SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4182, 3 August 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

A letter-carrier in the Ohrjstchurch Post Office fias beepi arrested on'a'chargo of stealing letters' and their contents. When apprehended he destroyed postal notes which wero'in his possession,' The new firebell for (he Kuripuni station has arrjveo), and wijl be tested at 7 o'clock to.-nigtit. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to thojr Stock Sale for Wednesday, August \ Oth, fifteen head of mixed cattle. Messrs Lops and lorns announce through our advertising columns their usual weekly sajo fpr Saturday jjrst, when they will offer new and secondhand furniture, fancy poods, blankets, flowering Bhr libs, sundries, etc,, etc. Sir George Grey arrived at Wellington last night. Ho was met by a number of friends, and has taken up hia quarters in his old room in the Parliamentary Buildings, The Wesleyan Methodist Church Property Trust Act 1887 Amendment Bill was read a third time in the' 1 ' House of Representatives yesterday and passed, - Dr Hosking publishes elsewhere in this;' issue an acknowledgment "of the general expressions of sympathy and the congrajinlationfi yhioh have reached him in .connection with flip Werajti Road case. The nejf buildings for the Institute for tbp Blind wore formally opened by Bjshop Gowie at Auckland yesterday. ' ,Mr L, A, Cuf , one of the Atliletfo Team, spht Rome, has won the Hundred Yards Hanjlipajj 'and Hurdje Ha'iidicap, and was second. from scratch in tho Threo Hundred Yards Handicap at the Hereham (Norfolk) Amateur Athletic Meet*

' Mr Briges, Bceuic artist, late of Mas. terton, has been engaged by the Napier [Amateur Operatio Society to paint the i neoeaaary Bcenory for" Patience," which is to be produced in October.

r..The,;;Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade's popular concert is to be held in the Palace Theatre to-morrow (Thursday) evening, the proceeds of which will be devoted to'paying off the liability on the engine. The programmo is such as to ensure a good evening's enjoyment, and we hope the efforts ofw those who hays so kindly offered t«,. assist will bo rewarded by seeing the"' hall packed. The Greytown Brigade are well-known for their promptness and willingness, They are generally on the spot almost as soon as they hear the first alarm of the firebell, and certainly should besuppnrted by the public, They do not, howevor, intend to "go round with the hat," but will give an entertainment worth attending un its merits and - which nobody, therefore, should miss, n. Proceeding the performance, the town ,j/f will be lighted up by a marvellous torch, light procession, headed by the Greytown Priv.-.te Brass Band, Fireworks of all dosciiptions will he let off, and downs mounted on noble steedß will show what they can do in the way of horsemanship. After the concert.the hall will be clearod for ft dance, and this should prove by no means the least enjoyable portion of the programme.' ' Late tho other night a man was seen to approach in stealthy manner a deep pool in a retired spot m Dunedin, When he thought no ono was observing him he dropped a bulky parcel into the water , and made off, Here were the matorials

for a delicious tragedy, a maddening mystery. Information was taken tojfce. police station, arid tho intelligent Indp. tor on duty, recognising the gravity of tho'situation, Bent for a detatohment of the fire brigade, and commenced pumping the water out of the pool, All 'night they pumped, and when the sun was 'winging his measured course aoross the easternßkies,the mysterious parcel.was displayed to light, lying fiat and squat on the bottom mud, A vast orowd pressed forward, thrilled to the finger tips with expectation. Was it dynamite cartridges, or the limbs of a man, or the head of a man, or the head of a woman, 01 tho body of a murdered child ? It was neither of these,' It was a case of Sharland's Moa Brand Baking Powder destroyed by the order of a combined company of rivals. —Advt.