BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3467, 24 March 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Dull. _ • i More rain. More rest, eh) - Huge gathering at Maori " Pah" yesterday, ' : Annual nnoting of Mastorlon Football Club. Eketahunaites got adoing' 1 nt ihe bands of'tho Stan on Saturday. A man : iiamed. DAviea Laa. beeii f_ brutally murdered liy bia wifo'and two tons at Crewo, England. This is I outrageously cruel. i Bothschilds hare undertaken the Russian conversion loan of fifteen millions, Tho political situation in Germany occaetons ■tmeauinojs throughout Europe, except in Go'rmany itself, An information has been sworn against James McKenzie, of P,etono, for callin'g'Boino of the girls'of the Wellington WoollenCorap(tny;"blacklfi S a '"■ ! ' Quite a scene owurrod in Quoenslreet on Saturday night, when a happy couple were shuffling along atid the weaker individual rose her band gently and brought it into violent contact with.thenose of her paramour. Ho swears he, will "nerer get drunk any more, 1 !,... a . • A .weli-knowti Masterton resident effected l rather a hoavy : 'ineezo on Saturday night, which resulted in ; tho sudden extinguishing of tho light of the town clock. ' Mra Nancy Piper filed her petition in bankruptcy. ftt tho other jky. ' Tho fact is, she left her credits to pay the piper. Whco the. Jubilee Plungercmevgea

from gaol he will be nblo' to write a book entitled " How Ilost ldlbs in 4* three months.",j , Election of new school committee next month. Humoured that several of 6(ir present ' members ■will i retire,' Thanklessfcillet, elif; * Speeulatio'n's 03 : to who will be candidates for Pailiamentary honors at the next general elections; tJnder the new boundary arrangement there is almost cettaih to be n qua'tetto. : The ministers of Wellington hare been asked : to preach. a termon on Sabbath obaorvancd. Ko need of such a course in Masterton! The Directors of, Jho; Longbnrn Freezing Company intend to propose to the Bhrteholdersl that the capital shall be'increased from £20,000 to £30,000;.; ins Harry Mowy, a racecourse, habitnJ, lias been .fined £5 for playing a lottery gamo at A raoemeetjng recently- held: Mjfimar'n, Money will not be quito now, perhaps!,./ r; Some nmuiement ittaa created at To Ore Ore yesterday by the amalgamating of the'riasal appendage of a certain military individual with the tamo organ,ooff f a- number-of Maori " waihenasThe ceremony .appears. to hare been' a source of tho greatest enjoyment jo,the. latter I; , The'Victorian-.Government has . decided: to.appoipt a select committee to inquire into the .question of infant!- ~ cide andbaby farming, and the. causes leading tlldi elo.' Hpw chiidislf I'' Maori Mormon's are supposed to hayo only pne wifoand.stick. to ljer! Wo are afraid that siioh'ft supposition will.not meet with much' favor among our iiativ'e brethren I; , : 1