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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 309, 6 November 1879, Page 2

_ Tilt! Waimapa Dai'.v will lint lie puli Hailed mi Monday next, tint t'uy king ; |):ililii;Ji.i]i(l,y, At ilie Post Offices ii this district Sunday hours will he uW sorved.

Weedl attention to the Wesleyan :iu nivjis.iry announcement in aiioihei' w lunin.

Messrs C. A. Briggs and 0 i. iinnniinci a clearing sale, cuinineuciui; un fcjatuid-i; LIU Ct.

Ten let's close 'o-d'iy for the erection c tile Victoria Hotel, l^aiherstnii.

Mr J. Yates advertises a sta.dt of hai for sale, also firewood in any lengths.

The R.M. Court sits :tt Masterron to ilny. The list uf cases is light and uuirnportant.

The ordinary in mfhly meefciny of the JUsrert'iii School Committee will be held next M'Midny afternnon. " Siratf.ird " in another column, wants to lease a small sheep run in the vicinity of Mastertoii.

Messrs P, H, Wood and Co. commence their sale uf Mr J-i'm Miami s stock to-monw at H o'clock,

The Hudson Surprise Company «ive an entertainment in the Public Edi, Carterton, this evening. On Monday last, at a sitting of the Bankruptcy Cur, orders of djsch rue were granted in the f.iliowiii!,' ases:Hans veii'lseii (application made by Mr Gordon Allan), and Thomas Hope AJurrav (Mr Fitzherl.ert). The eighth session of the Wellington Diocesan Synod was opjued mi Tuesday last with the customary a Idress from the Bishop, Our Carterton correspondent sends m the following:—A luhli tire is bLizm,' at the back of Carterton, near the nilwiy, between Belvedere roid and the Eiyliah Church.

A meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton Hospital is convened for Tuesday next to consider the question of ehiiritaiile ail.

We notice Mr E. Oilier, of the Misterton Registr, O.tiw, his taken those premies lately in the occupation of Mr R. M. Galloway, which he intends to open ai ii branch uf his biumes*.

The adjourned general iiiee'iug of tk W,ii;ari|it Jickuy Cluh tabs jilio ».i i.euatthu Ruin* Sin Hile' Givyrown, when the ij lett'inu of re;i:i struai K icecmirse will he decided.

A sijiiiul of. the Greyfciwii !li3 , Vh'hutiwajw wlto tk liu U f..;'l'i.l! piMotlCU mi Wednesday afturn >ou, iiiilji'entr*,',) of Lieutenant Porter. The riiii',M» 3:0, and 410 yards, Ave shots at udi r.iiue. The highest s-'M-e wis 55. two iu.ii'd at 52, ii'id several from 40 to 50 Altogether die ae >rus wore above the average.

At the Featherston Sale Yards, yeste--day, Messrs F. H. Wnod and On., could not succeed in placing the only linu of cattle enleied, though, su'wupient to the aa'e, tlie aiictimieerti sold it privately. Mr Wn d determined the sale should u'.t lie it maiden one, put up a one pound note, This lot was stariel at 15s, and, after a keen competition, was knocked down tu McKeever for 19.< 6d,

The Greytown Rifle Volunteer Corps held their usual monthly inspection parade en Tuesdiy last. There was a hr«e attendance *fter inspection the Captain informed them that he had a communication from Captain Kuwlgrow, re a clia!len»e from t. -, e Masterton Corps to tire n match of 11 from each cnipam, e.ch man to pay 10s entrance fee, and the wi'iner to lake the lot, The match to be fired at Miisferton. Several meiuliers expressed t'n'ir surprise that the elnlleugers did not fol our their clmllenge, and it was resolved to .ire a friendly mulch, each company on its own lunge,

Mr 0. I!. Muiikt.Mi, phuio.;rapher, Maiineis-siroct,, Wellington, in our advor isiirj ci iiiiii,s calls intention to the act that ho is taking photos, at 7s (id ptif i.df-dozeu.

Yesterday a m idest man presented at a •ank in Miistertmi a draft for £'ls and equesied payment. He was interrogated t in how tliu document came into hi.* '■•ssussimi, ami »a\e ut very I'.ml acciiiiiii of Imw it had been paid to im in the way of business, lie was it her surprised when the hank agew threw nut a delicate hintth.it huili he and his draft niijjit In be liamled over to n liiilieeni.ui, and left hurriedly, saying that he would call in f..r the mmey. I'lie draft was a second of nearly two years old. payable in London, and drawn by another bank than the one where it was presented, It is anticipated that he will now abandon his intention of turning it ,nto money. A telegram to the N. Z. Times of yestetchy siiys:- To-day a party of tars were at iho North Auckland, mounted on hoises, and indulged in a steeplechase over the country, fences mid o'her obstacles being sncjessfully negotiated. Uufonuiiiitelv, however, one of the sailoiß met with a very sad disaster, His horse bolted off ihe street, and galloped into a shop window. The horse's head went through a large plate-glass sash, and the sudor's bead was crushed against the weather-boards over a letter-box adjoining ihe window, the board aetuaVy being smashed by the force with which the man's head camo into contact with it. I'he sailor fell insensible off lb horse. hL '■ead bathed in blood, and as he did nol return to consciousness, it was regarded as a serious injury, and he was conveyed by some -f his slipm ites to a boat, thence 10 the vessel. The horse wis also inich cut by glass.