SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3892, 21 August 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

The funeral of the late Erihapeti Whakamairu takes place at 2 o'clock tomorrow (Saturday). Messrs Lowes andJta«*jdd to their Sale for Wednesday t*i|%- Wkh August, 50 fat turnip feJwethef*. Messrs Lowes and lorns direct the attention of our readers to the postponement of sale in the estate of VV. Branniitan, bankrupt, to the sth Sopt. In future not be transferred from district; to district on the order of the inspector, wrtT the transfer must have the exprei».,((jtaction of the J)efenoe Minister. ! '

The warrants for the last Bank of New Zealand dividend have reached Masterton. The Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-oper-ative Associatiou, Limited, notify through our columns that they have sheep, cattle, and all kinds of stock tor sale. Edward Isaacs, a very old Victorian and Auckland merchant, died yesterday morning, aged 71. He arrived in Viotom in 1842, and in Auckland in 1864,'Cfoonding here tbe well-known firm ofE.' A. Isaacs. One daughter is the wife of Sir Saul Samuel, AgentGeneral for New South Wales.

I A sheet of new music in the shape of a song by J. L. Hatton, has reached, us from the proprietors of the Mother Aubert Herbal Remedies, Messrs T Prosser and Co. The firm of the margin of the outride cover Tor advertising purposes, and this, too, in a way whioh dees not du6s|ur»Mt in appearance.

There is no sign of the bootmakers' strike at Auckland ending. The estimated coat to the Unions to date is £SOOO.

The earthquake w»s felt very severely at Wellington last night. Several buildings shook in a must alarming manner, the bells iu the Post Office were set ringing and the audience iu the Opera House was quite terrified. It is worthy • of note thatthe House of Representatives was on the point of passing the Law Practitioners Bill when the Bhako occurred .

Mr. M. Thomas met with a painful accident yesterday. .He wasbushtelling for Mr. Jas Baillie at Mohiki, when the limb of a tree fell, hicting him on the head, breaking his collar bone, and straining his neck. Dr. Bey was sent for, and was promptly in attendance on the unfortunate man.

The following items are from our Poxton contemporaray : —Lambing is pretty general throughiut Carnarvon ami Sandon districts and reports are very favorable. Certainly the weather is.— We heard of a purchase made of a yery -m fine line of lambs in wool, at ton shillings and sixpence a head, last week.—Everywhere there is a cry of scarcity of feed, the many frosts having upset the calcu* lations of the farmers. Heatherlea way it is said the feed has uo»er been so short. —Mr Mitoholl brought under our notice a oase of fluke in a sheep at Moutoa. The ewe, a strong ana apparently a healthy one, died suddenly, and on being opened tho livp.r was found quite destroyed. Mr Mitohell states that an old book he has on sheep states that these animals are very subject to fluke if fed upo.i strong rank grass, and ■■p. that there is no outward sign of their suffering from it except it may be a dulling in the eye.—Oats, we learn, at Sandon, have an upward tendency, settlers wanting an increase of twopence a bushel.