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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3878, 5 August 1891, Page 2

Owing to pressure on our space, the notes which usually appear in our Prohi bition column are held over till tomorrow (Thursday). There is some talk of another dairy factory being established in the Woodville district. At a meeting of Maneatainoka settlers on Saturday night it was resolved that a petition be presented to Parliament, praying that the Eketahuna-Woodville line of railway be at once commenced at the WotdviUe end. It is stated that thinps are brightening up in Hawse's Bay district from a working man's point of vjew, plenty of work being procurable. We are informed that Mr W. Stewart's hotel at Pahiatua is about to change hands, the freehold »f the property having been purchased by a gentleman from the South Island. A line of 200 tons of potatoes was sold by auction at Bangiora last Friday for £52, This price will about pay for digging and sacks. The following is how a happy father t?ave utterance to his feelings in the "Otago Daily Times" :—"Gwynnk—On the 18th July, at her residence, Palmerston, the wife of Mr J. T. Gwynne of a I bod—Vive le roi! Oh, rest and be thank-1 Jul!"

The latest novelty in the Melbourne Waxworks is a hairless horse, sent over from New Zealand, The son of a leading English banker is to be married at an early date to the daughter of an old settler of Otago. Considerable interest Is being displayed in the event in social circles. Snails boiled in barley water are a sovereign remedy for a cold, Suoh a remedy only needs to be mentioned to be eagerly adopted. The Town Clerk, instructed by His Worship the Mayor, has written to Mr. A. W. Renall, informing him that he will be held responsible for damage done to Lincoln road through the cutting of his drain. It is estimated that Melbourne's river improvements saved it a million of money on a single day during the recent heavy floods. It is estimated that fully eight hundred persons were present at the meeting in the Theatre Royal last evening. A meeting of those interested in the sport of hunting will be held at the Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton, on the evening of the hunt, which takes place on August 11th.

We understand that should sumcient inducement offer, Mr. E. Tennyson Smich, the well-known temperance orator, will visit Mastertun at an early date. At a public meeting held in Christchurch on Wednesday last, resolutions were passed approving of Mr. Joyce's Licensing Bill and protesting against compensation. A portion of tbe brick building which is in course of construction at Pahiatua for Mr T. C. Williams, was destroyed on Sunday by a heavy gale which was blowing. Our Pahiatua correspondent writes:— At Stewart's Hotel on Monday evening, the late proprietor, Mr W. Stewart, fare • welled by treating his many friends to free drinks. The new proprietor (Mr Sweeney) goes in on Wednesday.

Whilst returning home from the meeting in the Theatre Royal last evening, Mr. T, W. Shute met with a nasty, accident. He was crossing the road near the shop of Messrs Chambert lain Bros., when he was run down by a man on horseback. He was carried into the Royal Hotel in a half dazed condition, and Dr. Beard was sent for. We learn that besides raceiying a number cf I severe cuts and bruises, Mr. Shute has 'sustaineda shock to his system from I which It will take him some time to recover.

About thirty of the unemployed reached Eketahuna on Monday by the mid-day train, and were met by Constable Roche, who distributed tbem amongst the different hotels. Most of them hail from Dunedin, and as they all seem willing to work, should not be long in getting into a job, as work is very plentiful in the Forty-mile Bush at the present time. The men left early yesterday morning for Alfredton and Pahiatua, where men are wanted Several men who have returned from the Fuketoi Block give very bad accounts of the nature of the country in that locality. It is very rouph and almost impossible to get at, and the contractors have great difficulty in getting stores delivered. Dr Hanratty, against whom a prohibition order was recently issued in Featherston, was arrested in Maaterton yesterday on a chargo ot drunkenness. Nothing has yet been heard of the man Priestman, who left the Occidental Hotel, Masterton, on Monday morning on a shooting expedition. It is feared that an accident has befallen him. We understand that a search party is being organised. A matter of some Interest, we should

like to say of all absorbing interest, to tbe Bettlers in those localities through which this paper circulates is not the meeting of our Houses of Parliament not the political questions and polcies therein discussed, not the attitude and bearing of the Labor potty, the opposition or the Ministerialist, but tbe 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 to Saturday, August 15th, at Te Aro House Wellington. There will be no mistake about the owness of the prices, many goods are at half price, and some even less than that. The Surplus Stock in 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 £jfcock. 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 fist free by post, it so desired, from Te Aro House, Wellington,