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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2392, 6 September 1886, Page 2

Tenders are invited for tho erection o a wet-weather shod at tho Taueru school

Notice is given in another column in inference to accounts owing to Messrs J. and .0. Herbert late trading as C. Wagland- & Co,, butchors.

Teudors aro invited for tho orection of a'BhopatEketahuna. Planß and spocw ficatimiß can be seen at the Masterton and Eketahuna offices of Messrs Eawson and Mackay.

Our Carterton correspondent sends the weather-table for August as follows : •Rain fell oil 25 days; on tho Jjftli- heavy snow-storm, with sharp' frost at night; wind very changeable from S.W. toN.E., and very strong at times. Messrs Lowes and Toms were engaged on Saturday afternoon with tho balanco of Messrs Duncan & Son's stock, whjeh., together with a quantity of new and second-hatid furniture occupied the aucciontei)/ 1 the whole of the afternpifr when fair prices were realised. :"';'

.We ate requested to remind our readsrs of Messrs Lowes and lorns usual stock sale on Wednesday. A reference: to their advertising column will show a good catalogue of both cattle and sheep,-: the breeding' cows being worthy -of special attention. Mr J. C. Crawford has sontin a claim for the land taken for tho fortifications on the Peninsula. The area taken, was 245 acres, and the claim made is £31,000. In the Timaru poisoning case the evidence of tho nurso Hannah Ellison was concluded and a remand granted to Saturday September 11th to allow of the attendance of Mrs Hall, an inportant witness for the prosecution, and who at present is Btill too ill to. give ovidenco.

' The weekly meeting of tho 'Wairarapa Gospel Temperance Union will bo held to-morrow evening in tho Presbytorian Church. Addresses will be given, suitable songs and a strange but true talo will be told, which all are invited to come and hear.

The Pahiatuaßoad Board are acting very discourteously to the Tiraumea Association, the Woodville Examiner .says. Tho Association asked them ,to aupurviso the road construction and to call for tenders for the purchaso of the totara on a certain road to the block, so that funds might be used to assist iu road making.: The Board declined to do ojther. ; Mr H. E, Eton, with commpndable enterprise has made an alteration' to Ms shop front, which is a decided improvement to its appearance as well as |impait : ing an.extra degree of light;to the' intorior of his drug store; The solid wood enclosure of his show .window has all been removed and replaced w(th fancy glass, the top being all of plain glass. This admits tho light from thp ( lamps when tho Bhop is illuminated in the wen-; ing, and shows up the display of ;• useful and ornamontal articles, with whioh : tho window is stooked. The reflection 'from the colored globes, which are of amber, peacock blue and crimson, is much- more effective lnj tho new arr^ngemont. ; ' -The principal nov»lty In the window fittings is a quarter-circular stand fitted! up with shelves, which by the..placing of the mirrors at the lack, give the fienM-of the show ease the appearance of containing a large circular Btand, thcvvarioui articles being reproduced ina most effective manner. This design of a centre window, although to be seen in several ■•of" the larger drug establishments in London, wo have never yet obaervod in a New. Zeat lapd shop, buP it will now, jno doubt, soon be copied, as its effect is !bo •'notice-, able. The wholo of the fittings were entrusted to a local cabinet-maker, Mr W. Whitt, and have, been carried out n a most efiective manner by him.

Anyone requiring New Zealand Tweed Clothing mil Bavemonoy by purchasing at "tho .Wairarapa Clothing Factory, for their suits, at 19s 6d, ffis, 80s, 37s 6d, 46s and 5%, and trousers and rests at 12s 6d, and trousers at 6s Od are honestly worth double the money. Note Uio addrosß,—Nest to Empire Hotel, Mesterton -Advt;

I am going to make a speciality, ot certain lines during tho next months, At the present time I am running Macintoshes and .Overcoats at prices which defy any house'in the Wellington District to approach, Byjseriding tho length which you require in inches, you can be Buppliod with a; grand Tweed Macintosh for 27/6, honestly worth; £S. Give me a trial, John TrohdorkJ the People's .Clothier, Willisttcot W'ellin.itto|i,rr{AD'yi.l ( ' ~"'';. .; Venetian Blina'aW-Kevolying Shutter manu factory. All Blinds Jgiiarinteiid of tho very. beat description, Price liat i)B:Application to R, W. Honn (late Henn and Hansen,)»Ponekc Steam Venetian Blind and Revolving Faetory, TeurajtoiH-AliTl,

Mr % Greathead; of Masterton notifies that a dog lately owned ly him.is now running wild at the Lower Mahaia, and he is;ho longer responsible' for it. .

Mr P. H. Wood has a long list for their Taratahi cattle sale which takes place on Thursday, next, September 9th. The list embraces sqmo.4oo sheep of various sorts, and aboiitrlOO head of cattle, several pens of prize poultry and pigs. The Sydney Morning Herald publishes an exposure of a system of cheating at cards, winch has been carried on for some time" p'ast in Sydney. Certain marks have, been placed on the backs of cards,so that the initiated can tell at a glance Nvhat cards his opponent holds, two sets' of marks are used for the purpose, one.ahowjng the suit, and the other tho value of the card;- The marks.are plaoediin'the corner, amongst a quantity of gilt scroll work, in which they escape notice'until pointed out. Tho marks and gilt scrolls wore designed and placed upon the cards in Sydney, dud the cards w which' are.called, "readers," have been Sold in that city. The-Brussels correspondent of the Daily News telographs:'—''A mysterious discovery,, suggestive of a crime like that ■of Wainwright and Billior,- was noticed oh Sunday : night near the Southern ■Ra'lway station. The policemen, in making their rounds picked up a sack containing two legs, two forearms, and the hands still bleeding. The head and trunk hayo not yet been, discovered. Different,parts of a,dress were found scattered in grounds in the neighborhood. Frdni'4 medical examination it appears that the outting-up was the .work of an' inexperienced hand. The affair is causing a great soiisation." The Times to-day veporte a sad 'accident having occurred in Wellington. Botween 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, two little boya, named Herbert Gordon, and John Lang, saw the body of a man floating in the' water near the now inner tee of tho Queen'B wharf. Thoy at once informed Constable Bree, who was in the vicinity, of the circumstances, and on the arrival of that ofiieer the body was taken to the Morgue, Tho body was afterwards identified as that'of one of the Armed Constabulary, named Wm. Matheson. • On the body being taken out a cut about 2h inohes in length was observed under" tho right eye of deceased. The unfortunate man, who has been in the Armed Constabulary Force for about threo nionthß,' and was employed at the fortifications Point Halswell, was' seen alivoat 9.30 on Saturday night, leaving tho Armed Constabulary Barracks. It is supposed that he had pono down to the wharf to- whoro tho boat is usually tied that takes the men over to the Point, and had accidentally fallen into the water; and, being unablo to swim had been drowned. . In tho act of falling lie would probably have struck a beam, and .so caused tho wound under the right eye. Deceased was one of the Australian Contingent who went to tho Soudan some time ago, and curiously enough he had- written an account of the expedition for the Saturday Advertiser printed in Dunedin, which was to appear laßt Saturday. Ho wa3 a single man about 34 years of age, and well-known as an athleto. Deceased was tho son of the late Mr William Matheson, of Mansfield, Taieii Plain, Otapo, a very old and esteemed settler in that district. He has two brothers.living, ono of whom is ompliiyed as clerk in thd office of Mr Kirk, solicitor of this city. . The other is a hotel proprietor residing at Auckland. An inquoßt will be hold on th» body at "10,30 this morning, at the Morguo.