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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 561, 6 September 1880, Page 2

Mr Crombie of the Property Tax Department is now in Masterton. _ Mr L, Smith, surveyor, is now engaged in making a standard survey of the Borough of Masterton, A public meeting will be held at Carterton to-morrow evening to organise a fire brigade. We understand that the Public Works Department will construct a goods Bhed as well as a passenger atation at Taratahi. Miss Edith Feist, of Masterton has been appointed assistant teacher to the Olareville School, There was a moderate attendance at the Volunteer Church parade yesterday. The Band in particular turned out well, The usual monthly inspection parade of theGreytown Volunteers takes place tomorrow evening.

The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society, will be held this afternoon,

Railway employees down South, are presenting testimonials of £IOO purses to each other. Times are very bad with them!

The half-yearly meeting of the Masterton and Opaki Jockey Club, will be held at the Club Hotel on Tuesday evening next.

We call attention to a sale of agricultural machinery, implements, stock, &c, which Messrs J. lorns & Co announce for Saturday next. The "Fifteen Gem Puzzle" has at las* been put to a satisfactory use. The gaoler at Lyttelton has given it to the Maori prisoners. They are quiet.

Mr Cowper is to take the Greytown Debating Society by storm on Thursday next with a lecture on earthquakes and hurricanes in the West Indies.

At a stock sale held at Turakina (Rangitikei) last week sheep sold well, in some cases as high as 12a 3d. Beef was in good demand, but in limited supply.

_ Mr R, Carrick, formerly of Masterton, is in the Wairarapa for a holiday. He ia, we understand, about to serve under the Hon Mr Whitaker during the recess as a shorthand writer and secretary. The Masterton Highway Board met on Saturday last. Our report will appear in our next issue. The Board invites tenders for leasing the Masterton and Upper Taueru toll-gate, and the Hurunuiorangi

We observed two curiosities in a Btnall way in Masterton last week,, The one is a very beautiful and bright looking flew Zealand lizard, which is disporting" itself in a glass jar in the Bhop of Mr Mason, and which is worthy of a visit of inspection. The other attraction was a monster eel, 361bs in weight, which we noticed at 'the establishment of Mr Jones, fruiterer and fishmonger.

Croskery, Hasell, & Co,, Wellington, report sales last week at their rooms : Flour; sacks, Lll to Lll 10s; lOOlbs, Lll 15s, 50's, Lll 17s 6d ; oatmeal,lis; pollard, ss; potatoes, blue Derwents, L2 10s, white kidney, early seed, 6s; fowl's wheat, 33 to 3s 6d; maize, 3s 6d; oats, 2s to 2s 3d;'barley,' 3s 6d; bran, 8d: onions, 8s; cheese, Bd to 6d ; hams and bacon, Canterbury, lid; salt butter unsaleable; fresh butter 9d; eggs, lOd to Is; fowls, 4s Gd per 'pair; ducks, 5s per pair. Consignment of oaten chaff sold readily at 4s lOd to ss. An unique exhibit of kauri gum is to be sent from Auckland to the Melbourne Exhibition. It is a rocky pyramid formed of 27 different classes of kauri gum, from the transparent varieties, suitable for manufacture into ornaments, down to those of a dark coloured character and perfectly opaque. The base of the pyramid is made chiefly of bush gum, and all the pieces are cemented together! On the top of the pyramid will be constructed a model of Eddys, tone Light, of the finest pieces of kauri gum procurable. The exhibit is placed on a handsome stand of mottled kauri.

Travellers beware. It is just as well that people should be made aware of the various risks they run when abroad, even in daylight. Sometimes we have to warn them of -a dangerous hole in some neglected bridge; at others it is some furious rider or driver that claims our attention, but this time we are sorry to say it is only another type of the genus thief that calls forth the protection a local paragraph can give his victims. For a long time it has been generally admitted that the finding of portable articles, usually thought safe in a backyard, is only to be relied on if placed safely under lock and key. That Is now a truism. But that a traveller should have his parcel cut from - off the saddle during a temporary adjournment for refreshment in broad day light .is only too plainly indicative of the individual yrith whom we are surrounded, and of the inadequacy of the punishment as a deterrent that has of late been meted out to these impudent thieves. The case we allude to occurred at Carterton only a few 4ays since, and should the constable be finding the thief,:no mistaken' leniency should affect his whereabouts for a fe,ff months. .':.:.'.'.■■';.• i ■:?;• :■.■■.: : :'.,.,-.-/ '■'.;■'. •„ ■'.-■