SECOND EDITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4205, 30 August 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION.

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to thoir Stock Sale for Wednesday September 7th,one first class three-year-old draught colt, unbroken.

An emergency meeting of the -Wairarapa Royal Areh Chapter Kol, N.Z.0., was hold at Greytown lust night, a number of brethren being advanced to the Mark Degree. The Marlborough Racing Clubs are considering the advisability of amalgamating. According to the computation of a contemporary, the turn of £(324,000 is engaged in the nine principal towns of New Zealand in hotel business.

The.subject of Professor Mason's lecture in the Thentro Royal this evening will be ".The cause and oure of disease"

Messrs Cuningham, Bitdham & Go, advertise for sslo at their yards in Wellington on Saturday next two well-known draught entires, " Ben Lomond" and " Siberstroam." Fuller particulars are given in their announcement in another column.

Sparrows are doing great damage to the pea-gardens in Masterton at the present time. A curious phenomenon has boon ob< Borvod in Masterton during the past few days, a substance very much resembling sulphur having fallen with the rain, Some people maintain that it is genuine brimstono, whilst others think it is colouring from wattles. We have analysed the powder, however, and find thatitis what is known as the "boobread," a snbstanco which grows on the pimts imigms. The heavy winds of tbo past few days have scattered it broadcast.

Mr John Hay writes to tho Southland Newt, stating that rabbits which burrow in friable soil can be destroyed by blocking up all exits and entrances with from six inches to one foot of soil. The Selectors Land Re-valuation Con tinuanoo and Amendment Bill, to be introduced by tho Minister for Lands, proposes that any holder of an agricultural leaao, perpetual lease, deferred payment liconse,or a small grazing run, or pastoral lease, or deferred payment section, who entered into occupation before Ist January, 1888, may opply to the Land Bosrd in his dißtrict before lnt January, 1891, to hare a re-valuation made, A deposit of i'o must be made with the application, together with an undertaking to pay tho expenses of the enquiry. Should tho applicant bo unsuccessful this deposit will be forfeited, and the applicant will be required to pay oil expenses, but should it be successful, both deposit and undertaking will bo returned,

A considerable stir was made in Strata ford on Thursday last by the arrival, in custody, of H. Greenroyd, who left the district hurriedly on one Sunday morn* ing last summer, after drawing the final payment on a building contract on which lie had been engaged in partnership with Messrs Ashwin and Oallaghan. His partners charged him with embezzling the money of the firm, and obtained a warrant for his arrest. Tho warrant wos executed ift Masterton on Monday last, and the accused remanded to Stratford, The case is exciting very great iuterest.

ThoEeefton Guardian says:—We have been told a good thing concerning tho Hon, Mr Seddon and his last visit to Groymouth. Walking down Mawhcra Quay one day he was accosted by an old acquaintance who" had known him as plain f'Diok' Seddon" in the early days. This individual warmly grasped the Minister by Jhe hand, saying, '.'l'm glad to Bee you are getting on so well, Dick, and making a name for yourself;" '' Yes," - replied the honorable'gentloman, "I've moved up anottieratep.you see." "Well," returned the other, '! Nojv's your time, you Ijnaw, and )f you dpn't mako gopd \\w of your present opportunity you're not such a clover rogue as I took ynif to be," What pours.e'tne conversation th,en took is not related.

As an examplo of how rapidly manu* factures are being brought to a pitch of perfection, and most particularly so in the manufacture of pianos and organs, one has only to view tho now and splendid stock of instruments now held by the Dresden Piano Company, of Wellington and Dunedin, By tho Company's admirable time-payment system an instrument th'at a i'ow years ago would dnly'jiave been possible of acquisition to tho wealthy is now brought wiijfih the 'reach of the jpost slender purse, ibe Dresden Piano 'Oopjaiiy'a Warehouse i,s ewenfially the homp of musio iii Wciling; ton, and we would recommend any of pur readers who may be ol'esirpua of purobasing a piano or an organ, or of bnyjng musio, not to fail in looking up the Uompany for their requirenienta, Remember Our big Sale of Surplus! Winter Drapery and Clothing, commencing on Friday, July Ist at Te Aro Home. ' Eemcmberl If you want to"receive| wonderful bargains you should visitor send to ibe Big Sale. »t Te Aro House, Wellington,"- t! . '; l- . ti i , ■ r, V, ;;, • liewemberl There are wonderful bar> gains in every department Buch as wils make a trip to our Big Sale remunerative You will save far more than your expenses by visiting tho Big Balo at To Aro House, Wellington" ■ ■• > : ■■• ■'' Remember I Sale Price Lists will on ap« tlroaliori bs'fdrwar3gdbpsf (rqe," Sale lasfs tii'days' only? : Jf H'vislt'is impossible, strid y'ojir ■orders, enclosing casjj, jo that you may share in the'good things going at the Big Sale, Te Aro House,WeUinßton-Aj)VT

I It may now bo stated for the first time that during the administration of the late Government Sir Bobert Stout, Mr P. R. Chapman, and Mr W. 8. Boid (Solicitor-General) refused appointments to the Supreme Court Bench,—Dunedin Star,

A female domestic servant residing at f arnell visited a fortune taller, who told her that she would be drowned before Thursday next. This so preyed on the girl's mind that she has become insano. Charles Tuok, Olork aud Treasurer of thoFiako County Council, has been* arrested in the Waikato on two charges'

uf embezzlement of moneys of the Council. He was released on bail and remanded to Auckland.

TneN.Z. Times of today furnishes its readers with a piepe of interesting Masonic information under the heading of "Political Notes."

A very pleasant'social'was held last evening, in the Molesworth street Wesleyan Sohoolroom, Wellington, to bid farewell to Mr Herbert Beßle, who is leaving for Masterton. During the evening t!-.e Eev.J.fi. Chapman, on behalf of the Sunday School teachers and friends in the congregation, presented Mrßealewlth a very beautiful writing desk as a mark of the affection and ostoem in whioh ho was held*