SECOND EDITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3997, 24 December 1891, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

v Pearson's Braes Band - have been encaged to play at the Maurioevillo Sports on Monday. Mr A. L. Whyte of Carterton, has secured tho luncheon booth for the Opaki races to be held on Monday next. The offices of the Masterton and Greytxtwn Building Societies will be closed . - on Friday and Saturday, the Ist and 2nd days of January, 1892. The payday in both offioes has therefore been postponed until the 9th day of January. /" The Wealeyan picnic in Public Park on Boxing Day promises to be a big affair. The most complete muntß have been made for the amusement i»f all, and the succubs of the gathering will depend only upon the attendance of tho publio, which, we are assured, will be very lartre. Owintf to pressure of business, Mr \. M'Leod has found it necessary to resign his seat as a member of the Masterton tioad Board, At a mooting of the Board held yesterday the resignation was received with regret, and the Clerk instructed * to takb the necessary steps to fill the vaoanoy. The Masterton Road Board invites , tenders for several contracts on the To Mara and Kiriwhakapapa roads. " A Yankee notion," a really good office rule, that will measure an advertisement or slay a picturesque ' atlas oanvasser, comes to us from Mr E. H. Washington. Tne Wesleyan Picnic Committee i> anthorised to ohirge ontranoe fees at the Masterton park Kates on Boxing Day. Tho Star Hotel was brilliantly illu« initiated last night, the, with Chinese lanterns and evergreens, presenting a very attractive appearance. Our Carterton correspondent writes : The Carterton butchers had a good show of meat last night of all sorts, but poultry was conspicuous by Mr A. L. White had a good csplay of Xraas cakes and fancy fioods, and Mr J. 0. Beid had a grand collection of Xmas - toys, wherewith to tempt the juvenile population. ii 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 Fnfteh Millinery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Bats and' Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &o. . Stylish and Pretty Jackets, Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, GarabolcU Jackets, <fco. • • We are showing a splendid stock of . Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrios, Zephyrs, &o. We hold the best assortment and largest sfcriik of new dress materials in tha Wairarapa- All tbe leading shades, dot signs, satins, aud materials for the soason, single and double widths. The Fancy Department is fall of the best novelties, pretty aprons, ribbons frilings, collars, cuffs, and parasols etc