SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3789, 20 April 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

A potato weighing four ' and a half pounds has been sent to the office of the Carterton Observer. The export of coal from Groymouth for tho week ending Saturday L was 2103 tons. A. collie dog is advertised as found. The owner can have the same by applying to Branoepeth station. Th 9 Masterton Rifle Voluntcors hold their weekly parade on Thursday evening. Tenders are invited by the Masterton Road Board for a repairing ooutraot in the Fernridge road. A meeting of intending membors of tho Masterton Trotting Club will be held in the Club Hotel on Saturday evening next. It isßtated that no less than seven new hotel licenses will be applied for at the Juno sitting of the Licensing Com* mitte in Palmerston.

A committee meeting of the Greytown Literary and Debating (Society will be held this evening at the Council Chambers at 7.80 p.m., when a proposal will be drawn up for the coming season.

The Wairarapa Lake is still very high, higher than it has been for some time back. It is to be hoped that definite arrangements will be made for keeping it open.

Mr George Allon, blacksmith, of this town, has applied for a patent for an upsetting machine for closing tyre 3 in an ordinary vice. Tho following residents had been nominated for seats on the Masterton School Committee up to tho time of our going to press:—Messrs Feist, Prangnell, Hoar, Easthope, Eton, Gapper, Blmkhom, Burton, M; Williams, J.

Williams and Woodroofe. A dhrtstehurcb. artisan has made a violin out of German silver, and experts say that its tone is very sweet.

There is a consternation amongst

"Picturesque Atlas" subscribers in Dunedin just now. Blue paper is flying about!

Mr David Syrne is now sole proprietor of the Melbourne Age. He has bought out his nephew, Mr Joseph 0. Syme, son of his brother, Ebenezer, who was his original partner, and is said to have received £147,000 to sjo out.

A Wanganui man, casting about for a reason for the preponderance of lunatics in the asylum coming from that district, finds it in the fact that the town's drink -bill is £26,631 a year. Ho does not say whether any of the publicans of Wanganui dabble in chemistry. It is the intention of the Hawke's Bay Land Board f o throw 34,000 acres of land in the Poverty. Bay district, (at Motu and Mata) open for selection under the Land Act of 1887.

Navil architects In England are now discussing with some seriousness a pro* posal to build steamers a thousand feet long and three hundred feet beam.

We were shown yesterday morning a sunflower (Helianthus) which measured fifteen inches in diameter and three feet nine inches in circumference. This certainly puts in the shade the flower (twelve inches in diameter) that the Southern papers made so much of. Mrs D. P. Loasby, of Greytqwn, was the successful gardener. She will exhibit this splendid specimen at the coming chrysanthemum show. Alluding to the fact that it is only the poor and the weak that the present Ministry have courage to attack, and the latest economic feat of the Premier, the Chronicle says:—The petty meannesses of extravagant men are a cause of equal wonderment and contempt. A similar feeling is evoked by the skinflinting processes of prodigal administrations. Who would have thought that a Prime Minister, stepping from the editorial I chair in a country town, into an office of I State with a salary of £1250 a year, with a furnished residence and allowances added, and declaring before all the world that his services are miserably undervalued, could find it in his heart to out | down the pay of the poor copying clerks from threepence to twopence a folio.

A most suoceasful concert was held at Martinbrough on Friday eveniny last. The attendance was very good, the hall beiug comfortably tilled. Mr John Martin tuok the chair, and oponed the entertainment with a short speech.during which he referred in flattering terms to Mrs Pain. The following ladies cand gentlemen then took part in a very attractive programme, Mesdames Martin and Collins, itfisßes Ames, Gibbs, Orr and Wooley, and Messrs Taylor, Murdock, Beoket, Speckmau, Miller and A. »Y. J., and J. Martin. After the concert a dance was held, to which a great, number stopped. The ladies certainly had a moßt enjoyable time, as the gentle men were ten to one.

We are requested by Mr Wood to publish the following additional particulars in reference to the horses to be sold by him at the Taratahi yards next Thursday, on account of Peter Hume, iftq., of T«uanm, which he thinks may prove of interest to intending purchasers, and probably the general public :—Puriri is justly regarded as one of the best aires we have ever bad in the district, as his stock are winning everywhere, even in India, Noiomion Lion is a wonderfully well bred horse, being by the imported horse Leohauß, dam Waimn, who is by Ravensworth, imported, dam Wainiea, therefore halt brother to Puriri, Manuka, and closely related to a host of other celebrated horses. The chestnut gelding Nelson is a splendid weight carrier, full brother to Tauanui, and half brother to Piako, the Utter being the champion hunter on the West Coaßt, owned by Mr 1). Kiddiford and bred by Mr P, Hume, by Nanakia. Hautere won the Maiden Plate at Opaki, and paid a big dividend on Boxing Day. Tauanui won two races for Mr Hutana on St Patrick's day, and is spoken of as the best hurdle racer in the district. Chatterbox has won several races, and is a grand horse in harness. Further particulars and podigrees can be obtained on application to Mr Hume. On the subject of the Standards, Mr* O'Sullivan, late Inspector in Auckland' says:— " Some of the present teachers are men who have been trained in a better way, but in a few years we shall only have teachers who have been trained up to pass Standards, and whoso only idea of knowledge and ability ib beiug able to pass Standards. The system is fraught with danger, and if it goes on for a few generations, will ("as sure as eggs') convert the people of New Zealand into Chinamen, haying no originality of thought; everything being done by the Standards." Fok the seasonable, the attractive, the fascinating in material, Bhapes, styles, and the very latest fashions and novelties just to hand per Bteamer Rimutaka, Indies should not fail to embrace the opportunity now offered, and pay a visit to. the mantle department at Te Aro House. We are now showingsome marvellous "creations" in ladies' Bealette jackets, and specially note the following;—" The Melba,"with deep beaver facing, high | Fife collar, whioh can be worn in four distinct ways, and at prices ringing from 3to 6 guineas j .««The Ramtay," faced with nutria fur, reversible collar, cord ornaments, lateßt 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 aatraohan, high reversible uiedici csllar, lined silk throughout c —"iißas. An equally oniurmfrom2* too. 6*.— . . •"''—AWiahK ing sealette jacket is the "isiei* ...«, with deop- facing and collar of pure squirrelrfur, price 5 guiuoas, at To Aro House. " , ~. In plush, seal, plushette, and sealette jackets we have an immense variety. A Hner assortment was never yet shown m the colony. The pew stock is larucr, better selected and, in ore' Complete" tMh we have ever previously' been able to exhibit and wo are sure that any lady requiring the latest fashions in jackets of every description, ulsters, macintoshes, fur-lined cloaks, travelling wraps, etc*, will find everything desirable uow on view, al Te Aro House.—Advx.

The other day an A merican husband on coming down to breakfast found his wife sitting at the table with a distressed and faraway look in her eyes and in answer to his question—•• What is the matter this morning ?" she roplied "Oh, dou't aak me, Charlie, I couldn't tell you; indeed, indeed, I couldn't." Borne further questioning and coaxing at length brought out tho fact that she had hud a dream "such a terrible dream, I never, never, never could tell you about it." This of course made him more wild to ki.ow, so the lady related her dream as follows:—"I thought I was in a straugo city and there was a great salo of husbands going on by auction, and there were some husbands auctioned off at forty to fifty thousand dollars, thon a good many went about fifteen or twenty thousand and sodown,away down; some Sretty fair looking ones sold for about ftydolars." "Was tnereanyone like me in the first lot sold ?" "No, no there was not, I dont like to toll you, I— " "Oh do tell." "Well, you see, thero were a good many left jmt like you, and they were tied up in buuohes like carrots, and sold at ten cents a bunch."

Some joker, or more probably a globetrotter, whose Australian experience began and ended with Melbourne, has oeen "taking a rise" out of our rospeoted contemporary, the Live Stock Journal, in describing an Australian bush run of twenty yearn ago. In a portion of a run the narrator " could hear in the distance cows calling their calves and bulls roaring and stamping with And again: "Apart, with their BSWtohugo trees were to be seen bulls, 11 or 12 years old, with manes like lions 1" This is very funny.

The Napier Telegraph palms tho following on to its readers :—" Thero is an old settler in Taradole who, years ago, was almost bald, and whoso grey whiskers, beard and mouataohe, gave nim then a venerable appearance. Today he looks very different, His head is covered with a thick crop of hair inclined to brown and in amongst ihe whiskers and moustaohe are a considerable number of black hairs. An ancestor of this settler was exceedingly shortsighted, and could not read without powerful glasses, but when quite in his old age his sight returned to him as. good as ever. We ought to add that our friend at Taradale has used nothing for the restoration of his hair or itß colour."