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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 402, 1 March 1880, Page 2

We direct attention to Messrs Kirkcaldie & Stains' announcement appearing in our advertising columns. Applications are invited for the office of Secretary to the Pastoral Society. Tenders close mi Wednesday for the work required by the Masterton Highway Board at Kaumingi. A preliminary advertisement from Mr Q: W. Dutton, of Wellington, appears in another column. Notice is given that sheep on the run at Huangarua, owned by Messrs Wall Brothers, are infected with scab. lorns & Fergusson announce on sale at their rooms, bran, pollard, seconds, &c. The Masterton Volunteer Brass Band treated the public of Masterton to some spirited selections of music on Saturday evening, and enlivened the town considerably. We call attention to a notice of Messrs M. Uaselberg&Oo,, respecting the buying of grain. We loavn from Mr J. Vile that the oats he sent to the Sydney Exhibition, and for which he obtained a prize, wore grown by Mr Rayner, of Taratahi. Messrs lorns & Fergusson are instructed to sell on the 13th inst,, under bill of sale, the household furniture, farming implements, stock, Ac, of Mr Wm Hester, Opaki. The same firm announces for Saturday next a sale of furniture at their own rooms; also, an unreserved sale of fruit trees, shrubs, and pot plants, To-day Mr G. Beetham, M.H.R., proceeds to Castle Point and Tenui, with a view of obtaining information necessary to the expenditure of the £2OOO on tho Castle Point road. The main difficulty is a scarcity of metal, but it is hopsd that it is not altogether an insuperable one. lorns & Fergusson's sales were well attended on Saturday last. At 12 o'clock the firm sold a lot of draught horses and saddle hacks, draughts bringing from £l9 to £24 each, and saddle horses from £2 to £5, with very little demand for either. At 2 o'clock they commenced a large catalogue of Mr Farmer's furniture, and managed to dispose of a great quantity at very satisfactory prices. The furniture being of good quality, and unreserved, the attendance and bidding was very encouraging. ! Tenders are invited for the fencing contract of the Grey town Branch line,° The department, we believe, expect to run trains to Masterton on or about the 15th June, It has been reported in this district, and in Wellington, that the work on the Hurunuiorangi Bridge has been suspended. We have been glad to learn from enquiries at head-quarters that tho works are in progress, and are likely to continue so till completed. In the allotment recently made for road works in County West, Alfredton was left out in the cold. We understand that, Messrs Beetham and Pharazyn waited upon the Government to point out the injustice done to this deserving .district, and had the satisfaction of obtaining a grant of £4BO, which it is estimated will give the settlers there the road communication they desire. she Government, we understand, have -arranged to engage some of the unemployed men in constructing the section of the railway between Masterton and Mauriceville At the same time any of the unemployed men in the neighborhood of the works will be taken on at the same rate of wages, so that no objection car) be reasonably urged against the imnortation of Wellington labor. We believe that the rate of wages will be a low one, but under the circumstances the Government would not bp ; justified in paying too high for the work;! Wedonot hesitate to eay that'tfie arrangement will benefit' ''Wellington, Masterton, and'the Wairarapa. : . •

Mr A.: M. Park, ..who ha'srhad clnrge of the Weatporfc .'telegraph station for some time past, has been transferred to Masterton,- ] •; ; The Times says there isno truth in the rumor'that the.'- Governor is in partnership with the Hon W.-Robinson in horseracing matters. '■■■'■£"first"meeting" "of 'creditors' in the estate of Joseph. Baigent, of Woodside, storekeeper, was held at the Supreme 'Courthouse, at noon on Friday. The - assets, consisting of a section of land, two horses, and book debts, are set down at £l5B 13s lOd, and the liabilities at 1'£147 18s 7i Mr S. Haigh was elected [trustee. Mr King, the County Engineer, proj ceeds this week to inspect the Mangatainoke River, across which a bridge is to be emistrunted-at an estimated cost of £I2OO. This is the stream where the natives have so long harassed- travellers, and the spanning of it will remove the principal obstacle to rapid 'communication betweou | Masterton and.Palmerston. An adjourned meeting of creditors of William Hester, of Opaki, farmer, was* held-on Friday at the Supreme Court House. Mr J. W, Stevenson occupied the chair. The liabilities in the estate amount to. £125016s 5d,. and the assets, nominal, at £l9lß' ss, consisting principally of freehold and leasehold property, and standing crop. MrF. W. Hales, of Masterton, wa3 appointed trustee. During the last three months, upwards of thirty thousand pounds have been subscribed to sweeps on the various race meetings throughout the Colony. About: one-half of this sum would be remitted to the Bweep-holderß by means of moneyorders, representing a revenue to the postal department of nearly £3OO, in addition to which a large'number of remittances would be made by wire, augmenting the revenue by a further sum of about £IOO. At the end of October last, in the city of New York, a sale of nearly a hundred trotting horses took place. So attractive was the sale that several thousand persons attended, breeders being present from nearly every State in the Union. The" horses had been bred by a New York publisher (Mr Bonner). This enthusiastic gentleman has a stud farm some miles from New York, when he breeds these kind of animals for pleasure, never, itwould appear, allowing them to go on a racecourse, Tho stock offered were all first-class, but they did not bring the price anticipated—the highest for a horse being 4000 dollars, and the lowest 140 dollars, They were all knocked down at prices ranging from 200 dollars to 300 dollars. The sub-committee of the late Ram Fair held a meeting at the Secretary's office, Carterton, on the' 26th. inst, Present: Messrs Buchanan (Chairman), W. Booth, Burton Boys, H, Rraithwaite, and J. Drummond. The object of the meeting was to take into consideration Mr W. McKeever's application to be allowed to introduce Mr J. O. Boy's rams on the ground. Alter a short discussion Mr Booth proposed, and Mr Burton Boys seconded' the following resolution : -" The Committee regret that they are unable to entertain Mr McKeever's application, owing to the sheep not being entered with the Secretary." Carried. The Secretary was instructed to give the necessary notice, and at the same a time write to Mr Boys, ,of Rangiora,' Canterbury, on the subject, and to point out to that gentleman the reason for refusing the application, as shown in Rule 3 of the regulations. A society has been the formed in New York uuder the title of the American Agricultural Association.. At the opening meeting a remarkable address was de°livered by Professor' A, R. Lednur, of North Carolina, on the "Quality of American Seeds." He expressed, great confidence in the honesty of American seedsman, but admitting that they frequently sold impure seed, because they imported largely from European countries. Of European seeds,-he said " The average per cent, of pure seeds in commercial samples was 59. Of these 59 per cent, of seeds which were really what they were represented to be, only 18 per- cent, were capable of germination. One sample of grass seed'contained the seeds of fortylive other plants. Another contained 95 per cent, dead seed. Old seed is renovated by boiling, dyeing, roasting; weed seeds ware stained and used to adulterate lots of expensive seeds. English seedsmen sold in 1869 over ten tons of poor turnip seed disguised so as to represent a valuable article. In Bohemia and elsewhere large factories were running for the manufacture of seeds from quartz grains, which were coloured to order, and largely sulci at 50 dols a ton." Samples of these seeds were exhibited to the society, and few were able to distinguish between one sample of clover seeds which wasadulterated twentyfive per cent, with these stones, and a pure article. In Austria women and children are regularly employed to gather weed seeds of all kinds from the roadsides and hedges, which are exported to England, where they are sorted and sold, It would be interesting to learn whether much of this precious stuff reaches the colonies, and especially New Zealand. A telegram dated Tauranga, Friday last, says that J. 0. Young, late Government Land Purchase Agent, of that district, was arrested yesterday on three informations for feloniously stealing money entrusted to him in his capacity as Land Purchase Agent, the amounts being £sl, £7, and £lO, Bail was accepted, himself in £IOOO, and two sureties of £SOO each. A telegram from Dunedin on Saturday Baya that in Abraham's sweep, the first money goes to Telford, of Alexandra; second, to a workman at Port Chalmers • third, to Paterson, of the Octagon Hotel. In Dodson's sweep, the first prize went to Vallance; second, to three work girls in alocal factory; third, to Timaru. In the Press Consultation, H. Lyon gets first prize; Grant & Co., of the steamer Wellington,' second ; a resident of Napier, third, In Cameron's Consultation, the first prize goes to Clutha; second, to ft; Spooner, of Dunedin; third, to Capt. Palmer, of Nelson, The New Zealand Time 3 of Saturday last, writes:—The men engaged by Colonel Reader out of the ranks of the unemployed were sent away yesterday to the Waimate district, where they will be at once set to work. We are informed that the Government have authorised the employment of more men on the same terms and will send them to the Wairarapa district where employment will be found for them on a short section of the railway to Masterton; It is not intended that this work shall be considered as permanent, nor will the men be bound'tp continue in the employ of the' Government for any ; specific time.. The object is to give the unemployed means to leave town and get work, which willat least give them means; of subsistence,' until something tietter offers'.'' It is anticipated that the county, authorities and contractors' will be able to offer many of the men better termsiii'the; course of a little time.

We are glad to notice that a meeting of the Masterton Football Club is convened for Wednesday evening: next, at the' Empire Hotel,; ,; '. "'•