SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3784, 13 April 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Colonel Hume has resigned the Inspectorship of the Voluuteers.-

A valuable reef has been struck in the Souihern Gross claim on the Mahakipawa goldfields. A reward often shillings is offered for the recovery of a ladies fur cloak lost in Masterton on Saturday evening. The collecting of the census papers is no easy thing in the Forty Mile Busb, offing to the flooded state of t e creekß and rivers.

The Masterton Rifle Volunteers hold their usual weekly parade on Thursday evening next.

The R.M.S. lonio arrived at Wellington at an early hour this morning. Her mails Bhould reach Masterton this evening.

The Mahinapua was safely floated off the Weßtport bar on Saturday and arrived at Wellington yesterday having sustained no damage.

The tourist traffic returns at Rotorua show that the number of tourists during the year was 2590, or an increase of aboufr eight hundred over that of the previous year.

Mr Carlyle Smythe, who is acting|ln Australia for his father, Mr K. S. Smythe, absent in England, has received a letter from Mr H. M. Stanley, in which the great explorer definitely nameß October as the date ot his departure for Australia.

The Manawatu Herald has the following:—A paragraph from the Advocate has been going the rounds to the effect that nearly all the mills are closed around Fox ton.. The facta are just the reverse, every mill around Fox ton, that has been working the past six months being now In full work.

Julia M'Uarty, a young woman of eighteen and an inmate of the Women a' Hospital at Melbourne, has been found guilty by a coroner's jury of the murder of her infant child. The woman strangled the child, by tying a cord ronnd its neck, and, according to the medical evidence, there was no reason to suppose that she was suffering from fever or anything ihat would tend to cause insanity.

Mr W. Corrie Johnston, evangelist* delivered a very interesting and impressive address in the Temperance J3aU last evening, the congregation being large. The subject of the address was the "Diyine Phonograph." Mr Johnston referred at length to the merits ef. the invention of Edison, and drew a pleasing comparison between this wonderful machine and the Divine Phonograph,

For the seasonable, the attractive, the fascinating in material, shapes, styles, and the very latest fashions and novelties just to hand per steamer Rimutaka, ladies should not fail to embrace the opportunity now offered, and pay a'viait to the mantle department at Te Aro House.

We are now showing some marvellous " creations" in ladies' sealette jackets, and specially note the following:—" The Melba," with deep beaver facing, high Fife collar, wliijh can be worn in four distinct ways, and at prices ranging from 3to 6 guineas; " The Ramsay," faced with nutria fur, revorsiblo collar, cord ornaments, latest styles, from 2 to 4 guineas, at Te Aro House.

An exceedingly handsome garment is "The Douglas" sealette jacket, faced with Persian lamb and real astrachan, high reversible medici collar, lined silk throughout from 2£ to 5 guineas. An equally cnarmwg sealette jacke'o is the "Isle of Wight" with deep facing and collar of pure squirrel fur, price 5 guineas, at Te Aro House.

In plush, seal, pluahette, and sealette jackets, we have an immense variety. A finer assortment was never yet shown in the colony. Tnenew stock is lareer, better selected and, more complete than we have ever previously been able to exhibit and we are sure that any lady requiring the latest fashionß in jackets of every description, ulsters, macintoshes, fur-lined cloaks, travelling wraps, etc, will find everything desirable now on view, at Te Aro House.—Advt.