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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3855, 11 July 1891, Page 2

The cost of pulling down and removing the engine and coal sheda at Woodville and re-erecting them at Danevirke is shown by a return to have been £354, The next English and European mail via San Francisco, closes at the Master" ton Post Office on July 16th. A book on Imperial defence, especially with regard to the Colonies, has been written by Sir Charles Dilke. Outstanding accounts in the estate of the late Sergeaut Pries are requested to be sent in for settlement by Monday, July 13th. A man named George Smith, about sixty years of age, clerk in the employ of Jabez Rhodes, woolbroker, of Christ . church, was found dead in bed yesterday. He was an old colonist. A witness in the case Tayler v. Renall provoked roars of laughter in the District Court yesterday afcernooon by quite unwittingly remarking, "The water at this spot is wet, your Honour 1" i A Wondville larri'rin was on Monday I fined for interrupting a Salyation Army s prayer meeting and pelting one of the k las ses with cake at a coffee Bupper the 3 same evening. A man named McLeod has died at 9 YVaipawa from the effects of a throw I from a horae. He was a shepherd, and 8 aftar falling remained out all night. f The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon is in a verj 3 critical condition indeed, and the faruil] 3 are receiving many telegrams of sym II pathy from America, Canada and else 1 where. A little boy named Sunnex, abou '' eight years old, had one of his finger cut off whilst playing with a chaff-cuttinj machine at the Upper Hutt on Thursday The licensee of the Bank Hotel in Wel " 11 i. tt finAi) atifl 4 fn

r una uowi .*i*v,v. -*v -* emitting a barmaid to be employed in le bar after license hours. The hotel ■as entered by Constable Swain on Sunay morning last. The weekly session of the Masterton Vesleyan Mutual Improvement Sooiety rasheld last evening, when a _ very nterestmg address o.» "astronomy" was elivered by the president. There is every probability of the case !ayler v. Benall occupying the District !ourt till Tuesday or Wednesday next. ?he case for the plaintiff is not yet inished. A number of larrikins have, we are uformed, devoted themselves of late to ruelly llltreating a crippled foal, which las been at large on the banks of the Vaipoua river, by pelting it with tones. A "braw laddie" from the "Land o' 3akes,"who had evidently"tuk a diahm" >efore going to the Scotch concert, ifforded no end ot amusement by his -esticulations last evening,and when the nspiring strains of the bagpipes burst lpon his loyal ear he became fearfully >xcited and could hardly contain himself. The Secretary ot the Masterton Foot jail Club informs us that the return natch Wellington v. Masterton will not je played on August Ist a3 irranged. as he ground will not be available. 'Che natch is therefore practically "off." Mr. Duthie, M. H. R., Btatod in the House on Thursday that on the day previous a man had to walk all the way From Masterton to Wellington seeking employment, because he had to maks application to the Bur3au of Industry, and the Benevolent Society had had to find the money to keep him till he was Bent back to Pahiatua, the scene of the relief works. The Masterton Rifle Volunteers were inspected by Major Newall last evening, about thirty-five, rank and file, being on parade. The men were put througk their facings by commissioned and noncommissioned officers, and the Majoi expressed himself highly pleased wi tli the improvement made in the efficiencj of the corps. An exhibition of Bedell's Patent Gai Goyernor was made in the premises ad' joining the Bank of Australasia lasl evening. The working of the governoi was explained by the patentee to a num ber of gentlemen, and a test of eighi lights was made, which showed an actua saving of Ift and three-tenths in foui minutes, A large number of the governors have already been disposed of ii Masterton. Mr Bedell is leaving fo Napier on Monday, but requests us t< state that another exhibition will bi made to-ni?ht. Hamlet : " The air bites shrewdly ; i is very cold. Horatio: It is a nippim and an e;iger air, my Lord." Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1, As in the time of the Royal Dane an( Courtly Horatio, so of late, to use a ver common expression, the weather ha been "bitterly cold." For the presen Winter Season there have been inipor ted thousands of yards ot the bes Flannels and bales upon bales ot Kxcel lent Blankets at Te Aro Houso, Welling ton. . . ,

i Of Flannels we have at present a stock of about 20,000 (twenty thousand) yards, in all the best English and Colonial makes, in white, Shetland, Orkney, scarlet and fanoy colors, and the prices range from 9id to 3/- per yard, at Te Aro House, Wellington. We are noted throughout the Proyince for the Excellent Value .ve give in Flannels, in that customers may rely on getting their orders executed moat advantageously at Te Aro House, Welling-on. Our usual stock of blankets is between 600 and 700 pairs in both the be6t English and Colonial makes. We buy at first hand in the English markets.from the very best manufacturers, and at the lowest cash terms, and our Colonial blankets are picked with great care from the best mills. We are thus able to sell our blankets cheaper than nine tenths of the trade in the Colony can do. Our prices range from 6s lid to 50s per pair at Te Aro House, "Wellington. As orders sometimes come addressed to hands in our employ, and delay is therebj caused, we would notify that all orders and business letters should be addressed only to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellixip'an.