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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3841, 25 June 1891, Page 2

Tenders are invited by the Akitio Road Board for about 60 chains road formation. For the paak week heavy frcsts hive been experienced in the Forty-Mile|Bußh every morning. ■ It in stated by the Manawatu Herald that the Maoris have recently made some fine captares of frost fish. So prevalent is typhoid feyer in Pahiatua at the present time that prompt steps are to be taken to improve the sanitary Condition of the town. A new terror has, says an exchange, been added to life in this district, in the shape of tree hawkers, who are taking the place of the rapidly diminishing book 'fiends.

Nearly all the Bhearers' camps in Queensland are broken up, and the men are seeking work on the stations. About £6OOO is now paid annually by the Government to policemen, in what is known as long-service pay. 1 It is stated in the Manawatu papers

that Mr. Wilson, editor of a Marton contemporary, has fallen heir to a legacy at Home.

The totalisator tax of 2£ per cent, will, if agreed to, cost the MastertonOpaki Jockey Club about £75 a year. The application of the Masterton School Committee for the sum of i 563 for repairs has been refused by the Wellington Education Board. Eleven widows and twenty-two children ! were rendered destitute by the wreck of the Taramung. Amelia Cole, charged with bigamy at Masterton, was brought up at fatea on Saturday and remanded until Monday next, bail being allowed. A rifle shooting mat jh between the Masterton Volunteers and Tenui Rifle Club iB to be fired at Tenui on Saturday, July llth. The match between Eketa» huna and Tenui has been postponed till

the spring. We learn from the Hokitika Guardian that instructions have been given to hy off a branch railway line from the GreyHokitika line to Kumara, the "blest abode" of the Minister for Public Works.

MrW. C. Buchanan, M.H.8., has beenplased on the Technical School Committee of the Wellington Education Board. Mr W. W. McOardle has been added to the Pupil Teachers' Committee at Masterton.

Says the Advocate i—On Saturday, at noon, at Rata, the almost unprecedented Bight was afforded of boys walking on ioe which hadfrozen. over a small pool of water, and which 'was over an inch and a half in thickness. Three miles of fencing is to be erected oa the boundary of Dr Newman's land, Akitjo, Tenders for the work are invited by Messrs Handyside, Roberts aiid Co.

A visitor from the eoujitry had the misfortune yesterday to take aboard too heavy a cargo. The result was that he found himself in one of the dark offices of the Government. He was brought before the R.M. this morning ana dealt with in the usual manner.

A pig has been slaughtered at Feilding turning the scales at 5001bs, Phew! that's nothing! Why, a cabbage was exhibited in Masterton yesterday weighing 121bs!

The hearing of the petition against the election of the Masterton Borough Licensing Committee has be9n further adjosrnpd till Friday, week, for ; the convenience of counsel.

The Department of Industry, started by the Balvajtion Army, has in Christcburch 100 applicants f6r work. The War Cry saystlje hunger and h<?me poverty of many i 8 slmosfc beyond belief in such a young country as this. When the municipal delegates assembled in Wellington a stranger remarked, "What a decent looking lot of fellows, I suppose they are members of Parliament?" "No fear," was the reply, they are members of njunicjpal councils; but there goes a njembjßr of Parliament, that chap with the black eye,'' "Lord, Molly what a fish) was the startled rejoinder. The Wellington Agricultural and Pasteral Association have decided to hold their show in future during the wee* after the Christchurch one. Tbis year's dates are ou the 18th and 19th of November. The list is revised, and there are few alteraripflß, except by making the prize? larger, The N.Z. Insurance Company gives £lO J.os to ihe best pen of Jjinpoln hoggets. The Society's jglO 10s for the best pen of 10 Romney Marsh hoggets, and A. for the best pen of. Souibdow# begets. There will be a bich jump competition, with a prize of £5. / Being the centre of the United Hunt Club there ought to be a good contest. The usfjal weekly meeting of the Phoenix Lodge, 1.0,(t.T ? was held in Temperance Hall on Wednesday pyityjing Sister Warner, P.0.T., presiding. The attendance was good. The programme for the evening being "Sisters to offioer and entertain,"all the offices were filled by sixers, who conducted the business and ceremonies yery creditably. One candidate was init4jate4, af?4 °ue proposed for membership. After tlje business had been completed the Lodge adjourned for refreshments provided by the sisters. On resuming a very successful programme was carried out, songs being rendered by Sistere ilently, Dalgety, Furae, and Wairner, and Bro G. Braggins ; readings by Sis Dalgety, and Bro SJrate; recitation by Bro Maw.hinay; and piano aplp by Bro Bennington. A thoroughly enjoyable pjeetjn? closed at 10 o'clock.

Hamlet: " The air bites shrewdly

is very cold. Horatio: It is a nippin? and an eager air, my Lord." Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1, As in the time of the Royal Dune and Courtly Hprjf tio, so of late, to use a very common expression, fcbu weather has. been "bitterly cold.'' for gres§nt Winter Season there have been'imported thousands of yards ot the best Flannels and bales upon bales oi Excellent Blankets at Te Aro Aouso, Wellington. Of Flannels we have at present a stock of abopt 20,000 (twenty thousand) yards, in ail the best English and Colonial makes, iu whjtei* Bhstyn4, Orkney, scarlet ?nd fancy .colpre, and the prices T3B«g6 fram ed to ?/r per" yard, at Aro House, Wellington- ; Wears noted throughouttheProyince: for the Excellent Value >e qisre jn Flannels, in that customers may rely on getting their orders executed most advantageously at Te Aro House, Wellington. (jiir stock of blankets is between 600 and 700 "pairs both the best English aud Colonial njakijs. W§ buy at first hand in the English markets,fro» i the very best manufacturers, ami af> thp lowest *casb' terms, and- our Colonial blankets are picked with great care from the best mills. We are thus able to sell o#rJ»jankefcß cheaper than nine tenths of the trade Colony can do. Our prices range from 6s jL£d £o 50§ per pair atTe Aro House, Wellington. As orders sometimes come addressed 1 to hands in our employ, and delay is jjjhajfffy caused, we would notify that all ord#ni*a#4 Cosiness letters should be addressed only io jaises Smith, Te >ro House, Wellington- * .Sporting men would find it greasy i# thier advantage by orrespondinp; with |A. J. Jacobs, the professional Taxidermist from London. Birds, fish, animals land reptiles preserved and mounted in the highest style. Every description of ! skins preserved or tanned and made ! into rygs, etc. Work done in all its branches a« lowest rates. Correspon dence inail paris of fdje ?l"he. 30 years' experience. All work guaranteed. Highest price givein or work done ift) I exchange for huias, crows. New Zealand quail, and other birds. N. Z. birds wanted in any quantity. Orders left at Mr. Williams,' tobacconist, Masterton, up Mr. Catt's, hairdresser, Carterton, will be attended to, — Aoyx.