SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3902, 2 September 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Notice is (liven by the Upper Taueru Road Board of its intention to strike a general rate of three-eighths of a penny in the pound. It is stated that Madame Bernhardt is negociating for the purchase of the steamer Mariposa, witn which she pro* poses to make a theatrical tour ot the world.

The Government has purchased 85,000 acres ot land from the Natives for settlement purposes since they took office.

The Dobson-Kennedy Company has decided to remain in Maaterton till Saturday. On Thursday night the spectacular melo»drama "Current Cash" will be produced. Captain Edwin reports there are now strong evidences of a heavy gale from northward, changing by west to south west, between midnight of the 3rd and midnight of the 6th. To farmers and grasiers who are sowing spring grass, Lowes and lorns can strongly recommend Tacey's English evergreen perennial rye, and will forward samples on application.

Nominations for the three vacant seats on the Maaterton Borough Council close at the Couneil Chambers at noon tomorrow. It is stated that only two of the retiring councillors will seek reelection.

Ellen Harding, a restaurant keeper of Wellington, was fined £25 and costs in Wellington yesterday for sly grog selling.

Captain Logan is to be charged with misconduct in connection with the recent mishap to the Manapouri.

Mrs Hume's concert, which was to have been held to-morrow (Thursday) night in Greytown, has been postponed till the end of the montb, owing to the illoeia of several persons who were to haye taken part in ic. Mr J. R. Cox, M.P. for East Clare in the House of Commons, and Irish delegate to the Colonies to collect funds for the Home Bule cause, arrived at Auckland yesterday by the Wairarapa from Sydney. The beer duty received in New Zealand last month amounted to £8955 19s Id as against £4173 9s 3d for the corresponding month of last yoar, and £3814 Os 2d for the previous month of this year.

A patty of Canterbury settlers arrlTed at New Plymouth on Saturday last to take up land in. the Taranaki district. They informed a Taranaki Herald reporter that another large party will arrive shortly with the same object. Oriwia Te Atiraukawa, one of the oldest settlers of the Wellrogtpn district, died at Petone on Saturday. The deceased was a niece of the well-known chief TeWharepouri. The Carterton Borough Council i 8 composed of a Mayor and six Councillors. Their united ages total up to 895 years, or an average of fifty sis years each. Only one councillor is under 60 years, and what he laoks In age he makes up in weight for he turns the scale at seventeen stone.

A very high compliment was paid Mies Ruby Kennedy at the Theatre Royal last night. This charming little actress, who display* an extraordinary degrae of precocioußness in the representation of a difficult part, was fairly stormed with floral bouquets, and bewed her acknow lodgment in a graceful manner. The followiug letter, sigued " Ralph Gittings," was read at the meeting of the Miaterton borough Council last evening: —•'Gentlemen,—l regret to have to complain to the Masterton Borough Council on such a subject, but the health and morals of the people of Masterton must be my excuse. I think it is the duty of the Council to prevent persons, for the sako of gaining'a few pounds, doinj? a wrong to the community at large, as has lately been done by the' Prohibit bition °y letting the Temperance Hall for a morgue ana for drunken orgies. I think all right-minded people must l n ok on such an action as a menace topublichealth andan incentive to wrong doing, provided it pays. I do hope the Council will not let the matter rest, but will teach the offenders that they cannot outrage decency with impunity,—l am, etc., Ralph Gittings." This reads very ,much as if "Ralph" was "gitting" at | our civil tyh^rhoq!}.

The Greytown people loye to dance, whether it is a woekly hop, or a ball for any particular purpose. Bran though the weather is wretched in the extreme the dance la a success. And now they are tickled over the Arbor Day Ball, which oomes off on the 18th. The Committee are receiving replies to th»ir invitations from all directions; nurawrai applications aro in for fancy costumes, while othors are busy making up to compete for the prizes, and the hon. member for the district has found time in the midßt of politics to write a congratulatory aote and enclose a guinea as a subscription for the good object. Here in Masterton, soveral persons are talking of hiring a brake and going down to join in I the f up.

Hooper and Company announce the arrival of their first shipments for the season which is now being opened up at the Bon Marche. Every department will be fully stocked with 'all the latest fashions and charming millinery, English and Fronch flowers, hats and bonnets, fashionable mantles and (ho newest styles, desig s mid materials for dresses, new prints, muslins, deluins, new laces, ribbons, gloves, parasols, &c., &o. The Bon Marche has always held tho reputation fur the nicest assortment of new eoods at the opening of the season, and Hooper and Com(.an; are determined to offer the publio such a choico this season as will eclipso everything in the district.