SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3807, 11 May 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

John Frederick Flood, town clerk of Lithgoiv(N.S.W.), has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment with hard labor for embezzlement.

A social gathering is to bo held in the local Wesleyan Church on Wednosdiv evening next, to afford the Rev J. Dukes an opportunity of speedily making the acquaintance of those to whom lie ministers.

The moderate party had au easy victory in the Kaitangata licensing election.

A woman named Mary Brickly has been arrested in Wellington lor stealing a pair of trousers.

It is stated thht an Otago squatter clearea £I4OO last year from rabbits after all expenses were paid. We are in receipt of the sixth annual report of the Wellington Acclimatization Society, which contains information of a very interesting nature, A girl named Annoar, fourteen years of age, was jerked off a railway truck at Longburn on Saturday, and was seriously injured by the wheels passing over her thighs and one of her arms. Unionism in Dunedin is under a cloud, Mr in a speech on Saturday said that never in his experience had the times been so depressed or trade so dull.

The National Insurance Co., has declared a dividend at the rate of 10 por cent, per annum. Mr T, A. Weston lias a pumpkin exhibited in his shop at Carterton, which turns the scales at 75 pounds. It was grown by Mr Eli StrawbridL'or at Waihakoke. Two young men named Mitchell aud Joyco, prospectors, twelve mile* up tho Buller Riv-r, liaye been missing since Wednesday. Their canoe was found bottom up, and It ia feared they are droivuod,

Besides being obtainable at the Waiaiiapa Daily Office, prospectuses and plans of the Zealandia Silver Mines, Tasmania, are now to be had on ap- ' plicution to Mr (leorcjo Fairbrother, Carterton, or to Mr F. fi. Wood, Greytown. in the Brisbane Supremo CourtyJJihilo a witness in the conspiracy case* was describing the manner in which the Unionists met the free labourers at Clermont, and how tho police declined to act without ardors, Judge Harding remarked, "As tho police were all armed with six shooters thero would noli have been many who would have ' boolioohcd ' a second time if 1 had been one of the polico. It is monstrous to consider how any froc nation is to exist when such things are considered juati- . Gable and allowable." Hia Honor condemned tho conduct of the polioo in not making arrests. The Wellington Agricultural and Pastoral Association held a Committee meeting at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company's buildings on Saturday. Present—Dr .Newman, in the chair, Messrß Bidwill, BriCdey, Beethain, Dickson, Foster, Fitzherbert, Mills, Matthews, McKenzie, MoLoan, Riddiford, Sladden, Scales. Mr Mills having resigned the position of Treasurer, Mr Foster was duly olected. Tho iinan< oial position of tho Association was discuEsed. Each momber of Committee agreed to get as many members.*'* ' possible. The date of the Show will about the same \ An incident iu tflHR Mi, lyuchitL case, the killing of Wiozzi, ia iiairateo, in the Times, and is ono of the most\ sensational occurrences in that very \ sensational tragody. Whon tho prison \ side door waß opened a number of armed ■, men appeared pushing before them Polozzi, who looked aghast with to jjjor, and was evidently quite mad, the crowd called on the armed men to kill him. He was dragged down to a streot corner amidst a dense crowd. Front balconies men and women watched the scone with opera glasacß. At tho corner is a lamp post- A man threw a ropo across the streot, another man scaled tho lamp pemt, and passed tho ropo over it with a nooße at one end. "Polozzi was hoisted into tho air, but only for an instant, fur the ropo slipped and he fell to tho pavement. In a couple of seconds - the rojpe was readjusted, strong hands pulled it taunt) and the body was dangling from the pott. As soon as the man waß high enough to nuke the range safe and allow the shots to escape the heads ef the people, a dozen repoits rang out. The olood rushed Irom Polozzi's face, and many shots riddled his body. Then the ropo was tied securely to the post, and the corpse was left danglinp." > not many examples of lynching, eVen in the most turbulent times of Vigilance Committees which can equal or surpass this incident of the New Crleanß tragedy,• L. J. Hooper Co,, ot tho Bon Marche warehouse, notify tho largest and most complete stock of general drapery and clothing in the Wairarapa. The firm have always held the premier position for keeping the most fashionable and best classes of goods procurable, together with moderate prioes; and tlua ' season their reputation will be fully sustained. Any of our readers requiring fashionable drapery or clothing should visit the Bon Marcho. The following ' ; goods are now open for inspection:— : ' French and English millinory/ffimmad hats and bonnets, birds, feathers, ladieß' and children's ulsters, ladies'. ' jacketß and mantleß, coraetßand under- , clothing, new drees goods in the follow* nag velveteens, flaked cheviots, ohoviot. checks. Dross tweedß, real Sootoh homespuns, diagonal cloths, coahmores, foulle serges and Estaminds, Winter . gloyes and hosiery iu all the ' best makes, furs and fur trimmings &o. Dressmaking on the premises by first, class modestes. L. J. Hooper and Co., the Bon Marche.