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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2848, 15 March 1888, Page 2

Mr George Hollard is leaving the Grey' town district.

Mr Wardell's house in Lincoln Road, Masterton, is advertised "to be let." The annual Hospital Soiree and dance will bn held at Greytown oil Easter Monday, 2nd April. Mr Alexander Kennedy of Napier, formerly a partner in the firm, Routledge, and Co., is dead. . The Masterton KM, office will be closed 011 Saturday, St. Patrick's Day. The Railway Department advertises special trains and excusien fares for Saturday next, St, Patrick's Day. The ordinary trains to Wellington on that occasion, leave Masterton at 8. 30. a.m and 5.40. p. m. and the return evening train for the Wairarapa does not depart from Wellington until 5.35. p.,m. Extra trains and reduced fares are arranged for the Opaki Races, and as a. wood days sport has been provided, _we hope to see a large attendance of the public at this popular race course,

Messrs Jas. BroWn and Co, advertise a general sale for next Saturday afternoon, Their list includes almost every thing. - The present rain has greatly improvod the Opalu course for Saturday's racing, it haying previously been somewhat hard.

We understand that the MastertonOpaki Jockey Club have engaged MrH. M. Lyon's totaliaator for their next Saturday's meeting Mr Hoffman, the celebrated aurist, visits Masterton shortly, in accordance with a notification in our advertising columns

Tho Rutland Hotel at Wanganui has been purchased by A. J. Parsons, the present licensee, from Mr VV. H, Watt, purchaser of the W. H. Watt estate, for £BOOO cash. There was one mortgage of LSOOO on it and a second mortgage of about L2OOO.

Both tho victims of tho recent Wellington accidents, the litilo boy, John Walters, whowaa injured in a tramway accident at Nowtown, and Mr Jas. Billing, the Civil Engineer, who broko a bono of his leg, have succuinbod to their injuries, and they died last night. It is rumoured, says tho N.Z. Times, that .Mr Hannay, Assistant-General Manager of JNew Zealand Railways, will probably begone of, the new Railway Commissioners, "and that another will bo either Mr Maxwfell, 'the present General Manager, or Mr 0. Y. O'Connor, Secretary to the Publip Works Department.' On Tuesday night last at the Makora Nursery, a festive ferret got on the warpath and sacrificed no left's than fourteen of Mr E. Taylor's choice poultry, including three prizo White Polish birds, before its thirst for blood was satisfied. Last night Mr Tayler set a trap for the ruthless sjayer, and this morning he had the satisfaction of dancing a fandango in joy. ful celebration of its capture. The Masterton Borough Works Committee met last night. The following are .their recommendations That tenders be invited for making about oleven chains of Dixon street, including footpaths ;on both sides, being from Mr J. Macara's fence to Worksop road and Ross street, property owners to pay half the cost of the footpaths. That the Overseer put in a culvert in Dixon-strcet, behind the Presbyterian Manse, so that in forming the street, surplus earth &c., from the contract can be utilised for filling up the gully. That the Works Committee replace tho sheathing on the Waipoua Bridge where broken or damaged. That tho Overseer see that the fences on Ngaumatawa Road be removed in accordance with the Council's resolution. Tho Commita also said that Queen Street North has had the water tables and street sides cleaned up in the usual course, and as regards MrH, Phillips' complaint, thero has been no more grass and weeds growing there than elsewhere, and it was therefore uncalled for,

Maine news.—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters, winch are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for ague, biliousness and kidney compaints. Those who use them say they cannot be too highly recommended, Those afflicted should givo them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in the praise of their curative qualities,—" Portland Argus.' Shrewdness & Ability.—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters .so freely advertised m all the papers, secular and religious, are having a laiw salo, and are supplanting all other medicines. Thero is no denyin? the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters have Ghown great shrewdness and ability in compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every, one's observation.—' Examiner and Chronicle.'

What is a "plum?" Well, we suppose every man, woman, child, and even lisping infants could answer that question without a moment's hesitancy. Still there are other "plums" than those grown on trees. There are such in the drapery trade, and by the term is understood anything deliriously, refreshingly, and charmingly cheap, so cheap andplumlike as to make mouths water and handsoutstretohedtograsp them. Such'plums' there are still in abundance in Price's bankrupt stock sale, at To Aro House Wellington. What aro "jobs?" Certainly no relations to the Eastern Patriarch ; not a piece of work or anything to be done. The word, originally derived from the French, means a "mouthful." Drapers use it to mean goods sold considerably under regular prices. Plenty of these "jobs," and rare ones at that, are still to bo had at Price's bankrupt stock sale, Te Aro House, Wellington. What is meant by "full swing?" This is a very vulgar term, and used only by those who oußht to know better. It does not refer, as one might naturally suppose, to the accompaniments of a circus or a fair. "Full swing," in drapers' minds, means rattling, pushing, driving business, such as has been going 011 for the last month, and still continues, at the Te Aro House sale of Price's bankrupt stock Wellington, To these "plums," those "jobs," now in "full swing," otherwise rapidly selling, wo invite the attention of the public, Many a 'plum" and "job" have been secured by thousands of customers during the progress of this remarkable sale, and many more are only waiting to be appropriated by visitors to the sale of Price's bankrupt stock, at Te Aro House Wellington,—Advt.