WAIRARAPA NEWS,

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 119, 16 November 1900, Page 5

WAIRARAPA NEWS,

[Bi TELEGRAI'H — OWN CORRESPONDENT., MASTERTON, This Day. Animal sports are to be inaugurated in connection with the breaking up of the Masterton School. The number of names on the roll of the Masterton schools now totals 683. A young man named Frank Ofsoski was fined £3 and cost* this morning for cruelty to a horse. Three, parents' were fined this morning for neglecting to send their children to school.

E. J. Walsh and Co. call snecial attention to the great reduction made on ladies' costumes, skirts, and blouseß, corsets, and gloves. The mothers of Wellington are asked to note an advertisement in another column announcing a sensational sale of ladies' hosiery at Messrs. James Smith and Sons', The Now House. All boys' and girls stockings will bo reduced. Messrs. A. R. Meoch aud Co., advertise that the sale of furnituro, etc., in their rooms, Manners-street will Btart at 1 o'clock sharp to-morrow qn account %of their sale of building material at 31, Roxburgh-street at 3 o'olock. Thiß firm has also received instructions from. Mrs. Valentine to sell the whoU of her valuable furniture and effects at ~ her lesidence, Revans-streot, at 2 o'olock on Monday next. To-morrrow afternoon Messrs. Sidey and Co. \H. Pearson) will aubmit to auction a Ferris wheel, with or without engine, also furniture and effects on behalf of a lady leaving Wellington. The excursion steamer Duchess will run to Day's Bay to-morrow and Sunday mornings and afternoons. The morning trip to the Bay to-morrow ia fixed for 9.30 a.m., instead of 10 a.m., and tlvd afternoon trip from th.c Bay is deferred till 6 p.m. Mr. 0. Smith recently purchased a manufacturer's* Btoek of sample sunshades, which he is now selling at maker's, prices. There will be a show of new season goods in the window to-night.