SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3937, 13 October 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

No lees than t>ix daily newspapers find circulations in the township oi Eketahuna. The Wiirarapa Daily, beingfirstonthescene with thonewsofthe day, is, of course, in tfte greatest demand-

The Maaterton Jtiflo Volunteers Trill parade on Thursday nejt,

Messrs Lowes & lorns remind our readers of their important sale of horses to-morrow, the principal entries for whioh appear in onr advertising column. For the month of September, 221,470 feet of gas were consumed in the Borous-b »f Masterton, berog an Increase of 46,500 feet on that of the same period last year.

The rotorta at the Masterton gasworks collapsed on Saturday, the result bei&K that the town was again almost in dark' ncss.

A number of new books, purchased from MrR. T. Holmes, stationer, for use in the public library, were passed by the Library Committee at a meeting held last night. Bumble bees are being brought from Nelson and liberated in the Rangitikei district. : '

A sheep farmer of Eketahona who has lost' a number of valuable ewes ot late, informs us that he has opened several, but has failed to ascertain the cause of death;

Messrs Rogen and 00. are giving up tbeir poultry farm at #arori. Durjr.tf the five and a half years it has been in existence the firm has won oyer 1000 prizes.

A passage at arms occurred between Mr Justice Connolly and Mr Lawyer T-iiiVn* at New Plymouth the other day. His Honor threaieneu "vC Mr JeMicoe for contempt of Court. According to the 'l'lwiea, a case has just been brought to light in connection with the Pahiatua relief works which will probably give some trouble to the Lands Department. A contract for making two chains of road 17a) taken by thr<j# men, who received; Til each for one chain, with which they paid off .some old scores in Wellington. The trouble arose when the second chain was finuhedr-for whish they only received lis each, the Government Engineer's reason far this being that on the first chain they had been overpaid to the extent of 31Q yards, and that lis each was therefore all that was due to them. The merits of the case will probably be decided upon in a Court of i»w.

The privileges for the Wairarapa Paßtoral and Agricultural Society's show will be sold by Mr F. P.. Wood at his Carte'ton auction rooms on Saturday, October 24th, at two o'clock. Tenders are invited by the TaratahiOirterlon Road Board for the creotion of a cart traffic bridge 821 feet in length over the Ruamahunga rivet near Kokatau. A letter received at the Thames from Mount Zeehan atates that the labour market is overstocked. Numbers of idle men are walking about seeking employment. As soon as machinery can be got on the ground there will be a field for work, but that will not be for some months yet. Harry Loin?, the pugilist, has been found guilty of larceny at Wanganui. The passing of sentence has been defer* red till Wednesday. A carter named Charles J. Burston w»s found dead in a stable at Brighton, Victoria, recently- He had been drinking till midnight, and is supposed to have returned to the stable to feed a bene, but that he lay down and foil Meap, and during the night the horse h V on hiui and cruihed him to appearance of the body justlfyir{/BJHP conclusion. The remains of the late Mrs F. Shaw were interred in the Masterton cemetery this afternoon. The concourse was very large, and included settlers from all parts of the district. The solemn ceremony at the grave was conducted by the Rev. W. E. Paige. A correspondent from Melbourne writes ; " A so-called * beauty show ' came to grief very badly in Melbourne. It was advertised as the ' All Nations Bazaar and Beauty Show, in which beauties of almost every nation would compete for a valuable prize, the awarding of which would be done by the publio by ballot.' The young men rolled up in great numbers to find a few stalls for the sale of fruit, fancy goods, perfumery, &c. attended to by ' beauties' who were paid LI a week for their services. In hieh dudgeon, some ef the visitors addresied some rough ' chaff' to some of the girls, one of whom retreated behind a screen, and being followed by some of hor admirers the stall—a fruit one—was overturned. This was the signal for a kind of general riot, which the police quelled by turning off the gaa. The ' beauty show' >a now closed for repairs,"