Mr. Corrie J ohnston, evangelist, began a series of lectures in the Theatre Royal, Christchurch, on Sunday last. The sum of .6550 has been subscribed towards the fund for the relief of the poor of Christchurch. The first of the Australian Auxiliary Squadron (H. M. S. Tauranga) has arrived at Port Darwin. Maitha Ccla, charged with bigamy at Masterton, was committed for trial a Patea ou Thursday last. The prisone r has be en lodged in the Wanganui Gaoj It is estimated that there are nearly forty thousand people out of work in Victoria.
A special meeting of the Mastertou Borough Council was to have been held last night to revise the estimates and receive the balance-sheet, but lapsed for want of a quorum. The meeting will be held to-nifht.' The football match Eketahuna v. Woodville, played at WoodviUe on Saturday last, resulted in a win for the former, alter a hard fight, by four points to one.
Mr. Alfred William Renall, the Hutt pioneer and expert in roads aua bridges, somewhat surprised the denizens of the District Court yesterday by modestly asserting that a few years back the whole of Masterton was his property. Needless to say, nobody doubted the assertion 1 In Victoria the Chi£ Justice pets £3500 a year, and each of the puisne Judges £"3000, The senior polio e magistrate draws £950 a year, and a large number of pol.'ce magistrates gei £750 a year each. Tbere is likely to be plenty of bushfalling work in Poverty Bay district this season, and there is a substantial advanc on the starvation rates that existed some time ago. As much as 30s a week is now obtainable in exceptional cases.
An Auckland paper accounted for the recent earthquakes by saying, "the land was simply revolting at the burdens which the Ballance Ministry desired to place upon it." Mr. A. W. Hogg, M. H. R., is credited by Hansard with saying that "the fomale franchise, ut Drought into play, will have the effect of bringing about a Conservative re-action."
According to a contemporary, rabbitskins are likely to rise in value, for the decree has gone torth in Paris, from the mysterious arbiters of fashion, that "rabbit's wool coating" is to be the material to be worn by all who wish to be regarded as in the mode. The Prince of Wales has set the example, and as the new tissue, which is described as boms; very soft and beautiful, is equally well adapted for male ard female apparel, the demand for rabbit fur can scarcely fail to assume very large dimensions. In Melbourne, at the present tiire a woman servant cannot be got for money unless the place suits her. It is quite the opposite in the jase of men. For a vacant billet as barman 320 stalwart youßg men, all heayily pinched by want, applied for the position. A well-known lodging house keeper in Collins street advertised for an erraDd boy, and received amon? her answers several admirably written letters from men evidently fit for superior positions and possessed of good testimonials, offering to do any work about the house she chose; to tcrub, clean boots, grates, anything—for just as few shillings per week as she mignt please to add to their board and lodging. Hamlet : " The air bites shrewdly ; it 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 Dane and Courtly Horatio, so of late, to use a very common expression, the weather has been "bitterly cold." For the present Winter Season there have been imported thousands of yards ot the best Flannels and bales upon bales ot Excellent Blankets at Te Aro House, Wellington.
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 fancy colors, and the prices range from 9id to 3/- per yard, at Te Aro House, Wellington. We are noted throughout the Province for the Excellent Value we give in Flaunels, in that customers may rely on getting their orders executed most advantageously at Te Aro House, Welling - on.
Our usual stock of blankets is between 600 and 700 pairs in both the best 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 be addressed only to James iSmith, Xe Aro House, Wellinp i .on
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3858, 15 July 1891, Page 2
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