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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 167, 27 January 1888, Page 2

S|rerial meeting of Uie Puliiatua Road . Hoard to-morrow, at noon, to strike loan rules. Ordinary meeting at 1.80. Town Hoard meets ou Monday ovenI mg. n.e Wmmripi Star mvm that Mr Je»soji in ■ *t h: ub wtlii w uiU stone turnip*. We kt- it. mul are oj*m at un\ time fora r« pt ion of llie do*e. Mr Gregory ha* brick*, lime, an t house blocks for tale.

Mr Pirn no ifie* that he ho* clean ryeKta&a need fur sale. Mr Briggs announces in his advertisement arrival of samples from Christchutch of old pasture rye grass seod and English clovers. The weather is exceedingly cold—more .ke Winter than summer. We should not bv surprised if there has Leeu a good fall ol snow ou the range*. Messrs Francis Sidey and Co., auctioneers, Wellington, are instructed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court to sell on Thursday, 2nd February, 145 acres of land m the Mangahao district, being section No 18, block VIII. For particulars see advertisement. Mr Rowe, of Christchurch, has taken all the big prizes at the New South Wales Centennial Agricultural Show. Our endeavor to ascertain the area of bush cut this year has been unsuccessful, only two settlers responding to the request for the information ; one of these, a i'ahiatua-Pukctoi settler, has supplied the improvements done in the whole of that block, which we will take an early opportunity of publishing. Three tenders were received on Wednesday by the Wairarapa North County Council for the lease of the Ngawapurua toll-gate, as follows:—Job Vile, £388; John Wyeth, £BBI ; J. W. J. Carver, £370. The highest tender was accepted, hut with the consent of the Council Mr VTie agreed with the present lessee (Mr Wyeth; to take the gate for the year 1888-9 at £383. J. Macara was the successful tenderer for the Man gam ah oe gate. Messrs J. H. Bethune and Co., auctioneers, Wellington, announce a sale by order of the mortgagee of valuable freehold land m the township of Pahiatua. Sale on Tuesday, 31st January. Full particulars will be found iu advertising col unis. Our few remarks in last issue with reference to a dairy factory for this district has done some good. Two correspondents have letters on the subject elsewhere, and Mr Briggs endeavors to prove that from a farmers point of view the establishment of a factory would he an immense benefit. The remarks of" Progress” are also worthy of consideration. Correspondence ou the subject is invited; it is one that will bear ventilation.

It is generally believed that cucumbers will not thrive in this district, but a visit to Mr H. Manns’ garden will explode this idea. With a little attention when the plants were young, Mr Manns has now a patch of cucumbers that would supply the whole district; the fruit is so thick that the wonder is how it grows; but it does, and there is plenty more coming. We nave tried them and they are splendid. Mr Manns should make a good thing out of Ins cucumber patch. Although the Supreme Court decided that the llutt County Council was illegally collecting tolls, the Appeal Court reversed the decision, and the fond hopes of those who wished to see the black-mail system abolished have been dashed to the ground. Application was made to Government towards the close of the session for payment of the amount of tolls that would have be»n collected from the time of the decision of the Supremo Court until its reversal by the Appeal Court, but Major Atkinson could not see his way clear to pay the money.

Mr Bruce, M.H.R., addressed his constituents at Marton on Tuesday night. He spoke strongly in favor of the Government, and received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. It is understood that the Government have decided to re-erect the tower in the Wellington post office, but the citizens will have to provide the clock. A man named Quinlivan was riding through the Gorge on Tuesday afternoon leading a horse, when at a very dangerous part the leading horse shied, knocking Quinlivan and the animal he was riding over the bank. They fell about GO feet. The horse w as killed, hut the man miraculously escaped with a few bruises. An interesting story is told of Lady Randolph Churchill, (nee Miss Jerome). It is stated that the young lady, prior to her marriage, attended a masked ball at St. ( loud on one occasion attired as Eve, the impersonation being exact in every particular. The Empress demanded her immediate retirement from the festive scene. The deadlock between Mayor ltenall and the Masterton Borough Councillors continues. The ratepayers knew perfectly well wiiat would result from electing such a cantankerous individual as Mayor, and they must pay the penalty of their choice. Meeting after meeting is being held, and nothing done, not even the workmen’s wages passed for payment. On the Mayor’s attention being called to this latter fact the other evening, he suggested that the workmen should borrow from Perry, one of the Councillors. This was no doubt intended as a hit at Perry, but it was a very silly joke for the Mayor of Masterton to indulge in at such a time. There is a time in tlie history of a horse when old age sets in, and the animal commences to look around for a cemetery. We have in our midst a quadruped of that interesting description just now. He has lost all his teeth, and is weak in the joints. Often will he be found leaning for support against a telegraph post, but more often w ith his latter extremities jammed against the post office w indows; he has’nt strength enough to push the glass through. The frame-work is day by day getting plainer, and so that tbo poor beast may spend what little time he lias left in peace, we advise the owner to take him away to some secluded spot. Most of the grass seed that is being saved this season is of excellent quality, and should command a good price in the market. For cocksfoot Mr Davis, at the | Makakahi, is supposed to stand firtt; whilst Mr Rioux, on the Tiraumea Road, ! has a splendid show ; Mr Bider, at Kai- | t iwa, has a small area which promises 1 almost a phenomenal yield. There are 1 many oilier settlers cutting cocksfoot, but | principally in patches. A large number ] are cutting rye, some from old and others ! from new pastures. Of the latter Mr G. Mullion. from eight acre* at the Village Settlement, had a grand yield of seed. | A good deal otf imothy will also be cut, j but to our minds Mr Jetton has the cleanest 1 and best paddock ill the district.

A Scolding Woman. —The barbarities of the ducking-stool for the cure of scolding women, though abolished by law', are now oftentimes practiced by a kind of social barbarity none the less reprensible. Women *cold only when they are ill. Instead of blaming tlu in we should prescribe Am. Co’s Hop Bitters. The entire system w ill undergo h genial, pleasAiit change. The nerves will be quieted and acerbity of word and thought will gi\e place to amiability and effect ion. Healthy women do not scold or fret. Read

The annual wool sales commenced at Invercargill Wednesday. The attendance of home and foreign buyers was good, and price* showed »u advance of Id on lost year’s sales. Fine half-bred and cross-bred brought up to 9sd aud 9|d respectively; merino, with the exception of fine qualities, was rather neglected, the highest price being 7sd. On Sunday morning (says the Wairarapa Star; Mrs John Yates found a huge ferret slumbering soundly and snoring loudly iu the midst of a family of eleven ducks, which it had just drained of their life blood. A billet of wood was promptly applied to Mr Ferret’s head, aud now he sleeps the sleep of the just. A Wellington telegram says :—A dopution waited on the Minister of Lands on Wednesday in roference to a matter of some importance to Special Settlement Associations. The matter reforred to was the question of the payment of thirds. It appears that several associations in the colony have expended money for roads, Ac., on the strength of an assurance received from the lute C4overmnout, that steps would be lmFcu to legislate in the direction of the thirds being paid to them for this purpose instead of to the local body in which the settlement is situated. The Act at present, however, provides that such money must be paid to the local body. The matter has been referred to the Solicitor-General.

A girl of twenty on the New York World’s staff of reporters was commissioned to obtain information concerning the treatment of inmates of the city’s insane hospital on Blackwell’s Island. Nellie Bly feighned insanity, frightened the people of the house where she was temporarily boarding into having her arrested, was taken before a police court and by it committed to Bellevue Hospital for examination as to her mental soundness. Here three physicians- the city’s insanity experts —pronounced her insane, and had her committed to Blackwell’s Island Asylum. The police, the court, the nurses, and physicians at the famous Bellevue Hospital were successfully duped by a mere girl, totally uninformed as to the peculiarities of demented persons, all of them, unwittingly, helping her forward to the asylum which her mission required her to gain access to as an inmate. This story is strange but true, and the young lady reporter is now writing up a history of what she saw that will stir up the dry bones as they haven’t been rattled for a long time. Mr Andrew' Town, a writer in the Sydney Referee states, has no lr?ss than seven thoroughbred stallions :—Grand Flaneur, Epigram, Sardonyx, Monmouth, Segenhoe, Cheviot, and Gloucester. In the trotting lino there are two of the best bred horses that can be obtained from America. Childe Harold cost the enterprising proprietor £2OOO in America, and ho paid £IOOO for Honesty, the other sire. Besides these there are three very valuable draught sires. For breeding purposes alone there are about three hundred horses and mares on the farm, and in forming this stud £BO,OOO was spent by Mr Town in horseflesh. The farm comprises 11,000 acres of the best agricultural land, w hich is an item in itself that must be worth a couple of fortunes. To work such a large establishment of course a great number of hands are employed, and there are no less than thirty hands on the place feeding the yearlings, attending to the mares, grooming the stallions, and doing odd work here and there. The draught stock, some of the mares of which cost £6OO in Scotland, is a great feature of the farm. Lately Mr Town has added a dairy to his other business of stock-raising, but this is apart from the horse business ; and he turns out 1001 b of butter each day, and sends 100 gallons of milk to Sydney. Lady Beai;tifikrs.^—Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyes with all the cosmetics of France, or beautifiers of the world, when in poor health, and nothing will give you such rich blood, good health, slength, and beauty as Hop Bitters, American Co’s made. \ trial is certain proof. See.