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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 878, 20 September 1881, Page 2

Thn Earl of Dalhousie, at a losi of i'l'2,ooo, lias remitted to his tonnnts 20 per cent, of thsir last year's rents.

Journalism at Montevideo in South America must be a pleasant kind of business,- Recont advices from there state that an angry- mob attacked one newspaper office with axes, broke up the type smashed all the furniture, and would have done likewise by the literary and typographical staff but that the latter escaped through the back door, They then proceeded to the next office .where ithey killed one printer and severely wounded several others. An edict has been issued forbidding the Press to touch on political subjects, and all the editors and reporters have bolted into the back-woods. v

A Fact Worth Knowing—lu these time of retrenchment and enforced economy, both public and private, it is consolatory to know that the " wind is generally tempered to the shorn lamb," and that th 're are few misfortunes without compensating advantages. With monej in less abundance its purchasing power is greater—a pound now > will go as far as thirty shillings in the era of prosperity. As a proof of this, tie readers vt this paragraph need only pay a visit to the large sale of surplus stock &t James Smith'*, Te Aro House, Wellington. A very full and elaborato catalogue of the many ; large reduo- v tions made in tho prices of gonoral drapery and clothing is enclosed with Satuday'i (July 2nd) issue, and merits a careful, perusal on the part, of all station-,. holders, hotelkeepers, heads of families, and country residents generally. Special. opportunities, like tho one at present under consideration, occur but seldom; and it is therefore of importance that the fullest ad/* vantage should be taken of it at the earliesw period. Te Aro' House has always stboC well with the /public an to the undoubted veracity of its advertised prices, and on doubt many country residents have a lively recollection of the satisfactory bargaius they secured in the past Equal, if.not .superior! advantages aro now being-.offered. Owing co the unprecedently low rates at whioh the goods are marked n i discounts can be allowed during the sale. As an additional attraction, tho sale will include a special presentation to each purchaser of £3 worth and upwards of a beautiful chromolithographic pioturo, mounted on the best white cardboard, size 24 inches by 18 inches. No time should; therefore be lost in paying a very early ; visit to the surplus stock, sale at James Smith's Te .Aro; House, Wei-