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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 203, 2 October 1888, Page 2

Joseph Applin, are lident of Carterton, has been committed for trial for maxing a false declaration in order to obtain a certificate enabling him to marry Martha Applin, his deceased brother’s wife. The evidence showed that the wife’s husband died ten years and since then she had been her former hueband’s brother. Early thio year the latter tried to marry her, but his application was declined by two Registrars. Finally, in May last, he succeeded in Masterton by making a declaration that he knew qi no impediment. No certificate of the woman's former marriage was forthcoming, and the defence relied on this and Deuteronomy, chap. 25, verse 5, for a dismissal. Mr Meadows, the London representative of a produce firm, whilst on a visit to Wairarapa gave the people of Greytown a hint or two on dairy matters. Among other things he told them that New Zealsnd butter had been sent to Denmark and manipulated; then sent to England again, where it was sold at a profit. The local paper remarks on this ‘ What a comment upon our manufacture. But it is true, nevertheless. In conversation with a good judge of butter ths other day, in Carterton, he said he once looked into a store in Wellington and saw a lot of greasy, dirty stuff that would not sell. It was Wairarapa butter 1 * Make me a bid,* said the seller. * I'll give you 3d alb for it,' said the visitor. * You can have it,' wu th? reply. The lot was brought back to Wairarapa, worked up and sent to Wellington, and the enterprising purchaser got 7d a lb for it. This brings to mind an incident related to us recently. Some Wellington bacon was sent over to Westport when the diggings started, even the diggers didn't like it. It wouldn't sell at any fair price, so it was resolved to send it to England. And that very bacon oame back again and was sold in Wellington as Irish bacon at the then current price.’ The special reporter of the Marlborough Express at the Mahakipawa says i—" The Mahakipawa district is traversed by reefs, a continuous line of reefs which sometimes cross the valleys, and here it is believed the gold will be found in the largest quantities —the theory being that the Assures in ths rook have been filled in with fused cement by the hand of Nature, and that cement is gold. Should this theory be correct, this region will undoubtedly prove the richest spot in the colony, if not in tho Auatraia> sias, for there are indisputable evidences that the peculiar subterranean action which produces this effect has here been more violent and long-continued than anywhere else. Be this as it may, the reef on the top of the range has been prospected, and those who have discovered it are satisfied that they possess a treasure of almost fabulous value. I have much hesitation in saying any. thing to induce people to come to a poor man’s alluvial diggings. I have not a particle of hesitation in saying anything In urging capitalists to turn their attention to the development of these reefs, which all testl. mony goes to show are immensely rich. There is no doubt whatever on the subject • —in this backbone of rock lies hidden tho golden store; what is carried down in creek and river bede, what is found as it were celling out in the soil at tho base of the hills, is but the overflow of the Metal. That will “ ft £5 “