railway Survey Staff, they expected reaching homo before this, but this unfavorable weather must undoubtedly be a cause of much delay, inconvenience, and hardships to them, being at present in bush country. I hope soon to be able to give you more information on this point,

As a gentleman was returning from Masterton Fo Alfredton along the UpporTaueru road, his horse slipped on one of the planked bridges, which in wet or frosty weather are 59 dangerous without a little "ravel on them, the horse came down heavily on the riders leg, causing very severe injuries to the knee cap. The pain of which was only equalled by the mental agony of the poor Warden in whose charge this road lies. We are happy to state the unfortunate gentleman is doing well, and the poor Warden beginning to breathe more freely,

In compliance with a request from the Great Powders, ex-Khedive, Ismail Pasha, Princo Hussein, and Prince Hassan, his second and third sons, left Egypt to-day and have gone to Naples,

The remains of the late Prince Imperial are being brought to England by steamer, and will probably be interred with those of the .late Emperor Napolean 111. at Chislehurst.

A meeting of oicora of S.~ Matthew's Church is convened for Monday next, The Masterton Rifle Volunteers parade this evening, The Masterton Town Land Trustees meet this evening,

To-morrow is pay day with the Masterton Building Society. •' Lord Lawrence, the late Viceroy and Governor-General of India, is dead. It is reported' that the Working Men's Club now being organized at Masterton has ordered a billiard table.

Thb'siib-comiiiitte'o appointed to select a site for the Masterton Ploughing Match

approved yesterday of one kindly offered by Mr Dove on the Te Ore Ore estate. Mrs Palmer, wo understand, is getting up a concert in aid of the Masterton Fire Brigade funds. She will, we are glad to learn, be strongly supported by local amateurs, Mr Barton, M.Kit; for Wellington, lias arrived by the San Franciso boat. The Ministry had better retain him to argue with Te Whiti. The man who worried judges would surely be a match for a prophet, Wc are glad to learn that Mr Alex-

iinder's tender for the Opaki bridge lias been accepted. Mr Alexander is admitted * to be one of the best builders in the Wai- v rarapa, and the structure could not be in better hands. We believe tlie amount of the tender is £5,000. We learn from Mr. H. T. Brown, one * of the search party which has been out at - the -Upper Taueru searching for poor t Robertson, that yesterday the party crossed the river, and made as careful a search as the muddy state of the water s would permit. A bridle and a part of a lining of a coat were found, but no body could be discovered. It is thought that man and horse were caught in a snag and covered in sand and debris. There is no doubt entertained of the fate Mr Robertson. A meeting of creditors in the estate of MrR. J. Duncan, writes the Chronicle, was called by the Trustee (Mr Carroll) yesterday afternoon to consider what should be done concerning the. furniture of the debtor, .which had been assigned to him as part of the real'and personal estate. It was'the rule to make some special provision with- regard to 'the furniture, and he had called the meeting to be instructed in the matter.- Mr Wallace, at the request of a number of the largest creditors, handed proxy papers to the trustee (Mr Carroll) in favor of the furniture being placed in the hands of trustees for the benefit of Mr Duncan's children, but this proposition being opposed by Mr Duncan, it was decided, upon the motion of Mr Hutchison, to adjourn for a week to secure a fuller meeting of creditors, London Truth, in an artic.lo giving anecdotes of the Prince of Wales, says:—" He is fond of late hours, but no matter how late he n\ay go to bed he rises early the next morning. He is a keen sportsman, and a very fair shot. At whilst he plays an excellent hand, And whether the occupation of the moment be whist, sport, or dancing, he enters into it with a hearty relish, which contrasts strangely with the blase airs of the golden youths of the day. His constitution is an excellent one. lie rarely has a day's illness, and he is a living proof that no amount of tobacco 1 can enfeeble either mind or body. I

believe that lie was the inventor of the now popular drink, 'lemon and soda." While on the subject of Rowi (says the Lyttclton limes) it may not be out of place to mention that he has only one little daughter, a bright black oyod girl of

six summers, of whom h.O is very fond,

Among the firat effects of his visit here will probably be the placing of this child under Europoan care. That she will be brought up, if spared,.a thoroughly cultured woman, no one who knows anything

of Eewi's nature and the strong affection he bears her entertains the least doubt.

And some day she will prove a rich prize to some lucky fellow, As near as can be estimated, it is believed that when the tribal lands are divided,- and each hold their own under individual Crown grant, it believed that Rewi's own share will be somewhere about 2,000,000 acres of line agricultural land. This area, of land leased at even an average of ss. an acre, will make a rich man of him who secures the hand of littlo Miss R-ewi:

A corespondent, writing to the New New Zealand Herald, thus describes the I Maori style of conducting public worship: •' Happening to spend a Sunday in ii mission station, not fifty miles north of Wanganui, I thought proper to attend church service there in the afternoon. Everything went on quietly enough until three or four Maori curs, who had been meanwhile peacefully slumbering under the scats, became aware of each others' presence. All of a sudden they made a violent rush at each other, the sacred building echoing again with their yells. However, the joke does not end here. A man, with a large family of boys, who happened to be near the door, seeing the plate taken round, deemed it advisable to make his exit. Just as he had gained the door, the parson, seeing the clever little move, shouted out at the top of his voice " Stop ! sto.p!" The parson was determined upon securing the usual contribution, and dashed through the church, and, amidst the laughter of the congregation, triumphantly brought his man back, The Maori style of conducting public worship beats everything. Picture to yourself, gentle reader, an old fryingpan, suspended from the end of a tea-tree pole—the said fryingpan being used as a church bell to summon the wily savages to prayers. On one occasion, I remember, immediately after church service was over, the natives broke into a grog shanty' owned by a native. The whole mob got beastly drunk, and vented their spleen on an unfortunate young Maori woman by throwing her to the ground and then bastinadoing her with a stick. So much for Maori religion."