SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4003, 4 January 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Adostmctive hailstorm passod over the Oamaru district on New Your's Day Windows were amazed, and the oat crops suffered eeverely.

Mr Murray, of the Whalea-iln Drapery Company, received the following wire from Pahiatu* this morning relative to the condition of Mrs Dickson: -"'Rest» lepsni(<ht. Sleeping now. Dootorsays she improves."

A oontempoary says that apeouliar individual died ac Waiau the other day, He allowed the pi?a to roam at will about his home; he existed upon soda scones and birds' eggs j he sometimes allowed his lotturs to lie three months before he called for them, and he died —regretted by nunc. Major Stewart Nowall, of the New Zealand Militia, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant«Oolonel.

ChewOhong, of Now Plymouth, has been successful in two or three cases of la grippe, He is sending to Sir James Hector some of the parasites takon from one of his patients.

There are forty-seven children receive ing relief from the Benevolent Society at the present time in Masterton. Mr James Webb, the cash taiior of Queen street, • Masterton, has an announcement of special interest in another oolumn. During this month Mr,Webb has decided to reduce the price of Bac suits to £4. A sensational dividend was paid at the Waikoualti races on Saturday. The Maiden Plate was won by Dundonald Who paid his solitary investor the sum !of L 122 Bs.

In our advertising columns to-day appears the prospeotus ot the Waiotapu Oil and Mineral Company, Limited, and it should have the careful perusal, of our readers as the prospects of the un'dertak* ing are considered to be remarkably pro* raisins, their property near Rotorua containing deposits of petroleum oil, minerils, hematites, aoids, ores, and olavß, in a rich profusion and of a value whioh tlioßo who have visited the local" ity say it is almost Impossible to over, estimate. Messrs Laery and Co., of Willis Street, Wellington, are the brokers, and the share list is now open. A "working man" writos to a Wellington paper as follows:- Sir—l understand that tho Ekelahuua railway extension work was undertaken by the Government (tho working man's Government) in the now idea of small contracts for the purpoeo of piving work to hard-working and industrious labourers, instead of which we find speculating contractors competing against the many who havo nothing but their bone and Binew as a guarantee for their wiUinpneas to earn'an honest livin?. It is well known in the FortyMile Bush what a groat many so-called contractors are, Indeed it is a common thing to meet a fellow workman who has been " had " after working many months for a man who is nothing better than a " land shark," and who is always scheming to mako a fat living out of the working man. A correspondent of the Washington Star, who has been studying tho subject of getting rid ot fleas gives this as the result of his investigations:-If those who are tronblod with this insect, will place the common adhesiyo fly paper on the floors of tho rooms infested with a small picco of fresh meat in tho centre of caoli sheet, they will find that tho fleas will jump toward meat and adhere to the paper. 1 completely rid a badly infested house in two nights by this means."

One of tho London sooioty journals aaya;—Mr Armstrong, tho husband ot Madame Molba, is a good-looking athlete of thirty, who, as a rough-rider had fow epuals in Australia. Whon Buffalo Bill's show was at West Kensington, Armstrong seized the opportunity oi showhm his friends what he could do outside a horse, and accepted Colonel Cody's general challenge to ride his buck-jumpers. One of the nastiest of the fiery untamed steeds was trotted out, and on to its back loaped Armstrong and there remained, despito'all the animals' efforts to shift him, l( I guess you've beon at this game before, young f'lar, '* said the Colonel, not over-ploußcd as fnslunk offto his '.out.

1j J.' Hooper and Co ate now showing the most fashionable and largest assort* ment of now spring goods ever shown in tho district, English and French Millinery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &o, Stylish and Pretty Jackets/ Dorothy Capos, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, io. We are showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, io. We hold the best assortment; and largest stock o.f new dress ■ materials in tho 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 [rilings, collars, cutis, and parasols etc