SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3990, 16 December 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Mr Walter Davidson, of Pigeon Bush, near Featherston, advertises for tenders for cutting fifty acres of scrub. Three Picturesque Atlas cases were called on 'nt Grey town this morning. Judgment in one was given for, the plaintiffs, and the other two wore adjourned for the production ot evidence. The foundation stone of the, (Veiling ton public library was laid yesterday by Mr A. -W. Brown (the Mayor) in the presence of a large number ot spectators. The privileges in connection with the summer meeting of the Wairarapa Racing Club, to bo held on the Ist and 2nd January, comprising gates, booths, horse yards, etc., will be sold by Mr F. H. Wood at his Greytown auotion rooms on Saturday next, December 10th. In an article pointing to the singular way in which typhoid fever seems to do? the footsteps of the English Royal Family, the Christohurch Press makes the following amusing typographical mistake :*• The Prinoe of Wales has just passed his thirtieth birthday, while Prince George is only twei)ty«six." The wonderful flush of grass (says the Ashburtou Mail) this season is responsible tor some peculiar phenomena. One of these has been brought to light during the sheep-shearing that is now in progress. At Mr Benjamin Hampton's, Newlands, a number of the wethers— crossbreds—have beenfound to have a well-developed adder and teats, charged with milk. This is not an unprecedented phenomena as about three years baok Mr Herrinp, of the A lford Estate, had to give up breeding from Border Leicesfcers, as their progeny were so precocious under the influence of the abundant feed of the Alford lands that not only the maiden ewes but also many of the wethers had quite a flow of milk. When the Alford Border Leicosters were sold some of them went into the Newlands district, and it may have been their piogeny in which similar manifestations have been observed.

Ts it not ladies only who are slaves of the teapot. According to a correspondent of The Granta,the fascinating beverage- as Dr Johnson oalled it—is working havoo with the ner7es and brains of Cambridge undergraduates. They start the day by drinking large quantities—the " kindred curse," coffee, is occasionally suoatituted, but is pretty much the same. In the afternoon they have tea again, and not once only, but many times. This individual hat himself partaken of five teas in one afternoon. After tea more " slops," and then perhaps about eleven at night, if the vice has made sufficient prepress, an abandoned man will brew more tea, and eventually retire to rest " a limp, miserable teasodden wretch." An instance is eited of an excellent Rugby player who came to Cambridge with a good chance of " obtaining his blue "in hia second season. But before that time a marked and painful change had set in. His digestion was gone, his hand— once the steadiest—trembled pitifully. People said he had " given way to drink." He had only given way to tea. "Who," asks this ardent reformer, will be the first to join the Light Blue Ribbon Army with a pledge against—Tea ?

Li J. Hooper and Co are now showing the most fashionable and largest assort* ment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Millinery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &o.

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 stook of nevr dress materials in the Wairarapa- All the leading shades, de> signs, satins, and materials for the season, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is full of the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons frilingß, collars, cuffs, and parasols etc