SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3985, 10 December 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

A white St. Bernard and a brindle greyhound dog are ad rertieed as lost. The Maaterton Hospital Trustees invite tenders for the supply of groceries, meat, bread, milk, etc., for the ensuing year.

We regret to bear of the death of Mrs Lee, wife of Mr F. Lee, late manager of DrHosking's Weraiti estate, which occurred yesterday. The Maaterton Borough Counc 1 give notice that the portion of Queen street where the new culvert is being constructed at the mill stream will be cbaed for horse and wheel traffic from the 15th December to the 17th.

Entries for the Wellington District Board of Education Scholarship close today, and up to yesterday afternoon 00 candidates had sent in their names. The examination will be held on the 18th and 19th inst. The Wellington candidates will be examined at the Board's office, while candidates from tbe Wairarapa will go to the Masterton School. Inspectors Fleming and Lee will be the examiners.

A firßt-class butcher's business, situated in one oi the main streets of Wellington, is for sale at an excep'ionally low price. Carts, horses, and all conveniences are included, and the opening should suit a small capitalist. Full particulars may be learnt from Messrs McKinnon and Triugham, whose advertisement appears elsewhere. We copy from the. Wellington Evening Press the following kindly uotica of the late Mr Mauara:—Nonogenarians are few in number in New Zealand, and one of them who has just passed away—Mr William Macara, of Masterton—was a good example of those who liye long in the land by leading from their youth up pure and blameless lives.' The late Mr Macara was a descendant of a line of Scotch farmers. He was a young man when the battle of Waterloo was fought, and during occasional visits to Edinburgh went to see Sir Walter Scott, then called " Peveril of the Pead," limping about the streets. From then till the day of his death bis memory remaiued unimpaired, and when, during the latter years of his lite, he was afflicted with blindness, he still maintained a cheerful and happy frame of mind, for the storehouse of his mind enabled him to charm dull hours away, and the vivid interest he took in all his relatives and surroundings, as well as in publio events both in this Colony and in Great Britain, made his prolonged existence a pleasure to himself and to his friends. He might possibly have reached a hundred years, for he was a very healthy man, who never complained of pains or aches, had not that insidious disease influenza laid I him low. Bis old friend, the Rev James Paterson, for whom he had the greatest respect and affection, and by whom he was held in great esteem, put aside his Wellington engagements in order to go up to Masterton and perform on Tuesday last the last sad rites id the cemetery. Had the (ate Mr Macara been able to express a last wish, it would probably have been that his old pastor and friend should have presided at his grave. The late Mr Macara has resided in this Colony for some five and twenty years. Hit, golden wedding—saddened by the illness which ultimately proved fatal, of his hfe partner—was celebrated some two years ago, and hb now rests by her side in an honoured grave, with " their bodies at rest on the preen earth's breast and their souls ab home with God.''

A first rate specific for the destruction of blight and garden insects has been discovered by Mr 1. F. Bienchley, of Mauriceville. Several Maaterton residents, including Mr Stone, nurseryman, have used (he preparation and speak very highly of its qualities as a blight destroyer. Mr Brenchley proceeds to Wellington to-day with the intention of protecting the specific. U J. Hooper and Co are now showing the most fashionable and largest assorts ment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Milli nery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, Ac. Stylish and Pretty Jackets, Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloak*, Garaboldi Jackets, <X'C We are showing a sjJendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, &c. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of nev dress materials in the Wairarapa- All the leading de> signs, satins, and materials far th,e action, single and double v(idtl\B,.' The Fancy ia full et the best novcltids,' pretty aprons, ribbons frilings,QoH»rs,euffi, and paraboUetc

Wo understand that neither time, trouble nor expenso has been spared by the ladies who have undertaken to hold a Toy and Cako Show in aid of St Matthew's Church fund, in order to onsure success. The display of dolls will be quite a revolation m this particular line, and as a show alone, well worth the cost of admission. is most varied in styles, sizes and prices, the latter being fixed at such figures m will place a doll whioh o<in be dressed or undreßßud within reaoh of the, most limited purse, while those inclined to speculate will have an opportunity of joining in the various raffles for the more expensire ones. Some very large and beautifully dressed dolls are included in the list, several of which are provided with more than one complete set ot clothing from the unmentionable ' ch—so to the latest thing in ' costumes.' A doll's house, constructed on a new principle, fully furnished and inhabited, will be amongst the Hat of .urtioles tor sale, beside" many other thing* too numerous to desoribe, but whioh must bo seen to be "ppreciated. The Show is to be held in the DrilljShod on Friday and Saturday evenings next from 7 to 10 p.m., and on Saturday afternoon from 2 till 6.30, and as the object is a /ood one we trust to soe tho movement well supported.