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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3914, 16 September 1891, Page 2

Influenza is very prevalent in Adelaide and several deaths hare occurred. The licensing election for the Borough of Carterton licensing district takea place on Wednesday next. Messrs Wbatmore and Isles, Sydney bicyclists, have journeyed from Brisbane to Sydney in 7 days 15 hours. The Dobson-Kennedy Company are pricing "Little Lord Fauntleroy'" at Pahjatua to-night. lettep postage to Australia is provided for in the new P#st Office Act. 'orders in payment for work done is Foity«Mile Bush, A man named Charles Pearson had his leg broken at Shannon on Monday by a fall of earth. The enterprising Native* of Otaki have formed a brass bard, and are endeavouring to get Mr Ciraino, of Wellington, as bandmaster. A Court of Female Foresters has been opened In Nelson. It is the first court of the kind in New Zealand, and is named the "Star of

The monthly meeting of the Masterrou School Committee will be held tomorrow (Thursday) evening. His Excellency the Governor, Lord Ocslow, returns to Wellington to-day. The Mauerton Borough Council has resolved to cJA for teuden for its printing and advertising for twelve months. " Unfermented prohibition ale" is now being retailed in the prohibition district of Sydenham.

It was decided at a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday that Mc Perceval, Chairman of Committees, be sent to England as Agent-General. The English mail, per R.M.S. lonic, closes at the Masterton Post Office on Friday, the 18th inst. at 6.15 a.m.

A six-horse power Hornsby portable steam engine, a quantity of circular saws, clamps, boring and morticing machinery is advertised for sale by Mr H. H. Wolters, of Carterton.

The case Reese v. Pahiatua County Council ii to be heard at Wellington tomorrow.

The representative team of the Marlborough Rugby Football Union has abandoned its intention of visiting the Wairarapa this season, owing to Its failing to receive assistance from the Wei lington Union. The residence of Mr Qua -fcarman in the Pahiatua Tillage Settlement narrowly escaped being destroyed by fire on Thursday morning. The sparks from the chimney lodged en the shingled roof, and it was with difficulty the flames were extinguished. The next sitting of the District Court will be held at Masterton on Wednesday next, September 23rd. Besides the [action for libel against the Daily, a > number of bankruptcy cases will be dealt with.

In an address at Carterton on Saturday night Mr Hog?, M. H. R., gave an account of the time when he himself worked with a pick in the shaft, and loaded waggons with mullock, and said he would rather work a week at brain work than a day at his former arduous duty. Fancy our member preferring "brain work" at £240 a quarter to "arduous duty" at five shillings a day I The proposal to atari; union newspapers in the four large centres of this colony is thus referred to by the Napier Telegraph :—There are surely enough miserable and impecunious rags in the colony that mistake rudeness for wit, and abuse for smartness, and which howl at everybody who is respectable and respected, and which applauded the strikers and sneered at employers, without increasing their number in the oities.

A creditor ?n a bankrupt estate at Napier the other day was jocularly called a millionaire. He responded with "By jovo I am II I work from five in the morning until nine at night, have a family to keep, had sickness in my house for three and a half years, and it is only by hard work and plugging along that I am able to pay up and keep my head above water," The jocular gentleman collapsed. It is thought that the deoision given in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday will not absolve the subscribers to the Picturesque Atlas in Masterton from liability. The plaintiffs against whom judgment was given on the grounds of non-delivery were the original Atlas Company, whilst the Masterton subscribers have signed the forms of Messrs Bowerraan Brothers.

The Tarawera eruption apparently was not an unmixed evil after all. According to a correspondent of the • New Zealand Herald,'there is a luxuriant growth of cocksfoot over the district covered with the volcanic deposit, and it is suggested that the harrowing in of grass seed over the adjoining hills and valleys would secure an almost inexhaustible supply of forage for sheep and cattle. What makes it the more remarkable is that prior to the eruption the land was regarded as of little or no value. This is how the Pahiatua Star un-< burdens its sweet self:—lt is our intention some of these days to publish a daily —something grand—superior in fact to the London Times ! Publishing offices will be established all over the known world, and if we don't 30bung, somebody else will. No matter I It is quite likely we shall commence operations by placarding Wood ville all oyer. If people think we are mad—well, no matter 1 We are raakin? arrangements with the man in the moon to hitch on to the fourfeeder that we don't propose to get, and if the moon should be jerked out ot position and the world wme to an end by our enterprise—well, no matter I Next year we intend sending an expedition to tho North Pole, and Hour anatomy is not bursted before the explorers come back some startling revelations will be made regarding that unknown region. Some may think this is all gas—no mat ter! We oonsole ourselyes by the reflection that there is any amount of the same mixture about.

The Bon Marche has always held the reputation for the nicest assortment of new goods at the opening of the season, and Hooper and Company are determined to offer the public such a choice this season as will eclipse everything in the district.

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 andoharming millinery, English and French flowers, hats and bonnets, fashionable mantles and jackets, the newest styles, designs and materials for dresses, new prints, muslins, detains, new laces, ribbons, gloves, parascla,