SECOND EDITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4102, 2 May 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

Tho. township of Maolean', on the OJarenceßlver, and3Sonnloa north 6t Sydney, possesses most of tho adjunct! of civilisation, together with a magistrate who fined a publican 60s for allowing a man to play a flute in. his bar, The Greytown Dairy Faotory cloted for the season on Saturday laßt. Mr F, H. Wood addii 200 owes la ' lamb to bis list of entries for nub Thursday's Taratahi itook sale. The funeral of the late Mrs O'Connor, who died at Greytown on Friday last! took place yesterday, the hearse being followed by a largo number of friondo. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev Father MoKenna.. Deceased was 69 years of age, and leaves a grown up family of six to mourn their loss. < This" southern lights "wore seen to great,advantage from Mastorton about. nine o'clock last night, the sky forsomo time being brilliantly illuminated. Our Greytown correspondent reports that thffv phenomenon attracted much admiratifSM ,« at that towiißhip also. f^ The annual meeting of tho Maßtorton Municipal Fire Brigade will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) evening. It is currently reported that Mr A, W< Hogg, M.H.R., intends vacating the editorial chair of our contemporary tho WairanpaShr: Messrs Lowes and iornß add to tho advertisement of their stock Bale for Wednesday next, fifty ewos and thirty-* fire lambs; also details of Mr Twentyman Hodgson's valuable well bred horses. The election of two members for Sub* divisiion No. 2 of the.•Masterton Road Board takes place on Wednesday- neit. Two and a half miles of railway at Scarborough, near Fahiatua, is to bo put in hand in a fejyduys. The work is to be performed Under the co-operative system'. The annual licensing meeting of the Alfredton Licensing Oommitteo will be held on Wednesday, June Bth, 1892. A Masterton sport dreamt somo days ago that tho. horso Krina would win a race at the Wellington meeting, She' won tho Railway Handicap. Sergeant Barrett, one of 'the^; l oldest police officers in tho Colony, died at Wellington oh Saturday from • bronchitis, The deceased was 66 years of age, There are now ten surveyors engaged surveying on the eastern slopes of jhe Metois. The ]york' will probably 'be finished in about three'moptjis. ' T|ip Masterton Reform Association's block is N amongst the number being surveyed. The annual meeting in connection with the local branch of the British mid Forejgri Bjble Society wilj be beM in tit, ' Matthew's sphnolroom on Thursday next May stb, The Rev K. T. "BoBjoSni" "vs. will be present and during the evening *■ special music will be rendered by the. united church choirs of Masfertpn. Messrs Lpwen and lorns direct special attention to a shipment of draught, horses spEpiilly selected fpr this market by, MrTwentyman Hodgson, which wjll be offered by. auction at their sale on Wednesday. The whole shipment are an exceptionally good lot; but some of tho mares deserve' special mention. Foremost is the mare "Turouoise," by Awa Moa 6 yearß,-"'™ Miss Buchanan byPrinco of Wales -grand dam by Emperor; Miss Buch«?* •*■ anan also produced Champion ofSthi North, a first prize yearling at OawafiK and sold for 250'guineaB, Thon wo have' Blossom, a four year old mare by Elgin, > by Clyde (imported) and in foal'to Awa Moa. There are also young mares by, tho celebrated 'Bires "JPrince of: ffilcarn," "Lord punmoro" and "Taierl Tom.,"" Some of tile mores" Are 11 in the Stud Book, andall tho pedigrees undoubted. Full particulars will be given 'it the Bale. I Ihis Bale will givWan opp'ortuuity rarely to bo met with for securing SreUlass brood meres and'farm -. horses', '"

Tondora are invited by Messrs W. Booth and Co, of Carterton, for felling about 1100 acros of bush, also for piintiog two cottages and for ploughing about 50 aorcs of land. A grand miscellaneous concort will bo given in the publio hall, Taueru, by the Maaterton Wesloyan Church Choir jf (assisted by friendj) on Tuesday, May ™loth,atßp,m, Tho prices of admission have been fixed at a low Baure, and as the proceeds are to ho dnvoted to tho piam> tund, nur Tanoru Iriends ahmild -:■>■ show their practical sympathy with the ohj«ct, hy all atc.iidiiw what wnl no douht bo a most enjoyable evening's entertainment. The fallowing conversation was overheard in the street the other day, but lor obvious reasons we shall omit the namo ol one of the parties; tho other was tho well known draper, U-L. J. Hooper. Mr Spot L'ash: Jgk "Is it true Mr Hooper that yon intend opening tho shop next your drapery cstablishmont as a procery and provision warehouse? Mr L.J.: " That is so, Mr Cash, and in about n week I shall he ablo to quote to you the lowest pii:ei for all kinds of ncncral merchandise.' 1 Mr Spot Cash; " Good I I supposo ynu will keep only good goods and sell as cheap as anyono else ? "Mr L. J.: •' You bet I The beit oud nothins but the best, and every arlioloat bed rock prices I Those arc the foundation '». 6tones upon which wo intend to erect our business," Mr Spot Cash:" Your hand my boy, My account with so-and-so's worth threopoundsawcck.and I pay cash. I am not satisfied lately, I fancy Ipay more than I should do, So directly you open your business look upon mo as a regular cus-Womer."-ADvi.