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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3383, 11 December 1889, Page 3

We arc requested to remind those interested that the latest time for receding tho Property-tax at the post office is Friday next, tho 13th inst at fuiir o'clock p.m. AFtor tint duto a fino at tho rate of ten per cent will bo added, Mr Henry JaniC3 M'Coooy, tho naturalist, lias discovered an entirely new an.i beautiful specimon of lizard near Cootamundra. Excellent specimens hive been forwarded to tho Australian Museum.

Speaking of llio cnntrOTOKy on tho anniversary of tlio colony, tlio Tiiiuirn Horald says;—" Auckland has, wo think the best of tho controversy, and the contention that Captain lMaon was eimply a British repreaantativo to a foreign nation is clearly untenable.

William Bishop, a Birmingham steeplejack, having completed a contract to repair a defective chimney, was removing his apparatus from its highest point when he foil to tho ground and was killed. Stonehengo is in danger from excursionists who slide down tho stonos, carve their initials upon them, and picnic insido the circle. A plea for the preservation of those Drnidical relics is being urged. On the recommendation of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Milltown has been selected by Her Jlajesty to fill the vacancy in the Order of Bt. Patrick caused by tho doath of tho Earl of Granard. General Booth, in opening a now Salvation hall in Liverpool, defied any one to point out any authorised doing of .the Salvation Army not justified from the Bible. They had 2,700 societies and 8,000 ollicors, for the most part self-supported, and tho annual income was not less than £600,000.