NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 362, 13 January 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

* (Prr Australia at Auckland.) We clip the following from our floine files up to date, Dec, 23rd : Six ladies from Pacied Heart Convent, Chicago, go by the Australia to New Zealand to founl a Convent of the order there, Cardinal Manning appeals for subscriptions for ihi! >e!ief of the distress in Irelaud during the coming winter. Hunger and want is expected such as was never known since 1847.

Baker Pasha has stinted on his first visit to Aleppo, He has no executive authority, but lis powers enable him to mike a thorough investigation of all branches of administration, and report directly to the Sultan, By explosion of fire damp in' a coal mine near Chernuitz, 80 persons were killed,

At a meeting of Irish sympathisers held at Glasgow, a resolution was passed callin.!! for the impeachment of Lords Salt's•burya:id BenconsGeld. A tenant evicted by Lord Fennoy struck him with a cudgel on the steps of the Limerick Club, and felled him to the earth, where he lay insensible for some time. His assailant received fire years' penal servitude.

In the north of Ireland the landlords ire generally reducing rents between 10 and 20 per cent, War is progressing between the tribes on the VvVst Coast of Africa, and the British naval force has consequently 1 een' increased,

The British expedition up the Diega destroyed two towns and returned to Bonny. Heavy floods on the Isthmus of Panama submerged the railroad almost its entire length, flooding out natives along the line, and destroying much property. Passengers by the Aspinwall could not land, as the steamer went to sea to escape a hurricane, which wrecked several vessels in the harbor, and destroyed a portion of the Pacific Mail Company's wharf. Two hundred passengers and freight were delayed. Sixty Mahommedan refugees were starved to death at Sofia.

A Calcutta despatch says executions continue in the palace at Mandalay. Five princesses were recently murdered there.

The floods in Hungary and Transylvania have done great damage, Severe frosts alone prevented Grossevetdein and the adjacent villages shaaing the fate of Sdgezin. Temovar, Arad, and several other Transylvanian towns,were suddenly inundated, many houses falling, and the level country was submerged, The distress is extreme, thousands of inhabitants are fugitives, and many have perished, The famine extends to four provinces of Silesia,

Bread riots have occurred iu Ravena, GREYTOWN AND MASTERTON 48 ACRE RESERVE. To the Editor of the Wairarapa Daily. . Sir,—l have read the report of the meetings of the citizens of Greytown and Maslerton, in connection with this reserve, Messrs Carter and Jackson, according to the report, are favorable to the side of Greytown, and Mr Renall to the side of Mastertoii, It is quite evident from the statements put forward that there was but one Small Farm Association, and one common fund, and Hint Mr Allen was manager, and that from some cause prior to his death he declined or neglected to

account for/the to hand over the minuleß of the proceedings of the Association) therefore, <in r ,the absence of . documentary evidence, the stntemeiits :of Messrs Carter and Jackson -appear uri* supported/ ■ : ".' 'Mr Retjall, in his statement, gives the history of how the reserve was acquired, and that/ the moneys derived from the sale of/town acres in both townihips formed a joint fund, out of which the reserve in question was purchased, and in support of his statement he lays before the meeting an extract from the Crown Grant of the Reserve, under the hand of ■the Commissioner of Crown Lands, This important document is dated as follows ; Crown Grant No. 1624, Dec.6,1858, and is as follows;—To hold unto the said Charles Rooking Carter, in trust for the Small Farm Association in Greytown, in the Wairarapa District, to be disposed of in such manner, and for such purpossras the regulatings of the Small Farm Association may from time to time direct," Frai this I infer that at this early date it was not the intention of the Association to give this reserve lor the exclusive benefit of the township of Greytown, as that was the time to do it if it- had been purchased by the moneys of the Greytown people, After, the management was placed in the hands of Mr Carter, we find him zealously discharging the trust committed to him, for the benefit of both townships, and in some cases only requiring the small' sum of 2s 6d per annum per acre, which show what little value was then placed on town lands, When the seat of Government was re: moved to Wellington,,property advanced in value, and after a long term of years the Wairarapa Small Farm Association took action to utilise the reserves of both townships. Accordingly, on the 31st October, 1865, an influential meeting of the members met in Greytown, when a sub-committee was appointedto report on the reserves. At a subsequent meeting held in Masterton on the 16th November, of which Mr Renall was the chairman, it was, amongst other things, proposed by MrKempton, sen.; that the 48 acre re-' serve in Greytown be dealt with as follows :—Masterton to receive in cash half the value of the aforesaid reserve, or 24 acres in land in lieu thereof, and' that three trustees for each township be appointed to manage in future the business of the Association.

These particulars are taken from the minutes of the meeting in the handwriting of the Chitirm n. From 1865 to 1870, no action was taken by the Greytown Trustees or the people, to acquire the interest of the Masterton, people in the reserve of 48 acres, and which, at that early da'e, could be purchased at a nominal sum. Accordingly, in 1870 a bill was brought into the Provincial Council and General Assembly, and finally Battled by the Masterton and Greytown Management Act of 1871 During this series of years from 1858 to 1871 the people of Greytown appear to have been perfectly satisfied that the reserve was never their exclusive pi operty, until very recently an active spirit, who assumes he knows all about it, would furce the peaceable citizens to. believe contrary to facts. ■■■••-'.." For recreation purposes no doubt '.the reserve would be very desirable, but if this active spirit would go back t) 1875 lie will find that ample provision has been made in this respect for both townships, Masterton, however, having'to pay about £l2O for their reserve, and Greytown not a shilling,

Land in the vicinity of a rising township like Greytown is becoming very valuable, but in 1864, when it was at a nominal value, the Greytown Trustees in this particular have neglected their duty, us well H 8 having sold several uf their reserves, and for their folly they must suffer. I have, Ac, Old Settlek.