SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3808, 12 May 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

A seven-roomed house in Worksop Road is advertised for Bale or to let. Messrs Lowos aud lorna add to their sale for May 20th, 200 empty ewes, 35 fat ewes, 10 fat cattle. A Bill lias boen drafted for submission to the House, providing for the establishment of homes for inebriates. There is said to be no foundation for the statement that Ministers haye decided to make additions to the Legislative Council.

The last meeting of the Masterton Borough Council as nt present constituted will he held in the Chambers this evening.

A list of cash prizes for a vegetable competition, for the season 1891-92, is adyertised by Messrs John Graham and Co., and should be of interest to many. A cottage in King Street, Wellington, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning, Special excursion trains are to run between Wellington and Bketahuna on Queen's Birthday, (May 25th). The election of five duly qualified persons as a Committee for the Alfred ton Licensing District takes, place on Tuesday, June 2nd,

The platform footpath near the residence ot Mr (V, Perry in Queen Street, has been taken up and pipes inserted in the place of the culvert the whole being tilled in with earth. When the footpath is kerbed and metalled a great improvement will have been effected.

An urgent notice concerning the Zealandia Silver Mining Company appears in another column. Mr T. H. V. Dickon, the Company's director, finds that the demand upon his time m Wellington quite prevents a personal visit to Masterton, and intending investors are therefore requested to send their applications fur shares direct to Messrs Harcourt and Co., Lambton Quay, without delay. Oyer seven thousand shares hayo beon sold in four days in Wellington—an unprecedented record.

In response to the circular from the Stock Department, the Committee of tho Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association have decided that in their opinion the appointment of a department tc d«al with tho licensing of stallions is inopportune. In reply to tho Mawke's Bay Agricultural and I'astoral Society, it was decided that the Committee was not prepared to express an opinion on the appointment of a chief inspector of sheep without haying information as to the Government's reason for making the appointment. L. J. Hooper Co,, ot the Bon Marche warehouse, notify the largest and most complete stock of general drapery and clothing in the Wairarapa. The firm have always held the premie r position for keeping the moat fashionable and best classes of goods procurable, together with moderate prices ; and this season their reputation will be ' folly sustained. Any of our readers requiring fashionable drapery or clothing should visit the Bon Marche. The following goods are now open for inspection:— French and English millinery, trimmed hats and bonnets, birds, feathers, ladies' and children's ulsters, ladies' jackets and mantles, corsets and underclothing, new dress goods in the following velveteens, flaked cheviots, cheviot checks. Dress tweedß, real Scotch homespuns, diagonal cloths, cashmeres, foulle serges and EataminGs. Winter gloyes and hosiery in all the best makes, furs and fur trimmings &c. Dressmaking on the premises by first class modestes. L.J, Hooper an 1 Co.. the Bon Marche,