% fnipp fitiig. THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1895, 22 January 1885, Page 2

% f nipp fitiig. THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1885.

The Eeatherston School picnic has been postponed. Two tons of cheese left the' Greytown Factory for Wellington yesterday, ;•'<

The poultry of Mr Ordish, of Matarawa, are the last victims of the ferret. The Featherston Rifle Volunteers held their first drill practice in the Oddfellows' Hall'on Monday evening. Uniforms for the new corps are ordered. A bankrupt at Gisbome has dono rather a mean thing L he has paid twenty shillings in the pound! The next out-going San Francisco mail closes at Masterton on Saturday the 31st instant.

The Greytown Hoßpital advortises for a married couple as Custodian and' Matron, Salary £IOO per annum and found,

The funeral of. the late Mr Edwin Meredith jun,, took place yesterday afternoon, the service being conducted by the Rev. W. E. Paige, There was a large following of relatives and friends.

.Prince George of Wales was a popular and smart middie on board both the Bacchante and Canada, and he is now says the World, proving himself an apt student at the Royal Naval College, where he enjoys no special privileges over other sub-lieutenants, and by frank, genial wayß is quite a favourite. He took a firstclass certificate for seamanship, and is rapidly qualifying himself for appointment to one of the vessels of the Mediterranean fleet,

Rapp & Hare are instructed to sell at mill prices the following goods: Mosgiel Clothing and Hosiery, Kaipoi Clothing, Auckland Clothing, and Wellington Clothing. We intend to clear' our large Btock at immense reduction, and-offer a lonus of 2s in the £ cash to all purchasers tothe value of £l. Pont forget the. address,— Advt ~..i

Hepron's German Worm Oakes aiui ••Fitzgerald's Koromiko Extract are Patentod, —Advt.

Wtf regret to record the death of the daughter of Mi' George Beotham. The Treasurer, of the Mastorton Hpapital acknowledges the receipt of 'a station' %of £6-12? from R/W. iales,' ; of 'l'JatjPoint.i-". ' JV""- :

'.The Salvatioix:Brass.Baiid.;lieade.d A. procession of tli6 >Artny tluouglf Queefiv • ■•street this morning on their way, .to the Halleluj ah picnic iyhich'.is iield at Mr R. . • tke : ■ ;■ John'.eiairfotd,; whose name :ks/-figu'r(s r "bo prominently/ recently- in tile•' Wellirt'g- - -ton* RdVE" is 1 in ' 110 way-ixmneeted-Crawford of Featlierston'/

The Mast'erton Fire Brigade team started by .the early train this morning on. their triptp Dunedin, after a few .hours unexpected practice at a foe in Queen-st. A notice appears in another column' to persons wishing to jsin in forming a new' Special Settlement in the Pukefcoi-Tirau-mea district.

A dissolution of partnership of the wellknown firm of Messrs Rapp & Hare is announced in our advertising columns,

■ Mr Mackay is holding a successful picnic on his grounds at Kuripuni to-day.

Mr Robert Hare lias forward.ed.two guineas to the Masterton Fire Brigade'as a token of admiration of their successful efforts to save property, last night. .''• ; The English people now consume the' 'incredible quantity of 1,083;000 tons ofsugar a year, equal to 1801b a house, for which the country pays £20,000'000, or about half- the sum'spent annually,'at present price's, upon bread', go far from the business of sugar-refining having declined, the number of refiners has risen since 1851 from 2,820=t0 4,484, and the quantity refined has risen since. 1880; by, 100,000 tons.

Matrimony, is popular among the rising generation'in'Queensland, Last yew-73 males and CB3 females married under the age of 21, One girl—a Cingalese—was married at 13, three European girls at 14, , 13 at IB years of age, 53 at IG, 113 at 17, 146 at 17,179 at 19, and only 174 at 20, At the other extreme, one woman of 60, and one of 62, were married- during the year, and one man was married at 64, one at 65, one at 68, one at 69, one at 70, and one at 79. The lonic, says a Marlborough exchango is bringing out to New Zealand a quantity of stoats and weasels consigned to the Rabbit Department, We are informed by Superintendant-Inspector Bayley that the steamer started with between 160 and 160 but how many will reach the colony alive remains to be seen, Numerons applications have been made by private parties to the Government for the purchase of some, of these natural enemies, of. the rabbit, and Mr Bayley informs us that -in order to avoid the appearance of anything like favoritism, the department will put up one half'of the lonic's consignment to auction; the other half being turned out,. Of those.tobe auctioned one-third (or onesixth of the whole consignment) will be offered at Wellington, one-third at Dunedin, and one-third at Christehurch. . The lonic left Loiidon on December 6th.

. The fountain of ff,rpeiual tooth docs not spring exclusively within tlio confines of classic story, Its fresh and living waters flow to-day from other well-heads,' Tlio weak and the debilidated have but to drink of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, and soon they start to renewed vitality. ft is the modern revivifier, touching to elasticity and strength, the impaired in health and the suffering with disease,