SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3950, 28 October 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

! An important auction sale of tho valuable privileges at the coming Wellington Pastoral Show, will bo held by Messrs Cuningham, Bad ham & Co., auctioneers, at their roonie, Brandon Street, Wellington, on Wednesday, 4th November, at two o'clock. Tho particulars of the luncheon room, bars, booths, etc., which are to be sold will he found in the firm's advertisement elsewhere in this issne. ii J. Hooper 'and Co arc now showiu g the most Fashionable and largest assortment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Milli nery, Trimmed, and Untrimmcd Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, Ac Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Oust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, Ac.

We arc showing a splendid Btock of Fashionable Pelainus, prints, Cambrics, I Zephyrs, lie, We hold the best assortment and lawst stock of nev dress materials in the Wairarapa. All the leading shades, de> satins and materials for the season, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is full of the atest novelties, pretty aprons, ribbojJßi killings, collars, uugs. and p.u'dsols, &o

The Greytown Football Club's promenade concert hold at the Palace Hall last night, was a decided success, thanks to the untiring energy of Mr Tate, the Secretary and his co.nuaittoe. A word of thanks is also duo to those ladies and gentlemen who took pait in the musical part of the programme,

Tho inventive powers ofa book fiend are generally admitted to by any other section of tho human rnco, but for licking all creation in this re» sped an instance was afforded in a case of Bowerman Bros, v John Grant, heard at Carterton yesterday. The defendant admitted tho claim but refused to pay costson the ground that no demand for payment oi the amount slaimed had ever been made upon him. One of the plaintiffs, Mr Philip Bowerman, swore that he went to a house about fly* miles from Carterton and interviewed a small bny, who told him that he was a son of Mr John Grant, tho defendant, and tha his father lived there. Bowerman also (ttttcd that he then wrote on the parcel of books which ho delivered a demand for payment and handed it,to the inno. oent youth. This eyidonco was corroborated by Mr Mclntyre, fife of tha plaintiffs aponti, who state? that ha made a note of what took place. On being told by Mr Beard defendant'fifla. ■el, that the defendant was ;i single man and not blessed with any off shoots and that his residence was about 12 miles from Carterton, there wasgi<eatconsternation and confusion in tho Company of Bowerman. They immediately put up their phuttere and declined to again repeat the statements which they had made on oath. Under these circumBtinces the A.M. deolined to award oosts against the defendant. It would be interesting to know the whereabouts of this innocent youth. Seldom is it that a book fiend gets so thoroughly paid out in his own coin. Messrs Bowerman Btos. would do well to advertise for th's specimen of childlike innocence. The Collector of Ratosfortbe Borough of Masterton has come into collision with a well knowti Wellington' divint. The gentleman of the cloth had, it appears, neglected to pay his rates'for the past twelve months, and with a number of other defaulters was presented with the proverbial bit of blue. Tha amount owing for rates for the past year was 10i 6d, but with this year's rates added the total amount was LI Is. Tho rev. gentleman was evidently under tha impression that he had contributed hi quota to the revenue for last year, as tha following indignant answer would imply: —" Sir.—This is the first time in my life I ever got a summons, and 1 can't help thinking you wera very sharp abont it—more sharp than was necessary.. I had no arrears to pay. 1 received your last notice dated 9th of October, making demand to be paid LI Is within fourteen days from date. The time has not yet expired. Two days after reoeiving your notice dated the 9th, a bailiff entered my study and delivered a summons taken out by you ou October 7th, two days before you sent the notice. 1 daresay you think you have done a ye#*/ smart trick. I return you your summons, and make a present of it to you."