SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4196, 19 August 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Mr 0. E. Darnell, the contractor, lias oommenced tho worke! erecting the new Infant School in Victoria-street.

At the request of Mr W. G. Beard, a mombor of the Mnsterton School Comraitteo, a return is to be prepared of all the class-rooms in the main school, their dimensions, and tho number of children occupying them, The Commitceo appointed o make arrangements for a building, eto,, ft? h jX. Maßterton Farmors' Club, will present* their report ut a meeting of settlers to be held in the Temperance Hall on Wednesday next. It was reported to tho Mnsterton School Committee last that one child had been kept from school becauso Bhe had no olothes to go in, and anothor because she was without I boots.

Hotelkeeping in Napier is not vfe& it used to be. It was stated at a Mnkruptoy meeting that the takings at one licensed house in Napier one day recently amounted o a whole five and sixpence We beg to remiud our readers of tho sale by auction at Mes>ra Lowes and Inrns' rooms of freehold land and dwelling to-nwrow at 2 o'clock. Thi eeotions are all freehold, the dwollings nearly new, and will be sold a bargain with easy terms. A flour mill, engine and fittings completo, with six-roomed house, situatoat Greytown, is advertised for sale owing to the proprietor meeting with an accident. Full partjculura may be obtained from Mr H. Stratton Izard, Solioitor, Ureytown, , A land boom has set in on the frirA>, : of Mt, Egmunt. A contemporary says' that the Land Office at flew Plymouth is almost flooded with applications from intended Battlers, Mr W. Acton-Adams, chairman of the West Coast Railway League, has issned a circular requesting tho Ohristehuroh Chamber of Commerce, tho Industrial Association, the Liberal Association, the A. and P. Association, the Tradosnnd Labour Council, the Employers' Association, and the Knights of Labour to send delegates to a meeting on August 26th to consider what action should be taken tnensur'o the construction of tho Mid* land Railway.

Wo Bre requestodby Mr F. fl. Wood to draw the attention of dairymen, and those requiring cows, to the tact that on Thursday next ho will sell at his Tara. tahi yards Mr U, 1). O'Callaghan's complete dairy of pioked cows from the Lower Hutt.

Tho Waikato Times says: "The valuo of . r •. j cattle has lately more nearly approached the good priceß obtained some ten or twelve years ago, in proof of which wo hear thst Mr Edward Allen, ofPukekura, obtained tho avernga of £lll7s Gd per pen of sevM \ bullocks at Mr Buokland's sale last weokV' I The cattle were tip. top, of course, tho ! weight of o*e reaching close on 1250 lbs." The Ohilstohurch Telegraph says:— "His Lordship DrGrimes, Christchurch, received during the week the sum of £lO | for some person unknown to him. Those to whom tho restitution was made aro a poor family residing In Lyttolton, and to whom this sum at the present time is equivalent to a fortune," Fatteniug cattle on potatoes is not vory common, but that it is resorted to sometimes jb shownby the followingparagrapb. in a recent issue of the Marlborough Ex-, press:-As thero aro plenty of potatoes' going to wastein the district, it may be as well for tho growers to know that Mr 11, Reeves, of Spring oroek,has utilised them with hay for fattening cattle. A cow killed by Mr Cheeseman yesterday 1 fattened' in this way, weighed 9501b., which all will allow is not by any means a bad weight.

A FLITTERING VERDlCT.—Speaking of ono of the most noted of colonial specialities, thepreßssaya:—"Sharland's Baking Powder desorves more than a passing noticn.for the "Moa" Brand Baking Powder enjoys a reputation seccm to none. From ono ond of New sea. land to the other, large orders are recolvod for this popular brand, Even in the moat out of the way districts the careful house-wife, possessed with the laudablo ambition to mako Lor broad and her scones better than her neighbours', buys Sharland's Baking Powder, and triumphs over fclio fow of her less sensible sisters, who, from a mistaken senso of economy, buy apparently cheaper brands. The rocipp of a good Baking Powder is anything but a secret; but how very few manufacturers use, as Messrs Sharland & do. do, the best only of materials, carefully tested bofore mixture and exactly proportioned, 1 ' Readers, who require an economical, sdtisfactory and healthful Baking Powder, cannot do better than use tho- " Moa" brand,—Anvr.