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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2816, 6 February 1888, Page 2

Mv R. Bright, junr., publishes a fencin? notice addressed to the owner or occupier of section No. 44 Waipoua Block, Miki Miki.

Tho Lynoh Family Bollrhigm have sailed for Melbourne. During their tour in this colony tlioy clo «'red over £3OOO. They return in about eight months' time.

M, F. B, Wood adds to his advertisement of rams entered for sain at the Maßtorton Bam and Ewo Fair, and enumerates the different owners who have given him instructions to Bell their sheep. The Fair is at 11 a.m. on Wednesday next.

Tho list fur Stevens and Gorton's Bam and Sheep Fair at Bull's on 14th February, only contains 165 rams, but it shows no less than 11,400 sheep. Parihaka natives are making keikei hats in large quantities, at Vs and 63 each. Report speaks very highly' of them,

'Hie Manawatu Daily Times significantly says:-'' The Mayor of Palmerstondid not preside at the moeting of Council on Wednesday night. The Hutt races commenced on Thursday morning." A correspondent of an Otago paper writes;—"Tho vestryman who suggested that ventilators would remove the smell from St Lukes church is slightly out of it, considering the vereer to-day found a dead cat and a dozen rotten eggs under the building," James O.Kelly, M.P., writes to the Now York Herald that half tho wives of the landed gentry are going into trado in London. The other half of thorn are in tho Primrose League or the Divorce Court,.

Ono ton ot cheese shipped from tho Goro Dairy Factory as ordinary cargo, was sold in Luiidon lately at £2 13s per owt; it was said to be heated. One ton which was sont in a ventilated chamber at £4 per ton, sold at £3 per cwt, the cost really was about Id per lb, and 10 per cent primage. The latest addition to our domestic poultry in Masterton is three young swans brought here ftoin tho Wairarapa Lako, sumo short time ago by Mr J. Dawson, who we trust will bo able in time to exhibit a new class at future Poultry shows in this town. These swans take exercise daily in the Waipoua river and are driven into an enclosure' each evening.

The Bishop of Wellington held a confirmation service at. St. Matthew's Church Masterton, last evening, Eleven youn« ladies were participators 111 the saered rite, there being no oandidites of the sterner sex. There was an unusually largo congregation present, and his Lordship preached a most eloquent sermon, and was ably assisted by the Rovs. Paigo and Beard, Our local onntempary has no doubt that Messrs A. W. Brown and John Young will in return for the able, zealous, and impartial manner in which they have acted on tho Board receive a renewal of confidence from tho country as well as the City Committees. The Masterton School Committee with the exception of one member are dead against these candidates on tho ground that they displayed, gross partiality on ono occasion when they suppressed thnir own report at the instigation, it is believed, of Mr Hogg.

The manufacture of blunders proceeds apace, says' Typo. Ap Auckland coljesre announces; given by a teacher of both sexes,'—An Australian paper says; ' Mrs Caldwell was the recipient on Saturday of a beautiful floral offering, in commemoration of the advent of her first-bom son, which came to her by parcels post from Ballarat.' —'Thesum now beinp rajsed,' says a contemporary, ' will take the form of a mariners'reliof fund, primarily for the support of the men- who lost thnir lives at tho wreck,'—An Ohio farmer has posted up the following Notis.-lf any man's or woman's cows or oxen's gits in these here oats, his or her tail will be cut off as the caso may be.'—A reporter, describing a collection of bric-a-brao, says; 'The visitor's eye will be struck on entering the room with a porcelain umbrella.' And the Mowing advertisement appears in a contemporary: "A widow wants a position as general h) a email household." jiot an unusual position, for'a. servant to occupy, but seldom put so plainly.—An Australian paner recently made merry over a contemporary which headed an article, "Sir H—P—'s Embezzlements" instead of einbarasmeiits"-and in the next item described Mr Gladstone as a"" leadm? pollution,"' .

The Eangitikei Advooato says that Mr 6. Hutchison. M.H.R., haa handed to Mr John Bryce a bill for between £7OO and £BOO as costs in the recent election petition.

' A slaughtering match at Westport was won by Frederiok Riohardson,' who. dressed six sheep.in 21 minutes. The thermometer atMrW. Dougall's read in the shade at noon to-day 7.6 degrees. _ Mr G. France writes to us this morning, saying that his son Ernest wishes to convey his heartfelt thanks to the people of Masterton, who have bo kindly contributed comforts during his illness. An incipient grass fire occurred on the side of the road between the two Waipoua bridges this morning. The only danger w-;s that it might spread to the Park. Mails for Australia. India, China, United Kingdom, and Europe, close at Auckland at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 7th inst. Wife:—"ln the game of lawn tennis, my dear, what is the most difficult thine to acquire?" Husband: "The Lawn." Wwinen can stand tight shoes, tight gloves, and tight waists, but they properly draw tho lino at tight husbands, You can nearly always tell the temperature by one square look at the rorated water manufacturer's face. It glows in precise proportion to the maimer in which mercury mounts up the glass. •Tho Hawke's Bay Babbit District Board (if Trustees meeting at Porangahau on the 28th January, confirmed the appointment of Mr F. A. Sheath late of Wairarapa to the sub-Rabbit Inspectorship. 1 .The average cost of the gas supply to, the cleaniug, lighting and • extinguishing ofßtreetlampsinllow Zealand is about £5 5s each a year; except in Auckland | where it amounts to £7 3s 4d, owing to the lamps being kept alight all night. | ■ Mr Currie at Kai Iwi, in the district has a crop of Cocksfoot of 200 1 acres, Btandmg over five feet high, He ' had 30 men engaged in cutting it, , From all accounts an unusual quantity ol , this seed will be harvested up that coast, j andthewctßpring has made it heaviei and finer than they havejiad it there foi 1 so.ne years.

An eel eighteen inches long was caught in His Worships aquarium ah the Post (Jffico comer, on Saturday last, by Mr Parkes, bootmaker. It had no doubt come down the channel, from tlio Waipoua river.The proverb "As slippery as an eel" is well known, and the appearance or this unctuous member of tlio peine family in Renall Kivulet at such an appropriate time is apt to remind one of the gentlemen of whom it is said to be emblematic, although his followers.no doubt will not admit that its fate in being caught is at all intended as an omen of the future fall of their chief,

Our local contempary asserts that Mr A.W. Kenall's watersupply keeps QueenSt owners from having their insurance laisoii. ■ We have made enquiry from tho Insurance agents and they tell us that it is the Ju'iloe Engine aud not the Aquarium which is ked,.ing down the rates Wo trust our contemporacy wiltransfer his testimonial from Mr Renall to the Jubilee Engine.

The New Zealand Volunteer and Civil Service Uazette thus concludes an able article on the defences ot Now Zealand:— ''lt would bo slieur folly to dispense with tho service of country corps—many of whom arc superior to city companies, and could bo readily moved- to the main centres when required—or check the grand cadet movement; if such bo the recommendation of Ueneral Sehaw, we cannot compliment him on his good judgment."

Various members of the Vanderbilt Astur, Larillard, and Rhinelander families Mr 0.0. Potter, Mr Ohuncey Depew and others have (snys the sew York correspotidunt of the Standard} agreed to furnish the capital for the construction of a four-track railway to be tunnelled under the new street to bo opened beween the City Hall mid a grand central railroad depot. This underground railway would revolutionise .New I'ork as a place of residence by giving it easily accessible suburbs and reducing rents, possibly to to ratei of the London suburbs.

Mrs Paktingtok says. Dont keep any of the quack rostrums, as they aro regimental to the human cistern; but put your trust itiDrSoulo's American Hop Bitters, which will euro general dilapidation, costive habits, and all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a severe extract of yphoid fever, They are the jic plus mm of medicines. " Boston Globe."

Two organs. - Regulate imt the. stomach, second tho liver, especially the first, so as to perforin their functions perfectly, and you will remove at least nine-teen-twentieths of all tho ills that' mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate, Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters is tho only thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two "Maine I- armor"

Ora sale of Surplus Summer Stock, tho most important ever held, is now in full operation, having commenced on Wednesday, February Ist, at the Wholesale Family drapery Warehouse, Te Alio"House, Wei,. HXOTON,

We can promise country residents some rare bargaius in all seasonable goods, and can make it worth their while to pay an early visit to the sale at Te Aro House, Welunoton.

We are showing some extraordinary bargains in summer dress material, First quality prints that wore sold at 7M yard are selling at those at BJd for 3Jd, and so on in like manner. Plain and Fanoy Dress Fabrics are in 12 yard lengths, and aro reduced in price from 7s 6d to 2s lid, from 8s 6d to 3s lid, from 10s fid to k llcl, from 12s Gd to 5s llcl, and in the same-proportion throughout the entire stock of materials at the sale, Te Aro House, Wellington.

Equally remarkable will be the bargains Obtainable in millinery, mantles and costuines, most of the arliolea being marked at less than half price, and without doubt a lot of money will be saved by a visit to tbe sale of surplus summer stock at Te Aiio House, Wellington.

In our clothing department we are offering 75' pairs men's strong .bluo serge trousers, worth 7s 9d, for 2s 3d, 100 boys' knickor suits, newest styles, usually sold at 7s 1 Id, for 4s 9d, and other garments equally cheap. Shirts, Ties, Scarves, Socks, &0., will bo subject to the same astonishing reductions in price at the surplus summer stock sale, Tis aro House, Wellington.

As an additional attraction, our,Bef regiment Eooinon the premises will'bo open every day during the sale, and all visitors from the country will be invited to takoa oup of lea, with other light refreshments, free of cost, at the surplus stock sale, Te Abo House, Wellington,

All orders will be carefully attended to if accompanied by cash, and parcels will be forwarded promptly to auy part of the province from the surplus stock sale, Te Aro House, Wellington.