SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3912, 14 September 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Tenders are invited in another column for felling one hundred aores of bash at tfreyer'a Rock Road.

The Carterton cemetery is used for grazing purposes. The flowers and shrubs on the graves are systematically stolen.

A number of Wellington anglers arrive in Masterton to-aight and try their luck early to»morrow morning. It will therefore behove local knights ot the rod to be a little "fly." The Greytown Dairy Factory Co. have commenced this season's opera* tion*.

We have every reason to believe that the Hon, Mr Ballance will, after a time, prooeed Home as Agent-General. It is probable that Mr Perceval will join the Ministry. " The Midado" was again played to a large attendance in the Opera House, Wellington, on Saturday evening, and the young vocalists received many encouraging plaudits. The same opera will be performed again to-night. The new Greytown Registrar of Marriages, etc., solemnised his first marriage on Saturday last, when John Salisbury South and Fanny Harrison were united in the bonds of matrimony.

The dancing season ia to be brought to a close by the Masterton Private Quadrille Assembly to«morrow(Tuesday) evening; when their annual " long night" will be held in the Temperance dall

"General" Booth is a passenger by the R.M.S. Tainui which is expected to reach Hebart from England on Thursday next.

Colds of a severe form are very prevalent in Masterton at the present time, hardly a family escaping attack.

Miss Holmes, of Masterton, has contributed some good pictures to the third annual exhibition in connection with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts.

Next Friday night the good people of Greytown, or those of them who love dancing, will assemble in their larpe theatre to enjoy the pleasures of the Arbor Day Ball. The tree planting movement is recognised as a good thing in South Wairarapa, and a remarkable impetus was to tree planting gonerally after the first Arbor {njr, held last year. The public sympathy with the movement haa much to do with the success of this ball, and the promoters are jubilant at the hearty responses which their invitation circulars have evoked. They have so planned the date that the orb of night will be just at the tull_that evening, and if the weather drive to the scene of gaiety will, in itself, be a sweet attraction. Many in Masterton are talking of the event and thoso who have made up their minds to go should secure seats in the conveyance whic'.i will be put on. Particulars will be I found in advertisement.

Messrs Lowes Sc lorns add to theit stock sale for Wednesday, September 23rd, 35 3 and 4 year old bullooka and 4 young cows.

Two cases of drunkenness and one for assault were to eomo before the Majgii* trate's Court in Grey town this morning.

The Qreytown Cemetery just now is a perfect picturo, with the wattles in full bloom in between tho green pines. Old fences are beingtakendown and new onei are being erected. The dead trees have been cut tiown and all rubbish burnt, and altogether it presonts a neat, clean appearance, thanks to tho care-taker, Mr W. B. Thompson. A seven year old son ot Mr A. Breen, hotelkeeper, met with a fatal accident on the Grey Road near Keefton. Fie was sitting on the shaft of a wageon when in crossing a culvert a board gave way which jolted the waggon and shook the boy off his seat. He broke his neck, death being instantaneous. It is understood the Government have given instructions to cut np the Kaingaroa Plains, containing about a quarter million of acres, into blocks of about 30,000 acres each at a rentrl of LI per thousand f cres. Mr James Thompson, of Masterton, having received a complete new set of aerated water machinery from Home for his Masterton business, is about starting a branoh business in Pabiatua with his old plant. We understand that Mr A. G. Thompson will have the management of thePahiatua branoh. At a special meeting of the Wairarapa South County Council on Saturday, ther . only business of importance was thgj£ confirming the special order re the liflP River irrigation scheme, and receimg the report of the Overseer of Roads in reference to the Waiohine bridge, It was resolved to replank the bridge and make other necessary repairs to it. Messrs Lowesand lorns, byorderof the Deputy Official Assignee, held a successful sale on Saturday of the land, plant, etc., in the estate of William Brannigan. butoher, Mauriceville. The land at Alfredton was sold to Mr Weston for L 770. The horses, carts, and working plant realised very fair prices, there being goed competition. At the Queensland National Association's Show at Brisbane, Kiogfish, by Pisoatoriouß—Yattarina, gained first and champion prize in blood Bullions. PiscatorioHs is the well-known sire belonging to Mr A. W. Cave, of Te Ore Ore, and it Is >ery gratifying to find thai the offspring of a Wairarapa none haMj taken such a proud position in a neigh* boring Colony. Tbe following peculiar advertisement appears in the Hawko's Bay Herald:—-"I Patrick Gorman, proprietor of the Criterion Hotel, challenge John Knott, to prove by personal anpearance who of the two looks most like a' toper, to be decided by a jury of six abstainers and six modorate drinkers. I undertake to proye also that I have been an abstainer for a longer period than the said John Knott. The loser to pay £2O or £SO into the Napier Hospital. Or, as an alternative, I will (though I am a stout man) ran him 100 yards, swim him half-a-mile, row him slnglehandad for fiva miles, drive against him in a four-in-hand, or ride a steeplechase with him. -

Settlers often desire to know to whom in Wellington they can consign farm and dairy produce, poultry, and other country commodities for sale on (heir behalf* In this connection we may point out that Mr A. J. Eeld, the well* known auctioneer and produce merchant, ot Willis Street, has good business premises in a central position, an excellent trade connection, and most of the facilities which will enable him to do hit clients justice and obtain satisfactory results for them. Mrßeid also keeps in stock in hiß warehouse the bulk lines of serviceable groceries and station "stores" in ordinary demand. A notification on the subject generally is to. be . read in another oolumn. The rendering of prompt account sales it will be seen is a special feature of Mrßeid's business • policy.

James Smith, proprietor of the well known Te Aro House, Wellington, has. for several months past been in the heart of the world's superintending the buying —•. ent spring season at Te Aro Hoittfe, Wei' lington.

Patterns of any of the spring goods of every description -will be forwarded • on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. It will no doubt be expected by all -; the readers of this paper that there will be a most manifest improvement in our > shipments, that all goods will be bought well, that is at the lowest cash prices j that all goods will be the bost ot their ,-■ class and that all will be in accord with the prevailing fashions of the season. Tho display we are now making of spring fashions at Te Aro House, Wellington, ■ is most amply and fully corroborative of - these views.