SECOND EDITION

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

SECOND EDITION

Wilfred Woolf, a labourer of Pahiatua, was yesterday adjudicated a bankrupt. A first meeting of creditors will be held on Saturday next. ' Our local contemporary in a recent biographical sketch, made the -startling assertion that Mr Ward, M.H.R., waa a yr ung New Zealander, born at Emerald Hill, Victoria. He also wished his readers to believe that Mr Ward "commenced life in boyhood." The San Francisco mail should arrive in Masterton to-morrow, Admiral Lord Charles Scott and Lady Scott are expected in New Zealand on the 23rd of this month. A tender has been accepted by the Government for the erection of a new lunatic asylum at Porirua. The Dunedin Star heads a telegram referring to the Atkinson Government and the appointment of Mr. Cadmun to the charge of Charitable Aid and Hospitals, "Washington, January 29."

The Committee of the Masterton Library has decided to procure copies of General Booth's now book, "In Darkest England," for the use of subscribers. The Works Committee of the Masterton Borough Council have recommended that proceedings be taken against shopkeepers sweeping refuse into the Borough water channels. We understand that the local asrents of fire insurance companies have been instructed not to take further risks on houses in tne bush with shingle roofs. An egg shaped box of wood has been found on the sea beach near Waitaugi, containing the words, "A great fortune is in store for you; wait patiently." The finder of the curiosity is waiting patiently. About once a month we (Uongkon Telegraph) register a blood curdling vow on the accumulated files of the Telegraph, to the eft'oct that the yery next time our compositonal staff exasperate us by their inconceivably idiotic style of spelling we will appeal to our readers by publishing the paper with all its errors on its head. We don't know that we shan't do it some day, but'inthe meantime we will "make even," to some extent, by reproducing, literatim, a portion ot a familiar recitation, as "setup" the other day by a natural idiot with ayuvue and a composing stick. The public will see what we have to put up with in the following:— "The Burial of Sir. John Moor. —Not a drum was heard not a funeral note as his course to the ramparts. We hirmed not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the gram when our Hero we buried. We buried him doubly at dead of night. The soda with our bayonets tunning. By thuggling moonheaurs ruirty 1 ghfc and tho lantern dimly burning. J No melen coffin enclosed his breast not in shut nor in shorsed we woulp him. But he lay like a warrior taking his not. Wilt his martial clock around him. Few and short were the papers and, wo spoke not a word of sorrow. But we steadfastly galed on the fall that was dead and we bitterly thought of the morrer." To morrow we invite special attention to the remarkably cheap lots in our dress department at Te Aro House. Those who will throng that counter aud make their selections from tho array of bar~ gains displayed will haye every reason to be thankful for the institution of " The Fair."

To-morrow we shall offer dress lengths of Fronch cashmeres in several beautiful shades of the new greens at 25s for 12s fd, dress lengths of the fashionable mohairs at 15s for 10s 6d and dress lengths of black grenadines reduced to 5s lid at "The Fair" Te Aro House. To morrow we shall show dresslongths of summer mohairs, reduced from 5s 6d to 2s lid, Bummor checks reduced from 7s 6d to 3s lid, summer flakes reduced from 8s 6d to 4s lid, summer tweeds reduced from 12s to Cs 6d at "The Fair" Te Aro House. To morrow we shall sell full dress lengths of the following double width material, viz :—Delaines at 9s lid for Gs lid, Ecarte at 12s 6d for 8s lid, Beiges at 10s 6'd for 103 Cd, Knicker Tweeds at 21s for 12s 6d, Striped Cashmeres at 10s Cd for 10s Cd, and Figured Suitings at 21s Cd for 12s 9d, at "The Fair," To Aro House. To morrow wo have resolved ta clear out all our Remnants of Black Silks, Colored Silks, Black Satins, Colored Satins, Black Silk Velvets, Colored SiJk Velvets, and all dress Fabrics at half price ab "The Fair," Te Aro House, I j