Untitled

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 678, 28 January 1881, Page 2

Mr John Barton has resigned his appointment as assistant surveyor to the Wellington Borough Council, We call attention to the list of properties advertised in connection with Messrs F. Q. Wood & Co.'s general aale to-mopw.

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers parade tltoaming. . Messrs J. lorna & Ob. hold a Btock sale at their yards to-morrow afternoon.. An amalgamated Good Templar fdte is arranged to take place at Carterton on Saint Patrick's Day; Tenders are invited by Mr James Russell, architect, for the erection of a dwelling house in Queen. Street. , ..Mr. W. .Stiiari Forbes ■■■advertiser that j intending purchasers in the Pahiatua ! block can purchase some scrip from him at a liberal discount. The Rev J. C. Andrew arrived in Masterton from Napier yesterday, and pro- 1 ceeded the same day to his station at Whareama. Notice of the sittings of the various Assessment Courts for the local, bodies in the Wairarapa is given in another column The stewards of the Wairarapa Jockey "Club meet on Saturday afternoon at 1.30 p.m., at Quill's Hotel, Grey town. Mr G. Russell notifies that the new and commodious eight-roomed house adjoining the parsonSge, in Church-street, is to let ur for sale, The Carterton Rabbit Trustees notify that the rate roll is open for inspection, and that they intend to levy a rate of onehalfpenny per acre from 40 acres upwards. A correspondent, through our columns, asked the other day, " what is the best wood for smoking hams and bacon?" We are informed that the wood of the juniper tree is considered the best. Honi Tupea, the last remaining of the old generation of chiefs, died atTauranga on the 25th inst., honored and respected by all who knew him. There are great lamentations among the natives. Tenders are invited by Mr W. M. Easthope for purchase of a four-roomed cotand quarter acre of land, situated in Hopest., Mast erton. Tenders close at noon on February 3rd. On the sth, 7th, and Bth of February many of our Wairarapa cricketers will be attracted to the Basin Reserve at Wellington to witness the match of the Australian Eleven versus twenty-two of Wellington, advertised for' these dates in another column.

The Education Board, to meet an anticipated deficiency of £BOO, will reduce teachers salaries and the cap! tation grant pro rata, after March next. Mr Lee's suggestion that the reduction should only apply to the capitation grant, was hardly a fair one.

His Excellency will, we trust, when he crosses the Manawatu next week, be bailed up in his buggy by the native bushrangers who earn an easy living by the infliction of illegal toll. Should this be done the Government will no longer be able to wink at this particular black mail. Messrs F. H. Wood & Co. have been instructed by Mr B, Kimberly to sell at the Rising Sun Hotel yards, Greytown, on the day following the Tauherenikau races, a number of well-bred and favorably known horses. A list of them will be found in our advertising columns.

Colonel Reader returned from Tenui yesterday morning, and proceeded the same afternoon to Wellington, We trust hla mission was not to reduce by one .half the solitary portable stationed .in the wilds of the Whai'eama, Still the present Ministry are capable nf anything. With them a penny saved is ppsitive enjoy? meat! A policeman saved ecstatio blisa! A first meeting of the creditors of William Hart, laborer, Carterton, was convened at Wellington, on Wednesday last, but no one attended. The debts are £53, and assets £25. . A meeting called to consider tjie discharge of Elias Cohen, and the adjourned first meeting of H. 0, Steffert also lapsed, no one attended.

Laery and Campbell, of Wellington, report selling Sydney and Melbourne apples 5s 6s; Nelson pears, 93 per halfcase ; plums, 93 6d to 8s; greengages, 8s 6d; cucumbers, Is to Is 4d; onions, 6s 6d; eggs, Is Id, still with a downward tendency; chichwheat, 3s to 3s 4d; oatß, 2sto2s3d ; maize, 3s for sound; N.Z. pollard. L 5 to L 5 6s; bran. 7d; no fresh butter; cheese, to 6d; no N.Z, apples were sold.

Samples of three summer driqks, " Ginger ale," "Zetecine," and "Belle eau," have been left at this office for inspection, and duly tested, It is not without hesitation that we express an opinion on each delicate beverages as Good Templar's drinks, but the samples before are evidently cool and palatable summer tipples. They'nre manufactured by G. A. Strike & Co,, of Wellington, who are represented in this district by Messrs Vile and D'Arcy, To those people, old and young, who have been in habit of visiting the Tauherenikau races on horseback, it will be Ifelcojpepews that the inside of the cquree wili be open to them to ride abpufc on, as in the yaara gone by. The stewards in making this concession wish it to be distinctly understood that any persons found racing on the course, or interfering with the starter, will be instantly removed under the care of a constable. It wa3 these impromptu flutters by senseless equestrians that caused their being shut out last year, and we trust the good sense of the majority will prevail against any apt that will cause the stewards to regret retracing their steps. It is hoped that before next season eomos round, the course will be securely enclosed with a ring fence, and then, starters and racers alike will be absolutely free from interruption. •

Intending purchasers ace reminded that the privileges of the Wairarapa Jockey Club for their annual meeting, will be sold by public auotion at Wood's rooms, Greytown, at 3 p,m. tomorrow, Saturday 29th, The rights to be disposed of include the Grand Stand bar and Luncheon rooms, 2 Publican's booths, 2 refreshment booths, fruit stall, fancy stall, qards, horse yards, games, except the totaliaator. 1 Fruit stall inside the grand stand enclosure, and the gates, As is now generally known, the stewards have been endeavoring by alterations and improvements to make Tauherenikau rank with the first gathering jn the colony, especially so far as the appointments for carrying on two days business is concerned.' The removal of the bar underneath the stand, and the room oonverted into a shady lounge, with the increased size of the lawn will itself do much to popularise their meeting. The lawn will now be \ylmt it was' always intended for, instead of a rendevous for bookmakers, and in fact anyone who eould rise the price of an admission ticket. There will be a partition between the grand stand bar, and that set apart for saddling paddock patrons, and the fruit stand inside the enclosure will be in the corner at the rear of the stand, therefore grandstand occupants will not have to leave the enclosure for any fruit. With the large number of horses now training, good entries may be expected, and we also remind owners that entries and nominations dose at Quin's Hotel, Greytown, on Saturday evening, at 8 p.m., and that no entries will be received after that time under any pretence whatever, The terms of payment for the privileges will be found in our advertising columns, to which we refer intending speculators.

It is announced that General Guntz, who was fovmely Governor of Odessa is about to replace the Governor-General of Kazan, who will shortly be put on his trial tor forcibly attempting to convert 700,000 Tartara to the orthodox faith. Flogging seems to have been extensively used as the means of persuasion; and bells were hung by his orders in the minarets.

'During the hunting enjoyed by the Emperor William and his court recently at LetziiigßnTtliflrfl were Tewerih'an v 85iug deer of ail kinds and wild boar ; To this total His Majesty himself contributed 118 head, and the Grand Duke Vladimir eighty-eight, and others making a score in delicate proportion to their rank, as deftly pre-arranged by: the royal forester-in-chief. ' What would Nimrod have said to this kind of hunting, The Dunedin Herald is informed by Mr Siegfried Franck, the patentee of; the totalisator in New, Zealand, that he intends commencing actions against all persons in the colony who have constructed, used, or sanctioned the use of instruments which infringe his patent—and all totalisators at present in use in the colony, he affirms, belong to that class. Mr Franck will begin with some'of the clubs,

A New York telegram to the San' Francisco Post says .—"Three weeks ago Mrs Mary Mayer, of 462, First Street, Jersey City, died of typhoid fever, and was buried. The body appeared lifelike, and the cheeks after death were highly coloured. This preyed on the mind uf a daughter of the deceased to such a degree that she caused the remains to be exhumed, It was then discovered that the woman had turned on.her face in the coffin, and that in her struggles she had torn one ear almost off." We would remind our readers that the share list of the Hutt Industrial Company will close on Monday next. We understand that shares have been taken up very readily at the Hutt and in Wellington, and that a sufficient number have already been applied for to float the Company. Operations will be commenced about the middle of next month, and the promoters are sanguine of success. Intending shareholders should lose no time in sending in their applications, as the more shares taken up'the larger will be the operations of the Company, and therefore the more extended its usefulness, We refer our readers to the prospectus, which will be found ia another column, for particulars. In the Victorian assembly Mr A. T. Clark disclosed the name of the agricultural machinery firm which is alleged to havesystematioally defrauded the Oustoms Department for years past, It is (sayß the Argus) that of Messrs Wm, Shuttleworth and Co,, the local representatives of the well known English firm of Clayton, Shuttleworth and Co. Mr Olark reduced the amount of the fine which he had imposed from £l2ooto£looo, and this was at once paid. The firm are accused of having for four years systematically undervalued the machinery imported by them, and to have omitted from their invoices a number of dutiable goods which they received, such as wheels, reversing gear, and other portions of engines, The los 3 to the revenue must have beem very considerable. The amount of the fine was determined upon the value ofthe machinery in the bonded store belonging" to the firm, it being alleged thatall the machinery in this store had been entered at under value. The fraud was discovered a few weeks ago, when an engine was removed from bond and sent up to Echuca, On this one engine it is estimated that the revenue had been defrauded of £lB3 Is. 9d,

Eatti whose power of coining gold is almost illimitable, is in want-of-money! She has.spent her earnings right royally ? her estate in Wales costing alone something like £40,000. To make good the inroad in her fortune she intends to take a lengthened tour in America, and as we were recently informed qn the authority of an American physioian thrfc hpr voice will last nearly twenty years, there is little doubt of her succeeding. But the most curious part of the affair ie that, without setting foot in- -America, her tour has already cost her 350,000 franco She made an engagement with her brother-in-law, M, Stakosch, to commence her tour at the beginning of the year. With the fickleness of prima donnas instead of fulfilling her engagement, she whisked off to Wiesbaden, and thereby forfeited her 250,000 francs, a penalty which M. Strakosch did not allows his brotherly feelings to remit. Then came a little tiff about Jtfioolinj, with the result that she broke entirely with her brother-, in-law, and had to pay 100,000 francs more—the sum stipulated by M. Strokosch'should.she sing fur any other impresario but himself. All this must make the tour more than ever necessary Strangers paying a visit to and upcountry settlers arriving in Masterton are often at a loss to know which is the cheapest and best house to purchase all kinds of General Drapery, Millinery, Clothing, &c. Schroder, Hooper & Co., Hall of Commerce, offer special advantages in this line which caunot be met with elaewiiepißj their stock being the largest and best assorted iif the Wairarapa. Their prices are lower then any house in -Wellington, their goods are all new and of the most durable class, and they sell cheap and for cash. This establishment is' situated directly opposite the Club Hotel. Remember the addressSchroder, Hooper & Co,, directly opposite the Club Hotel. Road their advertisement on the front page of this paper,— Advt).