A meeting of members of the Waiiarapa Jockey Club will be held this afternoon at Greytown. Members of the Masterton and Opaki Jockey Club are requested to meet this evening, at the Club Hotel, for important business. On Wednesday last the Masterton and Ureytotvn Lands Management Act was read a second time in the House of. Representatives, A meeting of the MasteTton Park Trustees will take place in t'ne Institute on Wednesday next, and if the new membersofthe Cemetery Trust are gazetted m time!, a meeting of that lYust will take place the same evening. . A meeting was held ou Thursday evenmg, at Toogood's Club. Hotel, for the purpose of forming an nusociaiicn i n !lcC or. dance with rules passed at a previous meeting, and published by us in our correspondent's repeat. It was resolved • Ist that an association be formed to be called "The Featheraton Prospecting Association, and that the rules as previously formed be adopted. (2.) That Messrs W. Cundy Oakley, Tuogocd, McShane,Cox, Riddick and Paber be the directors, with Mr McShano as secretary and treasurer, and 3rd, that Mr Carew be prospecting manager. The association is to number 100 shares at £1 each, and it is cxpected.that the Government will subsidize to the T U ?L°( 1)0U " d per P° nnd lai <J "Ut About CO shares have already'been allotted. Mr Carew is already prospecting, and w,ll enter at once on bis .duties in behaltof the association, but for the time i being unassisted.
In the-reign of Queen Anne, all England had but one daily newspaper. ■ Wo noticed that there was a fair attendance boili of cadets and volunteer on parade last evening in the Town Hall, Mastertoir, The officers of the rifle corps are doing their best to put the cadets through their facing, and we are glad to aeo that the lads themselves are orderly and attentive,
The Masterton Brass Band will play this evening as usual. The following is tho programme .'-Artillery March, °P, Linn; Alexandra Schottisohe, Mack' l Burlesque Waltzes, Coote; Polpourri Quadrilles, Strauss; Autumn Manoeuvre March, Rieviere; Fannin Polka, Mack. Papers f rom Sydney give graphicaccounts of the up-country floods. One telegram says: " Nearly all the country from Forbes to Oondobolm is under wafer, and fears are entertained for the safety of several teams on the opposite side of Condobolin, should the floods rise any further. The flood at Dubbo is the highest for 10 years The flats are all covered, and traffic with Bourke and Maquarrie completely suspended. Little damage has been done, but some persons were nearly drowned yesterday while boating through backyards. Losses in stock are feared in the low-lying country below Dobo. TheuW at Bathurst is fulling fast, but has left immense deposits of sand and mud on the landialong the Macquarrie River. The Hunter at Maitland is falling rapidly, The highest flood since 1870 has occured at Gundagai. During the late flood at Bathurst a conciderable loss of property occured. One butcher had a slaughterhouse and his pigs and plant swept away, a lot of sheep were lost, and the standing ctops injured, *
Speaking of the Wellington members of the House, the Wcllingfc n correspondent of the Timaru Herald says:—"Mr Hutchison is Mayor of Wellington, and a demagogue oJ the regular type. He is an old, white-haired man, with a rough strongly marked countenance, and' looks his character precisely. He has not yet taken any part in the debates, and is not likely ever to make much of a figure. Mr Levin, the senior member for Wellington, is a short, dark, handsome young man, who was returned by an immense majority mainly on account of his high personal character, and his prominent position in the commercial world here, He has only spoken once or twice on minor topics, but he gives the impression of having plenty of sense, and only wanting confidence to do very well. Mr Mason is an odd-look-ing quiet old gentloimvi-a Quaker-ami, so far, a non-combatant in the arena of debate. Major Willis is a tall, very fair man, with a sjond deal of the soldier yet left in his bearing He has not yet made his debut as a speaker."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 299, 25 October 1879, Page 2
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