SECOND EDITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4156, 5 July 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

The cricket match between the Oxford and Cambridge Universities was won by Oxford by five wickets. 'MessrsLowes andlornsadd to thoir Stock Sale for Wednesday, 13th July, 100 good owes in lamb, Mr Fife, the woll-kiiown chemist, of Featherston, has been very ill for some time past, The residents of the district, who have benefited i ranch by his kind advice, are dosirous of presenting him with a purse of Boyoreigns as a token of their esteem. A second team, picked from the remaining members of the GreytownBille Club, has challenged the learn which fired the Featherston District Olub to a match on August 4th (Atjpr Day), The match is looked forwarffto with a great deal of interest. The names of the second team will appear in a future issue. The ranges will he 200, 800 and 500 yards, ten shotß at cum, A parson at Gishorno who had lost his horse a recent Saturday night selected for his sermon on Sunday morning a tout from Job, wherein the words occurred, !' Oh, that I knew where I might find him I" This being repeated several times, a boy, who supposed the nag was the burden of the preacher's lamentation, cried cut, "I know where he jb> Ho'sin the pound at Whataupoko." A letter reooived yesterday from Mr Ralph Steele, of the Payr,o Family of musicians, Btates that Mr Payne Bonior died at Balkrat on Juno 18, alter a short illness. Ho had left the family a week before, and had gone home sb he was complaining of a sevore cold, but the doctor found that there wero two abscesses in bis throat. Inflammation set in and death followed in a few days, Mr Payne had not quito recovered from an attack of influenza caught during his last visit to New Zealand, but the loss of his daughter Nellio in the spring of 1801 seems to have baMka sevoro blow to him, and sinco has never been tho samo man. On. 'the news of his eprious illness being received tho family wero sent for, but arrived an hour after ho had died. They had just begun a tour through New Soutii Wales, when they wero recalled, but his desiro was to aeo them all together, Both Mr Paynp and Mr Steele wero koavy fipan. oial Josors over the' Mercantile Bank, and, in consequence, had toabanflop their projected trip to England, Thore has boon a sorlous drop in the price of sheep in tho North Island. Tho Huntervillo correspondent of a Eangitiki contemporary Bays;—At Messrs Stevens and Gorton's stock sale on Thursday thore wero no purchasers. Stock had come down with a run, and pooplo must have burnt thoir fingers buying sheop at high, very high, pricea in January and February, grazing them untitnow, and losing some five shillings per head, let alone the grass, Perhaps in the course of time mon's' minds will not be quite so opaque, and tho day will como nheii general farming, dairying, fruit-growing, poultry, beoa, etc, will be universally in vogue. Not all the eggs in ono basket, and (hat tended by pno or perhaps twolonehjfc miserable mortals oi shepherds. A large owner of property and sheep frpm" puji Bide" told me yestorday that ho npyer knew sheep make such a sudden apd Borjous drop as at present, and I hayp known the gentleman as a Eheepfarmep for nearly thifty years, The death by lightning of Patrick Toole, which occurred near Winslow (Victoria) on May 18, was brought about in a very remarkable manner. The deceased when leaving bis sister's residence " was wearing a steel watch-chain, andshe happened to notice it, and asked him to take it oS as it might attract the light* ning. Ho said that it was all right, and went on his way. He was walking on tho side of tho road, close to a 'wire ferico, when the jighfning' struck; the (enqe. arid then travelled" to tne man's head, completely burning his hair off, A't the post mortem examination it wob found that there was a black spot over tho heart, and another largo mark on the left ankle, The medical testimony is to'tho effect that the electricity striking the man's head would have gone straight to tho earth through his body, but that tho steel watch chain attracted it and it struck tho heart, and then wont earth through hiß leg. Tho stee) Wis chain was'completely fused, 's6' thatftho shock must have been a heavy one. Tho lightning was so dose that it seemed actually to be in the Btreet. Rernembcrl Our big 1 Bale of Surplus Winter l)rapisry and Clothing", commca'cing / on Friday, July Ist, at To Aro House. Remember I If you want to receive wonderful bargains you should visit or send to the Big Sale at To Aro House, Wellington. ■:.'■' Itememberl There are wonderful'bargains in every department suoh as will mako a trip to our Big Sale remunerative. You will save far more than your expenses by visiting the Big Sale at Xo Aro House, Wellington; ./-'.". / Bemomber I Sale .Price lists will on application be forwarded post free, gale lasts 15 days only, If a visifis impossible, send 1 your orders, enclosing'Ca,sh, so that you may share in the good things going at the Big Sale, I« Aro Homo, We)liojtW|