SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4006, 7 January 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Messrs Lowes and loniß add to their stock sale for Wednesday next 150 good breeding owes. The next English and European mai' clobss at tho Masterton Pojt Office tomorrow (Friday) morning.

A grass seed cleaning machine, with tho latest improvements, is being imported by Messrs M. Caaelberg and 00., of llaaterton. The firm will thereby be enabled to . supply thoroughly clean rye grass and cocksfoot at a small advance on farmers' seed. A southern contemporary says:— Dr Hayes, of Temuka, keeps a small menayerie, and an interesting event lias occurred in the birth of the first monkoy ever born in Now Zealand.

Jem Mace,an erstwhile rin? champion, is now instructor at the San tfrancisco Olympio Club, and receives a salary of 160 dollars a month. How aro tho mighty fallen! A practical and pleasurablo recognition of faithful service and good manage l ment was made at the Gear Moat Company's annual meoting on Tuesday evening, whbn Mr W. H. Millward was, by unanimous resolution, awaided a bonus of £IOO as a token of tho Company's acknowledgment of his ability as thefr Secretary. The approaching marriage of Mr Millward had suggested the present as an occasion for this complimentary act on the part of the Directors and shareholders.

A man half-starved and wild-looking has been found in the bush near Bullumwall, Gipptiland. A troopor diaooyered the wretohod oreature living in a hollow log;- His hair is extremely long and his uails like beaats' claws, The man has baen taken to tho hospital Nothing is known about him, We understand from MrR. S. Smytke, the much-travelled, that thero is very littlo probability of Mr fl. M, Stanley, the African explorer, visiting Mastevton. Max O'JKoll, the well knowu author, who is on a lecturing tour of the colonies, will, howover, probably put in ut night here.

Mr G, Beetham has handed over to Sir James Hector a portion of the wheat' : supposed to contain a'spooimen of the ' grub which is causing damage among the wheat crops in the Wairarapa, On examination,however,it was found that the destructor, which is said t.i be a brown beetle, had fallen out, only tho pupa remaining. Sir James Hector is confident it is not the B essian fly. About a fortnight ago a young married woman iiamod Mrs Stewart, who was staying with her brother, Mr W Gill, of James, (Victoria) while attending to some cooking in the kitoheu, was seized with a fit and fell forward into the fire. Sho lay there some time, until Mrs Gill, Ginelling something burning, want to the kitchen and saw her sistor-in>Liw lyinsj face downward in the fire. On. being rescued from her , terrible position Mrs Stewart's face and chest wero found •tg have been terribly burned. After suffering great agony, she died some days lator in the Wangaratta Hospital, Freaks of naturo, as tlioy aro called, may be deeply interesting to soieniific men, but they often entail for the victims of them a wretched existence, 'At the present moment ive learn Mr Laloo, a nativo of Hindostan, is in New York, with the object of consulting the most eminent surgeons on his singularly hard case," Ho is described as a handsome, (vell-proportioMcl young man, whoso life is a burden to him owing to tho following cjtcumst'ances:—He was born a twin, but unfortunately his twin sister had grown from his breast bono~or, as tho freak is described,sho had attached herself to that part of his anatomy, and seeuicd to havo plunged head first into her brother's body, for dangling from his body was only a baby- girl's body and four limbs," Tho« isthmus of neck" : is described as " pokia? right into tho brother's frame," and thero evidently ended the headless sister, whoso arms were tightly clasped round her brother's neck, fe twenty years Mr Laloo has lived pith'his decapitated sister, also a living human body nearly half his size, fed by his mouth, livinp upon his tissues and still capable of" swinging hor arms up and putting them round hia neckasof old." He is anxious—deeply anxious, it is said -to get rid of this incubus, and has?one,toNew York" in : the hope of finding a skilful surgeon to help him in his object, Before anything is attempted, a consensus of opinion on the feasibility of such an operation wil.l be ■ taken.

L 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 Unkinged Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &o. Stylish and Pretty. Jackets, Dorothy Capes,. Mantles,, Dust. Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, Ac. Wo are'showing a splendid Block of 'Fashionable-"Delaines,' Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, Ac, . We hold the best asscrtment .and larfiest stock' of new 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 tho I best novelties, pretty' aprons, ribbons Ifrilings, collars, and etc v. {

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their Stock Sale for Wednesday next 160 ewes and lambs.

An interesting and pleasing ceremony • ■ : was performed in St. Matthew's Church, . Masterton, to-day, whon the Rov J, D. Russell, of Opc-tiki, was united in marriage witli Miss Shoppard, of \ Ladies' Collegiate (School, Masterton, The Church was crowded with friends, and tlie.choir assisted with appropriate ; anthems) The ceremony pa'temod by the Rev W. K. Paigo, The brido, who was attired in a hand* some grey dress, was givon away by her father, and was attondcd by a number of bridesmaids. The "Wedding March" \ was played on the organ as the company left the Church, and the happy couple ■ took their depattoo amidst showers of ru-8 and the best wishes of mauy friends. The Ohrisfcliurch Press reports that two gentlcmon recently had a curious experience on the Lake Eltosmere Flat. Drinnir dowii Kaituna Valloy thoy per* ~ ceivcd 60010 curious looking olouds in the neighborhood of tho railway station and adjoining hill. Various fjXo riea were b cached to account for them. They wore caused by dust rained by a paif of equestrians, they wero composed of mist rising from the eartli, they wero smoke, thsy were all sorts.of things. But,, a closer acquaintance revoaled tho fact , that thoy wore composed ontirely of small flios. The driver says that he would rather drive through any dust storm than again oncountor such an experience. On passing the point and look" ; * iug back the flies,noiv viewed fronj ft dif« standpoint as regards thtfsetting sun, presented the appearance of black-' columns of smoke quite equal t-j thostV produced by burning a series of ftSpl down a fence side. One of tho men expresses his intention of mak : ng a special trip with his camera, in ort'or to secure a reproduction of what le desoribes as one of the; most wonderfi'l v sights lie has aver witi'.eiiscd.-