SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4056, 7 March 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Mr F, H, Wood adds to his list of entries f v r next" Thursday's Taratahi stuok sale: 200 owes, bred by Mrßonuett, of Otahuao, 600 2 tooth breeding ewes, and 10 Lincoln rams, News from Botorua states that Ton« garirii continues active, sending forth at intervals flames and donse smoke. A four-roomed cottage, occupied by a man named Judd, caretaker of Mr fl, D, Bell s eßtato, was broken into on Friday night and a sum of £?5 stolen. An effort was alio made to set firo to the house. Messrs Lowes & lorns add to their stock sale fur Wednesday next; 1 bugqy mare, 1 haok 4yre old, i steers, 1 heifer, 800 shorn lambs, SYO lambs, 20 Lincoln full-mouth rams bred by Messrs McMasterand McHaidie, 100 ewes, 200 2tooth ewes, and 200 fat wethers. School Committees to be elected next month will be pleasod to learr. that under the proposed increased allowance to committees the revenue will be increased by more than a third, thus enabling the functions devolving upon them to be properly carried out. The Waipawa correspondent of the flawke a Bay Herald w rites:—Humorous episodes sometimes enliven the monotony of the Natiye Land Courts. For instance, yerterday Hooi Meihana told a story of how an unole of his died whilo on an expedition from Wairarapa, and was buried at the camp' where he died. Many months afterwards a party of Ngatiapa came and camped on the same spot and discovered che dead body (probably by tho smell) which they dug Of and ate as a dainty morsel 1 Tho member for Bullcr (Mr E, O'Connor), when last heard of was in Home, According to a colonial journal, he has been giving his views on tbe town in question. "Tho inhabitants, ho,says, i» re mostly Italian." This ponderous nugget oi wisdom will, says an exohango, astonish those people who wore under the impression that tliey were Chinamen or Oingaleso.

The South Australian Surveyor-General 3 has sent io the Adelaido Museum a remarkable em, At ono end, whore the shell is soft ana depressed, is the raised" nt'tire o! a snake, and to admirably has > the reptile been photographed in the few of the hen, that by the use of the j microscope the counterfeit of tho eye , oi" he clearly seen, , Stone s Directory for the Wellington ) Provincial District is now being prepared . for the press. The reception given bp tho public to their last year's issuo has induced tho publishers tq greatly onlargo and improve tho book this year. Messrs 1 btone, Son and 00. have gained a high i reputation throughout tho colony as i directory publishers, and we oan recomi mend their work relating to this disiriot to all business wen and others who wish to be possessed of an accurate and complete record of persons and places. The Orm'B representaiiyo, Mr J, F. Wilson, is now in Masterton collecting the necessary data l»r '.ho 1892-93 issuo to bo publishedinJuly, There is room, apparently, for a few dentists at Kula (India), Ihe surgeon* dentists there are the village blacksmiths, and their forceps are tongs two feet loiik. The difficulty with these instruments is twofold: firstly, to f»et thorn into tho mouth, and, secondly, to got them out again. Our first shipments of new goods for the utumn 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 Falmos and other novelties ~ free hy post to any address, on application to James famuli, To Aro House, Our selection of Autumn and Winter Fashions has been wade bypuroivn foyers 1 —men of experience, taste anil jiidgV 1 ment—in the British; ' FrehOh ; arid i Continental markets, and may bo relied oh | as surpassing everything wo havo previously 'shown at Te Aro House, Wdlington. Our ladies would find it to thoir advan- ' | 'age to make their ehoioo as early as | possible, and so to havo the advantage of i getting their dresseß wade in good time for , the Season, at Te Aro House, Wellington.*' 7 .Wo will also forward our Cliarte for self- ' measurement to anyone intimating, their wish in this respect to us, and will guaran- t tee to all oustomers tlie advantages of taste, i lit, finish Bnd prompt execution in our Celebrated Dressmaking lioomot Te Aro 1 1 House, Wellington! . , t

The Opihi River, Canterbury, is g\td to bo awarmine; with trout. Mr R.H. Rhodes and two friends landed 30 hah, weighing 88Jlbs ,on a singlo evening recently. A valuable farm property, situated in the Featheraton district between Pigeon * Bush and Cross' Criek Kaiiway Station?; occupied for some twenty yoats by. the late Mr Lot Cross, will .be submitted to public auction by Messrs Ouningham, fiadham & 00. oa Thursday, the 31st /\ March,; at 2 p.m. The farm is no? car- w rying eleven hundred sheep, besides f* horses and cattle.' -There is a six%r6omed house on the property,' also all the necessary outbuildings.' Intending buy. ers can obtain orders to view tbia splendid propertyon application totba auctioneers a or to Messrs Brandon, Hialop and Brandon, solicitors, of Wellington. The Government have just completed the purchaso of a block of Native land having an area of upwards of 400,000 . aores; and known as Heruiwi No. 4, It borders on the Uriwera country, in the Bay of Plenty district, and oxtends into the Jfrovince of Hawke's Bay, It adjoins MrELS. TiOfon's estate at Mangataniwha, and Messrs Sutherland and Glen» dining's run. Tho price paid averages 2s . 3d per acre. The land will be utilised for settlement as soon as possible; Another blook, situated on the Waikato river, in the West Taupo district, and known as Pouakanui, is ' now under negotiation, and its acquisi* tion will be completed by the end of the present month, It has an area of 42,000 acroß, and is only about 20 miles distant from the main'trunk line of railway. Tho price to be paid will average 2j 6d an acre. ' • . . » We have ploasuro in diractin? nttejM tion to the notification in our ment column in connection with Mt Walter Bentley's theatrical Boason in the Opera House, Wellington, To night, as will be seen, Shakespeare's great tragedy Richard 111 is to be performed,and to-morrow night " Othello " is the piny underlined. Mrßantley hasauc* ceeded in drawing together Borne of the largest and moat enthusiastic audiences whioh have of lato assembled in Welling lon, and visitors to town should certainly mako a point of seeing and hearing thu reall; marvellous actor. There will ba a change of prommmo each night this woek, specially for the convonionco o( country people spending a Tow days in n ellmgton, aud who will probably wish to Bee more than one play,