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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 125, 6 September 1887, Page 2

A letter elsewhere by Mr W. Orr, although somewhat lengthy, is well worth perusal, it is very interesting from beginning to end. Bateman, who was arrested on suspicion of horse-stealing, was taken to Mastorton on Saturday by Constable Cullinano. He was brought up on Monday and remanded on application of the police to Monday next. A meeting of the Cemetory Trustees was held last night, when it was resolved on the motion ot Mr Keese, seconded by Mr Crimp, that tenders be called for felling the whole of the Cemetery Reserve, 6 acres.

Tlie Pahiatua Domain Board have in contemplation tiio foiling of the whole of the Recreation itoservo of 21 acres. A meeting will he held uoxt week, when the matter of felling wit] be discussed, as also the advisability of leasing tlio reserve for a term of years. A transfer notice appears in another column.

Mr W. C. Smith will address the electors in the Pahiatua Town Hall at 7.80 this evening; and at the schoolhouse, Eketahuua, to morrow evening, at the sumo hour.

The success of the ontortainmont on Friday night in aid of Mr and Mrs Marsh was marred by the boisterous weather, a very limited number being present. The first part of the entertainment consisted of songs and recitations, and the second of the force, 44 My Wife’s Second Floor,” The characters in the farce were the same as when performed at the Good Templar's entertainment, with tlio exception of that of Mrs Downey, which was taken on this occasion by Mrs Dorreen. A dance followed, which was kept up with spirit until tlio early morning.

A severe gale was experienced in this district on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The wind was so strong that largo trees were uplifted in all directions, and traffic along the main and other roads was rendered very dangerous. As Mr N ile was proceeding to NVoodvillo with his bus on Saturday morning, several trees fell in close proximity to the conveyance, but fortunately they were behind, and he was therefore able to push on. l'lie wind was accompanied with heavy rain, which beat into almost every house in the district.

A recent writer on China puts the population of the empire at 450,000,000. Scotch farmers are experimenting in flax raising with good results.

The Melbourne Argus, referring to the fact that the averago net return from New Zealand frozen mutton for a year was Ha Od, states that Victorian graziers obtained an average for over 100,000 sheep of9s lid per head; so that while New Zealand mutton brought a higher price in London, the net result to the Victorian shipper* had been better than the New Zealand exporters.

Airth, a village about six miles from Falkirk, Scotland, was, on the evening of .lime 21th, the scene of the murder of the three youngest children of the Rev. Robert Leckio, a Presbyterian minister, by his wife, thoir mother, who then committed suicide. Mrs Leekie, who in her usual health apparently, about two o’clock in the afternoon, and with the three deceased children—hoys, aged respectively four, three and one year—went upstairs to a bedroom. Two or three hours after a servant, on going to the room, was horrified to find the three boys lying dead ou the floor side by side, with their throats cut, and a razor covered with blood close to the mother lying on the floor.

Last week at one of the Hon. Mr Tolo’s meetings at Auckland, a Mr Jcimo put a question to him as to whether it was true, as eluted in the Herald, that the Government were ordering 100 wireWoven mattresses from England, instead of submitting the order to the competition of local or colonial manufacture? Mr Tolo stated that lie was unable to say; they should not bclive all the llernld said, hut he would mako inquiries. Mr Jcune oil the following day continued his inquiries in the matter, and lie informs us (Herald) that he find* the Herald's statement is correct, as he has ascertained tb it the invoice for the hundred wire-woven limures-.es is already in Auckland. The quite unex{>cctod visit of the Queen of Hawaii to Kpgliuid lias, says a correapondent to the European Mail, nearly driven the Court officials frantic as the troubles in connections with her precedence have been springing up every day. and Her Majesty is very tenacious of what she deems her right* as a Sovereign. When the Queen reached the Alexandra Hotel a Royal carriage was sent from Buckingham Palace for her Use, but the servants were not arrayed in their scarlet lit eric* and Her Majesty desired that the *' mistake " might be at once remedied, which was done. Then there was another

" mistake" about the escort, and the Queen ,1.- iainfully rejected the Hussar* who were scut, and demanded Household

Cavalry, a* she lmd learnt that they always furnished the escort for Royalties. Then, at the Buckingham l’alaco entertainment, the Queen of Hawaii was ticketed to the King of the Belgians for the supper procession, and when he de dined to accept the arrangement she was transferred to tlio King of Saxony, who also refused to take in a ll coloured person," and finally the Duke of Edinburgh was obliged to walk with her. The following is said to bo tlio origin of the term " John Bull " :—Dr John Bull, who is said to have composed “ God Save the King” in 100 G, having heard of a famous musician at St. Outer's, placed lmnself under him as a jiovice; bat a circumstance very eoon -tonviueed the master that lie was inferior to the scholar. The musician showed John a song which ho had composod in forty parts, tolling him at the same time that he defied all the world to produce a person capable of adding anothur part to his composition. In less than three hours Bull added fortyparts more to his composition. Upon which the Frenchman was so much surprised that ho swore in great ocstacy lie must either be the Devil or John Bull, which has since been proverbial in England.

Garibaldi's triceps or shoulder muscles were enormous. They were just like two half cocoanuts sticking lip beneath his mantle. His strength was simply Herculean. Late one night he was passing on foot, with only one attendant, through au unlighted and dangerous part of Naples, swarming with lazzaroni in the pay of Francis JI. Suddenly from either side two men sprang simultaneously at him, knife in hand. Before their blades, raised to strike, could fall. Oarihaldi had each by the throat, raised high in the air to the full extent of his arms. He then knocked them together two or three times, and let them fall on the stones saying only “ The poor fools have had their lesson.” Preliminary steps were taken at a recent meeting for the formation ofajgocfcty for the purpose of carrying out cremation in New South Wales. An influential provisional committee was appointed. It was proposed that the society should first distribute information and advocate the principles of cremation, and as seon as possible provide the appliance* necessary to give practical effect to the object of the mealing.

Mr Palmer, who is a candidate for Ratigatata, was half killed by “ roughs ” at tl»e Hinds (Ashburton) on Thursday night. 110 hail arranged to address a meeting there, but his letter applying for the use of the schoolroom miscarried. ,As he could not get the use of the scheol be stated from the door-step that the meeting would be postponed. Thereupon a number of men pelted him with eggs, mud. and tussocks dipped in water. They chased him along the road, keeping up a continuous fusilade of missiles till Mr Palmer got utterly exhausted, and was compelled to sit down and beseech the crowd “ if they wanted to kill him to do so outright.” Among the crowd were about a dozen horsemen, who pelted Mr Palmer so unmercifully that he was compelled to use stones in self defence. A correspondent of the Mail says that the ringleaders are known, and that they possibly tpay hear more about the matCer. The demand for the great American remedy, Hop Bitters, in this part of tho world has become so groat that the Hop Bitters Co., whose headquarters aro at Rochester, New York, U. S. A., have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It isili charge of Mr M. H. Van Bergh, a geirtleman of several years experience with this Company, and the trade may he assured of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and the most courteous treatment. The H.B. Co. have establishments at London, Paris, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland and Toronto, and American Bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world.