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More than half the population ot this Colony is New Zealand bom, The drought has been severely felt In the northern districts of South Australia, and many of the squatters are utterly ruined. Twelvo cases of fever were reported to the Napier Board uf Health during the month of February, Mestrs Ohapiuan,Fitzgerald and Tripp, Solicitors, Brandon St., Wellington, announce by notification over our leader that they have money to lend at current rates of interest on freehold securities. Tho fortnightly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council will be held this (Tuesday) eveoiug, The Telegraph states that the Napier police have sent notices to all butchers, milkmen, and people who hawk produce about the town that they will havo to take out hawkers' licenses at once. The licenso costs £2 a year. A large quantity of flax contiguous to the Kahautara mill has been destroyed by fire. The loss to the lessor of the mill is estimated at £IOOO, The Eketahuna Road Board giveß notice that certain special orders are to be presentsd for confirmation. An adjourned meeting of creditors in tho estate of David Heggie, carrier, which was to have been held yesterday, lapsed for want of a quotum. The meeting has been adjourned sine die, A Zealandia wool press,constructed by Mr James Muir, of Masterton, has been fitted up in the Woodville froezing works. About 4,700 acres of land In Mangahao andTararua Survey Districts liavo been set apart for uaval, military, and volunteer land claims. The Government is offering a bonuß of£l |T r 'on for the production of the first 500"tons of ° f marketable quality manufactured in J* colony after this date, from magnetic or titanifeH" 18 ironsand or iron-ore, all material, fuel, and fluxes being the produce of New Zealand.

Sixteen trucks of sheep from Masterton, and ten from Carterton, went down with'yesterday morninp'a passenger train, representing nearly 2000 slieop for freezing .purposes. • Featherston was reached 20 minutes behind time, - It is a lamentable fact that' there aro in the Colony at the present time 116,159 persons who cannot read. Of this number 82,522 only are under five years of age, There seems to be a concensus of opinion that Taranaki has at last started on the road to prosperity, and that with such laud as it has around it nothing can now stop its progress. A rather suggestive sight presented itself tu the view of pasaera-by in Palmerston North tho othor day, in the shape of a congregational Church which I was being removed bodily from a prominent corner allotment to make room for the erection of a hotel on the snmo spot. Thereareiu New Zealand 229,437 unmarried males and 190,058 femaleß, According to the last census there are ■ 90,487 husbands in the Colony, and 00,870 wives, Of unmarried males over 85 years of age there are 13 and of females 12. There are five wives between the age of 15 and 16, and 18 between 18 and 17. Husbands, however, have not married so young, tljer# bging only 4 in tho Colony between the ago ot 17 and 18, Mr L. Hanlon, of Whargarei, Auckland, has been appointed by the Government to instruct tho settlers of the Colony in the art ot growing and preserving fruit, A telegraph clerk named William CumberiYorth was drowned whilst bathing near Sumner on Sunday. A young man named Ernest Holdsr fell into a boiling cauldron of liquor extract at Vials Leather Belt Factory, Kensington, Viotoria, His body was fearfully scalded, and his recovery is considered doubtful. The Feildinr Star BaysA very singular case has come under one notice. A person of unsound mind was confined in the Wellington Asylum. From information received a friend wrote to the head of the establishment asking how the patient was getting on. A reply was reccired stating the patient was doing very well, but he was not yet fit to be at large and tho asylum was the best place for him for a little longer, When this letter was written the patient had escaped and been at liberty for at least four days,''. Surely this demands an enquiry; The Uovernment assessor recently paid a visit to the Masterton district Settlers of the Coastsay that the abundance of grass is not an unmixed blessing. The Australasian says of Sir Robert Stout that he" maybe likened unto a yessel in port with an anohor out that does not touch bottom, so it depends on wind and tide what part °f the harbour you will find (t in oji a giyoi) date." According to tho Tajeri Advocate, that pest, the Hessian fly, has made its appearanco in tho Maungatua district, and has dono a creit deal of damage to tho crops in that locality, Our first shipments of new goods for the Autumn and Winter esason have now come to hand by the latest mail steamers, and we have been bnsily employed in opening them out and preparing them for inspection at Te Aro House, Wellington.

We shall be happy to forward patterns of onr new Dress Fabrics and other novelties free by post to any address, on application to'Jamesfimithi TeAro House, Wellington, f) Up seleoiiim of Autumn and Winter fdSlllona Has ; by our own buyers i —men of great'experoilci!; tsste'Bnd-judg. ffieftt—in the 'UriM, 'Wetioli ' and {toritinehtal and may be relied on as surpassing every thid|j we'have previously X# h.o Bouse, Wellington. jOhrffdiesSoßlii^jUo 1 their odvantage to" make theli' ,oliM early as 1 posalbl.e.'.iipfl sO.ro liavc the adyabjtage of getting their dresse| inacle in g6|cP;lme for for ibl'l measurement W. WAN? iffmilkg jfam wiahin this'respeot to üb, anawill gaaran, tee to all customers the advantages of tasli fit, finish and prompt execution in out Celebiftted Lressmoking Boom at To Ajq House, Wellington.

The aeason of Lent ooiumences tomorrow (AbH "Wednesday,) when spsoial sfiTvices will be hold in the various Churches, A Wellington paper asks through its columns for a cure fui the craving for drink, It has received hundreds of rep ifß, some recommending Peruvian bark and others bayberry barl;, but the cheapest of all iB that of the {Salvationist who says Salvation and a thorough conversion will cure all desire for drink as well as other evils." Several nuggets of gold have been found at Murchison, the largest being 1440z5. A resident farmer is responsible for the statement thai; crops within a radius of ten miles of Oamaru will not average more than 20 bushels. The Bruce Htrald has this par:— " One of the landholders in tho district whose property ib fairly well stocked with rabbits will not allow rabbitine on it except he receives LI per week for the ripht. This seems to indicate that rabbits cannot bo after all so much of a nuisance," The man admitted to the Mnstorton Hospital yesterday was Christian Christiansen, a native of Denmark. He was lighting logs in the paddock of Mr James Stuckey, Bangitumau, whon ho was crushed by a falling limb. His injuries are vory serious, including a broken leg and the fracture of several ribs, An expert named Pleifiner, who visited the Murchison goldfields, West Australia, at the instance of an Adelaide syndicate, reports that there are many reefs and leaders, but that the gold is very patchy, and the district is suffering terribly from the want of water, He advises no one to go there until a good rain falls, A resident of this town received information yesterday from Waipawa that Sergcartt M'Ardle has been appsintedto take charge of the Mastetton police station. The wife of a settler near Avoca, Victoria, was bitten recently by a tiger snake on the fourth linger ot the left hand. She placed her finder on a block, and asked her husband to out it off, which he did with an axe. He then drove his wife 17 miles to Avoca. She was In a state "of collapse, but Dr Johnson applied tho strychnine remedy with Buocess, and the woman is now out of danger.' Every man has a duty to perform, Sometimes it is a pleasing duty, sometimes otherwise. When it is a duty to pay a long standing butcher's account, or to pay a bill you backed for a friend " justto obliifo him," ovwhen it is aduty to receive a visit from your mother inlaw, these are painful duties. And when our fatherly Government decide to put a.duty on everything, and when a Parliamentary majority consider it'a duty they owe to their country, and the eleotors they represent (or misrepresent as the case may be), to ratifyand legalise such duties, why then it becomes a duty for the public of Masterton in particular and the Wairaraua in general to smil< ingly pay such duties and quiotly grin & bear it. They have, however, one duty to perform and that is to buy their Draporyand Clothing at the Bon Marohe, the cheapest Bnd best house in Masterton for anything of the sort. The whole duty of man is to do the best he can for himself, jftelson said, " England expects, every man to do his duty." Hooper and On., say, " They oxpect everyone, whether man, woman, or child, young men and maidens, old folks and young folks to do their duties, by doing their duty and buying all they require in Drapery, Clothing, household furnishings, etc., at the Bon Marohe.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4051, 1 March 1892, Page 2

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Untitled Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4051, 1 March 1892, Page 2

Untitled Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4051, 1 March 1892, Page 2

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