SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4009, 11 January 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock sale for Wednesday next 6 fat cows. A black mare, impounded by the ranger, will be sold on Wednesday next unleßs previously claimed.. It has been decided by several intending settleis to take up the Wanpanui Harbour Block, amounting to 8,800 acres, and a meoting has been convened at Colyton to form an association. Large nasal organs are becoming , a mine of wealth to their lucky possessors. A. prize was given to the treasurer of the Freethought Association in Christchurch for the largest noso in competition,

Tho Burlington Hawkeye gives the following parable as a hint to young mon of a pugilistic turn:—" Don't carry your pet hobby too far, Take note ot the shoulders .and lege, of a man before you sass him, Out here on West Hill there is a goat that for three long years has butted every thin? and everybody the brooding empire of Burlington could send him. He ate the circus posfcra before tho paste was dry, and when tlie advance agent remonstrated, the goat just stood up and crowded the rash man clean through the bill stand. He once upseta liay.waggou, jammed hu head through the end of a wool shed, .and ikttoned.Officer Hocfer up. brick house. And one daylast weeYfie ', wandered,down into a sawmill, and butted the flywheel—only once,-, When he (ame down his neck :was: bont.,: He couldn't make a dent in a sack of moal now.. Youns. men ■be contentv,with reaflonablejictories; Spmedayybu, tobi m»yjtiti against aly.wheel, 1 ' •,;-.;■■: ■''•',;.\ >

.It will bo .seen from a tolegram #>.-:,':- another column that Uru, •;.".'■/ rapa native; won the grand: matoh in the Caledonian Society's sports'* ,;\ at Dupedin on Saturday. ■'.'.- ■'■•- : t) ';^:': Tho Government have just reoeived a.v.V ..',•: small 1 supply of. Pearson's? ironclad phylloxera-proof vine, outtings from California. ■"'■■',' ", . : ;.U^;S

MrThoftos Mackay has. been pointed superintendent CcbUector/Ti 1/ ■' agricultural statistics for this distnoh^... '.■' A quantity of second-class land lu thev \y> Wainuiord Survey District of Wellington; nas opened for solaction on the 6th inst., ..'.' of which the following Sections haye ;■" ; -.■ S been disposed of:—Section 296 of Block "' XI, 449 acres, and Section 297 of Block XV.,62oaoroa,to ,Margaret Douglas; ..>■ | Section 279 of Bloak XI., 561 acres, \to : ■: ; j.A, E.Green. '■" ■'': -,

A whsrf labourer named John Hugh Actor Fitzgerald O'Neill dropped dead on the dock of the steamer Wakotu at • /.-.•- Wellington on Saturday, evening, He had been aufferiug from heart disease.. and was fifty years of ago. {f^:: : The p,li takon on the proposal of the ■' ' Alfredton Road Board to wise a loan of £3OO for formation and bridging on : Tawataia road has been carried.

The Party, after* meat successful tour to Napier, via PaN meraton, Wanganiu, and intermediate towus, are returning home through the ■ Wairarapa, and will give aconoertin Masterton on Wednesday evening next. The quartette of vocalists is tho strongest that oould be got together in Wellington - probably in flew Zealand. Mr Mac* * Duff Boyd it solo violinist, and Mf!?*obt, Parker the pianiit and musical dif&r of the Party. The press isunanlfflfo in praise of the concert given through* t the tour, and the musical public of Mas* terton will do well not to miss the opportunity of hearing so talented a company,