CARTERTON

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 289, 14 October 1879, Page 2

CARTERTON

(from our own correspondent)

October 10,1879. In spite of bad times buildings are still running up here. Mr King has a pretty little cottage nearly finished opposite the Anglican Church, two others have just been completed near the Catholic Church, and Messrs Merrick and Harman are erecting a substantial four-roomed cottage and shop near Armstrong's auction rooms for Mr King the tailor, who has the contract for the Volunteers' uniforms, Mr Haslem is also putting up a large building on the allotment adjoining the bank about 50 by 38ft. So you see we are not all quite stumped yet. There is an old saying that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and so one of the bovine tribe seemed to think yesterday, He was being driven up the town by a couple of butchers when a happy thought struek him, which eventuated in the drivers being driven for some time, I trust, however, that now the goodly beast lias gone the way of all flesh, he may not impregnate'his (favourers with his revengeful spirit for we are a quiet, forgiving 'people here. If we are smitten on the one cheek we always offer the other to the sniitcr. Of course!!

Oct. 13. Our township was thrown into a state of excitement on Saturday evening by the announcement that a Scandinavian settler, named Martin Jorgensen Busch, had been found horribly mutilated on the iaiatahi, n&ai'.the Waingawa bridge, The affair seems shrouded m a mystery, which only an official inquiry can throw light on. for it seems almost incredible that such an atrocity could have been committed on a powerful man in broad daylight within a few yards of the main road. So far as I can gather any reliable information on the subject, the sufferer appears to have been attacked by four men, his head envelc' led in a coat and the cruelty thenjjevogljs.ted, Iheie is nothing knowTFnere yet as to the perpetrators of the outrage. A meeting of the Carterton Cricket Club took place on Friday evening, some dozen members being present. Mr L Ju being voted to the chair, and from tlie secretary s report it appears that the cliib starts with a cash credit balance of *os Id, which would be increased to £3 Id if outstanding subscriptions are paid up ihe report was adopted as read The ■■ ub numbers some thirty members and the following officers were elected President, Mr G. H. Lister-Kaye; VicePesident, Mr P. F.'l'ancred; Treasurer, Wr J. bnodgrass; Secretary, Mr C Fairbrother; Committeo: Messrs C. Potts, ». H. Harrison, C. Gardner, J. Brady, «ind G. Bennett; Practice-captain. Mr E. ii'imunds. The first meeting of the committee was fixed for the 15th inst. to complete arrangements for ground and an. P"tnt practice days for the club. It was suggested tlwt a team be chosen from the " airarapa Clubs to play a series of matches oil the West Coast and that the secretary of each club be requested to open a subscription list in his own township t° defray the attendant exposes, and that such matches take place in Jan'

Mr Alfred Booth's house is well under weigh near the mill ground, and I see Mr A. Muir has another cottage well on towards completion, at the south end of Carterton.