SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3894, 24 August 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

An English mail, per R.M.S. lonic, reached Masterton to-day. The crops m the South of England ara being damaged by heavy rainfalls. It is now settled that Sir George Grey is to be offered the Agent-Generalship of New Zealand. . A telegram from Melbourne states that Carbine, the great racer, has injured one of hiß forelegs, and i* is almost certain he will not fulfil his Sydney engagements. j The Right Hon. John Inglis, Lord I Glencorse, Lord President of the High Court ot Justice in Scotland is dead. The American Wheat Trust has failed for four million dollars. Mrs Scott, the well known evangelist" is at present holding a successful mission in Canterbury. The well-known thoroughbred horse " Prairie Bird" is advertised to stand this season at Mr Burling's, Grassen* dale. It Is almost certain that the permanent range for the New Zealand Rifle h» somewhere in the vicinity ot suverstteam. ThV Times says the session will in all j probability close in about three weeks' time.

The attempt to float the Wapaka off the rocks at Taranaki has been aban« doned by the Union Steamship Company. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court will be commenced at "Wellington on Monday next. Two Masterion cases are down for hearing. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock sale for Wednesday next 80 fat turnip fed ewes, 70 ewes in lamb, 1 dairy cow near calving, 1 dairy cow newiy calved, 2 dairy cows. A final practice of those taking part in I Mr Coleman's concert will be held in the Theatre Beyal this evening. Thomas John Berry, of Maaterton, Government rabbitter, has applied for a patent for an invention entitled " Berry's Speedy Fencing Standard." For some time past it has been rumoured that the Russian Government intended to impose an export duty on wheat, but the statement is now officially denied.

Mr Orlando Kempthorne, manager of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Drug Company, has applied to register i iie trade mark of the medicines known as " Natanata," " Marupa," " Karana," and " Paramo.'' An Edinburgh lady was telling me the other day (writes a correspondent' of an Auckland paper) that it was the prospect of saving threepence or fourpencea pound that induoed her as a thrifty housekeeper to give New Zealand mutton a trial. At the first trial, she laughingly said, she feared her husband might object to the mutton if he knew that it was frozen, so she did not Inform him. The experiment seemed satisfactory, but In order not to brio? about a change in diet too suddenly the prudent Jame allowed Scotch mutton to take its place on the next occasion. The good man of the house, however, expressed so strongly his preference for the former that from that day onward none but New Zealand mutton has graced the family board. Iho Imperial Fire Office of London publishes in the Wellington newspapers a statement of its accounts from which may be gathered an idea of ehe magnitude of its operations. It is intimately eon ■ nected with this colony, having established an agency in Auckland as far back as 1854. lu 1869, Mr F. fl. Pickering assumed the position of New Zealand manager, establishing a branch office in Wellington, and he recently purchased a business site In Featherston street, opposite the Union Bank of Australia, the building on which is now undergoing extensive alterations to adapt it for the Company's branoh offices, which are to be ready for occupation early in Ootober next.

Secure without delay some of these bargains in Sheetings. Single bed Sheetings syds for 2s lld,syds for Us fid. Double bed Sheetings syds for 3s lid, syds for 4s 6d. Crimean Sheetings 4yds for 2s 6d, 4yds for 2s lid, 4yds for 3s 3d, 4yds for 3s6d, 4yds for 3s lid. These are all remarkably cheap at the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock, Te Aro House, Wellington. Secure without delay some of these bargains in Welsh Flannels, 6yds for 3s lid, 6yds for 5s 6d, 6vds for 6s lid, oyds for 7s lid, 6yds for 8s lid. Scarlet Flannels Uyds for 2s lid, 6yds for 3s lid 6yds for 5s 6d, Uyds for 7s lid, 6yds for 8s lid. All sterling value, best makers and at sale prices. The Sale ot Surplus Winter Stock,Te Aro House, Wellington. Secure some of these bargains without delay, 12yds Stoufe Brown Holland for 2s lid, 12yds Strom? Brown Holland for 4s lid, 12yds Twilled Sclicia for Is 6d, 12yds Qrey Cotton Lustres tor 2s lid, 12yds Grey Cotton Lustre for 8s lid at i the Sale of Surplus Winter Stock.Te Aro "House, Wellington.