SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3961, 12 November 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

The District Officers of the Oddtellow's Lodge are on a tcur of inspection to the different lodges of the Wairarapa. They paid a flying visit to the Greytown Lodge yesterday, where a sooial was held in honour of their yisit. A general meeting of the Wairarapa Caledonian Society will be held at the Club Hotel on Saturday next. The balance sheet of the Wairarapa Caledonian Sooiety appears in another column.

The Rev J.Dukes writes to us as follows:—In the vote of thanks passed to the numerous helpers at the Wesleyan school meeting on Monday night, the name of Mr Hear was inadvertently omitted. For many years past he has laid the school officials under great obligations to him for Gratuitous services cheerfully rendered, and this year has proved no exception. A resident of Newtown (Wellington) has been fined five shillings for allowing his doc; to worry a cat. Mr 0. Grombie, Property Tax Commissioner, was taken with an attaok of influenza on Monday night, and will be confined to bed for some days yet. At the Palrnorston Agricultural and Pastoral Show yesterday, Mr J. Bayner, of the Taratahi, carried off four firsts and a champion prize for Lincoln sheep. Another dreadful aooiient is reported as having happened to a man named Griffin, says the Waipawa paper, his foot ha /in? been torn off by a chaff-cutting machine at Mr Buchauan's station! The same man was in the hospital a short time' ago, suffering from a broken arm. Mr Allen McLean, of Hawke's Bay, has sold to Mr Grant of Wajrarapa, the three-year-old gelding by Gladiator— Els», at, a satisfactory figure. Ejsa was a capital performer on the turf, and is also the dam of Audacity, who was sold at a big figure to go to Australia, where be afterwards changed hands again at 600 puineaa. His performances are well known,

A man named William M'Donald, lately- travelling with horses from Taroou to Charters Towers (Queensland), is supposed to have been murdered near St Helens, forty miles from Maokay, on the Bowen road, and suspicion in connection with the affair turns upon a selector named David Holmes. Some of the mipfling man's property has been found, together with a forged sale nece in favor of Holmes for M'Donald's hones. M'Donald is snid to hav9 been in possession of a larpe sum of money, felines has been arrested on a charge of being in possession ot stolon property, and a search'iabu'ing'inade'for the'body.