SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4020, 25 January 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Messrs Lowes k lorns add to their stock sale for 'Wednesday noit, 8 harness horses, 50 fresh {nil mouth ewes, and 88 owes,

Tho Minister of Lands intends to re" introduce tho Selectors' Land Revaluation Bill next session,

■' Tho Yeoineu of the Guard "at the Opera Bouse, Wellington, was performed again on Saturday night to a large and enthusiastic audienco, It will be repeatod tonight and also eaoh evening during the greater part of this weok, Tho Rev E. Walker, organising agent of the New Zealand Alliance for the prohibition of tho liquor traffio, holds a publio meeting in the Masterton Temperance Ball on Thursday next, the 28th inst. The annual picnic of the Wesleyan Circuit was held is Mr John Wilkie's Bush, Greytown, on Friday last. There was a fairly good attendance, consisting ohiefly of children. Tho usual games were freely indulgod in, especially the ouo generally played after tea (kiss-in - tho-ring). A splendid spread'was provided and altogether a very enjoyable day was spent,

MossrsLowos and lorns add to the Masterton Bam Fair for 2nd and 3rd of February, 50 2-tooth ltomnoysbred by J, Nix; B5 2-tooth Eomnoys bred by Pharazyn, Syko3 and others ;45 2~tooth Lincolns bred by Burnott, VVanganui; 24 4 and (Hoofch Lincolns bred by various breeders,

A. special price list from Mr Kow Kee appears in our advertising columns. His Excellency tho Governor has boon commanded by the Queen to convey her thanks and those of their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Wales for tho expressions of sympathy which the Royal Family receired from New Zealand, Tho Royal Family have been much affected by the universal feeling of sympathy and grief at the loss whioh they have sustained, The prograramo of the Autumn Hack Bace Meeting of the Woodville District Jockey Club appears in our advertising columns. The meetings in Woodville in the past have been very interesting, and from tho liberal programme published we should judgo that the meeting of April Ist will be no exception, Nominations close on Saturday, March 12th. Messrs Lowes and lorns make further important additions to their uf ramß for sale at tho forthcoming Masterton Ram Fair of 60 Lincolns bred by Mr i 2-too(h studs bred by Mr H. Overton of Irwoll, Ghristohurch, the ownor of a very celebrated flock, 25 South Down Rams,

We are informed bj Mr-Matthewe, who is in charge of the Maaterton fish ponds during tho absence of Mr Ayaon, that in spite of the notices warning people tu keep away from the coops at the aviary, a number will persist in interfering with the birds. Three younq phoasants woro killed on Sunday week and six yesterday. Tho sluice gates wero also tampered with by aomo mischievous person. Unless people can comply with the request to keep'away from the bird coppa, and otherwise behave in a ronsimab'l'o rijahijer, tho' pqnds'wjll hay'e to bo closed to the goneral public, '' Wo have pleasure in drawing the attention of flock-owners to the notification in this iasiw regarding Little's Sheep Dips, fluid and powder. As a safe, reh-. able, and effeotivo sheep dip, " Little's" hag an excellent reputation, and perhaps the most; eloquenf, testimony in this direction is afforded by its' enormously inoreaaed sale in all parta of Now Zealand within tljo past few years, Tho advertisementi'whicE may be seen elsewhore, gives all particulars regarding price of both the fluid dip and the powder dip. The latter,' it will be remarked, is considered (o bo nut only fifty pep gent, cheaper, but one hundred per gent, batter than another tvoll-known poivdor dip, The looal agents are Messrs M, Caselborg and Go., and those in Wellington are Messrs Murray Roberts and Co., and Levin and Co. The Woodville Examiner says;-Wo understand that the police have in their possession further very important evidence which did not come out at the' iwmesji' last night, but which' will be available iu the o'veiit"of a magisterial onnuiiy beingheld," Jt is now qlniqst certain thst there was more than one person in the diabolical business, but of course it is not yet definitely known who these persons are, though the police have strong suspicions, grounded on a chain of circumstantial evidence. This chain of evidence is not yet complete to warrant an arrest, but it ia Understood tho-matter is steadily being cprtd up, alid/the polico aj'e gaiiiihf; groun.d. 'Every well : wisher.of soliety wij} wish jihepojico every success in tonearthing the matter, Tho eyideiictj lasjt uighf left npdoiiqt about the poison being placed in £he meat siiteiitipnally and it is most unfortunate thai Mrs Nay'', lor could not identify the man she saw leave the house that was the culprit undoubtedly, but whether a woman in man's dress, remains to be discovered. Jt also rpmaiiis, tp be discovered whether |he poison a.r« Bonicin pure fqrm pr in poniponnd auch as "rough on ratfi," The whole, affair seems to have been the rosult of cold-blooded premeditation oil tho pari of aonio person not yet -suS« oien ( ly evident, ■■- ■■^■\