SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3898, 28 August 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

An important alteration to the advertisement of Messrs 0. Smith and Co. appears in our issue of to-day.

The Land and Income Tax Assessment Bill has been passed by the Legislative Council without amendment.

The master bakers of Wellington decided yosterday to raise the price of bread one half-penny per loaf. A woman has been arrested in Wellington for the larceny of a pair of boots from a Chinaman in Wellington named Turn Sing. His Honor the Ghief Justice has reserved his decision in the Picturesque Atlas uiise, which was argued in the Supreme Cotirt yesterday. William Jesse Keove and Kober* Charles Black haye been appointed registrars of marriages and ef births and deaths and vaccination inspectors for the districts of Pahiatua and Greytown respectively.

Mr Martin Danaher, who formed a large section of the Maaawatu line, including the railway viaduct at Tawa Flat, was the successful tenderer for the Lismore-Tweed line in New South Wales, for £149,000. William Keeble, for failing to employ a scavenger, was fined 2s 6d in the B.M. Court this morning, with Court i costs 4s and witness' expenses 6s. In the R. M. Court this morning, a prohibition order, extending over the Masterton district, was granted by Colonel Roberts, 8.M., against John M'Kenzie, of the Upper Plain, on the application of William Downes.

The convenor of the editorial committee of the Prohibition Alliance writes as follows regarding the absence of the column entitled " The Prohibitionist" : Sir—The committee of which I am convenor has to say in explanation of their not supplying copy for the last tfto weeks that they required a little rest after the recent two election campaigns. The members are now quite recruited, and will in future discharge their duty in your columns every Wednesday. The Committee gratefully recognises the value of the help that the Daily has given the Prohibition retorm by allowing them to plead its claims in its columns. The copy for the next column will bo in your hands in time for next Wednesday's issue.

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by purchasing the extraordinary bargains in blankets, 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 wioser clothing. L. J. Hooper and Co. are determined t* reduce before stock-takine; (which is new in full swing) their stock of men's \nd boy's olothiug, shirts, hats, socksbraces, belts, undershirts, and uuder. pants, 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.