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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 584, 2 October 1880, Page 2

Tenders close to-day for drainage of road at Tupurupuru. There will be no services in St Patrick's Church, Masterton, to-morrow. It is rumored that the Government are about to make further reductions, not in the pay, but on the number of its Civil Servants. The first raid shook the service, but the second one is reported to be of a more serious nature, The half-yearly meeting of Wairarapa Jockey Club takes place this afternoon at the Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton, The annual Horse Parade under the auspices of the Pastoral Association takes place at the Show grounds, Carterton, from 2 to 4 o'clock this afternoon. A meeting of the Masterton Highway Board, takes place this morning at 10 o'clock, It will be seen by advertisement in another column, that a display of spring fashions in millinery and dress materials will be made by M. Caselberg & Co. this evening, We notice that bone dust manure is actually being imported from Australia, and is on sale in Wanganui. What a luxurious people we are—too aristocratic to deal in bone crushing we must needs export the raw material, pay double freight, and have it returned ready for use without soiling our hands, Would not bone mills pay in this country 1 A Sussex reporter thus writes of the porkers exhibited at a Portsmouth show: —The pigs were savage, and considering their supreme obesity and the umbrella proddings which disturbed their snoring slumbers, it cannot be wondered at that their, swinish tempers came to the front in grunts and groans of dissaffection, when their porkish equanimity was so ruthlessly disturbed. A well-known sergeant was prosecuting in a certain oase. Every now and again the judge addressed him' in the usual manner as "Brother." Tho case was a strong one; but the jury, to the surprise of all, found a verdict of "Not guilty," One of the jury subsequently explained the whole matter. He said that he considered tlie whole thing was a scandal. " There was the judge telling us to find a verdict of guilty because his brother was on that side ; and, as we could plainly see that it was a regular put up family affair, we determined to find the man uot guilty, and we did," • The Dunedinites are having a hot time of it just now, On Sunday evening last Madame Lottie Wilraott addressed an audience of from 300 to 400 people in the Queen's Theatre, the subject of her lecture being " Hell." On the same evening, the Rev O, J. Byng preached in St Matthew's Church, the subject of his discourse being "Satan." He announced that on next Sunday evening his discourse would be based upon " Hell." Verily, the very atmosphere of Dunedin must be tainted with sulphurous vapour,

At a pro-cathedral in the capital of one of the Australian colonies the congregation is larger on the celebration of a fashionable wedding than upon ordinary occasions of Sunday worship. On one day this month a nuptial ceremony was" to take place. The bells rang out—seats and aisles were crowded—choir and organist in great force. All went, as usual, pleasantly, until in the middle of the service the parson, whose head was level, announced, "A collection will now be made!" He made that congregation look funereal in five seconds.—Australasian,

People in the Old Country do not believe in infant prodigies, at least they will not allow their parents to train them for the sensationalists. Not long ago a member of a bicyclist troupe appearing at the Crystal Palace and Aquarium at Tyneraouth was summoned for causing his daughter, four years old, to take part in a bicycle entertainment, which was dangerous to both her life and limbs. The evidence showed that defendant rode a bicycle with another man sitting on his shoulders, and the child upon the man's shoulders. Defendant was fined 40s and costs.

With such an example set to our farmers, rye should} advise them to sow Danish oats without delay. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company on their Edendale Estate (near Mataura Bridge), Otago, have grown this season several hundred acres of Danish oats. They are now thrashing out for shipment to the Home country. The Mataura Ensign is informed that a sample of these oats was weighed last week, when a bushel measurement weighed 51|lb. The ordinary four bushel bags weighed 5| bushels and upwards, thus proving the adaptability of our soil for the growth of this class of cereal

Mr Shute, of Kuripuni, showed us today a.letter from the Publio Works Office dated the 29th of September, roplying to a communication addressed by tim to it on the 13th March. We expressed our surprise that a Government department should take six and a half months to answer .a letter, when he informed us that the reply to another memorial forwarded prior to the 13th March re. the Kuripuni platform station -was still outstanding.

Insurance companies, like some few other business folk, have met the times by a reduction in charges, and no excuse should now be made for non-inßurance, Hard times should not be pleaded, as property owners would feel them much harder if they suffered a loss by fire. The butchers and bakers in Featheraton, Greytown, and-Masterton,, should ..follow, |j^|MH|j|j^necessarielof'life,on,

: : WaihuipVu ' : pbbirau&B; : : meet thisafternoon.:.•; ; . : ; £•• i ■ M, Caselberg & Co; announce in another column, that the,great'olearing;sale of IV; W. Hales'stock commences bn'i Saturday, when close. upon£Cooo worth of goods will be offered, ■;', We would again remind our Greytown readers of the'" bee" to be held on the Park Reserve on Monday..; understand Mr Skeet has kindly undertaken the direction of affaire, so that systematic work may.be carried out, We Have on several occasions referred to the excellent reports of the progress of the Kaiwaiwai school. ' For the. last eighteen months it has been under the charge of Mr E, Samuel; the applicant selected by the Education Board for the head-mastership of the Carterton school. Mr Samuel was. at one time connected for a short period with this office, and we can bear testimony to his. being both a scholar and a gentleman. The Inspector's reports prove him to be a teacher, and should the local committee at Carterton endorse the action of the Board, the school will have the benefit of being officered by one of the ablest masters in the education district. Speaking of Chicago, a correspondent of the Otago Witness says :—Among the sights of the city are enormous'" elevators," for unloading railway cars of grain and loading ships, It is a wonderful process, but would require too much space to describe, The on I visited contained more than a million bushels of grain, and had loaded a ship that week with 80,000 bushels in an hour and a half, without either sacks or handling. The grain is borne up on revolving straps to the top of a building seven or eight storeys high, It is there deposited in enormous bins, in which it is also weighed, and : from this it falls down long shoots, into the hold of the ship which waits to be loaded. Thenco it is borne across Lake Michigan, on its way to the markets of the world, © . ; AUCTION SALES- THIS DAY. J. louns & Co.—At their rooms, a large quantity of furniture (including a splendid piano by Chappell), without reserve, F. H, Wood & 00.-2 p.m., at their rooms, Greytown, furniture and general merchandise.