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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3870, 27 July 1891, Page 2

An old man named M'llvaney was on Friday morning found hanging to a tree near Kuraara. It is eyidently a case of sdcide. Ono of the abandoned class named Caroline Green, alias Eiley, has been found dead in the street in Dunedin. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of "death from excessive alcohol and exposure." We understand that Mr R. Oockburn, of Masterton, has refused an offer of £25 for a foal eight months old. The foal was sired by Mr Watson's Nil Desperandum. The real rame of the man Voss, who was recently arrested at Eketahuna on a charge of obtaining 44 head of cattle under fatae pretences, was Marryatt. He had channel his name owing to some family trouble in the Sonth Island.

A Manawatu contemporary says it is not expected that the Taxation Bill will be got through Committee tins session. Says the JSxaminer :—Figs do well at Mangatainoko, and in the village some hne fruit was obtained last season.

A vigorous alarm was sounded on the Queen-strebt firebell on Sunday morning, the cause of which was a burning flue. It will interest anglers to know that the streams in and arouud Masterton are this year almost alive w'th trout.

The Tasmanian Budget shows a surplus of £34,000. The dehcit has been reduced to £97,000.

The wife of the Minister for Education (Mrs W. P. Reeves) accompanied by Miss Reeves, is at present en a visit to Masterton.

The printing and reporting in connec tion with the Edwards appeal case cost the colony £239. This will necessitate the retrenchment of some unfortunate clerk.

The sum of £50,088 was contributed by the local bodies to the hospitals and charitable aid expenditure of the colony in the last financial year. The Resident Magistrates of the colony dre.v £1637 m travelling allowances last year.

Tnomss Charles Rayner, late of Masterton, has been adjudicated a bankrupt in Wellington. Christopher Nash, the proprietor of the Beaumont Hotel, dropped dead at Kaitangata on Friday night from heart disease.

The Manawatu Staiidard Bays, "Interesting develop nents ara likely to arise about the resolutions passed by the Wellington Assembly of the Knights of Labour, the other Assemblies objecting to be ruled by a clique of political "cranks." A solitary "drunk " appeared in the R. M. Court this morning, and was ordered to contribute five shillings to the Treasury for his over-indulgence. Bichard Anyon Butcher, journalist of Featherston, was on Saturday adjudged a bankrupt on the application of W. G. Tustin, painter, of Featherston. The first meeting of creditors will be held at the Courthouse, Featherston, on Friday next.

It is said that village settlers at Mangatainoka find no difficulty is disposing of their properties, and can get £8 an an acre over the Government valuation for their interest.

There are six patients in the Masterton Hospital at the present time, all of whom are progressing favourably. The number of deaths from typhoid fever and diphtheria in Melbourne during ttie first six months of the year show a must marked decrease on that of previous years.

We regret to hear that Mr. John Rayner, of the Tatatahi, who is now in the Old Country, has had the enjoj - ment of his trip considerably marred by an attack of influenza, Fortunately, however, the attack was not of a severe form.

Mr Kemper, of Mangatainoka, who. is well-known in Masterton, intends devoting his atteution to the cultivation of vines. Mi Kemper is a vipneron of considerable experience, and should do well in his new undertaking. A correwpondnnt writes to the Woodville paper as follows: —"Sir,— Will you kindly inform mo if there is any truth in the report that the various washerwomen in our town and the various friendly societies here are following the example of the Knights of Labour, and intend forming special settlement associations of their members for the purpose of taking up laud." Oyer two hundred shearers left Wellington for Queensland in the Waihora on Saturday. Eighty more leave by the Rotokino to-morrow. Mr Wripht informs us that a delegate from the Queensland Shearers' Union addressed a number of men on Friday who had sie-ned for the Bheds in Queensland, but, so far as he is awaro, there was not one who swerved from his allegiance to the articles he had signed. A man named John Mackintosh, emploj ed at felling bush on Mr Coleman Phillips' property, Dry River, was taken to Featherston on Friday, suffering from a severe injury to his toot. It appears that he wes cutting a sapling when his axe slipped, inflictnie an ugly gash. Although he lost a considerable quantity of blood, he is progressing favourably.

For wanton mischief and malicious depravity commend us to the larrikin of Masterton. His latest act of villainy is to endeavour to efface the inscriptions on certain tombstones in the local cemetery by a liberal application of tar. It is to be hoped the perpetrators ot this dastardly outrage will not escape the reward they so justly deserve. A grand ball and supper was given by Mr C. E Brenmuhl in the Eketahuna Town Hall on Friday evening to celebrate the opening of his new premises. A general invitation was extended, and as a result the hall was crowded to excess. Excellent music was provided by Mr.Foden. Everyone appeared to enioy themselves, and dancing was kept up till the small hours ef the morning. A telegram from Sydney sayß that three of the seamen belonging to the barque Ellen went mad within three days through drinking salt water. Their meat lasted till the 2Qth, and a little rain water was caught, but it was blackish, owing to the spray which came on board. The signalman at Seal Bocks lighthouse endeavoured to signal the men not to land, owing to the surf, but could not make them understand. Our Eketahuna correspondent writes regarding the Cup football match played, at Eketahuna on Saturday ; "After the game any amount of men could be seen limping about the field. Some appeared to have their hips dis located, others their noses fractured, whilst many had theirteatures so distorted that they were beyond recognition. But the game is a scientific one, and I suppose everybody enjoyed themselves."

A matter of some interest, we should like to say of all absorbing interest, to the settlers in tho3e localities through which this paper circulates ia not the meeting of our Houses of Patliament, not the political questions and policies therein discussed, not the attitude and bearing of the Labor patty, the opposition or the Ministerialist, but the great sale of surplus Winter Stock, commencing on Friday, July 3lst. at Te Aro House, Wellington. Country residents, thousands of whom have visited our previous sales and who went away rejoicing with empty purses but with large parce's, have every reason to remember them with pleasure. Now, another of these " old time" Sales of Surplus Winter Stock will wait the push of customers from the country on Friday, the 31st July, and up \o Saturday, August 15th, at Te Aro House Wellington. ' There will be no mistake about the lowness of the prices, many goods are at half price, and «omo even less than that. The Surplus Stock m every department has received its marching orders and march it shall if there is any money in the Colony, and prices can effect it at the Te Aro House sale of Surplus Winter Stock.

If a visit to this Surplus Stock Sale is not practicable, do the next best thing, send on your orders with the cash. We will execute them faithfully and quickly and forward them promptly. To help you to do this we will forward our price list free by post, it so desired, from Te Aro Mouse, Wellington.

Sporting men would find it greatly to their adyantage by c )rrespondinp with A. J. Jacobs, *he professional Taxidermist from London. Birds, fish, animals and reptiles preseryed and mounted in the highest style. Every description of skins preserved or tanned and made into rugs, etc. Work done in all its branches ao lowest rates. Correspon •Jence in all parts of the globe. 80 years' experience. All work guaranteed. Highest price given, or work done in exchange for huias, crows, New Zealand quail, and other birds. N. Z. birds wanted in any quantity. Orders left at Mr. Williams,' tobacconist, Masterton, or Mr. Catt's. hairdresser, Cart p rton, will be attended to, —Advt.