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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3736, 14 February 1891, Page 2

A special meeting of the Eketakuna Boad Board is being held to-day to open tenders for road works.

Robert Ewart, arrested at Wellington on a charge of horse stealing, was taken through to Woodvillo yesterday by Constable Boache.

St Valentine's Day was celebrated in the usual style in Masterton to-day, the work of the Post Office officials being greatly iucreased thereby. Meetings of the North Wairarapa Hack Eacing Club, and ihe MastertonOpaki Jockey Club, will be held in the Club Hotel this evening. Mr E. M. Smith.iM.H.R, is appointed a member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, and Mr Joyce, M.M.R., a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board.

It is notified that red deer stags may be taken and killed in the counties of Wairarapa North and South from 20th February to 30th April.

Wo remind our readers that the Dobson-Kennedy Dramatic and Ucruedy Company, which has just concluded a most successful season on the West Coast, opens in the Theatre Royal. Masterton, on Monday even'ng, Dr Koch's lymph has been officially named tuborculine, and Is now being publicly sold.

Tho Deceased Wife's Sisters Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Commons by a majority of 47. A bush fire is raging nerr Sandhurst, in Victoria, which has devastated 20 miles of country, and is still unchecked. We notice by the Gazette that decent sized areas of land are still to be got at low rentals. A run containing 43,500 acres in Vincent and Southland Counties is to be offered. Upset rental, £2O per annnm.

A fruit grower informs us that ho has cleared his apple trees ©f the cod'in moth in a very simple manner. For two seasons those trees that contained apples bored by the moth wore stripped of their fruit, with the result that the trees are now in full bearing, and haye no moths. Walter Swauson, arrostod at Ekcta* huna on Thursday by Constable ftoache suffering from the D. T.'s, was discharged yesterday by Mr. A. Anderson on paying the doctor's expenses and other costs incurred. Two hundred ferrets are advertised tor sale by Mr. G. Taylor, of Kaikoura. Mr. H. S. Wardell has been appointed to relieve Captain Preece, E. M. at Napier, who has obtained a month's leave of absence.

A man advertising a stallion in a Thames paper, after narrating its performances on the turf, concludes by sayinsr it "would have won other good races only for an accident in the pun t crossing from Wanganui to Napier.'

The Advocate states that there has been quite a plague of rats at Pemberton, and they have done an immeimo amount of damage, especially to the grass seed. In one instance a settler, who had a small patch of grain, found that the rodents had so nearly destroyed it that it was not worth the cutting. As a proof of the superiority of totara over all other timbers, whether imported or not, it may be stated (says the Napier News), that in a culvert taken up at Woodville after being down fourteen years, the pencil marks even were distinguishable on the timber, which was as sound as when put in. On the principle that tho " early bird catches the worm," a lady at Palmerston North has applied to the Borough Council for the position of hospital nurse. Considering that the site for the hospital has not even been stumped yet, the Councillors were right in considering the application, as the Americans say, " too previous." Despite the fact of the commital for trial of the persons charged with hotel wrecking, says the Standard, larrikinism is still rifo in Featherston. For the past week Mr Mason, baker to Mr Burt, has been annoyed by a gang of ruffians who have, up to the present, escaped detection. Hie house has been visited nightly by these gentry, whose "fun" consists in throwing stones through the windows, woundinp innocent little chilc'-en, and overturning the meat safe. We sincerely hope these blackguards will be caught and punished in an exemplary manner. A poor woman at Auckland, a tailor's wife, has had a terrible experience. Her husband had suffered from melancholia, and for a few month's back she had to watch him to prevent him from doing himself an injury? Last Friday morning about 5 o'clock she woke up and found he was not in bed, and hearing a noise downstairs she went down and found him with his large shears open, and one of the blades in his breast, and he trying to force it in further by knocking it against the mantlepiece. She took the shears from him and also a second pair which he then picked up. The man then tell and never rose again The Clothing Stock at Hooper's Bon Marehe will be Sold at Nett Cost during the Great Sale, Mens', Boys' and Ch"'drens' Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Socks Ties, etc, at exceptionally low prices. A Monster Clearing Sale of Drapery and Clothing will be held during the next few days at L. J. Hooper and Cos' Bon March e. 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 Goods, Hosiery and Gloves, Umbrellas and Parasols, etc etc. will be made to make room for Fresh Shipments to arrive. So be ready for bargains in every department at Hopper's Monster Sale commencing Saturday morning, January 31st, at 8 o'clock.

We shall sell, and those that patro nize the Bon Marche Monster Clearing Sale will reapthe benefit of our being overstocked. Hooper and Co, Bon Marche.—apvt.