SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3992, 18 December 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Mr W. C. Buchanan, M. H.R., was granted six months' leave of absence at the/ meeting of the Wellington Education Board on Wednesday.

Yesterday wan the warmest day experienced in Masterton this summer. At three o'clock in the afternoon the thermometer registered 80, Fan., in the shade.

The inset published by the Wholesale Drapery Company which appears in our issue of to-day will be read with interest at this season of the year. Thirty cases of drapery and clotniny, specially selected for the Christmas and New Yew holidays, have been opened up and marked at the actual wholesale prices. Bargains jvill therefore be the order of the day.

Messrs Lowes and lorns anuounce their next stock sale for Wednesday, December 30th, with entries as advertised. We ha7e received lroin .Messrs MCaaelberg and Co. a pair of pretty miniature pictures, neatly framed, similar to some which they propose Riving totheircuetomeraonand after Saturday next.

Mr W. Dougall, watchmaker and jeweller, of Queen street, notifies that be is now showing a special assortment of Christmas and New Year gifts in bangles, brooches, rings, watches, etc., also a newly selected stock of electro plate, specially adapted for presents. Mr H. D. Bell, a candidate for the vacant Wellington seat, addressed a crowded audience in the Opera House last night. He was enthusiastically received and accorded a hearty vote of thanks.

Thirty-seven, rank and file, of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers, were on parade last evening. They were under the command of Captain Pownall and were put through various exercises by commissioned and non-commissioned c.fficerg. "H

Messrs Lowes <fc loins remind our readers of the sale to-morrow of books, stationery, fancy goods, etc. The Wusleyans held a very successful bazaar and sale of fancy work in the Assembly Rooms, Carterton, yesterday, the evsmng being devoted to vocal and instrumental music, of which the Carterton Band contributed a large share.

Mr James Jack, an old resident of Mustertun, died tins morning at the age of 60 years. He had been suffering for some time from bronchial asthma,

Mr T. G. Mason, of the Medical Hall, in another column announces " Summer Drinks," if which he has a varied stouk, and which ho offers at popular prices. Of course his name is a guarantee of the perfect purity and quality of the various linos which he is offering in this department of his business.

Mr F. O. Wood makes somo important additions to the sale to be held by him at his Greytown Rooms to-morrow, particulars of which will be found in our advertising colmnns. They iticlu io anewdouble seated bugey, with all the latest improvements, built by Messrs Rouse and Hurrell, of Wellington, a new rustic, one farmer's trap, a good quick buggy horse, 2 sets of Biiiglo harness, 4 saddles, &c.

A shocking fatality happened on the railway line, at North Melbourne on the .norniog of December sth, when a ganger named J. Colecott, aged 35, residing in 72, Abbotsford street, North Melbourne, was run down by a special train to Ballaratand literally cut to pieces. Oolecott was overseering a ganar of workmen who were repairing the metal, and keeping his eye on the up train from the city he stepped on to the down line, and before any of his men had time to warn him of bis danger the special to Ballarat came upon him, knocking him over and killing him instantaneously. The body was frightfully mangled, portions being strewn along the track. Both legs were completely severed from the trunk, and the head terribly disfigured. Information was conveyed to the police depot, and Constable McLeod removed the remains to the morgue.

There are more ways of killing a cat than one, and a man may evoi> get the belter of the railway tariff. A settler at lamahere had (writes our Waikato correspondent) a small dock of crossbred ewes, which, lambing a month or two earlier than usual, gave him some fine lambßfor the Auckland market early in the season, For which he realised some 16s per head. Sending them in small parcels, and not a truck-load at a time, he found the freight by rail took too large a share of tho profit, and then concluded to send them perhaps a dozen or more at a time only, in boxes the same as turkeys and other poultry are forwarded. This cost him 2s per head. Not, howeyer, satisfied with this reduction, ho prooured a copy of the rail < way tariff charges, and hit upon the expedient, under one of the tables, of sending them in sacks; Accordingly, some sacka, not of the very best quality, were procured, a hole in the bottom of each cut for the lamb's head to go through, and carefully tied round its neck, so that the animal should be sure of ires respiration, and they were sent by rail to Auckland, the freight under such conditions being only 20s a score. Nor was this t>l!(our friend deserves «.ti> have been born north of the Tweed); the sacks were sent back as empties at a mere nominal charge.- Auckland Herald. jL 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 Milli nery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, <&c.

Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, &c. We are showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, &o. We hold the best assortment and largest stook of new dress materials in the Wairarapa- All the loading shades, de> signs, satins, and materials for the season, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is fall of the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons frilings, collars, cuffs, and parasols etc