SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3953, 2 November 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Mr John Heßsey has purchased trom Mr G. Watson, for the sura of £4OO, the \\ ell-known draught sire Nil Desperandum, notifies in another column that the Bplendid horso is at the service of breeders.

A reward of one pound is offered for the recovery of a red cow lost from the Masterton Show grounds on Thursday. The following tenders hare been received for the alterations and additions to the shop of Messrs Hounslow and doar, Queen street: —M. Williams and Co, £59 10s (accepted) ; 0. E. Darnell, £65 ; Peacock and Prentice, £66105.

The tender of Messrs Blane and McKenzie at £4l 6s 6d has been accepted by the Masterton Road Board for eightyseven chains track clearing on the Upper Fernridge Boad. We regret to hear thai Mr Farquhar Gray, of the Taratahi, was taken seriously ill on Saturday and has since been conined tohia bed. He was, we understand, found in a fit in one of his padiocks. The presentation of seven long service medals will be made by His Worship the Mayor at the station of the Municipal Fire Brigade to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. The members of the Masterton Borough Council have been invited to be present, A special meeting of the Masterton Borough Council will be held on Tuesday evening to consider the report of the manager of the gas works with reference to the gas holder offered by the Wellington Gas Company. The Native Appeal Court resumed its sitting at Qreytown this morning. In consequence of the illness of Constable Eccleton, who has been granted » month's leavo of absence, Constable Hutton, of Wellington, is now on duty in Greytown. Lady Buller, the wife ot Sir Walter Buller, diad rather suddenly at Wellington yesterday.

A Wellingtonian who waited for a lettar from home while the mail was sorted at our local post office Is reported to have developed grey hairs durmg the interval.

A cricket match was played at the Greytown Recreation Reserve on Saturday lowt between the second teams of Carterton and Greytown, resulting in an easy win for the Greytown team. Twelve tickets, numbering; from 169 to 180, for the anniversary tea in connection with the Masterton Wesluyan Sunday School, have been lost. Any person returning them to Mr Gillespie at the Post Office w\ll be rewarded, , The funeral of the late Rina Hori Taha (Ltly Stuart) took place at Greytown yesterday. Her remains were followed by a large number of natives from all parts. She was buried as the private cemetery of her family. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev £. H. Wyatt. We have received from Serjeant-Major Bezar, of Dunedin, a small volume entitled "Some Kermnisconoes of the ' Die Hards' (57th West Middlesex Regiment)," in which is contained a number of exciting incidents which occurred In the writer's li'e during a tervioe of considerable length in tho famous regiment mentioned.

Anniversary services in connection with the Masterton Wesleyan Sunday School are to be held on Sunday next Special hymns are to be sun? by the children. The annual tea meeting will bo held on the Prince of Wales' Birthday, which will be followed by a public meeting. L J. Hooper and Co are now showing the moat fashionable and largest assortment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Millinery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, <SiQ,

Stylish and Pretty Jaokets, Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, &o. We are showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, &c. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of new dress materials in the YVairarapa. All the leading shades, de> signs, satins, and materials for the season, •ingle and double widths. The Fancy Department is full of the atest novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons, frillings, collars, cuffs, and parasols, &o <sc.