The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1889.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3287, 20 August 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1889.

Wo direct attention to an inset from tho Wholesalo Drapery Company which wo publish with our to-day's issue, and which contains a list of prices that should provo attractive to the public, Although rabbits aro a nuisance, they certainly add considerably to the oxports of the district, • A load of about a dozen larpo bales of skins which came down from the Tauoru went to tho Railway Station on Tuesday morning. The free concert piven at the Temperance Hall on Monday night was a most successful .affair. There was a largo attendance, and a number of wcllknown vocalists in the district contributed Items. Tub chair was occupied by Mr E. Feist.

A somewhat curious feature in connection with Mondays football match was tho fact that somewhere about one half of tne attendance consisted of visitors to the place, Carterton, Greytown and Fcatherston contributed very largely, and it is many years sijico

so many vehicles havo crossed the Taratahi in one day. The newspapers on tho Western side of the Tararua have gone into hystrics over the statoment of the Promier that ho did not like to ruin tho WellingtonManawatu Railway Company by the formation of the railway from Eketahuna to Woodvillo. The manner in which the statement is attacked is undoubtedly the hest prooi that could possibly be obtained to show the importance of the Forty Jlile Bush District.

The footballers of the Wairarapa \yill bo pleased to learn that tho principal members of tho Native team which played hereon Monday speak of them in tho liii'hest terms of praise, and say that they nro by far the strongest team which the visitors have yet cnoountered in Now Zealand. Every department of the game is highly spolien of, and the Natives think that it a representative if Ml- ••'

.teen were tont south they would in all irobability win cvory match, Tim statement which has frequently ieen made that the Official Assignee in Wellington is overworked lias apparently io foundation in fact, for wo notice that Hr 0. C. Graham, the gontleman who ills that position, has been appointed Assistant Resident Magistrate, So far is Mr Graham is concerned no objection iriiatever can be raised to the appointment, Wairarapa people are, howover, of opinion that the Government would liavo dono bettor by relieving Mr Robinson, E.M., of iiis duties as District Judge in tho Wairarapa, in order to onable him to look af tor all tho business of the Court in tho Eniplvo City. Mr Grahara's appointment carries no salary,

Cable communication with Australia was restored at 4,40 p. in on Monday,. Mr A. Dish, erstwhile Mayor of 'this town, is at present on a visit to Masterton. C. E. Bookman was released on bail this morning, Messrs D, Steward and G, Ward havirnr ontored into the necessary bnud for liis re-appearanco. Tho ordinary fortnightly meeting of Hie Borough Council will bo held this evening. A domestic at Norwood had her glass oyo smashed by a flash of lightning, Krupp, tho gun man, employs 21,000111011, Ho started in 1833 with nino min. Mrs Connor, of Indiana, has begun the. summer season 'by. procuring a divorce from her seventh husband. Tenders are invited by Messrs Lowes and loms for tho lease of a homestead of 5J acres with dwelling liouso aud all necessary outbuildings. Tho friends of Mr George Sellar, formerly of the firm of Kdmoiulson, Sellar, & Co., of this city, says tho N./j, Times, will regret to hear of the death of his son, Victor, from typhoid fever at Melbourne en the 28th of last month. It is oxpectcd that tho prosent session ot Parliament will close in about three weeks' time.

A milkman named Thomas Campbell has boon fined i'ci at Wellington for cruelty to a horse. The horse was very low in condition, and badly girth-galled. A poultry show is to be hold in connection with the Wellington Agricultural Society's Show in Novcmbo», aud £lO is to be given in prizes. The name of Mr A, MoKenzie lias been added to the Committee to represent the Wairarapa,

Tho man Abbott and his wife who woro recently arrested at Christchurch for ill-treating a child named Esther Powdrick, were yesterday committed for trial.

The handicap tournament of tho Mas-

tortun Chess Club has rosulfced in a tio between Mr W. Kuinmer ot the secondclass, and E. 0. Smith of tho fourth class, each of those gentlomeii having lost only one game. They will probably play off next Monday night. Not tho least noticeable feature in connection with the reception of the native footballers, was the handsome dray and team of four bays turned out byMr,W. Neill for the occasion, and which took the visitors from the railway station to the Club Hotel, and also to the ground and back, Thero was a large attendance at the Theatre Royal last night at the carnival. Miss Coker and Miss Cullen divided honors for the first prize for ladies. Mr Bradbury secured the prisofor gentlemen, and Miss Manihora tho prize fur tho best (lax dress. Dancing was commenced a littlo after ten o'clock and was kopt up with great spirit till twelve. A member of tho Native team acted as judgo during the rinking, and hki selections, judging from the applause, gave every satisfaction. Nows was received trom Edinburgh by the last English mail that Mr Carr Smith, the oldest son of Dr Smith, of Greytown, had passed his first professional examination of tho course which is to qualify him as a physician and a surgeon, with wonderful success, his percentages in the various branches of knowledge being especially good, viz, one hundred, ninety-eight, ninety and eighty per cent respectively, in the different subjects. The examiners, we understand, specially complimented Mr Carr Smith on his good pass, He also took a first-class certificate at the classes in anatomy and practical clionmf-ry., Mr Smith's next examination is in April.

The righteous sentence of live years' ponal sorritudo has been passed at tho Central Criminal Court on the French adventurer Grandy, while his confederate an abandoned foreign woman, named Demay, has been sent to prison for eighteen months, with hard labour, on their conviction for having conspired totrether to concoct a fraudulent action for b reach ot promiso of marriage against a medical gentleman of unimpeachable respectability, and also with attempting to suborn divers persons to commit perjury in order to sustain the action in question, Tho conspiracy got up by. these alien rapsoallions was an except ionally vilo and impudent one. From beginning to end it meant nothing but blackmailing, which is an oflence far too common amongst us, and the prosecutor is to bo congratulated on tho energy and pluck he displayed in resisting the attempts at extortion, and in bringiug tho would-be extortioners to iustice, Good newß from Wellington, and quite true, you can get a splendid

harmonium from L 5, piano or organ from LIS, organ with divided octave couplars all in solid black walnut cases from Ll7. This beats all tho choapest houses in town. Pianos tuned for Vs, or by the year four visits LI, travelling expenses added, All kinds of musical instruments tuned, cleaned, and repaired new roods put in accordeons, concertinas harmoniums, and organs; also liboral

exchanges made. Any instrument may be purchased on the timo payment system from 2s Cd por week. Call and exchange your old piano for a now one atF, J, Pinny's Musical Instrument Depot, Manners-street, Wellington. (Solo agent of the celebrated Worcester organs.)- advt.

This evening there will be some really cheap garments in our clothing department and wo invite the working men of Wellington to visit our annual Winter Sale at Tc Aro House, Wellington. For such cold and wet weather as wc havo teen getting, and aro likely to get, nothing is more desirable as an article of wear than an overcoat. Just now wo have determined to clear out what we have left of these at prices that for quality have nover been quoted before. Visit our sale of these at Tc Aro House, Wellington, this evening. Yor can buy a really good heaver and tweed overcoats that were never sold under 20s for 12s Cd, some that are marked 25s for 15s lid, and others that were sold at 27s Cd for 18s lid. Men of Wairarapa, these are worthy your notice. See Ihem this evening at Te Aro House, Wellington,

There are also a few men's paget coals in small sizes, sold at 355, now to be had for 5s Gd; a lot of boys' knicker suits, in sizes 0 to 4, for ss; and some men's tweed vssts at 2s Gd, real price 7s Gil, at our Winter Salo To Aro House, Wellington, Gbkjt bargains in socks, ties, searls, shirts, and underclothing generally at this pur Winter Salo. Visit, this ovening, To Aro Houbo, Wellington.—Apvt. .