The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1888.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2907, 25 May 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1888.

A nico little homestead in Bannister' itreet is advertised as to let.

The second term of the Wellington Girls High School begins to-day, and the second term of the Wellington College will begin oil Friday June Ist. Tenders for the erection of a house .at the corner of Church and Keaton-streets close at the office of Mr H, J. Haigh at noon to-morrow,

Messrs Lowes and lorns sell at their rooms to-morrow new and second-hand furniture, household requisites, portable boilers, produce, poultry, horses and sundries. Sale at 2 o'clock, A well-known character, J. Thompson, alias lorkey, was brought before Mr von Sturmer R.M., this morning, and discharged with a caution. George Ewart was brought before Mr yon Sturiper R.M. yesterday, charged with stealing a gun from Mr B. Berg, of Eketahuna, and remanded to Wellington for a month. Mr Alex Munro of Willis street Wellington importer of Indian tea lias an announcement in our columns. According to tho London Times, India now grows better tea than China.

There was a capital attendance of both ladies and gentlemen at tho Theatre Royal rink yesterday morning and afternoon . We are requested to remind those interested that to-night there will be the usual weekly private rinking party.

The Commissioner of Customs is drafting a Bill to amend the Tobacco Agt of 1879 m the direction of giving tho Cuatoms officers bettor means of ascertaining what becomes of the tobacco grown in tho colony, and to prevent the evasion of duty.

Tho .New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 22nd .inst: —Wool, —Tho market is firmer; since the close ot the sales there has been some business done by private treaty at fully previous rates, the sales comprising 2500 bales.

Mr Hutchison has intimated his intention of asking tho Premier whether he Will place in tho Library a copy of the New Zealand Handbook recently revised in what is understood to have been "a light and attractive manner:" and if the Premier will state the namo of the editor, and the remuneration he is to receive.

Eketahuna is now perhaps as thriving as any place in the Wairarapa, but when, as at present rumoured, it« proposed to start a newspaper in that abode of backwoodsmen, we fear the residents are being carried away in their e.u'er rush for wealth untold, and are apt to speculate rashly. That enterprising township may run tho three •' pubs," but we can hardly think there is any set ions thought of appeasing its literary thirst in the direction indicated. Mr Danahcr's railway contract time expires in August, and it will take at least three months to effect supplementary and final work, it ia not expected that the lino will be opened through to Eketahuna before Christmas.

Complaints fronj many quarters ara coming in to us upon the quality of tho gas supplied to consumers. The Masterton Borough Council should consider itself in the same position as any private company, and endeavor to gain customers by supplying tlio highest quality at tho minimum cost,

Mr Simpson's tender for the erection of a Theatre at Woodville has been accepted.

The Secretary of the Wairarapa Exhibition Committee lias obtained the promise of special Wairarapa trains on the two days of the Show next month.

It is rumoured that the ladies of Masterton intend presenting to the local Volunteer Corp, silk colors, This should oncourage them to attend Church and otlior parades. Mombors of the Masterton Philharmonic Society meet for practice this evening at St. Matthew's school room at 8 o'clock.

Mr Henry Burling notifies ill another column his intention to apply for a slaughtering license 011 the Alfredton to Eketahuna Eoad.

Mr T. Ray's Pilgrimage (7at) won the Stewards' Handicap of 25sovs. at the Porirua Race Meeting yesterday.

Excursion tickets to Wellington on the occasion of the Masonic installation of Sir H. Atkinson are announced in another column.

Tenders are invited by the Alfredton Eoad Board for the formation of about 217 chains road work 011 the Tawataia road.

Le Gaulois, in an article on the European situation, asserts that England's only vulnerable point is the weakness of her colonies, and that only through them can Bho be attacked.

The excursion trains were well patron'

isod yesterday. About 700 persons visited the Wairarapa from Wellington, and about 500 took a trip to town from the Wairarapa,

Messrs R. Aitken and Sons sell at their rooms to-morrow at eleven o'clock beef and mutton; at two o'clock cheese, bacon, tea, sugar and sundries; at three o'clock a bankrupt stock of watches and jewellery.

Tho Pahiatua correspondent of the Hawkea Bay Herald says the peoplo tliero have gone stark mad on licenses, The present hotel is run by Mr Stewart, and is incontestibly too big for the business done. There is excellent bedroom accommodiaton, and board at two rates of charges—l mean the house has two distinct sides—yet we have four more houses applied for! Applicants ate (1) Mr Crewe; he is at present conducting a private hotel, which is veil spoken of. (9) Mr Crimp; he has a large boardinghouse and I have not a word to say against his management thereof. (3) Mr Ellmers will open in a large boardinghonse now carried on with indifferent success by Mr Hull. (4) Mr Naylor; he is the south end blacksmith, and will open in a large liouso just south of Stewart's on the same side of the main road. Tho house is to be put up by Mr M'Caidle.

In accordance with instructions from tho Committee of the Wairarapa Exhibition, the Secretary, Mr R. Hornblow, waited upon Sir George Grey and Mr G. Beetham in Wellington, and obtained their consent to be present to open the Exhibition on the 21st of June next. Sir Geor«o Grey desired the Secretary to thank the Committee for the honor they had done him in asking him to take a leading part in the proceedings. He had always taken a great interest in the progress of the Wairarapa District, he having been the founder of the Special Settlements there, Ho could remember the time when those settlements were standing bush, and their intention to hold a Wairarapn, Exhibition, showed the progress they had made, A Good Hctsewife.—The good housewife wheii giving her house its spring renovating, shoulw bear in mind that the dear inmates of lu|r house are more precious than many houses, and that their systems need cleausinig by purifying the blood, regulating tW stomach and bowels to prevent and ©are the diseases arising from sprino malaria and miasma, and she must know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely as Dr. Soulo's American Hop Bitters, the purest and best of medicines. "Concord N. H. Patriot,"

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