The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3726, 3 February 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1891.

Tenders are invited by the Maurice* yille Road Board for metalling about forty-five chains of Dryer's Rock load. A lady resident of Masterton informs us that one night recently she lost no less than flye hundred-weight of plums. Crops of onions in the Palmerston and Awahuri districts have been affected this year by blight. The s. s. Mariposa arrived at Auckland from San Francisco yesterday. During the voyage Arnold Durer, a steerage passenger, died of acute rheumatism.

It is intended by the Mauriceville Road Board to stiike a special rate of sjd in the £ to secure the re-paymont of a loan borrowed for the purpose of felling and forming Mount Muuro road east.

The annual picnic in connection with the Gieytown public school is to be held on Friday week. The South Wairarapa sub division of the Wellington sheep district is exempt from wool branding sheep undei section G7, Sheep Act, 1890. "~A new Wesleyan Church at Beividere is to be opened on Sunday next, The Sydney Bulletin thus describes the N.S. W. Governor:—"Governor Jersey turned up at Melbourne in due course last week, and an honourable native at once seized his carpet bag and carried it up to the Government house without embezzling any of the shirts out of it on the road. His Excellency wore a pair of speckled pants and a hat that had seen better and brighter days, and his coat was bulgy at the back as if he had frequently carried aausagea home in the hind pocket. He proved to be small and somewhat baggy, and he had a baby smile partially disguised at intervals by an eyeglass ; also he had seven whiskers on one side and nine and a small one on the other. His hair it the same colour as a brown dog seen indistinctly in the dusk, and he stotters badly with both legs," A Monster Clearing Sale of Drapery and Clothing will be held during the next few ; days at L. J. Hooper and Cos' Bon Marohe. Every article in the warehouse will be offered at greatly reduced prices. The sale will commence on Saturday morning, January 31st, at 8 o'clock, A tremendous sacrifice of Dress Goods, Millinery, Ladies' Jackets, Mantles; Corsets, Straw Gcods, Hosiery and Gloves, Umbrellas and Parasols, etc etc, will be made to make room for Fresh Shipaients to arrive. So be ready for bargaius in every department at Hooper's Monster Sale commencing Saturday morning, January 31st, at 8 o'clock. The Clothing Stock at Hooper's Bon Marche will be Sold at Nett Cost during the Great Sale, Mens', Boys' and Childrens' Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Socks, Tics, etc, at exceptionally low prices. Wo shall sell, and those that patronize the Bon Marche Monster Clearing Sale will reap the oeneik' of' cur being overstocked. Hooper and Co, Bon Marche'-^Pyy-

Mr W. C. Smith has not been elected Chairman of Committees. His appointment has been deferred till - next session.

Exhibitions of the phonograph have recently been made in Napier. The Wairarapa district will probably be visitpd in a few weeks. For many years past Mauriceville has produced large quantities of garss seed, but we learn this year the harvest is a failure. This will mean a considerable and serious loss to struggling settlers. Argument in the Whitaker-Hutchison case will be heard in Wellington before the Chief Justice to-morrow. Mr R. 8. Hawkins, who was nominated by the Masterton and Mangatainoka School Committees for a seat on the Wellington Education Board, has declined to stand for election. A contributor of notes to the N-Z. Herald, dealing with a sermon on newspapers, says that editors are always too busy to let Satan get the chance he has with idle hands. Mr. W. W. Corpe has just erected a new mill at Pohangina which will employ twenty-five hands. It is considered by au exchange that the present Ministry carry weight because they avera?e thirteen stone apiece.

Information has reached us that on Saturday night last some despicable thief robbed a poor widow in Masterton of her Sunday's dinner. The Natives in this and other districts are protesting against Europeans being allowed to buy all the land belonging to any Native, as it tends to produce poverty. A Mauriceville correspondent writes : "The Mauriceville railway station was at one time one 'of the brightest spots in the district, but now it is one of the darkest. The last cottage was removed last week, leaving only the 1 dark goods shed."

We would call the attention of owners of race horses to the excellent programme (which appears in our advertising columns) issued by the Woodville District Jockey Club for the first April next. The amount of added money is £245 distributed over eight races, seven of which are open to horses that have never won an advertised stake of the value of 40 sovs. at time of start (hack races excepted). This Club is one of the most successful hack Clubs in tho country, and has a substantial balance to its credit at the bank. Judging from the able and efficient manner in which its affairs are conducted and the inducement offered to horse owners in the shape of good stakes, we venture to predict for the Club a most successful meeting. We regret to record the death of still another of our early settlers in the person of Mrs T, Wakelin, Senr., relict of the late Thomas Wakelin, builder and con. tractor, who built the first buildings in the Wairarapa. Mrs Wakelin breathed her last about 10 o'clock on Sunday night at her residence, Greytown, aftei a very short illness. On Saturday she was performing her domestic duties as usual, and was even more hearty than she had boon previous, for she partook of a good dinner. Soon after, however, she became unwell. She retired, and from that time gradually grew worse, until at the time stated she passed away falling asleep so gently and peacefully that her departure from this world could hardly be detected. If any proof were necessary of her kindness of heart, even on Sunday afternoon, apparently regardless of her own position, she kindly enquired of the welfaro of her friends, particularly the younger generation in | whom she always took the kindest and liveliest interest, watching thein developing into manhood or womanhood as the case might be, as if she were foster mother to them all. Mrs Wakelin has gone, but her memory will remain green as long as the history of the struggles of the pioneers of the Colony exists. She leaves three "town up daughters and their families, beaides many other sorrowing relatives to mourn her loss.