SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4055, 5 March 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Messrs Lowes & lorns add to their stock sale for Wednesday next 1000 good breeding ewes, The dwelling house in Chapel-St, containing thirteen rooms, lately occupied by Mr P. Gill, is advertised to let. The annual general meeting of the Masterton Football Club is to be held in the Club Hotel on Saturday evening next. Tenders are invited by Mr C. T. Natusch, architect, for alterations and additions to the premises of Mr J, Mrndel In Queen-street. "Judaism v. Christianity," as illustrated in the recent remarkable conversion of the Jewish Rabbi, Mr Herman Warszawaik, will form the subject of an address to be delivered in the Temperance Hall on Sunday evening, Catalogues of pedigrees of the purebred cattle to be sold next Thursday at the Taratahi yards, under instructions from Mr D. M'Master, are now printed, and may be obtained on application to the auctioneer, Mr F. H. Wood. The latest act of wanton mischief on the part of the youths of Masterton is to dig holes in the asphalte court of the Park Lawn Tennis Club. The police have matter in hand. We regret to record, the death at Wairongo of Mr Thomas B. Hitchings, which took place to-day. The deceased was an old resident of the district, and was forty-two years of age. The funeral takes place at Masterton to-morrow. The rehearsals for the Greytown Arbor Day cantata (by juveniles) are now in full swing. The words were composed by the Rev. E. H. Wyatt, and the music by Mr M. R. Varnham, both of Greytown. There is a large chorus of children, and as each one marches on to the stage he will carry a small tree. It is expected that the cantata will come off in about a month's time, and should the weather be favourable, there will no doubt be a large attendance. The Advocate remarks;—lt has been noticed all over the Upper District, and probably elsewhere, that wherever the crop was heavy the Hessian fly left it almost untouched, but where it was weedy and poor it was almost destroyed. The Hessian fly seems therefore to be something of the nature of a starvation disease, and is perhaps a punishment for neglecting to manure the soil. The Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade team, which was chosen to attend the annual demonstration at Christchurch, viz,.- Lieut. Haigh (in charge), Firemen H. Duff, Jos, Quin, J. Fergusson, Wm. Gray, and F. Amos (as an emergency) leave Greytown this afternoon. They intend to have about ten days practice previous to the competition. The delegate (Mr J. L. Bees) will leave next Saturday, A Paris correspondent reports an atrocious case of cruelty in the SaintMartin Quarter of Paris. A little girl of nine, named Adolphino Borlet, onreaching her school, was noticed to be in a week condition, and evidently was suffering intense pain. She was examined by the mistress, who found that her body was covered with sores and wound For some reason other both her father and mother had conceived an intense hatred for her, and the former satisfied his rancour every morning by dragging the child up and holding her, head downwards, in a bucket of water until she was nearly asphyxiated, prior to sending her to school without any breakfast. She was made to sleep on the bare floor, with no covering, in a garret over the apartment occupied by her parents. The mother's mode of torture was to make a small poker red-hot, and apply it to the tips of Adolphino's lingers, stifling her cries by tying an apron round her head. On finding that the sores on the poor child's hands were noticed by neighbours, the woman hit upon a still more painful process of torture. She heated a pair of tongs, and with them pulled out fragments of flesh from the child's legs and body. On hearing this terrible story, the schoolmistress took Adolphine to the Commissary of Police, who sent her to the St. Louis Hospital When her mother went to fetch her from school she was arrested, and the husband shortly afterwards. On Borlet and his wife being taken to the Central Prison, the po e had great difficulty in protecting th from an infuriated mob, which threatened to "lynch " them. Our first shipments of now goods for the Autumn and Winter season have now come to hand by the latest mail steamers, and we have been busily employed in opening them out and preparing them for inspection at Te Aro House, Wellington. We shall be happy to forward patterns of our new Dress Fabrics and other novelties free by post to any address, on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington. Our selection of Autumn and Winter Fashions has been made by our own buyers —men of great experience, taste and judgment—in the British, French and Continental markets, and may be relied on as surpassing everything wo have previously shown at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our ladies would find it to their advantage to mako their choice as early as possible, and so to have the advantage of getting their dresses made in good time for the Season, at Te Aro House, Wellington. We will also forward our Charte for selfmeasurement to anyone intimating their wish in this respeot to us, and will guarantee to all customers the advantages of taste, fit, finish and prompt execution in our Celebrated Dressmaking Room at Te Aro House, Wellington.