SECOND EDITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4143, 21 June 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

Thirty-four now members were elected to the. Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association at the mooting on Saturday. Five wore proposed by Mr R. J. Dagg and twenty-niue by tho Secretary, Mr 0. H, Gayfer.

Bad times In Falmorston North. The price of bairontting has been reduced to Bixponce per head. The Sydney Bulletin saysi-'A democratic newspaper man is a man who works sixteon hours a day writing up the eipht hour movement."

The Manawatu Times says;—lt is stated that a company will be floated to takeover the butiness of the Wellington Evening Press and that the proprietor, Mr Kirkbrido, has been requested to start a morning paper in the Conservative interest, the necessary capital being promised in the event of his doing this.

A meeting of the Programme Committee of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoril Association is to be held on Saturday next, to revise the programme for the forthcoming show. MrW. Whitt requests that all accounts owing to him to date, be paid to Messrs Lowes and lorus, whose receipt will be a sufficient discharge. A publio meeting is to be held in the Masterton Presbyterian Ohurohon Wednesday evening, at which an important resolution will be submitted on the question of "The Liquor Traffic in the King Country" Addresses will be delivered by the Revs. K. Wood and J. Dukes. The latter gentleman has lived for three years in the Waikato, on the borderland of tho King Country, and is thus fully acquainted with the circumstances of the whole case. ' The Masterton Rifle Volunteers parade next Thursday at 7.80 p.m. MrF.H. Wood publishes entries for his next Taratahi stock sale which will be held (h Thursday, June 30th, at 1 p'ift .

Housebreaking by boys atill continues in Wellington. Two young urchins were arrested in Wellington yesterday for ontering the house of Mr George Norbury, whilst he was at ohurch on Sunday evening, and removing the Bum of £sl6s,

A meeting oftheKeform Special Settlement Association is to be held in the Foresters' Hall, Masterton,. on Monday evening next. The annual bonus certificates for the year 1891 were posted t? policyholders of t|ie Australian Mutual Provident Sooiety yesterday. Mrs Harriet Co*, wife of Mr Thomas Cox, of Masterton, died at herresidenoe in Cole-street yesterdey after a lingering illness, Tho funeral takes place to< mortow (Wednesday) at 2,30 p.m.

Petitions over twenty feet in length, and containing in all 540 signatures of women In favour of female franchise, were posted last night by the Rev J. Dufes, of Masterton, (or presentation to both Houses of Parliament, Mesdames Gillespie, Burton and' Dukes havo workedhard to secure the signatures, but for want of time have loft many houses in Masterton unvisited. The returns from Pahiatiia and Eketahuija have not yet been sent in, The assertion that the women of New Zealand do not want' the franchise has raised'the enthusiasm of the Masterton ladies to white beat, i A well attended meeting of ladies interested in getting up the annual Arbor Day Ball ,wss. held at Greytown last evening. A great deal of pre? Ijminary business was done. The musio was left in the hands of Mr M, R, Varnham. The decorations will be on a very elaborate scale, in which trees, ferns, artificial flowers, and jlags will play the principal part. Miss Bertha Natipn was elected Secretary. The M.O.'s will be ladies, and the dances will be leap year ones. We have no doubt that this ball will meet with more than usual success.

Orders for the following gain Parcels will receive prompt atttatityn and the goods be duly forwarded to dress, carriage paid, by 1 parcel post '. onfrfc-j oeipt of the amount in cheques, postal botes bank notes, or money orders, addressed to James Smith, To Aro House, Wellington,! No' I—Consists of dress |ei]gth of superior {{filton Cloth,'in navy tyup, prone,brown, grey, fawn, green or blaok, 2 yds body lining, 4yds Bkirt lining, 2 doi Buttons lo match, 1 yard Velveteen lot trimming, print or gingham apron, The whole lot carriage paid for ona guinea. Te Aro House, Wllington. I ParcemNo 2—Contains 6yds. twilled flannelette 6yds colonial flannel in white Sheand or: Orkney, 12yds' stout Daoca ! calico, i honeycomb towels, syds etoat white heeting; - The lpt carriage paid for 25b, Te Aro House, Wellington.—Advt • i

A young man was arrested in Master- , ton this afternoon on suspicion of having' stolen a hand bag from the Oooidental Hotel. ' Attention is directed to the advertise* ment concerning Dalton'a Raugo glasses and enamels appearing elsewhere in this issue. The Dalton Gauge Glass and Enamel Company of Birmingham is an old established firm, and it would be well a. worth the while of Colonial importers ™ ofgoods of tha class they manufacture to! write for catalogues ana price lists.

There are hundreds! of miserable, hungry-looking curs lurking about the streets of Masterton which ought at once to be destroyed. A resident was leaving the telegraph office this morning when two of these unregistered brutes which had been sleeping on the steps jumped in front of him and threw him heavily to the footpath, causing a caety injury to his hip and a sprain of his hand. Barely the despatching of dogs which are allowed to prowl and howl about : the stmts having nothing better to du than molest pedestrians, is one of : the fuuotiuna of the Inspector. • Members of Court Loyal Enterprise, A. O. P., Mastetton, are invited to at* tend the funeral of Bro, Cox's late wife*