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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 543, 16 August 1880, Page 2

Th» R,M. Oourtsits'Jio-day at Featheribn. '....':■,' -Jlendepi cloie to-day fo'rthe erection of a Catholic Church at Greytown. ' : The new electoral roll is now being printed at the Waieabapa Dailt office." Tenders are invited up to 28th inst., for felling 25 acres of sorub and flax at Bideford, The Rev Mr Bruce will, we understand,, preach at the Presbyterian Church at Maßterton on Sunday next. , Sohroder,.Hooper, & Co,, Hall of Oom : merce, announce a clearing sale of-winter drapery,.clothing, &0.,. prior to taking' atoolt. Further particulars can be seen in the advertisement. .'. The Masterton Borough Council 'meets to-morrow evening, when tenders will be opened for the maintenance of certain streets within the B&rough foe a term of three years. A public meeting will be heldat Mr Tinsley s residence, Kuripuni, to-marrow evening, for thY'purpo'je'of taking preliminary steps to fo'rin a Good Templars' Lodge in that 1 pari of the district. . It will be seen,on reference to an advertisement in another column that Messrs I. A. Gardener & Son, storekeepers, Carterton, finding their present premises not, sufficient for their increasing business, are about to open the premises occupied by. Mr G. Oolville, immediately* Mr Oolville removes to his new building, as a'branch store. v ; Mr R. S. Abraham, (whom many of our readers will remember in the Bank of New Zealand in; this town), who for a short period was 1 in charge of tho Sandoß branch of the Bank of New Zealand, and subsequently atelier in the Wanganui office, has-been appointed to the bull's agency, where he succeeds Mr Hanna, AMelbourhe telegram dated 2nd 'inst' states thafc, Edward Kelly was conveyedby special' train to Beechworth on Monday,! the. Crown Law Officer having stated that. the..preliminary-- exami-' nation, : raust take place where""the crime was committed. The' intention to. take Kelly -to . Beechworth" -was" keptqmte secret, 'ah'd"' there' was no excitement whatever in ; Melbourne. Ned, however, endeavored to attract' attention at the railway station, but failed, asno one reeognisedhim, fie conversed freely with the officers en route' and when Sergeant Steele said his gang were not suoh good shots as they thought themselves, he (Ned) wanted to fight him. About a hundred persons waited for the train at Beechworth, but no disturbance ensued, We are glad to see. that Mr Brandon, tho enterprising prospector, has done the right thing at last with his reef. It has beenobvious for a considerable time that to work it so that it would be' a comraeroial.success required a large/capital. Now in the neighborhood of the reef this capital.was not available, nor did the community, understand why, if gold was there! it, should not jump but of the stone and find its way to market without any special effort on its 'part; '"'Mr Brandon therefore went down south to Dunedin, where mining is understoodjandgot gen- -' tjemen there who not only possess capital I but also experience to; back; his under-1 taking. .;The;reßUlt;has been the forma-' tion of the "'Caledonian Goldimirting Co.;' capital JniOjOOO shares of 6s each.'! ''.Oopiea if the. prospectus of the Companycanbe.obtained; at;this office;"' There is now, we. consider, a .very fair' chanceof ; a payable goldfwld;being■ estab-' lished;in : to woman, and child; in:the. : districti take,* 1 , share in. the •concern. '■' Not only, < because, it'is their interest to ment which'is calculated benefit 1 ■theatitricfc,;^ in the under-

~..,.inere;wasjaismart:shobk'of .earthquake .this morning, about aTqiiiirter past nine. A-man named John prior was arrested on Saturday'last at Carterton by Oonstable Fleming, ou the' oharge of Betting fire to Mr Vile'a' hay ataok. The, .football. ;matclies, A arranged. for, Saturday-were "poitponed["on" account of |he slushy state of the ground. The uiual monthiy.meeting.of the.Wairarapa Institute" will' be held 'lb-morrow' evening, when the election of a Chairman; for the : enauing year will be.made: " ■ ['A'terrific raid is to be made upon owners ..of unregistered canines in the Greytown Borough without further notice. We notice a raid is.being made by poison, without, respect to registration. Persons who set any value, upon their dogs should see their Neighbors are not annoyed. . This being the lambing season owners must protect themselves. • .On Saturday evening la»V ; the firebell rang, and there was a smart turn out of the Masterton Brigade. A chimney at the' Alexandra Boarding; House ( was alight, but..the flame .was -speedily extinguished. The immediate cause of the fire in the chimney was a piece of totara in the fireplace. Totsra is always a very dangerous wood to use as fuel. . ~.„; < A Mr: Shemn,, ajournalist, has been sued at Wellington for £l3 for horse-hire. During the case it transpired that the defendant was travelling for the late Government to report the state of affairs' I at Parihaka, : It is a matter of regret that the late Government should have ployed a publio journalist on such service, or that a public journalist should accept such employment. " We'remind' our Greytown friends of the meeting of the Debating. Society this evening at the Temperance Hall. The subject chosen is <' Woman Suffrage," and; as it is an interesting one, we hope mem-' beri -with, their friends will give' 'the. Society all the encouragement due to it. i MrH,A. Cowper, (the President of the' Society),..will lead the debate in the interests, of, the ladies, and as we have before intimated " each member may introduce a friend," ..The'ladies. should be well represented,,'.; We regret io. record that there is a warrant out for the apprehension of Mr Johnson,,the assistant clerk of the R. M. Court, who for the past year has been in oharge of. the Masterton office. The oharge against him is for the embezzlement of some £3O of court moneys.. Mr. is'supposed to be evading arrest, but it is almost certain that within a short time he will be : discovered, as he is known to be in : the distriot, and it is all tut-impossible for him to get away from it undetected. . We recorded last-week a mishap to the Mangatainokepurit, andhavenow to report a seoond one. The rope whichTgave way was not replaced with sufficient .promptitude and, as might be expected, the old one gave way again, and this time the punt, was washediown the river., It ■■will take'all Ring's horses and all King's men to get. the Mangatainoke punt up again. ; We are sorry to say that fresh cases, of scarlet-fever - have been discovered at Masterton, Mr Jago's children being the sufferers this time. The Publio School Committee should take steps to ascertain whether there is any danger of the disease spreading threugh children congregating at school. The Borough. Council, too,; should by. special instructions' to its Inspector .abate many, nuisances whioh exist in the heart of,the town, and whioh areliktlj.to intensify the disease. ■ The libel action, Lottie Willmott v. the publishers,of,the Town .and Country. Jourrnal has been heard, in the Supreme Court,' at Sydney. The alleged libel was to the effect-that Lottie Willmott and Ohiniquy went.shares in the "spoils".of their lectures. A verdict was ■ returned for the plaintiff for £l5O. ■ •It should he generally known,' (says an Exchange), that .the Gilchrist Scholarship, for which the first examination is to .beheld in New Zealand almost imme- • =diat«ly, is £IOO a year, tenable for three years at the London or Edinburgh University.' We'sincerely hope that New Zealand willv-furnish a. goodly array of candidates.