SECOND EDITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4163, 14 July 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

Captain and Mrs Rowlands, of the Masterton contingent of the Salvation Army, are both in indifferent health, and leave on furlough at an early date. Mrs Rowlands farewells this evening and the captain will probably follow suit in a few days.

The South Walrarapa Oharitable Aid District has finally paid tho sum of JE27 7a Od to the credit of the North Wairarapa Board, being reimbursement of amounts expended in relieving persons from the former district.

Tho meetings of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society will in future bo held in Mr E, H. Waddington's office, Perry street, during the winter months. Amongst the names on a local electoral roll is that of a man who has been dead for the last eighteen years, and the joke of the matter is that the Koturning Officer held an iuquest upon the reinsins of the individual referred to I It would be interesting to know how many votes have beon recorded in the name of tho deceased elector,

The afternoon train to the Wairarapa will not leave Wellington until 5.20 p.m. next Saturday, and the usual train to Eketahuna on that evening will not depart from Mastortun until 9,40 o clock. These special arrangements are made for tho convenience of those attending the United Hunt Club's Steeplechase Meeting at Hutt Park.

A large and varied assortment of account books and general stationery has just been reoeivod by Mr B, T, Holme's, of the Educational Depository, Queen-street, Matterton, Some very pretty designs in albums call for special attention.

As illustrating the true goodness and benevolence of Benevolent Societies and charitable institutioui, and the length to •which, they are obliged to go in certain cases, tho North Wairarapa Benevolent Society was called upon to pay a fine recently imposed by tho Masterton R.M, on a person who has heen a source of endleao trouble to the Society, for allowing bis premises to become in a filthy state. To prevent a further recurrenco of this pleasant experionco MrWaddington was instructed to pay the nightman's accounts until further notice,.

Thus in the Political Notes in to-day's N.Z. Times;—" The discussion gets fame until Mr Hogg revives it, bringing artillery into a skirmish of riflemen, In the course of his booming he happons to say that he was once travelling alone in a train, whoreupon a voice is heard surmising that "it was known you were going," and there is some tittering,

The Bachelors' Ball at. Feathorston last night was very well attended, there being about eighty or ninety couples present. Themanagomentofthe affair was in the hands of a committee of nine. The hall was very nicely decorated, and the inscription, "Welcome all to the Bachelors' Ball" was worked in ferns and fastened to the wall. Mrs Cole hadchargoof the refreshment room, and Mcssh MoLean, Dole and Burt provided music.

Captain Edwin sends the following encouraring prognostication to-day:— North-east to North and west gale after ten hours; glass fall again soon. The Bundaberg 'Mail' calls one man one vote a " socialistic and damnablo heresy, 1 ' A feig difference! A speaker at a recent meeting held at 'WestporJ (says the 'Star'), stated that in the Borough of Ponsonby, Auckland, with 10,000 jn r habitants, two public-houses could hardly exist, yet in a community of 300 peo. pie on the West Coast, there were 30 jrablic:houses.

A resident of Lincoln road informs us that his gate was taken off the hinges and flung over the fence at about half past one o'clock this morning, an effort to get at his cameliaa being frustrated by his promptly jumping out of lied. Oar informant tells us that he recognised one of the gang.