SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3981, 7 December 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

" Hurrah for New Zealand !" says the

Detroit Fiee Press. " She has wheeled into line for woman suffrage and Polly Nesia he r eelf is liable to be politically (as she is geographically) nearer the polo than her American sister. But never mird, ladies. Just wait, and some twentieth century Puck will girdle this horrid old earth with au apron string—see if he aoesn't." The Htretaunga Mounted Rifles Racing Club mode close upon £2OO prone at the meeting held at the Hutt on Saturday.

An election of five persons to form a Committee for the Castlepoint Licensing District will be held on Tuesday, 22nd December.

Lieut-Colonel Butts - died at Welling'

ton on Saturday evening last, from a paralytic stioke, and will be buried with full military honours to-morrow afternoon.

A fourth aspirant to the seat in Parliament lately vacated by Mr T. E. Macdonald is now in the field, in the person of Mr B. J. T. Price, landlord of the Clyde Quay hotel.

Messrs Lswes and loms remind our readers of the sale of Dr Hosking's Lincoln sheep, cattle, etc., on the estate " Weraiti," full particulars of which appear in our advertising columns. Vehicles will leave Masterton at noon. Return fare 2s.

Property owners Bhould"bear in mind that the Property Tax is due on the 10th inst. After that date ten per oent will be charged.

Mr Pyke's old constituents are, urging the Government to call him to the Legislative Council.

A balloon is made in Adelaide to the I order of a resident of Petersburg, with which to experiment for the production of raiu. It is proposed to charge it with dynamite and send up from Gumbouri, one of the highest points in the colony. A strange case of suicide has occurred at the Peak flill lock-up. A tailor named Benjamin Saunders, who was on a remand from Parkes on a charge of bein? of unsound mind, stole a trooper's revolver while taking exercise, and as soon as he was locked up again shot himself, death being instantaneous.

The settlers at flketahuna who intended forming a special settlement at Mount Baker, have abandoned the project, absolutely declining to take up land under the perpetual lease system. Ihe influenza epidemic is still spreading in this distriot, and we bear of a number of old settlers for the recovery of whom very little hopes are entertained. A stranpe tragedy is leported from Hubart. On Sunday morning last an aged woman named Margaret Ware was found lying dead in a Chinaman's garden with abrasions on the body and arms ; an incisive wound, as from a knife, on her arm ; and the left fore arm much bruised, both bones being broken as if warding off a blow. All the abrasions were evidently caused by a rough, heavy stick. The medical evidence attributed death to failure of theheart'saction arising from the intense shock received, and not from the wounds. A Chinaman named Toy Woun, in whose garden the body was found, has been arrested. The inquest Was adjourned. It is surmised that the deceased was caught robbing the garden, and severely beaten by the Chinaman, who was enraged by frequent depredations. The yachting season was formally opened in Wellington on Saturday afternoon. The result ol the " Dummy Rescue Competition," in whioh competing yachts hat? to throw a life-size dummy over-board, sail round a moored dingy, and pick up the dummy on tno return tack, was as follows: -Third class -1, Pet, 54 sec ; 2, Iris, 1 min 25 sea. Second class —l, Czarina, 57 sec ; 2, Isca, I min 5 sec. First class—l, Mima, ' 1 min 48 sec ; 2, Mantina, 1 min 53 sec ;8, Girola, 1 min 54J see. The Thetis missed her dummy at 1 min 45 sec. Mr Widdop acted as timekeeper. Mr E. W. Mills, the Commodore of the Club, t hen pronounced the season open.

ii J. Hooper and Co arc now showing tl\e most fashionable and largest assorts ment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Milli nory, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, etc.

Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Qaraboldi Jackets, <so.

We are showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cumbrios, Zephyrs, &c. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of nev dress materials in the Wairarapa- All the leading shades, designs, satins, and materials for tho season, single and doublp widths. The Fancy Department is full of tho best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons friUoge, collars, quh*s, and parasols cto