The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1887.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2629, 22 June 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1887.

A lady who is about leaving Jlaatertoi advertises a piano for Bale, a bargain.

Mr F H Wood advertises. His next Thursday's stock sain at the Taratahi yards. The liat includes 1000 sheep, 9( head of cattle and other, stock.

Mcesera James Brown and Co add to their list of properties f«r sale to morrow a four roomed cottago and section of land; freehold.

All accounts agftiiwt the Jubilee com" mittee are roquefted to be sent to the secatary not later than to morrow evenfng at's : oolock.

We draw attention to the land salo which is advertised to take place to-mor-r 9W at Messes Jame's Broivn Co's Auction Rooms. The list comprises Bome 12,000 acroß of Education Reserve leases in Paliau Rangitumau Moroa, and Mauriceville, and' aeveral Mastertoii freehold town properties.

The triple Jubilee event-doll cako fair and dance—takes place at the -Masterton Drill Shed to-morrow evening, commencing at 7 o'clock; The presents to be distributed are costly and numerous, and musical and'instrumental selections will be'given during the evening. Wo wiflli the event every success. A child ivith two tongues is said to be now living at Yonkers, N.Y., aged two years. Thesocond tongue has grown from the root and on the tcip of the first. The mother first noticed it when the ohild was three days old. The child has never experienced any difficulty in swallowing its food or in breathing, looks natural in every other way, and has always been healthy.

On Monday the Hawkes Bay representatives met the Manawatu football team at Newtown Park, Wellington, in the presence of about 1200 spectators. The ground was still very slippery, and made good play impossible Manawatu was outmatched from tho start, and lost by two goals and a try (seven points) to nothing. Warbrick, Taiaroa and Howe got a try each, and Warbrick and Gibbonß kicked goals. Howe's try should have been disallowed, but only ono umpire noticed that the ball wbb thrown forward, and Manawatu did not dispute it. Taiaroa played particularly well. The official report on the grain crops of tho United Kingdom states that in Kent a considerable extent of what areknewn as New Zealand oats, although originally a Canadian variety oftho grain, iaatated to hayc been sown, and that the yleldis found to be greater (here from them than from the " Black Tartar" oats, which hitherto had been bo much grown in that and other counties, ,T)lie former would appear to be a hardier sort as well as considerably more productive, while the quality is said to be Buperior.and the weight from four to five pounds per bushel more than is obtained from " Tartar" oats.

It was a printer who raado Henderson, ft.O., the largest city, territorially speaking, in the world. The intention- was to oxtend the limit 1,000 yards in each direction, but the printer made the bill read 1,000 miles, and so it passed the American Legislature without tho error being noticed.

- 'Tmubilee gift presentation 'has already proved a grand success, and it could hard'n have been otherwise, seeing that cnstomoi" havo the advantage of purchasing what they require at wholesale prices, with a jubilee bonus to boot, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House. . We have had to replenish: our gilt tables; evory day, so great has boon the demand for our ohoico Jubilee presents. Still, wo have plenty more on hand, and tho variety is as great and pleasing as it. was;a week, ago at Te Aro House. ;

Ceutaism it is a very effective method of procuring home embellishments fne of , cosi, and the fullest advantage should be taken of the opportunity during its continuance at Te AroSouso.

In buying blankets flannob, shootings, oalicoß9 carpets, linoleums, and every article for house furnishing, with dresses, mantles, millinery, men's youths', and boy's olothing, &0., not only will the. public Shave the largest stock in the city to -select from, but the prices will be the lowest, and the gifts tho most attractive and -valuable .'at Te AroHouse, ' ' , , The donyameuoes of our very, comfortable refreshment room ara at the disposal of customers daily,-'during theTionrt of business, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, TeArg Houee,—Adyi. .

Messrs A, Burnett and W, lorns have become suroties " for.'John- McDermotfc, charged with having an illicit still in his possession, and he was liberated on bail last ovening. - The Jubilee celebration at Carterton •was carried out in a most successful manner on Monday Inst, a; full report of it .will appear in to morro.w'a issue. The Jubilee Committee '.are requested 'to meet' ohVMo'nclay evening next- .at the •Gent-mi Chambers to : ' receive 'report and. ••balancesheet; •" - t Messra Jaa.' Brown and Co. announce a sale of'merchandise, clothing, produce, furniture, and poultry for Saturday next, at"thtiit auction rooms] On Monday evening, as. t the Municipal Firei.Brigad'o' were engaged ' decorating their- engine and hoso reel,' and were about to fall back and admire their work, the fire bell rang out a vigorous peal which had the effect of clearing off the Jubilee decoration in less .than half the time it took to put it on. It was only a chimney on firo.

In our report of last Church Jubileo services we omitted to mention that the Eov.D.Mon preaohed an appropriate and oleqUonb sermon at the Masterton Presbyterian/Church, which was greatly appreciated by his congregation. Wo remind our readors of tho dramatio cntortainmenfc this evening in the. Theatre Royal, when the three-act drama " Still Waters run Deep" will be produced !by the Masterton Amatours, The piece has been well. rehearsed, will fbe faithfully mounted, and is full of"interesting pointß from beginning to end. There should be (J ?ood;hbuse to witness this performance. A great contractor, who waß making a harbor, fancied that li'o did liot 'get work enough out of his men who went down' in tho diving boll, fle felt as if they wasted timo, but could -not imagine how. So, ono day, when they wore at dinner lie wont into the bell, and there bo found several large crabs, and on the back of each was chalked the name of a favourite for the Derby, The men had crab races at tho bottom of tho sea. • It ia rolated that Hamilton Disßton had achurch in his' neighborhood in Philadelphia, in which he was interested, completely renovated and redecorated .at hiß own personal expense, and one day. with pardonable pride,. showing an irreverent but- enthusiastic friend through

(ho sanctuary, the latter, in his admiration, exclaimed, to the other's surprise and horror. "Well, this beats h— !"■ Quickly recovering himsolf,' Mr Disston, quietly observed : "Well, that is what churches are built for!" A Wonderful Hen.y.—Many are th o inßtancescited of the astonishing fecundity ,of the various speoies of domesticated fowl; but the celebrated Wellington Henn (which, Btrango to Bay, is of the masculine gender) has a soul above the mere production of egpa. The manner In which ho turns out Venetian Blinds, etc,, is the wonder and admiration of everybody, from the Governor downwards, The namo of this wonderful bird is R, W. Henn, mid his well-known fowl: .house.is the.Poneke Stoam "Window Blind Factory, Molesworth-street, Wellington,—Advt.