SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4046, 24 February 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

"We are informed that Mr H, Walker, of Featherston, who elied on the thus teenth ef this month, had his life assured in the Mutual Life Association of Australasia for £IOO.

The Brass Band at Greytown last night; played several pretty selections in Main Street. As they neared tach hotel cordial invitations wero sent them by the proprietors to come inside and wet their whistles, of whioh opportunity they gladly availed themselves.

The entries for Mr F. H. Wood's stock sale at the Taratahi yards to* morrow embrace 2100 ewes from, the celebrated Tupurupurn flock, 600 ewes from Ponatahi, 350 lambs in the wool, 105 fat wethers, 40 purebred two-tooth Romney Marsh ewes, 1.160 aped Lincoln ewes, 300 crossbred ewes, and cattle of all descriptions. New Zealand journalists seemto geton in Melbourne, Mr J. A.. Butler,, who was assistant reader on the Ohristohuroh Telegraph three or four years ago,.is now shorthand writer and typewriter in the Office of the Metropolitan Board of Works, Melbourne, at a salary of £2OO a year. He was on the Age staff when he received the appointment. This is pretty.good progress considering that Mr Butler is scarcely twenty-one years ofage. There are not two people in the Forty Jflileßushmoregenerally respected than Mr and Mrs P. .Dawson, who have for so many years carried on the duties connected with the Pahiatua Post and Telegraph office in a manner that would have done credit to old Civil Servants, They took charge of the ufflce when. Pahiatua was in its infancj, and when there was only a triweekly mail seryice between Woodville and Masterton ; and they leave it, after having faithfully performed every duty imposed upon them, with no less than half a dozen mails coming and going daily. They saw the telephone introduced, and soon managed to work it satisfactorily; as also a money order office, which, owing to the large business done and the number of returnstobesent in, kept them constantly going from morning till night. It is really wonderf ulhow Mr and Mrs Dawson, without any training in the service, carried on 1 such an extensive business in so satisfactory a manner. They have now gone on to their farm in the Mangahao, vhoro we are sure everyone will wish them sucoess j but we think thoy should not disappear from our midst without Borne token of the esteorn iu which thoy have been held, Therefore the Pah'atua Star suggosts that a committee be formed to take into consider* ation the best means of showing their esteem.