SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3886, 14 August 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

The Wairarapa South County Council as a credit balance at the bank at the present time of £99 17s 4d. The annual general meeting of shareholder! in the Wellington Meat Export Company, Limited, will be held at the Chamber of Commerce, Wellington, on Wednesday, 26th August, instant, at two o'clock. A notification on the subject appears in our advertising columns. Groat preparations are being made for the Greytawn Masquerade Ball to be held on Friday, the 21st. Tiokets are going off very freely, and it is expected to be a very large gathering. As the majority of those attending will be In fancy dress, arrangements are being made for a grand lime light display. We hear that a good number are going from Masterton. A serious accident occurred to a four-year-old daughter of Mr William Budd, of the Upper Plain, last evening. A man named Cockhead was, it appears, falling a tree when the child by some means or other got underneath ind was struck by one of the branches. The result was a compound fracture oi the thigh and a number of cuts and bruises. The little sufferer was attended by Dr Beard, and has been removed to the Hospital. Mr Hogg hss giyen notice to ask the Minister for Public Works if be will lay before the House of Representatives any information that may be in possession of the Government respecting the practicability of so altering the railway line between Wellington and the Wairarapa as to avoid the Rimutaka incline; or, if necessary, obtain a report from the officers of his department on the practicability, cost, and economic merits of such an alteration. Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by purchasing the extraordinary bargains in blaukets, flannels, dress goods, and thousands of other lines at Hooper's gigantic sale now on. During the next few days we shall offer still further inducements to the public to secure some of the many bargains at our gigantic sale, by further reducing every description of win Mr clothing. L. J. Hooper and Co. are determined to reduce before Stock-taking (which is now in full swing) their stock of men's ind boy's clothing, shirts, hate, socks, braces, belts, undershirts, and uuderpants, ties, overcoats, mackintoshes, etc. They expect to clear out about one half of the present stock before the end of the sale. So look out tor bargains at Hooper's.