SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3861, 18 July 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

The Rev. J. Dukes will give an address in the Wesleyan Church tomorrow night. Subjeot—"What the Moral Sense of Masterton expects from a Licensing Committee." The protest apainst Malcolm, of Masterton, playing in the Ponekeathletic football match at Wellington has not been entertained.

The second reading of the Small Birds Nuisance Bill, which provides for the destruction of sparrows and other injurious birds, and compels local bodies to provide funds for this purpose, with a penalty for their refusing to do so, has been carried.

A woman named Jane Miller died suddenly at the Salvation Home, Wellington. She was scrubbing the floor in one of the rooms, when she was taken ill and died before medical aid arrived. The danco held at Gladstone last night on the occasion of the opening of the new town hall, was largely attended, so many visitors being present that all could not dance at once. Out of the 246 weasels, and 83 stoats which were shipped per K.M.S. Aorangi for the North Wairarapa Eabbit Board, only 21 died on the voyage. This is a very small percentage of mortality com* pared with other shipments. The Rev Robt. Wood will preach in the local Presbyterian Church to* morrow evening, taking for his subjecr " The drink war in Masterton! the will ot the publican v the will of the public." Messrs Lowes and lorus draw the attention of our readers to their stock sale advertisement, the entries for which comprise 400 fat and forward wethers, 10 fat bullocks, 10 forward bullocks. A gigantic sale of Drapery and Cloth lng is no * being held at Hooper's Drapery and Clothing Establishment (the Bon Marohe). The whole of their magnificent stock of Millinery, Dross Goods, Blankets, Flannels, Sheeting, Calicoes, Linoleums, Carpets, Hosiery, Gloves, etc, etc, Mens and Boys Clothing Hats, Shirts, etc, etc, will be submitted to the public at extraordinary low prices previous to their annual stocktaking, which is about to take place; This should be an opportunity that hawkers, Storekeopers, heads of families and others should not let pass without securing bom« of the many bargains that -will be offered. Messrs. Hooper & Co., of the Ton Marohe Drapery Warehouse, are well, known for giving the public the very best value in all kinds of Clothing in Masterton, and the opportunity that they are now offering at their gigantic Sale should be a great boon to purchasers. This sale commences on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, I and we anticipate seeing a great rush during that and following days .for the many bargains.

By the vote of the people oi Ballarat East, taken on June 26, the number of hotels in that borough is to bo reduced from sixty-eight, the present number, to twenty-eight. One thousand six hundred and forty votes were polled from » roll of 3588, and the majority for the I reduction was 844.

We are informed by the Rev J. Dukei that the Rev. Mark uuy Pearse willbe unable to lecture in Masterton, biiWCl pass through Masterton from Napier by the afternoon train on Thursday next.

Mr Buokland has given notice in the House of Representatives to ask the Minister of Education whether he can see his way clear to have the art of swimmiug taught in public schools. It would be interesting to see about a dozen imps scrambling for their lives in an ordinary sized water tank I A novel form of advertising has been adopted by Messrs Lester & Co. A horse, with a covering on which appears an exhortation to the public to " roll up 1" and see the thousand and one articles offered tor sale by the firm, has been ridden tii 3 morning through the main thoroughfares by a y(o>h in gorgeous attire. The advertisement besides being novel, is decidedly attractive.

Ibis is how the New Zealand Times, in its political notes, sums up a speech made by our esteemed member on the Criminal Code Bi II last night: Mr Hogg devotes himself to the box seat, thundering aB usual. He has much experience in the criminal law—he explains to the hushing House that it was only as reporter. He denounces certain clauses. Monstrous injustice the code bristles with. He objects to punishment for theft, for burglary, for threats. It is a piece of barbarity (with the three r's of the Scotohman of it seems to him the work of soViroend incarnate —he hopes it is He would like at the t&W'o flog all brutal criminals; he would Wso like to blow up all the-gaolß with "Deenamito."("YoH , ll get fourteen years" cries a voice.) He thinks if there were no male criminals there would be no female criminals; he has many other thoughts, which he gives us, producing the improsßion that he really has some notion that nobody ouqhc to be imprisoned for anything; altogether he is very loud and very amusing and very inconsequential. The House laughs at him a good deal, and accompanies him with a running fire of comment which Mr Speaker has to check.

Greyinouth must be an El DoradoJor the members of the legal fraternity. At the last periodical sitting of the R. M. Court, according to the Grey Rivet Argus, 87 civil coses were set down tor hearing. The same paper in reporting the ravages of a kleptomaniac, states that among the articles found at accused's house were "Crimean shuts, carpenters' 'bits' and a host of other articles of clothing; there were besides a most mia» cellaneous display of articles of luxury, such as handsome walking sticks, I umbrellas, a clock, and other ornamental [ little fixings " Our contemporary adds that the accused is either a born klepto* tnaniac or something worse, though curiously enough he ought not to be either, »s ho is the son of exceptionally pious parents, and is a Sunday school teacher himself." It is probably owing to the litigation in which they indulge, as shown aboyo, that the ?\ Grey people are reduced to the latnen- 1 table extreme of utilising carpenters' > "bits" as a covering for the body. We jf can understand "braces," but hardly i •'bits." " The gent'eman who wan t, reduced to the necessity of walking jj down the street clad in a Crimean shirt and a carpenter's "bit," and perhaps luxuriating in a walking stick would cut k but a sorry figure, and could be par* 1 doned for turning kleptomaniac, or even , . for being the son of "exceptionally piou parents."