The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1889.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3141, 28 February 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1889.

Messrs Lowes &lorns announce their next Stock Sale for March 18th, the entries for which already embrace 100 head cattle and 600 sheep. Tonders are invited by the Alfredton Road Board fur.Clearing slipsand cleaning watertables on the Tawataia Road, Specifications may be seen at Mr'H, Dunn's residence,

A man was observed at the Horticultural Show last evoniu? taking slips of all the herbs exhibited in the hall, The Herbalist who grew them is hunting for this man to day in order to show him how to grow the cnttings he has taken. A singular case of somnambulism is reported at Smart road. On. Sunday night last (the Taranaki News reports), the 10th inst,,'t,ho son of a settler got out ot bed in lus sleep and travelled all the to Waitara, where ho was found next morning. The mystery is how 1m could have travelled all that way in the drenching rain without waking He cannot give any explanation of the occurence, and was entirely unconscious until he was found lying on the road and awakened, His parents only missed him a short time beforo he returned home.

A meeting of the Castlepeint'Road Board was held on Saturday- last Present:— Messrs Maunsell (Ohairman) Langdon and Eldbr. The -.minutes,: of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The Treasurer reportedbalance in bank £895 2s 2d and balance available for future expenditure 128.1 18s 9d. Correspondence read:—From County Council with memorial-to the Minister of Landsro legalisation of roads.

The Chairman was authorised to sign the memorial, The Ohairman stated that the question of the road to Rew'e Rewe had been settled and that the solicitor had been directed to prepare the conveyance of the land to the Board, Mr Elder handed in the tenders for metalling on the Uritiroad as follows ; J. McMillan, £67412s (accepted), M. P. Britt, 1708, (declined), P, Carr £Bl5 (do,), Gardiner and Co £ 59617s 6d,(d0.) the metal to be takon from Sugar Point, Thb Chairman was authorised to apply for £l5O of the loan for the [Jriti road. Accounts amounting to £sl4s Gd wore passed for payment and the Board rose,

At the Education Boar'd meetine held yesterday, the application of Miss Reese Pahiatua, to be retained as pupil teacher was not entertained. The committee appoined to visit and report pnijhe Greytowu and Featherston S'olionlß brought in Mr report. They found the accotnmodatwn .ayai}ablo fur the junior portion of the Greytown School much deficient, A new olasß room requires tg bp added, and tho school painted;, inside and out. The committee recommend several alterations and renovations' both in school and rosidene'e., The ..Committee Kere foiich impressed mtb the quiet and orderly manner in which the business of the schoql was jbejng carried out -tinder the headmaster, Mr Bunting. The Feathe'rston fjahoolneedod painting, tor which tonders have boen called, arid the Committee recommended that a grant of £5 be made for small repairs. Tu'eTauherehikau Sohool was also villi' ted, arid: tft'p joof waß found to be getting in a. W' state.; The Committee of the Ciareyllle .Sohool asked for the roof of the' building p be replaced with iron at a cost of about £80.: ft W (Jpwded fo- ask, Mr:Turnbiill, architect toivlal.t {haSphool whenhVgoes to visit the Greytown and Jfiathei'Mpn Schools and report, after'winch tenders, will-be caljed for the work. With regard to the pupil teacher's, examination, the Board agreed to-dispense with theßeryicespf all pupjl, ts'aolierß •" "- '"'-■'•■! '«He3 two years in, ssGcession, whohauiuJ;'.' :'•■•»« .naijies .do. not and also those wuuul'" '■-'---:•'■•-:■'.■,...

appear on the passed list, '■' A few days ago an albatross winch had settled-in a. cornfield at Kaiapoi was caught, being unable to rise out of the gram, It measured 9 feet 6 inches from tip to tip of the wings. A women in Lon-don-is, that; pf. Eervinpr writs, A pretty younp woman'thero is said to find doors openitphbr which to, nearly every 'other sheriff's officer are shut fait. i

Messrs Louos ami lorna tidd to their Tinui stpjk salo,,catalpgueJooo good , orpasbred -; r e wes,-!; (i-tootli ; : aSd; .ftcshfiillimoEl^and^OoullMj^:;!

laK?/:4tendttMV;»t'v. their- sto'ok^iale;

B,pooaheep atid 2oo'hesd of oattlo being rates and'piet' with a \ • while; cattle 'showed; ho;; improvement, .and about half': the ontries'hailto be. ; with-: drawn, ':;\Ve quote; the following priceß: ■r-Heavy fat wethera, 10a;; medium do,, 8a 3d tpOsJdi'fat ewesjja t6,7s 9d; breeding ewes,, young, ; .6a to, 7s■■'..4d'j' aged do,, 3a 9d to 6a Id'; culla, 2a to 8s;, Forward, 60s to': 60s; young Btecrs, 80s . to :465; fat coot, 'light, 60s -to'; 72a'' 6d: -store cows from 30Y; pigs, 4a to 8s 6d jiorses',' I '. ■-■ -.;■;'' ;- ; ;i.> :; - J - :;:■;;

„. The TasraaniaifMail, in an artiolo on I Yictorja,asks what is the matter with the place; and points out that the exports of articles produced or manufactured in the colony, whioh at one time were as Inch a 5£13,202,293, has-fallen in 1887 to £8,602,979..

While a boy named James Logne, 13, schoolboy, residing at 70, Dowlhw-street-Sydney, was teasing a little dog recently With a piece of meat, at the same. time protruding his tongue, the dog mistook the boy's tongue for a piece'of meat, and' bit it.; .The injury was attended to at Sydney: Hospital,

Daring the last fortnight we have dons a satisfactory ksmesß.ia clearing out much of our bummer overplus stock whioh baa thus been considerably lessened at the. Wholesale Family Drapory Warehouse,::Te Aro House, Wellington. V"'/ I . Nevertheless there area large accumulation of remnants and a variety of odd lots in every department, which must beturned into money dining the next W days at To AtoHou6o,Wellington, ' - :',..->' These remnants include a number of very useful,'every day articles; such as calico-B, sheetings, prints, z:phera, dress fabrics, Holland's, &o„ and are in various lengths, from. 3 to JO yat'dß. With'a view of rapidly selling th'csa we have marked themat as omaliingly low prices, such as can bo easily tested -at Te Arp House, Wellington, - .« : There are also various lots of summer miliuery, mantles, costumes, paraaola, t-i>ka, carpjta, men's, boysVand youths' clothing that are really marked at suoh low priceß as to make them the most undoubted bargains ever offered to a discerning public either outside or inside of Te Aro House, Wellington.' For 10 days only will these priceß role, and at the termination of this period we ex) oct that these remnata,. odd lota, and

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