The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2577, 20 April 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.

Messrs Lowes and lorns announcq a general sale, including a consignment' of ■ teas, for-Saturday,next. ;■ : The celebrated Waterbury watch is on sale at Mr Williams', tobacconist, Queenstreet, at the ridiculously low price of 13s Gd, Meetings of Creditora in the estates of Benjamin Budden and Duncan and Sons will beheld this afternoon in the old Court room Masterton, Messrs Lowes and lorns announce their next .stock sale for Wednesday 27th inst.. Their list'already embraces-2400 sheep, 30 head cattle, horses, &c,The Service of Song "John Ploughman" wassuccesslully rendered in the Temperance Hall last evoning. Pressure on our space compells us to .eurfail' our 1 re- ! marks on the pleasant evening's enter- | tainment. An official notiGcationhasboenissueclto the effect that on an after the 24th instant the Masterton Telegraph Office will be open on Sundays from 10 to 10.30 a.m. only, and on holidays from 0 to 10 a.m.' and from 1 to 8 p. m. Mr. 11. H. Elliott, tho lessee of the railway refreshment room at Mauricville, has applied to tho Minister of Publio Works fer permission to remove the room to Mangamahoe, .which is now the northern terminus of tho \Yellington-Wairarapa railway. Cockadoodledoo I "Who says we ain't a great naval power! Forty French men-of-war, carrying 200 guns and 10,000 men, assembled at Toulon for the purpose of engagingin naval manoeuvres I Confound them 1.. 'Why can't they' keep qtjiet and ■stop thoir blustsri After setting all Europe on the hop with ' there military demonstrations,- they're now going to t$ the same game float! Tho naval Powers 1 are not so easily'spared?- 1 though"! Oh yes they are! Great Britain is in a chronic state of naval scare, and Italy ja as jaalonb of France's fleet as -a ; cfoss'cHild -witfir'a' new toy! But Italy has a very ? power-'; ful fleet too, has she not? She.has some; enormous Bhips, and'she is naturally a - maritime country, so.thatshe nevor want's for sailors! ; But she's half ruined' herself by tho naval expenditure and nobody : knows whether her floating arsenals would bo any good in actual warfare after all! Press Puffs.'

'' Only a face at tho window"—notone face, but -scores, hundreds, thousands, that have looked well pleased and wondoring at tho several displays that havo been mado of tho richost, best selected, and most .varied stock of autumn and winter fashions over oxliibited at ToAroHouso.

There is not a better assortment of fashionable and usofuldresß fabrics to bo scon in the ■ West End of London, All classes of matorials .W are worn are to be seen, ranging fronrfld per yard to 10 guineas tho dross, Our special buygr (Mr Kinnear) left no stone unturned to procuto for the present winter season the very beat selection that has ever entered Wellington, and how well ho has' succeeded is patent to all, and abundanty proved by the number of really first class drosses sent into our dressmaking department at To Aro House, NOR is tho dross department tho only ono. characterise d• by the richness and variety of its fabrics. Our readers will be glad to know. that the display in the ; millinery department is superior to anything wo havo ever known," The latest and moat favorite fashions are. there in profusion, and with a first class milliner, and complete. staff of assistants no IiUTy r '"need go unsuited'from Te Aro Houso.

We hope our lady friends will pay,an early, visit to the mantle department, andinspbet all the latest fashions in jackets, visitos, dolmans, palotots, fur-lined cloaks and other novelties, at James Surra's Wholeaalo Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House— Advt.

The VVairarapa. Clothing Factory aro atill allowing purchasers of New Zealand Clothing a discount of 5s in the £. They are rlbo making suits to measure from 47s 6d, Trousers and Ve3ta from 28a fid, and Trousers from 18s fid. A call cordially invited. Note the address: Next T. G. Mason, Quoen-street, Mastei'ten. E, B. Hare, Manager.—Advt. A Wonderful Hen.v,—Many are the inatancoseited of the astonishing fecundity of the various species of domesticated fowl; but tho celebrated Wellington Hehn (which, strange to say, is of the masculine gender) has a soul above the mero production of egfs, The manner in which/lie turns out Venetian Blinds, etc,, is tho wonder and admiration of everybody, from tho Governor downwards, The name of this wonderful bird is R. W. Henn, and his well-known fowlhouse is the Ponoke Steam Window Blind Factory, Molesworth-strdot, Wellington.—Advt;.