SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4043, 20 February 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

The annual meeting of the Red Star Foetßill Olqjb is to be held in the Empire Hotel on Thursday evening next,

An address will bo delimed in the Temperance Hall on Sunday evening entitled" Three Now Songs, 1 '

A first-class quality of cocksfoot grass seed is advertised by Mr W. L. Johustonoi of Masterton, as being for sale. Mr Johnstone supplies samples, and guarantees tho seed to bo thoroughly ?00d, The Secretary of the Local Board of Health in Masterton has reoeived returns under the Faotories Act from two persons, representing three factories, In ono establishment there are five males and one female, in another four males, and in the third two : males and two females.

The following looal appears in the January number of the Australian Insurance and Banking Record;-" On Thursday, 14th January, Dr Constance Stone examined for the Mutual Lite Association of Australasia a lady candidate for assurance, We believe that this is the first examination in Australasia made by a lady doctor, and the office In question is to be commenced for its consideration for the feelings of lady candidates for assurance,"

' 'Anglo«Australian," in tho European Mail, writes:—"Lady Vogal is entitled to the deepest sympathy at the present moment, tier mother, Mrs Clayton, died on New Year's Day, and five days later her sinter, Miss Kate Clayton, passed my, Mrs Clayton m tho widow of the late Mr W, H, Clayton, who held the position of Colonial Arohitect in Now Zealand, and she was aoventy-thrae years of ago at the timoot her death,.

A constable at Grawin, New South Wales, having little to do, varied the monotony by shooting himself.

At Carcoar on Tuesday a young man named David Ogle fired a gun, loaded with what he supposed to be a blank cartridge, at a young woman named Sarah Jane Keens, with tho idea of frightening her, and killed her on the spot, '

A New South Wales exohange says;— "On Tuesday afternoon, while Mr Bullock was working in the garden at Tenterfield Station; he waabittenon the little finger by a black; snake. - Re promptly applied a ligature and 'suoked the punqturea, and camo into town to Dr Morice. The action of the poison was •so great that he was completely prostrated when he arrived at the doctor's residence. The stryohmne treatment was applied, and the patient, who was with difficulty kept awike, is ' now fully recovered from the effects of the bite." Mr Bullock is of the late firm of Bullock Bros,, booksellers,, &0,, of Lambton Quay, Wellington. He is now head gardener at Tenterfield Station.

Some do, some don't 1 The majority do, tho minority don't. : Tho largebrained level-headed folks do, the others don't I Those who study their best interests do; those who neglect them don't.' Of course thero will always bo a minority who porsisteutly avoid doing the right and of course .the; members off that minority inust pay for thci'r backsliding They backslide-with, their'.eyes open. The eyil they work upon' themselves is continually being pointed out to them and yet they continue ,ou; thoir dnwn> ward parepr, .The, me ; in point is a simply one, ,a mete nutter of £ s. d., of the value of the circulating medium ana whatvou can get for the money you have to spend.. Thero is no.sentinient'-iibout it, it is of the earth, earthy, it's Sound up in wqrld|iness and yet it's a matter of; as much importance,as half the things thro are preached from stnmp and.pulpit and platform from year's cud to year's end. Join Jihe majority,, nwko ona-of-tho happy throng ever changing, always* increasing, who day after day, week after, week, , and all the year round buy all they want at the Bon.Marcho, Masterton, it's the best storb in town,;out of it or round about it. "If yotf doubt it go >'and seo the proprietors-Hooper & Co-, and you will soon be convinced,' V "

Messrs Lowes & lorns add to thelc ■- stock sale for Wednesday next fat and for Bard bullocks, 18 fat and forward cows, GO head cattle, 18 months to 2 years old (mixed sexes), and 1 fat oow. The premises of tho Wairarapa : Farmers Cu-operfltiwi Association,latelv occupied by Mr. W. Whitt, will bo lit up this evening for the display of ranges v and stoves. . . .... - ••• .The Masterton Boad Board inyit'"•' '■ tenders for road metalling. .• ?. A Press Association telegram rectwed this morning from Ashburton states that ": • the bulk, of the grain is now safely secured, and the damage is found not to be nearly so great as feared, A subscriber interested in Synod matters has written to s&y thafc ha'coneidera it is not the standing orders which should be suspended, but that rather'it should be tho Primate himself. Our correspondent mustsurely be related tothat parson who, when it was proposed by his brethren of ,the cloth that they T. Bhould ill hang together in concord, rejoined that it did not in the least - matter which cord they hung by as long as it held I It is understood that Mr Jas." Carroll, ' V M.H.E.for the Eastern Maori diatricfe, has accepted the position on the Executive offered him by , the Govern* ment. '' While he remains in receipt of a salary of £4OO, to which his position entitles him, he will not draw any Parliamentary honorarium in addition,

The following is the exact wording of the verdict returned by tho jury in the inquest on the remains of the late William Lancaster Lucena:—"lntlio matter of the death of William Lucena, it is th'e unanimous of the jury that doath resulted, from eon« , geation pfthe brain, In accordance with. the niedical evidonoe adduced! and that hence death was absolutely and definitely from natural causes? 1 ■.