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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1627, 7 March 1884, Page 3

Itouaii os out rals, micj> i'jcches,flic3, ants, bcd-bufFS, beetles, insects, skunlis, jack-rabbits,gopher.-, 7-ldDruggists, Moses, Moss A Co,, Sydney, General Agent, In the lmppy state of Pennsylvmiia 110 marriage license is required, a fact announced on the personal and business cards issued by a certain Sqir.ro Mayes, who holds for Pennsylvania a commission as Justice of the Peace—which enables liirn to perform legal marriages —and has rather taken advantage of it. Up to the middle of last December Squire Mayes a "genial, breezy, old man" has secured the eternal and unchecked happiness! of 2,30 d couples—that is to say he has married that number in the hope that eternal and unchecked happiness would naturally follow. When the squire began to marry in 1862, the fee was two dollars per couple; but a generous Legislature in 1865 increased the rate to three dollars. Squire Mayes, however was not particular to a fraction. He has permitted a Pennsylvanian Borneo and Juliet to purchase bliss at the low figure of 90 cents, wliilo his biographer records that " One groom was so happy that ho left with the knot fastener a 20dol bill," Sometimes business has been biisk—Lord Tennyson has recorded the effect of spring on a young man's fancy—and sometimes Cupid seems to aim badly and Hymen's torch to bo so far as Pennsylvania is concerned extinguished. On one occasion four couples were about to be married at the' same time when the bell rang and two more couples were ushered in. Squire Mayes has enabled no fewer than fifty gentlemen named Smith to join fifty ladies named Smith to the archives of the Smith family, Oil the 17th of June, 1880, he saw'a young lady through whose mother lie had seen through on the 18th of June 1862. We would remind the public of Masterton find country settlers especially, tlmt the Hall of Commc rcc, opposite the Club Hotel, is the cheapest and most reliable drapery establishment at present in Masterton, Messrs Owen, Schroder, and Co,, are now Stocktaking, and selling off at English cost price, tlio whole of their larfie and magnificent stock of general drapery, so as to m nke room for their New Winter Goods, We can confidently recommend cash customers to visit the Hull of Coimnerco,—ADyr. " Atlas" (Mr Edmund Yates) .writes in the London World of Professor Holloway " lie was a shrewd, amusing man, this same 'Professor,' and very daring, He once enclosed a chequo for a thousand pounds in a letter to Charles Dickens, which he placed at Dickens' disposal on conditions that one line of complimentary reference to Ilolloway's cures should appear in the book which Dickens was then publishing in monthly numbers. The bearc-r waited for an answer. ' What did you do f I asked Dickens 'Do! 1 lie cried; '1 put the cheque back into the letter, and sent it down to the messenger, saying that was all the answer I had to send,' I remember wishing the professor had been anxious to obtain mention in one of my books at the same price, I think I should have obliged liirn," Pon't die iff the hoxi.se, —•' Hough on Bats" clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flios, ants, inssets, miles, jackrabbits, gophers, 7Jd, N. Z. Drag Co. Easily Pkoven.—it is easily proven that malarial fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, nervousness, and neuralgia ailments yieli} readily to this qreat disease-conquerer, Hop Bitters, It repairs the ravages of disease bv converting the food into rich blood, and it gives new lift and vigour to the aged and infirm always, See,