SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4089, 14 April 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

A Sydney contemporary states that Mr Harry Whitaker, late of Auckland, has just bought a seat on the Melbourne '■•. Stock Exchange for i'l6oo,- ... The Native Court- of Appeal," WhiohT" " " has been, sitting at Grey.town for some ' months past, concluded yesterday. Tho .' Judges (S. Yon Siuriner and- Batfuri leave Grey town to-day,,, . 7j . ~'.«< Messrs Lowes and loraß add to their .stock : sale for jWednesday next, SOO lambs, ■ • ' , J " - Shareholders in the Mastetton smith and Wheelwright Manufacturing Company are reminded of the adjourned meeting to be held on Saturday.after' noon.. Mr John Bagge, whose health has boon .very, indifferent of late, resumes duty on Saturday, after a month's fur« lough,'' • ,;' ]' - i-Nominationsof candidates to fill the vacancies caused by the biennial dissoo lution of the Maurieevillo Koad Buard will be received by Mr W. Gray, the Beturning Officer, up till noon of Friday, the 22nd of April,' Messrs Luwea.& lorns are advised that owing to the Easter Holidays Mr Twentymau'Hodgson will be unable to have his horses cunvnyed to Masterton -../., in time for tho Bale on the 20th inst, The sale- has therefore been postponed until May 4th. ' ' ; ' ;i Messrs Lowes ds'loms'add.to : Wit stock sale for Wednesday next, 12 young cattle, mixed Boxes, and -12 Lincoln rams, * Mr E. ,T. Soarl, of tho Star Hotel, entertained a number of his friends at dinner last evening, The ohair was occupied by His Worship tho Mayor (MrO.A.Powuall), ,",,.'. ~,• ■The .North Wairarapa Benevolent Trusteos have expended during the past year £43 9s 7d more than the sum allotted iheui by the United District Uharitable Aid Board, A Btatoment of the receipts and expenditure has been prepared by the Secretary and application has been mado to tho Board for the amount required, 1, At the meeting of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Trustees this morning Mr Dagg mentioned that the local Society spent £j.O to ovary ±1 expended by : tjie Society in thg South. ''Wairafopa for, ' charitable aid'. | He"thoupht there was a screw loose BomCwHere., Mr'iioeth'am pointed out that in'digeiit.pe'uplo usually congregated about tho larger towns, A contemporary speaking pf Mr , Horapo Chester's entcrtaiu'mentsaysj-r For two hours ttio Watif}erihg Minstrel' kept liis' audience in roars, in factfti|ii fun ran so fa'sj and furious f|int jfe entertainer was compelled to pauge fri order to get in a word between the shouts of jaughler. He is certainly one of the.hest eutcr'alners that has ever appeared in this district,. and his Quick transpositions of character outdistance v « any other performer we remember to have seen- He is possessed of a sploudid voice whioh he manipulates with extraordinary skill. By notification in another column it will bo aeon that special coach arrangements have been made, and that re»Hy V good apnji;; to-'oe oilcreo by our Lower Valley friends in tb? way of tha pkeou matchand on Saturday, 'ljjth April, it is ejtpe'c'ted that the prtawill aggregate £s. The match will'bo firedu'nclerthe r rules of the Walrarapa fluo'Olub. Thoj affair is in thj.hands of thgso whp know linw to, cppdupS % in a'papsbje' Ajd' sfyaightt fprwarc| mapner, and it should net only " havo drawn a full listnf entries but should also hehighlysuocesaf al. Entry fees, bare. „.„;"•" excepted, are added &>■♦<•• expeu.w- . , .1 ma -, stakes. There will be luncheon and •*' a publican's bpofjj pp the groundj ■ A meeting of (be electors of wm Hooper and Company was held to-iffy Present, the Chairman, Mr L. J, Hooper, and a full complement of the directorate. The Chairman in accordance with previous instructions submitted plans for converting' the shop nest door to the Company's pre- '-.•■'• misesintoa first class grocery and pro» '.- r , vision store run on the principle of keeping the very best of everything and retailing at . a small, margin of proft, The Managing pitectoif Bubpiittcd'- a : B.tßyteraent""p'f Wm ;.;■; month's transactions, showing tieeitraorv,-. '•- dinary rapid progress the Company ..;'.' linking,'- and advocating a Bystem .which. ';;; wquld be a boon tq all' doing 'business;. '<"-;■■;.'■ with' the Sonlfaiche and completelyJsnoqt» - : , :;: .H' Ing all to other companies and llrmsinto. a~"..-?-j*j oockedhat),' This,matter;was in the blaze ; ", ■' :':'v of disbiissioa 'when; ourireportersent;his ',>■'-■; : notes to the. presß.-AivTV- -.'" ■; 'r ■■ ,'• '. ; R -:

• Tho Boyal Stars, of Carterton, play heMastcrton Oriental on tho Park Otal, to-morrow altetnoon at 3 o'clock. In tho Greytown Public School Library there are at present about, four hundred volumos, It is nut long einco this library' was apoueJ, and it is now tho Iff socond largest in tho Wellington diatrict,. Tho Ministerial organ at Wellington understands that several important changes are about to he made in the poisoimel of the Civil Serriue. Two of tho very oldest heads of departments are about to retiro on pension. We refer to Mr G, S. Cooper, Undoc Secretary of the 'Colony, and for a great many years the ' Doyen' of its Civil Service, and Mr W, li, K. Brown, the HegistrocGoneral. Both officers hav.) passed their GJth year and willretire, we ore informed, almost v 4 immediately, 'receiving thrno months' salary in lieu of notice and thereafter drawing tho pensions to Which their long service entitles them, lu nil probability Mr Hugh Pollen, Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Oflico, will succeed Mr Cooper, and Mr E. Von Dadolszw, Deputy-Registrar General, is the coming ■ Eegistrar-Genoral.