GREY TOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3149, 9 March 1889, Page 2

GREY TOWN.

(From Our Own Correspondent), During the past month the Standard published sundry correspondence drawing attention to the high price of bread viz, 4d cash 4Jdbo'oked for tbe 21b loaf in Greytown, notwithstanding the continuous fall in flour. It appears the monopoly has worked its own oure most unexpectedly, ■ A Fe'atberstdn baker made certain arrangements thereby he was enabled to serve customers in this town with bread at BJd deliverer]. Yesterday morning a local deliverycart weut its usual round, .the inari the : astonished customers ''• mind; our bread is 3d a loaf now." Onecustomer remarked on hearing the glad tidings, " Oh, all right, but quite enough too mind you, as times

' ■ A photographio gallery is: about, i being opened in the township by a ■ company who purpose, eventually having branches in all the townships . in South Wairarapa. • A weekly rehearsal practice of an; Oratorio, under tie able conduotoi:ship of Mr Shearer, is , ; actiyely : pro greasing towards its performance publicly, Itis a fact worthy of jio.to that few, if any towns with a iike number of grown-up .inhabitants ppssessso muohmusical Mentis. is.. found in'Greytbwn. "About oneiliird of the men and women residents ore instrumentalists, and' someVof the vocalists would,; under professional training, equal many professional singers;:!'--'i:' ; . ! -i /■■'' .r-A strong westerly.gale-is; blowing witliligiit intermittent shops, f\: ;v>-vf^':KonofrbN'obßNS^K^ : *■■• ; 7 ;As^f^;W^l'g : >'Rough -oii Gbrriff,"-!: it ah^cornsand^uiUOTßrAt.all chemist &^DwgfUts."i-^ ; - : ;'-^-'-: v ' : -S;v'';