SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3900, 31 August 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Mr A.N. Hornby, the well-known Lancashire batsman, has retired from cricket.

It is understood that the Public Works Statement will be laid on the table of the Mouse this week.

A girl named Emma Janson, an inmate of St Catherine's Home, Ohristchurch, was found dead in bed yesterday morning. The post mortem showed death to have been caused by heart disease. Mr F. H. Wood has received instructions from the liquidators of the Featheratun Fibre Company to sell by public auction at his Greytown rooms the leasehold property, plant, and machinery of the Company as a going concern. The following comparative rainfall for the month of August has been registered by Mr. Joseph Bennett, of Otahuao : —August, 1891,2.25 incbeß on l'i days ; 1890, 1.02 inches on 7 days; 1889. 1.28 inches on 11 days.

The window of Messrs Chamberlain Bros' shop presented a most attractive appearance on Saturday night. Besides an elaborately finished and handsomely ornamented wedding cake, biscuits and cakes of every description were displayed to the very best advantage.

Messrs Lowes and lorns announce their next stook sale for iVednesday, September 9th. Whilst proceeding to Tenui on Saturday the Bey Father MoKenna met with an accident whereby the shafts and other portions of bis buggy were smashed. We regret to hear that Mr James Ewington, blacksmith and wheelwright, was taken seriously ill shortly after starting work this morning. As Drs Hosking and Beard were out of town, Dr Johnston, of Carterton, was sent for. The Rangitikei Advocate states that owing to the almost unparalelled scarcity of cattle on the ooast a gentleman residing ia the district lately made an effort to obtain a shipment from Nelson He was unsuccessful, however.

It is notified in our columns that the Stockowners' List is open for inspection at the B. M, Court, Masterton. The Resident will sit to Hear objections on Saturday, September 12th.

Messrs Lowes and lorns will sell on Saturday next, Superior Household Furniture and effects, Particulars in advertisement.

The opening announcement of Mr. John Henderson, tailor, who has had a very long experience in London, and the larger cities of the colony, appears in another column, and is well worthy ef perusal.

Owing to the numerous requests by the up country residents of the Wairarapa, Mr Pearce, boot importer, has decided to keep open four days longer in order to meet their requirements. This request has been made owing; to the rivers being latterly flooded, and the heavy state of roads, in the new formed blocks.

The Oreytown Private Brass Band went to Featherston yesterday afternoon and enlivened their town with selections played in the Domain, upon the hill; which could be heard some considerable distance away. During the summer months they intend to play in Masterton, Martinboxough and Greytown.

The business announcement of Messrs T. Wagg and Co., who have just taken over the Masterton Coach and Carriage Factory, appears in another column of this issue. The now firm will be under the direct management of Mr Thomas Wagg, who is a well known practical tradesman, and a good man of businesa; while Mr Edward Dixon will have the management of the carriage building department. We have no donbt that before long the new firm will take a prominent place amongst the local industries of Masterton.

The performance of * The Shaughraun' in the Palace Hall, Greytown, by the Dobson»Kennedy Company on Saturday night was one of genuine enjoyment,and the merits of the strength of the company haying become known, there was present a considerably larger audience than on the previous eyening. Everyone seemed greatly pleased with the play, and applause was not only frequent, but beginning with the first act, and at intervals throughout the evening, the whole company were demonstratively called before the curtain to bow their acknowledgment!.

The report of Mr Commissioner A. Mackay upon the elaimi of natives to Wairarapa Lakes and adjacent lands, was presented to the House on Friday. Mr Mackay recommends—(l) That terms be made with the native owners on which the outer lake may be opened out at any time (except when the natives are engaged in fishing) after it has been closed for two months; (2); that the funds be raised by a speoial rate of not less than Id per acre on all the lands subject to inundation ; (3) that compensation, to be fixed by valuers, be paid to the natives for all the land in the Turanganui block between the flood line and the margin of the lake that has not already been alienated to the Govern* menc in the Taheke (Puata) or Te Kumenga Blocks. In undertaking a settlement of the lake question, the Commissioner says that it should be borne in mind that there is 27,692 acres of land on the margin of the lake and the river that connects them is subject to be periodically inundated. Over £12,000 has been paid foi the lands to the Wellington Provincial Government, and the owners are entitled to consideration for the vexatious loss and inconvenience they are put to periodically through having their pasture land destroyed and rendered useless for fully six months in the year. It is, he considers, hiphly creditable to the settlers that they have put up patiently for so long with such serious periodical loss without adopting extreme measures to relieve themselves from it. flow is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by purchasing the extraordinary bargains in blankets, flanne's, 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 te secure some of the many bargains at our gigantic sale, by turther reducing every description of winser clothing. L. J. Hooper and 00. are determined te reduce before stock-taking (which is new in full swing) their stock of men's \nd boy's clothing, shirts, hate, socksbraces, bells, underskirts, and under, pants, ties, overcoats, mackintoshes, etc. They expect to clear out about one half of the present stock before the end of the ule. So look out tor bargains at I Hooper's. |