SECOND EDITION

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4207, 1 September 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION

Four rabbit dogs are advoctisod for ealo cheap. The quostion of tho best method of connecting Auckland and Wellington by railway has been referred to a Select Committee of the House of Representatives,

Tho third annual meeting of tho Wellington Meat Export Company was held yestorday, Mr W. Booth presiding. Tho report of tho Directors showed tho Company to be in a prosperous condition, although a shortness of stock was being experienced.

The annual meetiug of members of tho Wellington Racing Club was held last night, when (he actual credit balanco was repotted to bo

Tho Masterton Agricultural and Pas* toral Association has now a membership of two hundred and thirty. Eight new members were proposed by tho Secretary yesterday.

Messrs Lowes aud lorns add to their iitock Sale for Wednesday next, Sept.fth, 100 Fat Wuhors aud 250 Good Store Wethers.

A Bquattor in Victoria some timo back gave an agent some particulars of somo sheep he had for sale off shears. A short ! timo after, tho agent wiring for a definite order, the squatter, who is a good living Scotchman, replioJ, "The Almighty has disposed of my Bheep .in the wool—col* leefc."

It is not pleasant to learn that even in Auckland there are people roady to engage in sweating wmneii nud girls, and uffnring to du work 30 per cent, under the Tailoresscs' Union tariff. Fancy a ■' certain class of trousers beint; made up at 24 fid a dozen, " finding their own thread, 1 ' aud Blurts at ljd oacii, at which, it is seated, a woman with a sowing maohino and working ten hours a day, might possibly oarn 9s a week I

In the course of his lecture at Ohristchurchagainst prohibition, Mr.W. W.Cullins gave the following humorous illustration:—"Prohibition r cure for evil 1 Why the whole human race had been cursed by prohibitum. Jf he remembered rightly it was prohibition that was the first curse of the human race. (Laughter). He positively believed that had Adam and Eye never boon told that they wore not to partake of that particular tree—(here the laughter was so loud that the speaker's voice waß drowned in the noise.) That ■ was the ono not of prohibition that had entailed a lasting curse upon the human race, and so long as prohibition was tolerated the human race would be cursed. (Loud applause.) It was as though there was something positively propintic about the old story. (Kenewud laughter,) Will some benevolent "Liberal" kindly state whether the Government are bad orontyinad. For instance, they act un- J constitutionally in cabling Home their delight at theanccesß of one party in the State, and although tbo leaders of that party ropudiate tho idea of an Eight Hours Bill, go into pretended hysterios becauso tho Upper House here, in accordance with Mr Gladstone and Mr Morley, also reject an Eight Hours Bill. If it is legitimate to rejoice that an Eight Hours Bill ia not to become law in England, why in the name oi common sense should the action of our Upper Houso bo objected to? Surely they ought toploaso the Government by following Mr Gladstone's load I—Hawke'a Bay Herald. Tho Natives of Kaiapoiare of opinion that the coining spring is going to be a mild and early one, from the fact that whitebait are already showing in the river and the trees are well forward in leaf.

Tho following interesting particulars regarding incomes in i»cw Zealand aro supplied in a roturn oalled for by Mr Wright42l persons having returned their incomes for the purpose of Income tax as being over £IOOO a year, tho total amount of such incomes being £876,758. .. lliero aro 2829 persons m the Colony k who roturn their incomes as over £3OO r and under £IOOO, tho total amount of such incomos being £1,386,478. The North Wtirarapa Gun Club will only lireono more match this season. As a number of sottlers in this district havo expressed a wish to read the petition which is to be pieseuted to Parliament with refereuco to the operations of the "Land and Income Tax, 1 ' it is boing published to-day as a supplement to the Wairarapa Daily Times, Bo carolui, whon you buy, wnere you buy whatjou buy and how you buy, -II you do not watch thoso cardinal points in tho science of buying, likely ouough you will buy at tho wrong shop, but what you don't want, and pay moro than is at necessary. Oi cotiree it will be your own fault, no one else is to blame; your misortuno arises from your own densoacaa nd lack of caution and foresight in floundering into the first hole in the wall you como across in your shopping rambles (There is only one way out of tho difficulty only ono plan by which tho thousand distinct evils that are in your path can be avoidedj and the thousand blessings that are waiting for you can bo embraced, viz., Buy everything at Ho .per and Company Bon Marche, Make it a ruli ol your lilo j and boo that your family do so likewise It' is to your interest, just the same as it is to insuro your life in a sound society, or build your houso on a seouro foundation, by poing tho whole heg; in other words, by detormining to buy everything at Hooper a;id Company's, Bon Ma_rolic. l'ake your grocery bill gjuwPh'snd; and your draper's on tho tho'other Give us your weokly, order for family stores; for toa, coffee butter, and other eatables, and you wil save enough to buy your own olothes, with something to put in the pockets. Buy everything at Hooper and Company's; Bon Maroho—Advi